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Lee Turnbull (footballer) | Lee Turnbull (born 27 September 1967) is an English former footballer who could play in either midfield or attack. He is currently Head of Recruitment at Scunthorpe United.
Career
Playing years
Turnbull started his career as an apprentice in 1984 with Middlesbrough before signing professional forms in 1985. He played... |
Meghan Daum | Meghan Daum (born 1970) is an American author, essayist, and journalist.
Childhood and education
Although she was born in California, Daum grew up in Austin, Texas and Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.
Career
Daum... |
Dominik Fleitmann | Dominik Fleitmann is professor of palaeoclimatology and archaeology at the University of Reading. According to Fleitmann, his research into stalagmites found in modern-day Saudi Arabia demonstrates a link between rainfall and human migration from the region, and a correlation between a period of severe drought and the ... |
Lincoln Wolfenstein | Lincoln Wolfenstein (February 10, 1923, Cleveland, Ohio – March 27, 2015, Oakland, California) was an American particle physicist who studied the weak interaction. Wolfenstein was born in 1923 and obtained his PhD in 1949 from the University of Chicago. He retired from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 after being a ... |
Laurice Rahmé | Laurice Rahmé is a French born, American businesswoman and entrepreneur. She is the founder, creator and president of Bond No. 9 New York Fragrances.
Early years
Rahmé was born and educated in Paris, France. At a young age, she took an interest in arts and culture, having access to the best museums in France.
She i... |
Nathaniel Brazill | Nathaniel R. Brazill (born September 22, 1986) is an American who, at age 13, fatally shot one of his schoolteachers, Barry Grunow, at Lake Worth Middle School in Lake Worth, Florida. Brazill was subsequently convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison.
Shooting and conviction
On May 26, 2000, the last day of the 19... |
Chatham-Kent—Leamington | Chatham-Kent—Leamington is a federal electoral district in Ontario. It encompasses a portion of Ontario previously included in the electoral districts of Chatham-Kent—Essex and Essex and Lambton—Kent—Middlesex.
Chatham-Kent—Leamington was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally ... |
Bridgit | Bridgit is a name with several traditional variant spellings. It may refer to:
Bridgit Mendler, an American actress
Bridgit (24 character), a fictional mercenary in the television drama 24
Saint Bridgit (circa 451-525), Irish Christian nun
The Celtic goddess Brigid
See also
Bridget (given name)
Category:Given n... |
Akhir Bahari | Muhamad Akhir Bin Bahari (born 22 March 1994) is a Malaysian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Malaysia M3 League club DDM.
Akhir spent most of his career playing for Malaysian youth team Harimau Muda. He also have played for T-Team, and Kuantan FA.
References
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Beitostølen | Beitostølen is a village at Øystre Slidre in Innlandet, Norway. As of 1 January 2009, it had 247 residents, and is located above mean sea level.
Sports
It is largely a tourist area, with many cabins and hotels serving various winter sports facilities. The village has hosted FIS Cross-Country World Cup and Biathlon W... |
Joel Selwood | Joel Anthony Selwood (born 26 May 1988) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
A standout junior track and field athlete and footballer, Selwood entered top-level football early, joining the TAC Cup competition as a bottom-aged play... |
Terry K. Amthor | Terry K. Amthor (born October 18, 1958) is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games, and as a fantasy author.
Early life and education
Terry Kevin Amthor was born in Chicago, IL, but soon moved to Manitowoc, WI, and then at the age of six to Bethel Park, PA. He later attended Bethel Par... |
Irene Bucher | Irene Bucher is a Swiss orienteering competitor. She won a bronze medal in the relay at the World Orienteering Championships in Thun in 1981, together with Ruth Schmid, Annelies Meier and Ruth Humbel.
References
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Otepää Upland | Otepää Upland () is hilly area of higher elevation in Southern Estonia.
Upland's area is about 1200 km2.
The highest point of upland is Kuutsemägi (217 m).
Part of upland is taken under protection (Otepää Nature Park).
References
Category:Hills of Estonia
Category:Valga County |
Hōmyō dōji | is a Japanese folktale, a variant on an East Indian Buddhist legend. The story tells of a man whose child is chosen to become a sacrifice to a giant snake. A boy named Hōmyō, whose father has recently died, offers himself as a surrogate for the sacrifice. As he is preparing for death by reciting a Buddhist sutra, a Bod... |
Joe Henderson | Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.
Biography
Early life
Born in Lima, Ohio, Henderson w... |
CKD7C | The CKD7C is a Co-Co diesel locomotive manufactured by the CNR Dalian.
Overview
On 3 November 2008, four diesel-electric locomotives were shipped to the DRC from China's Dalian port. They are 1,800 hp CKD7C models, manufactured by the China Northern Rail Corporation Limited (CNR). The company also offers a 1,000 hp ... |
Kirill Skachkov | Kirill Sergeyevich Skachkov (; born 6 August 1987 in Novokuznetsk) is a Russian table tennis player. In 2011 he won a silver medal in the doubles event in the Table Tennis European Championships. He was part of the Russian men's team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
See also
List of table tennis players
References
Cate... |
Wild Mary Sudik | The Wild Mary Sudik gusher was an oil well blowout that took place on March 26, 1930 in what is now Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. The gusher from Mary Sudik No. 1 well received extensive media coverage and was the subject of daily radio reports by NBC's Floyd Gibbons and newsreels that were shown in movie theaters. The... |
Chichester Falls | Chichester Falls is a waterfall from the Andy Creek, just east of Fall Creek Lake, in Lane County, Oregon. Access to Chicester Falls is from Forest Road 18, known as Big Fall Creek Road, approximately half mile from Bedrock Campground.
See also
List of waterfalls in Oregon
External links
Chichester Waterfall on You... |
Score (2016 film) | Score: A Film Music Documentary is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Matt Schrader about film scores, featuring Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Quincy Jones, Rachel Portman, Trent Reznor, and others. The film was released theatrically by Gravitas Ventures on June 16, 2017 and on Blu-ray and downloa... |
Eupithecia harenosa | Eupithecia harenosa is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Iran.
References
Category:Moths described in 1938
harenosa
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Gliese 676 | Not to be confused with Gliese 674.
Gliese 676 is a 10th-magnitude wide binary system of red dwarfs that has an estimated minimum separation of 800 AU with an orbital period of greater than 20,000 years. It is located approximately 54 light years away in the constellation Ara. In 2009, a gas giant was found i... |
Searching for a Former Clarity | Searching for a Former Clarity is the third album by the Gainesville, Florida punk rock band Against Me!, produced by J. Robbins and released on September 6, 2005 by Fat Wreck Chords. Supported by singles and music videos for the songs "Don't Lose Touch" and "From Her Lips to God's Ears (The Energizer)", it was their f... |
Bernt Østhus | Bernt Østhus (born December 18, 1970) is a lawyer and investor based in Trondheim, Norway. He graduated from University of Bergen in 1994 and has since worked mainly as a private equity investor.
Mr. Østhus served as the Chief Executive Officer of Notar Advokat until 1998 before becoming the Founder and Chief Executi... |
Pharga | Pharga is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1863.
Taxonomy
The genus was previously classified in the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.
Species
Pharga barbara Schaus, 1915 Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
Pharga pallens (Barnes & McDunnough, 1911) Arizona in the US
... |
Panamá Viejo F.C. | Panamá Viejo F.C. was a Panamanian football team founded in 1978 and based in Panamá Viejo, Panama. The club was a regular participant in the ANAPROF (now Liga Panameña de Fútbol), and in their final season the Cangrejeros won the 2000–01 championship. They succumbed to financial problems at the end of 2001.
Histor... |
Luiken | Luiken is a Dutch patronymic surname based on the archaic spelling Luik of the given name Luuk, a short form of Lucas, or on the equally archai name Lui (from Ludo or Ludolph). Among variants are Luijken, Luikens and Luyken. People with this surname include:
Jan Luyken (1649–1712), Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver... |
Vanspor | Vanspor A.Ş. was a football team of Van in eastern Turkey.
History
They played in the top division of Turkish football between 1994 and 1998, playing once more in 1999–2000 season. After relegation from the first division, Vanspor turned to an economic crisis and were relegated from the 2nd and 3rd divisions between 2... |
Henry Lieberman | Henry Lieberman is an American computer scientist at the MIT CSAIL in the fields of programming languages, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He received the 2018 ACM Impact Award Intelligent User Interaction for work on mining affect from text and has been applied to the problem of prevention of c... |
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. | Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He also produced the musical Show Boat. He was known as the "glorifier of the American girl". Ziegfeld... |
Busses Roar | Busses Roar is a 1942 film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring Richard Travis and Julie Bishop.
Plot
A bungling saboteur attempts to place a bomb on board a bus so that it will explode as the bus passes by some oil wells. The plot is foiled, but not by the authorities.
Cast
Richard Travis as Sergeant Ryan
Ju... |
Hausstein | The Hausstein is a mountain in Bavaria, Germany.
The Hausstein ("House-stone") is a mountain in the Anterior Bavarian Forest, southwest of the Lower Bavarian town of Regen, and northeast of the town of Deggendorf, and is located in the municipality of Schaufling, in the district of Deggendorf.
On the west side of t... |
Grötzingen Jewish Cemetery | Grötzingen Jewish Cemetery ( or ) is the smallest Jewish burial place in the city of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is listed as a national heritage site.
History
Until 1900, the dead of the Jewish community of Grötzingen were buried at Obergrombach Jewish Cemetery northeast of Karlsruhe. The Jewish cemeter... |
The Memory Cathedral | The Memory Cathedral: A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci is a 1995 historical fantasy fiction novel by Jack Dann. It follows Leonardo da Vinci constructing his flying machine and then travelling to the East.
Background
It was first published by Bantam Books in December 1995 and has been published in ten languages t... |
Trieste Troops Command | The Trieste Troops Command was an Italian Army brigade-sized command located in the city of the Trieste and tasked with the defense of the city in case of a Yugoslav-Italian war.
History
Origins
After World War II the city of Trieste and the surrounding territory became the Free Territory of Trieste under direct res... |
Unatara | Unatara atinga is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Unatara.
References
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HMS Diamond (1652) | Diamond was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Peter Pett at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 15 March 1652. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns.
Diamond was captured by the French in 1693.
Notes
References
Lavery,... |
Dębowiec, Podkarpackie Voivodeship | Dębowiec is a village in Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Dębowiec. It lies approximately south of Jasło and south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów.
The village has an approximate population of 2,000.
Debowiec h... |
Luis Fraiz | Luis Cesar Fraiz Santamaría (born 13 June 1993) is a Panamanian football defender who plays for Plaza Amador.
Club career
Fraiz was part of the Frosinone squad that won the club a first promotion to Serie A in 2015, but played only a league game himself.
References
External links
Player profile - Frosinone Calcio... |
Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) is the legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its normal boundaries.
Any authority can claim ETJ over any external territory they wish. However, for the claim to be effective in the external territory (except by the exercise of force), it must be agreed either wi... |
Dentistry in Canada | The practice of dentistry in Canada is overseen by the National Dental Examining Board of Canada in conjunction with other agencies, such as the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada and the Royal College of Dentists of Canada. In 2013 there were 21,109 dentists in Canada according to the Canadian Dental Associa... |
Frank Rowley | Frank Rowley FICE (4 May 1940 – 17 March 2003) was a Scottish civil engineer.
Early life
He was born in West Hartlepool in the north of England.
He attended Paisley Grammar School, then a state selective school.
Career
He left school in 1958 and worked as an apprentice civil engineer with Renfrew County Council, whi... |
Ruairí Ó Gadhra | Ruairí Ó Gadhra, King of Sliabh Lugha, died 1206.
The Annals of the Four Masters appear to contain one of the few reference to Ruairí, reporting that Rory O'Gara, Lord of Sliabh Lugha, died in the year 1206.
External links
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100010A/index.html
Category:People from County Mayo
Categ... |
Otto Pollak | Otto Pollak (30 April 1908 – 18 April 1998) was a writer and a professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
His most controversial and famous book was The Criminality of Women (1950), in which he suggested that women commit just as much crime as men, but that their crime is more easily hidden. Pollak furt... |
USS Courtney (DE-1021) | USS Courtney (DE-1021) was a of the United States Navy, in service from 1956 to 1973.
Service history
Courtney was named for Marine Major Henry A. Courtney, Jr. (1916–1945), who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism in the Battle of Okinawa. She was launched 2 November 1955 by Defoe Shipbuilding... |
Coltsfoot | Coltsfoot is the common name for several plants in the family Asteraceae:
Homogyne alpina, a plant species native to Europe
Petasites, a plant genus native to Europe, Asia, and North America
Tussilago farfara, a plant species native to Europe and parts of Asia and Africa
See also
Butterbur (disambiguation)
Colts... |
Rough Range | Rough Range is a location in Western Australia where oil was discovered during an exploration drilling programme in 1953.
West Australian Petroleum (WAPET) drilled its first well at Rough Range near North West Cape in 1953. This well produced at a rate of , and was the first working well of Australia's commercial petr... |
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (in case citations, S.D. Fla. or S.D. Fl.) is the federal United States district court with territorial jurisdiction over the southern part of the state of Florida.
Appeals from cases brought in the Southern District of Florida are to the United Sta... |
Douglas Lute | Lt. Gen. Douglas Edward Lute (born November 3, 1952) is a U.S. public servant who served as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 2013 to 2017. He was nominated for the post by President Obama on May 23, 2013, and assumed his position on September 3, 2013.
Lute is a retired United States Army lieute... |
Jovian Hediger | Jovian Hediger (born December 17, 1990 in Reinach, Aargau) is a Swiss cross-country skier.
Hediger competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Switzerland. He placed 47th in the qualifying round in the sprint, failing to advance to the knockout stages.
As of April 2014, his best showing at the World Championships was 25... |
Thyroxine 5-deiodinase | Thyroxine 5-deiodinase also known as type III iodothyronine deiodinase (EC number 1.21.99.3) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the DIO3 gene. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
3,3',5'-triiodo-L-thyronine + iodide + A + H+ L-thyroxine + AH2
The protein encoded by this intronless gene belo... |
David Carr | David Carr may refer to:
In academia
David Carr (phenomenology scholar) (born 1940), American phenomenology scholar and philosopher
David M. Carr, professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary
In sport
David Carr (athlete) (born 1932), Australian track and field athlete
David Carr (American football) (... |
Leo Furlong | Leo Augustine Furlong Jr. (October 15, 1930 – June 13, 2009) was a politician in the American state of Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1963 to 1965, representing Dade County.
References
Category:1930 births
Category:2009 deaths
Category:Members of the Florida House of Representatives
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Piz Buin | Piz Buin () is a mountain in the Silvretta range of the Alps on the border between Austria and Switzerland. It forms the border between the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and is the highest peak in Vorarlberg.
Its original name in the Romansh language is Piz Buin Grand. A similar but s... |
Hoarusib River | The Hoarusib River is an ephemeral river in the Kunene Region region of north-western Namibia. Its source is near the regional capital Opuwo, and the river flows through the Tonnesen and Giraffe Mountains into the Atlantic Ocean. The Hoarusib occasionally carries surface water during the rainy seasons in November and F... |
Stefan Pater | Stefan Pater (born 31 October 1960) is a retired German football forward.
References
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Category:Living people
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Category:Bundesliga players
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Category:Arminia Bielefeld players
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Iéna (Paris Métro) | Iéna () is a station on Line 9 of the Paris Métro, named after the Avenue d'Iéna. The station opened on 27 May 1923 with the extension of the line from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin. Iéna is the French name of Jena where the Napoleon's army beat Prussia in 1806 at the Battle of Jena. Nearby are the Guimet Museum (Asian ... |
Northern sennet | The northern sennet, Sphyraena borealis, is an ocean-going species of fish in the barracuda family, Sphyraenidae. It was described by the American zoologist James Ellsworth De Kay in 1842. De Kay's description was part of several volumes he published regarding the fauna of New York from 1842-1849. Northern sennet are a... |
Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala | Muhammad Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala (1930–2008) (محمد عبد الحليم أبو غزاله) was Defense Minister of Egypt from 1981 to 1989. Abu Ghazala was seated next to Anwar Sadat when the president was assassinated.
Early life and education
He was born in Zuhur Al Omara Village, Dilingat, Behera governorate, in February 1930. His ... |
American Idiot (musical) | American Idiot is a sung-through rock musical based on the 2004 concept album of the same name by punk rock band Green Day. After a run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2009, the show moved to the St. James Theatre on Broadway. Previews began on March 24, 2010, and the musical officially opened on April 20, 2010. T... |
Intergovernmental Negotiations framework | The Intergovernmental Negotiations framework or IGN is a group of nation-states working within the United Nations to further reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Composition
The IGN is composed of several different international organizations, namely:
The African Union;
The G4 nations;
The Uniting ... |
Kachi, Haripur | Kachi, also spelt Kachhi, is a village of Haripur District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is part of Beer Union Council and is located at 34°8'0N 72°57'0E with an altitude of 558 metres (1833 feet).
References
Category:Populated places in Haripur District |
Turkish March (Ippolitov-Ivanov) | The Turkish March, Op. 55 is a composition by Russian composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, which was published in 1932 in Moscow.
Composition
This symphonic march lasts approximately five minutes. It is a very conventional work by Ippolitov-Ivanov, and therefore, all harmonies and rhythms are conventional. He wrote th... |
Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed | Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed is a sports game developed and published by Midway for the Sony PlayStation. It was released in North America on May 18, 2000. It is to note that it would not be until 2006 before another AFL video game would be released. It is based around the fame of American football champion K... |
Soldotna Airport | Soldotna Airport is a city-owned, public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southeast of the central business district of Soldotna, Alaska.
The airport is located along the south bank of the Kenai River in the southeastern corner of Soldotna city limits, and also adjoins the Kenai National Wildlife Refug... |
Marguerite J. A. Houdon | Marguerite-Julie-Antoinette Houdon (1771 – 1795) was a French painter.
She was the first cousin of the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon and her self-portrait was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.
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Category:1771 births
Category:1795 deaths
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2018 Brownlow Medal | The 2018 Brownlow Medal was the 91st year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season. Tom Mitchell of the Hawthorn Football Club won the medal with 28 votes.
Leading votegetters
Voting procedure
The three field umpires (t... |
Tambun | Tambun (Chinese: 打扪 Dǎ mén) is a major town in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. The Lost World of Tambun, a waterpark, is located here.
Famous goods
Pomelos
Tambun is notable for its pomelo produce, which is sought after by locals and tourists alike. Many planters were Hakkas from southern China. The fruit was orig... |
Daigo Fuyumoto | , son of regent Ichijō Akiyoshi, was a Japanese kugyō (court noble) of the Edo period (1603–1868), who founded Daigo family as a branch of Ichijō family. He was the father of Daigo Fuyuhiro, his heir, and Tokudaiji Kintake (徳大寺公全), adopted by Tokudaiji family.
References
Category:Fujiwara clan
Category:Ichijō fami... |
Voriini | Voriini is a tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae. More junior homonyms exist of Wagneria than any other animal genus name.
Genera
Athrycia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Blepharomyia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889
Campylocheta Róndani, 1859
Cyrtophleba Róndani, 1856
Eriothrix Meigen, 1803
Periscepsia Gistel, 1848
Phyllomya R... |
Paint Your Wagon (album) | Paint Your Wagon, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's second album, was released in 1986 in the UK on Red Rhino, an independent music record label. It was the band's final original LP release on the label (exclusive of a singles collection, Smashed Hits, the following year) before signing to major label Situation Two in 1987. Li... |
LGALS13 | Placental protein 13 (PP13) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LGALS13 gene.
Structure and function
Function
It is composed of two identical subunits which are held together by disulfide bonds. The monomer of this protein has structural similarity to several members of the beta-galactoside-binding S-type... |
Lick Log Creek (Chattooga River tributary) | Lick Log Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the Chattooga River.
Lick Log Creek was named for a salty log which attracted cattle.
References
Category:Rivers of Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Bodies of water of Rabun County, Georgia |
Cerro La Campana | Cerro la Campana, the Bell mountain, is a mountain in La Campana National Park in central Chile.
The Pacific and the mountain Aconcagua are visible from the summit on clear days.
Due to the area's expanding human population, considerable deforestation occurred on the previously heavily wooded areas of this mountain f... |
H Magnum | Guy-Hervé Imboua, better known by his stage name H Magnum, is a French rapper of Ivorian origin signed to the LoudSchool Production record label.
Guy-Hervé Imboua was born in Yopougon, Ivory Coast, and immigrated at the age of 9 year old to France and resided in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He started rapping in ... |
Chen Xingxu | Chen Xingxu (, born 31 March 1996) is a Chinese actor. He is known for his roles as Yang Kang in The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2017) and Gu Xiaowu / Li Chengyin in Goodbye My Princess (2019).
Early life and education
Chen Xingxu was born on 31 March 1996 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China. He was recruited by a scout wh... |
Bolmen | Bolmen () is a lake in Småland, Sweden. Covering 184 km², and with a maximum depth of 37 m, it supplies a considerable part of Skåne with fresh water by means of an 82-km long tunnel, the Bolmen Water Tunnel, built during the 1970s and 80s. Bolmen is situated at the heart of Finnveden, one of the small lands of today's... |
Poltava | Poltava (, ; ; ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. It has a popula... |
John Walter (judge) | Sir John Walter (1566 – 17 November 1630) was an English judge and Member of Parliament.
Walter was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and the Inner Temple. He was called to the bar in 1590 and became a bencher of his inn in 1605. He practised in the Exchequer and Chancery courts, becoming counsel to Oxford Univers... |
Upper Canada Brewing Company | Upper Canada Brewing Company is a division of Sleeman Breweries in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Founded by Frank Heaps and Larry Sherwood (of Granville Island Brewery) in Toronto, it started brewing beer in 1985 and grew to become one of the largest independent breweries in Canada.
While an independent, the brewery's loca... |
Tilyar Lake | Tilyar Lake is one of the major tourist attractions in the Indian state of Haryana. It is 70 kilometers from New Delhi on the Delhi – Fazilka highway and is located close to the city of Rohtak in Haryana.
The Tilyar Lake is only 42 km from Delhi border and Tilyar Zoo at Rohtak is well maintained (entry fee: INR10 - ad... |
Thomas T. Riley | Thomas Thomas Riley was the United States Ambassador to Morocco for 5 years. He was sworn in on December 21, 2003, and arrived at his post in January 2004. King Mohammed VI awarded Ambassador Riley the "Grand Croix du Ordre du Ouissam El Alaouite" (Grand Cross of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite). In January 2009 followi... |
1929 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team | The 1929 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team represented Santa Barbara State during the 1929 college football season.
Santa Barbara State competed as an Independent in 1929 and 1930. They had been a member of the California Coast Conference (CCC) from 1927 to 1928, but that conference disbanded after the 192... |
Álvaro Mejía (cyclist) | Álvaro Mejía Castrillón (born January 19, 1967 in Santa Rosa de Cabal, Risaralda Department) is a Colombian former professional road cyclist.
Mejía took up cycling at the age of 16, after watching Lucho Herrera, Fabio Parra and Óscar Vargas racing in the Vuelta a Colombia. He had previously competed in football and at... |
Islamophobia in the United Kingdom | Islamophobia in the United Kingdom refers to a set of discourses, behaviours and structures which express feelings of anxiety, fear, hostility and rejection towards Islam or Muslims in the United Kingdom. Islamophobia can manifest itself through discrimination in the workforce, negative coverage in the media, and viole... |
International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation | The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) was formed in 1992 to provide an opportunity for the major organizations in resuscitation to work together on CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and ECC (Emergency Cardiovascular Care) protocols. The name was chosen in 1996 to be a deliberate play on words r... |
Sabal gretheriae | Sabal gretheriae is a species of palm tree that is endemic to the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, where it is threatened by habitat loss. It was described by Hermililo J. Quero in 1991. The specific epithet, "gretheriae", honors Rosaura Grether, a botanist who worked with Quero. It is very similar to the Mexican Palme... |
Modicus minimus | Modicus minimus is a clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae. It is found on coarse substrates consisting of mixed shell fragments and gravel and on beds of brachiopods. Graham S. Hardy described this species in 1983 with a type locality of the channel between southern Rangitoto Island and D'Urville Island, New Zealand c... |
Ed Danowski | Edward Frank Danowski (September 30, 1911 – February 1, 1997) was an American football player who played quarterback and halfback in the National Football League (NFL). Danowski played for the New York Giants for seven seasons (1934–1939, 1941) and quarterbacked the team when they won the 1934 and 1938 NFL Championshi... |
Rafsanjan Airport | Rafsanjan Airport is an airport in Rafsanjan, Iran.
Airlines and destinations
References
Category:Airports in Iran
Category:Buildings and structures in Kerman Province
Category:Transportation in Kerman Province |
Sinikka Bohlin | Sinikka Bohlin (born 1947), is a Swedish social democratic politician who has been a member of the Riksdag in 1988–2010. She served as President of the Nordic Council in 2009.
Bohlin was born in Finland to a Finnish father and a Karelian-Belarusian mother, and moved to Sweden in 1968.
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Campo del Moro | Campo del Moro is a park in Madrid, Spain.
Category:Royal Palace of Madrid
Category:Parks in Madrid
Category:Palacio neighborhood, Madrid |
Top Gear Philippines | Top Gear Philippines is a magazine which is published by Summit Media - under license from BBC Worldwide and Immediate Media Company - and features Philippine-only content.
History
It was first published in September 2004 with British and Filipino contents published. A major change came when a Filipino editor-in-chief... |
Wuggubun Community | Wuggubun is a small Aboriginal community, located in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley.
Governance
The community is managed through its incorporated body, Wuggubun Aboriginal Corporation, incorporated under the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976 on 8 Augu... |
Mike Allingham | Michael James de Grey Allingham (born 6 January 1965, in Inverness) and educated at Strathallan, is a Scottish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
Allingham played 49 matches for Scotland, including first class, List A cricket, international and ICC Trophy matches. He also rep... |
Juan de la Cerda, 2nd Duke of Medinaceli | Juan de la Cerda, 2nd Duke of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain, (in full, ), (1485 – 20 January 1544) was a Spanish nobleman.
He was the son of Don Luis de la Cerda, 1st Duke of Medinaceli by third wife Catalina Bique de Orejón. Since his parents only married In Articulo Mortis in 1501, he was considered a bastard for the... |
Bourgue | Bourgue is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mathias Bourgue (born 1994), French tennis player
Maurice Bourgue (born 1939), French oboist, composer, and conductor
Category:French-language surnames |
Roger Leenhardt | Roger Leenhardt (23 July 1903 – 4 December 1985) was a French writer and filmmaker.
Early life
Born in a bourgeois Protestant family, this brilliant student of philosophy was very soon fascinated by cinema. Through a cousin, he started working for the newsreel program Éclair Journal and in 1934 set up his own product... |
Murai Jun | Murai Jun (村井ジュン, 1897 - 1970) was the founder of what is regarded today as the largest indigenous church in Japan - Iesu no Mitama Kyōkai, was born into a Methodist family in Tokyo and later studied theology at Aoyama College. While he was studying there, something troubled him deeply to the point of anticipating suic... |
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