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Thomas Arthur Reiter (born 23 May 1958 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the German Air Force currently working as Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations at the European Space Agency (ESA). As of 2008, he was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. With his wife and two sons he lives in Wahnbek (near Oldenburg) in Lower Saxony. | Agent | Person | Astronaut |
The Seventh-day Adventist Hospital Ottapalam is a charitable mission hospital in Ottapalam in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India. It was established in 1969 as a part of a health care unit of the worldwide organisation - the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The hospital lies adjacent to the Palakkad - Shoranur highway. | Place | Building | Hospital |
(For All Saints Church in Maidstone, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, see All Saints Church, Maidstone, KwaZulu-Natal.) All Saints is a parish church in Maidstone, Kent. It is a Grade I listed building, and is described as the grandest Perpendicular style church in Kent, and by some, in the whole of England. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
Lokosphinx is a Russian UCI Continental cycling team established in 2012. | Agent | SportsTeam | CyclingTeam |
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (RBML) is located on the 3rd floor of the University Library. The library is one of the largest special collections repositories in the United States. Its collections, consisting of over half a million volumes and three kilometers of manuscript material, encompass the broad areas of literature, history, art, theology, philosophy, technology and the natural sciences, and include large collections of emblem books, writings of and works about John Milton, and authors' personal papers. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | Library |
Gaeumannomyces graminis var. graminis is a plant pathogen. This fungal pathogen produces extensive damage on the sheath of rice, causing black spots which protrude from the infected. This pathogen also generates a discoloration in the foliage of a plant which tends to show a straw orange colouration. | Species | Eukaryote | Fungus |
GO (previously GO NYC), is a \"cultural roadmap for the city girl,\" and is the nation's most widely distributed, free, lesbian magazine. Based out of New York City, GO distributes 30,000 copies in 10 major cities, and receives 250,000 unique web hits monthly. The publication offers information on nightlife, arts & entertainment, news & current events, lifestyle, travel, advice, and celebrity Q&As. GO was founded in 2001 by publisher Amy Lesser. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
The 2010 Torneio Internacional Cidade de São Paulo (also known as the 2010 International Tournament of São Paulo) was the second edition of the Torneio Internacional Cidade de São Paulo de Futebol Feminino, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Brazil. It began on 9 December and ended on 19 December 2010. | Event | Tournament | SoccerTournament |
Cheap As Art is the debut album by the Greek alternative rock band Matisse. They depict their debut as \"an invocation to lunacy, as art always bowed down to madness\". | Work | MusicalWork | Album |
Johann Martin von Rohden (b Kassel, 30 July 1778; d Rome, 9 September 1868) was a German painter active for most of his career in Rome. | Agent | Artist | Painter |
Matthew Frederick Riddle (born January 14, 1986) is an American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Riddle made a name for himself by appearing on SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter 7. | Agent | Athlete | MartialArtist |
The 1990–91 Israel State Cup (Hebrew: גביע המדינה, Gvia HaMedina) was the 52nd season of Israel's nationwide football cup competition and the 37th after the Israeli Declaration of Independence. The competition was won by Maccabi Haifa who have beaten Hapoel Petah Tikva 3–1 in the final. | Event | Tournament | SoccerTournament |
The grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka) is a species of nightjar found in East Asia. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the jungle nightjar (C. indicus), its South Asian relative. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Eagle's Nest Airport (FAA LID: W13) is a public-use airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Waynesboro, in Augusta County, Virginia, United States. It is privately owned by Michael L. Fogle. | Place | Infrastructure | Airport |
Allan Henning (born 1 June 1944) is a former professional golfer from South Africa. Henning won 10 tournaments on the South African Sunshine Tour between 1963 and 1980. His biggest win was the South African Open when it was played twice in 1963. He also secured a big win at the South African Masters in 1968. Henning won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit in two consecutive seasons, in 1974/75 and 1975/76. He represented SA in World Cup and World Series of Golf. As a senior, Henning won the South African Senior Championships three times and the Senior Order of Merit three times. He recorded a further nine victories on the now defunct Paradym Tour. In 2000, Henning partnered with fellow South African Retief Goosen at the Nelson Mandela Invitational where they won the betterball medal. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
George Joseph Lucas (born June 12, 1949) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fifth and current Archbishop of Omaha, having previously served as Bishop of Springfield in Illinois from 1999 to 2009. | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
The La Palma giant lizard (Gallotia auaritae) is a giant lacertid historically living on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain); its habitat ranged from sea level up to altitudes of 800 m. It probably lives in xerophytic vegetation and is presumably an egg-laying species. Generally considered extinct in historic times, there were sightings (including photographic evidence) of a large lacertid in 2007 which may possibly correspond to this species, although these sightings have been assessed as doubtful. | Species | Animal | Reptile |
Kieran Culhane was a Gaelic footballer from Co Kerry. He played with the Kerry senior team in the late 80's and early 90's. He won a Munster Championship medal at full back in 1991. He played club football with his local Ballylongford team. He won North Kerry Senior Football Championship titles with them in 1993 and 2000. References \n* | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
Touhou Kishinjō ~ Double Dealing Character (東方輝針城 ～ Double Dealing Character lit. \"Eastern Castle of Radiant Needles\") is the fourteenth main game of the Touhou Project scrolling shooter series made by the dōjin game maker Team Shanghai Alice. The demo was first released on May 26, 2013 on Reitaisai 10 and the full version of the game was released in the 84th Comiket in August 12, 2013. Double Dealing Character is the first Touhou title to be available online officially via digital distribution; all prior games were only available via CD purchase. On April 7, 2015, the game was announced for an international release by Playism, making Double Dealing Character the first game in the Touhou series to be released outside Japan. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
High on the Happy Side is the fourth studio album by Wet Wet Wet. It was released on 27 January 1992, and reached the top of the charts on 8 February. Its five offspring singles were \"Make It Tonight\", \"Put The Light On\", \"Goodnight Girl\", \"More than Love\" and \"Lip Service\". | Work | MusicalWork | Album |
Aben Kandel (15 August 1897 – 28 January 1993) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and (earlier in life) boxer. He was screenwriter on such classic B movies as I Was A Teenage Werewolf, Joan Crawford's final movie Trog, and one of Leonard Nimoy's first starring vehicles, Kid Monk Baroni. Kandel had an earlier scandalous success with his gritty, b-grade Hollywood novel City for Conquest (1936), which was made into a James Cagney feature in 1940. | Agent | Writer | ScreenWriter |
The Distant Future is a EP by New Zealand folk-parody duo Flight of the Conchords, released on August 7, 2007. It was certified Gold in New Zealand on May 11, 2008, selling over 7,500 copies. The album was produced by Mickey Petralia and recorded in LA and New York by Petralia and engineer Matt Shane. The live portions were taken from concerts at Comix Comedy Club in New York City. The EP won Best Comedy Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards. | Work | MusicalWork | Album |
Mount Romeo is a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located 22 km (14 mi) southwest of Sayward and 10 km (6 mi) northeast of Mount Abel. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Calliostoma multiliratum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae. Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Calliostoma (Benthastelena) | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
Frances Liu Fan (born 1 April 1984) is a Singaporean badminton player. Together with Li Li, Xiao Luxi and Rong Muxi, they were Singapore badminton's pioneer batch of foreign talent. She won Singapore first ever women's badminton team gold at the 2003 SEA Games that was held in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City. She retired in 2011 and is currently Singapore national badminton (singles) coach. | Agent | Athlete | BadmintonPlayer |
Mendel Palace, originally released in Japan as Quinty (Japanese: クインティ Hepburn: Kuinti), is a 1990 action/puzzle arcade game developed by Game Freak. It was published in Japan by Namco and in North America by Hudson Soft. Mendel Palace was Game Freak's debut title, and the first game designed by Satoshi Tajiri, who later worked on the Pokémon series. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
Air Madrid Líneas Aéreas S.A. was an airline headquartered in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Community of Madrid, Spain, operating services to Spain, Tenerife, Mexico, South America, Central America, Europe and Israel. It suspended its operations on 15 December 2006, leaving more than 330,000 passengers stranded in Latin America and Spain. Air Comet took over the Latin American routes, but has now ceased operations as well. | Agent | Company | Airline |
The Jungbu Naeryuk Expressway (Hangul: 중부내륙고속도로; literally meaning Central Inland Expwy.) is an expressway in South Korea. Numbered 45, it was first constructed in three parts: connecting Yeoju to Chungju and Sangju to Gimcheon and Hyeonpung to Masan. The part of the expressway between Chungju and Sangju was completed at the end of 2004, with the last remaining section being that between Gimcheon and Hyeonpung. The Jungbu Naeryuk Expressway Branch Line (aka as Guma Expressway) is route number 451 and connects Hyeonpung to N. Daegu. A speed zone exists from Exit 1 to Exit 13 (Masan-Gimcheon). The maximum speed is 100 km/h, and the minimum speed is 50 km/h. Another speed zone exists from north of exit 13 to exit 28 (Gimcheon-N. Yeoju). The maximum speed limit is 110 km/h, and the minimum speed limit is 50 km/h. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
John Zerzan (/ˈzɜːrzən/, ZUR-zən; born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time. His six major books are Elements of Refusal (1988), Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994), Running on Emptiness (2002), Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (2005), Twilight of the Machines (2008), and Why hope? The Stand Against Civilization (2015). | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
Telstar 14 or Estrela do Sul 1 (Southern Star 1) is a commercial communications satellite built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for Telesat to provide Ku-band communications to South America and the Southern United States. Estrela do Sul 1 was launched by Sea Launch using a Zenit-3SL carrier rocket on 11 Jan 2004 for geosynchronous orbit at 63 degrees west. The North solar array failed to open after launch, limiting the mission effectiveness. The president of SS/L later said images of the satellite in orbit showed massive damage to the affected array, indicating that an explosion had occurred during launch. The satellite entered service with reduced capacity (17 transponders) and reduced life span of 7 years with the jammed panel. Estrela do Sul 1 / Telstar 14 and Estrela do Sul 2 / Telstar 14R are built around the Loral 1300 satellite bus, and have launch mass of around 5000 kg. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
Kittredge Haskins (April 8, 1836 – August 7, 1916) was a Vermont lawyer and politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Born in Dover, Vermont, Haskins attended the public schools and received instruction from a private tutor. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1858. Commencing private practice in Wilmington, Vermont, he moved to Williamsville in 1861 and continued the practice of law. During the American Civil War, Haskins enlisted as a private in Company I, 16th Vermont Infantry on August 23, 1862. He was commissioned first lieutenant on September 20 of that year and served until March 19, 1863, when he resigned on account of disabilities. Haskins returned to Vermont and settled in Brattleboro. He entered the government service as a civil employee in the office of the assistant quartermaster of Volunteers and served in that capacity until the close of the war. After the end of the war Haskins resumed the practice of law. He was appointed a colonel and chief of staff to Governor Peter T. Washburn in 1869 and served as a member of the Republican state committee from 1869 to 1872. Haskins served as a state's attorney from 1870 to 1872 and as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1872 to 1874. Haskins served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont from October 1880 to July 1887 and was a member of the Vermont Senate from 1892 to 1894. Haskins served as chairman of the Vermont Board of Commissioners to establish the boundary line between Vermont and Massachusetts from 1892 to 1900. Haskins returned to the state House from 1896 to 1900, serving as speaker from 1898 to 1900. Haskins was elected as a Republican to the 57th and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1901 to March 3, 1909. He served as chairman of the Committee on War Claims during the 60th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908. Haskins served as judge of the municipal court in Brattleboro in 1910 and as postmaster of Brattleboro from 1912 to 1915. He died in Brattleboro on August 7, 1916 and is interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery. | Agent | Politician | Congressman |
Aftermath is a thrash band from Chicago formed in 1985. They have released two studio albums under two monikers and been involved in several compilation projects. They subsequently changed their name to Mother God Moviestar in 1998 after a trademark dispute with Dr. Dre in which the court found that both could use the name. The band reformed as Aftermath in 2015. | Agent | Group | Band |
Heathcote Clifford (Cliff) Mallam (4 December 1909 – 18 February 2006) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1953 and 1968 and between 1971 and 1981. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
The 1950 Washington Redskins began with the team trying to improve on their 4–7–1 record from 1949. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
The Little Elk River is a 29.4-mile-long (47.3 km) tributary of the Mississippi River in Morrison County, Minnesota, United States. | Place | Stream | River |
Favartia kalafuti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
Percy Thomson MBE (1884–1962) was Mayor of Stratford, New Zealand 1929–1933 and again 1938–1947. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
Leptosphaeria maculans (anamorph Phoma lingam) is a fungal pathogen of the phylum Ascomycota that is the causal agent of blackleg disease on Brassica crops. Symptoms of blackleg generally include basal stem cankers, small grey lesions on leaves, and root rot. The major yield loss is due to stem canker. The fungus is dispersed by the wind as ascospores or rain splash in the case of the conidia. L. maculans grows best in wet conditions and a temperature range of 5–20 degrees Celsius. Rotation of crops, removal of stubble, application of fungicide, and crop resistance are all used to manage blackleg. The fungus is an important pathogen of Brassica napus (canola) crops. | Species | Eukaryote | Fungus |
Andrew Charles Benes (born August 20, 1967) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. During a 14-year career from 1989 to 2002, Benes played for four different teams: the San Diego Padres, the Seattle Mariners, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks. His brother Alan also pitched in the Major Leagues, and was his teammate in 1996–97 and 2000–01. He and his brother Alan attended Evansville Lutheran School and Evansville Central High School. | Agent | Athlete | BaseballPlayer |
Jocelyn Andrea Peterman (born September 23, 1993) is a Canadian curler from Red Deer, Alberta. She currently plays second for the Chelsea Carey rink. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Curler |
Wheatland Township is a civil township of Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,474 at the 2000 census. | Place | Settlement | Town |
The Strathclyde Business School (SBS) is one of four faculties forming the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1947, the school is located on Cathedral Street within the John Anderson campus of the University, it offers courses for business education and management development. Strathclyde Business School has around 200 academic staff and more than 4500 students (1960 undergraduate and 2615 postgraduate), with 11 subject departments and specialist units providing more specialist and cross-disciplinary postgraduate courses. It is a top-ranking business school, among 73 institutions worldwide (i.e. less than 1% of business schools globally) to be granted Triple Accreditation. The Economist and Financial Times ranked the Strathclyde Business School's Master of Business Administration (MBA) 76th and 63rd worldwide in 2016, while its Executive MBA and Master's program in Finance was ranked 41st and 33rd worldwide by Financial Times in 2016. The school has international centres in seven countries: Switzerland, Greece, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Oman, and Malaysia | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
Callao Cave is one of the limestone caves located in the municipality of Peñablanca, Cagayan province, in the Philippines. The seven-chamber show cave is one of 300 caves that dot the area and the best known natural tourist attractions of the province. The town is named as Peñablanca (Spanish for white rocks) for the presence of white limestone rocks in the area. Callao Cave is located in the Barangays of Magdalo and Quibal in Peñablanca about 24 km (15 mi) northeast of Tuguegarao City, the capital of the Province of Cagayan. Callao and the other caves are situated in the western foothills of the Northern Sierra Madre Mountains of the Philippines. They are situated within the Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape, which stretches from the caves to the eastern shores of Peñablanca town in the Pacific Ocean. | Place | NaturalPlace | Cave |
The Threads EP is an EP by Thea Gilmore, her first release after she parted with former label Sanctuary. The disc was sold only on her 2007 spring tour with remaining copies sold through the official web site afterwards. All songs were written by Gilmore except \"The Parting Glass\", a traditional song she arranged. The track \"Icarus Wind\" would reappear on her 2008 album Liejacker. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Gradimir Čanevski(Macedonian:Градимир Чаневски) (born 4 March 1988) is a Macedonian handball player who currently plays for RK Vardar Junior. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
General Hospital, Ernakulam is a state owned hospital, in Kochi, India. It is managed as part of the public health system of the government of Kerala. It was founded by the King of the Kochi princely state in 1845 and was handed over to the government of Kerala following independence of India and the following state restructuring. Like any other hospital part of the public health system in India the Ernakulam General Hospital too is funded solely by the state government, and all the services are highly subsidised. Treatment for citizens classified under the Below Poverty Line caterory is fully subsidised. Most of the government spending on health care schemes are dispensed through the public health system, and for the area under the jurisdiction of the corporation of Kochi, the General Hospital is the prime dispensing outlet for these schemes. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: San Francesco d'Assisi), born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco (1181/1182 – 3 October 1226), was an Italian Roman Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history. Pope Gregory IX canonised Francis on 16 July 1228. Along with Saint Catherine of Siena, he was designated Patron saint of Italy. He later became associated with patronage of animals and the natural environment, and it became customary for Catholic and Anglican churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October. In 1219, he went to Egypt in an attempt to convert the Sultan to put an end to the conflict of the Crusades. By this point, the Franciscan Order had grown to such an extent that its primitive organizational structure was no longer sufficient. He returned to Italy to organize the Order. Once his community was authorized by the Pope, he withdrew increasingly from external affairs. Francis is also known for his love of the Eucharist. In 1223, Francis arranged for the first Christmas live nativity scene. According to Christian tradition, in 1224 he received the stigmata during the apparition of Seraphic angels in a religious ecstasy making him the first recorded person in Christian history to bear the wounds of Christ's Passion. He died during the evening hours of 3 October 1226, while listening to a reading he had requested of Psalm 142 (141). | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
The 2012 Challenger Banque Nationale de Rimouski was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 6th edition of the tournament and part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour, offering a total of $35,000 in prize money. It took place in Rimouski, Canada between March 19 and March 25, 2012. | Event | Tournament | TennisTournament |
Banca Popolare Pugliese S.C.p.A. (BPP) is an Italian cooperative bank based in Parabita and Matino, in the Province of Lecce, Apulia region. (Italian: Puglia) Despite named itself Pugliese People's Bank, the bank concentrated in the provinces of Lecce (50 branches) and Brindisi (15 branches) in Apulia, as well as two branches in Basilicata region and once branch in Molise region. The bank also had 11 branches in the Province of Bari, 7 branches in the Province of Foggia, 6 branches in the Province of Taranto, 2 branches in the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, plus 4 cash machines in the two headquarters, in Otranto and in Torre San Giovanni (both in the Province of Lecce). | Agent | Company | Bank |
TER Pays de la Loire is the regional rail network serving Pays de la Loire, France. | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
Huron Valley State Bank is a community bank founded in 2005 by a group of local investors. Huron Valley State Bank is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and is an Equal Housing Lender. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Paradise Valley Hospital (PVH) is an 301 bed acute care facility in National City, California. It began operation in 1904 as a sanitarium and is currently under the ownership and operation of Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. (PHS), a hospital management company located in Victorville, CA. Paradise Valley Hospital is the largest employer in National City, with an ethnically diverse workforce of approximately 1,500 employees. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Ferencvárosi Torna Club Jégkorong Szakosztály is a Hungarian ice hockey team that currently plays in the OB I bajnokság and in the MOL Liga. They play their home games at Pesterzsébeti Jégcsarnok, located in Budapest.In 1950–1951 the club was named ÉDOSZ Budapest and from 1951 to 1957 it was named Budapesti Kinizsi. The team is part of the Ferencvárosi Torna Club sports organization. | Agent | SportsTeam | HockeyTeam |
Andromeda IX (And 9) is a dwarf spheroidal satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy. It was discovered in 2004 by resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), by Zucker et al. (2004). At the time of its discovery, it was the galaxy with the lowest known surface brightness, ΣV ≃ 26.8mags arcsec−2 and the faintest galaxy known from its intrinsic absolute brightness. It was found from data acquired within an SDSS scan along the major axis of M31, on October 5, 2002. Its distance was estimated to be almost exactly the same as that of M31 by McConnacrchie et al. (2005). | Place | CelestialBody | Galaxy |
Donald Stewart \"Don\" Cherry (born February 5, 1934) is a Canadian ice hockey commentator for CBC Television. He is a sports writer, as well as a retired professional hockey player and NHL coach. Cherry co-hosts the \"Coach's Corner\" intermission segment (with Ron MacLean) on the long-running Canadian sports program Hockey Night in Canada, and has also worked for ESPN in the United States as a commentator during the latter stages of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Nicknamed Grapes, he is a Canadian icon known for his outspoken manner, flamboyant dress, and staunch Canadian nationalism. Cherry played one game with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five seasons after concluding a successful playing career in the American Hockey League. He is also well known as an author, syndicated radio commentator for the Sportsnet Radio Network, creator of the Rock'em Sock'em Hockey video series, and celebrity endorser. Cherry was voted the seventh greatest Canadian on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's television special, The Greatest Canadian. In March 2010, his life was dramatized in a two-part Canadian Broadcasting Corporation made-for-television movie, Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story, based on a script written by his son, Timothy Cherry. In March 2012, CBC aired a sequel, The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
The Fujitsu Frontiers are an American football team located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. They are a member of the X-League. | Agent | SportsTeam | CanadianFootballTeam |
Gościęcino is a non-operational PKP railway station on the disused PKP rail line 230 in Gościęcino (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
Cottage Grove is a town in Dane County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a population of 3,839. The Village of Cottage Grove is located within the town. The unincorporated communities of Door Creek, Nora, and Vilas are also located in the town. The unincorporated community of Hoffman Corners is also located partially in the town. | Place | Settlement | Town |
The men's individual nordic combined competition for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano at Hakuba Ski Jumping Stadium and Snow Harp on 13 and 14 February. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Plant Disease is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of plant pathology focusing on new diseases, epidemics, and methods of disease control. It is a continuation of The Plant Disease Bulletin (1917–1922) and The Plant Disease Reporter (1923–1979), both publications of the US Department of Agriculture. It is currently published by the American Phytopathological Society and edited by Alison E. Robertson (Iowa State University). | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
Élie Beauregard, PC (July 8, 1884 – August 27, 1954) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in La Patrie, Quebec, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1909. Active in the Liberal Party of Canada in Quebec, he was called to the Canadian Senate in 1940 representing the senatorial division of Rougemont, Quebec. He died in office in 1954. From 1949 to 1953, he was the Speaker of the Canadian Senate. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
7548 Engström, provisional designation 1980 FW2, is dark Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 March 1980, by Swedish astronomer Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist at ESO's La Silla Observatory site in northern Chile. The carbonaceous C-type asteroid is a member of the Themis family, a dynamical family of outer-belt asteroids with nearly coplanar ecliptical orbits. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.6–3.6 AU once every 5 years and 7 months (2,038 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.16 and an inclination of 0.3° with respect to the ecliptic. No precoveries were taken prior to the asteroid's discovery. In 2010, photometric observations at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory, California, gave a rotational light-curve with a period of 5.2309±0.0059 hours and a brightness amplitude of 0.35 in magnitude (U=2). According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 11.1 km in diameter and its surface has a low albedo of 0.057, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes an albedo of 0.08 and calculates a smaller diameter of 7.7 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 13.93. The minor planet was named after Albert Engström (1869–1940), Swedish artist and author, who became a member of the esteemed Swedish academy in 1922. He was born in Lönneberga, Småland. After his studies of Greek and Latin at Uppsala University, he went on to Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg. Renowned painter of caricatures and founder of the humor magazine Strix, he is best known for his black and white illustrations. Naming citation was published on 11 April 1998 (M.P.C. 31611). | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Georgia Beaton (born 22 June 1990) is an Australian netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing for the Adelaide Thunderbirds. Beaton attended St Peter's Girls' School in Adelaide, graduating in 2007. Beaton graduated with double degree Bachelor Law/Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Adelaide in 2013. A dual Australian/Irish citizen, Beaton is currently a sports scholar with Team Northumbria Northumbriahttp://nusportcentral.com/team-northumbria/netball-superleague UK Netball superleague. | Agent | Athlete | NetballPlayer |
Pavel Valerievich Datsyuk (Russian: Па́вел Вале́рьевич Дацю́к, IPA: [ˈpavʲɪl dɐˈtsʊk]; born 20 July 1978) also known as \"The Magic Man\" is a Russian professional ice hockey player for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). His NHL rights are currently being held by the Arizona Coyotes. He previously played for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2001 to 2016 before retiring from the League. Datsyuk won the Stanley Cup in 2002 and 2008 with the Red Wings. He was part of the Russia men's national ice hockey team at the Olympic Games in 2002, 2006, 2010 and was team Captain in 2014.Datsyuk won the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the NHL's top defensive forward in the 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2009–10 NHL season. He has also won four consecutive Lady Byng Memorial Trophies, from 2006 to 2009, awarded for performance and sportsmanship. He was nominated for the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player following the 2008–09 season. Datsyuk is well known for his elite defensive play and game changing offensive skills. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 play written by Eugene O'Neill. Like Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms signifies an attempt by O'Neill to adapt plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy to a rural New England setting. It was inspired by the myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus. A film version was produced in 1958, and there is an operatic setting by Edward Thomas. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
David Schuller (born September 6, 1980) is an Austrian ice hockey player who is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played for HC TWK Innsbruck of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL). On June 13, 2015, he joined Innsbruck after spending the majority of his career with EC KAC, agreeing to a one-year deal. Schuller competed in the 2013 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Austria men's national ice hockey team. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
Cascade Brewery is a brewery established in 1832 in South Hobart, Tasmania and is the oldest continually operating brewery in Australia. As well as beer, the site also produces a range of non-alcoholic products, is home to a function centre, as well as operating tourism related ventures including guided tours and a retail outlet. | Agent | Company | Brewery |
(In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Phạm. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Mẫn.) Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn (Vietnamese: Gioan Baotixia Phạm Minh Mẫn) (born 5 March 1934) is a cardinal priest and archbishop emeritus of Ho Chi Minh City in the Roman Catholic Church. | Agent | Cleric | Cardinal |
Ashfordia granulata, common name the \"silky snail\", is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies. This species is sometimes placed in the genus Monacha and known as Monacha granulata. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
Alburnoides eichwaldii, the South Caspian sprilin is a fish species in the Cyprinidae family. It is widespread in the Western Asia in the river drainages of the southwestern Caspian coast from Samur down to rivers of the Lenkoran Province in Azerbaijan. It prefers streams and rivers in the foothills, with well oxygenated, fast-flowing waters, and spawns on gravel in swift currents. | Species | Animal | Fish |
Dandii Boru University College is a private college located in Ethiopia, East Africa. It has campuses in Dessie, Jimma, Nekemte and Shambu. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
The Altamira oriole (Icterus gularis) is a New World oriole. The bird is widespread in subtropical lowlands of the Mexican Gulf Coast and northern Central America, the Pacific coast and inland. They have since spread to southern Texas, but this was not until 1939. At 25 cm (9.8 in) and 56 g (2.0 oz), this is the largest oriole in Icterus genus. The bird nests in open woodland, with the nest being a very long woven pouch, attached to the end of a horizontal tree branch, sometimes to telephone wires. This bird forages high in trees, sometimes in the undergrowth. They mainly eat insects and berries. These birds are permanent residents, and unlike the migratory orioles that breed in the US, the species is sexually monomorphic—both the males and the females have elaborate coloration and patterning. | Species | Animal | Bird |
The Midland Football League was a semi-professional football league in England. It acted as a feeder league to the Football League for many years before merging with the Yorkshire League in 1982 to form the Northern Counties East League. | Agent | SportsLeague | SoccerLeague |
Phyllidiopsis is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs and is the largest genus within the family Phyllidiidae. The species in this genus differ from the other genera in this family by possessing an elongate foregut. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
(For the Essendon footballer, see Johnny Walker (Australian footballer).) John Walker (born 13 July 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
The men's team revolver and pistol competition was one of 15 shooting sports events on the Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Teams consisted of four shooters. 60 shots were fired by each shooter at a distance of 50 yards. Each hit counted between 1 and 10 points, for an individual maximum score of 600 and a team maximum of 2400 points. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Charles C. Riley, also known as \"Charlie\" (May 13, 1902 – July 19, 1971) was an American football player and coach. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Riley was the starting quarterback and punt returner for most of the 1927 season at the University of Notre Dame. He is mostly remembered for his last game with the team—a controversial 7–6 victory at USC before the largest crowd ever to witness a football game at that time (estimated to be 120,000 in attendance). While clinging to the one-point lead late in the game, Riley fielded a USC punt at his own goal line and appeared to fumble it out of the end zone, which would have given the Trojans a safety and an 8–7 lead. But the play was ruled a muff, and therefore a touchback. Notre Dame would hang on for the win. In 1930, Riley was hired by fellow Notre Dame alum Tom Lieb to be his assistant football coach at Loyola Los Angeles. One year later, Riley became the head football coach for the University of New Mexico and remained there for three years, but posted a disappointing record of 7–13–3. He died on July 19, 1971. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
Krei is a village in Kose Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It is located between Kose and the Tallinn–Tartu road (E263), Kose-Uuemõisa is situated northwest. The village's territory is passed through by the Pirita River. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 138. An ecovillage for 44 families is planned into Krei village. It is predicted that the engineering will start in 2013 and the construction of houses in 2014. | Place | Settlement | Village |
Tajaraq (Persian: تجرق) is a village in Rezaqoli-ye Qeshlaq Rural District, in the Central District of Nir County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 272, in 55 families. | Place | Settlement | Village |
The Algoma Light or Algoma Pierhead Light is a lighthouse located near Algoma in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. The lighthouse was first established in 1893 as a set of range lights. It was rebuilt in 1908 at which time it was a conical tower built of 5⁄16-inch (7.9 mm) steel plate, 8 feet (2.4 m) in diameter at the base and 7 feet (2.1 m) in diameter at the parapet. It stood 26 feet (7.9 m) high. In 1932, it was modified again and the entire structure was raised to a height of 42 feet (13 m) by placing the older tower on a new steel base 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter, that increased the focal height to forty-two feet. The station was automated in 1973. It is listed as number 20975 in the USCG light lists. | Place | Tower | Lighthouse |
Alexandra \"Alex\" Guarnaschelli (born 1972) is a celebrity chef and executive chef at New York City's Butter restaurant and was executive chef at the award-winning The Darby restaurant before its closing. She appears as a television personality on the Food Network shows Chopped, Iron Chef America, All Star Family Cook-off, and The Best Thing I Ever Ate. She hosts Alex's Day Off and The Cooking Loft on Food Network and Cooking Channel. In 2012, she was crowned America's Next Iron Chef on Iron Chef America, currently the only woman with that distinction and only the second female ever to obtain that TV honor.In 2013, Guarnaschelli's first cookbook was published. Old-School Comfort Food: The Way I Learned to Cook mixes autobiographical details with recipes that she has loved during her life as a cook adapted for the home. | Agent | Person | Chef |
Union Airways of South Africa was the first South African commercial airline. It operated as an independent company for five years, from 1929 to 1934, before being taken over by the government as South African Airways. | Agent | Company | Airline |
The 1903 University of Florida Blue and White football team represented the University of Florida at Lake City in the sport of American football during the 1903 college football season. This was not the modern Florida Gators of the University of Florida in Gainesville, which begins in 1906, but one of its four predecessor institutions. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
The College of William & Mary in Virginia (also known as William & Mary, or W&M) is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Royally founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States after Harvard University. William & Mary educated U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Tyler as well as other key figures important to the development of the nation, including U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, Speaker of the House Henry Clay, sixteen members of the Continental Congress, and four signers of the Declaration of Independence. W&M students founded the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society in 1776 and W&M was the first school of higher education in the United States to install an honor code of conduct for students. The establishment of graduate programs in law and medicine in 1779 makes it one of the first universities in the United States. In addition to its undergraduate program (which includes an international joint degree program with the University of St Andrews and a joint engineering program with Columbia University), W&M is home to several graduate programs (including computer science, public policy, physics, and colonial history) and four professional schools (law, business, education, and marine science). | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
Daniel E. Wathen is a Maine lawyer and politician. He was Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from March 1992 until October 2001, when he resigned to run for Governor of Maine as a Republican. At the time of his announcement, many pollsters and academics did not believe Wathen would factor into the 2002 gubernatorial election. He was replaced as Chief Justice by Leigh Saufley. Wathen is a native of Easton in Aroostook County, Maine. He graduated from Ricker College in Houlton and earned his law degree from the University of Maine School of Law. As of 2010, Wathen oversaw court-ordered improvements in mental health services. Wathen testified before the Health and Human Services committee of the Maine legislature that cuts to mental health services would be \"illusory\" and the proposed cuts would be spent elsewhere, such as in prison services for mentally ill people. Attorney General Janet Mills defended Governor John Baldacci's plan to cut mental health services. As of 2011, Wathen was the Board Chairman of the Maine Turnpike Authority. | Agent | Person | Judge |
John Russell Walter (23 June 1863 – 27 June 1944) was an Australian farmer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1903 to 1904, representing the seat of Nelson. Walter was born in Bishop's Hull, Somerset, England. After leaving school, he lived in Canada for a period, spending two years at the Ontario Agricultural College in Toronto. He migrated to Western Australia in 1887, joining his older brother, William Ardagh Gardner Walter (later a well-known magistrate). After a few months near Vasse, Walter acquired a property near Bridgetown, where he farmed sheep. He was elected to the Nelson Road Board in 1901, and served until 1909, including as chairman for several periods. Following the death of Sir James Lee-Steere in December 1903, Walter nominated for his vacant seat of Nelson, and was elected unopposed. Once in parliament, he sat as a Ministerialist (an opponent of the government of Walter James). However, Walter's time in parliament was short-lived, as he did not nominate for the 1904 state election. He recontested Nelson at the 1905 election, but was unsuccessful in regaining his seat, losing to his successor, Charles Layman. After leaving parliament, Walter remained active in local affairs in Bridgetown, serving as a justice of the peace and as president of the local agricultural society. He died in June 1944, aged 81. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
William Fisher (18 November 1780 – 30 September 1852), was an officer of the Royal Navy and a novelist. Fisher was the second son of John Fisher of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was born on 18 November 1780, and entered the navy in 1795. After serving in the North Sea, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in the Mediterranean, and as acting lieutenant of HMS Foudroyant on the coast of Egypt, he was confirmed in the rank on 3 September 1801. In 1805 he was lieutenant of HMS Superb during the chase of Pierre-Charles Villeneuve to the West Indies during the Trafalgar Campaign; and in 1806 was promoted to be commander. In 1808 he commanded the 18-gun HMS Racehorse in the English Channel, and in the same ship, in 1809-10, was employed in surveying off Mozambique. In March 1811 he was promoted to post-rank, and in 1816-17 commanded in succession the 20-gun ships HMS Bann and HMS Cherub on the coast of Guinea, in both of which he captured several slavers and pirates, some of them after a desperate resistance. From March 1836 to May 1841 he commanded HMS Asia in the Mediterranean, and in 1840, during the operations on the coast of Syria as part of the Egyptian–Ottoman War, was employed as senior officer of the detached squadron off Alexandria, with the task of keeping open the mail communication through Egypt. For this service he received the Turkish gold medal and diamond decoration. He had no further service afloat, but became, in due course, a rear-admiral in 1847. During his retirement he wrote two novels : The Petrel, or Love on the Ocean, in 1850, which passed through three editions, and Ralph Rutherford, a Nautical Romance, in 1851. He died in London, on 30 September 1852. Of Fisher's novels, naval historian John Knox Laughton wrote \"A man who had been so long in the navy during a very stirring period, who had surveyed the Mozambique, and captured slavers and pirates, had necessarily plenty of adventures at command, which scarcely needed the complications of improbable love stories to make them interesting ; but the author had neither the constructive skill nor the literary talent necessary for writing a good novel, and his language throughout is exaggerated and stilted to the point of absurdity.\" Fisher married, in 1810, Elizabeth, sister of Sir James Rivett-Carnac, governor of Bombay, by whom he had two children, a daughter and a son. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
Rick Parker (born 1946) is an American artist, writer, and cartoonist whose humorous artwork has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Life magazine, and various comic books published by Marvel Comics. Parker is widely known as the artist of MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head comic book, published by Marvel from 1994 to 1996. He wrote and illustrated his own graphic novel, Deadboy, in 2010. | Agent | Artist | ComicsCreator |
Rebecca Dubber (born 14 May 1993) is a New Zealand para-swimmer. She represented New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. At the 2016 Games, she won the bronze medal in the women's 100 m backstroke S7. Dubber grew up on the North Shore of Auckland, and attended Carmel College. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Armin Scholz is a German professional bodybuilder and gym owner of Jewish descent. Scholz was born in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic, in 1976, to Joachim and Monika Scholz. Armin has two siblings: sister Gabriela and brother Martin. In 1982-1990 Armin attended school and in 1990-1994 a 'Sportgymnasium'. In 1992 Scholz started training as a bodybuilder. In 1994-1995 and 1997-2001 he was a student at the Sports Department of the Leipzig University. | Agent | Athlete | Bodybuilder |
John Marshall Harlan (June 1, 1833 – October 14, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harlan was born at Harlan's Station, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Danville, Kentucky on Salt River Road, in 1833 to a prominent family. He attended school in Frankfort and then graduated from Centre College. Harlan entered Kentucky politics in 1851, and served a variety of positions, most notably Attorney General of Kentucky, from 1863 to 1867. When the American Civil War broke out, Harlan strongly supported the Union, although he opposed the Emancipation Proclamation and supported slavery. However, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant as President in 1868, he reversed his views and became a strong supporter of civil rights. In 1877, Harlan was appointed a member of the Supreme Court. A Christian fundamentalist, Harlan's Christian beliefs strongly shaped his views during his tenure as Supreme Court justice. He is best known for his role as the lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which, respectively, struck down as unconstitutional federal anti-discrimination legislation and upheld southern segregation statutes. These dissents, among others, led to his nickname of \"The Great Dissenter\". Harlan died in 1911, at the age of 78. | Agent | Person | Judge |
Picea crassifolia or Qinghai spruce is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in China. | Species | Plant | Conifer |
Benjamin \"Ben\" Sanford Paulen (July 14, 1869 – July 11, 1961) was the 23rd Governor of Kansas. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
5638 Deikoon (1988 TA3) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on October 10, 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar. Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1994 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 9.137 ± 0.003 hours with a brightness variation of 0.07 ± 0.01 magnitude. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Dr. Hugh Gordon Hylvestra Cummins (1891–26 October 1970) was a Barbadian politician. He served as Premier of Barbados from 17 April 1958 to 8 December 1961 and was a member of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP). Dr. Cummins was a medical practitioner and one of the first Barbados Labour Party members of Parliament in 1940. In 1951 he together with Grantley Herbert Adams, Mencea Cox (Sir Mencea) and Frank Walcott (Rt. Excellent Sir Frank) were appointed members of the Executive Committee of the BLP. He also became a Minister in 1954 when Ministerial Government was introduced. He became the second Premier of Barbados when Sir Grantley was elected Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation. His outstanding achievement was the abolition of the Located Labourers Act and he is commemorated by the naming of the ABC Highway and the Gordon Cummins Hospital in St. Thomas, the constituency that he represented. | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
The Okotoks Oilers are an ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. They play in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada at the Pason Centennial Arena. Founded: 2005-06Division titles won: 2009-10 - 2010-11Regular season titles won: NoneLeague Championships won: NoneWestern Canada Cup Titles: NoneRoyal Bank Cup Titles: None | Agent | SportsTeam | HockeyTeam |
In December 2010, Euronet Pakistan secured the blessings from the State Bank of Pakistan to set up the first EFT outsourcing centre in Pakistan. Euronet Pakistan recently won Habib Bank as its latest outsourcing customer for Prepaid Cards bringing the total to 10. The other 9 being, MCB, NIB Bank, Barclays Pakistan, Burj Bank, JS Bank, National Bank of Pakistan, MNET, Al Baraka, SME Bank. Euronet was the first entity in the country to achieve the following: \n* PCI DSS Compliance in 2011 on version 1.2 \n* PCI DSS Compliance in 2012 on version 2.0 \n* Deployment of the first PA DSS compliant processing system in the country \n* Launching the first VISA EMV Debit Card in the country \n* First Third Party Processor for MasterCard in the country \n* Launching the first MasterCard EMV Debit Card in the country Euronet Pakistan currently has about 20 personnel in its Karachi Operations Centre backed by about 3900 personnel from its sister concerns under the umbrella of Euronet Worldwide. Euronet Worldwide owns 70% of the stake in Euronet Pakistan with complete management control, while 30% stakes are owned by MCB Bank with no management control as mandated by the State Bank of Pakistan. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Master of the Die (fl. 1525-1560) was an Italian engraver and printmaker. His year of birth and death are unknown. The identity of the Master of the Die is uncertain. He was given this name because he signed his prints with a small die. Some theories to the identity of the artist include Benedetto Verino, Marcantonio Raimondi's son Daddi or Dado, or Tommaso Vincidor. What is known is the Master of the Die studied under Marcantonio Raimondi. He worked in the style of Raphael.Some of his works reside at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | Agent | Artist | Painter |
The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, dedicated to the history of sports within the province. It was created in 1957 by the Alberta Amateur Athletic Union (AAAU). The museum was eventually taken over by Sport Alberta in 1973 when the AAAU ceased operations. It has been maintained by the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum Society since 1997. The first permanent display for the Hall of Fame was established in Edmonton in 1962. The museum relocated between Edmonton and Calgary on numerous occasions until settling in Red Deer in 1999. | Place | Building | Museum |
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, that mixes blues elements with characteristics of folk. After blues' birth in the Southern United States, it quickly spread throughout the country (and elsewhere), giving birth to a host of regional styles. These include Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, Texas, Piedmont, Louisiana, West Coast, St. Louis, East Coast, Swamp, New Orleans, Delta, Hill country and Kansas City blues. When the African-American musical tastes began to change in the early 1960s, moving toward soul and rhythm and blues music, country blues found renewed popularity as \"folk blues\" and was sold to a primarily white, college-age audience. Traditional artists like Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson II reinvented themselves as folk blues artists, while Piedmont bluesmen like Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee found great success on the folk festival circuit. Seminal compilations of pre-WWII country blues recordings assembled in the 1950s are the Anthology of American Folk Music and The Country Blues. | TopicalConcept | Genre | MusicGenre |
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