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Harry Glickman | Harry Glickman (born May 13, 1924) is a retired American journalist, promoter, and sports executive. He was one of the founders of the Portland Trail Blazers, and was the team's president from 1987 to 1994. Glickman is considered as the "father" of professional sports in Oregon.
Early life and career
Glickman grew up... |
Vzemi ali pusti | Vzemi ali pusti ("Take It or Leave It") is the Slovenian version of Deal or No Deal, which is produced by POP TV. The show originally had a top prize of 15,000,000 tolarjev (about US$82,000), but it has changed to €70,000 (about US$97,000) since Slovenia's switch to the euro on New Year's Day, 2007.
Case Values (new)
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Microbial desalination cell | A microbial desalination cell (MDC) is a biological electrochemical system that implements the use of electro-active bacteria to power desalination of water in situ, resourcing the natural anode and cathode gradient of the electro-active bacteria and thus creating an internal supercapacitor. Available water supply has ... |
Shusha Guppy | Shushā Guppy (; née Shamsi Assār (); 24 December 1935 – 21 March 2008) was a writer, editor and, under the name of "Shusha", a singer of Persian and Western folk songs. She lived in London from the early 1960s.
Early life
Her father, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad-Kāzem Assār (), was a distinguished Shia theologian ... |
Tono River | The Tono River is the main river in Oecusse District, an exclave of East Timor. The river flows north, through the center of the district into the Sawu Sea, reaching the sea near Lifau. The area is the main rice producing place in Oecusse.
In June 2017 the Noefefan Bridge was inaugurated over the Tono River. The 380-m... |
Powiercie-Kolonia | Powiercie-Kolonia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Koło, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
The village has a population of 440.
References
Powiercie-Kolonia |
Lyric Suite | Lyric Suite may refer to:
Lyric Suite (Berg), a six-movement work for string quartet by Alban Berg (1925–26)
Lyric Suite (Grieg), an orchestration of four of the six piano pieces from Book V of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces, Op. 54
Lyric Suite, Op. 30, a four-movement work for string trio by Bernard Stevens (1958)
Lyric... |
Klaus Nomi (album) | Klaus Nomi is the debut album by German countertenor Klaus Nomi.
Track listing
Side one
"Keys of Life" (Klaus Nomi) – 2:26
"Lightning Strikes" (Lou Christie, Twyla Herbert) – 2:59
"The Twist" (Hank Ballard) – 3:10
"Nomi Song" (Kristian Hoffman) – 2:47
"You Don't Own Me" (John Medora, David White) – 3:39
Side two
"The ... |
Mandoto (district) | Mandoto is a district of Vakinankaratra in Madagascar.
References
Category:Districts of Madagascar |
Gunung Tua | Gunung Tua is a town in North Sumatra province of Indonesia and it is the seat (capital) of North Padang Lawas Regency.
Gunung Tua is a district which is also the administrative center (capital city) North Padang Lawas Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Formerly Gunung Tua is a district (part of South Tapanuli Regency)... |
Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season Cup | The Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season Cup, first played in 2008, is an annual league competition for Puerto Rico Soccer League. The top four teams advance to the PlayOff cup.
History
Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season Champions by Season
2008 Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season
The 2008 Puerto Rico... |
Katsuta High School | is a public school in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It accommodates approximately 600 students that are in their final three years of education. It was built in 1973 to accommodate for the outburst of children needing education in Hitachinaka. It is regulated by the Ibaraki Prefecture council.
Katsuta High S... |
Psalm 82 | Psalm 82 is the 82nd psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms, subtitled "A Psalm of Asaph". In the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 81 in a slightly different numbering system.
Uses
Judaism
Psalm 82 is the psalm of the day in the Shir Shel Yom on Tu... |
Henry Andrade Harben | Henry Andrade Harben FSA (12 August 1849 - 18 August 1910) was a barrister, insurance company director, politician, and historian of London. His highly regarded book, A Dictionary of London, was published posthumously in 1917.
Early life and family
Henry Harben was born at Hounslow, Middlesex, on 12 August 1849 to Sir... |
List of people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick | This is a list of notable people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick. Although not everyone in this list was born in Gloucester County, they all live or have lived in Gloucester County and have had significant connections to the communities.
This article does not include People from Bathurst as they have their own w... |
Only the Ring Finger Knows | is the title of a shōnen-ai light novel series written by Satoru Kannagi. It was made into a manga illustrated by Hotaru Odagiri, which has been licensed in the United States by Digital Manga Publishing.
Plot
In the school that Wataru Fujii goes to, when one wears matching rings on their right middle finger it is a s... |
Ecatzingo | Ecatzingo is a small town and municipality, in Mexico State in Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 54.71 km².
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 8247.
References
Category:Municipalities of the State of Mexico
Category:Populated places in the State of Mexico |
Zeke Wilson | Frank Ealton "Zeke" Wilson (December 24, 1869 – April 26, 1928) was a professional baseball pitcher. He played five seasons in Major League Baseball from 1895 to 1899, for the Boston Beaneaters, Cleveland Spiders and St. Louis Perfectos.
References
External links
Category:Major League Baseball pitchers
Category:Bost... |
İstersen Remixes | İstersen Remixes is the first remix album by Cypriot-Turkish singer Buray. It was released on 30 October 2015 by Sony Music.
Release and content
Following the high demands for a remix album after the release of his first studio album 1 Şişe Aşk, Buray released remixed versions of the album's lead single, "İstersen", ... |
Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip | Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip () is a 2002 Filipino romantic comedy and fantasy film directed by Wenn Deramas and produced by Star Cinema. The cast was led by Jolina Magdangal, with Leandro Muñoz and Rafael Rosell in his introducing film. It is Magdangal's first solo starring film and her first and only film opposite Mu... |
Thackery, Ohio | Thackery is an unincorporated community in southeastern Jackson and southwestern Mad River Townships in Champaign County, Ohio, United States. It lies along State Route 55, southwest of the city of Urbana, the county seat of Champaign County.
History
A post office called Thackery was established in 1894, and remained... |
List of mammals of Georgia (U.S. state) | This is a full list of the mammals native to the U.S state of Georgia.
The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the ... |
Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines | Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, Inc. was a cargo airline based in Pasay City, Philippines. The carrier served domestic services from the Philippines with two Boeing 727 freighter aircraft. The airline also had an agreement on selected routes flown by Air Philippines. PEAC was also an affiliate airline of TNT Airways,... |
Domagoj Duvnjak | Domagoj Duvnjak (born 1 June 1988) is a Croatian professional handball player for THW Kiel and the Croatian national team.
He became a member of the Croatia national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He also represented Croatia at the 2012, where Croatia won bronze, and 2016 Olympics. On 26 January ... |
Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi | Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi () (779–839) was an Abbasid prince, singer, composer and poet. He was the son of the third Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi and thus the half-brother of the poet and musician ‘Ulayya bint al-Mahdī.
He was not a full brother of Al-Mahdi's sons Al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, since his mother was not Al-Khayzu... |
Microsoft Phone | Terms such as Microsoft phone and Microsoft phones may refer to:
Windows Phone, a defunct family of mobile operating systems from Microsoft, successor to Windows Mobile
My Windows Phone, a user help service on said systems
Windows Mobile, a defunct family of mobile operating systems from Microsoft
Microsoft Mobile, a d... |
2017 Hockey India League | The 2017 Hockey India League, known as Coal India Hockey India League for sponsorship reasons, was the fifth season of the Hockey India League. It was held between 21 January and 26 February 2017. Kalinga Lancers beat Dabang Mumbai 4–1 in the final to win their first title. Six teams played 34 matches in six venues wit... |
Celebratory gunfire | Celebratory gunfire (also called aerial firing or happy fire) is the shooting of a firearm into the air in celebration. It is culturally accepted in parts of the Balkans, parts of Russia, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of the United States, even when illegal.
Common occasions for celebratory gunfir... |
2018 Governor General's Awards | The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018, and the winners were announced on October 30.
English
French
References
External links
Governor General's Awards
Category:Governor General's Awards
Governor General's Awards
Governor General's Awar... |
Petr Knop | Petr Knop (born 12 May 1994) is a Czech cross country skier.
He represented the Czech Republic at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun.
References
External links
Category:1994 births
Category:Living people
Category:Czech male cross-country skiers
Category:Tour de Ski skiers
Category:Cross-country... |
Whistleblower protection in Australia | Whistleblower protection in Australia is offered for certain disclosures under a patchwork of laws at both federal and state level. Eligibility for protection depends on the requirements of the applicable law and the subject matter of the disclosure. Not all disclosures are protected by law in Australia. At federal lev... |
Jundiaí | Jundiaí is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, in the Southeast Region of Brazil, located north of São Paulo. The population of the city is 401,896 (2015 est.), with an area of 431.21 km². The elevation is 761 m.
The GDP of the city is U$16.6 billion (R$36.6 billion). The budget for 2013 is U$787 million (R$1.63... |
Life Master | Life Master may refer to:
Life Master, a title awarded by the American Contract Bridge League for accumulating a specified number of masterpoints in contract bridge
Life Master, a title awarded by the United States Chess Federation for maintaining an Elo rating of over 2200 for at least 300 USCF-rated tournament che... |
Regions of Cape Verde | Cape Verde is an archipelago, and its islands are historically divided into two groups, or regions:
Barlavento (meaning literally Windward), including Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal and Boa Vista, in the northern side.
Sotavento (meaning literally Leeward), including Maio, Santiago, Fogo and... |
Ernest George Mardon | Ernest George Mardon (1928 – 6 March 2016) was an English professor who worked at the University of Lethbridge. He has several dozen books, mostly on the history of Alberta, Canada.
Born in Houston, Texas in 1928 to Professor Austin Mardon and Marie Dickey, Dr. Ernest G. Mardon was educated at Gordonstoun, Scotland, ... |
San Martín Chalchicuautla | San Martín Chalchicuautla is a town and municipality in San Luis Potosí in central Mexico.
References
Category:Municipalities of San Luis Potosí
Category:Populated places in San Luis Potosí |
International Bluegrass Music Museum | The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum is a bluegrass music museum in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States. The museum has interactive exhibits, posters, costumes, live instrument demonstrations, and the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Fame. The museum has 2004 m2 (21,000 square feet) of exhibits ... |
USS Wenonah (YT-148) | USS Wenonah (YT-148/YTB-148/YTM-148) was a Woban-class district harbor tug which served during World War II in California ports, and continued her service until she was struck by the Navy in 1974. On 17 August 2009, the Wenonah sank while berthed at Treasure Island, CA and was raised by the floating crane Left Coast L... |
Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award | The Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award was an annual college basketball award in the United States intended to honor shorter-than-average players who excelled on the court despite their size. The award, named in honor of James Naismith's daughter-in-law, was established for men in 1969 and for women in 1984. The men's awar... |
The Nightingale (2018 film) | The Nightingale is a 2018 Australian period drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Jennifer Kent. Set in 1825 in the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (now the Australian state of Tasmania), the film follows a young woman convict seeking revenge for a terrible act of violence committed against her fam... |
Kateh Posht-e Olya | Kateh Posht-e Olya (, also Romanized as Kateh Posht-e ‘Olyā; also known as Kateh Posht) is a village in Bala Khiyaban-e Litkuh Rural District, in the Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 585, in 146 families.
References
Category:Populated places in Amol C... |
For Common Cause | For Common Cause is a London-based charity that claims to combat inequality by crowdfunding skills, money, and equipment for people in need to build their own livelihoods. Volunteers and donors work with beneficiaries first-hand to see any personal impact.
For Common Cause identifies people on benefits who have compl... |
Jusuf Prazina | Jusuf "Juka" Prazina (; 7 September 1962 – 3/4 December 1993) was a Bosnian gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War.
A troubled teen, Prazina's youth allegedly contained numerous stays in various jails and correctional facilities of the former Yugoslavia. By the 1980s he had become involved in organiz... |
Tetris Plus | is a puzzle video game developed by Natsume and published by Jaleco for arcades in 1996, and was ported to the Game Boy, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation later that year. The game would be followed by a sequel, Tetris Plus 2, in 1997. Ports were to be developed for the Atari Jaguar and Nintendo 64 but these never released.... |
Schleppi Run | Schleppi Run is a tributary of the Rocky Fork Creek that flows through Franklin County, Ohio. The United States Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) classifies Schleppi Run as a stream with an identification number of 2704511. The feature name was entered into the GNIS system in September 201... |
Joseph Morvan | Joseph Morvan (Moustoir-Ac, 3 December 1924 – Colpo, 26 July 1999) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Morvan had his most successful year in 1956, when he won Paris–Bourges and stage in the Tour de France.
Major results
1949
Manche-Océan
1951
Manche-Océan
Quimper
1955
Manche-Océan
Comfort-Meillant
1956
Le ... |
Union Bank of Taiwan | Union Bank of Taiwan (UBOT; ) is a bank in Taiwan. It is headquartered in Taipei and employs 3,628 people.
Forbes states that Union Bank of Taiwan is a "medium-size lender", and is controlled by its founder, the billionaire Lin Rong-San.
History
The preparatory office for the bank was set up on 29 March 1989 and the ... |
66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment | The 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (or 66th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 66th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp McArthur in Urbana, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on December 17, 1861, under the command of Colonel Charles Candy.
The ... |
Þingeyraklaustur | Þingeyraklaustur was a monastery of the Order of Saint Benedict located in Þingeyrar on Iceland from 1133 until 1551. It was the first convent in Iceland and likely the last to be closed by the Icelandic Reformation.
History
The convent was founded by bishop Jón Ögmundsson in 1106, but it was not inaugurated until 113... |
Shabo, Kale | Shabo is a village in Kale Township, Kale District, in the Sagaing Region of western Burma.
References
External links
Maplandia World Gazetteer
Category:Populated places in Kale District
Category:Kale Township |
Louis Monrose | Antoine-Martial Louis Barizain also called Louis Monrose or Monrose (1811–1883) was a 19th-century French actor. The actor Claude Louis Séraphin Barizain (1783-1843) was his father. The actress Mademoiselle Monrose was his step sister due to her marriage with his brother, Eugène (Barizain).
He was appointed a professo... |
Anexodus | Anexodus is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Anexodus aquilus Pascoe, 1886
Anexodus sarawakensis Sudre, 1997
References
Category:Morimopsini |
Tirikaṭukam | Thirikatukam (Tamil: திரிகடுகம்) is a Tamil poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the Eighteen Lesser Texts (Pathinenkilkanakku) anthology of Tamil literature. This belongs to the 'post Sangam period' corresponding to between 100 and 500 CE. Thirikatukam contains 100 poems written by the poet Nallathanaar. The po... |
Ryans Run, Delaware | Ryans Run is a populated place in Kent County, Delaware, United States. The name was collected from ADC Map's Kent County, Delaware Street Map Book and entered into the Geographic Names Information System on February 28, 2008.
See also
Cheswold, Delaware
Leipsic, Delaware
References
Category:Populated places in Ken... |
Clémence Poésy | Clémence Guichard (born 30 October 1982), known professionally as Clémence Poésy (), is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions. She is known for the roles of F... |
Maude C. Davison | Maude C. Davison (27 March 1885 – 11 June 1956) was a Canadian-born, American nurse. After a career in Canada, she moved to the United States. She served as the Chief Nurse of the United States Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines during World War II. She received numerous awards for her military service in borth World ... |
Acts (album) | Acts is the debut studio album by the American rock band RNDM.
Reception
Acts received mixed to positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score of 65/100 based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."
Track listing
Modern Times - 3:06
Darkness - 4:15
The Disappearing Ones - 3:08
... |
De Magnete | De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert and his partner Aaron Dowling. A highly influential and successful book, it exerted an i... |
712th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) | The 712th Infantry Division (German: 712. Infanteriedivision) was a German Army infantry division in World War II.
Operational history
The 712th Infantry Division was raised in early 1941 as part of the 15th wave of Wehrmacht forces, and was moved to occupied France along the demarcation line with Vichy France. In th... |
Northampton (UK Parliament constituency) | Northampton was a parliamentary constituency (centred on the town of Northampton), which existed until 1974.
It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election. The constituency wa... |
Gluten exorphin | Gluten exorphins are a group of opioid peptides formed during digestion of the gluten protein. It has been hypothesized that people with autism and schizophrenia have abnormal leakage from the gut of these compounds, which then pass into the brain and disrupt brain function, a process collectively known as the opioid e... |
List of Big Ten Conference women's basketball regular season champions | The Big Ten Conference began sponsoring women's basketball during the 1982–83 basketball season. In February 1982 during the 1981–82 season, the conference held a tournament at Michigan State in which Ohio State defeated Illinois 69–66 in the championship game. The conference has listed this in some publications as a r... |
European Peace University | The European University Center for Peace Studies offered postgraduate political studies from 1990–2013 in Stadtschlaining, Austria.
The institution was founded in 1988 by Gerald Mader in his capacity as president of the ASPR, with the support of European UNESCO commissions, and is affiliated to the Austrian Study Cen... |
Green-rumped parrotlet | {{Speciesbox
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| species = passerinus
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Sabam Siagian | Sabam Pandapotan Siagian (4 May 1932 – 3 June 2016) was an Indonesian journalist. He served as the first editor in chief of The Jakarta Post. Siagian departed the Jakarta Post in 1991 upon his appointment as Ambassador of Indonesia to Australia.
From 1991 to 1995, while ambassador, Sabam lived in Canberra. He critici... |
John Blake (soldier) | John Young Filmore Blake or also known as John Y.F. Blake and J.Y.F. Blake was an Irish-American soldier and military writer. He was born October 6, 1856, in Bolivar, Missouri, United States, and died January 24, 1907, in New York City. He was an avowed advocate of resistance to British imperialism worldwide and fought... |
Hub Nelson | Hubert Milton J. Nelson (August 14, 1907 – May 10, 1981) was a professional ice hockey player. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nelson played professionally in United States Hockey League for the Minneapolis Millers (AHA) and St. Louis Flyers. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1978.
External... |
18th Avenue | 18th Avenue is an avenue in Brooklyn. It may refer to the following New York City Subway stations that serve the avenue:
18th Avenue (IND Culver Line); serving the F train
18th Avenue (BMT Sea Beach Line); serving the N train (W train part-time)
18th Avenue (BMT West End Line); serving the D train |
Tincture (heraldry) | Tincture is the limited palette of colours and patterns used in heraldry. The need to define, depict, and correctly blazon the various tinctures is one of the most important aspects of heraldic art and design.
Development and history
The use of tinctures dates back to the formative period of European heraldry in the ... |
Machineries of Empire | Machineries of Empire is a trilogy of military science fiction/science fantasy/space opera novels by the American writer Yoon Ha Lee and published by Solaris Books. It consists of Ninefox Gambit (2016), Raven Stratagem (2017) and Revenant Gun (2018). The trilogy follows the young infantry captain Kel Cheris and the tra... |
List of Eastern Catholic seminaries | This is list of Eastern Catholic seminaries in the world. They prepare candidates for the priesthood.
Alexandrian liturgical tradition
(Coptic) St. Leo’s Patriarchal Seminary in Maadi (1953), a suburb of Cairo
(Ethiopian) Seminary in Asmara, Eritrea
(Ethiopian) Seminary in Keren, Eritrea
(Ethiopian) Capuchin Francisc... |
Massimo Marchese | Massimo Marchese (born in Savona, Italy) is an Italian musician, lutenist, theorbist and recording artist.
Biography
Born in Savona in the Italian region of Liguria, Marchese was a student of Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music in London.
Collaborations
He collaborated with the pipa player Jiao Xiangwen and... |
Trissodoris pansella | Trissodoris pansella is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found on Rennell Island.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Category:Cosmopteriginae |
Frog Station, Wisconsin | Frog Station is an unincorporated community in the towns of Red River and Luxemburg, in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States. It sits at the junction of County Trunk K and County Trunk AB, about north of the village of Luxemburg.
Notes
Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Category:Unincorporated com... |
Swing yarder | A swing yarder is a mobile piece of heavy duty forestry equipment used for pulling logs from the woods to a logging road with cables. The swing yarder is also known as a grapple yarder.
In any logging operation, it is necessary to transport the harvested tree from the stump to a landing for transport to market (usual... |
Árpád Berczik | Berczik Árpád (July 8, 1842 in Temesvár – July 16, 1919 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer.
He studied laws and worked for the administration, Kisfaludy Társaság (1873) and Borsszem Jankó. He published his writings in publications such as Pesti Napló (1870–72), but he is mainly known for his theatrical plays.
Work... |
Bernardo Vargas | Bernardo Vargas (born March 31, 1939) is an Argentine former footballer.
Career
Vargas played with Talleres Cordoba in 1958. In 1960, he played in the Argentine Primera División with Racing, and later with Argentinos Juniors. In 1964, he played in the Mexican Primera División with Club América. In 1965, he played in ... |
Pyramid G1-d | Pyramid G1-d (also known as 'G Id', 'G1d', or 'GId') is a satellite pyramid within the Khufu Pyramid complex. It was discovered in 1993 during work to remove a road near the pyramid G1 (the Great Pyramid of Giza). It is located about 25m southeast of the southeast corner of the Great Pyramid of Giza and about 7 m west ... |
Mike Jimenez | Mike Jimenez (born May 15, 1987) is an American professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division. Jimenez fought Jesse Hart for the USBA Super Middleweight title on the undercard of Mayweather-Pacquiao.
References
External links
Category:1987 births
Category:Living people
Category:American male boxers
Catego... |
Fretless guitar | A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made. Fretless bass guitars are readily available, with most major guitar manufacturers producing fretless models. The... |
Kingfisher First Nation | Kingfisher First Nation (Oji-Cree language: ᑮᐡᑭᒪᓂᐦᓰᐋᐧᐴᕽ (Giishkimanisiiwaaboong, "At Kingfisher-waters"); unpointed: ᑭᐡᑭᒪᓂᓯᐊᐧᐳᐠ) is an Oji-Cree First Nation reserve located north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. It is accessible by air all year and by waterway in summer and ice roads in winter. As of December 2009, the Firs... |
Theresa Bowyer | Theresa Bowyer was a former Women's Editor of the Daily Times of Nigeria.
She is a graduate of the London School of Journalism. Bowyer started work with Daily Times in 1951, after two years on the job, she became the first Women's Editor. In 1961, she attended the 8th U. S. National Commission for UNESCO Conference in... |
2011–12 Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team | The 2011–12 Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team represented the University of Tulsa during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Golden Hurricane, led by seventh year head coach Doug Wojcik, played their home games at the Reynolds Center and are members of Conference USA. They finished the s... |
History of the Irish Guards | The history of the Irish Guards as an infantry regiment of the British Army dates from the Regiment's formation in 1900. The Irish Guards have an over one hundred year-long history during which the regiment have served with distinction in almost all of the United Kingdom's conflicts throughout the 20th and early 21st ... |
Boggs Island | Boggs Island is an island on the Ohio River in Marshall County, West Virginia between the cities of Bellaire, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia. It is a small island near the Ohio shore opposite the mouth of Boggs Run, from which it may take its name. Strip mine companies removed every mature tree on this island in the ... |
Mersing District | The Mersing District is a district in Johor, Malaysia. The district capital is Mersing Town.
Name
The “Mersing” name is derived from the Chinese “Mau Sheng Port” (茂盛港) since 1880 and further simplify to Mersing. Mersing's Chinese name was renamed to “Feng Sheng Port” (丰盛港), with the meaning of good harvest. There are ... |
1985 WCT Houston Shootout | The 1985 WCT Houston Shootout was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was a World Championship Tennis event which was part of the 1985 Nabisco Grand Prix, as the two organisations had reunited. It was played in Houston, United States from February 25 through March 3, 1985. John McEnroe won the s... |
The Black Sleep | The Black Sleep is a 1956 American independent horror film directed by Reginald LeBorg, and written by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. It stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Akim Tamiroff. Tor Johnson appears in a supporting role. The film was produced by Aubrey ... |
John Mattick | John Stanley Mattick (born 1950, Sydney) is an Australian molecular biologist known for his efforts to assign function to non-coding DNA. Mattick was the Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 2012 to 2018. He joined Genomics England in May 2018 as Chief Executive Officer.
Career
Mattick... |
Vivaldi (TV series) | Vivaldi was a Quebec television program broadcast in 1988.
Synopsis
This program is the biography of the famous composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). We can discover extracts of operas, sonatas, concertos, etcetera. It was broadcast in French. It was also nominated for a Gemini Award in 1988 for Best Performing Arts P... |
Arne Hamarsland | Arne Hamarsland (born 24 July 1933) is a Norwegian middle distance runner who specialized in 1500 metres. He represented IL Gular.
At the 1960 Summer Olympics he finished ninth in the 1500 m final in 3:45.0 minutes. He also competed at the 1958 European Championships without reaching the final. He became Norwegian cha... |
Gustavo Montoya | Gustavo Montoya (July 9, 1905 – July 12, 2003) was a Mexican artist considered to be a late adherent to the Mexican School of Painting, most often associated with Mexican muralism. He was born in Mexico City, from a family associated with the Porfirio Díaz regime and who had to hide during part of the Mexican Revolutio... |
Group information management | Group information management (GIM) is an extension of personal information management (PIM) "as it functions in more public spheres" as a result of peoples' efforts to share and co-manage information, and has been a topic of study for researchers in PIM, human–computer interaction (HCI), and computer supported coopera... |
John Bisby | John Charles Bisby (4 December 1876 – 1945) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half.
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Short-handed | Short-handed is a term used in ice hockey and several related sports, including water polo, and refers to having fewer skaters (players) on the ice during play, as a result of a penalty. The player removed from play serves the penalty in the penalty box for a set amount of time proportional to the severity of the infra... |
Satanas sa Lupa | Satanas sa Lupa (“Satan on Earth”), subtitled “nobelang pangkasalukuyan” (“Present-day Novel”), is a 1970 Tagalog-language novel by Filipino author and scriptwriter Celso Al. Carunungan, one of the “titans of Philippine literature”. The novel criticizes the Philippine government and society during the early part of th... |
Loving You (Feargal Sharkey song) | "Loving You" is a song by Irish singer Feargal Sharkey, released as a non-album single in 1985. It was written by Sharkey and Jo Callis, and produced by Queen drummer Roger Taylor and David Richards. "Loving You" reached No. 26 in the UK and remained in the charts for eleven weeks. A music video was created to promote ... |
The Chiltern School | The Chiltern School is a coeducational special school located over two sites in Dunstable and Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, England. The school accepts pupils from all over the Central Bedfordshire area.
Special education
The Chiltern School is for pupils between the ages of 3 and 19 years of age, whose special ed... |
Haldea striatula | Haldea striatula (formerly Virginia striatula), commonly called the rough earth snake, is a species of nonvenomous natricine colubrid snake native to the southeastern United States.
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766, as Coluber striatulus. Over the next two and a half centuries its sci... |
Acleris thomasi | Acleris thomasi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in India (Sikkim).
The wingspan is 21–23 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is greenish and brownish distally. There is an diffuse ochreous-yellow fascia between the disc and the tornus, suffused with brown distally and tornally. There are... |
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