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Artūras Seja (born 17 March 1996) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won K-1 200m silver in the 2018 European Championships and is also a world medallist at U23 level. | 30 | 168 | eef35d200b7bed5a1d4d761802846ef725ac16c4 |
In 2015 Saulwick created a piece called "Endings", which incorporated portable record players, reel-to-reel recorders and live performers, Saulwick, folk singer Paddy Mann (AKA Grand Salvo) and Peter Knight. It was created to explore the ways people engage with death. Co-funded by Melbourne's Arts House and Performance... | 397 | 2,575 | 5e5809f47d64198cf608c9f3aea3c0f32a9f49a4 |
The renovation also earned a 2003 Architect’s Choice Award, sponsored by the "Rocky Mountain News", the American Institute of Architects’ Denver chapter and the city and county of Denver. Upon receiving his Master of Architecture in 1980, Ford landed a job with W.C. Muchow and Partners Architects in Denver, where he re... | 415 | 2,653 | e4458141db66b3de651d17dc77a6eff01f15a33a |
Entiat Glacier is in Wenatchee National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington, on the northeast slopes of Mount Maude. Disconnected at several spots, the Entiat Glacier is in a cirque above the Entiat Valley and is the source of the Entiat River. The southern section of the glacier is the largest. | 52 | 299 | a2b8a6000d0311b25024a140c925dde29d550e2d |
Systems Biology Graphical Notation The Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN) is a standard graphical representation intended to foster the efficient storage, exchange and reuse of information about signaling pathways, metabolic networks, and gene regulatory networks amongst communities of biochemists, biologists, a... | 412 | 2,819 | 652f19aecc491c7bde52eacb7043e8f7e418b507 |
There are deep connections between the theory of semigroups and that of automata. For example, the regular languages over "A" are the homomorphic pre-images in "A"∗ of subsets of finite monoids. For example, assuming an alphabet "A" = {"a", "b", "c"}, its Kleene star "A"∗ contains all concatenations of "a", "b", and "c... | 335 | 1,828 | 6b1232436bfded4ddadc3704ac985e6f4b01b7e4 |
Instead of a mask, Pedrolino is said to have been defined, according to some Commedia historians, by a white "floured" makeup, also known as "infarinato", which later inspired, in part, the makeup of the modern-day white-faced clown. Pedrolino first appears among the records of the Commedia in 1576, when his interprete... | 336 | 2,145 | 4a0ca5f04a0089f2c3b90c5fcea533fcf3de77fc |
Some of the situations for doing collaborative information seeking in this survey were travel planning, shopping, and literature search. Shah, similarly, using personal interviews, identified three main reasons why people collaborate. As far as the tools and/or methods for CIS are concerned, both Morris and Shah found ... | 417 | 2,835 | e0f66110fe5de7b88707d46272339a7450901e03 |
The redundancy in the name City of Temple City came when Temple City incorporated on May 25, 1960. Merrill Fitzjohn, the founder and original owner of Fitzjohn Jewelry store on Las Tunas Drive, was appointed as the city's first mayor. Temple City is a destination for East Asian, Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Lat... | 425 | 2,632 | 98f6242022ea8b4e0fc15572b40cc3a8ee350027 |
According to Biafra, the suit resulted from his refusal to allow one of the band's most well-known singles, "Holiday in Cambodia", to be used in a commercial for Levi's Dockers; Biafra opposes Levi's because of his belief that they use unfair business practices and sweatshop labor. Biafra maintained that he had never d... | 374 | 2,335 | 1f10d6baffa4fb3b9965f5387cbf13371f799139 |
Bailey was the first paralyzed person to win the WSA Championships (Trestles 2009), as well as the first paralyzed person to surf "Mavericks" (Half Moon Bay, California). In March 2010, Christiaan Bailey and Aaron Fotheringham were selected by the IPC or International Paralympic Committee to be a part of "Team Extreme"... | 185 | 1,203 | 209e68a311c3a56fbc1f272995841c264f48af75 |
The contest was heavily promoted by WWC, with both wrestlers making appearances in television and radio stations. The first contest between them took place in a tag team match, where Huertas González and Díaz won by pinning Gilbert's partner, Laureano. The main match between both was left inconclusive, seeing intervent... | 410 | 2,585 | 4c4ef42e6a30d9795520ff1064b42b3ff9eb34a8 |
Jennifer Hyman is the CEO and co-founder of Rent the Runway, a fashion and technology/logistics company. Jennifer Hyman grew up in New Rochelle, New York, and attended New Rochelle High School. She received her BA in social sciences from Harvard University in 2002. She later attended Harvard Business School, where she ... | 258 | 1,617 | 3dacd7b6edf4eb6bf4bbefeb095c1217adb2f0fa |
Armando Iannucci Armando Giovanni Iannucci (; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, and radio producer. Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow followed by the University of Oxford, leaving graduate work on a D.Phil. about John Milton to pursue a care... | 412 | 2,464 | 28da0cae82c55518dc5f7add19af4f40c206fff7 |
2014 BYU Cougars women's soccer team The 2014 BYU Cougars women's soccer team represented BYU during the 2014 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The Cougars were coached for a 20th consecutive season by Jennifer Rockwood, who was co-coach in 1995 and became the solo head coach in 1996. Before 1995 BYU women's socce... | 465 | 3,036 | aec23a9a2d59b6c4e7591aeb95aa30f0b032ab0f |
Troon F.C. Troon Football Club (also known as The Seasiders or The Seagulls) are a Scottish football team based in Ayrshire. They compete in the West of Scotland Football League. Formed in 1946, they are based at Portland Park in the town of Troon in Ayrshire. The ground has a current capacity of 2,000 and is standing ... | 373 | 2,244 | 5159f9212948a2a7f57d1e6921ff3290b08f7f3b |
1958 French constitutional referendum A constitutional referendum was held in France on 28 September 1958. Voters were asked whether they approved of the adoption of a constitution for the French Fifth Republic written by Charles de Gaulle. It was overwhelmingly approved, with 82.6% in favour. Voter turnout was 84.9% i... | 82 | 567 | de46365de1ae666d8054a6d2a6e88e4099b92493 |
Bach opened his review with the comment that "If you're unfamiliar with the title phrase of François Recanati's latest book, you'll naturally think he's proposing an alternative to truth-conditional semantics. And you'll be right. But not in the way you'd expect. And not in the way he intends." and summed up by saying ... | 132 | 859 | cc1a4c6a1564b2532f08f74ae39a4b292855a48f |
However, the BC Angels were expected to participate in the second Pacific Cup between the Angels and the Seattle Mist scheduled for December 2013. On 3 October, it was announced that the Angels would be replaced in the game by the Los Angeles Temptation, citing not enough preparation, although a few players from the An... | 68 | 395 | 226c8ace0395f72ae66df90c78425e48ccf2621b |
Frank N. Blanchard Frank Nelson Blanchard (December 19, 1888 – September 21, 1937) was an American herpetologist, and professor of zoology at the University of Michigan from which institution he received his Ph.D. He is credited with describing several new subspecies, including the broad-banded water snake, "Nerodia fa... | 324 | 2,126 | a6134be2363a4a0f56c9a4ed16c414b52c22e53d |
Rain rates of up to per hour contributed greatly to breaking daily and even monthly rainfall records in the region. The weather station at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport observed all-time record daily rainfall accumulations on both August 26 and 27, measured at and respectively. The total of of rain in ... | 296 | 1,873 | d493dbe76aeb63d26f2ddb310718e0a563883dbb |
In 1881 he added a glass-roofed gallery to his home at Little Holland House, which was open to the public at weekends, further increasing his fame. In 1884 a selection of 50 of his works were shown at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, believed to have been the first such exhibition by any artist. Mammon originally... | 387 | 2,310 | 983dc9a2c79d2ced388e8b586d27c3cf1acd8b05 |
Mavallipura is a village to the north of Bangalore. A part of the village, about north of the main part of the city was used as an illegal landfill from 2003 to 2015 resulting in an ecological disaster. The village of Mavallipura had about a population of about 4500 with many involved in livestock rearing, grazing shee... | 424 | 2,453 | 5030d815b72fc4922795891d6901d2f805804636 |
This mode is more economical for large networks with lightly loaded signaling links. The quasi-associated mode of signaling is the predominant choice of modes in North America. SS7 separates signaling from the voice circuits. An SS7 network must be made up of SS7-capable equipment from end to end in order to provide it... | 338 | 2,071 | 2b43f187779a6c49c39df87d5a5f633e07dc18e1 |
Mick Pointer Michael "Mick" Pointer (born 22 July 1956), originally from Brill, Buckinghamshire, England, is an English drummer. He is known for his work in the neo-progressive rock bands Marillion and Arena. Pointer was the original drummer and a founding member of Marillion. He appeared on the band's debut EP "Market... | 435 | 2,633 | 6023547e3de830a33d06e98e818454ceacab4c37 |
From the riders that began the race, 133 made it to the finish in Milan. The teams entering the race were: The starting peloton did include the previous year's winner Gianni Bugno. Claudio Chiappucci was believed to be in great form coming into the race. According to Paolo Viberti of "El País", Bugno came in as the odd... | 398 | 2,305 | 658679f23b98b5238946a39f02d7515a4276b135 |
His brother Thomas Hormel is an American composer and environmental philanthropist. Hormel has five children, fourteen grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. He lives in San Francisco, California with his husband, Michael P. Nguyen. He is a member of the progressive donor group the Democracy Alliance. | 44 | 308 | 74d803a0ba0c0dac43c0124567b58ce263e6b7d2 |
This meant the X330 carried a much smaller price premium over the standard models, as compared to its predecessor. This mid-1995 model change also includes a revision in the rear suspension that allowed adjustment of toe-in. The XJR was introduced as a high-performance sport model, and it was Jaguar's first-ever superc... | 345 | 2,140 | 5f2ea698fb91d0b5fd5cb04e09f9100b2391b1d2 |
Krishna Bharat (born 7 January 1970) is a founding adviser for Grokstyle Inc, a visual search company which got acquired by Facebook and Laserlike Inc., an interest search engine startup based on Machine Learning which got acquired by Apple. He is a research scientist. At Google, Mountain View, he led a team developing... | 317 | 1,981 | abee3064bcd74cf6a62846b6ca78ffdc0244e596 |
John Martin (judge) John Martin (1784 – October 17, 1840) was a notable judge of the Cherokee Tribal Court. He was a highly educated member of the tribe, although he was only one-eighth Cherokee. A biographer describes him as blond, blue-eyed and a person who could easily pass for white. He had no formal training in la... | 420 | 2,409 | 2a538cb1e7fa1c484c43ad11023c792705a18d6a |
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,873 people, 1,848 households, and 1,367 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,827.2 people per square mile (1,093.9/km²). There were 1,906 housing units at an average... | 345 | 1,909 | 9dcf6567ba5a7f4056eab93ed1e1ef6fa7a66938 |
The Best of Tex Perkins: Songs from My Black Cattle Dog is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-songwriter Tex Perkins. The album includes solo tracks as well as The Cruel Sea and Tex, Don and Charlie tracks and was released in August 2009. The album was supported by a national tour. The title "Songs from My Blac... | 182 | 1,045 | 87f9ab3aa03856d685de9f6c31868e0951e9c4be |
German chancellor Gerhard Schröder sent forces to Afghanistan as part of NATO operations of the U.S.led war in Afghanistan because due to Germany having a long experience with terrorism itself, Schröder declared solidarity with the United States after the September 11 attacks in 2001. When Schröder left office, Germany... | 399 | 2,549 | 46a83530a6cc27009a58d670144549f077846e04 |
Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd. is a winemaking company headquartered in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. Diamond Estates has three Wine Boutiques offering wine tasting and shopping: The Winery in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, The Wine Store in Toronto, Ontario and De Sousa Wine Cellars in Beamsville, Ontario. They a... | 98 | 605 | 998f5310ed774d2735876cf475b79dd3fe8e720d |
Deth Specula is a Santa Cruz "neo-bronto" five-piece rock band. Deth Specula was one of the first ten bands on The Internet Underground Music Archive and used the Internet to broadcast a live music concert from the Cowell Courtyard at the SCO Forum held on the University of California in Santa Cruz on August 23, 1994. ... | 352 | 2,030 | 30fa55aa0c4aa7e60c5474bbd3693072d0296b93 |
He retired from the Greyston Foundation in 1996 to pursue socially engaged Buddhist projects through the Zen Peacemakers. As of 2004 the Foundation had developed $35 million worth in real estate development projects in Westchester County, New York. The Foundation offers HIV/AIDS programs, provides job training and hous... | 399 | 2,629 | 9d83d3ed7b05812eb29a8e854a0c1774167b63fb |
Cameron had intended to have "I See You" released as single, as he thought it was capable of matching the success of Dion's "My Heart Will Go On", however Lewis expressed her reluctancy in the choice as she had only released the lead single from "Echo", "Happy", the month before. "I See You" is a pop ballad, which last... | 433 | 2,346 | 7aa3b00bc8961e7fd2b1ba81480c68c60164ffec |
In all cases, the character was voiced by David McCharen. The Shredder's costume was, in the first movie, originally the same as in the original comic, with a red color. However, this was changed in the sequel to a violet color, reflecting the more cartoonish nature of the second film. In both movies, he also had a sil... | 383 | 2,287 | 56a4efca370e99b8c04db406136a702a5326af16 |
God appraises Adam and Eve most of all his creations, and appoints them to rule over all the creatures of the world and to reside in the Garden of Eden. Adam is more gregarious than Eve, and yearns for her company. His complete infatuation with Eve, while pure of itself, eventually contributes to his deciding to join h... | 412 | 2,347 | 7f94e0e6149d9b1f0c1e783953db593ee72f9491 |
María Luisa Elío Bernal (17 August 1926 – 17 July 2009) was a Spanish writer and actress exiled in Mexico. She was an inspiration for Gabriel García Márquez. She wrote and acted in an autobiographical film, "El balcón vacío" (The Empty Balcony), which was one of the first films to depict the life of Spanish exiles duri... | 414 | 2,396 | 5ad4db4079b0379499f9290e95e55a0009cd7aae |
Vachellia drepanolobium (syn. Acacia drepanolobium), commonly known as whistling thorn (family Fabaceae), is a swollen-thorn acacia native to East Africa. The whistling thorn grows up to 6 meters tall. It produces a pair of straight spines at each node, some of which have large bulbous bases. These swollen spines are n... | 330 | 2,127 | 55766d5715b4fd943d0ec4d0b7cd74364253fee4 |
Paul Murphy, Baron Murphy of Torfaen Paul Peter Murphy, Baron Murphy of Torfaen, KCMCO, KSG, PC (born 25 November 1948) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015, and served in the Cabinet from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2007 to 2008 in the roles of Northe... | 405 | 2,400 | ccef1e44ca936aa255cb97a44780dfd3f2b97bac |
Bellum Batonianum The Bellum Batonianum () was a military conflict fought in the Roman province of Illyricum in the 1st century AD, in which an alliance of native peoples of the two regions of Illyricum, Dalmatia and Pannonia, revolted against the Romans. The rebellion began among native peoples who had been recruited ... | 361 | 2,220 | 3173e2fdfb00126fc750813ec80b5e7cac8a8352 |
Bulging Lake is a lake in the Unorganized Part of Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is in the Hudson Bay drainage basin and within Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. The primary inflow, at the southwest, and outflow, at the northwest, is the Haggart River. The Haggart River flows via Carroll Lake, the ... | 67 | 405 | 52e407b34f4dff1084d498e99d2d3c3bd0d3d54e |
Netherlands Reformed Churches The Netherlands Reformed Churches are a conservative Reformed Protestant Christian denomination in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The denomination came into existence in 1967 out of a schism within the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated). The history of the Netherlands Reform... | 391 | 2,559 | 8503d24d4a4525fb445de950d9ee533fd6a4bb21 |
Antibody testing can also support medical professionals in deciding which staff take on the riskiest tasks (for example, intubating infected patients) as they can identify healthcare workers who have been exposed and are immune. | 34 | 228 | fbb07415f67c4177c91d7b706cae3f23632614ee |
Most producers of Musigny also happen to own or exploit land in Bonnes Mares. There are two dozen Premier Cru vineyards, most at least of good quality. One bears special mention, however. Les Amoureuses, a small 5.4 ha climat is considered better than the other 23 Premiers Crus. It is generally considered to be a very ... | 110 | 620 | f6eedff35716f5fa6ce9e9e0abbe547127dfd39b |
Ponabalia Massacre was the mass murder of 20 Bengali Muslims in Ponabalia by members of the British Indian Police on orders of the district magistrate on 7 March 1927. On 7 March 1927, Bengali Hindus were going towards the Ponabalia Shiva temple in a procession on the occasion of Shivaratri in Ponabalia, Nalchity, Jhal... | 264 | 1,661 | ba2a6a04fd297ec954b824459683a898b01c6cff |
Howrah–New Delhi Duronto Express The Howrah-New Delhi Duronto Express is a Duronto Class train which operates between capital of West Bengal,Kolkata and the national capital New Delhi. This train belongs to the Eastern Zone of Indian Railways. This train runs with five stops between these two cities. There is no unrese... | 242 | 1,432 | 058b1b11ea4f0ab1d6062eb5955ebcd44dddea8d |
Atefeh Razavi (, born March 6, 1969) is an Iranian actress and make-up artist. | 14 | 78 | 5a7ce4fedde0443096d8eb2ac6ded9f5b97b1d5e |
Do Ab, North Khorasan Do Ab (, also Romanized as Do Āb, Dūāb, and Dowāb) is a village in Sivkanlu Rural District, in the Central District of Shirvan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 104, in 34 families. | 44 | 247 | 7b131ede8c9a2d33b6cd4c889a7f05d74d73aaba |
Kyven Gadson Kyven Ross Gadson (born July 9, 1992) is an American amateur wrestler. Currently a senior competitor in amateur freestyle wrestling, earlier Gadson, while wrestling for the Iowa State Cyclones, was a three-time All-American in NCAA Division I collegiate wrestling and won the 2015 NCAA Division I Wrestling ... | 405 | 2,618 | 799f716d40a3f8eb3c3b98136f6c75b2e63521a6 |
Carson Boren Carson Dobbins Boren (December 12, 1824 – August 19, 1912) was an early founder of Seattle, Washington (see Denny Party). His sister Mary Ann was married to Arthur Denny, and his sister Louisa to David Denny. Boren was the first King County Sheriff. Seattle's Boren Avenue is named in his honor. Although he... | 395 | 2,330 | 01f09bfe811afa8dac186e9476a04ab34f27e39b |
As a senior, she won both the AAI American Award and the Honda Sports Award. She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013. After ending her UCLA career, Bhardwaj returned to elite competition. At the 2001 National Championships, she won the vault title and placed third in the all-around. She was named ... | 420 | 2,458 | 50062813a924fd96538e57d07ab56a5502ffbff6 |
The Wraith (1957 film) The Wraith is a live television comedy play presented on Australian television in 1957. Broadcast on ABC, it was originally telecast in Sydney, and shown in Melbourne via a kinescope recording. It was made at a time when Australian drama was rare. Duration was 30 minutes, in black and white. It w... | 138 | 790 | 2c4fba48d6a58e4592b781752bbed954c7e6bde2 |
Since then, ext2 has been a testbed for many of the new extensions to the VFS API. Features such as the withdrawn POSIX draft ACL proposal and the withdrawn extended attribute proposal were generally implemented first on ext2 because it was relatively simple to extend and its internals were well understood. On Linux ke... | 413 | 2,429 | b5868eff83d80dc5ceecbd0a3abc0ca1926adf19 |
Ignatius Elias III Saint Ignatius Elias III (1867 – 13 February 1932) was the Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1917 until his death in 1932. Nasri was born in 1867 in the city of Mardin, son of Chorepiscopus Abraham and Mary, and had four brothers and three sisters. He was cared for by ... | 412 | 2,384 | 9cb11cdaa40be182d8febc8db1957daeb40aefe3 |
Gothami Kanishta Vidyalaya is an elementary (1–5) and high school (6–11) founded in 1932 in the city of Gampaha in Sri Lanka. Started as a girls school, it now is a mixed school. The school is controlled by the Provincial Council. https://www.facebook.com/#! | 42 | 258 | a9c772cfe8877534ef6c5825998f6c8854d5a5ba |
On their 2002 album, "Harikalar Diyari (Wonderland,)" their dreamy sound features the floaty, mysterious voices of three young Turkish singing sensations, Nil, Bora and the teenage Dilara. In 2013, Wonderland performed at Drom in the Lower East Side, promoted by Serdar Ilhan and the New York-based Turkish educator and ... | 360 | 2,293 | 9b011c3bbaabb6705f23203b22595d54ce51d471 |
For example, the components of α Canis Majoris (Sirius) are α Canis Majoris A and α Canis Majoris B (Sirius A and Sirius B); the components of 44 Boötis are 44 Boötis A and 44 Boötis B; the components of ADS 16402 are ADS 16402A and ADS 16402B; and so on. The letters AB may be used together to designate the pair. In th... | 348 | 1,976 | c13ada7e760bda8856eb8266e1a5e3955df84662 |
Bay Area (disambiguation) The Bay Area is the urban area surrounding the San Francisco Bay in Northern California. | 18 | 114 | f26baeae49ee30457644b92f1e8d080260e154c7 |
Expanding on Galton's classification system, Sir Henry developed the Henry Classification System between the years 1896 and 1925. He was primarily assisted by Azizul Haque who developed a mathematical formula to supplement Henry's idea of sorting in 1024 pigeon holes based on fingerprint patterns, and Hem Chandra Bose,... | 445 | 2,766 | 4c931c098925756a13654371f029ca10d1a91aaa |
Mesothen perflava is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by William James Kaye in 1911. It is found in Brazil. | 23 | 126 | dfaaae1cbfcaed75858a356a783ddb4b270218c4 |
Ben Hockin Benjamin Hockin Brusquetti (born 27 September 1986) is an Olympic freestyle swimmer, who has swum international for both Great Britain and Paraguay (his father is British, his mother is Paraguayan). Hockin represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay swimming events ... | 167 | 974 | 48f8626d98d5c5c5c1ff744c15ed80cc55312cf2 |
Hypocrea is a genus of fungi in the family Hypocreaceae. The widespread genus is estimated to contain 171 species that grow on rotten wood, and are often associated with other fungi. Anamorphic genera associated with "Hypocrea" include "Acremonium", "Gliocladium", "Trichoderma", and "Verticillium". "Hypocrea" was circu... | 103 | 713 | d9f07482f7c9b776a69a8ae39022a38ecd585fe2 |
The Thumbs were an American punk rock band from Baltimore, Maryland, United States. They were active from 1995 until approximately 2002. They were known for having an intense touring ethic, having completed nine U.S. tours, and two Japanese tours between 1997 and 2001. The band was formed by Mike Hall, Bobby Borte, and... | 114 | 695 | bb172889a7cddf87bd735923e4391b9868258343 |
Curse of the Bambino The Curse of the Bambino was a superstitious sports curse evolving from the failure of Major League Baseball team Boston Red Sox to win the World Series in the 86-year period from to . While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner. This misfortune be... | 431 | 2,461 | 4e8536c8032b0dd811bc7efe3040591f92514e9b |
1999 Kremlin Cup – Women's Doubles Qualifying The 1999 Kremlin Cup was a WTA tennis tournament, played on indoor carpet courts. | 21 | 127 | bf955fbb267133d61136422e2c9840e2a3f530a6 |
Jeff Harmer Jeffrey Allan 'Jeff' Harmer (born 19 September 1949) is a former senior Australian public servant. He was appointed Secretary of the Department of Education, Science and Training in 2003 and served in a series of Secretary-level roles until his retirement in December 2010. Jeff Harmer was born on 19 Septemb... | 327 | 2,080 | db76cd349cc55d55898339e0479655431177a866 |
Bowed string instrument Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which the instrument emits as sound. The Arabic rabāb is the earliest known bowed instrument, and the ancestor of all European bowed instrume... | 73 | 450 | 5ba7440af832d6e15a4d458d6c9a6ba1c0cce174 |
It should not however, be purposely poured down the sink or freshwater drain. People can be exposed to Stoddard solvent in the workplace by breathing it in, swallowing it, skin contact, and eye contact. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set the legal limit (Permissible exposure limit) for Sto... | 108 | 673 | e90ec005078e7ee2538b407e961a28868c83b6fb |
Martina Jäschke (later Scheidewig then Fülle, born 6 May 1960 in Merseburg) is a German diver and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where she received a gold medal in the 10 metre platform event. | 40 | 229 | 6220a8068c95c7e98b094e1be992849407c19fad |
Mayflower (passenger train) The Mayflower is a named passenger train service from Kingswear to London Paddington Its starts at Kingswear and ends in London. "The Mayflower" name was retained by British Railways and one of the long lines of the First Great Western. "The Mayflower" was inaugurated in 1957. It is the loca... | 63 | 385 | 79ce2b9a2a1e0a8bbd1cfd9d1a0a30ca7b8555d1 |
Land clearing reductions, the majority of the time, create biodiversity benefits in a vast expanse of land regions. Concerns, however, arise when the density and area of vegetation increases the grazing pressure could also increase in other areas, causing land degradation. A recent report by the Australian CSIRO found ... | 455 | 3,069 | 1934bf9103f7c4b97344850d513a0b0a7353d960 |
Calopteron terminale, the end band net-wing, is a species of net-winged beetle in the family Lycidae. It is found in North America. "Calopteron terminale" is distinguished from other members of "Calopteron" by its "transverse depression across the elytra". It is found in woodlands, particularly in eastern North America... | 77 | 504 | 0830c18d8da1c03cb4af535ec51a93a418c3f17a |
Regency Mall was configured in a Y-shaped layout. Its surrounding landscape was terraced, providing ground-level entrances to the upper and lower levels. The mall's interior was decorated in an alabaster motif with brown accents, and its floors were finished in brown-speckled terrazzo tile. Live trees were planted at i... | 425 | 2,593 | 4f6f21964042d7dac7d654ff2aa7e918df0ba41d |
Vassilakis stated that the merger was brought on by the size of their competitors in the EU, which made it necessary for Greece's two main airlines to merge to create a "national airline champion" with enlarged presence in the European market as well as seamless coverage of even the most remote Greek islands. Vgenopoul... | 430 | 2,710 | 3037107596b703555ba58da70a64b67ce7512acf |
Koulsy Lamko (born 1959) is a Chadian-born playwright, poet, novelist and university lecturer. Born in Dadouar, Lamko left his country for Burkina Faso in 1979 due to the beginning of the civil war. There, he became acquainted with Thomas Sankara and involved with the Institute of Black Peoples in Ouagadougou. Lamko sp... | 226 | 1,395 | 29812a633543695526b6d00d8c1f4c99c880bded |
She campaigned for promotional prospects and equal pay for women throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In 1970 she was appointed to the women's advisory committee of ICTU, opposing at preferential treatment of professional women over industrial workers. During her presidential address at the IWWU's 1973 annual convention, sh... | 298 | 1,840 | 274bb14bac2d448bc03c0dd0c4b518395039d099 |
Varbitsa, Haskovo Province Varbitsa is a village in the municipality of Dimitrovgrad, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria. | 18 | 128 | c73af24804c56e3e017595cb73a9b1d638066831 |
Today, the village lives mainly on logging and also a little farming. There are still some cultivated fields in the Aranc Valley but this activity is currently experiencing a strong decline. The village is economically dependent on Hauteville-Lompnes and its watershed. However, there are actions to promote tourism, wit... | 411 | 2,378 | 8e76fc5d6f01117c32fb34e1a2916815bfa72a79 |
In each of our models, we calculate both "hue" and what this article will call "chroma", after Joblove and Greenberg (1978), in the same way—that is, the hue of a color has the same numerical values in all of these models, as does its chroma. If we take our tilted RGB cube, and project it onto the "chromaticity plane" ... | 400 | 2,235 | 34bcc088aa91098d87a61b16a6c9a14b2382b277 |
After touring with the band since Austin's departure, fiddle player Allie Kral and mandolin player Jake Jolliff became official members of Yonder Mountain String Band in May 2015. Frog Pad Records is an independent record label run by the Yonder Mountain String Band. Used as a platform to launch their CDs, the label ha... | 73 | 430 | 304e0c9bcdc4e06610bf062ecd40e3d5729eedb5 |
He became brevet Colonel in 1814 and CB in 1815. He became a fellow of the Royal Society on 25 January 1816. In 1816 appeared his "Essay on the Principles and Construction of Military Bridges", in 1819, "Observations on the Motives, Errors and Tendency of M. Carnots System of Defence", and in the following year his "A ... | 383 | 2,249 | fd5d8615650ffdfcffe7adc11eba4dfe48e8be3a |
Another reason for Bond's decision to leave Gordonvale was described in The Tasmanian Tramp: Upon leaving Gordonvale, Bond gave a joint five-year lease to the Hobart Walking Club and the Launceston Walking Club. The clubs were to be responsible for the maintenance of the homestead buildings. After Gordonvale, Bond cond... | 97 | 591 | 615f3b891343130cc4383c33c0d09bbe8e1ed2d2 |
Hobbes is named after the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who held what Watterson describes as "a dim view of human nature." He typically exhibits a greater understanding of consequences than Calvin, although rarely intervenes in Calvin's activities beyond a few oblique warnings. The friendship between the two ... | 441 | 2,696 | 74b0029607163b3e8fae50117f57fd8743d03fba |
Their Radio Show - Sports Line aired in Las Vegas for 7 years working with KSHP 1400 General Manager Brett Grant, Fred Weinberg of KRLV 1340 and Lotus Radio in Reno and Las Vegas and Lee Pete - the legendary Las Vegas Sports Broadcaster. NSN is a partner with the NIAA and has worked with UNLV and UNR regarding radio an... | 310 | 1,902 | bab8c68f72a3daffad87786dc73248a445c3d867 |
John A. Canavan John Aloysius Canavan (August 3, 1896 – October 2, 1963) was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1938 to 1939. | 33 | 191 | 6aa76b4147c42af640907f6bc661b5f41155b49c |
The dominant luminous component in a cluster of galaxies is the 107 to 108 kelvin intracluster medium. The emission from the intracluster medium is characterized by thermal bremsstrahlung. This radiation is in the energy range of X-rays and can be easily observed with space-based telescopes such as Chandra X-ray Observ... | 380 | 2,489 | 1df3cb3719feb6f7f0f0a0f44b1672ffbefa67d6 |
Terahertz metamaterial A terahertz metamaterial is a class of composite metamaterials designed to interact at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The terahertz frequency range used in materials research is usually defined as 0.1 to 10 THz. This bandwidth is also known as the terahertz gap because it is noticeably underutilize... | 389 | 2,736 | 86d1e72f1b55aba92d0ccfcd39e1a172ff9f18a6 |
Sylvia T. Ceyer Sylvia Teresse Ceyer is a professor of chemistry at MIT, holding the John C. Sheehan Chair in Chemistry. Until 2006, she held the chemistry chair of the National Academy of Sciences. Ceyer graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan in 1974 with an A.B. in chemistry. In 1979, she was awarded a Ph.D... | 412 | 2,625 | 13d5feca5a800d34dab35d820cc11cb879d875d3 |
The Office for National Statistics estimates that, in 2015, 43,000 people born in Japan were resident in the UK. Japanese is the primary language of Japan, and the 2011 Census found that 27,764 people in England and Wales spoke Japanese as their main language, 27,305 of them in England alone, and 17,050 in London alone... | 362 | 2,313 | 7af8d40f3082a552f766141649a5da66c0b16906 |
But Lorentz calculated that the value for the perihelion advance of Mercury was much too low. He wrote: In 1908, Henri Poincaré examined the gravitational theory of Lorentz and classified it as compatible with the relativity principle, but (like Lorentz) he criticized the inaccurate indication of the perihelion advance... | 383 | 2,532 | ddf072c656b965a3c4dda033caa493efbf49fec9 |
Clinton Rosette Clinton E. Rosette (c. April 1850 – July 24, 1909) was a prominent citizen of DeKalb, Illinois, during the 19th century. Rosette was closely associated with well-known men from the same city, such as Isaac Ellwood. He was the first editor of the newspaper in DeKalb, the "Daily Chronicle," a newspaper wh... | 290 | 1,769 | 30c7c434e26a8d340af3264b95f4f31813595c1c |
"Alguém Que Te Faz Sorrir" complete, full of guitars, drums and everything else that is right. If the acoustic version has ruffled a lot of people, this will fall further. "Soneto Para Petr Cech", beautiful composition that Lucas did on his mother. Beautiful tribute and, without doubt, great song. "Enferrujou", a song ... | 194 | 1,120 | 077607680620d5a95385153a1716eb5d5f593393 |
The governor of the Bank of Israel, Stanley Fischer, stated that the growing poverty amongst the Ultra-Orthodox is hurting the Israeli economy. According to the data published by Ian Fursman, 60% of the poor households in Israel are of the Haredi Jews and the Israeli Arabs. Both groups together represent 25–28% of the ... | 370 | 2,518 | 2c8601a158d7b910dd9f247ef4f0e9ad473b1e7b |
Ljubinka Jovanović (; ), Beograd, 1922 – 3 August 2015) was a Serbian painter who lived and worked in Paris and Belgrade. She was strongly influenced by the iconic traditions of the Serbian medieval art, and inspired by the Serbo-Byzantine style of painting, developed in a modern style with specific signs on her chroma... | 271 | 1,597 | 69aa2e8c4f03568f06b169f5f5cfeaf02a19799d |
Sicherheitspolizei (Weimar Republic) The Sicherheitspolizei, or security police, was a paramilitary German police group set up in most states of the Weimar Republic at the end of 1919 and largely financed by the central government. In its anti-riot role it can be seen as roughly analogous to the "Bereitschaftspolizei" ... | 394 | 2,553 | c9a4bb660e6dccfe2947f322456c59bc975b4fec |
John Strong Sr. (November 26, 1798 – February 23, 1881) was an English–American farmer and politician who served one term in the Michigan House of Representatives, and was an early settler of Greenfield Township, Michigan. John Strong was born on November 26, 1798, in Wroxton, Oxfordshire, England. He studied for the m... | 248 | 1,490 | e35e3a57d5a5acdc1d5e8538a5ff6b910f8a6526 |
St. Gregory the Great High School was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Chicago, Illinois. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Gregory the Great was established in 1937. It was the first coeducational Catholic school in the Chicago Diocese. In 2014, the Chicago Archdiocese and the school ... | 91 | 572 | 2901e128028d878fc1872fbede948c7af5176493 |
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