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LATAM Airlines Colombia, formerly known as LAN Colombia, and previously as Aerovías de Integración Regional S.A. (Acronym: AIRES, lit. airs), is a Colombian airline. It is the second-largest air carrier in Colombia. The airline operates scheduled regional domestic and international services, as well as a domestic cargo service. Its main base is El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá. On 28 October 2010, it was announced that 98% of the shares in the previous airline AIRES had been acquired by Chilean carrier LATAM Airlines. On 3 December 2011, it started operations as LAN Colombia. It became an affiliate member of the Oneworld alliance on 1 October 2013. | Company |
The 134th Infantry Division (German: 134. Infanterie-Division) was a German division in World War II. It was formed in October 1940. | Organisation |
Coleophora presbytica is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found in South Africa. | Animal |
Łódź Kaliska is a main railway station of the central Polish city of Łódź. It is located west of the center of the city, in the district of Polesie, and it consists of six platforms. First complex of the station, designed by Polish architect Czesław Domaniewski, was built in 1902 in Secession style. Inside, there were several secession elements, including crystal windows in doors, as well as brass fittings. The station served the Warsaw–Kalisz Railway, built in 1900 - 1902. On September 28, 1946, a major rail accident occurred at the station, in which 21 persons died. In 1994, a brand new complex of the Łódź Kaliska station was completed, and has been in use since then. The station provides connections to all major cities of Poland, including Warsaw, Kraków, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, Poznań, Wrocław, Szczecin, and Gdańsk, as well as Prague in the Czech Republic. The station is the terminus of the Łódzka Kolej Aglomeracyjna (Łódź Commuter Railway) serving towns in the Łódź region. | Station |
Pavel Vrba (born 6 December 1963) is a Czech football manager and former player.Vrba is currently coaching Anzhi Makhachkala. He is known for applying an offensive football philosophy in the teams he coaches. As a player, Vrba played for several clubs including Baník Ostrava. As a coach he led several Czech and Slovak clubs, including a Gambrinus liga record of five seasons in charge of FC Viktoria Plzeň, whom he led to two league titles, one cup title, and three consecutive seasons of participation in the UEFA Europa League knockout stage – a record for any Czech club. | Sports Manager |
The men's 200 metre freestyle S2 event at the 2008 Paralympic Games took place on September 7, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. Two heats were held, with four swimmers in the first heat and five in the second heat. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final; there, they all competed in a single final heat to earn final placements. | Olympics |
The 1950 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 63rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1950 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Mayo snatched a freak goal with five minutes remaining after Seán Flanagan charged down a Seán Boyle clearance. The referee for the 1950 final was Simon Deignan, who played for Cavan in the 1947 and 1948 finals. This was the first of two consecutive All-Ireland football titles won by Mayo. They have not won an All-Ireland football title since 1951. | Sports Event |
Shefqet bej Vërlaci (Albanian pronunciation: [ʃɛfcɛt vəɾlat͡si]; 15 December 1877, Elbasan, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – 21 July 1946, Zürich, Switzerland) was Prime Minister of Albania in 1924 and during the Italian occupation from 1939 to 1941. | Politician |
Robert Nozick (/ˈnoʊzɪk/; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971). His other work involved decision theory and epistemology. | Person |
The 1949 Montreal Alouettes finished the season in 2nd place in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union with an 8–4 record and won the Grey Cup. | Football League Season |
Baptiste Giabiconi (born 9 November 1989) is a French male model and singer from Marignane, France. He is currently the male face of Chanel, Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld. | Person |
The Grand Prix of Donetsk was a one-day road cycling race held annually in Ukraine. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2. | Race |
The Toba Line (鳥羽線 Toba-sen) is a railway line operated by the Japanese private railway company Kintetsu Railway, connecting Ujiyamada Station in Ise, Mie with Toba Station in Toba, Mie. The line runs parallel to JR Central's Sangū Line. The line connects with the Yamada Line at Ujiyamada Station and the Shima Line at Toba Station. The Yamada Line, Toba Line, and Shima Line form a single train line that begins at Ise-Nakagawa Station and serves the Ise-Shima tourist region. | Route Of Transportation |
John David Pritchard (January 23, 1927 – August 3, 2012) was an American professional basketball player. Pritchard was selected in the seventh round of the 1949 BAA Draft by the St. Louis Bombers after a collegiate career at Drake. He played for the Waterloo Hawks for seven total games in 1949. He then spent time playing for the Washington Generals, the traveling exhibition team who always play, and lose to, the Harlem Globetrotters. | Athlete |
\"A Little Bit\" was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, performed in English by Nina Åström. It was selected as the Finnish entry by the jury over Nightwish's \"Sleepwalker\" even though \"Sleepwalker\" placed first in the televote. The song was performed twentieth on the night, following Macedonia's XXL with \"100% te ljubam\" and preceding Latvia's Brainstorm with \"My Star\". At the close of voting, it had received 18 points, placing 18th in a field of 24, thus disqualifying Finland from the 2001 contest. The song deals with the feeling of love one has towards one's place of birth, regardless of where it might be. It was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 2002 contest by Laura with \"Addicted To You\". | Song |
The Providence Reds were a hockey team that played in the Canadian-American Hockey League (CAHL) between 1926 and 1936 and the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1936 to 1977, the last season of which they played as the Rhode Island Reds. The team won the Calder Cup in 1938, 1940, 1949, and 1956. The Reds played at the Rhode Island Auditorium, located on North Main Street in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1926 through 1972, when the team affiliated with the New York Rangers and moved into the newly built Providence Civic Center. The team name came from the rooster known as the Rhode Island Red. When the North American Hockey League folded in 1977, the Broome Dusters acquired the Reds franchise and moved them to Binghamton, New York, where they were known as the Binghamton Dusters, Binghamton Whalers, and Binghamton Rangers. In 1997 the franchise was sold to Madison Square Garden and then moved to become the Hartford Wolf Pack. On November 27, 2010, they were renamed the Connecticut Whale to honor the NHL's Hartford Whalers; but changed their name back to the Wolf Pack in 2013. It is the oldest continuously operating minor-league hockey franchise in North America, having fielded a team in one form or another since 1926 in the CAHL. It is also the only AHL franchise to have never missed a season. The AHL returned to Providence in 1992 in the form of the Providence Bruins. | Sports Team |
Pomatoschistus marmoratus, Marbled goby, is a species of goby native to the eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay down around the Iberian Peninsula through the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It is also found in the Suez Canal in Egypt. It occurs in marine and brackish waters on sandy substrates at depths of from 20 to 70 metres (66 to 230 ft). It can reach a length of 8 centimetres (3.1 in) TL though most do not exceed 5 centimetres (2.0 in) TL. | Animal |
You're Under Arrest (逮捕しちゃうぞ Taiho Shichauzo) is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima and was serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1986 through 1992. It centers on a fictional police station in Sumida, Tokyo as its officers tackle everyday criminals while keeping people safe. It mixes both drama and action with some comedy and humor. The chapters of You're Under Arrest have been collected in seven tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The manga has been adapted into three television seasons, three OVA series and a film, all animated by Studio Deen. The series also spawned a live-action drama special starring Misaki Ito and Sachie Hara. Since its release, You're Under Arrest has received positive reviews from critics. | Comic |
George Chetwynd (1783-1850), of Brocton Hall, near Lichfield, Staffordshire and Grendon Hall, near Atherstone, Warwickshire, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stafford 1820 to 1826. | Politician |
Juan Quirós Segura (born 25 February 1956) is a Spanish professional golfer. Quirós was born in La Linea, Andalusia. He played on the European Tour most seasons from 1983 to 2000, making the top one hundred on the Order of Merit three times. His best tournament finish was as joint runner-up in the 1994 Turespana Open de Tenerife. On fifty in early 2006, Quirós joined the European Seniors Tour, and he won that year's Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open by two strokes. He followed that by winning the 2007 French Senior Open and 2008 Irish Seniors Open. | Athlete |
The Democratic Representative Caucus was a group of Members of the Canadian Parliament who left the Canadian Alliance in 2001 in protest against the leadership of Stockwell Day. Following the Alliance's disappointing performance in the 2000 election, Day came under severe criticism from his own party. Several high-profile Alliance MPs began publicly calling for him to step down. Through the spring of 2001, several members of the Alliance resigned their shadow cabinet seats, the most high-profile resignation being that of deputy leader Deborah Grey. On May 2, Art Hanger was the first Alliance MP suspended from caucus for criticizing Day. Over the next two months, 11 other Alliance MPs were either suspended from caucus or resigned. On May 16, Hanger was followed by Chuck Strahl, Gary Lunn, Jim Pankiw, Val Meredith, Grant McNally, Jay Hill and Jim Gouk. In late June, they were joined by Monte Solberg, Andy Burton and Brian Fitzpatrick, and in the first week of July by Inky Mark and Grey. Through the summer, this group of MPs sat as \"Independent Alliance Caucus\", and were jokingly dubbed the \"Rebel Alliance\" by political commentators. In early September, an offer was made to the MPs in which they would be readmitted to the Alliance caucus if they promised to refrain from criticizing Day's leadership. The MPs surveyed their constituents, and on September 10, the offer was accepted by Hanger, Gouk, Solberg, Fitzpatrick and Burton. The remaining seven MPs refused, and formed the Democratic Representative Caucus on September 12, with Strahl as its parliamentary leader and Grey as deputy leader. This was not intended as a new political party, but simply as a group caucus. | Organisation |
The men's 100 metre freestyle S4 event at the 2008 Paralympic Games took place on September 7, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. Two heats were held, with four swimmers in the first heat and five swimmers in the second heat. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final; there, they all competed in a single final heat to earn final placements. | Olympics |
Prasanna Shamal Senarath is the Opposition Leader North Western Province, Sri Lanka and the United National Party (UNP) Kurunegala District Leader. නාරම්මල මයුරපාද කනිටු විදුහලෙන් මූලික අධ්යාපනය හදාරා කොළඹ නාලන්ද විද්යාලයෙන් උසස් අධ්යාපනය දක්වා හැදෑරීමෙන් පසු කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්යාලයෙන් නීතිය හදාරා එවකට නාරම්මල ප්රදේශයේ ජීවත් වූ දක්ෂ ක්රීඩකයෙක් ලෙසටත්, ඉංග්රීසි ගුරුවරයෙක් ලෙසටත්, ප්ර දේශයේ සැමගේ සිත් දිනා ගත් මෙම තරුණයා රාජ්ය පරිපාලන, අත්යන්ත්ර සහ පේෂ කරුමාන්ත අමාත්ය ගරු යූ.බී විජේකෝන් මැතිතුමාගේ ඉල්ලීම පරිදි දේශපාලනය ආරම්භ කර එතැන් පටන් 1991 අලව්ව ප්රා දේශීය සභාවේත්, ඉන් පසු 1993 වයඹ දෙවන පළාත් සභාවේ සිට අඛන්ඩව මේ දක්වා අපරාජිත මන්ත්රී වරයෙක් ලෙසට විපක්ෂයේ සියලු තනතුරු තානාන්තර හොබවමින් විශාල අත්දැකීම් සමුදායක් ලබා සිටින, වයඹ ජනතාවගේ රණ හඬ ලෙස විරුදාවලිය ලත්, කිසි දිනක තමාගේ ඡන්ද දායකයාවත්, පක්ෂයත්, නායකත්වයත් පාවා නොදුන්, සැමදා තමාගේ ප්රථිපාදන දුගී දුප්පත් ජනයාගේ යහපත සඳහා වෙන් කල, වයඹ පලාතේ ජනතාව අතර දුගියාගේ හිතමිතුරා ලෙසටත්, මැරකම් ජඩකම් වලට එරෙහි වූ මේ නිහතමානී උතුම් දේශපාලඥ්ඥයා මොහුය | Politician |
Albert Clarence Hill \"Dick\" Logan (29 June 1906 – 1 September 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Logan joined Hawthorn from Box Hill early in the 1926 VFL season. After being named best on ground in the reserves in his first week at the club he made his debut against Richmond in Round 4 and again played well. Despite being one of the shortest and lightest players to ever play senior football, Logan played in the majority of games over the next five years, mostly playing as a half-forward or on the wing, scoring 35 goals and picking up a solitary Brownlow Medal vote in 1929. Logan continued to play for Hawthorn's reserve team until the end of the 1932 season and in 1932 he won the Gardiner Medal for the best and fairest player in the seconds competition, despite playing only ten games for the season. After his football career Logan worked as a boilermaker. In 1935 he married Lillian Elizabeth Joyner and they lived in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne until her death in 1957. Logan subsequently married Nancy Mary Sanders and they lived in the Oakleigh area until his death in 1996. | Athlete |
Nicolle Velez (born September 20, 1991) is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Earth United States 2013 which moved her on to represent United States at Miss Earth 2013 in December 2013. She succeeded Siria Bojorquez of Texas as Miss Earth United States. According to her LinkedIn profile, she has volunteered in some events such as Autism Speaks and Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Nicolle also supports Lupus Foundation of America, American Heart Association, American Stroke Association, National Ovarian Cancer Coalition and American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. | Person |
The Manzai Comics (also known as The Comedy Team) is a manga series written by Atsuko Asano and illustrated by Hizuru Imai. In Japan it is published by Jive. In the United States it is published by Aurora Publishing. Takashi Akimoto (秋本 貴史 Akimoto Takashi), a confident and forceful student, cajoles Ayumu Seta (瀬田 歩 Seta Ayumu), a misfit, into forming a manzai comedy duo together. Other characters include Meguna, Takashi's childhood friend and \"fated partner\", Kotomi, a yaoi fan who ships Takashi and Ayumu, Yuichi, a \"class officer\", and Nobuhiko, Takashi's soccer teammate who mediates between Takashi and Ayumu. | Comic |
Angelosaurus dolani ('Dolan's Angel lizard', Olson & Berrbower 1953) was a pelycosaur (an extinct clade) of reptile. It is known from a partial skull from the Middle San Angelo Formation, Knox County, Texas, USA. It dates from the Kungurian (Early Permian). It was from three to three and a half metres long and weighed about 300 kilograms. It belongs to the family Caseidae. Like its contemporary, another caseid, Cotylorhynchus, it was large, heavily built, and herbivorous. It also shared its environment with the caseids Caseoides and Caseopsis. It may have been preyed upon by the large sphenacodont pelycosaur Dimetrodon. Like all caseids, Angelosaurus was an evolutionarily conservative reptile which would appear to have been one of the dominant herbivores of the time, occupying a similar ecological role to cows. Caseid skulls are distinguished from other pelycosaurs by large temporal openings, large nasal and pineal openings and an upper jaw that distinctively overhangs the teeth of the lower jaw.The skull is pitted. The teeth are uniform. The body was probably barrel-shaped, like other caseids, with massive limbs and small cervical vertebrae. And unlike the better-known pelycosaurs such as Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus, caseids do not have the exaggerated elongation of the vertebrae that form a sail. Two other species of Angelosaurus have been described so far: Angelosaurus greeni Olson 1962, and Angelosaurus romeri Olson and Barghusen, 1962. | Animal |
Ochrolechia is a genus of lichen belonging to the suborder Lecanorineae. | Eukaryote |
The 2004 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 56th season and 52nd with the National Football League. They compiled a meager 30 wins in the first six years since their 1999 return to the league, averaging only 5 wins a season, with one playoff appearance and zero postseason wins. | Football League Season |
Barbodes binotatus, commonly known as the spotted barb or common barb, is a tropical species of cyprinid fish native to Southeast Asia. It has also become established as an exotic species in Palau and Singapore. | Animal |
Sova (Russian: Сова) is a river in Perm Krai, Russia, a right tributary of the Shakva River, which in turn is a tributary of the Sylva River. The river is 26 kilometres (16 mi) long. | Stream |
John Fanz Staub (September 12, 1892 – April 13, 1981) was a residential architect who designed numerous traditionally-styled homes and mansions, mostly in Houston, Texas, from the 1920s to 1960s. Originally from Tennessee, Staub received a master's degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1916. Staub was noted for his ability to combine selected elements from historical styles into unique creations that expressed the architect's own sensibilities and the demands of his commissions. His houses are prized for their attention to detail and the thoughtful consideration placed to site location. Staub's homes are generally large, though most eschew ostentation and instead reveal the architect's preference for understated elegance. Staub designed many homes in the prestigious Houston neighborhood of River Oaks. His most famous work is Bayou Bend, a mansion built in 1927 for oil heiress Ima Hogg. Miss Hogg donated the estate and its collection of antique decorative arts to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1966. | Person |
Gotzon Mantuliz Dudagoitia (born August 10, 1988 in Getxo, Vizcaya, Basque Country) is a designer, model, TV commentator/presenter and winner of the 5th edition of the well known Spanish television show “El Conquistador del Fin del Mundo.” The show is broadcast on ETB2, the second television channel of Euskal Telebista (ETB), the Basque public television channel. Following his success, Dudagoitia started working as a commentator in the debate of “El Conquistador del Fin del Mundo”, called “El Conquis: La Aventura” and directed by Patxi Alonso, a Basque journalist. In 2015 he was premiered as a TV presenter with the program “Safari Wazungu”. He has also published a book called “Gotzon Mantuliz. Diario de un conquistador.” | Artist |
Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) is a public teaching hospital affiliated with the Health Sciences Center of Stony Brook University and with the North Shore-LIJ Health System. The 19 story, 631 bed Level I Trauma Center is located at 2201 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow, NY. The mission of Nassau University Medical Center is to provide comprehensive high quality health care services to Nassau County residents regardless of their ability to pay. | Building |
Julia Verlyn \"Judy\" LaMarsh, PC, OC, QC (December 20, 1924 – October 27, 1980) was a Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. In 1963, she was only the second woman to ever serve as a federal Cabinet Minister. Under Prime Minister Lester Pearson's minority governments of the middle and late 1960s, she helped push through the legislation that created the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare. As Secretary of State, she was in charge of Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967. After leaving politics in 1968, she wrote three books, and had her own radio show on CBC Radio. She was stricken with pancreatic cancer in 1979 and was given the Order of Canada at her hospital bed. She died a few days short of the 20th anniversary of her first political election victory, in 1980. | Politician |
Demirbank T.A.Ş. is a bank purchased on October 30, 2001 by HSBC from the Turkish Banking Regulator for £248 million. The purchase did not include the non Turkish subsidiaries of Demirbank, e.g. Demirbank Romania or Demirbank Azerbaijan. Demirbank was merged with the bank’s existing subsidiary in Turkey, HSBC Bank A.Ş. on December 14, 2001, creating a combined business with a balance sheet of £1.4 billion and capital of £170 million. The combined business operates through a multi-channel delivery system including the Internet, automated teller machines (\"ATMs\") and call centers under the HSBC name. It has a network of 168 branches and offices in thirty eight cities providing a comprehensive range of personal, corporate, treasury, capital markets, stockbroking, fund management and investment banking services across the Turkish market. | Company |
Bertie the Brain was an early computer game, and one of the first games developed in the early history of video games. It was built in Toronto by Josef Kates for the 1950 Canadian National Exhibition. The four meter tall computer allowed exhibition attendees to play a game of tic-tac-toe against an artificial intelligence. The player entered a move on a lit keypad in the form of a three-by-three grid, and the game played out on a grid of lights overhead. The machine had an adjustable difficulty level. After two weeks on display by Rogers Majestic, the machine was disassembled at the end of the exhibition and largely forgotten as a curiosity. Kates built the game to showcase his additron tube, a miniature version of the vacuum tube, though the transistor overtook it in computer development shortly thereafter. Patent issues prevented the additron tube from being used in computers besides Bertie before it was no longer useful. Bertie the Brain is a candidate for the first video game, as it was potentially the first computer game to have any sort of visual display of the game. It appeared only three years after the 1947 invention of the cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game to use an electronic display. Bertie's use of lightbulbs rather than a screen with real-time visual graphics, however, much less moving graphics, does not meet some definitions of a video game. | Software |
A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann Dublin South-West constituency in Ireland on 10 October 2014, following the election of Fine Gael TD Brian Hayes to the European Parliament. The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2011 stipulates that a by-election in Ireland must be held within six months of a vacancy occurring. The Roscommon–South Leitrim by-election was held on the same date. Paul Murphy of the Anti-Austerity Alliance was elected on the eighth count. Murphy's victory came as a surprise as Sinn Féin had performed extremely well in local elections the previous May, winning 50.3% of the first preference vote in the Tallaght South LEA and 32% in the Tallaght Central LEA, and were widely predicted to win the seat. Murphy largely campaigned on the issue of Irish Water, stating that Sinn Féin could not be trusted to oppose water charges. In the wake of a poor local election result, Labour and Fine Gael were not considered contenders for the seat while Fianna Fáil largely focused its resources on the Roscommon–South Leitrim by-election. Murphy's victory brought the issue of water charges to the forefront of political debate in the run-iup to the 2016 general election, and contributed to a shift in Sinn Féin's position to one of outright opposition. | Societal Event |
The Galapagos snake eel (Quassiremus evionthas) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Harvey Bollman in 1890. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central and southeastern Pacific Ocean, including Colombia, the Gulf of California, Costa Rica, and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. It dwells at a depth range of 3 to 30 metres (9.8 to 98.4 ft), and inhabits reefs, preferring to live in areas bearing a mixture of boulders, gravel and sand. Males can reach a maximum total length of 71 centimetres (28 in). The IUCN redlist currently lists the Galapagos snake eel as Vulnerable under Criterion D2, in lieu of the potential threat to population levels for shallow-water fish in the eastern tropical Pacific, caused by longer and more frequent ENSO events. No conservation actions have been taken specifically for the species, although it occurs in the Marine Protected Areas of the Galapagos, Cocos and Malpelo Island. | Animal |
Michelle Sung Wie (/ˈwiː/; born October 11, 1989) is a Korean American female professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. Wie also became the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and the youngest to qualify for a LPGA Tour event. She turned professional shortly before her 16th birthday in 2005, accompanied by an enormous amount of publicity and endorsements. She won her first major at the 2014 U.S. Women's Open. | Athlete |
Oscura heterospila also known as the Montecristo cichlid is a species of cichlid found in Middle America. This species occurs the Atlantic slope of Mexico and Guatemala in the Río Usumacinta drainage. This species is the only known member of its genus. | Animal |
Olav Tronvoll (born October 21, 1986) is a Norwegian ski mountaineer. | Winter Sport Player |
Sailor Uranus (セーラーウラヌス Sērā Uranusu) is a fictional lead character in the Sailor Moon media franchise. Her alternate identity is Haruka Tenou (天王 はるか Ten'ō Haruka, or Amara Tenoh in some English adaptations), a teenage Japanese student. Haruka is a member of the Sailor Soldiers, female supernatural fighters who protect the Solar System from evil. Sailor Uranus fights alongside her partner and lover Sailor Neptune. She possesses powers associated with the wind and sky, precognition, as well as sword combat. | Comics Character |
Ola Berger (born March 15, 1979) is a Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier. Berger was born in Trondheim. He started ski mountaineering in 1997 and competed first in 2006. He studied at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is related to the orienteer and ski mountaineer Mari Fasting. Between 2004 and 2011 Berger won the Vértex Vinter solo event six times and the duo event twice. | Winter Sport Player |
Archibald Ian Allan (3 January 1916 – 13 February 2000) was an Australian politician. Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, he attended Sydney Grammar School before becoming an overseer at CSR. After serving in World War II from 1939 to 1946, he became an ABC announcer in Tamworth. In the by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Gwydir that followed the death of Thomas Treloar in 1953, Allan was selected as the Country Party candidate and won. He held the seat until his resignation in 1969, after which he became Secretary-General of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Allan died in 2000. | Politician |
Christine Stückelberger (born 22 May 1947) is a retired Swiss equestrian who won an individual gold medal in dressage at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She is the first, and as of 2016, only Swiss sportsperson to compete at six Olympics: 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1996 and 2000. | Athlete |
Attaque Team Gusto is a Taiwanese UCI Continental cycling team established in 2014. | Sports Team |
Doug \"Vicious\" Viney (born 20 November 1976) is a New Zealand heavyweight boxer and kickboxer. He is the K-1 World GP 2007 in Las Vegas champion, who also represented Tonga as a super heavyweight boxer under the name of Ma'afu Hawke at 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. | Athlete |
The 1986 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on May 11, 1986. | Sports Event |
Wild Mouse is the name of a roller coaster at Idlewild and Soak Zone in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. It is the one of two coasters in the park, along with the small classic wooden Rollo Coaster, and its only steel roller coaster. The Wild Mouse was originally designed for Wiener Prater in Vienna, Austria where it operated as Speedy Gonzalez from 1985-1987. Built by Vekoma, it is thus far the only wild mouse coaster designed by this corporation. It was later moved to Alton Towers, an amusement park in Staffordshire, England. When it opened there in 1987, its name was the Alton Mouse. The ride featured a covered lift hill there, which was used to conceal the treacherous curves at the top of the hill from patrons until they reached the top. The lift hill was also tilted, which suggests that the cover was a rotating tunnel, which with the tilting track, created the effect of going upside-down. The Alton Mouse was closed in 1992, partly because the harsh curve and braking system had diminished its popularity, but mainly because the area of the park it was located in was small and the ride was popular, causing congestion. Local residents also complained of the noise levels, so when the Alton Mouse was removed, so were the other rides in the area, which was closed off from the rest of the park. In 1993, the Wild Mouse reopened at Idlewild. The track was originally painted a rust red with black supports when the ride first moved to Idlewild. Rough air brakes continued to hinder the ride until 2002, when a new, much smoother magnetic braking system was installed by Pribonics Technologies and the color scheme was changed to gray track, still with black supports. The Wild Mouse features a traditional setup, including tight, unbanked curves and short but steep hills. However, the ride's height is somewhat taller than that of the average wild mouse coaster and includes a somewhat rougher ride. The ride did not operate during the 2012 season and the first half of the 2013 season. In early July this ride was seen testing. On July 14 this ride was opened to the public. | Amusement Park Attraction |
5481 Kiuchi (1990 CH) is a main-belt binary asteroid discovered on February 15, 1990 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami. A moon was discovered in 2008 with a diameter of 2.48 km. | Celestial Body |
Suna Murray (born April 16, 1955 in Tallahassee, Florida) is an American figure skater. She won the bronze medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice and competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics. Murray coaches at the Skating Club of Boston. Her daughter Kylie Gleason is also an elite skater. Her other daughter, Hadley Gleason, is a first year student at Trinity College playing both field and ice hockey. She is a technical panel member for US Figure Skating. | Winter Sport Player |
James Marvin Leath (May 6, 1931 – December 8, 2000) was a U.S. Representative from Texas. Born in Henderson, Texas, Leath attended the Rusk County public schools.He graduated from Henderson High School, 1949.He attended Kilgore Junior College.B.B.A., University of Texas, Austin, 1954.He served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956.Coached football and track, Henderson High School from 1957 to 1959.Business salesman, 1959.Banking, 1962.Officer and director in five Texas banks, and two manufacturing companies.He served as special assistant to United States Representative W.R. Poage from 1972 to 1974. Leath was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1991).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1990 to the One Hundred Second Congress.He died on December 8, 2000 in Arlington, Virginia. | Politician |
Dresdner Bank AG was one of Germany's largest banking corporations and was based in Frankfurt. It was acquired by competitor Commerzbank in December 2009. | Company |
Edward Donnelly (1879–1957) was an American professional baseball player who played for the Boston Braves in 1911 and 1912. | Athlete |
Song, LLC was a low-cost air service within an airline brand owned and operated by Delta Air Lines from 2003 to 2006. Song's main focus was on leisure traffic between the northeastern United States and Florida, a market where it competed with JetBlue Airways. It also operated flights between Florida and the West Coast, and from the Northeast to the west coast. Song's aircraft were fitted with leather seats and free personal entertainment systems at every seat, with audio MP3 programmable selections, trivia games that could be played against other passengers, a flight tracker, and satellite television (provided by the DISH Network). Song offered free beverages, but charged for meals and liquor. Both brand-name snack boxes and healthy organic meals were offered. The flight safety instructions were sung or otherwise artistically interpreted, depending on the cabin crew. In addition to crew uniforms designed by Kate Spade, customized cocktails created by nightlife impresario Rande Gerber and an in-flight exercise program designed by New York City fitness guru David Barton, the airline created its own distinct mark in the industry. The Song brand was placed on more than 200 flights a day which carried over ten million passengers. Song's last flight took off on April 30, 2006. Service shifted to mainline Delta on May 1, 2006. On January 1, 2008, Delta began repainting the last aircraft bearing the Song livery into mainline Delta Air Lines colors. | Company |
Mount Longonot is a stratovolcano located southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa. It is thought to have last erupted in the 1860s. Its name is derived from the Maasai word Oloonong'ot, meaning \"mountains of many spurs\" or \"steep ridges\". Mount Longonot is protected by Kenya Wildlife Service as part of Mount Longonot National Park. A 3.1 km trail runs from the park entrance up to the crater rim, and continues in a 7.2 km loop encircling the crater. The whole tour (gate-around the rim-gate) of 13.5 km takes about 4–5 hours allowing for necessary rest breaks - parts of the trail are heavily eroded and very steep. The gate is around 2150 m asl and the peak at 2780 m asl but following the jagged rim involves substantially more than the 630 m vertical difference. | Natural Place |
Amina Mama (born 19 September 1958) is a Nigerian-British writer, feminist and academic. Her main areas of focus have been post-colonial, militarist and gender issues. She has lived in Africa, Europe, and North America, and worked to build relationships between feminist intellectuals across the globe. | Person |
The Journal of Studies in International Education is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of education. The journal's editor-in-chief is Betty Leask (La Trobe University). It was established in 1997 and is published by Sage Publications on behalf of the Association for Studies in International Education. | Periodical Literature |
Lucid Records is an independent record label in Deerfield, Illinois, run by Chris Broach of Braid, The Firebird Band, & L' Spaerow. | Company |
Not to be confused with Hylidae, a family of amphibians. Hyliidae is a proposed family of passeriform birds which would include the green hylia (Hylia prasina) and the tit hylia (Pholidornis rushiae). Physiological similarities and recent mitochondrial DNA evidence strongly support the creation of this family. Currently the tit hylia is usually placed in Cettiidae (typical bush warblers), while the placement of the green hylia is uncertain but most often also assigned to Cettiidae. Hylias are small, insectivorous songbirds found in tropical Africa. They frequent the understory of wet tropical forests. | Animal |
The Hull to Scarborough Line, also known as the Yorkshire Wolds Coast Line and Yorkshire Coast Line, is a minor railway line in northern England used primarily for passenger traffic. It runs northwards from Hull Paragon via Beverley and Driffield to Bridlington, joining the York to Scarborough Line at a junction near Seamer before terminating at Scarborough railway station. The line was built in the 1840s, and formed by lines sanctioned by three separate acts: the southern part from a junction on the Hull and Selby Railway was a branch of that railway, and ran to Bridlington; the line from Bridlington to Seamer Junction was promoted by the York and North Midland Railway (Y&NMR); and the section from Seamer to Scarborough was part of the Y&NMR's York to Scarborough Line. The lines route has been mostly unaltered since opening with the exception of the route into Hull which was modified soon after opening with the addition of about 5 miles of track leading to the new Paragon station, which opened in 1848. The line has been part of the Y&NMR, NER, LNER and British Railways. As of 2016 trains on the line are operated by Northern. | Route Of Transportation |
Sinder, sometimes formerly spelled Zinder, is a village and rural commune in Niger. | Settlement |
Carlingford Court is a shopping centre located in Carlingford, a north-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Carlingford Court has been managed and fully owned by GPT since July 1996. In December 2013 Federation Limited acquired the Carlingford Court centre from GPT Group. | Building |
Ælfric of Abingdon (Old English: Ælfrīc; died 16 November 1005), also known as Ælfric of Wessex, was a late 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury. He previously held the offices of abbot of St Albans Abbey and Bishop of Ramsbury, as well as likely being the abbot of Abingdon Abbey. After his election to Canterbury, he continued to hold the bishopric of Ramsbury along with the archbishopric of Canterbury until his death in 1005. Ælfric may have altered the composition of Canterbury's cathedral chapter by changing the clergy serving in the cathedral from secular clergy to monks. In his will he left a ship to King Æthelred II of England as well as more ships to other legatees. | Cleric |
The Goldberg Group is a sub-group of the Hohe Tauern mountain range within the Central Eastern Alps. It is located in Austria, in the states of Salzburg and Carinthia. Its highest peak is the Hocharn, 3,254 m (AA). Other well known summits are the Hoher Sonnblick, with its observatory at 3,106 m (AA), and the Schareck at 3,123 m (AA) | Natural Place |
CBLFT-DT, virtual and UHF channel 25, is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé owned-and-operated television station located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by the Société Radio-Canada division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as part of a twinstick with CBC Television outlet CBLT-DT (channel 5). CBLFT maintains studio facilities based out of the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Front Street West in downtown Toronto, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto. On cable, the station is available on Rogers Cable channel 12 and in high definition on digital channel 515; on satellite, CBLFT is also available on Bell TV channel 99. The station provides French-language programming to the Greater Toronto Area and most of Ontario, including the Western, Central and Northeastern regions of the province. | Broadcaster |
The smooth-fronted caiman (Paleosuchus trigonatus), also known as Schneider's dwarf caiman or Schneider's smooth-fronted caiman, is a crocodilian from South America, where it is native to the Amazon and Orinoco Basins. It is the second-smallest species of the family Alligatoridae, the smallest being Cuvier's dwarf caiman, also from tropical South America and in the same genus. An adult typically grows to around 1.2 to 1.6 m (3.9 to 5.2 ft) in length and weighs between 9 and 20 kg (20 and 44 lb). Exceptionally large males can reach as much as 2.3 m (7.5 ft) in length and 36 kg (79 lb) in weight. | Animal |
Brighton Photo Biennial is a month-long festival of photography in Brighton, England, produced by Photoworks that began in 2003 with an edition curated by Jeremy Millar. The festival announced its merger with Photoworks in 2006 following a successful Arts Council England National Portfolio funding application that secured the future of the newly merged organisation for three years. The first edition of the Biennial produced under new leadership was BPB12 Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space produced and curated by Photoworks. The festival, often held in October, plays host to curated exhibitions across the city of Brighton and Hove in gallery and public spaces. Previous editions have been curated by Gilane Tawadros (2006), Julian Stallabrass (2008), Martin Parr (2010) and Photoworks (2012). There is also the Brighton Photo Fringe (BPF), which runs in parallel to the main Biennial, providing a complimentary series of exhibitions and talks. | Societal Event |
Krzysztof Miętus (born 8 March 1991) is a Polish ski jumper who has competed since 2008. He is a member of Polish youth team, he participated in the Olympics in Vancouver 2010. | Winter Sport Player |
Klebahniella is a genus of green algae, in the family Chaetophoraceae. | Plant |
The Musee Platinum Open is an annual golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was founded in 2015, and is played at Japan Memorial Golf Club. | Tournament |
Vizianagaram Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Vizianagaram in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The municipality was first constituted in the year 1888 and was upgraded to corporation on 9 December 2015. Though, it was upgraded to corporation, it continues to be a municipality till the expiry of its present elected council. | Organisation |
Questions Internationales (French for International Issues) is a bimonthly French magazine founded in 2003 and published by La Documentation française. It offers didactic analysis on various subjects of international relations and foreign affairs, encompassing global politics, economics, European integration and transnational problems. Questions Internationales is popular among students, scholars, diplomats and teachers as well as among a large public. Each issue consists of a main dossier dedicated to a major topic of International relations, European affairs, a transnational or a regional matter. Each dossier is illustrated by maps and photographs. In addition to the major articles written by scholars and specialists, each issue includes short articles and photographs. | Periodical Literature |
Anna Rose \"Rosie\" Napravnik (born February 9, 1988) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey and two-time winner of the Kentucky Oaks. Beginning her career in 2005, she was regularly ranked among the top jockeys in North America in both earnings and total races won. By 2014 she had been in the top 10 by earnings three years in a row and was the highest-ranked woman jockey in North America. In 2011 she won the Louisiana Derby for her first time and was ninth in the 2011 Kentucky Derby with the horse Pants On Fire. In 2012, she broke the total wins and earnings record for a woman jockey previously held by Julie Krone, in the process becoming the first woman rider to win the Kentucky Oaks, riding Believe You Can, winning the race for a second time in 2014 on Untapable. She is only the second woman jockey to win a Breeders' Cup race and the first to win more than one, having won the 2012 Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Shanghai Bobby and the 2014 Breeders' Cup Distaff on Untapable. Napravnik's fifth-place finish in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and third in the 2013 Preakness Stakes on Mylute are the best finishes for a woman jockey in those two Triple Crown races to date, and she is the only woman to have ridden in all three Triple Crown races. A native of New Jersey, she and her horse trainer husband, Joe Sharp, have homes in Louisville, Kentucky and New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the leading rider at the Fair Grounds Race Course every year from 2011 through 2014 and leading rider at Keeneland Race Course in 2013 and 2014. After her win in the 2014 Breeders' Cup Distaff, Napravnik announced she was seven weeks pregnant and taking a \"retirement\" of \"indefinite\" duration from race riding following the 2014 Breeders' Cup. She continues to assist Sharp in training race horses. | Athlete |
Namrata Shirodkar (born 1 March 1972) is an ] actress, producer and former model known for her works in Bollywood and Telugu cinema. She was awarded the Femina Miss India in 1993. She is best known for her works in films such as Kachche Dhaage (1999), Ezhupunna Tharakan (1999), Vaastav: The Reality (1999), Pukar (2000), for which she was nominated for the IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award, Astitva (2000), Dil Vil Pyar Vyar (2002), LOC Kargil (2003), and the cross over cinema Bride and Prejudice (2004), which was a hit overseas particularly in the UK. She married Telugu actor Mahesh Babu on 10 February 2005, the couple have a son and a daughter. | Person |
Cyber Team in Akihabara (アキハバラ電脳組 Akihabara Dennō Gumi) is a 1998 science fiction anime series created by Tsukasa Kotobuki and Satoru Akahori. The television series aired from April 4, 1998 to September 26, 1998 on TBS and ran for 26 episodes. It was released in the United States by ADV Films. It was also broadcast on international networks such as Anime Network (United States), AXN Asia (Singapore, Philippines and Thailand), Locomotion (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain and Brazil). A 1-hour featured animation film of the series was subsequently released in Japan entitled Cyber Team in Akihabara: Summer Vacation of 2011 (アキハバラ電脳組 ２０１１年の夏休み Akihabara Dennō Gumi: Nisenjūichinen no Natsu Yasumi); unlike the series the film was produced by Production I.G and Xebec. The show has an array of characters, many of whom are named after birds, gods, and real-myth villains. | Cartoon |
Giacinto Campana ( born c. 1600, Bologna) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He trained first with Francesco Brizio, then with Francesco Albani. He moved to Poland to paint for King Władysław IV Vasa, and died in Poland. | Artist |
St John the Divine's Church is in Church Street, Lamberhead Green, Pemberton, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It was a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission. | Building |
The Vercors Massif is a range in France consisting of rugged plateaux and mountains straddling the départements of Isère and Drôme in the French Prealps. It lies west of the Dauphiné Alps, from which it is separated by the rivers Drac and Isère. The cliffs at the massif's eastern limit face the city of Grenoble. | Natural Place |
Henning Bager (born 18 February 1981) is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider. | Motorcycle Rider |
Gdynia Cisowa railway station is a railway station serving the city of Gdynia, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened on 22 December 1997 and is located on the Gdańsk Śródmieście–Rumia railway. The train services are operated by SKM Tricity. | Station |
Siva I was King of Anuradhapura in the 1st century BC, who ruled in the year 47 BC. He succeeded Kuda Tissa as King of Anuradhapura and was succeeded by Vatuka. | Person |
Silvia Dimitrova Miteva (Bulgarian: Силвия Димитрова Митева; born 24 June 1986 in Rousse) is a retired Bulgarian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2013 Grand Prix Final all-around bronze medalist. | Athlete |
Merry Christmas is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by Australian recording artist Paulini, released through Ambition Records on 30 October 2015.It is the follow-up to her album, Come Alive released five months earlier. It’s also the second Christmas release, following an 8-track Extended Play released in 2004, titled Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas. In a statement, Paulini said; “Christmas time is a very special time for me. It represents family, friends, love and the spirit of giving. Every year, I’m lucky enough to perform and share in it with communities all around Australia and this album is my way of saying ‘thank you’ for my gift that I can share with the fans”. Paulini performed \"Jingle Bell Rock\" on The Today Show on 7 December and \"Ave Maria\" live on The Morning Show on 15 December. | Musical Work |
Neil George Komadoski (born November 5, 1951) is a former National Hockey League defenceman. He was drafted in the fourth round, 48th overall, of the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft by the Los Angeles Kings. He is the father of current Vancouver Canucks scout Neil Komadoski. Komadoski played for the Kings and the St. Louis Blues in his NHL career. He played in 501 NHL games, scoring 16 goals and 76 assists and recording 632 penalty minutes. He also appeared in 23 playoff games with the Kings, tallying two assists and recording 47 penalty minutes. | Winter Sport Player |
Watervale (foaled 1908 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse of exceptional speed who set two track records in the United States and a national record in Canada. | Horse |
Kevin Broderick (born 20 May 1977) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry and with the Galway senior inter-county team. | Athlete |
Dmitri Vladimirovich Soloviev (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Соловьёв, born 18 July 1989) is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Ekaterina Bobrova, he is the 2013 World bronze medalist, 2013 European champion, a two-time (2011–2012) European silver medalist, the 2007 World Junior champion, and a five-time (2011–2014, 2016) Russian national champion. They are also gold medalists at two Grand Prix events, the 2010 Cup of Russia and 2011 Cup of China. | Winter Sport Player |
Crinotonia is a genus of shrimp containing the two species C. anastasiae and C. attenuatus. | Animal |
The South American Youth Championship 1983 was held in Cochabamba, La Paz and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It also served as qualification for the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship. | Tournament |
Blessed Pierina Morosini (7 January 1931 - 6 April 1957) was an Italian Roman Catholic from Bergamo and was killed after a man tried to rape her. Morosini served as a member of the Catholic Action movement. Her beatification was held on 4 October 1987 in Saint Peter's Basilica. | Cleric |
The Wakayama Line (和歌山線 Wakayama-sen) is a railway line that links Nara Prefecture to Wakayama Prefecture in Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It connects Ōji Station on the Yamatoji Line to Wakayama Station on the Hanwa Line and Kisei Main Line, with through train service to JR Namba via the Yamatoji Line and to Nara via the Sakurai Line. | Route Of Transportation |
Selenops rosario is a species of spider from the Selenopidae family. The scientific name of this species was first published in 2005 by G. G. Alayón. Its native habitat is in Cuba. | Animal |
Wilson Dam is a dam spanning the Tennessee River between Lauderdale County and Colbert County in the U.S. state of Alabama. It impounds Wilson Lake. It is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams on the Tennessee River. The dam was declared a National Historic Landmark on November 13, 1966. Construction on Wilson Dam began in 1918 and was completed in 1924 under supervision of Hugh L. Cooper. The Wilson Dam actually predates the TVA, but was later placed under the authority of the TVA. The dam is 137 feet (42 m) high and stretches 4,541 feet (1,384 m) across the Tennessee River. The cost to build the dam was almost $47 million. The main lock at Wilson Dam is 110 feet (34 m) wide by 600 feet (180 m) long. The lock lift is 94 feet (29 m). It is the highest single lift lock east of the Rocky Mountains An auxiliary lock has two 60 feet (18 m) wide by 300 feet (91 m) long chambers that operate in tandem. Over 3,700 vessels pass through Wilson Dam's locks each year. The generating capacity of Wilson dam is 663 megawatts of electricity. The dam is named for former President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. | Infrastructure |
The men's heavyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The weight class was the heaviest contested, allowing boxers weighing over 175 pounds (79.4 kilograms). The competition was held from August 21, 1920 to August 24, 1920. Nine boxers from eight nations competed. | Olympics |
Vladimir Iliev (Bulgarian: Владимир Илиев); born March 17, 1987 in Troyan) is a Bulgarian biathlete. He competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics for Bulgaria. His best performance was 16th, as part of the Bulgarian relay team. His best individual performance was 79th, in the individual and 83rd in the sprint. As of February 2013, his best performance at the Biathlon World Championships, is 9th, as part of the Bulgarian men's relay in 2013 . His best individual performance is 16th, in the 2012 individual. As of February 2013, his best Biathlon World Cup finish is 6th, in the sprint at Pokljuka in 2012/13. His best overall finish in the Biathlon World Cup is 60th, in 2011/12. | Winter Sport Player |
Pickering Airport is a proposed international airport to be built directly north-east of Toronto in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, approximately 65 km (40 mi) east of Toronto Pearson International Airport. Intended to serve the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe, it would be operated by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA). In 2004, the estimated cost of building the airport was reported to be approximately $2 billion, and it was anticipated that, by 2032, the airport would be handling up to 11.9 million passengers annually. The Government of Canada's plans for the airport were developed during the late 1960s and early 1970s. A large tract of land in Pickering, Uxbridge, and Markham townships was expropriated for the airport in 1972-1973. Opposition to the project was widespread. Preliminary airport construction activity was halted in 1975 when the provincial partner in the enterprise, the Government of Ontario, declared it would not build the roads or sewers needed to service the site. In 2010, the GTAA completed a Pickering Airport \"Needs Assessment Study\" commissioned by the federal government. The study's report recommended that the federal government retain the Pickering lands, \"thereby preserving the option of building an airport, if and when required.\" The Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, an association of private plane owners and pilots, took exception to the methodology and conclusions of the study, arguing that \"the process to implement a new airport at Pickering should be well underway right now.\" Transport Action Ontario, in its own response to the study report, questioned some of the study's claims and suggested that, in lieu of building a new airport, \"higher-speed, electrified rail\" would be a \"far superior alternative\" for much of the short-haul traffic currently handled by Toronto Pearson International. In an announcement in June, 2013, the federal government reaffirmed its intention to hold land on the site for a future airport, stating that the needs assessment study's conclusion was that the airport would be needed within the 2027-2037 time-frame. By July, 2015, the federal government had permanently protected more than half of the farmland and natural habitat on the site by adding it to the Rouge National Urban Park. It announced its intention to use the remainder of the site for economic development, including a potential future airport, but stated that no decisions had been made on development or timing of a potential future airport. | Infrastructure |
Heterodontosuchus is a dubious genus of extinct phytosaur. The genus was first described from a fragmentary anterior section of the mandible found from the Henry Mountains in southeastern Utah, USA. More fossils were later found from Arizona. The name Heterodontosuchus refers to the difference in size between anterior and posterior teeth on this mandible. The teeth were compressed antero-posteriorly spaced closely together. The genus is now thought to be synonymous with Nicrosaurus, and the type and only species, H. ganei, is regarded as a nomen dubium due the fragmentary nature of the remains associated with it. | Animal |
Clayton Allen Hensley (born August 31, 1979) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Hensley has played in Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, and San Francisco Giants. | Athlete |