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\"Wild International\" is the first track and single from One Day as a Lion's self-titled five track EP. This track was first revealed on July 16, 2008. It was made available to stream on the band's myspace page. On the same day the song was premiered by the influential L.A. radio station KROQ-FM and on Australian radio station Triple J. Thus far, it peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot Modern Tracks, and #6 in Norway. | Musical Work |
Ena Lake is a lake in Saskatchewan, Canada, located near the boundary with the Northwest Territories. The lake hosts several islands including Gillis Island. The Ena Lake Lodge is located on the lake and is accessible by float plane. | Body Of Water |
Waldenbuch Castle (German: Schloss Waldenbuch) was a hunting lodge used by the dukes of Württemberg, and was first mentioned in 1381. The core of the structure was once an old castle. | Building |
Michael Levin (/ˈlɛvɪn/; born 21 May 1943) is a philosophy professor at City University of New York. He has published on metaphysics, epistemology, race, homosexuality, animal rights, the philosophy of archaeology, the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science. Levin's central research interests are in epistemology (reliabilism and Gettier problems) and in philosophy of race. | Person |
The Bridgend Schools Football Association (Welsh: Cymdeithas Bêl-droed yn ysgol Pen-y-Bont) (BSFA) is the governing body of association football in Bridgend Schools. The association has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football for schools in Bridgend County. It runs numerous competitions, the most well-known of which is the annual FA Challenge Cup. Corneli Primary School are the current champions of this competition after winning the final in March 2009. It is also responsible for appointing the management structure of the Bridgend County teams at various age levels. | Sports League |
Ned Wade (born 1911) was an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder and as a centre-forward for the Tipperary and Dublin senior teams. Born in Boherlahan, County Tipperary, Wade first excelled at hurling in his youth. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Tipperary minor team before later joining the junior side. He joined the senior panel during the 1931 championship. Wade subsequently joined the Dublin senior team and won three Leinster medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on four occasions. As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Wade won three Railway Cup medals. At club level he was a seven-time cham pionship medallist with Faughs. He began his club career with Boherlahan-Dualla. Wade retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1946 championship. | Athlete |
A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 may refer to two different jazz albums, both of which contain live material recorded by the Art Blakey Quintet at Birdland on February 21, 1954.The first is the third album in the original 10\" series (BLP 5039) released in 1954 by Blue Note Records. The three original 10\" albums were repackaged as two 12\" LPs in 1956, with all of the tracks from the original 10\" Vol. 3 being included on the 12\" Vol. 2. The second album entitled A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 is a 12\" album containing outtakes from the original session, released by the Toshiba Records in Japan, released in 1984. Three of the four tracks on the Japanese 12\" Vol. 3 had previously been released as part of a 2 LP Compilation entitled Live Messengers (BN-LA473-J2) in 1975. All of the tracks from both Vol. 3's have subsequently been reissued on the CD versions of A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 and A Night at Birdland Vol. 2. | Musical Work |
The 2015–16 season was the Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club's 59th in existence and 40th consecutive season in the top flight of Saudi Arabian football. Along with Pro League, the club is also competed in the AFC Champions League, Super Cup, Crown Prince Cup and the King Cup. | Sports Team Season |
Hygrocybe nigrescens, commonly known as the blackening wax-cap, is a mushroom of the waxcap genus Hygrocybe. It is found in Europe and Africa. | Eukaryote |
Juan Pablo Serrano (born 8 August 1994) is a Argentine male track cyclist, representing Argentina at international competitions. He won the silver medal at the 2016 Pan American Track Cycling Championships in the team sprint. | Athlete |
Zygaena rubicundus is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found in Italy. The larvae feed on Eryngium species. | Animal |
Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869) was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death. Almost nothing is known about Edmund. He is thought to have been of East Anglian origin and was first mentioned in an annal of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written some years after his death. The kingdom of East Anglia was devastated by the Vikings, who destroyed any contemporary evidence of his reign. Later writers produced fictitious accounts of his life, asserting that he was born in 841, the son of Æthelweard, an obscure East Anglian king, whom it was said Edmund succeeded when he was fourteen (or alternatively that he was the youngest son of a Germanic king named 'Alcmund'). Later versions of Edmund's life relate that he was crowned on 25 December 855 at Burna (probably Bures St. Mary in Suffolk), which at that time functioned as the royal capital, and that he became a model king. In 869, the Great Heathen Army advanced on East Anglia and killed Edmund. He may have been slain by the Danes in battle, but by tradition he met his death at an unidentified place known as Haegelisdun, after he refused the Danes' demand that he renounce Christ: the Danes beat him, shot him with arrows and then beheaded him, on the orders of Ivar the Boneless and his brother Ubba. According to one legend, his head was then thrown into the forest, but was found safe by searchers after following the cries of a wolf that was calling, \"Hic, Hic, Hic\" – \"Here, Here, Here\". Commentators have noted how Edmund's death bears resemblance to the fate suffered by St Sebastian, St Denis and St Mary of Egypt. A coinage commemorating Edmund was minted from around the time East Anglia was absorbed by the kingdom of Wessex and a popular cult emerged. In about 986, Abbo of Fleury wrote of his life and martyrdom. The saint's remains were temporarily moved from Bury St Edmunds to London for safekeeping in 1010. His shrine at Bury was visited by many kings, including Canute, who was responsible for rebuilding the abbey: the stone church was rebuilt again in 1095. During the Middle Ages, when Edmund was regarded as the patron saint of England, Bury and its magnificent abbey grew wealthy, but during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, his shrine was destroyed. The mediaeval manuscripts and other works of art relating to Edmund that have survived include Abbo's Passio Sancti Eadmundi, John Lydgate's 14th-century Life, the Wilton Diptych and a number of church wall paintings. | Person |
Thomas Jean Roger Levet (born 5 September 1968) is a French professional golfer who is a member of the European Tour and former member of the PGA Tour. Levet was born in Paris, France. He turned professional in 1988 and won the French PGA Championship that year, but he had to wait for a decade for his first win on the European Tour, which came at the 1998 Cannes Open. In 2002, he finished second at The Open Championship at Muirfield, being one of four players in a playoff. He had a good chance to win, but bogeyed the final hole of the four-hole playoff to fall into sudden death with Ernie Els, where he again bogeyed to lose to Els. After spending 2003 on the PGA Tour, he returned to the European Tour in 2004. He claimed the most prestigious title of his career at the Scottish Open, and was a member of the winning 2004 European Ryder Cup Team. Levet ended the season 5th on the Order of Merit, and returned to the PGA Tour in 2005. Levet suffers from severe vertigo, which almost forced him out of the game, however he has made strides to overcome the condition, and has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. In 2008 he won his fourth European Tour title, beating nineteen-year-old Oliver Fisher in a sudden death playoff in the MAPFRE Open de Andalucia. His fifth win on the European Tour came at the 2009 Open de España where he held off a charging Fabrizio Zanotti, who shot a final round 65, by two strokes finishing 18 under par. With this win Levet became the leading Frenchman in terms of European Tour wins. Levet won his sixth European Tour title in July 2011 when he triumphed in his native country, at the Alstom Open de France by one stroke from Englishman Mark Foster and Dane Thorbjørn Olesen. He became the 7th French player to win the tournament after Jean-François Remésy. While celebrating his victory, Levet jumped into a lake, breaking his shin, and causing him to withdraw from The Open Championship. | Athlete |
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an art museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The Brooks Museum, which was founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee. The museum is a privately funded nonprofit institution located in Overton Park in Midtown Memphis. | Building |
Nedbank Cup is a South African club football (soccer) tournament. The knockout tournament, based on the English FA Cup format, was one of a weak opponent facing a stronger one. The competition was sponsored by ABSA until 2007, after which Nedbank took over sponsorship. | Tournament |
Saint Giovanni Leonardi (1541 – 9 October 1609) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca. He was born in the Republic of Lucca and was ordained as a priest in 1572. He first dedicated himself to the Christian formation of adolescents in his local Lucca parish. He assumed the name of \"Giovanni of the Mother of God\" as his religious name. In 1574 he founded a group charged to deepen Christian faith and devotion; this foundation occurred as part of the movement known as the Counter-Reformation. Leonardi worked with this group to spread devotion to the Blessed Mother and devotion to the Forty Hours as well as spreading the message of the importance of frequent reception of the Eucharist. This foundation received approval from Pope Paul V in 1614. Leonardi took his work to Rome where he became friends with Saint Philip Neri. Neri held him in high regard for his qualities of firmness and judgment and entrusted him to delicate works such as the reform of the Benedictine congregation of Montevergine. He then founded with J. Vivès the seminary of the Propagation of the Faith. He died in 1609 dedicating himself to his brothers suffering from the influenza epidemic that was raging in Rome at the time. The final Rule of his institute was published in 1851. Two houses of the Clerks of the Mother of God were opened when he died and three others were opened during the seventeenth century. Leonardi was beatified in 1861 and canonized in 1938. His liturgical feast is celebrated on 9 October. \n* St. Giovanni Leonardi | Cleric |
Dan Jolley is an American novelist and comic book writer. His comics work includes DC Comics' Firestorm and Graphic Universe's Twisted Journeys, a series of interactive fiction or gamebooks in graphic novel form, and his novel work includes the young-adult science fiction espionage series Alex Unlimited. | Artist |
Richard Earl Bush (December 23, 1924 – June 7, 2004) was a United States Marine master gunnery sergeant who received the Medal of Honor as a corporal for heroism on Okinawa during World War II. On April 16, 1945, Cpl. Bush placed himself on a thrown enemy grenade, absorbing the force of the explosion, saving the lives of his fellow Marines and corpsmen. In World War II, twenty-seven Marines similarly used their bodies against thrown enemy grenades in order to save their comrades' lives. Four of these Marines survived and were awarded the Medal of Honor — Richard Bush, Jacklyn H. Lucas, Carlton R. Rouh, and Richard K. Sorenson. | Person |
15268 Wendelinefroger, provisional designation 1990 WF3, is a stony, spheroidal, and binary asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 3.4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile, on 18 November 1990. The S-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.8–2.9 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,329 days). Its orbit is tilted by 3 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and shows a relatively high eccentricity of 0.24. A light-curve analysis at the Leura Observatory in Australia rendered a rotation period of 2.4 hours with a low brightness amplitude of 0.07 in magnitude, which indicates that the asteroid is of nearly spheroidal shape. It has an albedo of 0.20, as assumed by the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL), which is a typical value for bodies with a stony surface composition. In 2008, a minor-planet moon was discovered orbiting Wendelinefroger at a distance of 8.7 kilometers and with an orbital period of 25.07±0.02 hours. Based on mutual occultations of Wendelinefroger and its moon, the diameter ratio for the two bodies is at least 0.24 (i.e. secondary-to-primary mean-diameter ratio), which would render an estimated diameter of 0.8 kilometer or more for the asteroid's moon, using CALL's calculated diameter of 3.4 kilometer for the primary body. The minor planet is named in honour of Belgian female singer Wendeline Froger (b. 1948), who has a soprano voice and performs at church celebrations, weddings and for selected audiences at her residence. She has a preference to sing Lieder by Robert Schumann, after whom the minor planet 4003 Schumann is named. | Celestial Body |
The Caruachi Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Caroní River in Bolivar state, Venezuela. The dam supports a hydroelectric power facility with a 2,160 megawatts (2,900,000 hp) capacity. The facility is located about 59 kilometres (37 mi) downstream from the Guri Dam belonging to the \"Central Hidroeléctrica Simón Bolívar\" and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) from where the Caroni and Orinoco rivers meet at Ciudad Guayana. | Infrastructure |
Bernard Mammes (September 3, 1911 – February 27, 2000) was an American cyclist. Born in Manhattan, Mammes moved with his family to Rockaway Park, Queens around 1920. His father owned an ice cream parlor, where Mammes worked as a youth. Taking place during the depression, many thought the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, was going to be an economic failure. Even so, after a few film stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford volunteered to entertain, 37 countries sent over 1300 athletes to the games. They were a huge success. This was the first time an Olympic Village would be built for the games, and competitors such as Babe Didrikson, Eddie Tolan and Luigi Beccali made headlines. Mammes won a position as a cyclist, and placed 8th in the 1000m time trial with a time of 1 hour and 18 minutes. Answering the call of his country, he entered the American Armed Forces, where he served as a Staff Sergeant in World War II. In 1945, he married Nancy, and had four children. After being discharged, he returned to New York, partnering with his father in Mammes' Ice Cream, which had become well known in Rockaway. Until 1968, he worked in the parlor from May through September, while working at Hegarty and Co., from which he retired after 25 years. From 1975 until his final retirement in 1998 at age 86, Mammes worked at Gateway National Park's Breezy Point Unit at Riis Park. Bernard Mammes is buried at St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island. | Athlete |
Bonghwang Station (Hangul: 봉황역; hanja: 鳳凰驛) is a station of the BGLRT Line of Busan Metro in Jeonha-dong, Gimhae, South Korea. | Station |
Norman Lovett (born 31 October 1946), is an English stand-up comedian and actor, best known for the role of Holly in Red Dwarf during the first, second, seventh (as a guest star) and eighth series. His comedy has a quiet, dead-pan surrealism, and in 2000 he made a successful stand up tour, co-headlining with Chris Barrie, who played Rimmer in Red Dwarf. Lovett was born in Windsor, Berkshire. In 1989, he appeared in his own surreal BBC2 sitcom called I, Lovett, in which he played a character called Norman. Seven years later, he played Dr. Lovett in the short-lived sitcom Asylum which spawned many other successful careers. He has made a number of acting appearances such as the Ghost of Christmas Past in a TV adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Mr Follett in The History of Tom Jones, the film The Criminal, as well as the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, and a cameo appearance in The Young Ones in the episode \"Summer Holiday\". He has been in The Bill and three episodes of the Scottish sitcom Rab C Nesbitt. In 2006, he appeared in the low-budget British horror film Evil Aliens. In 2009, Lovett said he would not take part in any further Red Dwarf productions, after a disagreement. However, in November 2012, following the success of Red Dwarf X, he stated that he has begun speaking with Doug Naylor again. In 2016 he performed as part of the \"Keep Corbyn\" tour in support of the successful campaign to re-elect Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. | Artist |
Makkum is a village of Súdwest-Fryslân municipality, west of Bolsward on the banks of the lake IJsselmeer in the province Friesland of the Netherlands. With 3500 citizens (2007) it was the largest village of the former municipally Wûnseradiel. North and south of Makkum are nature reserves Noardwaard and Súdwaard. Belonging to Makkum is the hamlet Ingwier. Historically Makkum is a fishing village. In the 20th century it started receiving tourists. | Settlement |
Trinity Dam is an earthfill dam on the Trinity River located about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Weaverville, California in the United States. The dam was completed in the early 1960s as part of the federal Central Valley Project to provide irrigation water to the arid San Joaquin Valley. Standing 538 ft (164 m) high, Trinity Dam forms Trinity Lake – California's third largest reservoir, with a capacity of more than 2,400,000 acre feet (3,000,000 dam3). A hydroelectric plant at the base of the dam furnishes power to surrounding rural areas, and the reservoir also provides flood control benefits to the Trinity River valley. However, controversy has surrounded the negative impacts of the dam project on the river's salmon run. | Infrastructure |
The Pescaru River is a tributary of the Furu River in Romania. | Stream |
Nicolás Klappenbach (born 25 March 1982) is a Uruguayan rugby union player. He plays as a hooker. He is a physician. Klappenbach plays for Champagnat Rugby, in Uruguay. He has 38 caps for Uruguay, since 2005, with 2 tries scored, 10 points on aggregate. He played at the 2007 Rugby World Cup and at the 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifyings. He was involved in the 2015 Rugby World Cup successful qualification. He has been the captain for the \"Teros\". | Athlete |
Robert E. Jones (born c. 1938) was mayor of Danville, Illinois for 16 years, from September 1987 to May 2003, when he did not seek re-election. The Robert E. Jones Municipal Building at 17 West Main Street, in Danville is named to honor him. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, declared May 6, 2003, his retirement, as \"Robert E. Jones Day.\" He was succeeded by Mayor Scott Eisenhauer. He graduated from Danville High School in 1956. At one time, he owned Colonial Parkway at the corner of Bowman Av. and Main St. In its day, it was a very popular restaurant. He remains in the restaurant business now, as he owns the Dairy Queen on East Main St., and previously owned the Dairy Queen on Fairchild St. | Politician |
The Mackenzie River, an inland intermittent river of the Wimmera catchment, is located in the Grampians region of the Australian state of Victoria. Rising in the Grampians National Park, on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, the Mackenzie River flows generally north by west and drains into the Wimmera River, southwest of Horsham. | Stream |
Thysanodonta cassis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae. | Animal |
Ramón Antonio Castillo Barrionuevo (November 20, 1873 – October 12, 1944) was a conservative Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from June 27, 1942 to June 4, 1943. He was a leading figure in the period known as the Infamous Decade characterised by electoral fraud, corruption and rule by conservative landowners heading the alliance known as the Concordancia. Castillo graduated in law from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and began a judicial career. He reached the Appeals Chamber of commercial law before retiring and dedicating himself to teaching. He was professor and dean at UBA between 1923 and 1928. Castillo was named Federal Intervenor of Tucumán Province in 1930. From 1932 until 1935 he was elected to the Argentine Senate for Catamarca Province for the National Democratic Party and was also Minister of Interior. From 1938 to 1942, Castillo was vice-president of Argentina under President Roberto Ortiz, who won the election by fraud at the head of the Concordancia. He served as acting president from July 3, 1940 to June 27, 1942 due to the illness of President Ortiz, who did not resign until less than a month before his death. Castillo maintained Argentina's neutrality during World War II. He was overthrown in the Revolution of '43 military coup in the midst of an unpopular attempt to impose Robustiano Patrón Costas as his successor. Juan Domingo Perón was a junior officer in the coup. | Politician |
Edward Hughes (1772 – 11 April 1850) was a Welsh clergyman and prize-winning Welsh language poet, whose bardic name was Y Dryw (\"The wren\"). | Writer |
The Yilan County Council (ILCC; Chinese: 宜蘭縣議會; pinyin: Yilán Xiàn Yìhuì) is the elected county council of Yilan County, Republic of China. The council composes of 34 councilors lastly elected through the 2014 Republic of China local election on 29 November 2014. | Organisation |
Puzzle Bobble 4 (also known as Bust-a-Move 4 in North America and Europe) is the third sequel to the video game Puzzle Bobble and is the final appearance of the series on the Arcade, PlayStation and Dreamcast. The game is also the final title to be recognizably similar in presentation to the original. Building upon the success of Puzzle Bobble 3, the game adds a pulley system that requires two sets of bubbles, attached to either side of a rope hanging across two pulleys. The game contains a story mode for single player play. In total, the game features 640 levels. The console version features a level editor to either create and save a level, set a succession of levels, or to create an unlimited amount of extra levels and stages. It also has an alternative \"story mode\". | Software |
Red Deer Lake is a lake in western Manitoba, Canada. It is located approximately 5 miles north of Barrows and 10 miles west of Dawson Bay which is the northwest part of Lake Winnipegosis, and 8 miles east of the Saskatchewan border. Barrows served as a quickly constructed lumber town for the Red Deer Lumber Company, although the sawmill closed around 1926 or 1927. The community of Red Deer Lake had a population of 40 in 2001. The area is heavily forested and has hosted a number of logging companies and pulp processors. Fishing is common and fisheries in the lake and Dawson Bay process catch from Red Deer Lake. There is also coal exploration in the area as well, targeting the Mannville Formation. | Body Of Water |
Geastrum saccatum, commonly known as the rounded earthstar, is a species of mushroom belonging to the Geastrum genus. It has a worldwide distribution and is found growing on rotting wood. It is considered inedible by mushroomers because of its bitter taste. It is a common mushroom, but collections are at their peak during late summer. The opening of the outer layer of the fruiting body in the characteristic star shape is thought to be due to a buildup of calcium oxalate crystals immediately prior to dehiscence. G. saccatum is distinguished from other earthstars by the distinct circular ridge or depression surrounding the central pore. In Brazil, its common name translates to \"star of the land\". | Eukaryote |
Long Jeanne Silver is an American former pornographic actress, known for using the stump of her amputated leg to penetrate her sexual partner in her movies during the 1970s and 1980s. Prior to pornography, she had worked as a stripper. She was also featured in the self-titled movie, Long Jeanne Silver. Annie Sprinkle and Silver were once arrested in Rhode Island for producing a magazine that featured a shoot where Silver penetrated Sprinkle with her stump. The typesetter for the magazine that was hired turned out to be an undercover police officer. The police had surveilled them for a month before arresting the group. Sprinkle and Silver were charged with multiple felony counts including obscenity and sodomy-related charges. Their charges were eventually dropped. | Actor |
Marcio Takara is a comic book artist known for his work on books such as Incorruptible, The Incredibles: Family Matters and Dynamo 5. | Artist |
Shiroishi Station (白石駅) is a Sapporo Municipal Subway station in Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The station number is T13. | Station |
Ralph Roister Doister is a play by Nicholas Udall, which was once regarded as the first comedy to be written in the English language. The date of its composition is disputed, but the balance of opinion suggests that it was written in about 1552, when Udall was a schoolmaster in London, and some theorize the play was intended for public performance by his pupils - who were all male, as were most actors in that period. The work was not published until 1567, eleven years after its author's death. | Written Work |
Reersø is a Danish town located on a small peninsula of the same name. It is located in the Great Belt between Korsør and Kalundborg on the western coast of the island of Zealand, and it is part of Kalundborg Municipality in Region Zealand. The town has a population of 527 (2015). Reersø features cliffs on its outer western shore and salt marshes on the neck that connects it to the mainland. The area is home to several farms dating to the 16th century. Reersø is a popular tourist destination, and there are a number of summer houses in the area. Reersø is also home to a number of artists and has several galleries. Reersø is known for its tailless cats. | Settlement |
The Battle of Marais des Cygnes (pronounced Mare D' Zeen ) took place on October 25, 1864, in Linn County, Kansas during Price's Missouri Raid in the American Civil War. It is also called the Battle of Osage, or the Battle of Trading Post. It proved to be the first of three interconnected actions on this same day, all involving elements of Major General Sterling Price's Confederate Army of Missouri, and the Union's Provisional Cavalry Division commanded by Major General Alfred Pleasonton. During this battle, two brigades of Pleasonton's cavalry, one under Colonels John F. Philips and the other under Frederick Benteen, caught up with Price's rear guard at Trading Post, Kansas. Price's army covered the crossing of the Marais des Cygnes River with a Southern supply train. Though unable to prevent the crossing or inflict serious damage on Confederate forces, Pleasonton's troopers did manage to capture prisoners and artillery, forcing Price to continue his retreat. This led in turn to a second engagement at Mine Creek later that morning, followed by a final battle at Marmiton River in the afternoon. The three Union victories won on this day sealed the fate of Price's campaign. | Societal Event |
The Taranaki Mountainairs are a New Zealand men's basketball team competing in the National Basketball League (NBL). They play their home games at TSB Stadium in New Plymouth, and for sponsorship reasons, they are known as the Augusta Airs. The team's best NBL finish came in 1992 when they ended the regular season in first place and finished with an overall win/loss record of 18–5. | Sports Team |
William Radford Coyle (July 10, 1878 – January 30, 1962) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. | Politician |
Michael Richard Uram \"Rich\" Clifford (born October 13, 1952), is a former United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. Clifford is considered a Master Army Aviator and has logged over 3,400 hours flying in a wide variety of fixed and rotary winged aircraft. Clifford retired from the U.S. Army at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He has logged over 12 hours of spacewalk time over three Space Shuttle missions. He is also one of the first people to conduct a spacewalk while docked to an orbiting space station. The spacewalk was conducted during STS-76, while docked at the Russian space station Mir. | Person |
\"Jennie, Jennie\" was the Swedish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975, performed in English by Lasse Berghagen. The song was performed eighteenth on the night, following Spain's Sergio y Estíbaliz with \"Tú volverás\" and preceding Italy's Wess and Dori Ghezzi with \"Era\". At the close of voting, it had received 72 points, placing 8th in a field of 19. Berghagen has released this song also in his language native Swedish and in German, both with the same title \"Jennie, Jennie\". Sweden opted out of the 1976 contest, broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR) did not have enough money to host another contest if Sweden won again and in Sweden there were protests against the commercial character of Eurovision Song Contest. Bessy Argyraki has performed a version of the song in Greek. | Song |
United Torah Judaism (Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת הַתּוֹרָה הַמְאוּחֶדֶת, Transliterated: Yahadut HaTora HaMeuhedet; UTJ) is an alliance of Degel HaTorah and Agudat Israel, two small Israeli Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) political parties in the Knesset. It was first formed in 1992. The two parties have not always agreed with each other about policy matters. However, over the years, they have cooperated and united as a voting bloc in order to win the maximum number of seats in the Knesset, since many extra votes can be wasted if election thresholds are not attained under Israel's proportional representation parliamentary system. When UTJ joined Ariel Sharon's coalition in 2004, it split into its two constituent factions of Degel HaTorah and Agudat Israel. Before the 2006 election, Degel HaTorah and Agudat Israel agreed to revive their alliance under the banner of United Torah Judaism to not waste votes and achieve maximum representation in the 17th Knesset. The party won 6 seats in the 20th Knesset elections in 2015, which was down from 7 seats in the 19th Knesset elections in 2013. | Organisation |
Amyntor (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντωρ Amýntor \"defender\"), was an ancient Greek name attributed to several people both mythological and historical. | Fictional Character |
Hugh James \"Jim\" Saxton (born January 22, 1943) is an American Republican Party politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2009. | Politician |
The 2011 Eastern Kentucky Drillers season was the 1st season for the Ultimate Indoor Football League (UIFL) franchise. On November 26, 2010, the UIFL announced that the team in Pikeville, Kentucky would be named the Eastern Kentucky Drillers. The Drillers lost their first game in franchise history, a 44-49 defeat to the hands of the Saginaw Sting. Even in the defeat, two Drillers (Aric Evans and David Jones), won the first ever Offensive Player of the Week and Special Teams Player of the Week Awards in the history of the Ultimate Indoor Football League. The following week, the Drillers played their first ever home game at Eastern Kentucky Expo Center, and in front of 3,500 fans, the Drillers won 37-26 over the Huntington Hammer. The Drillers were able to finish the season with an 8-6 record. In the playoffs, they defeated the Huntington Hammer, and advanced to Ultimate Bowl I, where they lost to the Saginaw Sting. | Football League Season |
Vice Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema PVSM, AVSM, NM is a retired Indian Navy officer who served as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of Western and Southern Naval Commands. He also served as the Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces Command and the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (CIDS) to the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee. He retired from the service on January 31, 2016, after four decades of service. | Person |
Ostreococcus tauri is a unicellular species of marine green alga about 0.8 micrometres (μm) in diameter, the smallest free-living (non-symbiotic) eukaryote yet described. It has a very simple ultrastructure, and a compact genome. As a common member of global oceanic picoplankton populations, this organism has a major role in the carbon cycle in many areas. Recently, O. tauri has been the subject of studies using comparative genomics and functional genomics, as it is of interest to researchers because of its compact genome and green lineage. | Plant |
Allen Foster Cooper (January 3, 1838 – March 29, 1918) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Allen Foster Cooper was born in Franklin Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the State Normal School in California, Pennsylvania in 1881. He attended Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, in 1883. After this he taught for six years in public schools. Cooper graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in 1888, and commenced practice in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Cooper was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses. After his time in Congress, he resumed business and the practice of law in Uniontown. He died in Uniontown in 1918, aged 80; interred in Oak Grove Cemetery. | Politician |
Juan Núñez I de Lara y León A.K.A. el Gordo (d. Córdoba, April 1294) was a Spanish noble. He was the head of the House of Lara, Lord of Lerma, Amaya, Dueñas, Palenzuela, Tordehumos, Torrelobatón, and la Mota. He was further known as Señor de Albarracín through his first marriage with Teresa Álvarez de Azagra. | Person |
The Butcher Hills, el. 3,553 feet (1,083 m), is a set of hills near Ekalaka, Montana in Carter County, Montana. | Natural Place |
Oleksiy Shvidkiy (born March 10, 1986) is a cross country skier from Ukraine. | Winter Sport Player |
Japanese recording duo Ali Project have released thirteen studio albums, seven compilation albums, one extended play, twenty-one singles, five video albums, nine soundtrack albums, and seven strings albums. | Musical Work |
Brigadier Frederick Stephens CBE DSO (19 June 1906 - 9 November 1967) was a British Army officer of the Second World War. Stephens was the only son of Sir Reginald Byng Stephens and Eleanore Dorothea Cripps. He was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He commissioned into his father's regiment, the Rifle Brigade, on 3 September 1925. Between 1926 and 1931 he served with the regiment in India, before a secondment with the King's African Rifles in British Somaliland until September 1936. He was promoted to captain in 1937 and became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General of the 1st Armoured Division in 1939. He served with the division in the Battle of France and North Africa until July 1942, when he was made Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade. In October 1942 Stephens was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and on 31 December 1942 he was invested as a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. From August 1943 to May 1944 Stephens served as Chief Instructor to British Forces in Haifa. In July 1944 he became an instructor at the United States Army Command and General Staff College, before becoming Commander of the 308th Infantry Brigade in July 1945. Following the end of the Second World War, Stephens was a general staff officer until March 1948 when he once again took command of 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade. From 1950 to 1952 he was Commanding Officer of the 31st Infantry Brigade before serving as commander of British Forces in Berlin until 1954. Stephens served in the Suez Crisis during which he was Commander, Port Said Base and was Mentioned in Dispatches. Between August 1956 and February 1957 Stephens was posted to Southern Command. From 1957 to 1959 he was an Aide-de-Camp to Elizabeth II and he was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1959. He retired from the Army on 29 June 1959. On 25 July 1936 he married Esmé Mackenzie Churchill (1908–1987), second daughter of Colonel Mackenzie Churchill. They had one son and one daughter. | Person |
Nicholas \"Nick\" Catone (born September 1, 1981) is a retired American mixed martial artist. Catone competed most recently in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in their Middleweight division. | Athlete |
John Conard (November, 1773 – May 9, 1857) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was nicknamed the \"Fighting Quaker\". John Conard was born in Chester Valley, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Friends School. He moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania about 1795. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was a professor of mathematics at the local academy in Germantown. Conard was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1814. He was the associate judge of the district court. He was appointed United States marshal for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by President James Monroe. He was reappointed by President John Quincy Adams and served two years under President Andrew Jackson. He retired from public life in 1832, and moved to Maryland about 1834 and settled in Cecil County near Port Deposit, where he lived until 1851, when he moved to Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia in 1857. Interment in St. Mary Anne's Episcopal Churchyard in North East, Maryland. | Politician |
The 153 Light Air Defence (Gun Missile/Self Propelled) Regiment, commonly referred to as the 153 SP Air Defence Regiment, is an Air Defence Regiment of the Pakistan Army. It was raised on 9th May 1993 from an Independent Air Defence Battery.As an Air Defence Battery it was deployed in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia from 1990 to 1993 as part of Operation Desert Storm. During Operation Desert Storm, it effectively engaged and destroyed multiple Iraqi Scud Missiles directed at Saudi Arabia in mid flight.The Regiment was also deployed in the Kargil War in 1999 where it downed an Indian MiG 27 Fighter Aircraft using ANZA Mark 1 Pakistani made Surface to Air Missile System. The regiment has also served on Infantry role on the Western Borders of Pakistan in Anti Terrorist Operations and has effectively taken part in several operations besides guarding Pak Afghan border as an Infantry Battalion. The Regiment remains on the orbit of Armored and Mechanized Formations as a Self Propelled Regiment. | Organisation |
Ana Ivanovic (Serbian: Ана Ивановић / Ana Ivanović; Serbian pronunciation: [âna iʋǎːnoʋit͡ɕ] ; born 6 November 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player who as of October 17, 2016 is ranked No. 61 in the world by the Women's Tennis Association. Ranked No. 1 in the world in 2008, she beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open, was the runner-up at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open. She also qualified for the annual WTA Tour Championships three times, in 2007, 2008 and 2014 and won the year-end WTA Tournament of Champions twice, in 2010 and 2011. Competing as a professional since 2003, Ivanovic has won 15 WTA Tour singles titles, including one Grand Slam singles title. As of 2016, she has career earnings of over $15 million. In June 2011, she was named one of the \"30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future\" by Time and was also included on the list of Top 100 Greatest Players Ever (male and female combined) by reporter Matthew Cronin. Her first breakthrough came at the 2004 Zurich Open, where she qualified and was narrowly beaten by Venus Williams in the second round in two tiebreak sets. By the age of 18 Ivanovic had already defeated established players, such as Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova, Vera Zvonareva and Amélie Mauresmo. She also has defeated many other past and present top players including Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Dinara Safina, Martina Hingis, Jelena Janković, Agnieszka Radwańska, Caroline Wozniacki, Petra Kvitová, Simona Halep, Angelique Kerber and Victoria Azarenka. When on form Ivanovic is known for her aggressive style of play and impressive forehand, described by Petrova as, \"the best out there.\" Ivanovic's struggles after winning the 2008 French Open have been well documented. After that victory, she was overwhelmed by attention and endured an ongoing period of reduced success, failing to make a Grand Slam quarterfinal in her subsequent 17 Grand Slam tournaments, and dropping as low as No. 65 in the rankings during July 2010. 2014 was a resurgent year for Ivanovic, beginning with her winning the Auckland Open, her first singles title in over two years, before going on to win the Monterrey Open, Aegon Classic and the Pan Pacific Open. Ivanovic qualified for competition in the 2014 WTA Tour Championships in Singapore and secured a year-end ranking of No. 5, signifying her return to the world's elite. In 2015, Ivanovic made it to the semifinals of a major for the first time in 7 years at the French Open. | Athlete |
Sir Robert Anstruther, 3rd Baronet of Balcaskie was born in April 1733 and died 2 August 1818. He was married to Lady Janet, daughter of Alexander Erskine, 5th Earl of Kellie who died 19 October 1770 They are buried in Abercrombie Old Chapelyard in Fife with many other family members | British Royalty |
Will Rogers (December 12, 1898 – August 3, 1983) was a United States Representative from Oklahoma. Born on a farm near Bessie, Oklahoma Territory, son of John and Martha Ellen (Hatchett) Rogers, Rogers attended the public schools and Southwestern Teachers College in Weatherford, Oklahoma. He then attended Central Teachers College in Edmond, Oklahoma, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1926 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929. He continued his education at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and received a Master of Science degree in 1930. Rogers began his career as an educator by teaching in the public schools of Bessie, Oklahoma from 1917 to 1919. He then became the principal of the public schools in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and held that position until 1923. He was the superintendent of schools in several Oklahoma school districts from 1923 to 1932. Rogers was elected as a Democrat to the 73rd and four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1943). He served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs in the 74th through 77th Congresses. While serving as a Representative at-large, he was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1941 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sam C. Massingale in the seventh district for the 77th Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942. Rogers was admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 1942. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination of Secretary of State of Oklahoma in 1943. He was employed by the Department of the Interior from 1943 to 1945. He served as assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. in 1946 and 1947. He worked as a hearing examiner at the Department of Agriculture from May 1947 until his retirement in 1968. Following his retirement, Rogers engaged in building and real estate management. He was a resident of McLean, Virginia, until his death on August 3, 1983 in Falls Church, Virginia. He was cremated and his ashes were interred at National Memorial Park in Falls Church. | Politician |
Kayla McAlister (born 6 August 1988) is a New Zealand netball and rugby sevens player. She has previously played for the Northern Mystics in 2011, and was a training partner in 2012, and currently plays for the NZ Women's Rugby Sevens team. Of Māori descent, McAlister affiliates to the Te Āti Awa iwi. She is the sister of former All Black Luke McAlister. | Athlete |
Annie Bellemare (born January 2, 1980) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2000 Four Continents bronze medalist, 2004 Bofrost Cup on Ice bronze medalist, and a five-time Canadian national medalist. | Winter Sport Player |
Dudley O'Shaughnessy (born 17 October 1989, London) is an English actor and model. | Person |
The Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA) is a museum, art gallery, and archives for the Peel Region, located in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Previously, it was the Peel Heritage Complex. Its facilities were originally the Peel County Courthouse, Brampton Jail (also known as the Peel County Gaol), a land registry office, and a county administration building. It is opposite Gage Park and Brampton City Hall. In March 2010, the Peel Heritage Complex closed for extensive renovations and expansion. The spaces reopened in 2012, with significantly larger and include more public space. It was originally scheduled to reopen in fall 2011. The facility rebranded as Peel Art Gallery, Museums and Archives. | Building |
Aspidelaps is a genus of venomous elapid snakes endemic to Africa. Species in the genus Aspidelaps are commonly called shield-nosed cobras or coral cobras after their cobra hoods and enlarged rostral (nose) scales. However, the hood is not nearly as well developed in Aspidelaps as it is in Naja. | Animal |
ShortCutz Amsterdam (ShortCutz AMS) is an annual film festival promoting short films in Amsterdam, Netherlands held the whole year through. | Societal Event |
Achini Chamen (born 13 September 1983) is a Sri Lankan female artistic gymnast, representing her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, United States. | Athlete |
Rocky Mountain Airways (IATA: JC, ICAO: RMA, Call sign: Rocky Mountain) was an American commuter airline headquartered in Hangar No. 6 of Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado. It was sold to Texas Air Corporation/Continental Airlines in 1986 and was operated as a Continental Express subsidiary until its operations were merged with Britt Airways in 1991. | Company |
(This article is about the wife of footballer Steven Gerrard. For the rugby league player, see Alex Gerrard (rugby league).) Alexandra \"Alex\" Gerrard (née Curran; born 23 September 1982) is an English model, fashion columnist for the Daily Mirror, and the wife of former Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard. She is described as a leading \"WAG\" of the England national football team, along with women such as Victoria Beckham and Coleen Rooney. In 2007, the Times referred to her, then Steven Gerrard's fiancée, as an \"über-WAG\". On 29 October 2007, she launched her own fragrance, named \"Alex\", which was one of the top sellers of 2007. | Person |
Oaxen Krog, also known as Oaxen Krog & Slip, previously Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, is a restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. It was started as a luxurious restaurant in the southern part of Stockholm archipelago, situated on the island Oaxen, south of the inlet to Södertälje Canal. The restaurant founded in 1994 by Magnus Ek and Agneta Green developed into one of the most highly rated restaurants in Sweden and was named one of the 50 best restaurants in the world five years in a row by Restaurant Magazine. It closed in September 2011 and in 2013 the new Oaxen Krog & Slip opened near Beckholmsbron at Djurgården in Stockholm in a new building by architects Mats Fahlander and Agneta Pettersson. In 2014, the restaurant was awarded one Michelin star and in 2015 it was awarded two stars. Oaxen Krog has a sister restaurant Oaxen Slip which is in the same building and is a bistro. The couple previously also ran a deli shop, Oaxen Skafferi, at Mariatorget in Stockholm. | Building |
\"Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?\" (What colour is the sunshine?) was the Swiss entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984, performed in German by Rainy Day. The song was performed seventeenth on the night, following Finland's Kirka with \"Hengaillaan\" and preceding Italy's Alice and Franco Battiato with \"I treni di Tozeur\". At the close of voting, it had received 30 points, placing 16th in a field of 19. In the song is made a question: \"What colour is the sunshine?\". The group ask us \"How to paint it?\" They say that there are many colours, the way we see the world depends on our feelings. It was succeeded as Swiss representative at the 1985 contest by Mariella Farré and Pino Gasparini with \"Piano, piano\". | Song |
Hashim Khan (Pashto: ہاشم خان; c. 1910 to 1914 – 18 August 2014) was a squash player from Pakistan. He won the British Open Squash Championships (the then de facto world championship) a total of seven times, from 1951 to 1956, and then again in 1958. | Athlete |
The 1914 Open Championship was the 54th Open Championship, held 18–19 June at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Harry Vardon won a record sixth Open Championship title, three strokes ahead of runner-up J.H. Taylor, the defending champion. Due to World War I, it was the last Open for six years; the next was played in 1920. Qualification took place on 11 and 12 June at Troon with 18 holes on Troon Old Course and 18 holes on Troon municipal number 2. Exactly 100 player qualified. The 96 players scoring 163 or better qualified while the 13 players who scored 164 played a further 18 holes at Prestwick on 13 June to determine the final four places. Scores of 79 and better qualified. Ted Ray and J.H. Taylor led the qualifiers on 150. Vardon led after the first day by one shot from a relatively unknown James Ockenden from West Drayton Golf Club. Taylor was a shot further behind. Vardon and Taylor were drawn together on the final day and, after Ockenden had a disappointing third round 83, they were clear leaders after the third round. Taylor led on 226 with Vardon on 228 and amateur James Jenkins third on 232. With the two leaders playing together, huge crowds followed this group. Taylor extended his lead to three at the first hole of the final round. However at the 3rd hole, he was distracted by a photographer and dropped a stroke to Vardon. The Championship was largely decided at the 4th hole where Taylor found the water and took 7 to Vardon's 4 to give Vardon the lead. Taylor dropped more strokes to Vardon at the 5th, 8th, 10th and 11th holes to give Vardon a five stroke lead. Taylor recovered somewhat but Vardon still won comfortably by three shots. Phil Gaudin had the best final round, carding a 74. | Tournament |
Harry Harper is a fictional character from the BBC One medical drama Casualty, portrayed by actor Simon MacCorkindale. He made his first appearance in the series sixteen episode \"Denial\", broadcast on 8 June 2002. He ran Holby City Hospital's emergency department for five years, before being elected as a Member of Parliament. His final appearance was in the series twenty-two episode \"Thicker Than Water\", broadcast on 8 March 2008. MacCorkindale was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2006, and departed from Casualty after the disease spread to his lungs. He died on 14 October 2010, at the age of 58. | Fictional Character |
6726 Suthers, provisional designation 1991 PS, is a main-belt asteroid was discovered by American astronomer Henry E. Holt at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 5, 1991. In 2012, it was officially named after Paul Graham Sutherland, author and journalist, who has actively supported the UK-based Society for Popular Astronomy for many years, and who is known as \"Suthers\" to friends and colleagues. He is author of Where Did Pluto Go? and responsible for bringing many astronomical stories to a wider public. | Celestial Body |
The A540 is a non-primary road that runs from Chester, Cheshire to Hoylake, Wirral. It is the only road in the series A54X that is within England, with the exception of a short stretch of the A548. It provides links to Manchester and North Wales, via the A494 and the M56. It bypasses the town of Neston and is in the heart of Heswall, Hoylake and West Kirby. A small stretch of the road, shared with the A5116, is a primary road. | Route Of Transportation |
Col du Tourmalet (elevation 2,115 m (6,939 ft)) is the highest paved mountain pass in the French Pyrenees, located in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. Sainte-Marie-de-Campan is at the foot on the eastern side and the ski station La Mongie two-thirds of the way up. The village of Barèges lies on the western side, above the town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur. Tourmalet is also a cheese made from sheep milk produced in these mountains. | Natural Place |
University of Detroit Stadium, also known as U of D Stadium, Titan Stadium, or Dinan Field, was a stadium in Detroit, Michigan on the campus of the University of Detroit. The stadium opened in 1922, on land that had been acquired for the university's proposed new McNichols campus (the university would move its main campus there in 1927). The stadium's main tenant was the University of Detroit Titans football team, who played their home games there from the time it opened until the university dropped its football program following the 1964 season. | Sport Facility |
Hashibetsu Station (箸別駅 Hashibetsu-eki) is a railway station on the Rumoi Main Line in Mashike, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido). | Station |
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, P.C. (16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996), usually referred to as Nnamdi Azikiwe or Zik, was one of the leading figures of modern Nigerian nationalism. He served as the second and last Governor-General of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first President of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966, holding the presidency throughout the Nigerian First Republic. Born in Zungeru, in present-day Niger State, Azikiwe learned to speak Hausa, the main indigenous language of the Northern Region at an early age. He later lived in Onitsha, his parental homeland where he was raised by his aunt and grandmother and learn the Igbo language. A sojourn in Lagos exposed him to the Yoruba language and he was in college, he had been exposed to different Nigerian cultures. Motivated to get a university education, he traveled to U.S. and attended various colleges including Storer College, Columbia University and Howard returning to Africa in 1934 to start work as a journalist in the Gold Coast. In British West Africa, Azikiwe was an important advocate of Nigerian and African nationalism, first as a journalist and later as political leader. | Politician |
Pascal Leclaire (born November 7, 1982) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. Leclaire played three years in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) and was selected eighth overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. After playing in the Blue Jackets' organization for seven seasons, he was traded to the Ottawa Senators in 2009 and spent the following two seasons in the organization. Internationally, he has represented Canada on the national junior and men's teams. | Winter Sport Player |
The Tendoy Mountains are a small mountain range northwest of Lima in Beaverhead County in the U.S. state of Montana. The mountains are a subrange of the Beaverhead Mountains, part of the Bitterroot Range. The highest point in the range is Dixon Mountain at 9,674 feet (2,949 m). The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) andUS Forest Service manage the range, and most of these remote mountains are roadless, with the largest contiguous area about 68,000 acres in size. The northern part of the range features rugged Bell and Limekiln Canyons, which contain 700' high cliff faces, ledges, talus, caves and rock walls. A free-standing rock wall, Wedding Ring Rock, is of special geological interest. Indian pictographs are found in some caves. Excellent mule deer habitat is provided by the range's typical habitats of grassland, sagebrush, and ridges forested with lodgepole pine and Douglas-fir. The arid southern portion of the range lacks any year-round streams except Hidden Pasture Creek. This part of the Tendoys is characterized by patches of Douglas-fir and mountain mahogany growing in open sagebrush grassland. Pronghorn and deer utilize the area year-round, while elk reside here in winter and spring. | Natural Place |
The Liberal Party of Honduras (Spanish: Partido Liberal de Honduras) is a center-right liberal political party in Honduras that was founded in 1891. The party is a member of the Liberal International. The PLH is identified with the color red and white, as the flag Francisco Morazan used in most of his military campaigns during time of the Central American Federal Republic. | Organisation |
The Women's 10 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 16 February, at Pragelato. The world champion at the 10 kilometre event was Kateřina Neumannová – however, that was in the freestyle event, and a classical-style 10 kilometre in the World Championship had not been held since 1989. In the World Cup, however, there had been two events leading up to the Olympics, both won by Norwegians: Marit Bjørgen won at Kuusamo, Finland in November, and Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen at Otepää, Estonia in January. Bente Skari won the Olympic gold in 2002, but did not defend her status, having retired after the 2003 World Championship. Šmigun won her second gold of the Olympics, winning 21 seconds ahead of Marit Bjørgen, with two other Norwegians following. | Olympics |
Darryl Eugene Strawberry, Sr. (born March 12, 1962) is an American former Major League Baseball right fielder and an ordained Christian minister and author. Strawberry is well known for his career in baseball and his controversial personal life. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Strawberry was one of the most feared sluggers in the game, known for his prodigious home runs and his intimidating presence in the batter's box with his 6-foot-6 frame and his long, looping swing that elicited comparisons to Ted Williams. During his 17-year career, he helped lead the New York Mets to a World Series championship in 1986 and the New York Yankees to three World Series championships in 1996, 1998 and 1999. He was also suspended three times by Major League Baseball for substance abuse, leading to many narratives about his massive potential going unfulfilled. A popular player during his career, Strawberry was voted to the All-Star Game eight straight times from 1984–1991. Strawberry was formerly an analyst for SportsNet New York. His memoir, Straw: Finding My Way, was written in collaboration with author John Strausbaugh, was published on April 28, 2009 by Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers. | Athlete |
Connect Air was an airline based in Basel, Switzerland. It was established in 2004 and was a start-up airline planning services to various cities in Europe using a fleet of ATR 72-500 aircraft. Its main base was EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg.It ceased operations in mid-2008. | Company |
The 2003 season was São Paulo's 74th season since club's existence. In this year São Paulo became a runner-up of Campeonato Paulista, being defeated by rival Corinthians in finals. At the Copa do Brasil, national cup, reached the quarterfinals falling in front of Goiás due Away goal rule with 0–0 (away); 1–1 (home). The club arrived in third place final in the first time when Série A was disputed in accumulated points system. In his first participation in Copa Sudamericana reached semifinals losing to Argentine club River Plate in penalty shootouts for 2–4 in a match that had fights and aggressions between players of both teams. The featured of year was the stricker Luís Fabiano which scored 46 goals in whole season, 29 only in league. | Sports Team Season |
The Yale Scientific Magazine (YSM) is a scientific magazine published quarterly by undergraduate students from Yale University. It was founded at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale in 1894. It was the first student magazine devoted to the sciences, and is currently the oldest collegiate science quarterly in the United States. Before 1927, it was originally called Yale Scientific Monthly or Yale Sheffield Monthly. Over 100 students are involved in various aspects of the magazine, including writing, editorial, production, art, multimedia, website, and business. It now has about 2,000 subscribers around the world. Article topics covered by Yale Scientific Magazine includes disciplines in science, mathematics, and engineering at Yale and beyond. As the student science publication on campus, the magazine presents and promotes achievements, knowledge, and activities in the sciences, medicine, and engineering at the University. | Periodical Literature |
The 2012–13 season was Stranraer's first season back in the Scottish Second Division. Stranraer also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup. They were due to play in their fourth consecutive season in the Scottish Third Division, having been relegated from the Scottish Second Division at the end of the 2008–09 season. On 16 July 2012, it was confirmed that Stranraer would be promoted to the Scottish Second Division to fill the vacancy's left by Dundee's promotion to the Scottish Premier League and Airdrie United's promotion to the Scottish First Division. This was to fill the slot vacated by Rangers, who were voted into the Scottish Third Division following their liquidation. | Sports Team Season |
Jerry Steiner (January 7, 1918 – February 1, 2012) was an American professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL), one of the two leagues that merged to form the National Basketball Association. Steiner, a 5'7\" point guard was a basketball player for Butler University from 1937 to 1940. He made the 1940 All-American team as a senior for the Bulldogs. After graduating from Butler, Steiner played for one season for the Indianapolis Kautskys of the NBL for the 1945–46 season. After serving in World War II until 1946, Steiner took a job teaching and coaching at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis while playing for the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons. He left the game after the 1946–47 season. Steiner died on February 1, 2012, in Bonita Springs, Florida. | Athlete |
Central Luzon Television (CLTV 36 Metro Central Luzon) is a regional television network, based in the Central Luzon region in the Philippines. The network is owned and managed by RadioWorld Broadcasting Corporation, a subsidiary of the Laus Group. The network's offices and studio complex located at 3rd Floor, Corporate Guarantee and Insurance Company Building, Jose Abad Santos Ave., City of San Fernando, Pampanga, while its 10-kilowatt, 68.5 meters high transmitter and station tower is located at C.P. Garcia Street, Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga. This station operates everyday from 7:30 am to 11:30 pm (PST) | Broadcaster |
Filip Meirhaeghe (born 5 March 1971 in Ghent) is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. His primary focus was in mountain bike racing, however, he has also taken part in elite road, cyclo-cross and track cycling. He has won four Mountain Bike World Championships medals, one Olympic medal and a total of eleven mountain bike World Cup events. In the final years of his racing career he raced for the bicycle manufacturer Specialized Bicycle Components on the mountain bike and for the professional team Domina Vacanze-Elitron on the road. | Athlete |
Isabelle Demongeot (born 18 September 1966) is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional on 1 May 1983. She lived in Saint-Tropez in the French Riviera in the early stages of her career and later settled further south in Gassin. Demongeot won her only WTA Tour singles title in Purchase in New York state in 1991. She achieved her best Grand Slam singles performance by reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon in 1986. She won a total of nine WTA Tour doubles titles. Her best Grand Slam doubles performance was reaching the French Open quarter-finals with Nathalie Tauziat of France in 1987 and 1992. She also represented her country from 1985 to 1993 in the Federation/Fed Cup and in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games. She retired from the WTA Tour in 1996. | Athlete |
BC Dinamo Tbilisi (Georgian: საკალათბურთო კლუბი ,,დინამო’’) is a professional basketball club based in Tbilisi, that plays in the Georgian Superliga. It is one of the oldest and most successful basketball clubs of Georgia and the former USSR, having won numerous national titles and the 1962 FIBA European Champions Cup. The club's traditional colours are blue and white, but for sponsorship reasons, they currently play in orange and white strips (colours of Bank of Georgia). | Sports Team |
Koji Uematsu (植松 鉱治 Uematsu Kōji, born 30 August 1986) is a Japanese male artistic gymnast and part of the national team. He won the silver medal in the team allround event at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. | Athlete |
After an international design competition in 2005, attracting more than 40 designs worldwide, was won by Kerry Hill Architects, construction on the Theatre Centre began in late 2007. In July 2008 the Western Australian government announced that the complex would be named after Heath Ledger, however after a change of government, that decision was modified in December 2008 to apply only to the main auditorium. The centre was officially opened on 27 January 2011. | Venue |