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Q5052737 Catherine Lucette Dargie née Huggett, OAM (6 May 1970 – 13 November 2011) was an Australian Paralympic swimmer who won two medals at two Paralympics.
Q7241814 Preston is a village located in the Central Coast Council municipal area, near Upper Castra and Ulverstone in the North West region of Tasmania, Australia. In 2011, the village had an estimated population of 250.
Q5498067 Frederick Howard Collins (1857-1910) was a British indexer and writer. Best known for his Authors' and printers' dictionary (1905), Collins also wrote on the philosophy of Herbert Spencer and on subject indexing.
Q1080576 Christian Kayßler (14 June 1898 – 10 March 1944) was a German stage and film actor. He was the son of the actor Friedrich Kayßler. He appeared in fourteen films before dying in an Allied bombing raid on Berlin in March 1944 during the Second World War. He played one of the major roles in the popular 1939 aviation film D III 88.
Q20732121 Urvara উর্বর is the third-largest confirmed crater on Ceres after Kerwan and neighboring Yalode. Urvara means fertile. It is named after the ancient Indo-Iranian personification of fertility (plants in the Avesta, fertile fields in the Rig Veda). It has a central peak, and a number of unexplained ridges intersect it.
Q28179879 Ramparda is a village and former petty princely state on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India.
Q5097510 Chikura (千倉町, Chikura-chō) was a town located in Awa District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.As of October 1, 2004, the town had an estimated population of 12,527 and a density of 342 persons per km². The total area was 36.64 km².
Q3835320 Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, and reached #6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. Not only was it a Top 10 album, it stayed on the chart for 33 weeks; an impressive time span compared to most albums of the era. Although the band's huge success would not come until a few albums later, this release was popular with the R&B market. Like most of their early catalog, it was sampled by several artists during Hip-Hop's "Golden Era" of the 1980s and early 1990s. The track "Funky Man" was sampled in "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy.
Q3591410 Éric Wenger is a computer programmer, artist and musician based in Paris, France. He produces creative software tools exclusively for the Macintosh platform.
Q2915216 An umbrella company is a company that employs agency contractors who work on temporary contract assignments, usually through a recruitment agency in the United Kingdom. Recruitment agencies prefer to issue contracts to a limited company as the agency liability would be reduced. It issues invoices to the recruitment agency (or client) and, when payment of the invoice is made, will typically pay the contractor through PAYE with the added benefit of offsetting some of the income through claiming expenses such as travel, meals, and accommodation.Umbrella companies have become more prevalent in the UK since the British government introduced so-called "IR35" legislation that creates tests to determine employment status and ability to make use of small company tax reliefs. According to criteria set out by the UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, there are an estimated 4 million temporary workers in the UK, of whom 1.56 million are "classed as being in a management or senior official role, a professional occupation or an associate professional and technical occupation." It is estimated that 14% of the UK’s professional contractors are currently managing their business by working through an umbrella company.
Q4974471 Brooke Point High School is a public high school located about 40 miles south of Washington D.C. in Stafford, Virginia, United States. It is one of five high schools serving Stafford County Public Schools, and enrolls students in grades nine through twelve in the eastern portion of Stafford County. The school was opened in 1993.Brooke Point High School is accredited by the Virginia State Board of Education and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and has earned accreditation as an IB World School as of 2010. Brooke Point students are offered three options for their diploma: traditional, advanced, or IB diploma.
Q4415155 Family Viewing is a 1987 Canadian drama film.
Q2995687 The Continuum on South Beach are residential towers /skyscrapers in Miami Beach, Florida's South Beach. They are located directly in the southern extremity of the city, overlooking Government Cut. The south tower, which opened in 2002, is 471 ft (143 m) tall and has 40 floors. The north tower, which opened in 2008, has 37 floors. Both towers were developed by Ian Bruce Eichner's The Continuum Company, LLC. They are located in the "SOFI" (South of Fifth Street) neighborhood.The Continuum is an oceanfront property with 26 different condo floor-plans and 5 different townhouse floor-plans. Amenities at the Continuum includes a lagoon pool, sporting club, multiple meeting rooms, 3 tennis courts, 24-hour security, heated whirlpools and cold plunge, private tennis club, spa services, and Redwood sauna among others. The Continuum provides direct access to the beach.Situated on a 12 acres oceanfront property, the Continuum has unobstructed views of the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Fisher Island to the South, city of Miami Beach to the North and partial view of the downtown Miami skyline to the west.The Continuum I South Beach features 318 condo units with the typical floor plan ranging from 1,201-4,973 sq.ft. and the Continuum II South Beach features 203 condo units with the typical floor plan ranging from 1,491-3,030 sq.ft.
Q7336475 Rita Behrend is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1950s. She won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva.
Q874975 Eugene Lukacs (Hungarian: Lukács Jenő, 14 August 1906 – 21 December 1987) was an American statistician notable for his work in characterization of distributions, stability theory, and being the author of Characteristic Functions, a classic textbook in the field.Born to a Jewish family in born in Szombathely, from six weeks after birth Lukacs lived in Vienna, Austria. There he received primary and secondary education and studied mathematics at University of Vienna. His professors included Hans Hahn, Eduard Helly, Walter Meyer, Leopold Vietoris and Wilhelm Wirtinger. In 1930 he earned his doctorate in geometry under the supervision of Walter Meyer, and a degree in actuarial science in 1931. Eugene met his future wife Elizabeth Weisz (Lisl) in 1927 at the University of Vienna, and they married in 1935. He taught secondary mathematics for two years and later accepted a position with an insurance company, where Eduard Helly and Z. W. Birnbaum were colleagues. After Germany annexed Austria in 1938, he decided to emigrate to the United States, arriving in 1939.In 1953 Eugene joined the Office of Naval Research (ONR) USA, and became the director of Statistics. While at ONR he also taught at American University in Washington, D.C.Lukacs joined the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. in 1955. There he organized the Statistical Laboratory in 1959 and became its first and only director. Researchers at the Statistical Laboratory included Edward Batschlet, Tatsuo Kawata, Radha Laha, M. Masuyama and Vijay Rohatgi, and many distinguished visitors.On his retirement from Catholic University in 1972, he moved with his colleagues Laha and Rohatgi to Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he remained until 1976.His primary interest was in the theory of characteristic functions. Prior to publication of his 1960 monograph, Characteristic Functions, the English language textbooks on the subject were translations of works by Cramer, Gnedenko and Kolmogorov, and Loève. Lukacs' monograph was the first to present a unified and detailed treatment of the subject, and has remained a classical reference on the subject. The revised and expanded second edition of Characteristic Functions appeared in 1970, followed by Developments in Characteristics Function Theory in 1983. Characteristic Functions has been translated into several languages and continues to be an essential resource on the subject.Lukacs was an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics since 1957, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1969. In 1973 he was elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Q933782 The 2010 Golden Horses Health Sanctuary Malaysian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the inaugural edition of the Malaysian Open and was an International tournament on the WTA Tour. The event took place from February 22 to February 28 at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian and Country Resort.The event was headlined by the participation of World No. 7 and Olympic champion Elena Dementieva in the main draw. Other participants include recent Australian Open semi-finalists, World No. 10 Li Na and World No. 20 Zheng Jie and last years Wimbledon quarter-finalist and Family Circle Cup champion, Sabine Lisicki.
Q6809227 Meharbaani is a 1982 Bollywood film starring Dharmendra and Nazir Hussain.
Q5322819 eCybermission (stylized as eCYBERMISSION) is a U.S. Army-sponsored online educational science fair for students in grades 6-9 in the United States or at US Army schools across the world. The contest is conducted entirely online—groups of 3-4 students submit "Mission Folders", which contain detailed information about their projects choosing either Scientific Inquiry or the Engineering Design Process.The competition selects winners on state, regional, and finally national levels for each grade level. All regional winners receive a one-week trip to the Washington, DC area to attend the National Judging and Educational Event (NJ&EE). Students can win up to $9,000 in savings bonds (maturity value). The NJ&EE event includes many opportunities to meet others, physical training, various workshops and panels, as well as the STEM Challenge, which is a day working with scientists and engineers from different sectors of RDECOM, the department of the Army that oversees the events.eCYBERMISSION is part of the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP).The competition is administered by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA).
Q5840705 Abbadbibi (Persian: ابادبي بي‎, also Romanized as Ābbādbībī) is a village in Nurabad Rural District, in the Central District of Manujan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 299, in 74 families.
Q17514967 The Barlow Inlet Formation is a geologic formation in Nunavut. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period.
Q17478507 La casa de las fieras, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and originally transmitted by Telesistema Mexicano.
Q17612218 Grace Victoria Cox (born March 10, 1995) is an American actress, known for playing Melanie Cross in the CBS series Under the Dome (2014–15) and Veronica Sawyer in the Paramount Network series Heathers (2018).
Q19891710 High School Mortar is situated in Mortar, in the Begusarai district of the state of Bihar, India. Mortar high school is the only high school serving the villages near Mortar, and students from the outlying villages travel to Mortar to study there.
Q23058919 Southwest University is a for-profit virtual college located at 2200 Veterans Boulevard in Kenner, Louisiana offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. The school does not operate under an academic calendar but instead allows students to enroll and begin coursework at will. Final examinations are to be proctored by someone who "holds a position of integrity" according to the university catalog.Founded as a school of hypnotism the school now offers associates of science degrees in General Studies, Business Administration and Criminal Justice. Bachelor of Science degrees are offered in Business Administration, Human Resource Management, International Business, Leadership and Management, Management, Marketing and Organization Management. Masters of Science degrees are offered in Criminal Justice. Masters of Arts degrees are offered in Management and Organizational Management. Masters of Business Administration degrees are offered in Management and Organizational Management.
Q24944088 The Hajipur-Muzaffarpur-Samastipur-Barauni section is a railway line connecting Hajipur to Barauni Via Muzaffarpur, Samastipur the Indian state of Bihar. The 157.37 km (98 mi) line passes through the plains of North Bihar and the Gangetic Plain in Bihar.
Q24993268 The 1998–99 FA Vase was the 25th season of the FA Vase, an annual football competition for teams in the lower reaches of the English football league system.Tiverton Town won the competition, beating Bedlington Terriers in the final.
Q1431999 American Nightmare (briefly known as Give Up the Ghost) is a hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. They have released three albums, one EP and a compilation of earlier released material under the name American Nightmare.
Q3525445 Arthur Chudleigh Beaumont "Chud" Langton (2 March 1912 – 27 November 1942) was a South African cricketer who played in 15 Tests from 1935 to 1939. Jack Fingleton rated him amongst the best medium-paced bowlers he ever saw.Langton was educated at King Edward VII School, Johannesburg. A tall, red-headed all-rounder, he came to prominence on the tour of England in 1935, when he made his Test debut. In the Second Test at Lord's he took 2 for 58 and 4 for 31 and made 44 batting at number eight in the second innings, valuable contributions to South Africa's first-ever Test victory in England, and subsequently to their 1–0 series victory. In the "Timeless Test" in Durban in 1938–39, he bowled 91 eight-ball overs, including 56 with a strapped back during the second innings, placing him fifth on the all-time list of most balls bowled in a Test: 728.He died in Nigeria at the age of 30 while serving as a flight lieutenant with the South African Air Force in World War II, when his Lockheed B34 Ventura bomber spun and crashed on landing.
Q11675266 USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37) was a destroyer tender, the first of her class, and designed to be a floating repair shop for ships of the U.S. Navy either in port or at sea. The vessel was named for Samuel Gompers, a distinguished American labor leader during the late nineteenth century.Samuel Gompers was laid down on 9 July 1964 by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington and launched on 14 May 1966; sponsored by Mrs. Joseph Holmes. The destroyer tender was commissioned on 1 July 1967, Capt. Harry Risch, Jr., in command.
Q8074417 Zoran Vuković (born 6 September 1955 in Brusna, Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his actions in the city of Foča during the Bosnian War. During the course of the war he was in the same unit as convicted indictee Radomir Kovač.He was charged with several counts of rape and torture, of which he was ultimately found guilty of two counts of each as war crimes and acquitted of the remainder and the crimes against humanity charges. He was sentenced to twelve years in prison. At his own request, he was tried along with Dragoljub Kunarac and Radomir Kovač. He served his sentence in Bodø, Norway and was released in May 2008, after serving about two thirds of the sentence.
Q420798 Akrobatisches Potpourri (also known as Gymnastikerfamilie Grunato) is an 1895 German short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Max and Emil Skladanowsky and starring the Grunato family. It is one of the first German produced films.Filmed in the park of the Berlin-Moabit Public Theatre this short film shows the balancing act performance of this family of 8 performers.It was one of a series of films produced to be projected by a magic lantern and formed part of the Wintergarten Performances, the first projections of film in Europe to a paying audience. The film titles for the initial program were: Italienischer Bauerntanz, Komisches Reck, Serpentinen Tanz, Der Jongleur Paul Petras, Das Boxende Känguruh, Akrobatisches Potpourri, Kamarinskaja, Ringkampf, and Apotheose. Each film lasted approximately six seconds and would be repeated several times.
Q4956383 A branch collar is the often visible swelling in a woody plant that forms at the base of a branch where it is attached to its parent branch or to the tree's trunk. The top of the branch collar consists of dense interlocking wood grain, which provides mechanical support to the branch attachment. Branch collars can also be flat or somewhat recessed into the trunk or parent branch, as in some conifers. The collar consists primarily of tissues connected directly to the tree's main trunk or stem, not to the branch.As a lateral branch typically grows more slowly in diameter than the upright stem to which it is attached, the base of the smaller branch becomes occluded, eventually forming a knot. It is this process of occlusion that gives rise to the swollen branch collar visible on many branch attachments.When woody plants naturally shed branches because those branches are nonproductive, usually from lack of light reaching them, these lower branches typically die back to the branch collar. Insects and fungi decompose the dead branch, and it eventually falls off, leaving the exposed end of the branch at the point of its attachment at the branch collar. This arrangement helps to resist the spread of decay organisms into the parent stem or trunk during the time it takes for the increment growth of the trunk to seal over the dead branch stub.Events such as storms or pruning may damage the branch collar, thus reducing the naturally occurring defenses of a branch attachment and exposing the trunk tissues adjacent to the wound to disease or decay.Understanding the external appearance and anatomical importance of a branch collar is key to correct tree pruning. Pruning practices that mimic natural branch shedding avoid unnecessary damage to the plant's defensive anatomy.
Q6636791 This is part of the list of road junctions in the United Kingdom. Many road junctions are named after pubs. For more information regarding the derivation of pub names see pub names.
Q7235424 Pottuvil electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Pottuvil in Ampara District, Eastern Province. The district was a two-member constituency between July 1977 and February 1989. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts. Pottuvil electoral district was replaced by the Ampara (Amparai) multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Pottuvil continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.
Q2855429 SM91 is the Norwegian designation for a tram type which operated on the Oslo Tramway until 2002. The trams were imported from Sweden, where they had originally run on the Gothenburg Tramway under the designation M25. The trams were originally delivered to the Gothenburg Tramway between 1958 and 1961. A total of 36 trams were eventually exported to Oslo, Norway, numbered 264 to 299.
Q5275917 Digital Media Academy (commonly referred to as "DMA") is a digital art and technology education company, located in Los Gatos, CA, and Vancouver, BC, primarily offering STEM summer camp and arts programs for kids, age 6-17, at several universities in the US and Canada, including Stanford, Harvard, UCLA, Chicago, NYU, UBC, UoT, among other prestigious ones. Digital Media Academy Certified Schools offers curriculum and teaching resources to K-12 schools globally to empower every educator to integrate technology into their classroom in a way that works for them.Digital Media Academy began as the Academy for New Media at Stanford University in the late 1990s as a program of Stanford's Academic Department and was officially incorporated in 2002. The Academy for New Media was created at Stanford by Phil Gibson in 1999 for K-12 educators and high-school students interested in learning the latest digital media software tools from award-winning creative professionals.. Digital Media Academy was born in the Fall of 2001 after the Academy for New Media became the victim of budget cuts. Stanford University's Continuing Studies department offered CEU credits through Digital Media Academy from 2002-2014. Students may attend Digital Media Academy summer camps with the day camp or residential camp option. These camps offer sports and recreation while being known primarily as a tech camp.
Q4676981 Actinopeltis may refer to:Actinopeltis (fungus), a genus of fungi in the family MicrothyriaceaeActinopeltis (trilobite), an extinct genus of trilobites in the family Cheiruridae
Q1876063 Magic is the third album from Djumbo. It was released as a normal version and also a special version with an extra book in November 2008.
Q8037175 Worth Allen Ryder (November 10, 1884 Kirkwood, Illinois - February 17, 1960 Berkeley, California) was an American artist, curator, and art professor.
Q7362624 Parliamentary elections were held in Romania on 9 March 1980. The Front of Socialist Unity and Democracy, dominated by the Romanian Communist Party and including other mass organisations, was the only organisation that contested the election. No prospective candidate could run for office without the Front's approval. The Front won all 369 seats in the Great National Assembly.
Q15921638 The Taoyuan Hakka Culture Hall (Chinese: 桃園縣客家文化館; pinyin: Táoyuán Xiàn Kèjiā Wénhuàguǎn) is a Hakka cultural center in Longtan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
Q18754773 Berry & MacFarlane Monument is a heritage-listed memorial at Sherwood Road, Sherwood, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1902. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Q25036422 The following is the discography of DJ Umek, including albums and singles.
Q736582 Vladimir A. Kossogovsky (14 January 1857 - 12 September 1918) - was a Russian Lieutenant-General, commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade, and a part of the General Staff of the Imperial Russian Army.
Q27995871 The 1902–03 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1902–03 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 3–5–1.
Q29831525 Liberty 1784: The Second War for Independence is an alternate history novel written by Robert Conroy.
Q1373092 Wurmsbach Abbey (Kloster Mariazell-Wurmsbach) is a monastery of Cistercian nuns located in Bollingen, a locality of Rapperswil-Jona, in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is located on the north shore of upper Lake Zürich. The house is a part of the Order of Cistercians of the Common Observance (O.Cist.).
Q206597 The Dangerous Summer is a nonfiction book by Ernest Hemingway published posthumously in 1985 and written in 1959 and 1960. The book describes the rivalry between bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguín and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez, during the "dangerous summer" of 1959. It has been cited as Hemingway's last book.
Q7085445 Old World Wisconsin is an open-air museum located near Eagle, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. It depicts housing and the daily life of settlers in 19th-century Wisconsin, with separate areas representing the traditions of different ethnic groups who settled in the state. Costumed interpreters portray the occupations and chores of typical settlers of the time.
Q1346681 Louis Antoine François Baillon (20 January 1778 – 3 December 1855) was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville.His father, Jean-François-Emmanuel Baillon (1742-1801), a lawyer and correspondent of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, introduced him to natural history. In 1798, Baillon began work at as an assistant at the Jardin des Plantes, a position he relinquished following the death of his father. Afterwards, he settled in Abbeville, and like his father, became known for his correspondence with famed naturalists. In his studies, the younger Baillon maintained correspondence with Franco Andrea Bonelli, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied.During his career, he continued and developed an ornithological collection that was initiated by his father, a collection that eventually grew to 6000 items. Baillon's collection (birds only) is now conserved in "Musée George Sand et de la Vallée noire" in La Châtre. In addition to birds from France, it contains exotic specimens from French voyages of exploration, notably birds from the expeditions of Jacques Labillardière and Jules Dumont d'Urville.The single publication of LAF Baillon is the Catalogue des Mammifères, Oiseaux, Reptiles, Poissons et Mollusques testacés marins, observés dans l'arrondissement d'Abbeville.Baillon's crake is named for him, as is Baillon's shearwater and Baillonius bailloni (saffron toucanet).
Q7550694 The Social Justice Party is a democratic and progressive political party in Egypt.
Q6787721 Matoaca High School is an American secondary school in the Matoaca community of unincorporated Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States This is the newer campus of the school; the old school campus was converted into a middle school, known currently as Matoaca Middle School (8th grade campus). The school's mascot is the Warrior. Matoaca is well known for its sports and its technology specialty center.This school has a technology specialty program for students to learn about the computer industry, through teaching classes such as Oracle I and II, Cisco, and IT1 and 2 (Prep classes for Network+ and A+ certifications). Matoaca was formally the only school in Chesterfield County that distributed laptop computers for their students' use, but due to "students [failing] to show any academic gains compared with those in schools without laptops" the school discontinued their use for those not in the Specialty Center program.The school's only campus is located at 17700 Longhouse Lane in Chesterfield. However, the older school located at 6001 Hickory Road was converted into Matoaca Middle School's East Campus in approximately 2002, where the CBG (Center Based Gifted) program and 8th graders are housed. The school's East Campus covers over 100 acres.Administration:Principal: Dr. John MurrayAssociate Principal: Dr. Stefanie Mooney (12th)Assistant Principal: Dr. Scott Birmingham (11th)Assistant Principal: Mrs. Stephanie LaSmith (10th)Dean of students: Mr. Benjamin Shindler All information was gathered off of the school website (link located below)
Q8010533 William Henry Noble (September 22, 1788 – February 5, 1850) was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in New Milford, Connecticut, received a limited education, and became a farmer and tanner. Noble moved to Ballston Spa, where he was an active in the Episcopal church and served as a vestryman. He later resided in Ira, Cato, Rochester, and Auburn. He served in local offices, including school board member and school inspector in Ira, postmaster in Cato, town supervisor of Auburn, and collector of canal tolls in Montezuma. In addition, he was active in local businesses, including serving on the board of directors of the Cayuga County National Bank.He served as member of the New York State Assembly from 1828 to 1830. He was also an officer in the New York Militia, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel as second-in-command of the 167th Infantry Regiment, a unit of the 7th Brigade, 21st Division.Noble was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.He served as inspector of Auburn Prison from 1843 to 1845. He died in Rochester, New York on February 5, 1850. He was buried at Cato-Meridian Cemetery in Ira.
Q1384421 Santo Anzà (born 17 November 1980 in Catania, Italy) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for the UCI ProTeam Vacansoleil–DCM.
Q16820306 Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1758.
Q2821970 Abronia reidi is a species of arboreal alligator lizard described in 1961 by John E. Werler and Frederick A. Shannon.
Q674799 FC Biel-Bienne is a football club based in Biel/Bienne. The currently play in the 2. Liga Interregional.
Q5127555 Clarkia modesta is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common name Waltham Creek clarkia. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the woodlands of several of the central mountain ranges, including the North and Central Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada foothills. It is an erect annual herb often exceeding half a meter in height. The oval, linear, or lance-shaped leaves are 2 to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears opening flowers and closed, hanging flower buds. The sepals remain fused as the petals bloom from one side. The petals are about a centimeter long and vary in shape from diamond to widely lance-shaped. They are pale to deep pink and generally dark-flecked or spotted.
Q7320173 Frangula caroliniana, commonly called the Carolina buckthorn, is an upright shrub or small tree native to the southeastern, south-central, and mid-western parts of the United States, from Texas east to Florida and north as far as Maryland, Ohio, Missouri, and Oklahoma. There is also an isolated population in the State of Nuevo León in northeastern Mexico. It is found in a wide variety of habitats, including barrens, forests, and limestone bluffs.
Q2602946 Triisodon is a genus of extinct mesonychian mammal that existed during the Early Paleocene of New Mexico, North America. The genus was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1881 as a member of the Acreodi, a now invalid taxon that encompassed both creodonts and mesonychians. The premolar teeth have three points, hence the generic name (tri=three, don=tooth). Cope described the type specimen of T. quivirensis as "about the size of a wolf." A smaller species has also been identified from the same region. Since material from this genus is incomplete, the exact size of adults and whether they showed sexual dimorphism or regional variations in size is unknown.Triisodon is the type genus of the family Triisodontidae, one of the three families within Mesonychia (the other two being Mesonychidae and Hapalodectidae). Other North American triisodontid genera, including Goniacodon, Eoconodon, and Stelocyon',' have been referred to Triisodon. Like many very early mammals, the relationship of triisonodontines to other living and fossil mammals has been uncertain, but most paleontologists currently consider them either mesonychids or the sister group of mesonychids, part of the stem group that led to artiodactyls+whales and the ancient South American ungulates.
Q486470 Anas Urbaningrum (born July 15, 1969), is a former Indonesian politician who was the chairman of the Democratic Party (Partai Demokrat), the party who won Indonesia's general election in 2009. Elected at the age of 40, he was one of the youngest party leaders in Indonesia. Before this, he was the head of the Democratic Party's national division on Political and Regional Autonomy, and also the head of the Democratic fraction in House of Representatives (DPR) of the Republic of Indonesia.Zhilal was elected to become a member of Indonesia's Parliament during the election of 2009 from the election region of East Java VII, which includes the Blitar City, Blitar Regency, Kediri City, Kediri Regency, and Tulungagung Regency obtaining the highest votes. He has since resigned from this position in the Parliament following his election as party chairman. After being named a graft suspect by Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for allegedly taking a bribe in relation with the construction of the Hambalang sports complex, he resigned from the post of the Democratic Party chairman on 23 February 2013.In September 2014 he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for corruption.
Q258241 The 2010–11 season of the Oberliga Hamburg, the highest association football league in the German state of Hamburg, was the third season of the league at tier five (V) of the German football league system.
Q17010842 Hope Meets Foster is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope and saxophonist Frank Foster recorded in 1955 for the Prestige label.
Q15217887 The Florennes Castle (formerly the Château de Beaufort) in Florennes, Namur, Belgium, is a castle that dates back to the 9th century, although the most of the modern structure is much more recent.
Q22058856 The Capt. Samuel Woodruff House is a historic house at 23 Old State Road in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1840, it is a well-preserved and somewhat rare example of a square Greek Revival farmhouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Q30600917 Sub Rosa is a 2010 queer novel by Canadian Amber Dawn published by Vancouver-based Arsenal Pulp Press. The novel was Dawn's debut novel, and is a work of speculative fiction that touches on topics of sex, work, imagination, and survival. It narrates the story of "Little," a teenage girl who cannot remember her real name and ends up involved in the dark world of Sub Rosa, "a fantastical underground community of sex workers", where she enters the company of ghosts, magicians, and magical Glories. Sub Rosa won the Lambda Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2011.
Q2275184 Mountain Village is a Home Rule Municipality in San Miguel County, southwestern Colorado. It is located just southwest of Telluride in the San Juan Mountains. The elevation of the town rises above Telluride to 9,540 feet. The population was 1,320 at the 2010 census and estimated at 1,395 as of 2015.
Q299669 Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French organist and composer.
Q485131 Queen Seondeok of Silla (Korean: 선덕여왕 Korean pronunciation: [sʌn.dʌk jʌ.waŋ]; c. 595~610 – 17 February 647/January 8, Lunar Calendar) reigned as Queen Regnant of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632 to 647. She was Silla's twenty-seventh ruler, and its first reigning queen. She was the second female sovereign in recorded East Asian history and encouraged a renaissance in thought, literature, and the arts in Silla.In Samguksagi, Queen Seondeok was described as "generous, benevolent, wise, and smart".
Q244361 The pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) is a small species of New World monkey native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South America. The species is notable for being the smallest monkey and one of the smallest primates in the world, at just over 100 grams (3.5 oz) (Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is smaller). It is generally found in evergreen and river-edge forests and is a gum-feeding specialist, or a gummivore.About 83% of the pygmy marmoset population lives in stable troops of two to nine individuals, including a dominant male, a breeding female, and up to four successive litters of offspring. The modal size of a standard stable troop would be six individuals. Although most groups consist of family members, some may also include one or two additional adult members. Members of the group communicate using a complex system including vocal, chemical, and visual signals. Three main calling signals depend on the distance the call needs to travel. These monkeys may also make visual displays when threatened or to show dominance. Chemical signaling using secretions from glands on the chest and genital area allow the female to indicate to the male when she is able to reproduce. The female gives birth to twins twice a year and the parental care is shared between the group.The pygmy marmoset has been viewed as somewhat different from typical marmosets, most of which are classified in the genera Callithrix and Mico, and thus is accorded its own genus, Cebuella, within the family Callitrichidae. It is listed as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as it is common across its wide range and not at immediate risk of widespread decline. The biggest threats to the species are habitat loss and the pet trade.
Q4965254 Brian Setencich (born 1962) served in the California Assembly for one term from 1994 to 1996 and as Speaker of that body from September 14, 1995 to January 4, 1996. Setencich, a Republican, was the first freshman legislator to serve as Speaker of the Assembly in more than a century. He was previously a city councilman in Fresno and played professional basketball in Europe.
Q7939406 Vogrie House forms the centrepiece of Vogrie Country Park in Midlothian. It is the former home of the Dewar family and was built in 1876 by Andrew Heiton, the town architect for Perth.The house is an example of Victorian baronial splendour and is said to be one of the best surviving examples of Heiton's work. The house was a typical country house with a library, servants' quarters and many bedrooms.Transformed in 1926 into a nursing home for the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, by Ernest Auldjo Jamieson the house was sold on to local government in the 1950s and had a role during the Cold War as a control centre for communications.
Q5444505 The Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at Binghamton University, State University of New York was founded in September 1976 and serves as one of the preeminent centers for advanced study of systemic history (especially the world-systems dynamics) and historiography in the US. It is named after the famous French historian Fernand Braudel. The following Professors are on the Executive Board - the governing body of the Center: Barbara Abou-el-Haj (Art & Art History), Fa-ti Fan (History), Randall McGuire (Anthropology), Denis O'Hearn (Sociology), Dale Tomich (Sociology & History), Thomas M. Wilson (Anthropology), Jason W. Moore, and as Director Richard E. Lee (Sociology).Immanuel Wallerstein was head of the Center until 2005.
Q1901965 Marland Pratt Billings (March 11, 1902 – October 9, 1996) was an American structural geologist who was considered one of the greatest authorities on North American geology. Billings was Professor of Geology at Harvard University for almost his entire career, having joined the faculty in 1930 and retired to emeritus status in 1972. He also taught for a brief time at Bryn Mawr College.
Q674886 Seiry is a village lying within the municipality of Lully, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It formerly existed as an autonomous municipality, but on 1 January 2006 was merged, together with Bollion, into the larger Lully.Seiry first appears in 1180 AD as Seirie. The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland records a population peak of 209 in 1900, steadily dropping to 89 inhabitants in 1970, before rising again to 200 before the merger with Lully.
Q7232398 Karnataka's coastline called Karavali stretches 300 km between Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada district and Karwar in Uttara Kannada district. The coastline of Karnataka has been along the eastern shore of Arabian Sea. Karnataka has one major and ten minor ports in this coastal belt. Kali, Belekeri, Gangavali, Aghanashini Sharavathi, Sharabi, Kollur, Gangolli, Sitanadi, Gurpur and Netravati are the important rivers in this belt which empty into the Arabian sea. Sea erosion, migration of river mouths, siltation of ports and harbours are some of the problems common to this belt.Development of ports being a state subject, the Government of Karnataka set up the Department of Ports and Inland Water Transport in 1957. The Department maintains one major and ten minor ports between Mangalore in the south and Karwar in the North. The only major port is the New Mangalore Port. The minor ports are located at Karwar, Old Mangalore, Belekeri, Tadadi, Honnavar, Bhatkal, Kundapur, Hangarakatta, Malpe and Padubidri ports. Of these, the one at Karwar is the only all-weather port while the rest are riverine fair-weather lighterage ports.In the light of the economic reforms that the central government implemented in the early nineties, the Karnataka government also has been making serious efforts to improve its port infrastructure. In 1997, a “Port Policy” was formulated with a view to develop all ports with private participation. The policy is built around the BOOST (Build-Own-Operate-Share and Transfer) concept and primarily seeks to improve cargo handling capacity.
Q7331516 Richard Ira "Rick" Klaw (born December 22, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American editor, essayist, and bookseller.
Q686272 Oblinghem is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Q4353126 Baltic Yachts is a shipyard specialized in sailing yachts. It is located in the municipality of Larsmo in Finland, where it is the largest employer.The shipyard was established in 1973 and now produces sailing yachts between 50 feet (15 m) and 197 feet (60 m) in length. Advanced and light materials, such as carbon fiber and Kevlar are used in the construction.
Q1062191 Saint-Jean-des-Champs is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Q663932 This is a list of Nintendo 3DS games released or planned for release physically on Nintendo 3DS game cards and/or digitally on the Nintendo eShop.
Q6957496 Nadeau is an unincorporated community in Menominee County, Michigan, United States. Nadeau is located in Nadeau Township along US Highway 41 and the Canadian National Railway, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Carney. Nadeau has a post office with ZIP code 49863.
Q4349443 Maia Estianty (born Maia Estianty, 27 January 1976), known as Maia Ahmad during her marriage to fellow musician Ahmad Dhani, is an Indonesian musician, music producer, songwriter, singer, actress, businesswoman, talent show judge, and television personality.Estianty was born in Surabaya, East Java, and showed interest in music at an early age, winning a marching band competition while still in elementary school. She began training as a disc jockey while still in junior high school; it was around this time that she first met Dhani. After studying at the University of Indonesia, Estianty joined Dewa 19 as a backing vocalist. In 1999, she and Dhani came up with the idea for the musical duo Ratu. Estianty played the music, while other women – first Pinkan Mambo, then Mulan Jameela – sang. Ratu was highly successful. After the dissolution of the band in 2007 and a bitter divorce in September 2008, Estianty formed Duo Maia with Mey Chan. She is currently focusing on producing music with her label, Le Moesik.
Q12483972 The Christian Church of Southern Sumatra is a Protestant church in Indonesia, based on the southern part of the island of Sumatra, the Provinces of Lampung, Jambi, South Sumatra, and Bengkulu. The synod office is located in Lampung.The denomination was officially founded on 6 August 1987. It has 30,000–35,000 members, 65 parishes, 40 house fellowships and 13 Classis. The church reported steady growth. The church connected and established formal link to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.The church has long history since the migrating of millions of Javanese to the island of Sumatra. The Christian Church of Central Java began mission work among these Javanese population in Sumatra. In 1952, five congregations formed a classis and joined the Javanese Christian Church. In the 1950s the Reformed Church in the Netherlands took over this work. Two Dutch missionaries worked in the field. In 1987 the church became independent. The church publishes a newspaper.It belongs to the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
Q20676161 Asif Nazar Butt (born 28 February 1987) better known by his stage name DJ Butt is Pakistani DJ, political activist and businessman from Lahore best known for his work as a disc jockey in the events of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He is also owner of a cafe named DJ Butt Café in Model Town, Lahore.
Q29996625 The Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario are an American professional basketball team of the NBA G League that began play in the 2017–18 season. The franchise is owned by and affiliated with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team is based in Ontario, California.
Q490953 Morgan County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,541. Its county seat is Berkeley Springs. The county was formed in 1820 from parts of Hampshire and Berkeley Counties and named in honor of General Daniel Morgan, prominent soldier of the American Revolutionary War.Morgan County is the home of an important mine producing special sand for the glass industry.
Q7331366 Richard Robert Elias (January 7, 1955 – April 2, 2019) was an American singer and songwriter based in Nashville.Elias is best known for being a founding member of Rich Mullins' A Ragamuffin Band, which recorded and toured from 1993 through 2000.
Q5591440 Gracechurch Street is a main road in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London, which is designated the A1213.It is home to a number of shops, restaurants, and offices and has an entrance to Leadenhall Market, a covered market dating from the 14th century.
Q2623514 The Contender is an American reality television series that initially aired from March 3, 2005 to January 7, 2009 on NBC, ESPN, and Versus and currently airs on Epix. Each season of the series follows a group of boxers as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, while their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted.The series was created and executive produced by Mark Burnett. The first three seasons of the show were hosted by Sugar Ray Leonard, who shared hosting duties in the first season with actor Sylvester Stallone. Leonard departed the series after season three and Tony Danza joined as his replacement.On January 22, 2018, it was announced that the series was being revived by premium cable network Epix for a fifth season which premiered on August 24, 2018.
Q918054 The National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1962–63 NBA season. The winner receives the Red Auerbach Trophy, which is named in honor of the head coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships from 1956 to 1966. The winner is selected at the end of the regular season by a panel of sportswriters from the United States and Canada, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The person with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.Since its inception, the award has been given to 40 different coaches. The most recent award winner is current Milwaukee Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer. Gregg Popovich, Don Nelson and Pat Riley have each won the award three times, while Hubie Brown, Budenholzer, Mike D'Antoni, Bill Fitch, Cotton Fitzsimmons, and Gene Shue have each won it twice. No coach has won consecutive Coach of the Year awards. Riley is the only coach to be named Coach of the Year with three franchises. Larry Bird is the only recipient to have also been named MVP as a player. Tom Heinsohn, Bill Sharman, and Lenny Wilkens are the only recipients to have been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both player and coach. Johnny Kerr is the only person to win the award with a losing record (33–48 with the Chicago Bulls in 1966–67). Kerr was honored because he had guided the Bulls to the NBA Playoffs in their first season in the league. Doc Rivers is the only person to win the award despite his team not making the playoffs (41–41 with the Orlando Magic in 1999–2000). Only five recipients also coached the team that won the championship the same season: Red Auerbach, Red Holzman, Bill Sharman, Phil Jackson, and Gregg Popovich. Popovich is the only NBA Coach of the Year recipient to win the championship in the same season twice, winning the NBA title with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003 and 2014. 2015–16 recipient Steve Kerr only coached 39 of the 82 games in the season due to complications from offseason back surgery, though he received credit for all of the Golden State Warriors' 73 wins that season. Assistant coach Luke Walton served as interim head coach for the other 43 games for the Warriors, receiving one second-place vote and two third-place votes.
Q3071731 The Fiji Times is a daily English-language newspaper published in Suva, Fiji. Established in Levuka on 4 September 1869 by George Littleton Griffiths (1844 Woolwich, England - 1908 Suva, Fiji), it is Fiji's oldest number 1 newspaper still operating. The newspaper's masthead states that it is: "The First Newspaper Published In The World Every Day".The Fiji Times is owned by Motibhai Group of Companies, which purchased it from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on 22 September 2010. The Fiji Times Limited board is chaired by Kirit Patel (as of 2010), and includes Rajesh Patel, a resident director appointed in 2010 and Jinesh Patel, the marketing manager for the Motibhai Group of Companies. The Company Secretary is Venkteshwar Permal. The current general manager is Hank Arts.The former publisher Evan Hannah was forcibly removed from Fiji in 2008 as he was accused by the interim government of meddling in Fijian politics. This was prior to the sale by News Corp to the Motibhai Group of Companies.An online edition is published, featuring local news, sport and weather.
Q6438425 Karl Kristoffer Göbel (born 23 October 1978) is a Swedish vocalist. He has sung for both the heavy metal band Destiny and sang for Falconer between 2003 and 2005 - a position from which he was fired to make way for the returning original vocalist, Mathias Blad. He was hired by Destiny in 2001 and left sometime between 2005 and 2006, having recorded one studio album and a re-recording of the band's debut.Presently, Kristoffer has started a new band called Metal Für Alle with Snowy Shaw and his former Destiny bandmate Mikael Åberg, as well as performing in cover bands.
Q15463138 Jack Jackson (20 February 1906 – 15 January 1978) was an English trumpeter and bandleader popular during the British dance band era, and who later became a highly influential radio disc jockey. The BBC’s nickname “Auntie” is often credited to Jackson.
Q948266 Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ ʒɔzef lɑ̃ɡɛ də ʒɛʁʒi]; 25 August 1677 – 11 May 1753) was a French ecclesiastic and theologian. He was first bishop of Soissons, then a member of the Académie française, and finally archbishop of Sens.
Q3380422 In enzymology, a 1,2-dehydroreticulinium reductase (NADPH) (EC 1.5.1.27) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction(R)-reticuline + NADP+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } 1,2-dehydroreticulinium + NADPH + H+Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are (R)-reticuline and NADP+, whereas its 3 products are 1,2-dehydroreticulinium, NADPH, and H+.This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on the CH-NH group of donors with NAD+ or NADP+ as acceptor. The systematic name of this enzyme class is (R)-reticuline:NADP+ oxidoreductase. This enzyme is also called 1,2-dehydroreticulinium ion reductase. This enzyme participates in alkaloid biosynthesis i.
Q6264564 John Wilton (Penguin, Tasmania, 31 January 1925 – 13 October 2002) was the member for Broadmeadows in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1985. He was a member of the Labor Party.
Q7942127 Vote for Love is a 1996 album by Kenny Rogers released exclusively for sale on QVC. It was later made available in retail stores under the title Always & Forever.
Q7383253 Ruth Wallace (born 1 February 1993) is an Australian rules football player who plays for Norwood Football Club in the SANFL Women's League. She is also former soccer player who played for Adelaide United in the Australian W-League.In 2014, Wallace ran the New York Marathon as part of the Indigenous Marathon Project.
Q17015969 Ireland is competing at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain between 19 July and 4 August 2013.