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AstralSat, also known as DTH Interactive Telecomunicação Ltda, is or was a satellite television service in Brazil that was the first such service in that country to offer prepaid subscription TV.
It reportedly suspended operations in 2010.
The service launched a plan of 12 channels for R$30 per month. The channels o... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "AstralSat", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstralSat", "length": 1502} |
Daly River is a town adjacent to the Daly River in the Northern Territory of Australia. At the 2006 census, Daly River had a population of 468. The town is part of the Victoria Daly Region local government area. The area is popular for recreational fishing, being regarded as one of the best places to catch Barramundi... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Daly River, Northern Territory", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daly%20River%2C%20Northern%20Territory", "length": 5902} |
A primordium (; : primordia; synonym: anlage) in embryology, is an organ or tissue in its earliest recognizable stage of development. Cells of the primordium are called primordial cells. A primordium is the simplest set of cells capable of triggering growth of the would-be organ and the initial foundation from which a... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Primordium", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordium", "length": 8686} |
The muddy arrowtooth eel, Ilyophis brunneus, is a cutthroat eel in the family Synaphobranchidae. It is found around the world at depths below 1,000 m. Its length is up to 160 cm.
References
Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New ... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Muddy arrowtooth eel", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy%20arrowtooth%20eel", "length": 412} |
Trygve Jens Asbjørn Olsen (11 November 1921 – 17 April 1979) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
He was born in Måsøy.
Trygve Olsen was the son of Parliament member Johannes Olai Olsen, but was not elected to parliament. Instead, he worked as a fisher from 1939. He was a member of the board in Norges Råf... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Trygve Olsen", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve%20Olsen", "length": 795} |
Christopher Branch (circa 1600-1681) was an early English settler in Colonial Virginia, tobacco planter, and a member and justice of the House of Burgesses. He was a three times great-grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson.
Early life and marriage
Branch was born in England around 1600. or 1602. His ... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Christopher Branch", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Branch", "length": 2310} |
Maud Alice Earl (1863–1943) was a British-American artist, known for her canine paintings. Her works are much enjoyed by dog enthusiasts and also accurately record many breeds.
Biography
Alice Maud Earl was born in Marylebone, London, to George Earl and Alice Beaumont Rawlins. Maud's profession was the continuation of... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Maud Earl", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud%20Earl", "length": 3083} |
Grindelia squarrosa, also known as a curly-top gumweed or curlycup gumweed, is a small North American biennial or short-lived perennial plant.
Description
G. squarrosa is a decumbent to erect, much-branched perennial herb or subshrub growing up to tall. The leaves are long, gray-green, crenate with each tooth having... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Grindelia squarrosa", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindelia%20squarrosa", "length": 2958} |
Cultural environmentalism is the movement that seeks to protect the public domain. The term was coined by James Boyle, professor at Duke University and contributor to the Financial Times.
The term stems from Boyle's argument that those who seek to protect the public domain are working towards a similar ends as environ... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Cultural environmentalism", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20environmentalism", "length": 878} |
Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval (1724-1808) was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Metz at the time of the French Revolution.
Early life
He was born 11 December 1724 in the Castle of Baillet in the town of Bayers, then in the ancient Province of Angoumois, now part of the Department of Charente. ... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Joseph%20de%20Montmorency-Laval", "length": 2337} |
Poplar may refer to:
Plants
Populus, the plant genus which includes most poplars, as well as aspen and cottonwood
Black poplar (Populus nigra)
Carolina or Canadian poplar, Populus × canadensis
Grey poplar (Populus × canescens)
White poplar
Populus alba, native to Eurasia
Populus grandidentata, bigtooth aspen
Po... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Poplar", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar", "length": 1386} |
Palais Niederösterreich, historically known as the Niederösterreichisches Landeshaus (Estates House of Lower Austria), is a historical building in Vienna. The building housed the estates general of the state of Lower Austria until 1848. After 1861, the state assembly and some state government ministries occupied it un... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Palais Nieder\u00f6sterreich", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais%20Nieder%C3%B6sterreich", "length": 1133} |
() is a quarter in the borough of in Berlin, Germany, that takes its name from the small lake (literally 'White Lake') within it. Before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, was a borough in its own right, consisting of the quarters of , , , , and . A fictional German-language TV series by the same name is set in th... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Weissensee (Berlin)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissensee%20%28Berlin%29", "length": 2896} |
The Théâtre du peuple is a theater located in Bussang, France, built in 1895 by Maurice Pottecher.
The theatre was added to the list of historical monuments in 1975 and is always in activity, putting on a new performance each year. Performances take place on every Sunday of July and August.
The Théâtre du peuple is c... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Peuple", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre%20du%20Peuple", "length": 1365} |
Arthur Anderson (1792, Shetland – 27 February 1868, London) was a Scottish businessman and Whig politician. He was co-founder of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).
Career
He was born at Böd of Gremista, in Lerwick, and as a boy worked on the beach preparing fish. The Crown attempted to press g... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Arthur Anderson (businessman)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Anderson%20%28businessman%29", "length": 3125} |
Dover Island an island located 1.6 km (one mile) off the shore of West Dover, Nova Scotia. It is a popular destination for a form of free rock climbing known as bouldering. It is home to over 100 bouldering problems concentrated in a tiny area ranging from V0 to V10, with many new problems yet to be discovered. It is a... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Dover Island (Nova Scotia)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover%20Island%20%28Nova%20Scotia%29", "length": 1539} |
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the Palearctic. Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all o... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Bald eagle", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald%20eagle", "length": 55980} |
Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, as well as paintings attributed to him or his school, have been compiled by various organizations. An investigation undertaken by The Bosch Research and Conservation Project of a multitude of Bosch's paintings included dendrochronological research and made an approximate dating of the pai... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20paintings%20by%20Hieronymus%20Bosch", "length": 2072} |
Cubbon Park, officially Sri Chamarajendra Park, is a landmark park in Bengaluru, located in the heart of the city in the Central Administrative Area. Originally created in 1870 under Major General Richard Sankey, then British Chief Engineer of Mysore State, it covered an area of . Subsequent expansion has since taken p... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Sri Chamarajendra Udyanavana", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%20Chamarajendra%20Udyanavana", "length": 10129} |
Ridgway's rail (Rallus obsoletus) is a near-threatened species of bird. It is found principally along the Pacific Coast of North America from the San Francisco Bay Area to southern Baja California, as well as in some regions of the Gulf of California. A member of the rail family, Rallidae, it is a chicken-sized bird th... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Ridgway's rail", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgway%27s%20rail", "length": 4810} |
Bear Island is an island located in Potomac, Montgomery County, Maryland between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near the Great Falls. It is managed by the National Park Service as part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and is co-owned by The Nature Conservancy. One of its mo... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Bear Island (Maryland)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Island%20%28Maryland%29", "length": 645} |
Tarchia (meaning "brainy one") is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
Discovery and naming
In 1970, a Polish-Mongolian expedition discovered an ankylosaurian skull near Khulsan. In 1977, Teresa Maryańska named and described the type species Tarchia kielanae. The generic ... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Tarchia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarchia", "length": 8158} |
Smartville is a purpose-built factory complex in Hambach, France, established in 1994 as a joint venture of Daimler-Benz and the Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch to produce the Smart car. In 2020 the plant was 100% owned by Daimler AG (at that point comprising both the Mercedes-Benz and Daimler Truck companies) and was ... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Smartville, Hambach, France", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartville%2C%20Hambach%2C%20France", "length": 5809} |
Shrimp plant can refer to two plants in Acanthaceae: | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Shrimp plant", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp%20plant", "length": 52} |
Air sacs are spaces within an organism where there is the constant presence of air. Among modern animals, birds possess the most air sacs (9–11), with their extinct dinosaurian relatives showing a great increase in the pneumatization (presence of air) in their bones. Birds use air sacs for respiration as well as a numb... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Air sac", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20sac", "length": 12889} |
"More, More, More" is a song written by Gregg Diamond and recorded by American artist Andrea True (credited to her recording project Andrea True Connection). It was released in February 1976 as the first single from her debut album by same name (1976), becoming her signature track and one of the most popular songs of t... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "More, More, More", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More%2C%20More%2C%20More", "length": 9283} |
The banded bellowsfish (Centriscops humerosus), banded yellowfish, banded snipefish, or bluebanded bellowsfish, is a species of fish of the family Macroramphosidae, found in southern oceans at depths of . Its length is up to .
Description
The banded bellowsfish has a very deep, nearly round, highly compressed body, wi... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Banded bellowsfish", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded%20bellowsfish", "length": 2894} |
Wiregrass is a common name for several plants
Wiregrass may refer to:
Poaceae grasses
Aristida (three-awns), especially Aristida stricta (Pineland Three-awn), Aristida junciformis and Aristida purpurea (Purple Three-awn), of subfamily Arundinoideae
Eleusine indica (Indian Goosegrass) of subfamily Eragrostideae
Sp... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Wiregrass", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiregrass", "length": 874} |
Holland's schema theorem, also called the fundamental theorem of genetic algorithms, is an inequality that results from coarse-graining an equation for evolutionary dynamics. The Schema Theorem says that short, low-order schemata with above-average fitness increase exponentially in frequency in successive generations.... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Holland's schema theorem", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%27s%20schema%20theorem", "length": 4011} |
The Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus), also known as the blind cave fish, blind cave characin, and blind cave tetra, is a freshwater fish of the family Characidae of the order Characiformes. The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic realm, originating in the lower Rio Grande and the Neueces and Pecos... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Mexican tetra", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20tetra", "length": 9985} |
This is a list of the endemic flora of Puerto Rico. This list is sorted in alphabetical order by binomial names. Common names are in parentheses.
Apocynaceae
Forsteronia portoricensis, synonym of Pinochia corymbosa subsp. portoricensis
Tabernaemontana oppositifolia
Aquifoliaceae
Ilex cookii (Cook's holly)
Ilex sint... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "List of endemic flora of Puerto Rico", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20endemic%20flora%20of%20Puerto%20Rico", "length": 4499} |
Muhammad Ma Jian (; ; 1906–1978) was a Hui-Chinese Islamic scholar and translator, known for translating the Qur'an into Chinese and stressing compatibility between Marxism and Islam.
Early years
Ma was born in 1906 in Shadian village in Gejiu, Yunnan. This was a majority-Hui village that would later be the site of ... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Muhammad Ma Jian", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Ma%20Jian", "length": 5524} |
"It's a Beautiful Thing" is the third and final single released by Australian actress Tammin from her first album, Whatever Will Be (2005). Andrew and Michael Tierney from Australian pop group Human Nature helped produce the song's vocals. Released on 25 July 2005, "It's a Beautiful Thing" entered the Australian ARIA S... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "It's a Beautiful Thing (Tammin song)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20a%20Beautiful%20Thing%20%28Tammin%20song%29", "length": 1386} |
The Montes de María is an isolated group of small mountains near the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Region. The Montes de María (also known as Serranía de San Jacinto) are the last part of the Serranía de San Jerónimo which extends from the West Andes. A part of the mountains are protected as the Los Color... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Montes de Mar\u00eda", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montes%20de%20Mar%C3%ADa", "length": 1376} |
Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (30 June 1795 – 5 May 1877) was a French pharmacist. He was a professor at the École de Pharmacie (School of Pharmacy) in Paris. He collaborated with Pierre-Joseph Pelletier in a Parisian laboratory located behind an apothecary. He was a pioneer in the use of mild solvents to isolate a number o... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Joseph Bienaim\u00e9 Caventou", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Bienaim%C3%A9%20Caventou", "length": 1038} |
The following is a list of endangered species inhabiting Vietnam.
Annam chorus frog (Microhyla annamensis)
The Annam chorus frog is an endangered frog native to Vietnam, a frog in the family Microhylidae found in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Banded eagle ray (Aetomylaeus nichofii)
Banded eagle rays are wi... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "List of endangered species in Vietnam", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20endangered%20species%20in%20Vietnam", "length": 3755} |
"Bye Bye Blackbird" is a song published in 1926 by Jerome H. Remick and written by composer Ray Henderson and lyricist Mort Dixon. It is considered a popular standard and was first recorded by Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra in March 1926.
Song information
Popular recordings in 1926 were by Nick Lucas, Gene Austin, Benny... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Bye Bye Blackbird", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye%20Bye%20Blackbird", "length": 1807} |
Fishermen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1959 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1959, with the preamble stating:
Ratifications
As of 2022, the convention had been ratified by 23 states. Four of the ratifying states—Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Netherlands and United Ki... | {"source": "wikipedia", "title": "Fishermen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1959", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishermen%27s%20Articles%20of%20Agreement%20Convention%2C%201959", "length": 1277} |
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