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Strigatella assimilis | Species of gastropod | Strigatella assimilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
The species name Mitra assimilis Garrett, 1873 has been declared a synonym of Vexillum (Pusia) crocatum (Lamarck, 1811) Turner H. 2001. Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald, 1860. Conchbooks. 1-100 page(s): 18 |
National Register of Historic Places listings in Johnson County, Texas | None | This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Johnson County, Texas.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Texas. There are two districts and six individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. Four individually listed properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks including three of which that are also designated as State Antiquities Landmarks. The district contains an additional Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. |
Pseudotothyris ignota | Species of armored catfish | Pseudotothyris ignota is a species of armored catfish found in coastal drainages from Iguape in São Paulo state to São João do Rio Vermelho in Santa Catarina state, Brazil. |
Crocidolomia suffusalis | Species of moth | Crocidolomia suffusalis, the croci, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1891. It is found in south-east Asia, where it has been recorded from India, Sri Lanka, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Java, Bali, Borneo, the PhilippinesDigital Moths of Asia and Taiwan. It is also present in New Guinea and Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and New South Wales.
The wingspan is about 30 mm. The forewings are brown with a variable pattern of dark brown, white and grey. |
Michele Savrie | Italian rower | Michele Savrie (born 3 August 1984) is an Italian lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Kaizu with the lightweight men's eight. |
James Emmert | American judge (1895–1974) | James A. Emmert (September 26, 1895 – April 14, 1974) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as Indiana Attorney General from 1943 to 1947 and as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1947 to 1959. |
1 Samuel 4 | First Book of Samuel chapter | 1 Samuel 4 is the fourth chapter of the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or the first part of the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, with additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan, but modern scholars view it as a composition of a number of independent texts of various ages from c. 630–540 BCE. This chapter describes how the Ark of Covenant was taken by the Philistines, a part of the "Ark Narrative" (1 Samuel 4:1–7:1) within a section concerning the life of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1–7:17). |
Dany Saval | French actress | Dany Saval (born Danielle Nadine Suzanne Savalle; 5 January 1942) is a French former actress.
Her career flourished during the 1950s and 1960s. Best known in America as one of a trio of airline stewardesses being shuffled around by Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis in the slapstick comedy Boeing Boeing, in which she played alongside Thelma Ritter, Christiane Schmidtmer, and Suzanna Leigh.
Dany Saval retired from the film and entertainment business in the late 1980s. She has a daughter named Stephanie Jarre (daughter of Maurice Jarre, her first husband), and currently resides in Paris with her fourth husband, Michel Drucker. |
Rosemonde Kouassi | Ivorian footballer | Amenan Joëlle Rosemonde Kouassi (born 26 December 2001), known as Rosemonde Kouassi, is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a forward for French Division 1 Féminine club FC Fleury 91 and the Ivory Coast women's national team. |
Randall Dark | American film producer | Randall P. Dark is a Canadian writer, director, and producer recognized as an early proponent of HDTV. |
Middle Road, Hong Kong | Street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong | Middle Road () is a street in the southern part of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The street runs from Kowloon Park Drive in the west to the entrance of East Tsim Sha Tsui station in the east, where it makes a 90-degree turn to the south, terminating at Salisbury Road. Part of Middle Road marks the original coastline of Tsim Sha Tsui prior to land reclamation. A subway runs underneath the east-west segment of the street, forming an important pedestrian artery in the district. |
Juan Enrique Lira | Chilean sports shooter | Juan Enrique Lira (27 October 1927 – 12 March 2007) was a Chilean sports shooter. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. |
Meirás CF | Spanish football club | Meirás Club de Fútbol is a football team based in Valdoviño, A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Founded in 1973, it currently plays in Segunda Autonómica – Group 1 (regional leagues). The side's stadium is Misael Prieto, with the capacity of 2,000 spectators (all seated). |
Kwai Luen Estate | Public housing estate in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong | Kwai Luen Estate () is a public housing estate in Kwai Shing, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. It consists of four residential blocks completed in 2011 and 2014 respectively. It was one of the public housing estates detected to have excessive lead contents in its water supply in 2015. |
Shilha language | Berber language of southwestern Morocco | Shilha , now more usually known as Tashelhit , is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. The endonym is ,In this article, the graphs and are used to represent and respectively, as is usual in the Berber Latin alphabet; also, is used to indicate labialization (IPA ), and is . and in recent English publications the name of the language is often rendered Tashelhit, Tashelhiyt or Tashlhiyt. In Moroccan Arabic the language is called , from which the English name Shilha is derived. When referring to the language, anthropologists and historians prefer the name "Shilha", which is in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Linguists writing in English prefer "Tashelhit" (or a variant spelling). In French sources the language is called , or .
Shilha is spoken in an area covering c. 100,000 square kilometres, making the language area approximately the size of Iceland, or the US state of Kentucky. The area comprises the western part of the High Atlas mountains and the regions to the south up to the Draa River, including the Anti-Atlas and the alluvial basin of the Souss River. The largest urban centres in the area are the coastal city of Agadir (population over 400,000) and the towns of Guelmim, Taroudant, Oulad Teima, Tiznit and Ouarzazate.
In the north and to the south, Shilha borders Arabic-speaking areas. In the northeast, roughly along the line Demnate-Zagora, there is a dialect continuum with Central Atlas Tamazight. Within the Shilha-speaking area, there are several Arabic-speaking enclaves, notably the town of Taroudant and its surroundings. Substantial Shilha-speaking migrant communities are found in most of the larger towns and cities of northern Morocco and outside Morocco in Belgium, France, Germany, Canada, the United States and Israel.
Shilha possesses a distinct and substantial literary tradition that can be traced back several centuries before the protectorate era. Many texts, written in Arabic script and dating from the late 16th century to the present, are preserved in manuscripts. A modern printed literature in Shilha has developed since the 1970s. |
Cathleen Miller | American writer | Cathleen Miller is an internationally best-selling American nonfiction writer based in California. Her 2013 book, Champion of Choice, is the biography of United Nations leader Nafis Sadik."Champion of Choice". Kirkus Reviews
She is also the author of Desert Flower (1998), co-written with Waris Dirie—a Somali nomad turned model turned activist—who shared her experience with female genital mutilation to bring about global awareness. The book has been cited by the United Nations as having played a major role in the advocacy against female genital mutilation. Desert Flower was made into a feature film in 2009 and released in 34 countries. The print version sold over 11 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 55 languages. |
Furniture Workers' Industrial Union | Trade union in South Africa | The Furniture Workers' Industrial Union (FWIU) was a trade union representing workers involved in making furniture in South Africa.
The union was established in 1925, when a small craft union in the Transvaal decided to reorganise itself as the Furniture Workers' Union, admitting all workers in the industry. It affiliated to the South African Trades Union Congress and also began recruiting Asian and "coloured" workers. It collaborated with the Furniture, Mattress and Bedding Workers' Union, which represented black workers in the industry.
From 1930, the union was affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa, and it also joined the Co-ordinating Council of Furniture Trade Unions of South Africa. During the 1940s, it became increasingly right-wing and opposed to black trade unionism, and in 1956, its Asian and "coloured" members left, to form the National Union of Furniture and Allied Workers (NUFAW). By 1974, the FWIU was significantly smaller than NUFAW, and it merged into that union. |
John Henry Haines Root | Ontario farmer and political figure | John Henry Haines Root (October 17, 1908 – November 17, 1991) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Wellington North and then Wellington—Dufferin in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1951 to 1975 as a Progressive Conservative member.
He was born in Erin Township, Ontario, the son of David Oscar Root. With his brother Haines, Root ran the family farm and also operated a trucking business to transport livestock and farm supplies. In 1932, he married Lillie Matilda Toop. He served on the local school board and was a Mason. Root served in the provincial cabinet as Minister Without Portfolio from 1958 to 1961. He retired from politics in 1975. He was named to the Ontario Water Resources Commission in 1961 and later served as its chairman. |
Ching sling | Rifle sling | The Ching sling is a tactical rifle sling created by Eric S. H. Ching (13 August 1951 – 28 July 2007) and popularized by Jeff Cooper. The purpose of the sling is to stabilize the rifle as a shooting aid with a minimal amount of adjustment. |
Michael Baskette | American music producer | Michael "Elvis" Baskette is an American music producer who has worked with artists such as Sevendust, Alter Bridge, Projected, Tremonti, Chevelle, Falling in Reverse, Coldrain, The Classic Crime, Temple Agents, Clint Lowery and Slash. |
Kristen Knutson | Neurologist | Kristen Knutson is an associate professor of neurology, working at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.. With researchers from the University of Surrey, she studied the mortality rate of half a million people over 6.5 years and concluded that people who self identify as "definite evening type" had a 10 percent higher mortality rate than those who identified as "definite morning type". It was the first study of its type to look into the mortality rate of night owls. |
Charlie Davidson | American football player (born 1972) | Charlie Davidson (born January 19, 1972) is a former American football wide receiver/defensive back who played eleven seasons in the Arena Football League (AFL) with the Orlando Predators, Albany Firebirds, Nashville Kats, New York CityHawks, New England Sea Wolves, Toronto Phantoms, Colorado Crush and Austin Wranglers. He played college football at Mississippi State University. |
Thomas Dodge | American lawyer (1899–1987) | Thomas Henry Dodge (1899–1987) was a Native American lawyer and Navajo leader. |
Carl Kinscherf | American football player (1919–2006) | Carl Raymond Kinscherf (1919-2006) was a professional American football player from New Jersey. Kinscherf played fullback, defensive back, and punter for the New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1943 and 1944 seasons. He tied the NFL record for most punts in a game (14) while competing against the Detroit Lions on November 7, 1943. (While competing for the Oakland Raiders, Leo Araguz set the current record of 16 punts in a game played against the San Diego Chargers on October 11, 1998.) Playing in the 1944 NFL Championship Game at the Polo Grounds, Kinscherf substituted at fullback. |
Jonathan Ross | English television and radio presenter | Jonathan Stephen Ross (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He presented the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross during the 2000s, hosted his own radio show on BBC Radio 2 from 1999 to 2010, and served as film critic and presenter of the Film programme. After leaving the BBC in 2010, Ross began hosting his comedy chat show The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV. Other regular roles have included being a panellist on the comedy sports quiz They Think It's All Over (1999–2005), being a presenter of the British Comedy Awards (1991–2007, 2009–2014), and being a judge on the musical competition show The Masked Singer (2020–present) and its spin-off series The Masked Dancer (2021–present).
Ross began his television career as a TV researcher, before débuting as a presenter for The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross on Channel 4 in 1987. Over the next decade, he presented numerous radio and television programmes, many through his own production company, Channel X. In 1995, he sold his stake in Channel X, and embarked on a career with the BBC in 1997. In 1999, Ross took over presenting the Film programme from Barry Norman, and also began presenting his own radio show, while two years later he began hosting Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. For the chat show, Ross won three BAFTA awards for Best Entertainment Performance, in 2004, 2006 and 2007. By 2006, he was believed to be the BBC's highest-paid star.
In 2005, Ross was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to broadcasting. Ross has been involved in controversies throughout his broadcasting career. As a result, in 2008, he wrote a semi-autobiographical work titled Why Do I Say These Things?, detailing some of his life experiences. He has also written his own comic books, Turf and America's Got Powers. |
Sone Aluko | Nigerian footballer | Omatsone Folarin "Sone" Aluko (born 19 February 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Ipswich Town and the Nigeria national team.
Aluko began his career at Birmingham City, graduating from the club's academy to make his senior debut in 2007. He joined Aberdeen on loan in the 2007–08 season and was loaned to Blackpool at the beginning of the 2008–09 season. After just two appearances for Blackpool, he signed for Aberdeen permanently in August 2008. He left Aberdeen in July 2011 at the end of his contract. Aluko signed for Rangers in November 2011 and scored 12 goals in 21 appearances during the 2011–12 season. After one season at Rangers, he returned to England to join Hull City. He made over 100 appearances for Hull during a four-year spell at the club, helping Hull win promotion to the Premier League in 2013 and reach the 2014 FA Cup Final. He left Hull to join Fulham in 2016, before joining Reading in 2017. He spent four seasons at Reading, making over 100 appearances for the club, while also spending time out on loan at Beijing Renhe in 2019. In August 2021, he signed for Ipswich Town.
Born in England, Aluko was capped by England at all youth levels up to under-19 before accepting an offer to play for Nigeria. He won caps at under-20 and under-23 levels, before making his senior debut in 2009.
His sister Eniola Aluko was born in Nigeria and is a former professional footballer. She formerly played for Juventus and England. |
Sergio Arias | Mexican footballer | Sergio Javier Arias Delgado (born 27 February 1988) is a Mexican retired footballer as goalkeeper. |
Get Close | 1986 album by the Pretenders | Get Close is the fourth studio album by rock band the Pretenders, released on 20 October 1986 in the United Kingdom by Real Records and on 4 November 1986 in the United States by Sire Records. The album contains the band's two highest-charting Mainstream Rock Tracks entries, "Don't Get Me Wrong" and "My Baby", both of which reached number one. |
Honora sciurella | Species of moth | Honora sciurella is a species of snout moth in the genus Honora. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887 and is found in the US state of California.Moth Photographers Group at Mississippi State University |
Alok (DJ) | Brazilian DJ and record producer | Alok Achkar Peres Petrillo (; born 26 August 1991) is a Brazilian musician, DJ, and record producer. He is known for his single "Hear Me Now". In 2021 and 2022, Alok was ranked the 4th best DJ in the world by DJ Mag, being the highest position occupied by a Brazilian.
Alok has become one of the most prominent icons in the Brazilian electronic scene, with honors and awards, such as "Best DJ in Brazil" by House Mag in 2014 and 2015, and being the only Brazilian in the top 25 in the world the following year by DJ Mag magazine. In 2017, he was elected by Forbes Brasil as one of the most influential people under the age of 30 in the country.
In July 2019, he launched Controversia Records, a sublabel of Spinnin' Records. |
Laurie Hendren | Canadian computer scientist (1958–2019) | Laurie Hendren (December 13, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for her research in programming languages and compilers. |
Freya (cat) | Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office | Freya (born April 2009) is a tabby cat owned by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom George Osborne and his family.
Freya went missing from the Osbornes' house in Notting Hill when she was just a few months old, and after searching West London for her, the family assumed she had died or had become lost. In June 2012, Osborne's wife received a call telling her that Freya was alive, and the family brought her home. In September 2012, Freya shared the role of Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office with the Downing Street cat Larry. In November 2014, Freya was retired from the position to the Kent countryside. |
Eylül Geldi Sonra | 2013 album by Emre Aydin | Eylül Geldi Sonra (September Arrived Afterwards) is the third studio album by Turkish singer Emre Aydın. It was released on 16 December 2013 by Doğan Music Company. Three years after the release of his previous album, Kağıt Evler, a teaser for his new album was released on 22 November 2013 and it was eventually made available on 16 December. The album was produced by Mats Valentin and Mustafa Ceceli, and recorded at Mr Radar Music Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. |
Licett Morillo | Dominican fashion model | Licett Morillo Montero is a Dominican fashion model. Within months of being discovered by a modeling agency while on the way to school, she walked for Prada on the runway during Milan Fashion Week. |
Michel Cullin | French political scientist (1944–2020) | Michel Cullin (17 September 1944 – 3 March 2020) was "Maître de conférences“ at the University of Nice and director of French-Austrian relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. |
Lyn Collins | American singer | Gloria Lavern Collins (June 12, 1948 – March 13, 2005), better known as Lyn Collins, was an American soul singer best known for working with James Brown in the 1970s and for the influential 1972 funk single, "Think (About It)".
A favorite among hip hop, R&B, and dance music producers for decades, Collins is by far the most sampled female artist of all time, with portions of her recordings used in well over 3,500 songs. |
Herschel Smith | American wrestler | Herschel Smith (January 25, 1900 – January 3, 1964) was an American wrestler. He competed in the freestyle middleweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. |
24 Persei | Aging giant in the constellation Perseus | 24 Persei is a star in the northern constellation of Perseus, located around 337 light years from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.94. The object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −37 km/s.
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K2 III, which indicates it has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved away from the main sequence. It has 1.59 times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to about 24 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 185 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,391 K. |
Dooley Womack | American baseball player (born 1939) | Horace Guy "Dooley" Womack (born August 25, 1939) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. A right-hander, he played all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball from 1966 to 1970 for the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Seattle Pilots and Oakland Athletics, almost exclusively as a relief pitcher. He also played in the Cincinnati Reds minor league system for one season.
Listed at tall and weighing 170 pounds, Womack was never a highly touted prospect, due in part to his unimposing size and fastball. "I admit", he once said, "I won't overpower anybody..." Despite the lack of fanfare surrounding him, Womack "went from a non-prospect to a must-use" at the beginning of his major league career, according to Harvey Frommer in his book, A Yankee Century.
Womack began his professional career as a starting pitcher in 1958 at the age of 18 and played for 14 seasons, ending his career as a relief pitcher at the age of 31 in 1971. He spent ten seasons in the minor leagues and five in the major leagues, spending one year at the D-level, one year at the C-level, one full year and part of another at the B-level, one full year and part of another at the Single-A level, two full years at the Double-A level, two full years at the Triple-A level and most of a third year at the Triple-A level.
At the major league level, Womack went 19–18 with a 2.95 ERA in 193 games, one of which he started. In 302.1 innings, he had 24 saves, 121 games finished and 177 strikeouts. He allowed 253 hits, 111 runs, 99 earned runs, 21 home runs, 111 walks, 33 intentional walks and 18 wild pitches. As a batter, he went 7-for-31 for a .226 batting average. He never drew a base on balls, though he did have a stolen base in 1968. His career fielding percentage was .970.
In total, he appeared in 349 minor league games, going 65–55 with a 3.13 ERA in 1,041.1 innings. He allowed 952 hits, 461 runs, 362 earned runs and 399 walks. At the plate, he was used as a pinch hitter from time to time, hitting .267 with 107 hits (including 16 doubles and five triples) in 401 at bats. |
Barry Levinson | American filmmaker, and actor | Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, comedian and actor. Levinson's best-known works are mid-budget comedy drama and drama films such as Diner (1982); The Natural (1984); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Bugsy (1991); and Wag the Dog (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes. |
Arne Öhman | Swedish psychologist and professor (1943–2020) | Arne Öhman (31 May 1943 – 19 March 2020) was a Swedish psychologist who served as professor of psychology at the Karolinska Institutet from 1993 to 2010, where he was the head of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience from 2001 to 2004. He previously served as a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Uppsala from 1982 to 1993. He was noted for his research in the fields of experimental psychology and psychophysiology, and on the psychology of emotion. He was president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research from 1984 to 1985, and received its award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychophysiology in 2001. He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 2005 to 2006. He was named a member of the Academia Europaea in 1992 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1998. He was an elected member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute from 1997 to 2010, as well as a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. |
Cristian Javier Simari Birkner | Argentine alpine skier (born 1980) | Cristian Simari Birkner (born October 4, 1980 in San Carlos de Bariloche) is an Argentinian alpine skier. He competed in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. He served as Argentina's flag bearer at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.Argentine Olympic Committee and followed in 2014 as flagbearer. He is the brother of fellow alpine skiers María Belén Simari Birkner and Macarena Simari Birkner. |
Secrets of Rætikon | Video game published by Broken Rules | Secrets of Rætikon is an action-adventure open world video game developed and published by Broken Rules. The player controls a bird and must explore the environment of Rætikon to find its secrets. Game elements include animals with specific behaviors and ancient puzzles. Development began in 2011 and the game was formally announced in July 2013 and followed by alpha and Steam Early Access releases. Secrets of Rætikon was released on April 17, 2014 for Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. It received mixed reviews from reviewers, who praised its artwork and movement physics, but criticized its inconsistency, lack of cohesion, and technical issues. |
Richard Ellis (American photographer) | American photographer | Richard Ellis (born 1960) is an American news photographer and founder of the photo agency Newsmakers, which was later acquired by Getty Images. |
Jock Madden | Australian rugby league footballer | Jock Madden (born 7 March 2000) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a or for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL (National Rugby League).
He previously played for the Wests Tigers in the NRL. |
Solidago squarrosa | Species of plant | Solidago squarrosa, commonly known as stout goldenrod, is a North American species of goldenrod in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Canada (Ontario, Québec, and New Brunswick) and the eastern United States (from Maine west to Indiana and south as far as Tennessee and the Carolinas).Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
Solidago squarrosa is a perennial herb up to 150 cm (5 feet) tall, with a branching underground caudex. Leaves are egg-shaped, up to 20 cm (8 inches) long near the base of the plant, shorter farther up the stem. One plant can produce as many as 200 small yellow flower heads in a narrow, elongate array at the top of the plant.Flora of North America, Solidago squarrosa Muhlenberg, 1813. Stout goldenrod, verge d’or squarreuse |
Manubhai Pancholi | Indian politician | Manubhai Pancholi also known by his pen name Darshak, was a Gujarati language novelist, author, educationist and politician from Gujarat, India. He participated in the Indian independence movement and held several offices after independence. |
1989 Davidson Wildcats football team | American college football season | The 1989 Davidson Wildcats football team represented Davidson College as an independent during the 1989 NCAA Division III football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Vic Gatto, the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 2–8. This marked the first season Davidson competed at Division III after dropping down from the I-AA designation following their 1988 season. |
Harry Cowans | British politician | Harry Lowes Cowans (19 December 1932 – 3 October 1985) was a British Labour Party politician.
Cowans was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central at a 1976 by-election. After boundary changes, he was elected for Tyne Bridge in 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Chair of the Transport Select Committee.
He died in office aged 52 in 1985, and his cremated remains are buried in Saltwell Cemetery, Gateshead |
Lokesh Dixit | Indian politician | Lokesh Dixit () is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Baraut constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party political party. |
Rohan Master | French illuminator | The Rohan Master is the name given to an anonymous French book illuminator active in the first half of the 15th century, after his main work, the Rohan Hours. He also produced the Hours of Isabella Stuart. |
Vesuvius plc | British ceramics company | Vesuvius plc is a British engineered ceramics company headquartered in London whose products are used by steelmakers and foundries as well as in the glass and solar energy industries. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. |
2009 Sulawesi superbolide | Atmospheric fireball blast over Indonesia | The 2009 Sulawesi superbolide was an atmospheric fireball blast over Indonesia on October 8, 2009, at approximately 03:00 UTC, near the coastal city of Watampone in South Sulawesi, island of Sulawesi. The meteoritic impactor broke up at an estimated height of 15–20 km. The impact energy of the bolide was estimated in the 10 to 50 kiloton TNT equivalent range, with the higher end of this range being more likely. The likely size of the impactor was 5–10 m diameter. |
George Phillippo | Canadian politician | Sir George Phillippo (1833 – 16 February 1914) was Chief Justice of Hong Kong in the late 19th century. He often attended the Legislative Council of Hong Kong sittings from around 1884 to 1888. |
Assamese cinema | Film industry based in Assam, India | Assamese cinema, also known as Jollywood, is an Indian film industry of Assamese-language motion pictures. It is based in Assam, India. The industry was born in 1935 when Jyoti Prasad Agarwala released his movie Joymoti. Since then the Assamese cinema has developed a slow-paced, sensitive style, especially with the movies of Bhabendra Nath Saikia and Jahnu Barua. The industry is called Jollywood, named for Agarwala's Jyoti Chitraban Film Studio.
Despite its long history and its artistic successes, for a state that has always taken its cinema seriously, Assamese cinema has never really managed to break through on the national scene despite its film industry making a mark in the National Awards over the years. Although the beginning of the 21st century has seen Bollywood-style Assamese movies hitting the screen, the industry has not been able to compete in the market, significantly overshadowed by the larger industries such as Bollywood.Lakshmi B. Ghosh, "A rare peep into world of Assamese cinema", The Hindu, 2006 |
13 Monocerotis | Star in the constellation Monoceros | 13 Monocerotis (13 Mon) is a class A0 Ib (white supergiant) star in the constellation Monoceros. Its apparent magnitude is 4.5 and it is approximately away.
13 Mon lies within the Monoceros OB1 stellar association, halfway between the Rosette Nebula and NGC 2264, at a distance of about 780 parsecs. It is surrounded by a small reflection nebula listed as Van den Bergh 81 (VdB 81).
13 Monocerotis has been used as a standard star for the A0 Ib spectral class.
Extended photometry of 13 Monocerotis from 1997 to 2000 shows irregular variation of up to 0.04 magnitudes and also a slight trend to become fainter over the period. All the bright A0 - A5 supergiants analysed using Hipparcos satellite data were found to be variable, but 13 Mon was the least variable. |
National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Nebraska | None | This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Nebraska. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
There are 10 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, one of which is a National Historic Landmark. |
Edward Elers Delaval Henderson | British Victoria Cross recipient (1878-1917) | Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Elers Delaval Henderson VC (2 October 1878 – 25 January 1917) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. |
Hart–Dworkin debate | Legal philosophy debate | The Hart–Dworkin debate is a debate in legal philosophy between H. L. A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin. At the heart of the debate lies a Dworkinian critique of Hartian legal positivism, specifically, the theory presented in Hart's book The Concept of Law. While Hart insists that judges are within bounds to legislate on the basis of rules of law, Dworkin strives to show that in these cases, judges work from a set of "principles" which they use to formulate judgments, and that these principles either form the basis, or can be extrapolated from the present rules. |
Henry T. Hazard | American politician | Henry T. Hazard (July 31, 1844 – August 7, 1921) was a California pioneer who became a land developer, a patent attorney and mayor of the city of Los Angeles. He gives his name to Hazard Park in Los Angeles. |
The Town Went Wild | 1944 film by Ralph Murphy | The Town Went Wild is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Freddie Bartholomew and Edward Everett Horton |
Men's team sabre at the 2019 World Fencing Championships | Fencing Tournament | The Men's team sabre competition at the 2019 World Fencing Championships was held on 20 and 21 July 2019.Schedule |
Transancistrus | Genus of fishes | Transancistrus is a genus of suckermouth armored catfishes native to South America.Lujan, N.K., Meza-Vargas, V. & Barriga-Salazar, R. (2015): Two New Chaetostoma Group (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) Sister Genera from Opposite Sides of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, with the Description of One New Species. Copeia, 103 (3): 651-663. |
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Association was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1697.Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 164.Ships of the Old Navy, Association. She served with distinction at the capture of Gibraltar, and was lost in 1707 by grounding on the Isles of Scilly in the greatest maritime disaster of the age. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England. |
Bernd Brückler | Austrian ice hockey player | Bernd Brückler (born August 26, 1981 is an Austrian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL), the Finnish Liiga, and the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). |
USL League Two | American development soccer league | USL League Two (USL2), formerly the Premier Development League (PDL), is a semi-professional developmental soccer league sponsored by United Soccer Leagues in the United States and Canada, forming part of the United States soccer league system. The league features 113 teams for 2022, split into sixteen regional divisions across four conferences. USL League Two is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
Ventura County Fusion are the current champions, having defeated Long Island Rough Riders 2–1 in the 2022 USL League Two Championship game on August 6, 2022. |
Robert Carswell (cricketer) | New Zealand cricketer | Robert Carswell (born 19 March 1936) is a New Zealand cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Northern Districts in 1957/58. |
A Passion for Churches | 1974 BBC television documentary by Edward Mirzoeff | A Passion for Churches is a 1974 BBC television documentary written and presented by the then Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman and produced and directed by Edward Mirzoeff. Commissioned as a follow-up to the critically acclaimed 1973 documentary Metro-land, the film offers Betjeman's personal poetic record of the various rituals taking place throughout the Anglican Diocese of Norwich and its churches in the run-up to Easter Sunday using the framing device of the Holy sacraments.
Created with the approval of the Bishop of Norwich, Maurice Wood, the 49-minute film was shot on location in Norfolk and parts of Suffolk throughout the spring of 1974 on 16 mm colour film by cameraman John McGlashan. For the film, John Betjeman wrote an original poetic commentary consisting of blank verse, free verse, and prose and he appeared on-screen in several segments to describe features of ecclesiastical buildings and to reminisce about his lifelong "passion for churches".
The programme was praised by critics upon its original BBC 2 screening in December 1974 and gained high audience appreciation figures. It has since been repeated on BBC Four in 2006."Betjeman remembered on the BBC this Summer, BBC Press Office, 11 July 2006 It was released on a limited-edition DVD in 2007.Frequently Asked Questions , John Betjeman Official Website |
2011 Estonian parliamentary election | none | A parliamentary election was held in Estonia on 6 March 2011, with e-voting between 24 February and 2 March 2011. The newly elected 101 members of the 12th Riigikogu assembled at Toompea Castle in Tallinn within ten days of the election.
The 101 members of the Riigikogu (Parliament of Estonia) were elected using a form of proportional representation for a four-year term. The seats were allocated using a modified D'Hondt method. The country is divided into twelve multi-mandate electoral districts. There is a nationwide threshold of 5% for party lists, but if the number of votes cast for a candidate exceeds or equals the simple quota (which shall be obtained by dividing the number of valid votes cast in the electoral district by the number of mandates in the district) the candidate is elected.
Pre-election polls put the Reform Party, led by Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, ahead of its main rival, the opposition Centre Party. The former is right of centre, the latter is considered populist, slightly to the left on economic matters. Both parties are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
The election was marked by the highest number of running independents (32) since 1992. Several independent candidates were members of the Estonian Patriotic Movement.Delfi: Telestuudiosse kogunes 28 üksikkandidaati |
2017 Amstel Gold Race | Cycling race | The 2017 Amstel Gold Race was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 16 April. It was the 52nd edition of the Amstel Gold Race and the sixteenth event of the 2017 UCI World Tour.
It was won for the fourth time by Philippe Gilbert (), defeating 's Michał Kwiatkowski in a two-up sprint finish. Michael Albasini from completed the podium, leading home a small group ten seconds in arrears of the lead duo. Gilbert's win, coupled with a win two weeks prior at the Tour of Flanders, made him the third rider to win both races in the same year – after Eddy Merckx and Jan Raas.
After a 14-year hiatus, there was also a women's version of the Amstel Gold Race of 121 km, following the same parcours. This race was won by Anna van der Breggen. |
Art Gleeson | American baseball announcer | Arthur Levi Gleeson (September 29, 1906 – November 27, 1964) was an American baseball announcer.
Gleeson was born in Sumpter, Oregon.U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 He got his start calling games for teams in the California League games during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Gleeson served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and worked for the Armed Forces Network after being discharged from submarine service.Sport Scripts – Los Angeles Times From 1946 to 1949 he was play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League. In 1950, he joined Mutual Broadcasting System, where he called New York Yankees games with Mel Allen from 1951 to 1952 and the "Mutual Game of the Day" from 1953 to 1959. From 1956 to 1960 Gleeson was the sports director of MBS. Gleeson joined the Boston Red Sox broadcast team in 1960, calling games with Curt Gowdy, Bill Crowley (1960), and Ned Martin (1961–1964) for five seasons.
Gleeson died of an apparent heart attack in a hotel room in Gold Beach, Oregon, after the 1964 season. He was replaced by Mel Parnell in the Red Sox booth. |
Takayuki Ogawa | Japanese photographer | was a Japanese photographer.
Ogawa visited New York City for about a year from 1967 to 1968, where he photographed on the streets. This work was posthumously collected in the book New York Is (2012). |
Charles K. Tuckerman | American diplomat and writer | Charles Keating Tuckerman (March 11, 1827 – February 26, 1896) was an American diplomat, author and the first American minister resident to Greece. |
Leptocorisa oratoria | Species of true bug | Leptocorisa oratoria, the rice ear bug,Rice ear bug, Leptocorisa oratoria is an insect from the family Alydidae, the broad-headed bugs. This species is commonly confused with Leptocorisa acuta,Rice earhead bug, Leptocorisa acuta and other similar, related "rice bug" genera and species. |
Southend Civic Centre | Municipal building in Southend, Essex, England | Southend Civic Centre is a municipal building in Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The structure is the meeting place of Southend-on-Sea City Council. |
Mehar Chand Bhaskar | Indian weightlifter | Mehar Chand Bhaskar is a former Indian national weight lifter. He has been awarded the Arjuna Award. He hails from Rajasthan and served in the Indian army. He belongs to gadakhera village of buhana tehsil in jhunjhunu. |
John Marr and Other Sailors | Poetry book | John Marr and Other Sailors is a volume of poetry published by Herman Melville in 1888. Melville published twenty-five copies at his own expense, indicating that they were intended for family and friends. Henry Chapin wrote in an introduction to a reprint that "Melville's loveable freshness of personality is everywhere in evidence, in the voice of a true poet".Chapin, Henry. Introduction John Marr & Other Poems. Kindle ebook ASIN B0084B7NOC
The "Inscription Epistolary" is to William Clark Russell, a British sea-story author who called Melville "the greatest genius the [United States] has produced" and "first" among the "poets of the deep". Like Timoleon, his other volume of late verse, scholars have assumed that it was a "private work of art", symptomatic of his withdrawal from the literary world. Melville was putting this collection together as he was also drafting Billy Budd, which, like several poems in this collection, had prose headnotes followed by full poems. |
Sconce (fortification) | Type of fortification | A sconce is a small protective fortification, such as an earthwork, often placed on a mound as a defensive work for artillery.Images of England: Sconce It was used primarily in Northern Europe from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century. This type of fortification was common during the English Civil War, and the remains of one such structure can be seen on Fort Royal Hill in Worcester, England.Fort Royal, Worcester
During the Eighty Years' War for Dutch independence, the sconces (schans in Dutch) were often used to defend strategic places, but were used also during sieges and in circumvallations. Several more or less intact sconces remain in the Netherlands.
The Zaanse Schans, one of the top tourist locations in the Netherlands, derived its name from its original function as a sconce. Sconces played a major part in the Serbian Revolution, countering the numerical superiority of the Turkish army. |
Clyde Brock | American gridiron football player (born 1940) | Clyde Vern Brock (born August 30, 1940) is a former professional Canadian football offensive tackle in the Canadian Football League for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He also was a member of the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League. He played college football at Utah State University. He is a member of the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame. |
George Mitchell (baseball) | American baseball player | George Fredrick Mitchell (March 31, 1900 – November, 1953) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1920s.
A native of Sparta, Illinois, Mitchell was the twin brother of fellow Negro leaguer Robert Mitchell. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1924 for the St. Louis Stars, where he was a batterymate of catching brother Robert. Mitchell went on to play for several teams through the 1930s, and later managed the Indianapolis ABCs and New Orleans–St. Louis Stars. He died in Sparta in 1953 at age 53. |
Nini Camps | American singer | Nini Camps (born in Miami, Florida) is an American folk rock singer-songwriter, who writes music for film and TV while also performing as lead singer of the all-female band Antigone Rising. She currently lives with her family in New York City. |
Timeline of Ravenna | none | The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Ravenna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. |
Ryan Walter | Canadian ice hockey player | Ryan William Walter (born April 23, 1958) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League. He was also an assistant coach with the Vancouver Canucks, head coach of the Canadian National Women's hockey team, a hockey broadcaster and president of the Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League. |
Katherine D. Tillman | American writer | Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman (February 19, 1870 – November 29, 1923) was an American writer. |
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery | 1941 film directed by James P. Hogan | Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery is a 1941 American mystery film directed by James P. Hogan and written by Eric Taylor. It is based on the 1939 play The Three Scratches by Ellery Queen. The film stars Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Anna May Wong, James Burke and Eduardo Ciannelli. The film was released on March 24, 1941, by Columbia Pictures. |
Macroglossum jani | Species of moth | Macroglossum jani is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from the Philippines.
It is extremely similar to Macroglossum clemensi, but the forewing pattern is somewhat more dull. Furthermore, the pale scaling along the oblique median band and submarginal line is very faint or even absent. |
James Thorburn (physician) | Canadian physician, medical researcher, military surgeon | James Thorburn (21 November 1830 – 26 May 1905) was a Canadian physician, medical researcher, military surgeon, university professor and an executive member of several medical organizations.Thorburn, James, Canadian physician Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (caveat emptor), Vol. VI, pg.100, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1889. Retrieved online at the Internet Archive 2009-05-14. |
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German submarine U-163 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine built for service during World War II. The keel for this boat was laid down on 8 May 1940 at the DeSchiMAG, Bremen yard as yard number 702. She was launched on 1 May 1941 and commissioned on 21 October under the command of Korvettenkapitän Kurt-Eduard Engelmann.
The U-boat's service began with training as part of the 4th U-boat Flotilla. She then moved to the 10th flotilla on 1 August 1942 for operations. She sank three ships, totalling 15,011 GRT and one warship was declared a total loss (2,000 tons).
She was sunk by a Canadian corvette in March 1943. |
Susan Rae Wente | American cell biologist and academic administrator | Susan Wente (born 1962) is an American cell biologist and academic administrator currently serving as the 14th and current President of Wake Forest University. From 2014 to 2021 she was Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Vanderbilt University. Between August 15, 2019 and June 30, 2020, she served as interim Chancellor at Vanderbilt. |
Stanley Blair | American gridiron football player (born 1964) | Stanley Blair (born July 4, 1964) is a former all-star and Grey Cup champion Canadian Football League cornerback.
Coming out of the Southeastern Oklahoma State University football program, Blair joined the Edmonton Eskimos in 1987 and took the CFL by storm, capturing the Jackie Parker Trophy as best rookie in the West and winning a Grey Cup. His blocked kick in the 75th Grey Cup classic was instrumental. He played two more seasons in Edmonton and was selected as an all-star in each.CFLAPEDIA entry: Edmonton He was courted by many National Football League teams, but signed with the Phoenix Cardinals and played only 5 games with them before injuries ended his career. |
Madison Thompson (field hockey) | Australian field hockey player | Madison Thompson (born 11 August 1994) is an indoor and field hockey player from Canada, who plays as a forward. |
Lech Poznań II | Third tier Polish football club | Lech Poznań II () is the reserve team and the senior academy team of Lech Poznań, a Polish professional football club based in Poznań. The team and its facilities are based in Wronki.
They currently play in the third tier of the league pyramid, the highest league a reserve team is allowed to play in. |
Sir Nicholas Williams, 1st Baronet | British politician | Sir Nicholas Williams, 1st Baronet (1681 – 19 July 1745) was a British politician.
He was the eldest son of Sir Rice Williams, of Edwinsford, Carmarthenshire, by his second wife, Mary Vaughan, daughter and co-heir of John Vaughan of Llanelly. He was educated at Eton College and Queens' College, Cambridge.Thomas, Peter D. G. (1970) "WILLIAMS, Sir Nicholas, 1st. Bt. (1681–1745), of Edwinsford, Carm." in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715–1754, ed. Romney Sedgwick
He was High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire from 1697 to 1698, and was created a baronet on 30 July 1707. From 1724 until his death, he was a Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire in the Parliament of Great Britain, and was Lord Lieutenant of the county from 1735 to 1740. He was a supporter of Robert Walpole.
He married Mary Cocks, the daughter of Charles Cocks and niece of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, on 19 June 1712 at St Mildred, Poultry, London. They had no children, and the baronetcy
became extinct on his death in 1745. His estate eventually devolved to the second and third Hamlyn-Williams baronets.Cokayne, George Edward (1906) Complete Baronetage. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . pp. 4–5
After his death, his brother Thomas took over as Custos Rotulorum of Carmarthenshire. |
Pristigenys | Genus of fishes | Pristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.
The extant species have been classified in the genus Pseudopriacanthus which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of Pristigenys, but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins. Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203. |
Anthribus nebulosus | Species of beetle | Anthribus nebulosus is a species of fungus weevil, family Anthribidae. It is found in Europe, Near East, and Northern Asia (excluding China) and, as an introduced species, in North America. |
Bénoué National Park | Natural park in Cameroon | Bénoué National Park is a national park of Cameroon and a UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve. It is in size. The park has a wide frontage to the Bénoué River, which stretches for over , forming the eastern boundary. The public road to Tcholliré cuts across the northern part of the park. The western boundary is made up of the main road linking the towns of Garoua to the north, with Ngaoundéré to the south. The park can be accessed coming north from Ngaoundéré. |
Jewett, Minnesota | Unorganized territory in Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States | Jewett is an unorganized territory in Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 47 at the 2010 census. |
William Norford | English medical practitioner and writer (1715–1793) | William Norford (1715–1793) was an English medical practitioner and writer. |
Principle of maximum entropy | Principle in Bayesian statistics | The principle of maximum entropy states that the probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge about a system is the one with largest entropy, in the context of precisely stated prior data (such as a proposition that expresses testable information).
Another way of stating this: Take precisely stated prior data or testable information about a probability distribution function. Consider the set of all trial probability distributions that would encode the prior data. According to this principle, the distribution with maximal information entropy is the best choice. |
Lysogenic cycle | Process of virus reproduction | Lysogeny, or the lysogenic cycle, is one of two cycles of viral reproduction (the lytic cycle being the other). Lysogeny is characterized by integration of the bacteriophage nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome or formation of a circular replicon in the bacterial cytoplasm. In this condition the bacterium continues to live and reproduce normally, while the bacteriophage lies in a dormant state in the host cell. The genetic material of the bacteriophage, called a prophage, can be transmitted to daughter cells at each subsequent cell division, and later events (such as UV radiation or the presence of certain chemicals) can release it, causing proliferation of new phages via the lytic cycle. Lysogenic cycles can also occur in eukaryotes, although the method of DNA incorporation is not fully understood. For instance the AIDS viruses can either infect humans (or some other primates) lytically, or lay dormant (lysogenic) as part of the infected cells' genome, keeping the ability to return to lysis at a later time. The rest of this article is about lysogeny in bacterial hosts.
The difference between lysogenic and lytic cycles is that, in lysogenic cycles, the spread of the viral DNA occurs through the usual prokaryotic reproduction, whereas a lytic cycle is more immediate in that it results in many copies of the virus being created very quickly and the cell is destroyed. One key difference between the lytic cycle and the lysogenic cycle is that the latter does not lyse the host cell straight away. Phages that replicate only via the lytic cycle are known as virulent phages while phages that replicate using both lytic and lysogenic cycles are known as temperate phages.
In the lysogenic cycle, the phage DNA first integrates into the bacterial chromosome to produce the prophage. When the bacterium reproduces, the prophage is also copied and is present in each of the daughter cells. The daughter cells can continue to replicate with the prophage present or the prophage can exit the bacterial chromosome to initiate the lytic cycle. In the lysogenic cycle the host DNA is not hydrolyzed but in the lytic cycle the host DNA is hydrolyzed in the lytic phase. |