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Eastgate Towne Center, formerly known as Eastgate Mall is an enclosed, mixed-use facility (office and retail complex) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. | Building |
The Cape honey bee or Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis) is a southern South African subspecies of the Western honey bee. They play a major role in South African agriculture and the economy of the Western Cape by pollinating crops and producing honey in the Western Cape region of South Africa. The Cape honey bee is unique among honey bee subspecies because workers can lay diploid, female eggs, by means of thelytoky, while workers of other subspecies (and, in fact, unmated females of virtually all other eusocial insects) can only lay haploid, male eggs. Not all workers are capable of thelytoky- only those expressing the thelytoky phenotype, which is controlled by a recessive allele at a single locus (workers must be homozygous at this locus to be able to reproduce by thelytoky). | Animal |
\"Echourouk TV\" (Arabic: الشروق تي في) is an Arabic language satellite television channel broadcasting from Algiers. Echourouk TV was set up by Echourouk Group with a number of Arab intellectuals from Algeria and the Arab World. | Broadcaster |
Leleuporella is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species: \n* Leleuporella caeca Basilewsky, 1956 \n* Leleuporella mandibularis (Burgeon, 1935) \n* Leleuporella sexangulata Balkenohl, 1997 | Animal |
Northjet (foaled 22 May 1977) was an Irish-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed useful form in his early career, winning five races in Italy including the Group Two Premio Melton before being transferred to race in France in 1980. In early 1981 he won the Prix du Muguet but was beaten in several races and appeared to be just below the highest class. Northjet established his reputation in the late summer of 1981 when he recorded a five length victory over a very strong field in the Prix Jacques le Marois and then won the Prix du Moulin in course record time. He was generally recognised as the best older horse and the best miler to race in Europe that season. He was then retired to stud where he was a complete failure as a breeding stallion. | Horse |
Myles Coverdale, first name also spelt Miles (1488 – 20 January 1569), was an English ecclesiastical reformer chiefly known as a Bible translator, preacher and, briefly, Bishop of Exeter (1551-1553). Regarding his probable birth county, Daniell cites John Bale, author of a sixteenth century scriptorium, giving it as Yorkshire. Having studied philosophy and theology in Cambridge, Coverdale became an Augustinian friar and went to the house of his order, also in Cambridge. In 1514 John Underwood, a suffragan bishop and archdeacon of Norfolk, ordained him priest in Norwich. He was at the house of the Augustinians when in about 1520, Robert Barnes returned from Louvain to become its prior. In 1535 Coverdale produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English. He is also significant because during his long life, he experienced eight decades of crucial importance in religious history. His theological development is a paradigm of the progress of the English Reformation from 1530 to 1552. By the time of his death, he had transitioned into an early Puritan, affiliated to Calvin, yet still advocating the teachings of Augustine. | Cleric |
Terrence (Terry) Wayne Jarvis (born 29 July 1944 in Auckland) played 13 Tests for New Zealand. Together with Glenn Turner, Jarvis holds the opening partnership record in Tests for New Zealand against all nations with 387 runs scored against the West Indies in Georgetown, Guyana during the 1971-1972 season. Jarvis was raised in the Auckland suburb of Remuera and attended Auckland Grammar School from 1958 to 1960, where he played in the 1st Eleven, a team that included two NZ cricket captains, Mark Burgess and Hedley Howarth, and the Test player Ross Morgan. On leaving school he began work as a sales representative for the former Auckland stock and station company, Alfred Buckland & Sons Ltd., selling textiles such as jute wool bales, which the company imported. He then went into business on his own account, forming Jarvis Trading Company Ltd., a very successful company, importing and manufacturing similar products from premises in East Tamaki. He also became involved in the development and sale of industrial land in East Tamaki. A clever, honest and resolute businessman, Terry was one of the people responsible for bringing Sky TV to New Zealand. He also became involved in the breeding and racing of thoroughbreds, while owning the The Oaks stud property near Cambridge, in the Waikato. In 2009, as the neighbour of Sir Edmund Hillary, Terry bought this New Zealand icons house in order to extend his own property. The house, after being gifted to the nation, was moved to Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate in the Auckland suburb of Otara in 2011. During 2010 Terry was the major sponsor of the Terry Jarvis Centre, an indoor sports facility owned by the Remuera Parnell Sports Committee Charitable Trust and managed by the Parnell Cricket Club, Terry's former club, located on Shore Road, close to his childhood home in Portland Road, Remuera. | Athlete |
Randall Lee Gibson (September 10, 1832 – December 15, 1892) was an attorney and politician, elected as a member of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senator from Louisiana. He served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. Later he was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and a president of the board of administrators of Tulane University. | Politician |
Kopcie [ˈkɔpt͡ɕe] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dzikowiec, within Kolbuszowa County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Dzikowiec, 11 km (7 mi) north-east of Kolbuszowa, and 36 km (22 mi) north of the regional capital Rzeszów. | Settlement |
Clifford Michael Brumbaugh (born April 21, 1974 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a former American baseball outfielder. Brumbaugh played college baseball for Delaware under head coach Bob Hannah. He was named America East Player of the Year in 1995. Brumbaugh was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 13th round of the 1995 Major League Baseball draft. He spent his career in the minor leagues before being called up to the Rangers where he played in 7 games in 2001, hitting a solo home run in his first start. However, his major league career was mostly spent as a pinch hitter, and this would be the only home run of his major league career. He moved from Texas to the Colorado Rockies later that season, featuring in 14 further MLB games. He went back to the minor leagues, and signed with the Chicago White Sox in 2003. Despite performing well in the minors, he was never called up by the White Sox and moved to South Korea's Hyundai Unicorns later in 2003. He was a key player in the Hyundai Unicorns championship successes in 2003 and 2004 In 2003 he had the highest all-time batting average and RBI total in the Korea Series Championship history. This success earned him a move to the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball in 2005. After two seasons in Japan, he returned to Korea and the Unicorns in 2007. He remained with the team in 2008 after Hyundai sold the franchise, which was renamed Woori Heroes and relocated from Suwon to Seoul. After a year with the Piratas de Campeche, he spent 2010 with the Edmonton Capitals in the Golden Baseball League. | Athlete |
Jonathan Zion (born May 21, 1981 in Nepean, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing with the Allen Americans in the Central Hockey League (CHL). | Winter Sport Player |
Vuurduin is a lighthouse on the Dutch island Vlieland. The tower is the top part of the former front light of the leading lights in IJmuiden, designed by Quirinus Harder. The lighthouse was placed on Vlieland in 1909, on top of one of the Voorboetsduin, one of the highest sand dunes (at 45 metres) in the Netherlands. A lookout tower was built next to the lighthouse in 1929. In 1986, the cupola was renovated. While a lighthouse keeper still attends, the lighthouse is fully automated. | Tower |
Cricket has been recorded in Norfolk from the 18th century. The first major Norfolk club of the 19th century was that based at Holt and an 1820 Norfolk v Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) match, in which William Ward made 278, was in fact the Holt Club with E. H. Budd, Thomas Vigne and Felix Ladbroke as given men. This was a \"borderline\" match in terms of its status but, because of its historical importance it is rated first-class by CricketArchive. The addition of the three given men raised the standard of the Holt/Norfolk team above the general run of Holt matches. The Holt club declined from the mid-1820s. After that, the centre of county cricket was Norwich and a prominent club was founded there on 11 January 1827. For a few seasons, prior to Fuller Pilch's departure for Kent about 1835, Norfolk could put a fairly strong eleven into the field. Their only major county opponent, however, was Sheffield Cricket Club (playing as Yorkshire) and the five games they played in 1833, 1834 (twice), 1835 and 1836 are rated first-class. Apart from the games against Yorkshire, the main opponents of the Norwich/Norfolk team were Bury/Suffolk and MCC. These games however were not quite in the class of the Yorkshire matches and are not rated first-class. Norfolk played Cambridge Town Club (aka Cambridgeshire) in the 1840s but Norfolk generally fared very poorly and by 1852 the county had ceased to play even MCC. After the present Norfolk County Cricket Club club was founded in 1876, the county did not regain first-class status and it joined the Minor Counties Championship when it was formed in 1895. | Sports Team |
Naomi Preizler (born October 12, 1991) is an Argentine fashion model and artist, known for her \"longilinear silhouette, long blonde hair and androgynous face.\" | Person |
Mount Ni (Chinese: 尼山; pinyin: Níshān) is a hill about 30 km (19 mi) to the southeast of the city of Qufu in Shandong Province, China. The hill is culturally significant because it is traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Confucius. It is also the site of a historical temple dedicated to Kong He (alias Shuliang He), the father of Confucius, a Confucian academy (Chinese: 尼山书院; pinyin: Níshān Shūyuàn), and the Yusheng Memorial Temple (Chinese: 毓圣侯祠; pinyin: Yùshèng Hóucí). According to the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, Confucius parents to be, Kong He and Yan Zheng, went to pray at Mount Ni and Yan Zheng gave birth to Confucius afterwards. The existence of the Temple of Kong He can be traced back to the times of the Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE). However, the temple was abandoned and restored repeatedly during the Later Tang, Later Zhou, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. A major reconstruction was undertaken during the Ming dynasty (in 1417 during the reign of the Yongle Emperor). Further expansion of the temple followed during the Qing dynasty. As a result, most of the extent structures of the temple date from either the Ming or the Qing era. The current architectural complex contains three sets of buildings, the Kong He Temple, the Confucian Academy, and the Yusheng Memorial Temple. The Kong He Temple consists of the following halls: the Dacheng Hall (literally \"Hall of Great Achievement\") dedicated to Confucius, a \"Sleeping Palace\" dedicated to his wife Qiguan, the Hall of Qi Shengwang and the Sleeping Palace of Qi Shengwang. The Yusheng Memorial Temple is dedicated to mountain spirit of Mount Ni. The Confucian academy contains a lecture hall as well as rooms that were used by the temple management staff. Other structures in the academy include the Erdai and Sandai Halls, the Liang Wu, the Lingxing Gate (灵星门), the Shen Bao, the Tudi Temple (dedicated to the local Earth Deity), and the Guan Chuan Pavilion. The entire complex on Mount Ni is walled in. Outside the eastern enclosure wall lies the Confucius Cave (Chinese: 夫子洞; pinyin: Fuzi Dòng). According to the legend, Confucius was abandoned in this cave after birth by his mother because of his ugliness. The baby was then taken care of by a tiger and an eagle, which convinced his mother to take him back. | Natural Place |
Economics of Governance is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published by Springer Science+Business Media covering governance in a large varietyof organizations such as governments, corporations, and non-profit associations. The editors-in-chief are Amihai Glazer (University of California, Irvine) and Mattias Polborn (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign). The journal has been ranked fourth out of 31 journals in the field of public economics, and 125th out of 1017 journals in economics by impact by RePEc. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 0.364. | Periodical Literature |
The Tegernsee is a Zungenbecken lake in the Bavarian Alps in southern Germany. The lake is the centre of a popular recreation area 50 kilometres (31 mi) south-east of Munich. Resorts on the lake include the eponymous Tegernsee, as well as Bad Wiessee, Kreuth, Gmund, and Rottach-Egern. The lake is some 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) in length, with a width of 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) and an area of 8.934 square kilometres (3.449 sq mi). It reaches a maximum depth of 72.6 metres (238 ft), with an average depth of 36.3 metres (119 ft), and the normal water level is 725.5 metres (2,380 ft) above sea level. The lake flows into the River Mangfall, a tributary of the River Inn and thence the River Danube. The buildings of the former Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee Abbey lie on the banks of the lake. Now in private hands, they are now known as Schloss Tegernsee. The area around the lake is linked to Munich by rail through trains of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn, which, in the final part of their journey, travel over the tracks of the privately owned Tegernsee-Bahn. Pleasure boat services serve several points on the lake, and are operated by boats of the Bayerische Seenschifffahrt company. | Body Of Water |
Mahendra Hardia is the current health minister of Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He is elected from No. 5 constituency of Indore for the record second time. His notable works as a health minister includes the successful implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojna, a flagship program of Madhya Pradesh government to provide top class healthcare facilities to pregnant women. | Person |
\"Du er fuld af løgn\" (\"You're full of lies\") was the Danish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, performed in Danish by Lise Haavik. The song was performed eighteenth on the night, following Sweden's Monica Törnell & Lasse Holm with \"E' de' det här du kallar kärlek?\" and preceding Finland's Kari Kuivalainen with \"Never The End\". At the close of voting, it had received 77 points, placing 6th in a field of 20. Haavik was backed up on stage by dancers David Johnson and Mary Johnson. The song is sung from the perspective of a woman telling a male friend that she knows that he is as attracted to her as she is to him. She dismisses his claim that they are \"just friends\" as being untrue and asks for \"four days\" with him - before saying that she will change his mind in 24 hours. It was succeeded as Danish representative at the 1987 contest by Anne-Cathrine Herdorf & Bandjo with \"En lille melodi\". | Song |
Saint Benoit (French: Saint Benoît; Turkish: Saint Benoit Latin Katolik Kilisesi; also Italian: Santa Maria della Cisterna) is a Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul, Turkey, important for historical reasons. Established in 1427, the shrine is the oldest Catholic church of Istanbul still in use. | Building |
Paper Bag Records is a Canadian independent record label, artist-management company and music publisher, founded in 2002 and based in Toronto, Ontario. | Company |
Paul Camille Albert Mandrillon (6 September 1891 – 22 March 1969) was a French biathlete who competed in the early 1920s. At the 1924 Winter Olympics he won the bronze medal in the military patrol event, together with his younger brother Maurice; he was also the flag bearer of the French delegation, and took the Olympic Oath, the first for the Winter Olympics. | Winter Sport Player |
Jackson Health System in Miami, Florida is 2,106 bed teaching hospital in downtown Miami, Florida . Its main hospitals are Jackson Memorial Hospital , Holtz Children's Hospital, Jackson Rehabilitation Hospital, Jackson Mental Health Hospital, Jackson North Medical Center and Jackson South Community Hospital In addition to these hospitals, Jackson Health System also has three primary care centers, five specialty care centers, two long-term care nursing facilities, several school-based clinics in elementary, middle and high schools, a mental health network, medical clinics in five county correctional facilities and multiple community medical practices. More than 12,000 physicians, nurses and staff work in the Jackson Health System, which provides health care to all Miami-Dade County residents regardless of patients' ability to pay when critical or emergency services are necessary. Jackson is Florida's largest provider of charity care. | Building |
The 2014 L'Open Emeraude Solaire de Saint-Malo was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the nineteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Saint-Malo, France, on 8–14 September 2014. | Tournament |
Ixodes persulcatus, the taiga tick, is a species of hard-bodied tick distributed from Europe through central and northern Asia to the People’s Republic of China and Japan. The sexual dimorphism of the species is marked, the male being much smaller than the female. Hosts include wild and domestic ungulates, man, dog, rabbit, and other small mammals including the dormouse, Amur hedgehog, and occasionally birds. | Animal |
Promyllantor atlanticus is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya in 2006. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Republic of Congo, in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean (from which its species epithet is derived). It is known to dwell at a depth of 495 metres (1,624 ft). Males can reach a maximum total length of 51.8 centimetres (20.4 in), while females can reach a maximum TL of 48.5 centimetres (19.1 in). | Animal |
Sonia Dada is an American Chicago-based rock/soul/rhythm and blues band, which tours with between six and eight members. The band formed in 1990, when founding member Daniel Pritzker enlisted Michael Scott, Paris Delane, and Sam Hogan after hearing them sing in a subway station. Sonia Dada has become a mainstay of the Chicago musical scene in the years since, incorporating elements of rock, soul, gospel, and funk. Their 1992 debut album, Sonia Dada, produced a major radio hit, \"You Don't Treat Me No Good\", and sold more than 100,000 copies. The album peaked at #29 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart in 1993. In 1994, the band's tour saw them opening for the group Traffic, as well as headlining an extremely successful Australian tour. The album reached #1 on the Australian ARIA charts and was the #13 highest selling album for the year of 1993. The single \"You Don't Treat Me No Good\" was a #1 hit and the #3 highest selling single for the same year, while \"You Ain't Thinking (About Me)\" was #40. However, they are known primarily as a one-hit wonder there. On the Australian ARIA charts \"You Aint Thinking (About Me)\" reached #3. Since then, Sonia Dada has released four studio albums and a live album. Their 2004 release, Test Pattern, was released in a deluxe edition with a bonus DVD containing short films by Jeth Weinrich. | Group |
The campaign in South Arabia during World War I was a minor struggle for control of the port city of Aden, an important way station for ships on their way from Asia to the Suez Canal. The British Empire declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 5 November 1914, and the Ottomans responded with their own declaration on 11 November. From the beginning, the Ottomans had planned an invasion of Britain's Aden Protectorate in cooperation with the local Arab tribes. The Ottomans had gathered in some strength on the Cheikh Saïd, a peninsula which juts out into the Red Sea towards the island of Perim. At the start of the war, the British had one force stationed in the Aden Protectorate, the Aden Brigade, which was part of the British Indian Army. In November 1914, an Ottoman force from Yemen attacked Aden, but was driven off by the Brigade. | Societal Event |
Homerton Baptist Church is an independent evangelical fellowship affiliated to the Association of Grace Baptist Churches (South East). Its pastors are Steven Richards and Stephen Challen. The church belief is in keep with the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. As an independant church it is not a member of a specific Christian Denomination, and would describe its Christian belief as Grace Baptist. | Building |
Charles F. Wilcox (1845–1905) was an American architect practicing in Providence, Rhode Island. | Person |
Apishapa River is a 139-mile-long (224 km) tributary of the Arkansas River that flows from a source near West Spanish Peak in southern Colorado. It joins the Arkansas east of Fowler, Colorado. A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) station, #07119500, located along this river near Fowler measures the river's discharge. The water level and salinity of the Apishapa River is monitored by gaging stations installed at three locations along the headwaters of the river in 2007. | Stream |
Patty Sheehan (born October 27, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Sheehan also hosts the Patty Sheehan & Friends, which is a tournament on the Legends Tour. Patty Sheehan & Friends helps aid women and children's charities all across Northern Nevada. | Athlete |
(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zheng.) Zheng Jie (born 5 July 1983) is a Chinese professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 15 which she achieved on 18 May 2009. Zheng is one of the most successful tennis players from China. She has won four WTA singles titles – Hobart in 2005, Estoril, Stockholm in 2006, and Auckland in 2012. She has also won fifteen doubles titles, eleven of them with Yan Zi including Wimbledon and the Australian Open in 2006. She won the bronze medal in doubles with Yan Zi at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Her career high doubles ranking is World No. 3. Zheng has reached the singles semi-finals at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, defeating a World No. 1, Ana Ivanovic, in the process, becoming the first Chinese female player to advance to the semi-finals at a Grand Slam. She also advanced to the semi-finals at the 2010 Australian Open. | Athlete |
Henri Robert (1899 – 1987) is a French perfumer and chemist, he is best known for his role as Chief Perfumer at Les Parfums Chanel from 1953–1978. | Artist |
Hiroshi Ikeda (池田 裕 Ikeda Hiroshi, born 1950) is a Japanese aikido teacher in the United States. He holds the rank of 7th dan (shihan) from the Aikikai. He is the most senior student of Mitsugi Saotome of Aikido Schools of Ueshiba (ASU). Ikeda was born in Tokyo and began studying aikido in 1968 while attending college at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. He relocated to Sarasota, Florida in 1976, and taught there under Saotome from 1978-1979. In 1980, he moved to Boulder, Colorado to establish a dojo there under Saotome's ASU organization. In January, 2015 Saotome decided to recognize Ikeda as an independent instructor so that he can pursue his own objectives apart from ASU. Ikeda currently lives in Boulder, where he operates his dojo, Boulder Aikikai. He also travels frequently to conduct seminars both in the United States and abroad. | Athlete |
Tamara Balabolina (Russian: Тамара Балаболина; born 13 August 1993) is a Russian track racing cyclist. After winning several medals as a junior and under-23 at the European Track Championships she won as an elite rider the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 2014 UEC European Track Championships. Besides track cycling she also rides on the road and competed in 2013 at the Russian National Road Race Championships and Russian National Time Trial Championships. As of 31 October 2014 she is still the current Russian national track cycling record holder in the 4000 m team pursuit in a time of 4:29.842 ridden at the 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup race in Aguascalientes on 5 December 2013 together with Anastasia Chulkova, Alexandra Chekina and Galina Strelsova. | Athlete |
Joseph Jasgur (March 23, 1919 – March 21, 2009) was a photographer who photographed celebrities during the golden age of Hollywood. He was noted for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe. Monroe stepped into Jasgur's studio in 1946 with no money, but the ambition to become a model. Jasgur shot numerous photographs of her over the following weeks, including glamour shots that she used in her 20th Century Fox interview. Jasgur sold the rights to his entire portfolio — including the Monroe photographs — to a contractor, and spent the last years of his life trying to regain control of it. | Artist |
Santa Cruz Tayata is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km². It is part of the Tlaxiaco District in the south of the Mixteca Region. As of the 2010 census, the town (locality), which serves as the municipal seat, had a population of 59 inhabitants, while the municipality had a total population of 608 inhabitants. The municipal seat is the third-smallest in all of Mexico (after Santa María del Rosario and Santa María Nduayaco). | Settlement |
Viktoria Lindpaintner (born February 13, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main; died April 29, 1965 at the Tegernsee, Bavaria) was a German figure skater. She was the 1936 German national champion and represented Germany at the 1936 Winter Olympics, where she placed 8th. Lindpaintner represented the club Berliner SC. She married Hans Törring-Jettenbach in October 1938 but the two later divorced and she married Rudolf Hantschel in December 1947. | Winter Sport Player |
The 2004 Dallas Burn season was the eighth season of the Major League Soccer team. The season saw the team fail to make the playoffs for the second consecutive year. The season was also the first full season under head coach Colin Clarke. The team moved from Dragon Stadium back to the Cotton Bowl. It would be the last season for the team in the Cotton Bowl, as they would move to their current stadium in Frisco. It was also the team’s final season as the Burn. With the move to their own stadium the next year, the team would be rebranded as FC Dallas in 2005. Burn forward Eddie Johnson shared the Golden Boot Award with Brian Ching, tying him for the most goals in the MLS with 12. Johnson was the second Burn player to win the award, with Jason Kreis previously winning it in 1999. | Sports Team Season |
Champville SC (Arabic: الشانفيل) or Champville Maristes Sports and Basketball Club (Arabic: نادي المريميين الشانفيل الرياضي) is a Lebanese sports club most known for its basketball program. It is affiliated to Collège Maristes Champville in Deek el Mehdi, a renowned school in Lebanon, but has its own independent administration. The team is based within the sporting complex of the school. Champville SC competes in the Lebanese Basketball League 1st division and in 2011-2012 won their first-ever Lebanese title. | Sports Team |
Marstonia castor, common name the beaver pond marstonia, is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. | Animal |
The Cape triplefin, Cremnochorites capensis, is a triplefin blenny of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Cremnochorites, found in the western Indian Ocean and southeast Atlantic, from Sodwana Bay to False Bay in South Africa. It reaches a maximum length of 8 cm. | Animal |
Gerry Embleton is a British artist, born in London. He is the brother of Ron Embleton. | Artist |
Hope Brook Airport was an aerodrome located 7.4 nautical miles (13.7 km; 8.5 mi) east of Grand Bruit, at the Hope Brook Gold Mine, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. | Infrastructure |
The capture of the Jeune Richard was the result of a naval engagement that took place in the Caribbean on 1 October 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, between the British packet ship Windsor Castle, and the French privateer Jeune Richard. In an unequal battle, the Windsor Castle, under the command of her acting-captain William Rogers, not only defended repeated attacks from the privateer, but finally engaged her, boarded her and after overpowering the much larger crew, forced them below decks and took the privateer as their prize. The victory was widely reported in contemporary papers and journals, Rogers and his crew were hailed as heroes and lavishly rewarded for their valour. | Societal Event |
Shinji Takahashi (高橋 信次 Takahashi Shinji, September 21, 1927 - June 25, 1976) was a Japanese religious leader, corporate manager and hardware engineer. Takahashi founded the new religious corporation God Light Association (GLA). He was born in Saku city, Nagano prefecture, Japan. He founded Koden Industry Co., Ltd. and served as its first president. | Person |
NGC 4402 is a relatively near, edge-on spiral galaxy located around 55 million light-years from Earth. It is in the constellation of Virgo within the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. It can be seen when viewing Markarian's Chain. NGC 4402 is roughly 55 thousand light-years wide and is moving away from Earth at around 232 kilometers per second. It is falling into the Virgo galaxy cluster. Images show evidence that the material it once contained to enable it to form stars has been stripped away in a process known as \"ram-pressure stripping\". This is due to NGC 4402's cooler gasses being struck by hot x-ray gasses coming from the middle of the Virgo galaxy cluster as it moves toward it. The evidence is as follows: \n* There is apparent truncation of the NGC 4402's dust disk. \n* An upward bowing of the dusty disk is apparent. This is caused by a wind of hot gas. \n* Light coming from the far side of the stellar disk appears dim and reddish. This may be because pressure coming from the cluster gas is being forced between the disk and the observer. \n* The bottom part of the main disk shows dust in the form of linear filaments. These are being ablated in a characteristic \"outside-in\" manner. The supernova SN 1976B was observed in NGC 4402 in 1976. | Celestial Body |
The Premier A Slovenian Basketball League (Slovene: 1. Slovenska Košarkarska Liga), abbreviated as 1. SKL and known for sponsorship reasons as the Liga Nova KBM, is the top-level professional men's basketball league in Slovenia. The league, operated by the Basketball Federation of Slovenia, consists of 12 clubs. It was also named Liga Kolinska (1998–2001), HYPO Liga (2001–2002), 1. A SKL (2002–2006), Liga UPC Telemach (2006–2009), and Liga Telemach (2009–2016). The most successful team is Olimpija with 15 titles. The league was founded in 1991, shortly after Slovenia gained its independence from SFR Yugoslavia. Before the independence, the Slovenian Republic League was played as a second or third level of the Yugoslav basketball. Olimpija, Ljubljana, Slovan, ŽKK Maribor, Lesonit and Branik Maribor were the only Slovenian teams that played in the Yugoslav First Federal Basketball League. | Sports League |
Joshua \"Josh\" Carr (born 29 April 1980) is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a midfielder for Port Adelaide and Fremantle in the Australian Football League. After originally being drafted by Port Adelaide and playing in their 2004 premiership side he returned to Western Australia to play with his brother Matthew Carr at Fremantle. At the end of the 2008 AFL season he announced that he wanted to leave Fremantle and return to Port Adelaide. He played his 200th game against Carlton on Round 20, 2009. He played his 207th and last game in Round 17, 2010 against the Adelaide Crows. He was an assistant coach at Port Adelaide, serving as the club's midfield coach.Carr has been appointed Senior Coach of SANFL side North Adelaide for the 2016-2018 seasons | Athlete |
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final was a professional women's soccer match that took place on 5 July 2015 at BC Place, in Vancouver, Canada, to determine the winner of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. It was played between Japan and the United States, in a rematch of the 2011 final. The stakes were high for both sides: if the United States won the match, it would be the only country to have won in three Women's World Cup finals; if Japan had won instead, then it would be the first soccer team, men's or women's, to win twice under the same coach (Norio Sasaki for Japan) since Vittorio Pozzo lead Italy to victory in the 1934 World Cup and the 1938 World Cup 77 years ago. Ultimately, the United States won 5–2, winning its first title in sixteen years and becoming the first team to win three Women's World Cup finals. Because of the expanded competition format, it was the first time the finalists had played a seventh game in the tournament. The United States had previously reached the final game three times, winning twice (in 1991 and 1999) and placing as runners up in 2011. This was Japan's second successive final appearance and was their attempt to be the first country to successfully defend a title since Germany in the 2007 World Cup. Both teams were undefeated throughout the tournament, with the United States only conceding one goal in the six matches leading up to the final and Japan winning all of their matches in regular time. | Sports Event |
Robert Denison Holmes (May 11, 1909 – June 6, 1976) was an American politician and journalist from the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of the state of New York, he worked in newspapers and radio before entering politics. Though a Republican early in his career, he served as a Democrat in the Oregon State Senate and as the 28th Governor of Oregon. He was governor from 1957 to 1959. | Politician |
Alexei Beletski (also Alexei Beletsky; born 22 May 1979) is an Israeli former competitive ice dancer. With his wife Natalia Gudina, he placed as high as 14th at the World Championships, as high as 9th at the European Championships, and competed at the Winter Olympics. Gudina and Beletski married in 1999. They competed together for the Ukraine until the end of 1998/1999 season, after which they switched to competing for Israel. Gudina and Beletski the 2000–05 Israeli national silver medalists. They placed 19th at the 2002 Winter Olympics. | Winter Sport Player |
Kate Groombridge (born 8 July 1980) is an English fashion model and actress. Born in a small village in Kent, she was advised to submit photos to modelling agencies by a family friend, and she was modelling professionally when she was 14. She posed for teen magazines until she was 19. In 1999, she signed as an ambassador with the lingerie company Gossard for their new \"Ultrabra Superboost\". The bra proved popular and was advertised extensively, and even proved controversial when the advertising campaign was considered too racy for British television. This success led Gossard to extend Groombridge's contract, and she became the face of Gossard's entire product line. She has appeared as a cover girl in several magazines, including Esquire, Maxim and FHM, and she appears regularly in FHM's annual \"100 sexiest women\" poll. Groombridge had a small part in the 2005 Steven Seagal film Submerged, and in September 2007 she had a larger role in the romantic comedy film Virgin Territory, playing the character Elissa. She has two further films in the can, Coffee Sex You and Shifty. She has two sons, Gilbert and Percy. She has largely retired from acting and modelling to focus on raising them. | Person |
Batman: La Fuga (Translation: Batman: The Escape) is a Bolliger & Mabillard steel roller coaster at Parque Warner Madrid in Spain. It is located in the \"Super Hero\" location in the park. It is a clone of Batman: The Ride which is located at various Six Flags parks. | Amusement Park Attraction |
The Falsino River (Portuguese: Rio Falsino) is a river of Amapá state in north-eastern Brazil. It is a tributary of the Araguari River. The river defines the eastern boundary of the 460,353 hectares (1,137,560 acres) Amapá National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1989. | Stream |
Dodurga Dam is a dam in Turkey. The development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works. | Infrastructure |
Karin Haftenberger (born June 3, 1948) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1966 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in East Berlin. Haftenberger also finished fifth in the K-2 500 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. | Athlete |
The Avenues is an upscale indoor shopping mall located on the southside of Jacksonville, Florida at the intersection of U.S. 1 (Philips Highway) and Southside Boulevard near Interstate 95. The mall opened in 1990 with four anchor stores; Maison Blanche, Dillard's, JCPenney and Sears. Maison Blanche became Gayfers in 1992 which later became Belk in 1998. A Parisian department store was built in 1994. The mall, owned by Simon Property Group, has two shopping levels and features a parking garage on the north side of the complex. Some of the 150 stores inside of the mall include: Banana Republic, H&M, Disney Store, Brookstone, MAC, The Buckle, The Body Shop, Teavana, and The Walking Company. | Building |
Agnes of Jesus, O.P., (born Agnès Galand and also known as Agnes of Langeac; November 17, 1602 – October 19, 1634) was a French Catholic nun of the Dominican Order. She was prioress of her monastery at Langeac, and is today venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, having been beatified by Pope John Paul II on November 20, 1994. | Cleric |
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Japanese: 宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック Hepburn: Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku, also romanized as Space Pirate Captain Herlock) is a manga series written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto. It was serialized in Play Comic from 1977 to 1979, with the chapters collected into five tankōbon volumes by Akita Shoten. The series follows the titular Captain, an outcast turned space pirate after he rebelled against Earth's Government and humanity's general apathy. Space Pirate Captain Harlock was adapted into an anime television series in 1978 directed by Rintaro and produced by Toei Animation. A computer-animated film adaptation of the same name premiered in 2013. | Comic |
Candlelight Records is a British record label based in England, founded by former Extreme Noise Terror bassist Lee Barrett, though it has had a division in the United States since January 2001. Candlelight Records specialises in black metal, and later on melodic death metal and death metal, having bands such as Emperor, Obituary, 1349, Theatre of Tragedy, Xerath, Dismember, Keep of Kalessin, TheLord, Nachtmystium, KKDT42 and Zyklon on its roster. The label is notable for putting out early releases from influential bands such as TheLord, Opeth and Emperor. Candlelight Records is in co-operation with Appease Me Records and AFM Records. In January 19, 2016, Candlelight was acquired by Spinefarm Records. | Company |
Telesto (/tᵻˈlɛstoʊ/ tə-LES-toh, Greek: Τελεστώ) is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered by Smith, Reitsema, Larson and Fountain in 1980 from ground-based observations, and was provisionally designated S/1980 S 13. In the following months, several other apparitions were observed: S/1980 S 24, S/1980 S 33, and S/1981 S 1. In 1983 it was officially named after Telesto of Greek mythology. It is also designated as Saturn XIII (13) or Tethys B. Telesto is co-orbital with Tethys, residing in Tethys' leading Lagrangian point (L4). This relationship was first identified by in 1981. Another moon, Calypso, resides in the other (trailing) Lagrangian point of Tethys, 60 degrees in the other direction from Tethys. The Saturnian system has two additional trojan moons. | Celestial Body |
The Las Vegas Classic is an 8 team college basketball tournament held in December at Orleans Arena. Continental Tire is now the current sponsor of the tournament. Each team will play four games in the Classic – the first two at on-campus sites and the final two rounds at the Orleans Arena | Sports League |
Mogens Frey Jensen (born 2 July 1941) is a retired Danish amateur cyclist who competed successfully both on the road and on track. He won, along with Gunnar Asmussen, Per Lyngemark and Reno Olsen, a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 4 km team pursuit and finished second individually. However, he is more famous for the way he won stage 9 in the 1970 Tour de France. Here, he defeated his own team captain Joaquim Agostinho. Agostinho was first over the finish line, but was immediately disqualified for putting his hand on Frey's handlebars, thus holding him back in the sprint. Frey also won the individual pursuit event at the 1968 world championships and finished second in 1967 behind Gert Bongers. | Athlete |
Clarence Watson Meadows (February 11, 1904 – September 12, 1961) was the 22nd Governor of West Virginia from 1945 to 1949. Meadows was born and raised in Beckley. As a youth, he showed a passion for public speaking, and his parents attempted to direct him toward a career as a Baptist minister. However, Meadows was instead drawn toward the stage and, after receiving a degree from Washington and Lee University, he became active in his hometown's theater troupe. Meadows received a law degree from the University of Alabama in 1927 and subsequently entered into an active career in politics. In 1930, Meadows won in his first run for elective office, as he entered the West Virginia House of Delegates for a single term. He chose not to run for reelection, but instead successfully earned a position as Raleigh County District Attorney. In 1936, Meadows entered state politics, as he one his first of two terms as West Virginia Attorney General. Because of his cantor and honest disposition, Meadows became one of the most respected politicians in the state. In 1942, he accepted an appointment as a judge for the state's Tenth Judicial Circuit. Using a then-modern campaign that featured an array of radio appearances, Meadows was easily elected governor in 1944. As governor, his priorities included ameliorating labor strife in the coal industry, increasing access to quality education, and improving transportation to the geographically isolated state. At the conclusion of his term, Meadows returned to his law practice. In 1957, he retired to Florida and assisted Democrats in his new state with campaigning. He died in 1961 while visiting relatives in Clifton Forge, Virginia. | Politician |
Rock Lake is a lake located in Cass County, Minnesota, USA. The lake has an area of 240 acres (0.97 km2) and a water clarity of 3.5 ft (1.1 m) with a maximum depth of 22 feet (6.7 m). Rock Lake has a smaller lake branching off it, with a smaller stream flowing into it. The lake is weedy and is a habitat for Northern Pike and Large Mouth Bass. It is available for recreational activities such as swimming, boating and fishing. | Body Of Water |
Folklorama is an event that runs for two weeks each August in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Visitors to the festival are invited to sample cuisine and celebrate the cultural and ethnic heritage of people from dozens of countries who have made Winnipeg their home. Folklorama is the world's largest and longest-running multicultural festival. Each country, region or culture has an assigned venue, known as a pavilion. Typically there are over 40 pavilions presented throughout the city, with half operating in week one and half in week two of the festival. Each pavilion presents a show featuring the song and dance of their culture, along with trademark ethnic cuisine and a cultural display. Some pavilions also incorporate additional services such as henna tattoo application, and some have late night parties. Most pavilions provide imported alcohol from their feature country/culture. Folklorama provides exposure to cultural groups and brings in thousands of tourists each year, adding to the city's economy. It is the largest and longest-running festival of its kind in the world (determined by the International Council of Organizations for Folklore Festivals and Folk Art, also known as CIOFF). The Folk Arts Council of Winnipeg is the organizing body of Folklorama. | Societal Event |
WLSU (88.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to La Crosse, Wisconsin. The station is part of Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and airs WPR's \"NPR News and Classical Network\", consisting of classical music and news and talk programming. WLSU also broadcasts local news and programming from studios in the Whitney Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. \n* See also Wisconsin Public Radio | Broadcaster |
Colm Cassidy (born 11 March 1978, in Kilcormac, County Offaly, Ireland) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Kilcormac-Killoughey and was a member of the Offaly senior inter-county team from 1997 until 2005. | Athlete |
Kazuyuki Takeda (born 3 August 1992) is a Japanese male artistic gymnast and part of the national team. He participated at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China. | Athlete |
Yakov Zhilinskiy (Russian: Я́ков Григо́рьевич Жили́нский; 27 March 1853 – 1918) was Chief of Staff of the Imperial Russian Army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, Governor-General of Warsaw, and Chief of Staff of all Russian forces until 1914, and thereafter a field commander during the first year of World War I until he was relieved of command. | Person |
The Mall of New Hampshire is a shopping mall located in the Lower South Willow neighborhood of Manchester, New Hampshire. Its major anchoring stores are Macy's, Old Navy, JC Penney, Sears and Best Buy. The mall has over 120 stores as well as a large food court and is 930,000 square feet (86,000 m2), making it the third largest mall in New Hampshire after the Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem, and the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, which opened in 1991 and 1986, respectively. This was the first large-scale shopping mall in New Hampshire; initial construction of the mall was completed in August 1977, though it has since been dramatically expanded. The Mall of New Hampshire is managed by Simon Property Group, which owns 49.1 percent of it. The mall is also 44 percent owned by the CPP Investment Board, which manages the Canada Pension Plan national pension system. | Building |
Loose is a British independent record label based in Kensal Rise. In 1998, Loose was formed from the vinyl only record label, Vinyl Junkie, which was set up in 1994 by Tom Bridgewater. Since 1998, Loose has released music by the following artists: Giant Sand, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, M Ward, Mark Mulcahy, Neko Case, The Handsome Family, The Felice Brothers, Dawes, Deer Tick, Hurray For The Riff Raff and Grand Drive. | Company |
The Longshou II Dam, also referred to as Longshou No. 2, is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Heihe River, located 35 km (22 mi) southwest of Zhangye in Gansu Province, China. It is part of the Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development and supports a 157 MW power station. The dam's first feasibility study was carried out in 2000 and river diversion construction began in December 2001. In June 2002, the river was diverted and in September that year, filling of the dam's body began. On 17 August 2004, the first generator was operational with the rest by the end of the year. The 146.5 m (481 ft) high dam withholds a reservoir with a capacity of 86,200,000 m3 (69,883 acre·ft). It's spillway is located on the right bank and is a controlled chute type with a discharge capacity of 2,696 m3/s (95,208 cu ft/s). Water is delivered to the dam's power station downstream via a 1.7 km (1 mi) long tunnel. The dam is located upstream of the Longshou I Dam, an 80 m (262 ft) tall double-curvature arch dam with an installed capacity of 52 MW.Upstream is the Xiaogushan Dam, a gravity dam which diverts water to a 102 MW power station. | Infrastructure |
Shawn Brady is a fictional character from the American soap opera Days of Our Lives and the patriarch of the Brady family. He was portrayed by Lew Brown (1984 to 1985), Peter MacLean (1989 to 1990), and most notably by Frank Parker (1983 to 1984, 1985 to 1989, 1990 to 2008). | Fictional Character |
Goregrind is a musical subgenre of grindcore and death metal. British band Carcass are commonly credited for the emergence of the genre. Goregrind is recognized for its heavily edited, \"watery\" sounding vocals and abrasive musicianship rooted in grindcore. | Genre |
Manuel Domingos Vicente (born 15 May 1956) is an Angolan politician who has been Vice President of Angola since September 2012. Previously he was chief executive officer of Sonangol, Angola's state oil company, from 1999 to 2012, and he briefly served in the government as Minister of State for Economic Coordination in 2012. | Politician |
The Authenticity and Modernity Party (Berber: Akabar en Yinetti ed Tatrara, KNT; Arabic: حزب الأصالة والمعاصرة; French: 'Parti de l'Authenticité et de la Modernité, PAM) is a Moroccan political party founded by Fouad Ali El Himma, advisor to King Mohammed VI and former interior minister, on 10 August 2008. From its foundation, it has been perceived by its opponents and the press as being backed and directed by the monarchy. | Organisation |
Ross Evans Paulson was an American historian. He was born in 1935 and died in 2011. He taught at Augustana College from 1962 to 1995, and was Professor Emeritus.His papers are held at Augustana College Library. | Writer |
SM-Sarja was the top level of ice hockey in Finland from 1928 to 1975. SM-sarja is a common abbreviation for Suomen mestaruussarja, \"Finnish Championship Series\". There was variable number of teams playing for the Finnish championship during the time of SM-sarja. The lowest number of participating teams was during the 1935 SM-sarja season when there was 3 teams. The most common number of participating teams was 12. Since 1944-45 SM-sarja season there was relegations for lowest-ranking teams of each season. In the relegations the lowest-ranking teams either faced the winner of the 1. Divisioona (1st Division) or was straightly relegated from SM-sarja. | Sports League |
The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul (mainly present-day France and Belgium). While militarily just as strong as the Romans, the internal division between the Gallic tribes guaranteed an easy victory for Caesar, and Vercingetorix's attempt to unite the Gauls against Roman invasion came too late. The wars paved the way for Julius Caesar to become the sole ruler of the Roman Republic. Although Caesar portrayed this invasion as being a preemptive and defensive action, most historians agree that the wars were fought primarily to boost Caesar's political career and to pay off his massive debts. Still, Gaul was of significant military importance to the Romans, as they had been attacked several times by native tribes both indigenous to Gaul and farther to the north. Conquering Gaul allowed Rome to secure the natural border of the river Rhine. The Gallic Wars are described by Julius Caesar in his book Commentarii de Bello Gallico, which remains the most important historical source regarding the conflict. | Societal Event |
Bartolomeo Biscaino (1632–1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Genoa. He was the son, and pupil, of Giovanni Andrea Biscaino. He afterwards became a pupil of Valerio Castelli. His career was cut short by the plague which visited Genoa, and to which his father and himself fell victims. The Dresden gallery once held three paintings, representing Woman taken in adultery, Adoration by Magi, and Circumcision of Christ. He etched several plates, in a style, recalling Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, including: \n* Moses in bulrushes \n* Susannah and the Elders \n* Nativity with Angels \n* The Circumcision \n* The Magi’s offering \n* Herodias with head of St. John \n* Virgin and infant with Angels \n* Virgin suckling infant, with St. Joseph \n* Virgin suckling infant with St. Joseph. St. John with his lamb \n* Virgin adoring infant \n* The Virgin with innfant Jesus on her knee, St. John kissing his foot and St. Joseph behind \n* Virgin with infant Jesus standing on her knee, stretching out His arm to St. Joseph; half-length The Holy Family, with St. John holding a cross \n* Repose in Egypt with Angels \n* Infant Jesus reposing on the globe \n* St. Joseph with the Infant \n* St. Christopher giving hand to Infant Jesus \n* St. Christopher with Infant Jesus \n* Mary Magdalene in desert (1656). | Artist |
Quigley Stadium is a football stadium used by Little Rock Central High School. Prior to its 1930s remodeling, the area was known as Kavanaugh Field and was the home field of the Little Rock Travelers baseball team. The stadium was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1936 and seats 15,000. At that time it was the largest stadium in the state of Arkansas. It has been used by many high school and college football teams, including the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Razorbacks (prior to 1948) and the Philander Smith College, Panthers. In 2009, the field was replaced with artificial turf. Verizon Wireless donated much of the money for the renovation, and the stadium was renamed Quigley–Cox Stadium at Verizon Wireless Field. | Sport Facility |
Accountancy Age is a trade magazine for accountants and financial staff in the United Kingdom. After running from 1969 to 2011 with a circulation of over 60,000 in print, it changed with effect from May 2011 to an online-only publication. As of March 2012 it changed from a free publication to require a paid subscription for unlimited access to the site. A limited number of pages may be visited without charge. | Periodical Literature |
MK Preshow Shimray is the sitting MLA from 45 - Chingai (ST) Assembly Constituency in Manipur, India. He was elected under Indian National Congress ticket in 2012. | Politician |
Cataraqui Centre, (formerly \"Cataraqui Town Centre\") is a shopping mall located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest mall in southeastern Ontario with over 141 stores. Its anchor stores are The Bay, and Sears. It also includes a major transfer point for Kingston Transit. | Building |
Olexander Viktorovich Bilanenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Вікторович Біланенко) (born January 8, 1978 in Sumy) is a former Ukrainian biathlete. He retired from the sport at the end of the 2013–14 season. | Winter Sport Player |
1708 Pólit, provisional designation 1929 XA, is a dark and eccentric asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 29 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Spanish astronomer of Catalan origin Josep Comas i Solà at the Fabra Observatory in Barcelona on 30 November 1929. The C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–3.8 AU once every 4.97 years (1,817 days). Its orbit shows a high eccentricity of 0.31 and is inclined by 6 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. Light-curve observations gave a rotation period of 7.520 hours. The carbonaceous asteroid has a low geometric albedo of about 0.04. The asteroid was named in memory of the Fabra Observatory's second director of the astronomical section, Isidre Pólit (1880–1958), who was an assiduous observer of minor planets and comets. | Celestial Body |
Gerald R. Ford International Airport (IATA: GRR, ICAO: KGRR, FAA LID: GRR) is a commercial airport in Cascade Township about 13 mi (21 km) southeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Originally called Kent County Airport and later Kent County International Airport; in December 1999 the airport was renamed for former president Gerald R. Ford, the 40th Vice President and the 38th President of the United States. The airport is the largest commercial airport in the West Michigan region and is the second largest airport in Michigan after Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. The airport has flights to 23 domestic cities. In 2015 the airport broke its record for passengers, with 2,550,193 total. | Infrastructure |
The Inca Civil War, also known as the Inca Dynastic War, the Inca War of Succession, or, sometimes, the War of the Two Brothers was fought between two brothers, Huáscar and Atahualpa, sons of Huayna Capac, over the succession to the throne of the Inca Empire. The war followed Huayna Capac's death in 1527, although it did not begin until 1529, and lasted until 1532. Huáscar initiated the war because he saw himself as the rightful heir to the kingdom of all the Incas. Regardless of legitimacy, Atahualpa proved himself to be tactically superior to his brother in warcraft and to the mighty armies of Cuzco, which their father had stationed in the north part of the empire during the military campaign. Accounts from sources all vary in the exact details. | Societal Event |
Sir Peter Winston Smith (born 1 May 1952), styled The Hon Mr Justice Peter Smith, is a Judge of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales, appointed to that office on 15 April 2002 and assigned to the Chancery Division. His name is correctly abbreviated in English legal writing as \"Peter Smith J,\" and not as \"Smith J,\" because there are other senior judges also named Smith. He has been the subject of comment and investigation in relation to his judicial behaviour in various circumstances. | Person |
Madan's Talwar, later known as The Talvar, was an early-20th-century Indian Nationalist periodical published from Berlin. Originally named after Madan Lal Dhingra, one of the heroes of the Indian independence movement who had been executed for the political assassination of William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, the publication was established in 1909 in Paris by Bhikaiji Cama. Editorial responsibilities lay with Virendranath Chattopadhyaya in Berlin. The weekly aimed to incite nationalist unrest and sought to sway the loyalty of the British Indian Army sepoys. Similar to the Bande Mataram that was published from Paris by the Paris Indian Society, it continued the message of The Indian Sociologist that had earlier been published from London. | Periodical Literature |
The 1936 U.S. Open was the 40th U.S. Open, held June 4–6 at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, west of New York City. Tony Manero, a relatively unknown pro from New York playing out of North Carolina, surpassed third round leader Harry Cooper in the final round to claim his only major title. The purse was $5,000 and the winner's share was $1,000. The Upper Course was used for this championship; the Lower Course has been used for all subsequent majors at Baltusrol. Entering the final round, Cooper led Manero by four strokes. Manero's final round 67 (−5) was a course record and gave him a 72-hole total of 282 (−6), two strokes ahead of Cooper, who shot 73 (+1) for 284. Manero's total of 282 set a new U.S. Open tournament record by four shots; the previous record of 286 was set in 1916. Manero was fortunate to even be in the championship, because during sectional qualifying, he needed a chip-in on his final hole just to qualify. His victory was not without controversy. During the final round he was paired with Gene Sarazen, whose tournament scoring record he would break. Sarazen apparently requested the pairing as he believed he could help the notoriously high-strung Manero, a close friend, stay calm. Afterwards a complaint was filed with the USGA alleging that Sarazen was actually giving advice to Manero, a violation of the rules. After a meeting, the USGA ruled that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing, and Manero was allowed to keep the championship. In contrast to the previous year, scoring conditions at the Open were ideal throughout the week. For the tournament, 38 players broke par and the scoring average was 76.04, both numbers setting U.S. Open records. Chuck Kocsis finished as low amateur in a tie for 14th place. A record field of 1,278 entered the qualifying for this U.S. Open, up from 1,177 in 1935. | Tournament |
The Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi is a tertiary care military hospital in Rawalpindi. It is headed by an army medical corps doctor of Major General rank. It provides specialized treatment to Army personnel, their immediate family and civilians. It is an A class CMH. It is the chief medical hospital of cantonment along with Military Hospital which is at Abid Majeed Road. This 1000-bed hospital mainly looks after the surgical diseases and caters for all ranks. It has units of general surgery, spine surgery, neurosurgery, ENT, Eye, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, laproscopic surgery, facio-maxillary surgery, urology, orthopaedic surgery, and a trauma centre. There is also a battle casualty/artificial limb section attached to the hospital. This hospital has the only dedicated department of spine surgery in the country. The General Medical Council of UK recognizes the hospital for postgraduate training in different surgical fields. The medical students of Army Medical College are imparted clinical training by the concerned specialists and the professors. | Building |
The 2012 Open Saint-Gaudens Midi-Pyrénées was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 16th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Saint-Gaudens, France, on 14–20 May 2012. | Tournament |
Qaemabad (Persian: قائم اباد, also Romanized as Qā’emābād; also known as Deh Lārī, Gha’em Abad, Qā’īmābād, and Shahrak-e Qā’emābād) is a village in Ekhtiarabad Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,207, in 515 families. | Settlement |
The 1957 Baltimore Colts season was the fifth season for the team in the National Football League. The Baltimore Colts finished the National Football League's 1957 season with a record of 7 wins and 5 losses and finished third in the Western Conference. The 1957 season was the first in which the Colts wore their trademark \"horseshoe\" logo in the middle of their helmet. The team had experimented with placement of the logo on other parts of the helmet, but 1957 was the year in which they used the logo that the Colts franchise still uses to this day. | Football League Season |
The Mortgage Bank of Uruguay (Spanish: Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay) a state-owned bank in Uruguay. | Company |
New Mathematics and Natural Computation is an interdisciplinary journal founded in 2005 and is now published by World Scientific. It covers mathematical uncertainty and its applications to computational, biological and social sciences, with a specific focus on relatively unexplored areas in mathematical uncertainty, such as fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic. | Periodical Literature |