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Machan or Machanus was a twelfth-century Scottish saint. He was educated in Ireland and was ordained as a bishop in Rome. He is known for his missionary work around Clachan of Campsie (or Campsie Glen), near Glasgow. Machan built a small chapel at the bottom of the glen. After his death, in 1175 a church was built over his grave. Most information about St Machan is lost. | Cleric |
Lake Zimbambo is a lake in the Malemba-Nkulu territory of Haut-Lomami District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the lakes in the Upemba Depression, an extensive marshy area. The Lualaba River enters the depression about 40 kilometres (25 mi) after leaving Lake Delcommune.The depression is a trough-like graben about 400 kilometres (250 mi) long and 100 kilometres (62 mi) wide, running from the southwest to the northeast. The trough is about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above sea level at its southwest end, sloping steeply down to an elevation of 610 metres (2,000 ft), where it flattens out and is filled by lakes and marshes for a distance of 225 kilometres (140 mi) in a belt that is 37 kilometres (23 mi) wide on average.The river generally flows through the marshes between the lakes, to which it is connected by narrow channels. | Body Of Water |
Khosrov bey Pasha bey oglu Sultanov (Azerbaijani: Xosrov bəy Sultanov Paşa bəy oğlu; 1879 – 1947), also spelled as Khosrow Sultanov, was an Azerbaijani statesman, General Governor of Karabakh and Minister of Defense of Azerbaijani Democratic Republic. | Person |
Siaosi Tupou II, King of Tonga (George Tupou II in English; 18 June 1874 – 5 April 1918) was the King of Tonga from 18 February 1893 until his death. He was officially crowned at Nukuʻalofa, on 17 March 1893. He was also the 20th Tuʻi Kanokupolu. In Tonga itself he was better known under the Tongan version of his name Jiaoji Tubou (Siaosi Tupou in modern spelling) or even Tāufaʻāhau Tupou II. | Person |
Kanher Dam, is an earthfill and gravity dam on Wenna river near Satara in state of Maharashtra in India. | Infrastructure |
Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology (VJCET), Vazhakulam in Muvattupuzha, Kerala, India, is a self-financed engineering college run by the Syro-Malabar Catholic diocese of Kothamangalam. It is affiliated with Mahatma Gandhi University, This institution has grown manifold and has earned reputation as a trend setter in Engineering and Management Education. the college is situated in sprawling campus of 26 acres.Viswajyothi started its function with 135 students and 35 staffs offering three Engineering Degree courses-B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech in Electronics and Communication and B.Tech in Information Technology. In the year of 2005 B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering is also added to the Visajyothi with a change of intakes(60 students/Branch) in all branches. In 2006 B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering is introduced in Viswajyothi with same number of intake. With AICTE approval, Department of Computer Science and Electronics and Communication Engineering started one more batch with an intake of 120 students respectively. Viswajyothi is now in the path for offering Post graduate courses in various Engineering fields and in master in Business Administration. In the year of 2010 the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering is Accredited by National Board of Accreditation.It now offers courses in six undergraduate engineering streams (Civil, Computer Science, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Information Technology, Mechanical) as well as four post graduate courses (MBA, M.Tech. in CSE, ECE, and ME). In the year of 2011, B. Tech in Civil Engineering was sanctioned, PG course in Mechanical engineering (IEM) started and received Minority status for the college. In the year 2014, additional branches in Mechanical engineering and Civil engineering was sanctioned with a strength of 60 each. | Educational Institution |
The 2011 Van earthquake occurred in eastern Turkey near the city of Van on 23 October at 13:41 local time. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). It occurred at a shallow depth, causing heavy shaking across much of eastern Turkey and lighter tremors across neighboring parts of the South Caucasus and Levant. According to Disasters and Emergency Situations Directorate of Turkey AFAD on 30 October, the earthquake killed 604 and injured 4,152. At least 11,232 buildings sustained damage in the region, 6,017 of which were found to be uninhabitable. The uninhabitable homes left as much as 8,321 households with an average household population of around 7.6 homeless in the province; this could mean that at least around 60,000 people were left homeless. The other 5,215 have been damaged but are habitable. | Natural Event |
Synthpop (also known as technopop) is a genre of pop music that first became prominent in the late 1970s which features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the \"Krautrock\" of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. Early synthpop pioneers included Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra, and British bands Ultravox and The Human League; the latter largely used monophonic synthesizers to produce music with a simple and austere sound. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s, including late 1970s debutants like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Japan, and newcomers such as Depeche Mode and Soft Cell. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra's success opened the way for synthpop bands such as P-Model, Plastics, and Hikashu. The development of inexpensive polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI and the use of dance beats, led to a more commercial and accessible sound for synthpop. This, its adoption by the style-conscious acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV, led to success for large numbers of British synthpop acts, including Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, in the United States. In the late 1980s, duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a sound that was highly successful on the US dance charts, but by the end of the decade synthpop had largely been abandoned. Interest began to be revived in the indietronica and electroclash movements in the late 1990s and, in the first decade of the 21st century, it enjoyed a widespread revival with commercial success for acts including Rihanna, Lady Gaga, La Roux, Owl City, M83 and Chvrches. The genre has received criticism for alleged lack of emotion and musicianship; prominent artists have spoken out against detractors who believed that synthesizers themselves composed and played the songs. Some artists and bands like Depeche Mode, who helped popularise the genre, were criticised for gender bending. Synthpop helped to establish the place of the synthesizer as a major element of pop and rock music, directly influenced subsequent genres including house music and Detroit techno, and has indirectly influenced many other genres and individual recordings. | Genre |
FMH College of Medicine and Dentistry (abbreviated as FMHCMD), established in 2001, is a private college of medicine and dentistry located in Shadman, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The college is part of the Fatima Memorial System, registered with PMDC, WHO, Avicenna Directories and IMED, affiliated with UHS, and approved by Ministry of Health. The neighboring Fatima Memorial Hospital is attached to the college as a teaching and training hospital. Nine batches of MBBS and eight batches of BDS have already been passed out and are successfully employed in various hospitals. | Educational Institution |
Amalgam Digital is an independent record label based in East Boston, Massachusetts. The label was founded in 2006 and is privately owned. The label's online store is the first genre-specific digital download store specializing in hip hop music. It focuses on independent labels and artists through the implementation of a new user-generated content module that allowed artists to upload content directly to the site for immediate purchase. Amalgam Digital also houses an exclusive independent record label by the same name, specializing in hip hop music and distribution. In an April 2008 issue, The Source proclaimed that Amalgam Digital has \"its finger on the pulse of Hip-Hop's future.\" | Company |
The Irish House of Lords was the upper house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from medieval times until 1800. It was modelled on the House of Lords of England, with members of the Peerage of Ireland sitting in the Irish Lords, just as members of the Peerage of England did at Westminster. When the Act of Union 1800 abolished the Irish parliament, a subset of Irish peers sat in the House of Lords of the merged Parliament of the United Kingdom. | Organisation |
Vincent River is a one act stage play by Philip Ridley. It was Ridley's fourth stage play for adults and premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London on 6 September 2000. The production was the last major collaboration between Ridley and director Mathew Lloyd, who had previously directed the majority of Ridley's other theatrical works. It is believed that the play draws heavily from Ridley's unpublished radio play October Scars the Skin which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 16 January 1989. The story like Vincent River involved a mother of a murdered homosexual who befriends his son's lover and also featured a character called Vincent. | Written Work |
Dhankundi Shahnaj Siraj High School is a secondary school (EIIN - 119723) at Dhankundi, Bogra, Bangladesh, established in 1992. The school is recognized by the Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The average graduating class has 400 to 600 students. It is a Combined School. The school has a campus with a playground for soccer, basketball, cricket, volleyball, and badminton. The basketball court serves as a multipurpose auditorium. | Educational Institution |
Kosrae International Airport (IATA: KSA, ICAO: PTSA, FAA LID: TTK) is an airport serving Kosrae, the easternmost state of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is located on an artificial island within the fringing reef about 150 meters from the coast and is connected to the main island by a causeway. The airport has been continuously served by the United Airlines (formerly Continental Micronesia) \"Island Hopper\" service between Guam and Honolulu, which stops twice weekly at Kosrae in each direction. Kosrae is three jogs from both Guam and Honolulu. Starting in June 2015, Nauru Airlines stops at Kosrae once a week in each direction between Nauru and Chuuk. | Infrastructure |
The Battle of Philiphaugh was fought on 13 September 1645 during the Civil War near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. The Royalist army of the Marquis of Montrose was destroyed by the Covenanter army of Sir David Leslie, restoring the power of the Committee of Estates. | Societal Event |
(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Peng.) Peng Shuai (born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese professional female tennis player. She reached a career high ranking of World No. 1 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association on 17 February 2014, making her the first Chinese professional tennis player (male or female, and in singles or doubles) to reach World No. 1. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the final. At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Peng won her first ladies' double championship with Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan and again won at the 2014 French Open with Hsieh. Peng is known for her stamina and plays with two hands on both sides and hits very flat. She has defeated many top 10 and top 5 players, including Anastasia Myskina, Elena Dementieva, Dinara Safina, Kim Clijsters, Martina Hingis, Amélie Mauresmo, Francesca Schiavone, Jelena Janković, Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic, Agnieszka Radwańska, Li Na, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova and Vera Zvonareva. | Athlete |
Saint Archer Brewing Co. is a craft brewery in San Diego. It is a subsidiary of brewing conglomerate MillerCoors, the second-largest beer company in the United States. The company was founded by Josh Landan in March of 2013 and taken over by MillerCoors in 2015. The takeover was the first craft brewery acquired by MillerCoors. In 2014, Saint Archer Brewing won a gold Great American Beer Festival medal and four San Diego International Beer Festival medals, where they took two gold medals, a silver, and a bronze. | Company |
Partido Nacional de La Raza Unida (National United Peoples Party or United Race Party) is a Chicano political party centered on Chicano nationalism. It was born in the early 1970s and became prominent throughout Texas and Southern California. It was started to combat growing inequality and dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party that was typically supported by Mexican-American voters. La Raza, as it was usually known, experienced the majority of its success at the local level in Southwest Texas, most notably when the party swept city council, school board, and mayoralty elections in Crystal City, Cotulla, and Carrizo Springs. Much of the success was attributed to the aggressive grassroots organizing that was concentrated in cities that had the lowest incomes as well as the least amounts of formal education. | Organisation |
Julia Babilon (born 14 July 1984 in Düsseldorf) is a professional German tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is world no. 357, which she reached on 20 June 2005. Her career high in doubles is 510, which she reached on 8 August 2005. She has won five singles ITF titles. | Athlete |
Jaume Santamaria i Puig (26 July 1957 – 16 February 2011), known as Santi Santamaria (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈsanti ˌsantəməˈɾi.ə]), was a prominent avant-garde Spanish Catalan chef. He was the first Catalan chef and owner to have his restaurant receive three stars from the Michelin Guide (Can Fabes in 1994). His second restaurant (Sant Celoni) was awarded two Michelin stars. His style was a modern interpretation of traditional Catalan cuisine and slow food, focusing on fresh Mediterranean ingredients. Santamaria made controversial accusations against the \"molecular gastronomy\" of other Spanish chefs, singling out Ferran Adrià. Santamaria died on 16 February 2011 in his restaurant in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore of a heart attack. | Person |
De Vrienden van Jacob is a restaurant in Santpoort, Netherlands. It is a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star for the period 2006–present. GaultMillau awarded the restaurant 16 out of 20 points. Head chef of De Vrienden van Jacob is Alain Alders. De restaurant is part of the country estate and hotel Duin en Kruidberg. In 2008, the restaurant was closed for five months due to extensive renovations to the restaurant and the hotel. The estate is over a 100 years old. Originally it was a conference centre and holiday resort for staff of ABN AMRO. In 2002 the hotel was opened up for the general public and restaurant De Vrienden van Jacob established. | Building |
KTOC is a radio station broadcasting a religious format. Licensed to Jonesboro, Louisiana, USA, the station serves Ruston, Louisiana. | Broadcaster |
The red-faced guan (Penelope dabbenei) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in the border region of northern Argentina and in the southern border region of Bolivia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. | Animal |
Hib-Tone is an American recording label, based in Atlanta, Georgia, founded by Jonny Hibbert, a law student at Woodrow Wilson College of Law, in 1981. The label has released eight records, including two full-length albums by the bands Design and RF and the Radar Angels. The most recent release is by singer-songwriter Noёl Hamilton. The label is notable because it released R.E.M.'s debut single \"Radio Free Europe\" and its B-side \"Sitting Still\". \"Radio Free Europe\" was re-recorded and released on the band's first full-length album, Murmur. \"Sitting Still\" was remixed by Mitch Easter and also included on Murmur. The mix produced by Hibbert and engineered by Easter of the \"Hib-Tone\" version of \"Radio Free Europe\" was subsequently released on R.E.M.'s 1988 compilation album Eponymous. The original Hibbert mixes of both songs were collected on 2006's And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S Years 1982–1987. | Company |
Merle Hay Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall in Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States. Opened in 1959, it is the oldest regional shopping center in Iowa, and was the largest mall in Iowa in terms of gross leasable area before the 2004 opening of Jordan Creek Town Center in neighboring West Des Moines. It was also the site of the deadliest fire in Des Moines' history, which killed ten people in 1978. Sears, Younkers, Kohl's, and Target are the mall's anchor stores, while Applebee's, IHOP, and Starbucks operate on the outparcels of the mall. Other prominent stores in the mall include Ulta, Old Navy, and Staples. Most of the mall is in the northwest part of Des Moines, but the wing that contains Younkers, Kohl's, and the food court is inside the city limits of neighboring Urbandale. Merle Hay Mall is independently owned by the Merle Hay Mall Limited Partnership, and the family of one of its original developers continues to manage the mall. A Chicago-based company, Urban Retail Properties, handles the mall's leasing duties. | Building |
David Hine is an English comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Silent War and The Bulletproof Coffin. | Artist |
Paweł Waloszek (born 28 April 1938 in Świętochłowice, Poland) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider who was second in 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship. | Motorcycle Rider |
Eli Davies was a Welsh professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, playing at representative level for Other Nationalities, and at club level for Wigan, as a Stand-off/Five-eighth, i.e. number 6. | Athlete |
This article will display the squads for the 2011 African Youth Championship. Only players born on or after 1 January 1985 were eligible to play. | Tournament |
The Al-Hidaya Mosque massacre occurred on April 20, 2008, when Ethiopian soldiers reportedly killed 21 people in Mogadishu, Somalia. According to several witnesses, Ethiopian soldiers stormed a mosque and killed several occupants. 11 bodies were later found, some with their throat slit and others shot to death. Of the 11 dead victims, nine were regular congregants at the mosque and reportedly were part of the Tabliiq wing of Sunni Islam. Tabliiq official Shiekh Abdi-kheyr Isse said the Ethiopians had \"slaughtered\" the clerics. \"The first person they [Ethiopian soldiers] killed was Sheikh Said Yahya, the Imam,\" a witness said, adding that the late Imam opened the mosque door after the soldiers knocked. | Societal Event |
William Eldridge (Bucky) Brooks Jr. (born January 22, 1971) is a sportswriter covering the National Football League for Sports Illustrated and a former professional football player. He played for 5 NFL teams in a 5-year career, primarily as a kick returner. Brooks is in his sixth season as an analyst for NFL Network and NFL.com. He contributes weekly columns, as well as video features including ‘Scout’s Take’ and ‘On the Beat’ on NFL.com, and offers interactive analysis on the latest NFL topics and headlines with weekly live online chats. For the 2010 season, Brooks returned as an analyst for Thursday Night Football, NFL.com’s in-game coverage of the Network’s eight live, regular season game broadcasts. NFL.com/LIVE: Thursday Night Football presents a live show throughout the game including “live look ins” of the game, reports from the field and highlights. He is also a frequent guest on NFL.com's Dave Dameshek Football Program podcast, appearing approximately once per week. On the DDFP, he specializes in discussing the NFL Draft and to discuss various listicles created for NFL.com. | Gridiron Football Player |
Ahmet Hulki Saral (1905–1982) was a Turkish Army general and a military historian. He was born 1905 in Sofoular village (present day Kapnochori) of Kozana (present day Kozani, Greece). Before the Balkan Wars, Kozana was a town in the Serfiçe Sanjak of the Monastir Vilayet within the Ottoman Empire. His father was Hodja Ismail Hakki Efendi, a military imam at the 97th Regiment of the Ottoman Army. Ahmet Hulki Saral graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1924 as an infantry officer. In 1933, he completed his education as a staff Second Lieutenant and served in various military units as a staff officer. Between 1948-1950, he was chief of staff at the Dardanelles Fortified Area Command. Then, he commanded the 42nd Infantry Regiment and later, promoted to the rank of a general, the 4th Infantry Division in Gallipoli. In 1957, he was tasked with the reorganization of the Military Museum in Istanbul and the renowned historical Ottoman military band \"Mehter\". During the years 1958-1960, he served as the chief of the Turkish Military History Department at the Turkish General Staff. He retired in 1960. He married to Hacer Cenan Saral from Fethiye. The couple had two sons, İsmail Tosun Saral (1941) and Osman Yavuz Saral (1947–1982). Ahmet Hulki Saral died 1982 in Ankara. | Person |
The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication is a college of Washington State University (WSU) named in honor of one of WSU's most famous alumni, Edward R. Murrow. The college was launched July 1, 2008. Previously it was the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication housed in the College of Liberal Arts. The Murrow College offers undergraduate sequences in Communication & Society, Journalism & Media Production, and Strategic Communication. The College offers emphases in Communication, Technology, & Social Influence and Media & Health Promotion at the graduate level. The Murrow College currently has 35 faculty, 584 undergraduate students and 30 graduate students. | Educational Institution |
Thomas Frederick \"Fred\" Samuel (8 January 1897 — circa-1941 (aged 43–44)) born in Llanelli, was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Mountain Ash RFC, as a Fullback, i.e. number 15, and playing club level rugby league (RL) for Hull. | Athlete |
...I Believe in Humility is the first release by American metalcore band Gwen Stacy in 2005. This freshman release from Gwen Stacy on cleanXcut records, a five piece hardcore band from Indianapolis, Indiana is intense. Amazing talent is displayed throughout the entire album. Riveting breakdowns and a persistent attack of hardcore beats make this band one to be emulated. With one East Coast tour under their belt, Gwen Stacy has shared the stage with such bands as, Embrace Today, Seventh Star, In the Face of War, Calico System, Fight Paris and many others. They are the next generation of quality hardcore music. Quoted from Interpunk.com This album was re-released in its entirety as bonus tracks on the digital re-release of 'The Life I Know\" | Musical Work |
Vani Vilasa Sagara, popularly known as Mari Kanive (Kannada: ಮಾರಿ ಕಣಿವೆ) is a dam near Hiriyur Taluk, Chitradurga District, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the oldest dam in the state. The dam was built by the Mysore Maharajas pre-independence across the river Vedavathi. The dam is an exquisite piece of architecture, an engineering marvel for that time, and provides water to lots of surrounding cities, towns and villages, which are largely dry lands of the Deccan area of Central Karnataka. | Infrastructure |
Picea koyamae (Koyama's spruce; Japanese: ヤツガタケトウヒ or やつがたくとうひ yatsugatake-tohhi) is a rare spruce, endemic to the Akaishi Mountains and Yatsugatake Mountains in central Honshu, Japan. It is an evergreen tree growing to 25 m (82 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to a metre. It grows in small isolated stands in a limited area and the total area of occupation is less than 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi). Trees that are lost to typhoons are normally replaced with other faster-growing species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated the tree as \"critically endangered\". Some trees are in cultivation as an ornamental tree. | Plant |
Jean du Thiers, seigneur de Beauvoir (died 1559) was Minister of Finance for Henry II of France, and a Secretary of State. He was a great humanist and protector of the poet Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard. He bought the Château de Beauregard, Loire Valley, in 1545, for 2,000 gold ecus.Jean du Thiers was the real builder of the castle. He incorporated the old house in the new building and built in Renaissance style, the central gallery which connected the two buildings. From 1553, he appealed to many foreign artists who were working for King Henry II. The painter Nicolò dell'Abbate decorated it with frescoes. Francesco Scibec da Carpi carved woodwork of the study, \"the Cabinet of Jingle Bells\" at the foot of the windows of the south wing. He showed a collections of rare plants. | Person |
Fliura Abbate-Bulatova is a former Soviet and then Italian table tennis player. Her main achievement has been the gold medal in the single competition at the Table Tennis European Championships in 1988. She won several other medals in international competitions. She is also a multiple USSR National champion - twice in singles, three times in doubles and once in mixed doubles. | Athlete |
The Mindoro bulbul (Hypsipetes mindorensis) is a songbird species in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae). It is endemic to Mindoro in the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It was previously considered a subspecies of the Philippine bulbul. | Animal |
Edward Lewis Farnsworth (January 8, 1863 – January 7, 1940) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives. | Person |
Hellfyre Club was an American independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded and owned by rapper Nocando. As of 2016 the label has ceased operations. According to Pitchfork Media, it is \"an assemblage of West Coast art rap luminaries connected to Project Blowed, a long-running hip hop workshop that served as a proving ground for 90s and aughts L.A. aesthetes from Freestyle Fellowship and Abstract Rude to Pigeon John.\" | Company |
Khorram Brickworks (Persian: كوره اجرپزي خرم – Kūreh Ajorpazī Khorram) is a company town and village in Narjeh Rural District, in the Central District of Takestan County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 62, in 16 families. | Settlement |
Corrado Fabi (born 12 April 1961 in Milan) is a former racing driver from Italy. He participated in 18 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 13 March 1983, scoring no championship points. He was the 1982 European Formula Two Champion driving a March-BMW. He is the younger brother of Teo Fabi, also a racing driver. In 1984 they shared a Brabham Formula One drive, with Corrado deputising for Teo when Teo's commitments to CART racing in the USA took precedence. After his opportunities in Formula One dried up, Corrado Fabi raced briefly in Champcars before effectively retiring to look after the family business interests. | Racing Driver |
Ann Pfau is an American jurist and former Chief Administrative Judge of the State of New York. | Person |
Beaver Valley Mall opened in 1970 as a regional shopping mall, located in Center Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Its anchors are Boscov's, Dick's Sporting Goods, J. C. Penney, Macy's and offers over 60 stores and a food court. As of October 2016, the 2nd floor in Macy's has been closed off as the mall declines. | Building |
Liz Irving (born 7 February 1965 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a squash coach and former professional squash player from Australia. Irving was runner-up to her fellow Australian player Michelle Martin at the World Open in 1993. She was also a three-time finalist at the British Open, losing the final to New Zealand's Susan Devoy in 1988, and to Martin in 1994 and 1995. Irving won the mixed doubles titles at the inaugural World Doubles Squash Championships in 1997 (partner Dan Jenson). She reached a career-high ranking of World No. 2 in 1988. Her greatest successes came in four consecutive World Team Championships when she was part of the winning Australian team during the 1992 Women's World Team Squash Championships held in Vancouver, Canada, the 1994 Women's World Team Squash Championships held in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, the 1996 Women's World Team Squash Championships held in Malaysia and the 1998 Women's World Team Squash Championships held in Germany. Since retiring as a player, Irving has settled in Amsterdam, where she has coached top international female players, including Nicol David and Vanessa Atkinson. | Athlete |
The Tyne Valley Line, built by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, is a railway line in northern England. The 60-mile (97 km) line was built in the 1830s, and links the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear with Carlisle in Cumbria. Formal opening took place on 18 June 1838. The line follows the course of the River Tyne through Northumberland. Five stations and two viaducts on the route are listed structures. The line is referred to by the train operators as \"The Hadrian's Wall Country Line.\" | Route Of Transportation |
Team Lipton (UCI Code: LIP) was a women's professional road bicycle racing team and triathlon team based in the United States and races in elite events on the UCI Women's Road World Cup and USA Cycling National Racing Calendar. The cycling team's title sponsor was Lipton. | Sports Team |
Brooke Mackenzie Henderson (born 10 September 1997) is a Canadian professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. Henderson was named the Canadian Press female athlete of the year for 2015. She won her first major at age 18 in 2016 at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, becoming the event's youngest winner and moving her to second in the world rankings. | Athlete |
The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) (Sinhalese: ශ්රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාව, Shrī Lankā Guvan Viduli Sansthāva, Tamil: இலங்கை ஒலிபரப்புக் கூட்டுத்தாபனம், Ilangkai Oliparappuk Kūṭṭuttāpaṉam) came into existence on January 5, 1967 when Radio Ceylon became a public corporation. Dudley Senanayake who was the Prime Minister of Ceylon in 1967 ceremonially opened the newly established Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation along with Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa and the Director General of the CBC, Neville Jayaweera.The first board of Directors of CBC consisted of Mr. Neville Jayaweera (CCS), Mr.A.L.M.Hashim, Mr.Dharmasiri Kuruppu, Mr. K.A.G. Perera and Mr. Devar Surya Sena. After the first board meeting it was decided unanimously to appoint the Chairman, Mr.Jayaweera, as the new Director General. | Broadcaster |
The Johnstown Blue Birds were a professional ice hockey team from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The Blue Birds played one season in the former Eastern Hockey League before folding after the 1941-42 season. | Sports Team |
Air Go Airlines was a cargo airline based in Athens, Greece. Its main base was Athens International Airport. The airline started operations in September 2008. Airgo ceased its operations at the end of October 2011. At first, Airgo Airlines had regular flights from Athens to Larnaca, reaching up to five flights per week. The lack of significant cargo to fly on the return leg of the flight though, forced the airline to eventually discontinue the route after about one year of operation. Later, its operations included domestic flights within Greece, carrying newspapers to Thessaloniki, Crete, Rhodes and occasionally to other smaller islands, ad-hoc flights, as well as long term contracts for major courier companies. | Company |
The Osijek tram system is operated by the City Transport of Osijek (GPP Osijek) and serves the city of Osijek, capital of the Slavonia region of Croatia. The Osijek network is the only Croatian tram system still in existence outside Zagreb. Services have operated continuously since the first horse-car tram line was opened in 1884 (connecting the railway station and city square), and the first electric tram ran in 1926. The present network consists of two lines which intersect in the city square (Trg Anta Starčevića) and the fleet consists of refurbished Tatra T3 PVO vehicles and some newly acquired second hand DUEWAG GT6. There is also an old Škoda tourist heritage tram, which can be rented for special occasions. The tram dates back to the start of electrical operation, back in 1926. All tracks are at 1000 mm (metre gauge) width. There are three terminal loops, and two loops used rarely only when shorter route service is provided. There is also an inner city loop for the part of line 2, which connects the main railway station with the city centre. Unlike line 1, which is double track in its whole length, line 2 is composed of a loop segment, a double track segment and the remainder being single track with passing loops. At the main vehicle depot (Remiza) there is a track triangle structure used regularly for turning tramway vehicles when starting and/or ending service. \n* No. 8 \n* No. 8 (Passenger compartment) \n* No. 0610 (T3R.PV) \n* No. 0926 (GT6) | Organisation |
Martin Vargic is a Slovak artist, writer and entrepreneur, best known for his book \"Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps\", and his maps notably \"Map of the Internet\", that went viral in late January 2014. | Artist |
Vadim Borisov (born 30 April 1955) is a former Russian tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union. | Athlete |
The Hook was a weekly newspaper published in Charlottesville, Virginia and distributed throughout Central Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. It was founded in 2002 by a number of former employees of another Charlottesville weekly, C-ville Weekly, including its co-founder and editor Hawes Spencer. In 2007 and again in 2009, The Hook won the Virginia Press Association Award for Journalistic Integrity and Community Service, the VPA's highest honor. The Hook features included the \"HotSeat\" (in which Charlottesville notables answered questions about everything from what is in their refrigerator to their most embarrassing moments), \"4BetterOrWorse\" (an often humorous summary of local and national news items), and the \"Culture Calendar\". The Hook's webcam showed the streetscape of Charlottesville's Downtown Mall, a pedestrian promenade that includes the local Ice Park and Jefferson and Paramount theaters. In addition to print, The Hook branched out into other media in 2006 with the launch of its blog and weekly podcast.In 2013 The Hook went out of business. | Periodical Literature |
The 2010–11 season is Trabzonspor's 36th consecutive season in the Süper Lig. Trabzonspor's primary objective will be to regain the Süper Lig for the first time since 1984. If they defend their Turkish Cup title, they will surpass Beşiktaş for second most cup titles of all-time, with nine. Having won the 2009–10 Turkish Cup, the club competed in the 2010 Turkish Super Cup against league champions Bursaspor. The club won three to nil thanks to a hat-trick by forward Teófilo Gutiérrez. Brazilian forward Jackson Coelho, nicknamed Jajá, committed to the defending Turkish Cup champions on the same day of the 2010 Turkish Super Cup. The club started their domestic league season against Ankaragücü on 15 August 2010. Trabzonspor won 2–0, with both goals coming from Teófilo Gutiérrez. They also competed in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League, beginning their campaign against three-time winners of the competition, Liverpool F.C. Trabzonspor were knocked out, losing 1–3 on aggregate. | Sports Team Season |
Golden Era Mixtape 2011 is a mixtape by all artists signed to Australian Hip hop label Golden Era Records. It was released as a free download on 17 January 2011 on the Golden Era Records website. In an interview about the mixtape on Triple J, Suffa of the Hilltop Hoods said that \"everyone's been downloading it so much that the website has crashed\". There is not going to be a commercial release of the album, although physical copies were distributed free with purchases of Golden Era releases and at gigs featuring Golden Era artists. | Musical Work |
Viktoriya Sasonkina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Сасонкіна; born January 1, 1988) is a Ukrainian fashion model. | Person |
Hell Cat is a wooden roller coaster designed and built by S&S Power located at Clementon Amusement Park. The coaster is 2,602 feet long and debuted late in the operating park season in 2004. Its first drop is 105 feet and can take its riders up to 56 MPH. The ride time is 1 minute and 30 seconds. Hell Cat was named Tsunami until 2005, when its name was changed to J2 due to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The new name honored the 1919 Jack Rabbit coaster which was standing but not operating since 2002 and demolished at the end of 2007. During and after the 2005 season, parts of the track were replaced by Great Coasters International to provide a smoother ride. During the 2006 season the park only operated with one train. The other remained with Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, Inc. for rehabilitation. During the 2006-2007 off-season, more track pieces were replaced. In 2008, its name was changed to Hell Cat when Adrenaline Family Entertainment took over ownership of the park over the previous offseason. The coaster has an intense upward helix in its short layout. The layout surrounds a catering picnic area of the park. Initially known as a \"tearjerker\" roller coaster at its opening as Tsunami, the coaster now has fin brakes at the crest of its first drop to cut the top speed by just a few mph, supposedly to help with rider comfort in the train and to help with the maintenance and longevity of the ride. On clear days, riders can be able to see the skyline of Philadelphia while the train is on the lift hill. \n* The lift hill | Amusement Park Attraction |
Long Island Head Light is an historic lighthouse on Long Island in Boston, Massachusetts. The current brick tower is the fourth lighthouse on the island. The light was first established in 1819, largely as a result of a study conducted by the Boston Marine Society, which had built the daybeacon on Nixes Mate 14 years earlier. It was a 20-foot (6.1 m) stone tower known as \"Inner Harbor Light\". It was the second of the four Boston lights—103 years after Boston Light, but ten years before the first daybeacon at the site of Deer Island Light, and before The Graves Light, built in 1905. The stone tower fell into disrepair and was replaced by one of the earliest cast iron lighthouse structures, thirty-four feet tall (pictured below). In 1857, a fourth order Fresnel lens replaced the lamps and reflectors which had been in place. During the next twenty years it sustained damage in a number of storms. In 1881, it was replaced again, by a conical cast iron structure and a new wood keeper's house. Fort Strong was significantly enlarged around the start of the 20th century and it was necessary to move the lighthouse to a location out of the way of the concussion from the guns, so the current brick tower was constructed in 1900-01. Remnants of the fort can be seen to the southeast of the light in the satellite views available by clicking on the coordinates. The Coast Guard discontinued the light in 1982, but reconsidered the decision in 1985, and installed a modern, solar powered system. It received a major refurbishing in the summer of 1998. Long Island Head Light was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Long Island Head Light on June 15, 1987. | Tower |
Concordia High School, originally named Concordia College, and subsequently Concordia College High School until 1997, was created with the purpose of preparing young men to attend the Lutheran Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Once ordained, they would return to the Canadian Prairies to open up new Lutheran churches. Concordia was established in 1921 with a first class of eighth grade boys. In the 1940s the school became co-ed and became an academic prep school. After World War II the high school continued as a grade nine to twelve program. In 1987 Concordia University College of Alberta was granted degree-granting status. The history and growth of the university is largely owed to the small academic high school that gradually added junior college courses to the high school program until it grew into a full-fledged university college on the same campus, gradually crowding out the original high school program. Many students as a matter of course received their high school diploma and took university courses at Concordia until either graduation or in order to transfer to the University of Alberta. Some of the university faculty as well were previous students or teachers at the high school. In 2000 the high school program was fully detached from the university program. Concordia High School was incorporated as a separate entity with its own board of governors separate from the governance of the university. In 1997 the high school moved to the north edge of campus at 112 Avenue and 73 Street in Edmonton, where it remained for 14 years. In July 2011 Concordia High School moved to 830 Saddleback Road (the former Taylor College and Seminary campus) in the south end of Edmonton. Concordia High School permanently closed on August 20, 2012. The school's board of governors issued a statement that they had been informed in an unanticipated development that the facility lease would not be renewed, and that they had been unable to find an alternative facility for dormitory and classroom space; however, the landlord company stated that the school had defaulted on its lease in January 2012, and the lease was later terminated when the school informed the landlord that they were insolvent and would not open for the 2012–13 school year. | Educational Institution |
M-27 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the extreme north of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. The trunkline runs between Interstate 75 (I-75) just north of Indian River and Cheboygan, where it meets US Highway 23 (US 23) near Lake Huron. It remains as a relic of the old US 27 which disappeared north of Grayling after being supplanted by I-75, which lies close to old US 27 between Grayling and Indian River. | Route Of Transportation |
British Gulf International Co. LTD was a cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and operating from Sharjah and Dubai. Its main base is Sharjah International Airport, with a hub at Dubai International Airport. | Company |
Oxygen Recordings (shortened as Oxygen, stylized as OXYGEN) is an electronic dance music record label, founded in 2004. It is one of the 40 sub-labels of Spinnin' Records. Unlike most record labels, Oxygen does not have a \"label boss\", or single producer in charge of the label. They have released music by notable underground electronic artists that include 2 Faced Funks, Alpharock, Alvita, Bisbetic, BL3R, D-Mad, Erik Arbores, Evol Waves, Felguk, Felix Leiter, JETFIRE, Joey Dale, Kill FM, KURA, Leon Bolier, Marcus Schossow, MEM, Mike Hawkins, Oliver Heldens, Radion6, Ralvero, Sander van Doorn, Sied van Riel, Spencer Tarring, Thomas Newson, Univz, Vida and Ziggy. | Company |
Sport7 is a Bulgarian sports television channel, owned by Alegro Capital LTD along with its sister channels TV7, News7 and Super7. The channel was first launched in 2008 as a jointventure of TV7 and the cable TV broadcaster Cabletel. It aired sports events like La Liga, Serie A, Formula One, GP2 Series and others. It was closed down on 31 May 2009. | Broadcaster |
Sayala is a Village in the Jalore district of Rajasthan state of North western India. It is the headquarters of Sayala Tehsil. Sayla also have SDM ( Sub District Magistrate ) Headquarter. It is connected with SH-16 Chetak Road/ Border Road Organisation. Its border touches the Barmer District. The legislative of Sayla is Jalore. | Settlement |
David Mensch (born 14 August 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Australian Football League. Mensch was a half forward and played in two losing grand final teams. He was the joint leading goal kicker for Geelong in 2000 with 39 goals After finishing his AFL career Mensch played with Mansfield in the Goulburn Valley Football League where he was a star player in their premiership side. He returned to coach Grovedale in the Geelong Football League and is now currently playing for Anglesea in the Bellarine Football League. | Athlete |
ARD (full name: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Consortium of public broadcasters in Germany, details below at name) is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services – in particular the introduction of a joint television network. The ARD is the world's largest public broadcaster, with a budget of €6.5 billion and 20,616.5 employees. The budget comes primarily from the licence fees every household, every company and even every public institution like city governments are required to pay. For an ordinary household the fee is currently €17.50 per month. Households living on welfare don't have to pay the fee. The fees are not collected directly by the ARD, but by the Beitragsservice (formerly known as Gebühreneinzugszentrale GEZ), a common organization of the ARD member broadcasters, the second public TV broadcaster ZDF, and Deutschlandradio. ARD maintains and operates a national television network, called Das Erste (\"The First\") to differentiate it from ZDF, a.k.a. \"das Zweite\" (\"The Second\"), which started 1963, as a separate public TV-broadcaster. The ARD network began broadcasting on 31 October 1954 under the name of Deutsches Fernsehen (\"German Television\"), becoming Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen (\"First German Television\") with a corporate redesign in 1984; it adopted its current name (Das Erste) in 1994. ARD's programs are aired over its own terrestrial broadcast network, as well as via cable, satellite and IPTV. ARD also produces three free-to-air digital channels (EinsFestival, EinsPlus and Tagesschau24) and participates in the production of cable/satellite channels Phoenix (current events, news and documentaries), KI.KA (children's programmes), 3sat (cultural/traditional programming) and arte (Franco-German cultural programming). ARD's programming is practiced within Germany's local communities, where its regional members (see also ) (Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Radio Bremen, Rundfunk Berlin–Brandenburg (RBB), Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)) operate 54 regional and local radio stations and seven regional TV networks, some of which split further during certain parts of the day. International broadcaster Deutsche Welle is also a member of ARD. | Broadcaster |
The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 51st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1982 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Cork defeated Dublin with a last-second Mary O'Leary goal. | Sports Event |
Lukáš Plšek (born 15 September 1983) is a Czech ice hockey goaltender currently playing for HC Vsetín in Czech Republic. Plšek began his career with HC Vsetín playing in the under-18 and under-20 league before moving to the full squad. He spent six seasons with Vsetín, where he was mostly a backup goalie, only playing 21 games in total. He also played for various second tier teams in aid of development. In 2005 he moved to Zlín but only played four games for them as once again he was sent to the second liga for development. In 2006, Plšek moved to Denmark to join IK Aarhus and in 2007 he joined AaB Ishockey where he serveed as backup to Peter Hirsch. He returned to Vsetín in 2008. | Winter Sport Player |
Devon County Council is the county council administering the English county of Devon. Based in the city of Exeter, the council covers the non-metropolitan county area of Devon. Members of the council (councillors) are elected every four years to represent the electorate of each county division, almost all being nominated by the major national political parties. The population of the area administered by the council is estimated at 765,302, making it the largest local authority in South West England. Devon is an area with \"two-tier\" local government, meaning that the county is divided into non-metropolitan districts carrying out less strategic functions, such as taking most planning decisions. In Devon there are eight such districts, each with its own district, borough, or city council. | Organisation |
The Buda Health Center is a private health clinic in Budapest. Established in 2000, it offers outpatient health care in two locations in the XIIth District, on Nagy Jenő Street and Királyhágó Street, and in one location in the IIIrd District, at the Graphisoft Park. More than 100 physicians in 45 specialties see their private patients in the facility and more than 230 national and multinational companies have contracted with them for their employees’ health care. The National Center for Spinal Disorders is its affiliate hospital. The hospital also offers publicly financed outpatient care in the areas of musculoskeletal disorders (spine care, orthopedics, traumatology) and anesthesiology as well as inpatient spine care and spine surgery for national and international private patients and patients covered by Hungarian Health Insurance. In 2006, the Buda Health Center earned 1.7 billion Hungarian Forints mainly from international patients while in 2011, the earnings reached 3 billion. By the middle of 2013, the Buda Health Center had contract agreements with more than 230 national and multinational companies. | Building |
The Stan Rogers Folk Festival, informally known as Stanfest, is an annual three-day music festival held in Canso, Nova Scotia. Established in 1997 in honour of the late Canadian folk singer and songwriter Stan Rogers, the festival bills itself as \"an international festival of songwriters\", showcasing Canadian and worldwide grassroots musicians in all genres. The festival has won a number of East Coast Music Awards and attracts over 10,000 music fans each year. The Stan Rogers Folk Festival takes place on the first weekend of July. This has been a tradition ever since the first festival in 1997. The festival was cancelled in 2014, less than a week before it was scheduled to begin, due to the expected arrival of Hurricane Arthur. | Societal Event |
Leonardo Jorge Costa (born May 12, 1977 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais) is a former freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Brazil, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. His biggest success was winning the gold medal in the 200-metre backstroke at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada. He was at the 1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), where he finished 21st in the 200-metre backstroke, and 24th in the 100-metre backstroke. Leonardo went to the 1999 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Hong Kong, where he reached the 200-metre backstroke final, finishing in 6th. At the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, he earned the gold medal in the 200-metre backstroke, silver in the 4×200-metre freestyle, and bronze in the 200-metre freestyle. The time of the 200-metre backstroke was 1:59.33, South American record, Pan American record, and index for him to participate in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The silver in the 4×200-metre freestyle was obtained with a time of 7:22.92, South American record, along with Gustavo Borges, Rodrigo Castro and André Cordeiro. He also finished 9th in the 100-metre backstroke. A historic feat achieved by Leonardo, in Winnipeg, was defeat Aaron Peirsol in the 200-metre backstroke final, that after this competition, won several Olympic medals and broke world records in the 100-metre backstroke, 200-metre backstroke and 4×100-metre medley. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Leonardo ranked 13th in the 4×200-metre freestyle, and 14th in the 200-metre backstroke. In 2000, Costa broke the short-course South American record in the 200-metre backstroke, with a time of 1:54.79, during the NCAA Swimming Championships in Minneapolis, MN, competing for USC (University of Southern California) and finishing in 2nd place. This record was only beaten in 2005. Today, Leonardo Costa runs a community program called \"+ Natação\", in the city of João Pessoa, state of Paraíba (northeast of Brazil) teaching people from the community how to swim in the calm sea. P | Athlete |
Takeo Miki (三木 武夫 Miki Takeo, 17 March 1907 – 14 November 1988) was a Japanese politician who served as the 41st Prime Minister of Japan from 1974 until 1976. | Politician |
Saint Kessog was an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire. Son of the king of Cashel in Ireland, Kessog is said to have worked miracles, even as a child. He left Ireland and became a missionary bishop in Scotland. Using Monks' Island in Loch Lomond as his headquarters, he evangelized the surrounding area until he was martyred, supposedly at Bandry, where a heap of stones was known as St Kessog's Cairn. Kessog was killed in 520 AD. The St McKessog's church in Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond is named after Kessog and the church contains an effigy of the saint. Kessog is claimed to have brought Christianity to the area around Luss in 510 AD and 1500 years of continuous Christian presence in the area was celebrated in 2010. Elsewhere in Scotland, the medieval parish churches of Auchterarder and Comrie, both in Perthshire, were dedicated to Kessog, and may have been founded by him or one of his followers. The Kessock area of Inverness is named after the saint, as is the Kessog oil field in the North Sea. Soldiers had a special veneration for him and he's portrayed in military dress with arrows and then bended bow. As late as 1695 his bell, a sacred relic was listed among the funeral investitures of the Earldom of Perth. | Cleric |
Türksat 3A is a Turkish communications satellite, operated by Turksat. It was constructed by Thales Alenia Space, based on the Spacebus 4000B2 satellite bus, and was launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane 5ECA launch vehicle, along with the British Skynet 5C satellite, in a dual-payload launch on 12 June 2008 at 22:05:02 GMT, from ELA-3 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. It is part of the Turksat series of satellites, and is placed in geosynchronous orbit at 42°E to provide communications services to Turkey, Europe and the Middle East. The contract for the construction and in-orbit delivery of Türksat 3A was announced in February 2006. Positioned at 42°E, Türksat 3A replaced the aging Türksat 1C, which entered service in 1996. It consists of 24 Ku band transponders, nine with 36Mhz, 12 with 36 MHz and 12 with 72 MHz bandwidth. Turksat 3A was originally intended to start services at the beginning of 2008. | Satellite |
Henry Joseph Gardner (June 14, 1819 – July 21, 1892) was the 23rd Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1855 to 1858. Gardner, a Know Nothing, was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of Know Nothing candidates in the Massachusetts elections of 1854. Born in Dorchester, Gardner was a dry goods merchant from Boston active in the local Whig Party in the early 1850s. With the sudden and secretive rise of the nativist Know Nothings in 1854, Gardner opportunistically repudiated previously-held positions, and joined the movement, winning a landslide victory over Whig Emory Washburn. During his three terms in office the Know Nothing legislatures enacted legislation on a wide-ranging reform agenda, and made several significant changes to the state constitution, including important electoral reforms such as the replacement of majority voting with plurality voting. The Know Nothing movement began to disintegrate not long after its 1854 victory, dividing over slavery. Gardner won reelection in 1856 only with Republican support, given in exchange for Know Nothing support for the Republican presidential candidate, John Frémont. Republican Nathaniel Prentice Banks easily defeated Gardner in 1857, and the Know Nothing movement effectively dissolved. By 1860 Gardner had left politics and returned to his business interests; he died in relative obscurity. | Politician |
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཟོད་པ་, Wylie: Thub-bstan Bzod-pa; 1946 Thami, Nepal as Dawa Chötar) is a Nepalese lama from the Solu Khumbu valley, the entryway to Mount Everest. | Person |
Chananporn Rosjan (Thai: ชนันภรณ์ รสจันทน์), nicknamed Nod (Thai: น้อด) is a pilot, model, and Miss Thailand Universe 2005 titleholder. | Person |
Lake Boonderoo is an ephemeral freshwater lake located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is situated approximately 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of Kambalda on the Nullarbor Plain. The lake covers an area of roughly 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) when full. It is fed by Ponton Creek on its north western side. The lake lies mostly within the boundaries of Boonderoo and Kanandah Stations which were established in the 1960s and have been running cattle since 1973. The lake has filled in 1975 following heavy rain events further north near Leonora after a cyclone. The rains filled both Lake Braeside and Lake Rebecca to overflow down Ponton Creek to fill Boonderoo and expand out to an area of between 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi) to 80 square kilometres (31 sq mi). The next time the lake filled was in 1995 following Cyclone Bobby. Lake Boonderoo is an important wetland for birds and invertebrates as it dries out and becomes increasingly saline. In 2005 the lake was found to have a 250 hectares (618 acres) infestation of the invasive weed, the tamarisk tree. | Body Of Water |
Sphinx franckii (Franck's sphinx moth) is a moth in the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland deciduous woodland in the eastern United States but also suburban areas where Lilacs (Syringa species) are planted, ranging from New York to northern Florida east to Missouri and Louisiana. The wingspan is 100–128 mm. There is one generation in the north with adults on wing from late June to early July. In the south, there may be a partial second generation with adults on wing from August to September. Adults most frequently nectar from phlox (Phlox paniculata and cultivars). However, males will occasionally gather over moist charcoal to obtain nutrients from the charred wood prior to copulation. Adults fly at dusk and in the early morning hours. The larvae feed on several plants in the olive family. The only native hosts of this moth are ash (Fraxinus) and fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus). However, larvae seem to have a liking for ornamental lilac (Syringa), and occasionally will feed on privet (Ligustrum). Larvae are commonly parasitized by native braconid wasps. The introduced tachinid fly poses additional threat to the beautiful caterpillars of this species. Larvae pupate in subterranean chambers a few inches beneath the surface of the ground. The pupa is a shiny, chestnut-brown color. | Animal |
The 1935 Quetta earthquake (Urdu: بلوچستان زلزلہ) occurred on 31 May between 2:33 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Balochistan, British Raj (now part of Pakistan). The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 Mw and anywhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people died from the impact. This ranked as the deadliest earthquake that hit South Asia until 2005 Kashmir earthquake. The quake was centred 4.0 kilometres south-west of Ali Jaan, Balochistan, British India. | Natural Event |
The 2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their seventh year under head coach Glen Mason, the Golden Gophers compiled a 10–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 503 to 285. The team made an appearance in the Sun Bowl. The 2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was ranked 17th in the final USA Today/AFCA Coaches poll and 20th in the final Associated Press poll. | Sports Team Season |
(119979) 2002 WC19, also written as (119979) 2002 WC19, is a twotino, i.e. it is in a 1:2 orbital resonance with Neptune. It was discovered on November 16, 2002 at the Palomar Observatory. It is probably a dwarf planet. Knowing how many twotinos there are may reveal whether Neptune took roughly 1 million or 10 million years to migrate about 7 AU from its birth location. | Celestial Body |
Kyle Joseph Schwarber (born March 5, 1993) is an American professional baseball left fielder and catcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Indiana Hoosiers. He was drafted by the Cubs in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut during the 2015 season. | Athlete |
The 2013 Richmond Raiders season was the fourth season as a professional indoor football franchise and their second in the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL). One of 7 teams competing in the PIFL for the 2013 season. The team played their home games under head coach James Fuller at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. The Raiders earned a 7-5 record, placing tied for 2nd in the league, qualifying for the playoffs. They were defeated in PIFL Cup II, 44-70 by the Alabama Hammers. | Football League Season |
Brownswood Recordings is a London-based independent record label founded by Gilles Peterson in 2006. The label produces several genres of music, including acid jazz, drum and bass, electronic dance, funk, and soul. The roster includes Ben Westbeech, Ghostpoet, José James, Kate Theophilus, Mala, Orsi, Peggy Jean Louis, Sarah Jones, The Heritage Orchestra, Amy Frenchum, and Tom Morgan. | Company |
Talking Electronics or TE was an Australian electronics magazine from the 1980s aimed at beginners and hobbyists, founded and produced by Colin Mitchell in Cheltenham, Australia. The magazine, and its associated mail-order kit business, operated for its entirety out of Mitchell's home. Competing magazines at the time were Electronics Australia, Electronics Today International, and Australian Electronics Monthly. The general magazine lasted 15 official issues, but there were many one-off publications produced in addition to the issue-based magazine. Some of these included the FM Bugs series of books, The Electronics Notebook series, and model railway projects. The first issue was in 1981, with the last issue being #15 in May 1989. Mitchell has since released all material, books, and issues of the magazine as public domain on his websites – \"Not Copyright 2003 Colin Mitchell - you can copy anything - in fact you should copy all the projects and data sheets.\" There was no regular publishing schedule; an issue would come out when it was completed. It is known as the first electronics magazine in the world to include a printed circuit board on the front cover. Talking Electronics also sold electronics kits to go along with its published construction projects. This business proved very popular, with hundreds of thousands of kits being sold. Payment for the kits could be made using postage stamps, to make it easier for young hobbyists to afford and pay for the kits. Talking Electronics produced several bare-bones Z80-based learning computers, including the MicroComp and the TEC-1. Towards the height of the magazine, Mitchell tried to take Talking Electronics to the United States, but was ultimately unsuccessful at distribution after printing 100,000 copies. These copies were eventually repackaged and sold once he returned to Australia. | Periodical Literature |
The Valley Library is the primary library of Oregon State University and is located at the school's main campus in Corvallis in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1887, the school built its first library building in 1918, what is now Kidder Hall. The current building opened in 1963 as the William Jasper Kerr Library and was expanded and renamed in 1999 as The Valley Library. The library is named for philanthropist F. Wayne Valley, who played football for Oregon State. One of three libraries for Oregon State, The Valley Library stores more than 1.4 million volumes, 14,000 serials, and more than 500,000 maps and government documents. It is designated as a Federal Depository Library and is also a repository for state documents. The six-story library building is of a contemporary, neoclassical style with a red-brick exterior highlighted by white sections along the top and on part of the eastern side. The eastern side includes a white-faced rotunda that includes a two-story atrium on the main floor. | Educational Institution |
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is one of 45 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer treatment and research centers in the United States, located in Detroit, Michigan. Affiliated to Wayne State University School of Medicine, the institute has 1,200 staff members, including 300 doctors, and 100 researchers. The staff treats approximately 12,000 patients each year and operates with a budget of $260 million. It conducts 800 cancer-specific scientific investigations programs and clinical trials each year. The institute has a Phase 1 program, one of 14 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded Phase 1 programs in the United States. Gerold Bepler is president and chief executive officer. | Building |
Eddie Bullock is a freelance Golf Business Consultant an Advanced Fellow of The Professional Golfers' Association.Born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, his formative golfing years were at Selby Golf Club where he represented Yorkshire. | Athlete |
James Henry \"Foxy Grandpa\" Bannon (May 5, 1871 – March 24, 1948) was a Major League Baseball player for the St. Louis Browns and Boston Beaneaters. Bannon was primarily an outfielder, though he played a few games as an infielder and pitched in three games. He stood at 5'5\". | Athlete |
Trinidad Head Lighthouse is an historic lighthouse in Trinidad, California. It is 20 miles (32 km) north of Eureka, California, built in 1871. | Tower |
Maryland Route 330 (MD 330) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Massey Delaware Line Road, the highway runs 3.72 miles (5.99 km) from MD 313 and MD 299 at Massey east to the Delaware state line in eastern Kent County, where the highway continues as Clayton Delaney Road. Massey Delaware Line Road was improved in 1954 but was not brought into the state highway system and designated MD 330 until the late 1980s. | Route Of Transportation |
The 1966 Syrian coup d'état refers to events between 21 and 23 February in which the government of the Syrian Arab Republic was overthrown and replaced. The ruling National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party were removed from power by a union of the party's Military Committee and the Regional Command, under the leadership of Salah Jadid. The coup was precipitated by a heightening in the power struggle between the party's old guard, represented by Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and Munif al-Razzaz, and the younger factions adhering to a Neo-Ba'athist position. On 21 February, supporters of the old guard in the army ordered the transfer of their rivals. Two days later, the Military Committee, backing the younger factions, launched a coup that involved violent fighting in Aleppo, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor, and Latakia. As a result of the coup, the party's historical founders fled the country and spent the rest of their lives in exile. Jadid's government was the most radical administration in Syria's history. The coup created a permanent schism between the Syrian and Iraqi regional branches of the Ba'ath Party and their respective National Commands, with many senior Syrian Ba'athists defecting to Iraq. As a legacy of the coup, during Jadid's rule, Syria initiated a propaganda campaign against the Iraqi Ba'athists. Jadid's government would be overthrown in the Corrective Movement of 1970, which brought Hafez al-Assad to power. | Societal Event |
American singer Bella Thorne has released two extended plays, three singles, one featured single, four promotional singles, and six music videos. Thorne's first single, \"Watch Me\", was released on June 21 featuring Zendaya and reaching 86 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 charts. 9 on the US Top Heatseekers charts and earning RIAA: Gold. The second single, \"TTYLXOX\", was released on March 6, reaching 97 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts. In March 2013, Bella Thorne announced she'd been signed to Hollywood Records, and began working on her debut material. On May 2, 2014 it was revealed her debut album is titled Call It Whatever and, in May 14, she released her debut single \"Call It Whatever\". On October 15, Thorne revealed her debut album was canceled and she releaseed an EP, Jersey, on November 17,2014. | Musical Work |
Pipa snethlageae, the Utinga Surinam toad, is a species of frog in the Pipidae family found in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and possibly Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss. | Animal |