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The following is a list of characters that first appeared or will appear in the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks in 2012, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the series' producer, Emma Smithwick. The first character to be announced was ; soon followed by . While interviewed by Inside Soap, Smithwick announced that she planned to introduce more characters to expand the Kane family. The first to arrive was ; soon followed by - while Amy Downham joined the serial playing the role of . Later introductions include \"bad boy\" character and deaf teenager ; while Maddie Morrison's father and mother arrived. June saw the arrival of played by former EastEnders actor Cliff Parisi. (James Farrar) began appearing from August, while Oscar Osborne arrived prematurely in October. , played by Nikki Sanderson, began appearing in November, as did and , played by Jeremy Sheffield and Anna Passey respectively as well as played by Dan Tetsell and Brendan & Cheryl Brady's father, Seamus shortly followed. | Fictional Character |
The Kunkels Pass (German: Kunkelspass) (el. 1,357 m) is a mountain pass in Eastern Switzerland across the Glarus Alps. It connects Vättis in the canton of St. Gallen to Tamins in the canton of Graubünden. The pass itself is located south of the hamlet of Kunkels within Graubünden. The Kunkels Pass is traversed by a small road. The pass is overlooked by the Ringelspitz and by the Calanda. | Natural Place |
Nicolás Francisco Ramírez (born 18 February 1988 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football striker. He currently plays for Uruguayan side Unión Mar del Plata. On 10 April 2008, Ramírez scored his first goal in professional football with a goal described as unforgettable by Clarín to bring his team back to 3-3 after being 0-3 down to Racing Club. In 2009, Ramírez joined newly promoted Chacarita Juniors, on loan. | Athlete |
Bill Andrews (born 1944) is a surfer, documentary photographer, and archivist. During his daily reportage of modern surf culture, Andrews has archived over 20,000 surf-related photographs. Many of the photographs can be seen on \"A Day with BA\", the online chronicle. Andrews grew up surfing in La Jolla, California. He caught his first wave in 1957 at La Jolla Shores Beach. By the early sixties, he had joined the line-up at Windansea Beach, and with other local surfers, he helped establish Black's Beach as a world class break. The Surfer's Journal has called Andrews the “first Black’s local”, a considerable accomplishment given the difficult trail or long paddle to access Black's Beach. In 1965 Andrews’ reputation landed him on the cover of Surfer magazine. The cover photograph shows Andrews on a wave at Black's. With time, Andrews' long-lived and vocal presence, in and out of the water, has made him something of a surf sage. For this reason, he has been cited in numerous articles and videos on surf history including \"Welcome to Windansea\" by Chris Ahrens, \"The Strange Disappearance of Ron Stoner\" by Matt Warshaw, PHOTO/STONER by Matt Warshaw, and Ty Ponder's \"Sea Level Pressure.\" Andrews has also appeared in \"Magnificent Obsessions\" on Voom Network, \"Southern California Son\" by James Weaver, and \"Core La Jolla Shores\" by Fred Stoughton. | Artist |
Pascale Paradis-Mangon (born 24 April 1966) is a former professional tennis player from France. Paradis was the World Junior Champion in women's singles in 1983. Although she failed to reach the heights predicted for her at that time, she did reach the quarter finals at Wimbledon in 1988 before falling to Steffi Graf. She finished 1988 ranked number 20 on the WTA rankings. She won two WTA doubles titles during her career. She retired in 1993 with a 137–158 win-loss record in singles. | Athlete |
Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88 (1940), was a United States Supreme Court case heard in 1938 and decided in 1940. It reversed the conviction of the president of a local union for violating an Alabama statute that prohibited only labor picketing. Thornhill was peaceably picketing his employer during an authorized strike when he was arrested and charged. In reaching its decision, Associate Justice Frank Murphy wrote for the Supreme Court that the free speech clause protects speech about the facts and circumstances of a labor dispute. The statute in the case prohibited all labor picketing, but Thornhill added peaceful labor picketing to the area protected by free speech. | Legal Case |
Alduin (or Hildouin) I (died 27 March 916) was the Count of Angoulême from 886. He was the son of Wulgrin I, Count of Angoulême, whom he succeeded on 3 May 886. Like his father, he was charged with defending parts of Aquitaine against the Viking invaders. Alduin's wife is unknown, but with her he had a son: \n* William II of Angoulême, a.k.a., William Taillefer I (926 – 945), Count of Angoulême. | Person |
Zielony Staw Gąsienicowy (Polish: Zielony Staw Gąsienicowy) - a tarn part of the Gąsienicowe Ponds in the High Tatras; in Poland. The lake is located at an elevation of 1672 m.a.s.l. in a corrie by the Skrajna pyramidal peak. Formerly, the tarn was named Suczy Staw. Zielony Staw Gąsienicowy is the largest lake in the Zielona Gąsienicowa Valley. | Body Of Water |
Leszek Kołakowski (Polish: [ˈlɛʂɛk kɔwaˈkɔfskʲi]; 23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism (1976). In his later work, Kolakowski increasingly focused on religious questions. In his 1986 Jefferson Lecture, he asserted that \"We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.” | Person |
The 1890 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was the first football team fielded by Ohio State University. They won their first game against Ohio Wesleyan on May 3, however lost the final three games, including a 64–0 home defeat to Wooster. They played their home games at Recreation Park. | Sports Team Season |
Alwandi Dam, is an earthfill dam on Vaitarna river near Igatpuri, Nashik district in state of Maharashtra in India. | Infrastructure |
Unforgiven War is a free text/browser-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Nvinium Games. The game is set in current times, where the world is engulfed in conflict and peace is hanging by a thread. Players enter the game as a new recruit into boot camp, where they can train their characters by doing missions and learning new and different military positions and jobs. By doing this a player can achieve power and wealth by fighting alone, joining a platoon and leading. There are literally hundreds of \"missions\" and \"jobs\" that engages a player to enhance their character and platoon. But what makes the game unique is its ability to engage players in a real time \"global chat\" that also allows the public to see what is happening between players. Also of note is how the game support team (Admins), engage players to interact with each other. | Software |
The 7s Premier League (known as the NBM 7s Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is an annual rugby union sevens competition in South Africa. It is organised by the South Western Districts Rugby Union and is contested in December at Outeniqua Park, George and is an attempt to emulate the Indian Premier League cricket tournament. | Sports League |
Eugene Andrew \"Gene\" Cernan (/ˈsər.nən/; born March 14, 1934), (CAPT, USN, Ret.), is a retired American naval officer and Naval Aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, fighter pilot, and NASA astronaut. He traveled into space three times: as Pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as Commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing. On Apollo 17, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon and the most recent man to walk on the Moon since he was the last to re-enter the Lunar Module Challenger after the mission's third and final extravehicular activity (EVA). Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions. | Person |
Andy Dunworth (1946 – 25 April 2013) was an Irish hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Limerick senior team. Born in Banogue, County Limerick, Dunworth first excelled at hurling in his youth. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Limerick minor team. He made his senior debut during the 1966 championship. Dunworth went on to play a key part for Limerick, and won one All-Ireland medal, one Munster medal and one National Hurling League medal, albeit as a non-playing substitute. At club level Dunworth was a two-time championship medallist with Claughaun. He also played with Banogue, Emmets and Bruree. Throughout his career Dunworth made 9 championship appearances. He retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1973 championship. | Athlete |
Chalcides mionecton, the mionecton skink or Morocco cylindrical skink, is a species of skink in the Scincidae family.It is found only in Morocco. Its natural habitats are sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, and rural gardens.It is threatened by habitat loss. | Animal |
John Richard Harris (born June 13, 1952) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. Harris was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in Roseau, Minnesota, near the Canada–US border. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he distinguished himself in both golf and ice hockey. Harris was the second-leading scorer on the Gophers 1974 NCAA national championship team, and then two months later won the individual Big Ten championship in golf. Harris played minor league hockey after college and then became a professional golfer in 1976. His best finish on the PGA Tour was a T-26 at the 1976 Hawaiian Open. He regained his amateur status in 1983 and soon became one of the dominant players on the amateur circuit in Minnesota. He won the Minnesota State Amateur four times, the Minnesota State Mid-Amateur five times, and the 1993 U.S. Amateur at the age of 41. After turning 50 in June 2002, Harris began a second professional golf career. His first win came in his fifth Champions Tour season at the 2006 Commerce Bank Championship. Harris lives in the upscale Twin Cities suburb of Eden Prairie. Harris took over as director of golf at the University of Minnesota in July 2010 after the departure of Brad James. In December 2010 the Minnesota Daily published a report that Harris kept associate women's head coach Katie Brenny from coaching, traveling with the team, or recruiting while letting his son-in-law and former caddy, Ernie Rose, perform those duties under a different title. Harris resigned as director of golf in June 2011. In March 2014, Hennepin County Judge Thomas M. Sipkins awarded Katie Brenny $359,000 in a discrimination lawsuit related to her treatment by Harris and Rose while at the University of Minnesota. His brother Robbie played for the U.S. ice hockey team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. | Athlete |
Vazhani Dam is a clay dam built across the Wadakkancherry river near Wadakkancherry in Thrissur district. The water is used for irrigation and drinking purposes. The dam has a four-acre garden and the construction was completed in 1962. | Infrastructure |
Ahmed Abdussal Gariani is a former Lebanese track cyclist who represented his country at international competitions. Gariani won the bronze medal in the sprint event at the 1971 Mediterranean Games in İzmir, Turkey, behind the Italians Ezio Cardi and Marino Massimo. He was on the start list to compete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the men's sprint event and 1 km time trial event, but did not start. He competed in the amateur sprint event at the 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He got a puncture in the first round. After a restart he lost from Rainier Valkenburg from the Netherlands. | Athlete |
Belinda Schönberger (27 August 1991) is an Austrian figure skater. She is the 2011 Austrian national champion and has won two senior international medals. | Winter Sport Player |
Graphis is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Graphidaceae. According to the Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008), the widespread genus contains 386 species. Graphidaceae isone of the most prevailing species in lichen communities, though its classification is not well developed. Previously, the graphidoid members of Graphidaceae sensu were divided into the genera Graphis,Graphina, Phaeographis, and Phaeographina, contingent on if the ascospores are septate or muriform, colorless or greyish brown. Septate in terms of mycology refers to the condition where there is a lack of partition dividing filamentous hyphae into discrete cells in fungi. This notion was thought of as synthetic and adjustments of Acanthothecis andDyplolabia changed the method to a more natural generic classificationof the family. A set of characteristics such as excipulum and hamathecium structure, ascospore color and iodine reaction, and chemistry, was suggested to reach a much more sufficient genus model. The excipulum is the cup shaped tissue that holds the hymenium, asci, in the apothecium. The hamathecium is the hypha emerging between the asci of the hymenium. Thallus color, thallus cortex, vegetative propagules, lirella emergence, thalline margine of lirella, relative length and branching of lirellae, disc exposure, labia and disc pruinosity, labium striation, excipulum carbonization, hymenium inspersion, and ascospores are all considered when characterizing Graphis. \n* Thallus color- The majority of Graphis species have a large amount of calcium oxalate crystals in the photobiont layer and which results in a white-grey thallus. Some but few taxa have an olive-green color close to Phaeographis and other related species because the crystal clusters are located below the photobiont layer instead of in or above layer. Staining in the herbarium constituent is common and due to incorrect aeration causing breakdown of secondary substances. In these cases, a hand-cut section of the thallus aids to classify the thallus type and regular color. \n* Thallus cortex- Species with a corticate thallus have a compact, slightly shiny exterior, whereas ecorticate taxa show a lusterless, coarse or farinose thallus under the dissecting microscope. If present, a cortex is recognized as a thin but characteristic, hyaline layer of condensed, parallel hyphae in hand-cut sections under the compound microscope. \n* Vegetative propagules- Only four species have isidia and one has soralia which are powdery propagules composed of fungal hyphae. Isidia are the vegetative reproductive structures in lichens and are usually numerous in G. isidiata, G. isidiza, and G. patwardhanii, but scattered and easily overlooked in G. stellata, so vigilant examination of the thallus surface is necessary. | Eukaryote |
Sam & Max Save the World is a graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games. The game was originally released as Sam & Max: Season One before being renamed in early 2009. Save the World was developed in episodic fashion, comprising six episodes that were released for Microsoft Windows over the course of late 2006 and early 2007. The episodes were initially distributed online by GameTap and Telltale Games themselves, although the later retail releases of the game were published by The Adventure Company and JoWooD Productions in North America and Europe respectively. A Wii port of the game was published in late 2008, and an Xbox Live Arcade version was released in mid-2009. Based on Steve Purcell's comic book series Sam & Max, the game follows the title characters Sam and Max—self-styled vigilante private investigators, the former an anthropomorphic dog and the latter a \"hyperkinetic rabbity thing\"—through several cases involving a hypnotism conspiracy. Each episode features one case with a contained story, with an underlying plot running through the series. The game was announced by Telltale Games in 2005 following the cancellation of Sam & Max: Freelance Police by LucasArts in the preceding year; many of the employees at Telltale Games were members of the Freelance Police development team. The game received a positive response from critics, with praise bestowed on the game's humor, graphics and gameplay. However, concerns were voiced over the low difficulty of the puzzles, repetition in design between episodes and the effectiveness of the story. Opinions dissented across the Atlantic; some British reviewers did not appreciate the writing in the way that American critics did. Nevertheless, the game has won several awards and is often cited by commentators as the first successful application of episodic distribution. The game was accompanied by a number of short machinima videos set between each episode. The game was followed by two episodic sequels: Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space in 2007 and Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse in 2010 | Software |
The Valley Plaza Mall is a major retail shopping mall in Bakersfield, California. It is the largest mall in the San Joaquin Valley. The mall is owned by General Growth Properties, a real estate development of over 120 regional shopping malls around the United States. Valley Plaza Mall has 5 anchor stores and over 140 specialty stores. The mall is situated near SR 99 freeway, the city's main north/south freeway. | Building |
The National Gallery Singapore is an art gallery located in the Downtown Core of Singapore. Opened on 24 November 2015, it oversees the world’s largest public collection of Singapore and Southeast Asian art, consisting of over 8,000 artworks. National Gallery Singapore aims to provide an understanding and appreciation of art and culture through a variety of media, focusing on Singapore's culture and heritage and its relationship with other Southeast Asian cultures, Asia, and the world. Situated in Singapore’s Civic District, the Gallery consists of two national monuments, the former Supreme Court Building and City Hall, and has a combined floor area of 64,000 square metres (690,000 sq ft), making it the largest visual arts venue and largest museum in Singapore. A total cost of S$532 million has gone into National Gallery Singapore’s development. | Building |
Team FOG Næstved is a professional basketball team from Næstved, Denmark, playing in the best Danish basketball league, Basketligaen. The team has not yet won any titles but managed to reach the Danish Cup final twice. First in 2007 where they lost to Bakken Bears and again in 2009 where the opponent again was Bakken Bears. Also this time Bears managed to defeat Næstved, after a close and exciting match in front of over 1,000 spectators in Herlev Hallen. In the 2014–15 season, Team FOG had its best season ever, as they finished third in the Basketligaen after they beat Svendborg Rabbits in the third-place play-off. The team is named after the supermarket chain FOG, which is now called Super Best. | Sports Team |
The Nanhu salamander (Hynobius glacialis) is a species of salamander in the Hynobiidae family, endemic to Taiwan. Its common name refers to the type locality, Nanhu Mountain. The mountain contains glacial relic formations, the reason for the species epithet glacialis. Nanhu salamanders are known from the northern Central Mountain Range and the Syueshan Mountain Range from above 3,000 m (9,800 ft). They are parapatric with H. formosanus that occurs at lower altitudes. They live near alpine tundra, usually beside creeks, cold springs, and seepages, usually hiding during the day. Their reproductive biology remains unknown. The Nanhu salamander is medium-sized; adults are about 4.8–6.7 cm (1.9–2.6 in) in snout–vent length; it is the largest Taiwanese hynobiid. | Animal |
Murid Airbase is a Pakistan Air Force Base located at Murid, Punjab, Pakistan. | Infrastructure |
The Riyadh Metro is a rapid transit system under construction in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is being built by world's leading construction companies including Bechtel, FCC, Strukton, Salini Impregilo, Larsen and Toubro and Samsung. It will be the backbone of the city's public transport system and integrated with an 85-kilometre (53 mi) three-line bus rapid transit (BRT) network. | Organisation |
The Arts Center of the Ozarks, also known as the ACO, is best known for its theatre production, along with visual art and production classes. The ACO opened in 1967, originally being the only community theatre in northwest Arkansas. After opening, the ACO has shown a wide variety of shows, including: local community shows, traveling shows and the American Girl Fashion Show. | Venue |
Sidi Ahmed El Khadir is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 8683 people living in 1129 households. | Settlement |
Rev. Kyōki Roberts (OPW) is an American Sōtō Zen priest and the current head priest of the Zen Center of Pittsburgh at the Deep Spring Temple in Bell Acres, Pennsylvania. A Dharma heir and senior ordained student of Nonin Chowaney-roshi, Roberts received Dharma transmission in June 2001 and is a founding member of an organization of Sōtō priests known as the Order of the Prairie Wind (OPW). Having studied Zen in Japan at the Zuiō-ji (瑞応寺) and Shōgo-ji (聖護寺) monasteries and in the United States at Minnesota Zen Center, San Francisco Zen Center, and Green Gulch Farm, Roberts is certified by the Sōtō School of Japan and has served on the Board of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association as Vice President, and the Community Advisory Board of WQED Pittsburgh. Roberts blended her practice of Zen Buddhism with art during the 2003 exhibition Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works at The Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh. Her installation exhibit, No where to go; nothing to do: Just Sitting, invited visitors to experience aspects of Zazen (seated meditation).\" In March 2006, Roberts served as a member of the Plenary Panel of Venerable Women: Women Living the Dharma in the 21st Century during the first Buddhist Women's Conference held at DePaul University and sponsored by the Buddhist Council of the Midwest. During the conference, she blended her Zen training and her 10 years of experience as a mediator for the State of Nebraska to present a workshop on Difficult Conversations as Practice.\" In October 2007, Roberts oversaw the planning and conducting of the inaugural Soto Zen Buddhist Association Training Ango at Jikoji where nine novice priests trained in the ceremonial forms, origins, teachings and practices of Sōtō Zen.\" | Person |
The Galilee earthquake of 363 was a pair of severe earthquakes that shook the Galilee and nearby regions on May 18 and 19. The maximum perceived intensity for the events was estimated to be VII (Very strong) on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale. The earthquakes occurred on the portion of the Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. | Natural Event |
The National Shrine of Saint Jude Thaddeus or Saint Jude Parish (originally known as Espíritu Santo Chinese Parish), is one of three Chinese parishes established by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila in Metro Manila, Philippines. The shrine has many devotees among students and those reviewing for board examinations, as Jude Thaddeus is considered the patron saint of hopeless cases. The shrine holds its novena service every Thursday to Saint Jude, whose traditional color is green. The National Shrine of Saint Jude Thaddeus is located at J.P. Laurel Street, San Miguel, Manila which is inside the Malacañan Complex. The parish is part of the Archdiocese of Manila. The current parish priest and shrine rector is Rev. Fr. Linus E. Nicasio, SVD. He is assisted by Rev. Fr. Christopher Ramirez, SVD and Rev. Fr. Yuhang Antonio Wang, SVD. The parish celebrates its annual fiesta every October 28, the feast day of St. Jude Thaddeus and St. Simon the Zealot. Nine day fiesta masses with novena is held before the feast day, every October 19 up to October 27. | Building |
Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long (née Coyne; 14 October 1918 – 13 April 2015) was an Australian tennis player and one of the female players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. During her career she won 19 Grand Slam tournament titles. In 2013 Long was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. | Athlete |
Kai Häfner (born 10 July 1989) is a German handball player for TSV Hannover-Burgdorf and the German national team. | Athlete |
Grimsby Rugby Union Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. The first XV currently plays in Midlands 3 East (North). The club runs three senior sides and five junior sides. They currently hold the record for most titles in Midlands 3 East (North) with two titles (drawing with Oakham and Ashbourne). | Sports Team |
Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering human pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, of which it is an official journal. It was established in 1981 under founding editor-in-chief Russel R. Miller. The second editor was Richard T. Scheife. The third and current editor is C. Lindsay DeVane. Initially published six times a year the journal has been a monthly since 1991. | Periodical Literature |
Batagur is a genus of large turtles from South and Southeast Asia. All members of the genus are seriously threatened. With a recent merger with members from two other genera, this genus has six described species. | Animal |
Tamagotchi! (たまごっち!) is a 2009 Japanese fantasy slice of life anime series produced by OLM's Team Kamei division, officially based on the Tamagotchi digital pet jointly created by Bandai and WiZ. It is directed by Jōji Shimura of Pokémon and written by Aya Matsui of Boys Over Flowers, with character designs done by Sayuri Ichiishi, Shouji Yasukazu and Miwa Sakai. It officially aired on TV Tokyo and other affiliate stations in Japan from 12 October 2009 to 3 September 2012, lasting for seven seasons. The series is the third Tamagotchi anime produced since Saa Ikou! Tamagotchi and a follow-up to the movie Tamagotchi: Happiest Story in the Universe!. After the series's airing, it has gained three anime sequels, two manga adaptations and ten light novel adaptations by Kadokawa Shoten. Although several episodes of the first Tamagotchi anime have been dubbed in select countries, the full anime has never aired outside Japan. The series came to end as of March 2015 and became replaced with Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama. | Cartoon |
Tully is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population of the town was 2,738 at the 2010 census. The name of the town is derived from the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. The town is on the county's south border, south of Syracuse. | Settlement |
'Told Slant' is an indie-pop band from Brooklyn. It is led by Felix Walworth. Walworth is also involved in other projects, including Eskimeaux, and Porches. David Anthony, writing for the AV Club praised Walworth for their ability to produce \"simple, heartbreaking songs\". | Group |
Stefanie Böhler (born 27 February 1981 in Bad Säckingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German cross-country skier who has competed since 1999. She won a silver medal in the 4 x 5 km relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Her best individual finish was 20th in both the individual sprint and the 30 km events at those same games. Böhler also won a silver medal in the 4 x 5 km relay at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Her best individual result at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 6th in the 30K classic mass start event at Falun in 2015. She won the German national championship in the sprint in 2004 and the 5 km in 2006, and also won a 2002 Continental Cup event in Italy. She won a world cup team freestyle sprint (with Denise Herrmann) in 2010. | Winter Sport Player |
Huang Chao (Chinese: 黄超) (born 30 June 1992) is a Singaporean badminton player. He was born in Hubei, Republic of China. He joined the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) on the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in 2004 when he was 12 years old. The three-time provincial junior champion, whose father Huang Kai was a national player for China in the 1980s, became a citizen in 2010. That year, he was Singapore's lone badminton representative at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG). He made it to the quarter-finals, upsetting India's second seed B. Sai Praneeth along the way. The YOG remains the biggest highlight of Huang's career. Huang was part of the squad who won men's team bronzes at the 2009 and 2011 SEA Games. He also played a part in the mixed team bronze at 2014's Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Huang retired from the Singapore national badminton team on 1 September 2015 due to shoulder injury. He is expected to remain in Singapore and has not ruled out the possibility of working with the Singapore Badminton Association in the future. | Athlete |
Sepiolinae is a subfamily of bobtail squid encompassing 5 genera and more than 30 species. | Animal |
Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (16 December 1582 – 24 October 1642, in Edge Hill) was an English peer, soldier and courtier. | Person |
Stargazing Dog (Japanese: 星守る犬 Hepburn: Hoshi Mamoru Inu) is a Japanese manga by Takashi Murakami. The story is narrated by a dog named Happie, who lives with a working-class Japanese family until one day the man's wife requests a divorce, and he takes Happie on a road trip to southern Japan, eventually running out of gas near a campground. Daddy and Happie live there for a while, until one day Daddy dies in his car of a preexisting heart condition. Happie continues to live there, eventually dying too. Initially published as a serialized manga, the collected paperback book sold over 400,000 copies in Japan and attracted a film adaptation. Murakami wrote a total of five stories which have Happie's tale as starting point in common. NBM ComicsLit published English translations of the first two in one volume titled Stargazing Dog in November 2011. | Comic |
Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii, also known as coast Douglas-fir, Oregon pine, or Douglas spruce, is an evergreen conifer native to western North America from west-central British Columbia, Canada southward to central California, United States. In Oregon and Washington its range is continuous from the Cascades crest west to the Pacific Coast Ranges and Pacific Ocean. In California, it is found in the Klamath and California Coast Ranges as far south as the Santa Lucia Mountains with a small stand as far south as the Purisima Hills, Santa Barbara County. In the Sierra Nevada it ranges as far south as the Yosemite region. It occurs from near sea level along the coast to 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) in the California Mountains. Further inland, coast Douglas-fir is replaced by Rocky Mountain or interior Douglas-fir (P. menziesii var. glauca). Interior Douglas-fir intergrades with coast Douglas-fir in the Cascades of northern Washington and southern British Columbia. | Plant |
Natsumi Sakai (酒井 夏海 Sakai Natsumi, born 19 June 2001) is a Japanese swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. | Athlete |
Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (born 24 February 1955) is a French former racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, only Sebastian Vettel (four championships), Juan Manuel Fangio (five championships), and Michael Schumacher (seven championships) have equalled or surpassed his number of titles. From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix victories. Schumacher surpassed Prost's total of 51 victories at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix. In 1999, Prost received the World Sports Awards of the Century in the motor sport category. Prost discovered karting at the age of 14 during a family holiday. He progressed through motor sport's junior ranks, winning the French and European Formula Three championships, before joining the McLaren Formula One team in 1980 at the age of 24. He finished in the points on his Formula One début at the San Martin Autodrome in Buenos Aires, Argentina (where he took his first podium a year later) and took his first race victory at his home Grand Prix in France a year later, driving for the factory Renault team. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Prost formed a fierce rivalry mainly with Ayrton Senna, but also Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell. In 1986, at the last race of the season, he beat Mansell and Piquet of Williams to the title after Mansell retired late on in the race, and Piquet was pulled in for a late precautionary pit stop. Senna joined Prost at McLaren in 1988 and the two had a series of controversial clashes, including a collision at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix that gave Prost his third Drivers' Championship. A year later at the same venue they collided again, but this time Prost, driving for Ferrari, lost out. Before the end of a winless 1991 season Prost was fired by Ferrari for his public criticism of the team. After a sabbatical in 1992, Prost joined the Williams team, prompting reigning drivers' champion Mansell to leave for CART. With a competitive car, Prost won the 1993 championship and retired from Formula One driving at the end of the year. In 1997, Prost took over the French Ligier team, running it as Prost Grand Prix until it went bankrupt in 2002. From 2003 to 2012 he competed in the Andros Trophy, which is an ice racing championship, taking 38 race victories and winning the championship 3 times. Prost employed a smooth, relaxed style behind the wheel, deliberately modeling himself on personal heroes like Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark. He was nicknamed \"The Professor\" for his intellectual approach to competition. Though it was not a name he particularly cared for, he would admit later that it was an appropriate summation of his approach to his racing. Skilled at setting up his car for race conditions, Prost would often conserve his brakes and tyres early in a race, leaving them fresher for a challenge at the end. | Racing Driver |
Du Xinwu (Chinese: 杜心武; Wade–Giles: Tu Hsin-wu; 1869–1953), aka Ru Xia (儒侠), Dou Mi Guan Jushi (斗米观居士) was a Chinese martial artist and an important figure in the development of Zi Ran Men kung fu. Du was born into a wealthy family in the city of Zhangjiajie in Hunan province. He started training in martial arts at the age of six, and by the time he was nine he was a student of a local martial arts master named Yang Ke. After becoming involved with a revolutionary anti-government movement, Du was forced to flee from Zhangjiajie to the province of Yunnan. Here, in an attempt to find a new teacher, he issued a general challenge by posting a notice on a street corner. The challenge was met by a beggar named Xu (Hsu), a dwarf. Xu soundly defeated Du and then took him on as a student, teaching him the Zi Ran Men style. Du trained with Xu, travelling across the country with him, until the age of 16. Du was a user of opium even at this young age, and Xu openly disapproved of the habit. On one occasion, incensed at Xu's criticism, Du ambushed his teacher on a bridge, but was surprised when the dwarf overpowered him, knocked him from the bridge and saved him by catching his queue. After leaving Xu, Du worked as a security guard escorting people and goods. In 1900, he travelled to Japan to study at Tokyo Agricultural University, where he met and befriended the revolutionary leader Song Jiaoren. An introduction from Song led to Du being employed as Sun Yat-sen's personal bodyguard. Now fully engaged with the revolutionary movement, Du used his contacts in China's Tiandihui underworld to help Sun establish the Tongmenghui Party. He abandoned politics after Song's death, and concentrated on esoteric religious practices. He was arrested and imprisoned by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War, but escaped. He then travelled to Chongqing, where he co-ordinated activities against the Japanese. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China he served in the Ministry of Agriculture and as a consultant to the Hunan Provincial People's Political Committee. Du died from a recurrent injury in 1953 at the age of 84. Du was noted for his exceptional martial abilities, particularly his skill in kicking. He fought and defeated many martial artists, including Cheng Man-ch'ing and Liu Baichuan. He also taught Wan Laisheng. | Athlete |
Lindsaeaseae is a pantropical family of ferns in the order Polypodiales. It contains six (or seven) genera with about 220 known species, some of which also extend into the more temperate regions of eastern Asia, New Zealand, and South America. For more than a century, these ferns were considered part of the Davalliaceae. Then starting in the mid-twentieth century they began to be transferred to the Dennstaedtiaceae. Molecular data supported the separation of Lindsaeaseae into its own family, which was proposed in 1970. Lindsaeaseae is considered the most basal of the Polypodiales. Characteristics include: Rhizomes short to long creeping; rhizomes with nonclathrate scales or uniserate hairs; blades 1-3 pinnate or more divided; veins usually free; sori marginal or submarginal; indusia open towards margin, sometimes attached at sides, or sori covered by the reflexed segment margin The genus Lonchitis has many morphological characteristics similar to Dennstaedtiaceae, but a few characteristics of the spore are similar to the lindsaeoid genera, and molecular data strongly places this genus in Lindsaeaseae | Plant |
National Geographic Traveler is a magazine published by the National Geographic Society in the United States. It was launched in 1984. Local-language editions of National Geographic Traveler are published in Armenia, Belgium/the Netherlands, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latin America, Israel, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Spain. A UK edition launched in December 2010. Keith Bellows was the editor-in-chief until October 2014. Executive editor Norie Quintos was named acting editor-in-chief before Maggie Zackowitz was appointed editor-in-chief in May 2015. Longtime contributor George Stone was named editor-in-chief on January 27, 2016. Other contributors include Christopher Elliott, Deena Guzder, Carl Hoffman, Boyd Matson, and Andrew McCarthy. | Periodical Literature |
The Master of the Bützow Altarpiece was a German painter, active in the area around Lübeck around 1500. He is named for an altarpiece painted for the church of Bützow, still held in the ambulatory of the church. | Artist |
All-Nippon News Network (オールニッポンニュース・ネットワーク Ōru Nippon Nyūsu Nettowāku), or ANN, is a commercial television news network in Japan run by TV Asahi Corporation. ANN is the broadcast supplier of news programmes and news exchange to all ANN-affiliated stations. It also operates the 24-hour satellite and cable news channel Asahi Newstar. | Broadcaster |
The Magnet Theater is an improvisational comedy theatre and improv school in New York City. It has shows seven nights a week, many of which are consistently selected as editor's pick of the week in Time Out New York and The Onion. The Magnet Theater was founded in March 2005 by Armando Diaz, Ed Herbstman, Shannon Manning and Alex Marino. Diaz, Manning and Herbstman were friends from Chicago, where they studied under improv guru Del Close at Improv Olympic. Diaz also co-founded the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT), where Herbstman and Marino taught. Diaz, Herbstman and Marino currently own Magnet Theater. The Magnet offers performance and writing classes to people of all experience levels. The faculty is headed by Diaz and features The Second City and Improv Olympic alumni Abby Sher, Jean Villepique, and Rachel Hamilton, and Annoyance Theatre alumnus Gary Rudoren. Also teaching are the adept Peter McNerney, Louis Kornfeld, Nick Kanellis, Elana Fishbein, Rick Andrews, Hannah Chase, Michael Lutton, and Artistic Director Megan Gray. The Magnet Theater's shows are made up of performers who have completed their training program. The theater's core curriculum consists of four levels - Level 1: The Principles of Improv, Level 2: Intro to Long Form, Level 3: Long Form Intensive and Level 4: Senior Project. The theater also offers two conservatory classes, which prepare students for performing on Magnet House Teams if they make it through the audition process. These classes are Improv Revue and Team Performance Workshop. The Magnet is acknowledged as the epicenter of Musical Improvisation in the world. The Musical Improv program was created by Tara Copeland and Frank Spitznagel in the early 2000s and has expanded under the guidance of Director Michael Lutton. The program's curriculum includes four levels of classes leading to auditions for Musical Megawatt weekly house teams. Currently eight musical house teams perform every Tuesday night, creating original improvised musicals, created on-the-spot with the help of a full band. Also known for its popular Magnet Musical Mixer, a free bi-weekly show teaming novice performers and audience members with veteran performers in improvised scenes and musical numbers. The Magnet is also home to the New York Musical Improv Festival. Celebrating its 8th annual event in October 2016, NYMIF brings together hundreds of musical improvisors and musicians from Austin to Boston, Chicago to L.A., Toronto to Vancouver. Performers have included Baby Wants Candy, Broadway's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Improvised Sondheim Project, and North Coast. Many Magnet instructors and performers write and lend their voices to The Truth. Frequent appearances on this podcast have been made by Ed Herbstman, Alex Marino, Melanie Hoopes, Louis Kornfeld, Chet Siegel, Christian Paluck, Russ Armstrong, Kelly Buttermore, T.J. Mannix, Peter McNerney, Alexis Lambright, Rick Andrews, Matt Weir, Sebastian Conelli, Quinton Loder, Lauren Ashley Smith, and Andy Moskowitz. | Venue |
What A Summer (foal in 1973) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who defeated both male and female competitors. She was bred in Maryland by Milton Polinger. She was a gray out of the mare Summer Classic who was sired by Summer Tan. Her sire was What Luck, a multiple stakes winning son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Bold Ruler. What A Summer is probably best remembered for her win in the Grade II $65,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes over stakes winners Dearly Precious and Artfully on May 14, 1976. | Horse |
Motherwell will compete in the Scottish Premier League, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup and UEFA Europa League during the 2010–11 season. This is the third consecutive season in which Motherwell have been involved in European competition, the first time this has happened in the club's 125-year history. | Sports Team Season |
Lauridromia is a genus of crabs in the family Dromiidae. It contains only two species. At one time a third species, Lauridromia indica, was included in the genus but that has now been transferred to the genus Dromidiopsis as Dromidiopsis indica (Gray, 1831). | Animal |
Tyning's Barrow Swallet (grid reference ST47135638) is a cave between Charterhouse and Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave is close to GB Cave and also to Charterhouse Cave, the deepest cave in the region. Tyning's Barrow Swallet is 1.29 km (4,200 ft) in length and reaches a depth of 132 m (433 ft). | Natural Place |
Chœurs is a joint musical album by Bertrand Cantat, Pascal Humbert, Bernard Falaise and Alexander MacSween released on Actes Sud label on 16 December 2011, although it was made available for downloads on 21 November 2011. The 17 tracks on the album are based on the text of Sophocles translated by Robert Davreu, being the Greek chorus parts of the theatrical trilogy adaptation Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle or just Des femmes (being the Sophocles pieces Women of Trachis, Antigone and Electra by the Lebanese-Quebec artist Wajdi Mouawad in June 2011 and presented initially at Festival d'Avignon in 2011. The tracks 1 to 8 is from Women of Trachis, tracks 9 to 13 from Antigone and 14 to 17 from Electra. The release coincided with the Paris presentation of Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle on Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in the Paris region. As Bertrand Cantat could not take part in certain presentations because of backlash to his earlier criminal record and role in murder of Marie Trintignant, in those locations his vocals were replaced by various vocalists, with concern that the authenticity of the vocals was jeopardised. But Cantat did sing actually in productions in Bordeaux region on 28 June 2011 at the Rocher de Palmer in Cenon followed by shows in Bourges, Reims, Brest, Lyon, Geneva and Athens. His scheduled appearance in Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in May 2012 was cancelled after pressure from feminist groups and his role was taken over by Igor Quezada. The album was released as a book disc of 32 pages and an introduction to the play by Moawad and a picture gallery in black and white and in color by Jean-Louis Fernandez. The cover photo for the release depicted Samuël Côté and Oreste. Chœurs is the first album of Bertrand Cantat, since the album Nous n'avons fait que fuir (recorded in 2002, released in 2004), and the official demise of the group Noir Désir announced in November 2010. This is also the first album in which Cantat was credited directly rather than his band. Wajdi Mouawad declared he loved Cantat's vocals for a long time and had incorporated materials from Noir Désir in his earlier creation Temps in 2010, and asked Cantat to record texts for his work Ciels in 2009. Bertrand Cantat agreed to do the recording provided his long-time friend Pascal Humbert was involved in the project to which Moawad agreed. Moawad also added two Quebec artists, the guitarist Bernard Falaise and drummer Alexander MacSween to complete the rock quartet. The album was recorded in Studio Davout in Paris under the production of Jean-Loup Morette and in Studio Anywave in Bordeaux under the production of Nicolas Perego; mixing was by Jean-Loup Morette in Paris and the mastering by Bruno Green in Lennoxville, Quebec. | Musical Work |
Joanne Duffy is a Paralympic medalist from New Zealand who competed in alpine skiing. She competed in the 1994 Winter Paralympics where she won a gold medal in downhill and a bronze in Super-G. | Winter Sport Player |
Aodán Mac Gearailt is a footballer from Co Kerry. He played with An Ghaeltacht and the Kerry teams in the 1990s and 2000s, winning County Championships in 2001 and 2003 he also won a Munster Club Championship in 2003 and played in the 2004 All Ireland Club Final but ended up on the losing side. He joined Cork side Ballygarvan in 2009 but returned to An Ghaeltacht after only one year with the Cork side. He won an All Ireland Senior Football Championship in 2000 with Kerry. He also won an All Ireland Under 21 medal in 1998. In 2009 he was made trainer of the Cork senior hurling team by Gerald McCarthy during the players strike. | Athlete |
Akan Volcanic Complex is a volcanic group of volcanoes that grew out of the Akan caldera. It is located within Akan National Park, about 50 km Northwest of Kushiro in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. | Natural Place |
Mitra zonata, common name zoned mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails. | Animal |
Mario Vicini (Cesena, 21 February 1913 — Cesena, 6 December 1995) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Vicini won the 1940 Italian road race championship, as well as the Giro del Lazio and the Giro di Toscana. He rode the Tour de France twice, finishing 2nd (in 1937) and 6th (in 1938). In the Giro d'Italia, Vicini won 3 stages, and finished third in 1939.He later went on to build racing bicycles, simply named \"Vicini\", using top of the line components. You can tell his frame and fork sets by the Vicini name stamped into the top end of the seat stay flutes and the V in the top of each side of the fork crown. | Athlete |
Gagrella is a large genus of harvestmen in the family Sclerosomatidae. | Animal |
Nikola Mektić (born 24 December 1988) is a Croatian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On May 6, 2013, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 213. | Athlete |
William Guy Dible (5 November 1861 – 15 August 1894) was an English cricketer. Dible was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. Greenfield made his first-class debut for Surrey against the touring Australians in 1882. This was the only first-class appearance Dible made for Surrey. In 1883 Dible made his first-class debut Hampshire against Sussex. On debut Dible claimed his maiden five wicket haul with figures of 5/69. Later in the 1883 season in Hampshire's second match against Sussex, Dible took ten wickets in the match with 4/16 in Sussex's first innings and 6/50 in their second. In 1884 Dible represented Hampshire in eight first-class matches, where he took 34 wickets at a bowling average of 22.61, including figures of 5/65 against Surrey. In addition Dible scored his maiden and only first-class half century, a score of 68 against Sussex. The 1885 season would turn out to be Hampshire's last season with first-class status until the 1895 County Championship, nonetheless Dible played eleven first-class matches for the county during that season, with his final first-class match coming against Kent. In Dible's 25 first-class matches for Hampshire, he scored 495 runs at a batting average of 13.37 and a high score of 68. With the ball Dible took 90 wickets at a bowling average of 22.12, with five five wicket hauls and best figures of 7/60. Dible took ten wickets in a match once. Despite Hampshire losing their first-class status, Dible continued to represent the county in non first-class matches until 1890, with his final appearance for Hampshire coming against Staffordshire. Dible died at Fareham, Hampshire on 15 August 1894. | Athlete |
Your Computer was an Australian computer magazine published by the White House Publishing Group (under licence from Motorword Pty Ltd.) and printed by The Lithgo Centre, Waterloo. Starting with the very first issue in May/June 1981 (102 pages) (with a limited print run of 30,000) at the recommended price of $2.00. Around 1985 the magazine was later published by Federal Publishing Company (Hannanprint Group) and printed by Macquarie Print. The monthly magazine's final issue was May/June 1997. The first editor of the magazine was Les Bell. The articles in Your Computer catered for beginners to computing, through to highly technical programming techniques, industry updates, resources, user group and microcomputer-specific columns, and published many special features of Australian technology companies. Articles were written by both full-time magazine staff and freelance contributors, including Les Bell, Matt Whalen, Bill Bolton, Stewart White and Lloyd Borrett. Cartoonist Brendan J Ackhurst was also a frequent contributor of illustrations to the magazine. The magazine was launched in the pre-PC era, and so for many years, the magazine was focused on the then home computers such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, Microbee and many others; however unlike most publications of this type, it never completely specialized on any one market, and so catered for hobbyists, serious hobbyists, and professionals, and remained platform agnostic. | Periodical Literature |
Jacopo Barbello (1590–1656) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Cremona, He trained in Naples. Painted in Brescia and Bergamo. | Artist |
Manuel Luis Gayoso de Lemos Amorín y Magallanes (1747 – 1799) was the Spanish governor of Louisiana (New Spain) from 1797 until his death in 1799. | Politician |
Bobby Joe Mason (April 23, 1936 – July 4, 2006) was an American basketball player. He was an All-American college player at Bradley University and gained worldwide fame as a member of the Harlem Globetrotters. Mason was a three-sport star at Centralia High School in Centralia, Illinois. He came to Bradley and, after losing nearly a season to academic eligibility issues, became a prominent player and a part of two National Invitation Tournament championships with the Braves. In 1958, he was named second-team All-Missouri Valley Conference, and was named to the first-team in 1959. Following the season, he was drafted by the National Basketball Association's Minneapolis Lakers, but chose to return to Bradley to use the rest of his eligibility. Mason played 18 games for the Braves in 1959–60, until his eligibility ran out upon graduation. He left the team prior to their run to the 1960 NIT championship. Despite his abbreviated season, Mason was named a second-team All-American by the National Association of Basketball Coaches alongside teammate Chet Walker. He was again drafted in the 1960 NBA draft, this time by the Cincinnati Royals (sixth round, 41st pick), however he did not play in the NBA. He instead joined the Harlem Globetrotters, playing for the touring team from 1962 to 1974. In addition to earning captain honors, he was a cast member on the 1974 Saturday morning television series The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine. Mason died on July 4, 2006 at 70. | Athlete |
The 2016 Taça da Liga Final was the final match of the 2015–16 Taça da Liga, the ninth season of the Taça da Liga. Trophy holders Benfica beat Marítimo 6–2 (for the second consecutive final) to win a third consecutive and record seventh title in the competition, in a total of nine editions. | Sports Event |
Marc \"Babaloo\" Mandel (born October 13, 1949) is an American screenwriter. After doing television episodes, he also began writing for feature films. He and long-time writing partner Lowell Ganz have penned numerous high-profile movies, including Splash (1984), Parenthood (1989), City Slickers (1991) and A League of Their Own (1992). | Writer |
Adam Alexander \"Bill\" Armstrong, OBE, MC (1 July 1909 – 22 February 1982) was an Australian politician. Born in Deniliquin, New South Wales, he was a grazier before serving in the military 1939-45 (during World War II). Subsequently he became involved in local politics, serving on Conargo Shire Council. In 1965 he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in the by-election for the seat of Riverina that followed the resignation of Hugh Roberton; Armstrong was a member of the Country Party. He held the seat until 1969, when he was defeated by Labor's Al Grassby. Armstrong died in 1982. | Politician |
The crustacean order Tanaidacea (known as tanaids) make up a minor group within the class Malacostraca. There are about 940 species in this order. | Animal |
Alfred Earle (1827 – 28 December 1918) was the Bishop of Marlborough from 1888 to 1900. He was born the son of surgeon Henry Earle and was educated at Eton College and Hertford College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1858 and was a curate of St Edmund's Salisbury and then rector of Monkton Farleigh before becoming vicar of Alvington. He then had 15 years in Totnes, where he also became a rural dean and, from 1872 to 1888, the Archdeacon of Totnes. After his time as Bishop of Marlborough he became the Dean of Exeter until his death. | Cleric |
Lake Volgo (Russian: Озеро Волго) is a lake in Ostashkovsky, Penovsky, and Selizharovsky Districts of Tver Oblast, Russia. The Volga River flows through the lake in its upper course. The area of the lake is 61 square kilometres (24 sq mi), and the area of its drainage basin is 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi). The urban-type settlement of Peno is located on the western bank of the lake. Lake Volgo is the lowest of four big lakes which together form the Upper Volga Reservoir and which constitute the only remaining large natural lake system on the Volga. The other three lakes of the system are Lake Peno, Lake Vselug, and Lake Sterzh. Lake Volgo is located downstream of Lake Peno and consists of two parts (sometimes referred as Volgo I and Volgo II), one bent to the northeast and then to the southwest, and the second, which is bigger, oriented approximately west to east. The two parts are separated by a narrow channel. The Volga flows out from the easternmost corner, at the selo of Selishche, where the dam of the reservoir is located. The total length of the lake is about 30 kilometres (19 mi), the average depth is 2 metres (6.6 ft). Since Lake Volgo is the lowest of the four Upper Volga lakes, its drainage basin includes the drainage basins of the others. This comprises most of Penovsky District, the southwestern part of Ostashkovsky District, the northwestern part of Selizharovsky District, as well as the southeastern corner of Andreapolsky District and minor areas in the north of Nelidovsky District. The Zhukopa River and the Kocha River are the biggest tributaries of the lake. The lake is popular for recreational fishing. | Body Of Water |
X-Press 2 are a British electronic dance music duo. The members are DJ Diesel (Darren House) and DJ Rocky (Darren Rock). Ashley Beedle left to pursue solo projects in 2009. They were DJ Award winners in 2002 and Ivor Novello winners in 2003. | Group |
Harharu was an early Assyrian king. He was listed as the fifth among the “seventeen kings who lived in tents” within the Mesopotamian Chronicles. Harharu was preceded by Suhlamu, and succeeded by Mandaru. Next to nothing is otherwise known about Harharu's reign. | Person |
The Grand Prix du Midi Libre (referred to as just Midi Libre) was a multiple-stage cycling course in the south of France. The race, named after the newspaper that organized it, was first organized in 1949 and was an important preparation courses for the Tour de France. Because of the hills in southern France, a climber usually won but sometimes the decision was made in a flat stage. In 2003 the course was not organized, due to financial problems. One year later it returned, named Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon, but this turned out to be a one-time comeback. | Race |
Tamayo Akiyama (秋山 たまよ Akiyama Tamayo) (born November 28, 1966 in Ōsaka) a Japanese shōjo manga author and artist. She is a former member of CLAMP. Akiyama has also done illustrations for three novels (Kyokutō Shōnen and Komaranu mae no kami da nomi by Kobayashi Megumi and Watashi no Kare wa Hamster by Edō Kei) and illustrations for a CD (Psycho Sound Machine Drama by Ohara Mariko). | Artist |
The Belarus Free Trade Union (SPB) is a trade union centre in Belarus. Its headquarters are located in Minsk. | Organisation |
Karen Margrethe Kuvaas (born June 14, 1947) is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party and since 2007 mayor of Narvik. Kuvaas took over as mayor succeeding her party colleague Olav Sigurd Alstad following the 2007 election. In November she was one of the four Nordland mayors who fronted the municipalities case in the Terra Securities scandal. | Politician |
Flounder Brewing Company is a nanobrewery in Hillsborough in Somerset County, New Jersey. Started by Jeremy Lees as a homebrewing hobby, it grew to encompass other members of the family including his brothers, Daniel and Michael, and his cousin William. The brewery opened to the public in October 2013, and was first sold to the public at the Fox and Hound Tavern in Lebanon, New Jersey. It was New Jersey's 12th Limited Brewery license and one of the first nano scale breweries in New Jersey, producing an estimated 50 barrels of beer per year. Tastings and fills are on select scheduled Saturdays each month. | Company |
Steve Gansey (born October 17, 1985) is an American former basketball player currently working as the head coach of the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA Development League. He attended Cleveland State and Ashland University. | Athlete |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Jean–Longueuil (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis–Longoliensis) (erected 9 June 1933, as the Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Québec) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Montréal. It was renamed on 27 February 1982. | Clerical Administrative Region |
Honey Creek is a town in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The town took its name from Honey Creek. The population was 736 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Denzer, and Leland are located in the town. | Settlement |
Asconiscus is a genus in the Asconiscidae family of marine isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida, containing a single genus and a single species, Asconiscus simplex. The original description of the family was made by Bonnier in 1900. A. simplex is a parasite of the shrimp-like crustacean, Boreomysis arctica. | Animal |
The Carioca River (Portuguese: Rio Carioca) is a river in the state of Rio de Janeiro state in southeastern Brazil. It emerges from two springs on the southeast slopes of the Tijuca Massif in the protected Mata Atlantica forest of Tijuca National Park. The river then leaves Tijuca Forest into the Guararapes favela, then into the high-income Cosme Velho neighborhood, and then is completely buried completely underground. The river reemerges in Flamengo Park to empty into Guanabara Bay at Flamengo Beach. Research by the Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica in 2015 confirmed that every river in the City of Rio de Janeiro is polluted, including the Carioca River. The river, once the primary source of fresh water in the city, is now one of its most polluted. Untreated sewage is the primary source of pollution of the Carioca; the 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) stretch of the river in Guararapes and Cosme Velho are a great sources of unregulated sewage. The water of the Carioca carries pollutants that cause diarrhea, hepatitis, and leptospirosis. The river has a single wastewater treatment facility near its mouth before emptying into Guanabara Bay. It was installed by the State of Rio de Janeiro in 2001. Biochemical evaluation of the river began in 1991 and water quality decreases annually. | Stream |
The Lelystad–Zwolle railway, also known as the Hanzelijn (English: Hanseatic Line), is a Dutch railway line, finished in 2012. It connects Lelystad, capital of the province of Flevoland, with Zwolle, capital of the neighbouring province of Overijssel, and provides a direct rail link between Flevoland and the north-east of the Netherlands. | Route Of Transportation |
Wu Chien-ch'uan or Wu Jianquan (1870–1942) was a famous teacher and founder of the neijia martial art of Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan in late Imperial and early Republican China. | Athlete |
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford is a diocese of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, covering parishes in New York State and New England in the United States. The diocesan headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, includes St. Volodymyr Cathedral, a chancery at 14 Peveril Road in Stamford, St. Basil College, and a Ukrainian museum. The diocese publishes The Sower, a monthly newsletter with articles written in both English and Ukrainian, from its offices in Stamford. The Eparchy of Stamford is a suffragan diocese of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, which has authority over all Ukrainian Catholic dioceses and Ukrainian Catholics in the United States. | Clerical Administrative Region |
Les Merton is a Cornish self-published writer and convicted child-abuser from Medlyn Moor, Cornwall, England, UK, subsequently living in Redruth before his 2015 conviction. Educated at Halwin School, and employed in various ways in his life, he has written in a range of genres including humour and Cornish dialect. In 2002 he founded Poetry Cornwall / Bardhonyaeth Kernow, of which he remains the editor. His guide to the Cornish dialect entitled Oall Rite Me Ansum?: a salute to Cornish Dialect was published in 2003. In 2005 Merton accepted a police caution for entering his credit card details into a website hosting indecent images of children, but had claimed that this was a mistake which happened whilst carrying out research into the Russian mystic, Rasputin. In January 2015, Merton was found guilty and jailed for 13 years for child sex abuse which was carried out on girls as young as seven and over a period of over 20 years. | Writer |
Ricky Petterd (born 24 July 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Petterd was drafted to Melbourne with the 30th overall pick in the 2006 national draft. He is a state representative footballer from Broadbeach on the Gold Coast, Queensland who made his senior debut with Melbourne in round 5 of 2007, where he had 22 disposals in the midfield and featured in the Demons best player list. He followed up his first game performance with an AFL Rising Star nomination in round 6. While with Melbourne he had a season-ending injury in round 14 of 2007 against Carlton. He collapsed during the game and could not breathe. Two club doctors realised there was no time to send him to hospital and punctured his chest wall in the change rooms, allowing air to escape from his chest cavity. This in turn allowed his ruptured lung to re-expand, effectively saving his life. He subsequently had surgery to permanently repair the lung. Petterd suffered another season-ending injury with Melbourne in May 2010, when he suffered a dislocated right shoulder that required surgery and a four-month recovery period. He played only six games in that season. Petterd joined Richmond in 2013 as a rookie. In his first season with the Tigers he played 12 games, averaging 17 disposals and five marks per game and was then elevated to the senior list at the 2013 national draft. He announced his immediate retirement from the AFL in September 2015, citing an ongoing foot injury, following 54 matches with Melbourne and 30 with Richmond. | Athlete |
Thaddeaus Inglehart Wilborn (born December 16, 1958 in Waco, Texas) is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder. He played during two seasons at the major league level for the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees. He was drafted by the Yankees in the 4th round of the 1976 amateur draft. Wilborn, played his first professional season with their Class A (Short Season) Oneonta Yankees in 1976, and split his last season between the Baltimore Orioles' Class A (Advanced) Miami Marlins and Triple-A Rochester Red Wings, in 1987. | Athlete |
McLeod John Baltazar Bethel-Thompson (born July 3, 1988) is an American football quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Sacramento State. He is the grandson of the 1948 Olympic shot put champion Wilbur 'Moose' Thompson. | Gridiron Football Player |
King's Highway 16, commonly referred to as Highway 16 and historically as the Prescott Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway once travelled from near Prescott to Ottawa. However, its length was truncated significantly when most of the route was \"twinned\" with a second roadway, and renumbered as Highway 416. However, a short stub remains through Johnstown, crossing the St. Lawrence River on the Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge to Ogdensburg, New York, where it becomes New York State Route 812. The Ottawa–Prescott Road was one of the first highways designated in Ontario; it was one of four designated in 1918. The highway was numbered in August 1925. | Route Of Transportation |
The Northern Line is one of the two commuter rail lines operated by Merseyrail in Merseyside, England, with Wirral Line being the other. A third line, the City Line, is not owned or operated by Merseyrail. All three lines are funded by Merseytravel. The Northern Line passes underground through Liverpool city centre with termini at: \n* Hunts Cross to the south; \n* Southport, \n* Ormskirk, and \n* Kirkby to the north. | Route Of Transportation |
Lake Lucerne is located near Crandon in Forest County, Wisconsin, United States. There is a boat landing on the southeast shore of the lake and a restaurant (Waters Edge) on the west shore. This restaurant performs a water ski show during the summer months. Summer homes and cottages surround the lake. There is a large, uninterrupted stretch of water on the north half of the lake. On the southern half, there is a large cluster of islands, the largest having a sand bar that is popular with swimmers. The southern tip of the lake is dotted with bays and water meadows. | Body Of Water |