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Valérie Grenier (born October 30, 1996) is a Canadian alpine ski racer. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek, USA, in the Super-G. | Winter Sport Player |
(Saint) Broccán Clóen was an Irish cleric who lived in the sixth or seventh century. Several persons noted for their holiness seem to have borne this name, which is variously written Brogan, Broccan, Bracan, and even Bearchan and Bearchanus. Of these, two are commemorated in the Félire Óengusso, the early date of which (c. 800) is now generally admitted. There, under 8 July, is written: \"Brocan, the scribe, gained a noble triumph without any fall\"; and under 17 September: \"Brocan of Ross Tuirc thou shouldst declare\". John Colgan (Trias Thaumaturga, p. 518) speaks as if he were inclined to identify both these persons with the author of an early Irish hymn upon Saint Brigid. The glosses upon Aengus and the Martyrology of Gorman, while seemingly treating them as distinct, prove that the matter admits of no certainty. Some modern hagiographers are inclined to regard the Saint Broccán of 8 July as the amanuensis and possibly the nephew of Saint Patrick. They style him bishop and locate him at \"Maethail-Brogain\", now Mothil in Waterford; but this is admittedly quite doubtful. Saint Broccán of Rosstuirc (of 17 September), on the other hand, is identified with the author of the hymn to Saint Brigid, and believed to be the Abbot Brochanus referred to in the Life of St. Abban, preserved in the Codex Salmanticensis. (\"Rosstuirc\" is generally assigned to the Diocese of Ossory, and may be Rossmore in County Laois) in the northern portion of the kingdom of Osraige in the Slieve Bloom Mountains. | Cleric |
Estadio de la Levy Mwanawasa is a multi-purpose stadium in Ndola, Zambia. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 49,800 people. In 2010, the Chinese government announced that the stadium will be built. The first international game that was played in the stadium was held on 9 June 2012. It was a world cup qualifier between the host nation Zambia and Ghana which had a result of 1-0 in favour of Zambia. The stadium is named after Levy Mwanawasa, the third President of Zambia, serving from 2002 to his death in 2008. | Sport Facility |
The City Line is a commuter railway line in Cardiff that runs between Radyr and Cardiff Central via Fairwater. | Route Of Transportation |
The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is published Monday to Sunday, and is Liverpool's daily newspaper. Until 13 January 2012 it had a sister morning paper, the Liverpool Daily Post. It has an average daily circulation of 52,984. Historically the newspaper was published by the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd. The editor is Alistair Machray, who has previously edited the Welsh edition of the Daily Post. In 1879 the Liverpool Echo was published as a cheaper sister paper to the Liverpool Daily Post. From its inception until 1917 the newspaper cost a halfpenny. It is now 70p Monday to Friday, £1 on Saturday and 50p on Sunday. The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restructured as Trinity Holdings Plc. The two original newspapers had just previously been re-launched in tabloid format. A special Sunday edition of the Echo was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool F.C. fans were fatally injured at the FA Cup semi-final tie in Sheffield. Every single one of the 75,000 copies printed was sold. In 1999 Trinity merged with Mirror Group Newspapers to become Trinity Mirror, the largest stable of newspapers in the country. On 7 January 2014 it was announced that a regular Sunday edition of the paper would be launched. The Sunday Echo is \"a seventh day of publication, not an independent product,\" according to the paper. | Periodical Literature |
Adriano Malori (born 28 January 1988) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Movistar Team. | Athlete |
Lea Pericoli (born 22 March 1935) is an Italian former tennis player and later television presenter and journalist from Milan. She reached the last sixteen of the French Open two times and the Wimbledon Championships three times, and is also famous for her choice of clothing. | Athlete |
The Falcons – better known by their Afrikaans name the Valke and currently known as the Hino Valke for sponsorship reasons – are a South African rugby union team in Gauteng province that participates in the annual Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup tournaments. Their home ground is currently Barnard Stadium in Kempton Park, to which they have returned in 2009. The Falcons have operated out of both Bosman Stadium in Brakpan and Pam Brink Stadium in Springs. They occasionally still host matches at Bosman Stadium. The Falcons draw players from Ekurhuleni and other municipalities to the east and south of Johannesburg. | Sports Team |
Mario Mellado García (died October 2014) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and judge. Mellado served as the acting Governor of Puebla from March 23, 1972, until April 14, 1972, following the resignation of Governor Rafael Moreno Valle. Mellado, a lawyer and judge, served as the Secretary General of the Government of Puebla from 1969 to 1972. He was also the President of the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Estado de Puebla for several terms: 1972-1975, 1975-1981 and 1984–1993. In March 1972, then Puebla Governor Rafael Moreno Valle resigned from office. Mario Mellado García became acting Governor of Puebla from March 23, 1972, to April 14, 1972, until the Congress of Puebla chose a successor, Gonzalo Bautista O'Farrill, as the new state governor. Mellado resided in a small home in la colonia Anzures. He kept an exercise regiment and reportedly swam every morning at 6 a.m. until about 2004. He lived in a nursing home during the final months of his life. Mario Mellado García died in October 2014. His remains were cremated at 31 Poniente. | Politician |
Benadir Sports Club (Arabic: نادي بنادير الرياضة) is a professional football club based in Mogadishu, Somalia. Playing out of Mogadishu Stadium, it is one of the most successful football clubs in the country and the Horn region. The club plays with Elman FC in the Mogadishu Derby. | Organisation Member |
Lara Stock (born 26 May 1992 in Freiburg, Germany) is a Croatian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the World Youth Chess Championship in the girls under-10 section in 2002 and the European Youth Chess Championship in the girls under-12 division in 2004. Stock played for Croatia in the Women's Chess Olympiad of 2006. She achieved her third and final norm required for the WGM title at the 2007 Trieste Open. She lives in Freiburg. Her mother is Croatian, her father is German. Her chess coach was Ognjen Cvitan. In 2011, Stock and her father generated controversy by using false names to win the Hamilton Rookies Shield, an amateur tournament in Hamilton, New Zealand, and compete in other tournaments in the Australian circuit. | Athlete |
Anti-Creative Records is an independent record label based out of Upland, California. The label's releases consist primarily of folk-punk and punk bands from across the United States. However, the label is not limited to these genres. The label was founded in November 2004 by Jared Dobias (aka Jer). Dobias was influenced by Plan-It-X Records which is run by Chris Clavin, a friend of Dobias. Because of Plan-It-X's influence, Anti-Creative operates in almost identical fashion as Plan-It-X, albeit on a smaller scale. The label has released material from such notable bands as Defiance, Ohio and Ghost Mice, amongst others. | Company |
The 2009 FA Community Shield was the 87th FA Community Shield, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. The match was contested at Wembley Stadium, London, on 9 August 2009, and contested by 2008–09 Premier League champions Manchester United, and Chelsea as the winners of the 2008–09 FA Cup, a repeat of the 2007 match. The game ended in a 2–2 draw – the goals coming from Nani and Wayne Rooney for Manchester United, and from Ricardo Carvalho and Frank Lampard for Chelsea – with Chelsea winning 4–1 on penalties. This was also the first time since 1998 that Chelsea had won a professional match on penalties; The last instance was a League Cup quarter-final against Ipswich Town. | Sports Event |
José Miguel Gómez y Gómez (July 6, 1858 – June 13, 1921) was a Cuban who was one of the leaders of the rebel forces in the Cuban War of Independence and President of Cuba from 1909 to 1913. | Politician |
Latrobe City Stadium, previously known as Mobil Park, is a football (soccer) stadium in Morwell, Victoria, Australia. It is mainly used for football (soccer) and was the home ground for the now defunct Gippsland Falcons during their tenure in the also defunct National Soccer League. The stadium has a capacity of 12,000 and was built in 1981. It is now used as the home ground for the Gippsland Soccer League club \"Falcons 2000\", an offshoot club of Gippsland Falcons. Latrobe City Stadium is the headquarters of the Gippsland Soccer League and features Football Federation Victoria approved lights, a function room and bar and a soccer shop. The stadium held a Victorian Premier League match in 2008, as well as several Victorian Women's Premier League matches during the same year when the Gippsland Soccer League had a team competing in the Victorian Women's Premier League. As well as a Victorian Premier League match, the venue has held one A-League practice match between Melbourne Heart and Newcastle Jets on the 8-7-2010 with an attendance of 3000 spectators. Newcastle won the match 2-1. On Saturday 13 November, Falcons Park was host to the Melbourne Victory Women when they played Sydney FC Women in Round 2 of the W-League. Sydney FC beat Melbourne Victory 4-1. The venue hosted an A-League \"Regional Round\" clash between Melbourne Heart and Wellington Phoenix on December 4, 2011.The heart won the match 1-0 with Mate Dugangic scoring in the 41st minute. 3000 people attended the game. | Sport Facility |
The 2003 New York Jets season was the 44th season for the team, and the 34th in the National Football League. The team tried to improve upon its 9–7 record from 2002 and defend its AFC East title, but The Jets failed to do so and finished the season with a record of 6–10. | Football League Season |
Tommy Carr is a former inter-county Gaelic football player for Dublin. He has also managed Dublin, Roscommon and Cavan. He was awarded an all star in 1991 in the same year that he won a National Football League medal with Dublin. He won his second league medal with Dublin in 1993. | Athlete |
Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, commonly known as the false chanterelle, is a species of fungus in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae.It is found across several continents, growing in woodland and heathland, and sometimes on woodchips used in gardening and landscaping. Fruit bodies (mushrooms) are yellow–orange with a funnel-shaped cap up to 8 cm (3 1⁄8 in) across that has a felt-like surface. The thin, often forked gills on the underside of the cap run partway down the length of the otherwise smooth stipe. Reports on the mushroom's edibility vary – it can serve as food, though not a particularly flavorful one, or it can be mildly poisonous. Austrian naturalist Franz Xaver von Wulfen described the false chanterelle in 1781, noting both its resemblance with the true chanterelles and people's propensity to confuse them. The false chanterelle was then placed in the genus Clitocybe, but it was later observed that its forked gills and dextrinoid spores indicated a relationship to Paxillus. Genetic analysis has confirmed that it belongs to the order Boletales and is more closely related to boletes. | Eukaryote |
Louis D. Lighton (November 25, 1895 – February 1, 1963) was an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote for 40 films between 1920 and 1927. He also produced 30 films between 1928 and 1951. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He was married to fellow screenwriter Hope Loring. | Writer |
Manohara Odelia Pinot (born Manohara Odelia Manz in Jakarta, Indonesia on 28 February 1992) is an Indonesian model. She holds dual Indonesian and American citizenship and is of mixed Caucasian and Indonesian Bugis ancestry. She married Malaysian Kelantanese prince Tengku Muhammad Fakhry on 26 August 2008. Her mother, Daisy, was previously married to Edy, an Indonesian, followed by American George Manz, who is the biological father of Manohara. The marriage broke up in 1994 and Daisy later married Juergen Reiner Noack-Pinot, a German citizen, whose surname Manohara adopted. Daisy fled France in 2007 with Manohara and another daughter Dewi after her adopted daughter, Saliha, made a police report against Daisy and Pinot alleging sexual harassment and physical abuse. Daisy was jailed 18 months in absentia while Pinot got four months. She is still a wanted women in France for \"submitting a vulnerable and dependent person to undignified working conditions and assault since 1998\". | Person |
2004 BX159, also written 2004 BX159, is an estimated 1.2-kilometer-sized body of the Solar System. It was thought to be a Mars-crossing asteroid because of its poorly known orbit after discovery, and was therefore listed on the Sentry Risk Table as a possible impactor. With an observation arc of 3 days, perihelion was determined to be 1.5±3 astronomical units (AU). Precovery observations in archival data of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea were identified in early 2014, resulting in a dramatic improvement of the orbital accuracy, sufficient to recognize the object as a regular main belt asteroid, not posing any danger to Earth. The body was subsequently linked by the Minor Planet Center with additional observations reported since 1997. It has now a well-established orbit, observed over decades, with the lowest possible uncertainty of 0. | Celestial Body |
Glastonbury is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, formally founded in 1693 with settlers first arriving in 1636. The town was named after Glastonbury in Somerset, England. Glastonbury is located on the banks of the Connecticut River, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Hartford. The town center is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP). The population was 34,427 at the 2010 census. In 2013, the South Glastonbury zip code, 06073, was ranked the 11th wealthiest zip code in Connecticut. The town also has the Crystal Ridge neighborhood, which is estimated to be the wealthiest neighborhood in the Greater Hartford area. | Settlement |
The 2012–13 season was the 112th season in the history of Barrow A.F.C., an English association football club based in the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. This was the club's fifth consecutive season in the Conference National, the fifth tier of English football, ending in relegation back to the Conference North having been promoted from there via the play-offs in 2007–08. Barrow are managed by Dave Bayliss, who has held the post since December 2007. In addition to the Conference National, the team will also compete in two national cup competitions, the FA Cup and the FA Trophy. Numerous changes were made to the playing staff ahead of the 2012–13 campaign, with no fewer than twelve new players arriving during the transfer window and nine players from the previous season leaving on free transfers. The Barrow kits for the season are manufactured by German company Puma and the main shirt sponsor is the bookmaker Coral. | Sports Team Season |
Ukraine participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria. On 10 July 2015 it was confirmed that they will use a national selection. The semi-final took place on 25 July 2015. Fourteen acts competed in the televised final on 22 August 2015. Anna Trincher and her song \"Pochny z sebe\" were later declared the winners and represented Ukraine. Ukraine finished in 11th place with 38 points. | Song |
The New Zealand owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles novazelandiae) was a large species of owlet-nightjar (family Aegothelidae) formerly endemic to the islands of New Zealand. Fossil remains (which are common in the pellets of the extinct laughing owl) indicate the species was once widespread across both the North Island and the South Island. Despite a small number of reports of small owls being found in the 19th century that may have been New Zealand owlet-nightjars, the species is thought to have become extinct around 1200 AD. The New Zealand owlet-nightjar was the largest species of owlet-nightjar, weighing an estimated 150-200 g. The species was also either flightless, as suggested by its small wings, or a very poor flier (the species has a strong keel). The diet probably consisted of invertebrates, as well as frogs and lizards. The species rapidly became extinct after the introduction of Pacific rats to New Zealand. Their remains have never been found in association with Māori middens, and are unlikely to have been hunted due to their small size and nocturnal habits. | Animal |
The 1896 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. New York voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President. New York was won by the Republican nominees, former Governor William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate corporate lawyer Garret Hobart of New Jersey. McKinley and Hobart defeated the Democratic nominees, former Congressman William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate industrialist Arthur Sewall of Maine. Bryan also ran and received votes on the Populist Party line, with running mate Congressman Thomas E. Watson of Georgia. Also in the running was the National Democratic Party (Gold Democrat) candidate, John M. Palmer of Illinois, who ran with former Governor of Kentucky Simon Bolivar Buckner on a platform advocating for the gold standard. McKinley carried New York State with 57.58% of the vote to Bryan's 38.72%, a victory margin of 18.85%. Palmer came in a distant third with 1.33%. New York weighed in for this election as about 14% more Republican than the national average. Bryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but held little appeal in the Northeastern United States. Consequently, he performed especially weakly for a Democrat in New York, losing every county in the state except for Schoharie County upstate. This included New York City, where McKinley outpolled Bryan by about 60,000 votes. McKinley would lose New York City to Bryan in their 1900 rematch four years later, and New York City would not vote Republican again until 1920. | Societal Event |
Lake Rotoiti is a lake in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand. It is the northwesternmost in a chain of lakes formed within the Okataina caldera. The lake is close to the northern shore of its more famous neighbour, Lake Rotorua, and is connected to it via the Ohau Channel. It drains to the Kaituna River, which flows into the Bay of Plenty near Maketu. The full name of the lake is Te Rotoiti-kite-a-Īhenga, which in the Māori language means \"The Small Lake Discovered By Īhenga\", the Māori explorer also credited with discovering Lake Rotorua. Legend says that the lake was named as such because when Ihenga first saw it, he was only able to see a small part of it and thought the lake was a lot smaller. Since the 1960s, the quality of lake water has been negatively affected by inflows of nitrogen rich water from Lake Rotorua, agricultural run-off from surrounding farms and seepage from domestic septic tanks. The effects of this included an almost permanent algal bloom in the Okere arm of the lake and choking lake weed growth in other still areas of the lake. A barrier to divert the nutrient rich waters of Lake Rotorua into the Kaituna River was completed in late 2008. The Bay of Plenty Regional Council expected to see improvement in lake water quality within five years and the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Program reported in 2013 that the intervention has significantly improved water quality. Water quality is the highest it has been in decades, on track to meet targets set by the Program to meet community expectations. Lake Rotoiti has thermal hot-spring baths on the southern shore which are accessible by boat. | Body Of Water |
Denis Gremelmayr (born 16 August 1981) is an inactive German male tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 59, achieved in May 2008. Glemelmayr was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg. He reached the semifinals of Estoril, Barcelona and Los Angeles in 2008, losing to Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick respectively. | Athlete |
Remagen is a town in Germany in the Land Rhineland-Palatinate, in the district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one-hour drive from Cologne, just south of Bonn, the former West German capital. It is situated on the left (western) bank of the River Rhine. There is a ferry across the Rhine from Remagen every 10–15 minutes in the summer. Remagen has many beautiful and well-maintained buildings, churches, castles and monuments. It also has a sizeable pedestrian zone with plenty of shops. Overlooking the west bank of the Rhine just north of the city centre is the Apollinariskirche. It has a great observation deck that is only open to parishioners on Sundays. Pedestrians reach the church via a dirt trail that passes a series of roadside monuments representing each of the fourteen Stations of the Cross. The church grounds contain an outdoor crypt and an abbey. Further down the river is one of the many castles along the River Rhine, perched even higher than the Apollinariskirche. | Settlement |
Sligo County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Shligigh) is the authority responsible for local government in County Sligo, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 18 elected members. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the title of Cathaoirleach (Chairperson). The county administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Ciarán Hayes. The county town is Sligo town. | Organisation |
Jo Sondre Aas (born 2 July 1989) is a Norwegian football player currently playing as a striker for Levanger. After impressing performances for Rosenborg's youth-team in a tournament in Spain, Real Madrid invited Aas for a trial where he impressed, netting a hat-trick for Real's C team. However, he declined a contract and chose to stay in Norway. He started the 2009 season on loan from Rosenborg to Moss FK, but the contract was terminated after 19 matches, and Aas went on loan to Ranheim for the rest of the 2009 season. He was on loan to Ranheim until he permanently changed to Ranheim before the season 2011. He signed a three years contract with Sandefjord 11 January 2012 but after only one season with Sandefjord he returned to Ranheim because of personal reasons. | Athlete |
Global Investors Summit or GIS is a biennial summit organized by Government of Madhya Pradesh in Indore, the commercial capital of central India to attract domestic and foreign investment for development of state. Based on the theme– India's Growth Centre and aimed at bringing together business leaders, investors, corporations, thought leaders, policy and opinion makers; the summit serves as a perfect platform to understand and explore business opportunities in the State of Madhya Pradesh. \n* GIS 2007 - Signed 102 MOUs worth Rs 1.20 Trillion \n* GIS 2010 - Signed 107 MOUs for setting up projects worth Rs 2.35 Trillion \n* GIS 2012 - Signed 259 MOUs for setting up projects worth Rs 4.31 Trillion | Societal Event |
Diego Cordovez (born 1965) is an American poker player. He has won one World Series of Poker bracelet, and he has 16 WSOP cash finishes including 7 final tables. He has won over $1.4 Million in career tournament winnings. His 16 cashes at the WSOP account for $613,847 of those winnings. Born in New York City, Cordovez claims to have been introduced to poker by his first-grade teacher, as a way of making basic math seem like fun. At the 2000 World Series of Poker Cordovez won the $2000 no limit Texas hold 'em event, earning more than $290,000 and a bracelet. He defeated English professional poker player and bracelet winner, Dave Ulliott heads-up to win the tournament. The final table also included Phil Ivey, David Pham and Toto Leonidas. Cordovez followed this a couple of months later with another first-place finish at the Legends of Poker no limit hold 'em event. In 2002 Cordovez cashed in another four WSOP events, making the final table in three of them, including a second place in the $2000 SHOE event, losing to Phil Ivey. He also won the limit holdem championship at the Los Angeles Poker Open at the Commerce Casino, at the time the largest limit holdem tournament in history; first prize was $569,430. Cordovez was featured on ESPN's coverage of the 2008 WSOP Main Event at a table which also featured 2003 Main Event Champion Chris Moneymaker and professional player Clonie Gowen as well as being interviewed in a segment about his career as a poker player. Cordovez is currently one of the hosts of the Spanish-language version of Poker After Dark, broadcast throughout Latin America on Discovery Channel (Latin America). Prior to his poker career, Cordovez was co-founder and COO of Aveo Inc., a Silicon Valley online tech support software provider. Cordovez holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University. | Athlete |
The Grupo Especial de Operaciones (English: Special Operations Group), commonly known as GEOs (pronounced HAY-owe), are the special operations forces of the Spanish Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (English: National Police Corps).The GEO has response capabilities and is responsible for VIP protection duties, as well as countering and responding to terrorism. Organized along the lines of many other special counter-terrorism units throughout Europe, the GEO is focused on dealing with terrorist attacks, including aircraft hijackings as well as maritime threats and hostage taking. The GEO can also be used in a support role for Spanish Police operations outside the realm of terrorism, and is active in protecting visiting heads of state and providing security for high-profile events such as the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona. The GEO is in the ATLAS Network, that includes all counter-terrorism special units in the European Union, and of other countries. | Organisation |
4942 Munroe (1987 DU6) is a main-belt minor planet discovered by Henri Debehogne at La Silla Observatory in Chile on February 24, 1987. In 2013, it was named after Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist and the author of the xkcd webcomic. The name was chosen by xkcd readers Lewis Hulbert and Jordan Zhu. Munroe calculates that the asteroid is between 6 and 10 kilometers in diameter, comparable in size to the Chicxulub asteroid. | Celestial Body |
Hugh Lawson White (August 19, 1881 – September 20, 1965) was an American politician from Mississippi and a member of the Democratic Party. He served two non-consecutive terms as Governor of Mississippi (1936–1940, 1952–1956). | Politician |
Leo Lake is a small glacial lake approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) northeast of Bakers Narrows which drains into Thompson Lake. It is part of the Nelson River watershed, in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the Northern Region of Manitoba, Canada. | Body Of Water |
Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer (born 2 November 1960) is a retired female professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance coming as late as 1997. She won a WTA Tour singles event in Richmond in 1983 and numerous doubles titles, with the highlight being her Grand Slam titles at the 1981 French Open with Tanya Harford and 1983 with Candy Reynolds. She won 317 singles and 472 doubles matches on the tour during her long career. | Athlete |
The discography of Alexisonfire, a Canadian post-hardcore band, consists of four studio albums, eight extended plays and twelve singles. All songs were written by Alexisonfire unless noted. Jesse Ingelevics is featured in all songs prior to The Switcheroo Series: Alexisonfire vs. Moneen where Jordan \"Ratbeard\" Hastings is featured on and after the makings of The Switcheroo Series. | Musical Work |
This is a comprehensive listing of all releases by B2K, a boy band from Los Angeles, CA. As a quartet, B2K released their self-titled debut album, B2K, in March 2002. It featured the singles \"Uh Huh\", \"Gots Ta Be\" and \"Why I Love You\". The album sold well enough in its first week to debut at #2 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The group's second album, Pandemonium!, was released in December 2002. However, it only managed to peak at #10 on the Billboard 200, despite the album's first single, Bump, Bump, Bump (featuring P. Diddy) went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. In between the two albums, the group also released a Christmas album, Santa Hooked Me Up in October 2002. The album released one single called Why'd You Leave Me on Christmas. B2K has released eleven singles to radio, two compilation albums, two remix albums, and the soundtrack album for the 2004 film, You Got Served. | Musical Work |
Grant Briggs (1865–1928) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball catcher and outfielder. He began his professional baseball career in the Eastern League in 1887 and was playing with the Syracuse Stars of the International Association in 1889 when the Stars decided to join the American Association for the 1890 season. He appeared in 86 games for the Starrs and also played for the Louisville Colonels in 1891 and St. Louis Browns in 1892. He played minor league ball again in 1893 and was out of baseball in 1894 before he returned to the Colonels for one more game in 1895. | Athlete |
Elina Angelidou (born 2 December 1987) is a Greek individual trampolinist, representing her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2010 Trampoline World Championships. | Athlete |
The Bethanga Bridge is a steel truss bridge crossing Lake Hume, an artificial lake on the Murray River. The bridge crosses the border between the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, linking the Victorian towns of Bellbridge and Bethanga with the regional New South Wales city of Albury. The bridge was built in 1930 and designed by Percy Allan using a Pratt truss. | Route Of Transportation |
WENY-TV is the ABC/CBS and CW+ Television affiliate station for the Central and Western Twin Tiers of Southern Upstate New York and Northern Pennsylvania. Licensed to Elmira, New York, WENY broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter on Higman Hill in Corning. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 1200. It is owned by Lilly Broadcasting, and has studios on Old Ithaca Road in Horseheads, New York. It was also be seen over-the-air through an analog repeater W06AR on VHF channel 6. | Broadcaster |
Privilasco is a station on the Bernina Railway line. Hourly services operate on this line. | Station |
Blair Field is a stadium in Long Beach, California. It originally opened in 1956 and is primarily used for baseball. It holds 3,238 people. It is named for Frank Blair, the sports editor for the Long Beach Press-Telegram newspaper for 32 years. Located in Recreation Park, it was constructed in 1958 and over the years has fostered local amateur baseball and hosted Moore League high school football and baseball teams, along with American Legion and Connie Mack baseball. The Chicago Cubs baseball team held spring training at the ballpark in 1966, the Los Angeles Rams football team and Olympic teams have used the site for practice or exhibition games. It is the home of the Long Beach State 49ers baseball team, \"the Dirtbags,\" and former home of the defunct Western Baseball League team, the Long Beach Breakers, and the defunct Golden Baseball League team, the Long Beach Armada. In 1992, $1.475 million was spent to renovate the 3,238-seat facility. New spectator seating, field lights, a playing field with state-of-the-art drainage system, and turf which exceeds professional baseball standards were installed. Additional improvements, including 774 new box seats and a new scoreboard, were made in 1999. | Sport Facility |
Del Valle High School is a public high school located in the Del Valle community in unincorporated Travis County, Texas, United States and is part of the Del Valle Independent School District. The high school serves the communities of Austin, Creedmoor, Garfield, Mustang Ridge, Pilot Knob, Elroy, Webberville, and Hornsby Bend. Being the new high school of the district, the campus is still growing and also recognized by TEA (Texas Education Agency) for the 2008-2009 school year, and affiliated with Austin Community College. | Educational Institution |
Timothy Lane Joiner (born January 7, 1961) is a former professional American football player. He played as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers and Denver Broncos. He appeared in 29 games and started in three games in his professional career. Joiner was born in Monrovia, California, and attended Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana State University, where he played college football for the LSU Tigers. | Gridiron Football Player |
Garfield Charter Township is a charter township of Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 16,256 at the 2010 census, making it the largest municipality in the 21-county Northern Michigan region. The township is adjacent to Traverse City on the southwest, and the city has incorporated much of land that was formerly part of the township. Much of the remaining township is considered to be a part of the city's urban area. Garfield Township was organized in January 1882. When Grand Traverse County was first organized, it comprised two townships: The Old Mission Peninsula was Peninsula Township, with its present boundaries, and the remainder of the county, including what is now Garfield Township was included in Traverse Township. | Settlement |
The Algonquin Resort is a coastal resort hotel in the Tudor Revival style, in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. An architectural icon of New Brunswick, the hotel is the most famous symbol of St. Andrews and one of the most photographed buildings in the province. | Building |
\"Fri?\" (\"Free?\") was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, performed in Swedish (the first occasion that this language had been used in preference to Finnish) by Beat. The song was performed 22nd (last) on the night, following Cyprus' Haris Anastasiou with \"Milas Poli\". At the close of voting, it had received 8 points, placing 21st in a field of 22. The song consists of the band asking the question \"which of us are free?\" and defining this freedom as \"free to think for ourselves\". While no answer is ever given, the lyrics strongly imply that nobody experiences this freedom. Beat also recorded the song in Finnish and English, then under the titles \"Vapaa?\" and \"Free\" respectively. It was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 1991 Contest by Kaija with \"Hullu yö\". | Song |
San Silvestre School is a British-Peruvian private school located in Lima, Peru. The program is girls only, non-residential and extends from early childhood (age 3) through Form VI (age 18). It is divided into Early Years (ages 3–7) Primary (age 7-11, 2nd to 5th grade)) and Secondary (age 12-18, 6th grade and Forms I to VI) sections. Infant and Nursery school classes are held across the street from the main school in the district of Miraflores. San Silvestre is considered one of the most prestigious schools in the country with many publicly recognized ex-pupils such as singer-songwriter Julie Freundt, world surfing champion Sofia Mulanovich Aljovín and former Peruvian congresswoman Anel Townsend Diez Canseco. Total enrolment is about 1400 (about 100 girls in each year or promotion from Reception to Form VI and the rest in Early Years and Form VI). Although a variety of different nationalities can be found amongst the students, most are Peruvian. Graduation is after Form V, when most students have spent all 12 years in the school. Since form VI is optional they enjoy much more freedom. The school year is divided into 4, 9 week long bimesters, with a mark each and a 5th one in Senior School which comes from yearly internal examinations given at the end of the 3rd bimester. Separate marks are awarded for effort and achievement. Weekly, school assemblies are held. School hours are from 8am to 3:40pm with 3 breaks. Many also stay for extracurricular activities (it is compulsory to choose at least one in the lower years of senior school) which may be sports or artistic. There are also Girl Guide meetings. Security is rather tight and no student (except Form VI) may leave the school without the company of an adult or a special authorization given by their parents. Most girls are driven to school by their parents or by a hired service. Girls cannot leave the school during school hours. For lunch pupils can subscribe to catered school menus while soft drinks, food and sweets can be bought on campus though a large proportion of girls take lunchboxes from their house. San Silvestre teachers come from around the world, most foreign ones come from parts of the United Kingdom. The school motto is \"I am , I can, I ought, I will\" | Educational Institution |
Peter Colin Graham (25 December 1954-17 April 2015) was an English cricketer. Graham was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. Graham made his debut for Northumberland against the Lancashire Second XI in the 1976 Minor Counties Championship. From 1976 to 1996, he represented the county in 116 Championship matches, the last of which came against Cumberland. Graham also represented the county in the MCCA Knockout Trophy, making his debut for the county in the 1985 MCCA Knockout Trophy against Durham. From 1985 to 1995, he represented the county in 14 Trophy matches, the last of which came against Suffolk. It was while representing Northumberland that Graham made his debut in List A cricket for a Minor Counties team against Kent in the 1985 Benson and Hedges Cup. The following year he played his first List A match for Northumberland in the 1986 NatWest Trophy against Essex. From 1986 to 1994, he represented the county in 5 List A matches, the last of which came against Nottinghamshire. In 1994, he played his second and final one-day match for the Minor Counties against Nottinghamshire in the Benson and Hedges Cup. Graham played his only first-class match in 1994 for the combined Minor Counties teams against the touring South Africans. In this match he took 4 wickets at a bowling average of 20.75, with best figures of 2/39. He later represented the Yorkshire Cricket Board in a single List A match against Buckinghamshire in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. In his career total of 8 List A matches, he took 6 wickets at an average of 46.50, with best figures of 2/28. | Athlete |
Saint Pardulphus (Pardulf, Pardoux) (657 – ca. 737) was a Frankish saint and Benedictine abbot. He is the author of the Vita Pardulfi, which is notable for the insight it provides into life in Aquitaine at the time. He was born at Sardent, from a family of peasants. His legend states that he was a shepherd who decided to live as a hermit after experiencing a terrible storm. The count of Lantaire had built a monastery at Guéret. Pardulphus joined this monastery, later serving as its abbot. He followed strict penances, never keeping himself warm, and only eating once a week. He is alleged to have rejected heat from any source but the rays of the sun. However, as he grew old he did occasionally make use of “hot stones” to keep himself warm. He rejected the consumption of all poultry, eating only the mushrooms the local peasants brought him. The Vita Pardulfi records a miracle performed by Pardulphus. Some carpenters were cutting wood with which to build the church of Saint-Aubin at Guéret. After they loaded the wood onto carts and returned to the building works, it was determined that the wood was too short. The carpenters’ superintendent wished to have the carpenters whipped in punishment for this, but Pardulphus intervened with a miracle that made the wood the right size and even surpassed the intended length. As a result, the excess wood was sawn off and hung in the church as an object of veneration. According to tradition, during the Umayyad invasion of southern France, Pardulphus remained in his monastery. Umayyad forces, retreating after the Battle of Tours, arrived at the monastery. However, his monastery was spared from attack; this was attributed to Pardulphus’ prayers. | Cleric |
Edna Lake is an alpine lake in Boise County, Idaho, United States, located high in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is approximately 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Stanley and 14.5 miles (23.3 km) southeast of Grandjean. Located in the remote central Sawtooth Wilderness, Edna Lake can be reached by trails from many directions, including the Sawtooth Valley (east), Grandjean (northwest), Redfish Lake (north), and Atlanta (south). Edna Lake is in a basin with several other lakes, including Vernon Lake and Virginia Lake along the spine of the Sawtooths just below the border of Boise, Custer, and Elmore counties. Edna Lake is in the Sawtooth Wilderness and wilderness permit can be obtained at trailheads. | Body Of Water |
Scinax karenanneae is a species of frog in the Hylidae family.It is endemic to Colombia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.It is threatened by habitat loss. | Animal |
Keith MarQuez Haynes (born December 19, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for Umana Reyer Venezia of the Italian Serie A. Haynes is also a naturalized citizen of Georgia, and he played with the senior men's Georgian national team at FIBA EuroBasket 2011. | Athlete |
Alcide (1955–1973) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. It is widely believed that Alcide would have won Epsom's 1958 Derby had not probable foul play prevented him from running. A form line through Nagami, who was third in the Derby, gives credibility to the theory that a fully fit Alcide would have won the race. During this period there was an alarming amount of apparent villainy in racing and it seems likely that the broken rib that Alcide sustained in his stable after he had won the Lingfield Derby Trial was deliberate. As a two-year-old Alcide had won the Horris Hill Stakes at Newbury Racecourse and his first success in his second season was in the Chester Vase. He then romped home in the Lingfield Derby Trial and after he had recovered from his injury he won the Great Voltigeur Stakes by 12 lengths and the St. Leger by eight. He was held up in his preparation for the Ascot Gold Cup the following season, but even so was only just beaten by Wallaby II. Six weeks later he won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and retired to stud as the winner of eight races worth £56,042. | Horse |
John Oponjo Benjamin (born 29 November 1952 in Segbwema, Kailahun District) is a Sierra Leonean economist and politician of Mende descent. He is the current leader of the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). He served as Sierra Leone's Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2007. During that period, Benjamin helped lead Sierra Leone through the Paris Club's 100% debt cancellation program. Benjamin was the chairman of the Council of State Secretaries in 1992. | Politician |
The Misakubo Dam (塩郷ダム Misakubo Damu) is a dam on the Tonaka River, a tributary stream of the Misakubo River, itself a tributary of the Ōi River, located in Tenyrū-ku Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on the island of Honshū, Japan. | Infrastructure |
The Gujarat Kensville Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour, played in India. It was held for the first time in January 2011 at Kensville Golf and Country Club in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and was the season opening event on the tour. It was last played in 2013. Gaganjeet Bhullar won the inaugural tournament to become the first Indian player to win on the Challenge Tour. | Tournament |
The 1961 Masters Tournament was the 25th Masters Tournament, held April 6–10 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Due to heavy rains and flooding of several greens, Sunday's final round was halted before 4 p.m. and the scores were erased, even though ten players had completed their rounds. Third round leader Gary Player was even par through eleven holes, and defending champion Arnold Palmer was two-under through nine. The entire round was replayed the next day. In the final round on Monday, Player defeated Palmer and amateur Charles Coe by one stroke to become the first international champion at the Masters. Player made an up and down from the bunker on the final hole but thought he had lost the tournament, after carding a disappointing 40 (+4) on the back nine. In the final pairing with a one-shot lead, Palmer needed a par on the final hole for the win. From the fairway, his approach shot also landed in the bunker right of the green. With a poor lie, Palmer's bunker shot went past the hole and off the green and down a hillock. Using his putter from off the green, he failed to get the fourth shot close, then missed the 15-foot (4.6 m) bogey putt which would have forced a playoff. It was the first of three green jackets for Player, age 25, and the second of his nine major titles. His other wins at Augusta came over a decade later in 1974 and 1978. Jack Nicklaus, 21, recorded the first of his 22 top-10 finishes at the Masters, his last as an amateur. He tied for seventh, but the low amateur honors went to Coe. Nicklaus regained the U.S. Amateur title in September at Pebble Beach and turned professional in November. A field of 88 players entered the tournament and 41 of them made the cut at five-over-par (149). Amateur Deane Beman won the Par 3 contest with a score of 22; he turned pro in 1967 and later became the second commissioner of the PGA Tour, from 1974 to 1994. | Tournament |
The 1928 Kentucky Derby was the 54th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race was run on May 19, 1928. | Race |
Game On Expo is a multimedia gaming convention that began in August 2015. It covers all types of gaming from video games and arcades to board games and tabletop games. The expo boasts a large vendor hall, video game lounge area, free-play arcades, tournaments (both video and card games), cosplay contests, panels, and a variety of special guests. | Societal Event |
Shunketsu Yūji (born July 13, 1976 as Yūji Ishide) is a former sumo wrestler from Misato, Saitama, Japan. The highest rank he reached was maegashira 12. | Wrestler |
Brian \"Doc\" Dougherty (born December 10, 1973 in Philadelphia) is a lacrosse goaltender. He attended The Episcopal Academy before attending University of Maryland. He is currently the head coach at Chestnut Hill College. | Athlete |
Tanat Valley Coaches operates bus and coach services in Montgomeryshire and across the Shropshire-Welsh borderland, in the United Kingdom. The family-run firm is based in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. It also has a depot in the nearby village of Pentrefelin, in addition to Kerry, near Newtown, Powys. The former includes facilities to park vehicles, whilst the latter includes workshop premises and is used to operate services in the upper Severn Valley. In addition to bus and coach operation, Tanat provides private and commercial vehicle service and repair facilities within two large and fully equipped workshops. It has a wide variety of vehicles from local taxis to mini-buses, midi-buses, single/double decker buses, coaches and executive coaches. Tanat Valley operate 22 local public bus services, many of which are contracted by Powys County Council and Shropshire Council. The local councils and schools also contract 34 school buses, which carry approximately 1,560 students every school day. The fleet amounts to approximately 60 vehicles. | Company |
Koerberia sonomensis (Sonoma koerberia lichen) is a dark olive-green foliose lichen found in western North America mountains, Mediterranean areas of Europe, northern Africa and in the Sonoran Desert. The body (thallus) is a small .5 to 1 centimetre (0.20 to 0.39 in) rosette of leafy structures with elongate lobes to 2 millimetres (0.079 in). The upper surface is dark olive-green sometimes striped, and the lower surface is pale olive-green. The fruiting forms (apothecia) are flat to slightly convex, and deep red-brown. It is in the Koerberia genus in the Placynthiaceae family. | Eukaryote |
Sage Monroe Northcutt (born March 1, 1996) is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting in the lightweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. | Athlete |
Niagara County Community College is located in Sanborn, New York, United States northeast of the City of Niagara Falls. NCCC offers associate's degrees in many programs. Niagara County Community College was founded in 1962 and is sponsored by Niagara County and SUNY. The new campus opened in 1973. Dual admissions programs facilitate transfer to four-year colleges upon completion of the two-year degree programs. The current President is Dr. James P. Klyczek. | Educational Institution |
The Northern Line is a railway line in Sri Lanka. Branching off the Main Line at Polgahawela Junction the line heads north through North Western, North Central and Northern provinces before terminating at the northern port of Kankesanthurai. The line is 339 kilometres (211 mi) long and has 55 stations between Polgahawela Junction and Vavuniya. It is the longest railway line in Sri Lanka. The line opened in 1894. Major cities served by the line include Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Vavuniya and Jaffna. The popular Yal Devi service operates on the line. The line was severely affected by the civil war and no services operated north of Vavuniya after 1990. Reconstruction of this section of the line commenced following the end of the civil war in 2009 and was fully completed in early 2015. | Route Of Transportation |
Scarlett Guzman (born 6 October 1987) is a Mexican female artistic gymnast, representing her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, United States. | Athlete |
St. Paul's Church (Danish: Sankt Pauls Kirke) is a Lutheran church in central Copenhagen, Denmark, also colloquially known as Nyboder's Church due to its location in the middle of the Nyboder area. It was designed by Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann and constructed from 1872 to 1877. | Building |
Johann Christoph Rincklake (19 October 1764 in Harsewinkel – 19 June 1813 in Münster) was a German portrait painter of the Romantic era, with a high standing in international art history. | Artist |
Gastrotheca is a genus of frogs (family Hemiphractidae) found in Central and South America. Most species occur in the American Cordillera from southern Costa Rica to northwestern Argentina. This genus makes up the bulk of marsupial frog diversity; formerly it was placed in the \"Leptodactylidae\" assemblage. Marsupial frogs are so-called because they possess a dorsal brood pouch. In some species the eggs are fertilized on the female's lower back, and are inserted in her pouch with the aid of the male's toes. The eggs remain in contact with the female's vascular tissue, which provides them oxygen. Gastrotheca guentheri (Guenther's marsupial frog) is the only known frog with true teeth in its lower jaw. Gastrotheca riobambae (Andean marsupial tree frog) is kept as pet and is used in scientific experiments. | Animal |
Valdis \"Val\" Semeiks is an American comic book artist who has mostly worked for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. | Artist |
Corey Stewart is an Australian former professional rugby league player in the New South Wales Rugby League. Stewart began his Australian Rugby League career with the Sydney Roosters in 1990. In 1993, Stewart joined the Penrith Panthers club. After leaving the Panthers, Stewart moved to Eden, New South Wales, where he later played for the Eden Tigers in the Group 16 Rugby League competition. Stewart is the son of Bruce 'Larpa' Stewart who played for the club in the late 1960s. | Athlete |
Reza Negarestani is an Iranian philosopher and writer, known for \"pioneering the genre of 'theory-fiction' with his book\" Cyclonopedia which was published in 2008. it was listed in Artforum as one of the best books of 2009. | Person |
Richard Charles Dillon (June 24, 1877 – January 5, 1966) was an American politician and the eighth Governor of New Mexico. He held the governor's office from January 1, 1927 to January 1, 1931. | Politician |
The blackish tapaculo (Scytalopus latrans) is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family.It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. | Animal |
Milton Sigmund \"Milt\" Palacio (born February 7, 1978) is a retired Belizean-American professional basketball player who is currently the director of player development at the University of Idaho. | Athlete |
Omar Zarif (born 9 February 1978 in Avellaneda) is a former Argentine football midfielder. He is currently one of Matias Almeyda's assistant coaches at C.D. Guadalajara. Zarif started his playing career in 1998 with Dock Sud in the regionalised 4th division. The club were relegated and Zarif continued playing for them in the regionalised 5th division. In 2002 he was signed by El Porvenir of the National 2nd division, he then had spells with other 2nd division teams; Los Andes, Defensa y Justicia and Nueva Chicago. In 2006 he was part of the Nueva Chicago team that won promotion to the Argentine Primera. The club was relegated at the end of the 2006-2007 season, but Zarif was signed by newly promoted Huracán keeping his place in the top division of Argentine football. For the 2008-09 season Zarif signed for Rosario Central, and in 2009 he joined newly promoted Chacarita Juniors. For the 2010–11 season, Zarif returned to Rosario Central, this time to play in the second division. | Athlete |
UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs. Henderson (also known as UFC Fight Night 68) was a mixed martial arts event held on June 6, 2015 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. | Sports Event |
Final Resolution (2010) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) professional wrestling promotion, that took place on December 5, 2010 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the seventh event under the Final Resolution chronology. | Sports Event |
Grazer Philosophische Studien/International Journal for Analytic Philosophy is a peer-reviewed academic journal on philosophy published by Rodopi Publishers. It was established in 1975 by Rudolf Haller and is currently edited by Johannes L. Brandl (University of Salzburg), Marian David (University of Graz), Maria E. Reicher-Marek (University of Aachen), and Leopold Stubenberg (University of Notre Dame). At least two volumes of the journal appear each year, including special issues on selected topics. The journal covers all aspects of philosophy, especially analytical philosophy. Contributions are in English or German. | Periodical Literature |
Southern ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus sackeni) is a species of garter snake. It is one of four subspecies of the eastern ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus) is smaller than the other Thamnophis sauritus subspecies at 16 to 30 inches and occurs in the southeastern United States from South Carolina, extreme southern Georgia and Alabama, southeast Mississippi and all of Florida at sea level to 500 feet. The color is greenish olive, or blackish in old specimens. It has a dorsal stripe that is vetiver green or light olive-gray bordered on either side with black and lateral stripes are marguerite yellow. The Southern ribbon is found in marshes, lakes, ponds, and shores of streams. It is semi-aquatic and semi-arboreal with wet meadows and thicket a favorite habitat. | Animal |
Margaret Stafford (died 9 June 1396) was the daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, and Philippa de Beauchamp. She was the first wife of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and the grandmother of the 2nd Earl. | Person |
The cover features the same geometric design as Music Complete, with a modified colour palette. Two new exclusive mixes of \"Nothing But a Fool\" and \"Superheated\" are included, which are different from those on the 8LP vinyl box set of Music Complete. Of the release, Bernard Sumner explained that:\"We’ve given [the music] to different mixers, and they’ve chopped it up and rearranged it and stripped it back, so it’s like another take on the original album[...] Some of [the songs] are radically different, but rather than like a remixer who would write a new set of music, they used the music that we’d already incorporated in the songs, but warped it in a way that was very interesting.\" | Musical Work |
The Sedona International Film Festival (SIFF) is an annual, eight-day film festival in Sedona, Arizona. The festival was founded in 1994. The Sedona Film Festival screens feature films, documentary films, short films, animated films, and student films. In the festival workshops, organised by Academy Award-winner Frank Warner, award-winning industry professionals teach a new generation of filmmakers. Genghis Blues (1999), Spellbound, and Why Can't We Be a Family Again? (2002) are among the Academy Award nominees screened at the SIFF. The 2004 festival premiered What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Inside Job, and Another Year. Robert Osborn has presented several film classics, such as The Third Man (1949), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), North by Northwest (1959). Some of the guests and honorees of past festivals are Ed Asner, Rick Schroder, Andrew McCarthy, Donald O'Connor, Ann Miller, Sean Young, Dean Stockwell, Linda Gray, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Ladd, Amanda Plummer, Wendy Malick, Jane Powell, Nick Nolte, Scott Baio, Tony Curtis, Jonathan Winters, Nicolas Cage, Rip Torn, Rita Rudner, David Rasche, Phil Rosenthal, and Jena Malone. The 2010 honoree was Michael Moore. | Societal Event |
WRAL-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. WRAL-TV has been the flagship station of the Capitol Broadcasting Company since its inception, and serves as the NBC affiliate for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill-Fayetteville area, known collectively as the Triangle region. The station is located at Capitol Broadcasting Company headquarters on Western Boulevard in West Raleigh, and its transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina. WRAL-TV is co-owned with Fox affiliate WRAZ (channel 50) and radio stations WRAL-FM (101.5 MHz), WCMC-FM (99.9 MHz), WDNC (620 kHz), and WCLY (1550 kHz). WRAZ's operations are co-located at WRAL-TV's studios. WRAL-TV is available on cable channel 3 in most of the Triangle, except in outlying areas of the market, where it is available on channel 5. It is also available on cable in large portions of eastern areas of the state. The station has been affiliated with NBC since February 29, 2016, when it ended a 30-year affiliation with CBS. This is channel 5's second stint with NBC; it was affiliated with that network for six years at the station's inception. | Broadcaster |
The American Journal of Science (AJS) is the United States of America's longest-running scientific journal, having been published continuously since its conception in 1818 by Professor Benjamin Silliman, who edited and financed it himself. Until 1880, it was also known as the American Journal of Science and Arts, but its focus was always on natural sciences and especially on geology and related subjects. In early years, the journal was often referred to as \"Silliman's Journal\", and the publication became associated with Yale University due to his long tenure there (1804–1853). The editorship long remained in the family of Professor Silliman, as he was assisted by his son, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., from 1838. On the death of the elder Silliman in 1864, he was succeeded as chief editor by his son-in-law, James Dwight Dana, and then from 1895 till 1926 by Dana's son Edward Salisbury Dana. Associate editors included the botanist Asa Gray and the zoologist Louis Agassiz. The current editors are C. Page Chamberlain and Danny M. Rye, professors of geology at Stanford University and Yale, respectively. | Periodical Literature |
Anton Koslov Mayr is a Russian–American photographer and author. Koslov studied film and philosophy at NYU and Harvard and holds a Ph.D. in history. Koslov-Mayr is known for his art criticism and photography and worked on film projects with American artists Richard Dailey, Hilton McConnico, and Mark Boswell. Koslov-Mayr and Boswell collaborated on a number of projects, the most notorious being \"The United Nations is Decadent and Depraved\", shown in New York and in Moscow in 2009. Between 1997 and 2008 Koslov Mayr thought at Parsons School of Design and currently holds a position of associate professor at the American Graduate School of Arcadia University. In 2006 he created the Artout project. Between 2011 and 2015 he was creative director and publisher of The Russian Riviera magazine along with a fellow artist Guela Patiashvili. | Artist |
Bismarck (Malus domestica 'Bismarck') is an apple cultivar. The fruit from the tree is used for cooking due to its sharp flavour and is most commonly pureed when cooking. | Plant |
Jana Hawkes is a fictional character from the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The role was portrayed by Emily O'Brien, first on a recurring status and then on contract until the character's death onscreen on May 6, 2011. Jana was married to Kevin Fisher, is the murderer of Carmen Mesta, and was involved in a number of illegal activities. She died of an aneurysm during a fight with her ex-husband's girlfriend, Chloe Mitchell. | Fictional Character |
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar, commonly known as the Imus Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral church in the city of Imus, in the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is the seat of the bishop of the Diocese of Imus, the diocese that has jurisdiction of all the Catholic parishes in Cavite. The patroness of the city and of the diocese is the Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Our Lady of the Pillar). Saint John the Baptist is also considered as a patron saint of the city. The city fiesta is celebrated annually every October 12. Part of the celebration is the traditional dance-procession called karakol. | Building |
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, or VMFA, is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, while private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all acquisition of artwork, as well as additional general support. Admission itself is free (except for special exhibits). It is one of the first museums in the American South to be operated by state funds. It is also one of the largest art museums in North America. VMFA ranks as one of the top ten comprehensive art museums in the United States. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, together with the adjacent Virginia Historical Society, anchors the eponymous \"Museum District\" of Richmond (alternatively known as \"West of the Boulevard\"). | Building |
Andy Belmont (born November 20, 1957 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania) is a retired stock car driver and team owner. Belmont began racing at an early age before moving south. In 1987, he was named the NASCAR Dash Series Rookie of the Year, then he won the championship the next year as a car owner. Belmont posted three wins in the DASH Series (currently known as ISCARS DASH Touring since 2005) at Hickory Motor Speedway on October 18, 1987, Myrtle Beach Speedway on May 20, 1988, and Southside Speedway on July 8, 1988. | Racing Driver |
The Märe is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Fribourg and Bern. The Märe lies approximately halfway between Schwarzsee and Oberwil im Simmental. | Natural Place |
The Battle of Ban Me Thuot was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which led to the complete destruction of South Vietnam's II Corps Tactical Zone. The battle was part of a larger North Vietnamese military operation known as Campaign 275 to capture the Tay Nguyen region, known in the West as the Vietnamese Central Highlands. In March 1975 the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) 4th Corps staged a large-scale offensive, known as Campaign 275, with the aim of capturing the Central Highlands from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in order to kick-start the first stage of the 1975 Spring Offensive. Within ten days, the North Vietnamese destroyed most South Vietnamese military formations in II Corps Tactical Zone, exposing the severe weaknesses of the South Vietnamese Army. For South Vietnam, the defeat at Ban Me Thuot and the disastrous evacuation from the Central Highlands came about as a result of two major mistakes. Firstly, in the days leading up to the assault on Ban Me Thuot, ARVN Major General Pham Van Phu repeatedly ignored intelligence which showed the presence of several North Vietnamese combat divisions around the district. Secondly, President Nguyen Van Thieu's strategy to withdraw from the Central Highlands was poorly planned and implemented. In the end, it was the ordinary South Vietnamese soldiers and their families who paid the ultimate price, as North Vietnamese artillery decimated the South Vietnamese military convoy on Route 7. | Societal Event |
The 1932–33 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1932-33 NCAA Division I college basketball season. Fred Mesmer coached it in his second season as head coach. For the first time in its history, Georgetown was a member of an athletic conference for basketball competition, joining Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, Temple, and West Virginia as founding members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference (EIC), which began play this season; Georgetown would remain a member of the EIC until it disbanded after the end of the 1938-39 season. The team played its home games at Tech Gymnasium on the campus of McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C. – except for one home game it played at Central High School Gymnasium on the campus of Washington, D.C.'s Central High School – and finished with a record of 6-11 overall, 3-5 in the EIC. | Sports Team Season |