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13673503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren%20Varley | Darren Varley | Darren Varley (1973–1999) was a man from Alberta, Canada who died after a scuffle with police in a jail cell in Alberta after he was arrested for drunkenness.
Background
Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, Varley was a truck driver who lived in Pincher Creek his entire life.
Arrest
On October 2, 1999, he had just finishe... |
37884642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Finney%20Boylan | Jennifer Finney Boylan | Jennifer Finney Boylan (born June 22, 1958) is a bestselling author, transgender activist, professor at Barnard College, and a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is a vice president of PEN America.
Early life and education
Boylan was born in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Th... |
3969058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDabljak | Žabljak | Žabljak (, ) is a small town in northern Montenegro. It has a population of 1,723.
Žabljak is the seat of Žabljak Municipality (2011 population: 3,569). The town is in the centre of the Durmitor mountain region and with an altitude of 1,456 metres, it is the highest situated Balkan town.
History
The first Slavic nam... |
52882769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20G.%20Scharff | Werner G. Scharff | Werner G. Scharff (July 7, 1916 – August 17, 2006) was a German-American arts patron, fashion designer, and land developer. He was co-founder and chairman of Lanz Incorporated, a designer and manufacturer of dresses and nightgowns. The Lanz flannel granny nightgown became a staple of women's nightwear in the late-1950s... |
6778847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Sutton | Ralph Sutton | Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri. He was a stride pianist in the tradition of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller.
Biography
Sutton was born in Hamburg, Missouri, United States, the son of Earl and Edna Sutton. His younger sister Barbara Sutto... |
175070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munch%20Museum | Munch Museum | Munch Museum (), marketed as Munch (stylised in all caps) since 2020, is an art museum in Bjørvika, Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
The museum was originally located at Tøyen, which was opened in 1963. The museum moved to the new museum building at Bjørvika, which was... |
51397554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Performance%20Squad | National Performance Squad | The National Performance Squad, also known as the Australia National Performance Squad, is a cricket team established by Cricket Australia in 2014 to give experience for young Australian state contracted players in international List A cricket. Since 2016 the squad has played no List A matches, but has concentrated on ... |
58594369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Croatia%20international%20footballers%20born%20outside%20Croatia | List of Croatia international footballers born outside Croatia | This is a list of the Croatian soccer players who played for the Croatia senior national football team, born outside Croatia. Most of them are born in the former Yugoslavia countries, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina, or outside Yugoslavia they're born in Germany. In this list are included naturalized players and born... |
29673102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20Brouard | Santiago Brouard | Santiago Brouard or Santi Brouard (1919 in Lekeitio – 20 November 1984 in Bilbao) was a doctor and Basque politician. He was one of the leaders of Herri Batasuna, and deputy mayor of Bilbao. He was killed by the Spanish government's death squad, the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL), in one of its highest-pro... |
291130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Chicken | Big Chicken | The Big Chicken is a KFC restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, which features a steel-sided structure designed in the appearance of a chicken rising up from the top of the building. It is located at the intersection of Cobb Parkway (U.S. 41/Georgia 3) and Roswell Road (Georgia 120) and is a well-known landmark in the area.... |
13041029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy%20vs.%20Jason%20vs.%20Ash | Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash | Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash is a six-issue comic book limited series that was released in November 2007 and ran until March 2008. It was published by Wildstorm (DC Comics) and Dynamite Entertainment. Based on the original Freddy vs. Jason 2 film treatment by Jeff Katz, the story serves as a sequel to Freddy vs. Jason and ... |
39272361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett%20Breeding | Brett Breeding | Brett Breeding (June 13, 1961) is an American comic book artist who was active in the industry in the 1980s and 1990s, primarily as an inker. He is most well known for his work on the DC Comics character Superman.
A freelancer, Breeding worked for both DC and Marvel Comics during his career, penciling covers and stori... |
1459637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizianagaram | Vizianagaram | Vizianagaram, also known as Vijayanagaram, is a city and the headquarters of the Vizianagaram district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in the Eastern Ghats, about west of the Bay of Bengal and north-northeast of Visakhapatnam. The city has a population of 228,025 and was established as the capita... |
7024341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters%20of%20Charity%20of%20Seton%20Hill | Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill | The Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill were founded by Sister Aloysia Lowe. In 1870, she and sisters Blanche O'Keefe, Maria Theresa O'Donnell, Maria Kavanaugh and two novices were sent to western Pennsylvania from the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati and began their work, founding and staffing schools. The sisters later ... |
216814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20New%20York%20%28LPD-21%29 | USS New York (LPD-21) | USS New York (LPD-21) is a , and the fifth ship of the United States Navy named after the state of New York.
Naming
Shortly after September 11, 2001, Governor of New York George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England requesting that the Navy bestow the name New York on a surface warship in... |
56325601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaser%20%28game%20framework%29 | Phaser (game framework) | Phaser is a 2D game framework used for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile. It is free software developed by Photon Storm.
Phaser uses both a Canvas and WebGL renderer internally and can automatically swap between them based on browser support. This allows for fast rendering across desktop and mobile. It uses th... |
64155096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20de%20Lange%20House | Philip de Lange House | The Philip de Lange House, built in association with a nitrary in the 1750s, is the Rococo-style former home of Dutch-Danish architect and master builder Philip de Lange at Prinsessegade 54 in the Christianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was from 1877 to 1864 part of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory's Ch... |
105893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20nature%20reserve%20%28Scotland%29 | National nature reserve (Scotland) | The national nature reserves (NNRs) of Scotland are areas of land or water designated under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as containing habitats and species of national importance. National nature reserves can be owned by public, private, community or voluntary organisations but must be managed to conserve thei... |
26927417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Sabre%20II | Project Sabre II | Project Sabre II was the Pakistan Air Force's program to develop a feasible and low-cost multirole combat jet based on an existing design—the Chengdu F-7 Skybolt, a Chinese variant of the MiG–21. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) initiated Project Sabre II in 1987, hiring the American aerospace firm Grumman, to provide cruc... |
53514638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecelia%20Pedescleaux | Cecelia Pedescleaux | Cecelia Tapplette Pedescleaux, also known as Cely, (born August 6, 1945) is an African-American quilter of traditional and art quilts, inspired by historians, other African-American quilters, and quilt designs used during the Underground Railroad to communicate messages to slaves seeking freedom. Her quilts have been s... |
43419177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types%20of%20rapists | Types of rapists | There have been many theories set forth by researchers regarding the various types of rapists.
Barbaree typology
According to Howard Barbaree, a psychologist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, most rapes are impulsive and opportunistic, and committed by people who may commit other impulsive acts, including im... |
3384856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabi%20Ghosh | Rabi Ghosh | Robi Ghosh () (24 November 1931 – 4 February 1997) was an Indian actor known for his work in Bengali cinema. He is known for his comic appeal, though his versatile acting talent brought him success in various kinds of roles. He is probably one of the earliest character actors of Bengali cinema who focused mainly on met... |
50759882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20VanRooyen | Michael VanRooyen | Michael Johannes VanRooyen (born November 19, 1961) is an American humanitarian and physician, best known for his expertise in emergency medicine and aid delivery in humanitarian crises. VanRooyen is the co-founder and current director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, a university-wide rese... |
70189005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Argentine%20Republic%20motorcycle%20Grand%20Prix | 2022 Argentine Republic motorcycle Grand Prix | The 2022 Argentine Republic motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the Gran Premio Michelin de la República Argentina) was the third round of the 2022 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in Termas de Río Hondo on 3 April 2022.
In the MotoGP race, Aleix Espargaró wo... |
55398163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Kerfoot | Alexander Kerfoot | Alexander Douglas Kerfoot (born August 11, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the fifth round, 150th overall, by the New Jersey Devils in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft and has previously played in the NHL for the Colorado Avalan... |
26759636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidin%20vilayet | Aidin vilayet | The Vilayet of Aidin or Aydin (, ) also known as Vilayet of Smyrna or Izmir after its administrative centre, was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire in the south-west of Asia Minor, including the ancient regions of Lydia, Ionia, Caria and western Lycia. It was described by the 1911 Enc... |
50942624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu%20%28band%29 | Bantu (band) | Bantu (stylised in all caps) is a 13-piece band based in Lagos, Nigeria. Their music is a fusion of Afrofunk, Afrobeat, highlife and Yoruba music. The group features multi-instrumentalists and singers who perform as a collective.
History
Nigerian-German brothers Ade Bantu and Abiodun, Sierra Leonean-German-singer Patr... |
23436229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Tanney | Alex Tanney | Alex Tanney (born November 11, 1987) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is the quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Monmouth College and signed as an undrafted free agent with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2012. Tanney play... |
27788209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Mouse%20and%20the%20Kalypso%20Katz | Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz | Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz were a calypso band based in Berlin. Starting as an active band in 2008, their music was produced independently, with help from Cannery Row Records of Berlin, Jump Up! records of Chicago, and Zamzama Productions of Paris. The second album, "Go Calypsonian" was released by the Piranha Mu... |
49584191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push%20Doctor | Push Doctor | Push Doctor was the UK's first platform to offer video consultations with patients online and via smartphone. It is a GP provider and remote consultation enabler in the UK with a reach of 5.4 million patients. Push Doctor is a NHS-commissioned technology provider compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Acc... |
62007118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudarshan%20Gadyawali | Sudarshan Gadyawali | Sudarshan Gadyawali () is a 1909 collection of prose writings by Gujarati writer Manilal Dwivedi (1858–1898), which appeared in his journals Priyamvada and Sudarshan from 1885 to 1898. It contains essays on a broad range of subjects, including religion, ethics, social reform, education, politics, nationalism, theosophy... |
2727610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholadidae | Pholadidae | Pholadidae, known as piddocks or angelwings, are a family of bivalve molluscs similar to a clam.
Background
Piddocks are unique in that each side of their shells is divided into 2 or 3 separate sections. Furthermore, one of the piddock's shells has a set of ridges or "teeth", which they use to grind away at clay or so... |
26243784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Brown%20Lennon | John Brown Lennon | John Brown Lennon (October 12, 1850 - January 17, 1923) was an American labor union leader and general-secretary of the Journeymen Tailors Union of America (JTU). In 1890, he was elected treasurer of the American Federation of Labor and served in that capacity until he was defeated by Teamsters president Daniel J. Tobi... |
2222543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Mullally | Alan Mullally | Alan Mullally (born 12 July 1969) is an English former first-class cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. Mullally grew up in Western Australia, and played for the Australian Under-19 side against their West Indian counterparts in 1987/88.
Domestic career
That same season he made his first-class debut for Western Austr... |
10777518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Le%C3%B3n | Pedro León | Pedro León Sánchez Gil (; born 24 November 1986), known as León, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Real Murcia.
After making a name for himself at Valladolid and Getafe, he transferred to Real Madrid in 2010. He left after a sole season troubled by problems with the management, going... |
26041083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfan%20%28rapper%29 | Erfan (rapper) | Erfan Hajrasooli Ha (), known professionally as Erfan Paydar (), is an Iranian rapper, songwriter, producer, and label owner. He is one of the pioneers of Persian Rap. Erfan's "Az Khaneh Ta Goor" (Persian: از خانه تا گور) was one of the first professionally produced Iranian rap albums, released by a major record label.... |
24955657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20encoding%20of%20APL%20symbols | Digital encoding of APL symbols | The programming language APL uses a number of symbols, rather than words from natural language, to identify operations, similarly to mathematical symbols. Prior to the wide adoption of Unicode, a number of special-purpose EBCDIC and non-EBCDIC code pages were used to represent the symbols required for writing APL.
Cha... |
68731729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20Mariano | Lucas Mariano | Lucas Fernandes Mariano (born 24 September 1993) is a Brazilian basketball player who plays for Franca of the NBB.
Youth career
Born in Planaltina, Lucas moved with his family to Franca when he was just five years old. Encouraged by his mother, a former professional athlete with passages through Brasília, Ponta Grossa... |
37126939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination%20Foundation | Imagination Foundation | The Imagination Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on "creativity and entrepreneurship in children".
History
Nirvan Mullick and Harley Cross founded the Imagination Foundation in 2012, inspired by the response to Mullick's short film Caine's Arcade. Imagination Foundation received initial seed fundin... |
19722189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature%20BioScience | Signature BioScience | Signature BioScience Inc. was the first biotechnology company based in San Francisco. It was formed in 1998 but closed in 2003 due to lack of funding. Before Signature was dissolved, it had just completed Phase II trials on Digitoxin, which the company was pursuing as an anti-cancer compound. However, the company's cor... |
36776285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazawin%20Thit | Yazawin Thit | Maha Yazawin Thit (, ; ; also known as Myanmar Yazawin Thit or Yazawin Thit) is a national chronicle of Burma (Myanmar). Completed in 1798, the chronicle was the first attempt by the Konbaung court to update and check the accuracy of Maha Yazawin, the standard chronicle of the previous Toungoo Dynasty. Its author Twint... |
31694515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Youth%20in%20Film%20Awards | 1st Youth in Film Awards | The 1st Youth in Film Awards ceremony (now known as the Young Artist Awards), presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers in the fields of film, television and music for the 1978–1979 season, and took place in October 1979 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, Californi... |
71849683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland%2C%20Union%20Parish%2C%20Louisiana | Oakland, Union Parish, Louisiana | Oakland, Union Parish, Louisiana is a former community in northern Union Parish, Louisiana, United States. About one mile south of the Arkansas state line, it is north of Farmerville and northwest of Marion. It was also known as Union Cross Roads and Springhill or Spring Hill.
Its location is where Oakland Highway ... |
3417501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diran%20Adebayo | Diran Adebayo | Oludiran "Diran" Adebayo FRSL (born 30 August 1968) is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic, best known for his tales of London and the lives of African diasporans. His work has been characterised by its interest in multiple cultural identities, subcultures, and its distinctive, "musical" use of language. H... |
412114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Costello | Jerry Costello | Jerry Francis Costello (born September 25, 1949) is an American politician and former U.S. Representative for . He previously represented and served in the US House from 1988 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was the dean of Illinois's 21-member congressional delegation. In October 2011, Costello ann... |
4070946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%20dispatcher | Flight dispatcher | A flight dispatcher (also known as an airline dispatcher or flight operations officer) assists in planning flight paths, taking into account aircraft performance and loading, enroute winds, thunderstorm and turbulence forecasts, airspace restrictions, and airport conditions. Dispatchers also provide a flight following... |
19954194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Baldwin%20Dod | Albert Baldwin Dod | Albert Baldwin Dod (March 24, 1805 – November 20, 1845) was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor of mathematics.
Early life
Dod was born on March 24, 1805, in Mendham, New Jersey. He was the son of Daniel Dod (1778–1823) and Nancy (née Squire) Dod (1780–1851). His mother was the sister of Dr. Ezra Squire... |
6359161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games%20for%20Windows | Games for Windows | Games for Windows is a discontinued brand owned by Microsoft and introduced in 2006 to coincide with the release of the Windows Vista operating system. The brand itself represents a standardized technical certification program and online service for Windows games, bringing a measure of regulation to the PC game market ... |
2973874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbanks%20Provincial%20Park | Sandbanks Provincial Park | Sandbanks Provincial Park is a provincial park located on Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County near Picton, Ontario, Canada. The park is considered one of the best sandy beaches in Ontario and contains the largest bay-mouth barrier dune formation in the world. The park was established in 1970 and operates year round. ... |
18075941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian%20D%20XI | Bavarian D XI | The Bavarian Class D XI engines were branch line (Lokalbahn) saturated steam locomotives built for service with the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn).
History
The state railway procured 139 examples between 1895 and 1912; it was the most numerous Bavarian branch line locomotive. Both Kra... |
63946183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino-Eevi%20Lukas | Aino-Eevi Lukas | Aino-Eevi Lukas (29 July 1930 – 5 December 2019) was an Estonian equestrian, lawyer and politician. She competed for the national team in her youth in horse jumping and was the national champion in the obstacle course in 1947 and 1949. Earning a degree in law in 1968, she was recognized as the Estonian Lawyer of the Ye... |
54250468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20H.%20Phelps | Edward H. Phelps | Edward Herrick Phelps (1829 – November 25, 1863) was a Lieutenant-Colonel who served under General Ulysses S. Grant in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served in the battle of Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and while already wounded, was shot and killed while still leading his men into the ... |
22366863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Universal%20Load%20Carrier | Human Universal Load Carrier | Human Universal Load Carrier, or HULC, is an un-tethered, hydraulic-powered anthropomorphic exoskeleton developed by Professor H. Kazerooni and his team at Ekso Bionics. It is intended to help soldiers in combat carry a load of up to 200 pounds at a top speed of 10 miles per hour for extended periods of time. After bei... |
57839110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict%20Lumber%20Yard | Convict Lumber Yard | Convict Lumber Yard is a heritage-listed site at 98 Scott Street, Newcastle, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Largely an archaeological site, it has been the location of a convict lumber yard, convict stockade and a series of shipping and railway-related buildings. The former station master's residence an... |
30385427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripunithura%20Krishnadas | Tripunithura Krishnadas | M A Krishnadas, also known as Tripunithura Krishnadas is an Indian musician. He is a well-known edaykkya (or Idakka) and chenda artist from Kerala. He is the best edaykkya player of modern Kerala.
Music career
Krishnadas was inducted into this field since the age of five under the tutorship of Late Ramamangalam Rama... |
69961310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesboro%2C%20Kentucky%20minor%20league%20baseball%20history | Middlesboro, Kentucky minor league baseball history | Minor league baseball teams with varying nicknames were based in Middlesboro, Kentucky in various seasons between 1913 and 1963. Middlesboro teams played as members of the Appalachian League in 1913 and 1914, the Mountain States League from 1949 to 1954 and Appalachian League from 1961 to 1963, winning league champions... |
71432331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Parker%20%28comedian%29 | Chris Parker (comedian) | Christopher Parker (born September 25, 1990) is a New Zealand actor, comedian, writer, TV personality, and podcaster.
Parker has written for and appeared in many local comedy shows such as Jono and Ben, 7 Days, Taskmaster NZ, and Have You Been Paying Attention. He has also acted in films like Baby Done, The Breaker Up... |
57177716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Knowlton | Jim Knowlton | James Arthur Knowlton (born 1960) is an American college athletics administrator and civil engineer who is the current director of athletics for the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Knowlton served as the athletic director for the United States Air Force Academy and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Ori... |
31533906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaklasis | Anaklasis | Anaklasis is a composition for 42 string instruments and percussion, composed in 1960 by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was first performed at the Donaueschingen Festival in 1960. At this first performance, it was well received by the audience who demanded an encore.
The title of the piece, Anaklasis mea... |
12451388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-browed%20scrub%20robin | White-browed scrub robin | The white-browed scrub robin (Cercotrichas leucophrys), also known as the red-backed scrub-robin, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa, especially East and southern Africa. Within range, its Turdus-like song is one of the often-heard sounds of the bush. The flitting of the... |
36667357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20Place%20Apartment%20Homes | Lincoln Place Apartment Homes | Lincoln Place Apartment Homes is a historic apartment community owned by a subsidiary of Apartment Investment and Management Co. (Aimco). Inspired by the garden city movement, it is located at 1050 Frederick Street on a 35-acre site in the Venice community of Los Angeles, one mile east of Venice Beach. Built from 1949... |
15584252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Bar%20v.%20Went%20For%20It%2C%20Inc. | Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc. | Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc., 515 U.S. 618 (1995), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a state's restriction on lawyer advertising under the First Amendment's commercial speech doctrine. The Court's decision was the first time it did so since Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, , lifted the... |
2594733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy%20Howard | Eddy Howard | Edward Evan Duncan Howard (September 12, 1914 – May 23, 1963) was an American vocalist and bandleader who was popular during the 1940s and 1950s.
Early years
Eddy Howard was born in Woodland, California, and after attending San Jose State College from 1931 to 1933, studied medicine at Stanford University before droppi... |
56665834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky%20Rahne | Ricky Rahne | Ricky Rahne (born July 19, 1980) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the head coach at Old Dominion University. He played college football at Cornell.
Early life
A native of Morrison, Colorado, Rahne attended Bear Creek High School in Lakewood, where he lettered in football and track and f... |
25471431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Anden%C3%A6s | Johannes Andenæs | Johannes Bratt Andenæs, often shortened to Johs. Andenæs (7 September 1912 – 3 July 2003) was a Norwegian jurist. He was a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Oslo from 1945 to 1982, and served as rector from 1970 to 1972.
Pre-war career
He was born in Innvik as a son of vicar Mads Olsen Andenæs (1855–1942... |
7754867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo%20Tomazini | Marcelo Tomazini | Marcelo Augusto Tomazini (born December 18, 1978 in São Paulo) is a male breaststroke swimmer from Brazil.
At the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Tomazini teamed with Alexandre Massura, Fernando Scherer, and Gustavo Borges to compete in the 4×100 meter medley. The team's 3:40.27 time won a gold... |
5708066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Stoudt | Cliff Stoudt | Clifford Lewis Stoudt (born March 27, 1955) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Pittsburgh Steelers, St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals, Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys. He also was a member of the Birmingham Stallions of the United States Football League (USFL). He was dr... |
53886280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo%20Compagni | Palazzo Compagni | The Palazzo Compagni or Palazzo Cresci is a palazzo on via Bufalini in Florence.
History
It was originally built as a tower-house by the Cresci family from Montereggi, after they arrived in Florence at the end of the 13th century - via Bufalini was then known as via di Santo Gilio. Thanks to the wool trade the Cresci ... |
25411247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Humphrys | William Humphrys | William Humphrys (1794 – 21 January 1865) was an engraver of pictures, book illustrations and postage stamps.
Humphrys was born in Dublin. At an early age he moved to the United States where he studied engraving techniques under George Murray in Philadelphia. He began his career as engraver in 1815 and was involved ... |
32087293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Shurcliff | William Shurcliff | William Asahel Shurcliff (March 27, 1909 – June 20, 2006) was an American physicist.
Biography
Shurcliff was the son of landscape architect Arthur Asahel Shurcliff and Margaret Homer Shurcliff (née Nichols). He received his BA cum laude in 1930, a PhD in physics in 1934, and a degree in business administration in 193... |
15088976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedick%27s | Nedick's | Nedick's was an American chain of fast-food restaurants that originated in New York City in 1913. The name of the chain was formed from the last names of Robert T. Neely and Orville A. Dickinson, who founded the chain with the original stand in a hotel storefront of the Bartholdi Hotel at 23rd Street and Broadway in Ma... |
6027277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shy%20People | Shy People | Shy People is a 1987 American drama film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, from a script by Konchalovsky, Marjorie David and Gérard Brach. It stars Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, and Martha Plimpton, and features music by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. The film is about the culture clash that takes... |
260507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%2C%20Wisconsin | Casco, Wisconsin | Casco is a village in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 583 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village is located within the Town of Casco. Casco is named after Casco Bay on the coast of Maine, the previous home of Edward Decker, an early logge... |
33921397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20H.%20Tayler | J. H. Tayler | Joseph Henry Tayler (February 7, 1859May 25, 1959) was an American banker and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He was the 29th mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the 9th mayor of Fort Howard, Wisconsin. In 1932, he was one of several bank officers criminally charged for embezzlement and partici... |
3183350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretto%20Abbey%20Catholic%20Secondary%20School | Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School | Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School (sporadically known as Loretto Abbey CSS, LACSS, Loretto Abbey, LAT, Loretto Abbey Toronto or Abbey) is an all-girls Catholic secondary school in Hogg's Hollow neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established by the Loretto Sisters in 1847, it is one of Toronto's oldest edu... |
50377862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Power%20Engineering%20Service | Central Power Engineering Service | Formally constituted in , Central Power Engineering Service (CPES) is a Group-A & Group- B Central Engineering Services under the administrative control of Ministry of Power (MoP) in India. CPES is the only organized Service under Ministry of Power. It deals with Indian Power sector which is one of the most complex and... |
29823193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal%20Miner%20%28statue%29 | Coal Miner (statue) | Coal Miner is a public artwork by Polish American artist John J. Szaton (1907–1966) which is located in two US State capitals; the original, commissioned in 1963 in Springfield, Illinois, as well as a copy on the west lawn of the Indiana State House in Indianapolis The statues commemorate coal miners who had lost their... |
34456645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Philip%20Robson | Joseph Philip Robson | Joseph Philip Robson (or J. P. Robson) (1808 – 1870) was a Tyneside poet and writer of the 19th century. His most famous works are The Pitman’s Happy Times and "The Pawnshop Bleezin’" a comic description of the reactions of the various customers to the pawnshop going up in flames. He was a contemporary of other Geordie... |
27918488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords%20of%20Finance | Lords of Finance | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World is a nonfiction book by Liaquat Ahamed about events leading up to and culminating in the Great Depression as told through the personal histories of the heads of the Central Banks of the world's four major economies at the time: Benjamin Strong Jr. of the New York Feder... |
2151460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Amina | 'Amina | Amina bint Wahb ibn Abd Manaf al-Zuhriyya (, ) was the mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. She belonged to the Banu Zuhra tribe.
Early life and marriage
Amina was born to Wahb ibn Abd Manaf and Barrah bint 'Abd al-'Uzzā ibn 'Uthmān ibn 'Abd al-Dār in Mecca. Her tribe, Quraysh, descent from Ibrahim (Abraham), throu... |
1029646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Maylay | Young Maylay | Christopher Bellard (born June 17, 1979), also known by his stage name Young Maylay, is an American rapper, record producer and actor based in Los Angeles. He portrayed Carl "CJ" Johnson, the main character of the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Early life
Christopher Bellard was born and raised in Los... |
3678087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%83li%C8%99te | Săliște | Săliște ( or Selischte; ) is a town in Sibiu County, in the centre of Romania, west of the county capital, Sibiu. Declared a town in 2003, it is the main locality in the Mărginimea Sibiului area.
Geography
The town is situated at the edge of the Cindrel Mountains, on a series of river valleys which flow into the Cibi... |
39084693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop%20Tobacco%20Smuggling%20in%20the%20Territories%20Act%20of%202013 | Stop Tobacco Smuggling in the Territories Act of 2013 | The Stop Tobacco Smuggling in the Territories Act of 2013 () was a bill introduced into the United States House of Representatives in the 113th United States Congress that passed the House with a vote of 421–5. The purpose of the bill is to redefine "state" in the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act of 1978 ("the 1978... |
5086328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes%20and%20origins%20of%20Tourette%20syndrome | Causes and origins of Tourette syndrome | Causes and origins of Tourette syndrome have not been fully elucidated. Tourette syndrome (abbreviated as Tourette's or TS) is an inherited neurodevelopmental disorder that begins in childhood or adolescence, characterized by the presence of multiple motor tics and at least one phonic tic, which characteristically wax... |
74458163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Messenger%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Messenger (TV series) | The Messenger is an Australian television series, based on the eponymous novel written by Markus Zusak, broadcast on ABC. The eight-part series - which follows the titular character, Ed Kennedy, as he begins to be left playing cards with addresses on them at his home, and the repercussions his decision to follow these ... |
2291960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%20Five | Count Five | Count Five was an American garage rock band, formed in San Jose, California in 1964, known for their hit single "Psychotic Reaction".
History
The band was founded in 1964 by lead guitarist John "Mouse" Michalski (born 1948, Cleveland, Ohio) and bassist Roy Chaney (born 1948, Indianapolis, Indiana). The two were high s... |
8922470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokrolu%C5%A1ki%20Creek | Mokroluški Creek | The Mokroluški Creek ( / Mokroluški potok, "Mokri Lug Creek") is a stream in north-central Serbia, which forms a former right tributary to the Sava river. During its entire course, it runs through the urban section of Belgrade. It is one of the 40 rivers, streams and creeks that flow or used to flow through Belgrade, ... |
64223045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerson%20Lima | Jerson Lima | Jerson Lima Silva (born 29 February 1960), usually known as Jerson Lima, is a Brazilian biophysicist. He is known for his pioneering research in the field of structural biology, publishing important studies on protein folding and the relationship between protein aggregates and diseases such as cancer, prion diseases an... |
18333759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig%20van%20Eijk | Stig van Eijk | Stig André van Eijk (; born 21 March 1981) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter.
Career
Van Eijk is known for his Eurovision participation. In 1999 he won Melodi Grand Prix with the song "Living My Life Without You" thus gaining right to represent Norway at Eurovision that year. On stage he had dancer and singer Bel... |
37718037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Men%20%281934%20film%29 | Little Men (1934 film) | Little Men is a 1934 American feature film based on Louisa May Alcott's 1871 novel Little Men, starring Ralph Morgan and Erin O'Brien-Moore, directed by Phil Rosen, and was released by Mascot Pictures. It is a sequel to Little Women (1933 film)
Plot
The former Jo March (O'Brien-Moore), now married to Prof. Bhaer (Morg... |
39926794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Southwest%20China%20floods | 2013 Southwest China floods | In July 2013, much of southwest China experienced heavy rainfall that led to widespread flooding. Sichuan was the hardest hit. At least 73 people were killed as a result of the flooding, with 180 people missing. An estimated 6 million lives were disrupted by the floods.
Floods and damage
Starting during the weekend of... |
14629345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland%20%28Gary%20Numan%20album%29 | Outland (Gary Numan album) | Outland is the tenth solo studio album by English musician Gary Numan, released in March 1991. It was Numan's second and last studio album to be released by I.R.S. Records. It reached Number 39 on the UK charts. The songs "Heart" and "My World Storm" were released as singles; "Heart" charted at Number 43, while "My Wo... |
54286936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C.%20and%20Maryland%20v.%20Trump | D.C. and Maryland v. Trump | D.C. and Maryland v. Trump was a lawsuit filed on June 12, 2017, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs, the U.S. state of Maryland and the District of Columbia, alleged that the defendant, President Donald Trump, had violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the United States... |
2099759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopotential | Pseudopotential | In physics, a pseudopotential or effective potential is used as an approximation for the simplified description of complex systems. Applications include atomic physics and neutron scattering. The pseudopotential approximation was first introduced by Hans Hellmann in 1934.
Atomic physics
The pseudopotential is an att... |
5653697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%E2%80%9373%20UEFA%20Cup | 1972–73 UEFA Cup | The 1972–73 UEFA Cup was the second season of the UEFA Cup, a football competition organised by UEFA for clubs affiliated to its member associations. It was won by Liverpool, who beat Borussia Mönchengladbach over two legs in the final. The first leg was played at Anfield in Liverpool, where Liverpool won the match 3–0... |
214037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Ottavio%20Pitoni | Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni | Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (Rieti, 18 March 1657 – Rome, 1 February 1743) was an Italian organist and composer. He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era, the first half of the 18th century.
Life
Taken to Rome as an infant, he began vocal study with Pompeo Natali at the age of five and sa... |
9188985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB%20Class%20403%20%281973%29 | DB Class 403 (1973) | The DB Class 403 was a series of three electric multiple units commissioned by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the 1970s, an early predecessor of the Intercity-Express as a high-speed train. The units were mainly used for InterCity services and again by the Lufthansa airline in the 1980s. Due to the distinctive design of it... |
73821362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhododendron%20kawakamii | Rhododendron kawakamii | Rhododendron kawakamii is a plant endemic to Taiwan. It is also called Kawakami's rhododendron, as the type specimen was collected by Takiya Kawakami and others from Xingaoshan (today named Yu Shan or Mount Jade). This species is the only native, epiphytic, yellow flowered rhododendron in Taiwan, and is scattered in th... |
69854248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20North%20Dakota%20State%20Bison%20baseball%20team | 2022 North Dakota State Bison baseball team | The 2022 North Dakota State Bison baseball team represented North Dakota State University during the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Bison played their home games at Newman Outdoor Field adjacent to NDSU's campus. The team was coached by Tyler Oakes in his 1st season as head coach at NDSU. Oakes had been asso... |
17065795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%201933%20Nashville%20tornado%20outbreak | March 1933 Nashville tornado outbreak | The March 1933 Nashville tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that affected the city of Nashville and the Middle Tennessee region on March 14, 1933. The entire outbreak produced five or more tornadoes, killed 44 people, and injured at least 461. One of the tornadoes was an F3 tornado family that struck downto... |
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