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Schmuck v. United States, 489 U.S. 705 (1989), is a United States Supreme Court decision on criminal law and procedure. By a 5–4 margin it upheld the mail fraud conviction of an Illinois man and resolved a conflict among the appellate circuits over which test to use to determine if a defendant was entitled to a jury instruction allowing conviction on a lesser included charge. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote for the majority; Antonin Scalia for the dissent. The case had begun when Schmuck was prosecuted for having rolled back odometers for years on cars he sold to used-car dealers. He had been indicted for 12 counts of mail fraud, based on the vehicle title applications the dealers had then mailed to the state's Department of Transportation in order to resell the cars. Before his trial in the Western District of Wisconsin, he had been denied a motion to have the jury instructed that they could vote to convict him of tampering with the odometer, at the time a less serious offense, if they did not find him guilty of mail fraud. He raised the issue after his conviction with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the applicability of the mail-fraud statute to the dealers' applications. A panel rejected the latter argument but agreed that the jury should have been allowed to consider the lesser charge, reversing the conviction and remanding the case for a new trial. The government appealed that decision to an en banc panel of the circuit, which restored the conviction, holding that the odometer tampering was not \"inherently related\" to the mail fraud. Since other appellate circuits had preferred a different test for lesser included charges, Schmuck successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case. Blackmun ruled for the government on both questions. Since Schmuck had enjoyed a continuing relationship with the dealers he sold to, and the cars could not be resold to a retail customer without titles obtained using false information, the dealers' applications were an essential element of his crime and thus constituted mail fraud. On the second question, Blackmun said the court should have considered whether the elements of odometer tampering were a subset of the elements of the mail fraud, and since that was not the case Schmuck had been properly denied the instruction. Scalia's dissent focused exclusively on the mail fraud issue. Since Schmuck had already received his payment for the altered vehicles, it did not matter what happened afterwards, a holding he found more consistent with the Court's earlier rulings on the subject. | UnitOfWork | LegalCase | SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase |
Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 10 June 1890. In the elections for the Chamber of Representatives the result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 94 of the 138 seats. Under the alternating system, elections were held in only four out of the nine provinces: Hainaut, Limburg, Liège and East Flanders. Thus, only 69 seats out of the 138 were up for election. Additionally, a special election was held in Neufchâteau on 3 June 1890 after the death of Edmond van der Linden d'Hooghvorst (d). Winand Heynen (d) was elected to replace him. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Philip Herbert Eliot was Bishop of Buckingham from 1921 to 1944. Born on 20 September 1862 into an eminent ecclesiastical family, his father was the Very Rev. Philip Eliot, KCVO sometime Dean of Windsor. He was educated at Marlborough College and Oriel College, Oxford and ordained by the Bishop of Winchester in 1886. After a curacy at Portsea, Portsmouth and spells as the incumbent at Winslow and Upton-cum-Chalvey he was appointed Rural Dean of Burnham before his ascension to the Episcopate. Described in hisTimes obituary as A man of natural ability and sound judgement, strictly impartial in his decisions Eliot died on 1 April 1946. | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
Picea schrenkiana, Schrenk's spruce, or Asian spruce, is a spruce native to the Tian Shan mountains of central Asia in western China (Xinjiang), Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It grows at altitudes of 1,200–3,500 metres, usually in pure forests, sometimes mixed with the Tien Shan variety of Siberian fir (Abies sibirica var. semenovii). Its name was given in honour of Alexander von Schrenk (1816–1876). | Species | Plant | Conifer |
Ng Shu Mun (born 9 July 1986) is a Malaysian male artistic gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed at world championships, including the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, United States. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Murad Qureshi (born 27 May 1965) is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, and former Member of the London Assembly until 2016 when he was defeated. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
Raimondo Ponte (born 4 April 1955 in Windisch) is a former Swiss international footballer. He joined Nottingham Forest from Grasshopper Club Zürich for the 1980–81 season and made 21 league appearances for Forest, before moving to play for French club SC Bastia. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan (Malayalam: തോട്ടത്തിൽ. ബി. രാധാകൃഷ്ണൻ; born 29 April 1959) is a judge of Kerala High Court. The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. The High Court of Kerala is headquartered at Ernakulam, Kochi. | Agent | Person | Judge |
Westall was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon; and ordained in 1967. After a curacy at St Martin, Hereford he was a lecturer at Bishop’s College, Calcutta. He was principal of St Mark's Theological College Dar-es-Salaam from 1984 to 1992; and rector of St Mary Magdalene, Alfrick until his appointment as bishop. | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
André-Dieudonné Kolingba (12 August 1936 – 7 February 2010) was a Central African politician, who was the fourth president of the Central African Republic (CAR), from 1 September 1981 until 1 October 1993. He took power from President David Dacko in a bloodless coup d'état in 1981 and lost power to Ange-Félix Patassé in a democratic election held in 1993. Kolingba retained the strong support of France until the fall of the Berlin Wall, after which both internal and external pressure forced him to hold presidential elections which he lost. His twelve-year term in office saw the growing influence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in decisions by donor-nations regarding financial support and management of the Central African state. Many members of Kolingba's ethnic group, the Yakoma people, obtained lucrative posts in the public, private and parastatal sectors of the CAR's economy during his era. This gave rise to growing tension between so-called \"southerners\" (including the riverine Yakoma) and \"northerners\" (including the savanna Gbaya) in the CAR which led to violent confrontations between these groups during the Patassé era (1993–2003). | Agent | Politician | President |
Porcellionides buddelundi is a woodlouse that lives in Portugal and Spain. | Species | Animal | Crustacean |
Motor City Online was a racing massively multiplayer online video game released by Electronic Arts on October 29, 2001. The point of the game was to buy classic cars (mostly American muscle cars) ranging from 1930s to 1970s models, tune them up, and race them against other players. The game went offline on August 29, 2003 so EA Games could focus on their current online game at the time, The Sims Online. EA, however, developed a new online racing game, called Need for Speed: World. Many fans of Motor City Online consider Need for Speed: World a Spiritual successor of Motor City Online, although EA has denied any direct link between the two games. Originally conceived as part of the Need for Speed series under the title Need for Speed: Motor City, all single player elements that may have been developed for the game were discarded in favor of an online-only model. The game featured some role-playing video game elements, such as leveling up after completing tasks (e.g. winning races), and a functional, supply and demand economy for players to get involved in. Aside from EA focusing on The Sims Online, another contributing factor to MCO's demise was the game's technical setup. Lag, as with most online games, was a problem, with cars acting unpredictably during times of high latency. Falling subscription rates (from an alleged peak of 36,000) and a lack of new interest in the game eventually led to its downfall. Previous Motor City Online users were offered access to The Sims Online, Ultima Online, or Earth & Beyond. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
1759 Kienle, provisional designation 1942 RF, is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 11, 1942, by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory, Germany. Named after astrophysicist Hans Kienle (1895–1975), known for his work on spectrophotometry and director of several German observatories, including the discovery site, Heidelberg. Kienle was also president of IAU Commission 36. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Conor Michael Armstrong (born 17 December 1980 in Drogheda, County Louth, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Having first represented the Irish cricket team at Under-19 level during the Youth World Cup of 2000, he made his debut for the senior side against the MCC in May 2001. He has since gone onto play for them on 27 occasions, including four first-class matches in the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup. He has not played for the senior team since the final of the 2005 Intercontinental Cup against Kenya at Windhoek in October 2005, but he did represent the Ireland A team in 2006. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
The 1954 Toronto Argonauts finished in third place in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union with a 6–8–0 record and failed to make the playoffs. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
Thyrsopteris is a predominant plant genus in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago. It is a tree fern genus with a single species, Thyrsopteris elegans, in the family Thyrsopteridaceae. | Species | Plant | Fern |
\"With Love\" is a song recorded by American recording artist Hilary Duff for her fourth studio album, Dignity (2007). It was written by Duff and Kara DioGuardi with the song's producers Vada Nobles and Julius \"Logic\" Diaz. According to Duff, the song is about having a \"crazy job\" but being kept \"sane\" by a lover. Musically, \"With Love\" has a dance-rock guitar throughout its hook while it presents more mature vocals by Duff in contrast to her previous works. The song was released as the second single from Dignity on February 20, 2007 by Hollywood Records. \"With Love\" received positive reviews from music critics, who called it a reinvention by the singer, and compared it with the works by Kylie Minogue and Gwen Stefani. Commercially \"With Love\" also fared well. It became her highest-peaking single on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it reached number 24, and additionally reached number one on the region's Hot Dance Club Play chart. It was also able to reach numbers six and eight in Spain and Italy, respectively. The \"With Love\" accompanying music video was directed by Matthew Rolston and doubles as the television commercial for Duff's fragrance With Love... Hilary Duff. It was filmed at City Hall in San Francisco, and features Kellan Lutz as Duff's love interest. It decipts Duff being followed by Lutz's character until they share a kiss towards its end. A separate version of the music video was produced for airing on Disney Channel and its online DXD service on the page for Radio Disney. Duff made a live performance of \"With Love\" at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards, where she also won the accolade for People's Choice: Favourite International Artist. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Southwest Magnet High School, also known as Southwest-Macon and Southwest Magnet High School and Law Academy, is a high school in Macon, Georgia, United States, serving students in grades 9–12. It is a unit of the Bibb County Public School System. In the 1970s, Macon residents often claimed that Southwest was the largest high school in the United States in both campus size and attendance numbers. Its sprawling campus complex comprised four classroom buildings (McEvoy A, McEvoy B, Willingham A, Willingham B), three of which had their own gymnasium. It had its own baseball field, 1/4 mile track, soccer field, and football field. A fifth building was added in the 1980s to accommodate technical education needs. Southwest High School was born out of the integration and co-ed movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which the Alfred R. Willingham High School for Boys, the adjacent Margaret McEvoy High School for Girls, and nearby all-black Ballard-Hudson High School merged, and eventually rose to national prominence under the leadership of complex principals W. C. Whitley and Gloria Washington. After the merger, the campuses formerly used for Ballard-Hudson High School were converted to junior high campuses (grades 8-9) with the Ballard-Hudson name. Its large student body enabled the school to have successful teams in baseball, track and field, football and basketball, as well as numerous academic teams. Its chief rival was Central High School's Chargers. Each fall, the campus hosted Orange Crush week, designed to celebrate the upcoming game between the Southwest Patriots and the Central Chargers. Now their rival is the Northeast Magnet High School's Raiders. In the late 1980s, because of growing concerns about successful management of the enormous student body, the school was split into Southwest High School and Southeast High School. Southwest later added a magnet program, focusing on preparatory curricula for law and criminal justice careers. Prior to the school's split, Southwest High School produced NBA basketball greats Norm Nixon (#10 Los Angeles Lakers 1977-83), Jeff Malone (Miami Heat, Philadelphia 76ers, and Washington Bullets 1983-90). The school was also nationally known for its marching band, \"The Southwest Marching Patriots Band,\" or the \"Big Red Machine,\" and its concert and jazz bands, all of which succeeded under the direction of Bill Hunter and Oscar Jackson. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
Olexander Svitlichni (born 23 August 1972) is a Ukrainian male artistic gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions. He participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics, winning a medal at both editions. He also competed at world championships, including the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
The District of Columbia Jail or the D.C. Central Detention Facility (commonly referred to as the D.C. Jail) is a jail run by the District of Columbia Department of Corrections that is located in the Washington, District of Columbia, United States. The Stadium–Armory station serves the D.C. Jail. The majority of male inmates housed in the Central Detention Facility are awaiting adjudication of cases or are sentenced for misdemeanor offenses. Females inmates in the custody of the DC Department of Corrections are housed at the adjacent Correctional Treatment Facility. After the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, sentenced felons are transferred to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. | Place | Building | Prison |
George M. Kerns (1871-1941 or 1942) was an architect in Iowa. He was born in Moline, Illinois. He opened private practice in Ottumwa, Iowa in 1902. A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works include (with spelling and other variations in attribution): \n* B'nai Jacob Synagogue, 529 E. Main, Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* One or more works in Court Hill Historic District, 111 E. Court and 407-1004 N. Court Sts., Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George), NRHP-listed \n* Dahlonega School No. 1, Cty. Rd. H25, 2 mi. NE of Ottumwa, Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* J.W. Garner Building, 222-224 E. 2nd St., Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* R. B. and Lizzie L. Louden House, 107 W. Washington Ave., Fairfield, IA (Kerns, G.M.), NRHP-listed \n* Ottumwa Cemetery Gateway and Office, (1906–08) within Ottumwa Cemetery Historic District, 1302 North Ct., Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* Ottumwa County Club buildings (c. 1910) \n* Ottumwa National Guard Armory (1934) \n* Peoples National Bank Building-Fries Building, 1729-1731 and 1723-1727 2nd Ave., Rock Island, IL (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed \n* Russell Harper Residence (1915) within the Vogel Place Historic District, roughly bounded by Ottumwa Country Club, Court St., Ottumwa Cemetery and former St. Joseph Hospital, Ottumwa, IA (Kerns, George M.), NRHP-listed | Agent | Person | Architect |
Jūratė Ščerbinskaitė is a Lithuanian swimmer, who specialized in long-length freestyle events. She is a multiple-time national records holder. Ščerbinskaitė participated in 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. Ščerbinskaitė represented Lithuania at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships. In 200 metre freestyle she finished 32nd and failed to qualify for the semifinals. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BFAWU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1847 in Manchester, it is a trade-based union of workers in the food industry. Soon after foundation, the union began organising nationally and became the Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers. It gained prominence when its 1861 campaign for improvements in working conditions led to the Bakehouse Regulations Act 1863. The union gradually adopted a federal structure. In 1964, the union was renamed the Bakers' Union, but this was later lengthened to the present name. | Agent | Organisation | TradeUnion |
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine (CSTM) is a medical institute from Kolkata, India dedicated in the field of tropical disease. It was established in 1914 by Leonard Rogers (1868-1962) of the Indian Medical Service, professor of pathology at the Calcutta Medical College. It was, till 2003, affiliated with the historic University of Calcutta. Now it is under the West Bengal University of Health Sciences. Prominent researchers like U. N. Bramhachari, Ronald Ross, Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri and Ram Narayan Chakravarti worked in this institute. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
Głębock [ˈɡwɛmbɔt͡sk] (German: Tiefensee) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lelkowo, within Braniewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It lies approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) east of Braniewo and 68 km (42 mi) north of the regional capital Olsztyn. Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia). Following World War II the native German populace was expelled and replaced by Poles. The village has a population of 570. | Place | Settlement | Village |
Ada High School is a public high school located in Ada, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Ada Exempted Village School District. The District spends $7,419 per pupil in current expenditures. The district spends 63% on instruction, 32% on support services, and 4% on other elementary and secondary expenditures. It has 16 students for every full-time equivalent teacher, with the OH state average being 19 students per full-time equivalent teacher. 13% of students have an Individualized Education Program (IEP). An IEP is a written plan for students eligible for special needs services. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
The Maine Mariners were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Portland, Maine, at the Cumberland County Civic Center. | Agent | SportsTeam | HockeyTeam |
West of the Pesos is a Merrie Melodies cartoon animated short starring Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester. Released on January 23, 1960, the cartoon is directed by Robert McKimson. The voices were performed by Mel Blanc. | Work | Cartoon | HollywoodCartoon |
Alexandre Massura Neto (born June 19, 1975 in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo) is a retired male freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996. Actually a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the 1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) held in Rio de Janeiro, Massura won the gold medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle, along with Gustavo Borges, Fernando Scherer and André Cordeiro, with a time of 3m12s42. He also swam the 200-metre backstroke. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Massura came close to winning a medal, reaching the 4×100-metre freestyle final, and staying in 4th place. The end of 1998 was marked by the third consecutive world record broke by Brazilian relay in the 4×100-metre freestyle, on short course. On December 20, shortly after the end of Jose Finkel Trophy, the quartet formed by Fernando Scherer, Carlos Jayme, Alexandre Massura and Gustavo Borges, in order, fell the pool at Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama and they got the 3:10.45 time, that would only be broken in the year 2000 by the team of Sweden. At the 1999 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Hong Kong, Massura reached the final of the 100-metre backstroke, finishing in 5th place. Massura was in the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. In the 4×100-metre medley, along with Gustavo Borges, Fernando Scherer and Marcelo Tomazini, Brazil won the medley relay for the first time in the Pan's history, with a time of 3:40.27, breaking Pan American and South American records, and secure a place in the 2000 Summer Olympics. Massura also won the silver medal in the 100-metre backstroke, beating the South American record with a time of 55.17 seconds. The 4×100-metre medley record just fell in 2006, and the 100-metre backstroke record only dropped with Thiago Pereira's bronze at 2007 Pan, in Rio de Janeiro. On December 16, 1999, Massura broke the South American record in the 50-metre backstroke Olympic pool, with a time of 26.00 seconds. The record was only broken in 2007. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Massura ranked 13th in the 100-metre backstroke, and 12th in the 4×100-metre medley. On November 12, 2000, Massura broke the South American record in the short-course 50-metre backstroke: 24.73 seconds. The record stood until 2007. In 2000, also broke the South American record in the 100-metre backstroke short course, with a time of 52.24 seconds, time that lasted until 2008. At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, he reached the semifinals of the 50-metre and 100-metre backstroke. Massura retired from professional swimming in 2004. Later, he worked in the Department of Sports of the Government of Minas Gerais. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Little Lake Butte des Morts is a lake in the US state of Wisconsin, eight miles north of Lake Butte Des Morts. It is part of the Fox–Wisconsin Waterway and receives its inflow from a short segment of the Fox River which drains from the north end of Lake Winnebago around Doty Island. The north end of Little Lake Butte des Morts becomes the section of the Fox River running to Green Bay. The lake is part of the Butte des Morts region in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The southern half of the lake is located within the cities of Menasha and Neenah. The name \"Butte des Morts\" was given by French settlers, and means \"Mound of the Dead\" in reference to a nearby Indian burial mound. French archives state that in 1716, over 8000 civilians and over 500 soldiers lived within the fortified walls of Little Lake Butte des Morts. In 1716, during the Fox Wars, French expeditionary forces laid siege to the fort, in the battle of the Siege of Little Butte des Mortes, and massacred most of the inhabitants. Similar events occurred in another siege in 1730. | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
Wilson's Cave is a cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. | Place | NaturalPlace | Cave |
Hajikabul is the sixth largest lake of Azerbaijan. It is located to the south-west of Baku, near Shirvan city, in Hajigabul Rayon, not far from a railway station. Its total area is 1668 ha, maximal length - 6 km, maximal width - 3 km and depth - 5 m. The lake is supplied by waters of the Kura River, with a special channel. Temperature of water hesitates between 5 °C and 28,5 °C. Pellucidity of water is between 0,06 and 2,5 m. Barbel, carp, sheatfish, pike, zander and grass carp are commercial fishes of the lake. Water plants such as reed mace, reed, bulrush, buttercup and hornwort are met in the lake. The lake is located in Kur-Araz Lowland. It formed in the result of withdrawal of the Caspian Sea in a definite geological period. Spring flows of the Kura River increase the area of the lake. It doesn’t freeze in winter and has a great significance for hibernation of migratory birds. | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
The Battle of Prague, which occurred between 25 July and 1 November 1648 was the last action of the Thirty Years' War. General Hans Christoff von Königsmarck, commanding Sweden's flying column, entered the city, which was defended by the Governor Feldmarshall Rudolf von Colloredo, a veteran of the siege of Mantua and of the battle of Lutzen, where he served under Albrecht von Wallenstein. The Swedes captured Prague Castle on the western bank of the Vltava river and attempted to enter the Old Town on the eastern bank of the river, but were repulsed on the Charles Bridge by Colloredo's men. When a third Swedish army commanded by Prince Carl Gustaf came close to Prague, all three Swedish armies launched a number of attacks against the city. These attacks were resisted, largely thanks to the skill of the Feldmarshal and the energy of his troops. When in November Gustaf received a report about the signed Peace, he ordered his troops to leave. Unable to enter the city, the Swedes settled for looting the Castle. Many of the treasures collected by Emperor Rudolf II (such as the Codex Gigas and Codex Argenteus) were taken to Sweden, whereof some can be found in Drottningholm Palace. A monument erected during the 19th century on Colloredo's tomb in the Maltese Order Church in Prague remind his victory over the Swedish. Its German inscription reads thus: HIER RUHT RUDOLF GRAF COLLOREDOK.K. FELDMARSCHALL UND MALTHESERORDER GROSSPRIORVertheididiger der Alt und Neusstad Prags gegen die SchwedenGeb. Am 2 Nov. 1585Gest. Am 27 Jan. 1657. (\"Here lies Rudolf, count Colloredo, Imperial and Royal Feldmarshall and Grand Prior of the Order of Malta, defender of the Old and New Town of Prague against the Swedes.Born 2. Nov. 1585Dead 27 Jan. 1657\") On Charles Bridge a 17th-century Latin inscription says: SISTE VIATOR, SED LUBENS, AC VOLENS UBI SISTERE DEBUIT, SED COACTUS GOTHORUM, AC VANDALORUM FUROR \"Rest here, walker, and be happy: you can stop here willing, but unwilling were stopped the Goths (Swedes) and their Vandalic ferocity\" The battle was referenced in Sabaton's song \"1648\" in album Carolus Rex. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
The 2016 Old Iliamna earthquake struck in the Cook Inlet region of Alaska near Iliamna at 1:30 AM AKST on January 24, 2016. The quake was centered approximately 162 miles (261 km) from Anchorage, and 65 miles (105 km) from Homer. The earthquake registered 7.1, and was felt across a wide area of Southcentral Alaska, the Kenai Peninsula and as far away as Juneau roughly 700 miles (1,100 km) southeast of the epicenter. Moderate to heavy damage to homes, roads and businesses was experienced over a wide area. | Event | NaturalEvent | Earthquake |
The Fraser fir, Abies fraseri, is a species of fir native to the Appalachian Mountains of the Southeastern United States. Abies fraseri is closely related to balsam fir (Abies balsamea), of which it has occasionally been treated as a subspecies (as A. balsamea subsp. fraseri (Pursh) E.Murray) or a variety (as A. balsamea var. fraseri (Pursh) Spach). | Species | Plant | Conifer |
Bien Nacido Vineyards is cool-climate vineyard on the central coast of California. Located midway up the Santa Maria Valley, it is known for growing Burgundian and Rhone varieties of wine grapes. Bien Nacido has the distinction of being one of the major viticultural nurseries in the state for certified, varietal budwood. Most of the vines were originally from stock grown by the University of California at Davis. While the average increase block in California is less than 10 acres (40,000 m2), Bien Nacido Vineyards has several hundred acres of certified Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Merlot and a number of other varieties. Much of the Chardonnay planted in California in the last twenty years began as Bien Nacido Vineyards cuttings. Bien Nacido Vineyards produces a small estate wine program run by Trey Fletcher. Additionally there are two independent winemakers who make their wine on the vineyard, Bob Lindquist of Qupe Winery and Jim Clendenen of Au Bon Climat. | Agent | Company | Winery |
The 2016 United States Senate election in Kansas will take place on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Kansas, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on August 2. Incumbent Republican Senator Jerry Moran is running for re-election to a second term in office. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Rafael Savério Gatti or Gatti, (born in São Carlos, on September 5, 1984) is a Brazilian football goalkeeper, currently playing for Cuiabá Esporte Clube. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
Mohammad Morshed Ali Khan (born May 14, 1972 in Faridpur, Dhaka) is a former Bangladeshi cricketer who played in 3 ODIs in 1998. The tall left arm bowler played in the tri-nation tournament in India in 1998. He performed well, specially in the first match against India. There, he took 1/31 from ten overs. At present he is a professional umpire appointed in BCB's panel of first class umpires. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
WIRY-FM (100.7 FM, \"Hometown Radio\") is a commercial Full service radio station broadcasting from Plattsburgh, New York. It is owned by Benjamin Homel, through licensee Radioactive, LLC; however, the station is programmed by Hometown Radio, Inc., owner of WIRY (1340 AM), and largely simulcasts WIRY. The station was formerly WXMR with a tagline called \"Radio Bistro\". The call letters were changed to WPLB on August 6, 2012; it eventually changed to a country music format, \"Kickin' Country,\" which was simulcast with WNMR (107.1 FM, now WBKM) and competed with WOKO and WTNN. In March 2016, the station was leased to WIRY. The arrangement allows for the FM station to occasionally broadcast separate programming from the AM station (for instance, WIRY's regular programming can continue on the FM station while the AM station carries a sporting event). The call letters were changed to WIRY-FM on March 15, 2016. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
The Social Democratic Party of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt, MSZDP) is a small social-democratic political party in Hungary. Since 2002, the MSZDP had no longer contested elections independently at a national level and only rarely contested elections at a local level, and is widely considered to be practically defunct as an electoral force. Despite this weakness, the MSZDP retained its membership of both the Socialist International and the Party of European Socialists. Both the MSZDP and Social Democratic Party (SZDP) have laid claim to the same heritage: the Social Democratic Party which was part of a governing coalition in Hungary between 1945 and 1948, and a short period in 1956, which itself was renamed from the Hungarian Social Democratic Party, previously established in December 1890. At the party's peak, traditional areas of support have been the industrial areas of Budapest, especially Óbuda, Pesterzsébet and Angyalföld. In 2013, several members left the party to form the Social Democratic Hungarian Civic Party. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
Pierre Francis Koenig (October 17, 1925 – April 4, 2004) was an American architect. He was a Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California School of Architecture from 1964 until his death in 2004. He was the director of the undergraduate building science program since 1980. | Agent | Person | Architect |
Ekspress AM4 was a communications satellite placed into the wrong orbit from a faulty Briz-M rocket stage. This satellite was to be part of the Ekspress series of geostationary communications satellites owned by Russian State Company for Satellite Communications. The satellite was de-orbited on 28 March 2012 into the Pacific Ocean, in spite of efforts of it being used for Antarctic broadband purposes. Although there have been several satellites de-orbited over the years, Ekspress AM4 would have been able to provide broadband services to the Antarctic for the first time. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
Northwest Hospital & Medical Center is a 281-bed hospital in Seattle, Washington. On September 17, 2009, it announced that as of January 1, 2010 it would become part of UW Medicine, associated with the University of Washington. UW Medicine also includes University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, the UW School of Medicine and several smaller entities. Prior to the merger, a 1997 agreement had already made Northwest the home for a UW Medicine cardiac surgery program. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Mikio Aoki (青木 幹雄 Aoki Mikio, born 8 June 1934 in present-day Izumo, Shimane) is a Japanese politician. He was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the cabinet of Yoshirō Mori also served as Secretary-General of the LDP in the House of Councillors. He studied at Waseda University but did not graduate. He served as acting Prime Minister of Japan following Keizō Obuchi's coma in 2000. | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
The sungrebe or American finfoot (Heliornis fulica) is a bird which breeds in tropical Central and South America from southern Mexico to northeast Argentina and southern Brazil. It is the only member of the genus Heliornis. The Heliornithidae family, to which it belongs, contains just two other species: the African finfoot, Podica senegalensis, and the masked finfoot Heliopais personatus, which breeds in eastern India down through southeast Asia to the Wallace Line. These tropical birds of swamps and marshes have broad lobes on their feet, similar to grebes. These are shy birds which swim in slow-flowing streams and secluded waterways, sometimes partly submerged, like an anhinga. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Dolores Marco (born 29 August 1973) is a badminton player from Spain. | Agent | Athlete | BadmintonPlayer |
The Old Roan Chase is a Grade 2 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run on the Mildmay Course at Aintree over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and during its running there are sixteen fences to be jumped. It is a limited handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year in late October. The event was established in 2004, and it was initially called the Wigan Chase. It includes the name of Monet's Garden, a three time winner of the race, in its title. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
The Bold Italic is an online magazine and event hub in San Francisco. The magazine was founded in 2009, as a collaboration between design firm IDEO and media company Gannett, who sold the magazine to local owners in 2015. The Bold Italic covers culture, events, local businesses and news in San Francisco. It is well known for its series of Kid Food Reviews and Made Up Charts. The style of reporting is often humorous and aimed at a young audience. The Bold Italic was a Webby honoree and an IDSA finalist, and was named best webzine by SF Weekly. The publication also experimented with a web store focused on local themed merchandise, which closed in January 2015. After 6 years of publishing, The Bold Italic was shut down by Gannett on April 7, 2015. No official reason was given for the shutdown, though Gannett had taken other measures to cut costs across all its publications in recent years, including layoffs. In June 2015, Gannett sold the site to new owners, who began publishing again in summer 2015. In April 2016, the site announced its partnership with Medium, a San Francisco-based online publishing platform. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
Tímea Tóth (born 16 September 1980 in Zalaszentgrót) is a Hungarian handballer who plays for Érdi VSE and the Hungarian national team. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
William Wilson Fife (August 16, 1857 – August 31, 1897) was a 19th-century architect of Richardsonian Romanesque in Ogden, Utah. His works include the Second Empire Ogden City Hall, Scowcroft Block, Perry's Block, the Utah Territorial Reform School, the Woodmansee-Union Block, Utah Loan & Trust Building, and Ogden High School. Some of Fife's works have been added to the National Register of Historic Places, including the Valasco Farr House and a residence at 2523 Jefferson Ave that is part of the Jefferson Avenue Historic District. | Agent | Person | Architect |
John \"Johnny\" Florea (born in Alliance, Ohio on May 28, 1916 ; died in Las Vegas on August 25, 2000) was a television director and a photographer. | Agent | Artist | Photographer |
Goliath is a steel coaster roller coaster at the La Ronde located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, it reaches a maximum height of 174.8 feet (53.3 m), a speed of 68.4 miles per hour (110.1 km/h), and a track length of 4,038.8 feet (1,231.0 m). Construction commenced in September 2005, and the roller coaster opened to the public on May 13, 2006. Goliath was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada until it was surpassed by Behemoth (another Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster), at Canada's Wonderland's in 2008. Six Flags announced that Goliath would be hooked up with Virtual Reality for a New Revolution experience for the 2016 season, which was previously made as a world premiere in 2013 by a Montreal VR company. | Place | AmusementParkAttraction | RollerCoaster |
Jean IV de Brosse (1505 in Lamballe – 1564) was the son of René de Brosse and Jeanne de Commines (daughter of Philippe de Commines). After the death of his father at the Battle of Pavia, he succeeded him as Count of Penthièvre. In 1533, he married Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, the mistress of Francis I of France, and was shortly thereafter created Count, then Duke of Étampes. However, he was greatly impoverished by the expenditures necessary to maintain their position at court. With the death of Francis I, the antipathy of Diane de Poitiers compelled Jean to retreat to Brittany, where he had been appointed governor in 1543; she also obtained his duchy of Étampes. After the death of Henry II of France and the fall of Diane, he was able to regain the duchy, but died not long thereafter. | Agent | Person | Noble |
The common big-eyed tree frog, Nyctimystes narinosus, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family, endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Leigh Reservoir, or Leigh Hill Reservoir, is a small reservoir in Somerset, England.It was built in 1893 to supply water to the town of Taunton, Somerset, which lies to the north.Water quality is good. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Tipperary Station is a railway station that serves the town of Tipperary, County Tipperary in Ireland. It is approximately 500 metres from centre of town. It has a weekday passenger service of two trains to Limerick Junction and two to Waterford. There is no Sunday service. Until January 19, 2013 (inclusive) there were three trains each way. However the late-morning Waterford to Limerick Junction and early-afternoon Limerick Junction to Waterford trains are now discontinued. Change at Limerick Junction for connections to Limerick, Cork, Tralee, Galway & Dublin. The station is staffed, but the ticket office and platform are not wheelchair-accessible. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
Prince Tadas Pranciškus Andrius Oginskis (Belarusian: Тадэвуш Францішак Андрэй Агінскі, Polish: Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński) was a szlachcic from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was Grand Clerk of Lithuania since 1737, castellan of Trakai since 1744, voivode of Trakai since 1770, starost oszmiański, wierzbowski and przewalski. He had two wives, Izabella Radziwiłł and Jadwiga Załuska. He had two children with Radziwiłł, Andrzej Ignacy Ogiński and Franciszek Ksawery Ogiński. Marshal of the Sejm (zwyczajnego) on 5 October - 19 November 1744 in Hrodna. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on 3 August 1742. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Bill Copson (27 April 1908 – 14 September 1971) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1932 and 1950, and for England between 1939 and 1947. He took over 1,000 wickets for Derbyshire, and was prominent in their 1936 Championship season. Cricket correspondent, Colin Bateman, noted Copson was, \"a flame-haired pace bowler with a temper to match, became a cricketer by accident\". | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Artia was a Cold War-era government-run company in Prague, Czechoslovakia, that is best known today for publishing books and fairy tales for children. | Agent | Company | Publisher |
Jonathan McMillan Davis (April 27, 1871 – June 27, 1943) was an American politician and the 22nd Governor of Kansas. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
Vlastimil Burda (born November 4, 1975) is a Czech former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. He is a single-time Olympian (2000) and a resident athlete for USK Praha in Prague. While studying in the United States, Burda held two NCAA championship titles, and a school record (4:22.58) in the 400-yard freestyle since 2002, as a member of Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners. Burda competed in a long-distance freestyle double at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He cleared a FINA A-standard entry time of 3:53.36 (400 m freestyle) from the European Championships in Helsinki, Finland. In the 400 m freestyle, held on the first day of the Games, Burda challenged seven other swimmers in heat five, including Australia's overwhelming favorite Grant Hackett. He held off Greece's Spyridon Gianniotis to pick up a sixth spot and nineteenth overall by more than half of his body length, standing at 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in), in a time of 3:54.40. Nearly a week later, in the 1500 m freestyle, Burda placed twenty-sixth on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat one, he stormed home with an easy triumph against Chinese Taipei's Li Yun-lun and Kyrgyzstan's Ivan Ivanov, in a lifetime best of 15:33.25. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Robert Taylor Conrad (June 10, 1810 – June 27, 1858) was the first mayor of Philadelphia to take office following the Consolidation Act of 1854. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
Cecret Lake (pronounced like Secret) is a small alpine lake in Albion Basin near Alta in the U.S. state of Utah. This area is also part of the Wasatch National Forest. Cecret Lake is also a protected watershed for Salt Lake City. It is not known why the name was spelled with a C instead of an S. Assumptions are that it was named by a miner working in the area. The United States Geological Survey officially spells the name of this lake as \"Cecret Lake\". The lake can be accessed in the summer by parking on the main road in Little Cottonwood Canyon and hiking up a dirt trail to the lake. The lake is surrounded by quartz monzonite, commonly mistaken for granite rock. Cecret Lake is also surrounded by the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts. Cecret Lake is considered a watershed area which supplies drinking water for the greater Salt Lake area. This drinking water comes from several hundred inches of snow each year that lasts into July. | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
Meristogenys phaeomerus is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Dexter Air Taxi is a Russian air taxi service operating distances of up to 2000 kilometres, it aims to have its services cover the whole of Russia. Sabre Holdings is assisting the operation with ambitions of more than 250 4-6 seater aircraft deployed and over 1500 departures a day | Agent | Company | Airline |
The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space observatory launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. Chandra is sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular resolution of its mirrors. Since the Earth's atmosphere absorbs the vast majority of X-rays, they are not detectable from Earth-based telescopes; therefore space-based telescopes are required to make these observations. Chandra is an Earth satellite in a 64-hour orbit, and its mission is ongoing as of 2016. Chandra is one of the Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991–2000), and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The telescope is named after astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
Randy Travis is an American country music singer. His singles discography comprises 58 singles and 34 music videos. Although Travis's first two singles, (including two which were credited under his birth name of Randy Traywick), fared poorly, Travis broke through on the country charts in 1985 with the single \"1982\", his second release for Warner Bros. Records. After this came a re-release of \"On the Other Hand\", which in 1985 became his first Number One country hit. Throughout the 1980s, Travis reached Number One with all but two of his single releases. His chart success continued into the mid-1990s, interrupted only by the two single releases from the side project Wind in the Wire, which both missed Top 40. By 1996, Travis' chart success was waning, with none of the singles from Full Circle reaching higher than number 24. After this album, he switched to DreamWorks Records, where he charted three straight Top Ten hits from the album You and You Alone. After \"Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man\", however, he again lost chart momentum, and switched his focus to gospel music, signing to the Christian music label Word Records. Except for the Number One hit \"Three Wooden Crosses\" in 2002, Travis' Word Records releases have been largely unsuccessful at country radio. In 2009, Travis once again found Top Ten success when Carrie Underwood covered his 1988 hit \"I Told You So\" and re-released it as a duet with him. Out of Travis's 54 solo singles, sixteen have reached Number One on the U.S. Billboard country singles charts, and thirteen more have reached Top Ten. His longest-lasting Number One is \"Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart\", which spent four weeks at the top of the country charts in 1990. Four of his solo singles have also had success on the Billboard Hot 100, with the highest being \"Three Wooden Crosses\" at number 31, although the Carrie Underwood duet reached number 9 on the same chart. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
The Trumbull Correctional Institution is a maximum-security prison for men located in Leavittsburg, Trumbull County, Ohio and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The facility first opened in 1992 and has a population of 1529 state inmates, with mixed minimum, medium, and close (maximum) security levels. | Place | Building | Prison |
Andrew \"Andy\" McCall (15 March 1925 - December 2014) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a winger, making over 300 appearances in the Football League. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
The Ford Cup is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played in 1985. It was held at the Frenchman's Creek Beach & Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in the United States and played on outdoor clay courts. | Event | Tournament | WomensTennisAssociationTournament |
Mongolian National Library (Mongolian: Монгол улсын үндэсний номын сан) located in Ulaanbaatar, is the largest and oldest surviving library in Mongolia. It houses over 3 million books and publications, 1 million of which are rare and valuable books, sutras and manuscripts, including the world's only surviving copies of many ancient Buddhist texts. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | Library |
Sandra Laugier is a French philosopher, working on moral philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of action and philosophy of science. She is currently a professor at the University of Paris I and Scientific deputy director at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS, Institut des sciences humaines et sociales) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, after being a professor at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens, France (until 2010). Sandra Laugier extensively worked on J. L. Austin and L. Wittgenstein; she also introduced several aspects of American philosophy to French readers (Emerson, Thoreau, but above all Stanley Cavell). Her recent work focuses on moral philosophy, the ethics of care and gender studies and aesthetics. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
The women's +75 kg weightlifting event was the heaviest women's event at the weightlifting competition, allowing competitors with over 75 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on August 16, starting at 19:00. Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted. The winner of the event, Jang Mi-ran, broke a total of three world records, the snatch (140 kg, +1 kg), the clean and jerk (186 kg, +4 kg) and the total (326 kg, +7 kg). | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
The 2014 Johan Cruyff Shield was the nineteenth Johan Cruyff Shield (Dutch: Johan Cruijff Schaal), an annual Dutch football match played between the winners of the previous season's Eredivisie and KNVB Cup. The match was contested by PEC Zwolle, the 2013–14 KNVB Cup winners, and Ajax, champions of the 2013–14 Eredivisie. It was held at the Amsterdam Arena on 3 August 2014. PEC Zwolle won the match 1–0. Coincidentally, the match was a repeat of last season's KNVB Cup final, which PEC Zwolle emphatically won 5–1 despite conceding early and major crowd disturbance from Ajax fans in the crowd at De Kuip, home of Ajax' rivals Feyenoord. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Live is a show that recreates the experience of attending a 1950s radio drama recording. The 1950s were the golden age of radio drama and now you can relive 3 of those stories live on stage. Be immersed as this show recreates before your very eyes the experience of attending a 1950s radio drama recording. The show is adapted, directed and produced by Benjamin Maio Mackay. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
Sree Jayam Ortho and Multi Speciality Hospital is an Indian hospital located in Mallur, salem in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded by Dr. N.Kirubakaran in 2013. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Minbu Nikō (民部日向, 1253–1314) was a Buddhist disciple of Nichiren. He took over Kuon-ji after Nichiren's death, and can thus be considered one of the founders of Nichiren-shū. He was also put in charge of Mount Minobu after Nikkō left in 1288. | Agent | Person | Religious |
Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London. He founded the British quarterly Dance Theater Journal in 1983. He writes that his first morning in New York City was before September 1981. Macaulay started a controversy in 2010 when he disparagingly commented on the weight of ballet dancer Jenifer Ringer. In a review of a performance of The Nutcracker, he wrote that Ringer, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, \"looked as if she'd eaten one sugar plum too many.\" | Agent | Person | Journalist |
This is the videography of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. Girls' Generation have been in the music business ever since debuting in the mid-2007. The pop dance group Girls' Generation' is made up of 8 members including Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona and Seohyun as of September 30, 2014 after member Jessica was dismissed from the group. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
Planetes (プラネテス Puranetesu, Ancient Greek: Πλανήτες Planētes, literally meaning, by Ancient Greek translation, \"Planets\", or \"Wanderers\") is a Japanese hard science fiction manga written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura. It was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series by Sunrise, which was broadcast on NHK from October 2003 through April 2004. The story revolves around the crew of the debris collection craft, Toy Box, in the year 2075. The manga was published in English in North America by Tokyopop, and the anime was distributed in North America by Bandai Entertainment. Both the manga and anime received the Seiun Award for best science fiction series. | Work | Comic | Manga |
MainPlace Mall, formerly known as MainPlace Santa Ana and Westfield MainPlace, is shopping center located on the far north side of Santa Ana, California and is anchored by J.C. Penney, Macy's, and Nordstrom. It is currently managed by Centennial Real Estate Company. | Place | Building | ShoppingMall |
Puy de Sancy (Auvergnat: puèi de la Crotz, \"Mount of the Cross\") is the highest mountain in the Massif Central. It is part of an ancient stratovolcano which has been inactive for about 220,000 years. The northern and southern slopes are used for skiing, and a number of cablecars and skilifts ascend the mountain. Skiing has been practised on the mountain since the early 20th century. Two local priests traversed the Puy de Sancy on skis in 1905. In 1936, a cable car link was built from Mont-Dore to one of the needles just below the summit. In December 1965, a cable car accident injured ten passengers and killed seven others. Super-Besse is another ski resort, located on the southwestern slope. The valley to the north is also the source of two streams called Dore and Dogne, which unite to form the Dordogne River, which flows through the nearby spa town of Mont-Dore and on to the Gironde estuary. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
The 2014 Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 85th season in the National Football League, their 81st as the Detroit Lions and the first under a new coaching staff led by head coach Jim Caldwell. The Lions suffered the loss of long-time owner William Clay Ford, Sr., who died on March 9 at the age of 88, and wore patches with his initials on their jerseys in his honor. After the Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Washington Redskins in Week 16, the Lions clinched a playoff berth for the first time since 2011. They lost to the Dallas Cowboys in the Wild Card Game 24–20, ending their season. It was their eighth straight playoff loss, tying the Kansas City Chiefs for the longest postseason losing streak in NFL history. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
The annual Mary Valley Art Festival is a three-day festival event held in the rural village of Imbil, near Gympie in South East Queensland, Australia. The festival was started in 2000 and is held at the Imbil Public Hall in July each year. Prizes are awarded across a number of categories including novice, animalia, still life, human form and abstract amongst others. Total prize money topped $5,000 in 2011, and over $100,000 worth of artworks were shown during the 2010 festival. Visitors and exhibitors alike enjoy the opening night of the festival, where they can take the opportunity to view the exhibition and mix with other artists, to a backdrop of nibbles and music. The People’s Choice Awards are held at the end of the weekend festival, when the favourite entry by popular vote is revealed. | Event | SocietalEvent | Convention |
Billy Sims BBQ is an American restaurant chain founded by former professional football player, Billy Sims and his business partner, Jeff Jackson. In 2004, Sims and Jackson opened the first Billy Sims BBQ location in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The brand is supported by 44 locations operating across six states. Billy Sims BBQ is a fast casual dining restaurant. | Place | Building | Restaurant |
Slavko Dedić is a Montenegrin chess player. He participated on dozens international tournaments, including the European Championship 2009. Dedić is a member of Chess club \"Šahmatik\" from Budva. During the 2014, Slavko Dedić became a national chess referee. | Agent | Athlete | ChessPlayer |
Baldwin of Avesnes (September 1219 in Oizy – 10 April 1295 in Avesnes) was a son of Bouchard IV of Avesnes and his wife, Margaret II of Flanders. His parents' marriage was later declared illegal, because his father had already received minor orders. Baldwin was later declared legitimate by the pope, at the instigation of King Louis IX of France. In 1246, Baldwin received Beaumont as an apanage. He fought his whole life, together with his brother John I, against his half-brothers from his mother's second marriage with William II of Dampierre. He was said to be responsible for the accident that killed his half-brother William III of Dampierre during a tournament in Trazegnies. After the Edict of Péronne and the death of his brother John, he reconciled with his mother, who sent him to Namur on a revenge expedition. In 1287, Baldwin sold Dunkirk and Warneton to Guy, Count of Flanders. He is also known as a chronicler; he wrote the Chronique Universelle. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Joseph \"Lightning Joe\" Lawton Collins (May 1, 1896 – September 12, 1987) was Army Chief of Staff during the Korean War. During World War II, he was an Army general, serving in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations. His elder brother, James Lawton Collins, was also in the Army as a major general. His nephew, Michael Collins, was the command module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 that put the first two men on the Moon and would retire as a major general from the Air Force. His sister Gertrude was married to General Arthur Edmund Easterbrook. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
Florodora is an Edwardian musical comedy. After its long run in London, it became one of the first successful Broadway musicals of the 20th century. The book was written by Jimmy Davis under the pseudonym Owen Hall, the music was by Leslie Stuart with additional songs by Paul Rubens, and the lyrics were by Edward Boyd-Jones and Rubens. The original London production opened in 1899 where it ran for a very successful 455 performances. The New York production was even more popular, opening the following season and running for 552 performances. After this, the piece was produced throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. The show was famous for its double sextet and its chorus line of \"Florodora Girls\". The piece was popular with amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, into the 1950s. | Work | MusicalWork | Musical |
The Fairmont Washington, D.C. is a luxury Postmodernist-style hotel located at 2401 M Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The structure, in the West End neighborhood of the city, opened in December 1985 as The Westin Hotel. In December 1989, Westin sold the hotel to All Nippon Airways, which operated it as the ANA Hotel. Lowe Enterprises purchased the hotel in October 1998, and renamed it the Washington Monarch Hotel. A $12 million renovation followed in 1999. Lowe Enterprises sold the hotel to Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust in October 2002, and Legacy contracted with Fairmont Hotels and Resorts to manage the hotel. The hotel was renamed The Fairmont Washington, D.C. Legacy was itself purchased by Cadbridge Investors in July 2007 and the hotel sold to MetLife in 2014, although the property remained branded a Fairmont. The Fairmont Washington, D.C. has a four-diamond rating from the AAA. | Place | Building | Hotel |
Rhacophorus gauni is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family found in Indonesia and Malaysia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Buddy the Gee Man is an American animated short film, released by Warner Bros. on 24 August 1935.It is a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was supervised by Jack King; musical direction was by Norman Spencer. The short is the last cartoon to feature Buddy, the sole star of the Looney Tunes series since September 1933's Buddy's Day Out; the next film in the series, A Cartoonist's Nightmare, features Beans the Cat. The theme music is \"Lulu's Back In Town\". | Work | Cartoon | HollywoodCartoon |
Clanwilliam Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Olifants River, near Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1935, and the wall was raised to its current height of 43 metres (141 ft) in 1964. The main purpose of the dam is to provide irrigation water to the agricultural region downstream. It has a capacity of 121,800,000 cubic metres (4.30×109 cu ft). The feasibility of raising the dam wall by another 15 metres has been investigated. In 2015 an infrastructure development company has been appointed to do the supervision and contracts management of the project to raise the dam level. As of August 2015 the dam is planned to be raised by 13 meters, increasing its capacity by 70 million cubic metres of water. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Tectaria quitensis is a species of fern in the Tectariaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Plant | Fern |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capiz is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. Capiz is the Archdiocese in the Province of Capiz, on the island of Visayas. The Current Archbishop is Jose Advincula. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
Leonard Finlan \"Pete\" Bahan (February 18, 1898 – May 1, 1977) was an American football player. Bahan played quarterback for Somerset High School in Somerset, Kentucky, and later was the team captain for both the football team and the basketball team at Notre Dame. He was the starting quarterback and team captain for the undefeated football team in 1919, which later was selected as national co-champions by the National Championship Foundation. In 1920, he enrolled at Detroit University and started for their football team at right halfback. Bahan playrf for one season in the National Football League (NFL), in 1923, first with the Buffalo All-Americans and then with the Cleveland Indians. | Agent | GridironFootballPlayer | AmericanFootballPlayer |
\"J'ai demandé à la lune\" (\"I asked the moon\" in English) is the most popular song from the 2002 album Paradize which allowed Indochine to reconnect with the media that had abandoned the band a decade earlier. Written by Mickaël Furnon, the singer of Mickey 3D, the song was released as the second single from this album on March 2002, and quickly became a national success, selling over a million units. The album similarly achieved commercial success a few months later. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Tripura Gramin Bank (TGB) (Hindi: ) is a Regional Rural Bank established on 21 December 1976 in terms of provisions of Regional Rural Banks Act 1976. The bank is sponsored by United Bank of India & is jointly Owned by the Government of India, Government of Tripura and UBI. The shareholders of the Bank are Govt. of India (50%), United Bank of India (35%) and Govt. of Tripura (15%). The Bank is operating in eight districts of Tripura State with its Head Office at Agartala. The bank has three Regional Offices functioning at Agartala (West Tripura), Udaipur (South Tripura) and Kailashahar (North Tripura). | Agent | Company | Bank |
Daejeon Metro (Hangul: 대전도시철도; hanja: 大田都市鐵道; RR: Daejeon dosicheoldo) is the rapid transit system of Daejeon, South Korea, operated by the Daejeon Metropolitan Express Transit Corporation (DjeT, or Daejeon Metro). The subway network first opened in 2006 with 12 stations. Now, it consists of one line, 22 operating stations, and 22.6 kilometres (14.0 mi) of route. The first section of Line 1 was opened on March 16, 2006, the second on April 17, 2007. The track leads from Banseok Station in Yuseong-gu to Panam Station in Dong-gu. The construction of a Line 2 was planned to begin in 2008, but is delayed because Government funding has been diverted to other projects. \"Line 2\" will have construction begin \"Soon\" according to statements from the Daejeon Metropolitan Government. The new \"Line 2\" will be a mix of ground level and elevated track. Experts hope to have test portions of the line operational by 2018, but estimates show the full line will probably not be finished until after 2021. There have been plans to build line 2 as a magnetic levitation train similar to the German M-Bahn or the Japanese HSST. The current technical design, however, is not open to the public. | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
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