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Montréal-Matin (\"Montreal-Morning\") was a Quebec daily newspaper based in Montreal. It was published from 1930 to 1978. It was politically associated to the Conservative Party of Quebec and, afterwards, its successor the Union Nationale. It was known as L'Illustration from 1930 to 1936 and L'Illustration Nouvelle from 1936 to 1941. It was the first French newspaper in Montreal to adopt the tabloid format. In 1964, the arrival on the market of Pierre Péladeau's Le Journal de Montréal, another tabloid similar in its target popular demographic, created a notable competition between the two. The decline of the Union Nationale also brought hardship. Montréal-Matin was sold to La Presse in 1973 and folded in 1978. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Newspaper |
František Řezáč (born 1 January 1943) is a former Czech cyclist. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
The Battle of Constantinople was a Gothic attack on Constantinople in 378 following the Gothic victory at the Battle of Adrianople. The emperor Valens's widow prepared the defence, and also reinforced the city with Saracens, who performed excellently in combat. It is said that the Goths were impressed when one of the Saracen warriors stormed out of the city naked, slaughtered enemies and drank blood from the neck of a decapitated Goth. Other sources maintain that the Goths actually abandoned the attack because they were greatly outnumbered. In the end, Goths did not enter the city and retreated to Thrace, Illyrium and Dacia. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
Maryland Route 277 (MD 277) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The highway runs 2.51 miles (4.04 km) from Elk Mills east to MD 279 near Elkton in northeastern Cecil County. MD 277 was constructed west of MD 316 in the early 1920s. The highway was planned to be extended in both directions in the late 1940s. However, neither extension occurred until MD 277 was extended east to MD 279 in the mid-1980s. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
The 426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami devastated the coasts of the Malian and Euboean Gulfs, Greece, in the summer of 426 BC. Thucydides inquired into its causes, and concluded that the tsunami must have been caused by an earthquake, He was thus the first to describe the cause of tsunamis. Herodotus, in contrast, had attributed the Potidaea tsunami to the divine wrath of Poseidon. | Event | NaturalEvent | Earthquake |
The 1981 UEFA Cup Final was the two-legged final of the 1980–81 UEFA Cup, the tenth season of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's second-tier club football tournament. The matches were contested between Ipswich Town of England and AZ '67 of the Netherlands; despite losing the second leg of the final 4–2, Ipswich won 5–4 on aggregate. The legs were played on 6 May 1981 at Ipswich's Portman Road stadium and on 20 May 1981 at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
Nadeshicon is a Japanese culture / anime convention held in April in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada at Université Laval (Laval University), in the Alphonse-Desjardins and Maurice-Pollack buildings. The convention is run and organized by Club Animé Québec (CAQ), an extracurricular student association and nonprofit organization. It is recognized as one of the main Japanese cultural events in the city. Like most other anime conventions, Nadeshicon's events, attractions and activities include a Dealer's Room and an Artists Alley, anime screenings, panels and workshops, AMV contests, game shows, cosplay events (Masquerade, Fashion Show, etc.), and video games stations (Gaming Room). A part of the convention is also dedicated to cultural Japanese activities. | Event | SocietalEvent | Convention |
The Pirates Basketball Club is a social basketball club currently playing in the CMG Competition in Canberra. Founded in 2007 after acquiring a vacant CMG licence from the defunct Gorrilaz Basketball Club, the Pirates have developed a cult-like following both locally and overseas, representing innovation, good humour and good sportsmanship.Despite consistently making the play-offs, they have only ever made one grand-final appearance and have yet to win the CMG Cup, being narrowly defeated for the title back in 2008 against the Vikings. | Agent | SportsTeam | BasketballTeam |
Germán Ricardo Recio Cuevas (born April 7, 1988 in Neyba) is a male volleyball and beach volleyball player from Dominican Republic, who participated in the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009 with Yewddys Pérez. At indoor volleyball, he earned the bronze medal at the 2008 Pan-American Cup with his national team. He also earned two second places with Bahoruco at the Dominican Republic Volleyball League. | Agent | VolleyballPlayer | BeachVolleyballPlayer |
TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that serves Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. The system opened to the public in December 2000, covering Av. Caracas and Calle 80. Other lines were added gradually over the next several years, and as of 2012, 12 lines totalling 112 km (70 mi) run throughout the city, making it the world's largest bus rapid transit system. Inspired by Curitiba's Rede Integrada de Transporte (Integrated Transportation Network), TransMilenio consists of several interconnecting BRT lines, each composed of numerous elevated stations in the center of a main avenue, or \"troncal\". Passengers typically reach the stations via a bridge over the street. Usually, four lanes down the center of the street are dedicated to bus traffic. There are both express and local buses, the latter stopping at every station to pick up passengers. The outer lanes allow express buses to bypass buses stopped at a station. Users pay at the station entrance using a smart card, pass through a turnstile, and wait for buses inside the station, which is typically 5 m wide. The bus and station doors open simultaneously, and passengers board by simply walking across the threshold. Like in a subway system, the elevated station platform and the bus floor are at the same height. The buses are diesel-powered, purchased from such manufacturers as the Colombian-Brazilian company Marcopolo-Superior, German conglomerate Mercedes-Benz, and Scandinavian companies such as Volvo and Scania. The buses are articulated (split into two sections with an accordion-like rotating middle to allow for sharp turns) and have a capacity of 160 passengers. In May 2007, a new, larger bi-articulated bus, with capacity for 270 passengers, was presented to the public. TransMilenio buses are not equipped with transponders to give them traffic signal priority, a regret voiced by the general manager of the system, Angelica Castro. As of October 2014, up to 1,500 buses were circulating on the trunk line system and the fare was 2,000 Colombian pesos for a single trip (about EUR 0.75 or USD 0.9). An off-peak fare of 1,500 pesos has been introduced. Cards use a contactless smart card (MIFARE) system, and multiple trips may be purchased using one card. An additional set of 410 regular buses, known as \"feeders\" (alimentadores, in Spanish), transport users from certain important stations to many different locations that the main route does not reach. Unlike the main TransMilenio buses, feeders operate without dedicated lanes, are not articulated and are green (regular TransMilenio buses are red). There is no additional fare to use the feeder buses. TransMilenio stations at each end of a line have large bicycle parking facilities to facilitate cyclists using the system. | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
Rutaca (Rutas Aéreas C.A.) is an airline based in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. | Agent | Company | Airline |
The 1925 Campeonato de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1924–25 Campeonato de Portugal, the 4th season of the Campeonato de Portugal, the Portuguese football knockout tournament, organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 28 June 1925 at the Campo de Monserrate in Viana do Castelo, and opposed Porto and Sporting CP. Porto defeated Sporting CP 2–1 to claim their second Campeonato de Portugal. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
[TO]Bike is the bicycle sharing system of the city of Turin. Planned between 2008 and 2009, it became operational in the summer of 2010. | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
Fabius Odell Didier, Jr., known as Potch Didier (November 17, 1919 – September 10, 2007), was a flamboyant Democratic sheriff of Avoyelles Parish in south Central Louisiana, who served from 1960 to 1980. In 1970, Didier (pronounced DID E A) was tried, convicted and served a seven-day sentence in his own jail for malfeasance in office. The newspaper publisher Jim R. Levy (born 1934), formerly of the Bunkie Record in Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, proclaims Didier \"the best sheriff Avoyelles Parish ever had.\" According to Levy, Didier and District Attorney Charles Riddle, Jr., were at odds. Charges were filed, and the case went to trial. John Boatner prosecuted for the DA's office, and Joe Tritiko, a prominent attorney from Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish, was the defense counsel for Didier. Levy explains: It was the biggest trial in the parish, It was an amazing spectacle. When it was all over, Potch was sentenced to ninety days in the parish jail, meaning he would only have to serve 45 days. He ended up serving just seven days with good behavior, which he would serve in his own jail (in the parish seat of Marksville). I remember that first night he began his sentence, he cooked an andouille gumbo. He served his sentence, and eventually everything got back to normal, In fact, he was re-elected... again in 1972 and 1975. Avoyelles Parish has been known for political corruption. Its best-known local citizen, former Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, served a ten-year sentence for extortion. Didier ranks second in recent notoriety though his malfeasance conviction was a crime of far less proportions. Didier's successor as sheriff, Bill Belt, also ran afoul of the law. Another Avoyelles resident, former Marksville Mayor (1958–1970) and State Representative (1972–1992) Raymond Laborde, finished his political tenure as Edwards' last commissioner of administrator (1992–1996). Laborde, however, was known for his \"good-government\" policies. In 1972, he once temporarily blocked a tax increase sought by Edwards, a friend from childhood. Laborde still operates his Raymond’s Department Store, which he opened in Marksville in 1949. On New Years Day, 1980, Didier, as the outgoing president of the politically influential Louisiana Sheriff's Association and a lame duck sheriff, had a telephone conversation with U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who was then being challenged for renomination by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Contents of the conversation were not disclosed. While Carter went on to gain a second Democratic nomination, he lost Louisiana (and the country) to the Republican Ronald W. Reagan. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
NGC 6380 is a globular cluster located in the constellation Scorpius. It is designated as GCL in the galaxy morphological classification scheme and was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel on 29 June 1834. It is at a distance of 34,900 light years away from earth. 6380 was initially characterized as an open cluster. Later in 1950, the American astronomer A. David Thackeray characterized it as a globular cluster. | Place | CelestialBody | Galaxy |
Rendle McNeilage \"Mac\" Holten CMG (29 March 1922 – 12 October 1996) was a leading Australian rules footballer, Australian politician and government minister. Holten was born in Melbourne and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne. He left school at 16 to sell life insurance, but with the outbreak of World War II joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940 as a flying instructor and test pilot. He retired in 1946 with the rank of Flight Lieutenant and became a grocer. He kicked 83 goals in 82 games for Collingwood Football Club where he played in three losing Preliminary Finals and was also Vice-Captain of the Melbourne Cricket Club at one time. On 1949 he moved to Wangaratta to coach the Wangaratta Football Club. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
\"Me, Myself and I\" is the third single from Canadian band Chalk Circle's debut EP, The Great Lake. The single was only available in 7\" vinyl single but the B-side is an as yet unreleased in CD remix of the track. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Brad Gilbert (born August 9, 1961) is an American tennis coach, a television tennis commentator, an author and former professional tennis player. He was born in Oakland, California and graduated from Piedmont High School (California). Gilbert's career-high singles ranking was world no. 4, which he reached in January 1990. Since retiring from the tour, he has coached several top players, including Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, Andy Murray, and Kei Nishikori. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
Tadashi Kitta (20 April 1934 – 22 March 2003) was a Japanese professional golfer. Kitta played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning twice. He won a dozen tournaments in Japan prior to the formation of the Japan Golf Tour and also won the Thailand Open in 1966. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
The Mid-Bay Bridge is a 141-span, 3.6-mile (5.8 km), two-lane toll bridge in Okaloosa County in the Florida Panhandle. It connects U.S. Highway 98 in Destin to State Road 20 in Niceville. The bridge generally runs north-south; the approaches to the bridge carry the State Road 293 designation while the bridge itself carries the TOLL 293 shield. The bridge crosses Choctawhatchee Bay, part of the Intracoastal Waterway. It was constructed in 1992-93, when the Florida Department of Transportation recognized the growing need for a more direct route between the Destin beaches and the mainland for tourists and to assist hurricane evacuation from population centers and resorts on the Gulf of Mexico. There is one toll plaza at the north end of the bridge. As of October 1, 2015, the one way toll for a standard 2-axle vehicle was $4.00. Tolls may be paid with cash or with the SunPass electronic toll system. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
Bass Musician Magazine is a monthly, free, online publication published in Vancouver, Washington, United States for bass musicians and industry professionals. The magazine was founded in 2007, headed by Raul Amador (Executive Editor) and Valery Amador (News Editor). The magazine was first published in August/September 2007. Rick Suchow joined as writer and Associate Editor in 2010. By 2012 Bass Musician had become among the most widely read bass publications online. In 2015 Suchow stepped down after 5 years with the publication. Each issue includes interviews with prominent bassists, CD and book reviews, gear reviews, industry updates and contributions from writers world wide such as Rick Fierabracci, Alain Caron, Al Caldwell, Bill Dickens, Damian Erskine, Jayen Varma, Todd Johnson, Vail Johnson, Michael Manring, Mike Pope, Igor Saavedra, Kenn Smith, Gary Willis and Yves Carbonne. Streaming video of performances and gear reviews are an integral part of the magazine's format. The magazine has featured cover interviews with numerous world-renowned bassists, including Anthony Jackson, Ron Carter, Larry Graham, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Nathan East, Hutch Hutchinson, Les Claypool, Nathan Watts, Eddie Gómez, Jeff Berlin and many others, while also showcasing newer talents like Grammy Award winner Esperanza Spalding. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
TD Stadium (formerly known as TD Waterhouse Stadium) is an 8,000-seat Canadian football stadium located at 100 Philip Aziz Avenue on the campus of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. It was built in 2000 at a cost of approximately $10.5-million and replaced J.W. Little Stadium. It has a standard rubber track, 4 sandpits and an artificial turf. It also hosts annual Track and Field Championships. In addition to playing host to the Western Mustangs teams, TD Stadium was also used as the main venue for the 2001 Canada Summer Games. The stadium is expandable to a capacity of about 16,000; it has been expanded temporarily a few times in its history including for an exhibition CFL game in 2002 between the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats which was a sellout at 9,178 fans. It also holds host to all Red Feather games, in which local senior high school football teams play their first game of the season. Students are brought to the events to cheer on their team, the student body that cheers best wins a spirit award. In summer 2007, the AstroTurf was replaced by FieldTurf at a cost of approximately 1 million dollars. In spring 2009 the newly formed FC London of the USL Premier Development League began playing their home games at TD Stadium. | Place | SportFacility | Stadium |
Warren Joseph Duffey (January 24, 1886 – July 7, 1936) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Toledo, Ohio, Duffey attended the public schools. Duffey graduated from St. John's University in Toledo, Ohio, in 1908 and from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1911. Duffey was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Toledo, Ohio. Duffey served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1913 and 1914 and as a member of the Toledo City Council in 1917 and 1918. He served as chairman of the Lucas County Democratic central committee from 1919 and 1932 and was a delegate to the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Duffey was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936. Duffey died in Toledo, Ohio on July 7, 1936. He is interred in Calvary Cemetery. | Agent | Politician | Congressman |
Chrome Dokuro (クローム 髑髏 Kurōmu Dokuro) is a fictional character in the Reborn! manga and anime series created by Akira Amano. Apart from the manga and anime, Chrome has also appeared in other media from the Reborn! franchise including video games, Drama CDs, and light novels. | Agent | ComicsCharacter | AnimangaCharacter |
The Tamil Nadu State Apex Co-operative Bank or TNSC Bank is an Indian cooperative banking company headquartered in Chennai. It was incorporated in 1905 as an urban cooperative bank. It has 46 branches in Chennai alone. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Derriaghy Cricket Club is a cricket club in Derriaghy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, playing in Section 1 of the NCU Senior League. They have 4 senior teams and junior teams from U11 to U17. The 1st XI are the current League Section 1 Champions, The 3rd XI are the current Junior League 6 Champions. The U11, U13 and U15 teams are all current League Champions. | Agent | SportsTeam | CricketTeam |
For the Revolutionary please see Nikolai Sablin Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin (Russian: Николай Павлович Саблин) (1880–1937) was an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy Sablin was born into a naval family in Mykolaiv. His father was Vice Admiral Pavel Sablin and his brother was Admiral Mikhail Sablin Sablin graduated from the Marine Cadet Corps in 1898 and fought in the suppression of the Boxer rebellion in China in 1899-1900. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, Sablin was an officer on the cruiser Almaz. From 1906 to 1914 he served on the Imperial Yacht Standart, eventually becoming her commander. In 1914. Sablin became the naval Aide de camp to Tsar Nicholas II and later in World War I commanded a battalion of the Russian Guard. He was dismissed from service after the February Revolution and joined the White Russian forces in Ukraine and South Russia. Sablin was evacuated from Odessa in 1920 and subsequently lived in Constantinople, Berlin and Paris. He was a prominent member of Russian Exile organisations. Before his death, he wrote his memoirs together with Roman Borisovich Gul detailing his experiences with the Russian Imperial family. Sablin died in Paris and was buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
The 1979 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 7, 1979 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. This event was also referred to as the United States Grand Prix East in order to distinguish it from the United States Grand Prix West held on April 8, 1979 in Long Beach, California. This was the final Formula One race for the 1969 and 1970 championship runner-up Jacky Ickx and former Brabham driver Hans-Joachim Stuck. | Event | SportsEvent | GrandPrix |
The Italian LNP Cup (Italian: Coppa Italia LNP) is an annual professional basketball cup competition organised in Italy by the Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro (LNP), the organisation responsible for running the national second division Serie A2, third division Serie B and fourth division Serie C championships. A different cup is awarded for each of these respective divisions, though the event has been organised at the same date and place (under the name Rhythm'n'Basket Festival) from 2014 up to the current 2016 edition. | Agent | SportsLeague | BasketballLeague |
(This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Senna and the second or paternal family name is da Silva.) Ayrton Senna da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese: [aˈiʁtõ ˈsẽnɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ] ; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won three Formula One world championships for McLaren in 1988, 1990 and 1991 and is regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time. He was killed in an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix for Williams. Senna began his motorsport career in karting, moving up to open-wheel racing in 1981, and winning the British Formula 3 championship in 1983. He made his Formula One debut with Toleman-Hart in 1984 before moving to Lotus-Renault the following year and winning six Grands Prix over the next three seasons. In 1988, he joined Frenchman Alain Prost at McLaren-Honda. Between them, they won all but one of the 16 Grands Prix that year and Senna claimed his first World Championship. Prost claimed the championship in 1989, and Senna his second and third championships in 1990 and 1991. In 1992, the Williams-Renault combination began to dominate Formula One. Senna nonetheless managed to finish the 1993 season as runner-up, winning five races and negotiating a move to Williams in 1994. Senna has often been voted as the best and most influential Formula One driver of all time in various motorsport polls. He was recognised for his qualifying speed over one lap and from 1989 until 2006 held the record for most pole positions. He was also acclaimed for his wet weather performances, such as the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix, the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, and the 1993 European Grand Prix. He holds a record six victories at the Monaco Grand Prix, and is the fifth-most successful driver of all time in terms of race wins. Senna courted controversy throughout his career, particularly during his turbulent rivalry with Prost. In the Japanese Grands Prix of 1989 and 1990, each of which decided the championship of that year, collisions between Senna and Prost determined the eventual winner. | Agent | RacingDriver | FormulaOneRacer |
Ince & Co is an international commercial law firm. The marine department is one of the firm’s largest in terms of numbers. Ince & Co ranks in the 'upper levels' of maritime law within both the UK and globally; together with Holman Fenwick and Willan and Clyde & Co, Ince & Co form the triumvirate of top City shipping firms. While shipping and trade represent two of its mainstay practices, the firm casts a wide net and also serves clients in energy and offshore, insurance, business and finance, commercial disputes and aviation. Ince & Co provides advice to a wide range of businesses, ranging from international corporations to smaller companies, sole traders and individuals. | Agent | Company | LawFirm |
The Lechriodus is a genus of ground-dwelling from the family Myobatrachidae, native to eastern Australia and New Guinea. They are medium-sized frogs and the dorsal skin has a sandpaper-like texture. They are unique amongst myobatrachids genera in that there is more species that occur on New Guinea (3 spp.) than in Australia (1 sp.). They inhabit rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests and are active after heavy rains in summer and rarely seen during drier conditions. Breeding takes place in temporary pools and small streams and the tadpoles as well as the frogs are noted for their cannibalistic behaviour, due to which they are commonly known as cannibal frogs. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Andre \"Dries\" van der Lof (23 August 1919 in Emmen – 24 May 1990 in Enschede) was a racing driver from the Netherlands. Van der Lof was an industrialist whose factory manufactured electric cable, and competed as an amateur in motorsport events. He participated in one World Championship Grand Prix – the 1952 Dutch Grand Prix on 17 August 1952, where together with Jan Flinterman he was the first driver from the Netherlands to compete in a Formula One World Championship race. Entering a HWM 52, he retired from the race after 70 laps and scored no championship points. He later brought a Maserati 250F and competed in historic racing until the 1980s. | Agent | RacingDriver | FormulaOneRacer |
The Battle of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit on 24 April 1809 saw a Franco-Bavarian force led by Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières face an Austrian Empire army commanded by Johann von Hiller. Hiller's numerically superior force won a victory over the Allied troops, forcing Bessières to retreat to the west. Neumarkt-Sankt Veit is located ten kilometers north of Mühldorf and 33 kilometers southeast of Landshut in Bavaria. On 10 April 1809, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen's surprise invasion of the Kingdom of Bavaria put the Grande Armée of Emperor Napoleon I of France at a disadvantage. On 19 April, Charles failed to take advantage of his opportunities and Napoleon struck back with savage force against the Austrian left wing under Hiller. After battles on 20 and 21 April, Hiller's troops were driven into a headlong retreat to the southeast. Having temporarily disposed of Hiller, Napoleon turned north with his main army against Archduke Charles. On 22 and 23 April, the Franco-Germans defeated Charles' army and forced it to withdraw to the north bank of the Danube. Meanwhile, Napoleon sent Bessières to pursue the Austrian left wing with minor forces. Not knowing that Charles had been defeated, Hiller turned back upon his pursuer, defeating Bessières near Neumarkt-Sankt Veit. Once he found that he was alone on the south bank facing Napoleon's main army, Hiller retreated rapidly to the east in the direction of Vienna. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
'Thai Red' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Aechmea in the Bromeliad family. | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
North Atlantic Books is a non-profit, independent publisher based in Berkeley, CA. Founded by authors Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough in Vermont, North Atlantic Books was named partly for the North Atlantic region where it began in 1974, as well as Alan Van Newkirk's Geographic Foundation of the North Atlantic, an early (1970) ecological center founded in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, by radicals from Detroit. The publisher also cites Edward Dorn's 1960's poem, \"North Atlantic Turbine: A Theory of Truth,\" which very early described the dangers of global commoditization by the Western World, as an inspiration in the company's name. The company's mission statement reads: “Our mission is to affect planetary consciousness, nurture spiritual and ecological disciplines, disseminate ancient wisdom, and put forth ways to transmute cultural dissonance and violence into service.” Genres published by North Atlantic Books include internal martial arts (through its imprint Blue Snake Books), somatics, homeopathic medicine, shamanism, Martian mysteries, alternative medicine, the history and philosophy of medicine, natural foods, New Science, Buddhism, parapsychology, Western esotericism, Sufism, deep ecology, gay and lesbian studies, conspiracy theories and Jungian psychology. In 1980, North Atlantic Books was incorporated within the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. They are a client of Random House distribution services. | Agent | Company | Publisher |
Letheobia caeca is a species of blind snake in the Typhlopidae family. It is endemic to Africa. | Species | Animal | Reptile |
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering religion and science published by Wiley-Blackwell. It was established in 1966 and the editor-in-chief is Willem B. Drees (Leiden University). Zygon is sponsored by the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science and the Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science. The name \"Zygon\" (mod. L., ad. ζυγόν Gr. yoke.), according to the journal founder Ralph Wendell Burhoe, is the Greek term for anything which joins two bodies, especially the yoking or harnessing of a team which must pull together effectively. The Zygon is the symbol of the journal, its aim being to reunite the \"split team\" of values and knowledge. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.274, ranking it 29th out of 37 journals in the category \"Social Issues\". | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
Shepherd Neame Kent 2 is an English level 10 Rugby Union League and is made up of teams predominantly from South East London and Kent. The teams play home and away matches from September through to April. Currently promoted teams move up to Shepherd Neame Kent 1 and there is no relegation although until the 2007-08 season teams could drop down to Kent 3 (now folded). Now a single division, in the past Kent 2 was divided into regional divisions - Kent 2 East and Kent 2 West. | Agent | SportsLeague | RugbyLeague |
Pharamond (1925–1952) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse who became a successful sire of Champions in the United States where he was registered as Pharamond II. He was a full brother to Sickle, who also stood at stud successfully in the United States. Pharamond was bred and raced by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. His sire was Phalaris, twice the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland and a three-time Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland. His dam was Selene who also produced the Argentine and leading Brazilian sire Hunter's Moon and Hyperion, the 1933 Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes winner and a six-time Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland as well as a four-time Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain and Ireland. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
Adrian Ungur (born 22 January 1985) is a Romanian tennis player who mainly competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He is a member of the Romania Davis Cup Team and is coached by Fabrizio Fanucci. In June 2012, Ungur reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 79. His most notable result was a four set victory over David Nalbandian in the first round of the 2012 French Open. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
Frank Owens Smith (August 27, 1859 – January 29, 1924) was an American politician. Born in Smithville, Maryland, Smith attended the private and public schools of Calvert County, Maryland, and also the North Mount Institute of West Virginia, and Bethel Military Academy of Virginia. Smith also served in the United States Revenue Service at Baltimore, Maryland during the first Cleveland administration. Smith organized the Calumet Canning Company in 1889 and engaged in a general merchandise business in 1890. He later engaged in manufacturing flour and feed from 1898 to 1910. He was appointed State tobacco inspector by Governor Edwin Warfield in 1904 and was re-appointed in 1906, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Maryland State Senate in 1911. He served as chief engrossing clerk of the State senate in 1911. In 1912, Smith was elected from the fifth district of Maryland as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress, and served from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914, and instead engaged in fruit growing in Dunkirk, Maryland until his death in 1924. He is interred in Mount Zion Cemetery of Lothian, Maryland. | Agent | Politician | Congressman |
The Neotropical palm swift or fork-tailed palm swift (Tachornis squamata) is a resident breeding bird from Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and Trinidad south to northeastern Peru and Brazil. This small swift is found locally in marshy habitats, or sometimes open forest, usually near Moriche Palms. It builds a C-shaped nest of feathers, saliva and plant material on the inside of the dead leaf of a Moriche Palm. Three white eggs are laid in the depression of the C, and incubated for 21 days to hatching. Neotropical palm swift is a slender, narrow-winged species, 13.2 cm long, with a long forked tail, and weighs 11 g. The call is a buzzed djjjjjj, like an insect. The nominate western form T. s. squamata has black-brown upperparts with a slight greenish gloss. The underparts are a paler brown with a white throat and central underbody. The eastern race T. s. semota of Trinidad, the Guianas and central and eastern Brazil is much darker, almost steel-black above and darker brown below. Juveniles are very similar, but have buff fringes to the upperparts and head in fresh plumage. Despite its shape and association with palms, it is in a different genus to the Asian and African palm swifts. Neotropical palm swift feeds in low flight on flying insects. It normally stays at less than 10 m above the ground. It normally occurs in small groups of up to 30 birds. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Keller Lake is a surface water body in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is located 85 kilometers (53 mi) south of the Great Bear Lake and 220 kilometers (140 mi) north of Fort Simpson, at an elevation of 255 meters (837 ft). The lake has a triangular shape, a surface area of 380 square kilometers (150 sq mi), and it empties through the Johnny Hoe River into the Great Bear Lake. There is a salmonid population in Keller Lake. On some of the plains surrounding Keller Lake, climax polygonal bogs have formed, the early successional stage to which often consists of pioneer Black Spruce. | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
The \"High Speed Thrill Coaster\" at Knoebels Amusement Resort was a small steel roller coaster built by the Overland Amusement Company. It opened in 1955 and was dismantled before its 54th season. The coaster was the last operating Overland coaster in the world. The layout consisted of a small, 18-foot-high lift hill, followed by a diving 180° turn, followed by several small hills, and another 180° turn back to the station. While the \"High Speed Thrill Coaster\" was a small ride intended for children, it could be quite wild when run at full speed, which often occurred during Phun Phest, and other times. It featured a six-cylinder Chevrolet engine converted to run on propane gas with a top speed of 40 mph. The cars did not have locks on the safety bars, which added to the \"High Speed Thrill Coaster's\" wild nature. It was operated entirely manually; the only controls were a large clutch lever to engage and disengage the engine from the lift chain, a large brake lever that controlled the station brake, and a small throttle lever to control the engine's speed. The ride was taken apart during late December 2008 and early January 2009. According to their website, the ride was \"worn out\". It was the first roller coaster to be built at Knoebels, and had the longest time-frame of continual operation for a coaster at the park. The spot were the coaster was located at Knoebels (on the island above the motor boat trough) is still used for a junior roller coaster. Kozmo's Kurves, the successor to High Speed Thrill Coaster, opened on the site on August 1, 2009. | Place | AmusementParkAttraction | RollerCoaster |
L'Épau Abbey (French: Abbaye de l'Épau) is a former Cistercian abbey founded by Queen Berengaria in 1229. It is located on the outskirts of the city of Le Mans, on the left bank of the Huisne, adjoining the town of Yvré-l'Évêque. The abbey was suppressed in the French Revolution. The surviving buildings came close to destruction on several occasions, but their preservation was finally assured in 1958 by the General Council of the Sarthe department. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
Jan Chryzostom Pieniążek (c. 1630–1712) was a Polish szlachcic. Starost of Oświęcim since 1666 and voivode of Sieradz Voivodeship since 1683. Marshal of the Sejm (zwyczajnego) August 17 - May 4, 1666 in Warsaw. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Estelle Desanges (born March 8, 1977) is a French pornographic actress. She received a Hot d'Or Award for Best French New Starlet in 2000 and Best European Supporting Actress in 2001. She also received a Hot d'Or Honorary Award in 2009. In 2002, Desanges issued a compilation album of her favorite music. She is also featured on a techno Maxi-CD by N-Gels, \"Sex machine\" (2004). | Agent | Actor | AdultActor |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Butuan (Lat: Dioecesis Butuanensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. Erected in 1967, the diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro. The current bishop is Juan de Dios Mataflorida Pueblos, appointed in 1995. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
Aslı İskit (born December 7, 1993 ) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Muratpaşa Bld. SK, and the Turkey national team. The 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)-tall sportswoman plays in the back position. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Ulmus 'Fremont' is a little-known American hybrid cultivar of unrecorded provenance, arising from the crossing of Ulmus pumila (female parent) × Ulmus rubra. The cultivar was possibly named for the town in Nebraska which accommodated the Plumfield Nurseries, known to have raised cultivars of the American Elm, U. americana 'Fremont' featured in trials begun in 1954 assessing trees for the USDA North Central 7 region. | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
Félix Carrasco - Córdova (born July 29, 1955) is a Mexican-Austrian conductor. He has performed successfully near a hundred different orchestras around the world and has gained international recognition for his extraordinary performances. His style in conducting has impressed for sensitivity and accurate interpretation of all-time composers. Some characteristics that critics have applauded are for sound, pitch and rapid response from the musicians. | Agent | Group | Band |
Arianna Fontana (born 14 April 1990) is an Italian short track speed skater, who won bronze in the 3000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She placed 11th in the 500m and 6th in the 1000m.Arianna specializes in the 500m event. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Skater |
Didi Barrett is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing Assembly District 106, which includes parts of Dutchess and Columbia Counties. Barrett was elected to the Assembly on March 20, 2012, after a special election to succeed Marcus Molinaro. She serves on the board of the North East Dutchess Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and is a trustee of the Anderson Foundation for Autism. She is also a founding chairwoman of Girls Incorporated of NYC, and a former board member of NARAL Pro-Choice New York. She is a trustee emeritus of the American Folk Art Museum. In April 2012, Barrett helped pass a legislative package that would work to end wage discrimination in New York State. In November 2012, Barrett won re-election in the newly created 106th district seat. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
The Army of Mainz (Armée de Mayence) was a French Revolutionary Army set up on 9 December 1797 by splitting the Armée d'Allemagne into the Armée de Mayence and the Armée du Rhin. Part of it split off on 4 February 1799 to form the armée d'Observation, though part of the armée d'Observation then re-merged into the Armée de Mayence on 28 March that year (with the remainder forming the Armée du Danube). | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
Eero Antero Mäntyranta (20 November 1937 – 29 December 2013) was one of the most successful Finnish skiers. He competed in four Winter Olympics (1960–1972) winning seven medals at three of them. His performance at the 1964 Winter Olympics earned him the nickname \"Mister Seefeld\", referring to the venue where the cross-country skiing and biathlon competitions took place. The Finnish Ministry of Education endowed him with the Pro Urheilu letter of recognition in 2000. There is also a museum centered on Mäntyranta in his birthplace of Pello. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Skier |
Doug Mallory (born November 2, 1964) is an American football coach and former player. Currently Mallory serves as an defensive assistant/linebackers coach for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. He has been a college football coach since 1988. He was the assistant head coach and co-defensive coordinator at Indiana University from 2011-2013. He has previously held defensive coordinator positions at Western Kentucky University, Louisiana State University and the University of New Mexico. Mallory also played college football as a defensive back at Michigan from 1984 to 1987. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
Colonel Mohammad Taqi-Khan Pessian (1892 - 3 October 1921) (also spelled as Pesyan \"Pesseyan\") was a popular military leader of Iran. He is also famously known as being the first Iranian to successfully pilot an aircraft. | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
Henry S. Burroughs (February 3, 1845 – March 31, 1878) was an American professional baseball player, for the Washington Olympics in 1871 and 1872. | Agent | Athlete | BaseballPlayer |
Allan M. Siegal is an American journalist who spent nearly all of his long career at The New York Times. | Agent | Person | Journalist |
Shan Ying (born 7 August 1978) is a Chinese swimmer and Olympic medalist. She participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, winning a silver medal in 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay, and a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metre medley relay. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Dr. Georgina \"George\" Woodson is a fictional character in the BBC soap opera Doctors, played by Stirling Gallacher. She made her first appearance on 7 January 2003, and departed on 27 March 2009. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Rossana Wandy Adão Tavares Quitongo (born September 15, 1990) 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. She is currently playing for Angolan side Primeiro de Agosto. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
KMJR (98.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. Licensed to Odem, Texas, USA, the station serves the Corpus Christi area. The station is owned by Tejas Broadcasting Ltd., LLP. Its studios are located in the Six Points district south of downtown Corpus Christi and the transmitter is in the city's west side. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
The Schenk's Mill Covered Bridge or Shenk's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the Big Chiques Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, its official designation is the Big Chiques #4 Bridge. (Chiques Creek was known as Chickies Creek until 2002). The bridge has a single span, wooden, double Burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck is made from oak planks. It is painted red, the traditional color of Lancaster County covered bridges, on both the inside and outside. Both approaches to the bridge are painted in the traditional white color. It is one of only 3 covered bridges in the county with horizontal side boards. The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-30. Added in 1980, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as structure number 80003531. It is located at 40°6′57.6″N 76°25′31.1″W / 40.116000°N 76.425306°W (40.1160, -76.4253). | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
Everts Air Cargo is an American Part 121 airline based in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. It operates D.O.D, scheduled and charter airline cargo within Alaska and Canada. Its Maintenance base is Fairbanks International Airport with its major cargo hub at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. | Agent | Company | Airline |
Kevin \"Slith\" McGuckin (Irish: Caoimhín Mag Eocháin; born 21 February 1981) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Derry, with whom he has won a National League title. McGuckin was captain of the Derry team for 2007 and is currently the vice-captain. He is regarded as one of the best defenders in Ireland. McGuckin plays his club football for Ballinderry Shamrocks. He was part of the Ballinderry team that won the 2002 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, and he has also won four Derry Championships and an Ulster Senior Club Football Championship with the club. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
The 2016 Ottawa Redblacks season is the third season for the team in the Canadian Football League. The Redblacks will attempt to return to the Grey Cup and win the first championship for an Ottawa CFL team since the Rough Riders did so in 1976. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
Parasite Dolls (パラサイトドールズ Parasaito Dōruzu) is a three-part original video animation produced by the Anime International Company and IMAGICA Entertainment, and written by Chiaki J. Konaka and Kazuto Nakazawa. The series, set in the Bubblegum Crisis universe, focuses on a special \"Branch\" of the A.D. Police, an advanced group of officers tasked with stopping terrorist activities and Boomer crimes in the city of Megatokyo. | Work | Cartoon | Anime |
The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children is a children's hospital located within the grounds of the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in the English county of East Sussex. It provides outpatient services, inpatient facilities, intensive care and a 24-hour emergency care service for children referred by GPs and other specialists. The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children originally stood on Dyke Road in the Montpelier area of Brighton. Local architect Thomas Lainson's red-brick and terracotta building, in the Queen Anne style, was opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1881. It remained in use for more than a century before being replaced by a new building at the main Royal Sussex County Hospital site. The new facility opened in June 2007, and has won architectural awards for its innovative design. The future of the Dyke Road site has been uncertain since the move to the new premises was first considered in 2001; Lainson's buildings and their later additions were threatened with demolition until 2009, when a developer was refused planning permission to replace the hospital with flats. Brighton & Hove City Council's latest planning briefs state that any redevelopment of the site should incorporate Lainson's original building. | Place | Building | Hospital |
William David \"Dave\" Leggett (September 18, 1933 – March 26, 2013) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He played collegiately at Ohio State University from 1952–1954. In 1954 he led Ohio State to an undefeated 10–0 season and a berth in the Rose Bowl, where Ohio State defeated USC and Leggett was named MVP. He was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in the 7th round (74th overall) of the 1955 NFL Draft. Leggett was most famous for his play in the 1954 Michigan game. Ohio State's undefeated season was on the line, with the score tied 7–7 in the fourth quarter. Michigan was on the Ohio State one yard line with a fourth down and went for it. Michigan pitched the ball to the right and on defense Leggett was a great safety and it was only him and the Michigan ball carrier at the end zone and as the Michigan back leaped for the end zone Leggett went for his legs and flipped the Michigan man over to stop him short of the end zone. With the ball on Ohio State's own one-yard-line, Leggett led the Buckeyes on a drive for the eventual game-winning touchdown. Leggett, beyond being the most valuable player in that 1955 Rose Bowl win, lettered for coach Woody Hayes and the Buckeyes in 1952, 1953 and 1954. After graduating from Ohio State in 1955 with a degree in business, Leggett played briefly for the Chicago Cardinals, as mentioned above, before getting called into the military (he was in ROTC at Ohio State). He spent two years in the Air Force and then played football in the Canadian Football League. He then rejoined the Air Force for a time, and after a three-year military stint in Germany, returned to the United States and spent most of his professional life working in the investment and financial planning business. Leggett died Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, after a long illness. | Agent | GridironFootballPlayer | AmericanFootballPlayer |
The Najran Valley Dam is an arch dam on Wadi Najran about 15 km (9.3 mi) southwest of Najran in Najran Province of southwest Saudi Arabia. It has several purpose to include water supply, flood control and groundwater recharge. Its collects run-off and sediment in the wadi and helps release it downstream slowly throughout the year. The dam was completed in 1981 and inaugurated by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud in 1982. It is owned by the Ministry of Water and Electricity. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Basketball tournaments at the 2009 Maccabiah Games were held from July 14, 2009 to July 22, 2009. The competitions were held at Ra'anana. The defending champions were Israel for men and United States for women. The United States team was coached by Bruce Pearl. Both finals were played at MetroWest Arena. In the men's Gold Medal Game, the United States defeated Israel 95-86 in overtime. Dan Grunfeld led the Americans with 25 points, and was voted Most Valuable Player. Canada defeated Argentina to take the bronze. | Event | Tournament | SoccerTournament |
The Lucaninae comprise the largest subfamily of the stag beetles (Lucanidae). Characteristics include partial to complete division of the eyes by a canthus, geniculate antennae, and distinctly separated coxae. The body is typically elongated and slightly flattened. | Species | Animal | Insect |
The China Association for Promoting Democracy (simplified Chinese: 中国民主促进会; traditional Chinese: 中國民主促進會; pinyin: Zhōngguó Mínzhǔ Cùjìnhuì) is one of the eight legally recognised political parties in the People's Republic of China that follow the direction of the Communist Party of China and is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. It was formed on December 12, 1945. The current chairman of the CAPD is Yan Junqi the current vice-chairwoman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress of China. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
The men's 4x200 metre freestyle relay, or 800 metre team race, was one of 6 swimming events on the Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. It was the only relay event on the schedule, and the first appearance of the 4x200 in Olympic competition. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Kenneth Frank Holding (25 June 1915 – 14 June 1997) was an English cricketer. Holding was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire. Holding made his debut for Cheshire in the 1955 Minor Counties Championship against Northumberland. Holding played Minor counties cricket for Cheshire from 1955 to 1971, which included 77 Minor Counties Championship matches. In 1964, he made his List A debut against Surrey in the Gillette Cup. He played three further List A matches for Cheshire, the last coming against Northamptonshire in the 1968 Gillette Cup. In his four List A matches, he scored 12 runs at a batting average of 12.00, with a high score of 5*. He died in Chelford, Cheshire on 14 June 1997. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
For The Huntington Museum, Art Collections, Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California see The Huntington Library. The Huntington Museum of Art is an art museum located in the hills above Ritter Park in Huntington, West Virginia. It first opened in 1952 as The Huntington Galleries and came under its current name in 1987. Housed on over 50 acres of land and occupying almost 70,000 square feet, it is the largest art museum in West Virginia. The campus is also home to nature trails and the Fred C. Edwards conservatory, a subtropical plant conservatory. The collections include American and European paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, as well as glass pieces manufactured in West Virginia and the Ohio Valley, American folk art, Chinese and Japanese decorative items, 18th and early 19th century British silver, Haitian art, firearms, and material culture objects from the Near East. In addition to its permanent collections the museum hosts traveling exhibitions and houses the James D. Francis Art Research Library, the Grace Rardin Dougherty Auditorium, and five art studios where artists in residence are periodically hosted. The grounds are also home to the C. Fred Edwards Conservatory, West Virginia's only plant conservatory. It features numerous \"subtropical plants and seasonal displays\" where guided tours are offered upon request. | Place | Building | Museum |
The Italian Catholic Diocese of San Miniato (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Miniati) is in Tuscany. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Florence. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
The Cochin Bridge spans Lehman Creek in Cochin, Saskatchewan, Canada. Lehman Creek is a channel that connects Jackfish Lake and Murray Lake. The bridge was originally referred to as Jackfish Lake Narrows Bridge. The bridge was constructed by John Kenward (a concrete contractor from Regina) based on a James Barney Marsh double arch design. The bridge served as the main entrance into Cochin as part of Saskatchewan Highway 4 until 1962 when a new bridge was constructed and the highway realigned. The bridge continued to serve local traffic until 1989 when it became a pedestrian only bridge. There is another Cochin Bridge This bridge and the rail line to Kochi were completed in 1902 at the cost of 84 lakh rupees by Shri Rama Varma Thampuran, the farsighted Maharaja of Kochi, who reigned from the year 1895 till 1914. It was the first to ford this river that obstructed passage between Malabar and the southern states of Kochi/Travancore. The first freight train passed over the bridge on 2 June 1902 and a few days later on the 16th the first passenger train made the journey from Shornur to Kochi on this line. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
The orange-spotted trevally, Carangoides bajad (also known as the gold-spotted trevally) is a species of inshore marine fish in the jack family, Carangidae. The species is fairly common in tropical to subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, ranging from Madagascar in the west to Japan in the east, typically inhabiting inshore reefs. The species has characteristic orange-yellow spots on its sides, although counts of fin rays and scutes are needed to distinguish it from related species with similar colouring. Orange-spotted trevallies are powerful predators, taking a variety of small fish, nekton, and crustaceans, and reach sexual maturity around 25 cm long. It is a moderately large fish, reaching a maximum known length of 55 cm. The species is occasionally taken by fishermen throughout its range, and is generally considered to be bycatch. The exception to this is in the southern Persian Gulf, where it makes up a large proportion of the fishery. | Species | Animal | Fish |
200 Dynamene is a large dark main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on July 27, 1879, in Clinton, New York. The name derives from Dynamene, one of the fifty Nereids in Greek mythology. Based upon its spectrum, 200 Dynamene is classified as a C-type asteroid, indicating that it probably has a primitive composition similar to the carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2011 gave a light curve with a period of 37.394 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.10 ± 0.01 in magnitude. The curve is asymmetrical with four uneven minima and maxima. Occultation data from October 9, 2006 using 15 chords shows the asteroid is about 130 km in diameter. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
(For other uses, see Steve Watson (disambiguation).) Steven Craig \"Steve\" Watson (born 1 April 1974 in North Shields, England) is a former English footballer, who retired after being released by Sheffield Wednesday on 15 May 2009. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
Shorelint (foaled in 1926) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1929 King's Plate, Canada's most important race. He was ridden by jockey John Mooney, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana who won the 1924 Kentucky Derby. Shorelint's dam, South Shore, won the King's Plate in 1922. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
The 2010–11 VCU Rams men's basketball team represented Virginia Commonwealth University in the Colonial Athletic Association conference during the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Rams, led by second year head coach Shaka Smart, played their home games at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. They finished the season 28–12, 12–6 in CAA play and lost in the championship game of the 2011 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament to Old Dominion. They received an at-large bid in the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament where they played in the new First Four round, defeating Southern California. They defeated Georgetown and Purdue in the second and third rounds, respectively, to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. The defeated Florida State to advance to the Elite Eight where they defeated Kansas. They advanced to the school's first ever Final Four, being just the third 11 seed in Tournament history to advance to the Final Four, where they were defeated by Butler. The VCU Rams finished 6th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll at the end of the season. This was the highest ranking in VCU's history and the highest ranking of any team from the CAA. The 2011 NCAA tournament run by VCU is regarded as one of the best Cinderella runs of all time. To date, they are the only men's Division I basketball team whose NCAA tournament journey ran from The First Four to the Final Four. They are also the only team in the tournament to win five games, and not qualify for the national championship game. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
Hynobius is a genus of salamander (Asian salamanders) in the Hynobiidae family, endemic to Japan, Korea, China and Far East Russia. It contains these species: | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Phaedra's Love is a play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1996 at London's Gate Theatre, directed by the author. The play is a modern adaptation of Seneca's Phaedra. The play explores the brutal nature of love, social relations, nihilism and belief through the example of an affair between a queen and her stepson. It centres more on Hippolytus (the original focuses more on Phaedra), who is rendered lazy and cynical by his upbringing as the son of King Theseus. Unlike classical drama, most of the violent action happens on stage rather than off. Kane described Phaedra's Love as \"My comedy\". | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi (Ukrainian: Павло Петрович Скоропадський; Russian: Павел Петрович Скоропадский, tr. Pavel Petrovič Skoropadskij; German: Paul Petrowitsch Skoropadskyj; 3 May 1873 – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, decorated Imperial Russian Army and Ukrainian Army general of Cossack heritage. Skoropadsky became a conservative leader in Ukraine following the Russian Revolution of 1917, a founder of a hetman dynasty and Hetman of Ukraine. | Agent | Politician | President |
Philip H. Bruck (January 6, 1845 – January 6, 1920) was the 29th mayor of Columbus, Ohio and the 26th person to serve in that office. He served Columbus for two consecutive terms. His successor, George J. Karb, took office in 1897. He died in 1920. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
Paul Anthony DiPietro (born September 8, 1970) is a Canadian-born Swiss professional ice hockey player currently playing for HC Lugano. He plays forward. He played for the Swiss national ice hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympics. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
Haggetts Pond is the reservoir for the town of Andover, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the western part of the town and also lends its name to a road. The Merrimack River is connected to the pond to add volume to the reservoir. It is bordered by Route 133 on the south. Not far to the northwest is Interstate 495; to the northeast is Interstate 93. Haggetts Pond is located at 42°38′36″N 71°12′18″W / 42.64333°N 71.20500°W. Permissible activities include walking, hiking, jogging biking and fishing. Only registered rowboats are allowed on the reservoir and fishing must be done from either the shoreline or a rowboat (no hip waders). Canoeing or kayaking, windsurfing, sailing, ice skating and ice fishing are prohibited. Swimming, bathing, wading and pets in the water are also prohibited. Hiking trails, some converted out of a former railway (the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad), encircle the pond. The Pond also gives its name to a road (Haggetts Pond Road) that starts to the west of the pond itself. Haggetts Pond Road transverses Route 133, but the vast majority of its length is on the side north of the pond. (Of the 245 houses on Haggetts Pond Road, 240 of them are on the north side.) | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
Sara Kristiina Mustonen (23 December 1962, Rovaniemi, Finland – 12 September 1979, Hintertux, Austria) was a Finnish alpine skier. She is the youngest skier ever to win the Finnish alpine ski championship with her gold medal in the women’s slalom in 1977 when she was only 14 years old. Between 1975 and 1979 Mustonen won as many as 25 medals in Finnish alpine ski championships, 10 of which in women’s category. She won the slalom in 1977 and 1978, giant slalom in 1978 and 1979, and downhill in 1979. She represented the skiing club Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura of her native Rovaniemi and was a member of the Finnish alpine ski team since 1976. Sara Mustonen started her career as early as in April 1968 at the age of five landing second in the Lapland championships – in the category for girls under 10 years of age. In her next race a week later she finished first, the position she was to hold in her age group and beyond until her untimely death in September 1979. In 1973 she finished fourth at Italy's Trofeo Topolino. In March 1976 Mustonen won all three disciplines at the Nordic Junior Championships (Kalle Anka Trofén) in Duved, Åre as well as earned her first national championship medals in women's category. In 1978 Mustonen was the only woman participant to represent Finland in the Alpine World Skiing Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She finished 40th in downhill and 44th in giant slalom. In slalom she dropped out in the second run. She competed in the 1978 Swedish Alpine Championships in Dundret, Gällivare, finishing third in giant slalom and fourth in slalom. Mustonen was voted by Finnish sports journalists as the best alpine skier in Finland in two consecutive years, 1977 and 1978. Sara Mustonen was killed in a skiing accident in Hintertux, Austria, after having fallen down into a crevasse during a joint training pass on the glacier. At the time of the accident she was under the auspices of the Finnish alpine ski team who were running a training camp at the location. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Skier |
The Battle of Kranji was the second stage of the Empire of Japan's plan for the invasion of Singapore during the Second World War. On 9 February 1942 the Imperial Japanese Army assaulted the north-western front of the British colony of Singapore. Their primary objective was to secure a second beachhead after their successful assault at Sarimbun Beach on 8 February, in order to breach the Jurong-Kranji defence line as part of their southward thrust towards the heart of Singapore City. Defending the shoreline between the Kranji River and the Johor–Singapore Causeway was the Australian 27th Brigade, led by Brigadier Duncan Maxwell, and one irregular company. On 10 February the Japanese forces suffered their heaviest losses while moving up the Kranji River, which caused them to panic and nearly aborted the operation. However, a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces in the ensuing battles allowed the Japanese to swiftly gain strategic footholds, which eventually led to the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
AC Pure was a 24-hour music format produced by Waitt Radio Networks and then by Dial Global under its Dial Global Local banner. Its playlist was composed of adult contemporary music released from the 1970s to this day from artists such as Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart Gloria Estefan, Michael Bolton, etc. that mainly targeted listeners ages 25-54. In June 2012, due to reorganizations at Dial Global, the Dial Global Local 24/7 formats were fully integrated into Dial Global's portfolio of formats, and \"Dial Global Local\" ceased to exist as a brand name. However, most of the former Dial Global Local formats are still offered to affiliate stations in the same manner in which they were previously offered. AC Pure continues as a Local version of Dial Global's Adult Contemporary format. | Agent | Broadcaster | BroadcastNetwork |
Hughes v. Alexandria Scrap Corp., 426 U.S. 794 (1976) was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. Maryland created a program that, 1) purchased junked cars, 2) paid a bounty for those with Maryland license plates and, 3) imposed more stringent documentation requirements on out-of-state processors, in an effort to reduce the number of abandoned cars in Maryland. The Issue before the Court is whether such a program violates the Dormant Commerce Clause—essentially, whether Maryland could Constitutionally discriminate or burden interstate commerce by imposing more stringent documentation requirements on out-of-state processors or favoring in-state car dealerships when they purchase junk cars. Unlike previous Dormant Commerce Clause cases, Maryland was acting like a market participant (as opposed to a state regulator). In such instances, the Court determined that a state actor can favor its own citizens over the foreign citizens. This case created the \"market participant\" exception to the general restrictions on states imposed by the Dormant Commerce Clause. Determining when a state is acting like a \"market participant\" rather than as a regulator was not decided by this case, but found in South Central Timber Development v. Wunnicke, 467 U.S. 82 (1984). | UnitOfWork | LegalCase | SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase |
Mujib Dam (Arabic: سد الموجب) is located in Wadi Mujib, between the cities of Madaba and Kerak, in the Madaba Governorate of Jordan. It is a rolled concrete dam with abutments of clay-core rockfill completed in 2004, after six years of construction. Highway 35, part of the historic King's Highway, crosses the crest. The water it impounds is combined with desalinated water piped from brackish wells along the Dead Sea to the west in a reservoir holding 35 million m3 (1 billion US gallons) which primarily supplies Amman, 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the north helping to ease a very stressed national water supply. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Sonic Runners (ソニック・ランナーズ Sonikku Rannāzu) is a side-scrolling endless runner platformer developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for iOS and Android devices. The game's side-scrolling structure mirrors earlier Sonic games. The title was soft launched in Japan and Canada in February 2015, and officially released worldwide in June of the same year. It was the first mobile game in the franchise developed by Sonic Team, where it received mixed reviews from critics. Sega shut down the game's North American servers in July 2016, and pulled the game from its respective app stores. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 – December 21, 1983), born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, was a Belgian-born literary critic and literary theorist. At the time of his death, de Man was one of the most prominent literary critics in the United States—known particularly for his importation of German and French philosophical approaches into Anglo-American literary studies and critical theory. Along with Jacques Derrida, he was part of an influential critical movement that went beyond traditional interpretation of literary texts to reflect on the epistemological difficulties inherent in any textual, literary, or critical activity. This approach aroused considerable opposition, which de Man attributed to \"resistance\" inherent in the difficult enterprise of literary interpretation itself. De Man began his teaching career in the United States at Bard College. In 1960 he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University, then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich. He joined the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of Deconstruction. At the time of his death from cancer, he was Sterling Professor of the Humanities and chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale. De Man oversaw the dissertations of Gayatri Spivak (at Cornell), Barbara Johnson (at Yale), Samuel Weber (at Cornell), and many other noted scholars. After his death, a researcher uncovered some two hundred previously unknown articles which de Man had written in his early twenties for Belgian collaborationist newspapers during World War II, some of them implicitly and two explicitly anti-Semitic. These, in combination with revelations about his domestic life and financial history, caused a scandal and provoked a reconsideration of his life and work. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
The Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the five western counties of Massachusetts. Formed from a division of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, it was officially recognized at the organizing convention of November 10, 1901. At a special meeting on January 22, 1902, Alexander Hamilton Vinton, Rector of All Saints Church in Worcester, Massachusetts. was elected first diocesan bishop. The first two Anglican parishes in what would become the diocese were started in Great Barrington in 1762 and Lanesborough in 1767 on the Housatonic River, at first served by priests from the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. There are 67 congregations in the diocese. The Episcopal See is in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. Since 1929, the cathedral has been Christ Church Cathedral, which was built in 1874. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
The Callahan Tunnel, officially the Lieutenant William F. Callahan Jr. Tunnel is one of four tunnels, and one of three road tunnels, beneath Boston Harbor in Boston, Massachusetts. It carries motor vehicles from the North End to Logan International Airport and Route 1A in East Boston. Ordinarily, this tunnel is only used to carry traffic out of the city, and with the completion of the Big Dig it only collects traffic from I-93 southbound (right after traffic merges from Storrow Drive) and downtown Boston. There is no toll in this direction, though booth-less tolls are under construction in both directions. Traffic from the airport and Route 1A towards downtown Boston and I-93 northbound normally flows in the older, parallel Sumner Tunnel, where a $3.50 toll is collected (raised from $3 on January 1, 2008). Repair work to this tunnel had resulted in a complete closure, which began at 11 pm on December 27, 2013 and ended on March 10, 2014, two days before the scheduled reopening. A second phase of work will take place between March 13, 2014 to late August 2014. The tunnel will be open and no work will be performed during the day, the tunnel will be closed overnight from 11 PM to 5 AM. From August to mid-November 2014, finish work will be performed during off-peak hours. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | RoadTunnel |
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