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The Siege of Tel al-Zaatar (Arabic: معركة تل الزعتر), also known as the Tel al-Zaatar Massacre, was an armed siege which took place during the Lebanese Civil War in 1976. Tel al-Zaatar (The Hill of Thyme) was a UNRWA administered Palestinian Refugee camp housing approximately 50,000-60,000 refugees in northeast Beirut. | Societal Event |
Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. 220 U.S. 107 (1911) was a United States Supreme Court case in which a taxpayer challenged the validity of a federal income tax on corporations. The privilege of incorporation is a state function and the challengers argued that the states should exclusively tax corporations. The court ruled that the privilege of operating in corporate form is valuable and justifies imposition of a federal income tax: The continuity of the business, without interruption by death or dissolution, the transfer of property interests by the disposition of shares of stock, the advantages of business controlled and managed by corporate directors, the general absence of individual liability, these and other things inhere in the advantages of business thus conducted, which do not exist when the same business is conducted by private individuals or partnerships. | Legal Case |
The Hits Album 2 or Hits 2 as it is often called, is a compilation album that was released in April 1985 in the UK. The spine of the album as well as the inside cover lists the title as HITS 2 THE ALBUM. It was released by CBS and WEA. It reached #1 in the UK Top 100 Album Chart for 6 weeks. Selected tracks were released on VHS. Hits 2 features four songs which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: \"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)\", \"Easy Lover\", \"I Want To Know What Love Is\" and \"I Should Have Known Better\". | Musical Work |
The Degania Dam is a small barrage across the Jordan River just below the Sea of Galilee near Degania Alef and Yardenit in northern Israel. The purpose of the dam is to regulate water levels in the Sea of Galilee and flows into the lower Jordan River. It has two floodgates capable of releasing 800 m3/s (28,000 cu ft/s). The dam was completed in 1964. Although the floodgates have been opened partially in the past they were first opened fully in May 2013 after heavy spring flooding and a need to replenish the river. | Infrastructure |
Monte Cristo Peak is a mountain peak in the Henry M. Jackson Wilderness in Washington state. Together with Columbia Peak and Kyes Peak it forms a basin that contains Columbia Glacier and Blanca Lake. The 1918 edition of The Mountaineer called the mountain \"a huge pile of red rock.\" Monte Cristo is named for the mining boom town of Monte Cristo, which dates from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which is situated on the mountain's northwestern flank. The town was owned by J. D. Rockefeller for a few years. A railroad and cable tramway was built to move materials. | Natural Place |
Tercan Dam is an embankment dam on the Tuzla River in Erzincan Province, Turkey. Constructed between 1969 and 1988, the development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works. The dam has an installed capacity of 15 MW and provides water for the irrigation of 29,725 hectares (73,450 acres). | Infrastructure |
Durham City Wasps were formed during the summer of 1995 after the sale and subsequent relocation of Durham Wasps from Durham Ice Rink announced in May of that year. The \"City Slickers\" as they were to become known were pulled together by manager Brian Cooper, father of former Wasps Ian and Stephen Cooper. The team, which played in the English Division 1 (North) was made up primarily of former Wasps, players from Durham's under-19 squad and recreational players. The team first took to the ice at Sheffield's Queen's Road Ice Rink against the Sheffield Scimitars on 10 September 1995. The squad was bolstered in January 1996 with the arrival of Zac George - the City Wasps only import player. The team finished fourth in their conference and went on to play against Southern champions Wightlink Raiders in both the League and Cup finals. Despite attracting sizeable crowds for the level of ice hockey, the team was disbanded in the summer of 1996 after the announcement that their Riverside Rink was to close, ending a 56-year history of ice hockey in Durham. | Sports Team |
Gianuca Sironi (born June 28, 1974 in Merat) is a former Italian cyclist. | Athlete |
Malcolm \"Mal\" Douglass Whitman (born March 15, 1877 – December 28, 1932) was an American tennis player. | Athlete |
Randøy Bridge is a suspension bridge in Hjelmeland municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The bridge crosses the Ølesundet strait and links the island of Randøy to the mainland. The bridge has a main span of 202 metres (663 ft). The bridge opened in 1976 as part of County Road Fv650. The bridge is located 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) southwest of the village of Hjelmelandsvågen and about the same distance northeast of the village of Fister. | Route Of Transportation |
Carl Gustaf Thomson (October 13, 1824 in Malmöhus – September 20, 1899 in Lund) was a Swedish entomologist. Thomson became a student in the University of Lund in 1843, graduated in 1850 and became associate professor of zoology there in 1857. In 1862 he became the curator of the entomological department of the Zoological Museum and in 1864 became a lecturer in entomology as well.An 1872 scholarship enabled him to travel to the continent for scientific study. He was offered the post of Director of the Entomological Museum in Berlin, but he declined. Carl Gustaf Thomson was the author of Coleoptera Scandinaviae (ten volumes, 1859–68), Skandinaviens inseckta (1862), Scandinavia Hymenoptera (five volumes, 1871–79) and Opuscula Entomologica (22 bands, 1869–97) He also published descriptions of the insects collected on the voyage of the Fregatten Eugenies (HMS Eugenie), the first Swedish vessel to circumnavigate the world.Leagues,especially in Diptera, species novas, etc. (1858). | Scientist |
Trevor Clarke MLA (born 28 July 1967) is a Democratic Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. He was elected in 2007, and re-elected in 2011 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) member for South Antrim. He is active in the Orange order and attends Second Randalstown Presbyterian Church. Trevor Clarke spoke out upon the discovery of a pipe bomb in Steeple saying, “Incidents of this kind need to stop immediately, and it is time people moved on from involvement in this mindless activity.” | Person |
The 2008 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season. It was the 132nd season of play for the Quakers. The team was led by Al Bagnoli, in his 17th season as head coach. The Quakers played their home games at historic Franklin Field in Philadelphia, PA. | Sports Team Season |
Melvin Joe Daniels (July 20, 1944 – October 30, 2015) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) for the Minnesota Muskies, Indiana Pacers, and Memphis Sounds, and in the National Basketball Association for the New York Nets. Daniels was a two-time ABA Most Valuable Player and a seven-time ABA All-Star. He was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. | Athlete |
Stadio Euganeo is a football stadium in Padua, Italy. It is also used for athletics, concerts, rugby league and rugby union. It replaced the old and historical Appiani stadium. From 1994 to the present, it is the home of Calcio Padova. It has a total capacity of 32,420. Due to strict Italian laws about security in football matches, for football only the stadium capacity can be reduced to 18,060 places. It also played temporary host to Treviso for their first few matches in Serie A in the 2005–06 season, as their ground, Stadio Omobono Tenni, was deemed unfit; and to Cittadella, when playing her first two Serie B championships in the 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons. By 2010-2011 season it has been used also for the home matches of the second football team of the city, San Paolo Padova, playing in Serie D. Euganeo hosted the international rugby match Italy-Australia (20–30) on 8 November 2008, with an attendance of about 30,000 people, likely being the most attended rugby match in Italy. On November 22, 2014, it hosted Italy’s end-of-year rugby union international against South Africa who won 22–6. The original Stadio Euganeo had previously hosted a rugby league international between Italy and Australia on 23 January 1960. Played as part of the 1959-60 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, the Kangaroos defeated the home side 37–15 in front of a modest 3,500 crowd. | Sport Facility |
NGC 4666 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It is noteworthy for its vigorous star formation, which creates an unusual “superwind” of out-flowing gas. This wind is not visible at optical wavelengths, but is prominent in X-rays, and has been observed by the ESA XMM-Newton space telescope. A Type Ia Supernova was detected in NGC 4666 on 9 December 2014. ASASSN-14lp is located 12 arcseconds from the center of NGC 4666. | Celestial Body |
The Xalbal River (Spanish pronunciation: [ʃalˈβal]) is a river of Guatemala. Its sources are in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes (at 15°29′52″N 91°07′58″W / 15.497769°N 91.132793°W) in the department of El Quiché, where the river is called Río Xaclbal or Río Chajul. The Xaclbal river flows northwards down the tropical lowlands of Ixcan where it is called Río Xalbal (at 15°57′17″N 90°55′31″W / 15.954727°N 90.925255°W), and crosses the border with Mexico, where it joins the Lacantún River, a tributary of the Usumacinta river. The Guatemalan part of Xaclbal river basin covers an area of 1,366 square kilometres (527 sq mi). The village of Xalbal, named after the river, suffered a massacre in 1982. The village was abandoned in March 1982. | Stream |
WRUF-LD is the callsign of a low-power television station that operates from the University of Florida's main campus in Gainesville, broadcasting on VHF channel 5, the former analog channel of sister station WUFT. Through the use of PSIP, WRUF maps to virtual channel 10 (reflecting its former analog channel). The station is carried by Cox Communications in Gainesville on channel 6; this is reflected in its logo. Most of WRUF's programming is devoted to local weather, with some news and sports coverage. | Broadcaster |
Mesembriornis is a genus of intermediate-sized phorusrhacids that grew up to 1.5 metres in height. They represent a well-distinct lineage of terror birds, differing from the massive large groups and the smaller Psilopterinae. In general proportions, they most resembled the Patagornithinae which flourished somewhat earlier, mainly to the south of the range of Mesembriornis. Two species are nowadays accepted, Mesembriornis incertus and Mesembriornis milneedwardsi. However, this was recently disputed by an author who claimed Mesembriornis to be a nomen nudum , renamed the genus Hermosiornis and proposed a new taxonomic systematics for the family. Mesembriornis lived on the pampa of E and NW Argentina from the Late Miocene to the Late Pliocene, roughly 10–2.6 million years ago. Together with the North American giant Titanis walleri, it was among the last terror birds alive. | Animal |
Bull Page (foaled 1947) was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse and an important sire. Bred by Woodvale Farm in Kentucky, he was out of the mare Our Page, winner of the historic Spinaway Stakes in 1942 and a daughter of the 1929 American Horse of the Year and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Blue Larkspur. He was sired by Calumet Farm's Bull Lea, a five-time North American Champion Sire. Conformation defects resulted in Bull Page being sold at the 1948 Keeneland July sale for $38,000, a relatively low price for a Bull Lea colt whose son Citation had just won the U.S. Triple Crown. Purchased by Ontario horseman, E. P. Taylor, Bull Page was conditioned by future Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer Gordon J. McCann, who took over his training on the retirement of another Hall of Fame trainer, Bert Alexandra. Blessed with natural speed, the colt had health problems that kept him off the racetrack until age three, when he began racing in the early part of the year in Florida, earning his first win at Gulfstream Park. Sent north, Bull Page won two allowance races at Jamaica Racetrack in New York City. As a four-year-old in 1951, Bull Page won two important races in Toronto: the Autumn Stakes at Woodbine Park, and the Canadian International Championship at Long Branch Race Track. He notably ran second in both the King Edward and Jockey Club Cup Handicap. In a year in which he set a track record at Thorncliffe Park Raceway, Bull Page made sixteen starts and was unplaced on just two occasions. His 1951 performances earned him Canadian Horse of the Year honors. | Horse |
Arun Singh (born 4 April 1965) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh and is the current National General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Singh, a renowned academician and successful politician is BJP's in-charge of India's eastern state of Odisha from the year 2014. He was the National Secretary and Co-Head of BJP’s National Membership Programme whereafter Bhartiya Janata Party has become the world’s largest party. | Person |
The 2011 Johan Cruijff Schaal was held on July 30, 2011 at the Amsterdam ArenA. The match was between 2010–11 KNVB Cup winners FC Twente and the 2010–11 Eredivisie winners Ajax. FC Twente won 2–1 in front of 45,000 spectators. | Sports Event |
Local elections will be held in Batangas City on May 9, 2016 within the Philippine general election. The voters will elect candidates for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, the congressman (which will represent Batangas' fifth district which is composed of just the city), two provincial board members, and the 12 members of its city council. Unlike in the 2013 elections, voters of the city will be electing its first member in the House of Representatives, two representatives to the Batangas provincial board, and two more councilors thus bringing the councilors' total to 12 as opposed to the previous 10. | Societal Event |
The purple-crowned fairy (Heliothryx barroti) is a large hummingbird that breeds in the lowlands and hills from southeastern Mexico south to southwestern Ecuador. Its breeding habitat is forest canopy and edges at altitudes up to 1675m, and this bird can also be found in tall second growth and shady gardens . The female lays two white eggs in a small conical cup nest, which is made of plant down and sited near the tip of a thin branch. The purple-crowned fairy is 11.5 cm long and weighs 6.5 g. It is slender and has bright white underparts, a green back, and a long pointed tail which has black central and white outer feathers. There is a dark patch through the eye, and the bill is sharply pointed. The male has a purple crown and a purple spot at the end of the eyepatch, which is bordered below with a glittering green malar stripe. The song is a vigorous repetition of the high thin tsit call. The female lacks the purple and glittering green colours on the head, and the immature bird has rufous fringes to its upperpart plumage and a dusky throat. The purple-crowned fairy has a very light and graceful flight. It eats insects, picked off the foliage or caught in flight, and takes nectar from flowers, piercing the bases of larger blooms such as Heliconia. Although not particularly territorial, this species is quite aggressive, and will resist the attacks of territorial species. | Animal |
Paul Philipp (born 21 October 1950) is a retired Luxembourgian football player and manager. He is currently the President of the Luxembourg Football Federation. | Sports Manager |
The Battle of Algeciras was a naval battle which occurred on July 25, 1278. The battle pitted the fleets of the Kingdom of Castile, commanded by the Admiral of Castile, Pedro Martínez de Fe, and the combined fleets of the Sultanate of Morocco and that of the Emirate of Granada, commanded by Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr. The battle was fought in the context of the Moorish naval expeditions to the Iberian Peninsula. The battle, which took place in the Strait of Gibraltar, resulted in a Muslim victory. This battle coincided with a simultaneous siege of the city of Algeciras which lasted from 1278–79 and was commanded by the Infante Sancho. The Castilian prince would abandon the siege later in 1279, marking the end of the first action of the long battle for the Strait of Gibraltar. | Societal Event |
The North Middlesex Hospital, known locally as North Mid, is a District General Hospital (DGH) in Edmonton, in the London Borough of Enfield. It is also 5 minutes walk and located near Silver Street Station. The hospital is run by the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, led by John Carrier, Chairman and Elizabeth McManus, Chief Executive Officer, supported by full-time Executive Directors and part-time independent Non-Executive Directors. In July 2016 David Sloman, the Chief Executive of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust took over as “interim accountable officer” at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust as part of the Royal Free’s hospital chain project. | Building |
Bianca Scott-Braxton is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Lisa Gormley. Gormley had recently graduated from NIDA when she secured the role of Bianca, who was introduced as the sister of fellow new character April Scott (Rhiannon Fish). Bianca debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 9 July 2010. Bianca is the daughter of an Italian father and Australian mother. She retains certain Italian traits as she is characterised as a \"fiery, opinionated, beautiful, sophisticated\" female. Gormley has said that Bianca puts up a feisty attitude to hide her \"softer side\". Bianca's vice has often been powerful men who break her heart. She arrives in Summer Bay to \"nurse a broken heart\" after her fiancé, Prince Vittorio Seca (Richard Brancatisano) is unfaithful to her. Bianca can speak English, Italian and French; she secures employment as a language teacher. She soon meets Liam Murphy (Axle Whitehead). Initially, Bianca does not find happiness with Liam as the serial implemented a \"love-triangle storyline\", which sees Vittorio return in hope of a reconciliation. This results in Bianca becoming confused as to which man she should be with. The storyline cumulated in the programme's annual cliff-hanger episode where she chooses Liam. Their relationship is a main focus for Bianca's storyline during the early 2011 quarter. However, Liam's drug addiction weakens their relationship. The serial introduced an issue lead storyline for Bianca, in which she becomes drunk and is sexually assaulted by a mystery assailant. The storyline raised awareness of the outcome that binge drinking can hold. Bianca's ordeal ruined her romance with Liam. Other storylines included a friendship with Gypsy Nash (Kimberley Cooper) and an attraction to local \"bad boy\" Heath Braxton (Dan Ewing). In late 2011 Bianca featured in a plot in which she fabricates the scene of the car accident and lies to the police. After marrying Liam, Bianca learned she was pregnant with Heath's child. Bianca and Liam ended their marriage and Bianca began a relationship with Heath. Their son died of sudden infant death syndrome, causing Bianca to turn to drugs to block out the pain. She and Heath later married. Some critics from publications such as TV Week and Holy Soap praised Bianca's introduction – stating that she \"made an impression\" and \"impact\" on Home and Away. Her relationship with Liam has proved popular with certain critics. However, Jaci Stephen from the Daily Mail has claimed that Bianca was not good for Liam's drug addiction and accused her of breaking Heath's heart. After Gormley decided to leave Home and Away, Bianca departed on 12 June 2014. She made a brief appearance for Heath's departure on 29 July 2014. In June 2016 it was confirmed that Gormley would be returning once again for a short stint. | Fictional Character |
Mir-Ebrahim-Seyyed Hatami (Persian: میرابراهیم سیدحاتمی; born 1924 in Ardabil), is one of the high rank Ayatullah of Ardabil province, and a member of the Assembly of Experts.He was a member of 3rd and 4th Assembly of Experts of Iran. | Politician |
Chanel Modiri Mokango (born October 13, 1988) is a Congolese professional basketball playing for Dexia Namur in Belgium and the Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. She was selected 9th in the 2010 WNBA draft by the Atlanta Dream and spent a portion of the 2010 WNBA season playing for the Los Angeles Sparks. At the collegiate level she was a stand out player for the Mississippi State Bulldogs helping to lead that team to the second round of the NCAA Division I tournament in 2009 and the third round (sweet 16) in 2010. | Athlete |
Epiactaeodes is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species: \n* Epiactaeodes pictus (Zehntner, 1894) \n* Epiactaeodes tesselatus (Pocock, 1890) | Animal |
The Kewaunee Pierhead lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Kewaunee in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. It replaced range lights constructed in 1891, and is located on the same pier. The fifth order fresnel lens came from the original front range light. The lighthouse looks nearly identical to the Holland Harbor Lighthouse, except white. The Fresnel lens is still in operation—one of only 70 such lenses that remain operational in the United States, sixteen of which are use on the Great Lakes of which six are in Wisconsin. | Tower |
WZZO, popularly known as \"95.1 ZZO\", is a commercial FM rock radio station licensed to Bethlehem in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. WZZO broadcasts in stereo at 95.1 MHz. The station's tag line is: \"The Valley's Rock Station.\" WZZO's broadcast is also available globally through online streaming at: WZZO live stream broadcast. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., along with 790 WAEB, 104.1 WAEB-FM and 1470 WSAN. Studios and offices are in the iHeart Broadcasting Complex in Whitehall Township and its transmitter is off Severn Lane, near Interstate 78 in Lower Saucon Township. WZZO regularly sponsors live music and nightclub events in the Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia areas. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WZZO broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. | Broadcaster |
The Seattle Jr. Totems are a junior ice hockey team in Seattle, Washington. They are a member of the Western States Hockey League and play their home games at Olympic View Arena in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. | Sports Team |
Christ Church consists of the remains of a redundant Anglican church in Wellington Road, Heaton Norris, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Only the tower and part of the walls of the aisles survive. They are located on the crest of a hill on the main road linking Stockport with Manchester. The church remains are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and are under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. | Building |
Olpidium brassicae is a plant pathogen, it is a fungal obligate parasite. In 1983, the Alsike, Alberta area's clover (which is a major part of horses' diet) was struck by a fungus epidemic of Olpidium brassicae, previously not seen in Canada. | Eukaryote |
The Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC) is a NATO body located in Monsanto (Lisbon), Portugal. The Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre was commissioned on 2 September 2002. Its mission is to serve as NATO’s centre for performing joint analysis of operations, training, exercises and experimentation, including establishing and maintaining an interactive managed NATO Lessons Learned Database. The JALLC is also responsible for producing the NATO Joint Analysis Handbook and the NATO Lessons Learned Handbook, for hosting the NATO Lessons Learned Conference and for organizing the NATO Lessons Learned Staff Officers Course at SWEDINT. In 2010, the JALLC established the JALLC Advisory and Training Team to assist NATO, NATO/partner nations/organizations to develop or improve their lesson learning and information sharing capability for the mutual benefit of the Alliance. Also, the NATO Lessons Learned Portal was launched to complement the NATO Lessons Learned Database with an area further enabling sharing of lessons learned information. The JALLC, as a member of Supreme Allied Command Transformation (ACT), feeds the results of joint analysis work and lessons learned back into the transformation network. JALLC is one of three joint organisations in the ACT structure, the others being the Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) (Stavanger) and Joint Force Training Centre. The Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre shares a site with the Portuguese Air Force Operational Command (Comando Operacional da Força Aérea) and NATO Combined Air Operations Center 10. | Organisation |
Charlotte Christian School is an independent, non-denominational school serving students in grades JK-12. It is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. | Educational Institution |
Each In His Own Way (Italian: Ciascuno a suo modo [tʃaˈskuːno a ˈsuːo ˈmɔːdo]) is a 1924 play by Luigi Pirandello. Like his more famous Six Characters in Search of an Author, it forms part of his \"trilogy of the theatre in the theatre.\" Each In His Own Way concerns the production of a play based on \"real\" goings-on: the scandal of the artist Giorgio Salvi's suicide on the eve of his marriage, committed when he discovered that his fiancée, the actress Delia Morello, had begun a short-lived affair with Salvi's brother-in-law Michele Rocca, is ostensibly based on events concerning the sculptor La Vela, the actress Amelia Moreno, and Baron Nuti. The people in question have come separately to see the \"play\" to determine if it is really based on the real events. The \"play\" begins in medias res, with the characters discussing Delia. Two characters, Doro Palegari and Francesco Savio, debate her rationale: was it a well-intentioned move to break off a marriage that would have been a mistake, or was it spite against Salvi? By the end of Act I, Moreno and Nuti have independently confirmed that the play is based on their story, and Moreno wishes to stop it from going on. However, it continues, and Act II shows Rocca's arrival to tell Delia that he has realized their mutual hatred is concealed love; she rejects him and they fight, but then she realizes he is right, and they embrace. In the auditorium, Moreno and Nuti, still furious, catch sight of each other and likewise embrace. Act III is \"canceled.\" | Written Work |
Barbora Hermannová (born November 7, 1990) is a Czech beach volleyball player. As of 2016, she plays with Markéta Sluková. They have qualified for 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. | Volleyball Player |
The Ocala SunTran is the public transportation agency that serves the Marion County, Florida. Service operates Monday through Saturday. | Company |
The Protestant church of Bolsward (also Grote kerk or Martinikerk; Frisian: Martinitsjerke) is a religious building in Bolsward, Netherlands, one of the medieval churches in Friesland.The church was renewed and enlarged between 1446 and 1461. The tower of the church was built in the 15th century and the gabled roof was added in the 17th century. The church is located at the Groot Kerkhof 24 and was once a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Martin, becoming a Protestant church after the Protestant Reformation. It is listed as a rijksmonument since 1968. | Building |
Luis Herrera Campins served as President of Venezuela from 1979 to 1984. | Politician |
Sonic and the Black Knight (ソニックと暗黒の騎士 Sonikku to Ankoku no Kishi) is a video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega as part of the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The game was released on Wii as the second entry in the Sonic Storybook series, following Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007). Set in the world of King Arthur, the game combines Sonic's trademark speed with a new sword fighting system, utilizing of the Wii Remote's motion-sensing functionality. The series villain Doctor Eggman is absent, making this the first Sonic game that he does not appear in. | Software |
Sir Harry Goring, 6th baronet (1739-1824), of Highden, Sussex, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for New Shoreham 1790-1796. | British Royalty |
The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ) was a New Model Trade Union in the 1860s in the United Kingdom, representing carpenters and joiners. The formation of the Society was spurred by the Stonemason's strike, 1859, which succeeded in winning a nine-hour day. In 1860, a number of small societies formed the Amalgamated. Robert Applegarth was the general secretary from 1862 to 1871. The union also established branches in the United States, Australia, and Canada. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America took over its U.S. branches in 1913, and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners took over its Australian branches in 1917. By 1892, the union had 37,588 members, and by 1900 it had 65,000. It merged with or absorbed a number of smaller unions including the Carpenters of Dublin, the Carpenteres of Cork, the Mersey Ship Joiners and other small unions in Britain and Ireland in the 1890s. In 1911, it merged with the Associated Carpenters and Joiners of Scotland, while in 1918 the Amalgamated Union of Cabinetmakers joined the union, which renamed itself as the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Cabinetmakers and Joiners. In 1921, the union merged with the General Union of Carpenters and Joiners, forming the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers | Organisation |
Michigan v. Environmental Protection Agency, 576 U.S. ___ (2015), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court analyzed whether the Environmental Protection Agency must consider costs when regulating pollution that is emitted from power plants. Writing for a 5–4 majority, Justice Antonin Scalia held that the EPA must consider costs and that it interpreted the Clean Air Act unreasonably when it determined that it did not need to consider costs when it implemented regulations. Critics of the Environmental Protection Agency praised the Court's decision, while other commentators criticized Justice Scalia's decision to ignore health impacts in his opinion. Some commentators suggested that the decision may derail President Barack Obama's climate change agenda entirely. | Legal Case |
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. Although only one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times more massive. Saturn is named after the Roman god of agriculture; its astronomical symbol (♄) represents the god's sickle. Saturn's interior is probably composed of a core of iron–nickel and rock (silicon and oxygen compounds). This core is surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, and finally outside the Frenkel line a gaseous outer layer. Saturn has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia crystals in its upper atmosphere. Electrical current within the metallic hydrogen layer is thought to give rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field, which is weaker than Earth's, but has a magnetic moment 580 times that of Earth due to Saturn's larger size. Saturn's magnetic field strength is around one-twentieth of Jupiter's. The outer atmosphere is generally bland and lacking in contrast, although long-lived features can appear. Wind speeds on Saturn can reach 1,800 km/h (500 m/s), higher than on Jupiter, but not as high as those on Neptune. Saturn has a prominent ring system that consists of nine continuous main rings and three discontinuous arcs and that is composed mostly of ice particles with a smaller amount of rocky debris and dust. Sixty-two moons are known to orbit Saturn, of which fifty-three are officially named. This does not include the hundreds of moonlets comprising the rings. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and the second-largest in the Solar System, is larger than the planet Mercury, although less massive, and is the only moon in the Solar System to have a substantial atmosphere. | Celestial Body |
The Daily Progress is the sole daily newspaper in the vicinity of Charlottesville, Virginia. It has been published daily since September 14, 1892. The paper was founded by James Hubert Lindsay and his brother Frank Lindsay. The Progress was initially published six days a week; the first Sunday edition was printed in September 1968. Lindsay's family owned the paper for 78 years. On November 30, 1970, the family announced a sale to the Worrell Newspaper group, which took over on January 1, 1971. T. Eugene Worrell, of Bristol, Virginia, owned about two dozen rural weekly newspapers and a few dailies, all with less circulation than the Daily Progress. The Progress immediately became the group's flagship paper, and Worrell moved his newspaper group headquarters to Charlottesville. Faced with major newspaper industry change, Worrell sold his newspaper properties to Richmond-based Media General as a part of a larger $230M deal in 1995. In the 21st century, Media General sold the Progress' printing press, and reorganized its operations to print multiple newspapers from other printing plants it controlled. On May 17, 2012 Media General, Inc. announced signed agreements with Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., whereby a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, BH Media Group, will purchase newspapers owned by Media General, including the Progress. | Periodical Literature |
David Jung-Hsin Lai (賴榮信) (born March 3, 1948) is the sixth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan. He was ordained to the diaconate on March 23, 1975, to the priesthood on April 11, 1976, and consecrated on November 25, 2000. | Cleric |
Lissotesta conoidea is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea. | Animal |
The Beardslee trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus f. beardsleei), formerly Salmo gairdneri beardsleei) is a local form of rainbow trout endemic to Lake Crescent in Washington. By some sources, they are treated as a subspecies. Known to locals as \"bluebacks\", Beardslee trout are found nowhere else, and spawn in the Lyre River, near the outlet of the lake. Beardslee are somewhat difficult to distinguish from the Lake Crescent cutthroat trout, which is also endemic to Lake Crescent, as they only take on the Rainbow colors during spawning. The spawning grounds of the Beardslee (considered the rarest salmonid in the Olympic National Park) are severely threatened by siltation, and the degradation of logjams in the river used as spawning grounds. Responding to a proposal from Washington Trout, Olympic National Park has announced an emergency change to fishing regulations on Lake Crescent. On May 24 (2002), Park Superintendent David Morris announced that Lake Crescent and all its tributaries will be open for catch and release angling only. The rule change prohibits the use of down riggers, and requires that anglers use only artificial lures with single barbless hooks and no more than two ounces of weight. The emergency rule took effect June 1, the day the lake opened for fishing. The new rules are designed to protect Lake Crescent’s population of Beardslee rainbow trout, which has declined to a critically low level. Beardslee trout are a unique form of rainbow trout, native to Lake Crescent, and found nowhere else on earth. They spawn in late winter and early spring in only one small area of the Lyre River, near the outlet of the lake. Washington Trout conducted independent spawning surveys on the Lyre this past spring and found alarming evidence of very low numbers of spawning fish, indicating that the population has experienced a severe decline. This evidence was supported by counts made by Park Service crews that officially counted only 35 spawning redds (slightly higher than WT’s count), the lowest number since official redd counts were begun in 1989. | Animal |
Triplemanía VIII was the eighth Triplemanía wrestling show promoted by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). The show took place on July 5, 2000 in Tokyo, Japan. It was only the second show to take place outside Mexico and the first show to take place in Japan. The Main event featured an Eight-man \"Atómicos\" tag team match which saw AAA regulars team up with various Japanese wrestlers. The team of Octagón, Jushin Thunder Liger, Latin Lover, and El Alebrije took on Cibernético, Shiima Nobunaga, Abismo Negro, and Electroshock. | Sports Event |
Pietro Facchetti (1539 – 27 February 1613) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance, mainly active in Rome. Born to a poor family in Mantua. Facchetti initially trained with Lorenzo Costa the younger, but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Scipione da Gaeta, where he gained fame as a portrait painter. | Artist |
University of Colorado Hospital or University Hospital (formerly named Colorado General Hospital) is part of the University of Colorado Health System and is the principal teaching hospital for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, located in Aurora, Colorado. In the 2015–16 U.S. News and World Report hospital rankings, University of Colorado Hospital ranked in the top 50 for 11 medical specialties. In 2005, UCH was redesignated by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a magnet facility. In 2010, the hospital received its third redesignation of Magnet status. The hospital is currently pursuing its fourth Magnet designation. | Building |
Polinices hepaticus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. | Animal |
\"Deeply Dippy\" is a song by British trio Right Said Fred. Written by Right Said Fred and produced by Tommy D, \"Deeply Dippy\" was Right Said Fred's third single and did one better than their debut \"I'm Too Sexy\" by peaking at the top of the UK singles chart for three weeks in April 1992, knocking off Shakespears Sister's two-month chart-topping single \"Stay\". The song failed to chart in the U.S. (where \"I'm Too Sexy\" had reached # 1) other than on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart where it peaked at number nine. The song was later covered by The Rockingbirds on the Terence Higgins Trust supporting charity EP, The Fred EP. In 2014, the song featured in an advert for Sun Bingo. | Musical Work |
Folklore (born 2003) is a retired American Thoroughbred racing filly. In 2005, she won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and won an Eclipse Award for champion juvenile filly of 2005. She won the Matron Stakes by fourteen lengths and finished third in the Santa Ynez Stakes in her only start as a three-year-old. She fractured her knee in 2006 which caused her early retirement. | Horse |
Odessa College, informally referred to as OC, is a public two-year junior college based in Odessa, Texas, United States serving the people of Ector County and the Permian Basin. It was established in 1946 and currently enrolls about 5,000 annually in its university-parallel and occupational/technical courses, and 11,000 students annually in its Basic Education, Continuing Education, and Community Recreation courses. As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of Odessa College is the following: \n* all of Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves, Upton, Ward, and Winkler counties, and \n* the Seminole Independent School District, located in Gaines County. \n* The Pecos Technical Training Center is an extension of Odessa College, located at 1000 S. Eddy St, Pecos, Texas. It first opened its doors in the summer of 1999. In 1999, an Odessa doctor and his wife donated a 27,000-square-foot (2,500 m2) building in Pecos to house the new Pecos Technical Training Center of Odessa College. After renovations to the building made possible by an $860,000 Economic Development Administration grant, the center now houses administrative and faculty offices, technical and vocational learning labs and a student lounge. The new center enables OC to improve and expand its long-established extension education program in Pecos. In 2011, Odessa College, along with Frank Phillips College in Borger, Ranger College in Ranger, and Brazosport College in Lake Jackson were proposed for closure by the State of Texas. The Texas Association of Community Colleges rallied successfully to keep the four instiututions open. In a letter to Texas House Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio and Jim Pitts of Waxahachie in Ellis County, then the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, TAAC leaders referred to state budget restrictions at the time: Community colleges are fully aware of the state's budget crisis, and we understand that we will have to bear our share of the budget pain. We pledge to work with you to reach a fair and equitable solution ... the decision to close these four colleges is unfair and inequitable in that it appears to be arbitrary and ill-advised. We stand in support of our sister colleges, and we look forward to a productive debate ... | Educational Institution |
Matthew Martyn Baldwin (born May 3, 1926) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. Baldwin is a three-time Brier champion, having skipped his rink to the Canadian men's championship in 1954, 1957 and 1958. In 1954, Baldwin and his team of Glenn Gray, Pete Ferry and Jim Collins finished with a 9-1 record to claim their first Brier. At age 27, Baldwin was then the youngest skip to win a Brier, in an era when teams were generally led by men decades older. He is also remembered for pleasing a cheering Edmonton hometown crowd by sliding halfway down the sheet of ice when throwing his final rock of the event, a move that was legal under the curling rules of the time. The age record has since been broken; Kerry Burtnyk is the current holder of the mark. As of the 2013 event Baldwin is the oldest surviving Brier champion skip. In 1956, Baldwin returned to the Brier, but his team of Gord Haynes. Art Kleinmeyer and Bill Henning finished with a 5-5 record. In 1957, Baldwin and his team of Gord Haynes, Art Kleinmeyer and new lead Bill Price finished the round robin undefeated, giving Baldwin his second Brier. In 1958, Jack Geddes was inserted into the lineup to play third, replacing Haynes who was bumped back to second, who replaced the departing Kleinmayer. The team finished the round robin with an 8-2 record, and had to defeat Terry Braunstein's Manitoba rink to claim the title. Baldwin did not return to the Brier until 1971, where his team of Tom Kroeger, Rich Cust and Reg Van Wassenhove finished with a record of 5-5. Baldwin was also a petroleum engineer and served as a director of the Edmonton Eskimos football team for five years. | Winter Sport Player |
Varsity Rugby is the collective name for four South African rugby union competitions involving the top rugby playing universities in the country. It was launched in 2008, with eight teams participating in the Varsity Cup competition and each university's internal champions competing in the Koshuis Rugby Championships. In 2011, a second tier competition called the Varsity Shield was added, increasing the number of participating universities to thirteen. A Young Guns tournament for the Under-20 side of the Varsity Cup teams was launched in 2012. The Varsity Cup was dominated by Maties during the competition's formative years, with the team winning the first three tournaments in a row. Three other sides – UCT Ikey Tigers, UFS Shimlas and UP Tuks – have also won the tournament subsequently. Those four sides, along with NMMU Madibaz, NWU Pukke and UJ, participated in the Varsity Cup in each season since its conceptions, while CUT Ixias, TUT Vikings and Wits participated in the Varsity Cup on occasion, but also played in the second-tier Varsity Shield competition in certain seasons. UFH Blues, UKZN Impi and UWC have never been able to win promotion to the Varsity Cup, spending all their time in the Varsity Shield tournament. | Sports League |
Trap Lord is the debut studio album by American rapper ASAP Ferg. The album was released on August 20, 2013, by ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds Music, and RCA Records. The album features guest appearances from ASAP Rocky, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, French Montana, Trinidad James, Schoolboy Q, Waka Flocka Flame, B-Real and Onyx among others. The album was supported by three singles; the remix to \"Work\" which featured ASAP Rocky, Schoolboy Q, Trinidad James and French Montana, the album's most commercially successful single \"Shabba\" featuring ASAP Rocky, and \"Hood Pope\". It was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, and debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200. | Musical Work |
Round Island Lighthouse stood from 1859 to 1998 on the southwest end of Round Island in the Mississippi Sound, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Pascagoula, Mississippi. In September 1998, the lighthouse was toppled by Hurricane Georges. In 2010, the base of the structure and other lighthouse remnants were removed from Round Island and relocated within the City of Pascagoula for restoration. | Tower |
The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) is a species of tree frog distributed from Hokkaidō to Yakushima in Japan and from Korea along the Ussuri River to northeastern China, northern Mongolia, and the southern Russian Far East. Hyla japonica was formerly considered to be a subspecies of H. arborea (European tree frog). Animals from northern China, the Korean Peninsula, eastern Russia, and Mongolia have been considered to be a separate species H. ussuriensis, which would make H. japonica endemic to Japan. These tree frogs are commonly found in rice paddies, and rest during the day on rice leaves and other broad-leaved vegetation. During the early evening, they are active and move to lights to catch the insects attracted to the lights. Journalist Toyohiro Akiyama carried some Japanese tree frogs with him during his trip to the Mir space station in December 1990. Calling behavior of the species was used to create an algorithm for optimizing Wi-Fi networks. | Animal |
Douglas Elliot (18 April 1923 - 12 March 2005) also known as W.I.D. Elliot and Doug(i.e.) Elliot is a former Scottish international rugby union player, who played for Scotland. He was capped 29 times for Scotland between 1947-54. He was never dropped, but did spend at least six matches away due to injuries including the whole 1953 seasons. He was six feet three inches and over fourteen stone. He was a backrow forward, and has also been inducted to the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. He was one of the few Scottish players to escape untarnished by the 44-0 defeat by South Africa during the period. Elliot was the only Scot to be named by the South African rugby correspondent R.K. Stent amongst the best players who had faced the 1951-2 Springbok tour to the British Isles. Allan Massie talking of the 1950s, said: \"Elliot was my first Rugby hero, and for a long time in the Fifties, he was the only one a Scots boy could have... the Scottish sides he played in, especially in the Fifties, gave him little chance to display his attacking abilities. All the same, match reports of the time make frequent mention of Elliot bursting from the line-out to run thirty yards... He was undoubtedly the nearest thing to a forward in the classic All Black mould that Scotland produced in the twenty years after the war, for he was fast also, possessed all the basic skills, and breathed aggression. It was fitting that almost his last game for Scotland was against the All Blacks in 1954, when he captained the side that held the tourists to a single penalty goal.\" Bill McLaren remembers in 1947 going for a Scotland trial, and playing at the back of the line-out, \"the only time the ball was thrown anywhere near there and I got it I found myself enmeshed in a vice-like grip. The feeling was of two iron bands imprisoning my arms. The bands belonging to Douglas Elliot, one of the greatest Scottish wing-forwards, whose strength had been developed in his every-day life as a son of the soil. I was much impressed by the form of temporary paralysis he imposed on my arms and it did not surprise me that he remained Scotland's most capped wing-forward with 29 appearances until John Jeffrey gained his 30th cap in the second Test against the All Blacks in Auckland in June 1990.\" | Athlete |
The Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (English: Portuguese Basketball League) is the top men's basketball league in Portugal. From the 2008-09 season onwards, the competition will be organized once again by the Federação Portuguesa de Basquetebol after 13 seasons. This was caused by the fold of the LCB, after many years of financial problems, with the league now being semi-professional. Between the seasons 1965–66 and 1973–74 the league champions were determine by a tournament between the winners of the Campeonato Metropolitano (representing Portugal) and the champions of Portugal's then-colonies Mozambique and Angola, in similar fashion as the Portuguese Roller Hockey First Division was also played during those seasons. However the first of these tournaments never came to be due to a protest launched by the Mozambican team Sporting de Lourenço Marques. | Sports League |
David H. Shinn (born June 9, 1940) is an American diplomat and professor. He is an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. His diverse career in the foreign service of the United States has included ambassadorships to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Shinn is also a frequent commentator in the news media on political issues, and has provided consultancy to the U.S. government on Horn of Africa related matters as well as Sino-African relations. | Person |
Guntakal–Dhone section connects Guntakal of Anantpur district and Dhone of Kurnool district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Further, this section converges with Kacheguda–Dhone section]] at Dhone. It is administered under Guntakal railway division of South Central Railway zone, except the Nandyal railway station which is under Guntakal railway division. | Route Of Transportation |
The 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer championship also known as the 2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for (CONCACAF and CONMEBOL) was the second, and last, beach soccer championship for the Americas, held in August 2007, in Acapulco, Mexico.The United States won the championship, beating Uruguay in the final, whilst Argentina beat Mexico in the third place play off to finish third and fourth respectively. These nations moved on to play in the 2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from November 2 - November 11. | Tournament |
The Lighthouse of São Miguel-o-Anjo (Portuguese: Farol de São Miguel-o-Anjo) is a former hermitage and 16th century lighthouse, in the civil parish of Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde, municipality of Porto, in the Portuguese Norte Region. The lighthouse of São Miguel-o-Anjo is Portugal's oldest existing lighthouse and one of the oldest in Europe. Designed by Italian architect Francesco da Cremona, the project was completed in 1538. | Tower |
Des McAleenan was the goalkeeping coach for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer. Born in Ireland, he was with the MetroStars franchise from 2002 until his firing on 28 February 2011. He played his schoolboy football with Stella Maris. Has coached world-class goalkeepers including Tim Howard, before his move to Manchester United, and US full internationals Tony Meola and Jonny Walker. McAleenan also coached the boy's varsity soccer team at Newington High School in Newington, CT. | Sports Manager |
ARP 410 Airlines (Ukrainian: Державне підприємство Завод 410 цивільної авіації «Авіакомпанія «ARP 410») (EN:State Enterprise Plant 410 Civil Aviation \"Airline 410\")) is an airline based in Kiev, Ukraine. It operates passenger and cargo services throughout Ukraine and to destinations in Europe, South-East Asia and Africa. It was established in May 1999 and its main base is Boryspil Airport, Kiev. | Company |
Don't Dress for Dinner is a two-act play by French playwright Marc Camoletti, who wrote the farce Boeing-Boeing. The play ran in France and then in London, running there for six years, and opened on Broadway in 2012. | Written Work |
Chittenden County Transportation Authority (CCTA) was the public transit system headquartered in Burlington in Chittenden County, Vermont. CCTA served the communities of Burlington, Essex, South Burlington, Winooski, Shelburne, Williston and Milton. As well as providing regular bus routes to these member municipalities, CCTA also served parts of Colchester and had express routes for commuters travelling between Burlington and Montpelier, Middlebury, and St. Albans. On March 17, 2014, a strike by the bus drivers' union shut down bus service, which was restored on April 4, 2014, after settlement of the strike. On January 22, 2016, it was announced that the CCTA will be renamed to Green Mountain Transit, completing a merger with the Green Mountain Transit Authority to become a regional system. As of October 2016, the merger has been completed. | Company |
Monterey High School is a 5A high school located in central Lubbock, Texas, United States (Monterey High School became a 6A school at the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year per the UIL realignment announcement of February 2012). Monterey is part of the Lubbock Independent School District. Established in 1955, Monterey was the third high school to be established in Lubbock, after Lubbock High School and Dunbar High School. Dunbar was later changed to a Junior High. The current city of Lubbock started from the merger of two separate communities, Old Lubbock and Monterey. In a compromise move, the residents of Old Lubbock relocated to Monterey but renamed the new community Lubbock; the high school name is in remembrance to Lubbock's past. | Educational Institution |
Stony Plain Records is a major Canadian independent record label, which specializes in roots music genres such as country, folk and blues. The label was the recipient of a 2003 Western Canadian Music Award for \"Independent Record Label/Distributor of the Year\". Artists who have released albums on Stony Plain include the label's biggest seller Ian Tyson, Sylvia Tyson, Cindy Church, Long John Baldry, Linda McRae, The Paperboys, Corb Lund, Amos Garrett, David Wilcox, Jr. Gone Wild, Rita Chiarelli, Maria Muldaur, Tim Hus, Big Dave McLean, Mendelson Joe and Spirit of the West. The label has also been the Canadian distributor for albums by notable American artists such as Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard and Emmylou Harris. Stony Plain has licensed blues recordings from American label Blind Pig Records for Canadian release. The label is owned by Holger Petersen, who also hosts the weekly series Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio One and Natch'l Blues on the CKUA Radio Network. | Company |
Ross Murdoch (born 14 January 1994) is a Scottish competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain in the FINA world championships and European championships, and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. Murdoch won the gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, beating favourite, Olympic silver medalist and fellow Scot Michael Jamieson. In 2015 he formed part of the Great Britain squad that won gold in the mixed 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, swimming in the qualifying heats, and adding a relay world title to the individual bronze won days earlier in the men's 100 metre breaststroke behind teammate Adam Peaty. In 2016 he qualified for the 100m breaststroke for the Great Britain team in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He later won his first European title with a gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke, also picking up a silver medal in the 100 metre breaststroke silver medal behind teammate Adam Peaty and a bronze medal in the 50 metre breaststroke. | Athlete |
1245 Calvinia, provisionally designated 1932 KF, is a stony main-belt asteroid with a diameter of about 27 kilometers. It orbits the Sun with a period of 4.92 years at a distance of 2.7–3.1 AU. The S-type asteroid has a high albedo of 0.27 and is therefore relatively bright for its size. Calvinia has been measured to rotate around its axis every 4.84 hours. It was discovered by astronomer Cyril Jackson at Johannesburg Union Observatory, South Africa, on May 26, 1932. This asteroid was named after the regional city Calvinia in the Cape Province of South Africa. | Celestial Body |
Karen Marie Overington (16 November 1951 – 11 August 2011) was an Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2010, representing the electorate of Ballarat West. Overington was born Karen Marie Brown in Ballarat, and attended Sacred Heart College. She worked as an electorate officer from 1984 to 1992, and as a Uniting Church outreach worker from 1994 to 1999. She had a lengthy career in local government before her election to parliament, serving as a councillor for the Borough of Sebastopol from 1982 until 1994, with a stint as mayor in 1990–1991. The council was merged with several neighbouring ones in 1994, and Overington won election to the larger City of Ballarat council at its first election in 1996, serving in that role until her election to parliament. Overington was elected to parliament on her second attempt as part of Labor's victory in the 1999 elections, having lost one prior attempt in 1993. She was re-elected with little difficulty in 2002 and 2006, winning 55.5 per cent of the vote at the 2006 election. Overington was married with two children. Her husband, Brian Overington, died in 2009, and she was diagnosed with cancer shortly afterwards. She retired from parliament at the 2010 state election, and died on 11 August 2011. | Politician |
Blue Water Area Transit is the primary provider of mass transportation in St. Clair County, Michigan. Service was first initiated in 1976, after private providers ceased transit operations. From Monday through Saturday, six local routes are provided, plus the Shopper Shuttle, which uses buses styled to look like streetcars from the early 1900s, to connect the Court of Flags Mall and various big box stores. On weekdays, two commuter routes are provided to Chesterfield Township, a growing Detroit suburb that features a variety of suburban office parks. Routes are also timed in conjunction with Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation, to allow riders to transfer to Route 560 to reach Downtown Detroit. | Company |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arecibo is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Puerto Rico and consists of the northern part of the island of Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States. It is led by Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres. The motherchurch is the Catedral de San Felipe Apostol located in City of Arecibo. | Clerical Administrative Region |
The Ensis macha, or Navaja or Navajuela as it is called in Spanish, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Pharidae. It inhabits the coasts of Chile, Perú Ensis macha lives in sand or muddy sediments in the subtidal zone where it can burrow to a depth of up to 13 metres. Ensis macha is one of the world's economically most significant Ensis species, with a total catch of 6,000 tons in Chile in 1999. | Animal |
Promastodonsaurus (\"before Mastodonsaurus\") is an extinct genus of capitosauroid temnospondyl within the family Capitosauridae. | Animal |
Aluf Yitzhak \"Haki\" Harel (Hebrew: יצחק הראל; born 1957) is the CEO of Israel Railways and former Major General in the Israel Defense Forces. His last command post was the Planning Directorate. Harel was born as Yitzhak Schwartz in Netanya, Israel and grew up in Haifa and Safed. He graduated from the University of Haifa with a B.A. in State Affairs and also studied at the IDF Command and Administration Academy. Harel joined the IDF's Combat Engineering Corps in 1975 and advanced through the ranks in the Armored Corps. He became a battalion commander at the age of 27, and at the age of 34 commanded the 7th Brigade. In 2002, Harel was promoted to the rank of Major General as the commander of the Northern Corps (a wartime post), and in 2003 he became the first Computer Services Directorate chief. In December of the same year he entered his final post as head of the Planning Directorate. He retired from the IDF in August 2006. Yitzhak Schwartz married Dafna in 1981 and they changed their surname to Harel, looking for a Hebrew name. As of December 2008, he has 2 children and lives in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut. | Person |
Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246 (1952), is a U.S. Supreme Court case, relevant to the legal topic of criminal intent. It described two classes of crimes, those requiring a mental state, and those that do not. It did not did not delineate a precise line between them. In one class are traditional crimes, some of which have been around since before laws existed, such as stealing. This first class of crimes required a jury to find both an act, a harm, and an intent to act against the law. The second class, public welfare offenses, did not require a criminal mental state such as intent of knowledge. These included regulatory laws necessary for the public health and welfare, such as relating to food and drug safety. The purpose was to create a public awareness of both acts and negligent failure to act, which creates a public danger, even if there is no actual injury to a person or property. Morissette was a recycler who collected spent bomb casings from an air force practice bombing range, thinking they were abandoned, then sold them as scrap metal for $84.00. He was charged and convicted of \"knowingly\" converting government property to himself or the junk dealer. He defended that he honestly believed the casings were abandoned, and appealed. The Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the basis that \"an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention\", that the person must intend to commit a crime. The court wrote that it is \"universal... in mature systems of law\", that if there is to be punishment for a harmful act, there must be \"some mental element\". Crime is a \"compound concept, generally constituted only from the concurrence of an evil-meaning mind with an evil-acting hand... As the states codified the common laws of crimes [wrote specific criminal laws], even if enactments were silent on the subject\" of intention, and omitted to include it in the code, the state courts assumed the omission did not mean the legislature meant to exclude the requirement that a jury find criminal intent. Rather, it was evidence that \"intent was so inherent\" in the meaning of the concept of was constitutes a \"crime\", that it did not need to be mentioned in the statute. At the same time, the Morissette opinion acknowledges that the category of criminal legislation encompassing the statute in question must be distinguished from a different category of criminal statutes applicable to public welfare offenses. The Court notes that public welfare offenses, unlike common law crimes, do not intrinsically involve harm to the State, persons, property, or public morals, but are typified only by \"neglect where the law requires care, or inaction where it imposes a duty.\" Public welfare offenses — examples of which include public health laws, building codes, or food and drug safety laws — do not require a mental state or awareness on the part of the defendant. | Legal Case |
St Mary's Hospital is a hospital in Manchester, England. It is part of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was founded in 1790. St Mary's provides a range of inter-related services specifically for women and children. Out-patient and in-patient facilities exist to provide mainstream and speciality services in the areas of: \n* Obstetrics \n* Gynaecology \n* Neonatal medicine and surgery \n* Genetics / immunogenetics laboratory, \n* Reproductive medicine The Sexual Assault Referral Centre is a collaboration between the Trust and the Greater Manchester Police Authority. The Centre accepts emergency or self referrals from adults who have been raped or sexually assaulted. St Mary's Hospital is headed by a Clinical Director and a Divisional Director. The multi-disciplinary approach adopted by clinicians aims to provide the highest standard of care for mother and child.More than 1200 staff, including doctors, nurses, midwives, clinical and non-clinical support staff work in St Mary's Hospital. A range of clinical and non clinical support services are based at the site to support the work undertaken, including well established departments of radiology and physiotherapy. | Building |
DPS-Modern Indian School is an Indian school affiliated with the Delhi Public School Society in India. It is situated in Al Wakrah, a municipality in Doha, Qatar.It is affiliated to the CBSE board and follows the NCERT syllabus.The school takes part in the Annual Model United Nations.It has integrated optional coaching classes, FIITJEE that includes coaching for JEE-Mains and Advanced, NTSE, SAT for the students of class 7-12. The school has namely two streams for future studies starting from class 11 - Science and Commerce. There are Four Houses - Tulip , Rose,Lily ,Lotus . This school is famous in the name \"School with a difference\" as it not only stresses on education but also on co-caricular activities. The notable alumni from DPS includes Jawad Ali, Rameez Poyil, Rohit Hemachandran, Ajay Shenoy, Kenrick D'souza, Fahad Farooq. They were part of delegation of Kochin in the MUN held in 2013. Vatsal Vimal Patel of the batch year 2013-14 was the Gulf Topper in grade 12 CBSE board examination securing 98.4% in aggregate. One famous student is Kaif. The motto of the school is 'Service Before Self'. | Educational Institution |
Anil Bhoyrul is a former Daily Mirror business journalist who was investigated over the so-called 'City Slickers' share tipping scandal along with the paper's then editor, Piers Morgan and fellow reporter James Hipwell. Bhoyrul has since been employed by Richard Desmond's Express group, where he has written articles under the byline Frank Bailey. On 7 December 2005, Bhoyrul and his former Daily Mirror colleague James Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act 1986. Bhoyrul was sentenced to 180 hours of community service on 20 January 2006. Bhoyrul currently resides in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he works for Arabian Business, a weekly English-language magazine published by ITP. | Person |
Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us is the twelfth studio album by British gothic metal band Paradise Lost, released through Century Media in September 2009. The album cover is based upon the Danse Macabre – \"The Abbot\" woodcut, first published in 1538. The band had no drummer at the time of recording of this album, so with help of the Swede, Jens Bogren, he recommended the band another fellow Swede, Peter Damin. Damin was the fifth drummer for the band ever, although he was a nonofficial member, meaning his rank doesn't count as much as he was hired only for the recording for this album. This album also marks the band's first use of seven string guitars. | Musical Work |
The 1964 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on May 10, 1964. It was the first race of the 1964 Formula One season. Peter Arundell scored his first podium finish, and Mike Hailwood his first point. | Sports Event |
\"A Guy Walks Into a Bar\" is a song by American country music artist Tyler Farr. Written by Jonathan Singleton, Melissa Peirce and Brad Tursi, it served as the lead single to his second studio album, Suffer in Peace, released on April 28. The song received positive reviews from critics who praised Farr's vocal performance over heartfelt lyrics. \"A Guy Walks Into a Bar\" gave Farr his first number one country hit on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. Its 42-week climb to number one is considered the fifth longest climb in that chart's 25-year history. The song also reached number 7 on the Hot Country Songs chart and number 51 on the Hot 100. The song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting sales of over half-a-million units in the country. The song also charted in Canada, reaching number 9 on the Country chart and number 67 on the Canadian Hot 100. The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Jeff Venable that features Farr as a bartender attempting to get the attention of a woman he sees at a bar. | Musical Work |
Jan Iversen (5 June 1916 – 25 August 1999) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He served as a deputy representative in the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag during the term 1973–1977. On the local level Iversen was mayor of Frøya municipality from 1975 to 1979. | Politician |
Loppijärvi is a medium-sized lake in Finland. It is situated in the municipality of Loppi in the Tavastia Proper region. The lake is part of Kokemäenjoki basin and it drains through Tervajoki River into Lake Kernaalanjärvi which in its turn drains into Lake Vanajavesi through Hiidenjoki River. | Body Of Water |
Nokanan Station (野花南駅 Nokanan-eki) is a railway station on the Nemuro Main Line of JR Hokkaido located in Ashibetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan. The station opened on November 10, 1913. | Station |
Dothard v. Rawlinson, 433 U.S. 321 (1977), was the first United States Supreme Court case which the bona fide occupational qualifications (BFOQ) defense was used. | Legal Case |
The 1988 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was the 7th edition of the event, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Seoul, South Korea from 17 September to 2 October 1988. | Olympics |
Steve McCormack is a rugby league coach. He is currently head coach of Scotland and is the longest reigning coach in the nation's history having held the role since 2004. He has also had an extensive club coaching career, having coached Salford in the Super League and Whitehaven, Widnes, Barrow and Swinton in the Rugby League Championships. | Athlete |
Sainik School Manasbal is located 32 km from Srinagar through Srinagar-Safapora Road via Ganderbal. It is a military school in Ganderbal district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is the second sainik school in the state of J&K, the first being in Nagrota. The school was established by the Sainik Schools Society and founded by then-Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah in 1980. The school comes under the control of state government and Ministry of Defence and was also the first Sainik School in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The school was established to prepare students for entry into the National Defence Academy(NDA), situated in Ganderbal district of Kashmir Valley near the north east bank of Manasbal Lake.Every year fresh entrance test is held for admission in 6th and 9th standards.The students of this school are known to take part in different cultural, festive and co-ciricullar activities. | Educational Institution |
Farmageddon started life in 1991 as a comic strip called 'The Funny Farm' and was created by Niel Bushnell & Gordon Fraser.Bushnell & Fraser were friends from school and both wanted careers as comic artists. They began to develop an idea for a newspaper comic strip based around a farm. Initially inspired by American comic strips such as Calvin & Hobbes and Garfield, the comic soon found its own blend of humour. | Comic |
Henry Frederick Ramsay (previously Mitchell) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Craig McLachlan. He made his first screen appearance on 19 February 1987. Henry is the only son of Fred and Madge Mitchell and brother to Charlene and Sam Cole. Henry was known as a joker and was always coming up with schemes to make money. Henry dated Sue Parker and Melanie Pearson before beginning a relationship with Bronwyn Davies. He later moved to New Zealand to be a Disc jockey and married Bronwyn. He departed on 23 November 1989. McLachlan won three Logie Awards for his role as Henry during his time with Neighbours. | Fictional Character |