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Robert Elphinstone (born 22 November 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A Seaford recruit, Elphinstone had spent his early sporting years as a golfer and only started playing football in his late teens. He was a half-back, equally at home on the flanks or at centre half-back. Elphinstone, who was nicknamed \"Eel\", had his best season in 1983 when he averaged 19 disposals and polled 11 votes in the Brownlow Medal count, a total not bettered by any teammates. That year he also represented Victoria at State of Origin football. He tried to join Richmond at the end of the 1985 season but was convinced to remain the club when 40 of St Kilda's players and their coach, Graeme Gellie, visited him at his home and asked him to stay. | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
The Cole Museum of Zoology is a university museum, part of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading. It is located on the university's Whiteknights Campus in the town of Reading, Berkshire, England. The collection was established in the early 20th century by Francis J. Cole (Professor of Zoology), Dr Nellie B. Eales (who catalogued the collection), and Mr Stoneman, from 1907 to 1939 when Cole retired. On Cole's death in 1959, the University also purchased his library of books, which are kept as a special collection in the main library. A refurbishment of the museum was completed on 17 March 2004, enlarging the floor area to display a wider sample of the entire collection. It contains about 4,000 specimens of which about 400 are on display at any one time. Specimens are arranged in 27 cases in taxonomic sequence, thus enabling a complete tour of the diversity of the animal kingdom. Specimens include a male Indian circus elephant skeleton, a 5-metre reticulated python skeleton containing 400 vertebrae, a fossil of the largest spider to ever have lived, and a false killer whale skeleton. | Place | Building | Museum |
The 2011 League of Ireland Cup Final also known as the 2011 EA Sports Cup Final was the final match of the 2011 League of Ireland Cup, the 38th season of the League of Ireland Cup, a football competition for the 27 teams from the Premier Division, First Division, A Championship and the Ulster Senior League. The match was contested by Cork City and Derry City, at Turners Cross in Cork on 24 September 2011. It was broadcast live on Setanta Sports. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
The Ponte Salario, also called Ponte Salaro during the Middle Ages, is a road bridge in Rome, Italy, whose origins date back to the Roman period. In antiquity, it lay outside the city limits, 3 km north of the Porta Collina, at the point where the Via Salaria (modern SS4) crossed the Aniene, a tributary of the Tiber. The visible side arches are assumed to originate from the first stone structure built during the 1st century BC. In the Gothic War (535–554), the main arch was largely destroyed by the Ostrogothic king Totila, but repaired by his East Roman opponent Narses in 565, who recorded the extensive restoration works, including a river diversion, in an extant bridge inscription. At that time, the Ponte Salario was 72 m long and 6.52 m wide, with its semi-circular arch reaching a remarkable clear span of 24.86 m. The large bridge tower was possibly erected in the 8th century, allowing more effective control of the passage. In 1798, the Ponte Salario, which had been hitherto well-preserved due to repeated repairs, was battered by Napoleonic troops, who tore down the balustrade, including the ancient inscription. In 1829, the medieval tower was demolished, and in 1849 the bridge was cut on a length of 15 m by French soldiers. In 1867, the bridge once and for all lost its historical character, when papal troops blew up the central arch. The Ponte Salario was reconstructed in its current form in 1874, with the roadway widened in 1930. Apart from the Ponte Salario, there were other fortified bridges across the Aniene, such as the extant Ponte Nomentano, the Ponte Mammolo (both of Roman origin) and the medieval Ponte di San Francesco in Subiaco. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
The Boland cricket team is based in the Boland region of Western Cape province in South Africa. | Agent | SportsTeam | CricketTeam |
The Silky Sullivan Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run each year (until recently in March, then on November 5, and now in April) at Golden Gate Fields in the San Francisco Bay Area. Named for the \"Heart Attack Horse,\" the great closer Silky Sullivan, the race was a mile and an eighth, or 9 furlong Grade III turf race——run on grass——with a purse of $100,000 which it has retained. It is open to males or females three years of age, and runs at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth. It is now restricted to California breds and is no longer graded. The race was inaugurated in 1976. Over the years its racing date has often changed due to various track schedulings. For the past few years, racing in northern California has been in a state of uncertain flux, which, for a time, forced Golden Gate Fields to cease its fall schedule. This caused the Silky Sullivan Handicap to be in temporary hiatus. The Silky Sullivan returned on May 2, 2009, the same day the Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs. Silky Sullivan died in 1977, one year later than the race in his name began, and is buried in the infield at Golden Gate Fields. The only other horse so honored is the great Lost in the Fog who died of cancer in 2006. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
Kansas v. Carr, 577 U.S. ___ (2016) was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States clarified several procedures for sentencing defendants in capital cases. Specifically, the Court held that judges are not required to affirmatively instruct juries about the burden of proof for establishing mitigating evidence, and that joint trials of capital defendants \"are often preferable when the joined defendants’ criminal conduct arises out of a single chain of events\". This case included the last majority opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia before his death in February 2016. | UnitOfWork | LegalCase | SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase |
Jamie Subandhi is a female American badminton player who competes in the singles and mixed doubles category. In the mixed doubles, she is usually partnered with Phillip Chew. Subandhi won gold along with Chew in the mixed doubles category at the 2015 Pan American Games. She would be competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics. | Agent | Athlete | BadmintonPlayer |
The 2010 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by Chip Kelly in his second season as a head coach. The Ducks played their home games at Autzen Stadium for the 44th straight year. On October 16, 2010, Oregon was ranked number 1 in the AP Poll for the first time in program history. On October 31, 2010, after beating USC and moving to 8–0, Oregon achieved the number 1 ranking in the BCS rankings. The Ducks repeated as Pac-10 Conference champions and finished the regular season undefeated with a school-record 12 wins, the first undefeated and untied regular season in the school's 117-year football history. They earned a berth in the BCS National Championship Game, which they narrowly lost to Auburn on a field goal as time expired. It was the closest that a team from the Pacific Northwest has come to winning a share of the national championship since Washington was crowned national champion by most outlets in 1991. In recognition of the team's performance during the season, Kelly received the Eddie Robinson Award and the Associated Press College Football Coach of the Year Award. Running back LaMichael James, who finished third in balloting in for the Heisman Trophy, received the Doak Walker Award. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
Narus is a community in the Namorunyang State state of South Sudan. It is the headquarters of Kapoeta East County. | Place | Settlement | Town |
Jo Farrow is a British broadcast meteorologist. A Met Office forecaster since 1997, Farrow has worked for BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Nations and Regions. Farrow has also worked with the ITV Weather team, providing graphics for ITV's own National Weather forecasts, S4C and UTV. Farrow is now a relief stand-in weather forecaster for STV, previously producing forecasts from STV North's studios in West Tullos, Aberdeen but is now based in the Edinburgh Studios. She has also recently joined Netweather.tv as a forecaster. | Agent | Presenter | RadioHost |
The 2005 West of Scotland Cup Final, also known as the Whyte and Mackay Cup for Sponsorship reasons, was an association football match between Arthurlie and Troon on 14 May 2005 at Newlandsfield Park, home of Pollok F.C., in Glasgow's South Side. The match marked the first time Troon had reached the Final of the competition in its 60-year history whilst it was Arthurlie's second in two years. The tournament was contested by all clubs who compete in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region leagues with both finalists coming from the West of Scotland Super League Premier Division. In the two league encounters between the clubs that season, Troon had recorded one of only their two league victories to date of the entire campaign at Dunterlie Park, coming away with a 2-1 victory, although Arthurlie got their revenge with a 2-0 victory at Portland Park later in the season. The Final itself was a real end-to-end contest, won in the very last minute with a strike from Troon Captain Jim Duffy that will live long in the memory of the many Seasiders that were there that day. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
The Aston Demolition is a professional inline hockey team based in Aston, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the American Inline Hockey League (AIHL). Prior to the 2008 season, the team was known as the Marple Gladiators | Agent | SportsTeam | HockeyTeam |
Edwin Dolby was an English Victorian architect who practised in Abingdon. His works include the design of Abingdon School. | Agent | Person | Architect |
The discography of American singer Elizabeth Gillies consists of one soundtrack album, two singles, one promotional singles, six music videos and one other album appearance. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
UFC 57: Liddell vs. Couture 3 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on February 4, 2006. It was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, and broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States. Headlining the card was an anticipated rubber match between top UFC stars and former coaches of The Ultimate Fighter Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture, widely touted and marketed as MMA's first major trilogy. It was the UFC's largest grossing gate to date, $3.3 million, in addition to an estimate of over 400,000 pay-per-view buys. The disclosed fighter payroll for the event was $667,000. | Event | SportsEvent | MixedMartialArtsEvent |
The Fletcher Hills are a low mountain range in the Peninsular Ranges, in southwestern San Diego County, California. The name Fletcher Hills also refers to a neighborhood near San Diego, California which lies primarily in the city of El Cajon and partially in La Mesa. The area was developed in 1927–1928 by San Diego developer Ed Fletcher. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
The Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop, also known as The Doodle, was a diner in New Haven, Connecticut that catered to the Yale University community for 58 years before closing on January 28, 2008. The narrow restaurant, with only 12 stools arranged opposite a counter that ran the length of shop, was a favorite among students, faculty, and employees of the university. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Henry Winkler are said to have been regulars during their times at Yale. The Doodle was known for its cheap but excellent food, especially the fried donut—an old fashioned donut cut down the middle, buttered, fried on the grill, and then re-buttered before serving. Other unique items popular with students included; the Bacon Egg and Cheese \"No Break,\" The Doodle Dandy, and a variety of grilled muffins. | Place | Building | Restaurant |
Ron Erhardt (born October 23, 1929) is a politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota and is a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He represents House District 49A, which includes most of Edina in Hennepin County. Erhardt is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) and has been again re-endorsed by the DFL for re-election in 2016. Until July 2008, Erhardt was a Republican and was endorsed by the Republican Party of Minnesota. For nine successive terms, he earned election victories, even when other Republicans did poorly. In 2006 he won with 59.5%. However, over time his district, then numbered District 41A, went from Republican-leaning to becoming more of a swing district, with candidates of both major parties succeeding in the same elections. Illustrated by the district supporting Democrats John Kerry in the 2004 election and Amy Klobuchar for US Senate in 2006 while at the same time voting strongly for Republicans such as then Congressman Jim Ramstad and the current Congressman Erik Paulsen, as well as State Representative Ron Erhardt, who won as an endorsed Republican in those same 2004 and 2006 elections with a 60% plurality. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
Thomas Courthope Gull (1832 – 5 January 1878) was an early settler of Western Australia who served as a member of the colony's Legislative Council from 1870 to 1872. Born in London, England, Gull came to Western Australia in 1852. He settled in Guildford (on the outskirts of Perth), and went into partnership with his uncle, Samuel Adams Barker. Their merchant firm, Barker and Gull, survived until 1891, after both their deaths. Outside of that business, Gull also owned a property of 10,000 acres (40 km2) at Bannister (near Williams). This property and a neighbouring property co-leased with Barker were used to rear horses. Gull first ran for parliament in 1867, in the unofficial elections held to guide the governor in his nomination process. He was unsuccessful then, but in the first official elections, in 1870, contested and won the seat of Swan. While in office, Gull was a keen advocate for the construction of what would become known as the Eastern Railway, linking Guildford with Northam. However, he was defeated at the 1872 elections by William Locke Brockman, and subsequently concentrated on his commercial interests. Gull died in Guildford in January 1878, aged only 46, from \"congestion of the lungs\". He had married Annie Dempster in 1861, with whom he had four sons and two daughters. Two of his brothers-in-law, Andrew and Charles Edward Dempster, and a son, Arthur Courthope Gull, were also members of parliament. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Maria Selena Nurcahya born September 25, 1990 in Palembang, South Sumatera is an Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Puteri Indonesia 2011 and was represented her country in Miss Universe 2012 pageant. She was represented Central Java in the Pemilihan Puteri Indonesia 2011. Currently, she's a final year student majoring in Business in Bandung Institute of Technology | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
Basic Channel is a production team and record label, composed of Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, that originated in Berlin, Germany in 1993. The duo originally released a number of vinyl-only tracks under various aliases, the most well known being Basic Channel and Maurizio, each of which employed their signature style of minimal techno. The original nine releases under their Basic Channel name were each primarily identified as Basic Channel productions by their catalogue numbers, as the Basic Channel logo on the label became more distorted and unreadable with each subsequent release. The duo set up a studio in Berlin on Paul-Lincke-Ufer, in a building which was eventually to house Mark Ernestus’ distributing company and shop Hard Wax, and the label's mastering studio Dubplates & Mastering, set up to ensure a desired dynamic quality for the vinyl. The Basic Channel imprint ceased business in 1995 (apart from two releases almost a decade later that were originally issued on Carl Craig's Planet E label), but were followed by a string of similar labels. Main Street handled Chicago house-inspired releases; Chain Reaction released non-Von Oswald/Ernestus productions and helped launch the careers of dub techno producers such as Monolake and Porter Ricks. Basic Channel has also shown a strong affinity for Jamaican music. The Rhythm & Sound label imprint saw the duo's sound move closer to dub reggae. Frequent Rhythm & Sound collaborator Paul St. Hilaire set up the subsidiary False Tuned in 2003. Basic Channel occasionally reissues out-of-print music. Basic Replay specialises in dancehall reissues, while Wackies focuses on dub. | Agent | Group | Band |
Richard Hutchison (January 20, 1812 – September 27, 1891) was a New Brunswick businessman and political figure. He represented Northumberland in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1868 to 1872. He was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1812, the son of David Hutchison. He was educated there and came to New Brunswick in 1826. In 1840, Hutchison married Elizabeth Mackie. He was a lumber merchant in the Glasgow-based firm Gilmour, Rankin & Co (a branch of Pollok, Gilmour and Company) which operated on the Miramichi River; by 1852, he was the sole resident partner and he was given control of the operation in 1870. Hutchison represented Northumberland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1864 to 1866. He was elected to the House of Commons in an 1868 by-election held after the death of John Mercer Johnson. His son Ernest later represented Northumberland in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
British Queen is a variety of potato that was bred by Archibald Finlay. A type of potato with a great flavour and a floury flesh, Findlay wrote that it \"is one of the finest white kidney-shaped mid-season potatoes.\" | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
The United Javakhk Democratic Alliance (Armenian: «Միացյալ Ջավախք» ժողովրդավարական դաշինք Miatsyal Javakhk zhoghovrdavarakan dashink' ) is a non-government organization composed of ethnic Armenians living in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia. It has, at various times, called for local autonomy for predominantly ethnic Armenian area of Javakheti known in Armenian as Javakhk; whence the organization's name. Its current leader is Vahagn Chakhalyan. The movement has pursued contradictory policy, alternating sometime confrontational stance with the central Georgian government with more conciliatory rhetoric. It has its origin in the Javakhk movement which emerged in 1988 and was instrumental in organizing the deployment of a small unit of Javakheti Armenians to the conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Javakhk has lobbied for the creation of an Armenian autonomous region within Georgia, and organized protests against the centrally proposed local administrators and Georgian military exercises early in the 1990s. During the civil strife in Tbilisi early in 1991, the Javakhk exploited the constitutional vacuum and organized the Provisional Council of Representatives which self-dissolved after the local officials proposed by Tbilisi were finally accepted in November 1991. The organization proposed to hold a referendum on autonomy or secession of Javakheti, but the Armenian government, mindful of the importance of its relations with Georgia, has been careful to defuse potential problems in the region, intervening once to talk Javakhk out of plans to hold a referendum on autonomy or secession. Both the Georgian and Armenian governments have pursued a careful and calming policy in regard with local nationalist movements that helped ease tensions in the region. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
Montgomery Mall was an enclosed shopping mall in Montgomery, Alabama. Opened in 1970, it closed in 2008 after several years of declining traffic. The mall's anchor stores were J.C. Penney, Parisian, and Gayfers (later Dillard's, then Steve & Barry's). In February 2013, redevelopment began on the vacant mall property. | Place | Building | ShoppingMall |
The 1969 Baltimore Colts season was the 17th season for the team in the National Football League. The Baltimore Colts finished the National Football League's 1969 season with a record of 8 wins, 5 losses and 1 tie. They finished second in the Western Conference's Coastal division. Coach Don Shula was let go after the season, a disappointing one many attributed to the hangover of losing to the heavy-underdog Jets in the Super Bowl the year before. It is one of the first instances of a Super Bowl hangover – in which the team that played in a Super Bowl the previous season, underperforms the next season. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
Crassicorophium crassicorne is a species of amphipod crustacean. It lives in shallow subtidal muddy sand and may grow up to 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long. C. crassicorne occurs on American and European coasts from Norway to the Black Sea. | Species | Animal | Crustacean |
Acanthogonatus hualpen is a mygalomorph spider of Chile, named after its type locality: Hualpén, Concepción, Bío Bío Region. Males can be distinguished from those of A. nahuelbuta and A. patagallina by the shaped of the bulb's apex, and by the palpal tibia being wide in the basal two-thirds (tapering abruptly at the apex) with thickened setae along the apical one-third of the retrolateral face (instead of two-thirds). | Species | Animal | Arachnid |
The Burdekin Dam, officially the Burdekin Falls Dam, is a concrete gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Burdekin River, located south west of Ayr, and Home Hill in North Queensland, Australia. Built for the purpose of irrigation, the reservoir, called Lake Dalrymple, provides drinking water for the city of Townsville. Burdekin Dam is managed by SunWater. Water from the reservoir is also used to replenish downstream aquifers. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Anthony Caruso is the president and CEO of CSA Group, a multimillion-dollar distribution management company. CSA partners with fulfillment and logistics providers, using negotiations to offer customers discounts on shipping. CSA Group's clients include Amnesty International, Marriott and Samsung America. Prior to creating CSA Group, Anthony held various sales and sales management positions at FedEx Corporation. As a Global Sales Executive, Anthony led his team to closing the largest international express freight deal in FedEx history. For his efforts he was named “Global Account Manager of the Year”. Anthony has also worked with political leaders including Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson to help the state and local government create stronger alliances with the private sector. He is still an active speaker and has been featured in numerous publications including Entrepreneur Magazine. Anthony lives in southern New Jersey with his three children. He was inspired to start his own business when his first child was born. He is involved with several charities including the American Red Cross and United Way. | Agent | Person | BusinessPerson |
Fika-Patso Dam is a combined earth-fill/rock-fill type dam located on the Namahadi River, the uppermost section of the Elands River, a tributary of the Wilge River. It is located near Phuthaditjhaba, Free State, South Africa. It was established in 1986 and its primary purpose is water for domestic and industrial usage. | Place | Infrastructure | Dam |
Igor Alborov (Игорь Алборов; born November 30, 1982) is a boxer from Uzbekistan, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native Asian country. There he was stopped in the round of sixteen of the Heavyweight (91 kg) division by Egypt's eventual bronze medal winner Mohamed Elsayed. Alborov qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, PR China. In the decisive final match he defeated Kazakhstan's Pavel Storozhuk. | Agent | Boxer | AmateurBoxer |
Brian Stuart Goodell (born April 2, 1959) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, he won gold medals for his first-place finishes in the 400-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle events. He also won gold medals in both events at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received a silver medal in 1,500-meter freestyle at the 1975 World Aquatics Championships in Cali, Colombia. He attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he swam for coach Ron Ballatore's UCLA Bruins swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition from 1978 to 1980. During his college swimming career, he won nine NCAA individual championships, including three times in each of the 500-yard freestyle, 1,650-yard freestyle, and the 400-yard individual medley. Goodell held the 400-meter freestyle (long course) world record from June 18, 1976 to April 6, 1979, and the 1,500-meter freestyle (long course) world record from 1976 to 1980. He was recognized as the Male World Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World magazine in 1977. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an \"Honor Swimmer\" in 1986. Brian and his wife, Vicki Goodell, are currently licensed Realtors in California and have created The Gold Medal Group with Berkshire Hathaway. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Langona is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumpingspiders). Langona species are similar to those of the genus Aelurillus. | Species | Animal | Arachnid |
Megastomia desmiti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
Emese Mózes-Rácz (born 16 March 1983 in Debrecen) is a Hungarian handballer who plays for Békéscsabai Előre NKSE as a playmaker. | Agent | Athlete | HandballPlayer |
Claude Carignan, PC, (born December 4, 1964) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He is currently the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada. Carignan was the mayor of Saint-Eustache, Quebec from 2000 to 2009. He ran for the Conservatives in the 2008 federal election in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, but lost. On August 27, 2009, he was named to the Senate of Canada as a Conservative. On May 24, 2011, Carignan was appointed Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate. He was appointed Leader of the Government in the Senate on August 20, 2013 but, unlike most of his predecessors, was not appointed to Cabinet. Carignan was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1988 and specializes in labour and public law. He was a law professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal and at the Université de Montréal. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
(Not to be confused with Rickey Jackson.) Ricky Jackson (born 19 June 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL). Jackson tried out initially at Richmond but the rover was not wanted by the club due to his size. Despite this rejection, he had a successful career with Melbourne where he became a handy goal scorer and topped their goal-kicking in 1988 with 43 goals. Most notably he kicked five goals in Melbourne's Preliminary Final win over Carlton that year, although he went goal-less from the forward pocket in their Grand Final loss. A Victorian interstate representative, Jackson was picked up by Footscray in the 1991 AFL Draft but did not break into their seniors. He represented Australia in the 1990 International Rules series. | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
Juan Rafael Mora Porras (8 February 1814, San José, Costa Rica – 30 September 1860) was President of Costa Rica from 1849 to 1859. | Agent | Politician | President |
The 1970 PGA Championship was the 52nd PGA Championship, played August 13–16 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dave Stockton won the first of his two PGA Championships at 279 (−1), two strokes ahead of runners-up Bob Murphy and Arnold Palmer. It was Palmer's third runner-up finish at the only major he never won, and was his last time in contention in the final round of a PGA Championship. Stockton won his second PGA Championship six years later in 1976. The third round was played in 101 °F (38 °C) heat, and Stockton led by three strokes after 54 holes at 206 (−4). Defending champion Raymond Floyd carded a 65 (−5) on Saturday and was in second place at 209 (−1) entering the final round, and Palmer was alone in third place at 211 (+1). It was the second major championship at Southern Hills, which hosted the U.S. Open in 1958. It later hosted the U.S. Open in 1977 and 2001 and the PGA Championship in 1982, 1994, and 2007. | Event | Tournament | GolfTournament |
The Křižanov Highlands (Czech: Křižanovská vrchovina, German: Krischanauer Bergland , Polish: Wyżyna Krzyżanowska) is a mountain range in Moravia, Czech Republic. The Highlands, together with the Upper Svratka Highlands and Jevišovice Hills threshold, form the Western-Moravian part of Moldanubian Zone - east south part of Bohemian Massif. Core of Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
Eran Ganot is an American college basketball head coach for the University of Hawaii. Ganot lettered at Swarthmore College and graduated with a degree in Economics and Sociology/Anthropology in 2003. He was the assistant coach at Hawaii from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2015, he served as assistant coach at St. Mary's and was acting head coach for five games in 2013-14, compiling a 3-2 record. On April 9, 2015, he was named Hawaii head coach. In his first season as coach at Hawaii, he earned Big West Coach of the Year accolades. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
\"Die Bosniaken kommen\" (English: \"The Bosniaks are Coming\") is a military march, which was composed by Austrian composer Eduard Wagnes in 1895. It was composed in Graz in honour of the soldiers of the Bosniak infantry regiments, who were in the Austro-Hungarian army. This is one of the most popular military marches, and today is played on all military events in Austria. | Work | MusicalWork | ClassicalMusicComposition |
Countess Anna Stepanovna Protasova (Анна Степановна Протасова; 1745–1826) was a Russian lady-in-waiting and noble, confidant of empress Catherine the Great. She was daughter of Senator Stepan Feodorovich Protasov and Anisya Nikitishna, née Orlova, and the cousin of Alexej Orlov, with whom she was reported to have had a relationship. She was the foster parent of a couple girls rumored to have had Orlov as their biological father and either Catherine or Protasova as their biological mother. She replaced Countess Praskovja Bruce as confidante and first maid-of-honor in 1779. She became lady-in-waiting in 1785. Catherine entrusted her with her most intimate personal affairs. She is most known in history as \"l'éprouveuse\", the role she played in Catherine's love life. According to legend, she was to \"test\" the prospective lovers sexually before they became the lovers of Catherine, after they had been suggested by Potemkin, chosen by Catherine, and examined by a doctor for venereal disease. This very same unconfirmed role has also been attributed to her predecessor as lady-in-waiting, Praskovja Bruce. She accompanied Catherine on all her trips and journeys. Protasova is mentioned as \"l'éprouveuse\" in the poems of Byron. In 1801, she was given the title of Countess, and remained lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Maria Feodorovna. She died in St. Petersburg. | Agent | Person | Noble |
Santo Peranda (1566–1638) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was a pupil of the painter Leonardo Corona and later Palma il Giovane. Also known as Santa Peranda. He painted a Descent from the cross for San Procolo in Venice. He painted The defeat of the Saracens for the Ducal Palace of Modena. He painted the Gathering of the Manna for the church of the San Bartolome. In 1623 he finished Glorious Mysteries for the church of San Nicolò in Treviso. Among his pupils were Francesco Maffei, Matteo Ponzone, and Filippo Zaniberti. | Agent | Artist | Painter |
Robert Strait (born November 14, 1969 in Cuero, Texas) is a former American football running back. Strait is considered one of the best high school football players in Texas history. While playing at Cuero High School from 1985–88, Strait rushed for 8,411 yards on a state-record 1,131 carries and scored 841 points. He had 41 games with more than 100 yards rushing for his career, with was then second to Emmitt Smith's national record of 45 games and was the Texas state record until Wes Danaher broke the record in 1995 with 43 100-yard games. In 1987 Strait scored 372 points, which is second in Texas football history only to Ken Hall (395 points in 1953), while Cuero High won the 3A state championship. In 1985 and 1986 Cuero had lost the title game. Considered the state's top recruit in 1989 alongside Jessie Armstead, Strait accepted a scholarship offer by Grant Teaff to play for Baylor University. At the time he was considered “the most heralded recruit in Baylor school history.” In the 1994 NFL Draft he was picked by the Cleveland Browns in the 10th round with the 171st pick overall. He never played in the NFL, though. | Agent | GridironFootballPlayer | AmericanFootballPlayer |
Tae-Hyon Chong (Hangul: 정대현, Hanja: 鄭大炫; born November 10, 1978 in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea) is a South Korean underhand pitcher, playing for the Lotte Giants in Korea Professional Baseball. He bats and throws right-handed. Chong is considered as a submarine pitcher with an unusual delivery. He throws a sinking fastball (sinker) usually sitting around 80 mph and a curveball as his primary pitches. | Agent | Athlete | BaseballPlayer |
Asuka Yūki (結城明日香 Yūki Asuka) is a prolific Japanese AV idol whose arrest for indecent exposure made international news in 2006. | Agent | Actor | AdultActor |
Bay Pride mall is one of the shopping malls in Kerala, designed and developed by ABAD buiders, a part of ABAD, one of the leading business groups in India. The mall has a total floor area of 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2). Bay Pride Mall is a prestigious product of Abad builders. This shopping mall is situated facing the Arabian Sea and this is one of the great plus points of this shopping mall. There are showrooms of local and leading international brands which facilitate shopping. Bay Pride Mall is a prestigious cornerstone of Cochin business. Every day large numbers of people shop here and return greatly satisfied with the services of Bay Pride Mall. Customers receive seasonal offers and discounts which make shopping here a bargain and a pleasure. To entertain their customers the mall has a game zone and a music zone. There are also tasteful collections of textile shops and gift shops. Shops of leading brands in Bay Pride are Metro, Brandz, Bata for bags and footwear, Levi's, Welspun, Fila, Price, Music World for music system, Nike, Koutons, Chasesys, Reynolds, Spykar Jean for latest fashionable jeans, John Players for man's wear, Archies gallery, Fabindia, Nokia, Adidas etc are hosted here. | Place | Building | ShoppingMall |
Bujingai (武刃街), known in North America as Bujingai: The Forsaken City and in Europe as Bujingai: Swordmaster, is an action video game developed by Taito Corporation in collaboration with Red Entertainment, exclusively for the PlayStation 2 console. The game was first published by Taito in Japan on December 25, 2003. Releases in North America by BAM! Entertainment and in Europe by 505 Gamestreet followed in 2004 and 2005 respectively. Bujingai is set in the 23rd century about 100 years after a global catastrophe wiped out a majority of the Earth's population and its entire government. The survivors have found themselves in possession of magical powers stemming from the energies of the Earth. The game's story follows one such man, Lau Wong, a sword-wielding exile who returns to Earth to confront a former ally and an army of demons who have taken hold of the titular Asian city of Bujingai. The graphics and gameplay in Bujingai are visually inspired by martial arts (Wuxia) films of Hong Kong. The game is a third-person beat 'em up/hack and slash in which the player controls the protagonist Lau, exploring open environments, solving minor puzzles, and battling enemies and bosses. The game features a counterattack mechanic and the ability to chain together sword slashes in excess of 1,000 hits. Bujingai acted as a 50th anniversary release for Taito. Taking two years to create, the development team included Taito veteran Hiroshi Aoki as director, Taito's in-house band Zuntata as music composers, and external talent in the form of Cowboy Bebop character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto and Trigun scenario writer Yōsuke Kuroda in their respective roles. The likeness of Japanese pop icon Gackt was used in making the protagonist Lau Wong; Gackt himself aided in the game's promotion prior to its launch. Bujingai received above-average reviews from press sources, who praised its combat gameplay, visual style, and character designs. However, many of these same reviewers criticized the game as having poor jumping mechanics, dull level designs, and a weak plot. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
Reagan Diana Wilson (born March 6, 1947 in Torrance, California) is an American model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1967 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel. | Agent | Person | PlayboyPlaymate |
MyTravelLite is a former scheduled low-fare airline founded in 2002 by parent company MyTravel Airways, part of MyTravel Group PLC. The airline's aim was to bring low-cost flights to the Midlands region at its main base, Birmingham International Airport, United Kingdom. The airline started flights to Alicante, Beauvais, Belfast, Geneva and Málaga using two aircraft. MyTravelLite became an important airline to Birmingham International Airport and helped the airport increase its passenger figures. The airline then increased its route network, adding Almería, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Faro, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Knock, Lanzarote, Mahón, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Pisa, Rimini and Tenerife. In October 2005, MyTravelLite ended operations and was reintegrated into its parent airline MyTravel Airways. On 30 March 2008, MyTravel Airways was itself fully integrated into Thomas Cook Airlines. | Agent | Company | Airline |
The Capture of the San Joaquin or the Battle of Cartegena was a naval engagement that took place off the coast near Cartegena (present day Columbia). It involved five British ships of the line against a Spanish galleon and a smaller ship. After an action lasting barely an hour the Spanish ship surrendered. The Galleon had fought in the previous encounter during Wager's Action nearly 3 years earlier but had just barely escaped capture. In late May, 1711 the warships under the command of Jean du Casse arrived and so on August 3, 1711 they sailed from Cartagena which now composed of the Treasure Fleet which was to return to Spain. The units of escort composed of the following: San Joaquin of 64 guns under Admiral Miguel Agustin Villanueva, the Saint-Michel of 70 guns under Jean Ducasse, the Hercule of 60 guns under Captain Proglie and the Frigate Griffon of 44 guns under Captain Turroble. Meanwhile Commodore James Littleton arrived with a number of ships which had sailed from Port Royal in Jamaica on July 26: a fleet which consisted of HMS Salisbury of 50 guns under Captain Francis Hosier and Littleton's flagship, Salisbury Prize of 50 guns under Captain Sir Robert Harland, HMS Jersey of 60 guns under Captain Edward Vernon, HMS Newcastle of 50 guns under Captain Sampson Bourne, HMS Weymouth 50 guns, under Captain Richard Lestock, HMS Anglesey 50 under Captain Thomas Legge, Frigate Fowey of 40 guns under Captain Robert Chadwick. Du Casse had left the frigate Gallarde in Cartagena for its defense and so on the day of leaving, the fleet were soon spotted by Littleton's fleet but a storm prevented anything to come of it and both fleets dispersed. Most of the fleet including Du Casse returned to Cartagena without giving any advice to Admiral Villanueva. On August 7 the galleon San Joaquin was totally separated along with a smaller vessel and a squadron was sighted. Villaneuva thought the vessels were that of Du Casse but it was in fact the English squadron of Littleton. When Villanueva realized the error was too late he decided to take on Littleton's squadron. The ensuing engagement lasted less than 20 minutes and San Joaquin was totally dismasted and suffered many casualties. Villaneuva now surrounded by the overwhelming British Squadron was mortally wounded when hit by a musket shot and soon struck his flag. Littleton from Salisbury went on board and took the surrender. Vernon in the Jesrey captured the smaller vessel which was attempting to escape. The galleons prize money was shared amongst the captains and the British sailed back to Port Royal. By order of King Philip V, the treasure was transferred to the French ships. Three days after the battle Du Casse, knowing that San Joaquin was lost, left Cartagena and sent his forces first towards Martinique, then to Pensacola and finally to Spain where they reached safely. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
Sharon Mitchell is an American sexologist and former pornographic film actor. In 1998, she founded the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM), which tested over 1,000 adult film performers per month before a 2011 information leak led to a lawsuit and the clinic's closure. | Agent | Actor | AdultActor |
Adrian Waller, (born December 26, 1989 in Enfield) is a professional squash player who represents England. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 24 in March 2015. | Agent | Athlete | SquashPlayer |
The Jumbo Hostel at Arlanda Airport near Stockholm, Sweden, is a hostel located inside a decommissioned 747-200 jetliner. It opened in 2008. | Place | Building | Hotel |
John Griffith Davies (born 17 May 1929) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. After retiring from competition swimming, he became a prominent lawyer in California, and after becoming a naturalized American, he was appointed a judge of the United States District Court by Ronald Reagan in 1986, and presided over the trial of the Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with assaulting Rodney King. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
Numéro is an international fashion magazine published by Paul-Emmanuel Reiffers It has a circulation of 80,000 and the French edition reached its 100th issue in February 2009. The magazine covers international fashion, beauty, design, health, architecture and decor, as well as spreads on trendsetting celebrities. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
Sangmanee Sor Tienpo is a Thai Muay Thai fighter, originally from Mancha Khiri, in the northeast of Thailand, Sangmanee fight out 13 Coins Gym. On July 2016, Sangmanee Sor Tienpo was ranked the #5 Super-feather weight ranked on Rajadamnern Stadium by muaythai2000.com | Agent | Athlete | MartialArtist |
James Hopkins Bailey (born December 16, 1934) is a retired American professional baseball player, a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Cincinnati Reds during the 1959 season. A 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 190 lb (86 kg) left-hander, he is the younger brother of the late catcher Ed Bailey, who was his teammate (and batterymate) on the Reds. In three games pitched, Bailey posted a 0–1 record with seven strikeouts and a 6.17 ERA, allowing 17 hits and six bases on balls in 11⅔ innings, including one start. The start occurred during on MLB debut, September 10, 1959, at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs. With brother Ed catching for him, Jim Bailey pitched well into the eighth inning, with only three earned runs allowed, but then surrendered three more runs to Chicago, pinning him with the 6–3 loss. Bailey retired from pro ball in 1961 after a six-year career. | Agent | Athlete | BaseballPlayer |
Cryptophasa nesograpta is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1925. It is found in New Guinea. The wingspan is about 40 mm. The forewings are white, with some scattered blackish-grey specks, the dorsal two-fifths suffused light ochreous-grey and the costal edge dark fuscous towards the base. The stigmata form reddish-brown spots more or less mixed dark fuscous, the first discal at one-fourth, the second transverse, the plical elongate, nearly midway between these. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish. | Species | Animal | Insect |
Heather Nedohin (born July 15, 1975 in Fort St. John, British Columbia as Heather Godberson) is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. She is a former Canadian and World Junior champion, two-time Tournament of Hearts Champion and a two-time World bronze medalist. She is married to three time World Champion David Nedohin. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Curler |
Bernard Radford (23 January 1908 – 2 October 1986) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward, and occasionally as an inside forward. Born in West Melton, West Riding of Yorkshire, Radford began his career in local league football with Wath Athletic, Wombwell and Darfield, before signing as a professional with Football League Third Division North side Nelson in December 1927. He made his League debut in the 0–1 defeat to Doncaster Rovers on 17 December, and scored his first three goals for Nelson on 7 January 1928 as the side beat Rochdale 6–3. Radford scored all four goals in the 4–0 victory against Wrexham on 11 February, becoming only the second Nelson player, after Jimmy Hampson, to achieve the feat in a League match. Radford remained in goalscoring form going into the 1928–29 season, netting in the opening match of the campaign against Hartlepools United. He then scored four goals in three matches in September 1928, and had a tally of 14 by Christmas. On 16 February 1929, he scored the only goal of the game as Nelson beat Chesterfield 1–0, and scored twice the following match in the 2–7 defeat away at Barrow. Radford ended the season with 24 goals, taking his total at Nelson to 41 in 55 matches. He was signed by Football League First Division club Sheffield United in the summer of 1929, but found first-team opportunities limited there and only played 20 matches in two seasons, although he did score 7 goals for the side. Radford subsequently spent a season with Northampton Town, but played in the reserves for most of the campaign, making just eight league appearances. He was released in the summer of 1932 and later moved into amateur football, initially with the Royal Navy Depot in Chatham, Kent. Radford stayed in southern England until his death in Basingstoke, Hampshire, on 2 October 1986 at the age of 78. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
KFBK-FM is a news/talk formatted radio station licensed to Pollock Pines, California, serving the Sacramento, California area and broadcasts at 93.1 FM. It is owned by iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel Communications) and simulcasts KFBK (AM). The station has studios in North Sacramento near Arden Fair Mall, and its transmitter is near Placerville in unincorporated El Dorado County. It first began broadcasting in 1981 under the call sign KSUE-FM. On June 10, 2009 the station changed its calls to KHLX. | Agent | Broadcaster | RadioStation |
Ian J. Richards (born May, 1975) is a former county court judge in the Florida's 17th Judicial Circuit. Richards was the first African-American judge to be elected countywide in Broward County, Florida. He presided over \"State of Florida v. John Reasee\", in which Richards jumped over his bench to protect a witness who was being attacked by the man against whom she had testified. | Agent | Person | Judge |
Prince Imperial Heung (Hangul: 흥친왕; hanja: 興親王; RR: Heungchinwang; MR: Heungchinwang, 30 July 1845 – 9 September 1912) was a prince of the Joseon Dynasty and of the Korean Empire. He was the son of Heungseon Daewongun, elder brother of Korean Emperor Gojong. His real name was Yi Jae-myon (이재면, 李載冕); his nickname was U-seok (우석). | Agent | Person | Monarch |
Carnival in Flanders is a musical with a book by Preston Sturges, lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Based on the 1934 French comedy film La Kermesse Héroïque, it is set in 1616 in the small Flemish village of Flackenburg, where a Spanish duke and his entourage descend upon the community. The mayor plays dead, hoping that his ruse will force the visitors to depart, but the duke sets his sights on the man's \"widow\" and begins to woo her. The musical had a brief run on Broadway in 1953. The musical is the source of the song \"Here's That Rainy Day\", which has become a standard. | Work | MusicalWork | Musical |
Stefania Boffa (born 9 August 1988) is a former tennis player from Switzerland. She has a career singles high of No. 307, and a doubles ranking of 194. She has played for the Swiss fed cup team once in 2006. Stefania Boffa retired from tennis 2010. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
The 1919 Decatur Staleys season was the first in the team's long existence. It was also the only season in which the Staleys-Bears team was not a member of the National Football League. The team, under George Halas, would become a founding member of that league a year later. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
Robert \"Robbie\" Haddrill (born 23 January 1981) is a defender for the South Fremantle Football Club, having previously played for the Fremantle Dockers in the AFL for seven seasons. Haddrill attended Aquinas College, Perth before being drafted from the Perth Football Club in the WAFL in the 2000 Rookie Draft. He was elevated to the senior list during the 2001 season but his AFL career was riddled with injuries. Despite a presence on the Fremantle list for seven seasons, of his 58 AFL games he played 45 in 2003 and 2004. He played the final 8 games of 2001 before missing the entire 2002 season with a knee injury. He returned in 2003 to play all 23 games, including Fremantle's first final. His good form continued through 2004 and was rewarded with selection in the Australian International Rules team that toured Ireland. From 2005 to 2007, however, he was affected by ankle, knee and hamstring injures that restricted Haddrill to only 5 games in total, with only single appearances in 2006 and 2007. Following his delisting at the end of the 2007 season Haddrill switched WAFL clubs to join South Fremantle. He holds the Fremantle record for the most games from debut without scoring a goal with 58 games. | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
Klaus Hänsch (born 15 December 1938 in Sprottau) is a German Politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD from 17 July 1979 until 13 July 2009, and sat with the Party of European Socialists group. He was Vice-chairman of the PES group since 1989, except during his service as President of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997. | Agent | Politician | President |
Jonathan Charles Palmer (born 7 November 1956) is a British former Formula One racing driver. Also a doctor, he briefly practised medicine before he opted for a career in motorsport. Active in Formula One between 1983 and 1989, Palmer drove for Tyrrell, Williams, RAM, and Zakspeed. He won 14 Championship points from 83 starts. He also raced a Group C Porsche in sports car events between 1983 and 1990, most notably winning the 1984 1000 km of Brands Hatch with co-driver Jan Lammers and taking second place at the 1985 24 Hours of Le Mans with co-drivers James Weaver and Richard Lloyd. Palmer helped develop the McLaren F1 road car, and drove one to a new speed record for production cars. He has taken a role in the racing careers of Jolyon Palmer and Will Palmer, his two sons. He is currently the majority shareholder and chief executive of MotorSport Vision, a motor sports organization. | Agent | RacingDriver | FormulaOneRacer |
Geosiphon is a genus of fungi in the family Geosiphonaceae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Geosiphon pyriformis, first described by Kützing in 1849 as Botrydium pyriforme. In 1915, Von Wettstein characterized Geosiphon pyriforme as a multinucleate alga containing endosymbiotic cyanobacteria, although he also noted the presence of chitin, a component of fungal cell walls. In 1933, Knapp was the first to suggest the fungal origin of the species and described it as a lichen with endosymbiotic cyanobacteria. It is the only member of the Glomeromycota to not form a symbiosis with terrestrial plants in the form of arbuscular mycorrhiza. | Species | Eukaryote | Fungus |
Ana Haložan (born September 27, 1996) is a Slovene model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Universe Slovenia 2015. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
Richard Sheppard Arnold (March 26, 1936 – September 23, 2004) was a judge of the U.S. District Court and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Two presidents, Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton, considered naming Arnold to the United States Supreme Court. Polly Price, a former Arnold law clerk and an Emory University law professor who has written a biography of Arnold, said that the judge will be remembered like the great jurist Learned Hand: \"perhaps the best judge never to serve on the Supreme Court.\" In May 2002, the U.S. Courthouse in Little Rock was renamed in Judge Arnold's honor. President Jimmy Carter nominated Arnold, a fellow Democrat, to the District Court of both the Eastern and Western districts of Arkansas on August 14, 1978. Barely a year later, on December 19, 1979, Carter named Arnold to a new position on the appeals court headquartered in St. Louis—a seat to which he previously had very publicly considered nominating law school professor Joan Krauskopf but eventually opted not to proceed with because of Krauskopf's \"not qualified\" rating from the American Bar Association. Arnold was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 20, 1980. The U.S. Senate confirmed Arnold to the Eighth Circuit on February 20, 1980. Arnold maintained his chambers in Little Rock. He served as Chief Judge of the Eighth Circuit from 1992 to 1998. He assumed senior status on April 1, 2001, which allowed him to lighten his workload and to concentrate in detail on fewer cases. During his last twelve years on the court, he served with his younger brother, Judge Morris S. \"Buzz\" Arnold, a Republican appointed by President George Herbert Walker Bush. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
Orłowo [ɔrˈwɔvɔ] (German: Orloff) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Dwór Gdański, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Nowy Dwór Gdański and 35 km (22 mi) south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk. Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, 1772-1919 Prussia and Germany, 1920-1939 Free City of Danzig, 1939 - February 1945 Nazi Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. The village has a population of 580. | Place | Settlement | Village |
Tropic Ocean Airways is a seaplane charter and scheduled service airline based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Tropic operates several Cessna airframes on floats. | Agent | Company | Airline |
The Intercultural Open University Foundation (IOUF) is an international non-profit charitable organization that provides distance learning courses to master's and PhD students. IOUF offers dual degree programs in association with Universidad Azteca and its partner the Universidad Central de Nicaragua (UCN). Upon successful completion of the course, students are awarded with the Doctor of Philosophy, PhD degree in consortium with UAzteca and UCN. The faculty and staff of IOUF contribute their time on a volunteer basis. To promote the higher education in developing countries, a limited number of scholarships are provided. The scholarship program was begun by the founders of the Intercultural Open University Foundation, Jan R. Hakemulder and Fay A.C. DeJonge. Jan Hakemulder was an academician who worked on the development programs designed to help the world's poor as an educational consultant for UNICEF. He and his wife, Fay A.C. DeJonge wrote about many subjects such as journalism, the media and ethics, alternative education, distance education and peace and non-violence studies. The Intercultural Open University Foundation is registered as a non-profit foundation in the United States and maintains offices in Arden, Delaware and Granada, Spain. Although it originally obtained registration as a foundation in the Netherlands, it no longer maintains offices in that country, having transferred its European headquarters to Spain in August, 2011, but it still remains registered as a Dutch juridical person. The use of Information and communications technology in IOUF has been assessed and validated by the European Commission's HEXTLEARN Peer Review and Study. IOUF is a member of international educational organizations such as European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN), European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning (EFQUEL). As a charitable foundation, IOUF is an independent legal entity with a stated mission of serving the public interest through higher education and research. Its status as a not-for-profit organization confers favorable tax status on activities undertaken in pursuit of Foundation goals. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | University |
Old Gaupne Church (Norwegian: Gaupne gamle kyrkje) is a historic parish church in Luster Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Gaupne. The church is part of the Luster parish in the Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The brown, wooden church, which has 130 seats, was built from 1647 to 1652 to replace an older stave church that was torn down. This church was used from that time until 1907 when the new Gaupne Church was completed. This church was then given to the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments in 1909. The society cares for the site and the parish uses the church for special occasions. Old Gaupne Church was built using several of the parts from the old stave church, including the side planks of the western portals. These planks, dating back to the second half of the 12th century, are now one of the standout features of the church, infused with detailed carvings of snakes and dragons. The Gaupne Old Church is known today for the annual St. Olaf’s Day service that is held there. The church authorities handed over the building to the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments in 1909. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
Peter Eastgate (born 13 December 1985) is a poker player from Denmark, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker. At the time, he became the youngest player ever to win the event. He was subsequently surpassed by Joe Cada in 2009. | Agent | Athlete | PokerPlayer |
Vitali Sazonets (Ukrainian: Віталій Сазонець, born 8 March 1988 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2008 national champion and reached the free skate at four ISU Championships – 2004 Junior Worlds in The Hague, Netherlands; 2005 Junior Worlds in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; 2006 Junior Worlds in Ljubljana, Slovenia; and 2008 Europeans in Zagreb, Croatia. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | FigureSkater |
The discography of Del the Funky Homosapien consists of eleven studio albums, one compilation album. | Work | MusicalWork | ArtistDiscography |
The men's 600 metre team military rifle, prone was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third (and last) appearance for military rifle events but the first time that medals were awarded for teams in the prone position. The competition was held on 29 and 30 July and on 2 August 1920. 70 shooters from 14 nations competed. | Event | Olympics | OlympicEvent |
The Silver Tankard Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old horses. It is run at Pontefract over a distance of 1 mile and 4 yards (1,613 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in October. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
Zweifel’s big-eyed tree frog, Nyctimystes zweifeli, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family, endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world. Set in a wartime bar in New York City, Auden uses four characters – Quant, Malin, Rosetta, and Emble – to explore and develop his themes. The poem won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948. It inspired a symphony by composer Leonard Bernstein, The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra) and a 1950 ballet by Jerome Robbins based on the symphony. A critical edition of the poem, edited by Alan Jacobs, was published by Princeton University Press in 2011. \"The Age of Anxiety\" is also the title of the first chapter of The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts (1951). | Work | WrittenWork | Poem |
Kinsale railway station was on the Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway in County Cork, Ireland. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
The Wood Hills are a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
Rowena (foaled 1817) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare that won the classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in 1820. On her only other appearance, she finished second in the Oaks Stakes. She later became a successful broodmare. | Species | Horse | RaceHorse |
Sony Music Nashville is the country music branch of Sony Music Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee Sony Music Nashville includes its three country recording labels, Arista Nashville, Columbia Nashville and RCA Nashville, as well as Christian music company, Provident Music Group. | Agent | Company | RecordLabel |
Kwai Chung Hospital (Chinese: 葵涌醫院) is a psychiatric hospital in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, located near Princess Margaret Hospital. Officially opened on 15 October 1981, the hospital currently provides 920 psychiatric beds, serving the population of Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi, Tsuen Wan, Tung Chung, North Lantau and part of Kowloon. Apart from in-patient psychiatric services for adult psychiatric patients, it also develops psychiatric specialty services which include Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, Psychogeriatric Services, Community Psychiatry, Consultation Liaison Services, Substance Abuse Assessment Unit and Psychiatric Unit for Learning Disabilities. The hospital also provides out-patient department and day hospital services for psychiatric patients at West Kowloon Psychiatric Centre and East Kowloon Psychiatric Centre. The hospital is reachable by Lai King Hill Road. | Place | Building | Hospital |
The 1971 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 3, 1971 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was the eleventh and final round of the 1971 Formula One season. The 59-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver François Cevert after he started from fifth position. Jo Siffert finished second for the BRM team and March driver Ronnie Peterson came in third. | Event | SportsEvent | GrandPrix |
Combat Mecha Xabungle (Japanese: 戦闘メカ ザブングル Hepburn: Sentō Meka Zabunguru) is a mecha anime television series created by Sunrise and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. It was broadcast on the Nagoya TV and TV Asahi networks at 5:30 PM each Saturday from February 6, 1982 through to January 29, 1983. Promotional toys were produced by Clover. It also had a compilation movie called Xabungle Graffiti, which included a few minutes of new footage and a different ending to the series. | Work | Cartoon | Anime |
The Christmas Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres), and during its running there are eight hurdles to be jumped. The race is the second leg of the Triple Crown of Hurdling and is scheduled to take place each year during the King George VI Chase meeting on Boxing Day. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
Nicholas Bartlett (born 24 December 1979) is an Australian Kendo player. A 5th-dan black belt, Nick represented Queensland winning 1st place in the individual division at the 32nd Australian Kendo Championships in Reservoir, Victoria on 9–10 June 2007. Nick began studying Kendo in his freshman year at university and after moving to Japan in August 2006 he joined the Sukagawa Kendo Renmei where he is the captain of his kendo club. | Agent | Athlete | MartialArtist |
Wychbury Hill is a hill situated off the A456 Birmingham Road, at Hagley, Stourbridge, on the border of West Midlands and Worcestershire. It is divided between the parish of Hagley and former parish of Pedmore. It is one of the Clent Hills and lies in Hagley Park. The hill offers good views across the Severn Valley as far as the Malvern Hills and Clee Hills. It is the site of Wychbury Ring - an Iron Age hill fort - and the Wychbury Obelisk, and is much beloved of pagans, with the site containing a 28-tree ancient yew grove, and not because the name sounds like \"witch\". The name is actually unrelated, being derived from that of the Saxon subkingdom of the Hwicce. On the flank of the hill is a folly in the shape of a Greek Doric temple, in fact a miniature replica of the end of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens. Built in 1758, it was England's first example of Neoclassical architecture. The temple is currently in a seriously dilapidated and vandalised condition. It is a listed building on private land and permanently fenced off to the public. In 1999 the obelisk was defaced with graffiti referring to the unsolved post World War II mystery: Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? when the decomposed body of a woman was found in a nearby wood. The graffiti was removed during the restoration of the obelisk which was completed in 2010. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Adolf pl. Mošinsky (1843–1907) was a mayor of Zagreb from 1892 to 1904. Being the head of the city for three consecutive terms, he set a record in mayoring length that still remains unbroken. One of his most important achievements was building the Zagreb sewer system from scratch and turning Medveščak stream into an underground canal. During his time as a mayor, Zagreb grew in size by 30 percent. During Mošinsky's term in office, many Zagreb tourist sights and locations, such as the Croatian National Theater (HNK) were built. Mošinsky also saw the introduction of the Zagreb taxi, being the first passenger of driver Tadija Bartolović in 1901. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
Bahjat Talhouni (1913 – January 30, 1994) was a Jordanian political figure. He served as the Prime Minister of Jordan between 1960 and 1970 for six different terms. Talhouni was Prime Minister from August 1969 to June 1970, during a particularly turbulent time of friction and skirmishes between the Government and thousands of Palestinian guerrillas who were then in Jordan. The Palestinian guerrillas, members of various organizations, frequently disregarded Jordanian laws and came to be almost a state within a state. In February 1970, King Hussein of Jordan met with their leaders at Talhouni's house in Amman. At that meeting the King agreed not to enforce restrictions on the Palestinians carrying firearms in Jordanian towns, and the leaders of the guerrillas promised to try to make their followers less unruly. A strained and often interrupted truce ensued. Then came an unsuccessful attempt on the King's life in June. Angered, the Jordanian Army called loudly for a crackdown on the Palestinians. But as a biographer of the King, Peter Snow, wrote in 1972, \"Talhouni wavered; like Hussein, he was not eager to be responsible for the order that could lead to wide-scale bloodshed.\" Late in June 1970, the King replaced Talhouni with a new Prime Minister, Abdel Moneim Rifai, a champion of reconciliation with the Palestinians. But skirmishes between the Army, which stayed loyal to the King, and the Palestinians escalated into civil war in September 1970. The King let the Army crush the fighters, and by the following summer they had been nullified as a military force in Jordan. In addition to serving as Prime Minister, over the years Talhouni held the posts of Minister of the Interior and of Justice, chief of the Royal Court, and served as a legislator and personal representative of the King. He was born in Ma'an, in what is now southern Jordan, and studied law in Syria. He served as president of the Court of Appeals in Amman before becoming Minister of the Interior in 1953 . Talhouni died on January 30, 1994, as announced by the Jordanian Government announced. He was 82. | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
Virginia Discovery Museum is a nonprofit hands-on children's museum, with exhibits on the arts, sciences, humanities, history and nature. It is located in Charlottesville, Virginia and appropriate for children ages 1 to 10 and their families. | Place | Building | Museum |
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