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South Western Districts, known as SW Districts or SWD, is a South African first class cricket team based in the Western Cape city of Oudtshoorn, representing approximately the eastern half of Western Cape province. They form part of the Warriors franchise, and play their home games at the Oudtshoorn Recreation Ground. The team's coach for the 2015–16 domestic season, which includes the CSA Provincial Competitions and the Africa T20 Cup, is Deon Smith, who has been in the role since August 2014. | Sports Team |
Anomalopus mackayi, commonly known as the five-clawed worm skink, long-legged worm skink, and MacKay's burrowing skink, is a species of smooth-scaled burrowing skink endemic to eastern Australia. | Animal |
\"All I Do Is Win\" is the second official single from DJ Khaled's fourth studio album Victory. The track features American singer T-Pain, plus American rappers Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross. It was released on February 8, 2010, along with \"Put Your Hands Up\". The single was certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA. It is the only Billboard Hot 100 charting single from the album. | Musical Work |
Sir George Wigram Allen KCMG (16 May 1824 – 23 July 1885) was an Australian politician and philanthropist. He was Speaker in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1875–1883. Allen was held in high esteem. As speaker he showed dignity, courtesy and ability; it was said of him: 'A man of calm judgment and much practical wisdom'. | Politician |
John Joseph McCort (February 16, 1860 – April 21, 1936) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Altoona, Pennsylvania, from 1920 until his death in 1936. | Cleric |
Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operated in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on the front fuselage and engines. It became the first European operator of the Embraer 190 aircraft in November 2006. It was headquartered in Bouguenais at the Nantes Atlantique Airport. | Company |
Wesley Ernest Brown (June 22, 1907 – January 23, 2012) was a U.S. District Court judge who, as of his death, was the oldest federal judge still hearing cases. In August 2011, he passed Joseph William Woodrough in age, becoming the oldest person to serve as a federal judge in the history of the United States. | Person |
Haemogamasus is a genus of mites in the family Haemogamasidae. In North America, they mostly infect rodents, in addition to other small mammals such as shrews, talpids, and Virginia opossums. An unidentified immature Haemogamasus has been found on the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Georgia. | Animal |
Myobatrachus gouldii, the turtle frog, is a Western Australian frog and the only species in the genus Myobatrachus. It has a small head, short limbs, and a round body, up to 45 millimetres (1.8 in) long. The turtle frog is found in between Geraldton and Fitzgerald River in the Perth region, Western Australia. This area is mainly semi-arid, so the frogs have adapted to suit this region. They have developed short muscular limbs to help them dig into the sand but, unlike most frogs, they dig forward, like a turtle. They feed on termites so the adaptation of the muscular limbs is useful when trying to penetrate a termite mound. | Animal |
Anime Banzai is an annual three-day anime convention held during October at the Davis Conference Center in Layton, Utah. The name of the convention roughly comes from the Japanese word for \"hooray\". The convention is organized by Utah Anime Promotions and is run by an volunteer staff. | Societal Event |
Rodovia Jornalista Francisco Aguirre Proença (SP-101) is a state highway in the State of São Paulo which connects the cities of Campinas, Hortolândia, Monte Mor, Elias Fausto and Capivari. Its first 25 kilometers are double-laned, the rest is still single-laned. The road has a high traffic because along its way there are several large companies in the services and industry sectors, such as EMS Sigma Farma, Dow Chemical, Bosch, IBM and others. It's also known as Rodovia Campinas-Monte Mor. | Route Of Transportation |
Alberta has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct municipal censuses between April 1 and June 30 inclusive. Municipalities choose to conduct their own censuses for multiple reasons such as: to better inform municipal service planning and provision; to capitalize on per capita based grant funding from higher levels of government; or to simply update their populations since the last federal census. Alberta had 359 municipalities between April 1 and June 30, 2012, up from 358 during the same three-month period in 2011. At least 58 of these municipalities (16.2%) conducted a municipal census in 2012. Alberta Municipal Affairs recognized those conducted by 55 of these municipalities. By municipal status, it recognized those conducted by 8 of Alberta's 17 cities, 23 of 108 towns, 8 of 95 villages, 4 of 51 summer villages, 1 of 5 specialized municipalities, 3 of 64 municipal districts and all 8 Metis settlements. In addition to those recognized by Municipal Affairs, censuses were conducted by the City of St. Albert, the Village of Beiseker and Strathcona County (a specialized municipality). Some municipalities achieved population milestones as a result of their 2011 censuses. Calgary surpassed 1.1 million while the cities of Leduc and Fort Saskatchewan surpassed the 25,000 and the 20,000 marks respectively. Chestermere, Alberta's fourth-largest town, surpassed 15,000 residents. | Societal Event |
St. Joseph's Metropolitan Cathedral, also known as Palayam Palli is the Roman Catholic Latin Rite cathedral of the Archdiocese of Trivandrum. The first church was built here in 1873. The church was intended in the manner of a cross in 1912. The final stage of extension, including the Gothic style facade and the bell-tower was completed in 1927. The three bells were brought from Belgium and were named Joseph, Xavier, and Aloysius in honour of St. Joseph, the Patron of the Church, St. Francis Xavier, the Apostle of India and Bishop Aloysius Maria Benziger the pioneer Missionary-Bishop of Quilon respectively. Upon the bifurcation of the Diocese of Quilon, the new diocese of Trivandrum was formed on 1 July 1937, and St. Joseph’s Church became the cathedral of the newly formed diocese. When the diocese was raised to a metropolitan archdioese in 2004, the cathedral became a metropolitan cathedral. The cathedral has a statue of its patron St. Joseph with the child Jesus in the middle of the facade and a statue of Jesus with hands raised atop the tower. The church which is white in colour was painted red from 1927 to 2010. It was renovated during the period 2008 to 2010. | Building |
John of Dukla (also called \"Jan of Dukla\") is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of the patron saints of Poland and Lithuania. | Cleric |
France Ô (pronounced: [fʁɑ̃s o]) is a French public television network featuring programming from the French overseas departments and collectivities in Metropolitan France. It is part of the France Télévisions group. Its overseas counterpart is Outre-Mer 1ère. It is available through cable, satellite, ADSL and digital terrestrial television. Formerly known as RFO Sat, the channel was originally broadcasting 9 hours per day only. It was re-branded France Ô in 2004 in order to better show it was part of the France Télévisions group. The \"O\" stands for Outre-mer (overseas), and the accent shows that the channel was opened to all accents and dialects of the world, but also ensures that the name of the channel is not read as France 0 (\"France zéro\"). The channel became available in overseas territories in November 2010, replacing the RFO-operated Tempo. | Broadcaster |
Charles Alfred Howell (22 October 1905 – 26 October 1974) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Perry Barr at the 1955 general election, and served until the 1964 general election when the seat was gained against the national trend by the Conservative candidate Wyndham Davies. | Politician |
Tiberius (Greek: Τιβέριος, Tiberios) was the only son of the Byzantine emperor Justinian II, and his only child by his second wife Theodora of Khazaria, whom he married ca. 704 whilst in exile among the Khazars. Tiberius was probably born in 705, during his father's absence in a bid to regain the Byzantine throne. Following Justinian's success, Tiberius and his mother were recalled to Constantinople, where the infant was raised to co-emperor. The only thing known of him thereafter is his participation in the festive reception of Pope Constantine I in early 711. Following the overthrow of his father in December 711, he was murdered by the patrikios Mauros and John Strouthos, and buried in the Church of the Holy Unmercenaries. | Person |
David Gauthier (born 10 September 1932) is a Canadian-American philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian social contract (contractarian) theory of morality, as laid out in his book Morals by Agreement. | Person |
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions alone and there are many translations available. His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach. | Person |
James Marshall McGhie, Lord McGhie is a Scottish lawyer who until 2014 was the Chairman of the Scottish Land Court and President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, and a Senator of the College of Justice. | Person |
The Na San Airport (IATA: SQH, ICAO: VVNS) (Vietnamese: Sân bay Nà Sản) is an airport in Sơn La, in the Sơn La Province of Vietnam. | Infrastructure |
(For the Catholic martyr, see Thomas Pilchard.) Major-General Thomas David Pilcher, CB (8 July 1858 – 14 December 1928) was a British Army officer, who commanded a mounted infantry unit in the Second Boer War and the 17th (Northern) Division during the First World War, before being removed from command in disgrace during the Battle of the Somme. Pilcher spent his early career as an infantry officer, first seeing active service on colonial campaigns in Nigeria in the late 1890s followed by field command in the Second Boer War (1899–1902), on which he published a book of lessons learned in 1903. Following the war, he held a number of senior commands in India. However, further promotion was checked by his having come into conflict with his commander-in-chief, who regarded him as unsuited for senior command in part because of his writings; Pilcher was a keen student of the German army and its operational methods, and an active theorist who published a number of controversial books advocating the adoption of new military techniques as well as an anonymous invasion novel. On the outbreak of the First World War he was on leave in England, and eventually obtained the command of 17th (Northern) Division, a New Army volunteer unit. The division supported the initial attacks at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, where Pilcher again clashed with his superiors over his refusal to push on an attack without pausing for preparations, believing it would result in failure and heavy casualties. After ten days of fighting, Pilcher was sacked and sent to command a reserve centre in England. From here, he wrote a series of books before retiring in 1919. He ran as a parliamentary candidate for the splinter right-wing National Party in the 1918 general election, and continued a loose involvement with right-wing politics which extended to membership in the early British Fascisti. Pilcher had married Kathleen Gonne, daughter of a cavalry officer, in 1889; the marriage was strained, partly through Pilcher's gambling habits and adultery, and partly through his dislike for Maud Gonne, Kathleen's sister and a prominent Irish nationalist. The couple divorced in 1911, having had four children; one would later become a High Court judge, while another died on the Western Front in 1915. Pilcher remarried in 1913, and remained married to his second wife Millicent until his death in 1928. | Person |
A total solar eclipse will occur on January 6, 2076. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. | Natural Event |
Rhymesayers Entertainment is an indie hip hop record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was co-founded in 1995 by Sean Daley (Slug), Anthony Davis (Ant), Musab Saad (Sab the Artist) and Brent Sayers (Siddiq). Beginning in 2008, Rhymesayers Entertainment sponsors the annual Soundset Music Festival, a popular attraction that takes place over Memorial Day weekend in Minneapolis, MN. | Company |
Trivia arctica, the northern cowrie, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triviidae, the trivias. This is a similar species to Trivia monacha and often occurs in the same areas. The name Trivia means \"common\" and the word arctica means \"of the arctic\". | Animal |
The final of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup was played between Germany and Brazil. The match took place at the Hongkou Football Stadium, in Shanghai, China, on 30 September 2007. | Sports Event |
Pseudaclytia pseudodelphire is a moth in the Arctiidae family. It was described by Rothschild in 1912. It is found in Venezuela. The length of the forewings is 18–20 mm. The forewings are purple brown, the basal half of the subcostal nervure white and with a white oblique band at the apex of the cell. The hindwings are sooty black, strongly glossed with blue. | Animal |
Niccolò Cassana (often called Nicoletto; 1659–1714) was an Italian painter born in Venice and active during the late-Baroque. His older brother Giovanni Agostino Cassana was also a painter. He trained with his father, Giovanni Francesco Cassana, a Genoese painter, who had been taught the art of painting by Bernardo Strozzi. He painted a Conspiracy of Catiline for the Gallery at Florence. Having painted portraits of the Medici court, and also of some of the English nobility, Nicoletto was invited to England, and introduced to Queen Anne, who sat to him for her likeness, and conferred on him many marks of favor. He died in London in 1714, having given way to drinking in his later years. One of his pupils was Fortunato Pasquetti. | Artist |
Pseudoclivina is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species: \n* Pseudoclivina assamensis (Putzeys, 1846) \n* Pseudoclivina bohemani (Putzeys, 1861) \n* Pseudoclivina costata (Andrewes, 1929) \n* Pseudoclivina grandis (Dejean, 1826) \n* Pseudoclivina mandibularis (Dejean, 1831) \n* Pseudoclivina memnonia (Dejean, 1831) \n* Pseudoclivina senegalensis (Dejean, 1831) | Animal |
Astana City (UCI team code: TSE) is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana City acts as a junior feeder team to Astana, alongside Vino 4ever SKO. | Sports Team |
Juke Blues is a British magazine covering blues, R&B, gospel, soul, zydeco and jazz. It was established in 1985 in London by Cilla Huggins, John Broven and Bez Turner, and is now published in Bath, Somerset, England. Cilla Huggins has been sole editor since 1992. The magazine contains a mixture of biographical articles on blues and related musicians, both active and historic, as well as interviews, discographies, and reviews. Regular contributors have included Mick Huggins, John Broven, John Barnie, Scott M. Bock, Dave Clarke, Tony Collins, Ray Ellis, Alan Empson, Martin Goggin, Mark Harris, Paul Harris, André Hobus, Ian Jones, Ian Marriss, Seamus McGarvey, Steve Millward, Bill Moodie, Dick Shurman, Brian Smith, Chris Smith, Richard Tapp, Dave Williams, Val Wilmer, Axel Küstner, Norbert Hess, Joe Rosen, and Gene Tomko. Until his death, Ike Turner had the position of Honorary President. Awards won by the magazine include: \n* Keeping The Blues Alive, 2000 \n* Sweet Soul Music, 2001 \n* Blues Hall of Fame Classic of Blues Literature, 2004 | Periodical Literature |
The Tata Memorial Hospital is situated in Parel, Mumbai in India. It is a specialist cancer treatment and research centre, closely associated with the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC). One of the fields of specialization of this hospital is in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (A.L.L). The hospital claims to treat and cure 99% of the A.L.L patients. This hospital is also one of the few in India to have a P.E.T. scanner. The Director of this hospital is Dr. Rajendra A Badwe, who took over from for director Dr. K.A. Dinshaw. The Tata Memorial Centre is the national comprehensive cancer centre for the prevention, treatment, education and research in Cancer and is recognized as one of the leading cancer centres in this part of the world. This achievement has been possible due to the far-sighted and total support of the Department of Atomic Energy, under Dr. Homi N Sethna responsible for managing this Institution since 1962. The Tata Memorial Hospital was initially commissioned by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust on 28 February 1941 as a center with enduring value and a mission for concern for the Indian people. In 1952 the Indian Cancer Research Centre was established as a pioneer research institute for basic research—later called the Cancer Research Institute (CRI). In 1957 the Ministry of Health took over the Tata Memorial Hospital. The transfer of the administrative control of the Tata Memorial Centre (Tata Memorial Hospital & Cancer Research Institute) to the Department of Atomic Energy in 1962 was the next major milestone. The Tata Memorial Hospital and Cancer Research Institute merged as the two arms of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in 1966 as a classic example of private philanthropy augmented by Government support with a mandate for Service, Education & Research in Cancer. | Building |
John Magri (born 7 April 1941) is a Maltese cyclist. Magri participated at the 1972 Summer Olympics with Louis Bezzina, Joseph Said and Alfred Tonna in the Men's 100 km Team Road Race, finishing in 31st place. He is the President of Mosta Cycling Club and his son Paul is the owner of the biggest bike shop in Malta. Magri is a noted name in cycling in Malta. He won several local championships, has been a trainer/coach of the national team for several years, won the Sportsman of the year twice organised by the national sports organisation and the Sportsman of the year organised by the sports writers organisation. He participated in the Olympic games, Mediterranean Games and several Tours abroad as a cyclist, coach or as a mechanic, where the Maltese National Team was invited. | Athlete |
Stephen Yan (born in Hong Kong) was the host of the successful Canadian television cooking show for CBC Television, Wok with Yan. The Vancouver-based chef moved to Canada in the 1960s and owned two Chinese restaurants in Vancouver. His hit show was originally produced at CBOT in Ottawa from 1980 to 1995 and was syndicated in the United States and Asia. For over 15 years Stephen produced over 500 episodes of Wok with Yan. Stephen also has produced travel and variety shows called Wok's Up? for CBC, Yan's Wokking for BCTV, and several half-hour travel specials on Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Walt Disney World, Malaysia, Singapore, and Fiji. On May 14, 1986, Yan also released a 60-minute show on video cassette titled, Wok On The Wild Side, Wok With Yan Volume 2, where he showed how to prepare and cook the following menu: prawns in a nest, egg rolls, sweet and sour fish, gold coin beef, hot and sour soup, ginger lobster, and chicken with pineapple. Yan's charismatic personality on his television show can be attributed to his spontaneous humour that included one-liners spoken with his trademark Cantonese accent or him playing with his food or cookware. He has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, and other shows from the United States to Australia. A trademark of his was aprons that bore a different 'wok' pun every show. Some examples are: \n* Wok & Roll \n* Wokking My Baby Back Home \n* Danger, Men at Wok \n* Wok Around the Clock \n* Wok the Heck \n* You Are Wok You Eat \n* Wok Goes up Must Come Down \n* Wok's New, Pussycat? \n* Wokkey Night in Canada \n* Stuck Between a Wok and a Hard Place \n* Raiders of The Lost Wok \n* Moon Wok \n* Jailhouse Wok \n* Over Wok, Under Pay \n* Wok Me to the Church On Time \n* Woksy Ladies \n* Wok-A-Doodle-Doo Yan was the author of bestselling cook books: \n* Vegetables the Chinese Way \n* Creative Carving \n* The Stephen Yan Seafood Wokbook \n* Wok with Yan Television Cookbook He also created various names for some of the ingredients that he used in his cooking, they include: \n* \"Chinese Water\" \n* \"Wonder Powder\" \n* \"Five Spicey\" Wok Before You Run is another cooking videotape produced in the 1980s and distributed worldwide. He is not related to Chinese American chef Martin Yan of the PBS series Yan Can Cook, though Martin was an employee and had worked for Stephen Yan in the 1980s as demonstrator for Stephen's products. | Person |
\"Static\" is a 1988 song written by Full Force and recorded by James Brown. It was released as a single from Brown's album I'm Real and charted #5 R&B. Reviewing its host album, People singled \"Static\" out for praise, calling it \"inflammatory\". It was Brown's last Top 40 R&B hit. | Musical Work |
Lyncina sulcidentata, common name the square-toothed cowry or groove-toothed cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. | Animal |
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death is a 1973 play by English Marxist playwright Edward Bond. It depicts an ageing William Shakespeare at his Warwickshire home in 1615 and 1616, suffering pangs of conscience in part because he signed a contract which protected his landholdings, on the condition that he would not interfere with an enclosure of common lands that would hurt the local peasant farmers. Although the play is fictional, this contract has a factual basis. Bingo is a political drama heavily influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Epic theatre. | Written Work |
Saint Leander of Seville (Spanish: San Leandro de Sevilla) (Cartagena, c. 534–Seville, 13 March 600 or 601), brother of the encyclopedist St. Isidore of Seville, was the Catholic Bishop of Seville who was instrumental in effecting the conversion to Catholicism of the Visigothic kings Hermengild and Reccared of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising both modern Spain and Portugal). Leander and Isidore and their siblings (all sainted) belonged to an elite family of Hispano-Roman stock of Carthago Nova. Their father Severianus is claimed to be according to their hagiographers a dux or governor of Cartagena, though this seems more of a fanciful interpretation since Isidore simply states that he was a citizen. The family moved to Seville around 554. The children's subsequent public careers reflect their distinguished origin: Leander and Isidore both became bishops of Seville, and their sister Saint Florentina was an abbess who directed forty convents and one thousand nuns. Even the third brother, Fulgentius, appointed Bishop of Écija at the first triumph of Catholicism over Arianism, but of whom little is known, has been canonised as a saint. The family as a matter of course were staunch Catholics, as were the great majority of the Romanized population, from top to bottom; only the Visigothic nobles and the kings were Arians. It should be stated that there was less Visigothic persecution of Catholics than legend and hagiography have painted. From a modern standpoint, the dangers of Catholic Christianity were more political. The Catholic hierarchy were in collusion with the representatives of the Byzantine emperor, who had maintained a considerable territory in the far south of Hispania ever since his predecessor had been invited to the peninsula by the former Visigothic king several decades before. In the north, Liuvigild struggled to maintain his possessions on the far side of the Pyrenees, where his Merovingian cousins and in-laws cast envious eyes on them and had demonstrated that they would stop at nothing with the murder of Liuvigild's sister. | Cleric |
The Cat and the Mermouse is a 1949 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 43rd Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence and Al Grandmain, scored by Scott Bradley, and released on September 3, 1949. | Cartoon |
Tom Jackson (born July 8, 1948) is a former American football player and coach. From Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Jackson played college football from 1967 to 1970 for Penn State. Recruited as a part of Joe Paterno's first recruiting class, Jackson earned All-East honors as a guard in 1968 and 1969. Jackson served as the head football coach at the University of Connecticut from 1983 to 1993, compiling a record of 62–57. He resigned on November 17, 1993. Prior to taking over as head coach at Connecticut in 1983, Jackson served as the offensive line coach there. | Coach |
Dashenko Adriano Ricardo (born March 1, 1990) is a Dutch professional baseball catcher, who is currently a free agent. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Baltimore Orioles in 2007. With the Orioles, he pitched in the Dominican Summer League in 2007, Gulf Coast League in 2008, South Atlantic League in 2009, Appalachian League in 2009–2010 and New York–Penn League in 2010. He was released by the Orioles and signed as a minor league free agent with the San Francisco Giants in 2011. He played for the Arizona League Giants in 2011 and the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes in 2012. The Giants released him in February, 2013. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 17, 2013. He bounced around the Dodgers system, appearing in 26 games for Class-A Great Lakes, 9 for AA Chattanooga and 2 for AAA Albuquerque. He was released by the Dodgers in March 2014. As a member of the Netherlands national baseball team he played in the 2009 Baseball World Cup , 2013 World Baseball Classic , 2014 France International Baseball Tournament , 2014 European Baseball Championship , 2015 World Port Tournament , 2015 WBSC Premier12 , 2016 Haarlem Baseball Week , 2016 France International Baseball Tournament , and the 2016 European Baseball Championship. | Athlete |
Parafossarulus crassitesta is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae. Glöer (2002) reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus as a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species. | Animal |
Grace Elizabeth Gold was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Denise, an ER nurse, and Carl Gold, an anesthesiologist. Her fraternal twin sister, Carly Gold, is younger by 40 minutes and is also a competitive figure skater. Gold was raised in Springfield, Missouri, before moving to Springfield, Illinois. She attended ninth grade at Glenwood Senior High School in Chatham, Illinois, before switching to online education. She has taken ballet lessons. | Winter Sport Player |
Acanthoplites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. Like many other Ammonites, Acanthoplites was a marine nektonic carnivore. | Animal |
The 1977 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the ninth annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Smith Swim Center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island during December 1977. California defeated UC Irvine in the final, 8–6, to win their fourth national title. This was a rematch of the 1973, 1974, and 1975 finals, all won by the Golden Bears. The leading scorer for the tournament was Scott Schulte from Bucknell (14 goals). Gary Figueroa, from UC Irvine, was named the Most Outstanding Player. An All-Tournament Team, consisting of seven players, was also named. | Tournament |
Line 8 (Diamond) is a line of the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos commuter rail system in São Paulo, Brazil. The extension from Itapevi and Amador Bueno is temporarily closed for renovation of the stations. It is expected to reopen in the end of 2012. | Route Of Transportation |
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema (born 27 July 1953) is a Rwandan politician previously associated with the moderate faction of the Republican Democratic Movement (MDR) party. He was Prime Minister of Rwanda from 1995–2000 and Education Minister from 1994-1995. When he was sworn in as Prime Minister he pledged to reunite his then ethnically torn country. In 2001, he was accused of alleged involvement in the Rwandan Genocide and had an arrest warrant issued for him by the Rwandan government. These charges were brought against him after his resignation as Prime Minister, when he fled to the United States to seek political asylum. At the time of the accusation, he was studying towards a Master's degree in Business Administration at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, United States. The political climate in Rwanda was volatile at the time. The speaker of the house, Joseph Sabarenzi, resigned and fled. There was allegations of a royalist faction working to undermine the RPF government, and restore the Tutsi monarchy. It has been reported that these charges against him may have been politically motivated. According to Joseph Sebarenzi, a Tutsi and former speaker of the national assembly from 1997 to 2000, in his newly published memoir \"God Sleeps in Rwanda\", he says that Rwigema was innocent. As quoted in Sebarenzi's memoir: \"Regularly I would hear from friends or on the radio that someone else in Rwanda was being targeted. There was Pierre Celestin Rwigema, the prime minister. He was forced to resign. While I was speaker, we had investigated him for mismanagement and embezzlement. The RPF wanted him out and hoped we would censure him. But our investigation could not prove that he had done anything wrong, so we cleared him. I knew that the RPF would not let that stand. So when I heard that Rwigema had resigned, I was not surprised. He eventually fled to the United States. The government of Rwanda told the U.S. government that he was involved in the genocide and asked that he be arrested. But an immigration judge cleared him\". He was eventually proven innocent and granted political asylum by the United States immigration court in Detroit. In October 2011, Rwanda's prosecutor general, Martin Ngoga reported to the media that the judicial process in Rwanda also found no evidence indicting Rwigema in involvement with genocide and therefore his case was suspended. Mr Rwigema returned to Rwanda after 11 years in exile, stating that he was returning freely, and soon held a press conference where he revealed that his primary motivation to return home was to participate in the ongoing development of the country. In early May 2012, Mr Rwigema was one of 8 candidates elected by the Rwandan parliament among 18 candidates to represent Rwanda in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). He vowed to advocate for effective implementation of the EAC common market and customs union protocols, and the fast-tracking of the negotiations on monetary union and the realization of a political federation. | Politician |
The 1952 Green Bay Packers season was their 33rd season in the National Football League. The club posted a 6–6 record under third-year head coach Gene Ronzani for a fourth-place finish in the National Conference in 1952. After climbing to a 6–3 record, the Packers lost their final three games, but the .500 record was their best since 1947. The Packers played their Milwaukee home games in Marquette Stadium during this season only, after using Wisconsin State Fair Park from 1934 through 1951. The new County Stadium became the venue in 1953, and hosted the Milwaukee home games through 1994, when they were discontinued. Head coach Ronzani was a Marquette University alumnus (1933) and won nine varsity letters in college. | Football League Season |
Cypriot Futsal First Division (Greek: Πρωτάθλημα Α' Κατηγορίας Futsal) is the top tier futsal league in Cyprus. It was founded in 1999 and is organized by Cyprus Football Association. The competition is played under UEFA and FIFA rules, currently consists of 11 teams. | Sports League |
Benton is a town in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,385 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Polk County. Benton is included in the Cleveland Metropolitan Statistical Area. | Settlement |
Manuel Aleman (born 26 August 1980) is a Mexican male artistic gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions, including at the 2003 Pan American Games. | Athlete |
Schizogenius is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species: \n* Schizogenius amphibius (Haldeman, 1843) \n* Schizogenius apicalis Putzeys, 1861 \n* Schizogenius arechavaletae Putzeys, 1866 \n* Schizogenius arimao Darlington, 1934 \n* Schizogenius auripennis Bates, 1881 \n* Schizogenius baenningeri Kult, 1950 \n* Schizogenius basalis Putzeys, 1866 \n* Schizogenius bicolor Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius brevicornis (Brulle, 1837) \n* Schizogenius brevisetosus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius capitalis Putzeys, 1861 \n* Schizogenius carinatus Whitehead, 1966 \n* Schizogenius cearaensis Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius chiricahuanus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius clivinoides Putzeys, 1866 \n* Schizogenius costiceps Steinheil, 1869 \n* Schizogenius costipennis Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius crenulatus Leconte, 1852 \n* Schizogenius darlingtoni Kult, 1950 \n* Schizogenius depressus Leconte, 1852 \n* Schizogenius dilatus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius dyschirioides Putzeys, 1861 \n* Schizogenius elongatus Kult, 1950 \n* Schizogenius emdeni Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius falli Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius ferrugineus Putzeys, 1846 \n* Schizogenius freyi Baehr, 1983 \n* Schizogenius gracilis Putzeys, 1846 \n* Schizogenius impressicollis Putzeys, 1846 \n* Schizogenius impuncticollis Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius interstriatus Putzeys, 1878 \n* Schizogenius iridescens (Putzeys, 1866) \n* Schizogenius janae Kult, 1950 \n* Schizogenius kulti Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius leprieuri (Castelnau, 1835) \n* Schizogenius lindrothi Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius lineolatus (Say, 1823) \n* Schizogenius litigiosus Fall, 1901 \n* Schizogenius longipennis Putzeys, 1866 \n* Schizogenius maculatus Kult, 1950 \n* Schizogenius multipunctatus Kult, 1950 \n* Schizogenius multisetosus Bates, 1891 \n* Schizogenius negrei Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius neovalidus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius ocellatus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius ochthocephalus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius optimus Bates, 1881 \n* Schizogenius ozarkensis Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius pacificus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius planulatus Leconte, 1863 \n* Schizogenius planuloides Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius pluripunctatus Leconte, 1852 \n* Schizogenius plurisetosus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius putzeysii Kirsch, 1873 \n* Schizogenius pygmaeus Vandyke, 1925 \n* Schizogenius quadripunctatus Putzeys, 1866 \n* Schizogenius quinquesulcatus Putzeys, 1861 \n* Schizogenius reichardti Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius riparius Putzeys, 1878 \n* Schizogenius sallei Putzeys, 1866 \n* Schizogenius scopaeus Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius sculptilis Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius sellatus Putzeys, 1866 \n* Schizogenius seticollis Fall, 1901 \n* Schizogenius strigicollis Putzeys, 1846 \n* Schizogenius sulcatulus Putzeys, 1846 \n* Schizogenius sulcifrons Putzeys, 1846 \n* Schizogenius suturalis Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius szekessyi Kult, 1950 \n* Schizogenius tenuis Bates, 1881 \n* Schizogenius tibialis Whitehead, 1972 \n* Schizogenius tristriatus Putzeys, 1846 \n* Schizogenius truquii Putzeys, 1866 \n* Schizogenius whiteheadi Nichols, 1982 \n* Schizogenius xanthopus (Brulle, 1837) | Animal |
Mighty Sounds is one of the biggest ska and punk rock festivals in Europe. The festival, located in the Czech Republic, first took place in 2005, in the village of Olší near Opařany, remaining at that location for its first five years. In 2010 it was moved to the disused airport of Tábor. In 2007 the festival attracted around 10,000 people, and in 2010 its attendance exceeded 12,000 people. | Societal Event |
Ian McGinnis (born September 27, 1978) is an American former basketball player for Dartmouth College's men's basketball team. He is best known for leading NCAA Division I in rebounding during his sophomore season in 1998–99. He averaged 12.2 rebounds per game and was the first Dartmouth player to average a double-digit number of rebounds in 38 years. To date, McGinnis is the only Dartmouth player to have ever led the nation in this statistical category. McGinnis grew up in Manhattan, New York. He attended the Collegiate School in the Upper West Side, and as a senior in 1996–97, averaged 23 points, 15 rebounds and six blocks per game. He chose Dartmouth over other Ivy League schools Penn, Princeton and Harvard largely in part because his father is an alumnus and his brother was a student there at the time. He also cited the potential of getting a lot of playing time as a freshman as another reason for choosing the Big Green. A 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) center, McGinnis finished his career at Dartmouth with close to 900 points and over 1,000 rebounds. After graduating he played professionally in both France and Portugal as well as being part of the Washington Generals/New York Nationals, playing against the Harlem Globetrotters. | Athlete |
Andrew \"Andy\" Higginbotham (born 22 October 1964) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Chesterfield, Cambridge United and Crystal Palace. | Athlete |
Pope John V of Alexandria, 72nd Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.He was initially a monk in the Monastery of Saint John the Dwarf in Scetes. He was enthroned as a Pope of Alexandria on the second day of Pi Kogi Enavot, 863 A.M. (25 August 1147). During his papacy, the Copts were persecuted by the Muslim governors and Caliphs. Many were killed and sold as slaves. Several churches in Cairo, such as the church of Saint Menas in Saint Mary Church (Haret Elroum) and the church of El-Zohari, were plundered and destroyed. They were later rebuilt by the Coptic layman Abu El-Fakhr Salib Ibn Mikhail. It was also at this time (1164 AD) that Saint Bashnouna was killed by the Muslims. According to the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria, the Emperor of Ethiopia wrote to John in 1152 for a new abuna or Metropolitan, because Abuna Mikael was too old; his request was denied. Although the name of the Emperor was not recorded, Carlo Conti Rossini identified him as Mara Takla Haymanot, arguing from this exchange that the true reason a new abuna was wanted was that Abuna Mikael refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the new Zagwe Dynasty. Pope John denied this request and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned for two weeks during the reign of the Fatimid caliph Al-Zafir. During John's papacy, the expression Life-giving was added to the liturgical confession, which became: This is the Life-giving Flesh that Thine Only-Begotten Son, Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ, took from our Lady .... Pope John V died on 4 Pashons, 882 A.M. (29 April 1166 AD) after 18 years, 8 months, and 4 days on the Throne of Saint Mark. | Cleric |
The Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle is a cyclo-cross race held in Oostmalle, Belgium, which is part of the BPost Bank Trophy until 2014. Since the 2014-2015 season it became an independent race but still with the back-up from the UCI. It is traditionally the last important race of the cyclo-cross season. The race is held in the woods of Christophe Lenaerts and the military airfield. | Race |
Geer is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Zederik, and lies about 9 km northeast of Gorinchem. The statistical area \"Geer\", which also can include the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 60. | Settlement |
Manuel 'Manolo' Zambrano Díaz (born 8 March 1960) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and a manager. | Sports Manager |
Ralitsa Rangelova (Bulgarian: Ралица Рангелова) (born 20 October 1978) is a Bulgarian 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 |
AirClass Airways was an airline based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. It operated passenger services from Spain, as well as charters and wet lease services. Its main base was Gran Canaria International Airport. | Company |
Buddleja davidii 'Shapcott Lavender' is a British cultivar listed by Anita Allen of the Shapcott Barton Estate, South Molton, Devon. | Plant |
The Asbestos Azteques were a Canadian minor pro ice hockey team in Asbestos, Quebec. They played in the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League from 1997-2003. They were named the Azteques from 1997-2000, and from 2002-2003, and the Dube from 2000-2002. | Sports Team |
Leucorchestris arenicola (commonly called the Dancing White Lady Spider) is a huntsman spider found in the deserts of Namibia. It should not be confused with the similarly named Wheel spider from the same locale. It relies on seismic vibrations for communication. It taps its foremost legs on the sand to send messages to other white lady spiders. Male white lady spiders will travel more than a mile in one night searching for a mate. If they do find a mate, they must be extremely careful, for drumming the wrong message can be deadly. The species was first described by Reginald Frederick Lawrence in 1962, who described all the species in the Leucorchestris genus. | Animal |
Tuditanus is an extinct genus of tuditanid microsaur from the Carboniferous, ~306 Mya. It was of small size, reaching a length of about 24 cm. | Animal |
In Greco-Roman mythology, Sergestus was a Trojan friend of Aeneas. He was the ancestor of gens Sergia, a famous Patrician family of which Catilina was a member. In Virgil's Aeneid, during a funerary ship race Aeneas gives to Sergestus a Cretan slave girl named Pholoe in gratitude for saving both ship and crew. And Serguestus, from the house of the name Sergia— Virgil, Sergestusque, domus tenet a quo Sergia nomen, Aeneid (Latin) Sergestus also appears as a minor character in Christopher Marlowe's play Dido, Queen of Carthage. | Fictional Character |
Erika Burgess (born 1 October 1984 in New Plymouth, New Zealand) is a New Zealand netball player. Burgess plays for the Southern Steel in the ANZ Championship, having previously played for the Western Flyers (2003–06) and Southern Sting (2007) in the National Bank Cup. A former member of the New Zealand A squad, Burgess made the extended training squad for the Silver Ferns, although has yet to make it into the senior team. | Athlete |
A Birthday Hansel, Op. 92, is a song cycle for 'high voice' and harp composed by Benjamin Britten and set to texts by Robert Burns. The last song cycle that Britten wrote, it was composed in honour of the Queen Mother's 75th birthday, at the request of her daughter, Elizabeth II. Composed in March 1975, the piece was given its debut performance in January 1976 by Britten's life partner Peter Pears and harpist Osian Ellis. In recognition of the Queen Mother's Scottish ancestry Britten chose seven poems by Burns, sung in the Scots language, and performed without a break. 'Hansel' is a Scots word meaning welcome gift or present. At Britten's request Colin Matthews arranged four of the songs for voice and piano, these were published separately as Four Burns Songs in 1978. | Musical Work |
Salem Hanna Khamis (November 22, 1919 – June 16, 2005) was a Palestinian economic statistician for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization who helped formalise the Geary-Khamis method of computing purchasing power parity of currencies. | Person |
Stefan Winter (born 16 March 1968) is a German ski mountaineer, former coach of the German ski mountaineering team and alpine sports author. Winter is teacher of sports and German and a DAV mountain guide. He took part in several ski mountaineering tours in his teens and competed in ski mountaineering events, amongst others in the 2001 Trofeo Mezzalama race, in the 2005 Pierra Menta race together with Günther Maier, in the Trophee du Muveran and others. At the DAV he was head of the school sports climbing section of the \"mountain climbing, training and security\" department as well as leader of the DAV youth course program, a mountain climbing training institution for children and teens. In 2002 he became coordinator of ski mountaineering at the DAV under Dr. Wolfgang Wabel, head of the \"sports climbing—ski mountaineering—competitive mountain climbing\" department. In this position he led the establishment of the national ski mountaineering team. He was also member of the DAV federal instruction team of mountain climbing as well as member of the special DAV federal instruction team of sports climbing. Furthermore he was voluntary speaker of school sports and general sports climbing of the DAV Oberland section and was responsible for the sportive workflow organization at the 2005 World Climbing Championship in Munich. At the moment he is responsible for popular mountain sports, sports development and security research at the DAV, and is technical adviser of Salewa. He lives in Munich. In his coach position he was followed by Hermann Kofler. | Winter Sport Player |
Big Boss Band is the 1990 studio album of George Benson on Warner Bros. featuring the Count Basie Orchestra. It's his second consecutive album which returns to his jazz roots after his successful pop career in the 1980s, and also his debut as sole producer of an album. The genre is mainly big band swing with some Michel Legrand and R&B thrown in. | Musical Work |
Pilz Glacier (also known as Pit Glacier) is in Wenatchee National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington and is on the north slopes Luahna Peak. Pilz Glacier descends from 8,000 to 6,900 ft (2,400 to 2,100 m). An arête separates Pilz Glacier from Butterfly Glacier to the west. Pilz Glacier is within the Glacier Peak Wilderness and is just over 6.5 mi (10.5 km) southeast of Glacier Peak. | Natural Place |
Sciaromiopsis sinensis is a species of moss in the family Amblystegiaceae. It is endemic to China, where it is known from only three locations. This is an aquatic moss that only grows in clear rivers and streams. It has not been seen since the first specimens were collected 100 years ago, and its known habitat is now polluted and heavy with silt, so it is possible that it has become extinct. This moss forms glossy brown mats with branching stems up to 12 centimeters long. | Plant |
Lok Sin Tong Leung Kau Kui College(Mandarin ：樂善堂梁銶琚書院, abbreviated as LSTLKKC) is a coeducational, government-aided sixth form college located in Hong Kong, China. The school was founded in 1991, though it was originally called Lok Sin Tong Leung Qiu Ju College and was located in the West Road mountains. The Hospital Road site, where the college is currently located, was formerly occupied by the Yucai and Liang Wenyan secondary schools, Ms. Dawson Middle School, and the Kennedy Town Government Secondary School. | Educational Institution |
Libocedrus chevalieri is a species of conifer in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia, occurring in three small, isolated populations on low mountain summits at 650–1,620 m altitude in cloud forest scrub on serpentine soils. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is an evergreen coniferous shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 5 m tall, often multi-stemmed, with trunks up to 10 cm diameter. The foliage is arranged in flattened sprays; the leaves are scale-like, 2.5–5 mm long and 2–2.5 mm broad, arranged in opposite decussate pairs on the shoots. The seed cones are cylindrical, 12–16 mm long, with four scales each with a prominent curved spine-like bract; they are arranged in two opposite decussate pairs around a small central columella; the outer pair of scales is small and sterile, the inner pair large, each bearing two winged seeds. They are mature about six to eight months after pollination. The pollen cones are 8–10 mm long. | Plant |
Early parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of Macedonia on 5 June 2011, a year earlier than necessary. All 123 parliamentary seats of the Sobranie were due for election, including the 3 seats provided for the first time for representatives of the Macedonian citizens living abroad: 1 from Europe, 1 from North America, and 1 from Asia and Australia. The decision of the ruling parties, the Christian Democratic VMRO-DPMNE and the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), to dissolve the Parliament and call for an early election was preceded by protests of the Social Democratic Union (SDSM), the major opposition party, and subsequent boycott of the Parliament by them, and by other smaller opposition parties. | Societal Event |
Ryan Singel is a San Francisco-based blogger and journalist covering tech business, tech policy, civil liberty and privacy issues. His work has appeared extensively in Wired.com, and Singel co-founded the Threat Level blog with journalist and convicted hacker Kevin Lee Poulsen. As of 2008, he began covering tech business news for \"Wired.com\"'s Epicenter blog. Singel has covered issues of government monitoring, and has been a chronicler of AT&T's alleged involvement in the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy. Involvement by Wired News in the case has been criticized by federal authorities. Singel also founded a copy editing company called The Universal Desk in 2009. Singel said November 2, 2012 is his last day on the job at Wired. He is leaving Wired to run the startup called Contextly. | Person |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 3, 1927. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. | Natural Event |
Anna Branzell, also Anna Lous-Mohr Branzell, (née Mohr, 30 March 1895 – 19 July 1983) was a Norwegian-born Swedish architect. She was the first woman to earn a degree in architecture in Sweden, graduating from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1919. | Person |
Guy Leonard Home (born 13 September 1964) is a former English cricketer. Home was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Home made his debut for Shropshire in the 1991 Minor Counties Championship against Dorset. Home played Minor counties cricket for Shropshire from 1991 to 2006, which included 44 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 17 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. He made his List A debut against Oxfordshire in the 2nd round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, which was played in 2001. He made 5 further List A appearances, the last of which came against Hampshire in the 1st round of the 2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. In his 5 List A matches, he scored 39 runs at an average of 7.80, with a high score of 16. | Athlete |
George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of the founders of social psychology and of what has come to be referred to as the Chicago sociological tradition. | Person |
Michael B. Stuart (born August 31, 1980 in Rochester, Minnesota) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Lørenskog of the Norwegian Eliteserien. | Winter Sport Player |
Murlene Randle is the Director of the Office of Criminal Justice for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and a Discrimination Attorney. She graduated with a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law. | Person |
The Hollywood Wax Museum in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is the fourth wax museum owned and operated by descendants of Spoony Singh. Opened on June 14, 2014, it is located at 21st Avenue North and U.S. 17 Bypass as a part of Broadway at the Beach. It features replicas of United States celebrities in film, television and music, as well as a NASCAR set and a section devoted to horror villains. The building is a tribute to the U.S. film industry and includes a 35-foot-tall Great Ape of Myrtle Beach | Building |
Rita Chikwelu (born 6 March 1988) is a Nigerian female professional football player who plays for Swedish Damallsvenskan club Umeå IK. She is also a member of the Nigeria women's national football team (The Super Falcons). Chikwelu participated in the FIFA U-20 World Cup from 2004–2008 and made her senior national team debut in 2007 at the FIFA women's World Cup. She was a member of the Nigerian Olympic team which participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China and a member of the Nigerian squad in the 2011 FIFA women's World Cup. From 2006 to 2009 Chikwelu played in Finland for FC United. She was the top scorer of Finnish women's league Naisten Liiga in 2009 with 22 goals. | Athlete |
Marcelina Kiala (born 9 November 1979) is a retired Angolan female handball player and a former member of the Angola women's national handball team. Kiala competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics, 2005 and 2007 World Women's Handball Championship. She is the sister of fellow Angolan women's handball player, Luisa Kiala, half-sister of Natália Bernardo and the wife of former Angolan handball coach Vivaldo Eduardo. | Athlete |
\"Mister Music Man\" was the first runner up in the Swiss preselection to the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 and when the song \"Soleil, soleil\" performed by Géraldine Olivier was disqualified \"Mister Music Man\" was selected to represent Switzerland instead. The song was composed by Gordon Dent and sung by Daisy Auvray in French. On the night of the contest, held in Malmö, Sweden, the song was performed 13th, following Finland's Pave Maijanen singing \"Yamma, yamma\" and preceding Luxembourg's Marion Welter with Kontinent singing \"Sou fräi\". At the close of the voting it had received 32 points, placing 15th in a field of 23. The song was succeeded as Swiss representative at the 1993 contest by Annie Cotton with \"Moi, tout simplement\". | Song |
Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario. Coach House publishes innovative and experimental poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. The press is particularly interested in writing that pushes at the boundaries of convention. | Company |
Liocarcinus is a genus of crabs, which includes the flying crab, the vernal crab and several other swimming crabs. It includes 12 species : \n* Liocarcinus bolivari (Zariquiey Alvarez, 1948) \n* Liocarcinus corrugatus (Pennant, 1777) – wrinkled swimming crab \n* Liocarcinus depurator (Linnaeus, 1758) – blue-leg swimming crab, harbour crab, sandy swimming crab \n* Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798) – flying crab \n* Liocarcinus maculatus (Risso, 1827) \n* Liocarcinus marmoreus (Leach, 1814) – marbled swimming crab \n* Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794) \n* Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1815) – dwarf swimming crab \n* Liocarcinus rondeletii (Risso, 1816) \n* Liocarcinus subcorrugatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) \n* Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816) – vernal crab \n* Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968 | Animal |
The Berlin Motor Show originally started in 1897 in the German capital Berlin as the home of the International Motor Show (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung, IAA) and ran until 1939. From 1951 the IAA eventually became established in Frankfurt. A new bi-annual Motor Show, called Autos, Avus, Attraktionen (AAA), was established by the Messe Berlin company in 1978. The last show was held in 2000, with the 2002 show cancelled four months prior to the expected 2002 exhibition. | Societal Event |
Joel Gisler (born February 25, 1994 in Bürglen) is a Swiss freestyle skier, specializing in halfpipe. Gisler competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Switzerland. He placed 18th in the qualifying round in the halfpipe, failing to advance. Gisler made his World Cup debut in March 2011. As of April 2014, his best World Cup finish is 16th, at Sierra Nevada in 2012–13. His best World Cup overall finish in halfpipe is 34th, in 2010–11. | Winter Sport Player |
Ruler on Ice (born April 2, 2008) is a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 2011 Belmont Stakes. He was bred and foaled in Kentucky by Brandywine Farm in partnership with Liberation Farm on. He is a chestnut gelding sired by Hill 'n' Dale Farms' Roman Ruler out of the Saratoga Six-bred mare, Champagne Glow. The colt was consigned as lot 988 at the 2009 Keeneland September yearling auction, where he was purchased by George and Lori Hall for $100,000. Ruler on Ice only won one minor race after winning the Belmont and was retired from racing in July 2014. He currently lives in Versailles, Kentucky at the farm of his owners. | Horse |
Loch Dochard is an upland freshwater loch lying approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) west of Bridge of Orchy in Strathclyde, Scotland. The loch has an irregular shape with a perimeter of 3 km (1.9 mi). It is approximately 0.66 mi (1.06 km) long, has an average depth of 12 ft (3.7 m) and is 42 ft (13 m) at its deepest. The loch was surveyed on 18 May 1903 by Sir John Murray and later charted as part of his Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909. | Body Of Water |
Ballognatha is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders), with the single species B. typica. It occurs in Karakorum. The species and genus were described based on a single immature and misclassified specimen. It is highly likely that there exists no real species with characters fitting the original description. Genus and species are thus a nomen dubium. | Animal |
The Paloona Power Station is a conventional hydroelectric power station located in northern Tasmania, Australia. | Infrastructure |
Clausidium vancouverense, the red copepod, is a symbiont of the ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis. It is one of six species in the genus Clausidium and is found with its host in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California. | Animal |
Josef Richard Frings (6 February 1887 – 17 December 1978), was a German Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1942 to 1969. Considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism, he was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII. | Cleric |
Discovery Island Lighthouse is an active lighthouse built in 1886 on Pandora Hill which is the highest point on Discovery Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. | Tower |
The Blob Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus) is a species of deep-sea fish of the Psychrolutidae family. It feeds mainly on crustaceans, molluscs, and sea urchins. It lives off the continental shelves in very deep water (839–2800 m) in the North Pacific ocean by the coasts of Japan, the Bering Sea, and California. When the female lays eggs the male guards them. Blob sculpin have spikes on their scales to protect them from enemies. | Animal |
McKaskle v. Wiggins, 465 U.S. 168 (1984), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court considered the role of standby counsel in a criminal trial where the defendant conducted his own defense (pro se). In this case the defendant claimed his Sixth Amendment right to present his own case in a criminal trial was violated by the presence of a court-appointed standby counsel. | Legal Case |