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357059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Andr%C3%A9 | John André | John André (2 May 1750/1751 – 2 October 1780) was a major in the British Army and head of its Secret Service in America during the American Revolutionary War. He was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York, to the British. André is... |
357060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon%20Eben%20Baldwin | Simeon Eben Baldwin | Simeon Eben Baldwin (February 5, 1840 – January 30, 1927) was an American jurist, law professor, and politician who served as the 65th governor of Connecticut.
Education
The son of jurist, Connecticut governor and U.S. Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily Pitkin Perkins, Baldwin was born in New Haven, Connecticut, ... |
357063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20code%20monitor | Machine code monitor | A machine code monitor ( machine language monitor) is software that allows a user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on a computer, with options to load and save memory contents from/to secondary storage. Some full-featured machine code monitors provide detailed control ("single-stepping") of the ex... |
357064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%20Beecher | Lyman Beecher | Lyman Beecher (October 12, 1775 – January 10, 1863) was a Presbyterian minister, and the father of 13 children, many of whom became noted figures, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Thomas K. Beecher.
According to his so... |
357065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram%20Bingham | Hiram Bingham | Hiram Bingham may refer to:
Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869), American missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
Hiram Bingham II (1831–1908), son of Hiram Bingham I, also a missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956), U.S. Senator from Connecticut and explorer best known for uncovering Machu Picchu
H... |
357067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Yorty | Sam Yorty | Samuel William Yorty (October 1, 1909 – June 5, 1998) was an American politician from Los Angeles, California. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the California State Assembly, but he is most remembered for his turbulent three terms as the 37th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1961 to 1973... |
357069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Whiting%20Boardman | William Whiting Boardman | William Whiting Boardman (October 10, 1794 – August 27, 1871) was a politician and United States Representative from Connecticut.
Biography
Born in New Milford, Connecticut, William Whiting Boardman was the son of Senator Elijah Boardman and Mary Ann Whiting Boardman; and nephew of David Sherman Boardman. He was an ea... |
357071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buonamico%20Buffalmacco | Buonamico Buffalmacco | Buonamico di [son of] Martino or Buonamico Buffalmacco (active c. 1315–1336) was an Italian painter who worked in Florence, Bologna and Pisa. Although none of his known work has survived, he is widely assumed to be the painter of a most influential fresco cycle in the Camposanto in Pisa, featuring The Three Dead and t... |
357072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman%20Brewster%20Jr. | Kingman Brewster Jr. | Kingman Brewster Jr. (June 17, 1919 – November 8, 1988) was an American educator, president of Yale University, and diplomat.
Early life
Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, the son of Florence Foster (née Besse), a 1907 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, and Kingman Brewster Sr., a 1906 Phi Beta... |
357074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Mead | Lake Mead | Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, east from Las Vegas Strip. It is the largest reservoir in the United States in terms of water capacity. Formed by the Hoover Dam on September 30, 1935, the reser... |
357075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Buhl | Hermann Buhl | Hermann Buhl (21 September 1924 – 27 June 1957) was an Austrian mountaineer and is considered one of the best climbers of all time. He was particularly innovative in applying Alpine style to Himalayan climbing. His accomplishments include:
1953 German–Austrian Nanga Parbat expedition – First ascent of Nanga Parbat, 8... |
357076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous%20People%20Players | Famous People Players | Famous People Players is a black light puppetry theatre company. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and tours worldwide. It is a non-profit organization that employs people with physical and intellectual disabilities. Those individuals share duties in dining room management, arts administration, and theatrical and... |
357077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Rossellino | Antonio Rossellino | Antonio Gamberelli (1427–1479), nicknamed Antonio Rossellino for the colour of his hair, was an Italian sculptor. His older brother, from whom he received his formal training, was the sculptor and architect Bernardo Rossellino.
Born in Settignano, now a part of Florence, he was the youngest of five brothers, sculptors... |
357078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Powell | Lake Powell | Lake Powell is an artificial reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, United States. It is a major vacation spot visited by approximately two million people every year. It is the second largest artificial reservoir by maximum water capacity in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing of water when full.... |
357082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo%20Rossellino | Bernardo Rossellino | Bernardo di Matteo del Borra Gamberelli (1409 Settignano – 1464 Florence), better known as Bernardo Rossellino, was an Italian sculptor and architect, the elder brother of the sculptor Antonio Rossellino. As a member of the second generation of Renaissance artists, he helped to further define and popularize the revolu... |
357085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Sansovino | Andrea Sansovino | Andrea dal Monte Sansovino or Andrea Contucci del Monte San Savino (1529) was an Italian sculptor active during the High Renaissance. His pupils include Jacopo Sansovino (no relation).
Biography
He was the son of Domenico Contucci of Monte Sansovino, and was born at Monte San Savino near Arezzo, hence his name, whic... |
357087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Daggett | David Daggett | David Daggett (December 31, 1764 – April 12, 1851) was a U.S. senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and a founder of the Yale Law School. He helped block plans for the first college for African Americans in the United States and presided over the conviction of a wo... |
357089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal%20sin | Mortal sin | A mortal sin (), in Catholic theology, is a gravely sinful act which can lead to damnation if a person does not repent of the sin before death. A sin is considered to be "mortal" when its quality is such that it leads to a separation of that person from God's saving grace. Three conditions must together be met for a si... |
357090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Renaissance | High Renaissance | In art history, the High Renaissance was a short period of the most exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, particularly Rome, capital of the Papal States, and in Florence, during the Italian Renaissance. Most art historians state that the High Renaissance started around 1495 or 1500 and ended in 1520 w... |
357091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20W.%20Edwards | Henry W. Edwards | Henry Waggaman Edwards (October 1779July 22, 1847) was an American lawyer, a Democrat, and the 27th and 29th governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut.
Biography
Edwards was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Pierpont Edwards and Frances Ogden. He graduated from Princeton University in 1797, and earned a law d... |
357092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo%20Sansovino | Jacopo Sansovino | Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance architecture. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that S... |
357094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheria | Scheria | Scheria or Scherie (; or ), also known as Phaeacia () or the Land of the Faiakes (Φαίακες) was a region in Greek mythology, first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus in his 10-year journey before returning home to Ithaca. It is one of the earliest description... |
357098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callimachus%20%28polemarch%29 | Callimachus (polemarch) | Callimachus ( Kallímakhos) was the Athenian polemarch at the Battle of Marathon, which took place during 490 BC. According to Herodotus he was from the Attica deme of Afidnes.
The Battle of Marathon
As polemarch, Callimachus had a vote in military affairs along with the 10 strategoi, including Miltiades. Miltiades ... |
357100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingle%20Foot | Dingle Foot | Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, QC (24 August 1905 – 18 June 1978) was a British lawyer, Liberal and Labour Member of Parliament, and Solicitor General for England and Wales in the first government of Harold Wilson.
Biography
Born in Plymouth, Devon, Foot was educated at Bembridge School, a boys' independent school on the... |
357101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Playfair | Nigel Playfair | Sir Nigel Ross Playfair (1 July 1874 – 19 August 1934) was an English actor and director, known particularly as actor-manager of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in the 1920s.
After acting as an amateur while practising as a lawyer, he turned professional in 1902 when he was 28. After a time in F. R. Benson's company h... |
357102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Goodyear | Charles Goodyear | Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
Goodyear is credited with inventing the chemical process to create and manu... |
357107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20carbon%20copy | Blind carbon copy | Blind carbon copy (abbreviated Bcc) allows the sender of a message to conceal the person entered in the Bcc field from the other recipients. This concept originally applied to paper correspondence and now also applies to email.
In some circumstances, the typist creating a paper correspondence must ensure that multiple... |
357108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hillhouse | James Hillhouse | James Hillhouse (October 20, 1754 – December 29, 1832) was an American lawyer, real estate developer, and politician from New Haven, Connecticut. He represented the state in both chambers of the US Congress. From February to March 1801, Hillhouse briefly served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
Ear... |
357112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Humphreys%20%28soldier%29 | David Humphreys (soldier) | David Humphreys (July 10, 1752 – February 21, 1818) was an American Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, a secretary and intelligence agent for Benjamin Franklin in Paris, American minister to Portugal and then to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America and member of the Conn... |
357114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othniel%20Charles%20Marsh | Othniel Charles Marsh | Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American professor of Paleontology in Yale College and President of the National Academy of Sciences. He was one of the preeminent scientists in the field of paleontology. Among his legacies are the discovery or description of dozens of new species and th... |
357125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary%20friend | Imaginary friend | Imaginary friends (also known as pretend friends, invisible friends or made-up friends) are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than physical reality.
Although they may seem real to their creators, children usually understan... |
357126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithiel%20Town | Ithiel Town | Ithiel Town (October 3, 1784 – June 13, 1844) was an American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional architects in the United States, Town made significant contributions to American architecture in the first half of the 19th century. His work, in the Federal and revivalist Greek and G... |
357127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEW-AM | XEW-AM | XEW-AM is a radio station in Mexico City, Mexico, broadcasting on the AM frequency of 900 kHz; it is branded as W Radio. XEW-AM serves as the originating station for other "W-Radio" stations around Mexico that carry some of its programs. The programming on XEW-AM is also simulcast on Mexico City FM radio station 96.9 X... |
357128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20B.%20Fancher | Frederick B. Fancher | Frederick Bartlett Fancher (April 2, 1852January 10, 1944) was an American politician who was the seventh Governor of North Dakota from 1899 to 1901.
Biography
Frederick B. Fancher was born in Orleans County, New York, on April 2, 1852. Educated in the public schools, he also attended Michigan State Normal School in ... |
357133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Throssell | George Throssell | George Lionel Throssell (23 May 1840 – 30 August 1910) was the second Premier of Western Australia. He served for just three months, from 15 February to 27 May 1901, during a period of great instability in Western Australian politics.
George Throssell was born at Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, on 23 May 1840. The so... |
357135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleomenes%20I | Cleomenes I | Cleomenes I (; Greek Κλεομένης; died c. 490 BC) was King of Sparta between c. 524 to c. 490 BC. One of the most important Spartan kings, Cleomenes was instrumental in organising the Greek resistance against the Persian Empire of Darius, as well as shaping the geopolitical balance of Classical Greece.
Historical signif... |
357137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/594%20BC | 594 BC | The year 594 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 160 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 594 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
Facing an e... |
357138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behram%20Kur%C5%9Funo%C4%9Flu | Behram Kurşunoğlu | Behram Kurşunoğlu (14 March 1922 – 25 October 2003) was a Turkish physicist and the founder and the director of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami. He was best known for his works on unified field theory, energy and global issues. Moreover, he participated in the discovery of two different types of... |
357142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlalixcoyan | Tlalixcoyan | Tlalixcoyan (pronounced Tlah-lees-koh-yan) is a municipality in Veracruz, Mexico.
Tlalixcoyan is bordered by: Alvarado, Medellín, and Cotaxtla and is on Mexican Federal Highways 180 and 190.
Lorenzo Barcelata, composer, was born in Tlalixcoyan, Veracruz, and he died in Mexico City from cholera.
In Tlalixcoyan the ma... |
357147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20hyperbaric%20bag | Portable hyperbaric bag | A portable hyperbaric bag, of which one brand is the Gamow () bag, is an inflatable pressure bag large enough to accommodate a person. The patient can be placed inside the bag, which is then sealed and inflated with a foot pump. Within minutes, the effective altitude can be decreased by 1000 m to as much as 3000 m (328... |
357148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernivtsi%20Oblast | Chernivtsi Oblast | Chernivtsi Oblast (; ) is an oblast (province) in Western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldova. The oblast is the smallest in Ukraine by area and population.
The oblast has a large variety of landforms: the Carpathi... |
357152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer%20%28disambiguation%29 | Transformer (disambiguation) | A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another.
Transformer may also refer to:
Art and entertainment
Transformer (Lou Reed album), 1972
Transformer (Bruce Kulick album), 2003
"Transformer", a song by Gnarls Barkley from St. Elsewhere
Transformer (film), a 2017 Canadian docu... |
357153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anissa%20Jones | Anissa Jones | Mary Anissa Jones (rhyming with Lisa, not Melissa) (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was an American child actress known for her role as Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom Family Affair, which ran from 1966 to 1971. She died from combined drug intoxication at the age of 18.
Early life
Jones was born in Lafayette, Indiana.... |
357156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail | Airmail | Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the m... |
357158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorbing | Zorbing | Zorbing (also known as globe-riding, sphereing, orbing) is the recreation or sport of rolling downhill inside an orb, typically made of transparent plastic. Zorbing is generally performed on a gentle slope but can also be done on a level surface, permitting more rider control. In the absence of hills, some operators h... |
357164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newseum | Newseum | The Newseum was an American museum dedicated to news and journalism that promoted free expression and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, while tracing the evolution of communication.
The purpose of the museum, funded by the Freedom Forum nonpartisan U.S. foundation dedicated to freedom of the pres... |
357170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Appelbaum%20Associates | Ralph Appelbaum Associates | Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) is one of the world's longest-established and largest museum exhibition design firms with offices in New York City, London, Beijing, Berlin, Moscow, and Dubai.
Overview
The firm was founded in 1978 by Ralph Appelbaum (born 1942), a graduate of Pratt Institute and former Peace Corps vol... |
357177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%20Barcelata | Lorenzo Barcelata | Lorenzo Barcelata (July 24, 1898 – July 13, 1943) was a Mexican composer and actor born in Tlalixcoyan, Veracruz. He died in Mexico City from cholera, shortly before his 45th birthday.
Barcelata came from a musically oriented family. He wrote his first song, "Arroyito", at the age of 14. He later moved to Tampico whe... |
357178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinantecan%20languages | Chinantecan languages | The Chinantec or Chinantecan languages constitute a branch of the Oto-Manguean family. Though traditionally considered a single language, Ethnologue lists 14 partially mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinantec. The languages are spoken by the indigenous Chinantec people who live in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, esp... |
357181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Schlossberg | Edwin Schlossberg | Edwin Arthur Schlossberg (born July 19, 1945) is an American designer, author, and artist. He specializes in designing interactive experiences, beginning in 1977 with the first hands-on learning environment in the U.S. for the Brooklyn Children's Museum. Schlossberg continues to work in the field and publishes often on... |
357182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe%20Victoria | Guadalupe Victoria | Guadalupe Victoria (; 29 September 178621 March 1843), born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, was a Mexican general and political leader who fought for independence against the Spanish Empire in the Mexican War of Independence. He was a deputy in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for Durango and a member of th... |
357184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20stations%20in%20Quebec | List of television stations in Quebec | This is a list of broadcast television stations serving cities in the Canadian province of Quebec. Digital channels as of November 2011.
Defunct stations
Channel 30: CFVO-TV - TVA - Hull
See also
Media in Canada
Ottawa-licensed stations in the list of television stations in Ontario; the majority of these transmit fro... |
357185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Leake | George Leake | George Leake (3 December 1856 – 24 June 1902) was the third Premier of Western Australia, serving from May to November 1901 and then again from December 1901 to his death.
Leake was born in Perth, into a prominent local family. Studying law, he was called to the bar in 1880, and in 1883 was appointed Crown Solicitor ... |
357186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Heaven%20%28film%29 | Kingdom of Heaven (film) | Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic historical fiction drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Ghassan Massoud, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Edward Norton, Marton Csokas, Liam Neeson, Michael Sheen, Velibor Topić and Alexander Sid... |
357190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondo%20effect | Kondo effect | In physics, the Kondo effect describes the scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change i.e. a minimum in electrical resistivity with temperature.
The cause of the effect was first explained by Jun Kondo, who applied third-order perturbation theory to th... |
357198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniparental%20disomy | Uniparental disomy | Uniparental disomy (UPD) occurs when a person receives two copies of a chromosome, or of part of a chromosome, from one parent and no copy from the other parent. UPD can be the result of heterodisomy, in which a pair of non-identical chromosomes are inherited from one parent (an earlier stage meiosis I error) or isodis... |
357200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20of%20Sheba | Queen of Sheba | The Queen of Sheba (, Malkaṯ Šəḇāʾ; ; ) is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon. This account has undergone extensive Jewish, Islamic and Ethiopian elaborations, and it has become the subject of one of the most widespr... |
357210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Papandreou | Andreas Papandreou | Andreas Georgiou Papandreou (, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, which he led from 1974 to 1996. He served two terms as prime minister of Greece.
Papandreou's party win in the 1981 election was a m... |
357213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%20v.%20United%20States | Myers v. United States | Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), was a United States Supreme Court decision ruling that the President has the exclusive power to remove executive branch officials, and does not need the approval of the Senate or any other legislative body. It was distinguished in 1935 by Humphrey's Executor v. United States.... |
357217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-winged%20pratincole | Black-winged pratincole | The black-winged pratincole (Glareola nordmanni) is a wader in the pratincole bird family, Glareolidae. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name commemorates the Finnish-born zoologist and explorer Alexander von Nordmann.
Descri... |
357219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20in%20the%201970s | Boxing in the 1970s | During the 1970s, boxing was characterized by dominating champions and history-making rivalries. The decade had many superstars, who also had fierce rivals. Alexis Argüello, for example, who won the world Featherweight and Jr. Lightweight titles in the '70s, had to overcome Alfredo Escalera twice before the decade was ... |
357220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Disney%20theatrical%20animated%20feature%20films | List of Disney theatrical animated feature films | This list of theatrical animated feature films consists of animated films produced or released by The Walt Disney Studios, the film division of The Walt Disney Company.
The Walt Disney Studios releases films from Disney-owned and non-Disney owned animation studios. Most films listed below are from Walt Disney Animatio... |
357221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail%20etiquette | Airmail etiquette | An airmail etiquette, often shortened to just etiquette, is a label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. The term is from French étiquette "label, sticker" (cognate to stick), from which also comes the English word etiquette "rules of behavior".
Use
Because the etiquettes are just instructions to p... |
357226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail%20stamp | Airmail stamp | An airmail stamp is a postage stamp intended to pay either an airmail fee that is charged in addition to the surface rate, or the full airmail rate, for an item of mail to be transported by air.
Airmail stamps should not be confused with airmail etiquettes, which are affixed to mail as an instruction to the postal aut... |
357227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental%20pratincole | Oriental pratincole | The oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum), also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.
Etymology
The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name maldivarum refers to the ty... |
357233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20of%20David%20the%20Gnome | The World of David the Gnome | The World of David the Gnome, originally titled David, el Gnomo (also known as David, the Gnome), is a Spanish animated television series based on the children's book The Secret Book of Gnomes, by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet. The series was originally created in Spain by BRB Internaciona... |
357236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage%20stamp%20block | Postage stamp block | In philately, a block is a group of four or more un-separated stamps. Blocks are of interest not only because they are rarer than individual stamps, but they also preserve relative positions of stamps as they were originally printed, information that is crucial to understanding how the stamps were produced.
Format
Blo... |
357240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf%20Morgans | Alf Morgans | Alfred Edward Morgans (17 February 1850 – 10 August 1933) was the fourth Premier of Western Australia, serving for just over a month, from 21 November to 23 December 1901.
Born in Wales, Morgans trained as an engineer, and supervised mining operations in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Central America. He came to West... |
357245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are%20You%20Afraid%20of%20the%20Dark%3F | Are You Afraid of the Dark? | Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a horror anthology television series that was produced by YTV and distributed by Nickelodeon. The original series aired from 1990 to 1996. It led to two revival series, with the first airing from 1999 to 2000, and the second debuting in 2019.
The original series was distributed worldwid... |
357250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia%3A%20A%20Book%20for%20People%20Who%20Find%20Television%20Too%20Slow | Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow | Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television too Slow is a book of short stories by Brian Fawcett. It was first published in 1986 (with subsequent US publication: ).
In addition to its unusual title, this collection of thirteen short stories and essays is notable also for having a division three quarters of the way... |
357251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20II%2C%20Countess%20of%20Flanders | Margaret II, Countess of Flanders | Margaret, often called Margaret of Constantinople (1202 – 10 February 1280), ruled as Countess of Flanders during 1244–1278 and Countess of Hainaut during 1244–1253 and 1257–1280. She was the younger daughter of Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and Hainaut, and Marie of Champagne.
Called the Black (la Noire) due to her s... |
357264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Canada%20International | Radio Canada International | Radio Canada International (RCI) is the international broadcasting service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Prior to 1970, RCI was known as the CBC International Service. The broadcasting service was also previously referred to as the Voice of Canada, broadcasting on shortwave from powerful transmitters ... |
357268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Carroll | Julian Carroll | Julian Morton Carroll (born April 16, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Kentucky. A Democrat, he served as the 54th Governor of Kentucky from 1974 to 1979, succeeding Wendell H. Ford, who resigned to accept a seat in the U.S. Senate. He was most recently a member of the Kentucky Senate, repre... |
357269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Mar%C3%ADa%20Polo | Ana María Polo | Ana María Cristina Polo González (born 11 April 1959) is a Cuban-American Hispanic television arbitrator on Caso Cerrado and Ana Polo Rules
Born in Havana, Cuba. Ana moved to Puerto Rico when she was 2 years old accompanied by her family. Later, they moved to Miami where she participated in different musicals includi... |
357285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Papandreou | George Papandreou | George Andreas Papandreou (, , shortened to Giorgos () to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for Movement for Change.
Belonging to a political dynasty of long standing,... |
357286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn%20Cartel | Medellín Cartel | The Medellín Cartel () was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist-type criminal organization originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar. It is often considered the first major “drug cartel” and was referred to as such (a cartel) due to the organi... |
357289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20snooping | Bus snooping | Bus snooping or bus sniffing is a scheme by which a coherency controller (snooper) in a cache (a snoopy cache) monitors or snoops the bus transactions, and its goal is to maintain a cache coherency in distributed shared memory systems. A cache containing a coherency controller (snooper) is called a snoopy cache. This s... |
357292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20of%20Burgundy | Duke of Burgundy | Duke of Burgundy () was a title used by the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy, from its establishment in 843 to its annexation by France in 1477, and later by Habsburg sovereigns of the Low Countries (1482–1556).
The Duchy of Burgundy was a small portion of the traditional lands of the Burgundians west of the river Saôn... |
357302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanup | Cleanup | Cleanup, clean up or clean-up may refer to:
Cleaning, making clean and free from dirt, litter, or garbage, i.e. maintaining a state of cleanliness
Litter cleanup, removing waste that has been improperly disposed and disposing of it properly.
Cleanup (animation), a part of the workflow in the production of hand-drawn... |
357306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20Labour | Minister of Labour | Minister of Labour (in British English) or Labor (in American English) is typically a cabinet-level position with portfolio responsibility for setting national labour standards, labour dispute mechanisms, employment, workforce participation, training and social security.
Lists
The position exist in many countries wi... |
357308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonistic%20contradiction | Antagonistic contradiction | Antagonistic contradiction (Chinese language: 矛盾) is the notion that compromise between different social classes is impossible, and their relations must be of class struggle. The term is most often applied in Maoist theory, which holds that differences between the two primary classes, the working class/proletariat and ... |
357309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookside%20%28TV%20series%29 | Brookside (TV series) | Brookside is a British soap opera that was set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982 and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003. Originally intended to be called Meadowcroft, the series was produced by Mersey Television (now renamed as Lime Pictures) and was conceiv... |
357311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller%20Republican | Rockefeller Republican | The Rockefeller Republicans were members of the Republican Party (GOP) in the 1930s–1970s who held moderate-to-liberal views on domestic issues, similar to those of Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York (1959–1973) and Vice President of the United States (1974–1977). Rockefeller Republicans were most common in the N... |
357314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20garden | Rock garden | A rock garden, also known as a rockery or an alpine garden, is a small field or plot of ground designed to feature and emphasize a variety of rocks, stones, and boulders.
The standard layout for a rock garden consists of a pile of aesthetically arranged rocks in different sizes, with small gaps between in which plants... |
357317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobarometer | Eurobarometer | Eurobarometer is a series of public opinion surveys conducted regularly on behalf of the European Commission and other EU Institutions since 1973. These surveys address a wide variety of topical issues relating to the European Union throughout its member states.
The Eurobarometer results are published by the European ... |
357319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-pong%20diplomacy | Ping-pong diplomacy | Ping-pong diplomacy ( Pīngpāng wàijiāo) refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States (US) and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s, that began during the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan as a result of an encounter between players Glenn Cowan ... |
357320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton%2C%20London | Charlton, London | Charlton is an area of southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is east of Greenwich and west of Woolwich. It is east-southeast of Charing Cross. 'Charlton next Woolwich' was an ancient parish in the county of Kent, which became part of the metropolitan area of London in 1855. It is home to... |
357325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios%20Papandreou | Georgios Papandreou | Georgios Papandreou ( Geórgios Papandréou; 13 February 1888 – 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as prime minister of Greece (1944–1945, 1963, 1964–1965). He was also deputy prime minister from 1950–1952, in the governments of Nikolaos Plastir... |
357328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%B6bner%20basis | Gröbner basis | In mathematics, and more specifically in computer algebra, computational algebraic geometry, and computational commutative algebra, a Gröbner basis is a particular kind of generating set of an ideal in a polynomial ring over a field . A Gröbner basis allows many important properties of the ideal and the associated alg... |
357331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20nighthawk | Common nighthawk | The common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) is a medium-sized crepuscular or nocturnal bird of the Americas within the nightjar family, whose presence and identity are best revealed by its vocalization. Typically dark (grey, black and brown), displaying cryptic colouration and intricate patterns, this bird is difficult to... |
357334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCX | CCX | CCX may mean:
210 in roman numerals
AD 210, the year of the Common Era
Chicago Climate Exchange, North American greenhouse gas reduction and trading system
Cisco Compatible EXtensions, a specification for 802.11 wireless LAN chip manufacturers
Koenigsegg CCX, a sports car
CCX, the coal mining company that is controlle... |
357337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oto | Oto | Oto, Ōtō, or OTO may refer to:
People
Oto (name), including a list of people with the name
The Otoe tribe (also spelled Oto), a Native American people
Places
Oto, Spain, a village in the Valle de Broto, in Huesca, Aragon
Otorohanga, a town in New Zealand, commonly abbreviated to "Oto"
Japan
Ōtō, Fukuoka
Ōtō, Nara, m... |
357339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness%20%28computer%20science%29 | Correctness (computer science) | In theoretical computer science, an algorithm is correct with respect to a specification if it behaves as specified. Best explored is functional correctness, which refers to the input-output behavior of the algorithm (i.e., for each input it produces an output satisfying the specification).
Within the latter notion, p... |
357346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred%20%28county%20division%29 | Hundred (county division) | A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, Curonia, the Ukrainian state of the Cossack Hetmanate and in Cumberland Count... |
357350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray%20Region | Tigray Region | The Tigray Region (; ; ), officially the Tigray National Regional State (), is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob and Kunama people. Formerly known as Region 1, its capital and largest city is Mekelle. Tigray is the fifth-largest by area, the fifth-most ... |
357353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20Hadron%20Collider | Large Hadron Collider | The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries. It lies... |
357354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%E2%80%93Binet%20formula | Cauchy–Binet formula | In mathematics, specifically linear algebra, the Cauchy–Binet formula, named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, is an identity for the determinant of the product of two rectangular matrices of transpose shapes (so that the product is well-defined and square). It generalizes the statement that... |
357356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Philosophy | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users. It is maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors ... |
357357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crown | The Crown | The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states). Legally ill-defined, the term has different meanings depending on context. It is used to designate the monarch in either a pe... |
357361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful%20Life | Wonderful Life | Wonderful Life may refer to:
Wonderful Life (book), a 1989 book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould
Film and television
Wonderful Life (1964 film), 1964 film starring Cliff Richard
Wonderful Life (2018 film), a 2017 fantasy film directed by Jo Won-hee
Wonderful Life, original Japanese title of After Life, a 1998 Japane... |
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