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Noah Buxton (6 November 1876 – 26 May 1967) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1902 and 1911. Buxton was born at Codnor, Derbyshire, the son of William Buxton, a coal miner, and his wife Mary. In 1881 the family was living at Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Buxton made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1902 season. In his opening match against Warwickshire in June, he achieved his best bowling performance of 2 for 14. He played four more matches for Derbyshire during the 1902 season. In 1905, he played for Staffordshire in a Minor Counties match and reappeared for Derbyshire for one match in the 1907 season. In 1909 he was playing minor counties cricket for Cheshire but put in two appearances for Derbyshire in the 1911 season. Buxton was a right-hand batsman and played 14 innings in 7 first class matches with an average of 3.33 and a top score of 7. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and took five first class wickets at an average of 34.2 and a best performance of 2 for 14. Buxton died at Pontefract, Yorkshire at the age of 90. His nephew Joseph Buxton played cricket for Nottinghamshire in 1937. | Athlete |
John Fitzgibbon (born 21 September 1992) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for the Limerick senior team. Born in Adare, County Limerick, Fitzgibbon was introduced to hurling in his youth. He enjoyed Harty Cup success at colleges level with Ardscoil Rís while simultaneously enjoying championship successes at underage levels with the Adare club. Fitzgibbon has won one championship medal. Fitzgibbon made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Limerick minor team. He later lined out with the under-21 team. Fitzgibbon made his senior debut during the 2015 Waterford Crystal Cup. He has since gone on to become a regular member of the Limerick senior team. | Athlete |
The 2004–05 Khuzestan Tournament was a two-day pre-season men's football friendly tournament hosted by Persian Gulf Pro League clubs Foolad Khuzestan B and Esteghlal Ahvaz between clubs of cities that located around the Shatt al-Arab river exclusively, which is located on its banks: Ahvaz (Iran) from the east, and Basra (Iraq) from the west. The 2004–05 edition of the Khuzestan Tournament took place on December 31, 2004 and January 1, 2005 and featured Foolad Khuzestan B, Esteghlal Ahvaz B, Al-Mina'a, and Naft Al-Janoob. | Tournament |
Walid ibn Yazid or Walid II (709 – 17 April 744) (Arabic: الوليد بن يزيد) was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 743 until 744. He succeeded his uncle, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. | Person |
Lake Istokpoga is a 26,762.9-acre (108.306 km2) freshwater lake in Highlands County, Florida. It is fed by two creeks, Arbuckle Creek and Josephine Creek. The oblong-shaped lake is approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) wide by 10 miles (16 km) long. It is considered the fifth largest lake in the state of Florida. Despite its area, it is very shallow, with an average depth of only 4 feet (1.2 m). Maximum depth is 10 feet (3.0 m). As a result, boaters must be cautious to not become stranded in muck near the shore line. Bass and pontoon boats are the most commonly used watercraft, with some use of airboats. With such shallowness, this lake is extremely dangerous for boaters during windstorms, as the waves get quite high. Boating and fishing are popular activities at this lake. There are at least half a dozen fish camps on Lake Istokpoga. Several of these fish camps book visitors for fishing trips and they also have cabins and hook up for campers, for overnight stays. The amenities on the lake are 5 public boat ramps and 2 public parks, one on the lake's north side and the other on the south east corner. Most of the shoreline is undeveloped and there are two islands, Big and Bumble Bee, in the lake's interior. Some residential properties and private boat docks and beaches dot areas on the shore. Local legend is that the word Istokpoga is of the Seminole language meaning \"a lake where was someone was killed in the water\" because a group of Seminole Indians attempted to cross the lake and were bogged in the mire and swallowed by whirlpools. Lake Istokpoga serves as a home for the snail kite. | Body Of Water |
The Hillsboro Free Press is a local weekly newspaper from Hillsboro, Kansas. The paper publishes every Wednesday. It is one of two newspapers in the city, the other being the Hillsboro Star-Journal. | Periodical Literature |
\"We Love You Beatles\" is a song by the Carefrees. It was a 1964 novelty record about The Beatles. The song peaked at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was released on the London International label #10614. The song was based on \"We Love You Conrad\" from the musical Bye Bye Birdie and has simple lyrics (\"We love you Beatles, oh yes we do!\"). Individual verses also have \"We love you _____ (replace with \"Ringo\", \"John\", \"Paul\", and \"George\", in that order) along with reasons why the group loves that particular Beatle. It also includes al least three different vocal and instrumental quotations from the Beatles' 1963 hit song \"She Loves You\", suggesting the fact that \"We Love You Beatles\" was a reply to it. | Musical Work |
The 2016–17 season is West Ham United's fifth campaign in the Premier League since being promoted in the 2011–12 season. It will be West Ham's 21st Premier League campaign overall in their 122nd year in existence, and their first in the Olympic Stadium. As well as competing in the Premier League, West Ham United will take part in the FA Cup and League Cup, entering at the third round in both competitions. Despite finishing outside of the UEFA Europa League places in the 2015–16 Premier League, West Ham participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League as a result of Manchester United winning the 2016 FA Cup Final. | Sports Team Season |
Kordell Stewart (born October 16, 1972), nicknamed \"Slash\", is a former American football player who played eleven years in the National Football League (NFL). Stewart attended the University of Colorado and was the 60th player selected in the 1995 NFL draft. Playing for Colorado in 1994 he completed a Hail Mary pass to beat the University of Michigan 27–26, a play which became known as \"The Miracle at Michigan.\" Among NFL quarterbacks, his 38 rushing touchdowns ranks him fourth all-time, behind Steve Young and Cam Newton (both with 43) and Jack Kemp (with 40). The NFL Network named him #6 on its list of the 10 most versatile players in NFL history. He played mostly at quarterback, but also played wide receiver for a year. | Gridiron Football Player |
Pride Magazine is the largest and most successful magazine targeting black British, mixed race, African and African-Caribbean women in the United Kingdom. The lifestyle magazine has been in publication since 1991. While many magazines have come and gone over this period, Pride has been the only stable strong title in this category and has over its 18 years become the dominant title in this market and been one of the few niche titles that attracts mainstream advertisers of the likes of Ford and Vodafone. The magazine has a circulation over 30,000 copies each month and is seen by many advertisers as the most effective method to reach Black British in the UK. Pride magazine is also the only black media company of any size that still remains in black British ownership and in 2012 celebrated its 21st year as the market leader. The Guardian newspaper stated back in 2007 that \"Pride magazine has dominated its market for over 15 years.\" The magazine changed its format in 2011 as it turned 20 to the popular glamour-sized format and is still seen as an inspiring and aspiring magazine for the Black British community. | Periodical Literature |
In taxonomy, the Oltmansiellopsidales are an order of green algae, specifically the Ulvophyceae. | Plant |
The Wyndham Championship is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played annually in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S., and was originally called the Greater Greensboro Open. In 2007, the event was renamed the Wyndham Championship when Wyndham Hotels & Resorts took over from DaimlerChrysler as title sponsor. It moved from an autumn date to mid-August and is the last PGA Tour event before the FedEx Cup Playoffs, giving golfers one last chance to qualify for the FedEx Cup. The tournament was founded in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open. It was usually played in April or May, until a schedule change in 2003 moved it toward the end of the season. Sam Snead set a PGA Tour record for his eight wins at the event, as well as for his win in 1965, which made him the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event. Both records still stand. Davis Love III, the 2015 champion, is the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event in the Champions Tour era (since 1980), when golfers over 50 began participating in their own separate tour. Charlie Sifford competed in the 1961 tournament, the first time an African American golfer was permitted to play in a PGA-sponsored event in the South. The purse for 2015 was $5.4 million; the winner's share was $972,000. | Tournament |
The National Museum of the Pacific War is located in Fredericksburg, Texas, the boyhood home of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Fleet Admiral Nimitz served as CinCPAC, Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet during World War II. The six acre site includes the Admiral Nimitz Museum which is housed in the old Nimitz Hotel and tells the story of Fleet Admiral Nimitz beginning with his life as a young boy through his naval career as well as the evolution of the old hotel. | Building |
Mine Safety and Health News is the only credentialed, independent reporting service in the U.S. covering the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. It is not affiliated with any mining organization, lobbying group, policy group, labor or political organization, or mining company. It does not accept advertising and is strictly a subscription-based news and research publication. Membership: Society of Professional Journalists; Investigative Reporters and Editors; Specialized Information Publishers Association; Associate member of the Associated Press. | Periodical Literature |
HC Slavia Sofia (Bulgarian: Славия София), Slaviya Sofiya) is an ice hockey team from the Bulgarian Hockey League based outside Sofia, Bulgaria. The team has won 19 league titles, and are a member of the Slavia Sofia sports club. | Sports Team |
The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (Montenegrin: Demokratska Partija Socijalista Crne Gore, Cyrillic Демократска Партија Социјалиста Црне Горе, DPS) is a social-democratic political party in Montenegro. It is one of the major parties in the politics of Montenegro. The party was formed in 1991 as the successor of the League of Communists of Montenegro, which had governed Montenegro within the Yugoslav federation since World War II. Since its formation and the introduction of a multi-party system, the DPS has played a dominant role in Montenegrin politics, forming the backbone of every coalition government to date. At the 2012 legislative elections held on 14 October, the DPS along with the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro (SDP) as the Coalition for a European Montenegro won 39 out of 81 seats. This coalition, along with its longtime partner the Bosniak Party, once again formed a majority in the Parliament of Montenegro and held the right to appoint the Government. The DPS itself won 31 seats. The current Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Đukanović and President Filip Vujanović are both members of the party. The DPS is internationally affiliated to the Socialist International and Progressive Alliance, and is an associate affiliate of the Party of European Socialists. | Organisation |
Hein-Arne Mathiesen (born 4 April 1971) is a retired Norwegian ski jumper. In the World Cup he finished once among the top 10, with a ninth place from Willingen in February 1997. He won the Continental Cup in the 1996/97 season. | Winter Sport Player |
Les Érinnyes (The Erinyes) is a French language verse drama written by Leconte de Lisle and premièred at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1873. It is in the style of a Greek tragedy, in two acts: Klytaimnestra (Clytemnestra) and Orestès (Orestes). It was an adaptation of the first two parts of Aeschylus' Oresteia (Agamemnon and Libation Bearers). The text was printed in de Lisle's collection Poèmes Tragiques. | Musical Work |
Zero Tolerance Magazine is an extreme music magazine published by Obdurate Ltd. in the United Kingdom. Published bi-monthly, it can be found on newsstands in the UK, Europe and North America - and is available (with some delay) on newsstands in Australia and specialist retailers in New Zealand and Taiwan. The magazine features a covermount CD. It was launched in 2004 by Lisa Macey (formerly publisher of Terrorizer Magazine) and Leon Macey (of experimental UK extreme metal band Mithras). The magazine is edited by Nathan T.Birk. Previous editors are Calum Harvie and Lee du-Caine. Zero Tolerance Magazine gives coverage to both established extreme music artists and underground artists without the balance of coverage tipping in favour of the most obvious artists. ZT is especially notable for seeking out obscure artists in experimental noise music and power electronics - a 4-page section entitled Power Lines is curated by the magazine's resident noise \"expert\" Scott McKeating and features every issue. With Nathan T. Birk curating the Underground Black Metal (UGBM) section and the recent introduction of the Cormac O'Síocháin curated Anger Burning section - dedicated to crust, d-beat, rawpunk, hardcore-punk and dis-core - the magazine covers metal as well as similar genres. Industry features with visual artists, directors, music producers and the like have been regular in Zero Tolerance Magazine since its launch in 2004 and the magazine has been home to interviews with the likes of HR Giger, Dan Seagrave, John Carpenter and Andy Sneap. Contributors, referred to as \"The Panel\", hail from the UK, North America, continental Europe, and Australia. Notable regular contributors include Chris Kee, Alan Averill aka Nemtheanga of Primordial, Cormac O'Síocháin, Scott McKeating, John Norby, Liz Ciavarella, Callum Brownson-Smith and MetalGeorge. | Periodical Literature |
The Delaware Extension was a rail line owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line, located in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ran from Arsenal Interlocking in West Philadelphia southeast, south, east and north to the intersection of Delaware Avenue (now Columbus Boulevard) and Dock Street. It junctioned the West Philadelphia Elevated Branch at Arsenal, crossed the Schuylkill River on the Arsenal Bridge, intersected with the Washington Avenue Branch, Girard Point Branch, Swanson Street Branch (twice), and Washington Avenue Branch again in South Philadelphia, and became the Delaware Avenue Branch at Dock Street. The line from Arsenal to Greenwich Yard on the Delaware River is now part of CSX Transportation's Harrisburg Subdivision. From Greenwich Yard north to Dock Street, the line is owned by the Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad and used by both CSX and the Norfolk Southern Railway under Conrail trackage rights. | Route Of Transportation |
The 2006 German Grand Prix (formally the Mobil 1 Grand Prix of Germany) was a Formula One motor race held at the Hockenheimring on 30 July 2006. The 67-lap race was the twelfth round of the 2006 Formula One season and was won Michael Schumacher. The Grand Prix weekend got off to a controversial start when the mass damper system fitted by Renault was deemed legal by the FIA appointed stewards, despite the FIA banning the use of these devices. The FIA appealed against the steward's decision, but Renault then withdrew the system after Friday practice to avoid further sanctions. Kimi Räikkönen took pole position, but it proved artificial as McLaren had inadvertently not put enough fuel as intended in his car before qualifying. In the race, Räikkönen's early pitstop left him unable to challenge at the front, and the way was left clear for Ferrari to score a dominant one-two. Perhaps due to the damper issue, Renault were not competitive; it was the first time in 2006 that neither of their cars finished the race on the podium. Sakon Yamamoto made his Formula One début at the Grand Prix, starting from pit lane after changing chassis after the qualifying session. He was not the only one to suffer changes after qualifying, as Jarno Trulli and Christijan Albers both had to change engines, incurring ten-place penalties. A nightmare weekend for Albers was summed up with his disqualification, along with team-mate Tiago Monteiro, as the Midlands were disqualified after the race for having illegally flexing rear wings. The race also saw the last appearance by 1997 champion Jacques Villeneuve, who blamed the split on the \"lack of assurances about his short-term future with BMW Sauber\". Robert Kubica was promoted internally at BMW to drive at the Hungaroring because Villeneuve was still recovering from the after-effects of his crash in Germany, and went on to race in all the remaining Grands Prix. | Sports Event |
The 2009–10 Hazfi Cup was the 23rd season of the Iranian football knockout competition. Zob Ahan Isfahan was the defending champion. The cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2011 AFC Champions League. | Tournament |
Wayne Primmer (born 9 January 1959) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and West Torrens in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Recruited from Woomelang, Primmer was a rover and had a particularly strong season in 1978, where he kicked 24 goals in his first six appearances that year, with seven goal hauls against South Melbourne, Carlton and Richmond. By the end of the season he had amassed 47 goals, which were enough to top Essendon's goal-kicking. Primmer transferred to SANFL club West Torrens for the 1980 season, then to Mid-Murray Football League club Lalbert, in 1981 and 1982, the first as captain-coach. In 1983 he joined Hamilton as captain-coach and from 1984 to 1987 he played with Benalla, captain-coaching them in every year except 1986. | Athlete |
Planet PC was a British PC gaming magazine aimed at pre-teens, first published in December 1999. It was issued monthly by Future plc in Bath, Somerset, and was backed by a marketing budget of GB£50 thousand. Similar magazines published by Future included PC Format, for which Planet PC was hoped to be a feeder. Planet PC cost £2.95 per issue, with its target market being eight-to-twelve-year-old male PC users. During the year 2000, the magazine had a circulation of 20,181. Its editor was David Bradley, and its publisher was James Binns. In October 1999, two months before the release of the first issue, Binns explained that Planet PC would fill a gap seen as \"too old and ... too expensive for [the] younger market\". Every issue of Planet PC came with a free CD that featured several game demos. Often, reviews of the games that were featured on the CD were included within the magazine. Each issue would also include gaming news, tips, readers' letters, readers' game reviews, comics, competitions, and full-size posters. The first three editions of Planet PC contained an exclusive Top Trumps trading card game. Issue nine was released with four different covers, each depicting a different character from the television series Pokémon: Charizard, Ash Ketchum & Pikachu, Squirtle or Team Rocket. | Periodical Literature |
Tiago Monteiro Pereira (born June 8, 1989) is a Portuguese handballer who plays for S.L. Benfica and the Portugal national team. | Athlete |
The Linafoot is the top division of the Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association, the governing body of football in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in 1958. In 2013, the highest attendance was set in the match DC Motema Pembe - AS Vita Club, which saw an attendance of 80,000 football fans at Stade des Martyrs.Vita Club are the most popular sports club in DR Congo, and they also had the highest average attendance in 2013. In 2010 the competition was renamed the Vodacom Super League following the signing of a five-year sponsorship deal with communications company Vodacom. | Sports League |
Xeromphalina cornui is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. It was originally described in 1866 by French mycologist Lucien Quélet as Omphalia cornui; Swiss naturalist Jules Favre transferred it to Xeromphalina in 1936. | Eukaryote |
The French Prealps (Préalpes) are a group of subalpine mountain ranges of medium elevation located immediately west of the French Alps. They roughly stretch from Lake Geneva southwest to the Isère and Drôme Rivers; east to a line running from Chamonix, to Albertville, to Grenoble, to Gap, to Barcelonette; and south from Grasse to Vence in France. In the northern subalpine regions, the various ranges are easily identifiable by geographical separations, such as the Voreppe Gorge between Vercors and Chartreuse, or Chambéry, which sits in a valley between the Bauges and Chartreuse ranges. In the southern subalpine regions, the ranges are generally disorganized and lack the wide, deep valleys that divide them in the north. Three non-contiguous ranges traditionally comprise the southern French Prealps: the Alpilles, Mont Sainte-Victoire, and Sainte-Baume. | Natural Place |
Eythor Baldursson (born 21 October 1997) is an Icelandic male artistic gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed at world championships, including the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow. | Athlete |
Timoteus Karlsson (born 16 March 1996) is a Swedish individual trampolinist, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed at world championships, including at the 2013 Trampoline World Championships. | Athlete |
The African butterflyfish, Chaetodon dolosus, is a butterflyfish of the family Chaetodontidae found in the Western Indian Ocean, at depths from 40-200 metres (13-66 ft. It can grow up to 15 centimetres (6 in) in length. | Animal |
The Global Oneness Project is a digital, ad-free, education platform that has been publishing multicultural films, photography, and articles since 2006. | Periodical Literature |
Flamingo's Haarlem was a professional basketball team based in Haarlem, Netherlands. Flamingo's played in the Eredivisie from 1960 till 1983, excluding the 1961–62 season. The team won the Dutch championship and NBB Cup four times. The Flamingo's also played at the highest European stage many times: in the 1966–67, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72 and 1973–74 season the team did at least play in the qualifying round. | Sports Team |
The State Duma or Imperial Duma was a legislative assembly in the late Russian Empire, which held its meetings in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It was convened four times between 27 April 1906 and the collapse of the Empire in February 1917. The First and the Second Dumas were more democratic and represented a greater number of national types than their succesors. The Fourth Duma was dissolved on 6 October 1917. | Organisation |
Ctenosaura hemilopha, also known as the cape spinytail iguana , is a species of spinytail iguana endemic to Baja California. It is arboreal and primarily herbivorous, although it can be an opportunistic carnivore. Males may grow up to 100 centimeters (39 in) in length, while females are smaller, with a length of up to 70 centimeters (28 in). Five subspecies are currently recognized. The existence of mainland and insular populations of this species has been valuable in providing biologists with study and control groups comparing the evolution of island populations and their mainland counterparts. The San Esteban Island subspecies (C.h. conspicuosa) coexists with the giant San Esteban chuckwalla, contrary to predictions of ecological niche theory. | Animal |
Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. He was an essayist, conversationalist, raconteur, and lecturer. In its obituary of the scholar, the Independent stated that \"Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time [...] there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential\". Born in Riga, Latvia in 1909, he moved to Petrograd, Russia at the age of six, where he witnessed in 1917 both the Social-Democratic and the Bolshevik Revolutions. In 1921 his family came to England, and he waseducated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1932, at the age of 23, Berlin was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He translated works by Ivan Turgenev from Russian into English and, during the war, worked for the British Diplomatic Service. From 1957 to 1967 he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1963 to 1964. In 1966, he played a crucial role in founding Wolfson College, Oxford, and became its first President. Berlin was appointed a CBE in 1946, knighted in 1957, and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1971. He was President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. He also received the 1979 Jerusalem Prize for his writings on individual freedom. An annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture is held at the Hampstead Synagogue, at Wolfson College, Oxford, at the British Academy, and in Riga. Berlin's work on liberal theory and on value pluralism has had a lasting influence. | Person |
Demetrius I from the kindred Csák (Hungarian: Csák nembeli (I) Demeter; died after 1254) was a Hungarian baron, who held secular positions during the reign of kings Andrew II and Béla IV. | Person |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mouila (Latin: Muilaën(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Mouila in the Ecclesiastical province of Libreville in Gabon. | Clerical Administrative Region |
Dappula II was King of Anuradhapura in the 9th century, whose reign lasted from 807 to 812. He succeeded his father Mahinda II as King of Anuradhapura and was succeeded by his son Mahinda III. | Person |
Cork County Cricket Club is a cricket club in Cork, Ireland, playing in Division 1 of the Leinster Senior League. A member of the Munster Cricket Union, it is the only club from outside Leinster playing in the Leinster League. The club was established in 1874. In 2009, it was given permission by the Leinster Cricket Union to compete in the Leinster League from the 2010 season. Promotion to Division 1 was achieved in 2014. | Sports Team |
Movin' On is the second album by Playa Fly released in 1998 on Super Sigg Records. This album made Fly a common name in Southern rap with his hit single, \"Nobody Needs Nobody\", which still gets radio play today. Bill Chill died shortly before the album's completion. Movin' On sold over 80,000 units. | Musical Work |
Emre Can (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈɛmrɛ ˈd͡ʒɑn] (born January 21, 1990) is a Turkish Grandmaster of chess. As of the July 2013 FIDE rating list, he is ranked number 1097 in the world and number seven in Turkey. He earned FIDE titles as FIDE Master (FM) in 2006, International Master (IM) in 2007 and Grand Master (GM) on July 25, 2010. He was born in İzmir, Turkey on January 21, 1990. Emre Can is student of Information technology at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. He began with chess playing at the age of seven. In 1999, Emre Can participated at the chess championship held in Antalya, Turkey becoming second in his age group. In 2000, he took part at the World Youth Chess Championship held in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. At the age of 16, he won the first title in his age category among 102 players from 19 countries at the 13th Youth Chess Olympiad held in Novi Sad, Serbia on July 1–9. He has a fourth place at the European U-18 Chess Championship. In 2011, he became the Turkish chess champion. | Athlete |
This is a list of Iranian football transfers for the 2011–12 winter transfer window. Only moves featuring at least one Iran Pro League or Azadegan League club are listed. | Organisation Member |
Nicholas Gerald Youngs (born 15 December 1959) is a former English rugby union footballer who played for Bedford, Leicester Tigers and England, at Scrum-half, gaining six England caps in 1983-1984. He also was an unused England reserve five times between 1981 and 1983. He was educated at Cawston College and Gresham's School, Holt, and is now a farmer in Norfolk. His sons Tom, a centre turned hooker, (born 1987) and Ben (born 1989), a scrum-half, have both made appearances for the Leicester first team and for England. Tom made his Tigers debut against London Irish on Boxing Day 2006, but broke his leg after five minutes and came off after thirteen. Youngs and his sons hold the rare distinction of all starting in test wins over New Zealand - Youngs starting at scrum-half in England's 15-9 1983 win, and Ben (scrum-half) and Tom (hooker) in England's 38-21 victory in 2012. | Athlete |
The BMW M52 is a straight-6 DOHC piston engine which was produced from 1994-2000. It was released in the E36 320i, to replace the M50. It was replaced by the M54 engine. Compared with its M50 predecessor, the M52 uses an aluminium block. However, North American models used iron blocks instead (except in the Z3), therefore the North American M52 is more akin to the M50TU. Like the M50TU, the M52 uses variable valve timing on the intake camshaft (called single VANOS by BMW). In 1998, the M52TU (\"technical update\") was released, adding variable valve timing to the exhaust camshaft (called dual VANOS by BMW). Other upgrades included electronic throttle control (which uses a throttle cable as backup), a dual length intake manifold (called \"DISA\" by BMW) and revised cylinder liners. The M52 and engines were on the Ward's 10 Best Engines list from 1997 to 2000. The engine is used in USA versions of the 1996-1999 E36 M3 and the 1998-2000 Z3M. This engine is a tuned version of the M52 engine, as opposed to the S50 engine used for these cars in other markets. | Engine |
Schwartziella bouryi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae. | Animal |
Dave Lee Stevens (July 29, 1955 – March 11, 2008) was an American illustrator and comics artist. He is most famous for creating The Rocketeer comic book and film character, and for his pin-up style \"glamour art\" illustrations, especially of model Bettie Page. He was the first to win Comic-Con International's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award in 1982, and received both an Inkpot Award and the Kirby Award for Best Graphic Album in 1986. | Artist |
The Lichen Huntsman Spider, Pandercetes gracilis(also called the lichen spider), is a spider found in Queensland, Australia, as well as New Guinea, Maluku Islands, and Sulawesi. | Animal |
Lisa Francesca Nand (born Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside, 24 July 1974) is a journalist, travel writer and broadcaster (also known as Chessy) who started off on BBC Radio before becoming a co-presenter on the Ian Collins show on the UK radio station TalkSPORT. When she was appointed in 2006 she was the first female presenter on TalkSPORT. In 2006 she was voted third favourite female national radio presenter by readers of Merry Media News. She has been published widely online (for several years she had a bi-monthly travel vlog and blog for Sky.com and was also the UK correspondent for US company STR/Hotel News Now) and in the UK press (Telegraph, Independent, The Times, Daily Mail, National Geography Traveller) and is a regular expert guest on national radio and television (a regular travel expert on BBC1's Rip Off Britain, BBC2 Radio2, 5Live and local BBC stations) as well as being known for creating and presenting online travel videos. In 2015 she directed the authored documentary, First Heartbeat, about her experiences with miscarriage, broadcast on TLC UK and Discovery International around the world. She is a patron of the charity Thyroid UK. and once dated Brad Pitt. | Person |
.2 Network (pronounced Dot-Two Network) was the name of a planned television network designed for digital television subchannels (hence the \".2\") owned by Guardian Enterprise Group. Announced in 2008, the network never ended up going to air due to financial and technical difficulties. | Broadcaster |
Jerry Flora is the current head football coach for the William Paterson University Pioneers football team in Wayne Township, New Jersey. He has served since the 2008 season and has compiled a 29-41 overall record (18-39 conference). | Coach |
The Ras Kigomasha Lighthouse is located at the north western tip of Pemba, in Tanzania. The Lighthouse is a entirely cast iron structure and was built in 1904 by The Chance Brothers Ltd from Birmingham. The light house has a 1 storey keepers house and is still operational. | Tower |
Restaurant La Diligence is a former restaurant located in Beek, in the Netherlands. It was a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in the period 1979-1985. Owner and head chef was Bèr Smeets. In 1974, Smeets took over the closed Parkhotel. After a renovation, the hotel and restaurant were reopened in February 1974. The restaurant was located in a villa on the Maastrichterlaan, which was demolished in 1992. | Building |
Brighton Racecourse is an English horse racing venue located a mile to the northeast of the centre of Brighton, Sussex owned by the Arena Racing Company. | Race Track |
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (UMB) is the official journal of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. The peer reviewed journal publishes original research and contributions in clinical diagnostic, interventional and therapeutic applications, new and improved clinical techniques, the physics, engineering and technology of ultrasound in medicine and biology, and the interactions between ultrasound and biological materials, including bioeffects. The first issue was published in September 1973. UMB is published by Elsevier on behalf of the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. The editor-in-chief is Christy K. Holland at the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease at the University of Cincinnati. The founding editor is Denis N. White and the emeritus editor is Peter N. T. Wells of Cardiff University. Gail ter Haar of the Institute for Cancer Research at the Royal Marsden Hospital is the deputy editor and associate editor for therapeutic applications of ultrasound. Jonathan M. Rubin of the University of Michigan and Mark L. Palmeri of Duke University are the associate editors for clinical applications of ultrasound. F. Stuart Foster of the University of Toronto is the associate editor for image processing and instrumentation. Pai Chi Li of the National Taiwan University is the associate editor for imaging physics and blood flow measurements. Nico de Jong of Erasmus University Rotterdam Medical Center is the associate editor for ultrasound contrast agents. Eleanor Stride of the University of Oxford is the associate editor for online subject index. Robert J. Eckersley of Imperial College London is the associate editor for book reviews. The managing editor is Rose M. Randolph. The journal has a 2015 Impact factor of 2.298 according to Journal Citation Reports. It is indexed in Index medicus, MEDLINE, and PubMed. | Periodical Literature |
Mohammad Zakir Hossain (Urdu: محمد ذاکِر حسین; born 2 January 1977) is a First class and List A cricketer from Bangladesh. He was born on 2 January 1977 in Dhaka and is a right-handed batsman and right arm medium fast bowler. He played for Chittagong Division in 2000/01 and reappeared for Khulna Division in one day cricket in 2004/05. | Athlete |
James McKay Mair (born May 15, 1946 in Schumacher, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player. He played in the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, and Vancouver Canucks. | Winter Sport Player |
Atlanta's transportation system is a complex infrastructure of several systems, including 47.6 miles of heavy rail, 91 bus transit routes, 1600 licensed taxis, a comprehensive network of freeways, the world's busiest airport and over 45 miles of bike paths. Construction is underway on a Downtown streetcar while a wide range of other transportation projects (including two larger streetcar projects) are dependent on passage a July 2012 ballot initiative for an increased sales tax (\"T-SPLOST). The city began as a railroad town, and remains a major rail junction and home of major classification yards for Norfolk Southern and CSX. Amtrak provides the only remaining passenger service via its daily Crescent service to cities between New Orleans and New York. Atlanta's subway system, operated by MARTA, is the eighth busiest in the country. The rail system is complemented by MARTA's bus system, the 14th largest in the country. A 2011 Brookings Institution study placed Atlanta 91st of 100 metro areas for transit accessibility. However, reliance on cars has resulted in heavy traffic and has helped make Atlanta one of the more polluted cities in the country. The Clean Air Campaign was created in 1996 to help reduce pollution in metro Atlanta. Since 2008, Metro Atlanta has ranked at or near the top of lists of longest average commute times and worst traffic in the country. | Organisation |
Yamadagawa Dam is a dam in the Hiroshima Prefecture of Japan. | Infrastructure |
Melbourne University Football Club, often known simply as University, is an Australian rules football club, representing the \"Blacks\", \"Blues\" and \"MUGARS\". The Blacks and the Blues both compete in the Victorian Amateur Football Association in the William Buck Premier Division, and the MUGARS compete in both the Victorian Football League and Victorian Women's Football League. The club achieved prominence by being a member of Victoria's elite competition in the early 20th century, the Victorian Football League (the forerunner of the Australian Football League) between 1908 and 1914. Although there are no records of its exact formation, University's first recorded match took place in the same month that the Castlemaine Football Club was formed making it likely that University is the second oldest club in Australia after Melbourne. | Sports Team |
Rozália Lelkes (née Tomann, born August 14, 1950 in Keszthely) is a former Hungarian handball player and coach. Among her achievements as club player is a Hungarian Cup and a Cup Winners' Cup title, as well as two silver medals in the Hungarian Championship. On international level she collected three bronze medals at the World Championships and also finished third at the Olympic Games in 1976. | Athlete |
Tuan Le (born February 15, 1978 in Paris, France) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player. Of Vietnamese ancestry, Le was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States, but by middle school age he was living in Los Angeles, California where he attended John Burroughs Junior High School, on McCadden and 6th Street. He later attended Cal State-Northridge as a finance major. He began playing in the $20/$40 limit hold'em games at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles, where he currently resides. As of 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $5,600,000. | Athlete |
The 1994 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 16th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). The 1994 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was contested over two legs, and opposed Benfica and Porto of the Primeira Liga. Benfica qualified for the SuperCup by winning the 1993–94 Primeira Divisão, whilst Porto qualified for the Supertaça by winning the 1993–94 Taça de Portugal. The first leg which took place at the Estádio da Luz, saw 1–1 result as Rui Filipe scored for Porto and Vítor Paneira for Benfica. The second leg which took place at the Estádio das Antas finished goalless (1–1 on aggregate), which led to the Supertaça being replayed in June 1995. The replay which took place at Paris Saint-Germain's Parc des Princes in France, saw the Dragões defeat the Encarnados 1–0 thanks to Domingos Paciência goal which would claim the Portistas an eighth Supertaça. | Sports Event |
Éditions Hermann is a French publishing house founded in 1876 by Arthur Hermann. It publishes books on science and the arts. | Company |
Mauricio Araujo de Sousa (Portuguese pronunciation: [mawˈɾisju dʒi ˈsowzɐ] born October 27, 1935) is a Brazilian cartoonist who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books. At 17 years of age, he worked for a daily newspaper called Folha da Manhã as a crime reporter. In 1959, Sousa quit that job and began his comic book career, and created Monica's Gang. Sousa's characters were inspired by children he knew from his childhood and by his own children. His later style is slightly reminiscent of that of Osamu Tezuka, a famous Japanese manga artist and personal friend. | Artist |
This article includes a complete videography for the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Over the course of their career, Pink Floyd has released six official home videos/DVDs and made over 15 music videos. | Musical Work |
The Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the fields of zoology, paleontology, and geology. It is part of a group of journals published by the American Museum of Natural History, in which context it is commonly referred to as the Bulletin to distinguish it from other series of journals published by the museum. The Bulletin was founded in 1881, originally for publishing short papers. One of its first editors was the American zoologist and ornithologist Joel Asaph Allen. Scientists and naturalists who published in the journal in its early years included Sir John William Dawson, Lucius Eugene Chittenden, Jules Marcou, Ezra Brainerd, Edgar Alexander Mearns, Maximilian von Wied. In the 1920s, the role of publishing short papers was taken over by the Novitates series, and the Bulletin began publishing longer papers that had previously been the remit of the Memoirs series. Beginning with volume 23 (1907), information on anthropological matters was published in Anthropological Papers. The Bulletin is currently (as of 2009) published at irregular intervals. | Periodical Literature |
The discography of the South Korean boy group Winner consists of two studio albums, two singles, one mini album and six music videos. | Musical Work |
The men's rings event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. It was one of nine gymnastics events and it was contested for the third time after 1896 and 1904. The competition was held on Saturday, July 19, 1924. Seventy gymnasts from nine nations competed. | Olympics |
Saloca kulczynskii is a species of spider that can be found in such European countries as Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. | Animal |
Zara Morgan is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Kelly Greenwood between 1999-2005. | Fictional Character |
Johann \"Hans\" Mock (9 December 1906 in Vienna – 22 May 1982) was an Austrian football midfielder. He earned 12 caps for the Austria national football team. After the annexation of Austria by Germany, he earned 5 caps for the Germany national football team, and participated in the 1938 FIFA World Cup. | Athlete |
Birmingham General Hospital was a teaching hospital in Birmingham, England, founded in 1779. | Building |
The Wintergreen Gorge Bridge is a 1,114-foot (340 m), steel, plate girder bridge that carries Pennsylvania Route 290 and the Bayfront Connector over Fourmile Creek and the Wintergreen Gorge in Harborcreek Township, Erie County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is both the second-longest and the second-highest bridge in Erie County, with the Interstate 79 bridge in the city of Erie and the Interstate 90 bridge over Sixmile Creek being the longest and the highest, respectively. | Route Of Transportation |
The Montana State University Library (MSU Library) is the academic library of Montana State University, Montana's land-grant university, in Bozeman, Montana, United States. It is the flagship library for all of the Montana State University System's campuses. In 1978, the library was named the Roland R. Renne Library to honor the sixth president of the university. The library supports the research and information needs of Montana's students, faculty, and the Montana Extension Service. | Educational Institution |
SimSig is a mixed donationware and commercial Windows-based train simulator of modern railway signalling systems in Great Britain, from the point of view of a railway signaller. Users have also had success running SimSig on Linux using Wine. The program was written in Delphi 6, a dialect of Object Pascal, by Geoff Mayo and has been in development since the late 1990s. Visually, it resembles the British Rail Integrated Electronic Control Centre (IECC), though most of the simulations do not cover areas operated by IECC-based signal boxes. It simulates overlaps, approach locking, time-of-operation point locking, shunt routes, warner routes, call-on routes, and more. Railtrack asked for a \"professional\" version of SimSig, now known as TREsim, which is currently used to train signallers at every Network Rail IECC and several panel signal boxes around Great Britain. | Software |
James Butler Milliken (August 7, 1900 – August 11, 1988) was an American jurist and Democratic politician who served as a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals for 24 years from 1951 to 1975. During his period of service, the Court of Appeals was the highest court in Kentucky. The Kentucky Supreme Court was not created until 1975, the year Milliken retired. He served three terms as chief justice, 1956–57, 1963–64 and, 1971–73. Milliken was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1900, grew up in Bellevue, Kentucky and graduated from Centre College where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1926. After two years at Yale, he returned home to teach math and English at Dayton (Kentucky) High School where he was also coach of the basketball team. In addition to teaching and coaching, he attended classes at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, eventually returning to Yale to graduate. He began his practice of law in Cincinnati and Campbell County, Kentucky where he became city attorney of Southgate, Kentucky. He later became a Kentucky State Representative and served as Chairman of the Kentucky Workers Compensation Board. During his tenure on the Court of Appeals, Milliken was an advocate for judicial reform and modernization. He was instrumental in bringing about a judicial retirement system in Kentucky and in the formation of the Kentucky Supreme Court. After his retirement from the bench on January 6, 1975, he taught constitutional law at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law and was given Chase's Distinguished Service Award. | Person |
The White Horse Pagoda (simplified Chinese: 白马寺; traditional Chinese: 白馬寺; pinyin: Báimǎ Sì, Wade-Giles: Paima szu), in Dunhuang, Gansu, China, was built to commemorate Tianliu, the white horse of the Buddhist monk Kumārajīva, which carried Buddhist scriptures all the way from Kucha to Dunhuang in China c. 384 CE. The pagoda is located about 2 km southwest of the centre of Dunhuang city. It was repaired in the Daoguang era (1821-1851) and again in 1992. It is 12 metres (39 feet) high and 7 metres (23 feet) in diameter and consists of 9 levels in total. The exterior is built of adobe bricks and is filled with grass and mud mixed with lime. The base is in the form of an eight-spoked wheel, the 1st level has four sides, while levels 2 to 4 have folding corners, the 5th level is decorated with upturned lotuses, the 6th is in the shape of an overturned bowl, the 7th level is wheel-shaped, while the 8th level has a hexagonal plate at the top of the pagoda with big wind-bells hanging on every corner. Above that are three metal balls surmounted by a trident. Local people say the chime of the bells are an echo of the neighing of the horse. | Building |
Dissent (rendered on the masthead as D!ssent) was an Australian national magazine devoted to the analysis of politics, economics and issues in Australian society in general. It was published three times a year in Melbourne, Australia. The Co-editors were Kenneth Davidson and Lesley Vick. Kenneth Davidson also has a monthly column with the Melbourne newspaper The Age. The magazine has no formal ties with any political party or group but as stated on its website the content reflects the Editors' views which dissent from the prevailing orthodoxy that the welfare state should be cut back in favour of economic efficiency and unfettered individual liberty. An earlier journal with the same title was published in Melbourne, Australia, from 1961 until 1978. It was subtitled, \"A radical quarterly\". The later issues were published in co-operation with the Students' Representative Council of the University of Melbourne. In April 2014 it was announced that Number 44, Autumn/Winter 2014 would be the final edition of D!ssent. | Periodical Literature |
Shitten Creek is a stream in Lane County, Oregon, in the United States. According to one source, Shitten Creek's name may originally have been intended to warn of untreated sewage in the waters. | Stream |
Martin Robinson (born 17 July 1957 in Ilford) was an English professional footballer who scored over 100 league goals in a career spanning over 15 years. Starting his career as an apprentice with Tottenham Hotspur in 1975, he made just 6 appearances for the London club, scoring twice in 3 seasons at White Hart Lane. He made a name for himself as a striker when moving across London to Charlton Athletic where he managed 58 goals in 228 games. After a brief loan spell at Reading F.C. (6 apps, 2 goals), he hit his most prolific form when signed for Gillingham F.C. as he netted 23 goals in 96 games for the Priestfield club. A spell at Southend United F.C. followed where he managed 14 goals, the last of which being his 100th league goal. He wound down his professional career with a season at Cambridge United where he made 16 appearances, scoring one league goal. He also scored the winning goal for the club in a League Cup second round, first leg game against First Division Derby County, beating England goalkeeper Peter Shilton. After leaving The Abbey Stadium Robinson had a spell with Enfield F.C. | Athlete |
The 1954 New Zealand Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Ardmore Circuit on 9 January 1954. This was the first New Zealand Grand Prix since 1950 and the second overall. This was also the first New Zealand Grand Prix to be held at the Ardmore Circuit, a circuit that would be used for the Grand Prix until 1962. The Grand Prix was won by Australian Stan Jones, driving the Maybach Special in a spectacular drive over Britain's Ken Wharton and fellow Australian, Tony Gaze. | Sports Event |
The discography page of Amy Macdonald, a Scottish rock/folk singer and songwriter from Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire. Since 2007, Amy Macdonald has sold over 9 million records worldwide. Her debut album, This Is the Life, was released on 30 July 2007 and has sold more than 3 million copies, mainly in Europe. The album charted at number one on the UK Albums Chart as well as various other European countries like Switzerland. Her second album A Curious Thing was released in March 2010. Her first single, \"Poison Prince\", was released on 7 May 2007. Other singles released from This is the Life, \"Mr Rock & Roll\" and the album's title track, were also successful, reaching the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart and enjoying success elsewhere in Europe, particularly Germany. \"L.A.\" and \"Run\" did not chart on the UK Top 40 but were hits elsewhere in Europe. Macdonald's second studio album, A Curious Thing, was released in March 2010. The album's lead single, \"Don't Tell Me That It's Over\", was a modest hit in the United Kingdom, charting at forty-eight on the UK Singles Chart, but did better in Continental Europe, charting as high as six in Germany and two in Belgium. The second single, \"Spark\", failed to chart in the UK, but charted elsewhere in Europe. Further singles were released from the album which saw success in Europe. Macdonald released her third album, Life in a Beautiful Light was released in June 2012. The album's lead single, \"Slow It Down\" was a modest hit in the United Kingdom, charting at forty-five on the UK Singles Chart; it also charted in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. | Musical Work |
\"Celebrate\" is a duet by American recording artists Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks. It was written and produced by R. Kelly for the soundtrack album Sparkle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the 2012 musical drama film Sparkle. RCA Records released \"Celebrate\" as the first official single from the soundtrack. It is the last song recorded by Whitney Houston before she died on February 11, 2012. It was officially released on June 5, 2012 for digital download on iTunes and Amazon. The song made its US radio premiere on On Air with Ryan Seacrest on May 21, 2012. For the week June 16, 2012, \"Celebrate\" debuted at number 34 on the US Adult R&B Airplay. During that same week, \"Celebrate\" also debuted at number 84 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and has since peaked at number 62. The accompanying music video for the song was filmed on May 30, 2012. The video was shot over two days by director Marcus Raboy. The music video made its world premiere on BET's 106 & Park on June 27, 2012. | Musical Work |
Ilya Aleksandrovich Ratnichkin (Russian: Илья Александрович Ратничкин; born June 6, 1973) is a retired Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1990 for FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk. He played 5 games in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996 for FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg. | Sports Manager |
Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen (fl. ca. 1440–1480) was a Welsh language poet during the time of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr, the professional \"Poets of the Nobility\". In common with other poets of the era, some of his work consists of praise-poems addressed to his patrons. These included Gruffudd ap Nicholas, an esquire prominent in the administration of South Wales, who was also praised by Lewys Glyn Cothi and Dafydd ap Edmund; Dafydd ap Ieuan ab Owain of Caereinion; and Dafydd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion of Newtown. He also produced some fine elegies, religious verse and love poems: 27 works attributed to him have been preserved in manuscript, though not all are certainly by him. Despite many of his poems being preserved, almost nothing is known of Gwilym's life. Ieuan Gethin, a contemporary, composed a somewhat sarcastic elegy on Gwilym's father Ieuan, a thatcher who died after falling off a roof. Gwilym's works were edited in 1992 by A. Eleri Davies along with those of Deio ab Ieuan Du. | Writer |
Karsen Leung (born April 21, 1990 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a professional indoor lacrosse transition who plays for the Calgary Roughnecks in the National Lacrosse League, wearing #21. He played for Bellarmine University of ECAC Lacrosse League in college. Leung was named to the 2014 NLL All-Rookie team. He is a finalist for the 2015 National Lacrosse League Transition Player of the Year Award, along with Joey Cupido and Brodie Merrill. | Athlete |
The 1998 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament served as qualification for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship in Nigeria. The tournament took place from 5 August–10 October, although qualification started before. | Tournament |
Mount Saint Nicholas is a peak in the remote southwestern section of Glacier National Park, in Montana, United States. It is a particularly steep, pointed rock pinnacle, and its distinctive profile is visible from many summits in the southern half of the park. Because even its easiest ascent route is technical, with poor rock quality, it is \"considered the most dangerous and difficult mountain for climbers in Glacier National Park.\" Mount Saint Nicholas excels in terms of steep vertical relief, even by the high standards prevalent in Glacier National Park. For example, its northwest face rises one vertical mile (5,280 ft/1,609 m) in approximately 1.5 horizontal miles (7,920 ft/2.4 km). Due to its pointed shape and isolation from the Continental Divide, it has similarly precipitous drops in all directions. In 1926, Reverend Conrad Wellen, of Havre, Montana, made the first ascent of Mount Saint Nicholas. This was a significant achievement, since the mountain had been considered by many to be unclimbable. The standard route is the Northeast Ridge. Starting from the east side of the peak, this route begins with a straightforward scramble up a gully to a prominent notch. From the notch a thousand vertical feet of somewhat technical climbing remain. | Natural Place |
Varany Maha Vidyalayam (Tamil: வரணி மகா வித்தியாலயம் Varaṇi Makā Vittiyālayam) is a provincial school in Varany, Sri Lanka. Locating the school at Varany was due to the untiring efforts of V. Sithamparanathan who was a towering figure at Varany Village Council for 30 years, the last 18 as Chairman. Constructing a secondary school in the southern part of Thenmaradchi District was mooted by V. Kumarasamy the then Member of Parliament for Chavakachcheri, with a decision resulting in selecting Kodikamam as the venue. Even construction materials began arriving at the site when Mr. Sithamparanathan took it upon himself as a crusader to build the secondary school at Varany instead. Kodikamam is located at a main railway station with good road and rail access to established schools in Chavakachcheri, only 5 miles away. Even better schools in Jaffna town were equally accessible by rail or road to students in that vicinity. Such was not the case with Varany, a village of much larger land area with a predominantly agrarian base. For historical reasons such as resisting educational developments based on religious lines, Varany residents did not take to western education like the rest of the peninsula. When the winds of change blew a bit harder, it became apparent to leaders like Mr. Sithamparanathan that unless education was built into the future fabric of life, Varany residents would be left behind. There were several vernacular and primary schools in the village, including the American Mission Tamil Mixed School which was built through the philanthropy of Mr. Sithamparanathan himself, partly as a compromise for not allowing the construction of a secondary school in Varany by the missionaries who then took the project to Udupiddy in the form of the current Udupiddy American Mission College. Students from Varany had to trek long distances by foot to get to the main road, take buses or vans to either Point Pedro or to Kodikamam and take another bus or van to Chavakachcheri if they aspired to higher education. A few would even go further to schools in the Jaffna town enduring even more hardship. Locating a secondary school in a location central to the Village Council's boundaries so that the catchment is equitably served in terms of travel distance was a key consideration. The visionaries of the time would have been very pleased to see the fruits of their labour in ample supply as evidenced in the publication of the school's 50th Anniversary Commemoration in 2004. | Educational Institution |
Margaret Urban Walker (born August 8, 1948), is the Donald J. Schuenke Chair in Philosophy at Marquette University. Before her appointment at Marquette, she was the Lincoln Professor of Ethics at Arizona State University, and before that she was at Fordham University. She has also previously held visiting appointments at Washington University at St. Louis, the University of South Florida, and the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2002, Walker was awarded the Cardinal Mercier chair at the Catholic University of Leuven, and was the first woman ever to hold the chair. | Person |
Gustavus William Francis Blake \"Gus\" Kelly (2 April 1877 in Dublin, Ireland – 16 August 1951 in County Roscommon, Ireland) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler, he played 18 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1895 and 1914 including nine first-class matches. He also played first-class cricket for Oxford University and the MCC. | Athlete |
The Moondyne Festival is a festival held in Toodyay, Western Australia, celebrating the life and times of Moondyne Joe. It is held annually on the first Sunday in May. This festival takes place in the main street, Stirling Terrace, with street theatre, market stalls, and demonstrations. During the festival, the town is described as being transported back in time. The festival features costumes from the 19th century, street theatre involving the character of Moondyne Joe, street stalls, and displays of art and antiques. Other characters portrayed include the \"Swagmen\" (Moondyne's gang), temperance ladies, the undertaker, and the barber. | Societal Event |
Carlos Barreto (July 25, 1976 – October 12, 1999) was a bantamweight boxer from Venezuela, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. | Boxer |
Devil's Gate Pass is a mountain pass in Mono County, California, traversed by U.S. Route 395. The pass is named for the Devils Gate, a granitic formation located west of the summit of the pass. | Natural Place |
Manuela Angeli (born 3 April 1939) is an Italian former competitive figure skater. She represented Italy at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. | Winter Sport Player |
The Daily Star is a daily newspaper in Oneonta, New York, United States. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. It also owns and operates the Cooperstown Crier, a weekly newspaper in Cooperstown, New York. Community Newspaper Holdings bought The Daily Star and Cooperstown Crier in late 2006 from Ottaway Community Newspapers, a division of Dow Jones & Company. | Periodical Literature |
(Not to be confused with Matilda of Flanders.) Matilda of Flanders (1170 – 16 October 1210) was the younger daughter of Marie I, Countess of Boulogne, and her husband Matthew, Count of Boulogne. Matilda was Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to Henry I, Duke of Brabant. Matilda's parents' marriage was annulled the year she was born and her mother became a Benedictine nun at St. Austrebert, Montreuil and died in 1182. Matilde's father continued to reign as Count of Boulogne until his death in 1173, when her older sister Ida became countess. At the age of nine, Matilda married Henry I, Duke of Brabant, in 1179. The couple went on to have seven children: \n* Maria (c. 1190 – May 1260), married in Maastricht after 19 May 1214 Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, married July 1220 Count William I of Holland \n* Adelaide (b. c. 1190), married 1206 Arnold III, Count of Loos, married 3 February 1225 William X of Auvergne (c. 1195–1247), married before 21 April 1251 Arnold van Wesemaele (d. aft. 1288) \n* Margaret (1192–1231), married January 1206 Gerard III, Count of Guelders (d. 22 October 1229) \n* Mathilde (c. 1200 – 22 December 1267), married in Aachen in 1212 Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1214), married on 6 December 1214 Floris IV, Count of Holland \n* Henry II of Brabant (1207–1248), married firstly before 22 August 1215 Marie of Hohenstaufen; married secondly in 1240 Sophie of Thuringia \n* Godfrey (1209 – 21 January 1254), Lord of Gaesbeek, married Maria van Oudenaarde \n* child, whose name and sex is unknown Matilde died in 1210 or 1211. She was buried at St. Peter's in Leuven. | Person |
St Cosmas and St Damian Church is an Anglican church in the village of Keymer, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. Rebuilt in 1866 in a style similar to the Saxon building it replaced, it is the parish church of Keymer and now lies within a combined parish serving three villages in Mid Sussex. The church bears a very rare dedication to the twin Saints Cosmas and Damian, Christian martyrs of the 4th century. It is a grade II listed building. | Building |
Palmer Bus Service (and Palmer Charter Services) is a bus company serving Minnesota and Wisconsin, founded by Floyd Palmer in 1974 in St. Clair, Minnesota. It is the 36th largest privately run bus company in the nation. Palmer runs over 500 buses and vans. | Company |