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1562000 | The Dark Night of the Soul () is a phase of passive purification of the spirit in the mystical development, as described by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross in his treatise Dark Night (), a commentary on his poem with the same name. It follows after the second phase, the illumination in wh... | Dark Night of the Soul | |
15649647 | The 1992 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 3, 1992, to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of South Carolina, one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 1992 U.S. presidential election, as well as other ... | 1992 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina | |
15642908 | "My Love, My Life" is a song recorded by ABBA for their album, Arrival. The song was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Background "My Love, My Life" was one of the last songs to be recorded for the album. Agnetha Fältskog sings lead vocals and Björn Ulvaeus proclaimed the song to be the finest example of Ag... | My Love, My Life | |
15634063 | The Trouble with Cali is an American drama film directed by Paul Sorvino and written by his daughter Amanda Sorvino. It stars Laurence Leboeuf, Glynnis O'Connor, Raviv Ullman and RZA. The film will not be released in theaters as a distribution deal was not able to be successfully negotiated spurring contention with Lac... | The Trouble with Cali | |
1563399 | Lawrence Patrick David Gillick (born August 22, 1937) is an American professional baseball executive. He previously served as the general manager of four MLB teams: the Toronto Blue Jays (1978–1994), Baltimore Orioles (1996–1998), Seattle Mariners (2000–2003), and Philadelphia Phillies (2006–2008). He guided the Blue J... | Pat Gillick | |
15653245 | Japanization or Japanisation is the process by which Japanese culture dominates, assimilates, or influences other cultures. According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, "To japanize" means "To make or become Japanese in form, idiom, style, or character". Historically, areas occupied by Japan w... | Japanization | |
15619794 | The Patea Freezing Works was a meat-processing plant promoted by The Patea A&P Association in the town of Patea. The West Coast Meat and Produce Export Company was formed in August 1883 and operated a tinning plant and tallow factory in the area. Changes in technology saw the company change from canning to freezing in ... | Patea Freezing Works | |
15645307 | The Wales Genocide Memorial is a monument in the garden of the Temple of Peace in Cardiff, Wales, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide that took place in Ottoman Empire carried out by the Turkish government against the Armenian population from 1915 to 1922. Unveiling The memorial was erected and unveiled o... | Wales Genocide Memorial | |
1562412 | The Uncanny X-Men, sometimes referred to as Marvel's X-Men, is an action video game released by LJN for the NES in 1989. It is a licensed game based on the series of X-Men comics of the same name by Marvel Comics. The lineup of characters in the game is very close to those appearing in the 1989 animated pilot X-Men: Pr... | The Uncanny X-Men (video game) | |
15620171 | Bonnie Soper (born 1984 in Invercargill, New Zealand) is a New Zealand film and television actress. She is known for playing Princess Diana in Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance. In 2009, Soper received the award for Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in the movie, The Map Reader at 2009 Qantas Film a... | Bonnie Soper | |
156381 | "Zdravljica" (; ) is a carmen figuratum poem by the 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet France Prešeren, inspired by the ideals of Liberté, égalité, fraternité. It was written in 1844 and published with some changes in 1848. Four years after it was written, Slovenes living within Habsburg Empire interpreted the poem in ... | Zdravljica | |
15657576 | The 1961 Rose Bowl was the 47th Rose Bowl game, played on January 2, 1961, in Pasadena, California. The #6 Washington Huskies defeated the top-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers, 17–7. Washington quarterback Bob Schloredt returned from a mid-season injury was named the Player Of The Game for the second straight year. As N... | 1961 Rose Bowl | |
15647791 | Marco Tulio Coll Tesillo (23 August 1935 – 5 June 2017), also known as El Olímpico was a Colombian professional footballer. He played for Junior de Barranquilla and other clubs, and represented Colombia in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He was famous for scoring the first and only Olympic goal in any men's FIFA World Cup, be... | Marcos Coll | |
15648821 | The 1990 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 6, 1990 to select six Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. The primary election for the Republicans was held on June 12. All six incumbents were re-elected and the composition of the state d... | 1990 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina | |
15646748 | In finance, the weighted-average life (WAL) of an amortizing loan or amortizing bond, also called average life, is the weighted average of the times of the principal repayments: it's the average time until a dollar of principal is repaid. In a formula, where: is the (total) principal, is the principal repayment that is... | Weighted-average life | |
1565023 | Trinidad and Tobago is divided into seven regions, five boroughs, two city corporations and one ward. Trinidad The following are the municipalities and regions created after the amendment of Act No. 8 of 1992: The following regions were merged after the amendment of Act No. 8 of 1992: Before 1990, Trinidad was divided ... | Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago | |
15637345 | The Master of the World () is a German science fiction movie made in 1934 (released in the US in 1935). Its themes are the ethical replacement of human labor by robots, and the threat to humanity by robots used as war machines. It was directed by Harry Piel and made by Ariel production. Synopsis Wolf, as the half-crazy... | Master of the World (1934 film) | |
15621393 | John of England has been portrayed many times in fiction, generally reflecting the overwhelmingly negative view of his reputation. Art The North Wall Frieze in the courtroom of the Supreme Court of the United States depicts King John granting Magna Carta. Literature King John is the protagonist of John Bale's sixteenth... | Cultural depictions of John, King of England | |
1565261 | Edgehill or Edghill may refer to: Places England Edgehill, Warwickshire, a hamlet on the Edge Hill escarpment Battle of Edgehill or Edge Hill, a 1642 battle in the English Civil War Edgehill, a suburb of Scarborough, North Yorkshire Edgehill College, an independent school in Bideford, Devon United States Edgehill, Miss... | Edgehill | |
15634673 | Barrytown is a hamlet (and census-designated place) within the town of Red Hook in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is within the Hudson River Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, and contains four notable Hudson River Valley estates: Edgewater, Massena, Rokeby, and Sylvania. History In 1791, Pe... | Barrytown, New York | |
1563682 | Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #45 (December 1965). Black Bolt is the ruler of Attilan, and a member of the Inhumans, a reclusive race of genetically altered s... | Black Bolt | |
15631121 | Mollie Slott (April 19, 1893 – January 24, 1967) was an American journalist, who became one of the nation's best known figures in the newspaper syndicate industry. In 1946, Slott was chosen as Chicago-Tribune New York Daily news syndicate manager, becoming the first female manager in the syndicate history; In 1955, she... | Mollie Slott | |
15623467 | Armando Carpio Sanchez (June 15, 1952 – April 27, 2010) was a Filipino politician. He is a former two-term mayor of Santo Tomas, Batangas and one-term governor of the Province of Batangas. During his term as governor, he was also the treasurer of the League of Provinces of the Philippines. Political career Mayor of San... | Armando Sanchez | |
15655756 | The 2008 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers were led by head coach Tommy Bowden, who resigned six games into his tenth season. The interim head coach was assistant coach Dabo Swinney. The Tigers play their home games in Memorial Stadiu... | 2008 Clemson Tigers football team | |
15650103 | Cats on a Smooth Surface is an American rock group, that starting in 1978 and throughout the 1980s was the house band at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey In the years 1981 and 1982, the band's lineup consisted of Bobby Bandiera on lead guitar and vocals, Harry Filkin on rhythm guitar and vocals, Peter Schulle ... | Cats on a Smooth Surface | |
15642397 | The Marian Anderson Award was originally established in 1943 by African American singer Marian Anderson after she was awarded the $10,000 Bok Prize that year by the city of Philadelphia. Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers; recipients of which include Camilla W... | Marian Anderson Award | |
15632708 | Roller coaster amusement rides have origins back to ice slides constructed in 18th-century Russia. Early technology featured sleds or wheeled carts that were sent down hills of snow reinforced by wooden supports. The technology evolved in the 19th century to feature railroad track using wheeled cars that were securely ... | History of the roller coaster | |
15651800 | The Central Avenue Corridor is a significant stretch of north–south Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. Roughly bounded by Camelback Road to its north, and McDowell Road to its south, this is one of Phoenix's most vital and heavily trafficked stretches of roads. It is also one of the region's largest centers of employm... | Central Avenue Corridor | |
1563891 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1988 side-scrolling action video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System loosely based on the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Gameplay alternates between the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde based on the player's ability to either avoid ... | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (video game) | |
15634347 | Sir Gooroodas Banerjee (also Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, 26 January 1844 – 2 December 1918) was an Indian judge of the Calcutta High Court. In 1890, he also became the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of University of Calcutta. Education He received his early education at the Oriental Seminary, and the Hare School at the Presid... | Gooroodas Banerjee | |
156592 | A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object called a puppet to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. The puppet is often shaped like a human, animal, or legendary creature. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. Description Performing as a puppeteer can be physically demand... | Puppeteer | |
15624936 | Egemen Bağış () (born 23 April 1970) is a former Turkish politician of, former member of the Turkish parliament, and the former minister for EU Affairs and chief negotiator of Turkey in accession talks with the European Union. Currently, he serves as ambassador of Turkey to the Czech Republic. Early life Bağış was born... | Egemen Bağış | |
15620066 | Wickham Park is a public county park located at 2500 Parkway Drive, Melbourne, Florida. It contains diverse recreational facilities and amenities, including campgrounds, disc golf course, equestrian facilities, archery range, off-leash dog park, bicycle/jogging roadway, nature trails, exercise trails, ball fields, an e... | Wickham Park (Melbourne, Florida) | |
15639144 | Barthélemy Menn (20 May 1815 – 10 October 1893) was a Swiss painter and draughtsman who introduced the principles of plein-air painting and the paysage intime into Swiss art. Early life Menn was the youngest of four sons, born in Geneva to Louis John Menn, a confectioner from Scuol in the canton of Grisons, and Charlot... | Barthélemy Menn | |
15654231 | A multi-axle bus is a bus or coach that has more than the conventional two axles (known as a twin-axle bus), usually three (known as a tri-axle bus), or more rarely, four (known as a quad-axle bus). Extra axles are usually added for legal weight restriction reasons, or to accommodate different vehicle designs such as a... | Multi-axle bus | |
1561855 | Robert James Byrd (July 1, 1930 – July 27, 1990), known by the stage name Bobby Day, was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and songwriter. He is best known for his hit record "Rockin' Robin", written by Leon René under the pseudonym Jimmie Thomas. Day also wrote the top-10 Billboard hits "Littl... | Bobby Day | |
15658734 | Bay View is a hamlet in the civil parish of Leysdown, on the east side of the Isle of Sheppey in the borough of Swale in Kent, England. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 699. History Bay View is a development of houses started in the 1940s and since then has grown to 248 dwellings. Geography Eastchurch is locat... | Bay View, Kent | |
15651920 | The European Amateur Championship is an annual amateur golf tournament played at various locations throughout Europe. It is organized by the European Golf Association and was one of the "Elite" tournaments recognized by the World Amateur Golf Ranking. It was first held in 1986. The winner receives an invitation to the ... | European Amateur | |
15627131 | Mike Martin (born November 18, 1960) is a former American football wide receiver who played professionally for seven seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals in the National Football League (NFL). Early life Martin grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended Eastern High School. College career Martin played football at the Un... | Mike Martin (wide receiver) | |
1564176 | An egg timer or kitchen timer is a device whose primary function is to assist in timing during cooking; the name comes from the first timers initially being used for the timing of cooking eggs. Early designs simply counted down for a specific period of time. Some modern designs can time more accurately by depending on ... | Egg timer | |
1562264 | Niles Canyon is a canyon in the San Francisco Bay Area formed by Alameda Creek, known for its heritage railroad and silent movie history. The canyon is largely in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, while the western portion of the canyon lies within the city limits of Fremont and Union City. The stretch of State... | Niles Canyon | |
15648734 | Anita Lily Pollitzer (October 31, 1894 – July 3, 1975) was an American photographer and suffragist. Early life and education Anita Lily Pollitzer was born October 31, 1894, in Charleston, South Carolina. Her parents were Clara Guinzburg Pollitzer, the daughter of an immigrant rabbi from Prague, and Gustave Pollitzer, w... | Anita Pollitzer | |
15645592 | Vicente García y Teodoro (; 1817–1899) was a Filipino priest, hero and a defender of Jose Rizal. Garcia was born in the village of Maugat, formerly a part of Rosario and presently a barangay of Padre Garcia (a town named after him), on April 5, 1817, to parents Jose Garcia and Andrea Teodoro. His family belonged to the... | Vicente García | |
15630415 | Anthony Degrate (born April 25, 1962) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for a single season in 1985. He played college football for the University of Texas, and was recognized as a consensus All-American. He was selected by the Ci... | Tony Degrate | |
1561900 | In an electric power system, a switchgear is composed of electrical disconnect switches, fuses or circuit breakers used to control, protect and isolate electrical equipment. Switchgear is used both to de-energize equipment to allow work to be done and to clear faults downstream. This type of equipment is directly linke... | Switchgear | |
156573 | USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is the tenth and final supercarrier of the United States Navy. She is named for the 41st President of the United States and former Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush, who was a naval aviator during World War II. The vessel's callsign is Avenger, after the TBM Avenger aircra... | USS George H.W. Bush | |
15634489 | Prom Wars is a 2008 Canadian teen comedy film directed by Phil Price and starring Raviv Ullman, Alia Shawkat, Rachelle Lefèvre, and Kevin Coughlin. Premise The graduating class at Miss Aversham and Miss Cronstall's School for Girls find that they have – in defiance of the natural laws of probability – all blossomed sim... | Prom Wars | |
15654406 | Lake Untersee ( "Lower Lake") is the largest surface freshwater lake in the interior of the Gruber Mountains of central Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica. It is situated to the southeast of the Schirmacher Oasis. The lake is approximately long and wide, with a surface area of , and a maximum depth of . The lake is per... | Lake Untersee | |
15644495 | Perepiteia is claimed to be a new generator developed by the Canadian inventor Thane Heins. The device is named after the Greek word for peripety, a dramatic reversal of circumstances or turning point in a story. The device was quickly attributed the term "perpetual motion machine" by several media outlets. Due to the ... | Perepiteia | |
1564995 | Wilbur Bestwick (November 27, 1911 – July 10, 1972) was a United States Marine who served as the first Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959. Early life Bestwick was born on November 27, 1911, in Sabetha, Kansas, and graduated from high school there in 1932. Military career Bestwick enlisted in the Unite... | Wilbur Bestwick | |
15648747 | The splanchnocranium (or visceral skeleton) is the portion of the cranium that is derived from pharyngeal arches. Splanchno indicates to the gut because the face forms around the mouth, which is an end of the gut. The splanchnocranium consists of cartilage and endochondral bone. In mammals, the splanchnocranium compris... | Splanchnocranium | |
15623882 | The four-factor formula, also known as Fermi's four factor formula is used in nuclear engineering to determine the multiplication of a nuclear chain reaction in an infinite medium. The symbols are defined as: , and are the average number of neutrons produced per fission in the medium (2.43 for uranium-235). and are the... | Four factor formula | |
15630853 | Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the globa... | Eridu Genesis | |
15635388 | "Brand New Day" is a comic book storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man, published by Marvel Comics beginning in 2008. It chronicles the start of Spider-Man's adventures in the aftermath of the status quo-altering "One More Day" storyline, and continues afterwards into "Spider-Man: Big Time". Although the banner only runs ... | Spider-Man: Brand New Day | |
15636680 | In general surgery, a Roux-en-Y anastomosis, or Roux-en-Y, is an end-to-side surgical anastomosis of bowel used to reconstruct the gastrointestinal tract. Typically, it is between stomach and small bowel that is distal (or further down the gastrointestinal tract) from the cut end. Overview The name is derived from the ... | Roux-en-Y anastomosis | |
15617828 | Central Institute for Experimental Animals (CIEA) (実験動物中央研究所) is a research center for experimental animals in Japan. It was founded by Tatsuji Nomura in 1952 with the mission of improving the level of biomedical research. Main achievements and ongoing projects Establishment of the world first and only monitoring cente... | Central Institute for Experimental Animals | |
15638920 | Tan Zhongyi (; born 29 May 1991) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of grandmaster (GM). She is a former Women's World Champion, winning the 2017 knockout edition of the world championship in Iran where she defeated Anna Muzychuk in the final. Tan is also a former Women's World Rapid Champion. She is the thr... | Tan Zhongyi | |
156223 | Kimberley Ann Deal (born June 10, 1961) is an American musician. She was the original bassist and co-vocalist in the alternative rock band Pixies from 1986 to 1993 and 2004 to 2013, and is the frontwoman of the Breeders, which she formed in 1989. Deal joined Pixies in January 1986, adopting the stage name Mrs. John Mur... | Kim Deal | |
15648069 | George Vernon Orr, Jr. (November 12, 1916 – November 27, 2008) was the 14th Secretary of the Air Force, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. From California, he was a businessman and educator who served in both state and national government positions. Early life Verne Orr was born on November 12, 1916, in Des Moines, ... | Verne Orr | |
15644683 | Stay Young may refer to: Songs "Stay Young", a song by Coloured Stone "Stay Young (Gallagher & Lyle song)", a song by Gallagher & Lyle, notably covered by Don Williams in 1983 "Stay Young (INXS song)", a single by INXS from their 1981 album, Underneath the Colours "Stay Young (Oasis song)", the B-side to the 1997 singl... | Stay Young | |
1565561 | Alaska Pacific University (APU) is a private university in Anchorage, Alaska. It was established as Alaska Methodist University in 1957. Although it was renamed to Alaska Pacific University in 1978, it is still affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The main campus is located adjacent to the University of Alaska ... | Alaska Pacific University | |
15648085 | Lerner Newspapers was a chain of weekly newspapers. Founded by Leo Lerner, the chain was a force in community journalism in Chicago from 1926 to 2005, and called itself "the world's largest newspaper group". In its heyday, Lerner published 54 weekly and semi-weekly editions on the North and Northwest sides of Chicago a... | Lerner Newspapers | |
15630945 | Sam Jones Expressway (formerly the Airport Expressway and casually the Raymond Street Expressway) is a 4-lane divided highway with partial access control (urban expressway) in the city of Indianapolis. Renamed in 2007 to honor Indianapolis Urban League founder/president Sam H. Jones, Sr., it is approximately in length ... | Sam Jones Expressway | |
1565715 | The following is a list of user interface markup languages. By vendor or platform Flash MXML OpenLaszlo Java Thinlet ZUML Ajax web application UI generator FXML/JavaFX See also Open Source XML UI Toolkits in Java Microsoft XAML XPS Mozilla XUL W3C XHTML XFDL XForms Others Curl - also a programming language GladeXML UIM... | List of user interface markup languages | |
1563299 | Confessions of a Crap Artist is a 1975 novel by Philip K. Dick, originally written in 1959. Dick wrote about a dozen non-science fiction novels in the period from 1948 to 1960; this is the only one published during his lifetime. The novel chronicles a bitter and complex marital conflict in the rural Bay Area of 1950s N... | Confessions of a Crap Artist | |
1562906 | Jermaine Terrell Dye (born January 28, 1974) is an American former professional baseball right fielder. Dye played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves (1996), Kansas City Royals (1997–2001), Oakland Athletics (2001–2004), and the Chicago White Sox (2005–2009). Dye was a two-time MLB All-Star and he wo... | Jermaine Dye | |
15655008 | Morris Park Racecourse was an American thoroughbred horse racing facility from 1889 to 1904. It was located in a part of Westchester County, New York that was annexed into the Bronx in 1895 and later developed as the neighborhood of Morris Park. The racecourse was the site of the Belmont Stakes from 1890 through 1904 a... | Morris Park Racecourse | |
1565931 | Route 62 is a tourist route in South Africa that meanders between Cape Town, Oudtshoorn, the Garden Route, and Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth), offering the scenic alternative to the N2 highway. Route 62 is named for the R62 provincial route, which it follows from Montagu to Humansdorp, but the tourist route extends... | Route 62 (South Africa) |
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