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The Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) is a trade union in Namibia affiliated with the National Union of Namibian Workers (Nunw). Nafau's organizational strongholds include the fishing industries around Walvis Bay and Lüderitz. | Organisation |
Haydenoceras is a middle Devonian cephalopod originally placed in the Barrandeocerida. The genus can be recognized by its strongly compressed, gradually expanding exogastrically curved shell with a strongly rounded dorsum and acutely angled venter, calling attention to the general form of earlier Bassleroceras. The siphuncle is tubular, central. Related genera include Avilionella, Barrandeoceras, Gasconsoceras, Laureloceras, and Savageoceras. | Animal |
Cortes salamander (Cryptotriton nasalis) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae, the first to be described in genus Cryptotriton.It is found in Honduras and possibly Guatemala.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, andit is threatened by habitat loss. | Animal |
The Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, often called GCELT, is an institute in engineering courses such as Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology and Leather Technology. The college is affiliated to the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (formerly West Bengal University of Technology) and is approved by AICTE. | Educational Institution |
Mike Kazaleh is an American animator and comic artist, and a one-time member of Rowrbrazzle from Detroit. His comic works include Ren and Stimpy, The Adventures of Captain Jack, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures and a number of other cartoon works. | Artist |
The Dana Glacier is located inside a northwest facing cirque located east of the 13,061 feet (3,981 m) Mount Dana on the eastern border of Yosemite National Park, California. It is very close to Tioga Pass and Highway 120. The glacier occupies the very steep, shaded western slope of the cirque at around 11,500 to 11,800 feet (3,500–3,600 m), although a part of it reaches up to 12,500 feet (3,800 m) (Dana Couloir). Repeat photography comparing images taken in 1883 with those from 2004 demonstrate that the glacier has retreated substantially in that period. | Natural Place |
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) is a public research project launched by the US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in September 2003. Intended as a follow-up to the Human Genome Project (Genomic Research), the ENCODE project aims to identify all functional elements in the human genome. The project involves a worldwide consortium of research groups, and data generated from this project can be accessed through public databases. It is currently ending its third phase, and will be renewed for its fourth phase of the project. | Database |
Thomas Michael Cox (born 24 January 1930) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth Central from 1970 to 1974 and then for Tooting from 1974 to 2005. | Politician |
James \"Jem\" Chapple (1801/1802 - 10 June 1858) was a British Classic-winning jockey. A \"first-class and thoroughly English jockey\" he won the Derby-Oaks double in 1833, and a further Derby in 1838. | Athlete |
The Catalyst is an American weekly newspaper published by students of Colorado College Friday mornings of the school year in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Catalyst is the official and only student newspaper of Colorado College and has a print circulation of roughly 1,500 and is circulated on the college's campus and in downtown Colorado Springs. The Catalyst has been in print since the 1890s, and has undergone dozens of transformations over the years. The newspaper was originally called \"The Tiger.\" The newspaper was instrumental in The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's (FIRE) case on Colorado College's uniquely limited freedom of speech.The civil liberties organization Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has named Colorado College on its Red Alert list for several years over its treatment of two students who distributed a satirical flyer which parodied the college's Feminist and Gender Studies newsletter. Three articles in The Catalyst were cited by FIRE. During the FAA's highly publicized investigation of a group of Colorado College students in 2012, the FAA, as well as several media outlets, including the Associated Press, cited The Catalyst's reporting on the investigation. The small weekly's editor at the time, Jesse Paul, broke the news of investigation. | Periodical Literature |
Theodore Elijah Burton (December 20, 1851 – October 28, 1929) was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. | Politician |
Francis \"Frank\" Arthur Sedgman, AM (born 29 October 1927) is a retired former World No. 1 amateur tennis champion. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Sedgman in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time. Sedgman, Kramer wrote, \"was as quick as anybody who ever played the game, but he couldn't keep the heat on.\" Sedgman is one of only five tennis players all-time to win a multiple slam set in two disciplines, matching Margaret Court, Roy Emerson, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams. In 1951 he and Ken McGregor won the men's doubles Grand Slam. Sedgman turned professional in 1953. | Athlete |
The Southeastern League was the name of three baseball circuits in minor league baseball which operated in the Southeastern and South Central United States. Two of these leagues were associated with organized baseball; the third and most recent incarnation was an independent league that operated for two seasons in 2002–03. | Sports League |
The Botanic Garden Meise (Dutch: Plantentuin Meise, French: Jardin botanique Meise; until 2014 called the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Dutch: Nationale Plantentuin van België, French: Jardin Botanique National de Belgique)) is located in the grounds of Bouchout Castle in the town of Meise, just north of Brussels in the province of Flemish Brabant. It is one of the largest botanical gardens in the world with an extensive collection of living plants in addition to a herbarium of over 3 million specimens. The current garden was established in 1958 after it moved from the centre of Brussels; the former site is now the Botanical Garden of Brussels. Researchers at the garden conduct research particularly on Belgian and African plants. The Botanic Garden contains about 18,000 plant species—about 6% of all known plant species of the world. Half are in greenhouses, the other half, including cultivated and indigenous plants, are outdoors. The gardens are grouped around the castle and lake of the Bouchout domain. The mission statement of the Botanic Garden Meise specifies the increasing and spreading \"the knowledge of plants\" and contributions to \"the conservation of biodiversity.\" The Botanic Garden was property of the Belgian federal government, but after several years of negotiations it was eventually transferred to the Flemish Community (Flanders) effective 1 January 2014. The French Community still has its own employees and representation in the board of directors. The plants, library, etc. remain property of the federal State but given as commodate to the Flemish Community. | Building |
Maxime Zianveni (born December 29, 1979) is a French-born Central African professional basketball player who currently plays for Étoile de Charleville-Mézières of the LNB Pro B in France. | Athlete |
Two Songs is a pair of songs for voice and piano composed in 1928 by John Ireland (1879–1962). A performance of both songs takes around 7 minutes. The songs are: 1. \n* \"Tryst\" (words by Arthur Symons (1865–1945), from Silhouettes (1892)) 2. \n* \"During Music\" (words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82), from The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Vol. 1 (1886)) | Musical Work |
Somerset Trust Holding Company, doing business as Somerset Trust Company, is an American bank and financial services company headquartered in Somerset, Pennsylvania. As of December 31, 2014, the bank’s assets are totaled at $912 million. Somerset Trust Company's branch network serves Pennsylvania counties of Somerset, Westmoreland, Cambria, Bedford, and Fayette County, with a branch in Garrett County, Maryland. Somerset Trust Company elected to deny government TARP (Trouble Asset Relief Program) money in 2008. | Company |
D.S. Senanayake Memorial Public Library is a public library in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It's the main public library in Kandy situated in Kandy town. | Educational Institution |
Kildare County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Chill Dara) is the authority responsible for local government in County Kildare, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 40 elected members. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the title of Mayor. The county administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Peter Carey. The county town is Naas. | Organisation |
William \"Billy\" Frith (9 June 1912 – 1996) was an English football player and manager. Starting his career with Worksop Town, Mansfield Town, and Chesterfield; he won a move to Coventry City in 1932. He stayed with the club right up until the outbreak of World War II, helping the club to finish 1935–36 as Third Division South champions, and played a total of 165 games for the club in the Football League. In 1945 he was appointed as manager of Port Vale, before he returned to Coventry as manager in 1947. His time at both clubs was unsuccessful, and he spent the next decade in non-league football as manager of Stafford Rangers and Rugby Town. He returned to Coventry as manager in 1957 and led the club to promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1958–59, but was sacked in 1961. His last management post was at Chelmsford City between 1963 and 1965, he led the club to second in the Southern League in 1963–64. | Sports Manager |
James Wright (May 8, 1716 – November 20, 1785) was an American colonial lawyer and jurist who was the last British Royal Governor of the Province of Georgia. He was the only Royal Governor of the Thirteen Colonies to regain control of his colony during the American Revolutionary War. | Politician |
Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (née Jones; June 19, 1872 – February 28, 1959) was a landscape gardener and landscape architect in the United States. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House. Only a few of her major works survive: Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount Desert, Maine, the restored Farm House Garden in Bar Harbor, and elements of the campuses of Princeton, Yale, and Occidental. Farrand was one of the founding eleven members, and the only woman, of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Beatrix Farrand is one of the most accomplished persons, and women, recognized in both the first decades of the landscape architecture profession and the centuries of landscape garden design arts and accomplishments. | Person |
The Rosenstein is a 735 m high mountain in the Swabian Jura (German: Schwäbische Alb) above the town of Heubach near Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. With its exposed position as head of the Alb it had been of strategic importance. Excavations in the caves on Rosenstein have found tools dating back to the Paleolithic period. Among the best-known caves are scouring the \"Great\" and \"Dark hole\". About the Western rock, the remnants of a medieval castle, Rosenstein castle ruins. The Rosenstein is now a very popular recreational area, especially for climbers and mountain bikers. \n* Rosenstein Ruins \n* Rosenstein Ruins and Telecommunication Tower \n* Rosenstein Ruins above Heubach | Natural Place |
Six Springs Ranch Airport is a private airfield located 18 nm southeast of Madras, Oregon, USA. It has a single asphalt runway. | Infrastructure |
USHERS: The Front of House Musical is a musical with music by Yiannis Koutsakos, lyrics by James Oban, and a book by James Rottger. The musical premiered in 2013 with a workshop performance at The Hope Theatre (Kings Head Theatre), before transferring to Off-West End Venue The Charing Cross Theatre in 2014, with a cast including Daniel Buckley, Ceris Hine, Ross McNeil, Liam Ross-Mills, Carly Thoms, Ralph Bogard. | Musical Work |
Jeremy Philip Hazelbaker (born August 14, 1987) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his major league debut on April 3, 2016. He had previous played in the minor leagues in the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers organizations. | Athlete |
The 1994 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the 14th women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college field hockey team in the United States. The James Madison Dukes won their first championship, defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels in the final The championship rounds were held at Parsons Field in Brookline, Massachusetts on the campus of Northeastern University. | Tournament |
Federal elections were held in Australia on 16 December 1922. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes lost its majority. However, the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton did not take office as the Nationalists sought a coalition with the Country Party led by Earle Page, but the Country Party made Hughes's resignation the price for joining. Hughes was replaced by Stanley Bruce. | Societal Event |
Japan were an English music group formed in 1974 in Catford, South London by David Sylvian (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steve Jansen (drums), Richard Barbieri (keyboards) and Mick Karn (bass guitar). Initially a glam-inspired group, Japan would develop their sound and style to incorporate electronic music, foreign influences, and an androgynous image, eventually becoming an influence on the UK's early-1980s New Romantic scene. Japan achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, releasing nine UK Top 40 hits in the early 1980s including notably the 1982 Top 10 hit \"Ghosts\" and scoring a UK Top 5 with the album Oil on Canvas (1983). The band split in 1982, just as they were beginning to experience significant commercial success in the UK and abroad. Its members went on to pursue other musical projects, though they reformed briefly in the early 1990s under the name Rain Tree Crow, releasing an album in 1991. | Group |
1740 Paavo Nurmi, provisional designation 1939 UA, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory on 18 October 1939. The asteroid has a F-type spectrum, a rare subtype of the common carbonaceous asteroids of the outer main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.9 AU once every 3 years and 10 months (1,415 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.19 and is tilted by 2 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. Little is known about the asteroids size, albedo and rotation period, despite having a well-observed orbit with the lowest possible uncertainty parameter of \"0\" and an observation arc that spans over a period of more than 75 years. It is named for famed Turku-born Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi, also known as The Flying Finn, who won nine Olympic gold medals and set 22 official world records at distances between 1,500 metres and 20 kilometres. | Celestial Body |
Xiao Sha (Chinese: 肖莎; pinyin: Xiāo Shā, born 15 June 1992) is a retired Chinese gymnast. She was an all-arounder, with a balance of skills on all four apparatus, while her strongest apparatus was the balance beam. | Athlete |
The Cégep de Sherbrooke is a public pre-university college located in the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Its website indicates that it has an annual student population of more than 6,500 and over 750 paid staff members. | Educational Institution |
Alexander Magomedovich Yakovlev (Russian: Александр Андреевич (Магомедович) Яковлев; born July 18, 1984), also known as Sultan Tikhaev, is a Russian amateur wrestler, mixed martial artist and rapper. Yakovlev is recognized as an aggressive welterweight competitor who competed in the M-1 Global, ProFC, Shooto Russia, and Bodog Fight promotions. Yakovlev’s martial arts background included training in Sambo and Freestyle Wrestling prior to turning his attention to professional fighting at the age of nineteen. He is currently fighting in the welterweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. | Athlete |
Jasmina Ilić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јасмина Илић; born April 11, 1985 in Bečej, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. Her father Predrag Ilić was professional football player and her mother Verica was a professional handball player. During the 2009-10 season she played for Panathinaikos of Athens. Jasmina appeared in the Greek edition of popular magazine Maxim. | Athlete |
Donny Budiarto Utomo (born March 13, 1979) is an Indonesian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is a former multiple-time national record holder for the men's butterfly, and a six-time medalist at the Southeast Asian Games. He is also a two-time defending champion for the 200 m butterfly, before losing out to Malaysia's Daniel Bego at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand. Utomo made his first Indonesian team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 200 m butterfly. Swimming in heat one, he edged out Honduras' Roy Barahona to take a second spot and thirty-third overall by 0.28 of a second in 2:05.71. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Utomo qualified again for the 200 m butterfly. After winning a silver medal from SEA Games in Bangkok, Thailand, his entry time of 2:00.81 was officially accredited under a FINA B-standard. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including his former rival James Walsh of the Philippines, and four-time Olympian Vladan Marković of the newly independent nation Serbia. He rounded out the field to last place by 0.32 of a second behind Markovic with a slowest time of 2:03.44. Utomo failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fourth overall in the preliminaries. | Athlete |
The Workers' Trade Union Confederation of Mali (CSTM) is a national trade union center in Mali. It is composed of four trade unions which broke from the National Workers' Union of Mali (UNTM) in 1997. The CSTM is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. | Organisation |
Aarti Lucica Sequeira is an Indian chef and television personality, best known as the winner of the sixth season of Food Network's reality television show, The Next Food Network Star. As a result of that victory, her show Aarti Party premiered on the network on 22 August 2010. She had previously worked as a CNN news producer and in 2008 started the online cooking variety show Aarti Paarti. She currently hosts another cooking show, Taste in Translation, in which she seeks the most popular dishes from around the world. | Person |
The 1997 Buffalo Bills season was their 38th in the league. The team failed to improve upon their previous season's output of 10–6, instead falling to 6–10. They missed the playoffs for only the second time in ten seasons. 1997 was Hall of Fame head coach Marv Levy's final year as the team's head coach. Todd Collins started at quarterback for the Bills in their first season in the post-Jim Kelly era. The Bills also signed Oakland's Billy Joe Hobert to challenge Collins for the starting job. Third-string quarterback Alex Van Pelt also saw playing time with three starts in Collins' absence. Hobert's contract was terminated after Week Seven, in which Hobert was backing up an injured Collins, and after the game revealed to the media that he had not studied the playbook. Hobert was released the next day. One of the most memorable games in Buffalo Bills history occurred in Week Four against the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts roared to a 26–0 lead in the second quarter, before the Bills went on a 37–3 run, ultimately taking the lead 37–29 with 1:15 remaining in the game. The Colts closed to within two, but missed a two-point conversion, giving Buffalo a two-point victory. The game was the second-greatest regular season comeback in NFL history (second only to a 28-point comeback by the 1980 49ers), and the second greatest in team history (second to \"The Comeback\" in the 1992 playoffs.) | Football League Season |
Phnom Penh Municipality Television Channel 3 is a Cambodia television channel. The headquarters are located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The channel was established in 1996.The owner of the channel is the municipal administration itself. | Broadcaster |
Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 20 September 1982 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album produced two singles, \"Private Investigations\", which reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and \"Industrial Disease\", which reached number 9 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States. The fourteen-minute opus, \"Telegraph Road\" has gone on to become a favourite on FM radio worldwide. The album reached number 1 on album charts in Australia, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom, and number 19 in the United States. Love over Gold was later certified gold in the United States, platinum in France and Germany and double-platinum in Canada and the United Kingdom. | Musical Work |
CHRD-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Drummondville, Quebec. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it broadcasts on 105.3 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 3,257 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 5,345 watts (class A). The station has an adult contemporary format since August 2009 and is part of the Rouge FM network which operates across Quebec and Eastern Ontario. Originally known as CHRD when it was on the AM band on 1480 kHz, the station moved to the FM band in 1997. On August 18, 2011, at 4:00 p.m. EDT, all RockDétente stations, including CHRD-FM, rebranded as Rouge FM. The last song under the RockDétente branding was Pour que tu m'aimes encore by Celine Dion, followed by a tribute of the branding. The first song under Rouge FM was I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas. From about 2001 to 2003, CHRD was part of Astral's CHR network, Énergie. It would flip to oldies in 2003 as part of Astral's new Boom FM network; this format would last until becoming a RockDétente station in 2009. | Broadcaster |
Emmanuel Church is a historic Grade II church in West Hampstead, a suburb of London, England. | Building |
(The native form of this personal name is Hegedüs András. This article uses the Western name order.) András Hegedüs (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɒndraːʃ ˈhɛɡɛdyʃ]; 31 October 1922 – 23 October 1999) was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1955 to 1956. He fled to the Soviet Union on 28 October, the fifth day of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, but returned in 1958 and taught sociology. | Politician |
Orenburg Airlines or JSC Orenair (Russian: Оренбургские авиалинии) was an airline with its head office on the property of Orenburg Tsentralny Airport in Orenburg, Russia. It operated domestic passenger services and inclusive tour charters, as well as aerial work and special flights. Its main base was Orenburg Tsentralny Airport and it had hubs at Domodedovo and Simferopol International Airport. | Company |
Platan is a Czech regional beer label. It is produced by Městský Pivovar PLATAN s. r. o. in the South Bohemian town of Protivín. It is a regional beer with a little bit of a bitter taste. Platan got its name from an alley of plane trees, because \"plane tree\" is \"platan\" in Czech. | Company |
Bedotia alveyi, the Makira rainbowfish, is a species of Madagascar rainbowfish from rivers and streams in the Makira region of Madagascar. | Animal |
Áine Lyng (born 1988) is a camogie player and sport science student. She won a Soaring Star award in 2009 and played in the 2009 All Ireland junior camogie final. Áine has been nominated for a senior All Star four times and has won Gael Linn medals with Munster in both Junior (as captain) and Senior. Won an All-Ireland medal with Mercy College and three and a Colleges All Stars while playing for U.L. She holds National League, Under-16 All-Ireland, Munster Junior and Intermediate medals with Waterford. At club level she captured county medals in Under-14, Under-16, Under-18 and Senior (two), as well as an All-Ireland sevens title from 2007. | Athlete |
Vadakke Madhom popularly known as Brahmaswam Madham is one of the four ancient South Indian madhoms that propagate Adwaita or Nondualism. Spiritual leader Adi Shankara's disciple Hasthamalakacharya started the Madhom. It is located at Thrissur city in Kerala, India.Totakacharya was the first President of Vadakke Madhom. | Body Of Water |
Pleosporomycetidae is a subclass of Dothideomycetes consisting of four orders: Pleosporales, Hysteriales, Mytilinidiales and Jahnulales. One of its defining features is the presence of pseudoparaphyses. These are sterile cells extending down from the upper portion of the cavity inside sexual structures containing the sac-like asci with sexually produced spores (ascospores). Pseudoparaphyses are initially attached at both their ends, but sometimes the upper part may become free. Some orders and families where these cells are present remain outside the subclass since DNA based phylogenies cannot place them with confidence. However they could conceivably be included within Pleosporomycetidae in future. | Eukaryote |
Hurley Burley (born 1895) was an American Thoroughbred race horse. Her breeder and owner was Ed Corrigan who raced out of the old Washington Park Race Track in Chicago, Illinois. In Corrigan’s time, he was the most powerful man in mid-Western racing. Known as the \"stormy petrel\" of the American Turf, Corrigan was the subject of many articles about him (the Kansas City Times, the Courier-Journal, The Louisville Times, to name only a few), all attesting to his murderous temper as well as his loyalty to those he liked. Corrigan campaigned the great filly Modesty, winner of the 1884 Kentucky Oaks as well as building the Hawthorne Race Course in Chicago. Hurley Burley was by Riley who had won the 1890 Kentucky Derby for Corrigan and was a son of the great stallion Longfellow. (Riley was originally called “Shortfellow.”) Her dam was Helter Skelter, a good racing mare also running under the Corrigan colors. Corrigan raced Hurley Burley as a selling plater, meaning she competed only in claiming races. As a claimer, she could be bought by a trainer right out of the race. In about 1898, Corrigan claimed a horse the eventual Hall of Fame trainer Sam Hildreth was running. Miffed at the loss of a horse he liked, Lucky Dog, Hildreth retaliated by claiming Corrigan’s Hurley Burley for $1,500. His claim wasn’t merely to get back at Corrigan though; he’d seen something in the chestnut plater. Under Hildreth’s colors, Hurley Burley stepped up in class in the racing world. She won nine of her thirteen starts for him, set a Washington Park track record for six furlongs and also one for one mile and twenty yards. Lew Fields and his theatrical partner Joe Weber liked the increasingly popular filly’s name, so asked Hildreth if they could use it for a new musical. They liked the name of her dam as well, so used that too, Helter Skelter. When she retired from the track, Hildreth sold her for $10,000 to William Collins Whitney. As a broodmare, Hurley Burley was as good as she was a racehorse. Her best foal was the 1906 Belmont Stakes winner, Burgomaster out of the Whitney owned Hamburg. He was also the American Horse of the Year in 1906. Her birthplace and date of death is, so far, unknown. | Horse |
Giles Andreae (born 16 March 1966) is a British artist, poet and greeting card writer, creator of the \"Purple Ronnie\" and \"Edward Monkton\" series. | Writer |
Joel Allen Barber (January 17, 1809 – June 17, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. Barber was born in the town of Georgia, Vermont, in Franklin County. After graduating from the Georgia Academy he attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, where he studied law. Upon graduation, Barber read law with George P. Marsh. He was admitted to the bar in 1834 in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he was teaching school, and commenced practice in Fairfield, Vermont. Barber moved to Wisconsin in 1837, settling in Lancaster, where he continued to practice law. He served as county clerk for Grant County, for four years and as district attorney for three terms. He served as member of the first constitutional convention of Wisconsin in 1846. Barber was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1852, 1853, 1863, and 1864, serving as speaker in 1864. He served as member of the Wisconsin State Senate in 1856 and 1857. After establishing a law partnership with George Clementson in 1869, Barber was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, serving in the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1875. He served as the representative of Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district. While Barber was serving in Congress, George Clementson conducted the legal work of their firm. Barber was not a candidate for renomination in 1874, and upon leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law with Clementson. Barber died in Lancaster, Wisconsin, June 17, 1881, and was interred in Hillside Cemetery. | Politician |
The discography of Devo, an American new wave band formed in 1973, consists of 25 singles and 9 studio albums. Devo was founded by Gerald Casale, Bob Lewis and Mark Mothersbaugh. Devo currently consists of brothers Mark Mothersbaugh (synthesizers, lead vocals) and Bob Mothersbaugh (guitar and vocals), Gerald Casale (bass guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Josh Freese (drums). The band rose to prominence in the US during the new wave era with their single \"Whip It\". The band have released nine studio albums, ten extended plays, twelve compilation albums, six live albums, one soundtrack album and twenty five singles. Before signing a record contract with Warner Bros. in the US, the band released several singles on the Stiff Records label that charted in the UK but which failed to chart in the US. Devo followed up with their debut full-length album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! in July 1978. The album reached #12 in the UK and #78 in the US. In 1980, Devo released Freedom of Choice which went Platinum in the US and Gold in Canada, making it their highest selling album. Their follow-up album, New Traditionalists, peaked at #23 on the American charts and was their final album to chart in the UK. Devo's chart success slowly fell throughout the decade until they released their apparently final studio album, Smooth Noodle Maps, in 1990; it failed to chart in either the US or the UK. In 1996, Devo released a multimedia CD-ROM adventure game, The Adventures of the Smart Patrol, through Inscape. Members of Devo also began recording together under different aliases, including the surf rock-influenced The Wipeouters and Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers. From 1990 through 2009, no new albums under the Devo name were released. However, a new single, \"Watch Us Work It,\" was released as a digital download in 2007 and as part of a 12\" EP in 2008. The band announced that they would be releasing a new studio album in the fall of 2009, though this date was pushed back to 2010. Something for Everybody was released on June 15, 2010. | Musical Work |
Winter & Winter is a record label in Munich, Germany that specializes in jazz, classical and improvised music. It was founded by Stefan Winter following the demise of his JMT Records label. Since 1997 Winter & Winter has released records by Dave Douglas, Paul Motian, Jim Black, Fred Frith and Uri Caine and rereleased albums from the JMT catalogue, including recordings by Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson, Greg Osby, Django Bates and Paul Motian. | Company |
The Château de Puymartin is a castle in the commune of Marquay, in the Dordogne département of France, located between Sarlat (8 km) and Les Eyzies (11 km) | Building |
The Today Art Museum is a private, non-profit museum located in Beijing. The museum's mission is to support the development of Chinese contemporary art. The Today Art Museum was founded by Zhang Baoquan in 2002. Alex Gao officially began his service as Executive Director of the Today Art Museum in August, 2013. The museum's aim is to promote Chinese contemporary art based on an internationalized vision and a contemporary ideology. As the country's first non-for-profit, non-governmental art museum in China, the Today Art Museum is dedicated to establishing an appropriate development strategy for museums of its kind within a Chinese context. \"Foothold on today, outlook for tomorrow\" is the Today Art Museum's slogan. The museum's focus is on Chinese contemporary art, its trends and key figures. At the same time, the institution strives to discover and support young artists in the community. Through the construction of a larger institutional framework and by carrying on relevant academic practices, the Today Art Museum hopes to solidify its standing in the history of art and offer a multi-tiered approach to China’s burgeoning art scene. The museum also promotes international dialogue through exhibitions and events that provide structure for meaningful cultural exchange between Chinese and non-Chinese artists and organizations. To maintain international standards for construction and operation of a non-governmental museum, the museum successfully completed its transformation into a non-profit organization by 2006. The Today Art Museum explores sustainable development for China’s private museums, adopting a more pragmatic approach that will gradually form a sound financial model for similar institutions. The museum is located in central Beijing (CBD). | Building |
William Christian Schmeisser (1880–1941), known widely as \"Father Bill\", was an American lacrosse player, coach, and patron. He served as the head coach of the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays for ten non-consecutive years, and won eight national championships. He was also an active patron of the sport and promoter of its development. He helped found the highly successful amateur Mount Washington Lacrosse Club. Schmeisser viewed his role in the sport as altruistic, and he never received monetary compensation for coaching. | Coach |
The Malaysian United Indigenous Party or Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM / BERSATU) is a political party in Malaysia. The party is led by the former fourth Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad as Chairman and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as President. Meanwhile, Dato' Seri Mukhriz Mahathir, who is the former's son and ex-Mentri Besar of Kedah will be Vice-President. Aside from these seasoned politicians, the founding members of the party also include UMNO rebel group Gabungan Ketua Cawangan Malaysia (GKCM) chairperson and former Telok Kemang UMNO branch chief Kamarul Azman Habibur Rahman, former Langkawi UMNO delegate Anina Saadudin, former Bendang Baru UMNO youth chief Akhramsyah Sanusi and three-time winner of the Asian British Parliamentary (ABP) Debating Championship's Asia Best Speaker Award Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman. When the party's registration was approved by the Registrar of Societies (ROS), Home Minister Dato' Seri Dr Zahid Hamidi reminded the party that they are to use the acronym \"PPBM\" and not \"Bersatu\" on any official documents because the name has already been in use by six other existing political parties hence doing so, might confuse the public. Furthermore, their registration papers also stated their acronym as PPBM and not \"Bersatu\" therefore, using the latter as acronym will contravene its constitution and is liable for action by the ROS. On the other hand, ROS director-general Mohammad Razin Abdullah later clarified that the party initially requested for \"Bersatu\" as the party's acronym but made a compromise after meeting with the agency. However, PPBM party officials have said that they will not stop the public from calling them \"Bersatu\"; if that is how they want to identify the party. BERSATU is considered a Malay nationalist or Malay supremacist party. According to the party constitution, its essence is to fight to support the ideals of Malay nationalism in order to maintain the honor and dignity of the nation, religion and country. It is also a fight for the rights of the Malays and the Bumiputera slogan: Forward, Justice and Prosperous. The party's full membership is open to all Bumiputeras; which include Malays, natives from Sabah and Sarawak as well as the Orang Asli community. In addition, non-Bumiputeras can also join the party as associate members. However, associate members are ineligible to vote and contest in party elections but qualified individuals can be appointed to certain key party posts. | Organisation |
Pinus lawsonii, Lawson's pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico. | Plant |
In 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War as the communist-dominated Viet Cong gained influence over much of the population in rural areas of the country. North Vietnam also rapidly increased its infiltration of men and supplies to combat South Vietnam and the U.S. The objective of the U.S. and South Vietnam was to prevent a communist take-over. North Vietnam and the insurgent Viet Cong sought to unite the two sections of the country. Political instability and internal dissent continued to plague the government of South Vietnam although in June General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and Air Marshall Nguyễn Cao Kỳ took control of the country and remained in power for the remainder of the year. In the United States, a majority of Congress and the people supported U.S. participation in the war although protests against the war became larger and more frequent, especially among college students. The U.S. began bombing North Vietnam in March in Operation Rolling Thunder. The U.S. Army and Marines began ground operations to ferret out and defeat the communist forces. General William Westmoreland commanded U.S. forces in South Vietnam. Westmoreland's strategy was attrition, employing U.S. superiority in firepower, technology, and mobility. The usual military tactic of the United States was search and destroy operations in which large U.S. and South Vietnamese units, supported by air and artillery, swept through an area to attempt to engage the communists in battle. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, by contrast, relied on hit-and-run operations and ambushes, avoiding set-piece battles except at their own initiative. In November the U.S. and North Vietnamese armies met head-on for the first time in the Battle of Ia Drang. Both sides claimed victory. The U.S. inflicted heavy casualties on the North Vietnamese, but the battle vindicated the conviction by North Vietnam that its military could slowly grind down the U.S.'s commitment to the war. South Korea contributed an army division to South Vietnam and Australia, New Zealand and other countries provided smaller numbers of soldiers. North Vietnam received military aid from the Soviet Union and China. At year's end, President Lyndon Johnson declared a temporary halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and undertook a diplomatic initiative to seek negotiations with North Vietnam. North Vietnam, on its part, aimed to achieve a decisive military victory, but prepared also for an expanded war if the U.S. continued to escalate its involvement. Most of the reports and conversations mentioned below were secret and not made public for many years. They reflect the ongoing debate among American officials, military leaders, and the American people about the scope and character of American intervention in the Vietnam War. | Societal Event |
The ʻelepaios are three species of monarch flycatcher in the genus Chasiempis. They are endemic to Hawaiʻi and were formerly considered conspecific. They measure 14 cm long and weigh 12–18 g. One species inhabits the Big Island, another Oʻahu and the third Kauaʻi. Being one of the most adaptable native birds of the archipelago, no subspecies have yet become extinct, though two have become quite rare. The ʻelepaio is the first native bird to sing in the morning and the last to stop singing at night; apart from whistled and chattering contact and alarm calls, it is probably best known for its song, from which derives the common name: a pleasant and rather loud warble which sounds like e-le-PAI-o or ele-PAI-o. It nests between January and June. The species are: \n* Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, Chasiempis sandwichensis \n* O'ahu ʻelepaio, Chasiempis ibidis \n* Kauaʻi ʻelepaio, Chasiempis sclateri | Animal |
The Siege is a Palestinian play developed and devised by The Freedom Theatre. It recounts the story of the 2002 Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. | Written Work |
The 1870 Grand National was the 32nd renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 9 March 1870. | Race |
Snell's Bridge is an historic bridge over the Patuxent River near Fulton, Maryland. Farms surrounding the bridge were surveyed as early as 1720. In 1777, George Snell was considered the owner of the bridge by Montgomery County with George Darby listed as the road overseer. In November 1787, the State of Maryland funded a fifty-foot wide road to be built from Snell's Bridge and Greens Bridge upstream to Ellicott's Mills. Richard Green, Nathanial Owen, and John Ellicott were appointed commissioners for the project. The land next to the bridge is the birthplace of the Whig Major who ordered the Peggy Stuart burned. During the British invasion of the War of 1812, American troops led by William H. Winder retreated across Snell's Bridge on August 26, 1814. The President stayed at Brookville, with the disorganized troops gathering at the bridge for the night. After camping overnight at the bridge, the General concluded that he should proceed directly to Baltimore in case the British were advancing northward leaving Brigadier General Stansbury in charge of the troops at camp. The British were at the same time leaving Washington, and boarded ships to sail the Potomac and Chesapeake toward Baltimore. In the 1840s, the state funded a replacement to Snell's Bridge. The modern bridge is a concrete arch built in 1928 along with the widening of route 108 in Howard County. The bridge replacement was funded via the 1920 Lateral and Post Roads Act. A historical survey was conducted in 1995 without mention of the bridge's role in the War of 1812. | Route Of Transportation |
Claire Victoria Marshall (born 15 January 1975) is a British journalist who works for BBC News. After leaving Chew Valley Comprehensive and then Blundell's School, Devon in 1993, she read for a law degree at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating from Oxford University, she studied at Cardiff University for a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism. Marshall joined ITN as a trainee junior producer on the contract to produce news for Five from its launch. Marshall then joined Sky News as text producer, before producing Sunrise. Marshall became a freelance reporter and producer in 2000, including working for the BBC in Peru. She then reported for the BBC from Madrid, the Middle East and Mexico. She returned to the UK in 2007 as a News Correspondent, a role in which she reported on a variety of stories that did not need a specialist reporter for BBC Radio, BBC News and BBC One. She soon also became a frequent relief presenter on the BBC News channel and also BBC World News, and stood in on BBC Breakfast at the weekend. In 2008 she returned to South America as a correspondent, giving up her presenting role. Marshall returned to the UK when she was appointed the BBC's Midlands Correspondent, working for network news and regularly appearing on the BBC Six and Ten O'Clock News, and the West Midland regional news Midlands Today. In 2013 she was made Environment Correspondent for the BBC. She appeared as herself, doing a mocked up Newsnight report on the 2007 BBC Two drama series Party Animals. | Person |
Skujaster is a genus of green algae, in the family Chlorococcaceae. | Plant |
Gonepteryx maxima is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It was described by Butler in 1885. It is found from north-eastern China to Korea, Japan, the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri) and Japan. The habitat consists of steppe and forest-steppe areas. Adults are on wing from the end of July to September. Adults overwinter and fly again from May to June. The larvae feed on Rhamnus ussuriensis. | Animal |
Comerford Reservoir is a 1,029-acre (4 km2) impoundment located on the Connecticut River on the boundary between Vermont and New Hampshire in the United States. The reservoir is formed by the Frank D. Comerford Dam in the towns of Monroe, New Hampshire, and Barnet, Vermont, and impounds water into the towns of Littleton, New Hampshire, and Waterford, Vermont, nearly to the Moore Reservoir upstream on the Connecticut. | Body Of Water |
Woodhaven Boulevard and Cross Bay Boulevard (formerly Jamaica Bay Boulevard) are two parts of a major boulevard in the New York City borough of Queens. Woodhaven Boulevard runs roughly north–south in the central portion of Queens. South of Liberty Avenue, it is known as Cross Bay Boulevard, which is the main north–south road in Howard Beach. Cross Bay Boulevard is locally known as simply \"Cross Bay\", and Woodhaven Boulevard, \"Woodhaven\". The completion of the boulevard in 1923, together with the construction of the associated bridges over Jamaica Bay, created the first direct roadway connection to the burgeoning Atlantic Ocean beachfront communities of the Rockaway Peninsula from Brooklyn and most of Queens. | Route Of Transportation |
Gerard FitzGerald (born 25 July 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He is most notable as the coach of the North Ballarat Football Club in the Victorian Football League, where he won three premierships and is the league's all-time longest serving coach. FitzGerald made just three appearances in the Geelong seniors, all in the 1977 VFL season. In his second game he kicked three goals at Princes Park, against a strong Hawthorn team which amassed 191 points. Between 1980 and 1996, FitzGerald spent more than ten years as the senior coach of country Victorian football teams in Sea Lake, Mortlake and Camperdown. For a time, he was the coach of the Victorian Country Football League representative team. He took over from Alan Ezard as coach of North Ballarat in the VFL in 1997 and remained with the club until the end of the 2002 season, leading the club to consecutive Grand Final defeats in 1999 and 2000. In 2002, he unsuccessfully contested the state seat of Ballarat East for the Liberal Party. He coached Springvale in 2003, then Port Melbourne in 2004, taking the club to the Grand Final. He returned to Ballarat in 2005, and was in charge of the North Ballarat Rebels in the TAC Cup in 2005 and 2006, before returning to the North Ballarat VFL club again in 2007. FitzGerald steered North Ballarat to its inaugural VFL premiership in 2008, and then to further premierships in 2009 and 2010. He coached at the club until the end of 2015, completing fifteen seasons with the Roosters; his contract was not renewed for the 2016 season. He will return to coaching the Rebels from the 2016 season. FitzGerald holds the record for coaching the most senior games in VFA/VFL history, finishing with 345 games following the end of the 2015 season. FitzGerald surpassed previous record-holder Bill Faul (313 games) in Round 7, 2014. | Athlete |
The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February, at Autrans. Each miss of the target cost two minutes, while hitting the outer circle cost one minute. | Olympics |
Son of Beast was a record-breaking wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Built and designed by the now defunct Roller Coaster Corporation of America, it opened to the public on May 26, 2000, and was themed as a sequel to one of the park's other signature attractions, The Beast. In addition to breaking the world record for speed, Son of Beast was the first wooden hypercoaster in the world with a 214-foot (65 m) drop and was the first wooden coaster to feature an inversion. Son of Beast is also known for two major, non-fatal accidents. In 2006, damage to the track caused one of the trains to stop abruptly. Another setback occurred in 2009, when a woman claimed to have suffered a head injury. The ride was closed indefinitely, and all references to the ride were later removed from the park. On July 27, 2012, the closure was made permanent, as Kings Island announced that the roller coaster would be dismantled and removed from the park. | Amusement Park Attraction |
Phil Gilbert (born 15 November 1969) is an Australian rules footballer. He played for both the Melbourne and Fremantle Football Clubs in the Australian Football League. He was drafted from Clarement in the WAFL by Melbourne with the 19th selection in the 1991 AFL Draft and played mainly as a defender. He is most frequently remembered as being the player traded by Melbourne to Fremantle in the 1994 AFL Draft in return for the 17-year-old Jeff Farmer, who would go on to become an All-Australian and score over 400 goals in AFL football, whilst Fremantle would only have 14 games from Gilbert. After being delisted by Fremantle at the end of the 1996 season, Gilbert moved to Mandurah and became the inaugural captain of the Peel Thunder Football Club, an expansion team in the WAFL. He later became coach of the Pinjarra Tigers in the Peel Football League and in 2004 returned to Peel Thunder to be an assistant coach, working alongside head coach Garry Hocking. He is currently the director for Great Southern Football Academy (Clontarf) at North Albany Senior High School but previously worked as a real estate salesman in the Peel Region. | Athlete |
The Alicurá Dam (in Spanish, Embalse de Alicurá) is the first of five dams on the Limay River in northwestern Argentine Patagonia (the Comahue region), about 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the city of San Carlos de Bariloche and 705 metres (2,313 ft) above mean sea level. It was inaugurated in 1985. The dam is used primarily for the generation of hydroelectricity with an installed capacity of 1,050 MW. The reservoir is also employed to raise Salmonidae. The Alicurá reservoir has an area of 67.5 square kilometres (26.1 sq mi), a mean depth of 48.4 metres (159 ft) (maximum 110 metres (360 ft)), and a volume of 3,215,000,000 cubic metres (2,606,000 acre·ft). | Infrastructure |
Brian Birch (born 18 November 1931) was an English footballer who played for several English clubs in the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Salford, Birch joined Manchester United as a 14-year-old in May 1946, before turning professional two years later. He was 17 when he made his debut on 27 August 1949, playing at inside left in a 1–1 home draw with West Bromwich Albion. Birch was always on the fringes of the United first team, but apart from a spell midway through the 1950–51 season in which he scored four goals in nine appearances, he never lived up to his potential and was sold to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £10,000 towards the end of the 1951–52 season. His tenure at Wolves was short, however, and he was transferred to Lincoln City after just nine months in the West Midlands. In three years with Lincoln, Birch played in more than fifty matches, scoring 15 goals. He then dropped out of league football for a season in 1955, joining Boston United, before moving to Barrow in 1956. He became a first team regular at Barrow, making 60 appearances and scoring 27 goals in just over two seasons there. Exeter City signed him in September 1958, but he was on the move again in January 1960, this time to Oldham Athletic. He moved to Rochdale in March 1961, before going into coaching at the end of the 1961–62 season. He dipped in and out of playing for the next few years, picking up appearances for Boston United, Mossley and Ellesmere Port, but his coaching experience eventually led him to Blackburn Rovers in 1967, where he became the coach to one of the club's junior teams. Birch was trainer of Galatasaray from 1971 till 1973. He won two consecutive championships with Galatasaray in the Turkish First League and Helsingborgs IF. In the summer of 1980 he returned to Galatasaray, but was not able to be successful like he was in the 1970s with the club and his contract was terminated after one-and-a-half years. He managed the Turkish club Ankaragücü for three matches in 1987. | Sports Manager |
Descant (1970-2015) was a quarterly literary magazine that published new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world, reflecting \"a cosmopolitan awareness.\" It was established in 1970 as a mimeograph. Based in Toronto, in its later years Descant published two themed issues per year, and a winter and summer miscellany issue. From 2007 to 2014, Descant sponsored the Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem. The list of contributors to Descant includes numerous now-famous Canadian authors. Many of these are listed in Bibliomania (No. 133, summer 2006) and Bibliomania 2 (No. 135, winter 2006) and include: Margaret Atwood, bill bissett, Nicole Brossard, Anne Carson, Camilla Gibb, Barbara Gowdy, Dennis Lee, Daphne Marlatt, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Leon Rooke, Jane Urquhart and Jan Zwicky. The last issue of Descant, No. 167, was launched at Supermarket Restaurant and Bar, in Toronto, in January 2015. A final party was held at Revival Bar in Toronto on March 25, 2015. The magazine's extensive archives are located in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. | Periodical Literature |
Natasha Jane Wylde was a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Amanda Donohoe. She made her first appearance, along with her husband Mark Wylde, on 15 January 2009. It was announced in July 2010 that Donohoe had quit her role as Natasha, and would leave the series later in the year. She made her final appearance on 24 November 2010. | Fictional Character |
Rudenia leguminana, the black-tipped rudenia moth, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the United States, from southern Connecticut to Florida, and from the mid-west to California. It is also found in Mexico, where it has been recorded from Sinaloa, Puebla, Nuevo León and Coahuila. The length of the forewings is 6–7 mm. The larvae feed on various Fabaceae species, including Prosopis glandulosa and Parkinsonia aculeata. They have also been recorded feeding on pods of Gleditsia japonica. | Animal |
Antonio Bernieri (1516–1565) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Correggio. He was first trained under Correggio; on the death of that master he went to Venice, and attended Titian's school. He visited Rome, and returning to Venice worked there until 1563. He died at Correggio. Bernieri was an eminent painter of portrait miniatures. He is sometimes called 'Antonio da Correggio’, which unfortunately confuses him with his mentor. | Artist |
The Glacier Point Hotel was a historic 80-room chalet-style hotel built on the grounds of Glacier Point in Yosemite Valley, California, adjacent to the McCauley Mountain House. It was known as the venue for the Yosemite Firefall spectacle. The hotel opened in 1918, and was taken over by the Yosemite Park & Curry Company in 1924. The building was severely damaged by snowfall in winter 1968-69, and was still empty when it was destroyed in a fire in July 1969. | Building |
Kentaro Kawatsu (河津憲太郎 Kawatsu Kentarō, September 26, 1914 – March 23, 1970) was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Kawatsu was a native of Hiroshima City, where his father was a physical education instructor at the predecessor of Hiroshima University. In 1930, while still in middle school, Kawatsu set a new Japan record of 33.2 seconds for the 50-meter backstroke. In 1932, while a student at Meiji University, he was selected for the Japanese Olympic team to the Los Angeles Olympics. The team took the gold, silver and bronze medals in the 100 meter backstroke event, with Kawatsu winning the bronze medal. He subsequently participated in the 1934 Far Eastern Games held in Manila. Kawatsu committed suicide by burning himself to death on March 23, 1970. | Athlete |
N-STAR a, was a geostationary communications satellite originally ordered by a consortium including NTT DoCoMo and JSAT Corporation, and later fully acquired by JSAT, which was merged into SKY Perfect JSAT Group. It was designed and manufactured by Space Systems/Loral on the SSL 1300 platform. It had a launch weight of approximately 3,400 kg (7,500 lb), and a 10-year design life. Its payload is composed of 6 C band, 11 Ka band, 8 Ku band and 1 S band transponders. | Satellite |
Jean Coulston (8 October 1934 – 30 January 2001) was a New Zealand cricketer. She played in five Test matches between 1954 and 1957. | Athlete |
UK-DMC 2 is a British Earth imaging satellite which is operated by DMC International Imaging. It was constructed by Surrey Satellite Technology, based on the SSTL-100 satellite bus. It is part of Britain's contribution to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, which is coordinated by DMC International Imaging. It is the successor to the UK-DMC satellite. | Satellite |
The Sturt Football Club, nicknamed The Double Blues, is a semi-professional Australian rules football club based in the affluent suburb of Unley, South Australia, which plays in the South Australian National Football League. Founded in 1901 by the Sturt Cricket Club, the club initially struggled to make the finals, however in 1915 they won their first Premiership. After several decades of substantial finals appearanaces and a few premiership wins, Sturt entered a period of success, winning seven premierships from 1966 to 1976 under coach Jack Oatey. Sturt has a total of fourteen premierships, eleven Magarey Medallists and two Night Premierships. Sturt wear Oxford and Cambridge Blue reflecting the street names on which their home ground is based. Sturt play their home games at the 15,000 capacity Unley Oval and their club song is named It's a grand old flag. | Sports Team |
'Hoelscheriana' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Billbergia in the Bromeliad family. | Plant |
Otto II (died 8 November 1111) was a Graf (Count) of Habsburg and one of the founding members of the Habsburg family. He was the son of Werner I, Count of Habsburg. In 1108, Otto accompanied Kaiser Heinrich V on a campaign against Hungary. On his return, in 1111, he was murdered. Otto was probably the first person to adopt the title \"Graf von Habsburg\". He married Hilla, countess von Pfirt (died c. 1076), with whom he had two children, Werner II and Adelheid. | Person |
Ángel Sánchez (Valera, Venezuela 1960) is a Venezuelan fashion designer. Sanchez's designs reflect his architectural discipline and structure while creating new shapes and proportions that hold true to the timeless perfection of traditional couture. His designs are architectural, contemporary, and feminine; which always include a touch of drama. | Artist |
Lincoln International is an independent investment bank specializing in advisory services and financings for middle-market companies. The firm provides a variety of advisory services including mergers & acquisitions, fairness opinions, debt, restructuring advisory and Joint Ventures & Partnering. The firm completed more than 165 advisory assignments globally in 2015. The firm, which is based in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1996. The company operates additional offices in Beijing, New York, Dallas, Frankfurt, Paris, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Mumbai, São Paulo, Tokyo, Vienna and Zurich, with strategic partnerships with firms in China and South Korea. | Company |
The Dhauliganga Dam is a concrete face rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Dhauliganga River near Dharchula in Uttarakhand, India, close to the borders with Tibet and Nepal. It was constructed by a joint venture of Kajima Construction Corporation, Ltd., and Daewoo Engineering & Construction with Bauer Maschinen.HRT & PH was constructed by JV of [HCC, Hindustan Construction Company] and Samsung Corporation [E&C] Group. It generates 280 MW of hydro power. In June, 2013, there was an unprecedented flash flood, causing massive debris accumulation and the complete submergence of the power house. Damage caused electrical equipment replacement and loss of total generation capacity for more than six months. | Infrastructure |
The 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake took place on 2 April 2007, near the provincial capital of Gizo on Ghizo Island, in Solomon Islands. Its magnitude was calculated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) as being at 8.1 on the moment magnitude scale. The tsunami that followed the earthquake killed 52 people. According to the USGS, the earthquake was recorded around 7:39:56 a.m. local time (UTC+11). The focus was 10 km (6 mi) deep and 40 km (25 mi) South South-East of Gizo township on New Georgia Islands in Western Province. There were numerous aftershocks, the largest of which had a magnitude of 6.2. | Natural Event |
Adolf Ogi (born 18 July 1942) is a Swiss politician from the village of Kandersteg in the Swiss Alps. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 9 December 1987, as member of the Swiss People's Party from the Canton of Berne. He handed over office on 31 December 2000. During his time in office, he was in charge of the following departments: \n* Federal Department of Transport, Communications and Energy (1988 – 1995) \n* Federal Military Department (from 1996), later named Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (1998 – 2000) He was President of the Confederation twice in 1993 and 2000. From 2001 to 2008, Ogi was a Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace to the United Nations Secretary-General. Mr Ogi is today an Ambassador for Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization, committed to serving peace in the world through sport. Adolf Ogi holds a Doctor Honoris Causa from European University. Mr. Adolf Ogi released a biography called \"Dölf Ogi: Statesman and Sportsman\". | Politician |
William Tang (邓达智 Deng Dazhi, born 1959) is a Hong Kong fashion designer. Tang studied fashion at London College of Fashion, and established his own brand in 1985. His 1989 collection was based on a \"peasant\" look which came to him during a visit to China. He was well received in Hong Kong but subsequent collections in the early 1990s featuring cheongsam (qipao) failed to make an impression in Paris. Tang also did corporate image design for Dragon Air and Hong Kong Airport. | Artist |
İkiyaka is a village in the District of Beşiri, Batman Province, Turkey. As of 2011 it had a population of 39 people. | Settlement |
Papassara Techapaibul (Thai: ปภัสรา เตชะไพบูลย์) (born November 24, 1969 in Thailand) is Miss Thailand World 1988 and she complete in Miss World 1988 in the United Kingdom. Currently, she works at drama television actress. | Person |
SM City Sta. Mesa, formerly known as SM Centerpoint is a shopping mall located at Quezon City, Philippines. It is the second of SM Supermall and the seventh SM branch developed and operated by SM Prime Holdings owned by Henry Sy, Sr.. It has a land area of 3 hectares and has a gross floor area of an approximate 133,327 square meters. | Building |
WKKG (101.5 FM, \"Indiana Country 101.5\") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Columbus, Indiana, USA, the station serves the Bloomington, Indiana area. The station is currently owned by White River Broadcasting Co. Inc. | Broadcaster |
2940 Bacon, also designated 3042 P–L, is an asteroid from the asteroid belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.1–3.4 AU once every 4 years and 8 months (1,696 days). The orbit is rather eccentric (0.24). The designation P–L stands for Palomar–Leiden, named after Palomar Observatory and Leiden Observatory, which collaborated on the fruitful Palomar–Leiden survey in the 1960s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden Observatory. The trio are credited with several thousand asteroid discoveries. It was named in honour of English scholar Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626). He has been called the father of empiricism and his works established and popularized the scientific method. | Celestial Body |
Ženski košarkaški klub Radnički Beograd (Serbian Cyrillic: Женски кошаркашки клуб Раднички Београд, English: Women's Basketball Club Radnički Beograd) is a Serbian women's basketball team from Belgrade, Serbia. The club currently participates in the Second Basketball League of Serbia. | Sports Team |
Bruce Downey is the former chairman and CEO of Barr Pharmaceuticals (bought by Teva Pharmaceuticals) and in 2009 became a partner at New Spring Capital, a venture capital firm. | Person |