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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_kiln | Lime kiln | A lime kiln is a kiln used for the calcination of limestone (calcium carbonate) to produce the form of lime called quicklime (calcium oxide). The chemical equation for this reaction is: CaCO3 + heat → CaO + CO2
This reaction can take place at anywhere above 840 °C (1,540 °F), but is generally considered to occur at 900... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Azaria | Hank Azaria | Henry Albert Azaria ( ə-ZAIR-ee-ə; born April 25, 1964) is an American actor and producer. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989, including Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Superintendent Chalmers, Comic Book Guy, Snake, Professor Frink, Kirk Van Houten, Duffman, Apu Nahasapee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan | Saving Private Ryan | Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) and bring him home s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy%27s_Ratatouille_Adventure | Remy's Ratatouille Adventure | Remy's Ratatouille Adventure, also known as Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy (lit., 'Remy's Totally Zany Adventure'), is a trackless dark ride located at Walt Disney Studios Park in France and Epcot in Florida. The ride first opened at Walt Disney Studios Park on 21 June 2014. A second version opened ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John | Olivia Newton-John | Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British and Australian singer, songwriter and actress. With over 100 million records sold, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all time.
In 1978, Newton-J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film) | The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film) | The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso | Pablo Picasso | Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Boginskaya | Svetlana Boginskaya | Svetlana Leonidovna Boginskaya (born February 9, 1973) is a former artistic gymnast for the Soviet Union and Belarus of Belarusian origin. She is a three-time Olympic champion, with an individual gold medal on vault from the 1988 Summer Olympics and team gold medals from the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics.
== Early li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep_Guardiola | Pep Guardiola | Josep "Pep" Guardiola Sala (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈpɛb ɡwəɾðiˈɔlə]; born 18 January 1971) is a Catalan football manager and former player from Spain who is the manager of Premier League club Manchester City. Guardiola is one of two managers in history to win the continental treble twice and he holds the record for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Trice | Obie Trice | Obie Trice III (born November 14, 1977) is an American rapper. He signed with fellow Detroit rapper Eminem's Shady Records, an imprint of Interscope Records in 2000 to release his first two albums, Cheers (2003) and Second Round's on Me (2006). Both peaked within the top ten of the Billboard 200, while the former was s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute_Maid_Park | Minute Maid Park | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchilla | Chinchilla | Chinchilla is a genus consisting of two species (Chinchilla chinchilla and Chinchilla lanigera) of crepuscular rodents of the parvorder Caviomorpha, native to the Andes Mountains in South America. They live in colonies called "herds" at high elevations up to 4,270 m (14,000 ft). Historically, chinchillas lived in an ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_Bentley_(book) | Snowflake Bentley (book) | Snowflake Bentley is a children's picture book written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Mary Azarian. Published in 1998, the book is about Wilson Bentley, the first known photographer of snowflakes. Azarian won the 1999 Caldecott Medal for her illustrations. In 2003, the company Weston Woods Studios, Inc.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Fraser | Brendan Fraser | Brendan James Fraser ( FRAY-zər; born December 3, 1968) is an American and Canadian actor. Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties. He gained further prominence for his starring roles in the comedies With Honors (1994) and George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged as a sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrageous_Fortune_(TV_series) | Outrageous Fortune (TV series) | Outrageous Fortune is a New Zealand family comedy crime drama television series, which ran from 12 July 2005 to 9 November 2010 on TV3. The series followed the lives of the career criminal West family after the matriarch, Cheryl (Robyn Malcolm), decided the family should go straight and abide by the law. The show was c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Statham | Jason Statham | Jason Statham ( STAY-thəm; born 26 July 1967) is an English actor. He is known for being typecast as tough, gritty, or violent characters in various action thriller films, and has been credited for leading the resurgence of action films during the 2000s and 2010s. By 2017, his films had grossed over £1.1 billion ($1.5 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heinrich_Klaproth | Martin Heinrich Klaproth | Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1 December 1743 – 1 January 1817) was a German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary, moving in later life to the university. His shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin, and the most productive artisanal chemical research center in Europe.
Klaproth w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feastables | Feastables | Feastables Inc. is a chocolate and snack brand created by American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast. In January 2022, Donaldson announced the creation of his company which launched its own brand of chocolate bars called "MrBeast Bar". Feastables' chocolate products are manufactured in Peru by Machu Pic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour | Jane Seymour | Jane Seymour (; c. 1508 – 24 October 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was accused by Henry of adultery after failing to produce a male heir. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_River_(painting) | Northern River (painting) | Northern River is a 1914–15 oil painting by Canadian painter Tom Thomson. The work was inspired by a sketch completed over the same winter, possibly in Algonquin Park. The completed canvas is large, measuring 115.1 × 102.0 cm (455⁄16 × 403⁄16 in). Painted over the winter of 1914–15, it was completed in Thomson's shack ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenmesse | Amenmesse | Amenmesse (also Amenmesses or Amenmeses) was the fifth pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt, possibly the son of Merneptah and Queen Takhat. Others consider him to be one of the innumerable sons of Ramesses II. Very little is known about this pharaoh, who ruled Egypt for only three to four years. Various ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Handler | Elliot Handler | Isadore Elliot Handler (April 9, 1916 – July 21, 2011) was an American inventor, business magnate, and the co-founder of Mattel. With his wife, Ruth Handler, he developed some of the biggest-selling toys in American history, including Barbie, Chatty Cathy, Creepy Crawlers, and Hot Wheels.
== Early life ==
Isadore "Iz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecos_National_Historical_Park | Pecos National Historical Park | Pecos National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in San Miguel County, New Mexico. The park, operated by the National Park Service, encompasses thousands of acres of landscape infused with historical elements from prehistoric archaeological ruins to 19th-century ranches, to a battlefield of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1985#:~:text=Article,11 | Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1985#:~:text=Article,11 | This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1985. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modernist_writers | List of modernist writers | Literary modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America. Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and prose. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression, adhering to Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new". ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_van_Wolfswinkel | Ricky van Wolfswinkel | Ricky van Wolfswinkel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪki vɑɱ ˈʋɔl(ə)fsˌʋɪŋkəl]; born 27 January 1989) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Twente. He has played top-flight football in the Netherlands, Portugal, England, France, Spain and Switzerland and has been capped twice by the Ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slush_Puppie | Slush Puppie | Slush Puppie (stylized as SLUSH PUPPiE) is a slush beverage created in 1970, and marketed both directly by the Slush Puppie division of J&J Snack Foods, and through its Slush Puppie distributors in the United States and Canada.
A Slush Puppie has two major components; the base and the flavoring. The base is made from a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenkodogo | Tenkodogo | Tenkodogo is a town in southeastern Burkina Faso. It serves as the capital city of Boulgou Province and the Centre-Est Region of Burkina Faso with a population of 61,936 (2019). Tenkodogo was also the capital of the historic Tenkodogo Bissa-Mossi origin and considered to be root of all other Mossi Kingdoms, having been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA#Presidents | Girl Scouts of the USA#Presidents | Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad.
It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting America (formerly Boy S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest | Mount Everest | Mount Everest (known locally as Sagarmāthā in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. Its height was most recently measured in 2020 by Chinese and Nepali authorities as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCT_(group)#Members | NCT (group)#Members | NCT (Korean: 엔시티; RR: Ensiti; an acronym for Neo Culture Technology) is a South Korean boy band formed and managed by SM Entertainment. Introduced in January 2016, the group consists of 25 members divided into seven different sub-units: NCT U, NCT 127, NCT Dream, WayV, NCT DoJaeJung, NCT Wish, and NCT JNJM. They are kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kane#Early_life | Patrick Kane#Early life | Patrick Timothy Kane II (born November 19, 1988) is an American professional ice hockey player who is a right winger for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks with the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL entry draft and played for the Blackhawks until Februa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novake,_Polj%C4%8Dane | Novake, Poljčane | Novake (pronounced [nɔˈʋaːkɛ]) is a village on the left bank of the Dravinja River in the Municipality of Poljčane in northeastern Slovenia. The area belongs to the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Drava Statistical Region. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_monarchs | List of Chinese monarchs | The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during Ancient and Imperial periods. The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography are of mythological origin, and followed by the Xia dynasty of highly uncertain and contested historicity. During the subsequent Shang (c. 1600–1046 BCE) and Zhou (1046–256 BCE) d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#Imprisonment | Nelson Mandela#Imprisonment | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( man-DEL-ə, Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and the first elected in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIII | Super Bowl XLIII | Super Bowl XLIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champions Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champions Arizona Cardinals to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2008 season. The Steelers defeated the Cardinals by the score o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_postcode_area | G postcode area | The G postcode area, also known as the Glasgow postcode area, is a group of postcode districts in central Scotland, within six post towns. These districts are primarily centered on Glasgow itself, and West Dunbartonshire (including Dumbarton, Clydebank and Alexandria), plus parts of the council areas of Argyll and Bute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway_bibliography | Ernest Hemingway bibliography | Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
Hemingway produced most of his w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_%E2%80%93_Merchant_Marine_Memorial | Navy – Merchant Marine Memorial | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%E2%80%9377_Portland_Trail_Blazers_season | 1976–77 Portland Trail Blazers season | The 1976–77 Portland Trail Blazers season was the Portland Trail Blazers' seventh season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The revamped Trail Blazers had an exceptional start, winning 22 of their first 31 games. The team won their last 5 games to post a record of 49–33. The Trail Blazers reached the playoff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Daley | Tom Daley | Thomas Robert Daley (born 21 May 1994) is an English retired diver, YouTuber and television personality. He is an Olympic champion in the men's synchronised 10-metre platform event at the 2020 Olympics and double world champion in the FINA 10-metre platform event, winning in 2009 at the age of fifteen, and again in 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel) | Dune (novel) | Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film) | Halloween (1978 film) | Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut), P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations) | List of countries by population (United Nations) | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Donovan_(singer) | Casey Donovan (singer) | Casey Donovan (born 13 May 1988) is an Indigenous Australian singer and actress, best known for winning the second season of the singing competition show Australian Idol in 2004. She won the competition at the age of 16, becoming the series' youngest winner. In 2017, Donovan won the third series of I'm a Celebrity...Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_XV#Results | WrestleMania XV#Results | WrestleMania XV was a 1999 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the 15th annual WrestleMania and took place on March 28, 1999, at the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ten professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_code_name | Secret Service code name | The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted; today, the names simply serve for purposes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Togashi | Yoshihiro Togashi | Yoshihiro Togashi (Japanese: 冨樫 義博, Hepburn: Togashi Yoshihiro; born April 27, 1966) is a Japanese manga artist. He began drawing manga at an early age and was recognized for his talent by the publishing company Shueisha while attending college. Togashi has authored several different manga series in different genres si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan | Christopher Nolan | Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker. A significant auteur of his generation, he has been a major Hollywood figure in the 21st century. Nolan's films have earned over $6 billion worldwide, making him the seventh-highest-grossing film director. His accolades include two Ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike,_Inc. | Nike, Inc. | Nike, Inc. is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon. It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022.
The company was founded on January 25,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Dougan | Derek Dougan | Alexander Derek Dougan (20 January 1938 – 24 June 2007) was a Northern Ireland international footballer, football manager, football chairman, pundit, and writer. He was also known by his nickname, "The Doog". He was capped by Northern Ireland at schoolboy, youth, Amateur, and 'B' team level, before he won 43 caps in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut ( kə-NET-ih-kət) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Connecticut lies between the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hines | Jim Hines | James Ray Hines (September 10, 1946 – June 3, 2023) was an American track and field athlete and National Football League (NFL) player, who held the 100-meter world record for 15 years. In 1968, he became the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters, and won individual and relay gold at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko | Donnie Darko | Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly in his directorial debut, and produced by Flower Films. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze and Noah Wyle. Set in October 1988, the film fol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression | Great Depression | The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The economic contagion began in 1929 in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kostritsyn | Alexander Kostritsyn | Alexander Kostritsyn (born 1986) is a Russian professional poker player considered among the best online cash game players in the world. Kostritsyn plays under the alias joiso on PokerStars and PostflopAction on Full Tilt Poker.
In 2010, Kostritsyn won Event No. 9 at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_NBA_Finals | 1986 NBA Finals | The 1986 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 1985–86 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs. It pitted the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics against the Western Conference champion Houston Rockets, in a rematch of the 1981 NBA Finals (though only ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMarcus_Aldridge#2013%E2%80%9314_season | LaMarcus Aldridge#2013–14 season | LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge (born July 19, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for two seasons with the Texas Longhorns. Aldridge was selected second overall in the 2006 NBA draft. After spending nine seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, he signed with the San Antoni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Scottish_Parliament_election | 2021 Scottish Parliament election | The 2021 Scottish Parliament election took place on 6 May 2021 under the provisions of the Scotland Act 1998. It was the sixth Scottish Parliament election since the devolved parliament was established in 1999. 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament were elected. The election was held alongside the Senedd election in W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats | Sweden Democrats | The Sweden Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna [ˈsvæ̂rjɛdɛmʊˌkrɑːtɛɳa] , SD [ˈɛ̂sːdeː] ) is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. As of 2024, it is the largest member of Sweden's right-wing bloc and the second-largest party in the Riksdag. It provides confidence and supply... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs | Steve Jobs | Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. (as Apple Computer Company) with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976. After the company's board of directors fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Arizmendiarrieta | José María Arizmendiarrieta | José María Arizmendiarrieta Madariaga (Markina-Xemein, Biscay, Spain, April 22, 1915 – Mondragón, Gipuzkoa, Spain, November 29, 1976) was a Spanish Catholic priest and promoter of the cooperative companies of the Mondragon Corporation, originally located in the Basque Country and currently spread throughout the world. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gayetty | Joseph Gayetty | Joseph C. Gayetty (c. 1817/1827 – May 2, 1895) was an American inventor credited with the invention of commercial toilet paper. It was the first and remained only one of the few commercial toilet papers from 1857 to 1890 remaining in common use until the invention of splinter-free toilet paper in 1935 by the Northern ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion | Lion | The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, currently ranging only in Sub-Saharan Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; a short, rounded head; round ears; and a dark, hairy tuft at the tip of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk | Hulk | The Hulk is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in the debut issue of The Incredible Hulk (May 1962). In his comic book appearances, the character, who has dissociative identity disorder (DID), is primar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan_Athletic_F.C. | Wigan Athletic F.C. | Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The team competes in the EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1932, they have played at the 25,138-seat Brick Community Stadium since 1999, before which they... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Erdrich | Louise Erdrich | Karen Louise Erdrich ( ER-drik; born June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized Ojibwe people.
Erdrich is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Warnke | Jürgen Warnke | Jürgen Warnke (20 March 1932 – 27 April 2013) was a German lawyer and politician who served in various capacities at the Bundestag and German cabinets.
== Early life and education ==
Warnke was born in Berlin on 20 March 1932. His family were from Mecklenburg, and in 1945 settled in Upper Franconia. His father was a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Gosling | Ryan Gosling | Ryan Thomas Gosling ( GOSS-ling; born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. His work includes both independent films and major studio features, and his accolades include a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two British Academy Film Awards.
Gosling bega... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_L._Macdonald_Bridge | Angus L. Macdonald Bridge | The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge is a suspension bridge crossing Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada; it opened on April 2, 1955.
The bridge is one of two suspension bridges linking the Halifax Peninsula to Dartmouth in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
It is named after the former premier of Nova Scotia, Angus L. Mac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England | England | England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. England shares a land border with Scotland to the north and another land border with Wales to the west, and is surrounded by the North Sea to t... |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Nobel_laureates | List of female Nobel laureates | The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind." Additionally, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (often referred to as the Nobel Prize ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages | Afroasiatic languages | The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_NFL_draft | 1980 NFL draft | The 1980 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 29–30, 1980, at the New York Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York. The league also held a supplemental ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterville,_Maine | Waterville, Maine | Waterville is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, on the west bank of the Kennebec River. A college town, the city is home to Colby College, a NESCAC college, and Thomas College.
As of the 2020 census the population was 15,828. Along with Augusta, Waterville is one of the principal cities of the Augusta-Wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film) | Titanic (1997 film) | Titanic is a 1997 American epic historical romance film written and directed by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictional aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Dohrn | Walt Dohrn | Walter Dohrn (born December 5, 1970) is an American writer, director, animator, musician, and voice actor. He performed the voice of Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After (2010), as well as various characters in Shrek the Third (2007). He co-directed the film Trolls (2016) and directed its sequels, and voiced various ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_French_Open_%E2%80%93_Men%2527s_singles | 2021 French Open – Men%27s singles | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_Ewing | Winnie Ewing | Winifred Margaret Ewing (née Woodburn; 10 July 1929 – 21 June 2023) was a Scottish lawyer and politician who figured prominently in the Scottish National Party.
Born and raised in Glasgow, Ewing studied law at the University of Glasgow, where she joined the university's Scottish Nationalist Association. After graduati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book) | Leviathan (Hobbes book) | Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a work of social and political theory by the English empiricist philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin | FGM-148 Javelin | The FGM-148 Javelin, or Advanced Anti-Tank Weapon System-Medium (AAWS-M), is an American-made man-portable anti-tank system in service since 1996 and continuously upgraded. It replaced the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service. Its fire-and-forget design features automatic infrared guidance, allowing the user to s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw_Dwarfs | Wrocław Dwarfs | Wrocław Dwarves or Wrocław Gnomes (Polish: Wrocławskie krasnale) are small figurines (20–30 cm) that have appeared in the streets of Wrocław, Poland since 2005. The dwarves are a major tourist attraction for the city, which is the third largest in Poland. Tourists often walk around the city with a map trying to find al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Butter_Fire | Wisconsin Butter Fire | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Wainwright | Adam Wainwright | Adam Parrish Wainwright (born August 30, 1981), nicknamed "Waino" and "Uncle Charlie", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who spent his entire 18-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Atlanta Braves selected Wainwright 29th overall in the first round of the 2000 MLB ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali | Denali | Denali ( də-NAH-lee), federally designated as Mount McKinley, is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in the world from base to peak on land, measuring 18,000 ft (5,500 m). With a topographic prominence of 20,156 feet (6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number_ones_of_2015 | List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2015 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming.
During 2015, eight singles reached number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_McCombs | Tony McCombs | Tony McCombs (born August 24, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Eastern Kentucky Colonels and was selected in the sixth round of the 1997 NFL draft. He played for the Arizona Cardinals from 1997 to 1998... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_and_Philosophical_Society_of_Newcastle_upon_Tyne# | Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne# | The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne (or the Lit & Phil as it is popularly known) is a historical library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and the largest independent library outside London. The library is still available for both lending (to members) and as a free reference library. The societ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Silva_(footballer,_born_1995) | André Silva (footballer, born 1995) | André Miguel Valente da Silva (European Portuguese: [ɐ̃ˈdɾɛ ˈsilvɐ]; born 6 November 1995) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Elche.
An academy graduate of Porto, he impressed during his time with the reserve side before making his debut with the first team in 2015. He ultim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Tajiri | Satoshi Tajiri | Satoshi Tajiri (Japanese: 田尻 智, Hepburn: Tajiri Satoshi; born August 28, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer and director who is the creator of the Pokémon franchise and the co-founder and president of video game developer Game Freak.
A fan of arcade games in his youth, Tajiri wrote for and edited his own video gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution | Haitian Revolution | The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolution was one of the only known slave rebellions in human history that led to the founding of a state which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_city_walls | York city walls | York has, since Roman times, been defended by walls of one form or another. To this day, substantial portions of the walls remain, and York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England. They are known variously as York City Walls, the Bar Walls and the Roman walls (though this last is a misnomer as very... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Rovers_F.C. | Blackburn Rovers F.C. | Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. They have played home matches at Ewood Park since 1890. The club's motto is Arte et Labore, meaning "By Skill and Hard W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel by British author J. K. Rowling. The third novel in the Harry Potter series, it follows the young wizard Harry Potter during his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wall_(philosopher) | John Wall (philosopher) | John Wall is an American educator and theoretical ethicist who teaches at Rutgers University Camden. He is director of the Childism Institute and co-director of the Children's Voting Colloquium.
== Research ==
Wall's research focuses on "the groundworks of moral life, particularly their relations to language, power, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_Dove | Lonesome Dove | Lonesome Dove is a 1985 epic Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant | André the Giant | André René Roussimoff (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁəne ʁusimɔf]; 19 May 1946 – 28 January 1993), better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World", Roussimoff was known for his great size, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess human growt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telangana | Telangana | Telangana is a state in India situated in the south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh largest state by area and the twelfth most populated state in India, according to the 2011 census. On 2 June 2014, Telangana was separated from the northwestern part of United Andhr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_of_England | Edward II of England | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texaco | Texaco | Texaco, Inc. (a shortening of "The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron in 2001, at which... |
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