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On 6 May 1922 the 8th Zaporozhye Cossack Cavalry Division of the 1st Red Cossacks Cavalry Corps became the 1st Zaporozhye Cossack Cavalry Division. The division was commanded by Mikhail Demichev, the former commander of the 8th Cavalry Division. The division's 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th and 48th Cavalry Regiments were respectively renamed the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Cossack Cavalry Regiments. In 1924 the 1st Corps headquarters was at Vinnitsa. The division was divided into three brigades. The 1st Cavalry Brigade included the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Regiments, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade included the 3rd and 4th Cavalry Regiments and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade included the 5th and 6th Cavalry Regiments. On 6 September, the division headquarters was at Zhmerynka. On 11 July 1925, the division was given the title \"on behalf of the French Communist Party\". On 15 December 1925, division headquarters moved to Proskurov. In 1928, French Communist politician Marcel Cachin visited the division. On 29 November 1929, the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In 1930, the mechanization of cavalry began and the division added a tank squadron and an armored car squadron. In 1931, the 1st Mechanized Regiment was activated with the division. On 15 November 1932, Kombrig Ivan Nikulin became the divisional commander after Demichev was promoted to command the 1st Cavalry Corps. In November 1936, Kombrig Mikhail Hatskilevich became the division's commander. In June 1938, the division became the 32nd Cavalry Division. | Organisation |
Jiang Qing (Chinese: 江青; Wade–Giles: Chiang Ch'ing, also known as Madame Mao; March 19, 1914 – May 14, 1991) was a Chinese actress and a major political figure during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76). She was the fourth wife of Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party and Paramount leader of China. She used the stage name Lan Ping (蓝苹) during her acting career, and was known by many other names. She married Mao in Yan'an in November 1938 and served as the inaugural \"First Lady\" of the People's Republic of China. Jiang Qing was best known for playing a major role in the Cultural Revolution and for forming the radical political alliance known as the \"Gang of Four\". Jiang Qing served as Mao's personal secretary in the 1940s and was head of the Film Section of the Communist Party's Propaganda Department in the 1950s. She served as an important emissary for Mao in the early stages of the Cultural Revolution. In 1966 she was appointed deputy director of the Central Cultural Revolution Group. She collaborated with Lin Biao to advance Mao's unique brand of Communist ideology as well as Mao's cult of personality. At the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jiang Qing held significant influence in the affairs of state, particularly in the realm of culture and the arts, and was idolized in propaganda posters as the \"Great Flagbearer of the Proletarian Revolution\". In 1969, Jiang gained a seat on the Politburo. Before Mao's death, the Gang of Four controlled many of China's political institutions, including the media and propaganda. However, Jiang Qing, deriving most of her political legitimacy from Mao, often found herself at odds with other top leaders. Mao's death in 1976 dealt a significant blow to Jiang Qing's political fortunes. She was arrested in October 1976 by Hua Guofeng and his allies, and was subsequently condemned by party authorities. Since then, Jiang Qing has been officially branded as having been part of the \"Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-Revolutionary Clique\" (林彪江青反革命集团), to which most of the blame for the damage and devastation caused by the Cultural Revolution was assigned. Though she was initially sentenced to death, her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983. After being released for medical treatment, Jiang Qing committed suicide in May 1991. | Politician |
The Russian Cup 2008–09 is the seventeenth season of the Russian football knockout tournament since the dissolution of Soviet Union. The competition started on April 16, 2008 and finished with the Final held in spring 2009. The defending champions were CSKA Moscow. | Tournament |
The Marvelous Land of Oz is a musical play by Thomas W. Olson (book), Gary Briggle (lyrics), and Richard Dworsky (music), based on the novel by L. Frank Baum. Briggle originated the role of the Scarecrow in the original 1981 production, directed by John Cark Donahue at The Children's Theatre Company and School of Minneapolis. The production was filmed (videotaped) for television under the direction of John Driver, the first of six such productions with Television Theatre Company and the only one to be strictly bound to the theatre. The overture in the film depicts the cast and crew getting ready for the performance, while the other five films had openings that were shot on location or in studios. | Musical Work |
The South Bay Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SBLC), is the labor council of Santa Clara and San Benito counties in California's Bay Area. The SBLC is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, one of the national labor confederations of the United States. The SBLC represents over 100,000 men and women of 89 unions in Silicon Valley. The current Executive Officer is Ben Field. The organization gained public attention in the late 1990s for supporting legislative efforts to redistribute income to Silicon Valley's poor and low income residents. In the General Election of November 2012, the South Bay Labor Council led a campaign to pass Measure D, an initiative developed by sociology students at San Jose State University to raise the minimum wage in San Jose. The measure passed with 60 percent of the vote. The progressive think-tank Working Partnerships, USA began as the policy arm of the SBLC, but has since separated and become an independent organization. The South Bay Labor Council runs one of the largest, most sophisticated organizational campaign operations in Northern California. | Organisation |
Susan Mirjam Broman, married name Lönnqvist, (born 28 July 1959) is a Finnish former competitive figure skater. She is a two-time Finnish national champion (1974, 1979) and competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, finishing 17th. | Winter Sport Player |
Not to be confused with Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester Elisabeth of Vermandois also known as Isabelle Mabile or Isabelle de Vermandois (1143 – Arras 28 March 1183) was the eldest daughter of Ralph I, Count of Vermandois and his second wife Petronilla of Aquitaine. She reigned as Countess of Vermandois and was also Countess of Flanders by marriage. | Person |
The House of Nationalities (Burmese: အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်, IPA: [ʔəmjóðá l̥ʊʔtɔ̀] Amyotha Hluttaw) is the upper house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar. It consists of 224 member of which 168 are directly elected and 56 appointed by the Myanmar Armed Forces. The last elections to the Amyotha Hluttaw were held in November 2015. At its second meeting on 3 February 2016, Mahn Win Khaing Than and Aye Thar Aung were elected Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Amyotha Hluttaw and Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw as a whole. | Organisation |
Buddleja lindleyana 'Miss Virie' is one of four B. lindleyana cultivars raised in the USA. | Plant |
Bishop Babbili Prabhudass (died 1996) was the first elected Bishop - in - Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India which was ecclesiastically bifurcated from the Diocese of Dornakal of the Church of South India in early 1978. Prabhudass led the bishopric for a period of five years from 1978 through 1982. Prior to assuming the ecclesiastical office of the Bishop, Prabhudass was a Seminary Teacher from 1974-1977 during the Principalship of J. R. Chandran at a fully-ecumenical United Theological College, Bangalore, a Theologiate in Bangalore which had co-faculty drawn from the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate-Dharmaram College in Bangalore. | Cleric |
Juan Mauricio Soler Hernández (born January 14, 1983 in Ramiriquí, Boyacá) is a Colombian former professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTour team Movistar Team. He competed in the Tour de France for the first time in 2007, winning stage 9, having broken away on the Col du Galibier. He won that year's King of the Mountains title. Soler stated the stage win was \"a victory from heaven. It is the biggest win of my life, and in my first Tour de France. I didn't think it would come so quickly.\" He finished 11th overall that year. | Athlete |
Mabee's salamander (Ambystoma mabeei) is a mole salamander found in tupelo and cypress bottoms in pinewoods, open fields, and lowland deciduous forests, pine savannahs, low wet woods, and swamps. It usually burrows near breeding ponds. Eggs are attached to submerged plant material or bottom debris of acidic, fishless ponds in or near pine stands. In Virginia, it breeds in fish-free vernal pond in a large clear-cut area and in ephemeral sinkhole ponds up to 1.5 m deep, within bottomland hardwood forest mixed with pine. Larvae develop in the ponds. Distances moved into terrestrial habitat are unknown, but probably are greater than 150 metres (490 ft). | Animal |
WWRU is a Korean language AM radio station licensed to Jersey City, New Jersey, broadcasting to the New York metropolitan area on 1660 kHz AM. The station's studios are located in Manhattan. AM 1660 launched on December 8, 1995 as WJDM, shortly after the Federal Communications Commission in the United States expanded the AM band to include new stations in the range of 1610 to 1700 khz. It was the first such expanded band AM station in the U.S. and within two months of sign-on became the New York Radio AAHS children's network owned & operated affiliate on February 2, 1996. Until other stations were licensed on the frequency and adjacent channels in other parts of the country in subsequent years, WJDM could be heard at night throughout the eastern U.S. and Canada. When AAHS' parent company, Children's Broadcasting Corporation, discontinued the format in January 1998, the ten CBC-owned stations, including WJDM, began airing Beat Radio, a club dance music format, every night between 7pm and 7am while a random mix of music was broadcast during the day. On May 11, 1998 the station changed call letters to WBAH. In June 1998, the young Radio Unica network entered into a Limited Marketing Agreement (LMA) with CBC and began airing its own Spanish talk programming, including World Cup Soccer and many New York Yankees games. Radio Unica announced an agreement to purchase the station in October 1998 and the transaction was completed on January 14, 1999. The call sign changed to WWRU on February 15, 1999. Multicultural Broadcasting purchased WWRU in December 2003. The station then leased the time to Radio Seoul, which had just left WNSW/1430 in an effort to gain a stronger signal in the market. Sister station WZRC, which had broadcast in Korean, switched to Chinese language at the same time. Later, the brand changed from Radio Seoul to K-Radio, which it's called to this day. The signal can reportedly be heard as far away as the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and as North as Southern Ontario at night. | Broadcaster |
(For other uses, see Life's a Bitch (disambiguation).) Life's a Bitch is the sixth full-length album by the English heavy metal band Raven, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). | Musical Work |
Patna Pirates is a Kabaddi team based in Patna, Bihar that plays in the Pro Kabaddi League. The team is currently led by Dharamraj Charlathan and coached by Arjun Singh. They are champions of season 3 and season 4. They become the first team to retain their title after defeating Jaipur Pink Panthers in season 4 final. The team is owned by Rajesh Shah and play their home matches at the Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna. | Sports Team |
Christian Democracy (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana, DC) was a Christian democratic political party in Italy. The DC was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield (scudo crociato). A Roman Catholic, centrist, catch-all party comprising both right- and left-leaning political factions, the DC played a dominant role in the politics of Italy for 50 years from its inception in 1944 until its final demise in 1994 amid a nationwide judicial investigation of systemic political corruption. The party was nicknamed the White Whale (Balena bianca). It was succeeded by a string of smaller parties, including the Italian People's Party, the Christian Democratic Centre, the United Christian Democrats and the (still current) Union of Christian and Centre Democrats. Today, former Christian Democrats are spread among the centre-right Forza Italia, New Centre-Right, Union of the Centre and Populars for Italy, the centrist Civic Choice, the centre-left Democratic Party and Democratic Centre, and several minor parties. | Organisation |
KPIF is a full-power television station serving Pocatello and Idaho Falls, Idaho, as an affiliate of the Retro Television Network. The station is owned by KM Communications Inc. and broadcast on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter located on Howard Mountain in Pocatello. | Broadcaster |
Lake Burton is a 2,775 acre (11.23 km²) reservoir with 62 miles (100 km) of shoreline located in the northeastern corner of Georgia in Rabun County. It is the first lake in a six-lake series called the Tallulah River Watershed that follows the original course of the Tallulah River. The chain begins with Lake Burton as the northernmost lake followed by Lake Seed, Lake Rabun, Lake Tallulah Falls, Lake Tugalo, and Lake Yonah. The lakes are owned and operated by the Georgia Power Company to generate hydroelectric energy for Georgia's largest city, Atlanta. At one time these lakes were the largest producers of electricity in the state of Georgia. At present the lakes provide power only during periods of peak electricity consumption. | Body Of Water |
James \"Jim\" Ware (1908–1983) was an Irish hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Waterford senior team. Ware made his first appearance for the team during the 1926 championship and was a member of the starting fifteen at various times until his retirement after the 1949 championship. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal and one Munster medal. In 1948 Ware captained the team to the All-Ireland title. At club level Ware won a remarkable eleven county championship medals with Erin’s Own. | Athlete |
The River Haddeo on Exmoor in Somerset, England flows from the Wimbleball Lake to the River Exe. The valley of the river consists of three tributary valleys extending down from the surrounding farmland to merge with the River Haddeo in the south. The tributary valleys include the River Pulham, which passes the village of Brompton Regis andcontinues to Hartford where it joins the Haddeo. In 2001 - 2002 South West Water commissioned a detailed assessment of fish population, physical habitat, flow and water quality data within the River Haddeo, since it has been subject to regulated releases from Wimbleball Reservoir, to identify potential bottlenecks restricting the development of juvenile salmon populations. | Stream |
Jerry \"Moose\" Harper (August 4, 1934 – September 16, 2001) was an American basketball player best known for his collegiate career at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa between 1952–53 and 1955–56. Harper, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, was 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) and played the center and forward positions. In 1952–53, his freshman season, he was voted a second team All-American by the Associated Press (AP). He averaged 17.8 points and 17.0 rebounds per game in 21 games played. His sophomore year, Harper once again averaged 17.8 points per game, although his rebounds dipped to 14.9 per game in 24 games played. The AP selected him to their All-America third team. In Harper's final two seasons, he averaged 21.0 points and 19.0 rebounds for his junior year, and 22.3 points and 21.5 rebounds as a senior. This rebounding mark still stands as the best in the history of the Southeastern Conference. Harper became the first Crimson Tide player to lead his team in scoring all four years en route to finishing with 1,861 for his career, while his 1,688 career rebounds place him eighth all-time in the history of NCAA Division I men's basketball. Harper was the first player in school history to average 20 or more points per game for a career, and in one game against Kentucky during his senior season, he scored 38 points and grabbed 26 rebounds. That game, which the Crimson Tide won 101–77, was the first time Kentucky had ever allowed 100 or more points. In 1954–55 and 1955–56, Harper was selected as a first team All-American. These squads became known as the famed \"Rocket 8\" teams, with Harper guiding the latter to the 1956 Southeastern Conference championship. His 517 rebounds that year are a still-standing Alabama record. After college, Harper was selected in the 1956 NBA Draft by the New York Knickerbockers, but he never ended up playing in the league. Instead, he played for the Houston Ada Oilers and the Phillips 66ers in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), which was still a semi-professional league at the time. An injury prematurely ended his career. Harper then worked for Phillips Petroleum until he relocated to Montgomery, Alabama, where he went into business for the remainder of his career. He died of a longstanding illness on September 16, 2001 at age 67. | Athlete |
The 2007 Martinique earthquake took place on November 29 at 15:00:19 local time in the Windward Islands region, underneath the Martinique Passage. It was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake which occurred from Fort-de-France, Martinique. This earthquake was felt strongly in Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua, St Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Power outages were reported in Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe. It was also felt in other Eastern Caribbean islands, from Puerto Rico to the north to Trinidad and Tobago to the south. It could also be felt in part of South America such as in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. In Caracas, Venezuela, some people evacuated office buildings. The intensity reached VI to VII on the EMS98 scale in Martinique and Dominica. In the surrounding region, the South American Plate is subducting beneath the Caribbean Plate. This earthquake occurred within the South America Plate and was in response to stresses generated by the slow distortion of the plate. | Natural Event |
The Stockholms Stora Pris is a Group 3 flat horse race in Sweden open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1,950 metres (1 mile, 1 furlong and 153 yards) at Bro Park from 2016 (earlier at Täby before the closure of the venue), in late May or early June. | Race |
Bradley Hindle, (born December 16, 1980 in Mackay) is a professional squash player who represents Malta. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 64 in November 2008. | Athlete |
\"Cheap Thrills\" is a song recorded by Australian recording artist Sia for her seventh studio album, This Is Acting (2016). It was written by Sia and Greg Kurstin, while solely produced by Kurstin. An official remix version of \"Cheap Thrills\" features vocals by Jamaican performer Sean Paul, and was made available for digital download on 11 February 2016 as the record's second single. The song is a \"bouncy\", \"reggae-tinged\" synthpop song that incorporates \"a constant tropical beat and electropop-style synth layers\". In the United States, \"Cheap Thrills\" became Sia's first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Paul's first since \"Temperature\" in 2006; it also topped the national Mainstream Top 40 and Radio Songs charts. Among other countries, it also reached the top position in France, Germany, Canada and Italy, whilst going top ten in Australia. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, marking Sia's highest peak as a lead artist in the region. | Musical Work |
Sarah Y. Mason (March 31, 1896 – November 28, 1980) was an American screenwriter and script supervisor. | Writer |
Young Miss Holmes, known in Japan as Christie High Tension (Japanese: クリスティ ハイテンション Hepburn: Kurisuti Hai Tenshon) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kaoru Shintani. It was serialized in Comic Flapper from 2007 to 2011, with the chapters collected into 7 tankōbon volumes by Media Factory. Young Miss Holmes is a mystery series following Crystal \"Christie\" Margaret Hope, the 10-year-old niece of Sherlock Holmes who has inherited his skills of deduction and logical reasoning, as she partakes in some of Holmes' most famous cases. In 2011 Seven Seas Entertainment announced that had acquired the rights to the series and that they would release it in omnibus editions. The series was followed up with a sequel series titled Christie London Massive (Japanese: クリスティ・ロンドンマッシブ). | Comic |
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), in downtown Newark, New Jersey, United States, is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. Home to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO), more than 9 million visitors (including more than one million children) have visited the center since it opened in October 1997 on the site of the former Military Park Hotel. NJPAC has been an important component in revitalization of New Jersey's largest city. Located just west of the Passaic River waterfront, the Center lies in the heart of the city's cultural district around Military Park and Washington Park that also includes the Newark Museum, New Jersey Historical Society, and the Newark Public Library. The Prudential Center is just to the south. NJPAC has one of the largest arts education programs offered by a performing arts center in the nation. The program includes arts training classes, scholarships, in-school residencies, professional development, and family and children's programming, allowing students, teachers and families to interact with professional artists and explore the various genres of music, theater, dance, poetry and more. | Venue |
Bishop Yulian Voronovskyi (also exist Romanization as Julian Voronovsky, Ukrainian: Юліан Вороновський; May 5, 1936 in Humnyska, Rzeczpospolita, now is Busk Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine – February 28, 2013 in Lviv) was the Eparchial bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sambir – Drohobych since March 30, 1994 to October 27, 2011. In 1958 he entered the clandestine Studite Brethren monastery. Working at a state job, he simultaneously studied in the underground seminary in Lviv. In October 27, 1968, he received priestly ordination at the hands of Archbishop Vasyl Velychkovsky. Than he was Hegumen (superior) of the Studite monastery. On September 30, 1986, he received episcopal consecration at the hands of Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk. He was appointed Auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv. In 1990 he was elected the archimandrite of the Univ Holy Dormition Lavra of the Studite Rite and the Rector of Holy Spirit Seminary in Lviv. In July 20, 1993 he was appointed the Administrator of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sambir – Drohobych, and during 1994-2011 he was the Eparch of this Eparchy. Voronovskyi died on February 28, 2013 after undergoing surgery without regaining consciousness in the intensive care department of the Lviv regional hospital. He was 76. | Cleric |
6469 Armstrong, provisional designation 1982 PC, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at Kleť Observatory on 14 August 1982. The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.8–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,208 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.20 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic. The first used precovery was taken at Crimea-Nauchnij in 1972, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 10 years prior to its discovery. Two rotational light-curves of this asteroid were obtained from photometric observations made at the Palomar Transient Factory, California, in January and February 2014. The light-curves gave a concurring rotation period of 6.040±0.040 and 5.9648±0.1423 hours with a brightness variation of 0.65 and 0.70 in magnitude, respectively (U=2/2). According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 3.7 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.24, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an identical albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of its orbital family – and calculates a diameter of 2.9 kilometers, based on a weaker absolute magnitude of 14.87. The minor planet was named after U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. On 20 July 1969, Armstrong was one of the first two humans to land on the Moon, and the first person to walk on it, shortly followed by Buzz Aldrin, after whom the asteroid 6470 Aldrin is named. The minor planet 6471 Collins is named after the third crew member of the Apollo 11 mission. In 1966, Armstrong also conducted the first docking in space together with David Scott aboard Gemini 8. The asteroid's name was suggested by Czech astronomers Jana Tichá, Miloš Tichý and Zdeněk Moravec, who observed it during its 1995-opposition, shortly before being numbered. The lunar crater Armstrong is also named in his honor. Naming citation was published on 4 May 1999 (M.P.C. 34623). | Celestial Body |
The Budovar (Serbian Cyrillic: Будовар) is a river in northern Serbia, a 52 km-long right tributary to the Danube in the Srem region of the Vojvodina province. The Budovar is a system of natural and channeled water flow of Patka-Budovar. It originates from the eastern slopes of the Fruška Gora mountain, near the village of Čortanovci as the Patka (Cyrillic: Патка) at an altitude of 215 m. The river flows to the southeast, through the village of Beška, where it is crossed by the Belgrade-Novi Sad highway. After it receives the smaller stream from the left near the village of Krčedin, the river is known as the Budovar. The river turns south and flows parallel to the highway, next to the village of Novi Karlovci, before it empties into the Danube at the village of Stari Banovci. The Budovar belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin and it is not navigable. | Stream |
Junghuhnia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Meruliaceae. It was circumscribed by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda in 1842. | Eukaryote |
The 2013 Empire Slovak Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $75,000 in prize money. It took place in Trnava, Slovakia, on 6–12 May 2013. | Tournament |
HD 6434 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 6434. It has a minimum mass about half that of Jupiter. It orbits the star very close, over 2.5 times as close as Mercury orbits the Sun. For this reason it completes one orbit in only 22 days. Unlike true \"hot Jupiters\" like 51 Pegasi b, HD 6434 b does not have a circular orbit, but rather an eccentric one. By studying observations taken by the Hipparcos astrometric mission, a group of scientists proposed that the planet has an inclination of 179.9° (almost exactly face-on) and a mass of 196 Jupiters. If that was the case, the planet would be a red dwarf instead. However, the data was anything but conclusive, and statistically it is extremely unlikely to lie in such a position. But because the inclination is unknown, so is the true mass of the planet. Still, it is very probable that the object is a true planet. | Celestial Body |
The Abraham Path is a long-distance walking trail across the Middle East which connects the sites visited by the patriarch Abraham as recorded in ancient religious texts and traditions. The path begins in the north in Yuvacalı, Turkey, which is a village located north of the city of Urfa (natively: Şanlıurfa), and goes as far south as Beersheba in the Negev desert of Israel. Local partnership organizations and tour operators in the Middle East facilitate the travel of walkers on the path and there is now information available for the independent traveler, including maps, GPS tracks, and site descriptions. The Abraham Path currently extends across 1078 kilometers (about 670 miles) through four countries and the eventual path will traverse 5,000 kilometers (about 3,000 miles) through ten countries. People walk the trail, staying in homestays and sharing meals with local families in villages along the way. The trail passes through sites of Abrahamic history, varied landscapes, and a myriad of communities of different faiths and cultures, which reflect the rich diversity of the Middle East: from Kurdish, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Alevi, Bedouin, Fellahin, Samaritan, etc. The story of Abraham is about a man from the Bronze Age who travels throughout the Fertile Crescent and into the desert of the Arabian peninsula. | Route Of Transportation |
Melita Ruhn (later Fleischer, born 19 April 1965) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She belongs to the German minority in Romania.She won three Olympic medals (team, vault, uneven bars) for Romania and scored a perfect ten for the vault optionals in the team competition of the 1980 Olympic Games. In 1979 she was a member of the first world gold medal winning team of Romania. She is also an all around and floor world bronze medalist. | Athlete |
Paul Jenkins is a Canadian economist and Distinguished Fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation. He was most recently the Senior Deputy Governor and Chief Operating Officer of the Bank of Canada, the number two position in that institution. Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, he graduated from Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School (St. Catharines). Jenkins completed his undergraduate economics education at The University of Western Ontario with an honours bachelor of arts degree in economics. He then attended the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he received a master of science degree in economics in 1972. In 1982–83, he continued studies in economics at Princeton University. Jenkins joined the Bank of Canada in 1972 as an economist with the Research Department. In 1978, he moved to the Department of Monetary and Financial Analysis and was named Deputy Chief of the Department in 1983. He became Chief of the Research Department in 1984 and was made an Adviser to the Governor in January 1989. He became a Deputy Governor of the Bank in 1992 and held that appointment until becoming Senior Deputy Governor and Chief Operating Officer in 2003. His duties included acting for the Governor, overseeing strategic planning and coordinating all the Bank's operations, sharing responsibility for the conduct of monetary policy as a member of the Bank's Governing Council, and participating in fulfilling the Bank's responsibilities for promoting financial stability. Jenkins was considered the front-runner to succeed David A. Dodge as Governor but instead was passed over in favour of Mark Carney. Jenkins notified the board on October 29, 2009 that he would not seek a renewal once his seven-year term expired in April 2010. | Politician |
UMMC Ekaterinburg is a Russian women's basketball team based in Yekaterinburg competing in the Russian Premier League and FIBA Europe's Euroleague. It has been a highly successful team in recent years. Founded in 1938 as Zenit Ekaterinburg, the club had its name changed to Uralmash Ekaterinburg in 1960, like other teams from the city such as FC Ural. Four years later Uralmash reached the Soviet Top Division. In 1973 and 1974 it attained two 3rd spots, the club's best results in the Soviet era. After Uralmash was merged into OMZ the club was bought in 2000 by the newly formed company UMMC, adopting its current name. UMMC Ekaterinburg rapidly rose into the championship's elite, winning in 2002 its first national championship. The following year it won the Euroleague in its debut season, becoming the first Russian team to win the top European trophy. The team also defended its national title, making it a double. UMMC wasn't able to win the championship in the following five seasons with the rise of VBM-SGAU Samara and Spartak Moscow Region. In 2009 it began a new successful period, winning three doubles in a row. With five titles UMMC is the most successful active team in the championship. On the other hand, Spartak has blocked its path to the Euroleague final, having defeated UMMC in the Final Four's semi-finals in all last four seasons (2008–11). | Sports Team |
Yaoi-Con is an annual three-day anime convention, founded in 2001, aimed at fans of yaoi-related anime, manga, and other aspects of Asian culture. It typically takes place during the Fall in California. Since the 2012 edition, its organizer and main sponsor is Digital Manga Publishing. It is known mostly for its unique events that use volunteers known as \"bishounen\". The bishounen are male volunteers who represent the attractive characters shown in Yaoi manga, and run many of the events. | Societal Event |
Eoin Kelly an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for the London senior teams. Born in Lusmagh, County Offaly, Kelly first excelled at hurling in his youth. He arrived on the inter-county scene when he first linked up with the Offaly senior team, making his debut in the 2010 National Hurling League. He later joined the London senior team. At club level Kelly is one-time championship medallist with St. Gabriel's. He began his club career with Lusmagh. | Athlete |
NGC 7331 (also known as Caldwell 30) is a unbarred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years (12 Mpc) away in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. NGC 7331 is the brightest member of the NGC 7331 Group of galaxies. The other members of the group, visible to the left of NGC 7331 in the main image, are lenticular or unbarred spirals NGC 7335 and 7336, barred spiral galaxy NGC 7337 and elliptical galaxy NGC 7340. These galaxies lie at distances of approximately 332, 365, 348 and 294 million light years, respectively. In both visible light and infrared photos of the NGC 7331, the core of the galaxy appears to be slightly off-center, with one side of the disk appearing to extend further away from the core than the opposite side. The galaxy is similar in size and structure to the galaxy we inhabit, and is often referred to as \"the Milky Way's twin\", although recent discoveries regarding the structure of the Milky Way may call this similarity into doubt, particularly because the Milky Way is believed to be a barred spiral, compared to the unbarred status of NGC 7331. | Celestial Body |
The Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League or CMISL was a professional indoor soccer league that began full league play in January 2008. The league's president is Mel Kowalchuk. The indoor league's model is planned to be used to establish a professional soccer league outdoors in Canada as well. As the league has become affiliated with the Professional Arena Soccer League in the United States, the Edmonton Drillers and Saskatoon Accelerators played four soccer games and the Calgary United FC played eight games against the PASL teams in 2009. Edmonton and Saskatoon played two home games and two road games and Calgary played four home games and four road games against PASL teams. In the CMISL portion of the schedule each team will play eight games. This will see Edmonton play six home games and two road games, Saskatoon play two home games and six road games and Calgary play six home games and two road games. The Winnipeg Alliance FC decided to sit out the 2009 season, but rejoined for the 2010 season. In addition, a new expansion club joined the league in 2010 in the form of the Prince George Fury. The league shrank to just three teams (Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg) in 2011 then just two teams (Calgary and Edmonton) in 2012. The league announced a hiatus for 2013 and had planned return for 2014, but never did. | Sports League |
Harmoko (born 7 February 1939 in Kertosono, Nganjuk, East Java, Dutch East Indies) is an Indonesian politician. He served as information minister in the New Order regime of President Suharto from 1983 until 1997 and chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly and People's Representative Council from 1997 until 1999. | Politician |
KidinaKorner (stylized as KIDinaKORNER) is an American music company founded in 2011, by British music producer and songwriter Alexander \"Alex da Kid\" Grant. The company houses a record label, music publishing, commercial production and a marketing agency. The company is home to several prominent acts in the music industry, including Imagine Dragons and X Ambassadors. | Company |
The common eider (pronounced /ˈaɪ.dər/) (Somateria mollissima) is a large (50–71 cm (20–28 in) in body length) sea-duck that is distributed over the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia. It breeds in Arctic and some northern temperate regions, but winters somewhat farther south in temperate zones, when it can form large flocks on coastal waters. It can fly at speeds up to 113 km/h (70 mph). The eider's nest is built close to the sea and is lined with eiderdown, plucked from the female's breast. This soft and warm lining has long been harvested for filling pillows and quilts, but in more recent years has been largely replaced by down from domestic farm-geese and synthetic alternatives. Although eiderdown pillows or quilts are now a rarity, eiderdown harvesting continues and is sustainable, as it can be done after the ducklings leave the nest with no harm to the birds. The scientific name of the duck is derived from Ancient Greek somatos \"body\" and erion \"wool\", and Latin mollissimus \"very soft\", all referring to its down feathers. | Animal |
Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat is a total conversion mod for Valve Corporation's Source engine released in 2007. Insurgency is a multiplayer, tactical first-person shooter. The game has a focus on realism through the use of a steep damage model. The game is primarily set in Iraq, however some maps are set in Afghanistan. A standalone sequel, also titled Insurgency, was released in 2014. | Software |
Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama (Japanese: かみさまみならい ヒミツのここたま Hepburn: Kamisama minarai Himitsu no Kokotama, \"Cocotama: Secret Apprentice Gods\") is a fantasy comedy anime series produced by OLM, Inc., based on the Cocotama House Series of toys created by Bandai. The series is directed by Norio Nitta and written by Michihiro Tsuchiya (Mirmo De Pon!, PriPara, Cross Game) with character designs by Shinobu Ookawa. The series began airing on all TXN stations in Japan on October 1, 2015, replacing Tamagotchi! on its initial timeslot. The series uses few elements from Shinto Animism, regarding the Cocotamas. | Cartoon |
Artūras Valeika (born 11 August 1985) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player currently playing for Vytautas Prienai-Birštonas of the Lithuanian Basketball League. Born in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union, Valeika started his career in 2003 playing for Vilnius SSK-Nord/LB Draudimas which was playing in second Lithuanian league LKAL. After one season he started studies in Weber State University where he also played basketball for Wildcats from 2006 to 2008. Before that, he played for Midland JC. for two years. Valeika also played for U20 Lithuanian National Team in 2005. After he finished studies, Artūras returned to Europe and joined Eisbären Bremerhaven basketball club playing in Germany. However there he didn't showed good performance and after season Valeika headed to Latvia playing for SK Valmiera. After good season he decided to come back and play in his homeland. However he wasn't successful to settle in 2010-2011 club and migrated through many clubs. He started the season playing for BC Alytus, however on October he decided to leave club and joined BC Perlas, this time he played there until January and then returned to SK Valmiera after one season still unhappy being there, he joined Spanish club Cáceres 2016, where he finished 2010-2011 season. On 2011 summer Valeika signed contract with Lithuanian club BC Neptūnas. After two solid seasons in BC Prienai, he signed with BC Lietuvos rytas in the summer of 2014. After a season with Rytas, he was loaned to BC Lietkabelis. | Athlete |
The Hun Sen Cup was the main football knockout tournament in Cambodia. The 2016 Hun Sen Cup was the 10th season of the Hun Sen Cup, the premier knockout tournament for association football clubs in Cambodia involving Cambodian League and provincial teams organized by the Football Federation of Cambodia. Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng were the defending champions, having beaten Nagaworld 2–1 in the previous season's final. | Tournament |
Alexander Campbell (28 November 1876 – 16 December 1942) was a Scottish professional golfer and golf course architect of the late 19th and early 20th century. In total, Campbell had five top-10 finishes in major championships. | Athlete |
Warren T. Thompson (active 1840 - 1870) was an American photographer. Between 1840 and 1846 Thompson worked in Philadelphia and in 1843 refined Daniel Davis Jr.'s electroplating method for colouring daguerreotypes by using a gum tragacanth resist. With this technique colours could be built up in the manner of some types of printmaking. According to an article in the 1892 American Journal of Photography by editor Julius Sachse, Thompson traveled to Paris in 1845 from New York without speaking any French and with an introduction from the Russian Consul in New York to the Russian Vice-Consul in Paris who in turn arranged an introduction to Russian photographer Sergei Lvovich Levitsky. Levitsky is quoted by Sachse as declaring Thompson's daguerreotypes were 'works of art'. Sachse further claims that Thompson influenced for the development of portrait daguerreotypes in Paris. From 1849-50 Thompson was listed as a photographer at 14 boulevard Poissonnière, rue Basse-du-Rempart in 1851, then 22 rue de Choiseul from 1853-59. Levitsky returned to Russia by 1849 but came back to Paris by 1859 where he took over Thompson's Choiseul address. This was also the premises for the French arts club. Thompson (aka as surname 'Warren-Thompson'} produced daguerreotypes in Paris as well as very fine stereo daguerreotypes and a number of theatrical self-portraits some of very large size, but his body of known work is scant. The skill of his surviving work suggests he may have trained as a painter. For a pioneer era photographer whose role appears to have been quite prominent in Paris in the 1840s and 50s, Thompson's career is poorly known. | Artist |
The Fort Henry Bridge is a crossing of the Ohio River main channel in Wheeling, West Virginia. The tied-arch bridge carries two lanes in each direction of Interstate 70 (I-70), U.S. Route 40 (US 40), and US 250. The bridge opened after four years of construction work on September 8, 1955, costing $6.8 million, $1.8 million over budget. The bridge, along with the aging Wheeling Suspension Bridge, are the only two road links from Wheeling Island to downtown Wheeling. In 2009, the structure carried an average of over 60,000 vehicles per day. | Route Of Transportation |
Mar Amongo (October 9, 1936 – August 10, 2005) was a Filipino comics artist and illustrator. Amongo was born in Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines. After studying with cartoonist Nestor Redondo, he had a fruitful career illustrating komiks in his native country. In 1971, DC Comics editor-in-chief Carmine Infantino and editor Joe Orlando traveled to the Philippines on a recruiting trip for artists. Amongo, Alfredo Alcala, Ernie Chan, Alex Niño, Nestor Redondo, and Gerry Talaoc were some of the Filipino artists who went on to work for DC, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1983 to 1994, he worked as an illustrator in the Middle East. On his return to comics, the Philippine government commissioned him to do some murals, which he adapted from one of Paul Twitchell's books on Eckankar. Amongo died on August 10, 2005, at age 68, in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. | Artist |
Butterflies, Flowers (Japanese: 蝶よ花よ Hepburn: Chō yo Hana yo) is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Yoshihara, serialized in Petit Comic and published by Shogakukan in bound volumes between 2006 and 2009. It is about a young woman, Choko, whose family lost their money, and her entry into the office lady workforce, working for her former servant and childhood crush, Domoto. It was licensed in English by Viz Media, in Taiwanese by Tong Li Publishing, and in French by Soleil Productions. | Comic |
The Victoria Bridge (French: Pont Victoria), previously known as Victoria Jubilee Bridge, is a bridge over the St. Lawrence River, linking Montreal, Quebec, to the south shore city of Saint-Lambert. Opened in 1859, originally as a tubular bridge designed by Robert Stephenson, the bridge was the first to span the St. Lawrence River, and as such is an important historic bridge in Canada. It remains in use to this day, carrying both road and rail traffic, with rails in the middle and roadways (part of Route 112) on both sides. It is actively used by the Canadian National Railway on its Halifax to Montreal main line. It is a major contributor to Montreal's role as a continental hub in the North American rail system. Its designation for the Canadian National Railway (CNR commonly known as CN) is Mile 71.40 Subdivision St-Hyacinthe. Originally named the Great Victoria Bridge in honour of Queen Victoria, it was officially rededicated as the Victoria Jubilee Bridge following renovations in 1897 (A.D. MDCCCXCVII). It was returned to the name Victoria Bridge (Pont Victoria) in 1978. The bridge is approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long, and includes 24 ice-breaking piers. | Route Of Transportation |
B.B. \"Sixty\" Rayburn Correctional Center is a Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Washington Parish, Louisiana, near Angie. | Building |
Gazel is a form of Turkish music that has almost died out. While in other parts of the Central Asian world, gazel is synonymous with ghazal, in Turkey it denotes an improvised form of solo singing that is sometimes accompanied by the ney, ud, or tanbur. It is the vocal equivalent to the Turkish taqsim, an improvised instrumental composition. The form began to die out in the mid-20th century because of its associations with nightclubs, but it has recently begun a revival process. | Genre |
Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson (also known as Ōhinerangi and Remuwera) is a 143 m high volcanic cone in the Auckland volcanic field in Auckland, New Zealand. Located in the Remuera suburb, to the east of the Newmarket commercial suburb, it has been extensively modified by human use, first by Māori for use as a pā and later by use as quarry and pasture land before finally having a water reservoir installed in its cone to supply the surrounding area. An additional, partially buried, water reservoir was built on the low southern side of the mountain in 1955. English oaks and pōhutukawa are the most common trees on the hill. Ōhinerau is named after Hinerau, a goddess of whirlwinds. Mount Hobson is named after Captain William Hobson. Remuwera was originally the name of a pa site on the hill that was also utilised for kumara and food gardens. The name Remuwera means the burnt edge of a flax garment. In the 2014 Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the Tamaki Makaurau Collective of 13 Auckland iwi, the volcano was officially named Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson and ownership was vested to the collective. It is now co-governed by the collective and Auckland Council in common benefit of the iwi \"and all other people of Auckland\". \n* View northwestwards over Auckland City from the top of the mountain. \n* Showing the water reservoir installations at the top of the mountain. \n* Kumara pits from when the hill was a Māori pā . | Natural Place |
Gear was an American men's magazine published by Bob Guccione, Jr. devoted chiefly to revealing pictorials of popular singers, B-movie actresses, and models, along with articles on gadgets, cars, fashion, sex, and sports. | Periodical Literature |
José Dionisio de la Trinidad de Herrera y Díaz del Valle (9 October 1781 in Choluteca, Honduras – 13 June 1850 in San Vicente, El Salvador) was a Liberal Honduran politician, head of state of Honduras from 1824 to 1827 and head of state of Nicaragua from 1830 to 1833. During his terms, Honduras and Nicaragua were states within the Federal Republic of Central America. Herrera was an uncle of the Liberal Central American general Francisco Morazán. From a land-owning family, Herrera studied at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, where he earned a law degree and came in contact with the liberal ideas of the French Revolution. He was a tutor of his nephew, General Morazán. In 1820 he occupied his first public office, as secretary of the town government of Tegucigalpa. On 16 September 1824 he became the first head of state of Honduras, after the independence of Central America from Spain and from Mexico. Colonel José Justo Milla was his vice-head of state. During his term he decreed the first territorial subdivisions of Honduras, creating the departments of Comayagua, Tegucigalpa, Santa Bárbara, Yoro, Olancho and Choluteca (department). He also promulgated the first constitution of the country (state), on 11 December 1825. The government of Herrera was overthrown on 10 May 1827 in a coup d'état led by Colonel Milla and aided by Honduran Conservatives. Herrera was sent as a prisoner to Guatemala, where he remained until 1829. Thereafter he was elected head of state of Nicaragua, taking office on 12 May 1830. He exercised this office until November 1833, relying on the support of General Morazán. He tried to implement various Liberal reforms, but unsuccessfully, due to the opposition of the clergy. In 1835 he was elected head of state of El Salvador, but he declined the office. In 1838 he retired from politics, working as a teacher in the city of San Vicente, El Salvador. He remained there until his death in 1850. | Politician |
Bearly Asleep is a Disney animated short featuring Donald Duck, who appears as a park ranger, and Humphrey's fourth appearance. The Remake of the short is starring Lightning McQueen and Mater. | Cartoon |
Martin McHugh (born 1961) is a former Gaelic footballer, manager and media personality. A two-time All Star winner, Texaco Footballer of the Year in 1992 and a member of Donegal's 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side, he can now be seen on the BBC expressing his views on the game. He is current manager of northwestern outfit IT Sligo. Voted Donegal's best ever footballer in the 125-year history of the Gaelic Athletic Association in a poll carried out by the Donegal Democrat in 2009, his son Mark is also an All-Ireland winner with Donegal. He owns Spirits and Liquor Limited. | Athlete |
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, released in Europe as Crash Bandicoot XS and in Japan as Crash Bandicoot Advance, is a platform game published by Universal Interactive Studios (along with Konami in the Japanese release) and developed by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in North America on February 25, 2002, in Europe on March 15, 2002 and in Japan on July 18, 2002. Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure is the seventh installment in the Crash Bandicoot video game series and the first Crash Bandicoot game to be released on a handheld console. The game acts as alternate sequel to the first four games, along with N-Tranced for the same platform. The game's story centers on a plot to shrink the Earth by the main antagonist, Doctor Neo Cortex, through the use of a gigantic weapon named the \"Planetary Minimizer\". The protagonist of the story, Crash Bandicoot, must gather Crystals in order to power a device that will return the Earth to its proper size, defeating Doctor Cortex and his minions along the way. The game stemmed from an agreement between Universal Interactive Studios and Konami that enabled them to produce and publish (respectively) a Crash Bandicoot game for next-generation handheld game systems, ending the franchise's exclusivity to Sony-produced consoles. Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure received generally favorable reviews from critics. The game was praised for its graphics and overall design, but critics noted the game's lack of innovation. | Software |
Mysmenopsis is a kleptoparasitic genus of tiny tropical and subtropical American spiders in the family Mysmenidae. Most live in the funnelwebs of spiders in the family Dipluridae. M. archeri lives on webs of a species in the family Pholcidae, M. capae and M. cienga have been observed living in Cyrtophora (Araneidae) webs. One reason why diplurid webs are preferred seems to be that they are persistent in time and space, sometimes spanning several years. The monotypic genus Isela is closely related. Mysmenopsis furtiva from Jamaica lives as a kleptoparasite and commensal in webs of Ischnothele xera. It steals portions of its host's prey, but also consumes minute trapped insects that are not sought after by the host. In order not to be recognized, it moves only slowly when the host does not move; else it synchronizes its rapid movements with the movements of the host. M. furtiva has been observed to feed on one end of a prey animal, while the host feeds on the other. When feeding, its legs and pedipalps remain motionless, but its abdomen sways slowly and slightly. One feeding bout can double its abdominal volume. The host shows anti-kleptoparasite behavior, amongst others by adding silk between the kleptoparasite and the feeding site. The closely related M. furtiva and M. monticola parasitize two spider species that are also closely related, and it is believed that the two groups coevolved. | Animal |
The Vancouver Nats were a junior ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia that played two seasons in the Western Canada Hockey League from 1971–73. The team relocated in 1973 to Kamloops to become the Kamloops Chiefs before settling in Seattle as the Seattle Breakers (later Thunderbirds) in 1977. On the ice, the Nats finished last overall in the league both years, winning just 27 games in their two years. After their demise, it would be nearly thirty years before the WHL would return to the city of Vancouver, with the Vancouver Giants established as an expansion team in 2001. | Sports Team |
The men's 100 metres competition at the 1906 Intercalated Games was held at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece from 25–27 April. A total of 42 athletes from 13 nations competed in the 100 m event. The first round of the competition saw several false starts and disqualifications, partly due to the athletes lack of familiarity with the local starter's orders, which were called in Greek. After the first round this issue was rectified. There was no individual timing for each runner and only the winners of each race had their times recorded. Other athletes were ranked visually and in some instances the remaining distance between an athlete and the one behind him was documented. Four of the six finalists were Americans and two of them took first and second place – Archie Hahn and Fay Moulton. Australia's Nigel Barker came third. Hahn's win built upon his victory from the 1904 Olympic Games. He is sometimes credited with being the first man to retain the Olympic 100 m, but this is disputed as the Intercalated Games have not received official recognition as part of the Olympic series from the International Olympic Committee. Some sports historians argue that the events should be considered part of the true Olympic series as their success helped sustain the modern Olympic movement – the 1900 Summer Olympics and 1904 Summer Olympics were less international and were largely overshadowed by the World's Fairs that the host cities incorporated the games into. | Olympics |
Samuel Walker was the fifth head football coach for the Virginia Military Institute Keydets located in Lexington, Virginia and he held that position for three seasons, from 1900 until 1902. His career coaching record at VMI was 11 wins, 7 losses, and 3 ties. This ranks him 11th at VMI in total wins and tenth at VMI in winning percentage. | Coach |
Craugastor opimus is a species of frog in the Craugastoridae family.It is found in Colombia and Panama.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. | Animal |
Adama ɓii Ardo Hassana (c. 1771 – c. 1848), more commonly known as Modibo Adama, was a Fulani scholar and holy warrior, who hailed from the Ba'en clan of Fulbe. He led a jihad into the region of Fumbina (in modern-day Cameroon and Nigeria), opening the region for Fulani colonisation. As a result of Adama's constant warring, the Fulani today make up the largest ethnic group in Northern Cameroon (at more than 60% of the region's entire population, which considering the fact that they weren't from the area, is a remarkable feat), and Islam is the dominant religion. The wars also forced many peoples south into the forest region. Adama studied in Hausaland and earned the title \"Modibo\" (\"Lettered One\") for his scholarship. Upon finishing his studies, he returned home to Gurin and learned of the jihad declared by Fulani mystic Usman dan Fodio. When he accompanied a delegation to visit Usman, the leader ordered Adama to extend his jihad east as \"Lamido Fumbina\" (Ruler of the Southlands). Adama raised an army and attacked Bata settlements near Gurin. He took the villages, and many more traditional Fulbe leaders and new soldiers came to his side. He next took on Mandara, the largest and best organised state in the region. He swept over several smaller settlements and eventually conquered the Mandara capital, Dulo, with ease. While his men celebrated, however, the Mandara army counterattacked and recaptured the town. Though he fought many more campaigns, Adama now spent most of his time in Yola, which became his capital. He set about creating the administrative structure of his new state, which he named Adamawa after himself. Adama ruled the empire, subordinate only to Usman dan Fodio in Sokoto. Below him lay the heads of major settlements, known as lamibe (singular: lamido). The village formed the smallest unit of government. Upon Adama's death in 1847, his son Muhammadu Lawal became Lamido of Adamawa. The empire was not to last, however, as colonial battles and division eventually destroyed the independent Fulani state. The conquest had long-term repercussions, however. The Fulani became the dominant ethnic group in the region, and Islam the major religion. The herdsmen altered the land to be more suitable for herding cattle, their primary pursuit. The jihad also pushed those peoples who had lived on the Adamawa Plateau south into the forest, the single most important event in the populating of Southern Cameroon. | Person |
Antti Kontiola is a Finnish former competitive figure skater. He is a three-time Nordic champion and six-time Finnish national champion. He placed 16th at the 1980 European Championships. | Winter Sport Player |
Brignoliella is a genus of armored spiders in the family Tetrablemmidae, containing twenty three species. | Animal |
VG Airlines, later Delsey Airlines, (airline code IV, currently assigned to Windjet) was an airline with its head office in Merksem, Antwerp, Belgium. | Company |
Polypodium scutulatum is a species of fern in the Polypodiaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. It is threatened by habitat loss. | Plant |
Naughty but Mice is a 1939 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and starring Sniffles in his cartoon debut. In the cartoon, Sniffles has a cold and is looking for a cold remedy. It is the only Sniffles cartoon not to be reissued, and therefore, survives with its original titles. | Cartoon |
The Subcarpathian Regional Assembly (Polish: Sejmik Województwa Podkarpackiego) is the regional legislature of the Voivodeship of Subcarpathia in Poland. It is a unicameral parliamentary body consisting of thirty-three councillors elected every four-years. The current chairperson of the assembly is Jerzy Borcz. The assembly elects the executive board that acts as the collective executive for the regional government, headed by the voivodeship marshal. The current Executive Board of Subcarpathia is held by the Law and Justice party. The assembly meets in the Marshal's Office in Rzeszów. | Organisation |
City Mall is a shopping mall located in Amman, Jordan owned by the Al-Khayr Real Estate Investment Company. It was opened in 2006. The mall extends over an area of 160,000 sq., of which 55,000 sq. are leasable. Anchors include Carrefour, Zara, BeBe, Debenhams, Aizone, GAP, Virgin Megastores, Mango, TGIF, Grand Cinemas, H & M, and Jingo Jungle. | Building |
The 2006 Banda Sea earthquake occurred in the Banda Sea region, at 16:58 (UTC) on January 27, 2006, with a magnitude of 7.6Mw. The location was 200 km south of Ambon Island, and 445 km north east of Dili, East Timor. Other significant earthquakes occur regularly (2005, 2009 for example), however they are not identified readily due to the isolation of the occurrences, lack of damage to human communities, and dearth of reporting and research. The 2006 Banda Sea earthquake was felt as far away as Northern Australia. | Natural Event |
Kovda River (Russian: Ковда, Finnish Koutajoki) is a river in the south of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast and Republic of Karelia, Russia. It is 233 kilometres (145 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 26,100 square kilometres (10,100 sq mi). The Kovda River originates in the Lake Topozero and flows through the lakes Lake Pyaozero and Lake Kovdozero into the Kandalaksha Gulf. The drainage basin of the Kovda includes the biggest lakes of the north of the Republic of Karelia and the south of Murmansk Oblast, such as Lake Topozero, Lake Pyaozero, Lake Tikshozero, and Lake Kovdozero. | Stream |
Hoke Hayden Warner (May 22, 1894 – February 19, 1947) was a baseball player for the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was 170 pounds and batted left and threw right. He started his career on August 21, 1916. His final game was on June 17, 1921. He was born on May 22, 1894 in Del Rio, Texas. He died on February 19, 1947 in San Francisco, California. | Athlete |
Bathydraco is a genus of Antarctic dragonfishes native to the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. | Animal |
The Archdiocese of Maracaibo (Latin: Archidioecesis Maracaibensis) is an Archdiocese in Venezuela. Since November 2000, its Archbishop has been Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera. The city of Maracaibo, the second largest in Venezuela, has a population of approximately 2,800,000. The Archdiocese covers a total area of 10,761 square kilomenters (4,156 square miles) in Zulia State. | Clerical Administrative Region |
Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero (1940 – 27 July 2008) was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician. He served as Governor of Río Negro Province and as a National Deputy. Born in Florida (a suburb of Buenos Aires, Álvarez Guerrero joined the Radical Civic Union of the People (UCRP, the more conservative faction led by Ricardo Balbín) in 1958 in his home town of Vicente López, a neighboring community. He became a lawyer and relocated to Viedma, in Río Negro Province, in 1964. UCR Governor Carlos Nielsen appointed him subsecretary of social affairs, serving in that post until the military coup of 28 June 1966 which toppled President Arturo Illia. That year he moved to San Carlos de Bariloche, where he practiced as a lawyer, taught philosophy and wrote for newspapers including La Nación and Diario Río Negro. He later wrote several books, particularly on political history. Upon the return of democracy, Álvarez Guerrero helped relaunch the UCR in Río Negro and was a leading player in the national internal Radical movement of Raúl Alfonsín and Conrado Storani. In 1973 he became President of the provincial committee of the UCR and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Following the coup of 1976, he was arrested and 'disappeared' for 72 hours, being released following protests by his party, including former President Illia, although he lost his passport and the right to leave the country. In October 1983, following the return of democracy, Álvarez Guerrero was elected governor of Río Negro with 63% of the vote. He was a staunch federalist and a prime mover behind attempts to move the Argentine federal capital to Viedma. He was returned to the Chamber of Deputies in 1987. Álvarez Guerrero was elected first vice-president of the National Committee of the UCR in 1989, and in 1991 he became President of the National Convention. He became a vocal critic of the 1993 Olivos Pact between UCR leader Raúl Alfonsín and President Carlos Menem (of the opposititon Justicialist Party), and opposed the subsequent 1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution, resigning in 1994 over the nomination of his successor as governor, Horacio Massaccesi, as UCR candidate for president. He took part in the launch of the center-left ARI, although he distanced himself when his fellow activists left the UCR. | Politician |
A Doll's Life is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Larry Grossman. It is among the most notorious flops in Broadway theatre history. The musical is set at a rehearsal of Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1982. | Musical Work |
The Vanishing Duck is a 1958 one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Lewis Marshall, Kenneth Muse, Carlo Vinci and James Escalante, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by Richard Bickenbach. Red Coffey, June Foray and George O'Hanlon provided the voices for this film. It was released on 2 May, 1958 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and marks the final appearance of Quacker, who appeared in seven previous Tom and Jerry shorts. As such, The Vanishing Duck is the antepenultimate Tom and Jerry short of the Hanna and Barbera era. O'Hanlon would go on to star as the voice of George Jetson on the ABC-TV animated series, The Jetsons, also produced by Hanna-Barbera, four years later. | Cartoon |
The 2001 Arab Club Champions Cup edition, was won by Qatari side Al Sadd SC, the hosts. It was the 17th tournament and was held from 28 November to 12 December 2001. | Tournament |
Burna-Buriyåš I, meaning servant of the Lord of the lands, was the first Kassite who really ruled over Babylonia, possibly the first to occupy the city of Babylon proper around 1500 BC, culminating a century of creeping encroachment by the Kassite tribes. He was the 10th king of this dynasty to be listed on the Assyrian Synchronistic Kinglist. | Person |
Julie Ann Augustyniak (born February 1, 1979) is an American soccer player who played for the Atlanta Beat of the Women's United Soccer Association. Augustyniak was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in Peachtree City, Georgia. She went to McIntosh High School and then Clemson University. She played for the Atlanta Classics of the W-League from 1997–2000, before joining the Beat at the team's inception. Her twin sister Nancy Augustyniak also played for Atlanta Beat. She joined the F.C. Indiana for the 2005 season. The summer of 2006 she played for the Atlanta Silverbacks. She married Christopher Tuff. She is currently teaching at Holy Inoccent's and coaching at Top Hat. | Athlete |
The Thames Hub is a proposal for a new approach to integrated infrastructure development that combines rail, intermodal freight logistics, aviation, tidal renewable energy and its transmission, flood protection and regional development in the Thames Estuary and connects this infrastructure to a trade and utilities spine that runs the length of the UK. It was developed by architects Foster + Partners, infrastructure consultants Halcrow and economists Volterra and launched by Lord Foster at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London on 2 November 2011. A more developed proposal for a platform-based Thames Hub Airport, located on the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary in Kent, was submitted to the Airports Commission in July 2013 by Foster+Partners. | Route Of Transportation |
First Transit is a United States-based subsidiary of FirstGroup. It provides contract public transit and paratransit services, transit management services and transit consulting throughout North America. First Transit is a sister company to First Student, which provides school bus services in the same geographic market. In April 2016, it commenced operations in India. | Company |
Hanna Elżbieta Zdanowska (born March 29, 1959) is a Polish politician. Zdanowska is a member of the Civic Platform and the current mayor of Łódź as of December 13, 2010. | Politician |
Babycurus buettneri is a species of scorpions belonging to the family Buthidae. | Animal |
Columbanus (Irish: Columbán, 543 – 21 November 615), also known as St. Columban, was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy. He is remembered as a key figure in the Hiberno-Scottish mission, or Irish missionary activity in early medieval Europe. In recent years, however, as Columbanus's deeds and legacy have come to be re-examined by historians, the traditional narrative of his career has been challenged and doubts have been raised regarding his actual involvement in missionary work and the extent to which he was driven by purely religious motives or also by a concern for playing an active part in politics and church politics in Francia. Columbanus taught a Celtic monastic rule and Celtic penitential practices for those repenting of sins, which emphasised private confession to a priest, followed by penances levied by the priest in reparation for the sins. Columbanus is one of the earliest identifiable Hiberno-Latin writers. | Cleric |
Mumbai Women's International Film Festival (MWIFF) is an annual film festival in Mumbai, India featuring films made by women directors and women techniciansand is one of the significant film festivals in Asia. The second Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival (MWIFF) was held from 6 to 13 December 2014 in Mumbai at the 67-year-old historical venue, Liberty Cinema. It is organised by Oculus Creations(A division of Dollphins Interactive Sciences Pvt.Ltd) which is run by a group of young media professionals and entrepreneurs,it also organised the Mumbai International Short Film Festival (MISFF) 2012. | Societal Event |
Mark O'Connor (born in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland) is an All Star winning former Gaelic footballer for Cork. He played football with his local club Bantry Blues in Cork and was a member of the Cork senior football team from 1990 to 1999. He won an All-Ireland medal in 1990 as a substitute, and won his only All Star award in 1995. | Athlete |
Line 7 is a northwest-southeast line of the Shanghai Metro network. It connects the Baoshan District of Shanghai with the downtown core as well as the Pudong New Area and the Expo 2010 site. It currently runs from Meilan Lake in Baoshan District to Huamu Road in Pudong, which is near Shanghai New International Expo Center. The line is colored orange on system maps. | Route Of Transportation |
The Maithon Dam (Hindi: मैथन बांध) is located at Maithon, 48 km from Dhanbad, in the state of Jharkhand. It is 15,712 ft (4,789 m) long and 165 ft (50 m). high. This dam was specially designed for flood control and generates 60,000 kW of electric power. There is an underground power station, the first of its kind in the whole of South East Asia. The dam is constructed on the Barakar River. The lake is spread over 65 square kilometres (25 sq mi). | Infrastructure |
Odo of Vitry (d. 1158) was a French nobleman, Lord of Vitry. His parenthood is unclear. It is sometimes stated that he was a son of André, castellan of Vitré and of Agnès de Mortain, but this appears to be based on a confusion between Vitré in Brittany and Vitry in Champagne. Odo was married to Matilda (d. 1151), the eldest daughter of Hugh I, Count of Rethel. They had one son and four daughters. From 1124 until his wife's death in 1151, he ruled Rethel jointly with her. After her death, he ruled alone. Odo died in 1158, and was succeeded by his son, Ithier. | Person |
Mahmengi (Persian: مهمنگي, also Romanized as Mahmengī) is a village in Naharjan Rural District, Mud District, Sarbisheh County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. | Settlement |
Chris Reed (born July 7, 1989) is a Japanese ice dancer. With his sister Cathy Reed, he is a seven-time Japanese national champion (2008–11, 2013–15). With Kana Muramoto, he is the 2016 CS U.S. Classic silver medalist and the 2016 Japanese national champion. | Winter Sport Player |
Endoumeni Pass, Is situated in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa on the road between Dundee and Wasbank. | Natural Place |