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Zinaida Voronina, born Zinaida Borisovna Druzhinina (also Druginina), (Russian: Зинаида Борисовна Дружинина Воронина; 10 December 1947, in Yoshkar-Ola, Mari ASSR – 17 March 2001) was a Soviet gymnast who competed at the European, World, and Olympic level from the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Voronina's major debut came at the 1966 World Championships in Dortmund, Germany. There she won a bronze medal on the floor exercise, receiving the highest individual score of any gymnast at those games (9.933). She trained with Vladimir Shelkovnikov. She went on to win several individual medals over the next four years, most notably at the 1968 Summer Olympics where she won the individual all-around silver behind Věra Čáslavská. At the same games, she became Olympic champion in the team competition. Around the time of the 1968 games, she married Olympic gymnast Mikhail Voronin. Shortly thereafter she gave birth to a son, Dmitry, and came back to further successes at the 1970 World Championships, among other games. She attempted to make the Soviet team for the 1972 Olympics, but faced a strong competition and only placed 10th in the individual all-around at the national championships. The same year she retired and started working as a gymnastics coach together with her husband. Saddled with her professional life and a difficult childhood (alcoholic mother, father she never met) she struggled with alcoholism. In 1980, she was divorced from her husband, who received custody of their son (he later became a competitive gymnast). Subsequently, she was sent out of Moscow for \"anti-social behavior\". She spent the remainder of her years working in a factory in Balashikha, Russia, dying in March 2001 at the age of 53. In 1969, she was awarded the \"Order of the Badge of Honor\". | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
WCXI (1160 AM) is a radio station licensed to Fenton, Michigan. The station broadcasts to the Flint area and the northwestern suburbs of Detroit. The station went on the air in 1985 as WFEN with a MOR format and has sported several formats (including country, oldies, black gospel, and most recently classic country) and call signs in the years since. As of September 2010, WCXI has dropped its classic country format and is now playing oldies in a temporary relocation of the format of sister station WPON 1460 AM in Walled Lake, Michigan. It is not clear at this time whether this arrangement is permanent, but the station has a construction permit to change its city of license to Wixom in Oakland County and increase its daytime power to 15,000 watts, which would effectively make it a suburban Detroit station. WPON went silent in October 2010 so improvements could be made to its signal with WPON's programming continuing on WCXI. The WCXI calls were used in Detroit from the late 1970s to the early 1990s at what is now WDFN 1130 AM, and also in the early 1980s as WCXI-FM at 92.3 FM (now WMXD). It has also been used at what was previously and is now WIBM 1450 AM in Jackson, Michigan. Fittingly, all stations previously using the WCXI calls played country music. A new transmitter site is proposed in Milford Township, Michigan to serve both WCXI and the now silent WPON. WCXI is widely known throughout Detroit's large Indian American and Desi population. It has many shows featuring Hindi and other Indian language songs in the superhit Rockin' Raaga hosted by Anu, Geetmala and Voice of Pakistan. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
Charles Delano (June 24, 1820 – January 23, 1883) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in New Braintree, Massachusetts, Delano moved with his parents to Amherst in 1833.He attended the common schools and graduated from Amherst College in 1840, where he studied law. Delano was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Amherst. He moved to Northampton in 1848 and continued the practice of law. He served as Treasurer of Hampshire County from 1849 to 1858. Delano was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862, and resumed the practice of law. In 1874, Delano was appointed to be an assistant coroner for the inquest into deaths that resulted from a dam break on the Mill River, which caused a flood in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. Later he served as a trustee of the Clarke School for the Education of the Deaf from 1877 to 1883. Delano was appointed by Governor Alexander H. Rice in 1878 to act as special counsel for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in matters relating to the Hoosac Tunnel and the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, and served in this capacity until his death in Northampton on January 23, 1883. He was interred in Bridge Street Cemetery. | Agent | Politician | Congressman |
Big Echo is the second studio album released by The Morning Benders, currently known as POP ETC, in 2010. It was co-produced by Grizzly Bear bassist Chris Taylor. | Work | MusicalWork | Album |
The 42nd Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North West, also known as 42 (North West) Brigade, is a brigade of the British Army. | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
The Bahamas national rugby union team represent the Bahamas in the sport of rugby union. The team have thus far not qualified for a Rugby World Cup, but have participated in qualifying tournament. The nation is classified as tier three by the International Rugby Board (IRB). | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
The 1975 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) during the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. Navy competed as an independent with no conference affiliation. The team was led by third-year head coach George Welsh. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
Buddleja 'Ellen's Blue' is an American cultivar, raised from a chance seedling of 'Lochinch' in the garden of Ellen Hornig, Seneca Hill Perennials, Oswego, New York. Following the Royal Horticultural Society's Buddleja Euro-trials at Wisley, 'Ellen's Blue' was recommended for an Award of Garden Merit in 2010. | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
The Turkish Women’s Basketball League (Turkish: Türkiye 1. Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi, TKBL) or Turkish Women’s Basketball Super League (Turkish: Kadınlar Basketbol Süper Ligi, KBSL) is the top women’s professional basketball league in Turkey organized by the Turkey Basketball Federation. The women’s league started in 1980. There is also a Turkish Women’s Second Basketball League (TKB2L). | Agent | SportsLeague | BasketballLeague |
Kauppakeskus Valkea (English: Shopping centre White) is a shopping mall in Oulu, Finland. The mall includes about 60 shops, department store Sokos and 66 apartments. It's Osuuskauppa Arina's biggest investment so far, about 100 million euros. The estimated amount of new jobs it offers is about 400. The mall was opened on 14 April 2016. The opening weekend gathered over 80 000 people to the mall. The opening day itself attracted over 23 000 shoppers. | Place | Building | ShoppingMall |
The 1975 Edmonton Eskimos finished in 1st place in the Western Conference with a 12–4–0 record and won the 63rd Grey Cup. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
The Nova Scotia New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial party in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is aligned with the federal New Democratic Party (NDP). Originally founded as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1932, it became the New Democratic Party in 1961. It became the governing party of Nova Scotia following the 2009 Nova Scotia Election. They made history by becoming the first New Democratic Party in Atlantic Canada to form a government. Much of the party's success prior to the 2009 election was based in the urban areas of the provincial capital, the Halifax Regional Municipality, however the party's support has grown to the rest of Nova Scotia. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
Harm Kuipers (born 22 November 1947 in Vries, Drenthe) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands. Kuipers combined his sports careers with being a Medicine student at the University of Groningen. Preferring his studies over speed skating, he did not participate in the 1972 Winter Olympics, a decision he still regrets today. The best year of his speed skating career was 1975, when he became World Allround Champion, after having won silver the year before. From 1971 to 1976, Kuipers also was a successful amateur bicycle racer. Apart from combining his studies with his sports careers, another thing that set Kuipers apart was that he was his own coach, something that was in line with his later scientific career. After winning his world title in 1975, Kuipers concentrated on his scientific career, receiving his M.Sc. in Medicine from the University of Groningen in 1975, a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Maastricht in 1983, and he became a full professor at the University of Maastricht in 1992 at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences – Department of Human Movement Sciences. Until 2012, he was a professor of Human Movement Sciences at the University of Maastricht where much of his research focused on the health aspects of physical activity, energy metabolism during exercise, and nutrition. Since 2000, Kuipers has been a medical advisor to the International Skating Union. From 2000 to 2003, he was member of the list committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He also is a member of the medical committee of the International Olympic Committee and an advisor to the Sports Physiotherapy For All (SPA) Project of the International Federation of Sports Physiotherapy (IFSP). Early in 2010 Kuipers was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He is open about his illness and has talked about it on regional television. Being a doctor he is keen on helping other patients, which is why he wishes to share his own experiences with this disease. Kuipers hopes to beat the statistics for people with prostate cancer. End of 2011 a second cancer, esophagus cancer, was found. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Skater |
Jake Sasseville is an American television personality who has hosted and produced a variety of television talk shows, such as The Edge with Jake Sasseville and Late Night Republic with Jake Sasseville, on various ABC, The CW, and FOX television affiliates from 2008 to 2011. In addition, Sasseville is the author of Slightly Famous, an autobiography that describes his rise to \"slight\" fame. Since 2014, he has hosted The Jake Sasseville Show, a podcast having an audience of one million listeners and called \"the intersection of Culture and Consciousness\" by the Huffington Post. | Agent | Artist | Comedian |
The 1946 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 1946 college football season. The team played in the Bacardi Bowl. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
The Vikings are Denmark's national Australian rules football team.The team formed in 1992 to play the North London Lions from the British Australian Rules Football League in Denmark. The Vikings represent the best Danish born players selected from the clubs of the Danish Australian Football League. The Vikings wear the national colours of red and white, with the top half of Australian rules football in the shape of a horned \"Viking\" helmet. Proper internationals began in 1994 when Denmark played an international in England. In 1995, the DAFL took a decision to exclude Australians from its national team. Since then, the Vikings have participated in the inaugural 2002 Australian Football International Cup held in Melbourne (finishing 4th). The national team was one of two teams (the other being Nauru) that withdrew from the 2005 tournament due to an inability of the Danish league to finance the trip. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
Forrest Oliver Fezler (born September 23, 1949) is an American golf course design consultant and former PGA Tour professional golfer. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
Takemitsu Uranishi (born 10 October 1940) is a Japanese professional golfer. Uranishi played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning once. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
\"Two More Bottles of Wine\" is a song written by Delbert McClinton, and recorded by American country music artist Emmylou Harris. It was released in April 1978 as the first single from the album Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town. \"Two More Bottles of Wine\" topped the U.S. country singles charts. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
The Black Fork is a principal tributary of the Mohican River, 58.4 miles (94 km) long, in north-central Ohio in the United States. Via the Mohican, Walhonding, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 351 square miles (909 km²). According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as \"Armstrongs Creek\" and \"Black Fork Creek.\" The Black Fork rises about 7 miles (11 km) west of Mansfield in Richland County, and initially flows northward through the city of Shelby, then eastward across northern Richland County before turning southeast for the remainder of its course through eastern Richland and southern Ashland Counties, past the towns of Perrysville and Loudonville. It joins the Clear Fork in Ashland County to form the Mohican River, about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Loudonville. A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam in Ashland County, completed in 1936, causes the Black Fork to form Charles Mill Lake. | Place | Stream | River |
Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
Dang Seong-jeung (Hangul: 당성증; born 4 January 1966) is a retired South Korean footballer and coach. On 29 November 2012, he was appointed manager of Daegu FC. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Aceria is a genus of mites belonging to the family Eriophyidae, the gall mites. These tiny animals are parasites of plants. Several species can cause blistering and galls, including erineum galls. A few are economically significant pests, while others are useful as agents of biological pest control of invasive plants such as rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea), creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense), and field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). There are over 900 species in this genus. | Species | Animal | Arachnid |
The South East Queensland Stars are an Australian professional women's basketball team competing in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). The team is based in Brisbane, Queensland. | Agent | SportsTeam | BasketballTeam |
Luigi Villoresi (16 May 1909 – 24 August 1997) was an Italian Grand Prix motor racing driver who continued racing on the Formula One circuit at the time of its inception. | Agent | RacingDriver | FormulaOneRacer |
Kevin Buchanan is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live. The character is the first child born to original lead protagonists Victoria Lord and Joe Riley. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Timothy Andrew Koogle (born July 1951) was first CEO and President of web company Yahoo! between 1995 and 2001. He served as the company's chairman from 1999-2003. He was named to the Top 25 Executives of the Year by BusinessWeek in 1999 and 2000. | Agent | Person | BusinessPerson |
Count Philip VII of Waldeck-Wildungen (25 November 1613 in Alt-Wildungen – 24 February 1645 in Tábor in Bohemia) was the second but eldest surviving son of Count Christian of Waldeck-Wildungen (1585–1637) and his wife Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen (1584–1661). In 1638, Philip VII succeeded his father as Count of Waldeck-Wildungen. His younger brother John (1623–1668) was Count of Waldeck-Landau as John II. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Raiko (Japanese: 雷鼓, literally thunder drum) is a Japanese satellite which was built and operated by Tohoku and Wakayama Universities. A two-unit CubeSat, Raiko was deployed from the International Space Station on October 4, 2012, having been launched in July. Raiko was launched aboard the Kounotori 3 spacecraft, atop an H-IIB carrier rocket flying from Pad 2 of the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Centre. The launch occurred at 02:06 UTC on 21 July 2012. Four other CubeSats were launched with Raiko; We-Wish, Niwaka, TechEdSat and F-1. The five CubeSats was delivered to the International Space Station for deployment. CubeSats were deployed from Japanese Experiment Module Kibo via the J-SSOD system on October 4, 2012 . Named after a Japanese god of thunder, Raiko is a 2-kilogram (4.4 lb) spacecraft, which will be used for technology demonstration. It carries a camera with a fish-eye lens for Earth imaging, a prototype star tracker, a deployable membrane to slow the satellite, lowering its orbit, a photographic system to measure the satellite's movement relative to the International Space Station, and a Ku-band antenna for communications and Doppler ranging experiments. We-Wish, Raiko, FITSat 1, F-1, and TechEdSat travelled to orbit aboard HTV-3. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qurei (or Qureia; أحمد علي محمد قريع, Aḥmad ʿAlī Muḥammad Qurayʿ), also known by his Arabic kunya Abu Alaa (أبو علاء, Abū ʿAláʾ) (born March 26, 1938) is a former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. First appointed to the position in October 2003, he tendered his resignation on January 26, 2006, following the defeat of the Fatah party in the Palestinian legislative election, 2006, and remained in office in a caretaker capacity until 19 February when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. During his tenure as prime minister, he has also had responsibility for security matters. He has previously served as speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and held a variety of significant positions within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from the 1970s on. | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
Oliver Holzbecher (born 25 September 1970) is a German former footballer who played as a forward. Holzbecher was a West Germany youth international, and came through the youth team of Hertha BSC. He made his Hertha debut in the last game of the 1988–89 season, coming on as a 75th-minute substitute for Sven Kretschmer in a 1–0 defeat against Fortuna Köln. Over the next few years his appearances were restricted to Hertha's reserve team, where he was part of the team that reached the 1993 DFB Cup Final, losing 1–0 against Bayer Leverkusen. This gave him another chance at first-team action, and he made a further nine appearances in the 2. Bundesliga before leaving in 1995. He spent three years in the Regionalliga Nordost with Reinickendorfer Füchse, before playing out his career with an eight-year spell at Spandauer BC, who were renamed FC Spandau 06 in 2003. He retired in 2006. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
\"Siberian Breaks\" is a song by the American rock band MGMT, released as the second single from their second studio album Congratulations (2010) as an exclusive release part of Record Store Day on April 17, 2010. It is the longest track on the album and MGMT's second longest song to date, clocking in a minute and a half behind \"Metanoia.\" Andrew VanWyngarden has said that Siberian Breaks is his favorite song on the album. The song was released as a limited-edition 12\" blue marble vinyl single for Record Store Day 2010, featuring the full 12-minute album version of \"Siberian Breaks\" on side A, with side B featuring a special etched design. There were 2000 copies pressed and it has been said to be \"the perfect companion piece to the album\". VanWyngarden has said of the song, \"It's kind of like eight different songs strung together into one, and the general theme is about surfing in the Arctic Circle by Russia.\" | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed (Urdu: محمود احمد) (HI(M)), is a veteran intelligence officer and a retired three-star general in the Pakistan Army who served as a director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the principal intelligence body of Pakistan. He along with other generals were successful in overthrowing the elected government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif, in the 1999 coup d'état to bring General Pervez Musharraf to political power. He was serving as the Corp Commander of X Corps, Rawalpindi at that time. After the coup, General Mahmud was transferred as the Director General ISI, replacing Lieutenant General Ziauddin Butt, who was Sharif's choice to replace General Musharraf as the army chief before the coup. He himself was replaced by another career Army intelligence officer Lieutenant General Jamshed Gulzar Kayani (of the 38th PMA Long Course) as the Rawalpindi Corps Commander. During his time in ISI he pursued a Pakistani policy of supporting Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan such as Mohammed Omar. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
Kim Matulova is an American fashion model, actress and jewelry maker. She grew up in Sag Harbor, New York and was discovered by famous photographer Arthur Elgort at the age of 9. She starred in the James Toback NYC feature \"Black & White\" and the Nemo Librizzi film \"A Night at the Opera.\" She has modeled for Levis, Banana Republic, Kangol, Supreme, Seventeen Magazine, Betsey Johnson, DELiA*s and appeared in every issue of Missbehave Magazine. As a child she modelled for J Crew with Matthew Barney. She is known for being Ricky Powell's muse. She is also known for being the face of Melody Logan on the V. C. Andrews Logan book series. | Agent | Person | Model |
Daniel Wallace (born 14 April 1993) is a Scottish competition swimmer who has represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and FINA world championships, and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. The 2014 Commonwealth Games champion at 400 metre individual medley, he was part of the Great Britain 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay team that won gold at the 2015 FINA World Aquatics Championships, and silver at the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Melissa Giblon (born 1999) is a Canadian chess player who holds the position of two-time national champion in the Canadian Youth Chess Championships,. She represented Canada five times within six years at the WYCC (World Youth Chess Championships). She is also known for sponsoring Syrian refugees within the York region. | Agent | Athlete | ChessPlayer |
Andrew Frank Schoeppel (November 23, 1894 – January 21, 1962) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was the 29th Governor of Kansas from 1943 to 1947 and a U.S. Senator from 1949 until his death. He was born in 1894 in Claflin, Kansas and died in 1962 of abdominal cancer at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
Saint Defendens of Thebes (Italian: San Defendente di Tebe) is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church. Venerated as a soldier-saint, Defendens was, according to Christian tradition, a member of the Theban Legion, and thus martyred at Agaunum. Particular veneration for Defendens was widespread in Northern Italy; evidence for this cult dates from as early as 1328. His feast day was celebrated in the cities of Chivasso, Casale Monferrato, Novara, and Lodi on January 2, and oratories, altars, and confraternities were dedicated to him. He also enjoyed veneration in Marseilles; the Catholic Encyclopedia states that “several saints belong in a particular way to Marseilles: the soldier St. Victor, martyr under Maximian; the soldier St. Defendens and his companions, martyrs at the same time...” But as Antonio Borrelli writes, some scholars believe that the Defendens venerated in Italy is different from the martyr who was a member of the Theban Legion. | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
Aram Boghossian (born November 17, 1929 in Rio de Janeiro) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Brazil. At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he finished 8th in the 4×200-metre freestyle final, and swam the 100-metre freestyle, finishing 14th at semifinals. He broke the Brazilian record of the 100-metre freestyle in 1948. His record was broken only in 1956 by Haroldo Lara. At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with Ricardo Capanema, João Gonçalves Filho, and Tetsuo Okamoto. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he swam the 100-metre and 4×200-metre freestyle, not reaching the finals. On 2004, he still swim, now in the Masters category. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Cornelius Castoriadis (French: [kastɔʁjadis]; Greek: Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης [kastoriˈaðis]; March 11, 1922 ke December 26, 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group. His writings on autonomy and social institutions have been influential in both academic and activist circles. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
Melita Fabečić (born c. December 1994) is a Croatian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Croatia 2013. She represented her country in the 2013 Miss Universe, where she failed to place in the semi-final. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
Brian Talty is the current manager of Dublin GAA club Parnells. Brian was a former selector for the Dublin Senior Football Team, he had worked with the former Dublin manager Paul Caffrey and fellow selectors David Billings and Paul Clarke. Talty who was born in Kilkee County Clare but grew up in Tuam, County Galway where he played Gaelic football with Tuam Stars. He also played inter-county football for Galway, with whom he won a National Football League medal in 1981. He played for Galway against Dublin in the 1983 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final although he was substituted in the second half of the game due to injury. Dublin went to win the final, despite finishing with 12 players. Galway finished with 14. Talty won two Dublin Senior Football Championship with Parnells in 1987 and 1988. In 1996 he managed St Sylvester's, Malahide, to their first, and so far only, Dublin Senior Football Championship. He managed Division 3 side Clanna Gael Fontenoy in 2010, before being appointed as Parnells senior football manager for the 2011 season. While training as a PE teacher at Thomond College in Limerick, he won an All Ireland Club Football Championship as a star midfielder in a team that featured the Spillane brothers, Mick and Pat. Brian is a secondary school teacher in County Dublin. There was speculation in Galway football circles that Brian would be nominated to fill the vacant Galway senior post in 2007 if Dublin lost out to Kerry in the All-Ireland SFC semi-final. Although Dublin lost the game Talty pledged his future to Dublin football. He currently teaches Physical Education at St. Davids C.B.S. in Artane, Dublin. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
V2: Vertical Velocity is an inverted steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. It is California's first and only Spiraling Impulse Coaster, built by Intamin and opened in 2001. It stands 150 ft tall (46 m) and reaches speeds of up to 70 mph (110 km/h). The ride is tied with Medusa and Superman: Ultimate Flight in the same park for tallest coaster in Northern California. | Place | AmusementParkAttraction | RollerCoaster |
The Pletzl (פלעצל, \"little place\" in the Yiddish language) is the Jewish quarter in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. The Place Saint-Paul and the surrounding area were, unofficially, named the Pletzl when the neighborhood became predominantly Jewish because of an influx of immigrants at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. When the Parisian Jews were expelled from the city 600 years ago, it was here in the Marais district that they settled. (The Marais was just outside the city wall at the time.) The depth and diversity of the community have grown over the years through immigration from Eastern Europe and North Africa. The area is now characterised by its synagogues, butchers, Jewish delicatessens, and falafel vendors, which provide a social and cultural fabric for its inhabitants. The darkest days for this community came during the Second World War, when Vichy collaboration with the Nazis resulted in the raids in which many residents were abducted and sent off to death camps. Today, the community is an Orthodox one, extremely religious, and most citizens belong to one of the three local synagogues; one located at 17, rue des Rosiers, another at 25, rue des Rosiers and the one at 10, rue Pavée, an art nouveau temple designed by Hector Guimard, famous for his work on the Paris Métro. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia. A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act 1765 and is remembered for his \"Give me liberty, or give me death!\" speech. Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is regarded as one of the most influential champions of Republicanism and an enthusiastic promoter of the American Revolution and its fight for independence. After the Revolution, Henry was a leader of the anti-federalists in Virginia. He opposed the United States Constitution, fearing that it endangered the rights of the States as well as the freedoms of individuals; he helped gain adoption of the Bill of Rights. However, by 1798 he supported President John Adams and the Federalists. He denounced passage of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions as he feared the social unrest and widespread executions that had followed the increasing radicalism of the French Revolution. After he married, Henry began acquiring extensive land holdings. By 1779, along with his cousin and her husband, Henry owned a 10,000-acre (40 km2) plantation known as Leatherwood. He is also recorded having purchased up to 78 slaves. In 1794, he and his wife retired to Red Hill Plantation, comprising 520 acres (2.1 km2) in Charlotte County, which was also a functioning tobacco plantation. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
The Tobacco Root Mountains lie in the northern Rocky Mountains, between the Jefferson and Madison Rivers in southwest Montana. The highest peak is Hollowtop at 10,604 feet (3,232 m). The range contains 43 peaks rising to elevations greater than 10,000 feet (3048 m). Much of the central part of the range is within the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, although many, mostly small patented mining claims exist within the forest boundary. The range saw significant gold mining, especially during the 1880s to 1930s. The high peaks have been extensively glaciated, and most of the larger stream valleys held valley glaciers during the ice age. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
The Arachthos (Greek: Άραχθος) is a river in eastern Epirus, Greece. Its source is in the Pindus mountains, near the town Metsovo (Ioannina regional unit). Its upper course is known as Metsovitikos. From its confluence with the Dipotamos near the village of Batza it is called Arachthos. It flows towards the south, passing between the Athamanika and the Xerovouni mountains. In this place meets the Plaka Bridge, the largest one-arch stone bridge in Greece. It enters the large Pournari Reservoir, in the Arta regional unit, which is about 18 km² and prevents flooding of the city of Arta and also supplies water to most of Epirus. The town of Peta is situated near the dam. Arta, about 8 km downstream of the dam, is the largest town on the river. Arta's historic landmark is the stone Bridge of Arta over the Arachthos. The river continues through the lowlands south of Arta, and finally empties into the Ambracian Gulf near Kommeno, 16 km southeast of Arta. | Place | Stream | River |
Judo competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 15 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium. This was the fifth Olympics for Driulys González (Cuba), Mária Pekli (Australia), Ryoko Tamura-Tani (Japan). The only other judokas to compete at five Olympics are Belgian Robert Van de Walle and Puerto Rican judoka-bobsledder Jorge Bonnet. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Robert Guérin (28 June 1876 – 19 March 1952) was a French journalist, and the 1st President and one of the founders of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). A journalist with Le Matin newspaper, Guérin was actively involved in football through his role as secretary of the Football Department of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques. He brought together representatives of the first seven member countries in Paris for the signing of FIFA's foundation act and agreement of the first FIFA statutes. On 22 May 1904, Guérin (then just 28) was elected president at the inaugural FIFA Congress and remained in his post for two years, during which time another eight associations came on board, including the Football Association. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
The Men's 10 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics was held on 23 February, at Canmore Nordic Centre. Competitors raced over three loops of the skiing course, shooting two times, once prone and once standing. Each miss was penalized by requiring the competitor to race over an 150 metre penalty loop. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Robert Ray Hedden (born March 2, 1954) is an American writer and film director. | Agent | Writer | ScreenWriter |
KNVN is the NBC television station for the Chico/Redding, California market. The station is owned by Maxair Media, LLC, and operated by Heartland Media, the owners of CBS affiliate KHSL-TV. It shares its studios, office and newscasts with KHSL-TV. | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
The Big Valley Creation Science Museum is a museum in Big Valley, Alberta, Canada, dedicated to promoting young-earth creationism as an alleged science-based alternative to biological evolution as presented by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, also in Alberta, 64 kilometres (40 miles) to the south. It is Canada's first permanent creation museum. The museum measures 84 square metres (900 square feet), cost C$280,000 to build, and was opened on June 5, 2007 by owner Harry Nibourg, an oil field worker with little formal education. As of 2007, it hosted 40 to 80 visitors weekly. Exhibits include an interactive display about the bacterium flagellum, tracing the ancestry of the British royal family to Adam and Eve, and presenting fossils as evidence for the flood of Noah. It has been compared to the larger and controversial Creation Museum in Petersburg, Boone County, Kentucky, which opened earlier the same year. | Place | Building | Museum |
José María Córdova International Airport (IATA: MDE, ICAO: SKRG) is the second largest airport in Colombia after El Dorado International Airport of Bogotá in terms of infrastructure and passenger service. It is located in the city of Rionegro, 45 minutes away from the city of Medellín. It is the most important airport in the department of Antioquia, and in terms of infrastructure, it is the most important in western Colombia. It's also the main hub for low cost airline Viva Colombia. It serves several international destinations, one of the busiest being the route to Miami International Airport. It also serves the most flown route within Colombia: Rionegro-Bogota, which is mainly operated by Avianca, Copa Airlines Colombia, Viva Colombia and LATAM Colombia. In recent years, significant technology and infrastructure upgrades (like LCD screens) have been made, making it one of the most recognized airports in Colombia. It now has service to destinations in Europe and has added new destinations in South and Central America, and the Caribbean. International destinations include the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Curaçao and Spain, El Salvador, The airport also serves domestic flights to most major Colombian cities such as Bogota, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta and San Andres Island.Freight transport is also one of the strengths of the terminal, providing air transportation to most of the flower exports (and other products) from eastern Antioquia bound to South, Central and North America, and Europe. Since its inauguration in 1985 until 1990, the terminal had heavy passenger and cargo movement, in part because the Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport, located in Medellín proper, was closed during this time. When it reopened, traffic reduced. Since 1993, however, there has been a steady increase in traffic as well as an increase in the number of airlines flying into the airport, including American Airlines, LATAM, TACA, Aerogal.As for cargo airlines, Martinair, Centurion Air Cargo, ABSA, and Florida West International Airways and national freight airlines such as Tampa Cargo, LANCO, AeroSucre have increased their flights to the terminal.The airport is currently undergoing a comprehensive renovation. | Place | Infrastructure | Airport |
The South American lime tree frog, Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. This species is only known from the unspecified type locality of South America; it cannot be related to any known population of frogs in the wild. Its natural habitats are presumed to be rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
The Mahardah Dam, also spelled Mhardeh Dam, is an embankment dam on the Orontes River in the city of Mahardah, Hama Governorate, Syria. It was completed in 1960 with the primary purpose of irrigation. It was constructed by the Bulgarian firm Hydrostroy along with the al-Rastan Dam, upstream and also on the Orontes. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Jack Howieson (born 28 July 1981), was a rugby league player who played with Sheffield Eagles for the majority of his career. He played as a prop. He was also a Scottish international, and played for them in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. He retired from Rugby on 24 April 2013, just 7 months after captaining Sheffield Eagles to their 20-16 Co-Operative Championship Grand Final win over Featherstone Rovers. | Agent | Athlete | RugbyPlayer |
Air Afrique was a Pan-African airline, that was mainly owned by many West African countries for most of its history. It was established as the official transnational carrier for francophone West and Central Africa, because many of these countries did not have the capability to create and maintain a national airline, and had its headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The carrier was a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) as well as the French Union's smaller IATA-like ATAF. Air Afrique began a steady decline in the early 1980s, yet many years later the company was still considered the most reputable carrier in West Africa, and even one of the top five airlines of Africa. Mismanagement, corruption, and the downturn in the aviation industry after the 11 September 2001 attacks led the airline to a crisis that ended with its liquidation in early 2002. Even though there were plans to revive the airline with the creation of a new company, they never materialised, as it was succeeded by short-lived Afrinat International Airlines. | Agent | Company | Airline |
Eamonn Coleman (Irish: Éamonn Ó Colmáin; 1947 or 1948 – 11 June 2007) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and later manager. He had two separate stints as manager the Derry senior football team, and his chief success was guiding the county to the victory in the 1993 All-Ireland Championship – Derry's first ever All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title. He also had spells as manager of Armagh, Cavan, Longford and various club sides. Before moving into management he has an accomplished playing career with Derry and his club team Ballymaguigan. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
AZ Groeninge is a large teaching hospital, affiliated with the Flemish KU Leuven Hospital network, in the Belgian city Kortrijk. The hospital is the result of a merger of four hospitals in Courtrai and is in number of beds -in its current form- the fifth largest hospital system in Belgium and second largest in West-Flanders. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Bayonets of Angst is an original bluegrass musical comedy about the American Civil War. | Work | MusicalWork | Musical |
Anine Rabe (born 21 November 1992) is a Norwegian figure skater. She is a three-time silver medalist at the Norwegian Figure Skating Championships, 2012, 2013 and 2014. She placed 25th in the 2012 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and 42nd in the 2012 World Figure Skating Championships (preliminary round). She retired from competitive skating in 2015. Her younger sister, Thea Rabe is also a figure skater and ice dancer. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | FigureSkater |
Bartolommeo Caravoglia (active 1660-1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in the Piedmont, he is said to have been a pupil of Guercino. He painted a Miracle of the Eucharist for the church of the Corpus Domini in Turin. | Agent | Artist | Painter |
The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) based at the University of Western Ontario was established in 2004 as a confederation of scholars working in the field of Canadian environmental history and Canadian-based scholars working in the fields of historical geography and environmental history, but focused on other regions of the world. The network has over 400 members, primarily researchers in the fields of history, geography, and the humanities. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
Simwonsa is a Buddhist temple of the Jogye Order in Seongju-gun, North Gyeongsan, South Korea. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
The red avadavat, red munia or strawberry finch (Amandava amandava) is a sparrow-sized bird of the Estrildidae family. It is found in the open fields and grasslands of tropical Asia and is popular as a cage bird due to the colourful plumage of the males in their breeding season. It breeds in the Indian Subcontinent in the monsoon season. The species name of amandava and the common name of avadavat are derived from the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, from where these birds were exported into the pet trade in former times. | Species | Animal | Bird |
The Eastern States Hockey League (ESHL) was an American Tier III Junior ice hockey league. It stated goal is that it develops high school age players to hockey skills needed for higher levels of Junior, college hockey, and professional hockey. On Labor Day 2011, the Continental Hockey Association officially changed its name to the Eastern States Hockey League. After the 2012–13 season, the ESHL disbanded after several teams left to join the newly renamed Eastern Hockey League or one of the newly formed United States Premier Hockey League Elite or Empire Divisions. | Agent | SportsLeague | IceHockeyLeague |
Roscommon County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Ros Comáin) is the authority responsible for local government in County Roscommon, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 18 elected members. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the title of Cathaoirleach (Chairperson). The county administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Eugene Cummins. The county town is Roscommon town. | Agent | Organisation | Legislature |
The Confédération Syndicale des Travailleurs de Centrafrique is a trade union centre in the Central African Republic. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation and primarily oversees trade and rental of industrial scale trenchers necessary for both developing infrastructure such as irrigation and piping systems, and for trench warfare. The union currently overseas the operations of over 120 trenchers in the Central African region. | Agent | Organisation | TradeUnion |
Sadio Doumbia (born 12 September 1990) is a French tennis player. Doumbia has a career high ATP singles ranking of 333 achieved on 27 June 2016. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 594 achieved on 12 September 2016. Doumbia has won 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2016 Amex-Istanbul Challenger. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
Black Sun (Japanese: Black Sun 奴隷王 Hepburn: Black Sun Dorei Ou, lit. \"Black Sun Slave King\") is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Uki Ogasawara. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga on 4 November 2008. | Work | Comic | Manga |
Sultan Mansur Shah was the sixth Sultan of Malacca. He ruled Malacca from 1459 to 1477. He ascended the throne after the death of his father, Muzaffar Shah. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
Mikail Nersès Sétian (November 18, 1918 - September 9, 2002) is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the first exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate of United States of America and Canada of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1981 to 1993. | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
Aga Khan University Hospital, Kampala, is a hospital under construction in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community. It is an urban, tertiary, referral and teaching hospital whose planned construction will last five years, starting in 2016. It will be built in two phases. The first phase will consist of 150 beds at an estimated cost of US$100 million. The bed capacity will be increased to 600 during the second phase. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Saint Bertha, Abbess of Val d'Or, near Avenay, Reims, d. c. 690. Bertha was the wife of Saint Gumbert, Lord of Champenois, a nobleman of royal blood. Gumbert built a nunnery for his wife and her maidens at Avenay, and retired himself to a monastery on the coast, where he was soon afterwards put to death by pagan marauders. A legend is that when the people of Avenay suffered from a lack of water, St. Peter appeared to Bertha and showed her a field where there was a good spring which she bought for a pound of silver. It became a holy well which was believed to cure diseases and it supplied both her own nuns and the hamlet of Avenay with water. Bertha was martyred by Gumbert's relatives, who were indignant at the distribution of his money to the poor. Whether the abbey founded at Avenay followed the Benedictine Rule or the Columban Rule is unknown, even to her main biographer. The whole legend, in fact, is very late and unreliable. St. Bertha's feast is on 1 May. | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
John Michael 'Mike' Crawhall (born 21 February 1938) is a former English cricketer. Crawhall was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland and educated at Rugby School, where he represented the school cricket team. Crawhall made his debut for Northumberland in the 1962 Minor Counties Championship against the Lancashire Second XI. Crawhall played Minor counties cricket for Northumberland from 1961 to 1979, which included 164 Minor Counties Championship appearances. He made his List A debut against Lincolnshire in the 1971 Gillette Cup. He made 2 further List A appearances for Northumberland, against Bedfordshire and Somerset, both in the 1977 Gillette Cup. In his 3 List A matches for the county, he scored 82 runs at an average of 41.00, with a high score of 66. This score came against Lincolnshire in 1971. Playing for Northumberland allowed Crawhall to appear in a single List A match in the 1972 Benson & Hedges Cup against Yorkshire. In this match, he scored 4 runs before being dismissed by Don Wilson. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Cirque Lodge is a for-profit drug addiction treatment facility located in Orem, Utah founded in 1999 by Richard Losee. Cirque Lodge specializes in treating drug and alcohol addiction in adults and youth as well as offering family workshops, individualized therapy programs and weekly onsite al-anon meetings. In 2002, Cirque Lodge opened a second facility in Orem, Utah in a former television studio. The facilities combined hold a maximum of 56 patients. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Mildred Horn was a film critic and screenwriter, best known for her work on the Kroger Babb exploitation film Mom and Dad. Horn was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and studied at Academy High School. She later moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she became a film critic for a local paper. When Horn was sent to review Kroger Babb's production of Child Bride, she was horrified that such a \"cheap, crude, mislabeled morality play would be shown in a major Indiana family theater\". In Horn's opinion the film was material for a shoddy sideshow tent at some backwoods county fair. Babb later met with Horn, instead of writing a scathing review, Horn and Babb entered into a personal and professional relationship that would last forty years until his death in 1983. They enjoyed a common-law marriage after 1944, only making it official when Babb's first wife Toby consented to a divorce in the late 60s. Together with Babb and Jack Jossey they formed \"Hygienic Productions\" (later renamed \"Hallmark Productions\"), and she wrote the screenplay for their best known production, Mom and Dad. The film was presented in a unique way, and included lectures and the sale of hygiene books that Horn wrote. Horn also wrote the screenplays for Why Men Leave Home, a film about female beauty, and Prince of Peace, a passion play. and now resides in Palm Springs. | Agent | Writer | ScreenWriter |
The Obdach Saddle (German: Obdacher Sattel) (el. 955 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian Alps between the Bundesländer of Carinthia and Styria. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainPass |
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy is a twice-annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell for the Northern Institute of Philosophy. The journal covers logic, philosophy of maths, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. The editors-in-chief are Crispin Wright (New York University), John Divers (University of Leeds), and Carrie Jenkins (University of British Columbia). | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
Transwestern Airlines was a regional airline based in Logan, Utah, its hub was at the Logan-Cache Airport. Founded in 1976, it was later acquired by Horizon Air in 1983. | Agent | Company | Airline |
The British Military Hospital was a hospital in Hong Kong for the use of the British garrison. It was located at Bowen Road from 1907 to 1967. It was built between 1903 and 1906, and officially opened on 1 July 1907. Often referred to simply as the Bowen Road Hospital, the first generation hospital was a 150-bed hospital constructed of red brick. It consisted of two blocks, each of 3 stories, configured with wards and a central administrative block. It had commanding views of the harbour. During the Japanese occupation, a portion of the hospital was used for the care of prisoners of war. It continued in use until 1967, when it was turned over to the colonial government. The facility was moved to a site in Kowloon. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Aaron Dantianto Pearson (born August 22, 1964) is a former American football linebacker who played three seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the eleventh round of the 1986 NFL Draft. He first enrolled at Itawamba Junior College before transferring to Mississippi State University. Pearson attended Gadsden High School in Gadsden, Alabama. | Agent | GridironFootballPlayer | AmericanFootballPlayer |
Liroceratidae is an extinct family of nautilids, shelled marine molluscs, belonging to the Clydonautilaceae, consisting of generally smooth, involute, nautiliconic forms with a small umbilicus. The whorl section is usually depressed and broadly rounded, the suture only slightly sinuous, and the siphuncle usually more or less central. The Liroceratidae range from the Mississippian well into the Triassic and may even extend down into the upper Devonian. The Liroceratidae are probably derived from the Rutoceratidae and form the root stock of the Clydonautilaceae. They also provide the basis for the name for Shimankiy's Lirocerina, a suborder mostly equivalent to the Clydonautilaceae. The Liroceratidae gave rise to the Ephippioceratidae early in the Mississippian, which extend well into the Permian, and to the Clydonautilidae, Gonionautilidae, and Siberionautilidae in the Triassic. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
Pensée: Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered (\"IVR\") was a special series of ten issues of the magazine Pensée produced to \"encourage continuing critical analysis of all questions raised by Velikovsky's work\", published between May 1972 and Winter 1974-75 by the Student Academic Freedom Forum, whose president was David N. Talbott, with the assistance and cooperation of Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Velikovsky -- \"the man whose work was being examined 'objectively'\" insinuated himself into the editing of the May 1972 issue, just as he had done earlier for the April 1967 \"Velikovsky\" issue of Yale Scientific Magazine. It achieved a circulation of between 10,000 - 20,000, with the first issue reprinted twice totalling 75,000 copies, and resulted in a book, Velikovsky Reconsidered containing selected articles, many of them partisan. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Newspaper |
Colour Day Festival is a summer festival in Greece with music and coloured powder. It takes place on a Saturday in June, from 12 noon to 11 pm. Colour Day Festival is one of the most famous festivals in Greece, with more than 40.000 attendees. | Event | SocietalEvent | Convention |
Reeves Field, also known as Reeves Stadium is a football stadium located on the campus of Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States. It was named in honor of local banker John T. Reeves, whose heirs donated land for the complex. Constructed in 1925, Reeves Field is one of the oldest sports venues in Pennsylvania. The current seating capacity is 5,500. The stadium hosts the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes and the local high school football team, the Beaver Falls Tigers. Notable football players who played at Reeves include Joe Namath and Cal Hubbard. The stadium has also hosted the Victory Bowl twice at Geneva, which is a championship football game for the NCCAA. The first game was in 2003 when Geneva defeated North Greenville College and the second in 2007 when Malone College defeated the Golden Tornadoes 45-17. This became Malone's first win in the Victory Bowl. It was also Geneva's first loss, having won the championship in 1998, 1999, 2002, and 2003. In the fall of 2007, the Golden Tornadoes played their first season as part of the Presidents' Athletic Conference at Reeves. | Place | SportFacility | Stadium |
Just Dance Kids is a video game for the Wii, Kinect for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Move for PlayStation 3, and is part of the Just Dance video game franchise. Just Dance Kids is a dance-based music game but with popular kids songs. The game contains over 40 songs. The game was released on November 9, 2010 in North America and in Europe on November 3, 2011. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
Krisztina Szarka (born 25 June 1986) is a Hungarian female artistic gymnast, representing her nation at international competitions. She participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
The third Berkley–Dighton Bridge was a paved one-lane swing-span bridge connecting the towns of Berkley and Dighton, Massachusetts. Built in 1896, it was the third at that location, and was demolished in September and October 2010. Bridges at this location are the only crossing over the Taunton River between the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Fall River and the Weir Street Bridge in Taunton. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
The Evans Cherry also sold under the name 'Bali', is a sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) cultivar rediscovered in an old orchard near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and is significant because cherries were not considered viable in the harsh climate of the Canadian prairies, yet the specimen, discovered by Ieuan Evans, had been growing there since the 1920s. Grown on its own rootstock and self-pollinating, the Evans Cherry displays white blossoms in spring and bears abundant fruit. Evans once thought the cherry originated in Minnesota, but according to more recent reports, he believes it may have come from Alaska where Evans Cherry trees were given out to settlers. | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
The men's 56 pound weight throw was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event was held. It would not appear on the Olympic program again until the 1920 Summer Olympics, which would be the last time the 56 pound weight was thrown in the Olympic Games. The competition was held on September 1, 1904. 6 athletes from 2 nations competed. It was one of only 2 (out of 25) events not won by an American. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
William G. \"Bill\" Gazes (born December 25) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, who in his career has made over $2.2 Million in live tournament earnings and is a sponsored player on Full Tilt Poker known as a Full Tilt Pro. Gazes, whose ex-wife is fellow professional poker player Kristy Gazes, has been playing in live tournaments since 1993. Although he is without a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet or a World Poker Tour (WPT) title, Gazes has cashed nine times in the WPT and over 25 times at the WSOP. | Agent | Athlete | PokerPlayer |
The 1976 Songpan–Pingwu earthquake struck Songpan and Pingwu in Sichuan, China. The earthquake was preceded by an earthquake swarm lasting 3 years prior to the 1976 earthquake. The mainshock occurred on August 16 at 14:06:47 UTC and had a moment magnitude of 6.7. Several large aftershocks (6.3 and 6.4 Mw) occurred within several days. During the period from August 16 to August 30, following the mainshock, there were over 400 aftershocks that were recorded with a magnitude greater than or equal to 3.0.The earthquake hit with an estimated population exposure between IX and VIII. Overall, it resulted in 41 deaths. | Event | NaturalEvent | Earthquake |
Mahina is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Bafoulabé in the Kayes Region of south-western Mali. The commune includes 24 small villages of which the largest are Mahina, Diallola, Sékodounga and Niakalinssiraya. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 26,754. The Dakar-Niger Railway has a station at Mahina and the railroad crosses the Bafing River. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Legislative elections were held in Russia on 18 September 2016, having been brought forward from 4 December. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma of the 7th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia. Prior to the election United Russia had been the ruling party since winning the 2011 elections with 49.32% of the vote, and taking 238 seats (53%) of the seats in the State Duma. Prior to the election, observers expected that turnout would be low and called the election campaign the dullest in recent memory. 109,820,679 voters were registered in Russian Federation (including Crimea) on 1 January 2016. Taking into account people registered outside the Russian Federation and the voters in Baikonur, the total number of eligible voters for 1 January 2016 is 111,724,534. The vote had a record low turnout of 47.88%, with just 28% of Muscovites casting their votes before 6pm. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Joe McNally (born c. 1964) is a former Gaelic footballer for Dublin and St Annes. He was awarded a Football All Star in 1983 for his performances with Dublin. He won an All Ireland Minor medal with Dublin in goals in 1982 and a senior medal in 1983. He is the only player ever to win a minor medal and senior medal in two consecutive years. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
The Burnt River is a river which flows from its source at Miskwabi Lake in Highlands East, Haliburton County south into the Kawartha Lakes region. It empties into Cameron Lake in the city of Kawartha Lakes, part of the Trent–Severn Waterway. The town of Burnt River is located near its southern end. The river was used to transport lumber to sawmills downstream. Later, the Victoria Railway was built along the river. The old railway bed is now a recreational trail. The river was given its name after a forest fire in the region left the river's water with an unusual colour. | Place | Stream | River |
The CMLL 73rd Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on September 29, 2006 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The show consisted of six matches, with the main event being a Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. mask match between Místico and Black Warrior. It also featured five Six-man tag team matches, including the final match in a tournament for the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship. The event commemorated the 73rd anniversary of CMLL, the oldest professional wrestling promotion. in the world. The anniversary show is CMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. The 73rd anniversary show was transmitted live on Pay-Per-View, something only a few anniversary shows before this one had been. | Event | SportsEvent | WrestlingEvent |
Chief Charlie Horse is the 68th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on May 7, 1956, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International. | Work | Cartoon | HollywoodCartoon |
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