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Q7311924 A remittance man is a historic term for an emigrant, often from Britain to a colony, supported by regular payments from home, on the expectation that he stay away.Note that in this context, money is being sent in the opposite direction to today's usual usage of the term remittance, which means money that migrants send to their countries of origin.
Q18394262 Thomso is the annual cultural fest of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Established in 1982, the festival is held over a span of three days at the end of October and the beginning of November. The 2013 edition consisted of over 150 events and hosted 6000 guest students from 200 colleges across India, in addition to about 10,000 students from the hosting institution.
Q18921492 Glyn Sheridan Burgess is a British scholar of medieval language and literature, Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool. He has published on Marie de France, besides other topics, and is the translator of the Penguin edition of the Lays of Marie de France and the Song of Roland. He was awarded a knighthood in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1998.
Q20312277 The 2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final was the final game of the 2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship which saw Dublin claim their seventh title in eight years against rivals Meath.
Q718605 Martial law in Poland (Polish: Stan wojenny w Polsce) refers to the period of time from 13 December 1981 to 22 July 1983, when the authoritarian communist government of the Polish People's Republic drastically restricted normal life by introducing martial law in an attempt to crush political opposition. Thousands of opposition activists were jailed without charge and as many as 91 killed. Although martial law was lifted in 1983, many of the political prisoners were not released until a general amnesty in 1986.
Q632133 Milíkov (German Miltigau) is a village in Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Karlovy Vary and 135 kilometres (84 mi) west of Prague.The municipality covers an area of 19.47 square kilometres (7.52 sq mi) and as of 2011 it had a population of 241.First written notice about the village is from year 1088.
Q3067404 Hosoya Jūdayū (細谷 十太夫, 1839–1907) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who served the Date clan of Sendai han, and was famous for his role in the Boshin War. He was also known as Naohide 直秀 and Buichiro 武一郎.
Q2991647 Makaravank (Armenian: Մակարավանք) is a 10th to 13th century church complex near the Achajur village of Tavush Province, Armenia, located on the slope of Paitatap Mountain.Though the monastery is no longer used for services, the complex is well preserved. There are 4 churches, a gavit (narthex) that serves the two largest of the churches, and other buildings which served secondary roles. At one time there used to be vast settlements around Makaravank, the presence of which was of great importance for the growth of the monastery.
Q4738379 Always & Forever: The Classics is a greatest hits album by American R&B/soul singer Luther Vandross, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). It contains Luther's best known cover songs.
Q4813397 The Athenӕum Press Building is an historic building located at 215 First Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It occupies the entire block between First Street, Second Street, Athenaeum Street, and Linskey Way (formerly Munroe Street). Topped by a statue of Athena, it is visible from the Charles River and Longfellow Bridge.
Q6976847 This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.There are 9 properties listed on the National Register in the county.This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 18, 2019.
Q651134 Shirayuki-sensei to kodomo-tachi (白雪先生と子供たち) is a 1950 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ren Yoshimura (吉村廉).
Q1637517 Peramola is a municipality in the comarca of the Alt Urgell in Catalonia, Spain.
Q7202643 Platylesches tina, the small hopper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Uganda, western Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia (Caprivi) and the Transvaal. The habitat consists of well-wooded savanna and riverine vegetation.The wingspan is 25–29 mm. These skippers are brown with light white spots in the middle of both forewings and hindwings. The underside of the wings are a light blue. The flight period is from September to October and January to April, with two broods. Adults mud-puddle, feed from bird droppings and have been recorded feeding from the flowers of trees.The larvae feed on the young foliage of Parinari curatellifolia. They are leaf green with a brown head. The larvae create leaf shelters by taking a whole leaf and folding it in two up the mid-rib, fixing the edges together with closely spaced silk strands.
Q6953009 The NCAA Season 81 basketball tournaments are the postseason tournaments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for basketball at the 2005–06 season. The tournaments are divided into two divisions: the Juniors tournament for male high school students, and the Seniors tournament for male college students.The Letran Knights defeated the PCU Dolphins, 2 games to 1 in the seniors tournament to take their 16th title, with Boyet Bautista as the Finals MVP.In the juniors division, the San Sebastian Staglets swept the San Beda Red Cubs, 2-0, to take their second title, as Eric Salamat won Finals MVP honors.
Q5035053 Cape Southard (66°32′S 122°5′E) is an ice-covered cape separating the Banzare Coast and Sabrina Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Samuel Lewis Southard, Secretary of the Navy under President John Quincy Adams. While serving as Senator from New Jersey, Southard was instrumental in initiating interest in a government scientific expedition and gaining congressional authorization of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838–42, under Charles Wilkes. This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cape Southard" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
Q6564749 The fifth series of Britain's Got Talent was broadcast on ITV between 16 April and 4 June 2011. After initial rounds of auditions, forty semi-finalists were chosen to perform across five live shows, with eight appearing in each of the semi-finals. The act from each show who received the highest number of public votes went through to the final automatically. They were joined by either the second or third placed act, with the four judges declaring who they wanted to go through. In the event of a tie, the second finalist was determined by the public vote.Each of the acts performed again in the final on 4 June 2011. Jai McDowall won the competition after finishing with the highest number of public votes. Ronan Parke finished in second place, with the difference in the votes being 2.5% between the first and second place contestants. Singing group New Bounce finished in third place, followed by dancer Razy Gogonea and singer/guitarist Michael Collings. Paul Gbegbaje (6th), Les Gibson (9th), Steven Hall (7th), James Hobley (8th), and Jean Martyn (10th) were the other finalists.
Q3946999 The 1968-69 NBA season was the Rockets' 2nd season in the NBA.In the playoffs, the Rockets lost to the Atlanta Hawks in six games in the Semifinals.
Q16992163 The FIM Snowcross World Championship is a snowmobile racing championship, inaugurated in 2004. The championship was preceded by the FIM Snowcross World Cup in 2003. Winner of the World Cup was Janne Tapio, Finland.
Q19598956 Do Unto Others is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Thomas H. MacDonald, Peggy Richards and Patrick J. Noonan.
Q11465175 Motojirō Ozaki (尾崎 元次郎, Ozaki Motojirō, October 5, 1870 – January 9, 1945) was a Japanese politician and businessman, member of the House of Representatives and of the House of Peers.Ozaki served as Shizuoka City Education Chairman, Shizuoka Taisei Junior/Senior High School, Shizuoka Blind Dormitory School President, high level positions in several banks, Shizuoka Veteran Association president and others. In addition, he created Shizuoka Shōnen Association (静岡少年軍団), a predecessor of Shizuoka Scout Council Boy Scouts, and also worked on social education for young people.Yoshinori Futara, the head of school affairs for Shizuoka Prefecture, introduced Shō Fukao to Ozaki. The Shizuoka Shōnen Gundan ("Shizuoka Boys' Army Corps") was formed in June 1913 with Ozaki as leader and Fukao and Keijirō Takasugi as directors. 111 members took part in the enrollment ceremony at Sengen Shrine. Takasugi wanted Fukao removed for his previous activity as a socialist, but Ozaki supported Fukao.In 1955 he posthumously received the highest distinction of the Boy Scouts of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award. His second son Tadatsugu Ozaki, a Boy Scouts of Japan pioneer and later Shizuoka Scout Council President, received the distinction in 1979. His third son Shinpei Iwanami, a President of TEPCO and Boy Scouts of Nippon director, received the distinction in 1994.
Q15238761 Allegiant is a science fiction novel for young adults, written by the American author Veronica Roth and published by HarperCollins in October 2013. It completes the Divergent trilogy that Roth started with her debut novel Divergent in 2011. The book is written from the perspective of both Beatrice (Tris) and Tobias (Four). Following the revelations of the previous novel, they journey past the city's boundaries to discover what lies beyond.Allegiant was published simultaneously by Katherine Tegen Books and HarperCollins Children's Books in the UK. Four weeks earlier, a free electronic companion book to the trilogy titled The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant was released online. The novel has been adapted into a two-part film, the first part which was released on March 18, 2016, while the second part, called Ascendant, was planned to release in June 2017 but was ultimately cancelled.
Q29617803 Endrit Braimllari is an Albanian politician, member of Socialist Movement for Integration (Albanian: Lëvizja Socialiste për Integrim, LSI), General Secretary of LSI and the Chairman of LSI of Tirana.
Q33520953 Pelacha (Redsonja Records) is a Spanish dj, producer, record label owner and events promoter.
Q742826 The swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) is a medium-sized sparrow related to the song sparrow.Adults have streaked rusty, buff and black upperparts with an unstreaked gray breast, light belly and a white throat. The wings are strikingly rusty. Most males and a few females have a rust-colored caps. Their face is gray with a dark line through the eye. They have a short bill and fairly long legs. Immature birds and winter adults usually have two brown crown stripes and much of the gray is replaced with buff. Swamp sparrows breed across the northern United States and boreal Canada. The southern edge of their breeding range coincides largely with the Line of Maximum Glaciation. A small number of morphologically distinct birds inhabit tidal marshes from northern Virginia to the Hudson River Estuary. This subspecies (M. g. nigrescens) winters in coastal marshes of the Carolinas and differs from the two inland swamp sparrow subspecies in having more black in a grayer overall plumage, larger bill, different songs, and a smaller average clutch size.Their breeding habitat is marshes, including brackish marshes, across eastern North America and central Canada. The bulky nest is attached to marsh vegetation, often just above the ground or surface of the water with leaves or grass arching over the top. The female builds a new nest each year and lays an average of four eggs per clutch. Females give a series of chips as they leave the nest, probably to ward off attacks by their mate or neighboring males.While swamp sparrows can be found year-round in small numbers on the southern edge of their breeding range, individuals are probably all migratory, primarily migrating to the southeastern United States.Swamp sparrows generally forage on the ground near the water's edge, in shallow water or in marsh vegetation. In winter, their diet is principally fruit and seeds, while during the breeding season their diet is mainly arthropods.The song of the swamp sparrow is a slow monotone trill, slower than that of the chipping sparrow. A male can have a repertoire of several different trills. The common call note is a loud chip reminiscent of a phoebe. This bird's numbers have declined due to habitat loss in some parts of its range.
Q30004 Evenki , formerly known as Tungus or Solon, is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes Even, Negidal, and (the more closely related) Oroqen language. The name is sometimes wrongly given as "Evenks". It is spoken by Evenks in Russia and China.In certain areas the influences of the Yakut and the Buryat languages are particularly strong. The influence of Russian in general is overwhelming (in 1979, 75.2% of the Evenkis spoke Russian, rising to 92.7% in 2002). Evenki children were forced to learn Russian at Soviet residential schools, and returned with a “poor ability to speak their mother tongue...". The Evenki language varies considerably among its dialects which are divided into three large groups: the northern, the southern and the eastern dialects. These are further divided into minor dialects. A written language was created for Evenkis in the Soviet Union in 1931, first using a Latin alphabet, and from 1937 a Cyrillic one. In China, Evenki is written experimentally in the Mongolian script. The language is generally considered endangered.
Q3983826 Teo Teocoli (born as Antonio Teocoli in Taranto on 25 February 1945) is an Italian actor, TV conductor, singer and writer, appearing in about 30 mostly Italian productions since 1975.
Q2092363 The Great Seal of the State of South Dakota was designed while the area was a territory, in 1885. The outer ring of the seal contains the text "State of South Dakota" on the top and "Great Seal" on the bottom. Also the year of statehood, 1889. Inside the inner circle of the seal contains the state motto "Under God the People Rule". The picture features hills, a river with a boat, a farmer, a mine, and cattle. The items in the image are to represent the state's commerce, agriculture, industry, and natural resources.Use of the South Dakota state seal is governed under South Dakota state law as follows:1-6-3.1. Use of seal or facsimile without authorization prohibited—Violation as misdemeanor. No person may reproduce, duplicate, or otherwise use the official seal of the State of South Dakota, or its facsimile, adopted and described in §§ 1-6-1 and 1-6-2 for any for-profit, commercial purpose without specific authorization from the secretary of state. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.1-6-3.2. Sale of seal facsimile without authorization prohibited—Violation as misdemeanor. No person may sell or offer for sale a replica or facsimile of the official seal of the State of South Dakota, adopted and described in §§ 1-6-1 and 1-6-2, without the specific authorization from the secretary of state. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.1-6-3.3. Royalty for use of seal—Educational purposes excepted. The secretary of state shall charge a royalty for the privilege of using the state seal. The secretary of state may not charge a royalty if the state seal is used for an educational purpose. All royalty fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the state general fund.Many color representations of the South Dakota state seal on the Internet are not an accurate representations of the color seal for South Dakota, as the current representation of the state deal is designated in state law1-6-1. State seal adopted—Reproductions. There is hereby adopted as the official colored seal of the State of South Dakota, a reproduction of the seal, described in article XXI, section 1 of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, and made in conformity therewith but whose proportions and colored detail are set out specifically in accord with an original painting of the great seal produced by John G. Moisan of Fort Pierre and shall be the basis for all reproductions of the great seal of the State of South Dakota.The South Dakota Secretary of State is the designated custodian of the South Dakota State Seal.
Q489061 Super Rookie (Korean: 신입사원; RR: Sin-ip Sa-won; lit. "New Employee") is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Eric Mun, Han Ga-in, Oh Ji-ho, and Lee So-yeon. It aired on MBC from March 23 to May 26, 2005 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. The workplace comedy is a satire on Korea's corporate culture and unemployment among the country's younger generation. It scored solid viewership ratings in the 20% range.
Q92987 Wang Xuan (simplified Chinese: 王选; traditional Chinese: 王選; pinyin: Wáng Xuǎn; February 5, 1937 – February 13, 2006), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, was a Chinese computer scientist and businessman. He was a computer application specialist and innovator of the Chinese printing industry, as well as an academician at both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was the vice-president of the CPPCC and founder of the major technology conglomerate company Founder Group in 1986.
Q7420577 Santolan station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2. Santolan station is one of the many elevated stations that can be found on the line located in Barangay Calumpang in Marikina. The station is located on the stretch of the Marikina–Infanta Highway (also known as Marcos Highway) and is named after the adjacent barangay Santolan in Pasig.The station is the eastern terminus of the line and is the first and last station for trains headed to and from Recto respectively. The Santolan Depot, where the trains of the line are cleaned and maintained, is also near the station, as well as the line's Operations Control Center (OCC), all are located in Pasig.This is the only station on this line with an island platform.
Q2224859 Tselinograd District (Kazakh: Целиноград ауданы, Tselinograd aýdany) is the district that surrounds the city and country capital of Nur-Sultan in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Akmol. Population: 58,350 (2009 Census results); 42,068 (1999 Census results).
Q591232 Statistics of Allsvenskan in season 1939/1940.
Q7354851 Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels is the third season of Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and was confirmed by VH1's website in a blog on July 16, 2008. In the show, eligible women live on tour buses and travel with Bret Michaels, competing for his attention and affection. The show premiered on January 4, 2009. On December 29, 2008 it was announced Rock of Love Bus would be the final Rock of Love. Ultimately, Bret Michaels selected Taya Parker to be his "Rock of Love."
Q2605257 Ștefești is a commune in Prahova County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Scurtești, Ștefești and Târșoreni.
Q6512363 Lectionary 77, designated by siglum ℓ 77 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th-century.
Q6968425 Natasha's Justice Project (NJP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to end the nation's current rape kit backlog crisis and empower and assist survivors of sexual assault through travel grants to testify at their trials. NJP was founded by Natasha S. Alexenko, a victim and survivor of sexual assault, in hopes of exposing and eliminating the current rape kit backlog that exists in public municipalities throughout the United States. NJP empowers survivors of sexual assault by getting their rape kits off the shelves and tested so that their perpetrator(s) are brought to justice.
Q7593164 St George's Cross is a junction in the West End of Glasgow, UK. The junction has in many respects been bypassed to the South in the 1960s, with two of the roads, Great Western Road and Maryhill Road bypassing the original site of the junction, whereas New City Road has had access blocked off from the actual junction and is now accessed via Gladstone Street. The site of the Junction is now the meeting point of St George's Road, St George's Place, Clarendon Place and New City Road (blocked entry).Most of the buildings at the Cross were demolished in the 1960s and 70s when rebuilding work for the M8 and realignment of the roads resulted in the destruction of the urban fabric of the area, with only two of the original buildings remaining. There is a subway station of the same name located near to the Cross.There is a small public space at the Cross, with a statue of St George and the Dragon, which was saved from the Co-operative Wholesale Society building at the cross when it was demolished.
Q16899748 Sankt Johann in Tirol Heliport (ICAO: LOIT) is a public use heliport located in Sankt Johann in Tirol, Tirol, Austria.
Q13510977 Damias calida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on Sulawesi, Seram and in New Guinea.
Q18345740 Challenge the Wild is a 1953 American wildlife documentary film written and directed by Frank A. Graham. The film was released on June 4, 1954, by United Artists.
Q20858239 Ray Johnson and the Bystanders were an American band active from 1955 until 1966. They recorded on Demon Records.
Q20806566 The men's 400 metres event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21, 22 and 23 August.
Q27964653 Wizard's Way is a 2013 comedy film starring Socrates Adams-Florou, Sadie Frost, and Joe Hartley. The debut feature of a director known only as Metal Man, the comedic faux-documentary was shot on location in Manchester on a budget of £400.
Q159325 Lüderitz is a harbour town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia. It lies on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa. It is a port developed around Robert Harbour and Shark Island.The town is known for its colonial architecture, including some Art Nouveau work, and for wildlife including seals, penguins, flamingos and ostriches. It is also home to a museum, and lies at the end of a currently decommissioned railway line to Keetmanshoop.The town is named for Adolf Lüderitz, a controversial colonial figure.
Q26152 Växjö (Swedish pronunciation: [²vɛkːɧœ]) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 66,275 inhabitants (2016) out of a municipal population of 90,721 (2017). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County and the episcopal see of the Diocese of Växjö. The town is home to Linnaeus University.
Q188480 Campagnatico is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of Florence and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Grosseto in the valley of the Ombrone River.
Q7594030 St Loy's Cove is a small wooded valley and beach in the civil parish of St Buryan in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located two miles to the south of St Buryan churchtown, and between Penberth and Lamorna. There are just a few buildings in the cove, one of which, Cove Cottage, provides bed and breakfast and a cafe. St Loy's is within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), the Boscawen SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and is part of a GCR Geological Conservation Review site. The South West Coast Path passes through the cove.
Q926335 Renaud de Dammartin (Reginald of Boulogne) (c. 1165 – 1227) was Count of Boulogne from 1190, Count of Dammartin from 1200 to 1214 and Count of Aumale from 1204 to 1214. He was son of Alberic III of Dammartin, and Mathilde of Clermont.Brought up at the French court, he was a childhood friend of Philip Augustus. At his father's insistence he fought for the Plantagenets. Received back into Philip's favour, he married Marie de Châtillon, daughter of Guy II de Châtillon and Adèle of Dreux, a royal cousin.On Philip's advice, he then set aside Marie, and forcibly married Ida, Countess of Boulogne. The County of Boulogne thereby became vassal to the French king, rather than the count of Flanders. While this marriage made Renaud a power, it also made enemies in the Dreux family and that of the count of Guînes, who had been betrothed to Ide.In 1203, Renaud and his wife gave a merchant's charter to Boulogne. This was probably made for financial consideration. Philip made Renaud Count of Aumale the following year, but Renaud began to detach himself. Following the acquisition of Normandy in April 1204, King Philip granted Renaud the county of Mortain and the honor of Warenne which was centered on the fortresses of Mortemer and Bellencombre. Both Mortain and Warenne had been held by William I of Boulogne and it would appear that King Philip recognized the Boulogne claim to them.In 1211, he refused to appear before Philip in a legal matter, a suit with Philippe de Dreux, bishop of Beauvais. Philip II seized his lands and on 4 May 1212 at Lambeth, Dammartin made an agreement with King John who had also lost possessions to Philip. Renaud brought other continental nobles, including the Count of Flanders, into a coalition with John against Philip. In return he was given several fiefs in England and an annuity. Each promised not to make a separate peace with France.With the Emperor Otto IV and Ferdinand of Flanders, he took part in the attack on France in 1214 culminating in the Battle of Bouvines. He was on the losing side, but was one of the last to surrender, and refused submission to Philip Augustus. His lands were taken away, and given to Philip Hurepel. Renaud was kept imprisoned at Péronne for the rest of his life, which ended in suicide. His daughter Matilda II was married to Philip Hurepel.
Q5607114 Gregory A. Petsko (born August 7, 1948) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is currently Professor of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He formerly had an endowed professorship in Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College and is still an adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University, and Professor Emeritus in Biochemistry and Chemistry at Brandeis University.As of 2019 Petsko's research interests are understanding the biochemical bases of neurological diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS, discovering drugs (especially by using structure-based drug design) and biologics, especially gene therapy, that could therapeutically affect those biochemical targets, and seeing any resulting clinical candidates tested in humans. He has made key contributions to the fields of protein crystallography, biochemistry, biophysics, enzymology, and neuroscience.
Q5936260 Hulsea brevifolia is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name shortleaf alpinegold, or shortleaf hulsea. It is endemic to California, where it is an uncommon resident of the High Sierra. It is found between 6,000–8,000 feet (1,800–2,400 m) in elevation.
Q2580229 William Pearson (1934 - 18 June 1995) was an American born baritone, who spent most of his career in Europe, especially in Germany. He was notable for his wide repertoire, stretching from Bach and Handel to spirituals, modernist and avant garde compositions.Pearson was born in Tennessee and studied at the School of Music at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1956 he came to Europe on a Fulbright Scholarship, the first black singer to receive the ward. After further study at the Musikhochschule, Cologne, he sang at various German opera houses, and at Budapest and Helsinki where he scored a great success as Porgy in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in 1965.After leaving the opera house, Pearson gave concerts and recitals around Germany, as well as in the major cultural centres in Europe.Several modern composers wrote music for him, including György Ligeti (he was also one of the soloists in Ligeti's Aventures (1962)), Sylvano Bussotti (Pearson wrote the text himself for Bussotti's Pearson Piece (1960) for baritone and piano) and Dieter Schnebel, wrote music for him, while he also recorded works by Hans Werner Henze and Mauricio Kagel. He was also one of the few exponents of Peter Maxwell Davies' challenging work Eight Songs for a Mad King.
Q7960492 "Waited Too Long" / "Play It Loud" is a single by heavy metal band Diamond Head and released in 1981 by DHM Records. It was a double A-side with "Waited Too long" and "Play It Loud". Both tracks eventually ended up on the re-released version of Diamond Head's 1980 debut Lightning to the Nations in 2001 by Sanctuary Records.
Q6810829 Mel Rosenberg (born Melvyn Rosenberg, 12 November 1951 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a microbiologist best known for his research on the diagnosis and treatment of bad breath (halitosis).
Q7289525 Rami (born Rami Abdel-Hakeem Haikal on 12 September 1983) is a prominent musician in the Jordanian metal scene. He is well known for his distinct guitar work in the band Bilocate.
Q7365930 Ronnie Allen McCollum II (born December 28, 1978) is a former American professional basketball player and current coach. McCollum has had a successful international career, but it was his collegiate career playing for the Centenary Gentlemen basketball team between 1997–98 and 2000–01 for which he is best known.
Q2640831 Aleksandras is a Lithuanian male given name derived from Alexander. People with this name include:Alexander Jagiellon (1461–1506), Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of PolandAleksandras Abišala (born 1955), former Prime Minister of LithuaniaAleksandras Ambrazevičius (born 1953), Lithuanian politicianAleksandras Antipovas (born 1955), long distance runnerAleksandras Machtas (1892–1972), chess masterAleksandras Stulginskis (1885–1969), President of LithuaniaAleksandras Štromas (1931–1999), political scientist
Q8057182 You Don't Know Jack is a Facebook game application based on the long-running series of trivia games created by Jackbox Games (formerly Jellyvision Games). It was released for public play on Facebook in May 2012 after a beta period. The game builds on the success of the relaunch of the series from the 2011 video game for consoles and personal computers, though has altered some features to work better on the social media platform. The game is presented as a fictional television show, emceed by "Cookie" Masterson; players answer five trivia questions, typically multiple-choice, during each episode, earning virtual money to track their score within the game and in the larger meta-game. Players compete asynchronously, playing alongside other participants that have already played the present episode, and later compared to the scores of their friends that play that episode later. As part of the series' theme of "high culture meeting pop culture", the questions are often phrased eloquently and combine general knowledge with contemporary entertainment and celebrities references. A mobile version for iOS was released in December 2012, and for Android in May 2013; both mobile games will allow cross-platform play with the Facebook application.The game has been praised for taking an unconventional route towards social media-based games, incorporating elements like microtransactions and interactions with friends without aggressively marketing these elements. It won the 2012 Spike Video Game Award for Best Social Game. On January 30, 2015 it was announced this version of the game will no longer be supported and will be removed from Facebook and no longer functional on mobile devices as of March 1, 2015.
Q6274840 Jonathan D. Wren is a scientific investigator at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in the Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.Wren received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2003, and immediately after began his independent research career at the University of Oklahoma. He moved to OMRF in 2007. His bioinformatics research focuses on developing computational methods of inferring logical conclusions from extremely large bodies of unstructured or semi-structured measurements and/or facts. He has been recognized for his work in text mining, studies on URL decay (link rot) in scientific publications, plagiarism detection and for discovering the function of uncharacterized human genes. Wren is an Associate Editor for the journal Bioinformatics.
Q16056440 For the 2014 Indian general election, the candidates for the Lok Sabha (lower house of the India parliament) of the Left Democratic Fronts of Kerala are as follows:
Q13618381 Eudonia zophochlaena is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1923. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are light ochreous-brownish. The first line is white and double, blotched with ferruginous-ochreous above and below the middle. The second line is followed by a blackish transverse blotch from the costa hardly reaching half across the wing. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish, with an apical blotch of light-grey suffusion. Adults have been recorded on wing in January.
Q20987557 Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 24 February 2019 in order to elect the 101 members of the Parliament of Moldova. The Constitution mandates that elections be held no later than four years and three months from the date of inauguration of the previous legislature.The elections were held under a parallel voting system, replacing the closed-list proportional system used in Moldova at all previous parliamentary elections since independence. The campaigning period began in November 2018 and continued up until the election day.Candidates from four parties were elected to Parliament: the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova, the Democratic Party of Moldova, the ACUM electoral alliance of DA and PAS, and the Șor Party. The Party of Communists failed to obtain any seats for the first time since independence.The results were confirmed by Moldova's Constitutional Court on 9 March 2019.The results triggered a constitutional crisis in June.
Q24845681 Herbert Robinson (29 December 1876 – 2 May 1919) was an Australian politician who was a Nationalist member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 until his death, representing the seat of Albany.Robinson was born in Red Hill, Victoria, to Irish parents, Margaret (née Thomson) and John Robinson. His family moved to Albany, Western Australia, in June 1878, where he spent his early childhood. He and his older brother, Robert Thomson Robinson (also a future MP), were both sent to Adelaide to be educated, attending Prince Alfred College. After leaving school, Robinson returned to Albany to work for Drew Robinson & Co., his father's department store. He eventually became a junior partner in the store. In November 1912, Robinson was elected Mayor of Albany, serving until November 1915. Joining the newly created Nationalist Party, he successfully stood for parliament at the 1917 state election, defeating a former premier, John Scaddan. He joined his brother, the member for Canning, as a member of parliament. Robinson died in Perth in May 1919, aged only 42. He had moved there to aid his recovery from an ongoing illness, with his death having been preceded several months of declining health.
Q14721963 Sinodorcadion subspinicolle is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1959. It is known from Malaysia.
Q7936625 In the study of vision, visual short-term memory (VSTM) is one of three broad memory systems including iconic memory and long-term memory. VSTM is a type of short-term memory, but one limited to information within the visual domain.The term VSTM refers in a theory-neutral manner to the non-permanent storage of visual information over an extended period of time. The visuospatial sketchpad is a VSTM subcomponent within the theoretical model of working memory proposed by Alan Baddeley. Whereas iconic memories are fragile, decay rapidly, and are unable to be actively maintained, visual short-term memories are robust to subsequent stimuli and last over many seconds. VSTM is distinguished from long-term memory, on the other hand, primarily by its very limited capacity.
Q1183376 Deirdre Cartwright (born 26 July 1958) is a British guitarist and composer, and became well known as the guitar presenter of the groundbreaking BBC Television series Rockschool (1983). The second series of Rockschool attracted audiences of two million viewers every week in the UK and was subsequently shown worldwide.In 1991 she formed her own band - The Deirdre Cartwright Group.As a solo artist she has played with the American guitarist Tal Farlow, toured with Jamaican composer Marjorie Whylie, played throughout Europe, has seen the weekly jazz club she co-runs, 'Blow The Fuse', become one of the most popular in London, and has been a regular presenter for BBC Radio 3.Before becoming a presenter and a jazz guitarist, Cartwright was a founding member, from 1975 to 1977, of an all-female band Painted Lady, which later became known as Girlschool. She left to form another band Tour De Force and later pursued different professional opportunities in the music business.
Q5140172 Codespa Foundation is a non-profit organization helping poor people and communities in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and the Americas. Founded in 1985 and based in Spain. The organization is presided by the Prince Felipe of Spain. From the beginning of its history Codespa Foundation promoted development programs in the countries with close cultural and historical links with Spain (Latin America, the Caribbean). Later it expanded its aid operations to other parts of the world.In partnership of other international agencies (UNESCO, IDDI) the Foundation created the Institute for Tourism Training of the East in Dominican Republic.The main Codespa beneficiaries in Asia are the Philippines and Vietnam. The activities in Vietnam consist of such projects, as:Enhancement of health education and facilities in the communes of northern-central part of the country and rural areas through information technology;Establishment of a model information technology center in Hanoi;Vocational training and institutional strengthening;Institutional strengthening and capacity development of Women's Union staff at grassroots level in Yen Bai province.
Q7382532 Rustom Sorabji "Rusi" Cooper (born 15 December 1922 in Bombay) is a former Indian first-class cricketer.He was a right-handed batsman who made his first-class debut in the 1941/42 Bombay Pentangular Tournament, playing for the Parsees. Later he represented Bombay in the Ranji Trophy.Selected to play for the Rest of India against Western India States in February 1944, Cooper went in to bat at number eight and made his maiden first-class century. He finished the season with an average of 76.60. He improved further in 1944-45, averaging 91.83 and scoring two centuries. This tally included a century in the Ranji Trophy final against Holkar to help Bombay win the title.Cooper moved to England in 1946 to study at the London School of Economics. He was signed by Middlesex and played one game in the 1949 County Championship. The following season he got a longer run in the side but struggled to make an impact averaging just 19.63 in games played for the county. He was a champion batsman for Hornsey Cricket Club for several seasons, scoring 1,117 in 19 innings in 1953 at an average of 139.62, before returning to India to practise as a barrister.
Q1987612 Popples is an animated television series, based on the Popples toys, that aired in the United States from 1986 to 1987. The pilot was a live-action Shelley Duvall special, in which they were puppets and marionettes; after this was well-received, it was decided to make a cartoon series with the same characters. The cartoon was produced by DIC Animation City and LBS Communications in association with The Maltese Companies.Like the toys they're based on, the Popples resemble colorful teddy bears/rabbits with long, pompom-tipped tails, and they have pouches on their backs that can be everted so they resemble fuzzy balls. All the Popples stutter when they say words with the letter "P" in them. The name "Popple" is a reference to the popping sound they make when unfolding themselves from such a ball, or pulling objects from their pouches. In the cartoon Popples commonly pull large items from their pouches that couldn't possibly fit inside, which come from hammerspace; in "Popples Alley", one of the Popples' human friends looks inside one of their pouches and sees numerous objects floating in a void.Nine of the Popples live with a human brother and sister, Billy and Bonnie Wagner. Billy and Bonnie think they are the only kids who have Popples until a neighbor family moves in and they have their own Popples — the Rock Stars, Pufflings, and Babies. The Popples tend to make the kids activities go out of hand, but with beneficial results by the end. The plot revolved around the children's efforts to hide the existence of the Popples from the adults around them, although their existence is found out by the Wagner parents in the pilot and not in the cartoons.The Popples also had a comic book series from Star Comics (an imprint of Marvel Comics).A new Netflix series based on the characters premiered in October 2015.
Q3474785 Said Boualam (born at Souk Ahras, French Algeria in 1906, died at Mas-Thibert, France in 1982) was a French politician and army officer. He was a colonel in the French Army, and the founder of the Front Algérie Française, a political and militant movement in favour of French Algeria.He was elected a député during the Fifth Republic for Orléansville, for the party Regroupement national pour l'unité de la République (RNUR) in 1958. On 26 September 1959 he survived an attempted murder.In 1960 he was responsible for the creation of the Front Algérie Française, which despite its rapid popularity was banned by the French government after less than a year. After the group was disbanded he retired to France in 1962. He died on 8 February 1982 at Mas-Thibert, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) from Arles.From 1958 to 1962, Boualam was four times elected vice-president of the National Assembly, becoming a symbol of pro-French Muslims.
Q5108343 Chris Underhill, MBE, is a social entrepreneur working with marginalised people.He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of London and later with a Master of Science in International Policy from the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He worked for Voluntary Service Overseas in Zambia, an experience which led him into a career in development where he has specialised in leadership, disability, mental health and appropriate technology.With regard to disability and mental health, Underhill has founded a number of organisations including Thrive (formerly known as Horticultural Therapy), a UK-based charity working with disabled people and medical professionals in horticulture, gardening and agriculture, Action on Disability and Development, a development agency targeting disabled people in the third world, and BasicNeeds, which works with people with mental disorders and their carers in Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Lao PDR and Vietnam.Underhill has also served as chief executive of the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action), the charity founded by E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful. He went on to found the UK member organization of International Development Enterprises known as IDE UK and he is currently Chair of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.Regarding leadership notably in the Third Sector he is Member of the Board of Impetus, a leader in venture philanthropy in the UK and is the founding Chair and trustee of the Leaders' Quest Foundation, from 2004-2011. Formerly he was a board member of Headstrong, the National Centre for Youth Mental Health in Ireland, the Chair of Action Health which amalgamated with Skillshare International in 2000, Digital Links (retired July 2007), Friends of APD (founder Chair) and Oxfam Chair of Committee for Africa, Staff (HR), and Trustee Role and Council Structure working party whose task was the reorganisation of the Board of Trustees.He is the joint author with Audrey Cloet of the 1982 book Gardening is for Everyone (ISBN 9780285649545). and is an author and contributor to a number of works which include:"Barriers to improving mental health services in low and middle income countries", and "Mental Health and Development" in Selected Readings in Community Based Rehabilitation: Disability and Rehabilitation Issues in South Asia.In 1999 he was awarded an MBE for his work with international and UK disability.In 2012 he was elected as a Senior Ashoka Fellow.Underhill received the esteemed Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship 2013 which recognised his commitment towards: 'altering peace and human security practices that prevent the most marginalized or vulnerable from accessing and benefiting from the system'. The Skoll Award marked the significant contribution made by Underhill to the field of global mental health through BasicNeeds.In 2014, he was again recognised for his contribution to the field of mental health by being selected as a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the year. The award gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to participate in various events and initiatives of the World Economic Forum.
Q3889306 Palaeobalistum is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish which ranged from the Cretaceous to Eocene periods.
Q5429817 Fair Haven is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. Fair Haven is 8 miles (13 km) west-southwest of Milledgeville.
Q691394 Acaya is a small village, a community, in the province of Lecce and region of Apulia, in southern Italy.Info:http://acaya.altervista.org
Q7938188 Vladan Spasojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Bлaдaн Спасојевић, born 11 October 1980) is a Serbian football midfielder.Born in Kosovska Mitrovica (SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia) he started his career with FK Bane, moving in 2003 to top league FK Borac Čačak where he stayed until 2008 when he moved to another Serbian SuperLiga club, FK Jagodina. After two seasons he moved abroad to Slovakia signing with MFK Košice but after six months he returned to Serbia and signed with FK Novi Pazar being one of the numerous signings that the club made that winter with the purpose of achieving promotion to the top league for the first time in their history.
Q16845185 Bouhlou is a town and commune in Tlemcen Province in northwestern Algeria.
Q6620799 This is a list of football clubs in Sweden, for women's football clubs, see the list of women's football clubs in Sweden.
Q982796 David Gómez Martínez (born February 13, 1981 in O Rosal, Pontevedra) is a Spanish decathlete. He is a two-time national junior champion, an eleven-time national senior champion, and a two-time Olympian. He also won two silver medals for the decathlon at the 2000 IAAF World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile, and at the 2006 Ibero-American Championships in Ponce, Puerto Rico.In 2004, Gomez set both his personal best and a championship record of 7,904 points, by winning the gold medal at the Ibero-American Championships in Huelva. Shortly after his first international success, Gomez was eventually selected to compete for Spain at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-fifth in the men's decathlon event, with a solid score of 7,865 points.At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Gomez competed for the second time in men's decathlon, despite having a serious physical injury. During the competition, he set seasonal bests in the 100 metres (11.12 seconds), discus throw (40.17 m), and javelin throw (62.22 m), as well as his personal best in the 1500 metres (4:30.74). Gomez, however, failed to clear a height in the pole vault, which cost him a chance for a medal. In the end, he finished abruptly in twenty-fifth place, with a total score of 6,876 points.Gomez is a full-time member of Club Atletico Celta de Vigo in Vigo, Spain, being currently coached and trained by Jesus Lence.
Q16062983 Maurice L. Ayers, sometimes listed as M. S. Ayres, (December 4, 1819 – June 11, 1884) was an American banker, farmer, hotelier and politician from Burlington, Wisconsin, who served a single term as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Racine County.
Q20711761 Billy Marek (born c. 1954) is a former American football running back. He played college football for the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1972 to 1975. He gained more than 1,200 rushing yards for three consecutive years from 1973 to 1975. He concluded his college football career with 740 yards and 13 touchdowns in the final three games of the 1974 season, including a Wisconsin Badgers football record 304 rushing yards against Minnesota. Of course this didn't actually 'conclude his career' since he played the whole next season yet. He also set Wisconsin career records with 3,709 rushing yards and 277 points scored, led the country with 114 points in 1974, and was named the State of Wisconsin's "Sports Personality of the Year" in 1974. He was inducted into the University of Wisconsin Hall of Fame in 1994.
Q25052297 Lake Tuctococha (possibly from Quechua tuqtu broody hen, qucha lake) is a lake in Peru located in the Junín Region, Yauli Province, Carhuacayan District. It lies northeast of Yanque.
Q22957255 Catherine Wanjiru (born 7 August 1978) was a Kenyan female volleyball player. She was part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team.She participated in the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. She competed with the national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She played with Kenya Pipelines in 2004.
Q28997643 Whitehall is an unincorporated community located in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Q2779769 The 1997 La Flèche Wallonne was the 61st edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 16 April 1997. The race started in Spa and finished in Huy. The race was won by Laurent Jalabert of the ONCE team.
Q577246 The 1904 Tour de France was the second Tour de France, held from 2 to 24 July. With a route similar to its previous edition, 1903 Tour de France winner Maurice Garin seemed to have repeated his win by a small margin over Lucien Pothier, while Hippolyte Aucouturier won four of the six stages. But the race became a victim of its own success, plagued by scandals; cyclists were accused of having taken trains during the race. Twelve cyclists, including the first four of the final classification and all stage winners, were disqualified by the Union Vélocipédique Française (UVF). Henri Cornet, originally the fifth-place finisher, was awarded the victory four months after the race. The problems caused the Tour de France to be provisionally cancelled, and subsequently the 1905 Tour de France was run with different rules from the 1903 and 1904 edition.
Q5014118 CSIRO Hut , also known as the Rabbiters Hut, is an Australian alpine hut in the Kosciuszko National Park. The hut was built by the CSIRO in 1963 as a base camp for researchers investigating methods of rabbit control. It was located in the north-eastern region of Snowy Plain, where the region's rabbit population was high. Further rabbit research programs were conducted in the area from 1966 to 1971, and from 1995.The CSIRO ceased to operate the hut from 2000 following government cutbacks in rabbit research. Since then it has been available as a shelter for hikers in Kosciuszko National Park.The CSIRO Hut is a single room with basic kitchen facilities. Construction materials include timber walls and floor, asbestos cement cladding and a corrugated iron roof.
Q6075137 Irwin Thomas (born Irwin Thomas Whittridge on 6 January 1971) is an American-born Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He performed professionally using the stage name of Jack Jones when he was the lead vocalist-guitarist in band Southern Sons (1990–96) and again with Rick Price. His other bands and collaborations include Electric Mary, She Said Yes and Ahmet Zappa. He released his solo album debut in 2002, "The Evolution Of Irwin Thomas", and toured as a support act to Matchbox Twenty.
Q6088021 Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan (fl. 1539–1572) (Hebrew: יששכר בן מרדכי אבן שושן) was a Jewish mathematician, living in Ottoman Palestine.At a young age, he moved from Morocco—perhaps from Fes—to Jerusalem, where he became a pupil of Levi ibn Ḥabib. From there he went to Safed, where, under great hardship, he continued his studies. But his increasing poverty induced him, in 1539, to leave Safed and seek a living elsewhere.At this time he commenced a work on the calendar, giving, among other things, tables which embraced the years 5299–6000 (1539–2240). After his return to Safed he resumed his work on the calendar, in which he was assisted by the dayyan Joshua. It was published at Salonica, in 1564, under the title Tikkun Yissakar. The second edition, under the title Ibbur Shanim (Venice, 1578), is not as rare as the first. The tables in both editions begin with the year of publication.The book also contains, in two appendixes, a treatise on rites ("minhagim") depending upon the variations in the calendar from year to year, and a treatise on the division of the weekly portions and the hafṭarot according to the ritual of the different congregations. For the latter treatise the author quotes as his source ancient manuscript commentaries, and holds that, according to the opinion of a certain scholar, the division of the weekly portions is to be traced back to Ezra. Rites, anonymously given, are, according to p. 51, 2d edition, taken from Abudarham, to whom the author attributes great authority.
Q16090540 Maidavolu Narasimham (born 1927) was the thirteenth governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 2 May 1977 to 30 November 1977. He hails from Mydavolu village of Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh.RBI follows a policy of in-house promotions, where all staff persons are promoted internally. The only two jobs where this is not done is for the governor and one deputy governor. In Narasimham's case, in house promotion was upheld even for the governor's post. Hence he was the first Reserve Bank cadre officer to be appointed as governor. He had joined the bank as a research officer in the Economic Department. He later joined the government, and prior to his appointment as governor he served as additional secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs.After his short term as RBI governor, he served as India's executive director at the World Bank and later at the International Monetary Fund. Narasimham also served as secretary in the Ministry of Finance. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan award in 2000.
Q7366223 Rookie of the Year is an indie rock/acoustic band from Fayetteville, North Carolina signed to Cardigan Records. They were signed to One Eleven Records, though their third release fulfilled their contractual obligation to One Eleven and allowed them to sign with a new label. The band is fronted by lead singer/songwriter Ryan Dunson. The band has seen many live band lineup changes, with Dunson being the sole original member.
Q3379379 Guo Lei (born April 26, 1982 in Baoding, Hebei) is a male Chinese judoka who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Half middleweight (73–81 kg) event.
Q7107900 Ostrzyca [ɔsˈtʂɨt͡sa] (German: Bernhagen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowogard, within Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-east of Nowogard, 26 km (16 mi) east of Goleniów, and 46 km (29 mi) north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see history of Pomerania.The village has a population of 350.
Q3512519 TV8 Mont-Blanc is a Savoie-based local television channel, broadcast on Télévision Numérique Terrestre, cable and satellite.
Q2901706 Abraham Stupp (Hebrew: אברהם סטופ‎, 1897 – 26 September 1968) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists between 1951 and 1955.
Q2255065 Sobra is a rural commune in the Kati Cercle of the Koulikoro Region of Mali. The commune covers an area of approximately 938 square kilometers and contains 10 villages. In the 2009 census it had a population of 9,900. The administrative centre (chef-lieu) is the village of Sandama.
Q792920 Ayele Abshero Biza (Amharic: አየለ አብሽሮ ቢዛ, born 28 December 1990) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who mainly competes in cross country and road races.He came to prominence with a junior silver medal at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships before taking the junior title in 2009. He won the 2008 Zevenheuvelenloop and 2011 Egmond Half Marathon races. He made the fastest-ever marathon debut in history at the 2012 Dubai Marathon, winning in a time of 2:04:23 hours, which was the fourth-fastest ever.
Q404714 Helen Moody successfully defended her title, defeating Dorothy Round in the final, 6–4, 6–8, 6–3 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1933 Wimbledon Championships.
Q6223891 John Burgeson (19 August 1931 – 12 September 2016) is a former IBM engineer who created the first computer baseball simulation game in 1961 on an IBM 1620 Computer in Akron, Ohio. Burgeson's invention was accepted and officially recognized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in contribution.A baseball fan and long-time member of SABR, Burgeson initially wrote the program on his own time for enjoyment, He shared the program with the company, and they included it as part of the software that shipped with the 1620, for which it was the only game. The game was run by placing a deck of punch cards into a card reader, which in turn read them into the computer's memory. Users would pick a lineup from a roster of 50 players, the computer would pick its lineup from the remaining list and the simulation game was then played to completion based on the statistical probabilities for each batter and pitcher.In 1961 a radio DJ at KDKA in Pittsburgh, Rege Cordic, read three of Burgeson's printed play-by-play game results on the air in a re-creation of the fictional games.On September 12, 2016 at the age of 85, John W. Burgeson died surrounded by family. He is survived by his wife, Carol, his eight children, twelve grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
Q8016781 William Perfect (1734–1809) was a British surgeon, obstetrician, early psychiatrist, pioneer of humane treatment of mental illness, Freemason, and poet.He was born in Oxford, England, the son of William Perfect (1712–1757), a clergyman of Huguenot extraction who was vicar of East Malling, Kent, from 1745. In 1749, Perfect apprenticed under William Everred, a London surgeon, for seven years and attended lectures by Colin MacKenzie, a Scottish obstetrician. He opened his medical and obstetric practice in High Street, West Malling, Kent in 1756, and he obtained his Medicinae Doctor (M.D.) from St Andrews University in 1783. He published three editions of his book, Cases in Midwifery, 1781-1787, and each edition contained case reports describing in detail the conditions of the patients and the treatments which were administered. He is A distant Member of the Stratford and Taylor families.In the 1760s, with Humphrey Porter, a doctor at Aylesford, Kent, Perfect conducted an extensive programme of inoculation against smallpox, in Kent and further afield. Also in the 1760s, he began to accommodate mentally ill people in his home, a practice that continued until his death in 1809, when his son George took over until 1815. The West Malling Asylum, which soon after moved to Malling Place, West Malling, continued to function through the 20th century as a principal private mental hospital in the county.Perfect published a series of psychiatric case reports in several editions from 1778 to 1809, originally entitled Methods of Cure in Some Particular Cases of Insanity, later Select Cases in the Different Species of Insanity, and finally Annals of Insanity. In the edition in 1809, Perfect wrote that he was presenting the results of his practice and observations. In advertising the second edition, he offered a revised, corrected, and enlarged book. Cases of mania and depression were described in detail as well as cases of alcoholism, and attempted and successful suicides. The treatments prescribed to patients were recorded in detail, including the medications prescribed by the physician. Electricity was used with good results in some cases. He was convinced of the role of heredity, and recognized the involvement of the brain, its vessels, and its membranes. In one case report, he noted how "gentle treatment contributed much to the case and should always be adopted in preference to rigorous measures (where possible)… The proper management … is more to be depended upon than medicine, but when both are judicially and humanely blended, the patient has always the best chance of recovery."Perfect joined the Freemasons in 1765, following the early death of his first wife Elizabeth Shrimpton (1735-1763), and became Provincial Grand Master of Kent from 1795 until his death. In 1795, the Freemasons' magazine published his memoirs. He published prose and poetry: A Bevin of Bays in 1763, and a two-volume collection, The Laurel-Wreath, in 1766.Perfect died in June 1809, and was buried in East Malling churchyard.
Q18207279 Funeral Kings is a 2012 film written and directed by Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus starring Dylan Hartigan and Alex Maizus.