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Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council is a local authority that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaced Armagh City and District Council, Banbridge District Council and Craigavon Borough Council. The first elections to the authority were on 22 May 2014 and it acted as a shadow authority, prior to the creation of the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon district on 1 April 2015. | Agent | Organisation | Legislature |
Kaliman Asen I (Bulgarian: Калиман Асен I), or commonly but less accurately Коломан Асен I, Koloman Asen I) reigned as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania. He was named after his maternal uncle, Coloman of Hungary. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
The Ivy is a restaurant which is popular with celebrities, people from the arts and media and theatregoers. It is situated in West Street, near Cambridge Circus in London and opposite the Ambassadors and St Martin's theatres. | Place | Building | Restaurant |
Richard F. Newcomb, a graduate of Rutgers College, served as a wartime naval correspondent during World War II and received a Purple Heart. He is a retired news editor of the Associated Press and the author of six books, including Abandon Ship!, Savo, and Iwo Jima. He has been called \"one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction.\" | Agent | Person | Journalist |
(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Valencia and the second or maternal family name is Mosquera.) Luis Antonio Valencia Mosquera, commonly known as Antonio Valencia (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtonjo βaˈlensja]; born 4 August 1985), is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a right winger and right-back for Manchester United and the Ecuador national team. After progressing through the youth system at El Nacional, Valencia became a first team regular and made over 80 appearances for the club before signing for La Liga side Villarreal in 2005. He only made two league appearances for the Spanish side in between successful loan spells at Recreativo de Huelva for the 2005–06 season and later English Premier League club Wigan Athletic from 2006 to 2008. Wigan later signed Valencia on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee in January 2008. His performances for Wigan soon attracted attention from several high-profile clubs, eventually signing for Manchester United in June 2009. Valencia has since won the Premier League in 2010–11 and 2012–13, the League Cup in 2009–10, the Community Shield in 2010, 2013 and 2016 and the FA Cup in 2015-16. Valencia was voted into the PFA Team of the Year in his debut season with the club. Valencia made his Ecuador debut in 2005 and scored two goals in the process. He represented his country at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the 2007 Copa América, the 2011 Copa América and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Since making his debut, Valencia has won over 80 caps and scored ten goals for his country. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
Hallvard Eika (5 December 1920 – 17 May 1989) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1969, and was re-elected on one occasion. During his first term he served twice in different cabinets. On 21 August 1970 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture during the centre-right cabinet Borten, replacing Bjarne Lyngstad. He held the position until the cabinet Borten fell in 1971. Meanwhile, Eika was busy with his appointment to the Borten cabinet, Sigurd Kalheim took his seat in Parliament. When the next centrist government was formed in 1972 by Prime Minister Lars Korvald, Eika was appointed Minister of Trade and Shipping and again had to leave his seat in Parliament. Again he was replaced by Sigurd Kalheim, who then left the Liberal Party for the Liberal People's Party two months into his tenure. Eika was re-elected to Parliament at the 1973 general elections. He was still a member of the Korvald cabinet for some weeks, until Trygve Bratteli formed his second cabinet, upon which point Eika returned to serve as a Parliament representative. Eivind Øygarden had acted as replacement him during this short period. Eika was mayor of Bø in 1967–1970, and then served as a municipal council member in the periods 1970–1971, 1975–1979 and 1979–1983. Outside politics he graduated from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1946. From 1977 to 1985 he was director of agriculture in Telemark county. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
In the 1961 Virginia gubernatorial election, incumbent Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., a Democrat, was unable to seek re-election due to term limits. H. Clyde Pearson was nominated by the Republican Party to run against former Democratic Attorney General of Virginia Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.. | Event | SocietalEvent | Election |
Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (Hindi: गोविन्द बल्लभ पंत कृषि एवं प्रौद्योगिक विश्वविद्यालय , पंतनगर) also known as GBPUA&T, Pantnagar University or Pantvarsity is the first agricultural university of India. It was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960 as the \"Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University\" (UPAU). Later the name was changed to \"Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology\" in 1972 in memory of the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, statesman and Bharat Ratna recipient Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant. The University was declared as the best among all the other State Universities in India, in 1997. The University lies in the campus-town of Pantnagar in the district of Udham Singh Nagar in the state of Uttarakhand. The university is regarded as the harbinger of Green Revolution in India. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
Pak Yong-ok is a former women's table tennis player from North Korea. From 1976 to 1980 she won several medals in doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships. | Agent | Athlete | TableTennisPlayer |
259 Aletheia is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German–American astronomer Christian Peters on June 28, 1886, at Litchfield Observatory, Clinton, New York. The dark and heterogeneously composed X-type (Tholen: CP-type) asteroid contains primitive carbonaceous materials, responsible for its low albedo of 0.04. Aletheia measures about 185 kilometers in diameter and belongs to the largest asteroids of the main-belt. It has a semi-major axis of 3.1 AU and an orbit inclined by 11 degrees with a period of 5.55 years. Richard P. Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a lightwave survey published in 2003. This project was known as Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II or SMASSII, which built on a previous survey of the main-belt asteroids. The visible-wavelength (0.435-0.925 micrometre) spectra data was gathered between August 1993 and March 1999. Lightcurve data has also been recorded by observers at the Antelope Hill Observatory, which has been designated as an official observatory by the Minor Planet Center. It is named after the Greek goddess of truth, Aletheia, the daughter of Zeus and one of the nurses of Apollo. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Sukdeung Station (Hangul: 숙등역; hanja: 淑嶝驛) is a station of the Busan Metro Line 3 in Deokcheon-dong, Buk District, Busan, South Korea. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
Teesta Bazaar is a small town located 4 km (2.5 mi) downstream from the town of Melli on the right bank of Teesta River in Darjeeling district of the state of West Bengal, India. It is a road junction on Siliguri-Gangtok National Highway NH31A and the roads from Darjeeling and Kalimpong join NH31A near here. The national highway NH31 crosses Teesta River here. Darjeeling is on the west of the river and Kalimpong is on the east of the river. Leaving NH31A and continuing upriver on the right bank from Siliguri on a narrower road, the smaller road leads to Darjeeling towards the west. Continuing on NH31A on the left bank of the river after crossing the bridge, the road towards Kalimpong takes off at a junction 3 km (1.9 mi) ahead of the bridge. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Robert P. Alexander (November 26, 1904 – August 24, 1985) of Washington, D.C., was a collector and expert on Japanese classic postage stamps. | Agent | Person | Engineer |
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition is a remake of the role-playing game Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and its expansion Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. The game was launched on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition was officially announced as a Beamdog exclusive that would feature some new content, widescreen compatibility, and will continue to use 2nd Edition D&D rules. The remake was developed by Overhaul Games, a division of Beamdog and was published by Atari. The release includes remastered versions of the original Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and its expansions under an enhanced version of the Infinity Engine, known as the Infinity Enhanced Engine. Overhaul Games initially planned to release in 2013, after the release of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, but due to contractual issues with Atari, Beamdog announced that the Enhanced would not be launched. On August 15, 2013 Beamdog CEO Trent Oster announced that the contractual issues have been resolved and that news regarding Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition was forthcoming. This edition was released on November 15, 2013 on PC. It was released on the App Store on January 16, 2014. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
The Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal is a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction in eastern Guatemala's Izabal Department. It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province. Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Inmaculada Concepción de María, in Puerto Barrios. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
The 2009 Trofeo Bellaveglia was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Orbetello, Italy between 20 July and 26 July 2009. | Event | Tournament | TennisTournament |
Bishop Gorazd of Prague, given name Matěj Pavlík (May 26, 1879 – September 4, 1942), was the hierarch of the revived Orthodox Church in Moravia, the Church of Czechoslovakia, after World War I. During World War II, having provided refuge for the assassins of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, called The Hangman of Prague, in the cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague, Gorazd took full responsibility for protecting the patriots after the Schutzstaffel found them in the crypt of the cathedral. This act guaranteed his execution, thus his martyrdom, during the reprisals that followed. His feast day is celebrated on August 22 (OC) or September 4 (NC). | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
Patrick Lechner (born 12 December 1988) is a German professional racing cyclist. He rode in the men's team time trial at the 2016 UCI Road World Championships. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
The Quintilla Geer Bruton Memorial Library is the public library of Plant City, Florida. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | Library |
Tracy Ann Route (born February 23, 1985) is a Micronesian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events. She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and holds numerous Pacific age group records in the freestyle and butterfly (both 50 and 100 m). When Micronesia marked its Olympic debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Route competed as a 15-year-old in the women's 100 m butterfly. Swimming in heat one, she rounded out a field to last place and forty-ninth overall against Swaziland's Lisa de la Motte and Malta's Angela Galea with a slowest time of 1:13.53. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Route decided to swim only for the 50 m freestyle. She received a Universality place from FINA in an entry time of 32.44. She challenged six other swimmers in heat two, including 14-year-olds Sameera Al-Bitar of Bahrain and Christal Clashing of Antigua and Barbuda. She posted a lifetime best of 31.26 to earn a third spot by 0.26 of a second behind joint winners Al-Bitar and Ghazal El Jobeili of Lebanon. Route failed to advance into the semifinals, as she shared a sixty-fifth place tie with Maldives' Aminath Rouya Hussain on the last day of prelims. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Tulin a small town of Purulia District situated near the state of Jharkhand. Tulin is a Semi town, located in the western border of the Indian state of West Bengal. Situated about 55 Kilometers west of the City town Purulia. Tulin is surrounded by a range of hills and encircled by Subarnarekha river. Nearest City and railway station is Muri(Jharkhand), and nearest Big town is Ranchi situated 65 kilometer west of the Tulin. This town is surrounded by Subornrekha river. | Place | Settlement | Town |
The 1972–73 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 70th in the Football League and their 39th in the First Division, to which they were promoted as Second Division runners-up in 1971–72. After spending much of the season in the lower reaches of the table, eight wins and a draw from the last ten matches brought them up to tenth position in the 22-team division. They entered the 1972–73 FA Cup at the third round proper and lost in that round to Swindon Town, and entered the League Cup in the second round, eliminated in the fourth by Blackpool. Twenty-seven players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were fourteen different goalscorers. Centre-forward Bob Latchford played in all but one of the 48 first-team matches over the season, and finished as leading goalscorer with 20 goals, of which 19 came in league competition. The home attendance in First Division matches never fell below 30,000. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | SoccerClubSeason |
The Co-Optimist Rugby Club is an invitational rugby union club founded in 1924 by Jock Wemyss, the former Scottish test player, together with George St Claire Murray, a rugby enthusiast from the Watsonians club. The Co-Optimists have played against national fifteen-a-side teams including France, Ireland and Zimbabwe in the 1980s. The club also has a proud record at the Hong Kong Sevens tournament, finishing as runner-up to Fiji in 1980, as a semi-finalist against Australia in 1981, and a quarter-finalist in 1986. The club won the Melrose Sevens tournament in 1993. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
\"Fires\" is the lead single released from Irish singer/songwriter Ronan Keating's ninth solo album with the same name. The song was premiered on 21 July 2012 on BBC Radio 2. The single as released as a digital download on 2 September 2012. The song was only available as a digital download and sold 10,000 copies. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Douglas Armstead Shively (born March 18, 1937) is a former American football player and coach. He was the head coach for the Arizona Wranglers of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1983, compiling an overall record of four wins and 14 losses. Shively also served as an assistant coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 19 seasons, most notably as the defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1985 and as the assistant head coach for defense of the Atlanta Falcons from 1990 to 1993. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
Lucien Démanet (December 6, 1874 – March 16, 1979) was a French gymnast who competed at the turn of the 20th century. He participated in Gymnastics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the bronze medal with a total score of 293 points in the only gymnastic event to take place at the games, the combined exercises. Gustave Sandras won gold with a score of 302 points and Noel Bas won silver. He was the last surviving participant of the 1900 Summer Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
U.S. Route 82 is an east–west United States highway in the southern United States. What started as a 1932 addition to the system across central Mississippi and southern Arkansas eventually became a 1,609-mile (2,589 km) route extending from the White Sands of New Mexico to Georgia's Atlantic coast. The highway's eastern terminus is in Brunswick, Georgia, at an intersection with Interstate 95. It is co-signed for its last half-mile with U.S. Route 17. Its western terminus is in Alamogordo, New Mexico at an intersection with U.S. Route 54 and U.S. Route 70. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
David Vitoria is a former professional cyclist who resides in the town Albacete by Ossa de Montiel and was a training partner of fellow professional Oscar Sevilla. Although his sporting career has gone especially in Spain, internationally involved defending the Swiss Confederation, therefore participating in the National Championships the country Swiss. He turned professional at the age of 22 with the Swiss team Phonak. Later he joined the still modest BMC Racing Team. In 2008 he raced as an amateur (with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Bancaja) but returned in 2009 with Rock Racing, with his partner Oscar Sevilla. For the season 2010 the UCI ProTour team Footon-Servetto signed him thus taking the leap into the professional class. He retired in 2011. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
HM Prison New Hall is a Closed Category prison for female adults, juveniles and young offenders. The prison is located in the village of Flockton (near Wakefield) in West Yorkshire, England. New Hall is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. | Place | Building | Prison |
Disco polo - is a musical genre of popular music that is dance music, created in Poland in the late 1980s, initially known as sidewalks music (muzyka chodnikowa). This trend, which is a kind of city folklore music, enjoyed very popularity in the late 1990s, with at the peak of popularity with the late 1995-1997. Then there was a gradual decline in the popularity of this genre of music, which led to the final - as it was then thought - the collapse in the early twenty-first century. Renaissance popularity disco took place in winter 2007 years. Language Dictionary Polish Publishing PWN defines the genre as a Polish variant of disco music, with simple melodies. It is derived from disco, Euro disco contemporary folk music influenced by Italo disco and Polish folk songs (specifically, the somewhat vulgarized subgenre of which is mostly played at weddings and feasts). | TopicalConcept | Genre | MusicGenre |
Stephen Frink is a prolific underwater photographer and has contributed to Skin Diver Magazine and Scuba Diving magazine. He is currently the publisher of Alert Diver Magazine, an upscale quarterly publiction for the Divers Alert Network. Frink was born in Iowa and moved to Illinois in his youth. He moved to Key Largo, Florida in 1978, where he currently lives with his wife and daughter. He is often cited as one of the most frequently published underwater photographers in the world. | Agent | Artist | Photographer |
\"You and I\" is the only radio single from Celine Dion's album A New Day... Live in Las Vegas. It was released on May 17, 2004. The music video was filmed by an award-winning director Andrew MacNaughtan in July 2004 and was shot partly at the Toronto Pearson International Airport. It premiered two months later. The music video can be found on the Ultimate Box, which was released in Japan in 2008. The music video was nominated for the MuchMoreMusic Award at the 2005 MuchMusic Video Awards. In October 2004, it was announced that \"You and I\" would be the theme of Air Canada's new advertising campaign. At the same time the airline unveiled new in-flight service products and new aircraft livery. Dion also recorded a one-minute-long French version of the song called \"Mes ailes à moi.\" Both versions were used in Air Canada's commercials. The single was a radio hit, topping the Canadian Adult Contemporary Chart. On June 19, 2007, US Senator Hillary Clinton announced that \"You and I\" would be her campaign song in her 2008 bid for the Democratic Party nomination for US president. The song was selected as a result of a month-long web campaign to select a theme song. In October 2008, \"You and I\" was included on the European version of My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection greatest hits. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
NGC 3539 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered in April 1831 by John Herschel. | Place | CelestialBody | Galaxy |
William Sulzer (March 18, 1863 – November 6, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician, nicknamed Plain Bill Sulzer. He was the 39th Governor of New York and a long-serving congressman from the same state. He was the first and so far only New York governor to be impeached. He broke with his sponsors at Tammany Hall, and they produced convincing evidence that Sulzer had falsified his sworn statement of campaign expenditures. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
Sung Si-Bak (Hangul: 성시백, Hanja: 成始柏, born February 18, 1987, in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean short track speed skater. At the 2007 Winter Universiade, he won all five short track speed skating events. Sung has won more than 20 World Cup races and earned two World Cup titles, in addition to skating on the winning World Championship 5000 m relay teams in 2007 and 2008. He qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Sung was in medal contention leading into the final lap of the 1500 m event there, when a crash between him and a teammate led to his finishing in 5th place. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Skater |
The Johnston Collection is a museum of fine and decorative art in East Melbourne, Victoria. The museum complex incorporates the house museum, Fairhall, as well as a gallery and reference library. The WR Johnston Trust was founded in 1986 as the result of a bequest by the late William Robert Johnston, a prominent 20th century antiques dealer and collector of Georgian, Regency and Louis XV furniture, 18th and 19th century porcelain, and paintings ranging from the 16th–19th centuries. The Collection, which first opened in 1990, as part of the Spoleto Festival (now the Melbourne International Arts Festival), operates as an independent not-for-profit museum. Today, the Collection incorporates over 1200 objects, and plays host to regular rearrangements and exhibitions. It is open to the public every weekday, with three tours per day conducted by volunteer guides. Because the Collection is situated in a residential area, the address is not available to the public, and visitors are transported by courtesy bus from a nearby collection point, the location of which is advised at the time of booking. | Place | Building | Museum |
XEP-AM is a talk radio station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Broadcasting on 1300 kHz, XEP is known as Radio 13 and is owned by Grupo Radio México. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
The 1963 Houston Oilers season was their fourth in the American Football League. Houston had won the first two league championships and were runners-up in 1962, which went to a second overtime. In 1963, the Oilers lost their final four games to finish at 6–8, 1½ games behind the Boston Patriots and Buffalo Bills in the Eastern division. They failed to win the division (and qualify for the title game) for the first time in franchise history. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
The 2013–14 FC Basel season is the 121st season in club history and the club's 19th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football. Basel are the reigning Super League champions. They started their season with various warm-up matches against teams from Switzerland, Serbia and Germany. Their 2013–14 Swiss Super League season began on 13 July with the home tie against FC Aarau and after the first six rounds they occupied just the fourth position in the league table, six points behind the leader Young Boys Bern. Beating the Young Boys in the seventh round, Basel started a run of 29 league games without defeat. At the end of the season Basel won the league championship for the fifth time in a row. They started in the 2013–14 Swiss Cup first round on 17 August with the away game against BSC Old Boys. Beating the Old Boy (1-0 after extra time) and after beating Münsingen 1–0 in the next round, they faced Tuggen in the third round, winning 3–1. In the quarterfinals they played in against FC Le Mont, winning 6–1 and qualified for a semifinal home tie in St. Jakob-Park against Luzern on 26 March. They reached the final, but were beaten 2–0 by Zürich after extra time. Basel's 2013–14 UEFA Champions League season started on 30 July 2013 in the third qualifying round with the tie in St. Jakob-Park against Maccabi Tel Aviv. After defeating Maccabi, they defeated Ludogorets Razgrad in the play-off round and qualified for the group stage. There they were drawn into Group E together with Chelsea, Schalke 04 and Steaua București. The group stage for Basel began on 18 September with the away game in Stamford Bridge where they notched a 2–1 win over Chelsea. Basel finished in third position in the league table and thus they qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League round of 32. Here the eliminated Maccabi Tel Aviv and in the round of 16 they beat Red Bull Salzburg thus advancing to the quarter-finals only to be knocked-out by Valencia. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | SoccerClubSeason |
Robert Jonquet (3 May 1925 – 18 December 2008) was a French former football defender. He played the majority of his professional career for the club Stade de Reims, winning five French championships and appearing in two European Cup finals. He is considered as one of the best central defender of his time. Nicknamed \"The Hero of Highbury\" after an outstanding individual performance against England in London in 1951, Jonquet was integral to the French national teams of the 1950s, playing at the World Cup finals of 1954 and 1958. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Dactylethrella bryophilella is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1891. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur) and Gambia. The wingspan is 14-18 mm. The forewings are dull white, speckled and blotched with brown. The basal third is irrorated with brown scales and there is a small fuscous spot near the costa towards the base. Immediately beyond the basal third is a large reniform greyish fuscous spot, having the appearance of two roundish contiguous spots, one reaching over the fold, the other, about the same size, above it. Beyond this is a transverse ill-defined band of brown about the middle of the wing, stating from the costal but not attaining to the dorsal margin, wider towards its upper end. This band is followed by another greyish fuscous rounded spot, larger than either of the other two, from the anal angle along the apical margin, but not quite reaching to the costal margin, where there are three fuscous spots, two small and one larger. There is a slender shining leaden grey line borders the wing, running from the anal angle along the extreme apical margin, and around the apex along the base of the costal cilia and lying on the end of the cell. This spot is followed by another large brown patch, occupying the whole apical portion of the wing. The hindwings are pale leaden grey. The larvae feed on Tephrosia vogelii. | Species | Animal | Insect |
Richard I. Bong Air Force Base is the name of an unfinished Air Force Base built during the late 1950s. It was named after the famous aviator, Major Richard Ira Bong, of World War II fame. The base was originally intended to be an air defense fighter base for the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. It was conceived in the early 1950s and construction began in the mid-1950s. Construction had barely begun when the base was transferred to the Strategic Air Command. Eventually, the base was considered obsolete as it had become apparent to Air Force officials that the base would be rather redundant with installations nearby that would soon have space for more units. The base was abandoned in 1959 and disposed of the following year. The base is not to be confused with the planned renaming of Spokane Air Force Base, Washington as Bong Air Force Base, which was the planned name of that facility until General Muir Fairchild died on active duty in 1950, cementing \"Fairchild\" onto the name of the current Fairchild Air Force Base. | Place | Infrastructure | Airport |
The Lewisburg Area School District is a small, rural/suburban public school district in Union County, Pennsylvania. The District encompasses an area of approximately 44.5 square miles (115 km2). It serves the borough of Lewisburg, Kelly Township, East Buffalo Township and Union Township. By 2010, the District's population had increased to 19,173 people. According to 2000 US Census Bureau data, it served a resident population of 17,279. The educational attainment levels for the Lewisburg Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 88% high school graduates and 34% college graduates. The District is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 22.4% of the District's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. According to the US Census Bureau, the resident's 2010 annual per capita income was $19,981, while the Median Family Income was $56,587 a year. In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. Per Lewisburg Area School District administration, during the 2005-06 school year, the District provided basic educational services to 1,813 pupils. The District employed: 7 administrators, 125 teachers, and 79 full-time and part-time support personnel. In school year 2009-10, the Lewisburg Area School District provided basic educational services to 1,890 pupils. In 2010, the District employed: 159 teachers, 101 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 10 administrators. Lewisburg Area School District received more than $6.2 million in state funding in school year 2009-10. The District enrollment was 2,078 pupils in 2011-12. Lewisburg Area School District employed: 154 teachers, 99 full-time and part-time support personnel, and ten (10) administrators during the 2011-12 school year. Lewisburg Area School District received $6,644,485 in state funding in the 2011-12 school year. Special education programs are provided by the District and the staff of the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit16. Occupational training and adult education in various vocational and technical fields are provided by the District and the SUN Area Technical Institute. Lewisburg Area School District operates 4 schools: Kelly Elementary School, Linntown Intermediate School, Donald H. Eichhorn Middle School and Lewisburg Area High School. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
Mhangura Airport (ICAO: FVGM) was an airstrip serving Mhangura,in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe. Aerial views show the airstrip is abandoned, with trees growing on the former dirt runway. | Place | Infrastructure | Airport |
Diana Gеnkova Dudeva (Bulgarian: Диана Гeнкова Дудева; born July 7, 1968) is a Bulgarian former artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal on floor exercise. As of 2012, Dudeva is the only female Bulgarian artistic gymnast to win a medal at the Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Sebastes babcocki is a species of fish in the rockfish family known by the common name redbanded rockfish. Other common names include bandit, barber pole, flag rockfish, Spanish flag, hollywood, convict, and canary. It is native to the northern and eastern Pacific Ocean. Its distribution extends from the Zhemchug Canyon in the Bering Sea and the Aleutians south to San Diego, California. This fish reaches up to 64 centimeters in length. Its maximum recorded weight is 4.4 kilograms, and the mean weight is roughly 1.3 kilograms. It is white, pink, or red in color with four vertical red or orange bars, the first one running from the front of the dorsal fin to the pectoral fin and the fourth one at the base of the tail. These bars fade as the fish grows larger. The head is spiny. The fins may have darkened edges or a black tinge. This long-lived fish has been reported to reach 106 years old. The time it takes to reach maturity varies widely, often by geography. A fish off California might be mature at age 3, while an individual off British Columbia might take 19 years to mature. Size at maturity varies from 23 to 42 centimeters, with males maturing at smaller sizes than females. This marine fish lives at ocean depths from 49 to 625 meters, with most between 150 and 350 meters. It can be found on soft seabed, but it also lives on muddy, pebbly, and rocky substrates, sometimes using rocks for cover. It is often solitary but it may join small groups. Like other rockfish, this species is viviparous. The female releases the live young between March and September across the species' range. This species has some importance in commercial fisheries, particularly in the northern half of its range. In 1995, 280 tons were caught by longline off British Columbia. Often, though, this fish is taken as bycatch during trawling operations targeting other species, such as the yelloweye rockfish (S. ruberrimus) and halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis). Bycatch of this species in trawls off the coast of British Columbia well exceeded 1,000 tons in 1992. It has dropped below 300 tons per year since then due to better monitoring. This fish is host to a number of parasitic copepods, including Chondracanthus pinguis, C. triventricosus, Clavella parva, Colobomatus kyphosus, Naobranchia occidentalis, Peniculus asinus, and Neobrachiella robusta. | Species | Animal | Fish |
Gary Perlin was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is the current chief financial officer (CFO) of the Capital One Financial Corporation and former CFO of the World Bank. | Agent | Person | BusinessPerson |
C-evo is a free turn-based strategy computer game whose source code – written in Delphi – has been put in the public domain by Steffen Gerlach, its programmer and designer. Other people have contributed separately downloadable alternative artificial intelligences for C-evo. Likewise, some of the graphics in the game are of external origin, but all are freeware. C-evo is based on Civilization II, but with the aim of correcting the latter's alleged design mistakes by implementing six design principles which correct the game itself and strengthen its weak artificial intelligence. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
Tropodiaptomus is a genus of copepods in the family Diaptomidae. It includes the following species, many of which are narrow endemics and are included on the IUCN Red List (VU: vulnerable species; EX: extinct; DD: data deficient): \n* Tropodiaptomus agegedensis (S. Wright & Tressler, 1928) \n* Tropodiaptomus asimi Dumont & Maas, 1989 \n* Tropodiaptomus australis Kiefer, 1936 \n* Tropodiaptomus banforanus Kiefer, 1932 \n* Tropodiaptomus bhangazii Rayner, 1994 \n* Tropodiaptomus borutzkyi Stepanova in Borutsky, Stepanova & Kos, 1991 \n* Tropodiaptomus burundensis Dumont & Maas, 1988 VU (23x Burundi) \n* Tropodiaptomus capriviensis Rayner, 1994 \n* Tropodiaptomus chauhani Roy, 1984 \n* Tropodiaptomus ctenopus (Kiefer, 1930) EX (23x Madagascar) \n* Tropodiaptomus cunningtoni (G. O. Sars, 1909) \n* Tropodiaptomus czekanowskii (Grochmalicki, 1913) \n* Tropodiaptomus digitatus Dussart, 1981 \n* Tropodiaptomus doriai (Richard, 1894) \n* Tropodiaptomus episcopus (Brehm, 1930) \n* Tropodiaptomus euchaetus Kiefer, 1936 \n* Tropodiaptomus falcatus Kiefer, 1933 DD (23x Kenya) \n* Tropodiaptomus femineus (Kiefer, 1930) \n* Tropodiaptomus foresti Defaye, 2002 \n* Tropodiaptomus gemini Brehm, 1951 \n* Tropodiaptomus gigantoviger Brehm, 1933 \n* Tropodiaptomus hebereri (Kiefer, 1930) \n* Tropodiaptomus hutchinsoni (Kiefer, 1927) \n* Tropodiaptomus imitator Brehm, 1955 \n* Tropodiaptomus incognitus Dussart & Gras, 1966 \n* Tropodiaptomus kieferi Marquès, 1966 \n* Tropodiaptomus kilimensis (Daday, 1910) VU (23x Tanzania) \n* Tropodiaptomus kissi Dussart, 1978 VU (23x Rwanda) \n* Tropodiaptomus kraepelini (Poppe & Mrázek, 1895) \n* Tropodiaptomus lakhimpurensis Reddiah, 1964 \n* Tropodiaptomus lanaonus Kiefer, 1982 \n* Tropodiaptomus lateralis Kiefer, 1932 \n* Tropodiaptomus laurentii Gauthier, 1951 \n* Tropodiaptomus loveni (Guerne & Richard, 1890) \n* Tropodiaptomus madagascariensis (Rylov, 1918) DD (23x Madagascar) \n* Tropodiaptomus magnus Kiefer, 1933 \n* Tropodiaptomus malaicus (Grochmalicki, 1915) \n* Tropodiaptomus monardi Kiefer, 1937 \n* Tropodiaptomus mutatus Kiefer, 1936 \n* Tropodiaptomus neumanni (Douwe, 1912) VU (23x Kenya) \n* Tropodiaptomus nielseni Brehm, 1952 \n* Tropodiaptomus njinei Chiambeng & Dumont, 2002 \n* Tropodiaptomus novaeguineae Brehm, 1959 \n* Tropodiaptomus orientalis (Brady, 1886) \n* Tropodiaptomus oryzanus Kiefer, 1937 \n* Tropodiaptomus palustris (Kiss, 1960) DD (23x Democratic Republic of the Congo) \n* Tropodiaptomus processifer (Kiefer, 1926) \n* Tropodiaptomus ricardoae (Harding, 1942) \n* Tropodiaptomus ruttneri (Brehm, 1923) \n* Tropodiaptomus schmeili (Kiefer, 1926) \n* Tropodiaptomus schubotzi (Douwe, 1914) \n* Tropodiaptomus signatus Kiefer, 1982 \n* Tropodiaptomus simplex (G. O. Sars, 1909) VU (Lake Tanganyika) \n* Tropodiaptomus spectabilis (Kiefer, 1929) \n* Tropodiaptomus stuhlmanni (Mrázek, 1895) VU (Lake Victoria) \n* Tropodiaptomus symoensi Einsle, 1971 \n* Tropodiaptomus turkanae Maas, Green & Dumont, 1995 \n* Tropodiaptomus vandouwei (Früchtl, 1924) \n* Tropodiaptomus vicinus (Kiefer, 1930) \n* Tropodiaptomus worthingtoni (Lowndes, 1936) DD (23x Democratic Republic of the Congo, 23x Uganda) \n* Tropodiaptomus zambeziensis Rayner, 1994 | Species | Animal | Crustacean |
The 1897-98 season is the eighth season of competitive football by Rangers. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | SoccerClubSeason |
Pogona minor is a species of agamid lizard from a group commonly known as bearded dragons, and is found on the southwest coast and interior of Western Australia. This taxonomic name includes the widespread type known as western bearded dragon, Pogona minor minor, and the subspecies, Pogona minor minima, confined to the Wallabi Group of islands. | Species | Animal | Reptile |
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 125 (VAW-125), known as the \"Torch Bearers\" or \"Tigertails\", was established on 1 October 1968, at Naval Air Station Norfolk. The squadron's initial supporting command was Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) deploying aboard USS Saratoga (CV-60). The squadron is equipped with the E-2 Hawkeye. It was the first east coast squadron with E-2B's in 1968, among the first to operate the E-2C in 1975, receiving the E-2C 2000 in its first operational year in 2003, and the first unit to operate the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye in 2014. | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Foo.) Foo Mee Har (Chinese: 胡美霞; pinyin: Hú Měi Xiá, born 10 January 1966) is a Malaysian-born Singaporean politician. She is a Member of Parliament (MP) for West Coast GRC. She is the Chairman of the Estimates Committee of Singapore Parliament. She is also a member of the Government Parliamentary Committees of both: 1) Finance and Trade & Industry; and 2) Education. Foo was first elected MP in May 2011, standing as one of the five People's Action Party (PAP) candidates for the West Coast GRC, which garnered 66.6 per cent of votes. In the 2015 General Election, Foo was once again fielded as a member of the PAP team contesting in the West Coast GRC. The team defeated Reform Party with 78.6% of the votes. Foo has twenty over years of experience with leading international firms, held senior leadership roles across businesses and geographies. She led an international career, lived and worked in 5 countries: Australia, China, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. She stepped down as the Global Head of Priority & International Banking for Standard Chartered Bank on 1 January 2013 to focus on constituency work and to pursue other interests. She had a long-standing career at Standard Chartered Bank spanning 19 years covering Asia, Africa and Middle East markets. Foo was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore as of July 6, 2015. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Karkasheh (Persian: كركشه, also Romanized as Gargasheh) is a village in Shaban Rural District, in the Central District of Meshgin Shahr County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 66, in 14 families. | Place | Settlement | Village |
Karen McCluskey is a fictional character from the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The role was played by Kathryn Joosten, who won the Primetime Emmy Award twice for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2005 and 2008. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Michael William Kaluta, sometimes credited as Mike Kaluta or Michael Wm. Kaluta (born August 25, 1947), is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his acclaimed 1970s adaptation of the pulp magazine hero, The Shadow with writer Dennis O'Neil. | Agent | Artist | ComicsCreator |
Hyalina dearmasi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
Captain Christian Theodor von Pincier, later known as Theodore Pincier, Esquire, or as Theodore de Pencier (1750, Brunswick - 1824, Canada), was a Hessian auxiliary officer who served on the British side during the American Revolution. Following the peace treaty, he became a settler and well-known surveyor in colonial British Quebec. He was apparently an illegitimate son of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, who was adopted into the Pincier von Königstein family, known as von Pincier in German and Swedish, or de Pincier in French. They were members of the Swedish nobility. Throughout his military career in German-speaking regiments, he used the surname von Pincier, but, later, in Canada, he adopted a French version of his surname, altering the spelling to de Pencier. He left many descendants in Canada. Some became prominent: and include an Anglican archbishop, The Most Rev. Dr Adam de Pencier, and that prelate's grandson, Michael de Pencier, a decorated Canadian publisher, entrepreneur, and environmental conservationist. Family members continue to spell the surname, de Pencier or dePencier. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Doctor Who: The Music is a 1983 compilation of music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop featuring incidental music from the popular science-fiction television series Doctor Who. The album was the first full-length to feature solely music from the programme. The collection was produced by Workshop member and long-time Doctor Who sound-effects creator Dick Mills. It featured the original Delia Derbyshire arrangement of Ron Grainer's theme tune and music by Malcolm Clarke from the 1972 serial \"The Sea Devils\", which was only the second to have an incidental score provided completely by the Radiophonic Workshop. Most of the music included came from serials from the previous three years to demonstrate the recent composers' works. For the album, each serial's incidental music was reassembled into short \"suites\" and although most of the music had been recorded in mono it was, for this compilation, remixed into stereo with sound effects added on to some tracks. The album was re-released in 1992 by Silva Screen records as Earthshock - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1, with bonus tracks including \"The World of Doctor Who\", a track recorded by Mills as a B-side to Dudley Simpson's 1973 \"Moonbase 3\" single, which featured a mix of music from the serial \"The Mind of Evil\" with sound effects from \"Planet of the Daleks\" before finishing with Simpson's \"Master's Theme\". Selections from both this compilation and its follow-up, Doctor Who - The Music II, were also re-used on the 1994 Silva Screen compilation The Best Of Doctor Who Volume 1 - The Five Doctors. | Work | MusicalWork | Album |
The Opel OHV family (also known as the Kadett engine after its most famous application) is a pushrod straight-4 engine. It was developed by Opel of Germany and released in 1962. Versions were in use through 1993. | Device | Engine | AutomobileEngine |
The Primera División (Spanish pronunciation: [pɾiˈmeɾa ðiβiˈsjon]; English: First Division) is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by thirty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional (second division), with the team placed lowest at the end of the season being relegated. The season runs from February to May. In 1891 Argentina was the first country outside the United Kingdom to establish a football league. In the early years, only teams from Buenos Aires and Rosario were affiliated to the national association. Teams from other cities would join in later years. The Primera División turned professional in 1931 when 18 clubs broke away from the amateur leagues to form a professional one. Since then, the season has been contested annually in four different formats and calendars. The league has been under its current format since the 2014 season. The Argentine championship was ranked in the top 10 as one of the strongest leagues in the world (for the 1st January 2015 – 31 December 2015 period) by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). Argentina placed 4th after La Liga (Spain), Serie A (Italy) and Bundesliga (Germany). | Agent | SportsLeague | SoccerLeague |
Frances M. Kamm (/kæm/) is an American philosopher specialising in normative and applied ethics. At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kamm is currently the Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2003, she was on the faculty of New York University and also worked as an ethics consultant for the World Health Organisation. She is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution in Garrison, New York. In August 2007, Professor Kamm delivered the annual Oslo Lecture in Moral Philosophy. In 2008, she delivered the Uehiro Lectures at Oxford University in England. In 2011, Kamm was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as an ethics consultant. In 2013, she delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Kamm teaches the Gamma Cohort of the 2017 Harvard Kennedy School MPP program. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
Cameron Percy (born 5 May 1974) is an Australian professional golfer. Percy was born in Chelsea, Victoria and turned professional in 1998. He joined the second tier Nationwide Tour in 2005 but enjoyed little success and returned to Australia where he won twice on the developmental Von Nida Tour in 2006. Percy was back on the Nationwide Tour in 2008 and the following year finished in 8th place on the money list, having had eight top 10 finishes including two runner-up finishes, to graduate to the PGA Tour for 2010. Percy made only 11 cuts in 25 events, but his second-place finish at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open salvaged him conditional status with 148th place on the Tour's money list. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
As of 25 July 2016 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. | Agent | OrganisationMember | SportsTeamMember |
Mark Lawrence is an English darts player, currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events. | Agent | Athlete | DartsPlayer |
The ABC Commissary is a restaurant on Commissary Lane at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World. The restaurant has an Art Deco design. It is more popular than the other counter service restaurants in the park, and offers a larger variety of menu options. The ABC Commissary's menu is themed to programs broadcast by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), including such items as Down the Hatch (fried fish), a reference to the hatch in the television series Lost. The restaurant also offers a fried prawn burger. The deep-fried foods on the menu do not contain trans fat. In 2013, the ABC Commissary was one of several restaurants in the park to offer apple pie cupcakes in celebration of Independence Day. The ABC Commissary is located next to the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant. In The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2012, Bob Sehlinger and Liliane Opsomer write that the ABC Commissary is \"hard to find\" but \"usually not too crowded\". | Place | Building | Restaurant |
St. Thomas of Villanova College is a middle school and high school in King City, Ontario, Canada. It was established at Mary Lake by lay educators Paul Paradiso and Grant Purdy in 1999 at Mary Lake Augustinian Monastery as a Catholic school together with the Order of Saint Augustine's friars of Toronto. The school campus is within the grounds of this Augustinian monastic foundation in King City. The school boasts facilities including a full-service Library and Resource Centre, computer labs, science labs, and an athletic centre that includes an Olympic sized court, in addition to three others, a weight room, indoor running track, and a great hall. Outdoor fields include two soccer fields and one football field and running track. The school also uses the 'House system', with houses such as St. Augustine, St. Nicholas, St. Rita, and St. Monica. It has a curriculum for students in grades four to twelve. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
Woodhead Dam is a dam on Table Mountain, Western Cape, South Africa. It was built in 1897 and supplies water to Cape Town. The dam, which was the first large masonry dam in South Africa, was designated as an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2008. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Ordrupia friserella is a moth in the Copromorphidae family. It was described by Busck in 1911. It is found in Panama. | Species | Animal | Insect |
Jim Britt Grobe (born February 17, 1952) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Baylor University. From 2001 to 2013, Grobe served as the head coach at Wake Forest University. In 2006, he was named ACC Coach of the Year by a unanimous vote and AP Coach of the Year for coaching Wake Forest to an 11–2 regular season. After posting five consecutive losing seasons, Grobe resigned after the 2013 campaign. On May 30, 2016, Grobe was hired as Baylor's head coach after Art Briles was terminated. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
The Tri-City News is a bi-weekly community newspaper, based in Port Coquitlam and published by Black Press, and has been serving the Tri-Cities region of British Columbia's Lower Mainland since 1985. The Tri-City News has more than 190,000 readers each week, and with the sister website logging more than 22,000 visits per month. In the 2008 Better Newspapers Competition from the Canadian Community Newspapers Association, the Tri-City News took second place in \"Best All-Round Newspaper\" for large circulation newspapers, and won the \"Best Front Page\" category. In 2015, Black Press sold the News to Glacier Media. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Newspaper |
Mechtildis was Benedictine abbess and renowned miracle worker. Mechtildis was the daughter of Count Berthold of Andechs, whose wife, Sophie, founded a monastery on their estate at Diessen, Bavaria, and placed their daughter there at the age of five. In 1153, the Bishop of Augsburg placed her as Abbess of Edelstetten Abbey. Mechtildis was known for her mystical gifts and miracles. She would later die at Diessen, Germany, on 31 May 1160. | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
Pansy Yu Fong Wong (Chinese: 黃徐毓芳; pinyin: Huáng Xú Yùfāng) (born 1955) is a former New Zealand politician. She was New Zealand's first Asian MP, serving as a member of parliament for the National Party from 1996 to 2011. She was also New Zealand's first Asian Cabinet Minister, serving as Minister for Ethnic Affairs, Minister of Women’s Affairs, Associate Minister for ACC, and Associate Minister of Energy and Resources in the Fifth National Government. Wong resigned from Parliament in January 2011 after misusing her Parliamentary travel perks. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Tasair was an airline based in Hobart and Devonport, Australia. It operated a regional network across Tasmania until it was placed in voluntary liquidation on 3 February 2012. | Agent | Company | Airline |
During the Presidential Administration of Ulysses S. Grant there were reforms, investigations, and prosecutions implemented by President Grant, Congress, and several of his Cabinet members. Historians have traditionally focused on President Grant Administration scandals, while some historians have noted this is an exaggeration, since Grant established the first Civil Service Commission, and ended the moiety system. Many in his Cabinet including his Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and his Secretary of Interior Jacob D. Cox implemented Civil Service reform in their respected departments. Historian H.W. Brands has noted that the Grant Administration thwarted the 1869 Gold Ring in addition to the successful prosecution the Whiskey Ring in 1876. The Grant Administration took place during Reconstruction and a boom and bust economy following the Civil War that fueled financial corruption in Government offices. The Grant Administration was known to fluctuate between the forces of reform and corruption. Several of Grant's Cabinet members supported and implemented Civil Service reform in their respected federal departments. President Grant signed a bill into law that allowed the Postal Department to prosecute pornography through the mail, a law that is still in effect today. President Grant appointed several leading reformers including Hamilton Fish, Benjamin Bristow, and Edwards Pierrepont. During his first administration Grant prosecuted and shut down the Ku Klux Klan under the Enforcement Acts he signed into law in 1870 and 1871. Grant, a trained military leader, was often at odds with Cabinet reformers whom he believed were insubordinate to his administration. On several occasions Grant dismissed Cabinet reformers without notice or explanation. | Agent | Politician | President |
Nathan Sonenshein (August 2, 1915 – April 13, 2001) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. A native of Lodi, New Jersey, Sonenshein began his four-decade naval career by attending and receiving a commission from the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1970, he was head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships, just before it became the Naval Ship Systems Command. After his retirement in 1974, Sonenshein lived in Fairfax, Virginia. He moved to Moraga, California less than a decade later and became assistant to the president of Global Marine Development, Inc., in Newport Beach, California. In 1982, he received the American Society of Naval Engineers' Harold E. Saunders Award, which honors \"an individual whose reputation in naval engineering spans a long career of notable achievement and influence.\" In 1983, he was a member of the Marine Board of the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems of the National Research Council. During his tenure, the board produced a report, \"Criteria for the Depths of Dredged Navigational Channels\". On July 1, 1984, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to a two-year term as one of eight members of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. The Reagan Administration's choices for the panel membership drew criticism from environmentalists, who noted that it included no atmospheric scientists. One of the committee's more controversial reports during his tenure suggested that U.S. shipyards be allowed to go out of business rather than be propped up by government subsidy. The report, released July 16, 1985, concluded that the country's shipyard capacity is \"considerably greater\" than would be required in a major conventional war. Using classified Pentagon studies, the report concluded that shipyards could expand production by 3½ to six times, providing all the new ships that would be needed. \"Look at England in the Falklands\", Sonenshein told the Washington Post. \"In less than two months, they were able to modify and convert some 50 of their merchant ships that were then used for naval operations...Sure, it's always better to have more shipyards and more merchant ships to give you a margin of safety. But the hard question is, are you going to pay for it? I wouldn't pay for any more than we now have.\" Sonenshein died at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, California, aged 85. He was buried at Oakmont Cemetery in Lafayette, California. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
The fringefin trevally, fringe-finned trevally, round-finned trevally, or reef herring, Pantolabus radiatus, is a species of inshore marine fish classified in the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae. A relatively small fish, the fringefin trevally is known to reach 40 cm (16 in), but is mostly encountered at lengths less than 25 cm (9.8 in). The fringefin trevally has an ovate body, with distinctive orange-yellow fins and a black opercular spot. The dental patterns of the species distinguish it from the closely related scads of the genus Alepes. Males have characteristic elongated dorsal and anal fins which produce a series of trailing filaments. The fringefin trevally is restricted to the waters of the Indo-Pacific, ranging from northern Australia to Papua New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. An inshore species, it is found in coastal and estuarine environments and exhibits daily and seasonal movements. The fringefin trevally is predatory, taking crustaceans as prey. The species is often taken as bycatch in prawn trawls and occasionally taken by anglers. | Species | Animal | Fish |
Westfield Tea Tree Plaza is a large shopping centre located in Modbury serving as a shopping hub for Adelaide's growing north eastern suburbs. It is linked to the city by Adelaide's unique O-Bahn system, which terminates at the Tea Tree Plaza Interchange. There is a smaller shopping centre building called Tea Tree Plus slightly to the north of the main centre. Major tenants include Myer, Harris Scarfe, Target, Kmart, BIG W, Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Hoyts Cinemas. With 245 stores, Tea Tree Plaza is the second largest shopping centre in Adelaide, only Westfield Marion is larger. | Place | Building | ShoppingMall |
The Six Days of Rotterdam is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The event was first held in 1936. | Event | Race | CyclingRace |
The Lighthouse of Ponta Negra (Portuguese: Farolim da Ponta Negra) is a beacon/lighthouse located along the cliffs of promontory of Ponta Negra, in the municipality of Vila do Corvo, on the Portuguese island of Corvo, in the archipelago of the Azores. | Place | Tower | Lighthouse |
Hoyt v. Florida, 368 U.S. 57 (1961), was an appeal by Gwendolyn Hoyt, who had killed her husband and received a jail sentence for second degree murder. Although she had suffered mental and physical abuse in her marriage and showed neurotic, if not psychotic, behavior, a six-man jury deliberated for just 25 min before finding her guilty. They sentenced her to 30 years of hard labor. Hoyt claimed that her all-male jury led to discrimination and unfair circumstances during her trial. The decision was subsequently overruled by Taylor v. Louisiana. | UnitOfWork | LegalCase | SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase |
The Battle of Yeghevārd, also known as the Battle of Baghavard or Morad Tapeh , was the final major engagement of the Perso-Ottoman War of 1730–1735 where the principal Ottoman army in the Caucasus theatre under Koprulu Pasha's command was utterly destroyed by only the advance guard of Nader's army before the main Persian army could enter into the fray. The complete rout of Koprulu Pasha's forces led to a number of besieged Ottoman strongholds in the theatre surrendering as any hope of relief proved ephemeral in light of the crushing defeat at Yeghevārd. One of Nader's most impressive battlefield victories, in which he decimated a force four or five times the size of his own, it helped establish his reputation as a military genius and stands alongside many of his other great triumphs such as at Karnal, Mihmandoost or Kirkuk. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
WWSN (97.5 FM, \"Sunny FM\") is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Whitehall, Michigan, the station serves the Muskegon, Michigan market. The station's programming is derived from Cumulus Media Networks' Hits & Favorites format. It is heard as far Grand Rapids, Michigan, east Of US-131, and it experiences interference from WJIM-FM from Lansing.The station began broadcasting in 1991 as WPBK-FM with a satellite-fed country format from Unistar Radio Networks, and became WEFG-FM (\"Frog\") soon afterward. In 1995, WEFG's format changed to a 1970s-based classic hits format (as Eagle 97.5) satellite-fed from Westwood One. In 1999 Westwood One discontinued its 1970s hits format in favor of Rhythmic Oldies (tagged as \"Groovin' Oldies\"), and WEFG continued with this format until switching back to country (as \"Kickin' Country\") in 2002 and then to sports in 2005. On December 14, 2010, just four days after it was announced that Clear Channel/Muskegon would replace WSHZ's Adult Contemporary format with WMUS and its Country format, WEFG dropped its Sports format as \"The Champ\" to pick up WSHZ's former one as \"Sunny FM.\" This marks the second time since 1996 that another station has used the \"Sunny\" moniker other than WSNX, whose call letters once matched that handle. Sister station WVIB was known as Sunny FM for a time until 2004. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
The discography of Irish new wave group The Boomtown Rats consists of six studio albums, five compilation albums, 19 singles and three video albums. The Boomtown Rats' debut release was the 1977 single \"Lookin' After No. 1\". The group's next single \"Mary of the 4th Form\" was released in the same year, along with their self-titled debut album. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
Under the 1996 Constitution, the House of Representatives (Belarusian: Палата Прадстаўнікоў, Palata Pradstawnikow, Russian: Палата Представителей, Palata Predstaviteley) is the lower house of the parliament of Belarus. It consists of 110 deputies elected on the basis of universal, equal, free, and direct electoral suffrage by secret ballot (art. 91). It is a majoritarian system, with the outcome decided by overall majorities in single-member constituencies. Any citizen of 21 years is eligible for election (art. 92). The functions of the House are to consider draft laws and the other business of government; it must approve the nomination of a prime minister (art. 97); and it may deliver a vote of no confidence on the government (art. 97). The upper house is the Council of the Republic. | Agent | Organisation | Legislature |
Hans-Peter Koppe (born February 2, 1958) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was born in Leipzig. In 1980 he won the gold medal as crew member of the East German boat in the eights competition. | Agent | Athlete | Rower |
Maestro (マエストロ Maesutoro) is a Japanese music slice of life seinen manga series written and illustrated by Akira Sasō. It was published by Futabasha, with serialization from 2003 to 2007, first on the manga magazine Manga Action and later on the website Futabasha Web Magazine. It was compiled in three volumes published between 2004 and 2008. It will be adapted into a live action drama film directed by Shōtarō Kobayashi and scheduled for release on January 31, 2015. | Work | Comic | Manga |
Dividing the Estate is a play by Horton Foote. The play premiered at the McCarter Theatre in 1989 and Off-Broadway in 2007, winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
The Southern Bald Ibis (Geronticus calvus) is a large bird found in open grassland or semi-desert in the mountains of southern Africa.Taxonomically, it is most closely related to its counterpart in the northern regions of Africa, the Waldrapp Ibis (Geronticus eremita). As a species, it has a very restricted homerange, limited to the southern tips of South Africa in highland and mountainous regions. This large, glossy, blue-black ibis has an unfeathered red face and head, and a long, decurved red bill. It breeds colonially on and amongst rocks and on cliffs, laying two or three eggs which are incubated for 21 days before hatching. It is a large bird that feeds and roosts in substantial groups. It feeds on insects, small reptiles, rodents and small birds. They do little vocalizing other than occasional gobbling sounds. The ibises are gregarious long-legged wading birds with long down-curved bills; they form one subfamily of the Threskiornithidae, the other subfamily being the spoonbills. The two Geronticus species differ from other ibises in that they have unfeathered faces and heads, breed on cliffs rather than in trees, and prefer arid habitats to the wetlands used by their relatives. The species is currently listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, however, it is in no immediate danger of extinction. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Route 8 is an important highway link between northern and southern New Brunswick, Canada. 255 kilometres long, it runs from Fredericton to Bathurst via Miramichi. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
The Battle of Rasil was fought between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Rai kingdom ruled by Raja Rasil in early 644. It was first encounter of Rashidun Caliphate in South Asia. The exact location of the battle is not known but historians suggest it was fought at the western bank of River Indus. Suhail ibn Adi was given command of this expedition by Caliph Umar. Suhail marched from Busra in 643. He eventually reached Makran, what is now a part of present-day Pakistan. It was a traditional territory of Sassanids for centuries but was then a domain of the Rai Kingdom, who annexed it in 636-637 although they acted as a vassal of Sassanid Persians in past. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
Akis (“echo”) is a former political periodical in Turkey. It was a 36 page weekly magazine somewhat resembling Time magazine. Its motto was serious but not boring. There were sections on domestic news, foreign news, economy, culture and sometimes sports. Its target reader was the educated middle class readers. The articles were mainly focussed on the details of the events in a rather humurious tongue. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
Wool Winder (5 April 1904–28 November 1928), also known as Woolwinder, was a British-bred and raced Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1907 St. Leger Stakes. Wool Winder excelled as a three-year-old but suffered from health problems in his later career, running rarely in 1908 and 1909. Sold and exported to Austria-Hungary in 1909, he became a successful sire of winners in the 1910s and 1920s before his death of an intestinal infection in 1928. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
KDXL (106.5 FM) is a student operated radio station at St. Louis Park High School in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. The station's frequency is 106.5, which it shares with the University of Minnesota's KUOM in a timesharing agreement. The station is currently owned by Independent School District #283. KDXL previously operated at 91.7 through the 1980s. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
The Stonemason Toadlet (Uperoleia lithomoda) is a species of frog in the Myobatrachidae family.It is found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and possibly Indonesia.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater lakes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Alan Lynch (born 22 January 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer and middle distance runner who played with Geelong West in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and both Footscray and Richmond in the same Victorian Football League (VFL) season. A member of Geelong West's 1975 premiership winning side, Lynch followed coach Bill Goggin to Footscray when Goggin was appointed coach in 1976. However, midway through the season, after playing five games for Footscray, four of which were as a reserve, he transferred to Richmond. He only played a further two games for Richmond in 1976, the last VFL games of his career. He then went on to play for Beaufort and Geelong Football Clubs, winning Geelong's reserves team best and fairest award in 1980. Geelong West appointed him coach in 1986 and he led the club until June, when he resigned for business reasons. Commonly known as Dizzy, he competed for many years at the Stawell Gift, mainly in the one and two mile events. He won six races, three consecutive two-miles between 1980 and 1982 as well as the one-mile in 1980, 1981 and 1987. He has been inducted into the Stawell Hall of Fame as a legend. | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
Charles Pugsley Fincher (born December 30, 1945, in San Benito, Texas) is an American cartoonist and lawyer. His cartoons and comics focus on the law. | Agent | Artist | ComicsCreator |
The Allahabad Museum is a national-level museum in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Established in 1931, it is known for its rich collection and unique objects of art, and is funded by Ministry of Culture. | Place | Building | Museum |
Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet. (最終兵器彼女 Saishū Heiki Kanojo, lit. She, the Ultimate Weapon) is a manga, anime, and OVA series by Shin Takahashi, creator of Iihito and Kimi no Kakera. Saikano was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine. A live-action movie adaptation was released in Japan on January 28, 2006 with Aki Maeda starring as Chise. The Saikano manga has been licensed and distributed by Viz Media in English in North America. The anime series is distributed in the UK by Manga Entertainment (as \"She, the Ultimate Weapon\"). The anime series was also licensed by Viz, but is now licensed by Sentai Filmworks. Although the city is not mentioned by name in the series, many of the locations used in Saikano can by all probability be found in Otaru-shi, west of Sapporo. The train station, \"Hell Hill\", the Asahi Observation Hill, the view over the harbor, and the school all have similar looking counterparts in the city of Otaru. | Work | Comic | Manga |
VA-125 was an Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It was established as Reserve Attack Squadron VA-55E, most likely during the activation of the Naval Air Reserve in 1946. It remained in an inactive status until January 1950, when it was redesignated VA-923. The squadron was called to active duty on 20 July 1950. It was redesignated VA-125 on 4 February 1953, and disestablished on 10 April 1958. Its nickname was the Rough Raiders from 1952 onward. A second, unrelated, squadron was designated VA-125 in 1956. | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
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