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Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary television and radio public broadcasting network for most of Oregon as well as southern Washington. OPB consists of five full-power television stations, dozens of VHF or UHF translators, and over 20 radio stations and frequencies. Broadcasts include local programming as well as television programs from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and American Public Television (APT), and radio programs from NPR, Public Radio International, and the BBC World Service, among other distributors. Its headquarters and television studios are based in Portland. OPB is also a major producer of television programming for national broadcast on PBS and Create through distributors like APT, with shows such as History Detectives, Barbecue America, Foreign Exchange, and travel shows hosted by Rick Steves and Art Wolfe. As of 2006, OPB had over one million viewers throughout its region and an average of over 380,000 radio listeners each week. The part of southwestern Oregon not served by OPB is served by Jefferson Public Radio and Southern Oregon Public Television. | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
Sebastiano Galeotti (1656–1746) was a peripatetic Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Florence, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Codogno, Lodi, Cremona, Milan, Vicenza, Bergamo, and Turin. Born in Florence, he was a pupil of the painter Alessandro Gherardini, Felice Torelli, and Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. He collaborated with Giovanni Domenico Ferretti or Francesco Natali of Cremona in some projects, and among his pupils were Vincenzo Meucci. He painted with Natali in the Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Parma. He helped decorate with frescoes the rooms of the Farnese Rocca in Sala Baganza. Died in Mondovì working for the House of Savoy. He decorated the church of the Magdalen in Genoa. In Turin, he was appointed director of the Academy, the precursor of the Accademia Albertina. His son Giuseppe was active in Liguria as a painter. | Agent | Artist | Painter |
Iván Ramiro Parra Pinto (born October 14, 1975 in Sogamoso) is a Colombian road bicycle racer for Colombian Continental cycling team Formesán-Bogotá Humana. He has also competed professionally for Petróleos de Colombia, Vitalicio Seguros, ONCE–Eroski, >Comunidad Valenciana–Kelme, Cafes Baque, Colombia–Selle Italia, Cofidis, Colombia es Pasión–Coldeportes and EPM–UNE. Parra comes from a Colombian cycling family. His father, Humberto was a successful in the Vuelta a Colombia, his eldest brother was the famous Colombian climber Fabio Parra who won stages in the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España in the 1980s. His other brother (named after his father) Humberto was also a professional cyclist for several years. Parra started cycling as a mountain bike rider and was the Colombian national MTB champion in 1994. He represented Colombia internationally as a Mountain Biker but changed to road racing. In 1998 he came second in the Vuelta a Colombia. In 1999 he came to ride in the European peloton. In 2005 while riding for the UCI Professional Continental team Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia, Parra won two back-to-back stages of the 2005 Giro d'Italia. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
Commander Philip Hastings Irwin (1 November 1884 – 12 January 1958) was an English cricketer and Royal Navy officer. Irwin was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Didsbury, Lancashire. Irwin was an acting sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1905. It was in September of that year that he was given the full rank of sub-lieutenant. In April 1907, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Irwin made his debut for the Royal Navy in first-class cricket against the British Army at Lord's in June 1914, a match in which he scored his maiden half century in his first innings, with a score of 66 opening the batting. Irwin served in the Royal Navy during World War I, and at some point during the conflict he obtained the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Following the war, he was promoted to the rank of Commander on 31 December 1918. In June 1919 he made a second first-class appearance for the Royal Navy, in a match against Cambridge University at Fenner's, making scores of 2 and 0 in a heavy loss for the Royal Navy. Irwin later joined Cornwall, most likely while posted at HMNB Devonport in Plymouth, with his debut for the county coming against Devon in the 1921 Minor Counties Championship. He played Minor counties cricket for Cornwall until 1925, making 41 appearances during that time. Playing for Cornwall made Irwin eligible to be selected for a combined Minor Counties team, appearing in one first-class match for the team in 1924 against HDG Leveson Gower's XI at The Saffrons, Eastbourne. Dismissed for a duck by Francis Browne in their first-innings, he improved in their second-innings with a score of 80, his second first-class half century. In that same season he appeared in another first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Oxford University at Lord's, though he had little success in this match. After retiring from the Royal Navy, Irwin joined the Foreign Office as a Vice consul in the General Consular Service. Irwin was later added the British Army reserve list with the rank of Captain shortly after the start of World War II in September 1939. He served at some point in the war with the Black Watch, continued to serve with them until 1948, when age forced him to relinquish his command, after which he was granted the honorary rank of Major. Irwin later died at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, on 12 January 1958. His grandfather, Frank Wright, was a first-class cricketer in the 1820s and 1830s. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Contributions to Zoology (formerly known as Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde) is a scientific journal that started in 1848 as a publication of the Committee in charge of the library of the Dutch Royal Zoological Society \"Natura Artis Magistra\" and became integrated in the library of the University of Amsterdam in 1939. Since 2005 the journal is published jointly by the Zoological Museum Amsterdam and the National Museum of Naturalis History Naturalis in Leiden, now merged as the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. The journal has been freely available online since 1997. The current editor-in-chief is Ronald Vonk. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
The 2015–16 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners men's basketball team represented California State University, Bakersfield during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Roadrunners were led by fifth year head coach Rod Barnes and played their home games at the Icardo Center. The Roadrunners competed as members of the Western Athletic Conference. They finished the season 24–9, 11–3 in WAC play to finish in a tie for second place. They defeated Chicago State, Seattle, and New Mexico State to be champions of the WAC Tournament. They earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, their first ever appearance, where they lost in the first round to Oklahoma. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
Kristoffer Halvorsen (born 13 April 1996) is a Norwegian cyclist riding for Team Joker. On 13 October 2016, Halvorsen won the Men's under-23 road race in the 2016 UCI Road World Championships. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
Monogatari (物語?, lit. \"Story\") is the general name for a series of Japanese light novels written by Japanese novelist Nisio Isin and illustrated by Taiwanese illustrator Vofan. Kodansha has published 20 novels since November 2006 under their Kodansha Box imprint, with at least two more novels planned. The story centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survived a vampire attack, and finds himself helping some girls involved with all kinds of apparitions, deities, ghosts, mythological beasts, and spirits. An anime adaptation by Shaft of Bakemonogatari aired 12 episodes between July and September 2009, and released three more episodes online between November 2009 and June 2010. An anime of the sequel Nisemonogatari aired from January to March 2012. An anime adaptation of Nekomonogatari (Kuro) aired on December 31, 2012. An anime titled Monogatari Series Second Season aired between July 6 and December 28, 2013. An anime adaptation of Hanamonogatari aired on August 16, 2014. An anime adaptation of Tsukimonogatari aired on December 31, 2014. An anime adaptation of the Owarimonogatari novels aired between October 3 and December 19, 2015. An anime film trilogy is being produced based on the prequel novel Kizumonogatari, with the first film, Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu, released on January 8, 2016. | Work | Comic | Manga |
Schistura multifasciata is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Schistura. | Species | Animal | Fish |
Eagle Mountain Lake is a reservoir in North Texas, formed by the damming the West Fork of the Trinity River. The dam was completed on October 24, 1932. The reservoir sits below Lake Bridgeport reservoir and above Lake Worth reservoir. In 1965, the Tarrant Regional Water District voters approved a bond issue to allow the District to install improved controlled spillways. | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
Forbra was a National Hunt racehorse best known for being the winner of the 1932 Grand National steeplechase when relatively unconsidered at 50/1. Prior to his victory in 1932, Forbra beat Golden Miller in a race where 'The Miller' was disqualified for carrying the wrong weight. The gelding had originally been aimed at another race at the meeting, but was switched to the National after winning a race at Taunton Racecourse. He started at odds of 50/1 in a field of thirty-six runners and won by three lengths from Egremont. Forbra subsequently finished sixth in the race in 1933 and fourth in 1934 and never fell during his racing career. He was put down in 1935 after a race at Newbury, having broken a fetlock between the final two fences. Forbra's owner, Mr William (Billie) Parsonage, was a well-known commission agent based in Ludlow, Shropshire, and had previously attempted to win the National with a number of staying chasers. The best known of these was Master Billie, who had been greatly fancied and heavily backed in 1929. Forbra was the first Grand National winner to emerge from the famous Kinnersley stables near Worcester, where in later years Fred Rimell, son of Forbra's trainer Tom Rimell, became a champion trainer, winning more Nationals and almost all the major NH events of his time. Forbra is honoured each year with the Forbra Gold Challenge Cup, a Handicap Chase over three miles. It is held at Ludlow Racecourse in early March. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
(Main article: Show Luo) This is the discography of Taiwanese Mandopop artist Show Luo (Chinese: 羅志祥). From 1996 to 1998, he was part of a quartet boy band Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王), releasing five albums. Then in 1998, after two members left, he formed a duo Romeo (羅密歐), with Ou Han Sheng (歐漢聲); the other member of Four Heavenly Kings, released two albums and was active till 2000. In 2003, he debuted as a solo artist with the release of Show Time. He has since released eleven Mandarin studio, one Japanese studio, three compilation, one remix and three concert DVD albums. On 13 December 2010, Luo's seventh studio album Rashomon was certificated by Recording Industry Foundation in Taiwan (RIT) for sales of 154,218 copies in Taiwan, for audit period of 15 January to 30 September 2010, thus a certification of five platinums and the best selling album in Taiwan of 2010. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
The 2014 Coppa Italia Final decided the winner of the 2013–14 Coppa Italia, the 66th season of Italy's main football cup. It was played on 3 May 2014 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, between Fiorentina and Napoli. Napoli won the game 3-1, with two early goals from Lorenzo Insigne and a late third by substitute Dries Mertens, although they had Gökhan Inler sent off in the second half. Juan Manuel Vargas scored Fiorentina's goal. As Napoli qualified for the UEFA Champions League by their league position, Fiorentina as runners-up qualified for the Group Stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. This was the last season in which cup runners-up could qualify for the Europa League if the winner had already qualified for the Champions League. Napoli went on to play in the 2014 Supercoppa Italiana against the 2013–14 Serie A champions Juventus, and won. The final was marred by pre-match violence, which delayed the scheduled kick-off time. Three Napoli fans were shot, one of whom died following a two-month coma. Club President Aurelio De Laurentiis dedicated Napoli's victory to the wounded fans. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
Capoeta pestai, called the \"Eğirdir longsnout scraper\", or the \"siraz baligi\", is a critically endangered freshwater fish species in the family Cyprinidae, found only in Turkey. It used to be common across Lake Eğirdir in central Anatolia, but survives only in one of the inflowing rivers. | Species | Animal | Fish |
North County Cricket Club is a cricket club in Balrothery, County Dublin, Ireland, playing in Division 1 of the Leinster Senior League. The club was established in 1985 by the merger of Balrothery and Man O'War cricket clubs. | Agent | SportsTeam | CricketTeam |
Sixteen Mile Creek is a stream in the municipalities of Lincoln, Pelham and West Lincoln, Regional Municipality of Niagara in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Great Lakes Basin and flows from the top of the Niagara Escarpment to Sixteen Mile Pond on Lake Ontario. The stream falls within the remit of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority, whose 2012 watershed report card gave the stream watershed grades of D for both water quality and forest cover. | Place | Stream | River |
Elophila interruptalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Pryer in 1877. It is found in Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), China and Korea. The ground colour of the forewings is pale orange. Adults are on wing from June to November in two to three generations per year. The larvae are polyphagous on aquatic plants, including water lilies. Young larvae mine the leaves of their host plant or feed on the underside of a leaf. Older larvae create a portable case made out of leaves. Full-grown larvae reach a length of 20–32 mm. They have a brownish white body and a light brown head. | Species | Animal | Insect |
Ōtāhuhu / Mount Richmond is one of the volcanoes of the Auckland Volcanic Field. A group of scoria mounds up to 50 m high, it has two 50 m wide craters. It was the site of a pā, and retains some Māori earthworks from that time such as kumara pits and terracing. The nearby suburb of Otahuhu is named after the volcano, which refers to eating uncooked huhu grubs. This was done by Waikato Tainui who, on dragging their waka across the portage, discovered several rotten tree trunks full of huhu grubs. In the 2014 Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the Tamaki Makaurau Collective of 13 Auckland iwi, the volcano was officially named Ōtāhuhu / Mount Richmond and ownership was vested to the collective. It is now co-governed by the collective and Auckland Council in common benefit of the iwi \"and all other people of Auckland\". | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo (Japanese: 薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿, lit. \"Ryōko Yakushiji's Strange Case Files\") is a series that consist of the anime TV series, manga and light novels created by Yoshiki Tanaka and illustrated by Narumi Kakinouchi. Two Drama CDs had also been released prior to the anime adaptation with different voice actors from the CD and the TV version. The series centers around Ryōko Yakushiji, an elite police officer with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who had graduated from Tokyo University under its Law Faculty. She is involved with her subordinate Junichirō Izumida as they investigate cases that pertain to the paranormal and supernatural when and if they cannot be investigated with modern science. As the light novels/manga adaptation and the anime have different plots and paranormal events/creatures, their central plots are most of the time different from each other. | Work | Comic | Manga |
Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, is a State-owned public museum and gallery museum located in Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1981, the museum comprises three distinct exhibition buildings set within sixteen acres of heritage gardens and a sculpture park. Two domestic buildings of historical importance, and an additional purpose-built gallery, are used to exhibit works by twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists. Heide is unique within the context of Melbourne’s cultural sector as it brings together modern and contemporary art, gardens and architecture, as well as a rich social and artistic history. The museum occupies the site of a former dairy farm that was purchased by the prominent Melbourne art benefactors John and Sunday Reed in 1934 and became the gathering place for a collective known as the Heide Circle, which included many of Australia's best-known modernist painters, including Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester, who often stayed in the former farmhouse, now known as Heide I. Between 1964 and 1967, the Reeds built a new residence, Heide II, which is considered to be one of the finest examples of modernist architecture in Victoria. In 1980, the Reeds sold Heide II, most of the adjoining property and significant works from their art collection to the Victorian State Government after several years of negotiations for the creation of a public art gallery and park. The Heide Collection has since expanded through many individual gifts as well as four significant collections—the Museum of Modern Art and Design Collection, the Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80s, the Barrett Reid Collection, and most recently, the Albert Tucker Gift donated by Barbara Tucker. in 1993 a new gallery building was added to the Heide complex, designed by Andrew Andersons from Peddle Thorp Architects. When the museum underwent major redevelopment in 2005–06, significant extensions were made to this building by O'Connor + Houle Architecture. Also during this period the Sidney Myer Education Centre was built, Heide II and the surrounding gardens were restored, and new facilities were constructed: the Sir Rupert Hamer Memorial Garden, the Tony and Cathie Hancy Sculpture plaza and the Federation Way Car Park. In 2009 Chris Connell Design and McCorkell Construction completed the new Heide Cafe, currently occupied by Cafe Vue. This completed the capital works expansion and building upgrades at Heide. The current Director and CEO of Heide is Kirsty Grant. | Place | Building | Museum |
Abel (fl. 744–747) was a saint and suffragan bishop of Reims in Francia, modern-day France. | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman (聖剣使いの禁呪詠唱（ワールドブレイク） Seiken Tsukai no Wārudo Bureiku, lit. Holy Swordsman's World Break) is a Japanese light novel series written by Akamitsu Awamura and illustrated by Refeia. SB Creative has published twelve volumes since November 2012 under their GA Bunko imprint. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Diomedéa aired between January 11 and March 29, 2015. A manga adaptation began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Comp Ace from June 2014. A game adaptation by the Japanese company ASOBIMO has also been released. | Work | Comic | Manga |
Jerry McGee (born July 21, 1943) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. McGee was born in New Lexington, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University and was a member of the golf team. He turned pro in 1966 and joined the PGA Tour in 1967. McGee won four PGA Tour events in the latter half of the 1970s. In 1979, he won twice: a one shot win over Jerry Pate at the Kemper Open, and a couple months later a one stroke win over Jack Renner at the Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open. His best finish in a major championship was T-5 at the 1972 Masters Tournament. He was a member of the 1977 Ryder Cup team. McGee was known for his superb play around the greens. At 5 feet 9½ inches tall and a slim 160 pounds, distance in the ball striking phase of the game was a constant problem for him. He was also plagued by injuries and illnesses during his career. McGee retired from the PGA Tour in 1981 largely due to health problems. He took a club pro job at Oak Tree Country Club in Pennsylvania just across the border from his East Palestine, Ohio home. McGee returned to competitive golf on the Senior PGA Tour in 1993 upon reaching the age of 50. His best finish in this venue is a T-2 at the 1997 BankBoston Classic. In 1999, he underwent treatment for oropharyngeal, squamous cell carcinoma. McGee's son, Mike McGee, a golf agent/businessman, and one-time record-setting pitcher at Mt. Union College, is married to LPGA Tour golfer Annika Sörenstam. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
The 2014 Mexico–Guatemala earthquake struck 4 km (2.5 mi) west of Puerto Madero on July 7 at 05:23:54. The shock had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Collapsed buildings and a heart attack resulted in the deaths of five people and another 12 were injured. | Event | NaturalEvent | Earthquake |
The Alliance Party of Kenya (APK) is a political party founded by cabinet Minister Kiraitu Murungi in 2012, in an attempt to create a vehicle for Uhuru Kenyatta to use in his bid to succeed President Mwai Kibaki. Kenyatta however opted to form his own party The National Alliance. APK was not formally a part of the Jubilee Alliance, but it did support Kenyatta's bid in the 2013 presidential contest. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
The Turnbridge Lift Bridge (also colloquially known as a Locomotive lift bridge) is a lift bridge which spans the Huddersfield Broad Canal at Turnbridge, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Officially known as Turnbridge, it is bridge number 17 on the Huddersfield Broad Canal. Located at Quay Street, off St Andrews road (approx 300 Yards from the town centre), it opened in 1865 and replaced an earlier swing bridge. A combination of wheels, chains and counter-weights were used to lift the deck of the bridge out of the way of passing canal barges. Previously windlass operated, it was refurbished in 2002 and is now electrically powered. \n* Viewed from Southern side of the Broad canal \n* Car passing over the bridge towards Watergate | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
Edward Theodore Newell (1886–1941) was a U.S. numismatist. He served as the president of the American Numismatic Society between 1916 and 1941. He was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1925. | Agent | Writer | Historian |
Baldoyle railway station was a railway station on the Dublin-Drogheda railway line, that served Baldoyle in County Dublin. The station opened in 1844 and closed in 1846. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
The United States presidential election of 1900 was the 29th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1900. The election was a re-match of the 1896 race between Republican candidate and incumbent President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. The Republican Convention chose New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt as McKinley's running mate, since Vice-President Garret Hobart had died from heart failure in 1899. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish–American War for control of the Philippines helped McKinley to score a decisive victory, while Bryan's anti-imperialist stance and continued support for bimetallism attracted only limited support. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Culebrita Lighthouse (Spanish: Faro Culebrita) is the only remaining Spanish-era structure in the Culebra archipelago. Construction of the lighthouse began on September 25, 1882, and it was completed on February 25, 1886. The Spanish Crown built the lighthouse to help secure its claim over the main island of Culebra. It is the most eastern light outside mainland Puerto Rico. It guides navigation through the Virgin Passage and the Vieques Sound connecting in the Puerto Rico Light System with the Cape San Juan Light. It was one of the oldest operating lighthouses in the Caribbean until 1975 when the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard finally closed the facility. The United States Coast Guard has replaced the lighthouse with a solar powered light beacon. The Culebrita Lighthouse was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on October 22, 1981; however, no work has been done to maintain the facility. In 1989, Hurricane Hugo caused extensive damage, and in 1995 the tower was destroyed by Hurricane Marilyn. The Culebra Foundation, starting in 1994, has tried to attract local and federal attention to save the lighthouse, but they have had little success. Presently, the lighthouse is in danger of collapsing. | Place | Tower | Lighthouse |
The English rock group the Rolling Stones have released 30 studio albums, 21 live albums, 29 compilation albums, three extended play singles, and 109 singles. The early albums and singles released from 1963 to 1967 were originally released on Decca Records in the United Kingdom, and on their subsidiary label London Records in the United States. It was common practice in the music industry prior to 1967 for British releases to be reconfigured for the American market. In some cases, the US version would be an entirely different album with different tracks, cover photos and liner notes. The first five British Rolling Stones albums were converted into seven LPs for the American market, adding material from singles and the UK EPs. The two Big Hits singles packages, respectively from 1966 and 1969, differ in each nation, and in the case of December's Children (And Everybody's) and Flowers, there are no UK counterparts. The Rolling Stones' LP releases from Their Satanic Majesties Request in 1967 forward are uniform in both the UK and the US, except for Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2). | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
The Lahore School of Economics (LSE) is an independent research university based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan established in 1993 and chartered by the government in January 1997. It has currently 200 faculty members and over 3,000 students studying undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs. The Lahore School was founded by Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhr, a McGill trained economist, who served as the deputy chair of the influential Planning Commission. The Lahore School has two campuses: the Main campus and the City campus. The Main campus, spread over 35 acres (140,000 m2) and the city campus is located in Gulberg. Its faculty comprise over 150 permanent faculty members with specialisations in Economics, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Environmental Studies, Media Studies, Art and Design. The Lahore School consists of two distinctive institutes, including the Graduate Institute of Development Studies which carries out research and training in international development, the Centre for Research in Economics and Business, which publishes the Lahore Journal of Economics and the Lahore Journal of Business. Its business school is ranked among the top 10 in Pakistan according to the Higher Education Commission. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
Nikolai Alexandrovich Ladovsky (Russian: Николай Александрович Ладовский) (1881–1941) was a Russian avant-garde architect and educator, leader of the rationalist movement in 1920s architecture, an approach emphasizing human perception of space and shape. Ladovsky is known as the founder of modern Soviet and Russian schools of architectural training; his classes of 1920-1932 in VKhUTEMAS shaped the generation of Soviet architects active throughout the period of Stalinist architecture and subsequent decades. | Agent | Person | Architect |
William Richard \"Dick\" Hern, CVO, (20 January 1921 – 22 May 2002) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and winner of sixteen British Classic Races between 1962 and 1995, and was Champion Trainer on four occasions. Following his early career in the Army (Major), he became a riding instructor, including a spell as instructor to the Olympic gold medal winning team in 1952. His first training licence was as private trainer to Major Lionel Holliday in 1958, at La Grange Stables in Newmarket, before moving to West Ilsley at the end of the 1962 season to take over from R. J. 'Jack' Colling. Hern became a St. Leger Stakes specialist, winning the event six times. He produced three Epsom Derby winners in Troy (1979), Henbit (1980) and Nashwan (1989), who also won the 2,000 Guineas and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Hern trained Brigadier Gerard who was only beaten once in eighteen races. Other major winners include Sun Princess, Dayjur, Hethersett, Bireme, Bustino, Longboat, Little Wolf, Petoski, Highclere, Provoke, Prince of Dance, Minster Son, Unfuwain, Dunfermline and Cut Above. In December 1984 Hern was seriously injured in a hunting accident, after which time he used a wheelchair. In 1988 he was controversially sacked from his position as trainer for Queen Elizabeth II at West Ilsley by her racing manager 7th Earl of Carnarvon – Hern was recovering from heart surgery at the time. Later a compromise was reached whereby Hern shared the stable with the new incumbent – William Hastings-Bass (later Earl of Huntingdon) for a year before moving to Hamdan Al Maktoum's Kingwood House Stables in Lambourn. Dick Hern died in 2002 at Oxford, England at age 81. | Agent | Person | HorseTrainer |
Ezequiel Franklin Astacio (born November 4, 1979) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Obtained by the Houston Astros from the Philadelphia Phillies in 2003 as part of the Billy Wagner trade. Astacio got a taste of the big league in 2005 posting a 3–6 record with a 5.67 ERA. He pitched 100 innings, striking out 66 and walking 25. Typical of a lot of younger pitchers with a plus fastball, he also gave up an eye opening 25 home runs. He gave up the game-winning home run to Geoff Blum in Game 3 of the 2005 World Series against the Chicago White Sox. Astacio was claimed off of waivers by the Texas Rangers on March 26, 2007, but he failed to make the team following spring training. After clearing waivers, Astacio was optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma RedHawks. After signing with the Cincinnati Reds organization, Astacio was released before pitching in a game. He then signed with the Chicago Cubs in September 2009, but was released that same month. | Agent | Athlete | BaseballPlayer |
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is an American international law firm and the most profitable lobbying firm in the United States. With more than 900 attorneys, the firm has offices in Dallas, Washington, D.C., San Antonio, Houston, New York, Moscow, Philadelphia, London, Los Angeles, Longview, San Francisco, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Frankfurt and Geneva. Akin Gump is widely considered to be among the most profitable and prestigious firms in the nation. The firm is known for its influence on Capitol Hill and its representation of high-profile clients. With regard to compensation, Akin Gump is within the top ten highest paying law firms in the country. | Agent | Company | LawFirm |
McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) is an academic tertiary care teaching hospital affiliated with McMaster University. It is operated by Hamilton Health Sciences and is within the McMaster University Medical Centre. McMaster Children's Hospital became a children's hospital in 1988. The hospital was recently ranked 2nd in Canada for research according to Research Infosource Inc. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Ralph M. Calhoun Memorial Airport (IATA: TAL, ICAO: PATA, FAA LID: TAL) is a state owned, public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) west of the central business district of Tanana, a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,549 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 3,298 enplanements in 2009, and 3,241 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year). | Place | Infrastructure | Airport |
Stephanie Molly Emma Sandler (born 9 October 1987) is a South African individual rhythmic gymnast. She represented her nation at various international competitions. She was the first South African rhythmic gymnast to participate at an Olympic Games. She participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She is a 3 times silver medalist from the Commonwealth Youth Games, in Bendigo, Australia. She finished 7th all around in the 2004 ribbon apparatus final, at the Julietta Shishmanova Grand Prix in Bulgaria. She has won various National Championships and African Championship titles. She also competed at the world championships, including at the 2003, 2005 and 2007 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.She was unable to attend the 2009 or 2010 World Championships, due to injuries, for which she eventually needed operations. Stephanie is currently one of two South African rhythmic gymnasts who have received \"world class status\" from the FIG.She officially retired after the 2011 World Universiades.Stephanie's favourite apparatus is the rope. In competition, her rope, ribbon and clubs produced some of her best results. Stephanie's father, is a Russian Jew (Ashkenazi) and her mother is South African born, of Swedish descent.Stephanie has one brother, David Aaron Ray Sandler, (born 12 June 1989) who is a former fencer for the South African national team, as well as half and step siblings. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Mart Laar (born 22 April 1960) is an Estonian politician and historian. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. Laar is credited with having helped bring about Estonia’s rapid economic development during the 1990s. He is a member of Pro Patria and Res Publica Union. In April 2011, Mart Laar became Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and served until his resignation for reasons of health in May 2012. In April 2013, Riigikogu appointed Laar as chairman of the supervisory board of the Bank of Estonia, his term beginning on 12 June 2013. | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
John Frederick Adair (20 January 1852 – 1 April 1913) was an Irish physicist and cricketer who played first class cricket for Cambridge University in 1875. Adair was born at St Stephen's Green, Dublin, the son of John Adair, lawyer of Dublin. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin being scholar in 1871 and being awarded BA in 1873. He played cricket for his university between 1870 and 1874. In 1874 he was admitted at Pembroke College, Cambridge and while at Cambridge played one cricket match for Cambridge University and one against the University for an England XI led by WG Grace. He was a scholar at Cambridge and was awarded BA (7th Wrangler) at Cambridge in1878. He was an assistant master at Derby School from 1877 to 1879 and in that time played one cricket match for Derbyshire against their Colts. He also played for I Zingari. He became a Fellow of Pembroke College, and in 1881 was admitted to Inner Temple. In 1883 played cricket for Ireland. Adair played 2 innings in two first class matches with an average of 31.00 and a top score of 17. He was an occasional wicket-keeper. Adair went to Australia where he was a physics demonstrator at the University of Sydney and was later professor. Adair died at Ballsbridge, County Dublin, Ireland at the age of 61. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Simon Whelehan (born 27 July 1976) is an Irish hurler who played as a full-back for the Offaly senior hurling team. Whelehan made his first appearance for the team during the 1998 championship and subsequently became a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 2004 championship. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal. Whelehan was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion. At club level Whelehan is a three-time All-Ireland medalist with Birr. In addition to this he has also won five Leinster medals and ten county club championship medals. Whelehan's father, Pad Joe, and his brothers, Brian and Barry, also played hurling with Offaly. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
The 1988 Grand National (known as the Seagram Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 142nd renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 9 April 1988. The race was won by Rhyme 'n' Reason, in a time of nine minutes and 53.5 seconds and by a distance of four lengths. Durham Edition was second, and Monamore third. West Tip finished fourth. 17/2 favourite Sacred Path fell at the first fence. Nine of the 40 runners completed the course, however one horse, Smith's Man broke down during the race and died a few days later. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
Prodigy Finance is a platform that enables financing for international postgraduate students who attend a participating business school or postgraduate institution, whilst delivering financial and social returns to alumni, institutional and private investors. This borderless model enables educational loan financing to international students from across the globe, whilst using predicted post-degree affordability rather than present-day salary. Since 2007, Prodigy Finance has disbursed over US$140 million (as of May 2016) through the platform to fund students from 115 nationalities, with repayment rates in excess of 99%. Prodigy Finance is registered in London with offices in London and Cape Town. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Kiyoshi Miyazato (born 28 February 1977) is a Japanese professional golfer. Miyazato plays on the Japan Golf Tour, where he has won once. His sister, Ai Miyazato, and brother Yūsaku Miyazato are also professional golfers. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
The National Teachers Hall of Fame (NTHF) is a non-profit organization that honors exceptional school teachers. It was founded in 1989 by Emporia State University, the ESU Alumni Association, the City of Emporia, Emporia Public Schools, and the Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce. The NTHF has a museum on Emporia State's campus that honors the teachers inducted. It also has a teacher resource center, and a recognition program, which recognizes five of the nation's most outstanding educators each June. The Hall of Fame annually honors five teachers who have demonstrated commitment and dedication to teaching children. The first induction of five teachers was held in June 1992. To date, 120 teachers have been inducted into The National Teachers Hall of Fame representing 37 states and the District of Columbia. | Place | Building | Museum |
I Can Do Bad All by Myself is a 1999 play directed by, written by, and starring Tyler Perry. The play marks for the first official appearance of the well-known fictional character Madea, who is portrayed by Perry. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
Skåne University Hospital (Swedish: Skånes universitetssjukhus, SUS) is a university hospital in Scania, Sweden. The hospital was founded in 2010 through the merger of the two university hospitals in Lund and Malmö. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Ilya Alexandrovich Golosov (1883 in Moscow – 1945 in Moscow) was a Russian Soviet architect. A leader of Constructivism in 1925-1931, Ilya Golosov later developed his own style of early stalinist architecture known as postconstructivism. Не was a brother of Panteleimon Golosov. | Agent | Person | Architect |
MTV Music 24 (also called MTV Music) is a Dutch thematic music television channel of MTV. The programming consists of non-stop Music videos 24-hours a day. | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
The GP Memorial Bruno Caloi is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Brazil and is currently rated by the UCI as a 1.2 race. | Event | Race | CyclingRace |
Monzon's Hidden Salamander, (Cryptotriton monzoni) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.It is endemic to Guatemala. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is critically endangered by habitat loss. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Roger Black is an American insult comedian, actor, voice actor, animator, writer and producer. He is known for his character Yucko the Clown. Yucko became a regular guest on The Howard Stern Show and a member of the Wack Pack by carrying a Howard Stern sign onto the field during a major league baseball game. He is also known for starring in The DAMN! Show along with fellow writer Waco O'Guin and the MTV2 series Stankervision, which included sketches from The DAMN! Show, and ran for one season of eight episodes. O'Guin and Black's animated comedy series Brickleberry, executive produced by Daniel Tosh, premiered on September 25, 2012 on Comedy Central. The series was canceled in January of 2015 and ended in April of that year. | Agent | Artist | Comedian |
Annette J. Drummond (born 21 October 1984) is a Scottish international cricketer who debuted for the Scottish national side in 2002. A right-handed batsman, she has appeared in five of the eight One Day International (ODI) matches that Scotland has played to date. Drummond was born in Meigle, a rural village in Perthshire, and played her early cricket for Meigle Cricket Club. Her older brother, Gordon Drummond, later captained the national men's team. Drummond herself made her senior debut for Scotland at the age of 17, appearing in matches against Durham (an English county team) and Wales during the 2002 season. Her first international tournament at a senior level was the 2003 IWCC Trophy in the Netherlands, where matches held ODI status. The second-youngest member of the squad, behind only Fiona Urquhart, Drummond played in all five of her team's matches. However, she scored only nine runs from five innings, which included ducks against Ireland and the Netherlands. The 2003 IWCC Trophy is Scotland's most recent ODI tournament to date, with Drummond being only one of 17 women to have played at that level. Her next international tournament was the 2005 European Championship in Wales, where she was Scotland's equal leading runscorer with Kari Anderson. After that tournament, Drummond took a break from international cricket for several years, not appearing again until the 2014 European Championship in England. She played for Scotland in English domestic competitions in 2014 and 2015, and has also been selected in the national squad for the 2015 World Twenty Qualifier. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Teddy Trabichet (born March 10, 1987) is an ice hockey defenceman who played for France at the 2011 IIHF World Championship and is currently with Diables Rouges de Briançon of Ligue Magnus. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
The San Domenico Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, run at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1100 metres at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Sydney in August. Prizemoney is A$150,000. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
John Edward Sununu (born September 10, 1964) is a former Republican (GOP) United States Senator from New Hampshire. Sununu was the youngest member of the Senate for his entire six-year term. He is the son of former New Hampshire Governor and former White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu. On November 4, 2008, Sununu lost his re-election bid to former governor Jeanne Shaheen. | Agent | Politician | Senator |
Bus Azur is a brand of bus services serving the Southern French city of Cannes, France. The operator, Veolia Transport Cannes is responsible for operating the Bus Azur buses for SITP, grouping the communes of Cannes, le Cannet et Mandelieu-la-Napoule. | Agent | Company | BusCompany |
Luis Alfredo Palacio González (born January 22, 1939) served as President of Ecuador from April 2005 to January 2007. From January 15, 2003 to April 20, 2005, he served as vice president, after which he was appointed to the presidency when the Ecuadorian Congress removed President Lucio Gutiérrez from power following a week of growing unrest with his government. | Agent | Politician | President |
The Capitol Medical Center is a 4 building hospital located in Quezon City. The hospital was founded by Dr. Thelma N. Clemente, Mr. Luis C. Clemente and fellow medical professionals. | Place | Building | Hospital |
The men's halfpipe event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia, a village in the Province of Turin, Italy. Competition took place on 12 February 2006. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Lee Sung (born 16 January 1980), also known as Lee Sung-man, is a South Korean professional golfer. Lee played on the Nationwide Tour in the United States in 2001 and 2003. After losing his card on that tour in 2003, he was successful at the Asian Tour's qualifying school in January 2004, and he has played mainly in Asia since then. He picked up his first tour victory at the 2007 Bangkok Airways Open. He represented South Korea at the 2007 Omega Mission Hills World Cup with Lee Seung-ho. Lee was born deaf. In November 2010 he underwent an operation to his right ear, his hearing is now restored. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
Elitzur Givat Shmuel (Hebrew: אליצור גבעת שמואל) is a basketball club, originally from Giv'at Shmuel in Israel. The club plays in the Liga Artzit, the third division of Israeli basketball. It played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League as recently as the 2008–2009 season. The home hall of the club was the Leader Arena (1,400 seats) in Ganei Tikva. | Agent | SportsTeam | BasketballTeam |
Hamma Hammami (Arabic: حمّه الهمامي; born 1952) is a Tunisian communist, leader of the Popular Front, spokesman of the Tunisian Workers' Party, and former editor of the party news organ El-Badil. | Agent | Politician | President |
(This article is about the stage play. For the French film adaptation, see Private Fears in Public Places (film).) Private Fears in Public Places is a 2004 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The bleakest play written by Ayckbourn for many years, it intimately follows a few days in the lives of six characters, in four tightly-interwoven stories through 54 scenes. In 2006, it was made into a film Cœurs, directed by Alain Resnais. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
The Review of Economic Dynamics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Society for Economic Dynamics. It covers dynamic models from all areas of economics. The editor-in-chief is Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University). | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of San Charbel in Buenos Aires (Spanish: Eparquía de San Charbel en Buenos Aires; Latin: Eparchia Sancti Sarbelii Bonaërensis Maronitarum) is an eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) in the Maronite Catholic Church sui iuris (Antiochian Rite) covering Argentina (South America). It has a cathedral episcopal see, the Catedral San Marón, located in the national capital Buenos Aires. In 2010 there were 750,000 members. It is currently governed ad interim by Apostolic administrator Habib Chamieh, Mariamite Maronite Order. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
The 2010 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 2, 2010, to elect members to the Senate of the 87th Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on August 10, 2010. The Republican Party of Minnesota won a majority of seats, defeating the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), which had a majority since the return of partisan elections to the Senate in 1976. The new Legislature convened on January 4, 2011. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Charles Trubshaw FRIBA (1840 - 15 February 1917) was an architect specifically associated with railway buildings on the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway lines. | Agent | Person | Architect |
Ambilobe Airport (IATA: AMB, ICAO: FMNE) is an airport serving Ambilobe, a city in the Antsiranana province in Madagascar. | Place | Infrastructure | Airport |
Lake Poygan, located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin near the village of Winneconne, is an expansive widening of the Wolf River totaling over 14,000 acres (57 km²). Lake Poygan is part of the Winnebago Pool, a series of interconnected lakes fed by both the Fox and Wolf Rivers. The eastern third of the lake is often referred to as Lake Winneconne. Like the other lakes of the Winnebago Pool, the lake is quite shallow, with an average depth of 6 feet (1.8 m) and a maximum depth of approximately 11 feet (3.4 m). Via the Wolf River, boaters can find navigable passage to Lake Butte des Morts and Lake Winnebago downstream (near Oshkosh), and upstream to Partridge Lake and Partridge Crop Lake (near Fremont and New London). | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
The National Cancer Centre Singapore (Abbreviation: NCCS) is the country's national centre for the diagnosis, research and treatment of cancer. The centre has Singapore's largest concentration of \"internationally qualified oncologists\". It was originally established in 1993 as a unit of Singapore General Hospital. but is now an autonomous institution belonging to Singapore Healthcare Services. Headed by Professor Soo Khee Chee, the NCCS provides a range of medical, educational and research activities within a single institution; and practices a multi-disciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment. The Centre, which is located in the Outram Medical Campus, is Southeast Asia's only full multi-disciplinary sub-specialist centre for cancer. In addition, the Centre is a teaching institution for post-graduate cancer education that trains and offers fellowships for many local and overseas doctors, nurses, para-medical professionals and researchers. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Jurki [ˈjurki] (German Georgenthal) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Morąg, within Ostróda County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Morąg, 21 km (13 mi) north of Ostróda, and 39 km (24 mi) west of the regional capital Olsztyn. | Place | Settlement | Village |
DI Air is an airline based in Podgorica, Montenegro. It operates international charter flights from Podgorica and Tivat to neighbouring countries. Its main base is Podgorica Airport, with a hub at Tivat Airport. | Agent | Company | Airline |
Cok Istri Krisnanda Widani (born 27 March 1992 in Tabanan, Bali) is an Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Puteri Indonesia 2013 2nd Runner-up and represented her country at the Miss Supranational 2013 pageant. She won 4th place (3rd Runner-up) at the event. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
James Harrison (30 August 1899 – 2 May 1959) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East at the 1945 general election, and held the seat until its abolition for the 1955 general election. He was then returned for the new Nottingham North constituency, and died in office in May 1959, aged 59. No by-election was called after his death, and the Nottingham North seat remained vacant until Parliament was dissolved on 18 September for the 1959 general election. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
The U.S. House election, 1954 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1954 which occurred in the middle of President Dwight Eisenhower's first term. Eisenhower's Republican Party lost eighteen seats in the House, giving the Democratic Party a majority that it would retain in every House election until 1994. Perhaps the major reason for the Republican defeat was the fallout from the Army-McCarthy Hearings, in which prominent Republican Senator Joe McCarthy accused countless political and intellectual figures of having Communist ties, usually with no evidence. Another issue was the Dixon-Yates contract to supply power to the Atomic Energy Commission. Sam Rayburn of Texas became Speaker of the House, exchanging places with new Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr. of Massachusetts; they went back to what they were coming up to the 1952 U.S. House elections. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Giro Commercial Bank (GCB), whose full name is Giro Commercial Bank Limited, is a commercial bank in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. It is licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya, the central bank and national banking regulator. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Barlow Pass (elevation 2,362 feet (720 m)) is a mountain pass on the west side of the Cascades in Washington on the Mountain Loop Highway between Silverton and Darrington. It is a popular trail head for access to the old mining town of Monte Cristo and has a branch off to hike up to Gothic Basin, which is about a mile in. The mining boom at Monte Cristo, starting in 1890, resulted in the need for access to the remote town. In 1891 a wagon road was built along the Sauk River, from the Skagit River to Monte Cristo. That same year it was discovered that Monte Cristo could be accessed via the South Fork Stillaguamish River. A surveyor named J.Q. Barlow blazed a route from Silverton to Monte Cristo. Mining interests funded further work and soon a wagon road was built over Barlow Pass to join the Sauk wagon road. Later a railroad would be built over the same route. \n* Monte Cristo trail head \n* Road signage | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainPass |
James McDonald Gardiner (May 22, 1857 – November 25, 1925) was an American architect, lay Anglican church missionary and educator who lived and worked in Japan during the Meiji period. | Agent | Person | Architect |
Arthur Zborzil (15 July 1885 – 15 October 1937) was a male tennis player from Austria. At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics he teamed up with Felix Pipes to win a silver medal in the men's doubles event. Zborzil also competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics, but he lost his first match in the singles event as well as his first match with Felix Pipes in the doubles event. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
The Angostura Diversion Dam is a diversion dam on the Rio Grande in Sandoval County. New Mexico, near to Algodones and to the north of Bernalillo.The dam diverts water into the main irrigation canal serving the Albuquerque Division. The Angostura Diversion Dam consists of a concrete weir section 17 feet (5.2 m) high and 800 feet (240 m) long.The dam was built in 1934 by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD),and in 1958 was rehabilitated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers as part of the Middle Rio Grande Project. It has a diversion capacity of 650 cubic feet (18 m3) per second.Four 20 by 4 feet (6.1 by 1.2 m) top-seal radial gates supply water to the Albuquerque Main Canal.The MRGCD is responsible for operations and maintenance. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Cobh (/ˈkoʊv/ KOHV, Irish: an Cóbh), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and is home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the maritime and emigration legacy of the town - including its association with the RMS Titanic. Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island, and on a high point in the town stands St Colman's Cathedral, one of the tallest buildings in Ireland and seat of the diocese of Cloyne. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Drake's Regiment of Militia also known as the 2nd New Hampshire Militia Regiment was called up at Portsmouth, New Hampshire on September 8, 1777 as reinforcements for the Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign. The regiment marched quickly to join the gathering forces of General Horatio Gates as he faced British General John Burgoyne in northern New York. The regiment served in General Ebenezer Learned's brigade of the Continental Army. With the surrender of Burgoyne's Army on October 17 the regiment was disbanded on December 15, 1777. | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
The magpie-jays are a genus, Calocitta, of the family Corvidae (crow-like birds) native to the southern part of North America. The two known species are known to form hybrids. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Robert James Ball (January 15, 1857 in Allan Park, Canada West – February 26, 1928) was a Canadian politician, accountant, life insurance agent and teacher. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1911 as a Member of the Conservative Party to represent the riding of Grey South after being defeated in 1908. He was re-elected in 1917 to Grey Southeast and joined the Unionist Party coalition on March 18, 1918. He was defeated in 1921 by Agnes MacPhail who thus became the first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons. Prior to his federal political career, he was a town councillor in Hanover, Ontario for three years and reeve for two years. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Frank Mechaly (born May 9, 1975) in Marseille, France and raised in St. Tropez, is a jeans designer and brand maker, specializing in premium denim. Though he has successfully launched a number of brands including Sacred Blue and Blue Cult, he is probably best known as the founder and creator of 575 DENIM (now being renamed May75 brand) which has been embraced by celebrities such as Cameron Diaz who made a point of publicly acknowledging her affinity for the jeans during an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Mechaly has now launched his much-anticipated new brand of premium denim called RockStar. | Agent | Artist | FashionDesigner |
Jebel Sasan (Arabic: جبل ساسان,چياى ساسان) is a large hill in the Tel Afar District of Nineveh Province of northern Iraq.The name may also be rendered as Jabal Sasan. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
The 2008–09 San Diego State men's basketball team represented San Diego State University in the 2008–09 college basketball season. This was head coach Steve Fisher's tenth season at San Diego State. The Aztecs competed in the Mountain West Conference and played their home games at the Viejas Arena. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
Walter Storp (2 February 1910 – 9 August 1981) was a German World War II Luftwaffe bomber pilot and commander of various bomber wings. Walter Storp was the twenty-second recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves on 14 July 1941. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Storp survived the war with the rank of Generalmajor and commander of the 5th Fliegerdivision in Norway, he was captured by the British and released in 1948. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
UFC on FX: Guillard vs. Miller (also known as UFC on FX 1) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on January 20, 2012 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. | Event | SportsEvent | MixedMartialArtsEvent |
The skimmers, Rynchopidae, also formerly known as the scissorbills, are a small family of tern-like birds in the order Charadriiformes, which also includes the waders, gulls and auks. The family comprises three species found in South Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The three species are the only birds with distinctive uneven bills with the lower mandible longer than the upper. This remarkable adaptation allows them to fish in a unique way, flying low and fast over streams. Their lower mandible skims or slices over the water's surface ready to snap shut any small fish unable to dart clear. The skimmers are sometimes included within the gull family Laridae but separated in other treatments which consider them as a sister group of the terns. The black skimmer has an additional adaptation and is the only species of bird known to have slit-shaped pupils. Their bills fall within their field of binocular vision and enable them to carefully position their bill and capture prey. They are agile in flight and gather in large flocks along rivers and coastal sand banks. They are tropical and subtropical species which lay 3–6 eggs on sandy beaches. The female incubates the eggs. Because of the species' restricted nesting habitat the three species are vulnerable to disturbance at their nesting sites. One species, the Indian skimmer, is considered vulnerable by the IUCN due to this as well as destruction and degradation of the lakes and rivers it uses for feeding. As in later editions of the works of Linnaeus, the correct spelling (from the Greek words ῥύγχος and ὤψ, together meaning \"beak-face\") should be rhynchops and this is often adopted. However, the misspelling rynchops was the one first published by Linnaeus and continues to be more commonly used. Similarly, the gender of the Greek and Roman words is feminine and the genus was originally treated as such (R. nigra) but Rynchops is now usually treated as a masculine noun (R. niger). | Species | Animal | Bird |
Malaya Cup was a tournament held annually by a Malaya Cup committee. This is the fifth season of Malaya Cup (later known as Malaysia Cup). It were contested by states in Malaya.The final were contested by the southern and northern champions in their respective conference round.Six states sent their teams.The final were held at Anson Road Stadium on 29 August 1925 where Singapore recorded their first hat-trick of winning Malaya Cup, by defeating Selangor with scoreline 2-1.The match was a rematch of last year's final and first final in Singapore. | Event | Tournament | SoccerTournament |
John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith PC (born 4 October 1944) is a British politician. He is currently the Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. He was a Labour Co-operative member of parliament (MP) from 1987 to 2010, first for Dumbarton and then from 2005 for West Dunbartonshire. He was best known for being the chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Cesar Cortez Climaco (February 28, 1916 – November 14, 1984) was a Filipino politician who served as mayor of Zamboanga City for 11 years and three nonconsecutive terms. A prominent critic of the martial law regime of Ferdinand Marcos, he was famed for his toughness in governance and colorful personality. He was also famous for his refusal to cut his hair until democratic rule was restored in the Philippines. He was assassinated by an unknown gunman in 1984. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
Major general Qasem Soleimani or Ghasem Soleimani (Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, born 11 March 1957 in Qanat-e Malek, Iran) is an Iranian senior military officer in the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC) and since 1998 commander of its Quds Force—a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations. A veteran of the Iran–Iraq war, he has been active in many conflicts in the rest of the Middle East, especially in Iraq and the Levant, while maintaining a low profile. His methods have been a blend of military intervention through ideological proxies and hard-nosed strategic diplomacy.The Quds Force has long provided military assistance to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian Territories. Suleimani has always had political and military influence in Iraq through Shia and Kurdish political parties, who rebelled against Saddam in the 1991 uprising in Iraq. Iran had armed and equipped the rebels against Saddam. In 2012, Soleimani helped bolster the Syrian government, a key Iranian ally, during the Syrian Civil War. Soleimani also assisted in the command of combined Iraqi government and Shia militia forces that advanced against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2014–2015. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
Beddomixalus is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. Beddomixalus bijui, endemic to India, is the only described species. Its name is derived from a combination of the cognomen of Richard Henry Beddome, in honor of his fieldwork involving the amphibian diversity of the Western Ghats, as well as Ixalus, which is often used as a suffix for names of rhacophorid genera. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Leinstrand Church (Norwegian: Leinstrand kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Leinstrand area in the city of Trondheim. The church is part of the Leinstrand parish in the Heimdal deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros. The red wooden church was built in 1673 and was consecrated on 17 September 1673. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
1143 Odysseus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid that orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the \"Greek Camp\" of trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Odysseus Laertiades in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth in 1930. As a Jupiter Trojan it is in a very stable orbit. Its closest approach to any major planet will be on 2083-May-04 when it will still be 3.104 AU (464,400,000 km; 288,500,000 mi) from Mars. Based on IRAS data, Odysseus is 126 km in diameter and is about the 8th largest Jupiter Trojan known. Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1994 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 10.111 ± 0.004 hours with a brightness variation of 0.22 ± 0.01 magnitude. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
The Free Confederation of Chadian Workers (CLTT) is a trade union centre in Chad. It was formed in 1991 by members from the dissolved National Confederation of Trade Unions of Chad. The CLTT is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. | Agent | Organisation | TradeUnion |
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