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Genworth Financial is a Fortune 500 insurance company. The firm was founded as The Life Insurance Company of Virginia in 1871. In 1986, Life of Virginia was acquired by Combined Insurance, which became Aon plc in 1987. In 1996, Life of Virginia was sold to GE Capital. In May 2004, Genworth Financial was formed out of various insurance businesses of General Electric in the largest IPO of that year. The Genworth Financial family of companies has three segments: Retirement & Protection, US Mortgage Insurance, and International. Products and services include life and long-term care insurance, mortgage insurance, and annuities. Its legal structure is set up as six separate companies. On April 1, 2013, Genworth announced the completion of a legal entity reorganization, with the result being the creation of a new ultimate holding company. This restructuring separated the U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries from the overall firm. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Charles was the youngest son of Holy Roman Emperor Lothair I and Ermengarde of Tours. His father divided Middle Francia between his three sons: the eldest, Louis, received Italy and the emperorship; Lothair II received Lotharingia (modern Lorraine, the Low Countries, and Upper Burgundy); and the youngest, Charles, received Lower Burgundy (Arles and Provence). Charles was only a child when his father died; and the governance of his realm was undertaken by his tutor, Count Gerard II of Vienne, whose wife had been a sister-in-law of Emperor Lothar I. Gerard was a vigorous regent, defending the kingdom from the Northmen, who raided up the Rhone as far as Valence. In 860, he ejected them from the Rhone delta. Charles' uncle, Charles the Bald of West Francia, attempted to intervene in Provence in 861. After receiving an appeal for intervention from the Count of Arles, he invaded Provence, but only reached Macon, being restrained by Hincmar of Rheims. Charles of Provence never ruled his realm in anything more than name. It was Gerard, rather than he, who in 858 arranged that should Charles die without children, Provence would revert to Charles' brother Lothair II. However, when Charles died, his elder brother Emperor Louis II also claimed Provence, so the realm was divided between the two: Lothair received the bishoprics of Lyon, Vienne and Grenoble, to be governed by Gerard; Louis II received Arles, Aix and Embrun. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Lee Ji-hyun (also Lee Ji-hyeon, Korean: 이 지현; born June 27, 1978) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and individual medley events. She won the bronze medal in the medley relay at the 1994 Asian Games, and later represented South Korea in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000). Lee started her competitive swimming, as a 16-year-old teen, at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan. She helped the South Koreans earn a bronze medal in the 4×100 m medley relay with a time of 4:22.11. Lee made her first South Korean team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There, she failed to reach the top 16 final in any of her individual events, finishing eighteenth in the 100 m backstroke (1:03.96), and twenty-eighth in the 400 m individual medley (4:59.52). In the 4×100 m medley relay, Lee, along with Lee Bo-eun, Byun Hye-young, and Park Woo-hee, placed eighteenth from the prelims in 4:18.98. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Lee swam only in the 400 m individual medley. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 4:48.76 from the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Ukraine's top medal contender Yana Klochkova. Coming from behind at the final turn, she edged out Malaysia's Sia Wai Yen with a robust freestyle kick to save a seventh seed in 4:58.94, just ten seconds below her submitted entry standard. Lee failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-third overall on the first day of prelims. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
\"3s & 7s\" is the second single by Queens of the Stone Age from their 2007 album Era Vulgaris. It was released on June 4, 2007 and followed the digital download-only \"Sick, Sick, Sick\". The single debuted at number one on the United Kingdom rock chart and number nineteen on the official UK top 40 singles chart. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Milford Hodge (born March 11, 1961) is a former American football defensive lineman who played four seasons in the National Football League with the New Orleans Saints and New England Patriots. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the eighth round of the 1985 NFL Draft. He played college football at Washington State University and attended South San Francisco High School in South San Francisco, California. Hodge was also a member of the London Monarchs of the World League of American Football. | Agent | GridironFootballPlayer | AmericanFootballPlayer |
RT Documentary (RTD, styled as RTД) is a documentary channel presented in both the English and Russian languages. The television channel was launched on 23 June 2011 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who visited RT’s studio in Moscow, and deals with a wide variety of topics including Russian culture and life in Russia. The channel shows documentaries mostly on Russia but also from around the globe. | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
The Cube is a pop-up restaurant created by Electrolux. Since 2011, two versions of the restaurant have been located in different cities in Europe, where a number of guest celebrity chefs have brought teams and dishes from their own restaurants to cook in the spaces. | Place | Building | Restaurant |
Wiltshire Council is the unitary authority for most of the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in the West of England, created in April 2009. It is the successor authority to Wiltshire County Council (1889–2009) and also to four district councils—Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, and West Wiltshire—all of which had been created in 1973 and were abolished in 2009. The council is led by Jane Scott (Conservative), who had previously led the former Wiltshire County Council since 2003. | Agent | Organisation | Legislature |
Hayabusa (はやぶさ, literally \"Peregrine Falcon\") was an unmanned spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis.Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, Hayabusa studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, colour, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010. The spacecraft also carried a detachable minilander, , which failed to reach the surface. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
Yeongnam Air (Hangul: 영남에어; RR: Yeongnam E-eo) was a small regional airline of South Korea launched on 25 July 2008. Its main base was Gimhae International Airport and Daegu International Airport. It flew to Jeju International Airport and Gimpo Airport with a single aircraft. Yeongnam Air ceased all flights in December 2008 and formally closed in 2009. | Agent | Company | Airline |
The serrano pepper (Capsicum annuum) is a type of chili pepper that originated in the mountainous regions of the Mexican states of Puebla and Hidalgo. The name of the pepper is a reference to the mountains (sierras) of these regions. | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
William Gordon Amerson (December 22, 1938 – March 2015) was an American former adult-film industry pioneer, mogul, producer and actor in the late 1960s to the late 1980s. Born in Los Angeles, Bill Amerson was one of the first adult film producers in the United States to produce so-called \"hard core\" entertainment. As reported in the documentary Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes, produced by filmmaker Cass Paley, \"In these films we showed insertion. The sexual penetration and oral copulation. We actually showed it. People could not turn their money over fast enough [to see it].\" To Amerson's surprise the market for this product was vastly larger than he had expected. Amerson was also one of the early pioneers in the establishment of adult film industry to be able to ply its wares in accordance with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the early days of hard core, Amerson and his colleagues were subject to arrest for any number of charges which could include pimping, pandering, and an obscure felony called \"conspiracy to commit oral copulation\". Ultimately courts established the legality of adult film production. | Agent | Actor | AdultActor |
This article presents the discography of bluegrass band The Country Gentlemen. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
BDJ Team is a peer-reviewed online medical journal published by Nature Publishing Group on behalf of the British Dental Association, of which it is an official journal. The editor-in-chief is Stephen Hancocks. The journal replaced Vital, which was published between 2003 and 2013. It is a fellow publication of the British Dental Journal and covers topics relevant to all dental professionals. Each issue includes one hour of verifiable continuing professional development (CPD) on topics recommended by the General Dental Council. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
Robert Charles \"Bob\" Cooper (born 23 June 1950) is a British former motorcycle speedway rider who rode for Leicester Lions and Rye House Rockets. Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, Cooper represented Central Midland Schools at cross-country running as a teenager. He combined his speedway career with his work as an engine fitter for Rolls-Royce. After attending a training school at King's Lynn in 1971, he made his competitive debut the following year in a 'Stars of Tomorrow' event at King's Lynn in 1972. In 1974 he signed for Leicester Lions, riding in the junior team, and was loaned out to Rye House Rockets, averaging 4.78 over his debut season, also riding in one match in the top division for Lions, but failing to score from three rides. He continued to ride for Rye House until 1978 and made two further appearances for Leicester in 1975. He made 128 appearances for Rye House, scoring 628 points. | Agent | MotorcycleRider | SpeedwayRider |
The Trankien frog, Odorrana trankieni, is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is endemic to Vietnam, only known from vicinity of its type locality in Phu Yen District of Sơn La Province. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers. Its status is insufficiently known. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Lee Harris (born October 16, 1981) is a former pair skater who competed internationally for the United States. With partner Colette Appel, he is the 2002 U.S. national junior champion and placed 12th at the 2002 World Junior Championships. They were fourth at two ISU Junior Grand Prix events and on the senior level at the 2003 Finlandia Trophy. In 2006, Harris began his professional skating career while on tour with Royal Caribbean Cruise ships. He retired from professional skating in 2011 and he currently coaches at the Chiller Skating Rinks in Columbus, Ohio. In 2012 and 2013 Harris became a National Level Figure Skating Coach when his Novice pair team competed at the U.S. National figure skating championships. Harris also played Jr. Hockey for the Belle River Canadians and Kingsville Comets in the GLJCHL from 1996-1999. In 2014, Harris was hired by the Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL) as their skating coach. Harris works with both the Columbus Blue Jackets players and their AHL affiliate team. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | FigureSkater |
The Progo River is a river in southern central Java, Indonesia. The river passes through two provinces; Central Java and Yogyakarta Special Region. The source of the river is on the slopes of Mount Sundoro, Central Java. The river runs to the southeast through the city of Magelang, then through the historical Kedu Plain passing near the well known Borobudur, Mendut, and Pawon temples. Reaching the province of Yogyakarta the river forms a natural boundary between Sleman Regency, Kulon Progo Regency and Bantul Regency. The mouth of the river is located at Trisik beach on the southern shore of Java facing Indian Ocean. | Place | Stream | River |
The Garden of Words (Japanese: 言の葉の庭 Hepburn: Kotonoha no Niwa) is a 2013 Japanese anime drama film written, directed and edited by Makoto Shinkai, animated by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. It stars Miyu Irino and Kana Hanazawa, and featured music by Daisuke Kashiwa instead of Tenmon, who had composed the music for many of Shinkai's previous films. The theme song, \"Rain\", was originally written and performed by Senri Oe in 1988, but was remade for the film and was sung by Motohiro Hata. It was adapted to a manga with illustrations by Midori Motohashi and later novelized by Shinkai, both in the same year as the film. The film focuses on Takao Akizuki, an aspiring 15-year-old shoemaker, and Yukari Yukino, a mysterious 27-year-old woman he keeps meeting at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden on rainy mornings. While Takao is skipping his morning class to design shoes, Yukino is avoiding work due to personal problems in her professional life. Yukino tells Takao nothing about herself, including her name, while Takao opens up to her, sharing his passion for shoes by offering to make a pair for her. When Takao learns Yukino's identity, emotions come to a head as both learn that they have been teaching each other \"how to walk\". Shinkai wrote the story as a tale of \"lonely sadness\", based on the meaning of the traditional Japanese word for \"love\", and uses shoes as a metaphor for life. The story's motifs include rain, Man'yōshū poetry, and the Japanese garden. The age difference between the two main characters and their character traits demonstrate how awkwardly and disjointedly people mature, where even adults sometimes feel no more mature than teenagers, according to Shinkai. The Garden of Words premiered at the Gold Coast Film Festival in Australia on April 28, 2013 and had its general release on May 31, 2013 in Japan. For the Japanese premiere, the film was screened with an animated short called Dareka no Manazashi (だれかのまなざし, lit. Someone's Gaze), also directed by Shinkai. The Garden of Words had an unusual release schedule since it was released digitally on iTunes the same day as the Japanese theatrical premier, and its DVD and Blu-ray were released while the film was still in theaters, on June 21. The film has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America, Anime Limited in the UK, and Madman Entertainment in Australia. The film performed well in theaters for an extended period of time and was hosted at many local and international film events. It ranked highly on iTunes Store during 2013 and was selected as the Year's Best Animation in iTunes' Best of 2013. It won the 2013 Kobe Theatrical Film Award and awards at the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. Online reviews were generally favorable with universal praise of the art, though opinions were mixed regarding the story's length, plot and emotional climax. | Work | Cartoon | Anime |
Ronald Paul Herzog (born April 22, 1942) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church serving as Bishop of Alexandria in central Louisiana. | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
The discography of Little Texas, an American country music band, consists of five studio albums, one live album and twenty singles. The band made its first chart entry in 1991 with \"Some Guys Have All the Love\", from their album First Time for Everything. Counting this song, Little Texas charted eight songs within the top 10 of Hot Country Songs, including a number one with \"My Love\". | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
Grant McConachie Way is a three-to-six lane expressway in Richmond and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Named for aviator Grant McConachie, it is the primary access road into Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island. It is also one of the three roads entering Vancouver from the south, along with Knight Street and Oak Street. Upon entering Vancouver, the road becomes Southwest Marine Drive. The road crosses the Arthur Laing Bridge over the North Arm Fraser River. Its east-west alignment on Sea Island between the Arthur Laing Bridge and the airport is closely paralleled by SkyTrain's Canada Line. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI, /ˈɒmziː/ OM-zee) is a science and technology museum in Portland, Oregon, United States. It contains three auditoriums, including a large-screen theatre, planetarium, and exhibition halls with a variety of hands-on permanent exhibits focused on natural sciences, industry, and technology. Transient exhibits span a wider range of disciplines. | Place | Building | Museum |
Robert René de Cotret, PC (February 20, 1944 – July 9, 1999) was a Canadian politician. Robert de Cotret was the President and CEO of The Conference Board of Canada from 1976-78 before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1978 by-election. He was elected as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre, and was one of the few francophone MPs in the Tory caucus. Despite the Tory victory in the 1979 general election, Robert de Cotret lost his seat. In need of French-Canadian Cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Joe Clark appointed de Cotret to the Canadian Senate and to Cabinet as Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce in Clark's minority government. When the government was defeated in a motion of non-confidence, a new election was called for February 18, 1980. Cotret resigned his Senate seat in order to run for a seat in the House of Commons in the riding of Berthier—Maskinongé, but was defeated in the 1980 election along with the Clark government. He ran again in the 1984 election, and was elected along with a Progressive Conservative majority government led by Brian Mulroney. Mulroney appointed Cotret to Cabinet as President of the Treasury Board. In 1987, Cotret became Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion, and reassumed the Treasury Board portfolio in 1989. In 1990, he became Minister of the Environment and then Secretary of State for Canada in 1991. Robert de Cotret retired from Cabinet in January 1993 and did not run in the 1993 election. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
The Hvalfjörður Tunnel (Icelandic: Hvalfjöarðargöng) is a road tunnel under the Hvalfjörður fjord in Iceland and a part of Route 1. It is 5,770 meters (18,930 ft) long and reaches a depth of 165 meters (541 ft) below sea level. Opened on 11 July 1998, it shortens the distance from Reykjavík to the western and northern parts of the island by 45 kilometers (28 mi). Passing the fjord now takes 7 minutes instead of about an hour. Spölur was the company that constructed, and is now the owner and operator of the tunnel, while the Verkís company handled almost all of the design. This project was a milestone in Icelandic construction as it was the first private finance initiative without direct funding by the state treasury. It is also the only tunnel where tolls are charged. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | RoadTunnel |
Marc Demeyer (19 April 1950 – 20 January 1982) was a professional road racing cyclist from Avelgem, Belgium. He died of a heart attack at the age of 31. Demeyer turned professional in 1972 for the Flandria team managed by Briek Schotte. He signed the contract while resting it on a car beside the start of Dwars door België, which he then won. Shortly afterwards he won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues. Demeyer was one of the so-called \"Three Musketeers\", riding with and for Freddy Maertens and Michel Pollentier He led out sprints for Maertens in particular but could win them for himself, including stages of the Tour de France. He rode the Tour six times, finishing 72nd in 1973, 41st in 1974, 42nd in 1975, 56th in 1976, 49th in 1978 and 57th in 1979. He won the intermediate sprints competition, known then as Points Chaud ('hot spot sprints') in the Tours of 1973 and 1975. He won two stages: the 19th in 1978 from Lausanne to Belfort, and the 14th in 1979 from Belfort to Evian-les-Bains. In 1974 he won Paris–Brussels and two years later Paris–Roubaix. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
Marko Panić (born 10 March 1991 in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a handball right back who plays for French club Chambéry and the Bosnian national team. He started his career in local RK Jajce, and later played for Borac Banja Luka, before he signed for Chambéry in 2012. He is best known for his ability to score goals with both left and right hand. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
The viridian dacnis (Dacnis viguieri) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.It is found in Colombia and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Gloioxanthomyces nitidus, commonly known as the shining waxcap, is a species of fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. It was originally described by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1853 as a species of Hygrophorus. The specific epithet nitidus means \"shining\". It was one of two species transferred to the newly created genus Gloioxanthomyces in 2013. Fruitbodies have convex, apricot-yellow to orange caps that are 1–4 cm (0.4–1.6 in) in diameter. The pale yellow, waxy gills are decurrent, with a somewhat distant spacing. Other than the gills and the base of the stipe, the bright coloring of the fruitbody fades with age. Spores are elliptical, smooth, and measure 6–10 by 4–6 µm. It is found in North America, where it grows on the ground (often among mosses) in groups in coniferous or mixed forests. It prefers bogs, swamps, and similar moist habitats. | Species | Eukaryote | Fungus |
St. Roch is a Roman Catholic church in Greenwich, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport. Although the Parish of St.Roch was formally established in 1938, it had been preceded by a mission church and it for this mission that the church was built. The large Romanesque Revival stone church was designed by noted architect Frank Urso of Stamford, CT who had designed the Norwalk Hotel in Bridgeport six years earlier. The church was built during the Great Depression and, according to ‘‘One Family in Faith a History of the Diocese of Bridgeport’’, a pastor of that period had acoustical tile installed in the sanctuary to muffle the nickels and dimes that came in for the construction of the church. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
Willesden Green Library Centre is a public library complex situated in Willesden Green, London, United Kingdom. The centre includes a public library, operated by Brent Council, a cinema and (formerly) an independent bookshop named The Willesden Bookshop. The Willesden Bookshop was forced to move to a new location as part of the proposed regeneration project. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | Library |
Candoia aspera, known commonly as the Viper Boa or New Guinea Ground Boa, is a species of snake in the Boidae family. As its common name suggests, it is found in New Guinea. They are a terrestrial species, living in the undergrowth. They are considerably smaller than the rest of the Boidae family. Viper Boas get anywhere from 2' to 3' feet in length. They are known to be primarily nocturnal. Viper Boas are known to be slightly more aggressive than other Candoia. In recent years they've become increasingly scarce in the pet industry, due to restrictions on import/export trading. Though they were more common in the past, there is still very little known about them, in particular their behaviour in the wild. For example; Their lifespan is still undetermined. It got the nickname Viper Boa from its appearance. They look extremely similar to the Elapid species Acanthophis laevis, more commonly known as the \"Papuan Death Adder.\" Interestingly, the death adder itself only resembles a viper, but is actually an elapid. However, because of the resemblance to the highly venomous death adder, many are killed out of fear although they are truly harmless. | Species | Animal | Reptile |
Dave Richardson (born April 24, 1979) is a Scottish-born Canadian darts player. | Agent | Athlete | DartsPlayer |
The dark-backed wood quail (Odontophorus melanonotus) is a species of bird in the Odontophoridae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Animal | Bird |
The COmet Nucleus TOUR (CONTOUR) was a NASA Discovery-class space probe that failed shortly after its July 2002 launch. It had as its primary objective close flybys of two comet nuclei with the possibility of a flyby of a third known comet or an as-yet-undiscovered comet. The two comets scheduled to be visited were Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and the third target was d'Arrest. It was hoped that a new comet would have been discovered in the inner Solar System between 2006 and 2008, in which case the spacecraft trajectory would have been changed if possible to rendezvous with the new comet. Scientific objectives included imaging the nuclei at resolutions of up to 4 meters (13 ft), performing spectral mapping of the nuclei at resolutions of up to 100 meters (330 ft), and obtaining detailed compositional data on gas and dust in the near-nucleus environment, with the goal of improving knowledge of the characteristics of comet nuclei. After the solid rocket motor intended to inject the spacecraft into solar orbit was ignited on August 15, 2002, contact with the probe could not be re-established. Ground-based telescopes later found three objects along the course of the satellite, leading to the speculation that it had disintegrated. Attempts to contact the probe were ended on December 20, 2002. The probe thus accomplished none of its primary scientific objectives, but did prove some spaceflight technologies, such as the APL-developed non-coherent spacecraft navigation technique, which was later used on the New Horizons spacecraft. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit, in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by West Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was launched on 1 June 1990, on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, on what was initially designed as an 18-month mission, with provision for up to five years of operation. ROSAT actually operated for over eight years, finally shutting down on 12 February 1999. In February 2011, it was reported that the 2,400 kg (5,291 lb) satellite was unlikely to burn up entirely while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere due to the large amount of ceramics and glass used in construction. Parts as heavy as 400 kg (882 lb) could impact the surface intact. ROSAT eventually re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 23 October 2011. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
Christiana Rosenberg-Ahlhaus(born in Germany) is an individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She was the 1975 World All-around silver medalist. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Jack Deveraux is a fictional character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives. He was the most prominent member of the Johnson family and is most famously played by Matthew Ashford. After a four-year absence, the character had recently returned to \"Salem\" to reconnect with his estranged family. Ashford also returned as Jack, reprising the role as of September 23, 2011. Ashford's return, however, was short-lived. In April 2012, it was announced that he had been let go from the series, last appearing on August 15, 2012. Ashford reprised the role for three days, appearing on May 24, 2016, June 20, 2016, August 5, 2016, and August 23, 2016. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
The 2012 Guatemala earthquake occurred on November 7 at 10:35:47 local time. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VII (Very strong). The epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Champerico in the department of Retalhuleu. The region is one of many earthquakes, where the Cocos Plate is being subducted along the Middle America Trench beneath the North American and the Caribbean Plates, near their triple junction. The quake was reportedly felt in Guatemala and in parts of Mexico, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Damage to buildings was reported in several cities in Guatemala, including San Marcos, Quetzaltenango and the capital Guatemala City. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning about the possibility of a local tsunami within 100 to 200 miles (160 to 320 km) of the epicenter. With 39 dead, this is the most intense and deadliest earthquake that has hit Guatemala since the earthquake of 1976. | Event | NaturalEvent | Earthquake |
The 2003 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th Assembly of Extremadura, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura. At stake were all 65 seats in the Assembly, determining the President of Extremadura. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which in this election ran in coalition with the Extremaduran Coalition, enlarged its absolute majority from 34 to 36 seats, at the cost of the opposition People's Party (PP), which fell to 26 and lost ground for the first time since the 1987 election. United Left (IU), which formed a coalition with the Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx), maintained its 3 seats but was unable to make gains. Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was elected for his sixth and last term in office as President of Extremadura, as he would announce in September 2006 he would not stand for re-election in 2007. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Sci Fi Universal in Poland was launched on December 1, 2007. Today is available through satellite and cable television. Unlike NBCUniversal's other science fiction channels around the world, the Polish channel maintained the \"Sci Fi\" brand on October 14, 2010. The term \"syfy\" has negative connotations in the Polish language, because it is a plural form of the word 'syf' (dirt, syphilis), which is why they chose to become Sci Fi Universal rather than \"Syfy Universal\". | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
Raymond \"Moosey\" Turnbull (born July 19, 1939) is a Canadian curler from Manitoba. He was a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and Linda Moore. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Curler |
Jacqueline Carol LaVine (born October 4, 1929) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. LaVine won her first medal in international competition, a gold, at the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay which included teammates Carolyn Green, Betty Mullen and Sharon Geary. Individually, she also won a silver medal for her second-place finish in the women's 100-meter freestyle. One year later, LaVine represented the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. She received a bronze medal as a member of the third-place U.S. team in women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, together with American teammates Marilee Stepan, Jody Alderson and Evelyn Kawamoto. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Sekolah Menengah Sains Sabah or (SMESH), is a prominent cluster boarding school in East Malaysia established since 1978 but fully operational on 1 January 1984. Previously known as Sekolah Berasrama Penuh Sabah (SBPS), it was the pioneer of boarding school project in Sabah and Sarawak and was built on 16-acre (65,000 m2) land near Sabah Golf and Country Club. The school is graded as A -- cluster type school and ranked as No.1 School in Sabah by the Ministry of Education, while school's administrator benefits number of autonomy powers from the status. In May 2011, Deputy Prime Minister cum Minister of Education announced SM Sains Sabah is enlisted as Nation's High Performance School (Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi) status. SBT status allocates additional autonomy powers to pursue innovation in school management and raise the productivity of students. The benefits include fixing the minimum periods for subject, extending schooling hours and allowing students to complete their studies a year earlier. A lump sum grant would be channelled to the schools at the beginning of each year and that they would have the full flexibility to spend as needed and were exempted from the ministry’s centralised procurement system. In the recent PMR examination (2013), the school managed to produce 70 straight A's student out of 130 students with GPS 1.12 to become the second best school in Sabah. In 2014, the school ranked No.2 in the country and No.1 in Sabah based on SPM 2013 results. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
The little woodswallow (Artamus minor), is a bird patchily distributed over much of mainland Australia, avoiding only the driest deserts and the area within about 300 kilometres of the southern coastline, and showing a preference for rugged terrain around inland ranges. As its name suggests, at 12 to 14 cm in length it is the smallest of the woodswallows. It is dark, smoky brown overall, with deep gunmetal grey wings and a black-tipped, blue-tinged bill. Like other woodswallows, groups cluster huddled close together on high, dead branches to rest or sleep. Typical group sizes are modest but it is not uncommon to have hundreds gather together at a roost site. Little woodswallows soar effortlessly above the treetops or along cliff faces when hunting flying insects—being small, they are easily confused with martins. The nest is a rudimentary affair, placed in a tree hollow or similar space, and made of twigs and other vegetable matter. Breeding takes place from August to January, or after rain. Three eggs are laid and the young leave the nest when barely able to fly, taking up a perch on a nearby tree and calling incessantly for the food the parents bring them. | Species | Animal | Bird |
American Journal of Hematology is an academic journal devoted to the coverage of blood diseases. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
The Theloderma licin is a frog in the genus Theloderma from peninsular Malaysia (Sumatra). It is also known as The Smooth Frog. It inhabits lowland to montane forests. They can be found in water filled tree holes, bamboo cuts, or manmade objects like metal pipes. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
The Margaree River (Abhainn Mhargaraidh) is a river on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The northeast branch of the river derives from the watershed of the Cape Breton Highlands, while the Southwest Margaree flows northeast from Lake Ainslie. The two branches join at Margaree Forks. The river then flows north to empty into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at Margaree Harbour, Nova Scotia. The river is 120 km in length and drains an area of 1,375 km². The Margaree has been well known for a century for its trout and Atlantic salmon sport fishery, that draws anglers from near and far. Fishing is highly regulated now and is restricted to fly fishing only, with barbless hooks, in the main stem of the river. Famed American angler and Atlantic salmon conservationist Lee Wulff caught his first salmon on a fly on the Margaree in 1933. The gravel bars of the upper Northeast Margaree provide spawning grounds for Atlantic salmon; its steep valleys provide habitat for American marten and the rare Gaspé shrew. The Margaree Valley includes a mix of farms and woodlands. During the 18th century, Acadians settled along the coast near the mouth of the river; the French name for this river was St. Marguerite. Scottish Highlanders began to settle in the Margaree Valley at the beginning of the 19th century. Moses Coady, a noted son of the Margaree Valley, attended school in Margaree Forks and later, taught there before completing his education in Antigonish and Rome. The Margaree was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1998. HMCS Margaree, a World War II Canadian naval destroyer, was named after this river. | Place | Stream | River |
Eric Reynolds is a Seattle-based cartoonist, critic and comics editor who works full-time for Fantagraphics Books editing books in addition doing publicity and marketing. His work has appeared in The Stranger, The Comics Journal, The New York Times, The New York Press and other publications. He has edited or co-edited The Complete Crumb Comics, Angry Youth Comics, Dirty Stories and MOME, and has inked some of Peter Bagge's comics. | Agent | Artist | ComicsCreator |
The Beaver Valley Nitehawks are a junior 'B' ice hockey team based in Fruitvale, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Neil Murdoch Division of the Kootenay Conference of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL). The Nitehawks play their home games at Beaver Valley Arena. Dennis Bedin is the team's president and Terry Jones is the general manager and coach. They are captained by defenceman Archie Mckinnon. The Nitehawks joined the league in 1981 as an expansion team. In its KIJHL history the team has won the Keystone Cup once in 2014, the Cyclone Taylor Cup three times, in 1997, 2001 & 2014 and have won the KIJHL Championship seven times, in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2012 & 2014. They won nine division playoff titles as a member of the Neil Murdoch Division from 1996-2014; one conference playoff title as a member of the Kootenay Conference from 2007-2014. The Nitehawks have retired three players' jerseys in their team history—Rocky Dickson (2), Barrett Jackman (6) and Adam Deadmarsh (12). | Agent | SportsTeam | HockeyTeam |
The 24th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 21 to 30 June 2002. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Italian-French film Resurrection directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. | Event | SocietalEvent | FilmFestival |
The 1896 Welsh Cup Final, the 19th in the competition, was contested by Bangor and Wrexham at the Council Field, Llandudno. Bangor won 3–1. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
Backlash (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on April 30, 2006, at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. It was presented by Topps. It was the eighth event under the Backlash name and featured wrestlers and other talent that performed on the Raw brand. Seven professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card, which saw two main matches. The first main event saw Vince and Shane McMahon defeated Shawn Michaels in a Handicap match, while the second main event was the \"Triple Threat match\" for the WWE Champion, in which John Cena successfully defended his title by defeating Triple H and Edge. The event received 273,000 pay-per-view buys, which was more than the previous year's event received. This contributed to WWE's pay-per-view revenue increasing by $4.3 million from the previous year. When the event was released on DVD, it peaked at second on Billboard's DVD sales chart for recreational sports. | Event | SportsEvent | WrestlingEvent |
The Stord Bridge (Norwegian: Stordabrua) is a suspension bridge which crosses Digernessundet between the islands of Stord and Føyno in Stord, Norway. The bridge is 1,077 meters (3,533 ft) long, has a main span of 677 meters (2,221 ft) and a clearance below of 18 meters (59 ft). It carries two lanes of European Route E39 and a combined pedestrian and bicycle pathway. It is part of the Triangle Link, a fixed link which connects Stord to Bømlo, and both to the mainland. In 2010, the bridge had an average 5,021 vehicles per day. The bridge and the link was a toll road from the opening until 30 May 2013. Plans for a crossing arose in the 1960s; and until the 1990s proposals were for a pontoon bridge further north. The Stord Bridge was conceived after the decision to combine the crossing with the Bømlafjord Tunnel. The project was resisted both by local environmental groups and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, the latter because the new plans would delay completion. Construction was undertaken by a joint venue between NCC and HBG Steel Structures. Construction started in 1999 and was the first bridge in Norway to have the cables spun on-site. The bridge cost 442 million Norwegian krone (NOK) and was taken into use on 27 December 2000. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
The 2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 5th edition of the African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, the biennial international youth football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's under-20 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top two teams of the tournament Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany as the CAF representatives. | Event | Tournament | SoccerTournament |
Avatar Records is an independent record label and management company founded by Larry Robinson with offices in Los Angeles and London, England. The company was founded in 1987 in the garage of his family home in South Los Angeles. Projects released on Avatar include The Oz Soundtrack, Planet Asia, Fear of a Black Hat Soundtrack, Bishop Don Magic Juan, the NVA Straight from the Crates compilation, the soundtrack to the television show Girlfriends, and others. Avatar has digitally distributed over three hundred record labels with songs by artists including Anya Marina, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Wu-Tang Clan, Mary J. Blige, Amy Winehouse, Erykah Badu,and others. | Agent | Company | RecordLabel |
The elections for City and Village Councils of Iran were held on 26 February 1999, for the first time in the history of Iran to elect some 200,000 seats. These elections saw great levels of public participation and civic engagement and still tend to be viewed as an \"historic moment\" and important opportunity for citizens to play an active part in the management of their municipalities at a local level. In many large cities, especially Tehran and Isfahan, candidates from 2nd of Khordad movement won the elections. Independents were elected in most rural areas, reflecting concern for local issues which competed with the wider national debate over an emerging “civil society.” | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Gian Paolo Gobbo (Treviso, 1 April 1949) is a Venetist politician. He is the President of Liga Veneta, the \"national\" section of Lega Nord in Veneto. In 1978–1980 he was a founding member of Liga Veneta. In 1990 and 1995, he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto and was Vice President of Veneto from 1994 to 1995. Gobbo was a member of the European Parliament for the Lega Nord from 1999 to 2004 and then, again, from 2006 to 2009. Since 2008, he has been Mayor of Treviso. In January 2010, Gobbo was indicted along with 35 other members of the Lega Nord on charges relating to an attempt to form an armed criminal gang during the late 1990s | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
The Fusilier Museum is a museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. The museum houses the collection of the Lancashire Fusiliers, commemorating over three hundred years of the regiment's history. The museum occupies a building which used to be Bury's School of Arts and Crafts. | Place | Building | Museum |
Club Baloncesto Ciudad de Huelva was a professional basketball team based in Huelva, Andalucia. The last season, (2007–08) the team played in LEB Oro. | Agent | SportsTeam | BasketballTeam |
Heather Ann McDonald (born June 14, 1970) is an American actress, comedian and author. Born and educated in California, she is best known for her appearances on the E! series Chelsea Lately. She was one of the eight writers on the show and often participated in sketches and segments. McDonald also appeared in the show's spin-off, After Lately. Her first book, a 2010 memoir of her college years, made the Bestseller List of the New York Times. | Agent | Artist | Comedian |
Kite Runner is a stage adaption of Afghan novelist's Khaled Hosseini's 2003 book, The Kite Runner. Aside from sharing the 2003 book as a source, it is unrelated to the 2007 film The Kite Runner. The play was adapted for the stage by Matthew Spangler and premiered at San Jose Repertory Theatre in 2009. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
General elections were held in Italy on Sunday 18 April 1948 to elect the First Republican Parliament. They were heavily influenced by the Cold War confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. After the communist coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, the US became alarmed about Soviet intentions and feared that, if the leftist coalition were to win the elections, the communist Left would draw Italy into the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. As the last month of the election campaign began, the magazine Time pronounced the possible leftist victory to be \"the brink of catastrophe\". The elections were eventually won with a comfortable margin by the Christian Democracy party (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana, DC) that defeated the left-wing coalition of the Popular Democratic Front (Italian: Fronte Democratico Popolare per la libertà, la pace, il lavoro, FDP) that comprised the Italian Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) and the Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI). The Christian Democrats went on to form a government without the Communists, who had been in government from June 1944, when the first post-war government was formed, until May 1947. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Iroij Litokwa Tomeing (born 14 October 1939) was the President of the Marshall Islands from January 2008 until October 2009. | Agent | Politician | President |
The bantamweight was the third lightest freestyle wrestling weight class held as part of the Wrestling at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event, like all other freestyle wrestling events, was held in Olympic competition. 7 wrestlers, all from the United States, competed. Bantamweights had to be less than 56.7 kilograms. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Brett Newski (born Brett Wisniewski) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and former member of Madison, WI band The Nod. In 2011, he toured Southeast Asia alone for six months until completing his first solo LP, In Between Exits, while on the road. The album was written and recorded in budget hostels and apartments across Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Korea and the Philippines. Coined the “Homeless in Asia Tour”, Newski completed 30 shows in unconventional venues including Couchsurfer Apartments, a Vietnamese convenience store, an underground Korean record shop, and residential rooftops in Hong Kong while also playing club shows. During his time living in Vietnam he wrote advertising jingles for Saatchi & Saatchi, including the jingle for a national campaign for Diana brand tampons. In 2012, Newski completed a 20-date tour across South Africa in support of “In Between Exits”, traveling exclusively on public transportation. The same year he formed the band “Brett Newski & the Corruption” in Vietnam with drummer Mean Matt Green (UK) and bassist Jeffro Ganter (Vancouver, Canada). The band toured across the USA and Asia. The members lived in Saigon, Vietnam (aka Ho Chi Minh City) and released one album, Tiny Victories. Their sound has been compared to Weezer, REM, The Hives, The Pixies, and The Violent Femmes; In 2014, Newski released his second solo album, American Folk Armageddon, on Good Land Records. The album evoked comparisons to Jack White. The album was picked up by German record label Make My Day Records for European release. Newski toured extensively in 2014 to support the album, including tours with Pete Donnelly and Carter Hulsey in the United States and Jon Shaban in South Africa. Newski continued touring in 2015, playing shows in South Africa, Europe and the United States. In June 2015, Newski released the Victor DeLorenzo produced cassette, Hi-fi D.I.Y. Newski is currently on tour as the opening act for the Violent Femmes. | Agent | Group | Band |
Kevin Jerome Duckworth (April 1, 1964 – August 25, 2008) was an American professional basketball player at center in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A native of Illinois, he played college basketball at Eastern Illinois University before being drafted in 1986 in the second round by the San Antonio Spurs. Before completing his rookie season with the Spurs, he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers where he spent most of six seasons and was named the NBA's Most Improved Player and a two-time All-Star. After playing with three more teams he retired in 1997 and returned to Oregon where he would later work for the Trail Blazers' organization. | Agent | Athlete | BasketballPlayer |
Andrew Nikiforuk is a Canadian journalist who has won multiple National Magazine Awards. His work has appeared in Saturday Night, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Report on Business, Chatelaine, Alberta Views, Equinox, Alternatives Journal and Canadian Family, and in both national newspapers. In 1990 the Toronto Star newspaper awarded him an Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy to study AIDS and the failure of public health policy. His books include Pandemonium; Fourth Horseman; Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Oil, which won the Governor General’s Award in 2002; and Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for 2008-09 from the Society of Environmental Journalists. In 2010, he became the Tyee's first writer in residence. | Agent | Person | Journalist |
Ariamnes colubrinus, known as the whip spider, is a common Australian spider belonging to the family Theridiidae. It is found in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. A small thin spider resembling a twig. Often found resting on one or two threads of silk. It eats wandering spiders, mostly juveniles (and some insects). The whip spider waits above the few strands of silk of its snare. When a small wandering spider hits the silk, this causes the whip spider to descend. The whip spider uses the \"comb foot\" of its end segment of the last pair of legs to wrap the meal in silk. | Species | Animal | Arachnid |
Jasmina Tinjić (born 27 February 1991) is a professional Bosnian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On July 4, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 257. On August 8, 2011, she also reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 521. She is coached by Jusuf Tinjić. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
ESPN College Hoops 2K5 is an American college basketball video game developed by Visual Concepts and published by Sega. It is a college basketball simulation available for the Xbox and PlayStation 2. It features former Stanford and current Sydney Kings forward Josh Childress on the cover. The game was released on November 17, 2004. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet (ca. 1540 – 22 November 1624), of Redgrave, Suffolk, English Member of Parliament. In 1611 he was the first man to be created a baronet, making his successors Premier Baronets of England. Bacon was the eldest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, by his first wife, Jane Ferneley, and was the half brother of Sir Francis Bacon. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1562, and became an \"ancient\" of the society in 1576. He entered Parliament in 1563 as member for Beverley, and subsequently also represented Suffolk from 1572 to 1583. He was knighted in 1578, and was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1597. On 22 May 1611, Bacon was created a baronet, of Redgrave in Suffolk, making him England's premier baronet. He married Anne, daughter of Edmund Butts of Thornage, Norfolk, and Anne Bures. He died in 1624, survived by at least one daughter and seven sons, the eldest of whom succeeded him. His daughter Anne married Sir Robert Drury, patron of the poet John Donne. It is believed that he is an ancestor of the figurative painter, Francis Bacon. | Agent | BritishRoyalty | Baronet |
The FrontRunner is a commuter rail train operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) that serves the Wasatch Front from Pleasant View in northern Weber County through Ogden, Davis County, Salt Lake City, and Salt Lake County to Provo in central Utah County. | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
NGC 5792 is a barred spiral galaxy about 83 million light-years away in the constellation Libra. There is a magnitude 9.6 star on the northwestern edge of the galaxy. | Place | CelestialBody | Galaxy |
Kimberley Yap is a former road cyclist from Malaysia. She represented her nation at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships and 2011 Summer Universiade. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
\"Ève lève-toi\" is a pop single recorded by French Julie Pietri from her third album Le Premier Jour, and was released in August 1986. It is the best-known song of this artist and can be considered as her signature song. It achieved success in France where it topped the SNEP Singles Chart and became a popular song throughout the years. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Dubitatio is a fungal genus in the family Massariaceae. According to the 2007 Outline of Ascomycota, the placement of the genus in this family is uncertain. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Dubitatio dubitationum, found in temperate South America. | Species | Eukaryote | Fungus |
Buddy's Show Boat is an American animated short film produced by Warner Bros. and released by RKO on December 9, 1933. It is a Looney Tunes featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was directed (or \"supervised\") by Earl Duvall, here credited as \"Duval,\" and was one of only five Warner Bros. cartoons (three of which feature Buddy) that he directed. Musical direction was by Bernard Brown, and the short features several popular songs of the day. | Work | Cartoon | HollywoodCartoon |
The Ille (French pronunciation: [il]) is a small river in Brittany, France, right tributary of the river Vilaine. It flows into the Vilaine in the city Rennes. The Ille is linked to the river Rance by the Canal d'Ille-et-Rance. By this canal, Rennes has a connection with the English Channel coast at St. Malo. The canal is used primarily for tourist boats. The Ille flows through the department Ille-et-Vilaine and the following towns: Montreuil-sur-Ille, Betton and Rennes. From Montreuil to Rennes the river runs parallel to the Canal d'Ille-et-Rance. | Place | Stream | River |
Louis Thiétard (31 May 1910 – 21 January 1998) was a French cyclist. He rode in the 1947, 1948 and 1949 Tour de France. He also finished third in the 1943 Paris–Roubaix, the 1944 Paris–Roubaix and the 1947 Paris–Roubaix. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
United States v. Johnson, 390 U.S. 563 (1968), was a United States Supreme Court case. | UnitOfWork | LegalCase | SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase |
Cheapside is a ghost town in Gonzales County, Texas. It is located 21 mi (34 km) south of Gonzales. Once a thriving community and commercial center for cotton, only a church and the crumbling remnants of the former settlement remain. | Place | Settlement | Town |
\"Tomorrow I Go\" was the Albanian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, performed in English by Ledina Çelo. As Albania had finished 7th in the final of the 2004 contest, the song was automatically qualified for the final. Here it was performed 8th in the running order, following Moldova's Zdob şi Zdub with \"Boonika bate doba\" and following Cyprus' Constantinos Christoforou singing \"Ela Ela (Come Baby)\". At the close of voting the song had received 53 points, placing 16th in a field of 24 and returning Albania to the semi-final for the 2006 contest. The song is sung from the point of view of a young woman on the eve of her wedding. She tells her mother not to be sad about losing her, because it should be a happy occasion of celebration. An Albanian version of the song was also produced, entitled \"Nesër shkoj\" (\"Tomorrow I will leave\"). The song was succeeded as Albanian entry at the 2006 contest by Luiz Ejlli singing \"Zjarr e ftohtë\". | Work | Song | EurovisionSongContestEntry |
Archibald Clifford Blacklow OBE (11 October 1879 – 4 April 1965) was an Australian politician. Born in Bagdad, Tasmania, he was educated in Hobart at Hutchins School and then at the University of Sydney, serving part time in the New South Wales Militia between 1899 and 1901, and then the Australian Rifles between 1909 and 1913. He became a pharmacist in Sydney before serving full time in the military during World War I between 1916 and 1919, serving in the 36th and then 35th Infantry Battalions, and rising to command the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion on the Western Front in the final year of the war. For his leadership of the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, he was invested with the Distinguished Service Order. Between 1921 and 1924 he commanded the 34th Infantry Battalion. Returning to Tasmania in 1925, he became a dairy farmer and pastoralist. In 1931, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the United Australia Party member for Franklin, defeating sitting Labor MP Charles Frost. However, he was defeated by Frost at the next election in 1934. In 1936 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Pembroke, where he remained until 1953 (during which time the United Australia Party became the Liberal Party). During World War II, he was active in the Volunteer Defence Corps. Blacklow died in 1965. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Toshihiro Mori (Mori Toshihiro) is a Japanese master of Shotokan karate.He has won the JKA's version of the world championships for kumite. He has also won the JKA All-Japan championships for kumite on 2 occasions.He is currently an instructor of the Japan Karate Association. | Agent | Athlete | MartialArtist |
The 1961 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 74th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1961 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. A crowd of 90,556 (a record at the old Croke Park) watched the match between Down and Offaly. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
Entre Torre Infernal (Spanish for \"In the Infernal Tower\") was a professional wrestling Pay-Per-View (PPV) event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on August 4, 2000 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The main event of the PPV was a 4-man Steel Cage elimination match, contested under Lucha de Apuestas rules where each competitor puts his hair on the line. The rules state that a wrestler can leave the cage either by climbing over the top of the cage or by pinning an opponent; the last man in the cage would have his hair shaved off. The four wrestlers in the cage were Villaño III, Perro Aguayo, Pierroth Jr. and Máscara Año 2000. CMLL has subsequently branded the \"multi-man Apuesta cage match\" as Infierno en el Ring (\"Inferno in the ring\") instead of the Torre Infernal (\"Infernal Tower\") name they used for this PPV event. The undercard featured a 10 man Torneo Cibernetico where the last two wrestlers would face off in a \"Mask vs. Mask\" match. The event was also supposed to host the finals of a tournament for the vacant CMLL World Tag Team Championship but due to an injury to Emilio Charles Jr. Rey Bucanero and Último Guerrero won the championship by forfeit and instead had their first title defense, facing the team of Mr. Niebla (Charles Jr.'s partner) and Villaño IV. The show also featured two Six-man \"Lucha Libre rules\" tag team match, one for normal sized wrestlers and one for wrestlers from the Mini-Estrella, or minis, division. | Event | SportsEvent | WrestlingEvent |
The 2002 Minnesota Vikings season was the franchise's 42nd season in the National Football League. On January 10, 2002, Mike Tice was named the sixth Head Coach in Vikings history. Tice was the third of the six Vikings head coaches to be promoted from within the team's coaching ranks but was the first to have actually played for the Vikings. The Vikings dropped their opening game in Chicago 27–23 after blowing a 20–10 halftime lead. Most games during the season were like that. They started out the games strong, but ended up struggling down the stretch. They were winless on the road in 2001 but did win two road games in 2002. They won in New Orleans 32–31 on a touchdown pass to Randy Moss and a two-point conversion with just a few seconds left on the clock in Week 15 and 38–36 in Detroit in Week 17. The team struggled to a 6–10 record but won their last three games. Second-year running back Michael Bennett enjoyed a successful season, rushing for 1,296 yards. He was named to the Pro Bowl after the season. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
Basket-Hall Kazan (Russian: Баскет-холл Казань; Tatar: Basqet-holl) is a basketball specialized indoor arena that is located in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. It is primarily used for basketball, but it can also be used for volleyball and concerts. It contains two basketball halls. The large main hall, called Basket-Hall 1, has a seating capacity of 7,482 people for basketball and 8,000 for concerts. The large main hall also includes an amphitheater section. The small hall, called Basket-Hall 2, which is mainly used for training, has a seating capacity of 1,500. | Place | SportFacility | Stadium |
The Harly Forest (German: Harly-Wald, also Harlywald or just Harly) is a hill range up to 256 m above NN in the district of Goslar in southeastern Lower Saxony, Germany. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
The SAFTI Link Bridge (Chinese: --, Pinyin: --; Malay: Jambatan Pintasan SAFTI) is the first cable-stayed bridge in Singapore, spanning 100 metres across the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) linking the SAFTI Military Institute to Pasir Laba Camp training ground. It is a complete shortcut from NTU all the way to Joo Koon; similar to the Lorong Danau road which connects the National Shooting Centre and NTU. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
Henry Gregory (15 March 1860 – 15 November 1940) was an Australian politician. Born in Kyneton, Victoria, where he was educated, he moved to the Western Australian goldfields in 1894. He became Mayor of Menzies Shire as well as a stockbroker, farmer and press proprietor. In 1897, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the member for North Coolgardie, transferring to Menzies in 1901. He served as Minister for Mines 1901-1904, Minister for Mines and Railways 1905-1911, and acting Premier and Treasurer 1910-1911. He left the Assembly in 1911, and in 1913 was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the member for Dampier, representing the Commonwealth Liberal Party. In 1917, together with the rest of his party, he became a Nationalist. In 1920, the Country Party was formed, and Gregory was one of several Nationalist MPs to join it. He was the party's Deputy Leader from 21 April 1921. The abolition of Dampier led him to contest Swan in 1922, while party colleague and member for Swan John Prowse contested the new seat of Forrest. He lost the deputy leadership in 1927. He held the seat until his death in 1940. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Autumn Simunek is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Hot Springs, South Dakota, who was named Miss South Dakota's Outstanding Teen 2007 and crowned Miss South Dakota 2015. She competed for the Miss America 2016 title in September 2015 and placed outside the Top 15. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
West Virginia Route 270 is an east–west state highway located entirely within Harrison County, West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 19 just outside the western edge of West Milford. The eastern terminus is at Interstate 79 exit 110 in Lost Creek. WV 270 was formerly County Route 27. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
Mesobuthus is a genus of scorpions, containing the following species: \n* Mesobuthus agnetis (Werner, 1936) \n* Mesobuthus bolensis Sun, Zhu & Lourenço, 2010 \n* Mesobuthus caucasicus (Nordmann, 1840) \n* Mesobuthus cyprius Gantenbein & Kropf, 2000 \n* Mesobuthus eupeus (C. L. Koch, 1839) \n* Mesobuthus extremus (Werner, 1936) \n* Mesobuthus gibbosus (Brulli, 1832) \n* Mesobuthus karshius Sun & Sun, 2011 \n* Mesobuthus longichelus Sun & Zhu, 2010 \n* Mesobuthus macmahoni (Pocock, 1900) \n* Mesobuthus martensii (Karsch, 1879) \n* Mesobuthus nigrocinctus (Ehrenberg, 1828) \n* Mesobuthus phillipsi (Pocock, 1889) \n* Mesobuthus vesiculatus (Pocock, 1899) | Species | Animal | Arachnid |
Douglas Dalton QSO OStJ (18 January 1913 – 28 July 1995) was a New Zealand rugby union player. He was educated at Nelson Park Primary School and then Napier Technical College. A prop and hooker, Dalton represented Hawke's Bay at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1935 to 1938. He played 21 matches for the All Blacks including nine internationals. He later served as the Hawke's Bay selector between 1946 and 1949, and was also a North Island selector. Active in the St John's Ambulance Association, Dalton was appointed as a Serving Brother of the Order of St John in 1966, and promoted to Officer of the same order in 1971. He was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service in the 1976 New Year Honours. Dalton died in Napier on 28 July 1995, and was buried at Taradale Cemetery. | Agent | Athlete | RugbyPlayer |
Bottom Liners is a one-panel comic strip devised by cartoonists Eric and Bill Teitelbaum. The themes of the strip are the worlds of business and finance. The Teitelbaum brothers also are co-creators of the internationally syndicated Pink Panther comic strip. Their drawings have appeared in most leading publications including The New Yorker, Forbes, Saturday Review, and Family Circle. | Work | Comic | ComicStrip |
The women's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 22–23 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia. The U.S. women's team established a new world record to defend their Olympic title in the event for the third consecutive streak. Leading the race from the start, Barbara Bedford (1:01.39), Megan Quann (1:06.29), Jenny Thompson (57.25), and Dara Torres (53.37) put together in a sterling time of 3:58.30 to clear the four-minute barrier and to smash China's six-year-old world record by 3.37 seconds. Capturing another relay title for the Americans, Thompson also picked up her eighth gold medal and tenth career as the nation's most successful female athlete in Olympic history. The Aussie team of Dyana Calub (1:01.83), Leisel Jones (1:08.08), Petria Thomas (57.39), and Susie O'Neill (54.29) finished behind their greatest rivals by over three seconds, but powered home with the silver in an Oceanian record of 4:01.59. Meanwhile, Japan's Mai Nakamura (1:02.08), Masami Tanaka (1:08.65), Junko Onishi (58.72), and Sumika Minamoto (54.71) moved from fifth at the start to produce a spectacular fashion for the bronze in a national record of 4:04.16, holding off a mighty German team of Antje Buschschulte (1:02.05), Sylvia Gerasch (1:08.67), Franziska van Almsick (59.67), and Katrin Meissner (54.04) by 17-hundredths of a second, a time of 4:04.33. South Africa's Charlene Wittstock (1:02.74), Sarah Poewe (1:07.83), Mandy Loots (59.81), and Helene Muller (54.77) established an African standard to strike the field with a fifth-place effort in 4:05.15. Canada (4:07.55), Great Britain (4:07.61), and China (4:07.83) completed a close finish at the rear of the championship finale. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
The 2014–15 Bethune-Cookman Wildcats men's basketball team represented Bethune-Cookman University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Wildcats, led by fourth year head coach Gravelle Craig, played their home games at the Moore Gymnasium and were members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. They finished the season 11–21, 7–9 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for seventh place. They lost in the first round of the MEAC Tournament to Coppin State. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
Winifred McNair (née Winifred Margaret Slocock, 9 August 1877 – 28 March 1954) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her women's doubles (partnering Kathleen McKane) gold medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Between 1906 and 1925 she competed in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships. Her best Wimbledon result came in 1913 when she reached the final of the all-comers' event and won the doubles title, partnering Dora Boothby. In 1908 she married Roderick McNair. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
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