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Georgia's 12th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is represented by Republican Rick Allen. The district's boundaries have been redrawn following the 2010 census, which granted an additional congressional seat to Georgia. The first election using the new district boundari... |
Suhum/Kraboa/Coaltar District is a former district that was located in Eastern Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988, which was created from the former Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District Council. However on 28 June 2012, it was split off into two new districts: Suhum Municipal District (... |
is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. Mizuki is represented by the talent agency Vision Factory. Born in Nerima, Tokyo to Japanese-American parents, Mizuki began modelling for magazines and appearing in commercials at the age of four. On March 21, 2015, she announced that she married Koji Aoyama, a president of a c... |
The 1979 Challenge Cup was a series of international ice hockey games between the Soviet Union national ice hockey team and a team of All-Stars from the National Hockey League. The games were played on February 8, 10, and 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It replaced the NHL's all-star festivities for the 1... |
The Greater Middle East is a political term introduced in March 2004 in a paper published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as part of the U.S. administration's preparatory work for the Group of Eight summit of June 2004. The area denotes a vaguely defined region called the "Arab world" together with Af... |
{{Infobox person | name = Kate Hood | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 10 October | birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | occupation = Actress, writer, director | years_active = 1981present | notable_works = Prisoner (1986) }} Kate Hood is an Australian actress, born in Sydney. She studied... |
Fluffy Stuff is a brand of cotton candy sold in a variety of fruit flavors, marketed by Tootsie Roll Industries, which acquired it in 2000. It is the largest producer of cotton candy in the United States. The candy is packed in moisture-resistant, airtight bags, to prevent moisture and airborne containments from spoili... |
Haplogroup A is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup, which includes all living human Y chromosomes. Bearers of extant sub-clades of haplogroup A are almost exclusively found in Africa (or among the African diaspora), in contrast with haplogroup BT, bearers of which participated in the Out of Africa migration of early m... |
Samuel Street (January 2, 1753 February 3, 1815) was a Canadian judge, merchant and political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in Wilton, Connecticut and traded with indigenous people during the American Revolution. He moved to Fort Niagara and opened a business to provide supplies to the British and later trade wit... |
The Bulgarian State Railways (, abbreviated as , BDZ or BD) are Bulgaria's state railway company and the largest railway carrier in the country, established as an entity in 1888. The company's headquarters are located in the capital Sofia. Since the 1990s the BD has met serious competition from automotive transport. Up... |
Television House is the former name of a building on Kingsway in London. From 1918, it was the base of the Air Ministry, and later from 1955, was the headquarters of Associated-Rediffusion/Rediffusion London, Independent Television News (ITN), TV Times magazine, the Independent Television Companies Association and, at ... |
Leopoldo Marechal (June 11, 1900 June 26, 1970) was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century. Biographical notes Born in Buenos Aires into a family of French and Spanish descent, Marechal became a primary school teacher and a high school professor after obtaining his degree despite enormous ... |
The Sacramento Valley Railroad (SVRR) was incorporated on August 4, 1852, the first transit railroad company incorporated in California. Construction did not begin until February 1855 because of financial and right of way issues, and its first train operated on February 22, 1856. Although the oldest working railroad in... |
The NBC Denis Compton Award was an annual award given to 'The Most Promising Young Player' at each of the 18 first-class counties in England and Wales. The award was made between 1996 and 2011. A player may receive the award more than once. History The award was born in 1996 when Neil Burns, the former Somerset wicket-... |
Lug () is a village in western part of the Serbian province of Vojvodina, in the municipality of Beoin, South Baka District. It lies on the northwest slopes of Fruka gora mountain, in the region of Syrmia. The village has a population numbering 801 people (2002 census), most of them being ethnic Slovaks. History The vi... |
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Manistee County, Michigan. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Manistee County, Michigan, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many Natio... |
Sophie of Pomerania (14981568) was Queen of Denmark and Norway as the spouse of Frederick I. She is known for her independent rule over her fiefs Lolland and Falster, the castles in Kiel and Pln, and several villages in Holstein as queen. Life Born in Stettin (Szczecin) into the House of Pomerania, she was the daughter... |
"Sweet Head" is a song written by David Bowie which was recorded at Trident Studios on 11 November 1971. It took 18 years before it was eventually released and it first appeared on the Rykodisc CD release of Ziggy Stardust in 1990. Its release came as a complete surprise to even the most die-hard Bowie fans and collect... |
Richard Brook was Chief Executive of the UK deafblind charity Sense, The National Deafblind and Rubella Association. He was appointed in July 2008 and left in September 2010. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of the Public Guardianship Office and then first Public Guardian and Chief Executive of the Office of the Pu... |
Bufalo can refer to: Bfalo, brand of hot sauce Bufalo pistol from Llama firearms Gaspare del Bufalo, a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood Bufalo Bill, an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori. See also Buffalo (disambiguation) Bufalino (disambiguation) Buff... |
Bob Lape (born Robert Cable Lape; 1933 in Akron, Ohio) is an American broadcast journalist, writer, restaurant reviewer, and food critic. Career Lape worked as a reporter and news director at WCUE in Akron, Ohio, WICE in Providence, Rhode Island and WBZ in Boston, Massachusetts, before joining WABC-TV in New York City ... |
Cecina may refer to: Cecina (meat), a Spanish and Mexican culinary specialty made of beef Cecina (gastropod), a genus of freshwater snails in the family Pomatiopsidae Cecina, Tuscany, Italy Caecinia gens, an ancient Roman family Farinata, a Tuscan culinary specialty made of chickpea flour See also Caecina (disambiguati... |
Round-trip translation (RTT), also known as back-and-forth translation, recursive translation and bi-directional translation, is the process of translating a word, phrase or text into another language (forward translation), then translating the result back into the original language (back translation), using machine tr... |
The United States Army Security Agency (ASA) was the United States Army's signals intelligence branch from 1945 to 1976. The Latin motto of the Army Security Agency was Semper Vigilis (Vigilant Always), which echoes the declaration, often mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson, that "The price of liberty is eternal ... |
Wide Right, a.k.a. 47 Wide Right, was Scott Norwood's missed 47-yard field goal attempt for the Buffalo Bills at the end of Super Bowl XXV on January 27, 1991, as described by sportscaster Al Michaels. The missed field goal resulted in the game being won by the New York Giants. The phrase "wide right" has since become ... |
Liebowitz is a surname. It may refer to: People Jack Liebowitz (19002000), American accountant and publisher, co-owner of Detective Comics Michael Liebowitz, psychiatrist and researcher specializing in anxiety disorders Richard Liebowitz, copyright lawyer Ronald D. Liebowitz (born 1957), president of Middlebury College... |
The list of ship commissionings in 1975 includes a chronological list of all ships commissioned in 1975. See also 1975 |
Work People's College () was a radical labor college (a type of a folk high school governed by the worker's movement) established in Smithville (Duluth), then a suburb of Duluth, Minnesota, in 1907 by the Finnish Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America. School administrators and faculty were sympathetic ... |
Billy Riley (22 June 1896 27 August 1977) was an English practitioner and teacher of catch wrestling. As a trainer in the sport, he taught some of the leading post-World War II figures in catch wrestling at his training school "The Snake Pit" in Wigan, Lancashire, England. Early days During his days as a moulder in the... |
Rifabutin (Rfb) is an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis and prevent and treat Mycobacterium avium complex. It is typically only used in those who cannot tolerate rifampin such as people with HIV/AIDS on antiretrovirals. For active tuberculosis it is used with other antimycobacterial medications. For latent tubercul... |
Inspector Gadget is a 1999 American superhero comedy film directed by David Kellogg and written by Kerry Ehrin and Zak Penn from a story by Ehrin and Dana Olsen. Loosely based on the 1980s animated television series of the same name, the film stars Matthew Broderick as the title character, Rupert Everett as Dr. Claw, M... |
Adam Brown may refer to: Politics Adam M. Brown (18261901), American politician Adam Brown (Canadian politician) (18261926), Canadian politician and merchant Adam Brown (Illinois politician) (born 1986), Republican member of the Illinois General Assembly Sports Adam Brown (ice hockey) (19201960), Canadian ice hockey pl... |
Gran Turismo may refer to: Cars Grand tourer, a type of car for long distance Gran Turismo, or grand touring racing, long distance endurance racing (motorsport) Gran Turismo, or GT racing, circuit competition for Gran Turismo sports cars Maserati GranTurismo, a two-door 2+2 coup produced by Maserati Studebaker Gran Tur... |
The Sign of the Seahorse is a 1992 illustrated children's book by Graeme Base. It was first published on September 15, 1992, through Harry N. Abrams Inc., and was later adapted into a film and musical. The book received a first printing of 350,000 copies and was an alternative selection of the Literary Guild and the Do... |
Rheinsberg () is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on lake and the river Rhin, approximately north-east of Neuruppin and north-west of Berlin. History Frederick the Great, while still Crown Prince, designed and moved into a restored chateau in Rheinsber... |
Lim Jung-woo (born January 20, 1978) is a field hockey player from South Korea, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the final the Asians lost to title holders the Netherlands after penalty strokes. Lim, a student physical education on the Korea... |
Zemu Gap Peak or Zemu Peak () is a peak on a high ridge running east of the south summit of Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas. It is located in Sikkim, India. It is one of the highest unclimbed named peaks of the world. There have been no known attempts to climb this peak. Because of its extremely low topographic prominen... |
Frederic Andrews Gibbs (19031992) was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography (EEG) for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. Gibbs graduated from Yale and Johns Hopkins in 1929. He was offered a fellowship in neuropathology by Stanley Cobb, of Harvard Medical School. He studie... |
"Barbarossa city" () is a nickname for German cities that the Staufer Emperor Frederick Barbarossa stayed in or near for some time. The cities usually mentioned include Sinzig, Kaiserslautern, Gelnhausen, Altenburg, Bad Frankenhausen, but Annweiler am Trifels, Bad Wimpfen, Eberbach and Waiblingen consider themselves as... |
A growing body of research has begun to highlight differences in the way racial and ethnic groups respond to psychiatric medication. It has been noted that there are "dramatic cross-ethnic and cross-national variations in the dosing practices and side-effect profiles in response to practically all classes of psychotrop... |
H & J Smith Holdings Ltd, branded as H & J Smith and known colloquially as H&J's or Smith's is a company which operates in the lower South Island of New Zealand. The company was founded in 1900. It primarily operates in department stores, specialty stores and franchises (some within the main department stores). The dep... |
The Stopford Building is the second largest building at The University of Manchester, after the Sackville Street Building. It houses the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH). It was built in 1969-72 (architects H. S. Fairhurst & Son). It is now linked on the east side to the Biotech Building of 1999. The cost... |
City of Angels is a 1976 American television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files. American mystery novelist Max Allan Collins has called City of Angels "the best private eye series ever." Plot Wayne Rogers plays a determined but not wholly ethic... |
The Real Gilligan's Island is a reality television series that aired two seasons on TBS in 2004 and 2005. Contestants on the show were required to participate in challenges based on plots from the 1960s television show. Both editions of the show were recorded in the Mexican Caribbean on a location South from Cancun. Po... |
The Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena (more commonly known as the Brown County Arena) was a 5,248-seat multi-purpose arena in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, situated on the corner of Lombardi Avenue and Oneida Street, across from Lambeau Field. The arena opened on November 11, 1958. The final event held at the arena was a ... |
Gibostad is a village on the large island of Senja in Senja Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. Gibostad is a former trading centre, located about north of the Gisund Bridge. Many of the buildings in the harbour area are about 200 years old. The soil is very fertile and therefore suitable for farming, whi... |
Peter Stefan Dyakowski (born April 19, 1984) is a retired Canadian football offensive lineman, who was most recently a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2007 to 2016. Dyakowski has also served as Treasurer of the Canadian Football Le... |
National Sports Stadium (In ) is a multi-purpose stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It is used mostly for football matches and has a capacity 12,500. The Naadam festival, which celebrates Mongolian independence, is held there every July. The land owned by the stadium company is about 27 hectares, of which the stadium ta... |
Eivind Kristofer Reiten (born 2 April 1953) is a Norwegian economist, corporate officer and politician for the Centre Party. He served as Minister of Fisheries from 1985-1986 and Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1989-1990, before entering a career in business. Reiten served as the Director General (CEO) of Norsk H... |
The 1964 Rochester race riot was a riot that occurred in 1964 in Rochester, New York, United States. The riot occurred in the context of a rapidly-growing African American population in Rochester which had experienced discrimination in employment, housing, and policing in the preceding years. Violence began when the Ro... |
A real-life superhero (RLSH) is a person who dresses up in a superhero costume or mask in order to perform community service such as neighborhood watch, or in some cases vigilantism. Early examples of this type of behavior are reported from the 1990s. One example is Mexico City's Superbarrio Gmez, who, in 1997, donned ... |
Flint Hill School, founded in 1956, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school, in Oakton, Virginia, serving grades JK12. The school has separate upper and lower school campuses about a mile apart in Fairfax County, approximately from Washington, D.C. In 2021, Niche ranked Flint Hill School 9 out of 2489 ... |
Bird on a Wire is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by John Badham and starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. It was shot mainly in British Columbia, Canada. The title refers to the Leonard Cohen song "Bird on the Wire". The alley motorcycle chase scene was filmed in Victoria's Chinatown, in Fan Tan Alley. Plot... |
Vileness Fats is an unfinished musical film project by avant-garde art collective The Residents, filmed primarily between 1972 and 1976. The Residents shot over fourteen hours of film and videotape for the project, but were not even two-thirds of the way through their incomplete script before they cancelled the product... |
Harsh Mander (born 17 April 1955) is an Indian author, columnist, researcher, teacher, and social activist who started the Karwan-e-Mohabbat campaign in solidarity with the victims of communal or religiously motivated violence. He is the Director of the Centre for Equity Studies, a research organisation based in New De... |
Sultan Abdul Aziz al-Mutasim Billah Shah ibni Almarhum Raja Muda Musa ( , 14 November 1887 26 March 1948) was the 31st Sultan of Perak, a state in the British-administered Federated Malay States. Early life Raja Abdul Aziz was born on 14 November 1887 at Kampung Bandar, Teluk Anson, Perak. He was the son of Raja Muda M... |
Neuerburg () is a city in the district of Bitburg-Prm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Eifel, near the border with Luxembourg, approximately 20km north-west of Bitburg and 20km north-east of Diekirch. Neuerburg was formerly the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") of Neuerbur... |
Cambridge-Narrows is a former village in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the village of Arcadia. The village straddled Washedemoak Lake, a widening of the Canaan River, several kilometres upstream of the Saint John River. Cambridge-Narrows has 3 main arterie... |
People of the Talisman is a science fantasy novel by American writer Leigh Brackett, set on the planet Mars, whose protagonist is Eric John Stark. This story was first published under the title Black Amazon of Mars in the pulp magazine Planet Stories, March 1951. In 1964, after a total revision and expansion, it was re... |
The Church of Our Lady () is the cathedral of Copenhagen. It is situated on the Frue Plads public square in central Copenhagen, next to the historic main building of the University of Copenhagen. The present-day version of the church was designed by the architect Christian Frederik Hansen (17561845) in the Neoclassical... |
Patric Laurence Dickinson (born 24 November 1950) is an English genealogist. He served as Clarenceux King of Arms from 2010 until 2021. He has worked at the College of Arms in London since 1968. Background Dickinson was educated at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire, before going to Exeter College, Oxford, where... |
East Layton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with County Durham and a few miles west of Darlington. The racehorse Crisp is interred there. Demographics East Layton, considered a parish, is situated a few miles west of the town of Darlington. In... |
The Willard House and Clock Museum is a museum located in North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States. Overview The Willard House and Clock Museum is located at the former farm homestead of the Willard brothers (Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim, and Aaron). The brothers made clocks there in the late 18th century, before they m... |
The Nieuport 28 C.1, a French biplane fighter aircraft flown during World War I, was built by Nieuport and designed by Gustave Delage. Owing its lineage to the successful line of sesquiplane fighters that included the Nieuport 17, the Nieuport 28 continued a similar design philosophy of a lightweight and highly maneuve... |
The Reesor Siding strike of 1963 was one of the defining labour conflicts in Canadian history, resulting in the shooting of 11 union members, three of whom were killed. The violent confrontation occurred near the small Francophone hamlet of Reesor Siding (a ghost town today), which is located just west of Opasatika, ap... |
Batu may refer to: Geography Batu, East Java, a city in Indonesia Batu Islands, an archipelago of Indonesia Batu, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran Batu, Kuala Lumpur, an area in Malaysia Batu (town), Ethiopia Batu Lintang camp, a World War II Japanese POW and civilian internee camp at Kuching, Sarawak ... |
Las Abejas () is a Christian pacifist civil society group of Tzotzil Maya formed in Chenalh, Chiapas in 1992 following a familial property dispute that left one person killed. When members of the community took the injured man to the nearest town for medical attention, they were accused of attacking him themselves and ... |
describes a type of printed Japanese book that was produced primarily in Kyoto between 1600 and 1680. The term literally means books written in kana (kana being the phonetic Japanese syllabary that is simpler to read and write than kanji, or Chinese ideographs). The designation thus derives from the fact that the text ... |
The Shoreland is a historic hotel building in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Opened in the 1920s, it served hotel guests in luxury accommodations. Later, it was as a residence hall of the University of Chicago for many yea... |
Zoological medicine refers to the specialty of veterinary medicine that addresses the care of captive zoo animals, free ranging wildlife species, aquatic animals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and includes non-domestic companion animals (or exotic pets). Zoological medicine incorporates principles of ecology, wildlif... |
Roller Coaster is a platform game which contains some strategy and puzzle elements. It holds the claim of being the first video game to simulate amusement rides. Roller Coaster was released in 1985 by British video game developer Elite Systems, to overwhelmingly positive reviews. It was, for a time, one of the most pop... |
Gumbel or Gumble is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bryant Gumbel (born 1948), American television sportscaster, brother of Greg David Heinz Gumbel (19061992), Israeli designer and silversmith Emil Julius Gumbel (18911966), German mathematician, pacifist and anti-Nazi campaigner creator of Gumbel di... |
Barry John Yelverton, 3rd Viscount Avonmore (21 February 1790 24 October 1870), was an Irish nobleman. He was the son of William Yelverton, 2nd Viscount Avonmore, and Mary Reade, eldest daughter of John Reade. In 1814, he succeeded his father as viscount. He married, firstly, Jane Boothe, daughter of Thomas Boothe, in ... |
Winkler v. Rumsfeld was a case regarding the United States Armed Forces and their support of the Boy Scouts of America's national Scout jamborees. Every four years, the Boy Scouts of America holds a national Scout jamboree, where for ten days, approximately 30,000-40,000 Scouts camp out and participate in a wide variet... |
Lochailort railway station is a railway station serving the village of Lochailort in the Highland Council area in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Glenfinnan and Beasdale, from the former Banavie Junction. ScotRail manage the station and operate all services. History Lochailort station was o... |
Garelochhead railway station () is a railway station serving the village of Garelochhead, on the Gare Loch, in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line and is a boundary station for SPT. It is sited from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh, between Arrochar and Tarbet and Helensburgh Upper. ScotRail mana... |
The following lists events that happened during 1973 in New Zealand. Population Estimated population as of 31 December 1973: 3,024,900. Increase since 31 December 1972 65,200 (2.20%). Males per 100 females 99.7. It took 21 years for the population to grow from 2million to 3million. Incumbents Regal and viceregal Head o... |
Brynn Thayer is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Jenny Wolek on the television soap opera One Life to Live from 1978 to 1986, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Career Thayer is best known for her work on television. From 1978-86, she played Jenny Wolek in the ABC daytime soap o... |
Kestrel (John Wraith) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appeared in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, portrayed by will.i.am. Publication history Kestrel first appeared in Wolverine vol. 2 #60 and was created by Larry Hama. Fictional character biography Joh... |
Jeffrey Arthur Corsaletti is a former American professional baseball outfielder. Early life Corsaletti grew up in Port Charlotte, Florida and attended Charlotte High School where he was a standout in baseball and football. College Corsaletti attended the University of Florida on a baseball scholarship. In 2005, he was ... |
The following lists events that happened during 1937 in New Zealand. Population Estimated population as of 31 December: 1,601,800. Increase since 31 December 1936: 17,200 (1.09%). Males per 100 females: 103.1. Incumbents Regal and viceregal Head of State George VI Governor-General The Viscount Galway GCMG DSO OBE PC Go... |
LGBT Humanists UK, founded in 1979, is a special interest section of Humanists UK which campaigns for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality and human rights in the United Kingdom. It also organises social events for LGBT humanists and public awareness initiatives around Humanism. It was founded as a se... |
The John Molson School of Business, commonly known as John Molson, is a business school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The John Molson School of Business was established in 1974 by Concordia University. Programs Undergraduate programs Bachelor of Business Administration (BAdmin) Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) Gradu... |
John Doherty may refer to: Sportspeople John Doherty (boxer) (born 1962), British boxer John Doherty (first baseman) (born 1951), first baseman for the Angels John Doherty (English footballer) (19352007), English footballer John Doherty (Irish footballer) (born 1908), Irish footballer John Doherty (pitcher) (born 1967)... |
County Route 544 (CR 544) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends from Cooper Street (CR 534) in Deptford Township to Taunton Boulevard (CR 623) in Medford. Route description CR 544 begins at an intersection with CR 534 in Deptford Township, Gloucester County, heading northeast on Cleme... |
Re-Focus is a 1972 compilation album of songs by the Monkees, released on Bell Records, the successor to Colgems Records, the Monkees' original record label. The band had quit, one by one, over 1969 and 1970, but their television series continued to air on CBS-TV on Saturday mornings (moving to ABC in 1972). Re-Focus r... |
Mark 23 or Mk.XXIII or variation, may refer to: U.S. Navy The U.S. Navy designation Mark 23 may refer to: Heckler & Koch Mark 23, a .45 ACP-caliber handgun Mark 23 machine gun, a configuration of the Stoner 63 weapons system used by US Navy SEALs. Mark 23 Pistol and Suppressor Kit, a Vietnam War-era kit issued to US Na... |
Erik the Red's Land () was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the 10th century. The Permanent Court of International Justice ruled against N... |
"Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South. The song refers to the passenger train Midnight Special and its "ever-loving light" (sometimes "ever-living light"). The song is historically performed in the country-blues style from the viewpoint of the pri... |
Hillestad may refer to: Places Hillestad, Agder, a village in the municipality of mli in Agder county, Norway Hillestad Church, an old name for Tovdal Church in mli municipality in Agder county, Norway Hillestad, Vestfold og Telemark, a village in the municipality of Holmestrand in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway H... |
Tirofiban, sold under the brand name Aggrastat, is an antiplatelet medication. It belongs to a class of antiplatelets named glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors. Tirofiban is a small molecule inhibitor of the protein-protein interaction between fibrinogen and the platelet integrin receptor GP IIb/IIIa and is the first drug... |
Sletta is a village in stre Toten Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located about to the northwest of the village of Lena and about to the west of the village of Kapp. The village has a population (2021) of 296 and a population density of . References stre Toten Villages in Innlandet |
General council may refer to: Education General council (Scottish university), an advisory body to each of the ancient universities of Scotland General Council of the University of St Andrews, the corporate body of all graduates and senior academics of the University of St Andrews Medicine General Dental Council, a Uni... |
Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line, between Keith and Forres, measured from Forres. History The first station in Elgin was opened by the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) on ... |
The Naked Truth is a 1992 comedy film starring Robert Caso and Kevin Schon. Also featured in the film are Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lou Ferrigno, Erik Estrada, Ted Lange, Billy Barty, Yvonne De Carlo, Norman Fell, Little Richard, David Birney, M. Emmet Walsh, Dick Gautier, John Vernon and Camilla Sparv Natasha Pavlovich among oth... |
Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (18471905) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries. Biography Burbidge was born at Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 21 March 1847, was son of Thomas Burbidge, a farmer and fruit-grower. Burbridge entered the gardens of the Royal Horti... |
Enderby Outside, first published in 1968 in London by William Heinemann, is the second volume in the Enderby series of comic novels by Anthony Burgess. Plot summary After a suicide attempt at the very end of Inside Mr. Enderby, the second novel opens with the protagonist under psychiatric care and working as a bartende... |
Monte Alegre de Gois is a municipality in northeastern Gois state, Brazil. Location Monte Alegre is located in the statistical micro-region of Chapada dos Veadeiros and is 31 kilometers south of the border with Tocantins. G0-118 connects it with Teresina de Gois and Campos Belos de Gois. It is 568 kilometers from the s... |
The Gesuse National Park is a national park in the Austrian state of Styria. Located in the mountainous Upper Styrian region, it covers large parts of the Gesuse range within the Ennstal Alps and the steep water gap of the Enns river between Admont and Hieflau. The area also covers parts of the municipal areas of Johns... |
William Wobbler is a video game developed by Antony Crowther and released by Wizard Development in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Gameplay The player must guide William to find ten pieces of a puzzle, hidden throughout a vast landscape of caverns. Competition The game was distributed with a second disk labe... |
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