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Presidential elections were held in Togo on 4 March 2010. Incumbent President Faure Gnassingbé—who won his first term in a presidential election that followed the death of his father, long-time President Gnassingbé Eyadema, in 2005—faced radical opposition candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre, the Secretary-General of the Union of the Forces of Change (UFC), as well as several minor opposition candidates. Following the democratization process of the early 1990s, which proved largely abortive, Eyadema and his ruling party, the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT), successively won all presidential elections, although those elections were always extremely controversial: the opposition boycotted the 1993 presidential election altogether, and it claimed that Eyadema won the 1998 presidential election and the 2003 presidential election only through fraud. Eyadema died in 2005 and his son Faure Gnassingbé then ran as the RPT candidate; although he officially won the election, the opposition again disputed the result, and serious violence erupted. Ahead of the 2010 election, the Togolese government took steps to increase the credibility of the electoral process and reassure the international community that the election would be free and fair. It placed a particular priority on avoiding the violence that marred the 2005 election. Gnassingbé stood for a second term as the candidate of the RPT, while the UFC designated Fabre as its candidate due to health problems suffered by its President, Gilchrist Olympio. Although the UFC was the largest opposition party by a large measure, and although the election was to be decided in a single round on a first past the post basis, the other opposition parties largely refused to rally behind Fabre and chose to nominate their own candidates. Provisional results showed Gnassingbé winning the election with 61% of the vote, while Fabre trailed with 34%. The opposition again alleged fraud, denouncing the method by which the results were transmitted to the electoral commission, and subsequently held regular protests in Lomé. The results were confirmed by the Constitutional Court and Gnassingbé was sworn in for a second term on 3 May 2010. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Stéphane Moulin (born 4 August 1967) is a French former professional footballer. He is currently the manager of Ligue 1 side Angers. Moulin began his playing career with Angers in 1984 and went on to make 127 league appearances in six seasons with the club. Between 1990 and 1992, he played 51 games and scored 9 goals for Châteauroux. After leaving Châteauroux, Moulin spent five years with Châtellerault, during which time he scored 11 goals in 129 league appearances. Following his retirement in 1997, Moulin was appointed as manager of Châtellerault, a position he held for eight seasons. At the start of the 2005–06 season he was hired by his former club, Angers, to manage the reserve team. He initially shared the position with Gilles Kerhuiel, but continued alone after Kerhuiel left in 2006 to continue his playing career. In the summer of 2011, Moulin was promoted to first-team manager following the departure of Jean-Louis Garcia to Lens. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Johnny Baseball: The New Red Sox Musical is a musical with a book by Richard Dresser and a score by brothers Robert Reale and Willie Reale. The story involves circumstances relating to the Curse of the Bambino. The musical had a preview run in Massachusetts that began on May 14, 2010. The musical's world premiere was on June 2, 2010 at the Loeb Drama Center of the American Repertory Theater. | Work | MusicalWork | Musical |
Thomas L. Steffen served as a Chief Supreme Court Justice in the state of Nevada from 1982 to 1997. He graduated with honors from George Washington University Law School in 1964, where he began his career as a contract negotiator for the Bureau of Naval Weapons. Since retirement from the Supreme Court in 1997, he has served as Of Counsel for the Hutchinson & Steffen law firm. | Agent | Person | Judge |
Taffs Well Rugby Football Club are a rugby union club based in Taff's Well in south Wales. Taffs Well RFC were founded in 1887 and applied for and were successful in gaining membership to the Welsh Rugby Union in 1900. The club is a feeder club for the Cardiff Blues. The first recorded game took place at Pentyrch RFC, which Taffs Well RFC duly won by two goals, four tries and seven minors to nil. The club has produced three Welsh captains, six Welsh internationals and three British and Irish Lions. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
Shinichiro Sakurai (桜井 眞一郎 Sakurai Shin'ichirō, 1929–2011) was a Japanese engineer inducted into the Japan Automotive Hall of Fame who originally worked for Prince Motor Company then later moved to Nissan. After graduating from Yokohama National University, Sakurai worked for the Shimizu Corporation before he was given the opportunity to work in the Japanese automotive industry, which was his first intent. He later joined Prince as a chassis engineer in 1952, and was heavily involved in the development of the first generation Nissan Skyline (also called the Prince Skyline). He continued to head the Nissan Skyline project long after the Nissan takeover, headed the Nissan MID4 project, and was appointed President of Autech (a Nissan subsidiary) in 1986. He continued to work in the automotive field up until his death. Sakurai died of heart failure on January 17, 2011. | Agent | Person | Engineer |
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains show they once occurred there and occasional vagrants are found. Albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses (genus Diomedea) have the largest wingspans of any extant birds, reaching up to 3.7 metres (12 feet). The albatrosses are usually regarded as falling into four genera, but there is disagreement over the number of species. Albatrosses are highly efficient in the air, using dynamic soaring and slope soaring to cover great distances with little exertion. They feed on squid, fish and krill by either scavenging, surface seizing or diving. Albatrosses are colonial, nesting for the most part on remote oceanic islands, often with several species nesting together. Pair bonds between males and females form over several years, with the use of \"ritualised dances\", and will last for the life of the pair. A breeding season can take over a year from laying to fledging, with a single egg laid in each breeding attempt. A Laysan albatross, named Wisdom, on Midway Island is recognised as the oldest wild bird in the world; she was first banded in 1956 by Chandler Robbins. Of the 22 species of albatross recognised by the IUCN, all are listed as at some level of concern; 3 species are Critically Endangered, 5 species are Endangered, 7 species are Near Threatened, and 7 species are Vulnerable. Numbers of albatrosses have declined in the past due to harvesting for feathers, but today the albatrosses are threatened by introduced species, such as rats and feral cats that attack eggs, chicks and nesting adults; by pollution; by a serious decline in fish stocks in many regions largely due to overfishing; and by longline fishing. Longline fisheries pose the greatest threat, as feeding birds are attracted to the bait, become hooked on the lines, and drown. Identified stakeholders such as governments, conservation organisations and people in the fishing industry are all working toward reducing this bycatch. | Species | Animal | Bird |
142nd Army Division(Chinese: 陆军第142师)(3rd Formation) was formed in November 1969 and designated in December. The division was directly belonged to Guangzhou Military Region, while administrated by 42nd Army Corps. The division stationed in Huiyang, Guangdong for agricultural production mission. In March 1977 the division was disbanded and absorbed by Independent Division of Guangdong Provincial Military District. | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
Dyson Parody (born 7 August 1984) is a Gibraltarian darts player. | Agent | Athlete | DartsPlayer |
The red-and-white spinetail (Certhiaxis mustelinus) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family, the ovenbirds.It is found in the Amazon Basin of Brazil and Peru; also the southern Amazon River border of Colombia and the headwaters of the Madeira River in Bolivia.Its natural habitats are rivers and swamps. The red-and-white spinetail is found along river corridors in the Amazon Basin. The major rivers are Peru's Ucayali River, and the Amazon Basin's Madeira River, Juruá River, Purús River, and the Amazon River. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Gasim Mirza was the self-declared Shah of Shirvan after the death of Gurban Ali. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
The Western Crusaders (Foxes) are a women's gridiron team based in Footscray, Victoria. They were the first women's gridiron team established in Victoria and are affiliated with the Western Crusaders Gridiron Football Club. | Agent | SportsTeam | AustralianFootballTeam |
Dining Bar Akira (Japanese: くいもの処明楽 Hepburn: Kuimonodokoro Akira) is a manga written and illustrated by Tomoko Yamashita. The manga was published in Japan by Tokyomangasha and in North America by Netcomics. A drama CD was released in Japan by Momogre on September 26, 2007. | Work | Comic | Manga |
La Grande Soufrière, (French: \"big sulphur outlet\"), is an active stratovolcano on the French island of Basse-Terre, in Guadeloupe. It is the highest mountain peak in the Lesser Antilles, and rises 1,467 m high. The volcano's 1976 eruption led to an evacuation but no loss of life. There was a bitter, and well-publicized, controversy between scientists Claude Allègre and Haroun Tazieff on whether evacuation should be decided. Allègre held that inhabitants should be evacuated, just in case, while Tazieff held that the Soufrière was harmless. The prefect decided to evacuate, erring on the side of prudence: in the end the eruption did not result in any damage. While the island was deserted, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog traveled to the abandoned town of Basse-Terre to find a peasant who had refused to leave his home on the slopes of the volcano. His journey is recorded in the film La Soufrière. \n* \n* \n* \n* \n* | Place | NaturalPlace | Volcano |
Kelvin Richards (born 6 March 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
HC Fribourg-Gottéron is a professional ice hockey team based in Fribourg, Switzerland, which competes in National League A. The team is the sixth most attended team in Switzerland for the 2015/16 season with 6,156 spectators. | Agent | SportsTeam | HockeyTeam |
Moto Racer World Tour is an arcade style motorcycle racing game developed by Delphine Software International and published by Infogrames for the PlayStation. In Moto Racer World Tour, the player drives a motorcycle in races against opponents. A large portion of the game centers on the World Tour Championship game mode, which tasks the player with completing a series races against the AI. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
The Hisatsu Line (肥薩線 Hisatsu-sen) is a railway line in Kyushu, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). It connects Yatsushiro on the Kagoshima Main Line to Hayato station, Kirishima on the Nippo Main Line. From 1909 the line was the original rail connection from Yatsushiro to Kagoshima (and via the Kitto Line, Miyazaki) until the Yatsushiro - Kagoshima coastal route via Sendai opened in 1927. The major part of the line is in the mountainous Kirishima range. No through trains are operated on this line, rather, trains go from Yatsushiro to Hitoyoshi, from Hitoyoshi to Yoshimatsu, and from Yoshimatsu to Hayato. Until 2000, some trains operated direct from Kumamoto to Miyazaki via the Yatsushiro to Yoshimatsu section of the line. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | RailwayLine |
The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for professional rugby league in England. The name Rugby Football League previously also referred to the main league competition run by the organisation. This has since been supplanted by Super League, the Championship and League 1. Based at Red Hall in Leeds, it administers the England national rugby league team, the Challenge Cup, Super League and the Rugby League Championships. The social and junior game is administered in association with the British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA). The Rugby Football League is a member of the Rugby League European Federation and as a senior Full Member has a combined veto power over the Council with France. The RFL is part of the Community Board, which also has representatives from BARLA, Combined Services, English Schools Rugby League and Student Rugby League. Established as the Northern Rugby Football Union (often shortened to Northern Union) in August 1895 by representatives of twenty-one Rugby Football Union clubs at a meeting at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, it changed its name in 1922 to the Northern Rugby Football League, mirroring its sister organisations overseas, the Australian Rugby Football League and New Zealand Rugby Football League. Eventually the \"Northern\" was dropped from its name at the beginning of the 1980s. The turnover of the RFL was reported as £27m in 2011. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
Scipione Compagno, an Italian painter, was born at Naples about 1624, and was still living in 1680. He was a pupil of A. Falcone and of Salvator Rosa, and his drawings are held in esteem. The Belvedere, Vienna, contains two works by him, the Eruption of Vesuvius and the Beheading of St. Januarius. | Agent | Artist | Painter |
Group Captain Ernest Olawunmi Adelaye was appointed military governor of Rivers State, Nigeria from July 1988 to August 1990 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.He signed the edict establishing the Rivers State Polytechnic on March 25, 1989 and performed the formal ceremony of the institution on May 19, 1990.He retired with the rank of air vice marshal. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
The Okurodani Dam is a rock-fill dam on the Oshirakawa River (a tributary of the Shō River) about 7 km (4.3 mi) west of Shōkawa in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was constructed between 1969 and 1971. The dam has an associated 21.2 MW hydroelectric power station located about 3.5 km (2.2 mi) downstream which was commissioned in 1971. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Allen Henry \"Mal\" Elward (June 23, 1892 – December 31, 1982) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Grinnell College from 1922 to 1923, at John Carroll University from 1924 to 1926, and at Purdue University from 1937 to 1941, compiling a career college football record of 32–42–8. Elward was also the head basketball coach at John Carroll from 1924 to 1927, tallying a mark of 22–24. He was the athletic director at Purdue in 1941. Elward played football as an end at the Notre Dame University from 1912 to 1915. He served as an assistant football coach at Purdue from 1927 to 1936 and at Stanford University from 1946 to 1956. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
The Shrewsbury to Chester Line, also known as the Severn–Dee Mainline (after the rivers on which Shrewsbury and Chester stand), was built in 1846 as the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. The engineer for the line was Henry Robertson, a partner in locomotive builders Beyer Peacock, while the contractor was Thomas Brassey in partnership with William Mackenzie and Robert Stephenson. The line runs from Shrewsbury in England to Chester, also in England. Of the remaining intermediate stations, Gobowen is in England but the rest are in Wales. Campaigns for both the re-opening of Baschurch Station and Lache Station (near the site of the old Saltney station) are now under way. The line is currently being upgraded to turn the single track into double track between Wrexham and Chester and improve certain sections of line to allow trains to run at 90 mph, with this work due to be completed in early 2016. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | RailwayLine |
\"Through My Window\" was the Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, performed in English by Sandra Oxenryd. As Estonia had not qualified for the final in their previous appearance, the song was performed in the semi-final. Here, it was performed twenty-first (following Sweden's Carola with \"Invincible\" and preceding Bosnia and Herzegovina's Hari Mata Hari with \"Lejla\"). At the close of voting, it had received 28 points, placing 18th in a field of 23 - missing the final and forcing Estonia to qualify through the semi-final at their next appearance. On stage with Sandra Oxenryd, there were 3 backing singers from Sweden, and Estonians Dagmar Oja and Jelena Juzvik. Following the Contest, the song was covered by South African boy band Hi-5 as Daai Liedje (Your Song). | Work | Song | EurovisionSongContestEntry |
Nieżyn [ˈɲeʐɨn] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Siemyśl, within Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Siemyśl, 13 km (8 mi) south of Kołobrzeg, and 96 km (60 mi) north-east of the regional capital Szczecin. Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. Following World War II the native German populace was expelled and replaced by Poles. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. | Place | Settlement | Village |
Enoggera Road is one of Brisbane's main roads which connects to the City, which is the main access road for residents of north west Brisbane. Enoggera Road is also home to the Reading Newmarket Shopping Centre, one of the first North-side Brisbane McDonalds located at Newmarket and the Newmarket public pool located at Alderley. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
The 2010 Samarkand Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan between 9 and 14 August 2010. | Event | Tournament | TennisTournament |
Professor Tom is a 1948 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 37th Tom and Jerry cartoon released, directed by the duo's creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby, and animated by Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge. | Work | Cartoon | HollywoodCartoon |
Ivan Matskevich (born 8 May 1991) is a Belarusian handball player for Steaua București and the Belarusian national team. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Ludwig Gössing (born 13 May 1938) is a German equestrian and Olympic medalist. He was born in Dortmund. He competed in eventing at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and won a bronze medal with the German team. | Agent | Athlete | HorseRider |
International Hockey Stadium is hockey stadium located in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh. The stadium is Chhattisgarh's first international astroturf hockey stadium is spread over an area of nearly 9.5 acres, and built at an estimated cost of 22 crores was dedicated to public in January 2014 by state Governor Shekhar Dutt and chief minister Raman Singh. The exhibition match between Governor's Eleven and CM's Eleven comprising some international players, including Indian hockey men's squad skipper Sardara Singh, Harjot Singh, Affan Yousuf, Lalit Upadhyay and others, also was played the occasion. This was the second key international standard sports infrastructure envisioned by Raman Singh which was built by the State Government after the Raipur International Cricket Stadium came up at an estimated cost of `100 crore at Naya Raipur. | Place | SportFacility | Stadium |
The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame is a membership-based organization founded in 1976. The organization runs a museum with exhibits at Daniel S. Frawley Stadium on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware and promotes physical fitness in the community. The museum is a member of the International Sports Heritage Association. | Place | Building | Museum |
The Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women was the first women's (16 years of age or older) prison in Canada. At various times, the facility was also known as the Mercer Complex, Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, and Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females. | Place | Building | Prison |
Ann-Lou Jørgensen (born 12 June 1977) is a badminton player from Denmark. | Agent | Athlete | BadmintonPlayer |
Nedbank is one of the largest banks in South Africa; however, it is one of the newest banks to be incorporated. It is headquartered in Johannesburg. Market capitalization was ZAR:120 billion (approximately US$9.85 billion), as of 30 June 2015. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Sailor Saturn (セーラーサターン Sērā Satān) is a fictional lead character in Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon media franchise. The alternate identity of Hotaru Tomoe (土萠 ほたる Tomoe Hotaru), a Japanese schoolgirl. Hotaru is a member of the Sailor Soldiers, female supernatural fighters who protect the Solar System from evil. Sailor Saturn is featured in the third season of the Sailor Moon anime, Sailor Moon S, and a few episodes of the fifth season, Sailor Stars. She possesses powers associated with destruction, death, and rebirth; she has the ability to annihilate a planet and even an entire star system, as well as resetting the evolution of the same to zero. | Agent | ComicsCharacter | AnimangaCharacter |
Barbara Ryan Coleman (formerly Stenbeck, St. Clair, Dixon, Munson and Montgomery) is a fictional character from the American CBS soap opera As the World Turns. In the early 1970s, Barbara was played by a succession of actresses, but the actress most associated with the role is Colleen Zenk, who played her since September 1, 1978. Better known as simply Barbara Ryan she is portrayed as a heroine who experienced many tragedies, mostly at the hands of her controlling ex-husband, the villainous James Stenbeck (Anthony Herrera). Over her 32 years on the show, Barbara has been shot through the heart, nearly gored by a bull in Spain, kidnapped 15 times, married nine times, burned in a chemical explosion and jumped out of a three-story window. Originally characterised as the hard-hearted daughter of Jennifer Sullivan, Barbara was transformed when writer Douglas Marland came on board at ATWT in 1985. He decided to make Barbara a \"bitch\" of sorts, and had her break up long standing couple Tom Hughes and Margo Montgomery. This proved to be unpopular, and Marland quickly reverted the character back to being \"good\" by pairing Barbara with Oakdale police detective (and later chief) Hal Munson (Benjamin Hendrickson). Again, in the early 2000s (decade), writer Hogan Sheffer turned Barbara back into a scheming villain. Burned up in a chemical explosion in 2001 with the actress donning special effects make-up for a full year, Barbara returned to her evil ways and culminated in her committing crimes such as drugging a police officer and hiring a hit man to murder Rose D'Angelo (Martha Byrne). She then kidnapped three of her female adversaries (Emily Stewart, Carly Tenney and Rose D'Angelo).Though the character has since reformed and become a more or less law-abiding presence in Oakdale, she can still be manipulative and devious when she feels she needs to be. Entertainment reporter Lisa Joyner described the character as a \"sultry vixen\" who'd made the transition from \"helpless victim to scheming villain,\" whilst TV Guide's Michael Logan called the character Oakdale's \"firecracker.\" | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
The Centriscidae are a family of fishes from the order Syngnathiformes which includes the snipefishes, shrimpfishes, and bellowfishes. A small family, consisting of only about a dozen marine species, they are of an unusual appearance, as reflected by their common names. The members of the genera Aeoliscus and Centriscus are restricted to relatively shallow, tropical parts of the Indo-Pacific, while the remaining species mainly are found in deeper parts of tropical, subtropical or southern oceans. Their bodies are highly compressed, and mostly covered with bony plates. The first spine of the dorsal fin is long and sharp, and displaced to the rear of the body; two additional spines, the rest of the dorsal fin, and the caudal fin have all moved to the ventral side of the fish. Their snouts are also long and narrow, and the small mouths at the end have no teeth. All species are small, no more than 34 cm (13 in). As if their shapes were not strange enough, centriscids also swim head down. The reason for this is unclear; while some species blend in with sea grass, others live on coral reefs, where there is no apparent advantage to vertical positioning. They feed on zooplankton. | Species | Animal | Fish |
Ovation Records was an American independent record label specializing in country music, based in Glenview, Illinois. The label was founded in 1971 by Dick Schory, who had been on RCA Records with his Percussion Pops Orchestra and had helped create the Dynagroove process used by RCA. The label was created to feature many different genres; the mid-1970s success of The Kendalls gave Ovation an image as a country music label, although it continued to record rock and pop. For several years, all Ovation LPs were released only in quadraphonic format. Aside from The Kendalls, artists who recorded for Ovation Records included Joe Sun, Sheila Andrews, Vern Gosdin, Max D. Barnes, Tantrum, Bonnie Koloc, Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation and Cleveland Eaton and Mark Gaddis. | Agent | Company | RecordLabel |
The discography of Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer consists of two studio albums, seven extended plays, seven singles, and ten music videos. On 5 February 2014, 5 Seconds of Summer listed their worldwide debut single \"She Looks So Perfect\" for pre-order on the iTunes Store. In late March 2014, \"She Looks So Perfect\" was released in the UK, their most successful single to date. It debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, making 5 Seconds of Summer only the fourth Australian band to have a number one song in the UK, and the first in 14 years. On 9 April 2014, the She Looks So Perfect EP debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. On 13 May 2014, the band announced their debut album, named 5 Seconds of Summer, which was released on 22 July 2014. Their second single \"Don't Stop\" was released in June and debuted at number one in Ireland, number two in the UK and number 8 in New Zealand. On 15 July 2014, they released \"Amnesia\" as the third single from the album. It peaked at number three in Ireland, number seven in the UK and number sixteen in the US. The band released \"Good Girls\" as the final single from the album. It peaked at number twelve in Ireland and number nineteen in the UK. On 21 November 2014, the band announced their first live album, LiveSOS, which was released on 15 December 2014. The band released \"What I Like About You\" as a single from the album. It peaked at number 137 in the UK. On 17 July 2015, the band released \"She's Kinda Hot\", the first single off their second studio album, Sounds Good Feels Good. It peaked at number six in Australia, number seven in Ireland, number fourteen in the UK and number twenty-two in the US. The band released \"Hey Everybody!\" as the second single from the album on 9 October 2015. It peaked at number forty-nine in the UK and Ireland and number seventy in Australia. The band then released Sounds Good Feels Good two weeks later. It peaked at number one in the charts of ten countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the US. The band released \"Jet Black Heart\" as the third and final single from the album. It peaked at number thirty-four in Australia, number sixty in the UK, number seventy-eight in Ireland and number ninety-five in the US. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
Primo Valentino (foaled 14 February 1997) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A specialist sprinter, he showed his best form as a two-year-old in 1999 whe he won his last five races including the Sirenia Stakes, Mill Reef Stakes and Middle Park Stakes. He recorded his only subsequent victory in 2001 when he won the Abernant Stakes. He made little impact as a breeding stallion. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
Kimbugwe Kamegere was Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda between 1634 and 1644. He was the thirteenth Kabaka of Buganda. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
The 1908 News of the World Match Play was the sixth News of the World Match Play tournament. It was played from Tuesday 6 to Thursday 8 October at Mid-Surrey Golf Club. 32 players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 18 holes, except for the final which was over 36 holes. The winner received £100 out of a total prize fund of £240. J.H. Taylor defeated Fred Robson by 2 holes in the final to win the tournament. | Event | Tournament | GolfTournament |
Pseudotocinclus jusquiae is a species of armored catfish endemic to Brazil where it is known from a few localities of the Juquiá River basin. The type locality, a small creek in Juquitiba, is clear, with a slow current, mud, and in some places, sand on the bottom. Marginal vegetation includes a small area of pastures, small trees and shrubs. P. juquiae has also been found in the ribeirão Poço Grande, a tributary on the right margin of the Juquiá River; this locality, an old swamp area near the city of Juquiá, is heavily impacted by human activities, and is also used for garbage and sewage disposal. | Species | Animal | Fish |
Angela Michelle Little (born July 22, 1972) is an American model and actress. She is Playboys Playmate of the Month for August 1998, and she has appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, working steadily for Playboy for more than five years following her centerfold appearance. Little was born in Albertville, Alabama. Playboy magazine founder and publisher Hugh Hefner's nickname for Little is \"Little Marilyn\". Little has had roles in a number of mainstream films including the movie Walk Hard starring John C. Reilly, American Pie: Band Camp, Rush Hour 2 and My Boss's Daughter. She has been a guest star in episodes of TV series such as Cold Case, CSI, Nip/Tuck, Monk, The Mullets, Charmed, Malcolm in the Middle, Reno 911! and the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, plus a role on the short-lived TV series Buddy Faro. She also hosted the E! Channel's Wild on the Windy City. Little married actor/musician Andy Mackenzie August 20, 2005. She divorced him. | Agent | Person | PlayboyPlaymate |
Badr Airlines, formerly Sarit Airlines (from 1997 to 2004), is an airline based in Khartoum, Sudan, operating cargo and passenger air services for humanitarian aid missions,and chartered VIP flights. Its main bases are Khartoum International Airport and Sharjah International Airport. The airline has an international office at Sharjah Free Zone (SAIF-Zone). Its European office is being established at Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany. Badr Airlines provides through its partner, African Logistic Support Service (ALS), a wide range of logistical support functions throughout Sudan. | Agent | Company | Airline |
Bangladesh Islami Chattra Sena *Bangladesh Islamic Chattrasena is a political party in Bangladesh, it is the student front of Bangladesh Islami Front . This organization follows the strongest belief of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat i.e. the path of Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his followers (Sahabi). They recognize the four Schools of Islamic jurisprudence as Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali and Sufi Tariqa i.e., Qaderi, Chistia, Nakshbandia, Shohrawardya and Muzaddedia. The Flag of this party mixed with three colors as black as symbol of Baitullah in Mecca, green as symbol of tomb of the prophet's grave in Madina and white as symbol of peace. The logo was half moon with a star above and under the moon a verse of the Holy Quran- Ja al Haqqu wajaahaqai Batilu (truth comes and false removes). This organization is an anti group of world terrorism and so-called Islamic extremism. It is also supporter of Independence war of 1971 of Bangladesh. Islami chattra Sena is also known as anti jamat platform.The present President of the party is Nurul Haq Chisty and Secretary is Muhammad Sadekur Rahman . | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
Eastwood Village, formerly Eastwood Mall, was a shopping mall located in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It was located between Montclair Road and Crestwood Boulevard (U.S. Highway 78), adjacent to I-20, between Mountain Brook and Irondale. When it opened on August 25, 1960, Eastwood Mall was the second enclosed shopping mall in the Southeastern United States, being built after North Carolina's Charlottetown Mall, which opened on October 28, 1959. It remained one of the leading malls in Birmingham for nearly three decades and continued to hold its own into the 1990s. | Place | Building | ShoppingMall |
Beka Tsiklauri (born Tbilisi, February 9, 1989) is a Georgian Rugby Union player. He plays as a fullback. He currently plays for Locomotive in the Georgia Championship and the Georgia national team. He has 22 caps for Georgia, since his debut in 2008, with 4 tries, 11 conversions, 15 penalties and 2 drop goals scored, 93 points on aggregate. He was called for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, playing in two games and scoring a try against All Blacks. | Agent | Athlete | RugbyPlayer |
Satellite Television Asia Region (STAR) is an Asian television service owned by China Media Capital. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan and India. According to the STAR website, their service has more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries and is watched by approximately 120 million viewers every day. | Agent | Broadcaster | BroadcastNetwork |
Dennis Canfield (born April 28, 1980) is a Level 4 Certified USA Hockey coach and former collegiate and minor professional goaltender. He was the co-founder of the Jamestown Jets, and currently owns and operates a hockey training and placement company. Canfield runs camps both in the United States and also internationally in Europe specializing in player development. Canfield has had the privilege to work with many top current and former Junior, NCAA, and NHL coaches as a player and coach. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
The solo discography of Anna Tsuchiya features four studio albums, two compilation albums, two extended plays, two remix albums and 18 singles. These have all been released through Avex Group sublabel Mad Pray records, except for Nana Best, which was released under Cutting Edge. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
The N13 road is a national motorway (Route nationale) in Morocco which connects Azrou and points south with Meknes and northerly locations. North of Meknes there are views of the Zerhoun Mountains. Along the N13 with a view of the Zerhoun Mountains is the ancient Roman and Carthaginian settlement of Volubilis, which was the capital of the furthest west province of the Roman Empire. This Roman city overlies one of the earliest archaeologically recorded Neolithic settlements in Morocco. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
Scinax lindsayi is a species of frog in the Hylidae family.It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and possibly Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and intermittent freshwater marshes.It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
The 2008–09 North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team represented North Dakota State University. The head coach was Saul Phillips. The team played its home games in the Bison Sports Arena in Fargo, North Dakota, and was a member of the Summit League. They received an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament after winning The Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament in their first year of eligibility, the first team to do so since Long Beach State in 1970. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria or University Hospital of the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria it is a public hospital of general scope in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Located in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Affiliated with the Servicio Canario de la Salud. The hospital has specialist facilities which not only serve Tenerife but the surrounding Canary Islands. The hospital adopted the name of the patron saint of the Canary Islands, the Virgin of Candelaria. It is the largest hospital complex in the Canary Islands. It is near the Hospital Universitario de Canarias, a referral hospital in some specialties in Spain. It has a useful floor area of 82,035 m2. The hospital complex is well connected to the motorways of the North and South of Tenerife. With a total of 3,391 professionals, it is geared to medical care in the south of Tenerife, and referral hospital for the islands of La Gomera and El Hierro. Furthermore, due to its structural and technological characteristics and depending on the needs that it is demanding, it is credited as reference for all health areas of the Canary Islands, the service Liver Transplant and service of Allergology for the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Jackson Richardson (born on June 14, 1969 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion) is a retired French handball player. As the captain of the French handball team, he was the flag carrier during the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Athens on August 13, 2004. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Zatopeks are a British pop punk band who formed in the United Kingdom in 2001; several band members played together in the band called 3½ Inch Floppy founded in 1999 at Birmingham University. They released their first album (Ain't Nobody Left But Us, 2005) on Stardumb Records, and their sophomore effort (Damn Fool Music, 2007) on Household Name Records in the United Kingdom, and Whoa Oh Records in the US. Their early sound was a blend of Lookout! Records style pop punk with cultural references to early rock n' roll, but since then the group's approach has diversified to include other styles such as folk music and they have also been compared to early punk bands such as the Buzzcocks and The Undertones. After having seen them performing live, Lookout! Records founder Larry Livermore called them \"one of the best bands in the world\". In December 2013 the band released their third album, About Bloody Time, on It's Alive Records (USA), Monster Zero Records (Europe) and East Beat Records (former Soviet Union). | Agent | Group | Band |
Vanja Brodnik (born March 13, 1989) is a Slovenian alpine ski racer. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek, USA, in the Super-G. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Skier |
XHCMS-FM is a radio station on 105.5 FM in Mexicali. The station is owned by Grupo Imagen and carries its Imagen Radio news/talk format. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
The Col de Peyresourde (Occitan: Còth de Pèira Sorda) (elevation 1,569 m (5,148 ft)) is a mountain pass in the central Pyrenees on the border of the department of Haute-Garonne and Hautes-Pyrénées in France. It is situated on the D618 road between Bagnères-de-Luchon and Arreau. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainPass |
Neyde Marisa Pina Barbosa (born September 23, 1980) is a team handball player from Angola. She plays on the Angola women's national handball team, and participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil, and the 2004, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Charles Dyer Beckwith (October 22, 1838 – March 27, 1921) was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 5th congressional district from 1889 to 1891. | Agent | Politician | Congressman |
Magnetic Bearing Flywheel Experimental System (MABES), also known as Jindai (じんだい) is a National Space Development Agency of Japan(NASDA) satellite mission. It conducted experiments on the levitation of the magnetic bearing flywheel in a zero-G environment, and tested the function of the launch lock mechanism. On 12 August 1986, Jindai was launched from Tanegashima Space Center aboard the maiden flight of H-I rocket, along with Ajisai and Fuji. Jindai is attached to the second stage of the H-1 rocket, and as of 2013, still remains in low Earth orbit. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
Rhizodonts (order Rhizodontida) are an extinct group of predatory tetrapodomorph fishes known from many areas of the world from the Givetian through to the Pennsylvanian - the earliest known species is about 377 million years ago (Mya), the latest around 310 Mya. Rhizodonts lived in tropical rivers and freshwater lakes and were the dominant predators of their age. They reached huge sizes - the largest known species, Rhizodus hibberti from Europe and North America, was an estimated 7 m in length, making it the largest freshwater fish known. | Species | Animal | Fish |
'Pink Chiffon' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Tillandsia in the Bromeliad family. | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
Theodore \"Teddy\" Montgomery is a fictional character on The CW television series 90210, the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. Portrayed by Trevor Donovan, Teddy Montgomery was introduced in the second season premiere as a recurring character. Where in season three he was upgraded to series regular; however, by season four he was downgraded to a recurring cast member once more. In season 5, he returned in a recurring role. The character was first introduced during the second season of the show. In season two, Teddy was known as a \"player\" who had commitment problems with many women, including with Adrianna and Silver. During the hiatus between the second and third season, it was revealed that a character from the show would come out as gay. This was later revealed to be Teddy. In the third season, Teddy deals with the many complications and struggles of being gay, which includes harassment, acceptance and relationships. Unlike the second season, where the character had received many negative reviews from both critics and fans, he became extremely popular and well liked in the third season. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Most Ven. Nauyane Ariyadhamma Maha Thera (Sinhalese: අතිපූජ්යය නා උයනේ අරියධම්ම මහා ථේර, 24 April 1939 – 6 September 2016) was a Sri Lankan bhikkhu (Buddhist monk) and a senior meditation teacher. He was the spiritual advisor of the Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha, and for many years resided at the Na Uyana Aranya, until 2011, when he moved to Meetirigala Dharmayataya Aranya to help revitalize this long-standing place of learning and dhamma practice. | Agent | Person | Religious |
The Battle of Rhamnus was a battle of the Lamian War (323-322 BC) fought between the Greek allies rebelled against the Macedonian Empire, and Leonnatus, the Macedonian satrap of Phrygia who had come to aid the regent Antipater who was being besieged by the Greeks in Lamia. The Greeks defeated the Macedonians. The Greeks, hearing news of Leonnatus's advance, lifted the siege of Lamia and detached their baggage train and camp followers to Melitia and advanced with their army hurried to defeat Leonnatus before Antipater's forces could join him. The Greeks and Macedonian armies were equal in number but the Greeks' 3,500 horsemen, including an elite 2,000 Thessalians commanded by Menon, against the Macedonians' 1,500 horse gave the advantage of mobility to the Greeks. The battle began and though the Macedonian phalanx gained the advantage everywhere, the Thessalians drove off the Macedonian cavalry and Leonnatus was carried from the battlefield already mortally wounded. After their cavalry was drove back the unsupported Macedonian Phalanx retreated from the plain to a difficult terrain where the enemy cavalry couldn't pursue them. The next day Antipater arrived at the field and joined with the defeated army. He decided not to fight the Greeks yet, in view of their superior cavalry, and instead retreated through the rough terrain. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
Felimida elegantula is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
The 2013–14 Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team represented Creighton University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bluejays, led by fourth-year head coach Greg McDermott, played their home games at the CenturyLink Center Omaha, and were in their first season as members of the Big East Conference. They finished the season 27–8, 14–4 in Big East play to finish in second place. They advanced to the championship game of the Big East Tournament where they lost to Providence. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated Louisiana–Lafayette in the second round before losing in the third round to Baylor. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
The Sporting Life was an American weekly newspaper, published from 1883 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1924, that provided national coverage on sports with a particular focus on baseball and trap shooting. The masthead on the front page of newspaper displayed the motto (shown in image at right): \"Devoted To Base Ball, Trap Shooting and General Sports.\" It was founded in Philadelphia in 1883 by Francis Richter, Thomas Sotesbury Dando, and August Rudolph. Richter was the newspaper's publisher until 1917. He hired correspondents to report from locales across the United States and continued to publish and edit the Sporting Life until 1917. Throughout most of its existence, it was in competition with The Sporting News, which was founded in 1886 and published by the Spink brothers in St. Louis. By 1890, it had \"the largest circulation of any sporting or baseball newspaper\" in the United States. By 1886, the publication had a circulation base of 40,000 subscribers. Henry Chadwick, sometimes called the \"father of baseball\", was a regular contributor to the Sporting Life. The Sporting Life also published several early series of baseball cards that were offered to subscribers. The pre-World War I baseball cards published by the Sporting Life are among the most popular and scarce in the baseball collectible business. The popular series issued by Sporting Life include the M116 series issued in 1910 and 1911 and the W600 series issued from 1902 to 1911. Back issues of the Sporting Life are accessible in digital format through the LA84 Foundation's digital sports library. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
The 2015–16 Turkish Cup (Turkish: Türkiye Kupası) is the 54th season of the Turkish Cup. Ziraat Bankası is the sponsor of the tournament, thus the sponsored name is Ziraat Turkish Cup. The winners will earn a berth in the group stage of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, and also qualify for the 2016 Turkish Super Cup. | Event | Tournament | SoccerTournament |
Founded in 1888, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is an international law firm with nine offices in six countries (including offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Houston, London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Frankfurt and Brussels). The firm has cultivated a strong corporate practice focused on investment funds, bankruptcy and intellectual property. The firm has approximately 600 lawyers and staff attorneys. Major clients include financial news company Bloomberg LP. Former Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork began his career at Willkie, and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo served as of counsel at the firm after leaving office in 1995. | Agent | Company | LawFirm |
Kekkaishi (Japanese: 結界師, lit. \"Barrier Master\") is a supernatural manga series written and illustrated by Yellow Tanabe. It was serialized in Japan by Shogakukan in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday from 2003 to 2011, and licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media. It was adapted as a fifty-two episode anime series by Sunrise, which was broadcast between October 2006 and February 2008. The series is about Yoshimori Sumimura and Tokine Yukimura, heirs to rival families of kekkai (barrier magic) users, who must defend their school from the spirits drawn to the sacred land upon which it is built. Kekkaishi received the 2007 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga. | Work | Comic | Manga |
Cleo Baldon (June 1, 1927 – October 12, 2014) was an American architect, landscape architect, and furniture designer based in Los Angeles, where she contributed to many well-known structures, especially pools. She worked as the design director of Galper-Baldon Associates, headquartered in Venice, California. Baldon is credited with having a profound effect on the California furniture industry with her outdoor furniture designs. | Agent | Person | Architect |
The Categoría Primera A (Spanish pronunciation: [kateɣoˈɾi.a pɾiˈmeɾa ˈa]), commonly referred to as Liga Águila due to sponsorship by brewery company Bavaria (manufacturer of Águila beer), is a Colombian professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's premier football tournament and sits at the top of the Colombian football league system. The league was ranked 11th by the IFFHS in its list \"The Strongest National League in The World 2015\", being the third best in South America. A total of twenty clubs compete in the league's regular season. División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano, better known as Dimayor, operates the league system of promotion and relegation for both Categoría Primera A and Categoría Primera B leagues. Since its founding in 1948, fourteen teams have been crowned as Colombian football champions. The most successful club is Atlético Nacional with 15 titles. | Agent | SportsLeague | SoccerLeague |
Jim Paek (Korean: 백지선, Baek Chi-sun, born April 7, 1967) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player, who is currently the director of hockey for the Korea Ice Hockey Association and head coach of the South Korean national team. Paek played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1990–91 to 1994–95, and won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1991 and 1992 with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He is the first Korean-born hockey player to both play in the NHL, and have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
Buxbaumia (Bug moss, Bug-on-a-stick, Humpbacked elves, or Elf-cap moss) is a genus of twelve species of moss (Bryophyta). It was first named in 1742 by Albrecht von Haller and later brought into modern botanical nomenclature in 1801 by Johann Hedwig to commemorate Johann Christian Buxbaum, a German physician and botanist who discovered the moss in 1712 at the mouth of the Volga River. The moss is microscopic for most of its existence, and plants are noticeable only after they begin to produce their reproductive structures. The asymmetrical spore capsule has a distinctive shape and structure, some features of which appear to be transitional from those in primitive mosses to most modern mosses. | Species | Plant | Moss |
Boadicea Geraldine Kennedy (née Granger) is a fictional female vicar, the central character to the successful British BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She is portrayed by Dawn French, described by the British Comedy Guide as \"the jolly, down-to-earth female vicar of Dibley, a small country village inhabited by oddballs. After overcoming the town's initial shock at her gender Geraldine helps to improve the village.\"Much of the source of comedy comes from the way French plays the female vicar with her extroverted and fun-loving nature, frequent colourful language, and behaviour as a vicar which would usually be frowned on by the church. The character made a debut in 1994, and on 15 March 2013, French reprised her role as Granger as part of her French and Saunders marathon on BBC Radio 2. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
956 Elisa is a V-type asteroid in the Main Belt, orbiting not far from the Vesta family, but not within it. It is, however, probably a fragment of 4 Vesta ejected during an impact. Its rotation period is 3.888 hours. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Polska Liga Koszykówki (PLK), or in English, the Polish Basketball League, is the highest level league of professional basketball in Poland. The league is currently known as Tauron Basket Liga for sponsorship reasons. The league consists of 16 teams, 8 of which make the playoffs each season. The PLK was created in 1928, and in 1995 the league turned professional. Śląsk Wrocław is the record holder for most titles, with 17. It is run by the Polska Liga Koszykówki S.A. | Agent | SportsLeague | BasketballLeague |
130 Elektra is a very large outer main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on February 17, 1873, and named after Electra, an avenger in Greek mythology. Its spectrum is of the G type, hence it probably has a Ceres-like composition. Spectral signatures of organic compounds have been seen on Elektra's surface. In the late 1990s, a network of astronomers worldwide gathered lightcurve data that was ultimately used to derive the spin states and shape models of 10 new asteroids, including (130) Elektra. The light curve of (130) Elektra forms a double sinusoid while the shape model is elongated and the derived rotation axis is perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic. Optical observations have found two satellites of this asteroid. Once the orbits are known, Elektra's mass can be reliably found. The value of 6.6×1018 kg indicates a density of 1.3 ± 0.3 g/cm3. Optical observations have also determined that Elektra's shape is quite irregular, as well as giving indications of albedo differences of 5-15% on its surface. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc., 532 U.S. 23 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court decision in the area of trademark law, holding that a functional design could not be trademarked, and that a patented design was presumed to be functional. | UnitOfWork | LegalCase | SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase |
The Smile International Film Festival for Children & Youth (SIFFCY) is an annual film festival organised in the city of New Delhi, India, by Smile Foundation. | Event | SocietalEvent | FilmFestival |
Fabian Bourzat (born 19 December 1980) is a French ice dancer. With partner Nathalie Péchalat, he is a two-time World bronze medalist (2012, 2014), a two-time European champion (2011–2012), and a five-time French national champion (2009, 2011-2014). They have won five medals at the Grand Prix Final (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) and thirteen other Grand Prix medals, including three golds at Cup of China and two at Trophée Eric Bompard. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | FigureSkater |
Taui Ben Kawhena Woodman (born 9 May 1960) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A wing, Woodman represented North Auckland at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1986. He made six appearances for the All Blacks but did not play any test matches. His brother Fred Woodman was also an All Black; his daughter Portia Woodman is a New Zealand women's rugby sevens representative. | Agent | Athlete | RugbyPlayer |
Although Amand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de Puységur (1751–1825) was a French magnetizer aristocrat from one of the most illustrious families of the French nobility, he is now remembered as one of the pre-scientific founders of hypnotism (a branch of animal magnetism, or Mesmerism). The Marquis de Puységur learned about Mesmerism from his brother Antoine-Hyacinthe, the Count of Chastenet. One of his first and most important patients was Victor Race, a 23-year-old peasant in the employ of the Puységur family. Race was easily \"magnetized\" by Puységur, but displayed a strange form of sleeping trance not before seen in the early history of Mesmerism. Puységur noted the similarity between this sleeping trance and natural sleep-walking or somnambulism, and he named it \"artificial somnambulism\". Today we know similar states by the name \"hypnosis\", although that term was invented much later by James Braid in 1842. Some characteristics of Puysegur's artificial somnambulism were in any case specific of his method. Puységur rapidly became a highly successful magnetist, to whom people came from all over France. In 1785, Puységur taught a course in animal magnetism to the local Masonic society, which he concluded with these words: I believe in the existence within myself of a power. From this belief derives my will to exert it.The entire doctrine of Animal Magnetism is contained in the two words: Believe and Want.I believe that I have the power to set into action the vital principle of my fellow-men;I want to make use of it; this is all my science and all my means. Believe and want, Sirs, and you will do as much as I.— Marquis de Puységur Puységur's institute for training in animal magnetism, Société Harmonique des Amis Réunis, grew rapidly until the Revolution in 1789. During the revolutionary era the institute was disbanded and Puységur spent two years in prison. After the Napoleons' overthrow, the new generation of practitioners of mesmerists (and later of hypnotists) looked to Puységur as their patriarch, and came to accept his method of inducing a sleeping trance in preference to the original methods of Mesmer. Puységur, however, always portrayed himself as a faithful disciple of Mesmer, and never took credit for having invented the procedure that is now known as hypnotic induction. His contributions were gradually forgotten, until Nobel prize-winner Charles Richet rediscovered his writings in 1884, and showed that most of what other people had claimed as their discoveries in the field of magnetism and hypnotherapy were originally due to the Marquis de Puységur. Henri Ellenberger, the great historian of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, wrote that Puységur was \"one of the great forgotten contributors to the history of the psychological sciences.\" The details of the life and work of Puységur may be found in Ellenberger's book, The Discovery of the Unconscious, pp. 70–74. Ellenberger's ideas was amplified by Peter Sloterdijk (b.1947), who emphasized Puységur's experience in refutation of disinterestedness of the Enlightenment in the subnconscious. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Fernanda Nunes Alvarenga (born August 20, 1986 in Brasília) is a Brazilian competitive swimmer. At the 2006 South American Games, she obtained the bronze medal in the 50-metre backstroke and 100-metre backstroke. At the 2007 Pan American Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Alvarenga won bronze in the 4×100-metre medley by participate in heats. Subsequently, this result was impeached due to Rebeca Gusmao's doping. She also attended the 100-metre backstroke, where she went to the semifinal, but at her battery, came in 6th place and got no vacancy to the finals, finishing in 12th place overall. Alvarenga was also in the 200-metre backstroke, where she went to the semifinals, finishing 4th on her battery and got no time to qualify to the final. On September 4, 2008, she broke the Brazilian record in the 200-metre backstroke (long course), with a time of 2:15.43. On May 7, 2009, she broke the South American record in the 200-metre backstroke (long course), making 2:12.32. Improved by more than two seconds her own record, 2:14.88 made in December 2008. At the 2010 South American Games, she obtained the gold medal in the 200-metre backstroke. She was at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, where she finished 19th in the 50-metre backstroke, 23rd in the 100-metre backstroke, and 23rd in the 200-metre backstroke. Integrating Brazilian national delegation that disputed the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Alvarenga was at the 200-metre backstroke final, finishing in 8th place. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Henry Carson (31 December 1866 – 31 July 1948) was an Australian politician who served in both houses of the Parliament of Western Australia, as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1906 and from 1908 to 1911, and as a member of the Legislative Council from 1914 to 1920. He stood for parliament twelve times in total, but won election only four times. Carson was born in Guildford, Western Australia, to Charlotte (née Hadley) and George Carson. Having previously worked as a draper, he was first elected to parliament at the 1904 state election, winning the seat of Geraldton. At the 1905 election, Carson was re-elected by a margin of six votes, defeating the Labor Party's Thomas Brown. However, in October 1906, following a petition, the election was vacated by the Supreme Court on the grounds of voting irregularities. The resulting by-election was won by Brown. From 1907 to 1908, Carson served on the Geraldton Municipal Council. He attempted to return to parliament at the 1908 Legislative Council elections, but was defeated by Con O'Brien in Central Province on the casting vote of the returning officer. At the 1908 state election later in the year, Carson reclaimed his former seat of Geraldton, although he held it for only a single term before being defeated again at the 1911 election. At the 1914 Legislative Council elections, he won election to a six-year term in Central Province, as a member of the Country Party. Carson was defeated by Labor's Thomas Moore in his 1920 bid for re-election, and later recontested the seat in 1922 and 1926 without success. He also unsuccessfully stood for the seat of Irwin at the 1921 state election. Carson's final run for parliament came at the 1936 state election, where he was defeated by the sitting member, William Patrick, in the seat of Greenough. He died in Perth in July 1948, aged 81. He had married Mary Ryan in 1891, with whom he had five children. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Abāmūn of Tarnūt is a saint and was a martyr of the fourth-century Coptic Church. He is known only from his name being mentioned in the Synaxarion of Mikhail of Atrib (c.1240). His feast day is 27 Abīb (April). While residing in Upper Egypt, Abāmūn was a witness to the persecution of Christians at that time. He presented himself to Arianus, the governor of Antinoopolis, as a Christian. The governor tortured Abāmūn through a variety of methods, including blows, nails in the body, iron combs, and stringing him up. Thereafter, Arianus sent Abāmūn to Alexandria. There, Abāmūn's example inspired a number of other Christians to accept martyrdom. One of the others who was inspired by Abāmūn's example was a girl named Theophila. She criticized the governor and his allies, specifically including criticism of their idolatry. For this, she was cast into the fire. The fire did not harm her, however, so she was subsequently beheaded. Abāmūn himself had his limbs cut off and was beheaded. | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
Parvixerocomus pseudoaokii is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae, and the type species of the genus Parvixerocomus. It was described by Chinese mycologists Gang Wu and Zhu L. Yang in 2015. It is known only southwestern, southeastern and southern China, where it grows in subtropical forests with trees of the family Fagaceae, and in mixed forests with Fagaceae and Chinese red pine (Pinus massoniana). Fruitbodies of the fungus are small, with convex to flattened caps typically measuring 0.8–3 cm (0.3–1.2 in) in diameter. All parts of the bolete stain blue when cut or injured. | Species | Eukaryote | Fungus |
Lakeside School is a special school for boys located in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, England. It is a community boarding and day school administered by Hampshire County Council. It educates boys of secondary school age who have statements of special educational needs based primarily on a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties. The head teacher is Mr Gareth Evans, who has won a 2008 Pearson Teaching Award for head teacher of the year. Lakeside School is located next to Thornden School. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
The Columbus mayoral election of 1919 was the 61st mayoral election in Columbus, Ohio. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1919. Incumbent Democratic mayor George J. Karb was defeated by Republican party nominee James J. Thomas. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Rhychwyn was 6th century Pre-congregational saint of North Wales and the Patron Saint of Llanrhychwyn. Rhychwyn (sometimes recorded as Rhochwyn), was a son of Helig ap Glannog, the prince who lived at Llys Helig before it was inundated by the sea, and now the subject of myth and legend. Rhychwyn had several brothers who established churches and became saints, including Saint Celynin, who established the old church at Llangelynnin, near Henryd, further down the valley. Rhychwyn church is possibly the oldest church building in Wales. | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
Einar Emanuelsson (born April 3, 1997) is a Swedish ice hockey player. He is currently playing with Luleå HF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Emanuelsson played his first game with Luleå HF during the 2013-14 European Trophy playoffs, and made his Swedish Hockey League regular season debut during the 2014–15 SHL season. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
Rugby Football Club Arsenal Tivat is a Montenegrin rugby club based in Tivat. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
Kevin De Weert (born 27 May 1982 in Duffel) is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Etixx–Quick-Step. In October 2014 it was announced would join LottoNL–Jumbo on a two-year deal from 2015, with the team's directeur sportif Nico Verhoeven describing his role as a domestique for the team's general classification riders in stage races. De Weert retired on his 33rd birthday due to the continuing effects of injuries sustained earlier in his career. In February 2016 he succeeded Carlo Bomans as coach of the Belgian national cycling team. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase (茄子 スーツケースの渡り鳥 Nasu: Suitcase no Wataridori) is a 2007 OVA by Madhouse, directed by Kitarō Kōsaka and featuring Ken'ichi Yoshida as animation director. | Work | Cartoon | Anime |
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