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Life in London (novel) | 19th-century novel | Life in London – in full, Life in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis – is a book by the author and journalist Pierce Egan, first published in 1821. It depicts the progress through London of two young men and their associates, encountering both high- and low-life. The book has coloured illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank, which were much admired at the time and subsequently.
The book was first published in monthly instalments, and was an instant success. Several adaptations for the stage followed almost immediately, the most successful of which was Tom and Jerry, or Life in London which ran for a record-breaking 100 performances. |
Pinus maximinoi | Species of conifer | Pinus maximinoi, commonly known as thinleaf pine, is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae.
It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico at elevations of . P. maximinoi reaches a height of and has smooth bark when young. |
Traveller Book 0: An Introduction to Traveller | Science-fiction role-playing game supplement | Traveller Book 0: An Introduction to Traveller is a tabletop role-playing game supplement, written by Loren K. Wiseman for Traveller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1981. The 32-page book acts as an introduction to Traveller, and is designed to be read by those who are new to the hobby of role-playing in general and Traveller in particular.
An updated edition written by Gareth Hanrahan, was published by Mongoose Publishing in 2008, and released as part of Free RPG Day. |
Listed buildings in Ainstable | None | Ainstable is a civil parish in the Eden District, Cumbria, England. It contains 21 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Ainstable, Croglin and Newbiggin, the hamlets of Dale, Walmersyke, Ruckcroft and Longdales, part of the village of Armathwaite, and the surrounding countryside. The oldest listed building in the parish originated as a Benedictine Nunnery, and has been altered and since used for other purposes. The other listed buildings consist of houses, farmhouses and associated structures, a bridge, a war memorial, a lych gate, and two churches.
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Abel Wolman | American scientist (1892–1989) | Abel Wolman (June 10, 1892 – February 22, 1989) was an American engineer, educator and pioneer of modern sanitary engineering. His professional career left impacts in academia, sanitary engineering research, environmental and public health services, engineering professional societies, and journal publications. Wolman is best known for his research with Linn Enslow in the chlorination of Baltimore's municipal water supply, which has contributed to the distribution of safe municipal water supplies globally. |
Yoldia | Genus of bivalves | Yoldia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Yoldiidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Yoldia Möller, 1842. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at on 2016-10-06 It was named after Alfonso de Aguirre y Yoldi, Conde de Yoldi (1764–1852), a Spanish nobleman in charge of the royal naturalistic collection of Denmark.Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1981), p. 2653.Beatriz Badorrey Martín, "Alfonso de Aguirre y Yoldi," Diccionario Biográfico Español. |
CrazySexyCool | 1994 studio album by TLC | CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American girl group TLC, released on November 15, 1994, by LaFace and Arista Records. Following the group's record deal, they released their debut album Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip in 1992 to positive reviews and commercial success. The following year the group began working on a follow-up with an unproductive recording process due to personal struggles, notably those of member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes who was involved in a volatile romantic relationship and struggling with alcoholism. The album's recording lasted until September 1994, with Lopes' role diminished because she was in rehab.
The album saw the group reunite with producers Dallas Austin, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Jermaine Dupri as well as new collaborators Organized Noize and Chucky Thompson, and also featured contributions from Sean "Puffy" Combs who helped with the notable hip hop soul sound. CrazySexyCool featured hip hop beats, funk, deep grooves, propulsive rhythms and smooth production. The album's lyrical content was seen as a departure from the group's debut and was seen as a coming-of-age project which explored themes such as sexuality, romanticism, inexperience, and youthful optimism.
CrazySexyCool was met with critical acclaim and commercial success, peaking at number three on the Billboard 200, where it spent over two years. It has been certified 12-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), making TLC the first girl group in history to be awarded diamond status. CrazySexyCool has since sold over 15 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by an American girl group. The album has since been featured on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and was listed as a "New Classic" by Entertainment Weekly in 2008. The album was also ranked as the seventh best diamond-certified album of all time by Billboard. |
Eupithecia lobbichlerata | Species of moth | Eupithecia lobbichlerata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Nepal. |
1899 Tulane Olive and Blue football team | American college football season | The 1899 Tulane Olive and Blue football team was an American football team that represented Tulane University as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1899 college football season. In their first year under head coach Harris T. Collier, the team compiled an overall record of 0–6–1. |
Harrisburg School District (Pennsylvania) | School district in Pennsylvania | The Harrisburg School District is a large, urban, public school district based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The school district boundaries are coterminous with the city of Harrisburg. The Harrisburg City School District encompasses approximately . According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 48,950. By 2010, the district's population increased to 49,550 people.US Census Bureau, 2010 Census Poverty Data by Local Educational Agency, 2011
Harrisburg public schools provide education for the city's youth, beginning with preschool through twelfth grade. In July 2000, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling that upholds the Education Empowerment Act adopted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and signed by then–Governor Tom Ridge, that permitted a change in the governance of the Harrisburg School District from an elected school board, to a board of control named by Harrisburg mayor Stephen R. Reed, and which gave the mayor direct oversight of the troubled district. It was the first time a mayor had taken on the role in the state. |
YESCO | American manufacturer of electric signs | YESCO is a privately owned manufacturer of electric signs based in Salt Lake City, founded by Thomas Young in 1920. The company provides design, fabrication, installation and maintenance of signs.
Many notable sign projects have been produced by YESCO, including the NBC Experience globe in New York City, the historic El Capitan Theatre and Wax Museum marquees in Hollywood, the Reno Arch, and in Las Vegas, Vegas Vic, the Fremont Street Experience, the Astrolabe in The Venetian, the Wynn Las Vegas resort sign, and the Aria Resort & Casino. |
Paolo Ballarini | Italian painter | Paolo Ballarini (10 October 1712 – ?) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes.
Ballarini was born in Bologna. He first studied painting under Francesco Monti, then he studied architecture under Stefano Orlandi, and finally, he studied quadratura painting under Ferdinando Galli Bibiena. He painted rooms for a convent in Bagnacavallo, traveled to Venice, and painted in Trieste. From 1736 to 1739 he lived and worked in Vienna.
Ballarini returned to Bologna with Giuseppe Galli Bibiena to decorate the Malvessi Theater with ornamental painting. Then in Venice, he painted in houses of Pederzani and Grighenti. He also spent some years painting in St Petersburg, Russia.Felsina pittrice, vite de' pittori bolognesi, third volume, By Luigi Crespi, p199. |
Jabra (brand) | Business and consumer electronics brand | Jabra is a Danish brand specializing in audio equipment, and more recently videoconference systems. It is owned by GN Audio, which is part of the Danish company, GN Group. Jabra engineers, manufactures, and markets wireless, true wireless, and corded headphones for consumers and business customers. Jabra Corporation was acquired by GN Audio in 2000. |
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The Sukhoi Su-30 (; NATO reporting name: Flanker-C/G/H) is a twin-engine, two-seat supermaneuverable fighter aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a multirole fighter for all-weather, air-to-air and air interdiction missions.
The Su-30 started as an internal development project in the Sukhoi Su-27 family by Sukhoi. The design plan was revamped and the name was made official by the Russian Defense Ministry in 1996. Of the Flanker family, the Su-27, Su-30, Su-33, Su-34 and Su-35 have been ordered into limited or serial production by the Russian Defense Ministry. The Su-30 has two distinct version branches, manufactured by competing organisations: KnAAPO and the Irkut Corporation, both of which come under the Sukhoi aerospace group's umbrella.
KnAAPO manufactures the Su-30MKK and the Su-30MK2, which were designed for and sold to China, and later Indonesia, Uganda, Venezuela, and Vietnam. Due to KnAAPO's involvement from the early stages of developing the Su-35, these are basically a two-seat version of the mid-1990s Su-35. The Chinese chose an older but lighter radar so the canards could be omitted in return for increased payload. It is a fighter with both air supremacy and attack capabilities, generally similar to the U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle.
Irkut traditionally served the Soviet Air Defense and, in the early years of Flanker development, was given the responsibility of manufacturing the Su-27UB, the two-seat trainer version. When India showed interests in the Su-30, Irkut offered the multirole Su-30MKI, which originated as the Su-27UB modified with avionics appropriate for fighters. Along with its ground-attack capabilities, the series adds features for the air-superiority role, such as canards, thrust-vectoring, and a long-range phased-array radar. Its derivatives include the Su-30MKM, MKA, and SM for Malaysia, Algeria, and Russia respectively. The Russian Air Force operates several Su-30s and has ordered the Su-30SM variant as well. |
1849 Connecticut gubernatorial election | none | The 1849 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1849. Former congressman and Whig nominee Joseph Trumbull defeated former congressman and Democratic nominee Thomas H. Seymour as well as former Senator and Free Soil nominee John M. Niles with 49.35% of the vote. Niles had previously been the Democratic nominee for this same office in 1840.
Trumbull won a plurality of the vote, but fell short of a majority. As a result, the Connecticut General Assembly elected the governor, per the state constitution. Trumbull won the vote over Seymour 122 to 110 in the General Assembly, and became the governor.
"Gov. Joseph Trumbull", National Governors Association, retrieved 09-15-2020 This was the first of six consecutive elections in which the Free Soil Party participated. |
Pemalang-Batang Toll Road | Toll Road in Indonesia | Pemalang-Batang Toll Road or abbreviated as Pematang Toll Road, is a highway that connects Pemalang area with Batang, Central Java, Indonesia. This toll road is part of Trans-Java Expressway which will connect Merak to Banyuwangi of the island of Java. The toll road is fully opened on November 9, 2018 by 7th President of Indonesia Joko Widodo. |
Scarborough Centre station | Toronto subway station | Scarborough Centre is a rapid transit station and bus terminal in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway system and multiple bus routes of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It is located north of Ellesmere Road between Brimley and McCowan Roads, just south of Highway 401. It is adjacent to the Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal, which is a station for GO Transit buses and other intercity coach services.
In February 2021, the TTC recommended the closure of Line 3 in 2023 and its replacement by bus service until the completion of the Scarborough extension of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth. After the closure of this station, a new Scarborough Centre station would be built along the planned Line 2 extension east of the existing station. |
Modern Times Group | Digital entertainment company | Modern Times Group (MTG) is a digital entertainment company based in Stockholm, Sweden. It formed from the media holdings of investment company Kinnevik, which in 1997 was distributed to the company stockholders. It is a strategic and operational investment holding company, managing a portfolio including gaming companies InnoGames, Ninja Kiwi and Kongregate, and digital network company Zoomin.TV.
Kinnevik distributed the MTG shares to its shareholders in 2018 and in 2019 MTG distributed shares in the newly founded Nordic Entertainment Group (now Viaplay Group) to its shareholders following the strategic transformation into a global digital entertainment company. |
Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church | Presbyterian denomination | The Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church (FPBPC) is a Reformed Christian denomination formed in 2008 by several conservative Presbyterian clergy who split from the Bible Presbyterian Church |
William Everson (Wisconsin politician) | American politician | William Everson (June 20, 1841 – January 28, 1928) was an American farmer and politician.
Born in the town of Aztalan, Jefferson County, Wisconsin Territory, Everson moved with his parents to the town of Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Everson was a farmer and cattle dealer. Everson was the Lake Mills town assessor and town board chairman. When Everson moved to the city of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, he also served on the Lake Mills common council. In 1917, Everson served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was a Democrat. Everson died at his home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1919,' Biographical Sketch of William Everson, pg. 531'In Senate-Journal of Proceedings of the First Special Session of the State of Wisconsin -January 24, 1928-February 4, 1928, Democrat Printing Company, Madison, Wisconsin: 1928, William Everson, pg. 14-15'Former Wisconsin Assemblyman Dies,' Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, January 30, 1928, pg. 1 |
David Anthony Durham | American novelist | David Anthony Durham (born March 23, 1969) is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy.
Durham's first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War. Pride of Carthage focused on Hannibal Barca of Ancient Carthage and his war with the Roman Republic. His novels have twice been New York Times Notable Books, won two awards from the American Library Association, and been translated into eight foreign languages. Gabriel's Story, Walk Through Darkness and Acacia: The War with the Mein are all in development as feature films. A third book, Acacia: The Sacred Band, concludes his epic fantasy Acacia Trilogy. In 2016, Durham returned to historical fiction with the publication of The Risen: A Novel of Spartacus.
Born to parents of Caribbean ancestry, Durham has lived in Scotland for a number of years. He has worked as an Outward Bound Instructor, and as a whitewater raft guide and kayak instructor. After receiving an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1996, he taught at the University of Maryland and University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Writer at The Colorado College and was an associate professor at Cal State University, Fresno and an adjunct professor at Hampshire College. He won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award in 1992, the 2002 Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2006 Legacy Award for Fiction. In 2009, he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He currently teaches for the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and was an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno before leaving to wrote for television. |
Wojciech Zagórski | Polish actor | Wojciech Cacko-Zagórski (6 August 1928 – 29 April 2016) was a Polish film and theatre actor.
Zagórski was a graduate of The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. He has been an actor in various Warsaw theaters: Classic Theatre in Warsaw (1950–1971), the TR Warszawa (1989–1993), and the Janusz Wisniewski Theatre (1988–1994). Originally, he performed in the Theatre front Artillery II, Army, then in the Theatre Children of Warsaw. He was also a theatre actor. He also has performed in theatres in Olsztyn and Opole. Zagórski usually had a wide audience familiar with his many supporting roles in feature films. |
Crick Road | Road in North Oxford, England | Crick Road is a road in North Oxford, England, an area characterised by large Victorian Gothic villas. |
Matthew Ofori Dunga | Ghanaian professional footballer | Matthew Ofori Dunga (born 9 November 1999) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ghanaian Premier League side Accra Great Olympics. |
Mir Showkat Ali Badsha | Bangladeshi politician | Mir Showkat Ali Badsha (মীর শওকাত আলী বাদশা) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Bagerhat-2. |
Patrick Graham (bishop) | Bishop of St. Andrews | Patrick Graham (died 1478) was a 15th-century Bishop of Brechin and Bishop of St. Andrews; he was also the first Archbishop of St. Andrews.
He was the son of Sir William Graham of Kincardine by Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of King Robert III of Scotland. He was therefore of royal blood, and the half-brother of his predecessor as bishop of St. Andrews, James Kennedy. Before rising to the rank of bishop, Patrick for many years controlled the parish church of Kinneil. Although Patrick paid for the bishopric of Brechin, his election was acknowledged by Pope Pius II, who appointed him to the see sometime before 29 March 1463. However, Patrick was not long bishop of Brechin. On 4 November 1465 Patrick was translated to the bishopric of St. Andrews by Pope Paul II, for which Patrick's proctor, a merchant of Florence called Ricardo de Ricasolis, paid over 3300 gold florins on 29 November the same year.
Patrick became the first Archbishop of St. Andrews when a Bull of Pope Sixtus IV, dated at Rome, 17 August 1472, elevated the bishopric of St. Andrews to archiepiscopal status. Nevertheless, Patrick's individual career was in trouble. The same Pope Sixtus IV ordered an enquiry into Patrick's conduct. He commissioned one John Huseman, Dean of the church of St. Patroclus in Soest in the diocese of Cologne, to investigate charges (of insanity) made against Archbishop Patrick. The result was that Archbishop Patrick was condemned to confine himself to a monastery, residing first at Inchcolm, then Dunfermline, before being imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle. He was formally deposed on 9 January 1478 and died later in the year at Loch Leven. He was buried on St. Serf's Inch in Lochleven. |
Cookie Cunningham | American football player (1905–1995) | Harold Brewer "Cookie" Cunningham (February 4, 1905 – November 3, 1995) was an American professional football player, basketball player, and basketball coach.
A two-sport athlete at Ohio State University, he started playing both football and basketball on the professional level in 1926. He started his professional football career by playing end for the Cleveland Panthers of the first American Football League. After the folding of the AFL, he played the same position for the Cleveland Bulldogs (1927), Chicago Bears (1929), and the Staten Island Stapletons (1931) of the National Football League. In the same five-year span, Cunningham also played center for the Cleveland Rosenblums and the Toledo Red Man Tobaccos (American Basketball League). |
The Return of Frank James | 1940 film | The Return of Frank James is a 1940 Western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney. It is a sequel to Henry King's 1939 film Jesse James. Written by Sam Hellman, the film loosely follows the life of Frank James following the death of his outlaw brother, Jesse James, at the hands of the Ford brothers. The film is universally considered historically inaccurate, but was a commercial success. It was the first motion picture for the actress Gene Tierney, who plays a reporter for the newspaper The Denver Star. |
Keith Storey | Australian rules footballer, born 1905 | Keith Storey (15 May 1905 – 6 August 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Unicon (programming language) | Programming language descended from Icon | Unicon is a programming language designed by American computer scientist Clint Jeffery with collaborators including Shamim Mohamed, Jafar Al Gharaibeh, Robert Parlett and others. Unicon descended from Icon and a preprocessor for Icon called IDOL. Compared with Icon, Unicon offers better access to the operating system as well as support for object-oriented programming. Unicon began life as a merger of three popular Icon extensions: an OO preprocessor named Idol, a POSIX filesystem and networking interface, and an ODBC facility. The name is shorthand for "Unified Extended Dialect of Icon." |
PhotoModeler | Software application | PhotoModeler is a software application that performs image-based modeling and close range photogrammetry – producing 3D models and measurements from photography. The software is used for close-range, aerial and uav photogrammetry.
Close Range Photogrammetry (CRP) can mean photographs taken from the ground with a handheld camera, or taken from a UAV/drone at a relatively low altitude. PhotoModeler and CRP are used for performing measurement and modeling in agriculture, archaeology, architecture, biology, engineering, fabrication, film production, forensics, mining, stockpile volumes, etc.Luhman 2006: p.469Karara 1989: p.321McGlone 2004: p.1015 |
SEMA4A | Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens | Semaphorin-4A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SEMA4A gene. |
AssemblyScript | Programming language, variant of TypeScript that compiles to WebAssembly | AssemblyScript is a TypeScript-based programming language that is optimized for, and statically compiled to, WebAssembly (currently using , the reference AssemblyScript compiler). Resembling ECMAScript and JavaScript, but with static types, the language is developed by the AssemblyScript Project with contributions from the AssemblyScript community. |
Michaelus | Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae | Michaelus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
The members (species) of this genus are found in the Neotropical realm. |
Thenia Zerva | Greek footballer | Theoni “Thenia” Zerva (; born 18 July 1997), also known as Thenia Zervas, is a Greek footballer who plays as a defender or a winger for US college team Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks and the Greece women's national team. |
2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom | European Parliament elections in the United Kingdom | The 2009 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009. The election was held concurrently with the 2009 local elections in England. In total, 72 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
Notable outcomes were that the Labour Party – which came third – suffered a significant drop in support, and that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) finished second in a major election for the first time in its history, coming level with Labour in terms of seats but ahead of it in terms of votes. This was the first time in British electoral history that a party in government had been outpolled in a national election by a party with no representation in the House of Commons. The British National Party (BNP) also won two seats, its first ever in a nationwide election. It also marked the first time the Scottish National Party (SNP) won the largest share of the European election vote in Scotland, and the first time Labour had failed to come first in a Welsh election since 1918. It was the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)'s worst ever European election result, and also the first time an Irish Republican party, Sinn Féin, topped the polls in Northern Ireland. |
Randall Simon | American baseball player | Randall Carlito Simon (born May 25, 1975) is a Curaçaoan former professional baseball first baseman. He has played all or parts of eight seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), LVBP and one in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) between 1997 and 2006. Simon's debut season came with the Atlanta Braves in 1997, for whom he played until 1999. He also played for the Detroit Tigers (2001–2002), Pittsburgh Pirates (2003, 2004), Chicago Cubs (2003), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2004), the NPB's Orix Buffaloes (2005), Texas Rangers (2006) Philadelphia Phillies (2006–2007). Upon his release from the Phillies in spring training, Simon played in the Mexican League, for the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz and Potros de Tijuana. He also played in the Northern League for the Gary SouthShore RailCats in 2010 and Rockford RiverHawks in 2011. He is currently the Bravos de León hitting coach. |
Ben Helfgott | British weightlifter (born 1929) | Sir Ben Helfgott (born 22 November 1929) is a Polish-born British Holocaust survivor, Olympian and former champion weightlifter.Remembering the living dead: 40 years since the Munich murder He is one of two Jewish athletes known to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust, along with Alfred Nakache, a French champion swimmer and water polo player. However, depending on the definition of 'surviving the Holocaust' there could also be others, such as swimmer Susie Halter (originally Zsuzsa Nádor), who escaped from a forced march on her way to a slave labour camp, and then survived in hiding in Budapest. Helfgott has spent his adult life promoting Holocaust education, meeting with national leaders in the UK to promote cultural integration and peace. |
Trond Høiby | Norwegian decathlete | Trond Høiby (born 24 January 1973 in Askim, Østfold) is a retired decathlete from Norway. He set his personal best score (8085 points) on 4 July 1999 at a meet in Herentals. He is a four-time national champion in the men's decathlon (1994-1995-1996-1997). |
1897 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team | American college football season | The 1897 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team was an American football team that represented Fairmount College (now known as Wichita State University) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. They played in one game, a 12 to 4 win over Wichita High School. Their coach was T. H. Morrison.
They played their one game at Wichita High School, now known as Wichita East, on Garfield Gridiron. It was played in front of "over 1,000". and The first half was 35 minutes long and the second was 25 minutes. Their team captain was Dowd and their quarterback was Frank Hunter. The opening kickoff was sent to the Fairmount 35 and was returned 10 yards by Gohegan. The high school later forced a fumble which was followed by "a beautiful run" by Sheldon which gained 60 yards. The high school was unable to score on their drive as they were continually forced backwards and eventually committed a safety. That made the score 2 to 0 Fairmount. About 13 minutes later Fairmount scored their first touchdown, which was worth 4 points with the conversion. The teams would then exchange possessions until the half ended. The second half started at 4:01 p.m. and started with a Fairmount kickoff. On the drive Wichita was able to score their first and only touchdown. With a few minutes remaining, Fairmount scored another touchdown to end the game, 12 to 4. |
Cristina Asquith Baker | Australian artist | Cristina Asquith Baker (1868–1960) was an Australian artist known for her paintings and lithographs. She studied with Frederick McCubbin, one of the key artists of the Australian impressionist Heidelberg school, but she was independent and did not tie herself to a single school of thought. She twice studied abroad, in Paris and London, gaining expertise in various other forms of artistic expression such as lithography and carpet-making. |
Slavery in Latin America | Economic and social institution that existed in Latin America | Slavery in Latin America was an economic and social institution that existed in Latin America from before the colonial era until its legal abolition in the newly independent states during the 19th century. However, it continued illegally in some regions into the 20th century. Slavery in Latin America began in the pre-colonial period when indigenous civilizations including the Maya and Aztec, enslaved captives taken in war. After the conquest of Latin America by the Spanish and Portuguese. Of the nearly 12 million slaves that were shipped across the Atlantic over 4 million enslaved Africans were brought to Latin America, roughly 3.5 million of those to Brazil.
After the gradual emancipation of most black slaves, slavery continued along the Pacific coast of South America throughout the 19th century, as Peruvian slave traders kidnapped Polynesians, primarily from the Marquesas Islands and Easter Island, and forced them to perform physical labour in mines and the guano industry of Peru and Chile. |
Franklin Boukaka | Congolese musician | Franklin Boukaka (October 10, 1940 - about February 23–24, 1972) was a Congolese baritone singer, guitarist, and songwriter who is recognized as a pioneer of Congolese popular music. He performed in bands based in each of "the two Congos," i.e., the countries now named the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; toured worldwide; achieved broad popularity; took outspoken political stances; and is widely believed to have been the victim of an extrajudicial execution during an attempted coup in the Republic of the Congo. |
Neil Gershenfeld | American computer scientist | Neil Adam Gershenfeld (born December 1, 1959) is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab. His research studies are predominantly focused in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology, and personal fabrication. Gershenfeld attended Swarthmore College, where he graduated in 1981 with a B.A. degree in physics with high honors, and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D.in physics in 1990. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Scientific American has named Gershenfeld one of their "Scientific American 50" for 2004 and has also named him Communications Research Leader of the Year. Gershenfeld is also known for releasing the Great Invention Kit in 2008, a construction set that users can manipulate to create various objects.
Gershenfeld has been featured in a variety of newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and The Economist, and on NPR.
He was named as one of the 40 modern-day Leonardos by the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago. Prospect named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals. |
2010 Franken Challenge | Tennis tournament | The 2010 Franken Challenge was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Fürth, Germany between 30 May – 6 June 2010. |
Claudio González | Chilean footballer (born 1990) | Claudio Iván González Landeros (born 26 April 1990) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Chilean Primera División side Unión La Calera. |
Great Meadows, New Jersey | Census-designated place in Middlesex County, New Jersey, US | Great Meadows is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Independence Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, that was created as part of the 2010 United States Census. As of the 2010 census, the CDP's population was 303.DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Great Meadows CDP, New Jersey , United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 3, 2013.
Until the 2000 United States Census, the CDP was combined as part of the Great Meadows-Vienna CDP. Effective with the 2010 census, the Great Meadows-Vienna CDP was split into its components, Vienna (with a 2010 Census population of 981DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Vienna CDP, New Jersey , United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 3, 2013.) and Great Meadows.GCT-PH1 - Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for Warren County, New Jersey , United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 3, 2013.2006-2010 American Community Survey Geography for New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 3, 2013.New Jersey: 2010 - Population and Housing Unit Counts - 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH-2-32), United States Census Bureau, p. III-5, August 2012. Accessed June 3, 2013. "Warren County... Deleted CDPs: ... Great Meadows-Vienna CDP (parts taken to form all of Great Meadows and part of Vienna CDPs)". As of the 2000 United States Census, the population of the combined Great Meadows-Vienna CDP was 1,264.DP-1 - Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000; Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for Great Meadows-Vienna CDP, New Jersey , United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 3, 2013. |
Jörg Schindler | German politician | Jörg Schindler (born 15 January 1972) is a German politician and lawyer of The Left who is serving as federal director of the party since 2018. |
V. Satish | Indian politician | V Satish (Satish Velankar) is the National Joint General Secretary (Organisation) of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Currently he is in-charge of West-Zone (Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra) and Andhra Pradesh, Bharitya Janata Party. He is Full-time Worker, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and has been the senior functionary for the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. |
IBM optical mark and character readers | Optical mark and character readers made and sold by IBM | IBM designed, manufactured and sold optical mark and character readers from 1960 until 1984. The IBM 1287 is notable as being the first commercially sold scanner capable of reading handwritten numbers. |
ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies | Danish biotechnology company | ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies is a Danish biotechnology company specialised in the development of new vaccines and immunotherapy products based in Hørsholm, Denmark and listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market Sweden.
ExpreS2ion is part of the PREVENT-nCoV consortium comprising AdaptVac (a joint-venture between ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies and the University of Copenhagen spin-out NextGen Vaccines), Leiden University Medical Center, Institute for Tropical Medicine Tübingen, the Department of Immunology and Microbiology (ISIM) at the University of Copenhagen, and the Laboratory of Virology at Wageningen University and Research. In March 2020 the consortium was awarded an EU Horizon 2020 grant of €2.7million for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, of which ExpreS2ion was funded with €0.88million. |
Mohammad Soltani Mehr | Iranian footballer | Mohammad Soltani Mehr (); is an Iranian footballer who currently plays for Iranian football club Zob Ahan in the Persian Gulf Pro League and the Iran national under-20 football team. He has been mentioned by The Guardian among 60 of the best young talents in world football.FIFA.com |
Mugurel Dedu | Romanian footballer | Alexandru Mugurel Dedu (born 1 March 1985) is a Romanian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward for teams such as Pandurii Târgu Jiu, CS Otopeni, Politehnica Iași, Gloria Buzău or CS Afumați, among others. |
Crypsiphona | Genus of moths | Crypsiphona is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. |
Hoffmantown Baptist Church | Historic church in New Mexico, United States | The Hoffmantown Baptist Church, at 2335 Wyoming Blvd. NE, in a suburban area in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. |
Land Line Magazine | American trucking trade magazine | Land Line Magazine is an American nationally distributed business publication written for professional truckers operating trucks and semi-trailers in for-hire transportation of exempt and regulated commodities. It is the official publication of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. |
Andrew Hastie | Australian politician | Andrew William Hastie (born 30 September 1982) is an Australian politician and former military officer currently serving as the shadow minister for defence. He previously served as the Assistant Minister for Defence from 2020 to 2022 under Minister for Defence, Linda Reynolds and later Peter Dutton, in the Morrison Government. Previously Hastie was Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security from 2017 to 2020. Prior to politics, he was a troop commander in the Special Air Service Regiment. |
Brenda Gilhooly | English comedian | Brenda Gilhooly (born 1964 in Epsom, Surrey) is an English comedian. She studied English and Drama at the University College of Swansea, University of Wales and graduated in 1987. She is best known for Gayle Tuesday, an archetypal dumb blonde and Page 3 girl. She enjoyed brief success with this character appearing on various TV shows.
She first appeared on British television in 1991 with Channel 4 series Remote Control and then with !Viva Cabaret! in 1993, alongside similar character-based acts such as Lily Savage and Bob Downe.Britcom U-Y She has since appeared on shows such as the Jack Dee Show and Lily Live!, as well as her own series Gayle's World in 1996.Gayle Tuesday: The Comeback She has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.
Most of her recent appearances have been as characters other than Gayle Tuesday, notably on Harry Hill's TV Burp on which she is a writer as well as an occasional performer. Gilhooly is married and has two daughters.
Gilhooly returned to television as Gayle Tuesday in 2010 with the Living series Gayle Tuesday: The Comeback.
In 2019 Gilhooly wrote a new sitcom for BBC Radio 4 Madam Mayor. The first episode was aired on Friday 12 July 2019. Gilhooly starred as Madam Mayor and was supported by Jack Dee, Harry Hill, Michelle Collins and Elis James. |
Prix Makomi | Literary award | The European Award For Congolese Literature, known as the Prix Makomi is an annual literary prize awarded by the European Union National Institutes for Culture. The prize ceremony is held annually at the Fête du Livre de Kinshasa, which takes place November 12-16. The prize is awarded annually in three categories: Best short story, Best novel and Best poem, additional prizes include the honorary diploma and special mentions. |
St Jude Thaddaeus (Master Theodoric) | Painting by Master Theodoric | St Jude Thaddaeus is an oil on tempera painting by Bohemian master Theodoric of Prague, created around 1360-1364.
The panel painting St. Jude Thaddeus is an impressive painting on a wooden panel belonging to a set of 129 paintings of the "Heavenly Army" or "Army of Christ" (originally there were 130 of them). The set covers all the walls of the chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlštejn Castle. It is the largest set of panel paintings produced in Europe in the 14th century; it came from the Prague workshop headed by Master Theodoric. The larger-than-life half- figures of saints from the workshop of Master Theodoric follow the North Italian style and the Byzantine influences that came mainly from Venice; they significantly contributed to the emergence of a new painting style called soft style, which dominated the Czech panel painting in the 1460s and 1470s and spread beyond the borders of the kingdom. The cycle of Karlštejn paintings was commissioned by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor with the aim of guarding the imperial crown jewels and relics of the saints, which the emperor left in the chapel of the Holy Cross. |
Joan Heal | English actress and singer (1922-1998) | Joan Heal (17 October 1922 – 12 April 1998) was an English actress and singer, known for her appearances in revue in the 1940s and 1950s. |
Kizomba | Music and dance genre from Angola | Kizomba is a dance and musical genre that originated in Angola in 1984.
Kizomba means "party" in Kimbundu, a Bantu language spoken by the Ambundu in Angola.José Redinhs, Etnias e culturas de Angola, Luanda: Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola, 1975 |
Australian Energy Market Operator | Manager of National Electricity Market in Australia | The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) performs an array of gas and electricity market, operational, development and planning functions. It manages the National Electricity Market (NEM), the Wholesale Electricity Market (WA) (WEM) and the Victorian gas transmission network. AEMO also facilitates electricity and gas full retail contestability, overseeing these retail markets in eastern and southern Australia. It is additionally responsible for national transmission planning for electricity and the establishment of a Short Term Trading Market (STTM) for gas.Ministerial Statement
It commenced operations on 1 July 2009,AEMO Website superseding several state-based and cross-state organisations including the National Electricity Market Management Company Limited (NEMMCO), the Victorian Energy Networks Corporation (VENCorp) which was responsible for the efficient operation of gas and electricity industries in Victoria, the Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council (ESIPC) which was responsible for the effective operation of the electricity industry in South Australia, the South Australian operations of Retail Energy Market Company (REMCo)), Gas Market Company (GMC) and Gas Retail Market Operator (GRMO).
In March 2017, AEMO sought to reassure the public that the closure of the Hazelwood Power Station, which has a capacity of 1600 megawatt, would be offset by the availability of three mothballed gas-fired stations, which have a combined capacity of 830 megawatts, and large industrial businesses agreeing to time-shift their electricity use in the event of an emergency. The addition capacity would be provided by the Pelican Point Power Station in South Australia, Tamar Valley Power Station in Tasmania and Swanbank Power Station in Queensland.What we'll do to keep the lights on post Hazelwood: grid operator
In 2017, AGL Energy reaffirmed that it intends to close the Liddell Power Station in 2022. The closure of this and other coal-burning power stations in Australia has led to the former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, to seek advice from AEMO on extending the life of a number of them, to head off future power shortages.Liddell power plant operating below 40 per cent capacity, faces 'mammoth' woes Turnbull said the government had been advised that if the Liddell plant were to close in 2022, there would be a 1000MW gap in base load, dispatchable power generation.
In May 2018, AEMO warned solar and wind projects in north-western Victoria of potential curtailment to their generation profiles. In particular, the 220kV transmission line that links Ballarat, Horsham, Red Cliffs, Kerang and Bendigo was the focus of their announcement. "If further development proceeds as suggested, this will add to the thermal constraints in this area", AEMO warns.
AEMO has several departments within such as Engineering and Design, Forecasting, National Planning, Operational forecasting, Markets and Strategies as well as administrative, safety, peopleculture and human resources departments.
AEMO is the semi-governmental body that acts as the information source for the industry's and manufacturers outlook on the national electricity policies, forecast as well as future plans. The organisation is owned 60% by the Government and 40% by industry and market participants.
AEMO has offices across the country in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide as well as a handful of regional offices. |
Ștefan Tașnadi | Romanian weightlifter | Ștefan Tașnadi (, 21 March 1953 – 28 February 2018) was a Romanian heavyweight weightlifter who competed in the 1980 and 1984 Olympics winning a silver medal in 1984. Elhunyt Tasnádi István kolozsvári súlyemelő olimpikon
Tașnadi took up lifting in 1970 at a sports school and from 1976 to 1984 was a member of the national team. He retired in 1984 to become a weightlifting coach at AS Clujana and CS Universitatea Cluj. He also served as an international weightlifting referee.Weightlifter from Cluj István Tasnádi, silver medalist at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 1984 |
Riquet | Given name | Riquet is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Dominique Riquet (born 1946), French surgeon and politician of the Radical Party and MEP
*François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet (1771–1843), comte de Caraman was the 16th Prince de Chimay
*Pedro Riquet (1598–1640), Spanish composer
*Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609–1680), engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi
*Joseph de Riquet de Caraman (1808–1886), 17th Prince de Chimay, Belgian diplomat and industrialist
*Joseph de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1836–1892), Belgian diplomat and politician
*Valentine de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1839–1914), Belgian princess
*Marie-Clotilde-Elisabeth Louise de Riquet, comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau (1837–1890), Belgian pianist |
Bassam Tariq | American film director | Bassam Tariq (born October 22, 1986) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter born in Karachi, Pakistan. He co-directed and produced the Sundance-funded documentary These Birds Walk (2013) with Omar Mullick, and he was named in Filmmakers "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012.
Tariq's works aim to uncover the diversity of Muslim life and experience. In addition to filmmaking, his diverse projects include blogging and writing, co-founding a halal butcher shop, and being a TED fellow.
Tariq lives in New York City with his wife and son. |
Chiara Navarrini | Italian volleyball player | Chiara Navarrini (born ) is a retired Italian volleyball player. She was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team.
She participated in the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, and at the 1997 Women's European Volleyball Championship. On club level she played with Teodora Ravenna. |
Herman Weaver | American football player (born 1948) | William Herman "Thunderfoot" Weaver is a former American football punter. He played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) from 1970 to 1980. He spent his first seven years punting for the Detroit Lions and the last four years with the Seattle Seahawks. During his career, Weaver punted 693 times for 27,897 total yards. In 1975, Weaver was named the NFC Punter of the Year and in 1988 The Sporting News called him “One of the Top 20 Punters of all Time”. Weaver shares the all-time NFL record for the most punts had blocked in a career at 14.
Weaver played college football for the University of Tennessee Volunteers. While at Tennessee, he had a punt of 71 yards. He also had the best hang-time ever of 5.7 seconds. |
Hannah Thompson | British scholar | Hannah Jane Thompson (born 1973) is a British academic and professor of French and critical disability studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses primarily on 19th and 20th century French literature, especially the novel. |
Mary Ann Greaves | Prostitute, criminal | Mary Ann Greaves (1834 – 18 February 1897), also known as Mary Ann Graves, was a New Zealand prostitute and criminal. She was born in Leicestershire, England. The Canterbury Police Gazette of 1 June 1871 describes her as being 5' 4", slight build and having sandy hair and grey eyes. Greaves appeared before the Supreme Court four separate times (1862, 1866, 1868 and 1869). This was the highest number of times for a female at that time. |
Britta Reimers | German politician | Britta Reimers (born 27 July 1971) is a German politician. For one term from 2009 until 2014 she served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Germany. She served as a member of the Free Democratic Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
During her time in Parliament she served as a Member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Fisheries.
Reimers trained as a farmer and lives on her dairy farm in Steinburg. |
Aimé Gruet-Masson | French biathlete | Aimé Gruet-Masson (8 December 1940 – 12 July 2014) was a French biathlete. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics, the 1972 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics. |
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Tennessee | Automotive parts plant in Jackson, Tennessee, US | Toyota Motor Manufacturing Tennessee (TMMTN) is a manufacturing plant located in Jackson, Tennessee that focuses on mold casting aluminum engine blocks and hybrid transaxle casings. It is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America, itself a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan.
The plant was established in 2003 as part of Toyota's Bodine Aluminum division, which also operates a plant in Troy, Missouri.
In 2020, the company's name changed from Bodine Aluminum to Toyota Motor Manufacturing Tennessee. The company still shares leadership with the Missouri plant, now renamed Toyota Motor Manufacturing Missouri.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Tennessee has the ability to build more than 2 million engine blocks annually. |
Hupmobile Touring – E | 1924 automobile produced by the Hupp Motor Car Company | The Hupmobile Touring – E was a vehicle produced by the Hupp Motor Company. |
Chehre | 2021 Indian film directed by Rumy Jafry | Chehre () is a 2021 Hindi mystery thriller film directed by Rumi Jaffery and produced by Anand Pandit with Saraswati Entertainment Private Limited. Starring Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi in lead roles, the film features Krystle D'Souza, Rhea Chakraborty, Siddhanth Kapoor, Annu Kapoor, Alexx O'Nell, Samir Soni, Dhritiman Chatterjee and Raghubir Yadav in supporting roles and is an uncredited adaptation of the 1956 German novel A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which had earlier been adapted in Marathi as Shantata! Court Chaalu Aahe (1971), in Kannada as Male Nilluvavarege (2015) and in Bengali as Anusandhan (2021).
The film was announced on 11 April 2019 and filming began on 10 May 2019. It was scheduled for worldwide release on 17 July 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film ultimately released in theatres on 27 August 2021. |
Azusa Senou | Japanese singer, actress and model | , is a Japanese singer, actress and model. She was a former member of the Japan's idol group Coco in the late 1990s. |
Via Transportation | Real-time ridesharing company | Via Transportation, Inc. is a global public transport, logistics, and Transit Tech company headquartered in New York City. Via was founded in 2012. Via licenses its technology to cities, transportation authorities, school districts, universities, and private organizations to help build their own technology-driven transportation networks. It operates in partnership with over 400 local governments across more than 20 countries globally, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Brazil, Finland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.
In October 2020, Via acquired the logistics company Fleetonomy to accelerate its entry into the last-mile deliveries industry. In March 2021, Via purchased the transportation planning platform Remix for $100M to create the first end-to-end Transit Tech platform for cities and transit agencies. |
Bentheimer Landschaf | Breed of sheep | The Bentheimer Landschaf (also known as Landrace of Bentheim) is a breed of domesticated sheep found in Germany. This breed is a cross between German and Dutch heath sheep and a marsh sheep. It is primarily used for landscape preservation. |
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The SS Joplin Victory was the 12th Victory ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on April 25, 1944 and completed on June 15, 1944. The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number 12 (V-12). The 10,500-ton Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for World War II. Victory ships were designed to last longer and serve the US Navy after the war. The Victory ship differed from a Liberty ship in that they were: faster, longer and wider, taller, had a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure and had a long raised forecastle.National parks, Reading 2: Victory Ships
SS Joplin Victory was christened on April 26, 1944 and launched at the yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation. The launching of The SS Joplin Victory splashed into the water of Wilmington, Los Angeles./shipbuildinghistory.com, Victory shipsThe Neosho Daily News from Neosho, Missouri · Page 4, April 26, 1944 |
Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage | Sri Lankan chess player | Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage also simply known as Ranindu Liyanage (born 2003) is a Sri Lankan chess player and current national champion. In July 2021, he became the first Sri Lankan man to participate at the FIDE Chess World Cup. He is currently coached by Uzbekistani chess grandmaster Alexei Barsov. |
Mary Gardiner | Australian computer scientist and activist | Mary Gardiner is an Australian Linux programmer who was director of operations at the Ada Initiative, described as a "non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture". She was a council member of Linux Australia until September 2011. In 2012, Gardiner and Ada Initiative co-founder Valerie Aurora were named two of the most influential people in computer security by SC Magazine. |
Liotipoma solaris | Species of gastropod | Liotipoma solaris is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Liotipoma solaris McLean, 2012. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605467 on 2013-02-10 |
Stella Paulu | American politician | Stella Paulu was an American politician, councilwoman, and second female mayor of Umatilla elected through the Petticoat Revolution in 1916. In 1918, she succeeded Laura Stockton Starcher as mayor. The group made major improvements in public services and infrastructure of the city.
Both Paulu and Starcher were recognized by local museums in Umatilla for the revolution which resulted in years of improved leadership, management, and quality of life for both men and women in the area. |
Newry City A.F.C. | Association football club in Northern Ireland | Newry City Athletic Football Club are a semi-professional Northern Irish football club who play in the NIFL Premiership. They are based in Newry, County Down and play at the Showgrounds. The club's colours are blue and white striped jerseys with blue shorts.
The club was created in 2013 after the city's former semi-professional club, Newry City F.C. was dissolved in September 2012, when a winding-up petition brought against the club by former player and manager Gerry Flynn was granted, and the club decided not to appeal the decision. This led to the majority of Newry City's players leaving for Warrenpoint Town. The new club, wearing the same colours and having the same home as its predecessor, is regarded as a phoenix club, but has, and claims, no legal connection to the former club business. |
Sandy MacDonald | Canadian sailor | Samuel Alexander MacDonald (September 7, 1904 – October 21, 2003) was a Canadian sailor who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
In 1974, Sandy MacDonald was inducted into the PEI Sports Hall of Fame. |
Peter B. Lewis | American businessman | Peter Benjamin Lewis (November 11, 1933 – November 23, 2013) was an American businessman who was the chairman of Progressive Insurance Company. |
Club Social y Deportivo Panajachel F.C. | Guatemalan football club | CSD Panajachel is a Guatemalan football club from Panajachel, Sololá Department. It currently plays in Segunda División de Ascenso, the third tier of Guatemalan football. |
Franz Dittrich | Austrian pathologist | Franz Dittrich (16 October 1815 – 29 August 1859) was an Austrian pathologist born in Nixdorf, Bohemia (today Mikulášovice, Czech Republic).
He studied medicine at the University of Prague under Joseph Hyrtl (1810-1894), receiving his doctorate in 1841. He continued his studies in Vienna, and in 1842 returned to Prague, where he worked as a medical assistant with Anton von Jaksch (1810-1887) and Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau (1814-1852). He later served as prosector of anatomical pathology, and in 1848 succeeded Anton Dlauhy (1807-1888) as professor of pathological anatomy. In 1850 he succeeded Karl Friedrich Canstatt (1807-1850) as director at the medical clinic in Erlangen.Wikisource translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie In 1856 Dittrich succumbed to brain disease that ultimately led to his death a few years later.
From 1845 Dittrich published reports on his activities in the Prague faculty journal, Vierteljahrsschrift für praktische Heilkunde. Topics that he covered in the journal included stomach cancer, syphilis of the liver, heart stenosis, et al. His name is associated with the following two eponyms:
* Dittrich's plugs: Minute, foul-smelling masses of bacteria, granular debris and fatty acid crystals found in the sputum in fetid bronchitis and pulmonary gangrene.
* Dittrich's stenosis: Stenosis of the conus arteriosus.The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary by George Milbry (definition of eponyms)Traube's plugs @ Who Named It |
Douglas Godfree | British fencer and modern pentathlete | Douglas Godfree (16 October 1881 – 5 August 1929) was a British fencer and modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. |
K. Thippeswamy | Indian politician (died 2021) | Kamaganahally Thippeswamy (1940/1 – 11 April 2021) was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He was a leader of Indian National Congress. He was once an MLA from Hindupur assembly constituency. |
Living root bridge | Type of pedestrian bridge made with live trees | A living root bridge is a type of simple suspension bridge formed of living plant roots by tree shaping. They are common in the southern part of the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya. They are handmade from the aerial roots of rubber fig trees (Ficus elastica) by the Khasi and Jaintia peoples of the mountainous terrain along the southern part of the Shillong Plateau. Most of the bridges grow on steep slopes of subtropical moist broadleaf forest between above sea level.Ludwig, Ferdinand & Middleton, Wilfrid & Gallenmüller, Friederike & Rogers, Patrick & Speck, Thomas. (2019). Living bridges using aerial roots of ficus elastica – an interdisciplinary perspective. Scientific Reports. 9. 10.1038/s41598-019-48652-w.
As long as the tree from which it is formed remains healthy, the roots in the bridge can naturally grow thick and strengthen. New roots can grow throughout the tree's life and must be pruned or manipulated to strengthen the bridge. Once mature some bridges can have as many as 50 or more people crossing, and have a lifespan of several hundred years. Without active care, many bridges have decayed or grown wild, becoming unusable.Middleton, Wilfrid & Habibi, Amin & Shankar, Sanjeev & Ludwig, Ferdinand. (2020). Characterizing Regenerative Aspects of Living Root Bridges. Sustainability. 12. 10.3390/su12083267. Written documentation of living root bridges was sparse until the 2010s, but in 2017, researchers geo-located a total of 75 living root bridges.
Living root bridges have also been created in the Indian state of Nagaland, in Indonesia at Jembatan akar on the island of Sumatra, and in the Banten province of Java, by the Baduy people. |
Daniel Dillon (basketball) | Australian basketball player | Daniel James Dillon (born 19 March 1986) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Waverley Falcons of the NBL1 South. He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats before starting his professional career in the Australian NBL. He has since played in Europe and Asia. |
William Dishington | 13th-14th century Scottish noble | William Dishington (died c.1360) was a Scottish noble.
He had charters issued for lands in Balglassie, Aberlemno, and Tollyquhondland by Robert the Bruce. William was known to be an associate of Alexander Ramsay in 1338. He died c. 1360. |
Tawanjie station | Shenyang Metro station | Tawanjie () is a station on Line 10 of the Shenyang Metro. The station opened on 29 April 2020. |
Brett Custer | Australian tennis player | Brett Steven Custer (born 1 April 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. |
H. Lawrence Hoffman | Book jacket designer, illustrator, and painter | H. Lawrence Hoffman (23 October 1911 – 20 January 1977) was a commercial book jacket designer, illustrator,calligrapher and painter who worked in New York City. He illustrated book covers for over 25 publishing companies, including Alfred A Knopf, Pocket Books, Popular Library, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, The Viking Press, and Random House. Over the course of his career, he illustrated over 600 book jacket covers.
Hoffman graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1934 and then completed two years of post graduate study in Commercial Art from RISD. He moved to New York City with the $200 he was awarded for winning a competition to design a coin for the 1936 300 year Rhode Island Tercentennial. He began his career as an Art Director at the A.M. Sneider Advertising Company (1938–1941) and at Immerman Art Studios (1941–?). After leaving Immerman, he worked as a free-lance artist and book illustrator for the remainder of his career. He also taught illustration and lettering at The Cooper Union (1960-1967) and was a Professor of Art at C.W. Post University (1967–1976).
Hoffman began his career doing drawings for the pulp magazine, "Thrilling Mystery Magazine", A Ned Pines publication, and book cover illustrations for the emerging mass market paperback industry that included Pocket Books, Bantam Books, and Green Dragon. Beginning around 1943, Hoffman illustrated almost all of the first 100 paperback covers for Popular Library. Hoffman repeated the cover illustration as a smaller line drawing on the title page.Schreuders, Piet, Paperbacks, U.S.A., A Graphic History, 1939-1959, Blue Dolphin Enterprises, San Diego, 1981
In 1947, he won a prestigious commission to design the cover, frontispieces and 21 full or half page illustrations for “The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Modern English Prose Translation by R.M.Lumiansky” published in 1948 by Simon & Schuster. The book was selected as one of the 50 best books of the year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Father to David Hoffman, filmmaker. |
Life of Samuel Johnson (Hawkins book) | Biography by John Hawkins | The Life of Samuel Johnson or Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. was written by John Hawkins in 1787. It was the first full biography of Samuel Johnson—with Thomas Tyers's A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson being the first short postmortem biography. Hawkins was a friend of Johnson, but many in Johnson's circle did not like him. After Johnson's death, Hawkins was approached to produce a biography on Johnson and an edition of his works. His biography described Johnson's life, including previously unknown details about his writing career, but it was plagued by digressions into unrelated topics. Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson came under swift attack from critics, from friends of Johnson, and from his literary rival, James Boswell immediately after its publication. Many of the critics attacked Hawkins for his lack of strict focus on Johnson's life or for his unfavourable depiction of Johnson in various circumstances. |
Walter E. Perkins | American actor | Walter Eugene Perkins (1859-1925) was an American stage and film actor, known for his performances in films such as My Friend from India (1914), Who Goes There? (1914) and Paying His Debt (1918). |
Eastern black-headed batis | Species of bird | The eastern black-headed batis (Batis minor) is a passerine bird in the family Platysteiridae from eastern Africa. It was formerly treated as conspecific with the western black-headed batis. |
McCormick & Company | Spice, herb, and flavoring provider headquartered in Maryland, U.S. | McCormick & Company, Incorporated is an American food company that manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavoring products to retail outlets, food manufacturers, and foodservice businesses.
Their products are available in many countries and it is the largest producer of spices and related food products worldwide, based on revenue.
A Fortune 500 company, McCormick has approximately 14,000 employees around the globe. The company headquarters moved from Sparks to Hunt Valley, Maryland in the third quarter of 2018. |