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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bondo (Latin: Bondoën(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Bondo in the Ecclesiastical province of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
The spadenose shark (Scoliodon laticaudus) is a species of requiem shark, and part of the family Carcharhinidae. It is common in the tropical Indian and western Pacific Oceans, where it forms large schools in shallow water. A small shark reaching a length of 74 cm (29 in), the spadenose shark is named for its distinctively flattened, triangular snout. It is a predator of small bony fishes and invertebrates. This species exhibits the most advanced mode of viviparity of any fish, in which the developed embryos form a highly complex placental connection to the mother at a very small size. Females breed year-round, giving birth to six to 18 pups after a gestation period of five to six months. The spadenose shark is harmless to humans and is valued by artisanal and commercial fishers for its meat and fins. Its abundance ensures it forms a significant component of many fisheries in South and Southeast Asia. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed this species as Near Threatened. | Species | Animal | Fish |
Germany participated in the Turkvision Song Contest for the first time at the Turkvision Song Contest 2014 to be held in Kazan, Tatarstan. The German broadcaster, Türkshow Televizyonu were the organisers of the début German entry. | Event | SocietalEvent | MusicFestival |
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is the major bus operator of the city of Nottingham, England. | Agent | Company | BusCompany |
The 1993 Caribbean Cup (known as the Shell Caribbean Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the fifth edition of the Caribbean Cup, the football championship of the Caribbean, one of the CONCACAF zones. The final stage was hosted by Jamaica. The two finalists were qualified to the 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup. | Event | Tournament | SoccerTournament |
Lee Jin-ok (이진옥, 李鎭玉; born 18 November 1961) is a South Korean former cyclist. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1986 Asian Games. | Agent | Athlete | Cyclist |
The Comic Art Convention was an American comic-book fan convention held annually New York City, New York, over Independence Day weekend from 1968 through 1983, except for 1977, when it was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and 1978 to 1979, when editions of the convention were held in both New York and Philadelphia. The first large-scale comics convention, and one of the largest gatherings of its kind until the Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, it grew into a major trade and fan convention. It was founded by Phil Seuling, a Brooklyn, New York City, teacher, who later developed the concept of comic-book direct marketing, which led to the rise to the modern comic book store. The New York Comic Art Convention's growth in popularity coincided with the increasing media attention on comics that had been building since the mid-1960s, feeding off the then novel notions of comics being a subject worthy of serious critical study and collectibility. | Event | SocietalEvent | Convention |
Dean Clement Evason (born August 22, 1964) is a Canadian former National Hockey League player. He is currently the head coach for the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League (AHL). Evason was selected by the Washington Capitals in the fifth round (89th overall) of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. Evason was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, but grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
Luke Joseph Cummo (born April 27, 1980) is a former mixed martial artist who appeared in the second season of the reality TV series The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV. After winning two exhibition fights, he made it to the finals where he was defeated by Joe Stevenson by decision in a close bout. Cummo gained recognition on the show due to his personality, vegan and unorthodox diet (which according to Joe Rogan includes urine therapy when sick), his striking ability and his love of comic books. He was also the last person picked for a team on the show, fighting throughout the show as the underdog. Cummo fights out of Long Island, where he attended Chaminade High School (class of 1998) in Mineola, New York and works with (Matt Serra) Serra Jiu-Jitsu and Ray Longo's IMAA. Even though Cummo lost to Joe Stevenson at The Ultimate Fighter 2 finale, his performance earned him a UFC contract. Although his grappling ability has been improving, his primary style remains Muay Thai kickboxing. He also holds a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu purple belt. In his first match under a UFC contract at UFC Ultimate Fight Night 4, he defeated Jason Von Flue via unanimous decision. In his next fight, he was defeated by Canadian fighter Jonathan Goulet, who scored a decision victory over Cummo with superior wrestling and ground control. His last fight was a unanimous decision loss to Tamdan McCrory at UFC 87. His UFC record stands at 3 wins and 4 losses. | Agent | Athlete | MartialArtist |
Catchascatchcan (foaled 4 February 1995) was an undefeated British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Owned and bred Lord Howard de Walden and trained by Henry Cecil she was unraced as a juvenile before winning a maiden race on her first appearance. She went on to win the Lancashire Oaks and the Aphrodite Stakes and recorded her biggest success in the Yorkshire Oaks before her career was ended by injury. Since retiring from the racecourse she has had some success as a dam of winners. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
In 1966 Patton was a runner-up in the Miss Florida World pageant. The following year she won the Miss Florida USA 1967 title and represented Florida in the Miss USA 1967 pageant held in Miami Beach in her home state. She placed as second runner-up in the pageant, which was won by Sylvia Hitchcock of Alabama. In July that year, Hitchcock became the fourth woman from the United States to win the Miss Universe title, and for the first time, one of her runners-up was to be chosen to complete her reign as Miss USA. The first runner-up Susan Ellen Bradley of California, refused to take over the Miss USA title and Patton became Miss USA 1967. This is the only time that the first runner-up has not inherited the reign of the original titleholder. In February 1968 Patton filed a lawsuit alleging that the pageant directors refused to pay her a bonus of $5000 for assuming the title as stipulated in the contract. A judge ruled in her favour in June, stating that it made no difference that the sum had already been paid to Hitchcock. Patton's reign as Miss USA was the first time that a Floridian has held the title. Patton later married and had a son. In the 1980s she was still living in North Miami. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK (Finnish: Tekniikan Akateemisten Liitto TEK, Swedish: Teknikens Akademikerförbund) is a Finnish trade union of university-educated engineers, architects and scientists. In addition, the TEK is a learned society and the professional body of the engineering profession, and a member of the Finnish Federation of Learned Societies. The union requires that its full members have a master's degree or equivalent in engineering, architecture, mathematics, physics or in other sciences related to technology. | Agent | Organisation | TradeUnion |
Kita-Jūhachi-Jō Station (北18条駅) is a Sapporo Municipal Subway station in Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The station number is N04. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
Paul James Martin, known professionally as Paul Merton (born 9 July 1957) is an English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter. Known for his improvisation skill, his humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and sometimes dark comedy. He was once considered, by some critics, fellow comedians and members of the public to be among Britain's greatest comedians, he is well known for his regular appearances as a team captain on the BBC panel game Have I Got News for You, and as the former host of Room 101, as well as for several appearances on the original British version of the improvisional comedy television show Whose Line Is It Anyway? He appears as a panellist regularly on Radio 4's Just a Minute. He has also appeared as one of the Comedy Store's Comedy Store Players. | Agent | Artist | Comedian |
The golden-winged sunbird (Drepanorhynchus reichenowi) is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Three subspecies are recognised.It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. | Species | Animal | Bird |
The men's team all-around event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. It was one of nine gymnastics events and it was contested for the fifth time. The competition was held from Thursday, July 17, 1924, to Wednesday, July 23, 1924. Seventy-two gymnasts from nine nations competed. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Gnaphosa occidentalis is a ground spider species found in Western Europe. | Species | Animal | Arachnid |
Nathalie Etzensperger-Nanzer, née Nanzer (born August 6, 1968), is a Swiss ski mountaineer and long-distance runner. Etzensperger was born in Gamsen, where she grew up. She started top-class sports at the age of 24 years, and is married with three children. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Skier |
The Ammer Saddle (German: Ammersattel, 1,082 m, 3,550 ft) is a high mountain pass in the Alps on the border between Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany. The pass is located in the Ammergau region of southern Bavaria. It leads from Ettal near Oberammergau (in the Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen) to Reutte in northwest Tyrol. The Ammer Saddle is the pass between the Ammergauer Hochplatte (2082 m.) on the northwest, the Scheinbergspitz (1926 m.) on the north, the Kreuzspitze (2185 m.) in the southeast, and the Geierköpfe (2161 m.) in the southwest. The first three of these peaks are in Germany, and the Geierköpfe in Austria. The pass road has a maximum grade of 12 percent. It is mostly fairly straight, although somewhat more winding near the pass. It leaves the German Bundesstraße 23 at Ettal and joins the Austrian Fernpass Straße (B 179) at Reutte. From the northeast, it leads through the Graswang Valley along the Linder River, a tributary of the Amper (or Ammer) that partly drains away into the chalky soil. The road passes Ludwig II of Bavaria's castle of Linderhof. On the Austrian side, it passes the Plansee. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainPass |
Robert \"Long Robin\" Colchin (born in 1713 at Chailey in Sussex; died at Bromley in April 1750) was a highly influential professional English cricketer of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Butcher's Arms Ground is a multi-use stadium in Droylsden, Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Droylsden F.C.. The stadium has a capacity of 3,500 people both seated and standing and is nicknamed \"The Slaughterhouse\" or \"Abattoir\" by fans. The Butchers reference is celebrated at a designated home game once a year, when the stadium floor is sprinkled with saw dust and fans are invited to wear white overalls and hairnets. During Droylsden's recent F.A. Cup tie against Leyton Orient, broadcast live on ESPN, two fans invaded the pitch at the end of the match dressed as butchers. It has partial or full cover on three sides of the pitch, terracing on four sides and seating along the centre of one side, plus a public house. The ground is named after the Butcher's Arms public house, whose landlord in 1892 instigated the formation of Droylsden FC to play on land behind the pub, which became the ground. After World War II the lease of the Butchers Arms was sold to Belle Vue FC, who renamed themselves Droylsden United. And that club took over playing at the ground, forcing Drolysden to move to the nearby Moorside Trotting Stadium. However, the town wasn't big enough for two clubs, especially with bad feeling between them, and after the local council bought the ground, a merger was negotiated and Drolysden returned to the Butcher's Arms ground in 1952, after it had been renovated and the pitch had been rotated to its present position, finally eradicating a long-standing drainage problem. The record attendance is 4,250 for an FA Cup first round match between Droylsden and Grimsby Town in 1976. | Place | SportFacility | Stadium |
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to create SAG-AFTRA. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild sought to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; collect compensation for exploitation of recorded performances by its members, and provide protection against unauthorized use of those performances; and preserve and expand work opportunities for its members. The Guild was founded in 1933 in an effort to eliminate exploitation of actors in Hollywood who were being forced into oppressive multi-year contracts with the major movie studios that did not include restrictions on work hours or minimum rest periods, and often had clauses that automatically renewed at the studios' discretion. These contracts were notorious for allowing the studios to dictate the public and private lives of the performers who signed them, and most did not have provisions to allow the performer to end the deal. The Screen Actors Guild was associated with the Associated Actors and Artistes of America (AAAA), which is the primary association of performer's unions in the United States. AAAA is affiliated with the AFL–CIO. SAG claimed exclusive jurisdiction over motion picture performances, and shared jurisdiction of radio, television, Internet, and other new media with its sister union AFTRA, with which it shared 44,000 dual members. Internationally, the SAG was affiliated with the International Federation of Actors. In addition to its main offices in Hollywood, SAG also maintained local branches in several major US cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Nashville, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Since 1995, the guild annually awarded the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which are considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards. This award is continued by SAG-AFTRA. | Agent | Organisation | TradeUnion |
The Battle of Hamel (4 July 1918) was a successful attack launched by the Australian Corps of the Australian Imperial Force and several American units against German positions in and around the town of Le Hamel in northern France during World War I. The battle was planned and commanded by Lieutenant General John Monash (later knighted). Many of the tactics employed, such as the use of combined arms from the massed attacks mounted earlier in the war, illustrate the evolution of modern military tactics. All the Allies' objectives were achieved in 93 minutes, just three minutes more than Monash's calculated battle time of 90 minutes. The battle was the first time in the war that American troops participated in an offensive action under non-American command. Ten American companies joined with Australian troops under Australian command, although six were recalled before the battle. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
The Chiangmai Golf Classic is a golf tournament on the Asian Tour. It was first played in 2013 at the Alpine Golf Resort-Chiangmai in Chiang Mai, Thailand. | Event | Tournament | GolfTournament |
In taxonomy, the Phaeophilales are an order of green algae, specifically the Chlorophyceae. | Species | Plant | GreenAlga |
The 4th Air Group (第四航空隊 Dai Yon Kōkūtai) was a land-based bomber aircraft unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The unit was formed on 10 February 1942 and flew the Mitsubishi G4M Rikko Navy Type 1 Attack Bomber aircraft. That same month, the 4th Naval Air Group (NAG) deployed to Rabaul, New Britain and supported Japanese operations during the early stages of the New Guinea Campaign, first as part of the 24th Air Flotilla and from April as part of the 25th Air Flotilla. The newly arrived unit took heavy losses on 20 February during an action off Bougainville, losing 15 of 17 bombers sent to attack a United States Navy aircraft carrier task force. Reconstituted with replacement aircraft, the 4th NAG participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 May 1942, losing five bombers destroyed in an attack on an Australian/US warship task group. In August 1942, the unit conducted bombing raids against Allied forces newly landed on Guadalcanal. Taking heavy losses over Guadalcanal, the unit was withdrawn from the front in September 1942. On 1 November 1942 the unit was redesignated as the 702 Air Group. | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
The National Solidarity Alliance (Spanish: Alianza Solidaridad Nacional) is an electoral alliance in Peru formed for the general election, 2011, dominated by the eponymous Party National Solidarity and led by presidential candidate Luis Castañeda. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
Davidson Berry (born 27 May 1875 in Cathcart, Glasgow) was a Scottish footballer who played for Queen's Park and the Scotland national team. Berry, an inside left / outside left, joined Queen's Park as a teenager in 1891. Aged just 18, he won his first cap for Scotland in March 1894 and scored in a 5-2 win over Wales. He won two more caps in 1899. His younger brother, William, also played for Queen's Park and was also a Scotland internationalist. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
Julian Gardner is a poker player from Manchester, England. Gardner is a second-generation professional, following in the footsteps of his father Dave. He started going to a local casino at the age of 15. By the time he was 20 he had won 10 tournaments. By 21, he had made 25 final tables. In 2000 he entered the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event for the first time. He tripled up within two hours to become the early chip leader. However, he was unable to make it through that day. Gardner was unable to attend the tournament in 2001. At the age of 24, he finished second in the main event of the 2002 World Series of Poker, becoming the youngest player ever to win $1 million in a poker tournament. Gardner also finished in the money at the main event in 2003 and 2004, making him the only player to finish in the money in 2002, 2003 and 2004. He qualified for the 2005 WSOP on the website Betfair. Although he did not make it into the money in the 2005 Main Event, he made 4 money finishes in other events, including the $5,000 No Limit Hold-Em tournament won by T. J. Cloutier and the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament won by Barry Greenstein. Gardner also cashed in the 2007 main event coming in 64th place for $130,288. Gardner also made appearances on the Late Night Poker television series. He was also a member of the winning British team in the Poker Nations Cup. He is the co-author of the book The Secrets of Online Power Poker. As of 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,400,000. His 14 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,688,876 of those winnings. He finished 3rd at the final table at Poker Million VI winning his biggest prize since the 2002 WSOP, $250,000. Gardner is engaged to poker player Kerry \"Pint Size\" Clarke. They both reached the semi-final of the 2005 888.com UK Poker Open, where Gardner eliminated her. | Agent | Athlete | PokerPlayer |
Schmutz's worm snake (Typhlops schmutzi) is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family. | Species | Animal | Reptile |
Paul Elbert Hamm (born September 24, 1982 in Washburn, Wisconsin) is a retired American artistic gymnast. He is a World Champion gymnast and three-time Olympic medalist. He is the 2003 World all-around champion, and he won the all-around competition at the 2004 Olympic Games. He is the most successful American male gymnast, and the only male American gymnast to win all-around at World's and the Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Power FM Bega Bay (call sign: 2EEE) is a commercial radio station available on the New South Wales south coast, covering the areas surrounding Bega, Batemans Bay, Narooma, Merimbula, Eden and Moruya. The station broadcasts on two frequencies in order to reach the whole Bega license area- 102.5 FM, covering the Bega Valley local government area, and 104.3 FM, covering the Eurobodalla Shire. Power FM has local announcers and a local news reader, providing local content 7 days a week. National News is on the hour, 6am to 6pm and provided from Sydney. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
Queanbeyan District Cricket Club ('The Bluebags') is a cricket club operating in the Queanbeyan district of New South Wales and playing in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) cricket competition. It was formally founded in 1863. | Agent | SportsTeam | CricketTeam |
The lesser melampitta (Melampitta lugubris) is a medium-sized enigmatic terrestrial songbird of mountain forests of New Guinea. It is now classified as a member in its own family Melampittidae, but in some other sources it is variously considered close to or in the Orthonychidae (logrunners), Paradisaeidae (birds of paradise), Corcoracidae (Australian mud-nesters), Cnemophilidae (satinbirds) or Monarchidae (monarch flycatchers). A local name, by the Ketengban people of the Jayawijaya Mountains, is golík It is approximately 18 cm long and has an all-black plumage with long legs and short tail. Both sexes are almost similar, distinguished by the color of the iris. The male has crimson red iris while female's dark brown. The lesser melampitta builds dome-like nest in the forests. The diet consists mainly of insects. Widespread and a common species throughout its habitat range, the lesser melampitta is evaluated as least concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Monaghan railway station was on the Ulster Railway designed by Sir John Macneil located in the Republic of Ireland. The Ulster Railway opened the station on 2 March 1863. It closed to regular passenger traffic on the 14 October 1957 but goods, mails and occasional passenger traffic continued until the end of 1959 . It was part of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland railway system. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
The Farmers Bank of China (simplified Chinese: 中国农民银行; traditional Chinese: 中國農民銀行; pinyin: Zhōngguó nóngmín yínháng) was one of the largest banks in China and later in the Republic of China. | Agent | Company | Bank |
The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field. The Magellan probe was the first interplanetary mission to be launched from the Space Shuttle, the first one to use the Inertial Upper Stage booster for launching, and the first spacecraft to test aerobraking as a method for circularizing its orbit. Magellan was the fifth successful NASA mission to Venus, and it ended an eleven-year gap in U.S. interplanetary probe launches. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
Özlüce Dam is a rock-fill embankment dam on the Peri River (a tributary of the Euphrates), located 10 km (6 mi) south of Yayladere in Bingöl Province, Turkey. Its primary purpose is hydroelectric power generation and is the third dam in the Peri River cascade. Constructed between 1992 and 2000, the development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Darren G. Davis is an American independent comic book publisher and writer. He is the head of Bluewater Productions, based in Portland, Oregon. | Agent | Artist | ComicsCreator |
Just So is a musical by Anthony Drewe and George Stiles written in 1984 based on the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Just So was originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh at the Watermill Theatre and later at the Tricycle Theatre in England. It was subsequently produced at various theatres in the US and UK. | Work | MusicalWork | Musical |
Garbiñe Abasolo García (born in Bilbao, May 17, 1964) was the first Miss Spain from the Basque region. She was crowned in 1983. She later went on to represent Spain in both Miss Universe 1984 and Miss Europe where she was chosen as Miss Photogenic. She has been the only contestant from Spain to win this award in both pageants. She is married and mother of two children. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
The Newport and Shermans Valley Railroad was a nineteenth-century, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania. It ran from Newport, Pennsylvania to New Germantown, Pennsylvania. It carried lumber, and transferred it to the 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Pennsylvania Railroad at Newport. The right of way was extended to an uncompleted tunnel through Conococheague Mountain, started in an attempt to connect with the Path Valley Railroad. This right of way was later used by the Perry Lumber Railroad. | Agent | Organisation | PublicTransitSystem |
Jessica Gaspar (born December 7, 1976 in United States) is an American former professional basketball player. After graduating from University of North Carolina in 1999, she went overseas and achieved success playing professional basketball in Iceland. | Agent | Athlete | BasketballPlayer |
Kentin Mahé (born 22 May 1991) is a French handballer who plays as a left winger or centre back for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the French national team. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Mount Victoria, 3,464 metres (11,365 ft), is a mountain on the border between British Columbia and Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. It is located just northeast of Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park and is also part of Banff National Park and is on the Continental Divide (which is the definition of the interprovincial boundary in this region). The mountain is located on the western buttress of Abbot Pass while Mount Lefroy lies on the eastern side. The mountain was named by J. Norman Collie in 1897 for Queen Victoria. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Michael Adekunle Ajasin (28 November 1908 – 3 October 1997) was a Nigerian politician who was elected Governor of Ondo State (October 1979 – October 1983) on the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) platform during the Nigerian Second Republic. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics were held between 5 and 12 August, the final day of the Games, at ExCeL London. It was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which were further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only took part in the freestyle events, with 18 gold medals awarded. Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except Paris 1900. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
Hrvatski vojnik (English: Croatian Soldier) is a Croatian military magazine published by the Croatian Ministry of Defense. Established in 1991 and billed as the \"first Croatian military journal\", the magazine regularly features articles on recent developments in military technology, military history, as well as news about the Croatian Armed Forces' activities at home and abroad. The magazine underwent several changes in format and frequency throughout its existence. Originally launched as a biweekly newsletter in November 1991, it was published in that form throughout the Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995). In the closing months of the war, in May 1995, Hrvatski vojnik was re-launched as a monthly military journal published alongside the ministry's new weekly newsletter titled Velebit (named after the eponymous mountain range). In 2000 Velebit was renamed Obrana (English: Defense) and both publications underwent major changes in design and content, with a number of new sections introduced. In October 2004 Obrana was merged back into Hrvatski vojnik, which then continued to be published weekly. Since 2001 Hrvatski vojnik has been a member of the European Military Press Association. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
Ballymoney Borough Council is the local authority of Ballymoney in Northern Ireland. It is set to merge with Coleraine Borough Council, Limavady Borough Council and Moyle District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Causeway Coast and Glens District Council. | Agent | Organisation | Legislature |
The 1950 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 28 October 1950, at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the fifth Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Hibernian and Motherwell. Motherwell won the match 3–0 thanks to goals by Jim Forrest, Archie Kelly and Willie Watters. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
Atli Pætursson Dam (September 12, 1932 – February 7, 2005) was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands on five separate occasions, which is the longest period for any Faroese prime minister (løgmaður). He was prime minister in the periods: 1970–1981, 1985–1989 and 1991–1993. He was born in Tvøroyri in 1932 as the son of Peter Mohr Dam and Sigrid Ragnhild, née Strøm. He was educated engineer in 1964 and worked for the Danish company Haldor Topsøe until he became prime minister in 1970. He was vise president of the Faroese Mortgage Institution (Føroya Realkreditt) from 1981–1985 and again from 1989 until his death. He was elected to the Løgting in 1970, he was appointed Minister of Fisheries the same year, and in December of the same year he was appointed prime minister. He was elected as one of two Faroese members of the Danish Folketing and was a member of the Folketing from 1987 to 1988 and 1990 to 1994. Because of the financial crises of the Faroe Islands and because of health issues, Dam resigned as prime minister on 18 February 1993 and Marita Petersen took over. At the same time he left the post as chairman for the Socialist Democratic Party, Marita Petersen took over. Atli Dam had been prime minister for 16 years and member og the Løgting for 21 years at that time. One of his biggest political achievements is probably his negotiations with the Danish prime minister in 1992 Mr. Poul Schlüter, which resulted in the Faroese underground and all natural resources which might be in the underground from late 1992 became Faroese property, before that it belonged to the Danish state. He was not re-elected for the Løgting at the 1994 elections. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
Tetracis formosa is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Colorado, eastern Utah and eastern Wyoming west to California and north to southern British Columbia and southern Alberta on altitudes between 870 and 2,320 meters. The length of the forewings 17-23 mm. Adults are on wing from early September to late November. Larvae have been reared on Prunus andersonii. | Species | Animal | Insect |
The Troop Officers Military College (in Spanish Academia Militar de Oficiales de Tropa), is an academy to train officers of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela in the troop level. It is also the youngest component of the Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela, opened on June 1, 2012. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
Women's 10 metre platform competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics took place from August 20 to August 21, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It was an individual diving competition, with dives performed from an inflexible platform (unlike the springboard used for three metre diving) ten metres above the surface of the water. The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 29 divers each perform five dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs five dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of five dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking. Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of .5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The two highest and two lowest scores from each judge are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
The Andean motmot or highland motmot (Momotus aequatorialis) is a colorful near-passerine bird found in the forests and woodlands from northern Colombia to western Bolivia. This species and the blue-capped motmot, Lesson's motmot, whooping motmot, Amazonian motmot, and Trinidad motmot were all considered conspecific. The central crown is black and surrounded by a blue band. There is a black eyemask. The call is a low owl-like ooo-doot. These birds often sit still, and in their dense forest habitat can be difficult to see, despite their size. They eat small prey such as insects and lizards, and will also regularly take fruit. Like most of the Coraciiformes, motmots nest in tunnels in banks, laying about three or four white eggs. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Madeleine is a river in north eastern France, in the Territoire de Belfort département. It is 25 km long, and its basin area is 92 km². It begins in the Vosges mountains, near the commune of Lamadeleine-Val-des-Anges. It joins the river Saint-Nicolas in the village Bretagne at 340 m above sea level to form the river Bourbeuse. The river Bourbeuse is a tributary to the river Allan, which is a tributary to the river Doubs. The Madeleine river flows through the communes of Étueffont, Anjoutey, Bourg-sous-Châtelet, Bethonvilliers, Lacollonge, Fontenelle, Petit-Croix and Novillard. It is also a fishing area. The confluence with the Saint-Nicolas is in a marshy area. | Place | Stream | River |
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd SL (26 May 1795 – 13 March 1854) was an English judge, politician and author. | Agent | Person | Judge |
Swami Records is a San Diego-based independent record label specializing in punk rock and rock and roll (including garage rock) that was founded in 2000 by John Reis, who also has his own radio show, \"Swami Sound System\", on station 94.9FM KBZT in San Diego. | Agent | Company | RecordLabel |
Kevin Heffernan (20 August 1929 – 25 January 2013) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager who played as a left corner-forward for the Dublin senior team. Regarded as one of the greatest Gaelic footballers of all-time, Heffernan made his debut during the 1948 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 1962 championship. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal, four Leinster medals and three National League medals. An All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion, Heffernan captained the team to the All-Ireland title in 1958. At club level Heffernan enjoyed a lengthy career with St. Vincent's. He won fifteen county football championship medals and six county hurling championship medals. In retirement from playing Heffernan became involved in coaching and team management. As Dublin manager he revived the county team and steered them to three All-Ireland titles between 1974 and 1983. Heffernan has a number of personal achievements. In 1974 he became the only non-player to be honoured as the Texaco Footballer of the Year. In 1984 he was named in the left corner-forward position on the GAA's Team of the Century. He was moved to the opposite corner when he was named on the Team of the Millennium in 1999. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
Mark David Haverland (born Youngstown, Ohio, 1956) is an American Continuing Anglican bishop. He is the archbishop and metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church. He studied at Kenyon College, taking his MA at Duquesne University and his Ph.D. at Duke University. His dissertation was about Anglican theologian Henry Hammond. He was ordained a deacon in 1981 and a priest in 1982. He served in several Anglican Catholic parishes in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, spending most of his priest career at St. Stephen's Parish, in Athens, Georgia. Haverland was elected and consecrated Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the South in 2000, succeeding the deceased William Lewis. He would be elected and enthroned as archbishop and metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church at their 16th Provincial Synod, held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to substitute the retired John Vockler in 2005. He has remained as bishop ordinary of the Diocese of the South. He responded critically to Pope Benedict XVI's Anglicanorum Coetibus, in a document issued in January 2010, despite recognizing positives aspects in the provision. He has collaborated in many publications, including Touchstone, The New Oxford Review and The Journal of Religion. He wrote Anglican Catholic Faith and Practise (2004). | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
The Oregon Open is the Oregon state open golf tournament, open to both amateur and professional golfers. It is organized by the Pacific Northwest section of the PGA of America. It was first played in 1905 and has been played annually (with minor disruptions) since 1925 at a variety of courses around the state. It was considered a PGA Tour event in the late 1920s and early 1930s. | Event | Tournament | GolfTournament |
The 1900 Summer Olympics was the only Olympic Games to date to feature an Equestrian high jump competition. Nineteen competitors entered the high jump competition, though only six are known by name. Of the remaining thirteen, six were French, three Belgian, three Italian and one Russian. Rain earlier on the day of the competition made the ground heavy and slippery, and the competition was close. Two competitors were awarded the joint gold medal when they both cleared 1.85 metres (6 ft 1 in). Competitors were allowed to enter more than once: one of the joint gold medalists, Gian Giorgio Trissino, also came fourth on a different horse; he also won the silver medal in the Equestrian long jump competition. The bronze medalist, Georges van der Poële, also won the silver in the Equestrian jumping competition. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
\"Olou Tou Kosmou I Elpida\" (Greek: \"Όλου του κόσμου η Ελπίδα\", English: \"The Whole World's Hope\") was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, performed in Greek by Cleopatra. The song was performed fifth on the night, following Turkey's Aylin Vatankoş with \"Yaz bitti\" and preceding France's Kali with \"Monté la riviè\". At the close of voting, it had received 94 points, placing 5th in a field of 23, making it Greece's best showing in the Contest since Pascalis, Marianna, Robert & Bessy's \"Mathima Solfege\" in 1977, which also finished 5th. The song is a ballad, with Cleopatra singing about the uncertainty of the modern world and asking that her song point the way to \"the whole world's hope\". It was succeeded as Greek representative at the 1993 Contest by Katy Garbi with \"Ellada, Hora Tou Fotos\". | Work | Song | EurovisionSongContestEntry |
John Francis MacLean (1 March 1901 – 9 March 1986) was an English cricketer: a wicketkeeper-batsman who played county cricket for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire between the wars. He was selected for the Gentlemen against the Players in 1923, and also appeared at first-class level for MCC, HK Foster's XI and Free Foresters. MacLean made his first-class debut for HK Foster's XI against Worcestershire at Hereford in July 1919, making 12 and 18*. He made no dismissals in the match, nor in his appearance for the same side against the Australian Imperial Forces just two days later. His third match, again for HK Foster's XI and once more against Worcestershire, produced an innings of 59 from number ten, but again no dismissals. He did not play first-class cricket again until 1922, when he was a regular part of a very weak Worcestershire side (they finished bottom of the County Championship with only one win from 26 matches). His county debut, against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, at last gave him his maiden dismissal when he stumped opener Leonard Bates in the second innings. It was not a particularly successful season overall for McLean, however: he finished with only 459 runs from 41 innings (average 13.11, HS 46) and made 16 dismissals (6ct, 10st). That winter McLean toured Australia and New Zealand with MCC, and though he did poorly against the Australian state sides, he performed rather better on the New Zealand section of the tour, making two half-centuries including 84 against New Zealand at Wellington. Returning to England, he enjoyed the best summer of his career with both bat and gloves. His 710 runs were easily his best, and included his only hundred: a rearguard, if ultimately unsuccessful, 121 against Nottinghamshire after Worcestershire had fallen to 56/5 in their second innings. Behind the stumps McLean managed 46 dismissals: again, easily his best season's tally. He played only half a dozen games in 1924, without conspicuous success, and was then absent from first-class cricket until 1930, by which time he had moved to Gloucestershire. He played three times for them that year, and thrice more in 1932 (not having turned out in 1931), making his very last first-class appearance against Middlesex at Clifton College in early August 1932. Gloucestershire won this game by an innings, but McLean did not claim any victims. MacLean was born in Morwick Hill, Acklington, Northumberland; he died a few days after his 85th birthday in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. His father Montague MacLean played five first-class matches in the 1890s, for MCC and Lord Hawke's XI. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Otabek Masharipov (born 12 September 1988) is a Uzbekistani male artistic gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed at world championships, including the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
The 1974 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Nivelles on 12 May 1974 | Event | SportsEvent | GrandPrix |
This is a list of Danish football transfers for the 2015-16 winter transfer window. Only moves featuring at least one Danish Superliga club are listed. The winter transfer window opened on 1 January 2016. The window closes at midnight on 1 February 2016. | Agent | OrganisationMember | SportsTeamMember |
New Process Steel v. NLRB, 560 U.S. 674 (2010) is a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court holding that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cannot make decisions without a quorum of three members. | UnitOfWork | LegalCase | SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase |
Ivor John Brown (30 May 1927 – 30 March 2005) was a motorcycle speedway rider and captain of Cradley Heath Heathens speedway team during the 1960s. After retiring from riding he became promoter of Long Eaton and Scunthorpe speedway. His off-track occupation was postmaster and grocer of the village General Stores in Wymeswold. | Agent | MotorcycleRider | SpeedwayRider |
The Battle of Aydın (Modern Turkish: Aydın Savunması, literally: \"The defence of Aydın\", 27 June 1919 to 4 July 1919), was a series of wide-scale armed conflicts during the initial stage of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in and around the city of Aydın in western Turkey. The battle resulted in the burning of several quarters of the city (primarily Turkish, but also Greek) and massacres which resulted in the deaths of several thousand Turkish and Greek soldiers and civilians. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
Barthélemy Théodore, Count de Theux de Meylandt (26 February 1794 – 21 August 1874) was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician who served as Prime Minister of Belgium three times. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
Ashleigh Barty (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player and cricketer. Barty first gained media attention by reaching the doubles final of the 2013 Australian Open, partnered by Casey Dellacqua. The pair also reached the finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open in 2013, making Barty one of the most successful WTA debutants in history. She also won the 2011 Wimbledon girls singles title, and has won one WTA doubles title so far in her career. As of September 2014, she is on an open-ended break from tennis. Barty switched to cricket in 2015, earning a contract with the Brisbane Heat for the inaugural Women's Big Bash League. She announced her return to tennis in February, 2016. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
The garden emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis) is a small hummingbird that is an endemic resident breeder in Costa Rica and western Panama. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the blue-tailed emerald. This is a species of open habitats, including bushy savanna, clearings, cultivation, and gardens. It can be found in the Pacific lowlands and hills, locally up to an elevation of 1500 m. The nest is a neat cup of plant fibres decorated on the outside with bark fragments. The two white eggs are incubated by the female alone. The garden emerald is 8 cm long and weighs 2.6 g. The male has bronze-green upper parts, brilliant green under parts, white thighs and a deeply forked tail. The female has grey underparts, a white stripe behind the eye and dusky ear patches. She has white tips to her tail, which lacks the deep fork of the male. Young birds resemble the adult female, but have some buff feather tips. The garden emerald has a dry chit call, and the males song is a thin tsippy tsee tsee. Breeding males perch on open branches and may give a dive display. These birds visit small flowers, including those ignored by other species, and will also take tiny insects. They are frequently chased off by larger hummingbirds. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer (Central Bavarian: Soifejn am Stoanern Meer) is a town in the district of Zell am See in the Austrian state of Salzburg. With approximately 16,000 inhabitants, Saalfelden is the district's largest town and the third of the federal state after Salzburg and Hallein. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Will Brazier (born on October 17, 1983 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American rugby league footballer who plays for the United States national rugby league team, USA Falcons, Old Blue Rugby Football Club in the Rugby Super League (US) and the Connecticut Wildcats in the American National Rugby League. His position of choice is at prop or hooker. Brazier was selected to participate in the 2008 USA Rugby National Guard Senior Men's National All-Star Championship and was selected to the initial squad slated to play for USA Rugby at the 2007 Rugby World Cup. | Agent | Athlete | RugbyPlayer |
The 4702nd Defense Wing (Def Wg) is a discontinued wing of the United States Air Force, last assigned to the 25th Air Division at Geiger Field, Washington. It was established in 1952 at Hamilton AFB, California in a general reorganization of Air Defense Command (ADC), which replaced wings responsible for a base with wings responsible for a geographical area. It moved twice in the first few months it was active and as a result became non operational until early 1953. It then assumed control of several Fighter Interceptor and Radar squadrons in the Pacific Northwest, some of which were Air National Guard squadrons mobilized for the Korean War. It was discontinued in the fall of 1954 and its units transferred to the new 9th Air Division. | Agent | Organisation | MilitaryUnit |
The Wheeling Ironmen were a professional American football team based in Wheeling, West Virginia, and played their home games at Wheeling Island Stadium. The team began play in 1962 as a member of the United Football League, where they played for three seasons until that league dissolved. The Ironmen won the UFL championship during their first two seasons in the league. Wheeling became a charter member of the new Continental Football League in 1965, along with four other former UFL teams. Financial difficulties prompted the team to file for bankruptcy in April 1968, and also vote to give up their CFL franchise. Later that month the team announced they would in fact stay in the league, and hold a fundraising drive. Prior to the start of the 1968 CFL season the team changed their name to the Ohio Valley Ironmen. On December 15, 1969 the CFL revoked the Ironmen's franchise for failure to meet the league's financial obligations. | Agent | SportsTeam | CanadianFootballTeam |
Derik Steiner (born February 23, 1987) is an American football fullback who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Morehead State. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Green Bay Blizzard of the IFL in 2010. He was later signed by the Trenton Steel of the Southern Indoor Football League (SIFL) in 2011. After the Steel, Steiner was assigned to the Cleveland Gladiators of the AFL where he played for two seasons. He was traded to the San Jose SaberCats on January 3, 2014 from the Cleveland Gladiators. He was reassigned by the SaberCats on April 4, 2014 and claimed by the Iowa Barnstormers on April 5, 2014. | Agent | GridironFootballPlayer | AmericanFootballPlayer |
Brian Lowe (born 25 June 1939) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in Tasmania and Victoria from the late 1950s until the early 1970s. He was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005. Lowe, a ruckman, played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1960s while Bob Davis was coach and were starting to develop into a strong side. A member of Geelong's 1961 'night premiership' team, Lowe played in the drawn 1962 VFL Preliminary Final against Carlton as well as the narrow loss in the replay the following weekend. Geelong again made the finals again in 1963 but Lowe, despite participating in their Semi Final defeat of Hawthorn Football Club which booked a place in the Grand Final, was not selected in the premiership decider, which they won. Upon leaving Geelong, Lowe become captain/coach of Tasmanian club Cooee and represented the state, as vice-captain, in the 1966 Hobart Carnival. His original club, City-South, placed him in the back pocket of their official 'Team of the Century'. | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
Sachin Patel (born 11 December 1983) is a former English cricketer. Patel was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Wembley, London and later educated at the University of Hertfordshire. Patel represented the Middlesex Cricket Board in a single List A match against the Derbyshire Cricket Board in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was held in 2002. In his only List A match he scored 4 runs. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Jonathan David \"Doc\" Schneider (born April 25, 1987 in Massapequa, New York) is a goaltender formerly of the Hamilton Nationals of Major League Lacrosse. | Agent | Athlete | LacrossePlayer |
Mariyah Moten is a Pakistani American beauty pageant runner up 4 of Miss Pakistan World 2006. | Agent | Person | Model |
Héctor Martínez Muñoz (December 14, 1924 – November 14, 1991) was the first member of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico appointed by Governor Luis A. Ferré and confirmed by an opposition-controlled Senate of Puerto Rico presided by Rafael Hernández Colón. Born on in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Martínez obtained a B.A. from Virginia State University and a law degree in 1951 from the University of Puerto Rico. During twenty years he practiced law in the private sector but served ad honorem on the State Board of Education, as a Bar examiner and on the Legislative Committee of the Puerto Rico Bar Association. In 1971, Gov. Ferré, after withdrawing two nominations that the opposition-led Senate was going to reject, appointed Martínez as Associate Justice. Negotiations with the Senate led to his confirmation, assuming his post on the bench on June 12, 1971. After Luis Negrón Fernández resigned on September 15, 1972 after a second stint as Chief Justice, Ferré nominated Martínez for Chief Justice but the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico majority in the Senate rejected his elevation to the court's top post. Less than a year later, Martínez resigned from the bench and returned to private practice. In the late 1970s, Governor Carlos Romero Barceló appointed him to several ad honorem posts, including the Governor's Judicial Nominations Advisory Committee and the Puerto Rico Council on Higher Education. Justice Héctor Martínez Muñoz died in San Juan at the age of 66. | Agent | Person | Judge |
Elias Tari (17 April 1926 - 29 April 1978) was the Governor of East Nusa Tenggara from 1966 to 1978. His name became the name of an airport in Kupang, El Tari Airport. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
Top Up TV Promo was a digital television Barker channel broadcast in the United Kingdom to promote services offered by Top Up TV. The channel launched on 18 September 2006, and closed on 6 October 2013. The channel broadcast a looped promotional video, presented by Craig Doyle, advertising Top Up TV's new Anytime service. The channel broadcast free to air on digital terrestrial television between 6:00 am and noon each day. The channel was used in conjunction with MHEG generated Top Up TV Active on channel 107, which is a text-based information service available 24 hours a day, informing viewers how to subscribe, costs and other information. A similar channel, known as Top Up TV Sampler, was also broadcast by Top Up TV between December 2004 and February 2005 on channel 36, presented by Alice Beer. It advertised Top Up TV's then-current services, and was broadcast from 4:00 am to 11:00 pm daily. However, in February 2005, it was replaced by pay-per-view channel Xtraview, before itself being removed in August 2005 due to capacity contracts running out with terrestrial broadcaster Channel 4. Xtraview was replaced by encrypted Top Up TV channels previously broadcast on the slot owned by Channel 4, of which are expected to be replaced themselves with new channels launched by Five. | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
Neon Gold Records is a New York City-based boutique record label founded in 2008 by Derek Davies and Lizzy Plapinger. Initially operating as a vinyl-only singles label, Neon Gold has launched the debut releases and international careers of many acts including Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding, Marina and the Diamonds, Gotye, The Naked & Famous, Icona Pop, Charli XCX, and Tove Lo. Beyond their own roster, Neon Gold are often credited with the discovery and initial support of a number of other successful artists including Vampire Weekend, Lana Del Rey, CHVRCHES, Grouplove and Walk the Moon. | Agent | Company | RecordLabel |
The 2000 New Ireland earthquakes occurred off the coast of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea on November 16 and 17. The mainshock was a magnitude 8.0 Mw strike-slip event that occurred on November 16 at 04:54 UTC, and ruptured a section of the transform boundary between the north and south Bismarck plates. A 7.8 magnitude thrust earthquake followed at 07:42 UTC with its epicenter 175 km south of the first earthquake at the southern end of its rupture zone at 5°29′46″S 151°46′52″E / 5.496°S 151.781°E. Another 7.8 magnitude thrust event occurred on November 17 at 21:01 UTC, this time occurring 174 km south west of the initial event at 5°13′59″S 153°06′07″E / 5.233°S 153.102°E in eastern New Britain. This sequence of earthquakes killed two people, and triggered landslides in southern New Ireland. Damage caused by the events and the following tsunami occurred in New Britain, Duke of York Island, western Bougainville and Buka. The magnitude 8.0 event was the largest earthquake to occur in the world during 2000. | Event | NaturalEvent | Earthquake |
A Newspaperman? (Bulgarian: Вестникар ли? / Vestnikar li?) is a comedy play written by the Bulgarian writer, poet and playwright Ivan Vazov first published in 1900. In a comical manner, the play presents the author's intolerance of the tabloid press which engulfed the lives of the people. “A Newspaperman?” is a next step in the development of the Bulgarian drama after the works of the pioneers in the scope Dobri Voynikov and Vasil Drumev. The best known production of the play is probably the 1982 TV adaptation directed by Asen Trayanov, featuring the leading Bulgarian comic actors Georgi Partsalev and Georgi Kaloyanchev. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
The Langeberg Range is a mountain range in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its highest peak is Keeromsberg at 2075m and 15 km NE of the town of Worcester. Some of the highest peaks of the range are located just to the north of Swellendam, in a subrange known as the Clock Peaks whose highest point is 1710 m high Misty Point. Local lore states one can tell the time by means of the shadows cast by the seven summits of the Clock Peaks. The name is Dutch and means \"long mountain\" | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
Gord Walker (born August 12, 1965) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. He was selected by the New York Rangers in the third round (53rd overall) of the 1983 NHL Entry Draft. Between 1986 and 1989 he played in 31 National Hockey League games with the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
The Archdiocese of Acapulco (Latin: Archidioecesis Acapulcanus) is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese located in the Mexican port city of Acapulco, Guerrero. It is currently led by Archbishop Felipe Aguirre Franco, and auxiliary bishop Juan Navarro Castellanos. The Archdiocese of Acapulco is a Metropolitan Archdiocese; its suffragans dioceses are the dioceses of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Ciudad Altamirano, Lázaro Cárdenas and Tlapa. The Diocese of Acapulco was erected on March 18, 1958. It was elevated to Archdiocese on February 10, 1983. As of 2004, the archdiocese contains 86 parishes, 89 active diocesan priests, 19 religious priests, and 2,800,000 Catholics. It also has 171 Women Religious, 31 Religious Brothers, and 20 permanent deacons. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
Orestes of Macedon (Greek: Ὀρέστης ὁ Μακεδών) was son of Archelaus I and successor king of his murdered father. He reigned between 399–396 BC along with his guardian Aeropus II, being succeeded by his brother Archelaus II. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
Jesús Silverio Cavazos Ceballos (15 December 1968 – 21 November 2010) was a Mexican politician, the Governor of Colima from 2005 to 2009, elected after the death of Gustavo Vázquez Montes. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Cavazos was elected to finish the 2003–2009 constitutional period of Gustavo Vázquez Montes, who won a special election after the ordinary elections were annulled. However, Vázquez Montes died in a plane crash in February 2005, for which it was necessary to call a third election, which was won by Cavazos. He was killed outside his home by gunmen on 21 November 2010. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
Stephen John (Steve) Weatherley (born 26 November 1957 in Dartford, England) is a former motorcycle speedway rider who was twice runner-up in the British Speedway Under 21 Championship. He rode primarily for the Eastbourne Eagles and the White City Rebels, who won the British League in 1977. On 8 June 1979 he was paralysed whilst riding for Eastbourne at Hackney Wick Stadium, Waterden Road. He was involved in a terrible crash with Vic Harding. Harding was killed and Weatherley was left with a broken back. He has used a wheelchair since the crash. His nephew, Lee Richardson (1979-2012) was an international speedway rider. | Agent | MotorcycleRider | SpeedwayRider |
Tartar Lamb is an experimental avant-garde band, consisting of Toby Driver and Mia Matsumiya, both leading members of the experimental band Kayo Dot. The band originally was formed in 2006 as a means for Toby Driver to experiment with his ideas for a guitar-violin duo. The duo released their first album, Sixty Metonymies, in 2007. The band was augmented by trumpet and percussion by Tim Byrnes and Andrew Greenwald, respectively. In 2011, the band returned with their sophomore effort, Polyimage of Known Exits, under the name Tartar Lamb II. This album was funded entirely by fans via a Kickstarter project. | Agent | Group | Band |
Zamia herrerae is a species of plant in the Zamiaceae family. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Plant | Cycad |
Steampunk World's Fair (SPWF) is an annual American steampunk convention, usually held over the course of a weekend during the month of May in Somerset or Piscataway, New Jersey. The programming is a typical fannish event, including musicians, performers, vendors, artisans, authors, and other guests whose work is either characteristic of, or in some way linked to, the steampunk subculture. | Event | SocietalEvent | Convention |
Sancler Frantz Konzen (Arroio do Tigre, April 9, 1991) is a Brazilian model, journalist and beauty queen who won Miss Brazil World 2013 and represented Brazil at Miss World 2013 and placed 5th runner-up. | Agent | Person | Model |
The Blackwater Reservoir is a reservoir created behind a dam in the mountains above Kinlochleven, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. At over 914 m long, the dam is the longest in the Highlands. The hydroelectric scheme was constructed in the early 1900s for the British Aluminium Company (later: British Alcan) for the purpose of smelting aluminium and was designed by engineers Patrick Meik and Charles Meik. Chief assistant resident engineer was William Halcrow. The dam, at 27 m high, was built at an elevation of over 305m in rugged and almost inaccessible terrain, and involved the construction of some 6 km of concrete aqueduct and nearly 13 km of steel pipe in total (four parallel pipelines). The dam was built using hand tools, without the benefit of mechanical earth moving machinery, and has been described as the last major creation of the traditional 'navvy' whose activities in the construction of canals and railways left an indelible mark on the British countryside. The power house and aluminium smelting plant were situated in Kinlochleven, which is adjacent to the sea loch Loch Leven. In recent years the smelting works has closed and has mostly been demolished albeit that a few buildings remain and have been given over to other uses, including a climbing wall which - unusually - has a refrigerated face so that people can practice ice climbing. The power station now produces electricity for the aluminium smelter in Fort William, supplementing the supply from the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme. Any surplus energy is sold to the national grid for public supply. Consequently, the dam, penstocks and other works associated with it remain in use. A number of workers lost their lives constructing the dam; their graves, which are marked by concrete markers, are close to the dam. | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
NGC 5 (also MCG 6-1-13, UGC 62 and PGC 595) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It has a generic \"redshift estimated\" distance of 212 million light years from Earth.The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using an 80.01 cm (31.5-inch) reflecting telescope at the Marseille Observatory on 21 October 1881. | Place | CelestialBody | Galaxy |
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