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Augosoma | Genus of beetles | Augosoma is a genus of rhinoceros beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.
Augosoma species include very large (40-100 millimeters), glossy black or dark brown beetles. The males have long, curved horns on the head. These horns lack in the females. These beetles occurs in tropical West Africa (Cameroon, Central African Republic).Natural Worlds |
Do It Best | American hardware retailers' cooperative | Do It Best Corp., formerly known as Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. (HWI), is a member-owned hardware, lumber, and building materials cooperative based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Do it Best Corp. is the second-largest co-op in the industry approaching $4 billion in annual sales. Do it Best Corp. does not mandate store identities, so member-owners may or may not display the Do it Best brand name in their businesses. |
New Forest commoner | Cultural minority in the New Forest | A New Forest commoner (also known as a New Forester, Commoner or Forester) is both a practitioner of the heritage agricultural vocation of commoning within the New Forest area of southern England, and also a cultural minority native to the area. They are closely associated with the New Forest pony. Commoners hold rights to the New Forest as common land, which have been enshrined in law since the Anglo-Saxon period, and which in many instances have been passed down through the same community of local families for centuries. These rights include Pasture, Mast, Marl, Turbary, Sheep and Fuelwood. The contribution of New Forest commoners to maintaining the area's ecology and landscape, as well as their historic role as a living tradition and heritage cultural minority, has been recognised by the Government of the United Kingdom, and the New Forest National Park Authority has acknowledged its commitment to protecting and supporting the community and the practice.Commoning, TheNewforest.co.uk, official website accessed September 2022 |
Paul A. Couture | American politician | Paul A. Couture (January 29, 1913 – May 16, 1992) was an American politician. A Democrat from Lewiston, Maine, he served in the Maine House of Representatives and the Maine Senate between 1951 and 1970. First elected in 1951, he served ten terms in the House and two in the Senate, including one term as Senate Minority Leader (1961–62). He also represented District Six on the Lewiston City Council. |
Eagle Squadrons | World War II military units | The Eagle Squadrons were three fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force (RAF) formed with volunteer pilots from the United States during the early days of World War II (circa 1940), prior to America's entry into the war in December 1941.
With the United States still neutral, many Americans simply crossed the border and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) to learn to fly and fight. Many early recruits had originally gone to Europe to fight for Finland against the Soviet Union in the Winter War.
Charles Sweeny, a wealthy businessman living in London, persuaded the British Government to form an RAF squadron composed of Americans. (His uncle, also named Charles Sweeny, had been working along similar lines, recruiting American pilots to fight in France.) Sweeny's efforts were also coordinated in Canada by the World War I air ace Billy Bishop and the artist Clayton Knight, who formed the Clayton Knight Committee, which by the time the United States entered the war, had processed and approved 6,700 applications from Americans to join the RCAF or RAF. Sweeny and his rich society contacts bore the cost (over $100,000) of processing and sending the men to the United Kingdom for training. |
Black Belly of the Tarantula | 1971 film by Paolo Cavara | The Black Belly of the Tarantula is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Paolo Cavara and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Barbara Bouchet, and Barbara Bach. |
J. L. Langley | American novelist | J. L. Langley is the pen name of an American writer of over a dozen gay romance novels,WorldCat author listing some of which have been translated into Spanish, Japanese and German.WorldCat |
Thomas Brennan (footballer) | Scottish footballer | Thomas James Brennan was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Football League for Gillingham, Blackburn Rovers, Stockport County and Crystal Palace as an inside forward. He also played in the Scottish League for East Stirlingshire. |
Scythris tephrella | Species of moth | Scythris tephrella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 2005. It is found in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.Afro Moths
The wingspan is 12–13 mm. |
Stephen Hopper | Australian botanist | Stephen Donald Hopper AC FLS FTSE (born 18 June 1951) is a Western Australian botanist. He graduated in Biology, specialising in conservation biology and vascular plants. Hopper has written eight books, and has over 200 publications to his name. He was Director of Kings Park in Perth for seven years, and CEO of the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority for five. He is currently Foundation Professor of Plant Conservation Biology at The University of Western Australia. He was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 2006 to 2012.
This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Hopper when citing a botanical name. |
Football team | Group of football players | A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all-star team or even selected as a hypothetical team (such as a Dream Team or Team of the Century) and never play an actual match.
The difference between a football team and a football club is incorporation, a football club is an entity which is formed and governed by a committee and has members which may consist of supporters in addition to players. The benefit of club formation is that it gives teams access to additional volunteer or paid support staff, facilities and equipment.
One team, the Washington Football Team of the NFL, named themselves after the phrase (and also because they are a football team) for two seasons, but are now known as the Commanders. |
Milan Sijerković | Croatian meteorologist (1935–2018) | Milan Sijerković (5 November 1935 – 10 December 2018) was an eminentPreminuo naš poznati meteorolog Milan Sijerković: Hvala na svemu, profesore... dnevnik.hr. Published 10 December 2018. Accessdate 16 December 2018. Croatian meteorologist, university professor, publicist and TV weather-presenter. |
Rivenoskulen | Mountain in Skjåk, Norway | Rivenoskulen is a mountain on the border of Skjåk Municipality in Innlandet county and Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Breheimen mountains and inside the Breheimen National Park, about south of the village of Grotli and about northeast of Jostedal. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Tverrådalskyrkja and Røykjeskarhøi to the east, Syrtbyttnosi to the north, and Sprongeggi to the northwest. |
Lucky 7 (film) | 2003 American TV film | Lucky 7 is a 2003 television film starring Patrick Dempsey and Kimberly Williams. |
Riverside Park, California | Unincorporated community in California, United States | Riverside Park is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the Van Duzen River north-northwest of Redcrest, at an elevation of 253 feet (77 m). Area buildings are primarily summer home properties along the river. |
Józefa Chromik | Polish cross-country skier | Józefa Chromik (born 10 June 1946) is a Polish cross-country skier. She competed in three events at the 1972 Winter Olympics. |
Per Smith-Kielland | Norwegian painter (1891–1921) | Per Axel Smith-Kielland (19 September 1891 – 24 September 1921) was a Norwegian painter.
He was born in Kristiania, and was a brother of diplomat Ingvald Smith-Kielland. He studied under Christian Krohg at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1914 to 1915, and became an accomplished painter, but fell ill as early as 1918, and died in his thirtieth year. He is represented with four works in the National Gallery of Norway. |
BackStoppers | Non profit organization | The BackStoppers, Inc. Police Officers' and Firefighters' Fund is a federal tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Founded in 1959, the BackStoppers provides ongoing needed financial assistance and support to the spouses and dependent children of all police officers, firefighters and volunteer firefighters, and publicly-funded paramedics and EMTs who have lost their lives in the line of duty in 18 counties in Missouri and Illinois. The BackStoppers also provides assistance to first responders who suffer a catastrophic injury performing their duty. |
Rancho Camulos | Historic ranch near Santa Paula, California | Rancho Camulos, now known as Rancho Camulos Museum, is a ranch located in the Santa Clara River Valley east of Piru, California and just north of the Santa Clara River, in Ventura County, California. It was the home of Ygnacio del Valle, a Californio alcalde of the Pueblo de Los Angeles in the 19th century and later elected member of the California State Assembly. The ranch was known as the Home of Ramona because it was widely believed to have been the setting of the popular 1884 novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson. The novel helped to raise awareness about the Californio lifestyle and romanticized "the mission and rancho era of California history."
The working ranch is a prime example of an early California rancho in its original rural setting. It was the source of the first commercially grown oranges in Ventura County. It is one of the few remaining citrus growers in Southern California.
State Route 126 bisects the property, with most of the main buildings located south of the highway, and a few buildings on the north. The main adobe is one of the few extant Spanish Colonial buildings left in the state. Most of the other buildings are done in Mission Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival styles, both of which are derivatives of the original.
Rancho Camulos is designated a National Historic Landmark, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and has also been designated as a California Historical Landmark. Many of the buildings and grounds are open to the public as a museum of this period in California history. |
Linda de Vries | Dutch speed skater | Linda de Vries (born 4 February 1988) is a Dutch former speed skater. She finished third in the Women's 1500 metres event at the 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships and twice (in 2012 and 2013) fourth at the World All-Round Speed Skating Championships.
Her parents, Margriet Pomper and Jan de Vries, were also speed skaters. |
Nevşehir Province | Province of Turkey | Nevşehir Province (, from the Persian compound نو شهر Now-shahr meaning "new city") is a province in central Turkey with its capital in Nevşehir. Its adjacent provinces are Kırşehir to the northwest, Aksaray to the southwest, Niğde to the south, Kayseri to the southeast, and Yozgat to the northeast. Nevşehir includes the area called Cappadocia - a tourist attraction in Turkey. The town of Göreme is also located in Nevşehir.
Cappadocia once included the area now covered by this province. This province is notable for the fairy chimneys of Göreme, the Ortahisar (middle fortress), a number of old churches from the Byzantine period. |
Lygosoma angeli | Species of lizard | Angel's writhing skink (Lygosoma angeli) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia. |
The Runners (Urban Wall) | Mural by James McQuiston in Indianapolis, Indiana | The Runners was an outdoor mural by architect James McQuiston located on the east side of the annex to the Barnes and Thornburg Building (originally the downtown Indianapolis Woolworth's location) at 7 E. Washington Street in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The mural occupied the east wall of this five-story commercial building. The mural was the result of a 1975 contest sponsored by the Urban Walls Task force of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee and the Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation. |
Halina Krzyżanowska | Polish-French pianist and composer | Halina Krzyżanowska (1860, Paris–1937, Rennes) was an internationally renowned Polish-French pianist and composer. |
Berzerk (video game) | Arcade video game | Berzerk is a multidirectional shooter maze game, released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Berzerk places the player in a series of top-down, maze-like rooms containing armed robots. Frenzy is a more advanced 1982 sequel. |
Branko Baković | Serbian footballer | Branko Baković (; born 31 August 1981) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. |
Frederik Ferdinand Friis | Danish architect | Frederik Ferdinand Friis (16 December 1793 - 18 March 1865) was a Danish architect, professor and Royal Building Inspector. His most important work is the Horsens State Prison. |
Isonandra | Genus of flowering plants | Isonandra is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae found in tropical Asia, described as a genus in 1840. Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 2(1): 4-5 in English Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 2(1): plates 359 and 360 line drawings as illustrationsTropicos, Isonandra Wight
Isonandra is native to India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Borneo.
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Sail Away (musical) | Musical by Noël Coward | Sail Away is a musical with a book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The show was the last musical for which Coward wrote both the book and music, although he wrote the music for one last "book" musical in 1963. The story centres on brash, bold American divorcee Mimi Paragon, working as a hostess on a British cruise ship. The musical ran on Broadway (1961) and in the West End (1962) and has been revived since. |
Bjarne Fjærtoft | Norwegian politician | Bjarne Fjærtoft (7 November 1899 – 28 August 1981) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
He was born in Jondal.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in 1954, and was re-elected on one occasion.
Fjærtoft held various positions in Ålesund city council from 1947 to 1955, serving as mayor in 1950–1951.
Outside politics he worked as a jurist, most notably as stipendiary magistrate (byfogd) in from 1946 to 1969, having graduated as cand.jur. in 1924. He was also involved in the local fish trade. |
Mafille Woedikou | Togolese footballer | Afi Apeafa Woedikou (born 15 July 1994), known as Mafille Woedikou, is a Togolese footballer who plays as a forward for French Division 2 Féminine club FF Yzeure Allier Auvergne and the Togo women's national team. |
Yaser Ba-Matraf | Yemeni taekwondo practitioner | Saddam Yaser Ba-Matraf (born April 1, 1993) is a Yemeni Taekwondo practitioner. He won the silver medal in the men's bantamweight (under 63 kg) category at the 2012 Asian Taekwondo Championships. |
Challhua | Mountain in Peru | Challhua (possibly from Quechua for "fish"),Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) Wiksu or Huicsu (both names possibly from Quechua for "twisted, bent") is a mountain in the southern Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about high (IGN Peru map cites an elevation of ). Challhua is located in the Ancash Region, Bolognesi Province, Aquia District and in the Recuay Province, Catac District.http://escale.minedu.gob.pe/documents/10156/1367926/ugel_bolognesi.pdf - UGEL map of the Bolognesi Province (Ancash Region)John Biggar, The Andes: A Guide for Climbers, see sketch map on p. 90 It is situated northeast of Caullaraju, west of Pastu Ruri and Tuco and south of Santun. One of the nearest places is the village of Wicso, located next to Callan creek, west of the mountain. This creek flows to the Pumapampa River, a right affluent of the Santa River. |
Richard Barnes (cricketer) | Australian cricketer | Richard Barnes (1849 - 30 April 1902) was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class matches between 1870 and 1873, one for Tasmania and one for the Rest of Australia XI. |
Jean-François Humbert | French politician | Jean-François Humbert (born 17 October 1952) is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Doubs department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.
In the 2004 Franche-Comté regional election, he solicited reelection as President of Franche-Comté but was defeated by Socialist Raymond Forni.
On 21 September 2008 he was narrowly reelected as Senator.
On 17 October 2009 he announced that he would challenge Socialist President Marie-Marguerite Dufay and UMP candidate Alain Joyandet in the 2010 Franche-Comté regional election. Nine days later, he resigned the Presidency of UMP Group in the Regional Council. |
David Lang (American football) | American football player (1967–2005) | David Lang (March 28, 1967 – May 21, 2005) was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Northern Arizona University. |
2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka | Attacks directed against Christian churches | The 2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka refer to the wave of attacks directed against Christian churches and prayer halls in the Indian city of Mangalore and the surrounding area of southern Karnataka in September and October 2008 by Hindu nationalist organisations, Bajrang Dal and the Sri Ram Sena. The attacks were widely perceived by Christians in southern Karnataka to be punishment from right-wing Hindu nationalist organisations because they had been outspoken about 2008 anti-Christian attacks in Orissa, and also because the New Life Fellowship Trust (NLFT), a non-denominational Christian Church, was alleged by Bajrang Dal to be responsible for forced conversions of Hindus to Christianity.
Several isolated incidents against Christians were reported from 17 August onwards, and on 29 August some 45,000 institutions across India participated in a "prayer for peace and communal harmony" in response to the ongoing anti-Christian violence in Orissa. St Aloysius College (Mangalore) and some other 2000 Christian schools in Karnataka went on strike for varying periods between 29 August and the 5 September prior to the attacks, protesting against the attacks in Orissa, in defiance of the orders of the government who stated that it was to be a regular work day. This led to government denouncement of the Christian institutions in the state for disobeying orders and led to a Bajrang Dal demonstration outside the St Aloysius College, two weeks prior to the main attacks. The attacks began on 14 September, when a group of youths from the Bajrang Dal went inside the chapel of Adoration Monastery of the Sisters of St-Clare near the Milagres Church in Hampankatta and desecrated it. Some 20 churches or prayer halls, including Catholic and Protestant churches and temples belonging to the Jehovah’s Witnesses and other evangelical sects, and colleges were damaged in towns and villages in the Mangalore taluk and other parts of Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district and Chikkamagaluru district. A few Christian institutions were later attacked in Bangalore and Kasaragod district. Out of frustration and anger, the Christian community responded to the attacks within hours and began protesting. In Karkala, the Catholics of Karkala deanery staged a protest on 15 September and organised a 3 kilometre silent protest march. The protestors blocked arterial city roads in their masses, especially in places such as Hampankatta, Kulshekar, Bejai, Derebail and Thokottu and rang bells in almost all the churches of Mangalore, calling parishioners to their churches. The protests led to strong police suppression with lathi charges and tear gas, making around 150 arrests and injuring 30 to 40 people. Violence broke out at the Adoration monastery as police began caning the protestors with sticks and bursting teargas shells, in return the protesters pelted stones at police, and the police pelted the stones back at them. In another place the police were pelted with stones for their failure to arrest the perpetrators of the attacks. Between 15 September and 10 October, a new wave of anti-minority attacks began against Christian communities in the Indian states of Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, New Delhi, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand, as well as Muslim communities in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
The September 2008 attacks had political significance, given that the ruling BJP Karnataka state government, led by BS Yeddyurappa, were also accused of involvement and backing the anti-Christian campaigns and that the police were reported to have had knowledge of the imminent attacks but failed to prevent them. The police were criticised for their reaction to the protests and a report by a committee of human rights activists set up in the aftermath to examine the causes of the attacks claimed that they had used the event as a pretext to assault the community, rather than defend it. Justice B. K. Somasekhara of Karnataka, however, concluded that the police and government helped maintain order and were not responsible for the attacks. In response to the alleged forcible conversions of involvement, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) gave a three-month deadline for New Life Fellowship Trust (NLFT) to stop all conversion activities in Mangalore. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore declared that it would distance itself from the New Life Fellowship Trust.
In February 2011, retired Justice MF Saldanha of the Bombay High Court, was outspoken and published a report in which he described the attacks as "state-sponsored terrorism", and that the attacks were part of "communal forces" at work attacking Christian institutions on the coastal belt of India. The report and continued denial by the state government of being implicated in the attacks led to more than 100,000 Christians representing some 45 Christian denominations and secular organisations leading a silent march in Mangalore on 21 February. Following the publications of the reports and subsequent protests, the government of Karnataka announced that it would drop 338 cases against Christians who had protested in the attack, and in December 2011 a further 23 cases against Christians were dropped. |
Estée Lauder (businesswoman) | American businesswoman (1906–2004) | Estée Lauder ( ; ; July 1, 1908 – April 24, 2004) was an American businesswoman. She co-founded her eponymous cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauter (later Lauder). Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.Timothy Williams, Gates Among Time's Top 20 20th-Century Business Titans Seattle Times, November 30, 1998 |
Laia Forcadell | Spanish sprinter and hurdler | Laia Forcadell Arenas (born June 6, 1982 in Tortosa, Tarragona, Catalonia) is a female Spanish sprinter and hurdler. She won the gold medal for the 400 m hurdles at the 2006 Ibero-American Championships in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and bronze at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain.
Forcadell represented Spain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 400 m hurdles. She ran in the fourth heat against six other athletes, including Poland's Anna Jesień and Czech Republic's Zuzana Hejnová, who were both considered top medal contenders in this event. She finished the race in last place by eighty-eight hundredths of a second (0.88) behind Trinidad and Tobago's Josanne Lucas, with a time of 58.64 seconds. Forcadell failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed twenty-sixth overall, and was ranked farther below three mandatory slots for the next round.
Forcadell is a member of ISS L'Hospitalet Track Club in Barcelona, Spain, being coached and trained by Armando Álvarez Anaya. |
Marko Došen | Croatian politician (1859–1944) | Marko Došen (7 July 1859 – 7 September 1944) was a writer, who later became a Croatian Ustaše politician. |
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association | High school sports association | The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) is an association of hundreds of New Jersey high schools that regulates high school athletics and holds tournaments and crowns champions in high school sports. |
South Central Avenue Historic District | Historic district in Maryland, United States | South Central Avenue Historic District is a national historic district in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It contains brick two- and three-story industrial and residential buildings reflecting over 150 years of utilitarian adaptation of buildings and space. The district includes early 19th century rowhouses, late 19th century and early 20th century manufacturing and warehouse buildings, gas stations, stables, car barns, commercial/residential buildings, and corner stores. Several larger buildings are the Bagby Furniture Company Building (4 stories), the Strauss Malt House (5 stories), and the Alameda School. Many rowhouses have been covered with formstone.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. |
Pseudochirulus | Genus of marsupials | Slender ringtail possum or Small ringtail possum (Pseudochirulus), also known as the ringtail possum, is a genus of marsupial in the family Pseudocheiridae native to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Queensland, Australia. Pseudochirulus live on trees and their diet mainly consists of leaves. The ringtail possums are related to five other genera Hemibelideus, Petauroides, Petropseudes, Pseudocheirus and Pseudochirops. |
War of Saint Sabas | Conflict between the city-states of Venice and Genoa over the city of Acre from 1256-70 | The War of Saint Sabas (1256–1270) was a conflict between the rival Italian maritime republics of Genoa (aided by Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre, John of Arsuf, and the Knights Hospitaller) and Venice (aided by the Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, John of Ibelin, and the Knights Templar), over control of Acre, in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. |
Willie Simms | American jockey | Willie Simms (January 16, 1870 – February 26, 1927) was an American National Champion jockey in Thoroughbred racing and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who won five of the races that would become the U.S. Triple Crown series.
An African American, Simms began racing in 1887 and was one of the most successful jockeys using the short-stirrup style (which gave the rider a crouching posture). En route to winning the United States riding title in 1893 and 1894, Simms won back-to-back Belmont Stakes. On August 17, 1894, Willie Simms won the first five races at Jerome Park Racetrack and finished second in the sixth and last race of the day. All five of Simms' winners were trained by Hardy Campbell Jr.
In 1895, the Boston Post reported Willie Simms was among the elite jockeys and was earning more than $10,500 a year. (US$315,548 in 2018) That year he raced in England, where he became the first American jockey to win with an American horse in that country.
Back in the United States, Simms won the 1896 Kentucky Derby in its first running at 1¼ miles on Ben Brush. He repeated as the Derby winner in 1898, aboard Plaudit. Before the advent of the term "Triple Crown" and the importance of the U.S. Triple Crown series, Simms went on to take the Preakness Stakes a few weeks later on a different horse, Sly Fox. He is the only African American jockey to win all three Triple Crown races.
During his 14-year career, Willie Simms rode some of the great Thoroughbred racehorses of the day such as two-time American Horse of the Year, Henry of Navarre.
Willie Simms finished his riding career with 1,125 wins and in 1977 was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
His name was frequently misspelled as "Sims" by media of his era. |
Royal Never Give Up | Chinese esports organization | Royal Never Give Up (RNG) is a Chinese esports organization whose League of Legends team competes in the League of Legends Pro League. It was established in May 2015. RNG won the 2016 LPL Spring Playoffs, 2018 LPL Spring Playoffs and 2018 LPL Summer Playoffs, and is the champion of the 2018, 2021, and 2022 Mid-Season Invitational. Its sister team is Royal Club. The organization also has a Dota 2 team, which participated in The International 2019. |
Anosognosia | Unawareness of one's own illness, symptoms or impairments | Anosognosia is a condition in which a person with a disability is cognitively unaware of having it due to an underlying physical or psychological (e.g., PTSD, Stockholm syndrome, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dementia) condition. Anosognosia can result from physiological damage to brain structures, typically to the parietal lobe or a diffuse lesion on the fronto-temporal-parietal area in the right hemisphere,
and is thus a neuropsychiatric disorder. A deficit of self-awareness, it was first named by the neurologist Joseph Babinski in 1914.
Phenomenologically, anosognosia has similarities to denial, which is a psychological defense mechanism; attempts have been made at a unified explanation.
Anosognosia is sometimes accompanied by asomatognosia, a form of neglect in which patients deny ownership of body parts such as their limbs. The term is from Ancient Greek ἀ- a-, 'without', νόσος nosos, 'disease' and γνῶσις gnōsis, 'knowledge'. It is also considered a disorder that makes the treatment of the patient more difficult, since it may affect negatively the therapeutic relationship. |
Yiddish theatre | Genre in theater | Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and modernist plays. At its height, its geographical scope was comparably broad: from the late 19th century until just before World War II, professional Yiddish theatre could be found throughout the heavily Jewish areas of Eastern and East Central Europe, but also in Berlin, London, Paris, Buenos Aires and New York City.
Yiddish theatre's roots include the often satiric plays traditionally performed during religious holiday of Purim (known as Purimshpils); other masquerades such as the Dance of Death; the singing of cantors in the synagogues; Jewish secular song and dramatic improvisation; exposure to the theatre traditions of various European countries, and the Jewish literary culture that had grown in the wake of the Jewish enlightenment (Haskalah).
Israil Bercovici wrote that it is through Yiddish theatre that "Jewish culture entered in dialogue with the outside world," both by putting itself on display and by importing theatrical pieces from other cultures.Bercovici, 1998, 103.
Themes such as immigration, poverty, integration, and strong ancestral ties can be found in many Yiddish theatre productions. |
Lithoxus lithoides | Species of fish | Lithoxus lithoides is a species of armored catfish native to Guyana and Suriname where it is found in stony rivulets of the Essequibo and upper Correntyne River basins. It can be found clinging to rocks in rapidly moving water. This species grows to a length of SL. |
Nicholas County, West Virginia | County in West Virginia, United States | Nicholas County is a county located in the central region of U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,604. Its county seat is Summersville. The county was created in 1818 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor Wilson Cary Nicholas. |
Parental alienation syndrome | Purported childhood mental disorder | Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is a term introduced by child psychiatrist Richard Gardner in 1985 to describe signs and symptoms he believed to be exhibited by children who have been alienated from one parent through manipulation by the other parent. Proposed symptoms included extreme but unwarranted fear, and disrespect or hostility towards a parent. Gardner believed that a set of behaviors that he observed in some families involved in child custody litigation could be used to diagnose psychological manipulation or undue influence of a child by a parent, typically by the other parent who may be attempting to prevent an ongoing relationship between a child and other family members after family separation or divorce. Use of the term "syndrome" has not been accepted by either the medical or legal communities and Gardner's research has been broadly criticized by legal and mental health scholars for lacking scientific validity and reliability. |
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Single-Question Screen | Screening for dream enactment behaviors | The REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Single-Question Screen (RBD1Q) is a one-question screening tool for dream enactment behaviors associated with the parasomnia REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). It screens for RBD with a simple yes/no response. |
Alison Hughes | British tennis umpire | Alison Dorothy Hughes (née Lang; born 1971/1972) is a British tennis umpire who has umpired in multiple women's Grand Slam tennis finals, as well as in the Davis Cup, Fed Cup and at the 2004, 2008, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. |
Riaz Ahmed | Pakistani field hockey player | Riaz Ahmed (born 11 September 1941) is a Pakistani field hockey player. He won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. |
Kateřina Valková | Czech volleyball player | Kateřina Valková (born 6 February 1996) is a Czech volleyball player, a member of the German club VfB 91 Suhl.Kateřina Valková komplettiert Wolfsrudel – http://1.bundesliga.vfb-suhl.de – 31-07-2019 |
1950 Wollondilly state by-election | Election result for Wollondilly, New South Wales, Australia | A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Wollondilly on 23 January 1950 because of the resignation of Jeff Bate () to successfully contest the federal seat of Macarthur at the 1949 election. |
Stane Šporn | Yugoslav long-distance runner | Stane Šporn (born 1 April 1904, date of death unknown) was a Yugoslav long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1936 Summer Olympics. |
Recall of facts | Education value | Recall of facts is a value of education which is to be de-emphasized in reform of science according to new American national curriculum standards. Recall facts is often associated with rote learning. |
Hans Krása | Czech composer (1899–1944) | Hans Krása (30 November 1899 – 17 October 1944) was a Czech composer, murdered during the Holocaust at Auschwitz. He helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp. |
Gustavo Palafox | Mexican tennis player | Gustavo Palafox (15 November 1923 – 21 August 2006) was a Mexican tennis player.ITF Pro Circuit Profile |
Sotirios Zarianopoulos | Greek politician | Sotirios Zarianopoulos (; 1961) is a Greek communist politician. He was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the 2014 European elections for the Communist Party of Greece. |
CANDU reactor | Canadian heavy water nuclear reactor design | The CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power. The acronym refers to its deuterium oxide (heavy water) moderator and its use of (originally, natural) uranium fuel. CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, Canadian General Electric, and other companies.
There have been two major types of CANDU reactors, the original design of around 500 MWe that was intended to be used in multi-reactor installations in large plants, and the rationalized CANDU 6 in the 600 MWe class that is designed to be used in single stand-alone units or in small multi-unit plants. CANDU 6 units were built in Quebec and New Brunswick, as well as Pakistan, Argentina, South Korea, Romania, and China. A single example of a non-CANDU 6 design was sold to India. The multi-unit design was used only in Ontario, Canada, and grew in size and power as more units were installed in the province, reaching ~880 MWe in the units installed at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station. An effort to rationalize the larger units in a fashion similar to CANDU 6 led to the CANDU 9.
By the early 2000s, sales prospects for the original CANDU designs were dwindling due to the introduction of newer designs from other companies. AECL responded by cancelling CANDU 9 development and moving to the Advanced CANDU reactor (ACR) design. ACR failed to find any buyers; its last potential sale was for an expansion at Darlington, but this was cancelled in 2009. In October 2011, the Canadian Federal Government licensed the CANDU design to Candu Energy (a wholly owned subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin), which also acquired the former reactor development and marketing division of AECL at that time. Candu Energy offers support services for existing sites and is completing formerly stalled installations in Romania and Argentina through a partnership with China National Nuclear Corporation. SNC Lavalin, the successor to AECL, is pursuing new CANDU 6 reactor sales in Argentina (Atucha 3), as well as China and Britain. Sales effort for the ACR reactor has ended.
In 2017, a consultation with industry led Natural Resources Canada to establish a "SMR Roadmap" targeting the development of small modular reactors. In response, SNC-Lavalin has developed a 300 MWe SMR version of the CANDU, the CANDU SMR, which it has begun to highlight on their website. In 2020, the CANDU SMR was not selected for further design work for a Canadian demonstration project. SNC-Lavalin is still looking at marketing a 300 MW SMR in part due to projected demand due to climate change mitigation. |
José Luis Espinosa | Mexican boxer | José Luis Espinosa (born 19 January 1941) is a Mexican boxer. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. |
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The first USS Casco was the first of a class of twenty 1,175-ton light-draft monitors built by Atlantic Works, Boston, Massachusetts for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. |
P.T. Punnoose | Indian politician (1911-1971) | P. T. Punnoose (20 November 1911 – 1971) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Ambalapuzha in Kerala. |
Mabrya rosei | Species of flowering plant | Mabrya rosei is a mat-forming herbaceous perennial native to the Mexican states of Jalisco and Zacatecas. It has tubular flowers, whitish at the base and red to red-violet at the apex. It was first described by Philip A. Munz in 1926 in the genus Maurandya and transferred to Mabrya by Wayne J. Elisens in 1985. Munz did not explain the origin of the epithet rosei but listed the collector of the type specimen as Joseph Nelson Rose. |
Total Carnage | 1992 video game | Total Carnage is a multidirectional shooter arcade video game originally developed and published by Midway in North America in January 1992. Set in the fictional country of Kookistan during 1999, players assume the role of Captain Carnage and Major Mayhem from the Doomsday Squad in a last-ditch effort to overthrow dictator General Akhboob and his army of mutants from conquering the world, while also rescuing POWs held by his military force.
Total Carnage was created by most of the same team who previously worked on Williams' 1990 arcade game Smash TV and shares many gameplay elements. Initially released in arcades, the game was ported to the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari Jaguar, Game Boy, MS-DOS, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game has been ported to multiple compilations, such as Midway Arcade Treasures 2, Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition and Midway Arcade Origins.
The arcade version of Total Carnage received positive reception from critics, but it was not successful financially. The ports were met with mixed critical response. Designer Mark Turmell would go to work on the highly successful NBA Jam. |
Acanthanectes rufus | Species of fish | Acanthanectes rufus is a species of triplefin blenny. It was described by Holleman and Buxton, in 1993. It has been recorded from Tsitsikamma National Park to Cape Recife in South Africa. |
Michael Davies (cricketer) | English cricketer | Michael Davies (born 17 July 1976) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler.
Having spent three years prior to the beginning of his first-class career in Second XI cricket, playing for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Essex. Moving to First Class cricket, he played for Northamptonshire and the full Essex team in a four-year-long career. He then played for Essex CB in the Minor Counties Trophy of 2001 and played in the Essex Second XI before retiring. |
Maria Frisé | German journalist and author (1926–2022) | Maria Frisé (; 1 January 1926 – 31 July 2022) was a German journalist and author. Her journalistic work consisted primarily of features and reviews, covering the arts and fringe political issues. She was a member of the staff of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) from 1968 to 1991, working for the paper until her death. She was also the author of short stories, essays, poetry and autobiographical works about her childhood and family in Silesia. |
Ann Marie | American rapper and songwriter | Joann Marie Slater (born November 20, 1995), known professionally as Ann Marie, is an American singer signed to Interscope Records. She is best known for her single "Secret", which has garnered over 50 million views on YouTube and peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. Her debut EP Pretty Psycho was released on July 10, 2019. |
Iolanta | Opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Iolanta, Op. 69, ( ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play (King René's Daughter) by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated Gilbert and Sullivan operetta of that name.Henry Irving had produced a version of King René's Daughter in 1880, in London, under the name Iolanthe, so Gilbert asked his producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, to request Irving's permission to use the name. See Ainger, Michael. Gilbert and Sullivan – A Dual Biography, Oxford University Press (2002), p. 212; and Bradley, Ian. The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan, Oxford University Press (1996), p. 364 The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 in Saint Petersburg. |
Scythris bjoernstadi | Species of moth | Scythris bjoernstadi is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 2014. It is found in Tanzania.Afro Moths |
Régis Pasquier | French violinist | Régis Pasquier (born 12 October 1945) is a French violinist from a family of musicians. His father Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986), a violist and his uncles Jean (1903), a violinist, and Étienne (1905–1997), a cellist, had founded a string trio, le Trio Pasquier. His brother Bruno Pasquier is a violist. |
Deuterocopus deltoptilus | Species of plume moth | Deuterocopus deltoptilus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Uganda. |
Dark Interlude (1947 novel) | 1947 novel | Dark Interlude is a 1947 spy thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.Reilly p.300 It features a British secret agent Shaun Aloysius O'Mara and his superior Quale, a recurring figure in Cheyney's novels.Panek p.174 |
1656 in literature | Overview of the events of 1656 in literature | This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1656. |
Noovo | Canadian French-language television network | Noovo is a Canadian French-language terrestrial television network owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. The network has five owned-and-operated and three affiliated stations throughout Quebec, although it can also be seen over-the-air in some bordering markets in the provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick. It can also be received in some other parts of Canada on cable television or direct broadcast satellite.
The network was launched in 1986 as Télévision Quatre-Saisons (TQS), and was known by that name until Remstar, which had bought the network in 2008, renamed it V on August 31, 2009."TQS enterrée: place à «V»" . La Presse, August 19, 2009. It was the namesake and flagship property of V Media Group (now known as Remstar Media Group), a separate company majority-owned by Remstar owner Maxime Rémillard (partially through Remstar). V was acquired by Bell Media in May 2020, after which it was renamed Noovo on August 31, 2020. The name "Noovo" is a stylized phonetic spelling of "nouveau", the French word for "new". |
Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the 20th century | None | Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents. The right to vote is exempted from the timeline: for that right, see Timeline of women's suffrage. The timeline also excludes ideological changes and events within feminism and antifeminism: for that, see Timeline of feminism. |
Maxwell relations | Equations involving the partial derivatives of thermodynamic quantities | Maxwell's relations are a set of equations in thermodynamics which are derivable from the symmetry of second derivatives and from the definitions of the thermodynamic potentials. These relations are named for the nineteenth-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. |
Reginald Pound | English journalist and biographer | Reginald Pound (11 November 1894 – 20 May 1991) was an English journalist and biographer. He began contributing to newspapers and magazines during the First World War, while serving in the army. After the war he freelanced - his clients including The Radio Times - until the mid-1920s, when he was appointed literary editor of The Daily Express. In the 1930s he was features editor of The Daily Mail. At the beginning of the Second World War he served in the Ministry of Information and then the BBC. In 1942 he was appointed to his last editorial position, as editor of The Strand Magazine."Reginald Pound", The Times, 28 May 1991, p. 14
The first of his biographies, a life of Arnold Bennett, was published in 1952, and paid close attention to Bennett's journalism as well as his fiction.Koenigsberger, Kurt. "Bennett, Arnold", The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2020 The Times records that Pound had met Bennett several times and "admired his no-nonsense approach to the craft of letters". Pound was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1953. His second biography, the official life of Lord Northclife, written in collaboration with Northcliffe's nephew Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, was published in 1959."Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth", The Times, 25 October 198, p. 16 His later biographies included those of Alfred Munnings (1962),"Books Reviewed", The Illustrated London News, 3 November 1962, p. 722 Robert Falcon Scott (1966), Henry Wood (1969), Queen Victoria (1970), Albert, Prince Consort (1973) and A. P. Herbert (1976).
In 1916 Pound married Cicely Margaret Dawes (d. 1985 ); they had seven children. He died on 20 May 1991 aged 96. |
The Viper of Milan | 1906 novel | The Viper of Milan is a 1906 historical novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen.Vinson p.90 Written when she was sixteen it received a number of rejections from publishers before its eventual publication. It proved a bestseller and launched her on a prolific career involving many popular successes. It is set in Renaissance Italy during the fourteenth century. It portrays the relentless rivalry between Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan and Mastino della Scala, a dispossessed ruler of Verona.
It was republished in 1960 with a foreword by Graham Greene. |
Line 1 (Wuhan Metro) | Line of Wuhan Metro | The Line 1 of Wuhan Metro () is an elevated metro line in the city of Wuhan, Hubei. It is the longest continuous metro viaduct in the world. Line 1 opened on 28 July 2004, making Wuhan the fifth city in mainland China to have a metro system after Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou.(English) "Urbanrail—Wuhan Apr. 9, 2011 This is the first Metro line in China incorrectly referred to as a light rail () line in Chinese terminology because it is elevated.Wuhan, along with other three Chinese cities, has been the first batch to be approved to build so-called "light rail" system in China since 2000, see . However, Changchun built a true light-rail system, Dalian built a metro-style commuter rail system (and is referred to as , not " "), and Chongqing opted for a monorail system, whereas Wuhan was the only one to build an elevated metro system. See "Urbanrail—Wuhan" and affiliated Wikipedia pages. See also a comment from He Jibin, an Urban Planning official from Wuhan Municipality: "Do not assume only underground lines are metro, Line 1 is also a type of metro..." () Originally a branch line was planned to cross the Yangtze to Wuchang District via the Second Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. The Second Wuhan River Bridge even had a provision in the central median where Line 1 trains would run in anticipation for the branch line when it opened in 1995. However by 2003 the reservation was removed to allow for more traffic lanes when the bridge was undergoing renovation. |
2020 Milano–Torino | 101st edition of the Milano–Torino cycling classic | The 2020 Milano–Torino was the 101st edition of the Milano–Torino cycling classic. It was held on 5 August 2020 and was rated as a 1.Pro event on the 2020 UCI Europe Tour and 2020 UCI ProSeries. Unlike previous editions of the race, which were more suited for climbers and puncheurs, this year's edition was mostly flat and favored the sprinters. The race, which started in Mesero and finished in Stupinigi, was won by French rider Arnaud Démare of . |
Juan D. Reyes | American lawyer | Juan de Dios Reyes, III (born March 12, 1968, in Bronx, New York) is a Republican politician and attorney in New York City. |
The Black Swan (Sabatini novel) | 1932 novel by Rafael Sabatini | The Black Swan is a 1932 British historical adventure novel by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. Like the author's earlier Captain Blood, it focuses on piracy in the seventeenth century Caribbean. |
Tennis at the 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games | None | Tennis at the 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games was held at the King Fahd Sporting City, Ta'if from April 12 to April 19, 2005. |
Aughnanure Castle | 16th century castle in Ireland | Aughnanure Castle (Caisleán Achadh na nlubhar in Irish) is a tower house in Oughterard, County Galway, Ireland. It is situated in the west of Ireland. It was built by the O' Flaherty's in the 16th century. |
Allison-Robinson House | Historic house in Indiana, United States | Allison-Robinson House, also known as the John C. Robinson House, is a historic home located at Spencer, Owen County, Indiana. It was built between about 1855 and 1860, and is a two-story, "L"-plan, frame vernacular Greek Revival style I-house. It has a central passage plan and medium pitched roof. The front facade features a central two-story, one-bay entrance portico with fluted Doric order columns. Also on the property is a contributing section of retaining wall. Note: This includes and Accompanying photographs.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. |
Darren Walker (cricketer) | Australian cricketer | Darren Walker (born 8 June 1966) is an Australian former cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1988. |
Croton ciliatoglandulifer | Species of plant | Croton ciliatoglandulifer, known as the bush croton or Mexican croton, is a plant species of the genus Croton. |
Good Vibrations (sex shop) | Sex-positive American company selling sex toys and other erotic products | Good Vibrations is a sex-positive San Francisco-basedLBR-2016-17-041 - Office of Small Business corporation selling sex toys and other erotic products. It operates nine retail stores: seven in the San Francisco Bay Area, one in Brookline, Massachusetts, and one in Harvard Square; a mail-order business; an e-commerce website; a wholesale arm; and an erotic-video production company, Good Releasing. Formerly, it operated three publishing companies: Down There Press, Passion Press and Sexpositive Productions. |
Highland School District (Arkansas) | School district in Arkansas, United States | Highland School District is a public school district based in Highland, Arkansas, United States. The school district encompasses of land including portions of Sharp County and Fulton County communities including Hardy, Highland, Ash Flat, Horseshoe Bend, Williford, and Cherokee Village."AGENDA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION May 10, 2010." Arkansas Board of Education. On PDF p. 89/172 there is a map showing the reallocation of Twin Rivers territory to the successor school districts in 2010. This map was prepared by GIS Program Manager Learon Dalby and released on April 5, 2010."SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Sharp County, AR." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on May 26, 2018. Note this map reflects the status before the dissolution of the Twin Rivers School District."SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Fulton County, AR." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on May 26, 2018.
The district proves comprehensive education for kindergarten through grade 12 is accredited by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE). |
Volunteer Park (Seattle) | Park in Seattle, Washington, U.S. | Volunteer Park is a park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. |
Dylan Ragolle | Belgian footballer | Dylan Ragolle (born 11 May 1994) is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for Dender EH. |
Rafael Delgado (footballer) | Argentine professional footballer | Rafael Marcelo Delgado (born 13 January 1990) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Club Atlético Colón. |
Bernd Helmschrot | German footballer | Bernd Helmschrot (born 18 March 1947) is a former German footballer. He played as a goalkeeper.
Helmschrot began his career with Hannover 96 and made his professional debut for the club in a 2-2 draw with Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga on 17 February 1968. He remained as Hannover's first-choice goalkeeper for the next nine months, but after losing his position due to injury, he struggled to re-establish himself in the starting line-up. In 1968, he toured east Asia with the West Germany amateur international squad, making two appearances. He left Hannover in 1971 for TSV 1860 München, where he was managed by former West Germany international goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski.
Helmschrot went on to play for Kickers Offenbach, Olympia Wilhelmshaven, Viktoria Köln and Fortuna Köln, for whom he played in the 1983 final of the DFB cup, which his team lost 1-0 to local rivals 1. FC Köln. After retiring in 1987 he worked as an advertising manager. |
Rignac, Aveyron | Commune in Occitanie, France | Rignac (; Languedocien: Rinhac) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. |
Boardwalk Hotel and Casino | Hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada | The Boardwalk Hotel and Casino was a Coney Island-style hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. It was owned and operated by MGM Mirage. It was part of the Holiday Inn hotel chain until it was acquired by MGM in 2000. It was built before the era of the mega-casinos, and with 653 rooms was relatively small compared to many properties in its vicinity.
The Boardwalk was located in between the Bellagio and the Monte Carlo and across from the Paris, Aladdin and MGM Grand.
The hotel's Coney Island theme could be seen in its facade with an original 1906 parachute jump ride and a faux wooden roller coaster. The hotel was composed of three distinct buildings all built at different times. The newest building was the sixteen-story tower built in 1996. |
Pattabiram | Neighborhood in Chennai, India | Pattabiram (), which is pronounced as 'Pattaabhiraam', is a locality in Avadi and neighbourhood situated on the western part of Chennai (formerly known as Madras), Tamil Nadu, in India. The suburb, which falls under Avadi Municipal Corporation, is about 25 km from the Chennai Central railway station. |