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Waleed Al Sayegh
Waleed Ibrahim Al-Sayegh is the director-general of the Central Finance Department of Sharjah (since at least 2014), chairman of Sharjah Holding (a real-estate developer in Sharjah) and CEO of Sharjah Asset Management ; he is on the board of Air Arabia the Sharjah-based low-cost airline, and was part of the board impos...
Cihat Teğin
Cihat Teğin (born 16 November 1915, date of death unknown) was a Turkish fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1936 Summer Olympics. References Category:1915 births Category:Year of death missing Category:Turkish male fencers Category:Olympic fencers of Turkey Category:Fencers at the 1936...
SecA
The SecA protein is a cell membrane associated subunit of the eubacterial Sec or Type II secretory pathway, a system which is responsible for the secretion of proteins through the cell membrane. Within this system SecA has the functional properties of an ATPase and is required to power the movement of the protein subst...
National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Clair County, Alabama
__NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Clair County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided f...
1986–87 Bahraini Premier League
Statistics of Bahraini Premier League for the 1986–87 season. Overview Bahrain Riffa Club won the championship. References RSSSF Category:Bahraini Premier League seasons Bah Category:1986–87 in Bahraini football
Thomas Michael Whalen III
Thomas Michael Whalen III, also known as Tom Whalen, (January 6, 1934 – March 4, 2002) was an American attorney and politician, and a three-term mayor of Albany, New York, serving from 1983 to 1993. A native of Albany, he graduated from Manhattan College and Albany Law School. Early life and education Thomas Michael ...
Tom Dixon (industrial designer)
Tom Dixon, OBE (born 21 May 1959 in Sfax, Tunisia) is a self-taught British designer. He is currently the Creative Director of the brand 'Tom Dixon' specialising in Lighting, Furniture and Accessories. His works have been acquired by museums across the globe, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern ...
Lexia (typeface)
__NOTOC__ Lexia is a slab-serif typeface developed in 2000 by Dalton Maag. Category:Slab serif typefaces Category:Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2000 Category:Dalton Maag typefaces
Warsaw, North Dakota
Warsaw is an unincorporated community in Walsh County, North Dakota in the United States. It is about 5.5 miles east of Minto (mailing addresses in Warsaw say "Minto, North Dakota" because mail is delivered by postal workers based there) and about 15 miles southeast of Grafton, the county seat. Although it is unincorpo...
Sitara Ayaz
Sitara Ayaz () is a Pakistani politician and a member of Senate of Pakistan, representing Awami National Party. Education She has done BA from Jinnah College For Women in 1990. Political career She was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Awami National Party on reserved seat for women in 2015 Pakistan...
The Wayward Bus (album)
The Wayward Bus is the second studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, released in 1992 by record label PoPuP. As with the band's previous album Distant Plastic Trees, Susan Anway acts as lead vocalist on The Wayward Bus, which is the last Magnetic Fields album to feature her in this role. Subseque...
Alan Shealy
Alan Shealy (born August 15, 1953) is an American rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He graduated from Harvard University. References Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:American male rowers Category:Olympic rowers of the United States Category:Rowers at the 1976...
Here We Rest
Here We Rest is American musician Jason Isbell's third album, and second with his band The 400 Unit. It was released April 12, 2011. On October 18, 2019, the album was re-released with remixing done by Dave Cobb and remastering done by Pete Lyman. Critical reception The album received a Metacritic score of 76 based...
Cartoons (Chris Rice song)
The Cartoon Song is a contemporary Christian song by Chris Rice, written in 1989 as a tongue-in-cheek skit for a church youth group of middle school students. The song mentions many cartoon characters popular in the United States at that time. Lyrics The premise of the song describes what might happen if Christians s...
Bauger FC
Bauger FC is a professional football team based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Founded in 1986 by Jorge Rolando Bauger as Escuela Bauger, the team changed its name to Bauger FC in 2010. Currently playing in the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol. History Bauger FC is a professional soccer team based in Santo Domingo, Do...
Danny Dorn
Daniel Casey Dorn (born July 20, 1984) is an American former professional baseball right fielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and in KBO League for the Nexen Heroes. Career Amateur Dorn played college baseball at California State University, Fullerton from 2...
Cheer-Accident
Cheer-Accident is an American indie rock ensemble headed by Thymme Jones. Jones took the name of the band from a Hallmark Cards shopping display, and first formed the group in 1981 with singer Jim Drummond and drummer Mike Greenlees. Biography Cheer-Accident's first album, Life Isn't Like That, was released in 1986, a...
Tribute Somerset Premier
Tribute Somerset Premier is an English rugby union league which sits at the eighth level of league rugby union in England involving teams based in the county of Somerset as well as some teams based in Bristol. The league champions are automatically promoted to Tribute Western Counties North while the runners up play t...
Jeannette Durno
Jeannette Durno (July 12, 1876 – September 5, 1963) was a Canadian-born American pianist. Early life Jeannette St. John was born in Walkerton, Ontario, the daughter of William Brethour St. John and Margaret Legge St. John. She was adopted by an aunt and uncle as a little girl, and raised in Rockford, Illinois with th...
1984 Virginia Slims of California
The 1984 Virginia Slims of California was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California in the United States that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from January 9 through January 15, 1984. Eighth-seeded Hana...
Jermaine Udumaga
Chinaemerem Jermaine Udumaga (born 22 June 1995) is an English professional football attacking midfielder who is currently unattached. He describes himself as "either an eight or a 10 driving from midfield". Career Early years Born in Lewisham, Udumaga began his career in the youth system at nearby club Charlton Ath...
Alice Cary
Alice Cary (April 26, 1820February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871). Biography Alice Cary was born on April 26, 1820, in Mount Healthy, Ohio, off the Miami River near Cincinnati. Her parents lived on a farm bought by Robert Cary in 1813 in what is now North C...
Pachybrachis signatifrons
Pachybrachis signatifrons is a species of case-bearing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America. References Further reading Category:Cryptocephalinae Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Beetles described in 1843
Hystricella oxytropis
Hystricella oxytropis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies. This species is endemic to Madeira, Portugal. References Category:Molluscs of Europe Category:Hygromiidae Category:Taxa named by Richard Thomas Lowe ...
John E. McCall
John Ethridge McCall (August 14, 1859 – August 8, 1920) was a United States Representative from Tennessee and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Education and career Born on August 14, 1859, in Clarksburg, Carroll County, Tennessee, McCall attende...
Drew Hutton
Peter Drew Hutton (born 1947) is an Australian activist, academic, campaigner and past political candidate. Hutton co-founded the Queensland Greens (in 1990) and Australian Greens (in 1991) and ran in elections in Queensland and Australia at all three levels of government. Social activist Hutton has been a social acti...
Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time
Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time is a party video game developed and published by Ubisoft for the Wii. It was released in North America on November 21, 2010, in Europe on November 26, 2010, in Australia on November 25, 2010 and in Japan on January 27, 2011. It is the fifth installment in the Rabbids series and, unlike th...
Andries Beeckman
Andries Beeckman (baptized 31 August 1628, Hasselt - buried 9 August 1664, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter of the 17th century. He is especially famous for his paintings of Southeast Asia and Batavia c. 1660. In 1657 he was known as Andries Beeckman from Zutphen and is last mentioned as finishing two paintings in Amste...
Emergency medical services in Australia
Emergency medical services in Australia are provided by state ambulance services, which are a division of each state or territorial government, and by St John Ambulance in both Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Organisation Land ambulance Ambulance service within Australia can be divided into two basic g...
Coihueco
Coihueco () is a Chilean commune and city in Punilla Province, Ñuble Region. It is located near Chillán, the provincial capital. Coihueco borders San Carlos and San Fabián on the north, Argentina on the east, Pinto on the South, and Chillán on the west. Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statist...
1993 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 1993 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia during the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. Georgia completed the season with a 5–6 record. Schedule Roster Season summary Georgia Tech A fight broke out late in the fourth quarter following a touchdown pass by Georgia. Reference...
Erdvilas
Erdvilas (Erdywił, Ердивил, Erdiwił, Erdwil) was one of the 21 early dukes of Lithuania who signed a treaty with Galicia–Volhynia in 1219. He and Vykintas are the two dukes of Samogitia mentioned in the treaty. This is supported by the fact that the eastern part of Samogitia supported King of Lithuania Mindaugas, while...
Antonio Castriani
Antonio Castriani (surname also given as Crastini) (c.1460 – August 11, 1510) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. Biography On March 17, 1506, Antonio Castriani was appointed as Bishop of Cagli but this term was short-lived. He was reappointed to become the first Bishop of Montefeltro on May 21, 1507, a position he ...
John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the late-1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He i...
Risalpur Cantonment railway station
Risalpur Cantonment railway station () is located in Risalpur, Pakistan. See also List of railway stations in Pakistan Pakistan Railways Pakistan Locomotive Factory References External links Official Web Site of Pakistan Railways Category:Defunct railway stations in Pakistan Category:Railway stations in Nowshera...
Joana Houplin
Joana Vaya Malinao Michaelson (born 12 February 1990), née Houplin, is a Filipino-American association football coach and former international footballer who played as a midfielder for Seattle Sounders Women. Houplin was also the top scorer at the 2013 AFF Women's Championship scoring 8 goals. Early life and education...
Tadmetla
Tadmetla, also known as Tadmetala is a village in Chhattisgarh state, India. It is located in the Konta tehsil of Sukma in the Bastar division. The village is known for its connection with the abduction of Alex Paul Menon of the Indian Administrative Service who was abducted by the Naxals on 21 April 2012 while he was...
Box Office Entertainment Award for Phenomenal Box Office Star
The following are the Phenomenal Box Office Star Awards given by the Box Office Entertainment Awards. Box Office Entertainment Award for Phenomenal Box Office Star The Box Office Entertainment Award for Phenomenal Box Office Star is the highest-acclaimed award presented annually by the Memorial Scholarship Foundat...
Eugenia acunai
Eugenia acunai is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Cuba. References Category:Endemic flora of Cuba acunai Category:Endangered plants Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Drama annotation
Drama annotation is the process of annotating the metadata of a drama. Given a drama expressed in some medium (text, video, audio, etc.), the process of metadata annotation identifies what are the elements that characterize the drama and annotates such elements in some metadata format. For example, in the sentence "Lae...
Jeglia
Jeglia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rybno, within Działdowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Rybno, north-west of Działdowo, and south-west of the regional capital Olsztyn. References Jeglia
Alex Sadkin
Alex Sadkin (April 9, 1949 – July 25, 1987) was an American record producer, engineer, mixer and mastering engineer. Sadkin grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida across the street from Bennett Elementary School, and played saxophone in Sunrise Junior High School and Fort Lauderdale High School. Sadkin attended the Unive...
Luis Enrique Méndez
Luis Enrique Méndez (born November 16, 1973) is a former world champion in Greco-Roman Wrestling competing for Cuba. Méndez represented Cuba at the 2000 Olympics, as well as 5 World Championships. His greatest accomplishment was a gold medal at the 1999 World Wrestling Championships. References Category:1973 births ...
Pink Panthers
{{Infobox Criminal organization | name = Pink Panthers | image = | caption = Serbian Pink Panthers Interpol Poster | founding location = Belgrade, Serbia | founded by = Rajko Causević | years active = 1990's–present | ethnic makeup = Serbs, Montenegrins |...
Academy of Military Science (United States)
The Academy of Military Science (AMS) was an 8-week (formerly 6 as of March 2014) officer commissioning program of the United States Air Force. AMS was held at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, with the purpose of training and commissioning Air National Guard officers only. AMS was originally located at M...
2014 USTA Player Development Classic
The 2014 USTA Player Development Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Carson, California, United States, on July 14–20, 2014. Si...
Derek Weiler
Derek Xavier Weiler (October 4, 1968 – April 12, 2009) was a journalist and Canadian magazine editor. He was editor of Quill & Quire, Canada's national book trade magazine. Early career Weiler received a B.A. and M.A. in English literature from the University of Waterloo and a certificate in Magazine and Book Publishi...
National Youth Union of Mali
The National Youth Union of Mali (, abbreviated U.N.J.M.) was a youth organization in Mali. UNJM was the youth wing of the ruling (and sole legal political party in the country) UDPM. UNJM held its first national council meeting in 1979. Mahamadou Baba Diallo served as the general secretary of UNJM. UNJM published a m...
Colin Greenall
Colin Anthony Greenall (born 30 December 1963 in Billinge, Lancashire) is an English former professional footballer who made over 600 Football League appearances between 1980 and 1999. Starting his career at Blackpool as an apprentice, Greenall had spells at Gillingham, Oxford United, Bury, Preston North End, Chester C...
Wondership Q
Wondership Q (known as Airship Q in Japan) is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game developed by Cygames for PlayStation Vita and Steam. The Vita version was released in Japan on November 19, 2015, and the English version was released internationally for Steam on July 18, 2016. Overview The story follows two siblings tur...
Kochi people
Kochis or Kuchis (Pashto: Kuchis according to J. Derakhshani the name derives from Guci, formerly ) are nomads from Northern- and Eastern Afghanistan primarily from the Ghilji tribal confederacy. Some of the most notable Ghilji Kochi tribes include the Kharoti, Niazi, Andar, Akakhel and nasar Ahmadzai. Sometimes Durra...
Kenny Thomson (curler)
Kenny Thomson (born 27 March 1969) is a New Zealand curler. At the international level, he is a . At the national level, he is a 2016 New Zealand men's champion curler and a 2010 New Zealand mixed champion. Teams References External links Category:Living people Category:1969 births Category:New Zealand male curle...
Sogamoso River
Sogamoso River () is a river of northern Colombia. It flows into the Magdalena River and on to the Caribbean Sea. The Sogamoso Dam on the river near Bucaramanga was completed in 2014. See also List of rivers of Colombia References Further reading Category:Rivers of Colombia Category:Magdalena River Rivers
Colepidae
Colepidae is a family of ciliates. References Key species of the family Colepidae (Prostomatida, Ciliophora) from Lake Baikal. LA Obolkina, Zoologichesky Zhurnal, 1995 External links Category:Intramacronucleata Category:Ciliate families
Beatmania IIDX 12: Happy Sky
Beatmania IIDX 12: Happy Sky (stylized as beatmania IIDX12: HAPPY SKY) is the 12th game in the beatmania IIDX series of music video games. It was released in arcades by Konami on July 13, 2005. The game features over 45 new songs, some of which are unlocked over Konami's e-Amusement platform. Happy Sky introduced sever...
The Erl-King (novel)
The Erl-King () is a 1970 novel by the French writer Michel Tournier. It is also known as The Ogre. It tells the story of a man who recruits children to be Nazis in the belief that he is protecting them. The novel received the Prix Goncourt. The 1996 film The Ogre, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, is based on the novel....
ISAL Institute
ABAB University is an online accredited university having students across the globe, mainly from Africa and Asia. ABAB UNIVERSITY aka formerly ISAL institute started in 2010 in India. Dominican Republic approved ISAL Institute as its first accredited online university. ISAL is now seeking university accreditation from...
Nicola Manzari
Nicola Manzari (14 November 1908 – 28 April 1991) was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for 38 films between 1940 and 1975. Selected filmography The Adventures of Fra Diavolo (1942) Chains (1949) Hearts at Sea (1950) Cameriera bella presenza offresi... (1951) The Last Sentence (1951) I morti non pagano tasse (19...
SMURF1
E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase SMURF1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the SMURF1 gene. Function This gene encodes a ubiquitin ligase that is specific for receptor-regulated SMAD proteins in the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) pathway. A similar protein in Xenopus is involved in embryonic pattern formation. A...
Polyommatus myrrha
Polyommatus myrrha is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was first described as Lycaena myrrha by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1851 in the six volume Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa (Systematic research on the butterflies of Europe). This rare species has been fou...
The Fireside Bowl
Fireside Bowl (or Fireside) is a bowling alley and music venue established in the 1940s, located at 2648 W Fullerton Ave in Chicago, Illinois. History The building was an ice factory in its early days. In the summer of 1941 renovations began and the owner Hank Sophie converted it into a bowling alley, cashing-in on t...
Lord Brynner
Kade Simon (c. 1937 – 1985), better known as Lord Brynner, was a Trinidadian calypsonian who won the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Calypso Contest in 1962. He also had a number of Ska hits in Jamaica during the mid-1960s. Biography Kade Simon was born in Erin, Trinidad. Taking inspiration from the actor Yul Brynner...
Ana Bagration-Gruzinsky
Princess Ana Nugzaris asuli Bagration-Gruzinsky (; born 1 November 1976) is a royal princess of the Gruzinsky branch of the Bagrationi dynasty of Georgia. Early life and career Princess Ana is the eldest child of the head of the Bagration-Gruzinsky family, Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, and his wife, Leila, scion ...
Vladimir Terletsky
Vladimir Terletsky (in Russian Терлецкий Владимир Евгеньевич, in Yiddish – וועלוול טערלעצקי) was a musician, composer, conductor. Terletsky (January 22, 1931 in Moscow, Soviet Union – July 22, 1998 in Moscow, Russia) studied music at the Gnesins’ Music School and College, thereafter at the Gnesins’ Institute for Music ...
Bolinus
Bolinus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This genus is known in the fossil record from the Miocene to the Pliocene period (age range: from 15.97 to 2.588 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found in Cyprus, Austria,...
Gordon Brown (disambiguation)
Gordon Brown (born 1951) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010. Premiership of Gordon Brown, his premiership Gordon Brown may also refer to: Politics Cathy Gordon Brown (born 1965), Independent candidate from Tennessee in the 2000 United States presidential election Gord Brown (1960–2018), Canad...
1992 USAC FF2000 Western Division Championship
The 1992 USAC FF2000 Western Division Championship was the third season of the series. It was the first season since the east/west split of the series by the United States Auto Club. Greg Moore won the series championship for Team Viper in a Swift DB-6 Race calendar and results Notes Final standings References Cat...
Christian Groh
Christian Groh is an American billionaire businessman, and one of the co-founders of Privateer Holdings, along with Brendan Kennedy and Michael Blue. Early life Groh earned a bachelor's degree from California Maritime Academy, and an MBA from San Francisco State University. Career Groh previously worked at SVB Analyt...
130th Engineer Battalion
The 130th Engineer Battalion (130th EN BN) is a combat engineer battalion of the Puerto Rico Army National Guard allocated to the 101st Troop Command. The 130th is one of the most decorated battalions of the Puerto Rico National Guard with two Presidential Unit Citations, one Meritorious Unit Commendation, thirty five ...
Jesús Escobedo
Jesús Escobedo Trejo (June 24, 1918 – October 13, 1978) was a Mexican artist specializing in drawing and engraving, one of the founding members of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. Escobedo was born in El Oro, México, moving to Mexico City to study at the Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre under Gabriel Fernández Ledes...
Butler Township, Butler County, Iowa
Butler Township is one of sixteen townships in Butler County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,685. Geography Butler Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement, Clarksville. According to the USGS, it contains four cemeteries: Antioch, Lowell, Old and Old Town. Referen...
2013 Swedish Open
The 2013 Swedish Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2013 ATP World Tour and as part of the International Series on the 2013 WTA Tour. It took place in Båstad, Sweden, from July 6 through July 14, 2013 for the Men's tournament and from July 13 throu...
Busnago
Busnago is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan. References External links Official website
Opiinae
The Opiinae are a subfamily of braconid parasitoid wasps with over 1300 described species. Several species have been used in biocontrol programs against fruit flies and Agromyzidae flies. They are closely related to the Alysiinae. Description and distribution Opiinae are small wasps, usually under 5mm long. They are...
Ethan Allen Greenwood
Ethan Allen Greenwood (1779–1856) was an American lawyer, portrait painter, and entrepreneurial museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 19th century. He established the New England Museum in 1818. Biography Greenwood was born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts to Moses Greenwood and Betsy Dunlap, May 27, 1...
Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe
Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe is a civil parish in the municipality of Montalegre, northern Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Cambeses do Rio, Donões and Mourilhe. The population in 2011 was 309, in an area of 45.30 km². References Category:Parishes of Montalegre
Manganese(II) oxide
Manganese(II) oxide is an inorganic compound with chemical formula MnO. It forms green crystals. The compound is produced on a large scale as a component of fertilizers and food additives. Structure, stoichiometry, reactivity Like many monoxides, MnO adopts the rock salt structure, where cations and anions are both ...
List of logarithmic identities
In mathematics, there are many logarithmic identities. Trivial identities Cancelling exponentials Logarithms and exponentials with the same base cancel each other. This is true because logarithms and exponentials are inverse operations (just like multiplication and division or addition and subtraction). Both of th...
Debra Fox
Debra Fox is the founder and CEO of Fox Learning Systems. She was previously a television reporter and anchor with WTAE-TV Pittsburgh (1976–1986). WTAE television career Fox was named "Best Pittsburgh Newscaster" seven years in a row by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. During her ten-year television career, she was abl...
Leonard Hawkes (priest)
Leonard Stephen Hawkes (5 October 1907 – 3 August 1969) was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne from 1960 until his death. Hawkes was educated at Oakham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1932 after studying at Ripon College Cuddesdon; and began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at St Andrew, Ca...
Empress Myeongseong
Empress Myeongseong or Empress Myung-Sung (19 October 1851 – 8 October 1895), known informally as Queen Min, was the first official wife of Gojong, the twenty-sixth king of Joseon and the first emperor of the Korean Empire. The government of Meiji Japan (明治政府) considered Empress Myeongseong (明成皇后) an obstacle to its o...
Siege of Scutari (1912–13)
The Siege of Scutari took place from October 28, 1912 to April 23, 1913, when the army of Kingdom of Montenegro defeated the forces of the Ottoman Empire and invaded Shkodër. According to Misha Glenny, the aspirations of Shkodër were imperialistic in nature. Naming The Siege of Scutari is also referred to as the Sieg...
Evans Creek Preserve
Evans Creek Preserve is a natural area that was donated to the City of Sammamish, Washington, in 2000. The site includes portions of Evans Creek and other water features, wetlands, and meadows, as well as steep terrain. The site provides habitat for black bears, beavers, hawks, deer, and songbirds. There are nurse tre...
Tarella shrew
The tarella shrew (Crocidura tarella) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. Sources Hutterer, ...
Oberwil, Basel-Landschaft
Oberwil is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History Oberwil is first mentioned around 1102-03 as Oberuuilre. Geography Oberwil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 44.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.5% is forested. Of the rest of the lan...
Chinna (art director)
Chinna () is one of the leading art director in Indian cinema. His debut venture was ‘Kalisi Nadudham’ (Telugu). He started Art direction together with his guru B Anand Sai (son of senior art director B.Chellam). His first movie was as Assistant Art Director for the Tamil movie ‘Roja Malare’ starring Murali. Next was‘S...
Jan Hulsker
Jan Hulsker (2 October 1907, The Hague – 9 November 2002, Vancouver) was a Dutch art historian especially noted for his work on Vincent van Gogh. He studied Dutch literature in Leiden and was promoted with a thesis on the author Aart van der Leeuw. In 1953, he was appointed to the Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en M...
We Sammarinese
We Sammarinese (, NS) is a centrist political party in San Marino. In the 2006 general election NS won 2.5% and 1 out of 60 seats and stood in opposition to the 2006-2008 governing coalition of the Party of Socialists and Democrats, Popular Alliance and United Left. In the 2008 general election the party participated...
Kościanka
Kościanka (German: Hansfelde) is a former settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Tychowo, within Białogard County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately east of Tychowo, east of Białogard, and north-east of the regional capital Szczecin. See also History of Pomeran...
Adele Williams
Adele Williams (February 24, 1868 – 1952) was an American artist who was one of the earliest Impressionist painters in Virginia. Biography Adele Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of John H. Williams. Graduating high school at the age of 15, she went to New York in 1886 to study at the Woman's Art S...
Pilot (Psych)
"Pilot" is the first episode of the TV series, Psych. It originally aired on USA Network on July 7, 2006. Plot Shawn Spencer (James Roday) has never kept a job for more than 6 months. He helps the Santa Barbara Police Department prove a man guilty, using his keen powers of observation and his near perfect photographic...
Knowbury
Knowbury is a small village near Ludlow in Shropshire, England. It is located in the civil parish of Caynham. It is near to Clee Hill Village and had a part-time Post Office - now closed. There were two adjacent public houses in the village, on Hope Bagot Lane - the Penny Black, and the Bennett's End. The Penny Black...
Black Rock (novel)
Black Rock is a novel by Steve Harris published by Victor Gollancz in 1996. Plot summary Black Rock features a haunted house near Tintagel on the north coast of Cornwall. Reception Jonathan Palmer reviewed Black Rock for Arcane magazine, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall. Palmer comments that "Black Rock is not a maste...
Live in the Heart of Helsinki
Live in the Heart of Helsinki is the first live album and video by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. It was recorded live on March 21, 2014 at the Circus in Helsinki, Finland. The DVD was produced by Jouni Markkanen, directed by Ville Lipiäinen and mixed by Kimmo Ahola. It was released in 2CD+DVD and 2CD+BD fo...
AGH University of Science and Technology
AGH University of Science and Technology (Polish Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica) is a technical university in Poland, located in Kraków. The university was established in 1919, and was formerly known as the University of Mining and Metallurgy. It has 15 faculties and one school, which will become a ...
Bill Bateman
William Augustus 'Bill' Bateman (11 September 1866 – 27 July 1935) was a businessman, an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Western Australia and Australian rules football in the Western Australian Football Association (WAFA). He was the captain of the Swans Football Club - the first Australian Rul...
Robyn Perry
Robyn Ainsworth (born Robyn Perry in 1975) was a 12-year-old schoolgirl and figure skater who lit the Olympic Flame in the opening ceremony for the 1988 Winter Olympics. Biography On Feb. 13, 1988, she was the final runner in the Olympic torch relay and was chosen to ignite the giant cauldron at McMahon Stadium, kicki...
Polemon II of Pontus
Marcus Antonius Polemon Pythodoros, also known as Polemon II of Pontus and Polemon of Cilicia (; 12 BC/11 BC–74) was a prince of the Bosporan, Pontus, Cilicia and Cappadocia. He served as a Roman Client King of Pontus, Colchis and Cilicia. Polemon II was the second son and middle child of the Pontic Rulers Polemon Pyt...
Augustine Dallemagne
Virginie Polyxène Augustine Philippe Dallemagne, a French miniature painter, whose maiden name was Decagny, was a native of Beauvais. She was a pupil of Madame de Mirbel, and showed much talent in the execution of portraits in miniature and in crayons. She married Adolphe Dallemagne, a landscape painter, and died at Co...
A.S.D. Asti
A.S.D. Asti, known as Asti and formerly A.S.D. Alfieri Asti or A.S.D. Colline Alfieri Don Bosco (Colline Alfieri D.B. or just Colline Alfieri), is an Italian football club based in Asti, Piedmont. FIGC registration number of the club is 63,519. The club spent entire history in the Piedmont - Aosta Valley divisions of t...