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is a Japanese performing artist and a former member of the Takarazuka Revue, where she specialized in playing male characters (Otokoyaku). She joined the revue in 1988 and resigned in 2006. Her nicknames are Takako (from her real name: Takako Ōkawa (大川 貴子 Ōkawa Takako) and Wao. She is the only Otokoyaku to be top in ... |
Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff (March 25, 1842 – October 24, 1883) was a Danish philologist who worked in the Andaman penal colony in India, in charge of the Nicobar Islands, where he was shot dead by a convict. He studied the languages of Andaman and Nicobar tribes and collected numerous specimens of fauna and flora. T... |
Oregon Route 194 is an Oregon state highway running from OR 223 near Dallas to OR 99W and OR 51 in Monmouth. OR 194 is known as the Monmouth Highway No. 194 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs east–west, entirely within Polk County. OR 194 was established in 2002 as part of Oregon's project to ass... |
The Eskimo Baby (German:Das Eskimobaby) is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by Heinz Schall and starring Asta Nielsen. Cast Asta Nielsen as Eskimo Ivigtut Freddy Wingardh as Knud Prätorius References Bibliography Annette Kuhn. The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press,... |
Douglas Blayney is an oncologist in the United States and is very involved with several clinical oncological organizations within the United States. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in oncology quality and informatics and hematological malignancy. He has currently been elected to become president of t... |
Carlos Ernesto Castro (born 24 September 1978) is a retired Ecuadorian international defender. Club career Castro played his final season for Club Deportivo Quevedo in the Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol. External links Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Quito Category:Ecuadorian... |
Keep Your Eye on Me is a pop/R&B/dance album by Herb Alpert, released in 1987. It contains two hit singles, "Diamonds" and "Making Love in the Rain" (both featuring lead and background vocals by Janet Jackson and Lisa Keith). These Billboard Top 40 hits, along with the title track and "Pillow" (featuring co-lead vocal... |
SANACC may refer to: SANACC, Scottish Anglers National Association Competition Clubs Ltd is the Association of Scottish Angling Clubs which organizes national fly fishing competitions. SANACC, US State, Army, Navy, Air Force Coordinating Committee which approved Operation Bloodstone on June 10, 1948. |
Gharnati refers to a variety of Algerian music originating in Al-Andalus. Its name is related, being derived from the Arabic name of the Spanish city of Granada. Gharnati was preserved, enriched and developed in Tlemcen in Algeria. This variety of Andalusian classical music has been established in other cities like O... |
Łętownia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowa Sarzyna, within Leżajsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of Nowa Sarzyna, north-west of Leżajsk, and north-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. The village has a population of 1,450. Reference... |
Cassia flower bud salad (; ; also known as mezali phu thoke) is a festive Burmese salad traditionally served during the full moon day of Tazaungmon, often as an satuditha offering. The salad's base ingredients includes freshly picked Siamese cassia flower buds, boiled potatoes, sliced onions, peanuts, sesame seed, ga... |
Jean-Gabriel-Honoré Greppo (3 September 1788, in Lyon – 22 September 1863, in Belley) was a French canon remembered for his research in the fields of archaeology and Oriental studies. He was related to canon Jean-Baptiste Greppo (1712–1767), known for his archaeological investigations of ancient Lyon. Biography He re... |
Japan Italy Racing, more commonly known as JiR, is a Monte Carlo based motorcycle racing team which competed in the MotoGP series from 2005 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2015 in the Moto2 class. Team setup The team was founded by Gianluca Montiron together with Honda Motor Europe founder Tetsuo Iida. Since the team's found... |
Bruce Phillip Derlin (born 28 November 1961 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired tennis player from New Zealand. Derlin represented his native country at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. There, the left-hander lost in the second round of the men's doubles competition to Australia's Darren Cahill and John Fitzgerald, while pa... |
George William Archibald (born 13 July 1946) is the co-founder of the International Crane Foundation and was the inaugural winner of the 2006 Indianapolis Prize. Archibald was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada to Donald Edison and Annie Letitia ("Lettie") (née MacLeod) Archibald. He received his bachelor's degr... |
Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up! is an album that was released by The Pillows on May 2, 2007. Track listing "Wake up! Dodo" "Youngster (Kent Arrow)" "Propose" (プロポーズ) "Scarecrow" (スケアクロウ) "Boat House" "The Pleasure Song" (プレジャー・ソング) "Serious Plan" (シリアス・プラン) "Skinny Blues" "Private Kingdom" (プライベート・キングダム) "Century... |
Over the Hedge is a syndicated comic strip written by Michael Fry and drawn by T. Lewis. It tells the story of a raccoon, a turtle, a squirrel, and their friends who come to terms with their woodlands being taken over by suburbia, trying to survive the increasing flow of humanity and technology while becoming enticed b... |
William John Sawrey Morritt (c. 1813 – 13 April 1874) was a British Conservative Party politician from Rokeby, which was then in Yorkshire but is now in County Durham. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the North Riding of Yorkshire at a by-election in March 1862, following the death of the Liberal MP E... |
The Stephen C. O'Connell Center, also known as the O'Dome, is a 10,133-seat multi-purpose arena located on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida. The facility is named for the sixth president of the university, Stephen C. O'Connell, who served from 1967 to 1973. The facility is located on the northe... |
The 2008–2009 TFF First League (also known as Bank Asya First League due to sponsoring reasons) was the second-level football league of Turkey and the 46th season since its establishment in 1963–64. Teams Team summaries Standings Results Promotion Play-Offs The Promotion Play-Offs will be played in Yenikent Asaş ... |
Kasoor () is a 2001 Indian Hindi romantic suspense thriller film produced under Mukesh Bhatt's Vishesh Entertainment Ltd. and directed by Vikram Bhatt. It features Aftab Shivdasani in his second Bollywood appearance and Lisa Ray in her Bollywood debut. Ray's voice was dubbed by Divya Dutta. The film also stars Apoorva ... |
Ion Taranu (born 14 March 1938) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler from Romania. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1960. He also won a silver medal at the 1967 European Championships Domestically he collected 15 Romanian middleweight titles. Career Taranu won his first national t... |
Langdon Park is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Poplar in Greater London, England. The station is between All Saints and Devons Road stations on the Stratford-Lewisham Line and construction of the station began on 17 November 2006, and the first day of operation was 9 December 2007. History and proposals W... |
Princess Thyra of Denmark (Thyra Louise Caroline Amalie Augusta Elisabeth; Copenhagen, 14 March 1880 – Copenhagen, 2 November 1945) was the sixth child and third daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and his wife, Princess Louise of Sweden and Norway. She was named for her paternal aunt, Princess Thyra of Denmark. Sh... |
Carcerato may refer to: Carcerato (1951 film) Carcerato (1981 film) |
Luktvatnet is a lake that lies in the northern part of the municipality of Vefsn in Nordland county, Norway. The lake lies between the mountains Korgfjellet and Lukttinden, about south of the village of Elsfjord. The European route E06 highway passes along the northern shore of the lake. Name The name is probably f... |
Edward Joseph Winceniak (born April 16, 1929) is a retired American professional baseball player and scout. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. An infielder, he appeared in 32 games played over parts of two seasons (1956–57) in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs. Winceniak batted and threw right-handed and was li... |
Martin E. Weaver (1938-2004) helped develop the scientific field of architectural conservation in the United States and internationally. He was the fifth president of the Association for Preservation Technology International from 1977 to 1980, Director of the Center for Preservation Research at Columbia University from... |
Springfield High School is a public high school in Lakemore, Ohio, United States, just east of Akron. It is the only high school in the Springfield Local School District and serves students living in Lakemore and Springfield Township. State championships Girls Softball – 1978, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 19... |
Plumeria rubra is a deciduous plant species belonging to the genus Plumeria. Originally native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela, it has been widely cultivated in subtropical and tropical climates worldwide and is a popular garden and park plant, as well as being used in temples and cemeteries. It grow... |
Tokyo Korean Middle and High School (東京朝鮮中高級学校 Tōkyō Chōsen Chūkōkyūgakkō; ) is a North Korea-aligned Korean international school in (十条台), Kita-ku, Tokyo. As of 2013 it was one of ten North Korean-aligned high schools located in Japan. As of that year, Shin Gil-ung serves as the school's principal. It operates under ... |
John James Davis (May 5, 1835 – March 19, 1916) was an attorney and politician who helped found West Virginia and later served as a United States Representative in Congress from that state. Early and family life John James Davis was born in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1835 to master saddler John Davis ... |
The Malaria Atlas Project, abbreviated as MAP, is a non-profit academic group led by Professor Peter Gething, Kerry M Stokes Chair in Child Health, at the Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia. The group is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with previous funding also coming from the Medical R... |
Urquidez is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benny Urquidez (born 1952), American kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor Jason Urquidez (born 1982), Mexican-American baseball pitcher |
Assonet is one of two villages in the town of Freetown, Massachusetts in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. An original part of the town, Assonet was settled in 1659 along with the city of Fall River, then a part of Freetown. It rests on the banks of the Assonet River. As of the 2000 census, the village had ... |
Brampton Fire and Emergency Services provides fire protection, technical rescue services, hazardous materials response, and first responder emergency medical assistance to the City of Brampton in the Peel Region of Ontario, Canada. It operates thirteen fire halls and coordinates with other emergency services in Peel Re... |
Suzlon Energy Ltd. is a wind turbine supplier based in Pune, India. It was formerly ranked by MAKE as the world's fifth largest wind turbine supplier. It has since dropped out of the Global top ten rankings (as of 2014) due to extensive losses and inability to repay debts. The company's website claims to have over 17,... |
Karen Ruth Alexander (born 1948) is an Australian environmentalist who was one of the founding members of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. Biography Karen Alexander was born in Melbourne. She studied mathematics at Monash University before studying geology in Tasmania, eventually receiving a Bachelor of Applied Sci... |
Gunniopsis quadrifida, the Sturts pigface, is a plant endemic to Australia that that is within the family Aizoaceae. This family consists of a diverse array of species that inhabit arid and/or saline coastal and inland areas, with the plants displaying leaf morphology that is conducive to such harsh environments. Typic... |
Clark's Conveniency is a historic home located near Pomona, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, early-18th-century brick house built in three sections: the main block and a wing on the east and west ends. It is representative of the houses built by the smaller but still prosperous planters of 18th-cen... |
The 2015 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kyoto, Japan between 23 February and 1 March. ATP singles main draw entrants Seeds 1 Rankings are ... |
Roman Osin, BSC, (born 1961, Leipzig, East Germany) is a British cinematographer of German-Nigerian descent. Osin studied at London College of Printing (now London College of Communication) from 1981–85, taking a BA in Film and Photography, and later National Film and Television School from 1991 to 95. After leaving th... |
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