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Le Reculet is the second-highest summit in the Jura Mountains. It is located in the Ain department in France. Its altitude is 1718 metres. It is situated a few kilometres south of the Crêt de la Neige on the territory of the town of Thoiry. A cross was erected on the summit by the inhabitants of Thoiry. The summit offers spectacular views of the Pays de Gex, Geneva, Lake Geneva, the Alps, Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and on clear days the Chaîne des Puys. Le Reculet was sometimes designated as the highest point of the Jura, until the elevation of the Crêt de la Neige was revised upwards to 1720 m instead of 1717.6 m. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Syagrus perpuncticollis is a species of leaf beetle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, observed by Burgeon in 1940. | Species | Animal | Insect |
The Leinefelde–Treysa line is a former railway line in the German states of Thuringia and Hesse, connecting the towns of Leinefelde, Eschwege, Spangenberg, Malsfeld, Homberg (Efze) and Treysa with one another. It was mostly opened in sections between 1875 and 1880 as part of the Cannons Railway (German: Kanonenbahn), a military strategic railway. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | RailwayLine |
Alan Ricard (born January 17, 1977) is a former American football fullback. Before signing with the Browns he played with the Baltimore Ravens from 2001 to 2005, and briefly for the Buffalo Bills in 2006. He played college football at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Ricard originally entered the league with the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 1999 but was released. He signed with Baltimore in 2000 and spent a year on the practice squad before earning a spot on the active roster in 2001. In 55 appearances with the Ravens, including 32 starts, Ricard carried just 43 times for 172 yards and two touchdowns and posted 32 receptions for 179 yards. But he was a dominant blocker at times in the running game and was solid in pass protection. Ricard was a key contributor in helping Jamal Lewis achieve his 2,066 yard rushing season in 2003, and he made the Pro Bowl as an alternate. | Agent | GridironFootballPlayer | AmericanFootballPlayer |
Sir John Ennis, 1st Baronet (1809 – 8 August 1878) was an Irish Independent Irish and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1865. In 1857 Ennis was elected Member of Parliament for Athlone for the Irish Independent Party. In 1859 he was re-elected as a Liberal and held the seat until 1865. Ennis was created a baronet in 1866. He was a director of the Bank of Ireland and lived at Ballinahown Court, Athlone. In the 1870s, he owned estates of 8,774 acres (35.51 km2) in Westmeath, 326 acres (1.32 km2) in county Dublin and 262 acres (1.06 km2) in Roscommon. He died at the age of 69 Ennis married Anna Maria Henry, daughter of David Henry of Dublin. His only son John was also MP for Athlone and succeeded to the baronetcy. | Agent | BritishRoyalty | Baronet |
Macrozamia parcifolia is a species of plant in the Zamiaceae family. It is endemic to Australia. | Species | Plant | Cycad |
Thompson Township is one of twenty-three townships in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 841 and it contained 1,036 housing units. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Hermes-Sojitz investment foundation is an international alliance of Asian and European shareholders focusing on direct investments into Asia, Africa and Russia. The foundation focuses on the emerging markets and makes investments into the development of deposits of useful minerals in gas, oil and metallurgy industries, property development and food industry. In Asia fund invests in commercial real estate – hotels and business centers. Investments in African continent are directed on mining, food industry and development, basically in the construction of shopping malls. In Russia fund invests in food industry and consider possibility to enter Russian market of real estate (hotel and shopping malls). The foundation operates according to principles of green investing that includes creation of suitable social basis for project development, environmental protection and concern for priorities of local populations. In order to expand activities in Russia a representative office of Hermes-Sojitz foundation was opened in Moscow in 2013 under the direction of Oleg Yantovsky. The main European office was moved to Italy in 2015. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Flory Van Donck (23 June 1912 – 14 January 1992) was a Belgian professional golfer. Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe. He also finished as runner up in The Open Championship on two occasions. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
The Battle of Lak Sao, fought between November 1963 and January 1964, was a major engagement of the Laotian Civil War. In November 1963, General Phoumi Nosavan, who held the reins of military power in the Kingdom of Laos, launched a military offensive against North Vietnamese invaders that cut across the northern panhandle of the nation. Although unsupported in this proxy action by his backers in the U.S. Embassy, he went ahead with his plan to push northwards from Nhommarath, then veer eastwards to the Vietnamese border. Phoumi's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) advisors warned him that the North Vietnamese would retaliate, but he disregarded them. The Royal Lao Army (RLA) reluctantly carried out its mission until it met with stiff resistance. At that point, they tended to flee rather than fight. As fighting occurred throughout December 1963, two elite RLA units, the 11th and 55th Parachute Battalions, were rendered ineffective by the communists, and by a faulty parachute drop. A battalion of volunteers was also dispersed by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). The Royal Lao Armed Forces (FAR) ended the operation in early 1964, having lost control of the Nakay Plateau to the communists. This, following the Battle of Luang Namtha, resulted in two disastrous defeats in just two years for the Royal Lao Government (RLG). | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
Trinant Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Trinant in Newport, Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons. Rugby had been played in Trinant before 1956, but proof of the existence of Trinant RFC can not be substantiated before this date. The club was founded by Albert Clement, who had played rugby in the town in the 1940s, and Ray Morgan, who became secretary. As the club was at this point not affiliated to any union, they had to write to other teams to arrange friendly matches, and out of 75 teams contacted 31 accepted the invitation. The first club to play against the newly formed Trinant RFC was Hafodorynys. Team colours were decided and the club chose black with white hoops. When news that Trinant had reformed began to travel, many local players from rival clubs, requested to move to Trinant. This resulted in a bitter complaint from the secretary of Oakdale when eight of their players switched clubs. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
Mount Aka (赤岳 Aka-dake) is a 2,899m mountain on the border of Chino, Hara of Nagano, and Hokuto of Yamanashi in Japan. This mountain is the tallest mountain of Yatsugatake Mountains. | Place | NaturalPlace | Volcano |
Sir Alexander Richardson Binnie (1839–1917) was a British civil engineer responsible for several major engineering projects, including several associated with crossings of the River Thames in London. As chief engineer for the London County Council, his design feats included the first Blackwall Tunnel (1897) and Greenwich foot tunnel (1902) (both in Greenwich, London) and, further upstream, Vauxhall Bridge (1906). By then knighted by Queen Victoria for services to engineering, he was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1905. He also designed, with Sir Benjamin Baker, major parts of London's drainage system, including east London sewage treatment works at Crossness and Barking on the south and north sides of the Thames respectively (these were sited at the ends of the sewer outfalls created by Sir Joseph Bazalgette during the late 19th century). Further afield, he also designed water works in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Like several other notable engineers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g.: Sir William Halcrow, Sir Alexander Gibb), Binnie founded a firm under his name, which his son William took over on his father's retirement. in 1909 Sir Alexander Binnie and Son merged with another engineering consultancy to become Sir Alexander Binnie, Son & Deacon; later it became Binnie & Partners and from the 1990s it has been part of the multi-national Black & Veatch consultancy. Binnie married, in 1865, the daughter of Dr. Eames, of Londonderry. Lady Binnie died in London 21 September 1901. | Agent | Person | Engineer |
Dörte Thümmler (born October 29, 1971) is a German former gymnast. She competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo, and competed for East Germany. She won many international competitions. In 1987, she was World Champion on the uneven bars (tied with Daniela Silivaș). | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Interlake High School (IHS) is a public secondary school in Bellevue, Washington, one of the four traditional high schools in the Bellevue School District. It is known for its offering of the International Baccalaureate program and its Gifted and Talented program. Its mascot is a Saint Bernard named Bernie, and the school's sports teams are known as the \"Saints\". | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
Kevin Hall (born 21 May 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the VFL. Making his debut in 1963, Hall played mostly as a defender and was at a half back flank in Carlton's 1968 premiership side. He was a premiership player with Carlton again in 1970 and 1972, playing as a fullback and ruck-rover respectively. His last game in the VFL was in the 1973 Grand Final which they lost to Richmond and five years later he was appointed to Carlton's match committee, later joining the Board of Directors. | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was an influential German philosopher, literary figure, socialite, and the younger brother of poet Johann Georg Jacobi. He is notable for popularizing the term nihilism (coined by Obereit in 1787) and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought particularly in the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte and Friedrich Schelling. Instead of speculative reason, he advocated Glaube (variously translated as faith or \"belief\") and revelation. In this sense, Jacobi anticipated present-day writers who criticize secular philosophy as relativistic and dangerous for religious faith. In his time, he was also well-known among literary circles for his critique of the Sturm and Drang movement, and implicitly close associate Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and its visions of atomized individualism. His literary projects were devoted to the reconciliation of Enlightenment individualism with social obligation. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
The Klagenfurt Tram network operated in various forms between 1891 and 1963, which was when diesel buses took over, reflecting lower operating costs at a time of relatively low prices for oil based fuels. In 2005, in response to exceptional levels of particulates pollution in Klagenfurt the city authorities proposed a resumption of tram services. A feasibility study was commissioned, but concluded that the cost of the necessary investment would be prohibitive. | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
The Santo Antônio Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Madeira River 6 km (4 mi) southwest of Porto Velho in the state of Rondônia, Brazil. The dam's run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station will have 50 turbines each rated at 71.6 MW resulting in a total installed capacity of 3,580 MW. The first unit began commercial production in March 2012, and as of June 2015 a total of 32 units are operational, with completion scheduled for November 2016. Most of the power will be exported to south-eastern Brazil via the Rio Madeira HVDC system. The dam is part of a planned four power plant Madeira river hydroelectric complex, which will consist of two dams in Brazil (Santo Antônio and 3,750 MW Jirau Dam about 100 km upstream), a third on the border of Brazil and Bolivia (Guayaramerin), and a fourth station inside Bolivia (Cachuela Esperanza). The Jirau Dam is currently under construction, while the smaller upstream dams are still in the planning stages. In part due to the 2001-2002 power shortage in Brazil, construction of both dams was accelerated in 2009. The total estimated cost of the two facilities currently under construction is $15.6 billion ($7 billion for Santo Antônio), including about $10 billion for the civil engineering and power plants, and $5 billion for ship locks, transmission lines, and environmental re-mediation. The Madeira river hydroelectric complex is part of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America, an effort by South American governments to integrate the continent's infrastructure with new investments in transportation, energy, and communication. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Alena Spodynyuk (Ukrainian: Олена Сподинюк, born 8 June 1997) is a Ukrainian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Ukraine Universe 2016 and will represent Ukraine at the Miss Universe 2016 pageant. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
Lieut-Colonel Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams (1877 – 7 July 1927) was a British physician of the Indian Medical Service, and a Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kennington division of Lambeth from 1923 to 1924. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Punk pathetique is a subgenre of British punk rock (principally active circa 1980–1982) that involved humour and working class cultural themes. The name of the genre was coined by then-Sounds journalist Garry Bushell, who actively championed many of its exponents. Punk pathetique was initially an attempt to characterize a group of London bands that embodied Cockney culture with a Dickensian working class attitude. Musically it was related to (and had crossover with) the Oi! subgenre. The cover of the 1980 Bushell/Sounds compilation album Oi the Album described the record as featuring \"ruck 'n' rollers and punk pathetiques\". In contrast to harder-edged Oi! bands with more serious lyrics, punk pathetique bands focused on the naughty, silly and trivial. Max Splodge of Splodgenessabounds said: \"The pathetique bands are the other side of Oi! We're working class too, only whereas some bands sing about prison and the dole, we sing about pilchards and bums. The audience is the same.\" Some punk pathetique bands had notable success in the UK charts. Toy Dolls got to #4 in December 1984 with \"Nellie the Elephant.\" Splodgenessabounds reached #7 in 1980 with \"Simon Templar,\" and #26 with \"Two Little Boys\" later that year. According to Bushell: Peter and the Test Tube Babies were first featured in Sounds in July 1980, and made their vinyl debut on Oi! The Album later that year. They favoured absurd lyrics and strange titles, such as \"The Queen Gives Good Blow Jobs\" and \"Elvis Is Dead (He Was 42 and a Fat Cunt\"). Toy Dolls, based in Sunderland, shared the punk pathetique approach to nonsensical entertainment. Toy Dolls singer Michael \"Olga\" Algar told Sounds in March 1980: \"We're a new wave group, but we're not serious. All our songs are pretty childish and infantile, but they're all based on things and people 'round here.\" Bushell wrote that punk pathetique peaked in autumn 1980, with the Pathetique Convention staged at the Electric Ballroom. However, music critic Dave Thompson has stated of Splodgenessabounds' 1981 album: Other punk pathetique bands included TV Personalities, The Shapes, The Adicts, Notsensibles, The Gonads, The Postmen, Desert Island Joe, The Hoopers, Pierre The Poet (Garry Butterfield), Paul Devine, Lord Waistrel & the Cosh Boys, Stephen Louis Knoche Jr & His Raging Cronies, The Alaska Cowboys, Percy Throwers Man Eating Plans, SexyCows, and The Orgasm Guerrillas. Later, the mantle was inherited by the Bus Station Loonies, Monkish and Macc Lads, who performed comic punk singalongs in very much the same style. Toy Dolls, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, The Gonads and Splodgenessabounds continue to tour and record. | TopicalConcept | Genre | MusicGenre |
East Branch Clarion River Lake, or East Branch Lake is a reservoir at Elk State Park in Elk County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by damming the East Branch of the Clarion River. Construction of the rolled earth, impervious core dam was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944. The lake is one of sixteen flood control projects administered by the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of Engineers. East Branch Clarion River Lake helps to provide flood protection for the Clarion River valley and the lower portions of the Allegheny River and the upper portions of the Ohio River. The dam is 7.3 mi (11.7 km) upstream from the confluence of the East and West branches of the Clarion River. It was constructed in 1952 for $9 million and serves a 72.4 mi² (187 km²) drainage area. It is estimated that East Branch Clarion River Lake has prevented $81 million in damage. The dam was especially important in curtailing damage during the 1972 floods caused by Hurricane Agnes. East Branch Clarion River Lake also serves recreational purposes. Controlled releases of water during the dry summer months help to improve water quality and quantity for industrial and domestic uses. These releases of the lake waters also improve navigation on the rivers and enhance aquatic life. East Branch Clarion River Lake is a destination for both fisherman and recreational boaters. The lake is home to cold water fishing for walleye, smallmouth bass, muskellunge, brook, lake, rainbow and brown trout. The creeks of the park are stocked by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. There is a native brook trout population in some of the smaller streams of the park. There is no limit on the horsepower of the boats. All boats are required to have current registration with any state. Ice fishing and ice boating are common winter activities on East Branch Clarion River Lake. The land in the vicinity of the dam is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The remainder of the land surrounding the lake is administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as Elk State Park. | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
William Jack Baumol (born February 26, 1922) is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at New York University, Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. A prolific author of more than eighty books and several hundred journal articles, Baumol has written extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy. He also made significant contributions to the theory of entrepreneurship and the history of economic thought. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971. He was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2003,and Thompson Reuters cited him as a potential recipient in 2014. | Agent | Person | Economist |
Richard Brickhouse (born October 27, 1939 in Rocky Point, North Carolina) is a retired NASCAR driver. He is best known for winning the inaugural Talladega 500 in 1969 after a boycott of the top stars of the sport at the time because concerns with tire wear with the high rate of speeds at the racetrack. He retired in 1982 with 13 career top 10's in 39 races. His nephew Jeremy, is a longtime spotter in the Sprint Cup Series for Kurt Busch. | Agent | RacingDriver | NascarDriver |
Peter (Pete) Johansson (born November 6, 1973) is a Canadian comedian, writer and actor. He has a number of notable television appearances, including Comedy Central's Premium Blend, CTV's Comedy Now, CBC's Comics! and CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. He has also appeared at the prestigious Just for Laughs festival and HBO's Aspen Comedy Arts festival.Pete has also appeared on the show Russell Howard's Good News Extra.In 2009, his debut show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, \"Naked Pictures of My Life\", was nominated for the prestigious Best Newcomer Award. This was followed by a 2010 nomination for Chortle's Best Breakthrough Act award in the UK.In 2011 Pete returned to Canada to perform on two episodes of CBC's The Debaters, where he argued with Sean Cullen over which is better, coffee or tea, and in another episode with Charlie Demers over whether men are inherently cheaters or not. He was nominated for a Canadian Comedy award for writing for his Coffee vs Tea Debate. He also performed at The Winnipeg Comedy Festival Comedy Gala taped for the CBC. He has appeared twice at The Comedy Store, and was a featured comedian on the new Russell Peters Presents special entitled Live from the Redlight District. He is the brother of actor Paul Johansson, best known for his ten year role as Dan Scott on the CW's One Tree Hill, and the son of hockey player Earl \"Ching\" Johnson who was a member of the Stanley Cup Winning Detroit Red Wings in 53/54. His mother was Joanne Johansson, a painter and nurse in Western Canada. He currently tours globally doing shows in the UK, Ireland, Canada and the United States. | Agent | Artist | Comedian |
The FIFA World Football Museum is an association football museum owned and operated by FIFA. The museum is located in Zürich, Switzerland, across town from the FIFA headquarters. It opened on 28 February 2016. | Place | Building | Museum |
The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly (the state legislature) of the U.S. state of Georgia. There are currently 180 elected members. | Agent | Organisation | Legislature |
Sprintermästaren (literally: \"The Sprint Champion\") is an annual international Group One harness event for trotters. It is held at Halmstad Racetrack in Halmstad, Sweden, and is a stakes race for 4-year-olds. The purse in the 2011 final was ≈US$288,000 (€200,000), of which the winner Orecchietti won half. The event is sometimes referred to as \"Sweden's Hambletonian\". | Event | Race | HorseRace |
The 2011 Port Huron Predators season was the first season for the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) franchise. They were the first team in Port Huron since the Port Huron Pirates played there in 2007. On February 26, 2011, the Predators won their first game in franchise history, with a 69-12 victory over the visiting Indianapolis Enforcers. They got off to a quick start after a brief scare and never looked back. After the Enforcers brought back the opening kick-off to the Predators nine-yard line, the Port Huron defense stepped up and picked off the first play from scrimmage. It was the first of seven interceptions by the Predators' defense. On the next play, Predators back-up quarterback Jim Roth, who was filling in for Damon Dowdell, found Robert Height for a 41-yard score to put the team ahead for good. The Predators carried the 7-0 into the second quarter and led 21-6 at the half. In the second half, the flood gates opened as the Enforcers, a first-year team travel team, showed their inexperience with several mistakes. After several interceptions and fumbles, Port Huron took a commanding 47-6 lead into the third quarter before going on to win by the lopsided score. On March 28, the Predators fired their second coach of the season as well as their director of operations. Head Coach Jason Lovelock was let go after Brusate said, \"The players wanted something different.\" As for Director of Operations, Julie Crankshaw, Brusate cited, \"We had different ideas on what should be done. She was fired. She didn't live up to her contract; she didn't fulfill it. So there is no need to fulfill my end.\" Brusate appointed Offensive Coordinator, John Forti, as the Interim Head Coach. On April 2, Forti lead the team into his first game as Head Coach, and lead the team to a 29-45 defeat to the Chicago Knights, who hadn't won a game in over 2 season. The Predators announced on April 28, 2011 that they would be forfeiting the rest of the season. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
Toney G. Penna (January 15, 1908 – August 6, 1995) was an Italian-American professional golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear. He won four events on the PGA Tour between 1937 and 1947. He introduced new lines of golf clubs and was the holder of four patents for golf clubs. Many of these clubs are considered collectors' items: some are still in production. He also introduced the use of color to both clubs and to golf accessories, such as carrying bags. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
\"Feel the Passion\" is a song by Aurela Gaçe, composed by Shpëtim Saraçi and with lyrics by Sokol Marsi. The song was the winner of the 49th edition of the Albanian musical festival Festivali i Këngës, performed as \"Kënga ime\" (My song) on 25 December 2010, and represented Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, held in Düsseldorf, Germany.The song will be translated into English for Eurovision, with the new title Feel the Passion. Aurela recorded the official video of the song in the United States in mid-February 2011. The New Version of the song was mixed by Michael Frondelli (recording & mixing engineer), Gene Grimaldi (mastering engineer), John \"Jr\" Robinson (drums), Nathan East (bass) and Michael Tompson (guitar). According to Aurela's official Facebook channel, the new version of Feel the Passion was made available on March 12, 2011. | Work | Song | EurovisionSongContestEntry |
Odostomia plicata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
Raptor Attack is an enclosed steel roller coaster at the Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. | Place | AmusementParkAttraction | RollerCoaster |
Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority (TARTA) is a public transit agency that has been transporting people in the Toledo area of Ohio since 1971. TARTA has more than 30 bus routes in and around the Toledo metropolitan area serving nine communities and carries approximately 3.5 million passengers each year. Every TARTA bus uses biodiesel fuel, and is equipped with bicycle racks. All are wheelchair accessible. The transit authority also has special buses designed especially for disabled riders called TARPS (Toledo Area Regional Paratransit Service), which acts along the lines of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2013, TARTA launched TARTA Tracker, which uses satellites and predictive computer software to identify bus locations in real-time and to anticipate arrival times of buses at various stop, also in real-time. TARTA Tracker is available in a desktop/laptop edition, mobile edition - both at www.TARTATracker.com – and a phone edition at 419-243-RIDE (7433). In summer 2009, TARTA added 40 new buses to its fleet, including 10 mini- and 18 full-sized buses, in addition to 11 expanded buses for its TARPS fleet. The new buses were purchased with $7 million in federal money. | Agent | Company | BusCompany |
Pura Purani (Aymara pura pura Xenophyllum (or a species of it), -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, \"the one with the pura pura plant\", also spelled Purapurani) is a mountain in the Andes of southern Peru, about 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) high. It is located on the border of the Moquegua Region, General Sánchez Cerro Province, Ichuña District, and the Puno Region, Puno Province, San Antonio District. It lies west of Chuqipata and northwest of Millu. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Phoenix Legend (simplified Chinese: 凤凰传奇; traditional Chinese: 鳳凰傳奇; pinyin: Fènghuáng Chuánqí) is a Chinese popular music duo, consisting of female vocalist Yangwei Linghua (杨魏玲花) and male rapper Zeng Yi (曾毅). Their music blends folk music with rap and hip hop elements and has a wide appeal with fans all over. In May 2012 Phoenix Legend was reported in the China Daily as having sold more than 6 million albums in China since 2005, and 10 songs from four of their albums have recorded one billion online hits. Their song \"Above the Moon\" (Chinese: 月亮之上; pinyin: Yuèliàng Zhī Shàng) brought them national attention after they performed it on the television show Star Boulevard. Their song \"Fly Freely\" (自由飞翔) has also been placing high on Chinese download charts. In 2009 the duo had a major hit song entitled The Most Dazzling Folk Style (最炫民族风) (also translated as the Hottest Ethnic Trend). This song has been downloaded more than 100 million times through cell phones and websites in China. The same year they joined the Art Troupe of the Second Artillery Corps, with the duty of entertaining soldiers in the People's Liberation Army's nuclear weapons units. In 1999, the duo first formed a group called Cool Fire, singing mostly Korean and American pop songs. Songwriter He Muyang heard Ling's voice on TV in 2003 and rewrote Above the Moonlight, a sentimental song he wrote in 1999 for the duo. In 2004, the group signed a contract with Peacock Bluehead and the song became a hit in 2005, after the group toured more than 20 universities in China. Songwriter Zhang Chao has also written three popular songs for the group, including The Most Dazzling Folk Style and Moon Over the Lotus Pond. The duo has also been gaining recognition outside China. The Most Dazzling Folk Style (最炫民族风) was used by cheerleaders during an NBA Houston Rockets game in April 2012 and also become an Internet sensation after being remixed and re-edited by fans. Ling's husband Xu Mingchao (徐明朝) is in charge of promoting the duo's songs. | Agent | Group | Band |
Ollie Joe Prater was an American stand-up comedian and television personality. He made frequent appearances on The Tonight Show. Prater got his start in stand-up comedy in the 1970s at The Comedy Store and eventually performed in comedy clubs throughout the United States and was a featured performer at many Las Vegas casinos. Prater acted in the film Can I Do It 'Till I Need Glasses? that featured Robin Williams in his first film performance. Prater went on to release comedy video specials and albums. Prater died from complications of a stroke on November 25, 1991. | Agent | Artist | Comedian |
Ratu Bagus (born I Ketut Widnya, November 1949) is a Balinese guru who developed the spiritual discipline of Bio-energy Shaking Meditation. He claims to transmit healing energy through his touch and picture, which induces spontaneous shaking and laughing in the recipient, releasing them of mental, physical, emotional and spiritual blocks. By training in Bio-energy Shaking Meditation, many people claim to have overcome alcohol and drug dependency, and to have healed many kinds of illnesses and tumours. Ratu Bagus, which means 'Good King', was born into a poor family of nine children. As a young man his ambition was to become soldier as he was drawn to a disciplined way of life. However, after several unsuccessful attempts to join the army, he moved to Jakarta where he became a private officer at a transportation firm and later back to Bali where he became a government officer. After many years he felt the need to be closer to nature and decided to become a farmer on a plantation at the base of the sacred Mount Agung. As time went by his spiritual aspirations intensified and he began meditating regularly at various sacred sites within Bali. Then one day he experienced a revelation on the slopes of Mount Agung, which left him feeling that his mission was now to help the suffering of humanity. Soon after this he began to form his ashram. Ratu’s following in the West has steadily grown and shaking groups now exist all over Europe and Australia. | Agent | Person | Religious |
Túpac Amaru or Thupa Amaro (Quechua: Thupaq Amaru) (1545–1572) was the last indigenous monarch (Sapa Inca) of the Neo-Inca State, remnants of the Inca Empire in Vilcabamba, Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
The Ocean State Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1988 to 1989. It was played at the Alpine Country Club in Cranston, Rhode Island. | Event | Tournament | GolfTournament |
Dicky Thompson (born June 13, 1957) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. Thompson joined the Nationwide Tour in 1990. He won the Ben Hogan Baton Rouge Open and the Ben Hogan Elizabethtown Open en route to an 8th-place finish on the money list which earned him his PGA Tour card for 1991. He did not perform well enough on his rookie year on Tour to retain his card but got his Tour card for 1992 through qualifying school. After another poor year on the PGA Tour, he took a hiatus until earning his PGA Tour card for 1995 through qualifying school. He did not do well enough to retain his card but did record his best finish on the PGA Tour of his career, finishing in a tie for fourth at the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic. He took another hiatus from Tour and rejoined the Nationwide Tour in 1999 where he recorded five top-10 finishes. He played on the Nationwide Tour again in 2000, his last season on Tour. Thompson played on the NGA Hooters Tour in 1989, 1994 and from 1996 to 1999. He won six tournaments during that time. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
The Eleanor Ward Bridge is a four-lane road bridge in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It spans the Coquitlam River, connecting the Coquitlam Town Centre area with the Burke Mountain area of northeast Coquitlam. The $25 million bridge, with a span of 127 m (417 ft.), opened on August 26, 2006. The bridge construction was part of the David Avenue Connector project, officially launched on March 1, 2004, and included a second smaller bridge over Hyde Creek and two kilometres of new road between Pipeline Road in the west to Coast Meridian Road in the east. The roadway featured two travel lanes in each direction, four new traffic signals, on-street bicycle lanes, a new sidewalk, a mixed use path and improved street lighting. At the time, it was the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the City of Coquitlam. The bridge was dedicated to the memory of Eleanor Ward, a longtime Coquitlam community volunteer. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
The Independent Democrats was a South African political party, formed by former Pan Africanist Congress member Patricia de Lille in 2003 via floor crossing legislation. The party's platform is premised on opposition to corruption, with a mixture of right-liberal proposals and left-wing sensibilities. The party's strongholds were the Northern and Western Cape. On 15 August 2010, the party announced plans to merge with the larger Democratic Alliance as part of a plan to challenge the governing African National Congress (ANC). The party disbanded as a separate political organization in 2014. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
State Road 856 (SR 856), also known as the William Lehman Causeway, is a 1.704-mile-long (2.742 km) causeway connecting Biscayne Boulevard (U.S. Route 1/SR 5) in Aventura and Collins Avenue (SR A1A) in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. SR 856 is a limited access highway between the two termini. Pedestrians are prohibited, but (as part of a pilot project that also includes the Pineda Causeway) the shoulder is marked as a bike lane east of the Country Club Drives interchange (cyclists must exit here and use other roads to continue west). | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
Rianne van Rompaey (born 3 January 1996) is a Dutch model. She is currently ranked one of the Top 50 models in the fashion industry. She appeared on the cover of the 50th anniversary September issue of Vogue Italia, photographed by Steven Meisel, alongside over 50 supermodels including legends such as Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington; and current supermodels like Adriana Lima, Karlie Kloss, and Natasha Poly. Her beauty has been described as pre-Raphaelite. | Agent | Person | Model |
\"La dolce vita\" (\"The good life\") was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed in Finnish (despite the Italian of the title) by Anneli Saaristo. The song was conducted by Ossi Runne, who retired after this Contest (conducting 22 Finnish entries). The song was performed 14th on the night, following Austria's Thomas Forstner with \"Nur ein Lied\" and preceding France's Nathalie Pâque with \"J'ai volé la vie\". At the close of voting, it had received 76 points, placing 7th in a field of 22, Finland's best result in the Contest since 1975, and one which would not be bettered until 2006. The song is sung from the perspective of a person looking back at her life and coming to the conclusion that she has lived well and has no regrets. Saaristo also recorded the song in English under the same title; \"La Dolce Vita\". It was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 1990 Contest by Beat with \"Fri?\". | Work | Song | EurovisionSongContestEntry |
Melissus of Samos (/məˈlɪsəs/; Greek: Μέλισσος; fl. 5th century BC) was the third and last member of the ancient school of Eleatic philosophy, whose other members included Zeno and Parmenides. Little is known about his life except that he was the commander of the Samian fleet shortly before the Peloponnesian War. Melissus’ contribution to philosophy was a treatise of systematic arguments supporting Eleatic philosophy. Like Parmenides, he argued that reality is ungenerated, indestructible, indivisible, changeless, and motionless. In addition, he sought to show that reality is wholly unlimited, and infinitely extended in all directions; and since existence is unlimited, it must also be one. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
Cole Howard is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The role was originated by N.P. Schoch in 1980 and was dropped in 1981, before being brought back and portrayed by J. Eddie Peck from 1993 to 1999. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy (Hungarian: Esterházy II. Miklós, German: Nikolaus II Esterházy; 12 December 1765 – 1833) was a wealthy Hungarian prince. He served the Austrian Empire and was a member of the famous Esterházy family. He is especially remembered for his art collection and for his role as the last patron of Joseph Haydn. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Henry William \"Harry\" Mallin (1 June 1892 – 8 November 1969) was an English middleweight amateur boxer. He came originally from Hackney Wick, his younger brother was the Olympic boxer Fred Mallin . He lived in Dartmouth Park, North London and worked as a police officer. | Agent | Boxer | AmateurBoxer |
The William and Anita Newman Library, located at 151 E. 25th Street in New York, NY, serves the students and faculty of Baruch College. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | Library |
Nicolai Hartmann (German: [ˈhaɐ̯tman]; 20 February 1882 – 9 October 1950) was a Baltic German philosopher. He is regarded as a key representative of critical realism and as one of the most important twentieth century metaphysicians. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
Andeolus or Andéol was born in Smyrna in the 2nd century. A subdeacon, he was sent by Polycarp, along with Benignus, to evangelize southern Gaul. He went to the Vivarais. Septimius Severus, passing through that region, had him put to death. His head was stabbed with a gladius on May 1, 208, at Bergoiata, a Gallic settlement on a rocky peak over the Rhône River which would be later known as Bourg-Saint-Andéol. The body, thrown into the Rhone, was later found and placed in a sarcophagus by a rich Roman woman, Anycia or Amycia Eucheria Tullia (Blessed Tullie), daughter of senator Eucherius Valerianus (Eucherius of Lyon). His sarcophagus was rediscovered in 1865 during excavations in the St. Polycarp chapel of the eleventh-century church in Bourg-Saint-Andéol (Ardèche). | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
The EMLL 20th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) that took place on September 25, 1953 in Arena Coliseo, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 20th anniversary of EMLL, which would become the oldest professional wrestling promotion in the world. The Anniversary show is EMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. | Event | SportsEvent | WrestlingEvent |
The South African Naval Museum at the South African Navy's base in Simon's Town is a project by the South African Naval Heritage Trust. The SA Navy Museum is housed in and around the original Dockyard Magazine/Storehouse and is staffed by Naval Personnel and civilian volunteers. There is no admission fee. A major exhibit of the museum's is the SAS Assegaai, a Daphné class submarine. It is the first and thus far only former SA Navy submarine to have been converted into a museum ship. It is open to the public for guided tours by former submariners. The submarine is currently afloat in the Navy base, but there are plans to bring her ashore. The building was declared a Provincial Heritage Site in 1997. | Place | Building | Museum |
Samuel Davis Dalembert (born May 10, 1981) is a Haitian-Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the Shanxi Zhongyu of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for Seton Hall University. He is known for his excellent shot blocking ability, having averaged about two blocks per game over his NBA career. | Agent | Athlete | BasketballPlayer |
\"Dani California\" is a single from the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium. The single was first made available at the iTunes Music Store and then was officially released on May 2, 2006. The international radio premiere was April 3, 2006, when Don Jantzen, from the Houston radio station KTBZ-FM, played \"Dani California\" continuously for his entire three-hour program. The single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 24 and peaked at number 6, becoming the band's third single (after \"Under the Bridge\" and \"Scar Tissue\") to enter the top-ten. In addition, \"Dani California\" became the second song in history (after R.E.M.'s 1994 hit \"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?\") to debut at number 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, where it spent fourteen straight weeks topping the chart. The single also charted at number 1 on the Mainstream Rock charts, where it spent twelve straight weeks on top. The song won two Grammy Awards, one for Best Rock Song and the other for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. It also marked the band's joint-biggest UK hit to date along with \"By the Way\", peaking at number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, being kept out of number 1 by Gnarls Barkley's \"Crazy\". | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Car and Driver (CD or C/D) is an American automotive enthusiast magazine. Its total circulation is 1.23 million. It is owned by Hearst Magazines, who purchased prior owner Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in 2011. Originally headquartered in New York City, the magazine has been based in Ann Arbor, Michigan since the late 1970s. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
Distort Entertainment is a Canadian independent record label based in Toronto, Ontario. The label specializes in bands performing hardcore punk-derived music, including Alexisonfire, Cancer Bats and Johnny Truant, but its sister division Distort Light has also released less aggressive rock bands such as Bend Sinister. | Agent | Company | RecordLabel |
Hyperolius polli is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family.It is found in Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo.Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
The Hyundai Beta engine is a 1.6 L to 2.0 L straight-4 built in Ulsan, South Korea. All Beta engines are DOHC designs. | Device | Engine | AutomobileEngine |
KTH Krynica is an ice hockey team in Krynica-Zdroj, Poland, which has temporarily suspended operations due to financial constraints. The team last competed in the Polish 1. Liga, the second level of ice hockey in Poland, during the 2014-15 season. | Agent | SportsTeam | HockeyTeam |
Fredericksburg is a town in Posey Township, Washington County, Indiana, United States. The population was 85 at the 2010 census. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Chisato Morishita (森下 千里 Morishita Chisato, born September 1, 1981 in Nagoya, Aichi) is a Japanese idol, tarento, actress, and former race queen. | Agent | Actor | AdultActor |
Nodens Ictus are a British electronic music band formed in 1986 as an offshoot of British psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles. | Agent | Group | Band |
Mainz (/maɪnts/; German: [maɪ̯nt͡s] ; Latin: Mogontiacum, French: Mayence) is the capital and largest city of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It was the capital of the Electorate of Mainz at the time of the Holy Roman Empire. In antiquity Mainz was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire; it was founded as a military post by the Romans in the late 1st century BC and became the provincial capital of Germania Superior. The city is located on the river Rhine at its confluence with the Main opposite Wiesbaden, in the western part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main; in the modern age, Frankfurt shares much of its regional importance. The city is famous as the home of the invention of the movable-type printing press, as the first books printed using movable type were manufactured in Mainz by Gutenberg in the early 1450s. Until the twentieth century, Mainz was usually referred to in English by its French name: Mayence. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Grimsby Town Football Club entered the 2011–12 season as a member of the Conference National for the second season running. The club are managed by Rob Scott and Paul Hurst who were appointed in the previous season. | Agent | OrganisationMember | SportsTeamMember |
\"Einfach weg\" (English translation: \"Just Get Away\", also \"Simply Gone\") was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984, performed in German by Anita. The song was performed thirteenth on the night (following Yugoslavia's Izolda & Vlado with \"Ciao, amore\" and preceding Germany's Mary Roos with \"Aufrecht geh'n\"). At the close of voting, it had received 5 points, placing 19th (last) in a field of 19. The song is about the singer's need to get away from her life, regardless of what others might think. It was succeeded as Austrian representative in the 1985 Contest by Gary Lux singing \"Kinder dieser Welt\". Gary actually provided backing to Anita. | Work | Song | EurovisionSongContestEntry |
Abreu Vineyards is a winery in Napa Valley, California founded by the viticulturist David Abreu. | Agent | Company | Winery |
Jordan Cantwell (born 1967) is the Moderator of the United Church of Canada. She was ordained as a minister of the United Church in 2010, and was elected to the position of Moderator at the 42nd General Council of the church in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador in 2015. | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
Endre Hegedűs (born 1954 in Hungary) is an internationally known piano soloist. He graduated from Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a pianist, both performing artist and teacher in 1980. Since 1999 he has been a professor of the Academy. Hegedűs has participated in 20 international piano competitions and has won several prizes among them first prizes in Monza and at the Rachmaninov Competition in Morcone, both in Italy. During the Liszt Centennial Year in 1986 he was awarded the Franz Liszt Commemorative Plate of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and the International Liszt Society for his outstanding interpretations of works by the great composer Franz Liszt. He has recorded 27 albums under the labels Hungaroton, Marco Polo and Studio Liszt Productions. His album containing the complete Bellini-LIszt operatic fantasies published by the Hungaroton in 1993 received the Franz Liszt International Grand Prix du Disque from the International Liszt Society. Hungarian television companies made 12 films taken from his public concerts and transmitted them on various occasions. The total length of these films exceeds 18 hours. In 1999 Hegedűs has been included into the roster of Steinway Artists by the Steinway Center in New York. In Hungary in the year 2000 he was awarded the State Franz Liszt Prize. In 2004 the artist received from the hands of President Ferenc Madl the Medal of Merit of the President of the Hungarian Republic - for his world-wide concert activities and for his abilities to create harmony between music and its audience. In the course of Mr. Hegedűs' 30 years of pianistic career he performed more than 2600 times on public appearances. Beside his live concert activities in his home-land, Hungary he regularly gives concerts in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Canada and in the United States of America. Hegedűs resides in Budapest, Hungary with his wife, Katalin (also a concert pianist). They have three children. | Agent | MusicalArtist | ClassicalMusicArtist |
Cephalopholis miniata, known commonly as the coral hind, is a species of marine fish in the family Serranidae. Other names include miniatus grouper, miniata grouper, coral or blue-spot rockcod, vermilion seabass, and coral grouper. The coral hind is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific area, including Durban, South Africa, the Red Sea, and Line Islands. The coral hind is a medium size fish and can reach a maximum size of 50 centimetres (20 in) length. | Species | Animal | Fish |
The Man of Destiny is an 1897 play by George Bernard Shaw, set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included Arms and the Man, Candida and You Never Can Tell. Shaw titled the volume Plays Pleasant in order to contrast it with his first book of plays, Plays Unpleasant. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
The M80 Ring Road, more formally known as the Western Ring Road and Metropolitan Ring Road, is an urban freeway corridor in Melbourne, Australia. It connects the northern suburbs and western suburbs to other Victorian urban and rural freeways: \n* Hume Freeway x \n* Tullamarine Freeway xx \n* Calder Freeway xx \n* Western Freeway x \n* West Gate Freeway and Princes Freeway x It is linked to the eastern suburbs by the shorter Metropolitan Ring Road; the two are collectively called 'the Ring Road', and are generally considered together on traffic reports. It is signed as route M80 for its entire length. The road relieves freight traffic from Sydney Road, Pascoe Vale Road and Geelong Road and funnels them to the freeways. With connections to every major interstate and regional freeways, it has encouraged both industrial and residential growth in Melbourne's western suburbs. Over the past few years there have been discussions about extending the Metropolitan Ring Road from Greensborough Road and tunnelling it under Greensborough and going through the Banyule Flats and connecting to the Eastern Freeway at Bulleen. A study has been initiated by VicRoads to supplement the Western Ring Road with an Outer Metropolitan Ring Road. A major upgrade of the entire route commenced in 2009 and was partially completed in 2014, and includes widening and a Freeway Management System. The remaining sections that are yet to be upgraded are expected to be completed by late 2020. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
Ushirombo is a town in northwestern Tanzania. The town is the location of the district headquarters of Bukombe District. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Kengo Kuma (隈 研吾 Kuma Kengo, born 1954) is a Japanese architect and professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo. Frequently compared to contemporaries Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima, Kuma is also noted for his prolific writings. | Agent | Person | Architect |
1112 Polonia, provisional designation 1928 PE, is a main-belt asteroid orbiting the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.4 AU. It was discovered by Pelageya Shajn on August 15, 1928, and independently discovered by her colleague Grigory Neujmin, both at Simeiz Observatory in Crimea. The 36-kilometer in diameter, S-type asteroid was the first to be discovered by a female astronomer. The asteroid was given the Latin name of the country of Poland. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
(The native form of this personal name is Schatzl Nadine. This article uses the Western name order.) Nadine Schatzl (born 19 November 1993) is a Hungarian handballer who plays for Ferencvárosi TC. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Sam Austin Querrey (born October 7, 1987) is an American professional tennis player from San Francisco, California, who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. His career-high singles ranking is world no. 17, achieved in January 2011. Known for his powerful serve, Querrey holds the record for consecutive service aces: 10. He is also a capable doubles player, with five doubles titles and a career-high doubles ranking of world no. 23. He regularly partners with fellow American John Isner. In singles, Querrey has won eight titles. His best performance in a Grand Slam event was at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the quarterfinal. In the third round of the tournament, Querrey defeated world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in four sets, ending a run of 30 consecutive Grand Slam wins. At the time, Djokovic held all four Grand Slam singles titles, and was the two-time defending champion at Wimbledon. Other career highlights for Querrey include reaching the semifinals of the 2015 US Open in men's doubles with Steve Johnson and the final of the mixed doubles event in the same tournament, partnering with Bethanie Mattek-Sands. He has also twice reached the semifinals of the Davis Cup with the United States team, in 2008 and 2012. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
The Marxist–Leninist League of Tigray (MLLT) was a semi-clandestine Hoxhaist Communist party that held a leading role in the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF) in the 1980s. The majority of the TPLF leadership held dual membership in the MLLT, including Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1995 until his death in 2012. According to a 1986 article in the League’s publication, The People’s Voice, the MLLT was first established in 1983 as \"pre-party organization\" called the Organization of the Vanguard Elements. This grouping would become the MLLT in 1985 to serve as a \"vanguard party for the TPLF\". According to Aregawi Berhe, the MLLT held its founding congress on 25 July 1985 in the gorge of the Wari River. Posing as orthodox defenders of Marxism-Leninism and allying itself with the communist current associated with the hard-line Enver Hoxha regime in Albania, the MLLT saw its goals as spreading Marxism-Leninism throughout the world and \"engaging in a bitter struggle against all brands of revisionism,\" which they defined using the parlance of the Albanian ruling Communist Party of Labor, as including “Khrushchevism, Titoism, Trotskyism, Euro-Communism and Maoism.” The emergence of the MLLT created some rifts with the Eritrean People's Liberation Front with which the TPLF was allied against the ruling Soviet-backed Ethiopian Derg. The MLLT took a much harder line on the role of the Soviet Union in the world, which they along with Albania viewed as social-imperialist and an enemy of the oppressed of the world. The EPLF held a more flexible line viewing the Soviet support for the Derg as a tactical mistake on their part and avoided any public denunciations of the Soviet Union. With the coming to power of the TPLF in 1991 and the collapse of communist regime in Albania, the TPLF dropped all references to Marxism-Leninism. The leadership of the TPLF claims that the MLLT dissolved when the TPLF-backed Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front took power after the collapse of the Derg in 1991. While many current TPLF leaders downplay or minimize the influence of MLLT on the TPLF, it is clear that it played a major leadership role in the TPLF for most of its existence. Some scholars (such as Kahsay Berhe) believe the MLLT played a role in the removal of TPLF founders Giday Zera Tsion and Aregawi Berhe in late July 1985. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
The Owl Answers is a short one-act experimental drama by Adrienne Kennedy. It premiered in 1965 at The White Barn Theatre in Westport, CT. The play was Kennedy’s second, coming one year after her most famous piece, the Obie award winning, Funnyhouse of a Negro. Subsequent productions have been produced as part of a two act show, Cities in Bezique, along with another one-act of Kennedy's; A Beast Story. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
The Battle of Hamakouladji was skirmish fought between a unit of the Malian army and MOJWA jihadists that took place in the Malian village of Hamakouladji, located 40 km (25 miles) north of Gao, in the municipality of Tilemsi. According to Colonel Kassim Goita, a senior commander in the Malian army around the Gao Region, clashes began at around 1:30 p.m and continued for a ten-minute period when a group of Malian soldiers pursued a suspicious man on a motorcycle after he failed to stop at an army checkpoint just on the outskirts of town for a routine identity check. The motorcyclist eventually gave way. While the motorcyclist was being searched and interrogated by soldiers an unidentified vehicle filled with gunmen surged forward spraying the troops with gunfire. This served as a temporary distraction allowing the motorcyclist to detonate the explosive belts he was wearing mortally instantly killing two soldiers and severely wounding four others. By 1:40 p.m, the MOJWA gunmen in the unmarked car were all reported killed supposedly before they had enough time to remotely detonate a car bomb. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
Cathal Scally (born 1994 in Clonkill, County Westmeath, Ireland) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Clonkill and has been a member of the Westmeath senior inter-county team since 2011. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
Riko Anakubo (born 28 January 1991) is a Japanese individual rhythmic gymnast. She represents her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Presious Passion (foaled March 5, 2003) is a multiple Grade I winning Thoroughbred racehorse. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
The Orlando Magic is an American professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. The Magic compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The franchise was established in 1989 as an expansion franchise, and such notable NBA stars as Shaquille O'Neal, Penny Hardaway, Patrick Ewing, Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady, Steve Francis, Dwight Howard, Vince Carter, and Rashard Lewis have played for the club throughout its young history. The franchise has also played in the NBA playoffs for more than half of its existence (14 playoff appearances in 27 years). Orlando has been the second most successful of the four expansion teams brought into the league in 1988 and 1989 in terms of winning percentage, after the Miami Heat. | Agent | SportsTeam | BasketballTeam |
José Navarro Morenés (December 8, 1897 – December 13, 1974) was a Spanish horse rider who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Madrid. In the 1924 Summer Olympics he finished 30th in the individual jumping and placed eighth with the Spain team in the team jumping. Four years later he won the gold medal as part of the Spanish team in the team jumping with his horse Zapatazo after finishing fifth in the individual jumping. Twenty years after his first medal, he won the silver medal in the team jumping and finished tenth in the individual jumping. | Agent | Athlete | HorseRider |
The 1969 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the sixth World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 October on the West Course at Wentworth. Eight players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 36 holes. The champion received £5,750 out of a total prize fund of £18,400. In the final, Bob Charles beat Gene Littler with an eagle at the 37th hole. For the first time all tickets had to be bought in advance. Tickets cost £2 and were restricted to 8,000 on the first day, 5,000 on the second and 3,000 for the final. The tournament that had, in previous years, been played on the East Course immediately before the World Match Play Championship was replaced by the Piccadilly Medal played at Prince's Golf Club from 16 to 19 July. 64 players competed in the knock-out stroke play competition with early rounds being over 18 holes and a 36 hole final. The winner was Peter Alliss who won £1,500. | Event | Tournament | GolfTournament |
Piano no Mori: The Perfect World of Kai (ピアノの森 – The perfect world of KAI, lit. \"Piano's Forest\") is a manga by Makoto Isshiki. It was serialized by Kodansha from 1998 to 2015, initially in Young Magazine Uppers before transferring to Weekly Morning. Serialization is irregular, and went on hiatus in 2002 before resuming in 2006. The series ended after 26 bound volumes. The series was adapted as a 2007 Japanese animated feature film by director Masayuki Kojima and production company Madhouse. The film featured performances by the renowned pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy. | Work | Comic | Manga |
\"I Ain't Never\" is a song, recorded in 1972, by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Co-written by Tillis and country singer Webb Pierce, it was Pierce who had the first hit recording of \"I Ain't Never.\" Pierce's version was released in 1959, eventually spending nine weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot C&W Sides chart that year (held out by \"The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches)\" by The Browns). The pop market accepted the Webb Pierce version, crossing it into the Billboard Top 40 and peaking at #24. The success of the 1972 version was limited to country music stations. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
The Army of Condé (French: Armée de Condé) was a French field army during the French Revolutionary Wars. One of several émigré field armies, it was the only one to survive the War of the First Coalition; others had been formed by the Comte d'Artois (brother of King Louis XVI) and Mirabeau-Tonneau. The émigré armies were formed by aristocrats and nobles who had fled from the violence in France after the August Decrees. The army was commanded by Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the cousin of Louis XVI of France. Among its members were Condé's grandson, the Duc d'Enghien and the two sons of Louis XVI's younger brother, the Comte d'Artois, and so the army was sometimes also called the Princes' Army. Financial difficulties forced Condé to appeal to foreign courts for support. Although the Army fought in conjunction with the Austrian army, many of the generals in Habsburg service distrusted Louis Joseph and policy makers in Vienna considered the army and its officers unreliable. Furthermore, conflicting goals of the French royalists and the Habsburgs frequently placed Louis Joseph at odds with the Habsburg military leadership. | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
Tour de Ijen is a men's one-day cycle race which takes place in Indonesia and was rated by the UCI as 2.2 and forms part of the UCI Asia Tour. | Event | Race | CyclingRace |
For other people named Arthur Adams, see the Arthur Adams disambiguation page Arthur \"Art\" Adams (born April 5, 1963) is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot. His subsequent interior comics work includes a number of Marvel's major books, including The Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur, X-Factor, Fantastic Four, Hulk and Ultimate X, as well books by various other publishers, such as Action Comics, Vampirella, The Rocketeer and The Authority. Adams has also illustrated books featuring characters for which he has a personal love, such as Godzilla, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Gumby, the latter of which garnered him a 1988 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue. In 1994, Adams joined a group of creators that included Frank Miller, John Byrne and Mike Mignola to form Legend, an imprint of creator-owned comics published by Dark Horse Comics, through which Adams published Monkeyman and O'Brien, a science fiction adventure series featuring archetypal sci-fi monsters that Adams wrote and illustrated. Although the Legend imprint ceased in 1998, Monkeyman and O'Brien continued to appear in print, sometimes in crossover stories with other comics characters, such as Gen¹³/Monkeyman and O'Brien (1998), and Savage Dragon #41 (September 1997). Because of his reputedly tight, labor-intensive penciling style, which was initially influenced by Michael Golden and Walter Simonson, and his admittedly slow pace, Adams does not work as the regular artist on long-running monthly series, but usually provides artwork for short storylines, one-shots, miniseries or contributions to anthologies, such as his 2002–2004 work on \"Jonni Future\", a pulp science fiction series he co-created with Steve Moore for the Wildstorm Productions anthology Tom Strong's Terrific Tales, and his 2008 work on Hulk #7 - 9. His other published work consists of cover work for books such as Avengers Classic, Wonder Woman and JLA, as well as pinups and other spot illustrations for books such as Sin City, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and his own published sketchbook series, Arthur Adams Sketchbook. He has also done design work for toys and video games. He is one of the most popular and widely imitated artists in the comics industry, whose drawing style has been credited as an influence upon the artists associated with the founding and early days of Image Comics such as J. Scott Campbell. | Agent | Artist | ComicsCreator |
Sirenoscincus mobydick is a species of mermaid skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. In 2012, the species was first described in a paper by French herpetologists Aurélien Miralles, Miguel Vences, and their colleagues. | Species | Animal | Reptile |
The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in southeastern New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. With an average weekday ridership of 337,800 passengers in 2014, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America. It is also one of the world's few commuter systems that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year-round. It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, who refer to it as MTA Long Island Rail Road. The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains. The LIRR is one of two commuter rail systems the MTA owns, the other being Metro-North Railroad. Established in 1834 and having operated continuously since then, it is the second oldest U.S. railroad still operating under its original name and charter. There are 124 stations, and more than 700 miles (1,100 km) of track, on its two lines to the two forks of the island and eight major branches, with the passenger railroad system totaling 319 miles (513 km) of route. | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
Carlton Lee Cooke (born July 12, 1944) is an American politician and businessman. He served as mayor of Austin, Texas from 1988 to 1991. He moved to Austin, Texas in 1970, from service in Vietnam as an air force officer, and was stationed at Bergstrom Air Force Base. He is a former employee of Texas Instruments. He served on Austin City Council for two terms, starting in 1977, and was President/CEO of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce from 1983 to 1987. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
Garin Higgins (born October 11, 1969) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, a position he has held since the 2007 season. Higgins served as the head football coach at Northwestern Oklahoma State University from 2000 to 2004. His Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers finished as runners-up in the NAIA Football National Championship in 2000 and 2003. He was also the offensive coordinator for Northwestern Oklahoma State's undefeated NAIA National Championship team in 1999. Higgins was named to his current post at Emporia State on December 15, 2006, replacing Dave Wiemers. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
Louise Nalbandian was a historian and professor in the History Department of CSU Fresno from 1964 to 1974. | Agent | Writer | Historian |
Yoshida Castle (吉田城 Yoshida-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Toyohashi, southeastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Yoshida Castle was home to the Inaba clan, daimyō of Tateyama Domain. The castle was also known as Imahashi Castle (今橋城 Imahashi-jō), and later as Toyohashi Castle. | Place | Building | Castle |
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