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William Wallace Foster (January 23, 1932 – May 10, 2000), known as The Fox, was an MC on the first season of Comedy Central's The Man Show under the show's original hosts, Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel. He was billed as \"The World's Fastest Beer Drinker\", a feat which he performed in an appearance on the TV show Taxi as well as numerous times on The Man Show. | Artist |
Giovanni Battista Bissoni (1576–1636) was an Italian painter. He was born in Padua. He was first a pupil of Francesco Apollodoro, called Il Porcia, a portrait painter, and afterwards of Dario Varotari the Elder. Bissoni painted for the churches and convents at Padua and Ravenna. In the refectory of the convent of San Vitale, he painted a Last Supper. | Artist |
Jason Aldean is an American country music artist. His discography comprises seven studio albums—his self-titled debut (2005), Relentless (2007), Wide Open (2009), My Kinda Party (2010), Night Train (2012), Old Boots, New Dirt (2014)., and They Don't Know (2016). He has also released a total of 26 singles, 15 of which are number ones on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts: \"Why\", \"She's Country\", \"Big Green Tractor\", \"The Truth\", \"Don't You Wanna Stay\", \"Dirt Road Anthem\", \"Fly Over States\", \"Take a Little Ride\", \"The Only Way I Know\", \"Night Train\", \"When She Says Baby\", \"Burnin' It Down\", \"Just Gettin' Started\", \"Tonight Looks Good on You\" and \"Lights Come On\". His first, second, third, fifth, and sixth albums are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and his fourth album, My Kinda Party, is certified triple-platinum. My Kinda Party produced his highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100. The song \"Dirt Road Anthem\" reached number 7 on the chart, and featured a studio remix with rapper Ludacris. My Kinda Party is also his first album to be certified in Canada. His fifth album, Night Train, produced his highest charting single on the Canadian Hot 100 in \"Take a Little Ride\". The album was also his first number one on the Billboard 200 and Canadian Albums Chart. | Musical Work |
Bhavali Dam, is an earthfill dam on Bham river near Igatpuri, Nashik district in state of Maharashtra in India. | Infrastructure |
The 2016 Engie Open de Biarritz Pays Basque was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 14th edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money. It took place in Biarritz, France, on 12–18 September 2016. | Tournament |
Ogof Agen Allwedd or Agen Allwed, also known as Aggy, is, at 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi), one of the longest cave systems in Wales, and the longest cave system on the Llangattock escarpment. | Natural Place |
The Sohodol River is a tributary of the Jiul de Vest River in Romania. | Stream |
Schismatomma is a lichenized genus of fungi in the family Roccellaceae. | Eukaryote |
Herbert William Butler JP (30 January 1897 – 16 November 1971) was a British Labour politician. Butler was the son of Frank Butler. He was educated at a London County Council elementary school, and served in the Royal Navy during World War I, from 1916 to 1919. as a stoker. Following the war he became involved in Labour politics, and in 1922 became agent for Herbert Morrison who was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South at the 1923 general election. In the 1930s he was a leading opponent of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirt movement, which was active in the Hackney area. He became a Justice of the Peace (JP) for London in 1929, and in 1934 he was elected to Hackney Borough Council. He was subsequently made an alderman and Mayor of Hackney in 1936/37. He remained a member of the borough council for more than thirty years, and was also a member of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, chairman of the Hackney and Queen Elizabeth hospital group, and a freeman of the Borough of Hackney. At the 1945 general election he was elected to succeed Herbert Morrison as MP for Hackney South, and held the seat until its abolition in 1955. From 1950 to 1951, Butler was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Walter \"Stoker\" Edwards. the Hackney South constituency was abolished at the 1955 general election, when Butler was elected as MP for the new constituency of Hackney Central. He held that seat until his retirement at the 1970 general election. He died in St Leonard's Hospital, Shoreditch in November 1971, aged 74. | Politician |
The UAE Handball League is the top professional handball league in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The first team to win the title was Al-Sharjah. Both Al Ahli and Al-Sharjah SCC share the record with 10 league titles to their name. Ten clubs compete in the League that operates on a system of 1 Level. The League was founded in 1976 as the UAE Handball League. The first 1976–77 season was won by Al-Sharjah. | Sports League |
In the U.S. state of North Carolina, U.S. Route 220 (US 220) is a north–south highway that connects the cities of Rockingham, Asheboro and Greensboro, in the central Piedmont. | Route Of Transportation |
Gavril Dejeu (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡaˈvril deˈʒew]; born 11 September 1932) is a Romanian politician who served as Minister of Interior in Victor Ciorbea's cabinet. He was also ad interim Prime Minister of Romania from 30 March to 17 April 1998. Born in Poieni, Cluj County, he is a graduate of the Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Law. Dejeu joined the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romania) (PNŢCD) in 1990, after the Romanian Revolution, serving in the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 2000. He and his wife Elena have one daughter, Flavia Vlad. | Politician |
Cydia pyrivora (pear fruit moth, pear tortricid) is a moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sardinia, Sicily, the Italian mainland, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Algeria, the island of Crete in Greece, Ukraine and southern and central Russia. The wingspan is 17–22 mm. Adults are on wing in the second half of June in Austria and from May to June in Russia. There is one generation per year. The larvae feed on Pyrus species. It is an important pest of pear. The larvae bore into the fruit and feed on the pips. The initial hole closes again, only leaving a small brown spot, making the presence of larvae hard to detect. When the larva is fully developed it leaves the fruit through a hole, leaving the fruit susceptible to fungal infection. | Animal |
The 2011 Richmond Raiders season was the second season as a professional indoor football franchise and their first in the Southern Indoor Football League (SIFL). One of 16 teams competing in the SIFL for the 2011 season. Chris Simpson became the head coach of the Raiders for the 2011 season, coming over from the defunct Baltimore Mariners. Simpson didn't make it to opening day, though, as he \"relocated to Texas to pursue family business opportunities\". He was replaced by James Fuller, who was the interim head coach for the AFL Dallas Vigilantes in 2010. Former Richmond Revolution head coach Steve Criswell signed with the Raiders as a senior consultant for the 2011 season. Criswell brought several former Revolution players along, including QB Bryan Randall and DL Lawrence Lewis. The Raiders earned a 6-6 record, placing 1st in the Mid-Atlantic division, but due to league playoff qualifying rules, did not make the playoffs, as 4 other Eastern Conference teams had a better record. | Football League Season |
Point Retreat Light is a lighthouse located on the Mansfield Peninsula at the northern tip of Admiralty Island in southeastern Alaska, United States. It provides aid in navigation through the Lynn Canal. | Tower |
The 1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1932 throughout the continuous 48 states. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President. Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, President Herbert Hoover, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover won Pennsylvania by a margin of 5.51%. This is the last election where the Republican candidate carried Philadelphia County in a presidential election. This was also the last election until 1988 that Pennsylvania did not vote the same as neighboring New York. | Societal Event |
Paulos Tzadua (1921–2003) was the first Ethiopian Cardinal. He served as Archbishop of Addis Abeba and was the head of the Ethiopian Catholic Church from 1977 to 1998. | Cleric |
Denis Alekseyevich Petrov (Russian: Денис Алексеевич Петров; born March 3, 1968) is a Russian former pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Unified Team. With partner Elena Bechke, he is the 1992 Olympic silver medalist, the 1989 World bronze medalist, a two-time European silver medalist (1991–92), 1992 Soviet national champion. | Winter Sport Player |
Wyoming Highway 413 is a 2.73-mile (4.4 km) Wyoming state road in east-central Uinta County. Highway 413 provides a direct interstate connection for Lyman. | Route Of Transportation |
Przebędowo Lęborskie is a non-operational PKP railway station on the disused PKP rail line 230 in Przebędowo Lęborskie (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland. | Station |
Lianne Audrey Dalziel (/dælˈzɛl/; born 7 June 1960) is the Mayor of Christchurch. Prior to this position, she was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for 23 years, serving as Minister of Immigration, Commerce, Minister of Food Safety and Associate Minister of Justice in the Fifth Labour Government. She resigned from Cabinet on 20 February 2004 after apparently lying about a leak of documents to the media, but was reinstated as a Minister following Labour's return to office after the 2005 election. She resigned from Parliament effective 11 October 2013 to contest the Christchurch mayoral election. The incumbent, Bob Parker, decided not to stand again, and she was widely regarded as the top favourite and won with a wide margin to become the 46th Mayor of Christchurch. | Politician |
The diocese of Ba Ria (Latin: Dioecesis Barianensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam. The creation of the diocese was made public on November 22, 2005. It was detached from the diocese of Xuân Lôc. Its first and current bishop is Thomas Nguyễn Văn Trâm, previously auxiliary bishop of Xuân Lộc. The diocese covers an area of 1,975 km², and is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh city. | Clerical Administrative Region |
Transborder Express is an Australian bus and coach company based in Yass. Since September 2012 Transborder Express has been owned by ComfortDelGro Cabcharge. | Organisation |
Anthony Philip \"Tony\" Thirlwall (born 1941) is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Kent. He has made major contributions to regional economics; the analysis of unemployment and inflation; balance of payments theory, and to growth and development economics with particular reference to developing countries. He is the author of the bestselling textbook Economics of Development: Theory and Evidence (Palgrave Macmillan) now in its ninth edition. He is also the biographer and literary executor of the famous Cambridge economist Nicholas Kaldor. Perhaps his most notable contribution has been to show that if long-run balance of payments equilibrium is a requirement for a country, its growth of national income can be approximated by the ratio of the growth of exports to the income elasticity of demand for imports (Thirlwall's Law). | Person |
Happy Boys (ハッピィ★ボーイズ Happii Bōizu) is a Japanese television comedy, following five young men who work at Lady Braganza, a shitsuji kissa (butler café). It was adapted into a manga by Makoto Tateno. | Cartoon |
The Last of Us is an action-adventure survival horror video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation 3 in June 2013. An updated version, The Last of Us Remastered, was released for the PlayStation 4 in July 2014. In the game, players control Joel, a man tasked with escorting a teenage girl named Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States. The Last of Us is played from a third-person perspective; players use firearms and improvised weapons, and can use stealth to defend against hostile humans and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus. \"Listen Mode\" allows players to locate enemies through a heightened sense of hearing and spatial awareness. Weapons can also be upgraded using items scavenged from the environment. In the game's online multiplayer mode, up to eight players engage in co-operative and competitive gameplay in recreations of single-player settings. Development of The Last of Us began in 2009, soon after the release of Naughty Dog's previous game, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The relationship between Joel and Ellie was the central focus of the game, with all other elements developed around it. The team chose actors Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson to portray Joel and Ellie respectively, who provided voice and motion capture for the roles. Both assisted creative director Neil Druckmann with the development of the characters and story. The original score was composed and performed by Gustavo Santaolalla. Following its announcement in December 2011, The Last of Us was widely anticipated. It was acclaimed by many reviewers, with praise particularly directed at its characterization, subtext, exploration of the human condition, and depiction of female characters. The Last of Us became one of the best-selling PlayStation 3 games, selling over 1.3 million units in its first week, and over eight million units within fourteen months. Considered to be one of the greatest video games of all time, it won year-end accolades, including multiple Game of the Year awards from several gaming publications, critics, and game award shows, making it one of the most awarded games in history. After the game's release, Naughty Dog released several downloadable content additions; The Last of Us: Left Behind added a new single-player campaign, taking place both before and during the main story, featuring Ellie and her best friend Riley. | Software |
The Trenton Golden Hawks are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team from Trenton, Ontario. They are members of the Ontario Junior Hockey League, a part of the Canadian Junior Hockey League and a member of the Ontario Hockey Association and Hockey Canada. The team relocated to Trenton in 2009, but were previously known as the Port Hope Predators of Port Hope, Ontario. The team started in 1996 as the Port Hope Buzzards of the Metro Junior A Hockey League. | Sports Team |
Ebenezer Jenckes Penniman (January 11, 1804 – April 12, 1890) was an American politician and United States Representative from the U.S. state of Michigan. | Politician |
The 1993 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's 18th in the National Football League (NFL). Playing under head coach and general manager Tom Flores, the team finished with a 6–10 win–loss record in the American Football Conference (AFC) West and missed the playoffs for the fifth straight season. In the first round of the 1993 NFL Draft, Seattle selected quarterback Rick Mirer, who became their starter for the 1993 season. At the end of the season, running back Chris Warren, defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy, and safety Eugene Robinson were selected to play for the AFC in the 1994 Pro Bowl, the NFL's honorary all-star game. | Football League Season |
Tamara Kristine O'Brien (born 5 November 1996 in New Westminster) is a Canadian double-mini trampolinist, representing her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2015 Trampoline World Championships, where she won the gold medal in the double mini team event. She took up gymnastics at age two. In 2013 she fractured her ankle. | Athlete |
The National Sports Journalism Center is a sports journalism program run by Indiana University and a resource center for sports media professionals. The center, based at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, currently offers undergraduate-level sports journalism courses and will launch what is believed to be the nation's first master's of sports journalism program in Fall 2010. The center, founded in early 2009, also hosts events on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses. It held its first event, a forum on the effects of hype and evolving media pressures on sports reporting, in March 2009. It held a second panel discussion on diversity in the sports media industry in September 2009. Additional speakers have included Fox sports commentator Joe Buck and Pulitzer Prize winner and \"Friday Night Lights\" author H.G. Bissinger. The center also offers real-world sports journalism opportunities for students, including placing about a dozen Indiana University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis students in a \"Student News Bureau\" to cover the 2010 NCAA Men's Final Four in Indianapolis. Former Chicago Tribune sports editor Tim Franklin leads the center, which also includes instructors William F. \"Billy\" Reed, former Sports Illustrated senior writer; and Pamela Laucella, author of Jesse Owens, the Press and the 1936 Berlin Olympics and co-author of Strategic Sport Communication. The center is also home to the Associated Press Sports Editors, the nation's largest sports media organization. Malcolm Moran, who has written for Newsday, New York Times, USA Today, and Chicago Tribune, as of 2012, is the head of the National Sports Journalism Center. | Periodical Literature |
Kikonge Hydroelectric Power Station is a proposed 300 megawatts (400,000 hp) hydroelectric dam in Tanzania. | Infrastructure |
TEAM* is an American indie rock band from Dallas, TX formed by sole members Caleb Turman and Rico Andradi in May 2013. In August of 2013, The band released \"Am I Alive\", with a lineup consisting of Caleb Turman, Rico Andradi, Bryan Donahue, and Jay Vilardi. The band has independently released a Self-titled EP through Andradi's label (Field Day Records) worldwide in December 2013. In October 2014 they released their debut full-length titled Good Morning, Bad Day through Nashville record label South By Sea. | Group |
Malinky is a Scottish folk band specialising in Scots song. Formed in autumn 1998, the original members were Karine Polwart from Banknock, Stirlingshire (vocals, guitar, bouzouki), Steve Byrne from Arbroath (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin), Mark Dunlop from Garryduff, Co. Antrim (bodhrán, whistles, vocals) and fiddler Kit Patterson from Plymouth, England. First meeting to rehearse in early October 1998, the band was largely formed to help Polwart fulfil a support slot at Edinburgh Folk Club some ten days later, supporting harpist and storyteller Robin Williamson, formerly of the Incredible String Band. The members had previously encountered each other around the lively pub session scene in Edinburgh in venues such as Sandy Bell's and the Royal Oak bars. Polwart was a social worker, Byrne a student of Scottish Studies, Dunlop a town planner with the city council, and Patterson a computer programmer. Amidst the plethora of good young instrumental bands on the scene, Malinky stood out owing to their almost exclusive concentration on Scots traditional song, as well as Polwart's burgeoning songwriting talent. Within six months the band had won a 'Danny Award' for new talent at Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival and were signed to the leading Scottish independent folk imprint Greentrax Recordings, as well as kicking off their international career with a trip to the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany. The band's first album 'Last Leaves' was recorded in 1999 and released at Celtic Connections 2000, with Davy Steele as producer. The album was recorded at Pier House Studios in Granton, Edinburgh. In 2000, the band were invited to perform at Denmark's prestigious Tønder Festival and the UK's Cambridge Folk Festival. In early 2001, Edinburgh-born Jon Bews, formerly of Bùrach, replaced Patterson on fiddle, and later that year Tyrone button box and whistle player Leo McCann was asked to join to expand the band's largely string-driven sound. McCann toured with the band for the first time on the Scottish Folk Festival tour of Germany in January 2002, where the band honed the material for their second album on Greentrax, 3 Ravens. Launched on their return visit to Cambridge Folk Festival in August 2002, the band's recording of the traditional song 'Billy Taylor' set to Polwart's tune attracted the attention of BBC Radio 2's Mike Harding and significant airplay boosted the band's profile considerably. Polwart's song 'Thaney', about the Scottish Saint Thenew, (more commonly known as Enoch), earned a nomination in the 2003 Radio 2 Folk Awards. 3 Ravens also showcased Byrne's own growing songwriting talents for the first time, with his Angus Scots lament 'The Lang Road Doon'. 3 Ravens was recorded at Castlesound Studios in Pencaitland, East Lothian. | Group |
Peng Cheng (Chinese: 彭程; pinyin: Péng Chéng; April 23, 1997) is a Chinese pair skater. With former partner Zhang Hao, she competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics. | Winter Sport Player |
Walter F. Fontaine (1871–1938) was an American architect of French Heritage from Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Fontaine was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1871 to parents that had moved there from Woonsocket. When he was a young child, his family moved back to Woonsocket, where his father, John B. Fontaine (1836-1895) was a prominent building contractor. He was educated in the local schools, and began his architectural training in 1887 in the office of Willard Kent, a local architect. After additional training in Europe in 1893, he worked for the Providence firm of Stone, Carpenter & Willson. Near the end of his time there, he was responsible for the construction supervision of that firm's Providence Public Library and Union Trust Co. Building. In 1901 he returned to Woonsocket where he opened his own office. Beginning in 1903, he worked with Elmer H. Kinnicutt as Fontaine & Kinnicutt. This association ended upon Kinnicutt's death in January of 1910. In 1921, his two sons, Oliver W. and Paul N. Fontaine began working for him. By this time Joseph M. Mosher was also associated with the office. In 1935, both sons became partners in the newly reorganized firm of Walter F. Fontaine & Sons. It remained as such until the elder Fontaine's death. After their father's death, his sons reorganized the firm as Walter F. Fontaine, Inc. It remained as such until 1942, when Paul left to participate in the war effort. In his brother's absence, Oliver opened his own office, which remained active into the 1970s. Fontaine was a member of the AIA and served for a time as Vice President of the Rhode Island chapter. He was also a member of the Rhode Island State Planning Board. Fontaine and his wife, Obeline Lucier Fontaine, died during the Hurricane of 1938 at their summer home in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Several of his buildings have been included in the National Register of Historic Places. | Person |
The 2015 Copa Fila was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 9 and 15 November 2015. | Tournament |
European Coastal Airlines was a Croatian seaplane operator headquartered in Split. Founded in 2000, the company launched scheduled services in August 2014 and served domestic flights within Croatia as well as services to nearby Italy. | Company |
William F. Eggers (December 27, 1932 – April 25, 1994) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. Eggers played for four years on the PGA Tour in the early 1960s. His best finish in this venue was a solo 2nd at the 1963 Denver Open Invitational, where he lost to Chi-Chi Rodríguez by two strokes. Eggers was a club professional in the greater Portland, Oregon area for more than 30 years. He served as head professional at Portland's Rose City Golf Club, Gresham Country Club and Charbonneau Golf Club. He played on 15 Hudson Cup teams between 1958 and 1982, and served as the Professional Team captain in 1991 and 1992. The Pacific Northwest Section PGA recognizes the outstanding senior amateur as determined by a vote of the professional team with the The Bill Eggers Award at the conclusion of their annual Hudson Cup tournament. | Athlete |
State Highway 351 or SH 351 is a Texas state highway that runs from Abilene northeast to an intersection with U.S. Highway 180 west of Albany. The route was designated in 1943 as a replacement for U.S. Highway 80A. | Route Of Transportation |
INSAT-4A, is the first one in the INSAT-4 Satellites series, providing services in the Ku and C band frequency bands. At the time of launch, it was the heaviest satellite India had produced and launched. The Ku transponders cover the Indian main land and C-Band transponders cover an extended area. It has a dozen Ku transponders and another dozen of C-band transponders. This spacecraft is placed at 83°E along with INSAT-2E and INSAT-3B, by Ariane launch vehicle (ARIANE5-V169) | Satellite |
Aghiles Slimani (Arabic: اغليس سليماني; born August 20, 1982) is an Algerian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Slimani qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by posting FINA B-standard entry times of 55.40 (100 m butterfly) and 2:03.18 (200 m butterfly) from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. In the 200 m butterfly, Slimani challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Olympic veteran Vladan Marković of Serbia. He raced to sixth place and thirty-first overall by 0.16 of a second behind Markovic in 2:04.93. In his second event, 100 m butterfly, Slimani placed forty-eighth on the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in heat three, he edged out Turkey's Onur Uras to take a seventh seed by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) in 56.22. | Athlete |
Nassauoceras is a tetragonoceratid nautiloid from the Middle Devonian of Europe, the shell of which is evolute with a wide, deep umbilucus, slight dorsal impression, low arched venter, rounded ventral shoulders, and flanks that converge dorsally so as to produce a subtrigonal whorl section. Nodes are present on the ventral shoulders. Sutures have shallow ventral and lateral lobes. The siphuncle is near the ventral margin. Nassauoceras differs from Tetragonoceras in that the latter is gyroconic with a subquadrate whorl section and angular ventral shoulders, but is somewhat similar to Wellsoceras in which whorls are in contact in the early growth stages and shoulders are also rounded. | Animal |
The 1980 Edmonton Eskimos finished in 1st place in the Western Conference with a 13–3–0 record and completed a three-peat after winning their third consecutive Grey Cup after winning the 68th Grey Cup. | Football League Season |
The 1995 Arab Club Champions Cup was played in Saudi Arabia in the city of Riyadh. Al-Hilal won the championship for the second time beating in the final Espérance de Tunis. | Tournament |
The Philadelphia Jr. Jackals were an independent junior \"A\" ice hockey team that played in the Mid-Atlantic Division of International Junior Hockey League Super Elite League. The team played their home games at The Rink Ice Arena in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. The Jackals were affiliated with the Elmira Jackals minor professional hockey team of ECHL and the Mississauga Chargers hockey team of the OJHL (higher affiliate). | Sports Team |
Diglossopis was a genus of blue flowerpiercers in the family Thraupidae. They are now usually placed in the genus Diglossa. They were formerly classified in the bunting and American sparrow family Emberizidae, more recent studies have shown it to belong in the Thraupidae. They are restricted to highland forest and woodland from Venezuela and Colombia, through Ecuador and Peru, to Bolivia. | Animal |
Aleksandr Maslov (Russian: Александр Владимирович Маслов) (born 25 December 1969 in Makhachkala) is a Russian ex-footballer. He played as a striker for Russian, Spanish and Swiss professional clubs, most notably for FC Rostov. Currently he is an assistant coach at Rostov. Aleksandr Maslov started his player career in a Soviet Second League club Dynamo Makhachkala. In 1991 he moved to play for Nart Cherkessk, a club that was given a place in the 1992 Russian Second Division after the dissolution of USSR. In 1992 he debuted in the Russian Top Division with Dynamo Stavropol. In the middle of 1993 season Maslov transferred to Rostselmash, another Top Division side. Rostselmash were relegated that season, and in 1994 Maslov scored 32 goals to help them win the promotion back. In 1996 he became the top scorer of the Russian Top Division, scoring 23 goals in 33 matches. In 1998 Maslov moved to Spain to play for Albacete Balompié. His spell with the club was not successful, as he made only 8 appearances in the course of a year. In 1999-2001 Maslov played for various Swiss clubs. In 2002 he returned to Rostov-on-Don to play for the renamed FC Rostov. After finishing his player career in 2004 he started working at Rostov as an assistant coach. Maslov holds records for most goals scored for Rostov in the Russian league overall (90) and in one season (23). | Sports Manager |
Ramesh Vithaldas 'Buck' Divecha (18 October 1927 in Kadakvadi, Maharashtra – 19 February 2003 in Mumbai, Maharashtra) is a former Indian Test cricketer. Divecha was a right-arm bowler who bowled fast-medium or off-breaks, and a useful batsman. In 1942 while studying in Wilson College he was arrested in connection with the Quit India movement. He was not charged, and he took no active part in politics after that. His father V.J. Divecha was a club cricketer, President of the Bombay Cricket Association and the Vice President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. While studying in Oxford, Divecha played four seasons of cricket for the university and earned blues in 1950 and 1951. He appeared for Northamptonshire against the Australians in 1948 and played Minor Counties cricket for Oxfordshire. Divecha toured England in 1952 and took 50 wickets. He took a hat-trick against Surrey and a career best 8 for 74 against Glamorgan in the next match.He played Tests against England in 1951-52 and 1952, and Pakistan in 1952-53 but achieved little. Divecha's career in Indian domestic cricket was far shorter than that in England. He played one Ranji Trophy match for Bombay in 1951-52, one for Madhya Pradesh in 1954-55 and four for Saurashtra in 1962-63. In these six matches he took 22 wickets at 27.50. After his early retirement from cricket, he became a prominent golf player. Divecha took an M.A. from Oxford. He was an executive with Burmah Shell and Mahindra & Mahindra. His death came after a prolonged illness. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease. . | Athlete |
RapidAdvance is a technology-powered financial services company that provides working capital to small and mid-sized businesses in the United States. It offers small business loan programs for business owners in a variety of industries, including traditional retail establishments, brand name chain restaurants, automotive repair, manufacturing, trucking, and professional service providers. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, the company was acquired by Dan Gilbert’s Rockbridge Growth Equity, LLC in 2013. It is part of Rock Ventures \"family\" of companies that include the Cleveland Cavaliers, Fathead, Quicken Loans and Genius. | Company |
The PowerTech was a new engine family for Chrysler, and was not based on the Chrysler A engine as existing Chrysler V8s were. A 4.7 L V8 came first, fitted in the Jeep Grand Cherokee, and a 3.7 L V6 version debuted in 2002 for the Jeep Liberty. The PowerTech V6 and V8 were direct replacements for Chrysler's LA family in the early 2000s, and were also used in the Dodge Ram and started in the 2000 Dodge Durango . They were not used in any cars, but were reserved for truck and SUV use. They are also known as Next Generation Magnum in Dodge applications.The PowerTech V6 and V8 engines are produced at the Mack Avenue Engine Complex in Detroit, Michigan. E85 compatible versions of some PowerTech engines were developed and used in numerous Chrysler vehicles. On April 9, 2013 the last 4.7 L engine was built; ending 15 years of production with over 3 million examples built. | Engine |
Dame Alison Hunter Russell (born 17 June 1958), styled The Hon. Ms Justice Russell, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. | Person |
Cold Lake is a large lake in Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. The lake straddles the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, and has a water area of 373 km2 (144 sq mi). It is also one of the deepest lakes in Alberta with a maximum depth of 99.1 m (325 ft). It has around 24 known species of fish in it and is a major ice fishing lake. It is also major stop for many migrating birds, and is home to one of the largest warbler populations in Alberta. A surface of 248 km2 (96 sq mi) lies in the province of Alberta. The city of Cold Lake is located on the shore. Excepting the western shore, the lake is surrounded by protected areas such as the Cold Lake Provincial Park in Alberta and the Meadow Lake Provincial Park in Saskatchewan. The Cold Lake 149 A and B indian reserve of the Cold Lake First Nations are established on the western and southern shores respectively. Cold Lake House was a trading post built by the Montreal traders in 1781 near the present Beaver Crossing, Alberta south of Cold Lake. The Martineau River flows from Primrose Lake into Cold Lake, which in turn discharges through the Cold River (Saskatchewan) in Waterhen River (Saskatchewan), a major tributary of Beaver River. | Body Of Water |
The Wild Party is a musical with book, lyrics, and music by Andrew Lippa. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, it coincidentally made its debut during the same theatre season (1999–2000) as a Broadway production with the same name and source material. | Musical Work |
The Mint Museum of Toys is a purpose-built museum showing a private collection of vintage toys. It was officially opened on March 5, 2007 and officiated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr George Yeo. The museum is located at 26 Seah Street, in the Arts & Heritage district of Singapore. MINT is an acronym for \"Moment of Imagination and Nostalgia with Toys\". The museum collection includes more than 3,000 toys and childhood memorabilia from the mid-19th century to mid-20th Century. All the toys displayed in the museum are the lifetime collection of Singaporean, Chang Yang Fa, an alumnus of St Andrew's School. Exhibits on display include Disneyana toys, Astro Boy, Batman, Bonzo the Dog, Dan Dare, Popeye the Sailor, Pre-war Japanese toys, including a 'Door of Hope' Chinese doll collection dating from the turn of the 20th Century, Teddy Bear collection as well as Chinese comics and comic covers dating from 1920s, and The Adventures of Tintin collectables. The museum's collection includes a large collection of enamel signs and tin boxes which are displayed in the museum's restaurant and wine bar. | Building |
Radoslav Antl (born 2 March 1978) is a Slovak handballplayer, currently playing for HT Tatran Prešov in the Slovak Extraliga.He also plays for the Slovak national handball team. | Athlete |
The Copa Perú is a football tournament in Peru. Despite its name, it is not entirely an elimination-cup competition involving all Peruvian clubs, but rather a series of league tournaments leading to an elimination tournament, with regional league clubs as participants. It guarantees its winner promotion to the professional First Division and its runner-up promotion to the promotional Second Division. | Sports League |
Potton is a township municipality of about 1,850 people in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality. It is located on the western shore of Lake Memphremagog in the Estrie (Eastern Townships) region of Quebec, and is one of the municipalities in Brome County. Potton is located about 125 kilometres (78 mi) southeast of Montreal, 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the southwest of the city of Magog, and next to the United States border, north of North Troy, Vermont. Potton Township (Canton de Potton) consists of several villages and hamlets that include Potton Springs, Mansonville, Highwater, Dunkin, Province Hill, Leadville, Vale Perkins, Perkins Landing, and Knowlton's Landing. Of these, Mansonville is the business center and the seat of government (Municipalite du canton de Potton) for the township. Formerly a sleepy community, Mansonville has experienced some growth and prosperity because of its proximity to the Owl's Head ski resort. Like many Eastern Townships and New England villages, Mansonville grew up around a water-powered mill which exploited a head of water above a fall on the North Branch of the Missisquoi River. The mill ceased operating with electrification in the early 20th century, which allowed economies of scale and centralized manufacturing in larger centres. It operated as a feed and grain mill until 2004, when it was destroyed by fire. Overlooking the mill site is the mansion of the Manson family that founded the town. The mansion has since become a bed and breakfast. The Central Maine and Quebec Railway railroad route from Newport, Vermont to Richford, Vermont traverses the township at Highwater and follows the Mississquoi River. Mansonville, like many Eastern Townships communities, has long had a mixture of French and English-speaking residents and is home to over twenty nationalities and ethnic groups. Religious diversity is present, and in Mansonville, Roman Catholic, United (closed 2011) and Anglican churches are located a few yards apart. Mansonville was also the home of Russian Orthodox prelate Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov for some five decades until his death in 2006. | Settlement |
Anjali Lavania (born May 15, 1985) is an Indian model and film actress. She made her acting debut in the 2011 Telugu film Panjaa, starring Pawan Kalyan. | Person |
The Fayetteville Public Library (also Blair Library and FPL) is a library in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver-certified library was named \"Library of the Year\" in 2005 by Library Journal and an \"American Landmark Library\" by TravelSmart. | Educational Institution |
Sir John Vanbrugh (/ˈvænbrə/; 24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse (1696) and The Provoked Wife (1697), which have become enduring stage favourites but originally occasioned much controversy. He was knighted in 1714. Vanbrugh was in many senses a radical throughout his life. As a young man and a committed Whig, he was part of the scheme to overthrow James II, put William III on the throne and protect English parliamentary democracy, and he was imprisoned by the French as a political prisoner. In his career as a playwright, he offended many sections of Restoration and 18th century society, not only by the sexual explicitness of his plays, but also by their messages in defence of women's rights in marriage. He was attacked on both counts, and was one of the prime targets of Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. In his architectural career, he created what came to be known as English Baroque. His architectural work was as bold and daring as his early political activism and marriage-themed plays, and jarred conservative opinions on the subject. | Person |
Barak Tame Sopé Mautamata (born 1951) is a politician from Vanuatu. He is the leader of the Melanesian Progressive Party and was, until 2008, a member of the Vanuatu parliament from the island of Efate. He was the Prime Minister of Vanuatu from 1999 until 2001, when he was deposed by Parliament in a no confidence vote. Sopé was elected Prime Minister in a parliamentary vote on 25 November 1999, receiving 28 votes against 24 for Edward Natapei. Shortly after he was deposed on 13 April 2001, he was convicted on 2 charges of forging several million US dollars' worth of Vanuatu Government Guarantees and was sentenced in July 2002 to 3 years on each charge (to be served concurrently), but was pardoned in 2003 despite heavy opposition from Australia and New Zealand. When the coalition government of Serge Vohor was sworn in on 29 July 2004, Sopé became Minister of Foreign Affairs. He lost that position in November 2004 after he spoke out against Vanuatu's attempts to establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan, reputedly due to his own dealings with the Chinese. He returned to the cabinet in December 2004 when the government of Ham Lini took office, taking up the post of Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In the September 2008 general election, Sopé lost his seat in Parliament. In September 2014, Sope was a candidate in the indirect presidential elections. He was eventually defeated in the eighth round of voting by Baldwin Lonsdale. | Politician |
Dina Havic (born November 13, 1987) is a Croatian handballer playing for Yenimahalle Bld. SK and the Croatian national team. She played for RK Lokomotiva Zagreb (2008–2015) in her country bevor sie transferreb to the Ankara-based team Yenimahalle Bld. SK to play in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League. | Athlete |
Natalia Nikolayevna Strelkova (Russian: Наталья Николаевна Стрелкова, born in 1961) is a former competitive figure skater for the Soviet Union. She is the 1981 Winter Universiade champion, the 1977 Blue Swords and Prize of Moscow News champion, and a three-time Soviet national silver medalist. Her coaches included Tatiana Lovenko, Alexei Mishin, and Igor Moskvin. | Winter Sport Player |
Hadi Al-Ameri (Arabic: هادي العامري) is the former Iraqi minister of transportation and the head of the Badr Organization, which was the military wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC). He is a member of the Iraqi parliament under the United Iraqi Alliance list, which mainly represents religious Shi'a parties. Amiri fought on the side of the Iranians, as part of the Badr Brigade, during the Iran-Iraq War. As leader of the Badr Organization, Hadi Al-Amiri had very close ties to the Iranian leadership, and in particular the Islamic Revolutionary Guards which was responsible for training the Badr Brigade during Saddam Hussein's rule. Hadi Al-Amiri was also one of the first Shi'a politicians to call for regional federation in the south of Iraq. Amiri has denied claims that he has overseen flights passing through Iraqi airspace from Iran to Syria containing shipments of weapons to help the Syrian Government in the Syrian Civil War. Amiri has however proclaimed his affection for Qassem Suleimani, the Commander of Quds Force, a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps believed to be playing an instrumental part in supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the conflict. Amiri told The New Yorker “I love Qassem Suleimani! He is my dearest friend.” He was the commander of Iraqi forces in the operation to liberate Jurf Al Sakhar during 2014 Iraqi conflict. As a commander in al-Hashd al-Shaabi, he has been active in the rest of operations against ISIL. | Politician |
The Vancouver School of Economics (also known as VSE ) is a school of the University of British Columbia located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The school consistently ranks as one of the top 25 in the world and top in Canada. The school exhibits high research activity and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. | Educational Institution |
George F. Gibson (born 11 November 1945) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a central defender and midfielder. | Athlete |
The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is part of The Webb Schools and is the only nationally accredited museum of paleontology on a secondary school campus in the United States. The museum has two circular 4,000 sq. ft. exhibition halls and 20,000 unique annual visitors. The collections number about 140,000 specimens, 95% of which were found by Webb students on fossil-collecting trips called “Peccary Trips,” expeditions usually centered in California, Utah, and Montana. The collections consist primarily of vertebrate, invertebrate, and track fossils and the museum's large track collection is widely recognized as one of the most diverse in the world. The museum has three full-time staff, two of whom are research paleontologists who conduct research with Webb students in a specialized curriculum through The Webb Schools' Science Department. | Building |
Nick Dal Santo (born 22 February 1984) is an Australian rules footballer who is a former player for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). | Athlete |
Haustellum wilsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. | Animal |
The Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 was the final and most devastating of the series of wars fought between the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire and the Sasanian Empire of Persia. The previous war between the two powers had ended in 591 after Emperor Maurice helped the Sasanian king Khosrau II regain his throne. In 602 Maurice was murdered by his political rival Phocas. Khosrau proceeded to declare war, ostensibly to avenge the death of Maurice. This became a decades-long conflict, the longest war in the series, and was fought throughout the Middle East and eastern Europe: in Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus, Anatolia, Armenia and even before the walls of Constantinople itself. While the Persians proved largely successful during the first stage of the war from 602 to 622, conquering much of the Levant, Egypt, and parts of Anatolia, the ascendancy of emperor Heraclius in 610 led, despite initial setbacks, to the Persians' defeat. Heraclius' campaigns in Persian lands from 622 to 626 forced the Persians onto the defensive, allowing his forces to regain momentum. Allied with the Avars and Slavs, the Persians made a final attempt to take Constantinople in 626, but were defeated there. In 627 Heraclius invaded the heartland of the Persians and forced them to sue for peace. By the end of the conflict both sides had exhausted their human and material resources. Consequently, they were vulnerable to the sudden emergence of the Islamic Rashidun Caliphate, whose forces invaded both empires only a few years after the war. The Muslim forces swiftly conquered the entire Sasanian Empire and deprived the Byzantine Empire of its territories in the Levant, the Caucasus, Egypt, and North Africa. Over the following centuries, half the Byzantine Empire and the entire Sasanian Empire came under Muslim rule. | Societal Event |
Jõhvi linnastaadion is a multi-use stadium in Jõhvi, Estonia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Meistriliiga team Jõhvi FC Lokomotiv. | Sport Facility |
Clarence Everett Howard (September 7, 1859 - May 2, 1930), or C. E. Howard, was an American politician, who was the fifteenth Mayor of Orlando in 1902. He served after Mayor James B. Parramore died in office. | Politician |
Marina di Campo Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Marina di Campo) (IATA: EBA, ICAO: LIRJ) is the airport of the Italian island of Elba, located in the area of \"La Pila\", in Marina di Campo. It is also known as Teseo Tesei Airport (Italian: Aeroporto \"Teseo Tesei\"). It is the third airport of Tuscany in terms of passengers after Pisa International Airport and Florence Airport and serves as a focus city of Silver Air. | Infrastructure |
Rodney Butcher (born February 4, 1970) is an American professional golfer. Butcher was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He went to Florida Southern College (where he was a three-time Division II All-American) and graduated in 1992 with a degree in finance. He turned pro that same year. Butcher played on the Nike Tour (now Nationwide Tour) full-time in 1998. He does not currently play on a specific tour, and over the years has not amassed much success on either the PGA Tour or the Nationwide Tour. He has, however, won many state opens along with the 2003 Bay Mills Open Players Championship on the Canadian Tour. In 2009, Butcher played in three Nationwide Tour events, and three PGA Tour events, after a 5-year absence from either Tour. | Athlete |
Innti was an Irish language poetry movement, associated with a journal of the same name founded in 1970 by Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gabriel Rosenstock, Louis de Paor and Liam Ó Muirthile. These writers were students of University College Cork, drawing inspiration from Seán Ó Ríordáin and Seán Ó Riada, as well as American influences such as the Beat movement and counterculture. Their reception was mixed, with Gaelic-traditionalists resenting their urbanism, social liberalism and Anglo-American influences. | Periodical Literature |
Proclus Lycaeus (/ˈprɒkləs ˌlaɪˈsiːəs/; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485 AD), called the Successor (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος, Próklos ho Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Classical philosophers (see Damascius). He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism. He stands near the end of the classical development of philosophy, and was very influential on Western medieval philosophy (Greek and Latin). | Person |
Jewels 10th Ring was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event held by MMA promotion Jewels. The event took place on October 10, 2010 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. It hosted the opening round of the second Rough Stone Grand Prix. | Sports Event |
Your Family History, published as Your Family Tree between 2003 and 2016, is a British magazine devoted to genealogy and family history subjects. The magazine is designed to offer practical advice, written by experts, on all areas of family history research from how to make the most out of the ever-expanding family history records available online as well as traditional means of research. The magazine has a mix of broad articles on using the key family history records such as censuses, birth, marriage and death certificates, parish registers; practical features aimed at beginners, experienced researchers and experts alike; social and military history pieces; regional research guides; news, reviews, surname histories and much more. Each issue comes with free resources such as directories, parish indexes and software. In 2011 the magazine became available digitally on iTunes newsstand. It is also available on Zinio, Nook and Kindle Fire. Nell Darby has been the editor since 2015. There are 13 issues per year. It is published in London, England, by Dennis Publishing. | Periodical Literature |
One of the longest-running samizdat periodicals of the post-Stalin USSR, A Chronicle of Current Events (Russian: Хро́ника теку́щих собы́тий) was an underground magazine that became the main voice of the Soviet human rights movement, inside the country and abroad. During the 15 years of its existence the Chronicle covered 424 political trials, in which 753 people were convicted. Not one of the accused was acquitted. In addition, 164 people were declared insane and sent for indefinite periods of compulsory treatment in psychiatric hospitals. The first issue of A Chronicle of Current Events appeared in Moscow on 30 April 1968. One issue (No 59, November 1980) was confiscated; the last issue (No 65, December 1982) never went into circulation. Despite constant harassment by the Soviet authorities more than sixty issues of the Chronicle were compiled and published (circulated) between April 1968 and July 1982. | Periodical Literature |
Hussein Chalayan MBE (/huːˌseɪn ˈʃʌləjɑːn/; given name Hüseyin Çağlayan, Turkish: [hyseˌjin ʧaːlaˈjan]) (born 8 August 1970) is a British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer. He has won the British Designer of the Year twice (in 1999 and 2000) and was awarded the MBE in 2006. | Artist |
Grace Nichols' poems often compare her Guyanese upbringing with her life in Britain. The poem 'island man' is about a man living in London who's thinking about being back home in the Caribbean. The poem celebrates Nichols' Caribbean cultural background and looks at the difficulty of being separated from it. She contrasts \"grey\" London and the \"dull\" roar of its traffic with positive images of the \"emerald\" Caribbean island and the \"sound of blue surf\". | Written Work |
The 2007 VCU Rams men's soccer team represented Virginia Commonwealth University during the 2007 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the program's 30th season of existence and the program's 13th season playing in the Colonial Athletic Association. The team finished third in the CAA regular season, and reached the semifinals of the tournament. The program failed to earn an at-large bid to the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. | Sports Team Season |
Kevin Stacey Young (born June 16, 1969) is a former professional baseball player. He played twelve seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1992–95, 1997–2003) and Kansas City Royals (1996), primarily as a first baseman. He batted and threw right-handed. As a union rep Young helped end the most recent baseball players strike in MLB along with resolving labor negotiations in the late 90's representing the Pittsburgh Pirates. Young was also the recipient of the Roberto Clemente Award in Pittsburgh. This award is given annually to the MLB player who best exemplifies sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team. | Athlete |
2006–07 Albanian Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqipërisë) was the fifty-fifth season of Albania's annual cup competition. It began on August 27, 2006 with the First Round and ended on May 16, 2007 with the Final match. The winners of the competition qualified for the 2007-08 first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. KF Tirana were the defending champions, having won their thirteen Albanian Cup last season. The cup was won by KS Besa. The first two rounds were played in one-legged format, then other rounds were played in a two-legged format similar to those of European competitions. If the aggregated score was tied after both games, the team with the higher number of away goals advanced. If the number of away goals was equal in both games, the match was decided by extra time and a penalty shootout, if necessary. | Tournament |
Untold Festival is the largest annual electronic music festival held in Romania, taking place in Cluj-Napoca. | Societal Event |
Antoine Just Léon Marie de Noailles (19 April 1841 Paris – 2 February 1909) 9th prince de Poix, from (1846) 6th duc espagnol de Mouchy, 5th duc français de Mouchy et duc de Poix, from 1854, was a French nobleman. Son of Charles-Philippe-Henri de Noailles (1808–1854), duc de Mouchy, and the duchesse Anne Marie Cécile de Noailles (1812–1848), he was married on 18 December 1865, to the princesse Anne Murat (1841–1924), daughter of Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat. They had two children: 1. \n* François Joseph Eugène Napoléon de Noailles (1866–1900), prince de Poix 2. \n* Sabine Lucienne Cécile Marie de Noailles (1868–1881) | Person |
Megan Anderson is an Australian mixed martial artist who competes in the Featherweight division of Invicta. | Athlete |
Gábor Ancsin (born 27 November 1990) is a Hungarian handballer who plays for SC Pick Szeged and the Hungarian national team. | Athlete |
Geckobia estherae, Esthers's gecko mite, is a species of external parasite from the genus Gekobia and is endemic to the Maltese Islands. Very little is known about it except that its preferred (if not only) host is the local indigenous Moorish gecko Tarentola mauritanica and its preferred part of the body of its host seems to be the forehead. The species to date has only been found in one locality on its quite widespread host and therefore it is not only a Maltese species but a localised endemic. The species was named in honour of Esther Sciberras for her continuous assistance to the finder (Arnold Sciberras) in the study of the natural history. | Animal |
Blessed Jeong Yak-jong (1760 – 8 April 1801), also known as Augustine Chong, was a Korean Roman Catholic martyr who contributed greatly to the spread of Roman Catholicism in Korea. He was an older brother of Jeong Yak-yong and the father of Saint Paul Chong Hasang. He wrote the first Catholic catechism using only Korean letters so that he could reach out to the common people as well as the nobles who were the only ones in Korean society who could read Chinese characters. He was first converted to Catholicism himself by Chinese priest Chou Wen-Mu. | Cleric |
Jessica Cecchini is an Italian model and beauty pageant titleholder who the winner of the Miss Universo Italia 2010 pageant that was held at the Teatro Antico Greco-Romano in Taormina, Sicilia on 1 July 2010. For the first time ever, the pageant streamed via webcast worldwide on twww.tv. Jessica beat out 27 other contestants and won the right to represent Italy at the Miss Universe 2010 pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she failed to advance to the Top 15. No Italian woman has ever won the Miss Universe crown, but the number of semifinalists and finalists (including 1st runners-up Daniela Bianchi in 1960 and Roberta Capua in 1987) makes Italy statistically the most successful country never to have won the pageant. Jessica stands 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) and she's a Pisces. She's a student at the Istituto Tecnico Salute Individuale and she enjoys music and volleyball. Her dream is to someday work in the fashion industry or in show business. | Person |
Hare Splitter is a 1948 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng. The title is a play on \"hair splitting\", or focusing too much on fine details, reflecting how Bugs (a \"hare\") tries to \"split up\" Casbah and Daisy so Bugs can date her himself. | Cartoon |
Cheech & Chong are a Grammy Award–winning comedy duo consisting of Richard \"Cheech\" Marin and Tommy Chong who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their films and stand-up routines, which were based on the hippie and free love era, and especially drug and counterculture movements, most notably their love for cannabis. | Artist |
John Leake Newbold Stratton (November 27, 1817, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey – May 17, 1889, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1859 to 1863. Middleton was born in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey on November 27, 1817. He attended private schools at Mount Holly, prepared for college at Mendham, and graduated from Princeton College in 1836. He was a lawyer in private practice. Stratton was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1863, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth. He was a delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866, and was president of the Farmers’ National Bank of Mount Holly in 1875. He died on May 17, 1889 in Mount Holly, and was interred there in St. Andrews Cemetery. | Politician |
Mary Cagle, also known as Cube, is an American webcomic artist known for creating Kiwi Blitz, Let's Speak English, and Sleepless Domain. | Artist |
Snap (1750 – July 1777) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won all four of his races. After retiring from racing he became a successful stallion. He was Champion sire four times and his progeny included the undefeated Goldfinder. | Horse |
Gastrotheca espeletia is a species of frog in the Hemiphractidae family.It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.It is threatened by habitat loss. | Animal |
Marlene Weinstock, (1943 – August 31, 1997) more commonly known by her stage name Lotus Weinstock, was an American stand-up comedian, author, musician, and actress. Weinstock was born in Philadelphia. Her parents were Robert and Lucille Weinstock. She studied at the Philadelphia Dance Academy. Early in her career she changed her name to Maurey Haydn. Under this name, one of her songs was recorded by Richie Havens.After moving to Los Angeles, she regularly performed at The Comedy Store and the LA location of The Improv. She performed on The Merv Griffin Show and The Tonight Show. At The Comedy Store's Belly Room she was considered a \"den mother\" to the roster of female comics. She is often cited along with Paul Mooney as a mentor to Sandra Bernhard, whom she met performing in Los Angeles at the Ye Little Club. Bernhard and Weinstock would go on to collaborate on an act where they would perform a catfight onstage. She wrote a book titled \"The Lotus Position\" in 1982, which had sold over 60,000 copies at the time of her death in 1997. The LA Improv had a memorial for her a week after her death. She was the fiancé of comedian Lenny Bruce at the time of his death in 1966 and later married filmmaker David Jove, with whom she had a child, the violinist Lili Haydn. | Artist |
Nehrybka [nɛˈxrɨpka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Przemyśl, within Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Przemyśl and 65 km (40 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. The village has a population of 1,000. | Settlement |