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Dasygrammitis is a genus of grammitid ferns known from Sri Lanka through southeast Asia and the Philippines to Polynesia. | Species | Plant | Fern |
\"Lovebird\" is a song recorded by British singer-songwriter Leona Lewis for her third studio album Glassheart (2012). It was written by Bonnie McKee, Joshua Coleman and Dr. Luke, and produced by Josh Abrahams, Ammo and Oligee. \"Lovebird\" was recorded at Pulse Recording in Los Angeles and is a power ballad, incorporating a piano and synth-driven melody. The lyrics consist of Lewis informing her past lover that enough time has passed since their relationship for her to have moved on and to have developed as a person. Critics praised Lewis' vocal performance, likening the her technical abilities to those of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. The musical structure of the song was heavily compared to one of her previous singles, \"Bleeding Love\", along with songs performed by Adele. The accompanying music video shows Lewis trying to escape from a giant bird cage. To promote \"Lovebird\", Lewis performed the song on talk shows Daybreak and Loose Women in the United Kingdom, in addition to singing competition La Voz in Spain. Nonetheless, \"Lovebird\" sold fewer than 600 copies upon its release, failing to attain one of the top 200 chart positions on the UK Singles Chart; however, two weeks after the release of Glassheart, \"Lovebird\" peaked at number 22 on the South Korea Gaon Single Chart due to strong digital download sales. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Luigi Taparelli (born Prospero Taparelli d'Azeglio; 1793 – 1862) was an Italian Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus who some claim coined the term social justice (although the Oxford English Dictionary cites prior references). He cofounded the journal Civiltà Cattolica in 1850 and wrote for it for twelve years. He was particularly concerned with the problems arising from the industrial revolution. He was a proponent of reviving the philosophical school of Thomism, and his social teachings influenced Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical, Rerum novarum (On the Condition of the Working Classes). In 1825, he became convinced that the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas needed to be revived, thinking that the subjective philosophy of René Descartes leads to dramatic errors in morality and politics. He reasoned that whereas different opinions on the natural sciences have no effect on nature, unclear metaphysical ideas about humanity and society can lead to social chaos. The Catholic Church had not yet developed a clear philosophical view regarding the great social changes that were appearing in the early nineteenth century in Europe, which led to much confusion among the Church hierarchy and laity. In response to this problem, Taparelli applied the methods of Thomism to these social problems in a coherent manner. After the social revolutions of 1848, the Church decided to enter the conflict raging between the laissez-faire liberal capitalists and the socialists. Up until then, the Church relied primarily on evangelical charitable activities. In 1850, Taparelli was granted permission by Pope Pius IX to co-found Civiltà Cattolica with Carlo Maria Curci. In particular, he attacked the tendency to separate morality from positive law, and also the “heterodox spirit” of unconstrained freedom of conscience which destroyed the unity of society. His major ideas include sociality and subsidiarity. He viewed society as not a monolithic group of individuals, but of various levels of sub-societies, with individuals being members of these. Each level of society has both rights and duties which should be recognized and supported. All levels of society should cooperate rationally and not resort to competition and conflict. His brother was the Italian politician Massimo D’Azeglio. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
Søren Tobias Årstad (2 June 1861 – 11 January 1928) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
The men's light middleweight boxing competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held from 19 September to 1 October at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. This was also the last Olympic games for the light middleweight category in Olympic boxing. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Westward Airways was an airline based in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA. It was a regional airline operating scheduled services in Nebraska and New Mexico. Westward Airways ceased flight operations on July 25, 2005. | Agent | Company | Airline |
The Lackawanna Old Road was part of the original mainline of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W). Opened in 1856, it was for a half-century a part of the line connecting the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 1911, the DL&W cut 11 miles (18 km) off the route by opening the Lackawanna Cut-Off, which branched off from existing track at the new Port Morris Junction and Slateford Junction. The 39.6-mile (63.7 km) stretch of existing track between these junctions was relegated to secondary status and became known as the \"Old Road\". | Place | RouteOfTransportation | RailwayLine |
Jos Luhukay (born 13 June 1963) is a Dutch football manager and former player. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Pjesma Mediterana (trans. Song of the Mediterranean), formerly Music Festival Budva) is a pop music festival held every summer in Budva, Montenegro. The festival began in 1992. There have been various sponsors of the festival, including: Komuna, Music Star Production and the Municipality of Budva. Since 2008, the municipality of Budva, HTP Budvanska Rivijera (a tourist company in Budva) and Copyright Ltd. have run the organisation. The executive producer from 2008 is Copyright Ltd. In 2011, the festival was cancelled reportedly due to financial crisis. | Event | SocietalEvent | MusicFestival |
Welcome to the Jang House is the second studio album by the Philadelphian rap group, Plastic Little. The album was released on the September 28, 2008, through Half Time Records. The album compiles tracks from their self-released album, Thug Paradise, as well as their debut album, She's Mature; adding a couple of new tracks also. The album contains samples from a wide variety of sources, ranging from the Michael Jackson song \"Thriller\" sampled in \"Cheap Thrills\"; to The Smiths song \"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now\" in \"Holla Plastique\"; and even \"A Whole New World\" by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, as featured in Disneys Aladdin, in \"Driz Hollering\". | Work | MusicalWork | Album |
Great Guns! is a 1927 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was re-issued by Walter Lantz Productions in 1932. It was originally released on October 17, 1927. | Work | Cartoon | HollywoodCartoon |
The 111th Helicopter Regiment (Serbo-Croatian: 111. helikopterski puk / 82. хеликоптерски пук) was a unit established in 1944 as the 422nd Assault Aviation Regiment (Serbo-Croatian: 422. vazduhoplovni jurišni puk / 422. ваздухопловни јуришни пук). | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
Taxitheliella richardsii is a species of moss in the family Sematophyllaceae. It is endemic to Borneo where it is confined to Sarawak. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Plant | Moss |
The 1997–98 season was Birmingham City Football Club's 95th in the Football League. They finished in seventh position in the 24-team Division One, the second tier of the English football league system, missing out on the playoff places on goals scored. Needing to win their last game, at home to Charlton Athletic, and hope that Sheffield United failed to win theirs, Birmingham \"were repeatedly foiled in this emotionally-charged game by a brilliant display from Charlton's goalkeeper\" Saša Ilić; the game finished goalless. They entered the 1997–98 FA Cup at the third round, losing to Leeds United in the fifth, and entered the League Cup in the first round and lost to Arsenal in the third. In August 1997, co-owner David Gold took up the post of chairman after Jack Wiseman's retirement. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | SoccerClubSeason |
Anna Svirina (born 9 April 1988) is an Armenian individual rhythmic gymnast. She represents her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2014 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Eburneana is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Like several other salticids, this genus mimicks ants. | Species | Animal | Arachnid |
New York State Route 29A (NY 29A) is a state highway in the western portion of the Capital District of New York in the United States. The western terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 29 in the Herkimer County hamlet of Salisbury Center. Its eastern end is at another junction with NY 29 about 36 miles (58 km) to the east near the Fulton County hamlet of Vail Mills. NY 29A enters Gloversville via Rose Street and continues through downtown on Fulton Street. Originally, NY 29A turned right on Saratoga Boulevard and continued via Steele Avenue Extension to NY 29 about 2 miles (3.2 km) away. Later, NY 29A was taken off Saratoga Boulevard, and was concurrent with NY 30A to its crossing with Steele Avenue Extension, following Steele Avenue Extension after that. In 1980, NY 29A was removed from Steele Avenue Extension as well as the concurrency with NY 30A. Instead, it continued east on Turkey Farm Road, which meant no turns, to its present terminus at NY 29 west of Vail Mills. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
Eutelsat 4A, previously Eurobird 4A and Eutelsat W1 is a French communications satellite which is operated by Eutelsat. It was constructed by Astrium is based on the Eurostar-2000+ satellite bus. Its launch was contracted by Arianespace, using an Ariane 4 44P-3 carrier rocket. The launch occurred on 6 September 2000, at 22:33 UTC from ELA-2 at the Guiana Space Centre. It was originally built as Orion 2 for Orion Network Systems. This was later cancelled when Orion merged with Loral Skynet, who opted to procure satellites from their sister company, Space Systems Loral. It was subsequently sold to Eutelsat as a backup satellite and designated RESSAT. It was subsequently launched in place of the original Eutelsat W1, which was damaged whilst under construction and eventually launched as Eutelsat W5. Following its launch and on-orbit testing, it was placed in geostationary orbit at 10° East, from where it provided broadcast and communications services to Europe using wide-band feeds. In June 2009, it was moved to 4° East, and redesignated Eurobird 4A. It carries twenty eight transponders, and has an expected on-orbit lifespan of 12 years. In 2012 it was renamed Eutelsat 4A. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
The Primera C is one of the two leagues that form the regionalised fourth level of the Argentine football league system. The other league at the same level is the Torneo Argentino B. Primera C is made up of 20 clubs mainly from the city of Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area (Greater Buenos Aires). | Agent | SportsLeague | SoccerLeague |
Berks, Bucks and Oxon Division 2 is an English rugby union league featuring teams from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. As with all of the divisions in this area at this level, the entire league is made up of second and third teams of clubs whose first teams play at a higher level of the rugby union pyramid. Promoted teams move up to Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 while relegated teams drop to Berks/Bucks & Oxon 3. The division was created in 2004-05 as part of a complete overhaul of the Berks/Bucks & Oxon league, with a large number of 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams entering at various levels, and was divided into north and south regions, becoming the third division of the league structure with promoted teams going into Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 and there being no relegation. Further league restructuring in 2011 saw Berks/Bucks & Oxon 2 become one league instead of two regional divisions and newly created divisions below it meant that relegation was introduced. Changes above the division meant that 1st teams were split from 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams and Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 was the furthest teams in Berks/Bucks & Oxon 2 and below could go in the system. | Agent | SportsLeague | RugbyLeague |
Mary Isabel Yu (born 1957) is an Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court and former judge of the King County Superior Court. She is the state’s first openly gay Justice, the first Asian American Justice, the first Latina Justice, she is also the 6th woman currently serving and the 11th woman ever to serve on Washington state’s Supreme Court. | Agent | Person | Judge |
The red-pate cisticola (Cisticola ruficeps) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and swamps. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Thomas Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde (born 18 July 1958), is the eldest son of Thomas Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde and Pauline Trewlove Brackenbury. He succeeded his father as Baron Ashton of Hyde on the latter's death on 2 August 2008. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Yegor Viktorovich Yevdokimov (Russian: Егор Викторович Евдокимов; born 9 March 1982) is a Russian handball player for HC Motor Zaporozhye and the Russian national team. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Denis Heaslip (born 1934) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a right wing-forward for the Kilkenny senior team. Born in Knocktopher, County Kilkenny, Heaslip first excelled at hurling in his youth. He arrived on the inter-county scene when he first linked up with the Kilkenny senior team, making his debut in the 1957 championship. During his career Heaslip won two All-Ireland medals, three Leinster medals and one National Hurling League medal. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions. Heaslip also represented the Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, winning one Railway Cup medal. At club level he played with Knocktopher. His retirement came following Kilkenny's defeat by Tipperary in the 1964 All-Ireland final. The 1957 Championship featured in The 1958 film Rooney where the main character in the film wore a Kilkenny Jersey in the line up. During the film it depicts a goal that was \"scored\" by the main character (Rooney) this was in fact Denis Heaslip's goal. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Медведев) (August 22, 1898 - December 14, 1954) was one of the leaders of the Soviet partisan movement in western Russia and Ukraine. Medvedev was born in Bryansk in a steelworker's family. During the Russian Civil War he joined the Red Army and in 1920 he joined the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Between 1920 and 1935 worked in the Cheka, OGPU and the NKVD in Soviet Ukraine. In 1936 Dmitry Medvedev was sent as a NKVD intelligence agent abroad. In 1938 he returned to the Soviet Union and was appointed the head of the NKVD department of Norillag, a GULAG labor camp in Norilsk. Few months later Medvedev was fired from NKVD officially for \"unjustified closures of criminal investigations\" against political prisoners of the GULAG. In 1939 Medvedev retired and settled in the Moscow region. In the summer of 1941, a few days after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was re-instated as a NKVD officer and sent to his native Bryansk region to organize underground resistance behind enemy lines.Between September 1941 and January 1942 Medvedev successfully organized guerrilla units in Bryansk, Smolensk, Oryol and Mogilev regions. During the spring of 1942 Medvedev was given a new assignment - to organize partisan units deep behind the enemy lines in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine. In June his guerrilla unit, named Pobediteli (The Victorious), was air-dropped into Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. Between June 1942 and March 1944 Medvedev's units operated in Rivne and Lviv regions and in about 120 engagements and liquidated up to 2000 German soldiers and officers including 11 generals and other high-ranking officials. The wartime activities of the Medvedev group in occupied Western Ukraine focused on sabotage, assassinations and espionage against the Wehrmacht. Medvedev's personal initiative was to organize a secret hiding place for 160 rescued Jewish women, children and elderly saved from Jewish ghettos. After the Red Army entered Western Ukraine in the spring of 1944 the Medvedev underground units became part of the regular army. On November 5, 1944 Medvedev was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title and the Gold Star medal. After the war, the retired, and now legendary, partisan became the author of several books including It Happened Near Rovno. (1948) His memoirs were dedicated to the story of his war-time partner - Soviet intelligence agent Nikolai Kuznetsov. Dmitry Medvedev died in Moscow in 1954. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
Oliver \"Buddy\" Pough is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at South Carolina State University, a position he has held since 2002. He had led the South Carolina State Bulldogs football team to four Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) title, in 2008, 2008, 2010, and 2013. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
The Witches of Eastwick is a 2000 musical based on the novel of the same name by John Updike. It was adapted by John Dempsey (lyrics and book) and Dana P. Rowe (music), directed by Eric Schaeffer, and produced by Cameron Mackintosh. The story is based around three female protagonists, the 'Witches' Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont. Frustrated and bored by their mundane lives in the town of Eastwick, a shared longing and desire for \"all manner of man in one man\" comes to life in the form of a charismatic stranger, a devil-like character, Darryl Van Horne. Seducing each of the women in turn Darryl teaches them how to further expand the powers locked within, though their new unorthodox lifestyle scandalizes the town. As these powers become more sinister and events spiral out of control, the women come to realise that Darryl's influence is corrupting everyone he comes into contact with and resolve to use their new-found strength to exile him from their lives. | Work | MusicalWork | Musical |
The Don Mills LRT was a proposed light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was part of the Transit City proposal announced March 16, 2007, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It was expected to cost approximately $675 million, with construction to begin in 2012, and an expected opening in 2016. It would've been the fifth of the seven Transit City lines to be complete after the Sheppard East LRT, Etobicoke-Finch West LRT, Waterfront West LRT, and Eglinton Crosstown lines. Ridership was estimated to be 21.2 million trips in 2021. Mayor Rob Ford cancelled the line after taking office in December 2010. While LRT lines on Sheppard East, Finch West, and Eglinton Crosstown were revived through a new agreement between the City of Toronto and Metrolinx, the Don Mills LRT was not included. The Don Mills LRT is still included in Metrolinx's regional transportation plan The Big Move under the 15-year horizon. Metrolinx has also completed a detailed benefits case analysis for the Downtown Relief Line, exploring the potential of constructing a subway instead of the Don Mills LRT to Don Mills station. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | RailwayLine |
Battleship (1927–1958) was an American thoroughbred racehorse who is the only horse to have won both the American Grand National and the Grand National steeplechase races. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
Darryl Floyd Stingley (September 18, 1951 – April 5, 2007) was an American professional football wide receiver whose career was ended by an on-field spinal-cord injury. He played his entire career with the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He died from heart disease and pneumonia complicated by quadriplegia. | Agent | GridironFootballPlayer | AmericanFootballPlayer |
DST Group Brunei Premier League (Malay: DST GROUP LIGA PERDANA BRUNEI) was the top-tier football league of Brunei until it was replaced by the Brunei Super League in 2012. It is currently the second tier in Brunei football, with two promotion places up for grabs. | Agent | SportsLeague | SoccerLeague |
Kleine Gigue in G major, K. 574, is a composition for solo piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during his stay in Leipzig. It is dated 16 May 1789, the day before he left Leipzig. It was directly written into the notebook of Leipzig court organist Karl Immanuel Engel. It is often cited as a tribute by Mozart to J. S. Bach, but it is in fact very close to Handel's Gigue from the Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433. The gigue consists of only 38 bars and is written in 6/8 time. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based the opening movement of his Mozartiana orchestral suite on this work. | Work | MusicalWork | ClassicalMusicComposition |
Muhammed Bello (Arabic: محمد بلو) was the second Sultan of Sokoto and reigned from 1817 until 1837 and was an active writer of history, poetry, and Islamic studies. He was the son and primary aide to Usman dan Fodio, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate and the first Sultan. During his reign, he encouraged the spread of Islam throughout the region, increasing education for both men and women, and the establishment of Islamic courts. He died on October 25, 1837 and was succeeded by his brother Abu Bakr Atiku. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
Stephen South (born 19 February 1952 in Harrow, Middlesex) is a British former racing driver from England. He was educated at Harrow County School for Boys. He is chiefly known for winning the 1977 BRDC Vandervell British F3 Championship. His only Formula One entry was at the 1980 United States Grand Prix West with McLaren standing in for Alain Prost who was injured, but South failed to qualify. His career was ended later that year when part of one leg was amputated after an accident during practice for a Can-Am race at the Circuit Trois-Rivières in Quebec, Canada. | Agent | RacingDriver | FormulaOneRacer |
Dicolectes rugulosus is a species of leaf beetle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, observed by Lefèvre in 1886. | Species | Animal | Insect |
Pape Lighthouse (Latvian: Papes bāka) - a lighthouse located on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea. | Place | Tower | Lighthouse |
Troika: Russia’s westerly poetry in three orchestral song cycles is a 2011 album of contemporary classical songs performed by soprano Julia Kogan, who also conceived the project. She is accompanied by The St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic conducted by Jeffery Meyer. The songs are set to Russian, English, and French language poetry by five classic Russian writers: Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov, Aleksandr Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev. Eight modern composers, from France, Russia, and the United States, wrote music for the album: Isabelle Aboulker, Ivan Barbotin, Eskender Bekmambetov, Jay Greenberg, James DeMars, Andrey Rubtsov, Michael Schelle and Lev Zhurbin.The three song cycles on the album are “there…”, set to Russian poems and their English auto-translations by Joseph Brodsky; “Sing, Poetry”, set to Russian poems and their English auto-translations by Vladimir Nabokov; and “Caprice étrange”, set to French poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Aleksandr Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev. The common point of the three song cycles is that they are based upon poetry that reflects its authors’ active linguistic integration into Western culture. | Work | MusicalWork | Album |
The Little Munuscong River is a 16.2-mile-long (26.1 km) river on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It is a tributary of Munuscong Lake, which is part of the St. Marys River waterway and an arm of Lake Huron. | Place | Stream | River |
The Malabar tree toad or warty Asian tree toad (Pedostibes tuberculosus) is a species of toad found in forests along the Western Ghats of India south of Goa. It is small and is found in wet tree hollows or leaf bases containing water. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Rhinelander–Oneida County Airport (IATA: RHI, ICAO: KRHI, FAA LID: RHI) is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the central business district of Rhinelander, a city in Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States. The airport is owned by the city and county. It is primarily used for general aviation and is also served by one commercial airline. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 26,193 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 26,729 enplanements in 2009, and 25,137 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a primary commercial service non-hub airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). | Place | Infrastructure | Airport |
Rose McCartney Likins (born 1959) is a Career Ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and the former United States Ambassador to Peru. Prior to this post she was the Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C., where she was also Dean of the Foreign Service Institute’s School of Professional and Area Studies. | Agent | Person | Ambassador |
Frederick Albert \"Fred\" Travalena III (October 6, 1942 – June 28, 2009) was a U.S. entertainer, specializing in comedy and impressions. | Agent | Artist | Comedian |
Jacques Payet (ジャック・パイエ, born August 24, 1957) is a practitioner of Yoshinkan-style aikido. He was the longest-serving non-Japanese uchi-deshi of Yoshinkan founder Gozo Shioda and is ranked Nanadan (七段, \"7th degree\") in the Yoshinkan organization, with the honorific Shihan (師範, \"mentor and model\"). He is an off-site staff instructor at the Yoshinkan hombu dojo and the founder and head instructor of Mugenjuku dojo and the Mugenjuku Kenshusei program in Kyoto, Japan. He is also the originator of the well-known Senshusei Course, a translator of several important works in aikido, and a guest instructor in demand around the world. | Agent | Athlete | MartialArtist |
The Breweries & Bottleyards Employees Industrial Union of Workers WA (BBEIUW (WA)) is a trade union in Australia. It is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. | Agent | Organisation | TradeUnion |
Gustav Anton \"Gus\" Hoff (December 7, 1852 – February 18, 1930) was a German-born American businessman and politician active in Arizona Territory. Beyond his varied business interests, he was a member of the Arizona Territorial Legislature and served one term as Mayor of Tucson. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
World Wrestling Entertainment Magazine was the official professional wrestling magazine of WWE. This incarnation of the magazine contains lifestyle sections, a monthly calendar, entertainment, work out tips, and other information. It was announced in July 2014 that after thirty years, the magazine would cease production, although special issues would continue to be published. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
The Edythe C. and Stanley L. Harrison Opera House, also known as the Harrison Opera House, is the official home of the Virginia Opera in the Neon District of Downtown Norfolk, Virginia on the border of the Ghent Square neighborhood. Once a World War II USO theater, this historic venue was renovated in 1993. Τhe renovated Harrison Opera House has 1,632 seating capacity. The building is attached to the former Norfolk Municipal Auditorium, which now serves as storage and administrative space for the Virginia Opera. | Place | Venue | Theatre |
The Corduroy Creek Bridge was a steel arch highway bridge on US 60, located near Show Low, Arizona in Navajo County, Arizona. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
The mountain serin (Chrysocorythus estherae) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Indonesia and the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. The mountain serin was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences found that the species was not closely related to other member of Serinus nor to the geographically nearest finch, the Vietnamese greenfinch. The species was therefore assigned to a separate genus Chrysocorythus, a name that had previously been proposed by the German ornithologist Hans Edmund Wolters in 1967. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Gin Tama (Japanese: 銀魂 Hepburn: Gintama, lit. \"Silver Soul\"), also styled as Gintama, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi and serialized, beginning on December 8, 2003, in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. Set in Edo which has been conquered by aliens named Amanto, the plot follows life from the point of view of samurai Gintoki Sakata, who works as a freelancer alongside his friends Shinpachi Shimura and Kagura in order to pay the monthly rent. Sorachi added the science fiction setting to develop characters to his liking after his editor suggested doing a historical series. The series has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) by Sunrise and was featured at Jump Festa 2006 Anime Tour in 2005. This was followed by a full anime series, which debuted on April 4, 2006 in TV Tokyo and finished on March 25, 2010. A sequel titled Gintama' first premiered in Japan on April 4, 2011 and ended on March 26, 2012, before returning once again for a brief run from October 4, 2012 to March 28, 2013. A continuation of the TV anime series titled Gintama° began airing on April 8, 2015 and ended on March 30, 2016. Two animated films have also been produced. Besides the anime series, there have been various light novels and video games based on Gin Tama. A live action film adaptation of the same name is scheduled for release in Japan in 2017. The manga has been licensed by Viz Media in North America. In addition to publishing the individual volumes of the series, Viz serialized its first chapters in their Shonen Jump manga anthology. It debuted in the January 2007 issue, and was serialized at a rate of one chapter a month. Sentai Filmworks initially licensed the series. The website Crunchyroll purchased the anime's streaming rights and home video rights. In Japan, the Gin Tama manga has been popular, selling over 50 million copies. The anime and its DVDs have been featured, at various time, in Top Ten of their respective media, while TV Tokyo has announced that the first Gin Tama anime was responsible for high sales overseas along with the anime adaptation from Naruto. Publications for manga, anime and others have commented on the Gin Tama manga. Positive response have focused on the comedy and characters from the series, while negative responses concern the manga's artwork. | Work | Comic | Manga |
Partenaire Particulier is French pop, electronic, and new wave band from Bordeaux. It was successful in France in the mid-1980s. Three of their singles were ranked on the SNEP chart (Top 50), including their signature song \"Partenaire Particulier\". They stopped releasing records in 1989, although they produced some records in the early 1990s using different pseudonyms. The group was recently revived, due to their appearance in the RFM Party Tour. Eric Fettweis under the \"Partenaire Particulier\" moniker released \"Geek\" in 2011 . | Agent | Group | Band |
Eirenis is a genus of Old World snakes in the family Colubridae. | Species | Animal | Reptile |
Natalia Zeta (born 29 December 1983) is a Spanish pornographic actress. She has posed for adult magazines such as Private, Forward Edge and SIE7E, as well as for the automobile magazines Top Tuning, Tuners and Maxituning. In May 2009, she made headlines for a stunt at a Spanish football game between Real Madrid and Barcelona to promote an upcoming film. | Agent | Actor | AdultActor |
Demelza Hospice Care for Children is a Children's hospice and a registered charity (no. 1039561) based in Kent, England, providing palliative, respite, end-of-life and bereavement care to life-limited children and young adults, and their families. The organisation carries the name of Demelza Phillips, who died from a brain tumour at the age of 24. Demelza had worked at Acorns Children’s Hospice in Birmingham and her parents, impressed by the work they had seen there, wanted to establish a children’s hospice in the South-East of England. Demelza House opened in 1998. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Maja e Zezë (Macedonian: Црн Врв, Crn Vrv; Serbo-Croatian: Црни врх/Crni vrh(\"Ostrovica planina\")) (meaning black peak) is a mountain in Kosovo and Macedonia. It is part of the Šar Mountains range and is 2,585 m (8,481 ft) high. To the east of the mountain is Peskovi (2,651 m or 8,698 ft), and to the west of it is Kobilica (2,528 m or 8,294 ft). References: | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos OIS, (born 12 April 1992) is a South African competitive swimmer who is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion as well as the Commonwealth record holder in the 50 and 100-metre butterfly. He won gold in the 200-metre butterfly and silver in the 100-metre butterfly in the 2012 Olympics in London, as well as silver medals in the 200-metre freestyle and 100-metre butterfly in the 2016 Summer Olympics. He also won five medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. Le Clos has won the Overall Swimming World Cup three times: 2011, 2013 and 2014. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Ludovic Fabregas (born 1 July 1996) is a French handball player for Montpellier Handball and the French national team. He participated in the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship and 2016 Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Cornelius \"Cor\" Hemmers (born August 24, 1956 in Breda) is a Dutch kickboxing trainer associated with the Golden Glory gym in Breda, Netherlands. | Agent | Athlete | MartialArtist |
Clarence Douglas \"Clare\" McKerrow (January 18, 1877 – October 20, 1959) was a Canadian athlete. McKerrow competed in lacrosse for Canada in the 1908 Summer Olympics. McKerrow also played ice hockey with the Montreal Hockey Club and won two Stanley Cup titles with the team; in 1895 as a player, and in 1902 as a trainer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. In 1908 he was part of the Canadian lacrosse team which won the gold medal in the Summer Olympics. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
The East Coast Bays by-election of 1980 was a by-election during the 39th New Zealand Parliament in the East Coast Bays electorate. It resulted in an upset for the National Party, as their candidate and future leader Don Brash was unexpectedly beaten by Gary Knapp of the Social Credit Party. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Jennifer \"Jen\" Gates (born April 22, 1990) is a Canadian curler. Gates is a two-time Canadian University Champion. She currently plays lead for Team Kelsey Rocque and they curl out of the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Curler |
Apsadgyl held its founding congress as a public union on 19 January 2012, led by lawyer Tamaz Ketsba. On 30 July 2015, Apsadgyl was registered as a socio-political organisation. on 7 August, members of the People's Assembly Georgi Agrba, Fazlibei Avidzba, Guram Barganjia, Anzor Kokoskeria and Akhra Pachulia had established the faction Apsadgyl, led by Agrba. On 16 August 2015, Apsadgyl held a meeting in which it presented itself and elected former Presidential nominee and Vice Premier Beslan Eshba as its Chairman. On 18 March, Apsadgyl declared while it was not one of the initiators behind a planned referendum to hold an early presidential election, it acknowledged the constitutional right to organise such a referendum and called upon both proponents and opponents to adhere to the law and behave respectfully. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
Route 370 is a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) long east–west secondary highway in the northeast portion of New Brunswick, Canada. The route's North-eastern terminus is in the community of Tracadie–Sheila. The road starts off known as Rue-Lois G Daigle traveling West to the community of Upper Sheila. Here the road crosses the Tracadie River 2x before entering the community of Leech. Here the road takes a 90 degree turn south crossing the Tracadie River again entering the community of Pont-Lafrance. The road continues south before turning east crossing the Tracadie River one last time to the Riviere-du-Portage. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
Coquitlam Centre is a shopping mall in Coquitlam, British Columbia, built in 1979 and expanded in 2001. It is located at the southern edge of the Coquitlam Town Centre area, near Coquitlam Central Station and several other smaller shopping centres. Coquitlam Centre is the largest mall in the Tri-Cities area, with 913,665 ft² and 200 stores and services. Coquitlam Centre is a super-regional sized shopping centre anchored by Sears, Walmart, Hudson's Bay, Best Buy, London Drugs, T & T Supermarket, H&M, Sport Chek, Golf Town, Old Navy, Gap, Sephora, Apple, and Atmosphere. | Place | Building | ShoppingMall |
John Anthony Llewellyn (22 April 1933 – 2 July 2013), was a Welsh-born American scientist and a former NASA astronaut. | Agent | Person | Astronaut |
Mahapleu (also known as Kuépleu) is a town in western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Danané Department in Tonkpi Region, Montagnes District. Mahapleu was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Rey del Ring (2011) (Spanish for \"King of the Ring\") was an annual professional wrestling major event produced by Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), which took place on June 16, 2011, in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico. The main event of the show was the Eponymous IWRG Rey del Ring tournament, the ninth version of the annual tournament, which is IWRG's version of WWE's Royal Rumble event. The Rey del Ring returned to IWRG's regular schedule in 2011 after no event was held in 2010, making the event the 10th overall tournament since 2002. | Event | SportsEvent | WrestlingEvent |
BBC South East is the BBC English region serving Kent and Sussex. The BBC region was created in September 2001 by the joining of the Heathfield transmitter (formerly part of the BBC South region) with the Bluebell Hill and Dover transmitters (from the then BBC London and South East region) to form a new regional TV service. Unlike ITV Meridian (East), it does not serve southern Essex (received from a Bluebell Hill overlap), this area being part of the BBC London region instead. | Agent | Broadcaster | BroadcastNetwork |
WEEP (1400 AM) is a radio station formerly licensed to serve Virginia, Minnesota. The FCC license, most recently held by Full Armor Ministries, Inc., expired on August 1, 2005. The station last aired a Religious radio format. The station began broadcasting in 1936, with a power of 250 watts. It was the ninth oldest station in Minnesota. The station was purchased in 1951 by Frank P. Befera, a pioneer in Minnesota broadcasting. The station remained in the Befera family (dba Virginia Broadcasting Company) until it was sold to Full Armor Ministries of Eveleth, Minnesota, for a reported sale price of $52,000. The deal closed on October 1, 2000, gained FCC approval on February 13, 2001, and transfer was consummated on April 1, 2001. The station was assigned the WEEP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on March 7, 2001. The call letters were deleted from the FCC database on June 27, 2006, although the station is officially listed as \"licensed and silent.\" The station has been silent since a transmitter failure in December 2002. The tower, lacking basic maintenance, was described as \"rusting away\" during an August 2005 visit by radio journalist Scott Fybush. Efforts to sell the station to the city of Virginia were complicated and ultimately thwarted by licensee Full Armor Ministries' failure to file a timely license renewal. In January 2008, the FCC denied a petition for reconsideration from the (now former) licensee and the city. In 2008, the City of Virginia gave permission to a local firm to dismantle the former studio building and radio tower. The building was moved and the tower taken down. Today, only a small grove of trees marks the area where the radio station was located. The city is hoping that the site will eventually be used for future economic endeavors. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
The lazuli bunting (Passerina amoena) is a North American songbird named for the gemstone lapis lazuli. The male is easily recognized by its bright blue head and back (lighter than the closely related indigo bunting), its conspicuous white wingbars, and its light rusty breast and white belly. The color pattern may suggest the eastern and western bluebirds, but the smaller size (13–14 cm or 5–5.5 inches long), wingbars, and short and conical bunting bill quickly distinguish it. The female is brown, grayer above and warmer underneath, told from the female indigo bunting by two thin and pale wingbars and other plumage details. The song is a high, rapid, strident warble, similar to that of the indigo bunting but longer and with less repetition. Lazuli buntings breed mostly west of the 100th meridian from southern Canada to northern Texas, central New Mexico and Arizona, and southern California. On the Pacific coast their breeding range extends south to extreme northwestern Baja California. They migrate to southeastern Arizona and Mexico. Their habitat is brushy areas and sometimes weedy pastures, generally well-watered, and sometimes in towns. These birds eat mostly seeds and insects. They may feed conspicuously on the ground or in bushes, but singing males are often very elusive in treetops. This bird makes a loose cup nest of grasses and rootlets placed in a bush. It lays three or four pale blue eggs. In the eastern and southern part of its range, it often hybridizes with the indigo bunting. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Sportsnet PPV is a Canadian pay-per-view (PPV) service owned by Rogers Communications. It is the PPV service used by Rogers Cable, Cogeco Cable and Source Cable for offering out-of-market sports packages and occasionally other special events. Since October 1, 2014, Rogers and Source (potentially among others) have also used Sportsnet PPV as their main general-interest pay-per-view provider, replacing Viewers Choice which shut down the previous evening. The \"Sportsnet PPV\" name was not originally used on-air, as individual packages and programs were marketed directly by participating service providers. Following its expansion to general-interest programming, the service launched a barker channel which promotes special events under the Sportsnet PPV brand, as well as adult programming under the Adult4U brand. Unlike Viewers Choice and most other pay-per-view services in Canada, the service does not carry mass-market movies, though its barker channel shows previews of movies which are promoted as being available through individual cable companies' video on demand services. | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
General elections were held in Sweden on 16 September 1979. Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 154 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag, the liberal interim government of Ola Ullsten was succeeded by another centre-right coalition government composed of the People's Party, the Moderate Party and the Centre Party, led by Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin. The three parties won 175 seats to the 174 held by the Social Democrats and Communists. Until 2010, this remained the only successful re-election of any non-socialist government in Sweden since the 1920s. The Moderates dramatically increased their seats, becoming the largest party of the non-socialist bloc, a position the party retains until today. Though a celebrated and largely unexpected victory, adherents of the government would not celebrate for too long, as the coalition split in 1981, when the dominant Moderates withdrew support, protesting against Fälldins tax policies, which they viewed as \"too leftist\". Though not being the leader of the coalition party holding the most seats, Fälldin was the designate prime minister since his earlier resignation in 1978, upon disagreement over the question of nuclear power. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Nastya 'Sten' Stepanova (Russian: Настя 'Стен' Степанова; born 22 March 1995 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian fashion model. Nastya Sten started her modeling career in 17 years. The first serious work for her became the Proenza Schouler spring/summer 2014 fashion show during New York Fashion Week. In the same season, she walked for Acne Studios, Aquilano.Rimondi, Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta, Carven, Cédric Charlier, Céline, Jil Sander, John Galliano, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Nina Ricci, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykiel and Sportmax fashion shows. Fall/Winter 2014-15 season became breakthrough for Sten. She took part in 63 shows, 4 opened and 2 closed. Her full runway list include many top fashion houses and designers such as 3.1 Phillip Lim, Acne Studios, Alberta Ferretti, Alexander McQueen, Altuzarra, Ann Demeulemeester, Antonio Berardi, Aquilano.Rimondi, Bottega Veneta, Bouchra Jarrar, Calvin Klein, Carven, Cédric Charlier, Céline, Chanel, Christopher Kane, Coach, Costume National, Diane von Furstenberg, DKNY, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Dries Van Noten, EDUN, Elie Saab, Emanuel Ungaro, Emilio Pucci, Emporio Armani, Esteban Cortazar, Fendi, Francesco Scognamiglio, Gareth Pugh, Giambattista Valli, Giles, Giorgio Armani, Givenchy, Gucci, Haider Ackermann, Helmut Lang (artist), Hermès, Hugo Boss, Hussein Chalayan, Iris van Herpen, J. Mendel, J.W. Anderson, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jil Sander, Jill Stuart, John Galliano, Joseph, Kenzo, La Perla, Lacoste, Jeanne Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Maison Margiela, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Marchesa, Marni, Mary Katrantzou, Max Mara, Michael Kors, Missoni, Miu Miu, Narciso Rodriguez, Nina Ricci, No. 21, Opening Ceremony, Paul Smith, Peter Pilotto, Peter Som, Philipp Plein, Ports 1961, Prabal Gurung, Prada, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Pringle of Scotland, Proenza Schouler, Public School, Richard Nicoll, Roberto Cavalli, Rochas, Rodarte, Sacai, Saint Laurent, Elsa Schiaparelli, Sibling, Sonia Rykiel, Sportmax, Suno, Thakoon, Tommy Hilfiger, Topshop, Tory Burch, Valentino, Vera Wang, Véronique Leroy, Versace, Victoria Beckham, Vionnet. Nastya Sten appeared in the editorials of magazines such as AnOther, CR Fashion Book, Dazed & Confused, GARAGE, Heroine Magazine, i-D, Interview, The Last Magazine, LOVE , Numéro, Russh, V Magazine, British Vogue, Vogue Brazil, Vogue Italia, Vogue Japan, Vogue Russia and graced the covers of Glass Magazine, Numéro China, Vogue Russia and Vogue Turkey. For the cover of Russian Vogue Nastya starred with her best friend top model Sasha Luss. In 2014, Nastya became the face of advertising campaigns for three major brands: Dolce & Gabbana, Prada and Saint Laurent. Also was the face of ad campaigns for Berardi, ICB, Iodice, and Sportmax. | Agent | Person | Model |
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of İzmir (Smyrna, Smirne) (Latin: Archidioecesis Smyrnensis) is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Asian Turkey (Anatolia). The archdiocese's cathedral motherchurch and thus see of its archbishop is St. John's Cathedral.It also includes a World Heritage Site: Meryem Ana Evi Meryem Ana Evi, Bülbüldağı. Lorenzo Piretto, Dominican Order (O.P.), was appointed Archbishop of İzmir by Pope Francis on 7 December 2015. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
Llamayuq Q'asa (Quechua llama llama, -yuq a suffix, Llamayuq an archaeological site, q'asa mountain pass, \"Llamayuq pass\" or \"mountain pass with llamas\", also spelled Llamayojcasa, Llamayoqccasa), also known as Qucha Quyllur (Qochaqollur, \"lake star\"), is a mountain in the eastern extensions of the Urupampa mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 4,600 m (15,092 ft) high. It is located in the Cusco Region, Calca Province, Calca District. It lies southeast of Q'irayuq. This is where the archaeological site of Llamayuq is situated. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Adam Wiśniewski (born 24 October 1980) is a Polish handballer who plays for the Polish team Wisła Płock and the Polish national team. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
John F. Hawksworth (born 27 March 1961) is a retired professional golfer who played on the European Tour between 1986 and 2000. Hawksworth had a successful amateur career during which he won the Lytham Trophy in 1984. He was a member of the Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team in 1985 alongside Colin Montgomerie and David Gilford, after which he turned professional. He did not go on to enjoy the same success as a professional as his former teammates, revisiting the European Tour's qualifying school on many occasions where he only twice managed to regain full playing rights. Since retiring from tournament golf in 2000, Hawksworth has been a regular commentator on UK television, appearing for both the BBC and Sky Sports, and on the radio with Talk Sport Radio. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto (Latin: Archidioecesis Barquisimetensis) is a Latin Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese in northwestern Venezuela's Lara state. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
Zak Abraham Timothy Ramsey is a fictional character from the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Kent Riley. Zak first appeared in 2004, when he was credited as 'Zak Barnes'. After only four months, Riley was dropped from the programme. The character received a revival 18 months later however when producer Bryan Kirkwood brought him back in 2006. Following the arrival of producer Paul Marquess in January 2010, the series underwent a major overhaul and as part of a large cast cull, it was announced that the character had been axed from the series for a second time. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Lawrie McKinna (born 8 July 1961) is a Scottish-Australian former football (soccer) player, coach, and former Mayor of Gosford City Council. In 2012, McKinna stood for election as an independent for City of Gosford. Lawrie was successful in gaining a seat, and was elected by his fellow councillors Mayor of Gosford City on 24 September. He was removed from his position as Mayor, as a result of the amalgamation of Gosford and Wyong Councils on 12 May 2016. Lawrie unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in the September 2013 Federal election for the seat of Robertson. His campaign was backed by John Singleton to the tune of $380,000. While receiving 8.7% of the vote, Singleton and McKinna controversially decided the outcome of the seat by directing preference votes to the conservative Liberal Party candidate Ms Lucy Wicks. Ms Wicks formally thanked Lawrie & his backer John Singleton in her maiden speech in parliament. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Nannosquilla decemspinosa is a species of long-bodied, short-legged Mantis Shrimp. It lives in shallow sandy areas along the Pacific coast of Central and South America. It is most well known because when stranded by a low tide the 3 cm stomatopod lies on its back and performs backwards somersaults over and over. The animal moves up to 2 meters at a time by rolling 20-40 times, with speeds of around 72 revolutions per minute - 1.5 body lengths per second (3.5 cm/s). Researchers estimate that the stomatopod acts as a true wheel around 40% of the time during this series of rolls. The remaining 60% of the time it has to \"jumpstart\" a roll by using its body to thrust itself upwards and forwards. | Species | Animal | Crustacean |
Thomas Hill (January 7, 1818 – November 21, 1891) was an American Unitarian clergyman, mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and educator. Taught to read at an early age, Hill read voraciously and was well regarded for his capacious and accurate memory. His father taught him botany, and he took a delight in nature and devised scientific instruments, one of calculated eclipses and was subsequently awarded the Scott Medal by the Franklin Institute. Though not formally educated in his youth, Hill briefly attended the Lower Dublin Academy in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania and the Leicester Academy in Massachusetts, now the Leicester campus of Becker College, leaving in 1837. He earned his A.B. and D.Div. from Harvard University in 1843 and 1845 respectively. He was later made an honorary member of the Hasty Pudding. Hill was president of Antioch College from 1860 to 1862 until the Civil War forced the college to shut down; he then held the presidency of Harvard University from 1862 to 1868. Ill health caused his retirement from Harvard, and from 1873, he was head of the Unitarian parish in Portland, Maine. Thomas Hill claimed to have injured his testicle while gardening, an incident that made him wary of laboratory instruction at Harvard, warning students not to exert themselves too much in their studies. His home in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he began his career, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
The Monkland Canal was a 12 1⁄4-mile-long (19.7 km) canal designed to bring coal from the mining areas of Monklands to Glasgow in Scotland. In the course of a long and difficult construction process, it was opened progressively as short sections were completed, from 1771. It reached Gartcraig in 1782, and in 1794 it reached its full originally planned extent, from pits at Calderbank to a basin at Townhead in Glasgow; at first this was in two sections with a 96-foot (29 m) vertical interval between them at Blackhill; coal was unloaded and carted to the lower section and loaded onto a fresh barge. Locks were later constructed linking the two sections, and the canal was also connected to the Forth and Clyde Canal, giving additional business potential. Maintaining an adequate water supply was a problem, and later an inclined plane was built at Blackhill, in which barges were let down and hauled up, floating in caissons that ran on rails. Originally intended as a water-saving measure to be used in summer only, the inclined plane was found to pass barges more quickly than through the locks and may have been used all the year. In the second and third decades of the nineteenth century, technical advances in iron smelting coupled with fresh discoveries of abundant iron deposits and coal measures encouraged a massive increase in industrial activity in the Coatbridge area, and the Canal was ideally situated to feed the raw materials and take away the products of the industry. The development of railways reduced the competitiveness of the canal, and eventually it was abandoned for navigation in 1942, but its culverted remains still supply water to the Forth and Clyde Canal. Much of the route now lies beneath the course of the M8 motorway, but two watered sections remain, and are well stocked with fish. | Place | Stream | Canal |
The Al-Qādisiyyah governorate election of 2013 was held on 20 April 2013 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan, Kirkuk, Anbar, and Ninevah. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
The Eparchy of Zvornik and Tuzla (Serbian: Епархија зворничко-тузланска) is an eparchy (diocese) of the Serbian Orthodox Church with its seat in Bijeljina, in Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina). It has jurisdiction over the north-eastern regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
St Helen's Church or its full name Our Lady Help of Christians and St Helen's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Westcliff-on-Sea in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. It was founded in 1862 and built in 1867. Further extensions were made to the church from 1898 to 1903, designed by Alexander Scoles. It is situated on Milton Road near to the corner of St Helen's Road, next to St Bernard's High School. It is a Gothic Revival church, the first post-Reformation Catholic church to be built in Southend and a Grade II listed building. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
Basick Records is a British record label founded in 2005 by Nathan \"Barley\" Phillips and his half brother Jake Smith. Their business has since expanded into the Invictus Music & Media group, which includes Basick Records itself, the hardcore punk-oriented label Destroy Everything and the PR company Hold Tight! PR. Basick Records' first release was a compilation album, entitled, \"Do You Feel This?\", released on 8 August 2005. The first band to be signed to Basick was Fellsilent. They were also the first label to release material from Enter Shikari. In 2011, Basick made a global distribution deal (excluding North America) with Warner ADA. Then, on 17 January 2012, they announced a North American distribution partnership with Prosthetic Records, in which selections from Basick's back catalog and all forthcoming releases would see distribution in North America from Prosthetic. | Agent | Company | RecordLabel |
James Murray (born 1978) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Tallow and with the Waterford senior inter-county team. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
Jorge Armua is a former Uruguayan footballer and head coach of several Ontario soccer clubs. He is currently the head coach of Clarkson soccer club. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Roderick Milton Chisholm (/ˈtʃɪzəm/; November 27, 1916 – January 19, 1999) was an American philosopher known for his work on epistemology, metaphysics, free will, value theory, and the philosophy of perception. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University under Clarence Irving Lewis and Donald C. Williams, and taught at Brown University. He served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1973 and was often called \"the philosopher's philosopher.\" | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
Luke Carson (born 23 October 1989) is a retired Northern Irish male artistic gymnast who represented Ireland at international competitions. He competed at world championships, including the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. He announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics in November 2015 due to \"ongoing medical issues\", stating \"I must accept it is impossible for me to compete again\". | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
The Estadio BBVA Bancomer (El Gigante de Acero) is a stadium developed by FEMSA and C.F. Monterrey in Guadalupe, Greater Monterrey. The stadium replaced the Estadio Tecnológico as the home of Monterrey, ending 63 years of residency at that stadium. It was inaugurated on 2 August 2015 with the eighth edition of the Eusébio Cup, where Monterrey defeated Benfica 3–0. The project was met with much controversy, stemming from the multiple accusations of the construction as an apparent impediment to the wildlife growth on a local scale. | Place | SportFacility | Stadium |
Stinnett is a town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 263 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Stanberry is located in the town. The ghost town of Harmon was located in the town. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Darla Forrester is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, played by actress Schae Harrison from 1989 to July 18, 2006. Darla has made brief appearances as a ghost, from July 25–26, 2007; in March, April, and November, 2014; and in June and July, 2015. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Konstanty Ludwik Plater (born 1722 – died 31 March 1778 in Krāslava), was Castellan of Troki from 1770, voivode of Mstislavl from 1758 to 1770, Castellan of Polotsk from 1754 to 1758, the great Lithuanian Magnus Scriptor from 1746 to 1754, Maréchal of the Lithuanian Tribunal in 1754, and Starosta of Livonia and Dyneburg. In 1754, he was awarded with the Order of White Eagle, Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus, and the Russian Order of St. Alexander Nevsky. Married to Countess Augustina Oginska on 16 Aug 1744. | Agent | Person | Noble |
The Trieste–Opicina tramway (Italian: Tranvia Trieste-Opicina, Slovene: openski tramvaj, Triestine: Tram de Opcina) is an unusual hybrid tramway and funicular railway in the city of Trieste, Italy. It links Piazza Oberdan, on the northern edge of the city centre, with the village of Villa Opicina in the hills above. As of September 2016, the tram is out of service, following an accident in August, with a replacement bus service operating. It is expected to reopen in early 2017. For most of the journey, the line operates as a conventional, electrically powered tramway, with a mixture of street running and reserved track. On the steepest section of the line, between Piazza Scorcola and Vetta Scorcola, the trams are pushed uphill and braked downhill by a pair of cable tractors that operate on funicular principles. The line forms part of the network of Trieste Trasporti, the public transport provider for Trieste, and is line 2 of that company's system. Services are operated every 20 minutes from early morning (07:00) to early evening (20:00). | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
The following is a list of characters who first appeared in the Australian soap opera Neighbours during 2010, they are listed in order of their first appearance. They were all introduced by the shows executive producer, Susan Bower. The 26th season of Neighbours began airing on 11 January 2010. Comedian Peter Moon joined the cast as theatre producer in February. That same month saw , the show's first regular, gay male character, make his debut. Established character, Donna Freedman's father, joined in April and two new regular characters, and , began appearing from May. Former V actress, Jane Badler joined the show in June, playing businesswoman . June also saw the first appearance of builder, . Model and television presenter, Scott McGregor joined the cast as Detective towards the end of August. Gabriella Darlington and P.J. Lane made their acting debuts as and respectively. From December, Gemma Pranita began appearing as established character Sonya Mitchell's younger sister, . | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
The 2016 Honduran Supercup was a match arranged by the Honduran Liga Nacional which took place on 8 July 2016 between C.D. Honduras Progreso, winners of the Apertura tournament and Club Deportivo Olimpia, winners of the Clausura tournament, both from the 2015–16 Honduran Liga Nacional season. This was the first Honduran Supercup since 1999 after the 2015 edition was abandoned with no disclosed reason. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
Carl Christopher \"Chris\" Perkins (born August 6, 1954), is a U.S. lawyer and politician who was United States Representative from the 7th district of Kentucky from 1984 to 1993. Perkins served as a Democrat. | Agent | Politician | Congressman |
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