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Anya Taranda | American actress | Anya Taranda (January 1, 1915 – March 9, 1970) was an American model, showgirl, actress and wife of composer Harold Arlen. |
Stenoplastis flavinigra | Species of moth | Stenoplastis flavinigra is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found from Choco in north-western Colombia south to Pichincha in Ecuador. It occurs at low to mid elevations between 100 and 1,000 meters.
It is the smallest species in the genus Stenoplastis. |
Cookers | 2001 film by Dan Mintz | Cookers is an American horror film directed by Dan Mintz which was released in 2001. The film is about two drug users who hide out in an abandoned farmhouse to prepare a huge batch of crystal meth, only to be tormented by terrifying visions. |
Via Brasil Linhas Aéreas | Brazilian airline | Via Brasil Linhas Aéreas was a Brazilian charter airline founded in 1999. It ceased operations in 2002. |
Hristo Nikolov-Choko | Bulgarian footballer | Hristo Nikolov-Choko () (born 3 September 1939 in Varna) is a retired Bulgarian football player. Nikolov was a central forward.
He played with PFC Spartak Varna and earned 167 caps in the Bulgarian first division, scoring 48 goals. |
Hydrogen tanker | Tank ship designed for transporting liquefied hydrogen. | A hydrogen tanker is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied hydrogen. |
Dierogekko inexpectatus | Species of lizard | Dierogekko inexpectatus also known as Key New Caledonian Gecko is a gecko endemic to Grande Terre in New Caledonia. |
1963 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles | Wimbledon 1963 | Nicholas Kalogeropoulos defeated Ismail El Shafei in the final, 6–4, 6–3 to win the boys' singles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championships. |
Whaddon Niewoudt | South African athlete | Whaddon Niewoudt (born 6 January 1970) is a South African middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Later in his career, Niewoudt participated in road events as well; he was part of the South African team at the 2000 Chiba Ekiden marathon relay, helping the team finish in 2nd place. |
Astrothelium curvisporum | Species of lichen | Astrothelium curvisporum is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae. Found in Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by lichenologists André Aptroot and Marcela Cáceres. The type specimen was collected by the authors in the Parque Natural Municipal de Porto Velho (Porto Velho, Rondônia), in a primary rainforest. The lichen has a smooth and somewhat shiny, olive-green to olive-brown thallus that lacks a prothallus and covers areas of up to in diameter. The presence of the lichen does not induce the formation of galls in the host. The ascomata are more or less spherical (globose), measuring 0.8–1.2 mm in diameter, and typically occur in groups of 3 to 15, usually immersed in . The species epithet curvisporum refers to the curved ascospores (measuring 115–135 by 29–36 μm), which have five septa that divide the spore into distinct compartments. The spores have a thick gelatinous layer that is 17–22 μm thick. No lichen products were detected in collected samples of the species using thin-layer chromatography. The characteristics that distinguish A. curvisporum from other members of Astrothelium include its grouped ascomata and its curved ascospores. |
Dolvett Quince | US entrepreneur, fitness model, actor, and personal trainer | Dolvett Quince (born August 20, 1973) is an American entrepreneur, fitness model, actor, and personal trainer. He became widely known for his role as a trainer on the American version of The Biggest Loser from season 12 to season 17. |
Hiis (sacred site) | Sacred place | A hiis is a term in Estonian used to denote a sacred natural site, often a tree covered hilltop. |
CBCV-FM | CBC Radio One station in Victoria, British Columbia | CBCV-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network in Victoria, British Columbia, and throughout Vancouver Island, the Southern Gulf Islands, and the Sunshine Coast. It also reaches out to parts of Washington north of Everett, but is harder to listen to because of KSER on 90.7.
It was the most listened to radio station in the Victoria Market in the Fall 2018 Numeris Diary Survey.http://assets.numeris.ca/Downloads/2018_Fall_Radio_DI_TopLineReports.pdf |
Negative pH (band) | American electronic music band | Negative pH is an electronic music band from Oakland, California, that formed in 2000. The two band members met through Mp3.com in mid-1999. Joshua Fanene and Micheal Bailey co-write the band's songs with influences including Nine Inch Nails, Pendulum, Ennio Morricone, Ozzy Osbourne, Pitchshifter, and Aphex Twin. The band has four albums including liminal space, which was self-released in 2004, OVRMND, 201X and 201Y. They have been featured in both local and national publications like Hyperactive Magazine issue #7. |
Corporate entertainment | Events held by corporations or businesses | Corporate entertainment describes private events held by corporations or businesses for their staff, clients or stakeholders. These events can be for large audiences such as conventions and conferences, or smaller events such as retreats, holiday parties or even private concerts.
It is also commonly used to mean corporate hospitality, the process of entertaining guests at corporate events.
The companies that provide corporate entertainment are called corporate event planners or corporate booking agencies. |
James Barbour (lawyer) | Confederate Army officer and american politician | James Barbour (February 26, 1828 – October 29, 1895) was a Virginia lawyer, planter, politician and Confederate officer. He represented Culpeper County, Virginia in the Virginia General Assembly, as well as in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and the Virginia secession convention of 1861. Barbour also served among Virginia's delegates to the 1860 Democratic National Convention, and as a major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. |
Ludvig Larsen | Norwegian sports shooter | Ludvig Olav Larsen (10 March 1883 – 31 January 1948) was a Norwegian rifle shooter who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. |
Ida Kraus Ragins | Russian-American biochemist | Ida Kraus Ragins, née Kraus (10 October 1894 – September 1985), was a Russian Empire-born American biochemist. |
Dendrobium gnomus | Species of orchid | Dendrobium gnomus is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to the Solomon Islands and the Santa Cruz Islands. It was first described in 1933 by Oakes Ames. |
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | 1933 song by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. The song was sung in the Broadway show by Tamara Drasin. Its first recorded performance was by Gertrude Niesen, who recorded the song with orchestral direction from Ray Sinatra, Frank Sinatra's second cousin, on October 13, 1933. Niesen's recording of the song was released by Victor, with the B-side, "Jealousy", featuring Isham Jones and his Orchestra.
Paul Whiteman had the first hit recording of the song on the record charts in 1934.
The song was reprised by Irene Dunne, who performed it in the 1935 film adaptation of the musical co-starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. The song was also included in the 1952 remake of Roberta, Lovely to Look At, in which it was performed by Kathryn Grayson, and was a number 1 chart hit in 1959 for The Platters. |
Serafin Quiason Jr. | Filipino scholar and historian | Serafin D. Quiason, Jr. (June 15, 1930 – August 13, 2016) was a Filipino scholar and historian. He was the former director National Library of the Philippines and Chairman of the National Historical Institute in the Philippines. He is one of the 1965 TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men) Awardees for History. |
Spaced armour | Armour with plates spaced a distanced apart | Armour with two or more plates spaced a distance apart falls under the category of spaced armour. Spaced armour can be sloped or unsloped. When sloped, it reduces the penetrating power of bullets and solid shot, as after penetrating each plate projectiles tend to tumble, deflect, deform, or disintegrate; spaced armour that is not sloped is generally designed to provide protection from explosive projectiles, which detonate before reaching the primary armour. Spaced armour is used on military vehicles such as tanks and combat bulldozers. In a less common application, it is used in some spacecraft that use Whipple shields. |
Viban Francis Bayong | Cameroonian former footballer | Viban Francis Bayong (born 28 December 1975) is a Cameroonian former footballer who last played for QAF of the Brunei Super League in 2010. He was top scorer for three consecutive seasons in the Brunei Premier League. |
Women's football in Egypt | Women's sport in Egypt | Football in Egypt has traditionally been played by men as women were prevented from participating in sports.
Madame Sahar El Hawari is one of the innovators of Egyptian football helping form the Egypt women's national football team and then going to the women's African cup of Nations. |
Michael Videira | American soccer player (born 1986) | Michael Videira (born 6 January 1986 in Milford, Massachusetts) is an American soccer player. |
Malakichthys elegans | Species of fish | Malakichthys elegans, the splendid sea bass, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acropomatidae. This fish is found in the Indo-Pacific region. |
Knower (duo) | American independent electronic music duo | Knower, also stylized as KNOWER, is an American independent electronic music duo who have gained success releasing music online. The group consists of Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi. Their full band is a jazz-funk act that includes saxophone, bass and keyboard players. |
Scone | Baked good | A scone is a baked good, usually made of either wheat or oatmeal with baking powder as a leavening agent, and baked on sheet pans. A scone is often slightly sweetened and occasionally glazed with egg wash. The scone is a basic component of the cream tea. It differs from teacakes and other types of sweets that are made with yeast. Scones were chosen as the Republic of Ireland representative for Café Europe during the Austrian Presidency of the European Union in 2006, while the United Kingdom chose shortbread. |
Germansweek | Village in Devon, England | Germansweek is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district, to the west of Okehampton in the county of Devon, England.
The place-name Germansweek is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Wica. It appears as Wyk in 1242 in the Book of Fees, and as Wyke in 1270 and Wyke Germyn in 1458 in the Feet of Fines. The 'week' element is the Old English 'wic', from the Latin 'vicus', meaning a farm or village. The 'Germans' element comes from the dedication of the church to St Germanus of Auxerre.Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.195. |
Jamuna Sen | Indian artist from Santiniketan | Jamuna Sen (née Bose) (Bengali: যমুনা সেন) (7 October 1912- 10 February 2001) was an Indian artist, known for her design work in a variety of mediums including Batik and Alpona as well as developing, in an Indian context, a variety of traditional crafts from across the world. She was a pioneer in establishing the practice of Batik (wax resist dying) in India in modern times. Daughter of Nandalal Bose, a central figure in modern Indian art, she was brought up in the artistic and intellectual milieu of Santiniketan and made significant contributions in the field of design. |
Aaron's rod | Staves carried by Moses's brother, Aaron, in the Torah | Aaron's rod refers to any of the walking sticks carried by Moses's brother, Aaron, in the Torah. The Bible tells how, along with Moses's rod, Aaron's rod was endowed with miraculous power during the Plagues of Egypt that preceded the Exodus. There are two occasions where the Bible tells of the rod's power. |
Andrea Duro | Spanish actress | Andrea Duro Flores (born 14 October 1991) is a Spanish actress. She is known for playing the lead role in the series Física o Química. |
Penguin Award | Australian broadcasting award | The Penguin Award is an annual award given for excellence in broadcasting by the Television Society of Australia. It was founded in 1954. The award trophy depicts an ear listening to a television tube, but strongly resembles a penguin, hence the name. The award was designed by Des White, an artist and designer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. |
Flirting with Danger | 1934 film directed by Vin Moore | Flirting with Danger is a 1934 American comedy adventure film directed by Vin Moore and starring Robert Armstrong, Edgar Kennedy and William Cagney (James Cagney's lookalike brother). The picture was released by Monogram Pictures and has a running time of 62 minutes. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Flirting with Danger |
Lubbock County, Texas | County in Texas, United States | Lubbock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 census placed the population at 310,639. Its county seat and largest city is Lubbock. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1891. It is named for Thomas Saltus Lubbock, a Confederate colonel and Texas Ranger (some sources give his first name as Thompson).
Lubbock County, along with Crosby County, and Lynn County, is part of the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The Lubbock MSA and Levelland Micropolitan Statistical Area, encompassing only Hockley County, form the larger Lubbock–Levelland Combined Statistical Area. |
Pongo hooijeri | Extinct species of primate | The Vietnamese orangutan (Pongo hooijeri) is an extinct species of orangutan from the Pleistocene of Vietnam. It was named in honor of paleontologist Dirk Albert Hooijer. Fossils of the ape were found in the Tham Hai Cave. It is unclear whether Pongo hooijeri is truly a distinct species or merely a Vietnamese population of one of the extant orangutan species. |
WPRI-TV | CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island | WPRI-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to dual Fox/CW affiliate WNAC-TV (channel 64) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mission Broadcasting. Both stations share studios on Catamore Boulevard in East Providence, Rhode Island, while WPRI-TV's transmitter is located on Pine Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. However, master control and some internal operations are based at Springfield, Massachusetts–licensed Nexstar sister station and NBC affiliate WWLP's studios in Chicopee. |
Frédéric Stilmant | Belgian footballer | Frédéric Stilmant (born 1 May 1979) is a Belgian football player who plays as a midfielder for URS Centre in the Belgian Second Division. |
Gross, Kansas | Unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas, United States | Gross is an unincorporated community in Lincoln Township, Crawford County, Kansas, United States. |
1968 United States presidential election | 46th quadrennial U.S. presidential election | The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace.
Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson had been the early front-runner for the Democratic Party's nomination, but he withdrew from the race after only narrowly winning the New Hampshire primary. Eugene McCarthy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Humphrey emerged as the three major candidates in the Democratic primaries, until Kennedy was assassinated. Humphrey edged out anti-Vietnam war candidate McCarthy to win the Democratic nomination, sparking numerous anti-war protests. Nixon entered the Republican primaries as the front-runner, defeating liberal New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, conservative governor of California Ronald Reagan, and other candidates to win his party's nomination. Alabama's Democratic former governor, George Wallace, ran on the American Independent Party ticket, campaigning in favor of racial segregation on the basis of "state's rights". The election year was tumultuous and chaotic. It was marked by the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in early April, and the subsequent 54 days of riots across the nation, by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in early June, and by widespread opposition to the Vietnam War across university campuses. Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic nomination, with Humphrey promising to continue Johnson's war on poverty and to support the civil rights movement.
The support of civil rights by the Johnson administration hurt Humphrey's image in the South, leading to the prominent Democratic governor of Alabama, George Wallace, to mount a third-party challenge against his own party to defend racial segregation on the basis of "state's rights". Wallace led a far-right American Independent Party attracting socially conservative voters throughout the South, and encroaching further support from white working-class voters in the Industrial North and Midwest who were attracted to Wallace's economic populism and anti-establishment rhetoric. In doing so, Wallace split the New Deal Coalition, winning over Southern Democrats, as well as former Goldwater supporters who preferred Wallace to Nixon. Nixon chose to take advantage of Democratic infighting by running a more centrist platform aimed at attracting moderate voters as part of his "silent majority" who were alienated by both the liberal agenda that was advocated by Hubert Humphrey, and by the ultra-conservative viewpoints shared by George Wallace on race and civil rights, yet used coded language to combat Wallace in the Upper South, where these states were less extreme on the segregation issue. Nixon sought to restore law and order to the nation's cities and provide new leadership in the Vietnam War.
During most of the campaign, Humphrey trailed Nixon significantly in polls taken from late August to early October, but he narrowed Nixon's lead considerably after Wallace's candidacy collapsed and adopted a change of tactics during the final month of the campaign before November 5 election day, and when Johnson suspended bombing in the Vietnam War. Despite a last-minute effort to win the presidency, Humphrey was unable to surpass Nixon in the final days of the campaign, losing the Electoral College by 111 votes (not counting faithless electors), as well as the popular vote by a narrow margin. This was the first presidential election after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had resulted in growing restoration and enforcement of the franchise for racial minorities, especially in the South, where most had been disenfranchised since the turn of the century. Minorities in other areas also regained their ability to vote.
Richard Nixon also became the first non-incumbent vice president to be elected president, a feat that was not repeated until 2020, when Joe Biden was elected president. This also remains the most recent election in which the incumbent president was eligible to run again but was not the eventual nominee of their party. This also remains only one of two elections, alongside 1800, in which both party's nominees were once vice president. |
Sphenomorphus leptofasciatus | Species of lizard | Sphenomorphus leptofasciatus is a species of skink. It is found in Papua New Guinea.
Sphenomorphus leptofasciatus is often found in or under decaying foliage and logs. It is the only skink species that the Kalam people of Papua New Guinea do not consume, although the Kalam frequently consume other skink species. |
Onoz, Namur | Village in Namur Province, Belgium | Onoz () is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
It is located on the west bank of the river Orneau
Château de Mielmont, built in the 12th century and modified through to the 19th century, is located within Onoz, at . |
1995 New Mexico State Aggies football team | American college football season | The 1995 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University in the Big West Conference during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth year under head coach Jim Hess, the Aggies compiled a 4–7 record. The team played its home games at Aggie Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.2019 Media Guide, p. 15. |
National Security Advisor (United States) | White House advisory position | The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (NSA),The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 1. is a senior aide in the Executive Office of the President, based at the West Wing of the White House. The National Security Advisor serves as the principal advisor to the President of the United States on all national security issues. The National Security Advisor is appointed by the President and does not require confirmation by the United States Senate. An appointment of a three- or four-star General to the role requires Senate confirmation of military rank. The National Security Advisor participates in meetings of the National Security Council (NSC) and usually chairs meetings of the Principals Committee of the NSC with the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense (those meetings not attended by the President). The NSA also sits on the Homeland Security Council (HSC).The National Security Advisor is supported by NSC staff who produce classified research and briefings for the National Security Advisor to review and present, either to the National Security Council or directly to the President. |
Tripoli International Olympic Stadium | Sports stadium in Tripoli, Lebanon | The International Olympic Stadium (), also known as the Rashid Karami Municipal Stadium (), is a 22,400 capacity multi-purpose stadium in Tripoli, Lebanon. Formerly used for football matches, the stadium is mainly used for international rugby league tests. It also has athletics facilities.
The stadium is the home ground of the Lebanon national rugby league team. It hosted the 2000 AFC Asian Cup, alongside the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium and the Saida International Stadium. |
Phenomenalism | Metaphysical view that physical objects only exist as sensory stimuli | In metaphysics, phenomenalism is the view that physical objects cannot justifiably be said to exist in themselves, but only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli (e.g. redness, hardness, softness, sweetness, etc.) situated in time and in space. In particular, some forms of phenomenalism reduce all talk about physical objects in the external world to talk about bundles of sense data. |
Matthew Engelke | American anthropologist | Matthew Engelke (born 1972) is an anthropologist and author specializing in religion, media, public culture, secularism, and humanism. Regionally, his ethnographic focus is on Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. |
Basharat Peer | Kashmir born American journalist, commentator and author | Basharat Peer () (born 1977) is an Indian American journalist, script writer, and author.
Peer spent his early youth in the Kashmir Valley before shifting to Aligarh and then, Delhi for higher education. In August 2006, he had relocated to New York City in the United States, where he is currently based as an opinion-editor at The New York Times. |
Korail Class 361000 | South Korean train | The Korail Class 361000 trains are commuter electric multiple units in South Korea used on the Gyeongchun Line. Class 361000 trains were manufactured and delivered in 2010 to provide service on the Gyeongchun Line. |
Mistress (TV series) | 2018 South Korean television series based on the 2008–2010 U.K. Mistresses series | Mistress () is a 2018 South Korean television series based on the 2008–10 U.K. series of the same name. It stars Han Ga-in, Shin Hyun-been, Choi Hee-seo and Goo Jae-yee. The series aired on OCN from April 28 to June 3, 2018 on Saturdays and Sundays at 22:20 (KST). |
John Alexander Gresse | English painter | John Alexander Gresse (1741–1794), was an English painter and drawing-master. |
Pharnaces II of Phrygia | 5th-century BCE ruler of the satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia | Pharnaces II (Old Iranian: Farnaka; fl. 430 BCE - 422 BCE) ruled the satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia under the Achaemenid Dynasty of Persia. Hellespontine Phrygia (Greek: Ἑλλησποντιακὴ Φρυγία) comprised the lands of Troad, Mysia and Bithynia and had its seat at Daskyleion, south of Cyzicus, Mysia (near modern-day Erdek, Balıkesir Province, Turkey).
His grandfather, Artabazos I of Phrygia, was the founder of the Pharnacid dynasty. Pharnaces II followed as satrap either upon the death of his father, Pharnabazus I, or directly upon the death of his grandfather. He was succeeded by his son Pharnabazus II.
File:MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 460-400 BC.jpg|Coinage of Hellespontine Phrygia at the time of Pharnaces II, Kyzikos, Mysia, circa 460-400 BC
File:MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-400 BC.jpg|Coinage of Hellespontine Phrygia at the time of Pharnaces II, Kyzikos, Mysia, circa 450-400 BC |
Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project | Global sustainable energy consortium | The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) is a global consortium formed in October 2013 which researches methods to limit the rise of global temperature due to global warming to 2°C or less.
The focus of the DDPP is on sustainable energy systems, other sectors of the economy, such as agriculture and land-use, are not directly considered. |
Eoin Ó Broin | Irish Sinn Féin politician | Eoin Ó Broin (; born 1972) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician and writer who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Mid-West constituency since the 2016 general election. |
Ceuthophilus chiricahuae | Species of cricket-like animal | Ceuthophilus chiricahuae, the chiricahua cave cricket, is a species of camel cricket in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America. |
Liana Bridges | British actress | Liana Bridges (born 25 December 1969) is a British actress and presenter. Best known for co-presenting Sooty & Co. with Matthew Corbett and Richard Cadell in 1998, and Sooty Heights with Richard Cadell from 1999 to 2000.
When Sooty Heights ended, her place as co-presenter was taken by Vicki Lee Taylor in the replacement series, Sooty.
She wrote a panto diary for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire from 1 December 2003 to 11 January 2004.
Bridges was appointed artistic director at Kingsway Hall in Dovercourt in December 2007.
Liana co-presents a radio show, the Essex Quest, on BBC Essex every Sunday morning between 10am and 2pm. The programme sees Bridges (with Barry Lewis) on the roads of Essex searching for locations based on clues set by the producers at the radio station's headquarters in Chelmsford. Listeners call and message the show in an effort to help the team solve the clues. |
Rana zhengi | Species of frog | Rana zhengi is a species of frog in the family RanidaeMyers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2021. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at https://animaldiversity.org. that is endemic to Sichuan, China.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.
It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Rhône's 10th constituency | Constituency of the National Assembly of France | The 10th constituency of the Rhône (French: Dixième circonscription du Rhône) is a French legislative constituency in the Rhône département. Like the other 576 French constituencies, it elects one MP using a two round electoral system. |
Miriam Vázquez | Argentine alpine skier | Miriam Vázquez (born 9 March 1985) is an Argentine alpine skier. She competed in the women's downhill at the 2006 Winter Olympics. |
Calliostoma aupourianum | Species of gastropod | Calliostoma aupourianum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.
Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Calliostoma (Maurea) |
Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee | Australian television series | Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee was an Australian television variety series hosted by Hal Lashwood which aired from 1958 to 1961 on ABC. It was essentially a minstrel show, with some of the performers appearing in blackface makeup.http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Id%3A331331;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 In 1960, it was retitled Hal Lashwood's Minstrels.Joyce Morgan, 'Lashwood, Harold Francis (Hal) (1915–1992)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lashwood-harold-francis-hal-17116/text28946, published online 2016, accessed online 1 July 2020. |
Jonathan C. Knight | British physicist (born 1964) | Jonathan C. Knight, (born 1964, in Lusaka) is a British physicist. He is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) for the University of Bath where he has been Professor in the Department of Physics since 2000, and served as head of department. From 2005 to 2008, he was founding Director of the university's Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials. |
Liam Clifford | Gaelic sports administrator | William Peter "Liam" Clifford (27 June 1876 – 24 February 1949) was the ninth president of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1926–1928).
Involved in the dairy co-operative movement in Limerick and neighbouring Clare for many years, Clifford became the Department of Agriculture’s chief dairy inspector in 1936.
Clifford was chairman of the Limerick county board for 20 years, and also had a term as chairman of the Munster board.
Under Liam Clifford's leadership, the Tipperary team toured America, and the GAA decided to allocate ten percent of gate receipts for ground development, which led to the provision of grounds throughout the country, for which Clifford has been called "the great apostle of grounds development". |
MacNeil Mitchell | New York politician | MacNeil Mitchell (July 18, 1904 – December 17, 1996) was an American lawyer and republican politician from New York. |
Tropidion hermione | Species of beetle | Tropidion hermione is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Thomson in 1867.Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World. Retrieved on 22 May 2012. |
SS Empire Dabchick | World War II merchant ship of the United Kingdom | {|
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Empire Dabchick was a Design 1019 cargo ship that was built in 1919 as Kisnop by Atlantic Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States for the United States Shipping Board (USSB). She was transferred to the United States Maritime Commission (USMC) in 1937. In 1940 she was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Dabchick. She served until December 1942, when she was torpedoed and sunk by . |
Sohaib Ahmad Malik | Pakistani politician | Sohaib Ahmad Malik is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since August 2018. |
Star Fleet Battles Supplement 1 | Game supplement | Star Fleet Battles Supplement #1 is a 1983 expansion for Star Fleet Battles published by Task Force Games. |
Taichi Hasegawa | Japanese footballer | is a former Japanese football player. |
Nocardioides ultimimeridianus | Species of bacterium | Nocardioides ultimimeridianus is a Gram-positive and rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Nocardioides which has been isolated from rhizosphere soil from the plant Peucedanum japonicum from Mara Island, Korea. |
Terry Poindexter | American taekwondo practitioner | Terry Poindexter Gautreaux was a former US Olympian who competed in taekwondo.
Poindexter started competing in 1987 and won gold in the Student World Championships. She competed in the 1992 Olympic Games earning a bronze medal in the 132 lbs division.
She married her instructor Oren Gautreaux. She was reported as being from both Iowa and Independence, Missouri. |
Leland Kent | American photographer | Leland Kent is an American photographer known for photographing abandoned and forgotten places across the Southeast. He has published five photography books: Abandoned Birmingham, Abandoned Georgia: Exploring the Peach State, Abandoned Georgia: Traveling the Backroads, Abandoned New Orleans, and ‘’Abandoned North Florida’’. |
Engin Hepileri | Turkish actor and theatre director (born 1978) | Engin Hepileri (born 3 March 1978) is a Turkish actor and theatre director.
After joining the cast of Kent Oyuncuları on stage, he started to appear in various theatre plays. In 2008 he started working as a theatre director. He also briefly worked as a TV presenter on TRT 1, presenting the Altın Petek TV program. |
Balto II: Wolf Quest | 2002 film by Phil Weinstein | Balto II: Wolf Quest is a 2002 American animated adventure film. It is the sequel to Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment's 1995 Northern animated film Balto. |
Milka Babović | Yugoslavian athlete and journalist (1928–2020) | Milena "Milka" Babović (27 October 1928 – 26 December 2020) was a Croatian sprint and hurdles runner and journalist. She won numerous sprinting events in the former Yugoslavia, and was selected the best athlete several times. She also had a noted career as a sports journalist and editor in television. |
George Tanner (Australian footballer) | Australian rules footballer, born 1914 | George Edward Tanner (9 August 1914 – 16 February 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Trammo | American chemical company | Trammo, Inc., (formerly known as Transammonia, Inc., also known as Trammo Group), engages in the international commerce, trade, transportation, distribution, and marketing of fertilizer, chemicals, methanol, crude oil, liquefied petroleum gas, and petrochemicals.The company was established by Ronald Stanton in 1965, and is currently headquartered in New York City. The company has offices in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Africa. |
Richard Armstrong (writer) | English author (1903–1986) | Richard Armstrong (18 June 1903 – 30 May 1986) was an English writer who wrote for both adults and children. Most of his books were novels set at sea, or sea stories. For one of those, Sea Change, he won the 1948 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. He is also known for a biography of Grace Darling in which he challenges the conventional story: Grace Darling: Maid and Myth (1965). He is often described on the cover of his books as "author and mariner". |
Dagoberto Lara | Cuban footballer | Dagoberto Lara Soriano (born 16 April 1952) is a Cuban footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. |
Kristina Herbst | German politician | Kristina Herbst (born 24 August 1977 in Bremen, Germany) is a German Politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and current President of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. |
Unmasked Tour | 1980 concert tour by Kiss | The Unmasked Tour was a concert tour by the American hard rock band Kiss. It was the first tour not to feature original drummer Peter Criss, and the touring debut of his replacement Eric Carr. |
2008 Colorado State Rams football team | American college football season | The 2008 Colorado State Rams football team represented Colorado State University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, CO and were led by first year coach Steve Fairchild. They were member of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 7–6, 4–4 in Mountain West play to finish in fifth place. They were invited to the New Mexico Bowl where they defeated Fresno State. |
Hurricane Linda (2015) | Category 3 pacific hurricane in 2015 | Hurricane Linda was a strong tropical cyclone in September 2015 that resulted in heavy rains across portions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The seventeenth named storm, eleventh hurricane, and eighth major hurricane of the season, Linda developed southwest of Mexico from a low-pressure area on September 5. Under warm sea surface temperatures and low to moderate wind shear, the system intensified into Tropical Storm Linda by September 6 and a hurricane by the next day. A well-defined eye soon formed within the storm's central dense overcast and Linda reached its peak intensity as a 125 mph (205 km/h) Category 3 major hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale on September 8. Thereafter, the storm moved into a stable environment and an area of lower sea surface temperatures, causing rapid weakening. Convective activity dissipated and Linda degenerated into a remnant low on September 10. The lingering system persisted southwest of Baja California, ultimately opening up into a trough on September 14.
In Mexico, the storm brought rainfall to nine states, causing flooding, especially in Oaxaca, Sinaloa, and Zacatecas. In Oaxaca, mudslides resulted in the closure of multiple highways and damage to over a dozen homes. Flooding in Sinola affected approximately 1,000 homes with hundreds damaged, prompting dozens of families to evacuate. Several small communities were temporarily isolated after flood waters covered bridges. Localized flooding in Zacatecas damaged crops and 25 dwellings; damage reached approximately 500,000 pesos (US$30,000). Although Linda did not directly impact land, moisture from the storm was pulled northeast into the Southwestern United States and enhanced the local monsoon. Los Angeles received of rain, contributing to the city's second wettest September on record. One fatality in the state occurred from a drowning at San Bernardino National Forest. Utah was impacted by major flash flooding incidents—with rainfall amounting to 1-in-100 year levels—which left 21 deaths in the state: 14 near Hildale and 7 in Zion National Park. Damage across the Southwest amounted to US$3.6 million. |
Matthew E. White | American singer-songwriter and music producer | Matthew E. White (born August 14, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter, producer and arranger. He has worked as a collaborator, producer, and arranger for acts including Bedouine, Natalie Prass, Cocoon, Foxygen, Justin Vernon, Hiss Golden Messenger, Sharon Van Etten, Ken Vandermark, Steven Bernstein, The Mountain Goats, Dan Croll and Slow Club. As a solo artist he has released two studio albums, Big Inner and Fresh Blood, and two collaboration albums, Gentlewoman, Ruby Man with Flo Morrissey and Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection with Lonnie Holley. White is also the founder and a co-owner of Spacebomb, originally conceived as a record label with a house band, and now a multi-disciplinary music company with a studio and offices in Richmond, Virginia. |
Episynlestes | Genus of damselflies | Episynlestes is a genus of damselflies in the family Synlestidae.
Species of Episynlestes are large damselflies, dull bronze black in colour with pale markings and a white tip to their tails. They often perch with their wings outspread.
They are endemic to north-eastern Australia, where they inhabit streams. |
George Baker (cricketer, born 1838) | English cricketer (1838–1870) | George Baker (31 May 1838 – 2 June 1870) was an English cricketer active between 1859 and 1863. Baker was born in Cobham, Kent and played 27 first-class cricket matches in his career, including 22 for Kent County Cricket Club and three for MCC.George Baker, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-03-21.Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 36–37. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) His brother William played one first-class match for Kent in 1858.Carlaw, op. cit., p. 39. He died in Lydd in 1870 aged 32.George Baker, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-03-21. |
Fabio Acevedo | Colombian cyclist | Fabio Acevedo (born 9 December 1949) is a Colombian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. |
Guy Garvey | English musician, singer, songwriter and radio presenter | Guy Edward John Garvey (born 6 March 1974) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Elbow. |
Tucows | Internet services and telecommunications company based in Toronto | Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of three independent businesses: Tucows Domains, Ting Internet, and Wavelo.
Originally founded in 1993 as a shareware and freeware software download site, Tucows shuttered its downloads business in 2021. Tucows Domains is the second-largest domain registrar worldwide and operates OpenSRS, Ascio, and Hover.
In 2012, Tucows launched Ting Mobile, a wireless service provider and used the same brand to launch its fiber Internet provider business. Ting Internet in 2015. In 2020, Tucows sold its wireless business to Dish Network, while they continued to operate Ting Internet. The billing platform Tucows built for Ting Mobile was spun off into an independent OSS/BSS SaaS business, Wavelo.
The company was formed in Flint, Michigan, United States, in 1993. The Tucows logo was two cow heads, a play on the homophone "two cows". |
Tobacco control | Field of health science | Tobacco control is a field of international public health science, policy and practice dedicated to addressing tobacco use and thereby reducing the morbidity and mortality it causes. Since most cigarettes and cigars and hookahs contain/use tobacco, tobacco control also concerns these. E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco itself, but (often) do contain nicotine. Tobacco control is a priority area for the World Health Organization (WHO), through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. References to a tobacco control movement may have either positive or negative connotations, depending upon the commentator.
Tobacco control aims to reduce the prevalence of tobacco use and this is measured with the "age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older".United Nations (2017) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017, Work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/RES/71/313) |
Bruce 2000 | 2000 single by The Twelfth Man | "Bruce 2000" (subtitled "A "Special" Tribute By The 12th Man") is a single by The Twelfth Man, a series of comedy productions by skilled impersonator Billy Birmingham. The single is a satirical commentary on Australian sports commentator Bruce McAvaney. The song was released in December 2000 peaked at number 5 on the ARIA Charts.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2001, the single was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release, losing to Whatever by Guido Hatzis. |
Caprigliola bridge collapse | 260 m road bridge collapsed in Italy on 08 April 2020 | The bridge of Caprigliola was also known as the Albiano bridge, the Albiano Magra bridge or the Ponte di Albiano Magra.
On 8 April 2020 at 10:25 am local time (8:25 UTC), the long road bridge on Italian state highway SS330 near the town of Aulla between the villages of and near La Spezia collapsed into the Magra river. The traffic on the bridge was unusually light due to the coronavirus quarantine then in force, and the collapse caused only minor injuries to two truck drivers.
There were reports that a gas pipeline had been damaged by the collapse; the pipeline was quickly isolated by Italgas. |
Cosmetotextile | Textiles designed to release cosmetic product | Cosmetotextiles or cosmetic textiles merge cosmetics and textiles through the process of micro-encapsulation. According to the Bureau de Normalisation des Industries Textiles et de l'Habillement (BNITH), “a cosmetotextile is a textile consumer article containing durably a cosmetic product which is released over time.” Bureau de Normalisation des Industries Textiles et de l'Habillement (BNITH) Cosmetic textiles currently offered on the market claim to be moisturizing, perfumed (through cyclodextrins), cellulite reducing and body slimming.
Cosmetotextiles are impregnated with a finish composed of solid microcapsules, each holding a specific amount of cosmetic substance meant to be released totally and instantly on the human body. Cosmetotextiles currently offered on the market claim to be moisturising, perfumed, cellulite reducing or body slimming.
The release pattern of the microcapsules on cosmetotextiles is triggered by an impact, most likely friction or pressure between the body and fabric, breaking the capsules into fragments and liberating the cosmetic properties. The release can also be triggered by sweat, temperature, and rubbing.
Recent studies have started to question the nature of the microcapsules’ shells and their toxicity impact or possible allergy reactions on humans. Because shell residues and excessive irregular amounts of substance are left on the skin surface after liberation, micro-encapsulation is more and more preferred for applications that are not in direct contact with human body, while the dermotextile technology, using natural based micro-particles as cosmetic carriers instead of microcapsules, is slowly taking over the skincare field.
Nevertheless, micro-encapsulation is still widely used in the smart textiles area and offers optimal results when applied to diffuse a substance in the environment like perfume or to act as a protective barrier against external elements. |
Murder of Jennifer Moore | Criminal act in New York | Jennifer Moore ( – ) was an 18-year-old American student from Harrington Park, New Jersey, who was abducted around July 25, 2006, from Manhattan, New York, and then raped and murdered. |
Marie McDonald | American actress and singer | Marie McDonald (born Cora Marie Frye, July 6, 1923 – October 21, 1965) was an American singer and actress known as "The Body Beautiful" and later nicknamed "The Body". |
Disassortative mating | Preferential mating pattern between individuals with dissimilar phenotypes (e.g., size, colour) | Disassortative mating (also known as negative assortative mating or heterogamy) is a mating pattern in which individuals with dissimilar phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under random mating. Disassortative mating reduces the mean genetic similarities within the population and produces a greater number of heterozygotes. The pattern is character specific, but does not affect allele frequencies. This nonrandom mating pattern will result in deviation from the Hardy-Weinberg principle (which states that genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences, such as "mate choice" in this case).
Disassortative mating is different from outbreeding, which refers to mating patterns in relation to genotypes rather than phenotypes.
Due to homotypic preference (bias toward the same type), assortative mating occurs more frequently then disassortative mating. This is due to the fact that homotypic preferences increase relatedness between mates and between parents and offspring that would promote cooperation and increases inclusive fitness. With disassortative mating, heterotypic preference (bias towards different types) in many cases has been shown to increase overall fitness. When this preference is favored, it allows a population to generate and/or maintain polymorphism (genetic variation within a population).
The fitness advantage aspect of disassortative mating seems straightforward, but the evolution of selective forces involved in disassortative mating are still largely unknown in natural populations. |
Rex Garwood | Australian sportsman | Rex Elvyn Garwood (15 May 1930 – 16 May 2007) was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football in the Tasmanian Football League and first-class cricket for Tasmania during the 1950s. |
Light Years Away (Tiësto song) | 2014 Single by Tiësto | "Light Years Away" is a song by Dutch disc jockey and producer Tiësto in collaboration with British band Dbx, which is composed of the producers Pete Kirtley and Sacha Collision and the singer-songwriter John James Newman. It was released on 28 November 2014 by PM:AM Recordings as the fourth single from Tiësto's fifth studio album, A Town Called Paradise. |
Christina of the Isles | 14th-century Scottish noblewoman | Christina of the Isles (fl. 1290–1318) was a fourteenth-century Scottish noblewoman. She was daughter of Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí, and a leading member of Clann Ruaidhrí. Although Ailéan had two sons, Lachlann and Ruaidhrí, both appear to have been illegitimate, whereas Christina was legitimate, and possibly a daughter of Ailéan's wife, Isabella.
A fourteenth-century source states that Christina assisted Robert I, King of Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence, when he was a fugitive and hunted by the forces of Edward I, King of England. Another fourteenth-century source declares that, when Robert mounted a counter offensive following Edward II's demise, the Scottish king received critical assistance from an unnamed kinswoman, a woman who could be identical to Christina herself. Christina's support of the Bruce cause may have stemmed from her marriage to Donnchadh, a member of the comital kindred of Mar, a family closely related to the Bruces. It is also possible that Christina was influenced by her maternal ancestry, since there is reason to suspect that her mother was a sister of Robert's mother.
Although Christina was the canonically legitimate heir of her father, it is likely that her brothers possessed control of their family's wide-ranging territories. According to an undated charter, Christina resigned her rights to Ruaidhrí on the condition that her son possessed a stake in the inheritance. At some point following Ruaidhrí's apparent demise in 1318, Christina attempted to transfer most of the Clann Ruaidhrí lordship into the hands of Artúr Caimbéal, in what may have been a marriage alliance with the Caimbéalaigh (the Campbells). Despite this contract with Artúr, which may have had royal approval, it is apparent that Christina's nephew, Ruaidhrí's son Raghnall Mac Ruaidhrí, was able to succeed as chief of Clann Ruaidhrí. The recorded royal forfeiture of a certain "" may refer to Raghnall, and could be evidence of him countering Christina's attempt to alienate the family lands. Further violent repercussions of Christina's contract with the Caimbéalaigh may have been felt well into the next century, since James I, King of Scotland is recorded to have executed two chieftains who could have been continuing the feud. |
Steve Bovay | Swiss cyclist | Steve Bovay (born 25 November 1984) is a Swiss former cyclist. |