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January 6, 2025

Helgbustadøya (sometimes Helgebustad or Helgebostad) is an island in the municipality of Hitra in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is an island located in the Straumsfjorden just off the northwestern coast of the island of Hitra, just east of the Bispøyan islands, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of the village of Kvenvær, and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southwest of the village of Melandsjøen.[1]

January 5, 2025

Michael Frisch (born 4 September 1957) is a German politician of Alternative for Germany (AfD). He has been leader of the party's Rhineland-Palatinate branch since November 2019.

January 4, 2025

The speckled chub (Macrhybopsis aestivalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of the order Cypriniformes, which also includes carps, suckers, and loaches.[3]

January 3, 2025

Vandopsis, abbreviated as Vdps in horticultural trade, is a genus of orchids in the family Orchidaceae. It contains ca. 5 species found in Southeast Asia, Southern China, the Philippines, and New Guinea. Recently Vandopsis undulata was excluded, as the genus would otherwise be paraphyletic. The species was transferred to the genus Cymbilabia.[1]

January 2, 2025

The 1966 Gillette Cup was the fourth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 28 April and 3 September 1966.[1] The tournament was won by Warwickshire County Cricket Club in the final at Lord's.

January 1, 2025

Yoshino Shrine (吉野神宮, Yoshino jingū) is a Shinto shrine located in Yoshino, Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1892. The main kami enshrined here is Emperor Go-Daigo. The shrine's main festival is held annually on September 27. It was formerly an imperial shrine of the first rank (官幣大社, kanpei taisha) in the Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines.

December 31, 2024

Cha Kwang-Su (born February 25, 1979) is an amateur North Korean Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's featherweight category.[1] He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.[2] Cha also added three more medals (one gold and two silver) to his collection from the Asian Wrestling Championships.[3]

December 30, 2024

Sternotomis runsoriensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Charles Joseph Gahan in 1909. It is known from Uganda and Tanzania.[1][2]

December 29, 2024

Trask Pond is a small lake southwest of Rock Rift in Delaware County, New York. It drains south via an unnamed creek that flows into Read Creek, which flows into the East Branch Delaware River. Merrick Pond is located west and Rock Rift Mountain is located east of Trask Pond.

December 28, 2024

Leptopicia is a genus of spiders in the family Corinnidae. It was first described in 2015 by Raven. As of 2017, it contains only one species, Leptopicia bimaculata, found in Australia.[1]

December 27, 2024

Thomas Warton, the elder (c. 1688 – 10 September 1745), was an English clergyman and schoolmaster, known as the second professor of poetry at Oxford, a position he owed to Jacobite sympathies.

December 26, 2024

Detroit: An American Autopsy is a 2013 book by Charlie LeDuff, published by Penguin Books. In the book LeDuff discusses the present state of Detroit and its economic, social, crime, and political issues.[1]

December 25, 2024

The 1978–79 season was the 33rd season in Rijeka’s history and their 17th season in the Yugoslav First League. Their 5th place finish in the 1977–78 season meant it was their fifth successive season playing in the Yugoslav First League.

December 24, 2024

Zak Surety (born 4 October 1991) is an English professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Stuart Bingham and Allan Taylor.[1]

December 23, 2024

The 1929 Southwest Texas State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Southwest Texas State Teachers College—now known as Texas State University–as a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (TIAA) during the 1929 college football season. Led by 11th-year head coach Oscar W. Strahan, the Bobcats finished the season with an overall record of 6–1–2 and a conference mark of 4–0–2, winning the TIAA title. The team's captain was Cotton Branum.[1]

December 22, 2024

Nadia Khar is a Pakistani politician who has been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since 2024.

December 21, 2024

The Nelson Battalion of Militia was a short-lived military unit of settlers, formed 12 August 1845 under the terms of the Militia Act of 1845. It was part of the New Zealand Wars.

December 20, 2024

Sir Thomas Glover was English ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople from 1606 to 1611.

December 19, 2024

TurtleBot is a personal robot kit with open source software. It was created at Willow Garage by Melonee Wise and Tully Foote in November 2010.

December 18, 2024

Balakrishna Vishwanath Keskar (1903 – 28 August 1984)[1][2] was an Indian politician and Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting between 1952 and 1962. Remembered for creating the Vrinda Vadya and promoting classical music through All India Radio, Keskar, who was India's longest serving Minister for Information and Broadcasting, was also responsible for banning Hindi film music, cricket commentaries and the harmonium on All India Radio.[3]

December 17, 2024

"Mood" is a 2018 song by the French singer Eva.

December 16, 2024

Salvador Imperatore Marcone (born 11 March 1950) is a Chilean former football referee. He officiated the opening match at the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, as well as the semi-final between the United States and Germany. He was later on call as a reserve official for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.[1]

December 15, 2024

Giuseppe Callegari (4 November 1841 – 14 April 1906) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Treviso from 1880 to 1882 and as Bishop of Padua from 1882 until his death. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1903.

December 14, 2024

Ashwani Kumar Bansal was an Indian legal educational administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of two Universities Maharaja Surajmal Brij University[1] and Raj Rishi Bhartrihari Matsya University.[2]

December 13, 2024

François-Marie-Anatole de Rovérié de Cabrières (30 August 1830 – 21 December 1921) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Montpellier from 1874 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911.

December 12, 2024

"Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus" is a song by American rock band The Strokes. The song was released on April 6, 2020, as the third single from their sixth studio album, The New Abnormal (2020).[5] The song was featured as part of the soundtrack to the sports video game MLB The Show 21.

December 11, 2024

Blue is a 1994 album by American guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on Epic Records. Blue was released in the mainstream market simultaneously with Keaggy's album, Crimson and Blue, which was geared to the Christian market. The most significant differences are the inclusion of three different songs (Keaggy's cover of the Badfinger song, "Baby Blue"; "All Our Wishes"; and "The Further Adventures of..." from the Revelator EP) and the exclusion of five songs from Crimson and Blue ("Love Divine," "Reunion Of Friends," "Stone Eyes," "I Will Be There," and "Nothing But The Blood.") In addition, several of the tracks on Blue are reworked.

December 10, 2024

Dan Weston is a Canadian record producer, engineer, and mixer. He was born in Montreal.[1] Weston has worked in a variety of musical genres, but is best known for his work with such artists as Juno award winner Shad, Classified, Daniel Romano, and Attack in Black.[2]

December 9, 2024

Burghausen is the largest town in the Altötting district of Upper Bavaria in Germany. It is situated on the Salzach river, near the border with Austria. Burghausen Castle rests along a ridgeline, and is the longest castle in the world (1,051 m).[3]

December 8, 2024

Hussein Nagi Khairan (Arabic: حسين ناجي خيران, romanized: Ḥusayn Nājī Khyrān) is a Yemeni military officer. Until November 2016, he served as defense minister for the Houthi-appointed government of Yemen, having been appointed on 22 March 2015, after the defection of Mahmoud al-Subaihi to the internationally recognised government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in Aden. According to a Houthi political official, Khairan's appointment placed him in direct command of all military units except for those loyal to Hadi.[2] He reportedly took charge of the military offensive against Hadi's holdouts in southern Yemen.[1]

December 7, 2024

Badamağac (also, Badamagach) is a village and municipality in the Jalilabad Rayon of Azerbaijan.[citation needed]

December 6, 2024

Tom Seidmann-Freud (17 November 1892 – 7 February 1930) was an Austrian-Jewish painter, children's book author and illustrator.

December 5, 2024

3288 Seleucus, provisional designation 1982 DV, is a rare-type stony asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group of asteroids, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 28 February 1982, by German astronomer Hans-Emil Schuster at ESO's La Silla Observatory site in northern Chile.[3] It was named after the Hellenistic general and Seleucid ruler Seleucus I Nicator.[2]

December 4, 2024

Bailando Por un Sueño: Segundo Campeonato Mundial de Baile (Dancing for a Dream: Second Dance World Championship) was a TV show, where celebrities and dancers from a variety of dance shows, including Bailando por un Sueño, Dancing with the Stars, and So You Think You Can Dance, competed to obtain the Bicentenary Cup and to accomplish the dream of a Mexican family. It began on May 9, 2010 and finished on July 11, 2010, hosted by Yuri and Liza Echeverria. The show was aired at 19:00 (−6 GMT) on Sunday, by Canal de las Estrellas.

December 3, 2024

John Bull (1803 – February 1863) was an American clergyman and physician who represented Missouri in the U.S. Congress between 1833 and 1835.

December 2, 2024

Cairo 30 (Arabic: القاهرة 30, translit. Al-Qāhira 30) is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Salāḥ Abu Seif,[1] and based on Naguib Mahfouz's 1945 novel Modern Cairo.[2] The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominée.[3]

December 1, 2024

The Women's 100 metres T36 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Olympic Stadium on 8 September.[1]

November 30, 2024

Midnight Lamp, first published in 2003, is a science fiction novel by British writer Gwyneth Jones. It is the third of a series of five books set in a near-future version of the United Kingdom. It was nominated for both the 2003 BSFA,[1] and the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke[2] Awards.

November 29, 2024

The Centennial Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Chartered member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania; associate members are also located in New York and Virginia.[2]

November 28, 2024

Gentiana sedifolia is a species of plant in the family Gentianaceae. It can be found in regions from Costa Rica to northern Chile.[1][3]

November 27, 2024

Granard Motte is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle and National Monument in Granard, County Longford, Ireland.[2][3][4]

November 26, 2024

Perepelkin is a lunar impact crater that is located just to the south of the similar crater Love. Attached to the exterior of its southern rim is the smaller Shirakatsi. Less than one crater diameter to the east-northeast is Lane, and to the west-southwest are the co-joined Danjon and D'Arsonval.

November 25, 2024

Kevin C. O'Connor is an American physician and retired U.S. Army colonel serving as the physician to the president.[1]

November 24, 2024

The Daily Service is a short Christian service broadcast every weekday morning between 09:45 and 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. It was also broadcast on BBC Radio 4's FM frequencies until 13 September 1991 and its LW frequencies until 29th March 2024 which was Good Friday that year.[2]

November 23, 2024

The Jell-O Gallery or Jell-O Museum is a museum in Le Roy, New York dedicated to exhibits about Jell-O. The museum is owned and operated by the Le Roy Historical Society.

November 22, 2024

In proof complexity, a Frege system is a propositional proof system whose proofs are sequences of formulas derived using a finite set of sound and implicationally complete inference rules.[1] Frege systems (more often known as Hilbert systems in general proof theory) are named after Gottlob Frege.

November 21, 2024

"'Love Is Fair" is a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, and recorded by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell. It was released in January 1981 as the third and final single and title track from the album Love Is Fair. It peaked at number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 7 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[1]

November 20, 2024

Nigerian literature may be roughly defined as the literary writing by citizens of the nation of Nigeria for Nigerian readers, addressing Nigerian issues. This encompasses writers in a number of languages, including not only English but Igbo, Urhobo, Yoruba, and in the northern part of the county Hausa and Nupe.[1] More broadly, it includes British Nigerians, Nigerian Americans and other members of the African diaspora.

November 19, 2024

Muriel Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver. She was nominated for the same award in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes. Also in 1942, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Pride of the Yankees, opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

November 18, 2024

Armistead Mason Dobie (April 15, 1881 – August 7, 1962) was a law professor, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

November 17, 2024

220th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised in Essex and Suffolk during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at Arras and Ypres, in the 'Great Retreat' of March 1918 and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.

November 16, 2024

Pyaaz Kachori (transl. Onion Kachori) is a crispy, flaky, deep-fried pastry filled with spiced onion stuffing.[1][2] It is typically served hot with a sweet and spicy tamarind chutney.[3] Originating in the city of Jodhpur, it is now served throughout Rajasthan and North India.[4]

November 15, 2024

Sofia Arvidsson and Michaëlla Krajicek were the defending champions, but chose not to compete.

November 14, 2024

St. Mary of Bendones (Spanish: Santa María de Bendones) is an Asturian Pre-Romanesque Roman Catholic church situated in Bendones, Spain, build between 792 and 842.

November 13, 2024

Eddy Riva (born 17 April 1973 in Thionville, Moselle) is a French race walker.

November 12, 2024

November 11, 2024

Brigadier-General Sir William Bromley-Davenport, KCB, CMG, CBE, DSO, TD, JP, DL (21 January 1862 – 6 February 1949) was a British soldier, footballer and Conservative politician. He fought with distinction in both the Second Boer War and the First World War. An MP from 1886 to 1906, he held political office under Arthur Balfour as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1903 to 1905.

November 10, 2024

John Morin Scott (1730 – September 14, 1784) was a lawyer, military officer, and statesman before, during and after the American Revolution.

November 9, 2024

Taksin Hospital (Thai: โรงพยาบาลตากสิน) is a hospital in Thailand located in Khlong San District, Bangkok. Taksin Hospital is a public hospital operated by the Medical Service Department, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). It is an affiliated hospital of the Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital. It is an affiliated teaching hospital of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University.[1] It is served by Khlong San BTS station since 16 December 2020.

November 8, 2024

The Ulysses S. Grant Home in Galena, Illinois is the former home of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general and later the 18th president of the United States. The home was designed by William Dennison[3] and constructed in 1859 - 1860.[2] The home was given to Grant by residents of Galena in 1865 as thanks for his war service, and has been maintained as a memorial to Grant since 1904.

November 7, 2024

Sean Thornton (born 18 May 1983) is a former professional footballer.

November 6, 2024

Katharina Förster (born 6 November 1988) is a German freestyle skier. She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in the moguls event.[1]

November 5, 2024

Hwarangdae Station is an underground Metro Seoul station in Seoul, South Korea, served by the line 6.[1] The station is located in Gongneung-2(Yi) dong located near Korea Military Academy, where its name comes from,[3] Seoul Women's University and Sahmyook University, and it opened in 2000.

November 4, 2024

The Juan de Dios Chavez House is a historic house in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The date of construction is unknown but it was probably built sometime before 1875. The property was part of the land on which Juan Cristobal Armijo built his "New Homestead" around that time, and the Juan de Dios Chavez House is thought to be older based on its architecture. Juan de Dios Chavez, who belonged to an old North Valley family, acquired the house in the early 20th century.[3] The house was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1983 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[2]

November 3, 2024

Little Red Lies is a 2013 young adult novel by Canadian author Julie Johnston. The coming of age novel is set immediately after World War II in a small Canadian town.[1][2]

November 2, 2024

The Ninety-Seventh Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 3, 2005, to January 3, 2007, in regular session, and held two concurrent special sessions in January 2005 and February 2006, and two extraordinary sessions in July 2005 and April 2006.[1]

November 1, 2024

The Tennessee Volunteer men's tennis team represents the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, TN. The program has appeared in 31 NCAA Tournaments. Additionally, the Vols have won 9 SEC Championships, 4 SEC Tournaments, and finished as national runner-up three times. Prominent ATP players who came to Tennessee include Tennys Sandgren, John-Patrick Smith, Chris Woodruff, Paul Annacone, Michael Fancutt, and Mike De Palmer.

October 31, 2024

Zeiten ändern dich (English title Times Change You) is a German biographical film directed by Uli Edel and starring rapper Bushido, as well as Elyas M'Barek and Moritz Bleibtreu. The film is based on Bushido's 2008 autobiography. [1][2] The film premiered in Berlin on 3 February 2010. [3]

October 30, 2024

Penguin Island is a small island, with an area of 2.73 ha, part of the North Coast Group, lying in the southern Bass Strait near Devonport in north-west Tasmania. It is part of the Narawntapu National Park. An estimated 100 pairs of little penguins breed on the island.[1]

October 29, 2024

Bhai Dayala (Gurmukhi: ਭਾਈ ਦਿਆਲਾ ਜੀ), also known as Bhai Dayal Das, was an early martyr of Sikhism.[1] He was boiled alongside his Sikh companions Bhai Mati Das and Bhai Sati Das and the Ninth Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur.[citation needed]

October 28, 2024

Hens' Teeth Women's Comedy Company is a woman-only comedy troupe based in Wellington, New Zealand founded in 1988.

October 27, 2024

Revenge of the Goldfish is the third studio album by the English band Inspiral Carpets.[8] It was released on 5 October 1992 through Mute Records.[9] The band supported the album by touring with Sunscreem.[10]

October 26, 2024

The Rotterdam Marathon, currently branded NN Rotterdam Marathon, is an annual marathon that has been held in Rotterdam, Netherlands since 1981. It has been held in April every year since the third edition in 1984 and attracts many top athletes. It has also been ranked as one of the top 10 marathons in the world by Runner's World magazine.[1] The event is the most popular marathon in the Netherlands, followed by the marathons of Amsterdam and Eindhoven.

October 25, 2024

Mercedes Mariana "Nina" Aragonés de Juárez[2] (12 September 1926[1] – 25 July 2023) was an Argentine politician who was Governor of Santiago del Estero Province from 2002 to 2004. The wife of longtime governor and local caudillo[3] Carlos Arturo Juárez, Aragonés was the last head of a provincial state in Argentina removed from office through federal intervention.

October 24, 2024

Spirulina ardissoni is a cyanobacteria from the family Microcoleaceae.[1]

October 23, 2024

Mike Meinardus is a special effects supervisor. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Kong: Skull Island.[1][2]

October 22, 2024

Petilianus was an eminent Donatist of the 5th century Roman North Africa, who is known to history through the letters he wrote to the Catholic Bishop Augustine of Hippo and discourses in Augustine's replies. Although most of what we know of him comes from Augustine, his main theology seems to have been "that the true church was only composed of those who were repentant."[1]

October 21, 2024

Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field is a late 19th-century painting by American impressionist John Singer Sargent. Done in oil on canvas, the painting a scene set in a wheat field near the village of Broadway, Worcestershire.[1]

October 20, 2024

Ngin Marady (Khmer: ងិន ម៉ារ៉ាឌី; born 1999), also known as Ngin Rosa (Khmer: ងិន រ៉ូសា), is a Cambodian model, actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Cambodia 2021. She represented Cambodia at Miss Universe 2021 in Eilat, Israel.

October 19, 2024

TeacherTube is a video sharing website. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed for teacher training. A number of students have also uploaded videos that they have made as part of K-12 and college courses. As of July 2008, the website contained over 26,000 videos. In October 2010, TeacherTube had over a million members and over 400,000 educational videos. It has found favor with educators from institutions where YouTube content is blocked by content filtering systems.[1]

October 18, 2024

The ASKAP radio telescope is a radio telescope array located at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

October 17, 2024

Darp is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. In 2001, the town of Darp had 507 inhabitants. It is a suburb of the municipality of Westerveld, and lies about 19 km west of Hoogeveen.

October 16, 2024

In set theory, Easton's theorem is a result on the possible cardinal numbers of powersets. Easton (1970) (extending a result of Robert M. Solovay) showed via forcing that the only constraints on permissible values for 2κ when κ is a regular cardinal are

October 15, 2024

Dorithia equadentana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

October 14, 2024

Nell Jongeneel (born 12 October 1956) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.[1]

October 13, 2024

Puerto Rico Highway 164 (PR-164) is the main road from Naranjito to Corozal in Puerto Rico.[5] It begins at the intersection of PR-167 and PR-148 in eastern Naranjito, passing through downtown. Then it goes to Corozal from its junction with PR-5 and PR-152 until reaching PR-159 near downtown Corozal.[6] This road is 16.4 km (10.2 mi) in length.

October 12, 2024

Wuhan Iron and Steel Company Limited known as WISCO (and formerly WGGF, abb. of pinyin: Wǔgāng gǔfèn), is a subsidiary of listed steel maker Baoshan Iron and Steel; Wuhan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. was a subsidiary of state-owned Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation until 2016. The main business was the steel plant in Qingshan District, Wuhan, while the parent company had transformed from steel making company to holding company and M&A vehicle.

October 11, 2024

John W. Smith (April 12, 1882 – June 17, 1942) was a long-time member of the Detroit City Council and was twice mayor of Detroit, Michigan.

October 10, 2024

The Sane Asylum is the debut album by the American thrash metal band Blind Illusion. It was originally released in 1988 through Combat Records. The album features guitarist Larry LaLonde and bassist Les Claypool before they went on to work on Primus and was co-produced by Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett.

October 9, 2024

A. Elizabeth Jones (born 1948) is an American diplomat and government official who served as the United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1995 to 1998 and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2001 to 2005.[1][2][3] She was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador in 2004.[4] Jones served as Chargé d'Affaires to India from 2022 to 2023. She had served Chargé d'Affaires to Egypt from October 9, 2023, to November 15, 2023.

October 8, 2024

Andy Roddick was the defending champion, but he retired from professional tennis in September 2012. Feliciano López won the title beating in the final Gilles Simon, 7–6(7–2), 6–7(5–7), 6–0 for the third title of his career, first since 2010.

October 7, 2024

Msied is a small town and rural commune in Tan-Tan Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun, Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 1023 people living in 189 households.[1]

October 6, 2024

Thingvalla line was a shipping company founded by Danish financier, industrialist and philanthropist Carl Frederik Tietgen in 1879 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It maintained a route between Copenhagen and New York City calling at Kristiania (present day Oslo) and Kristiansand on the way. At its peak, it had ten ships in its fleet. In 1898, the company was bought by DFDS, another Danish shipping company, and the name was changed to Scandinavian America Line. [1]

October 5, 2024

Dairsie railway station served the village of Dairsie, Fife, Scotland from 1848 to 1954 on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.

October 4, 2024

Mohamed Moustafa Abou Elela (born 25 June 1980) is an Egyptian wrestler. He competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.[1]

October 3, 2024

Presidential elections were held in Somaliland on 26 June 2010. The elections were originally scheduled for August 2008 and numerous delays, endangered political stability in the country. On 1 July 2010, the Somaliland National Election Commission announced that opposition candidate Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud had won the elections, defeating incumbent President Dahir Riyale Kahin.[1]

October 2, 2024

UN Arabic Language Day (Arabic: اليوم العالمي للغة العربية) is observed annually on December 18.[1] The event was established by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2010 seeking "to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six of its official working languages throughout the organization". December 18 was chosen as the date for the Arabic language as it is "the day in 1973 when the General Assembly approved Arabic as an official UN language".[2]

October 1, 2024

James Philip Heatly OLY (born 20 May 1997) is a British diver.

September 30, 2024

September 29, 2024

Paul Muntean (born 4 October 1984 in Baia Mare) is a Romanian bobsledder.[1][2]

September 28, 2024

The 5K run is a long-distance road running competition over a distance of five kilometres (3.107 mi). Also referred to as the 5K road race, 5 km, or simply 5K, it is the shortest of the most common road running distances. It is usually distinguished from the 5000 metres track running event by stating the distance in kilometres, rather than metres.

September 27, 2024

Jeffrey Ian "Jeff" Mackintosh (January 22, 1971 – September 24, 2016) was a game designer who worked primarily on role-playing games.

September 26, 2024

The 1985–86 Southern Football League season was the 83rd in the history of the league, an English football competition.

September 25, 2024

Greenfield is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Region of Queens Municipality.[1] The sawmill in Greenfield, founded in 1832, is one of the oldest family-run sawmill businesses in North America.[2] Until 1850 the region was occupied mostly by the Mi'kmaq of the Algonquin tribe,[3] who seasonally settled the area below the lakes on either side of what is now called the Medway River and was known by the Mi'kmaq as Wigadoon.[3]

September 24, 2024

Gavin Sheets (born April 23, 1996) is an American professional baseball right fielder and first baseman for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021.

September 23, 2024

Dundalk entered the 2016 season as the reigning League Champions and FAI Cup holders from 2014, having won the 'Double' for the first time since 1987–88. 2016 was Stephen Kenny's third season at the club as manager. It was Dundalk's seventh consecutive season in the top tier of Irish football, their 80th in all, and their 89th in the League of Ireland.

September 22, 2024

Events from the year 1647 in Sweden.

September 21, 2024

Deredüzü is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Şahinbey, Gaziantep Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 382 (2022).[2]

September 20, 2024

Gregorio Blasco (born 20 January 1944) is a Mexican rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[1]

September 19, 2024

Vehicle glass is glass used to provide light access to motor vehicles. It includes windscreens, side and rear windows, and glass panel roofs.

September 18, 2024

Lakeside Herbal Solutions is a cannabis dispensary located on Mullen Avenue in Clearlake, California.

September 17, 2024

Ceratophyllus liae[1] is a species of flea in the family Ceratophyllidae. It was described by Wenzhen and Chao in 1990.

September 16, 2024

Mount Scabby is a mountain with an elevation of 1,802 metres (5,912 ft) AHD that is located in the Scabby Range and is situated on the border of the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, Australia. The summit of the mountain is located within the ACT. The nearest town to the mountain is Adaminaby, approximately 27.4 kilometres (17.0 mi) to the south.[2]

September 15, 2024

Chris O'Shea (born 23 October 1973) is a British businessman. He has been the chief executive (CEO) of Centrica since early 2020.[1] He has been a non-executive director of ITT since May 2024.[2]

September 14, 2024

Impatiens niamniamensis, common name Congo cockatoo, parrot impatiens or simply parrot plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae.

September 13, 2024

This is a list of United States ambassadors appointed by the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.

September 12, 2024

Lorenzo Cybo de Mari (c. 1450/1451 – 21 December 1503) was an Italian Catholic cardinal. He was archbishop of Benevento.[1][2] As titular holder of the Basilica of Saint Mark in Rome, he is remembered today as the builder of the Appartamento Cibo[3] a series of seven rooms within the north wing of the Palazzo Venezia.

September 11, 2024

Timothy "Tim" Dwight Lewis[2] is an American politician who served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from January 18, 2011 to January 19, 2021.

September 10, 2024

João Baptista Aleixinho Fernandes (9 July 1913 – 16 July 1963), known professionally as Aleixinho de Candolim, was an Indian playwright, theatre director, singer, and composer who worked on the Konkani stage.

September 9, 2024

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (Russian: Аэропо́рт Толмачёво) (IATA: OVB, ICAO: UNNT) is situated in the town of Ob, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of the center of Novosibirsk, an industrial and scientific center in Siberia and Russia's third-largest city.

September 8, 2024

Playboy Collectors' Figures are a series of dolls modeled after popular Playboy Playmates.[1] Generally known as Playboy Dolls, the first doll was launched at the International Toy Fair in New York City in 2002. The dolls are 16 inches tall, dwarfing G.I. Joe dolls by 4 inches. Initial dolls in the series are:

September 7, 2024

Phytoecia bohemani is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1858, originally under the genus Saperda. It is known from South Africa.[1]

September 6, 2024

September 5, 2024

The Reykjavík College of Music (Icelandic: Menntaskóli í tónlist) is an Icelandic gymnasium (junior college) and music conservatory founded in 2017.

September 4, 2024

The whitecheek lanternshark (Etmopterus alphus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Indian Ocean.[1]

September 3, 2024

Lee Je-Kyu (Korean: 이제규; born 10 July 1986) is a South Korean football player who plays for Mokpo City.

September 2, 2024

Shilu was a chieftain of the Wanyan tribe, the most dominant among the Jurchen tribes which later founded the Jin dynasty (1115–1234). He was the eldest son of Suike. He was appointed chieftain of the Wanyan tribe by the Khitan-led Liao dynasty, which ruled northern China between the 10th and 11th centuries.

September 1, 2024

Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting a part of the historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Its 301-acre (122 ha) historic area includes several hundred restored or recreated buildings from the 18th century, when the city was the capital of the Colony of Virginia; 17th-century, 19th-century, and Colonial Revival structures; and more recent reconstructions. The historic area includes three main thoroughfares and their connecting side streets that attempt to suggest the atmosphere and the circumstances of 18th-century Americans. Costumed employees work and dress as people did in the era, sometimes using colonial grammar and diction.[4]

August 31, 2024

Easky Lough (Irish: Loch Iascaí),[4] also known as Easkey Lough or Lough Easky, is a freshwater lake in the northwest of Ireland. It is located in west County Sligo in the Ox Mountains.

August 30, 2024

The Marnes du Chevain is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period.

August 29, 2024

Herbert Wilcox was an English professional footballer who played as a left back in the Football League for Burnley.[1]

August 28, 2024

Hersilia savignyi is a hersiliid spider found in Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, Karnataka, West Bengal, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, and Sri Lanka.

August 27, 2024

Le Thuit (French pronunciation: [lə tɥi]) is a commune in the Eure department and Normandy region of northern France.

August 26, 2024

Plateau Systems is a provider of Talent Management Systems headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The company provides SaaS products that allow organizations to develop, analyze, and manage organizational talent.[citation needed]

August 25, 2024

Mobolaji Yemisi Adekunle-Oniyo, (born October 31, 1981), popularly known as Psalmos, is a Nigerian gospel singer, praise and worship leader and a songwriter who rose to prominence following the release of her hit song "Oluwa ku'se" featuring Kore, since then, Psalmos has ministered in a number of churches across Nigeria and UK, including Gloryhouse church in London.

August 24, 2024

Bilbil-Kazmalyar (Russian: Бильбиль-Казмаляр; Lezgian: Билбил-Къазма) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative centre of Bilbilsky Selsoviet, Magaramkentsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 2,042 as of 2010.[2] There are 28 streets.[3]

August 23, 2024

Asca mumatosimilis is a species of mite in the family Ascidae.[1]

August 22, 2024

Grant Needham (born 14 July 1970) is a Canadian former international soccer player who played as a striker.

August 21, 2024

Nicholas Ruddock is a Canadian writer. He is the author of two novels, The Parabolist (DoubleDay 2010)[1][2] and Night Ambulance (Breakwater 2016), and a collection of short stories, How Loveta Got Her Baby (Breakwater 2014). In 2016, he was shortlisted for the richest story prize in the world, the EFG Short Story Award, for his story "The Phosphorescence."[3][4][5]

August 20, 2024

Hemicladus fasciatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 1991. It is known from Ecuador and Brazil.[1]

August 19, 2024

"Second to No One" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Rosanne Cash. It was released in July 1986 as the fourth single from the album Rhythm & Romance. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

August 18, 2024

Stavyshche (Ukrainian: Ставище, Polish: Stawiszcze) is a rural settlement in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) in northern Ukraine, on the Hnylyi Tikych river. It hosts the administration of Stavyshche settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 6,056 (2022 estimate)[2]. In 2001, population was 7,929.

August 17, 2024

A pickled cucumber – commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and a gherkin (/ɡərkɪn/) in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand – is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solution and left to ferment. The fermentation process is executed either by immersing the cucumbers in an acidic solution or through souring by lacto-fermentation. Pickled cucumbers are often part of mixed pickles.

August 16, 2024

Nils Kristian Lysø (born 3 September 1905 in Jøssund, died 7 July 1977) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

August 15, 2024

Távora is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

August 14, 2024

Operation Steel Tiger was a covert U.S. 2nd Air Division, later Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction effort targeted against the infiltration of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) men and material moving south from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) through southeastern Laos to support their military effort in the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War.

August 13, 2024

Thomas William Marshall (1818–1877) was a Roman Catholic convert from Anglicanism during the Tractarian controversies.[1] In 1847 he became the first inspector of Catholic Schools in Great Britain. He resigned in 1860 after a controversy due to a pamphlet he wrote critical of Anglican missionary work.[1]

August 12, 2024

The Concordia Stingers women's ice hockey program represents Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in the sport of ice hockey in the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) conference of U Sports. The Stingers have won nineteen RSEQ conference championships and four U Sports national championships, in 1998, 1999, 2022, and 2024.[2]

August 11, 2024

Zrecze Duże [ˈzrɛt͡ʂɛ ˈduʐɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chmielnik, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) east of Chmielnik and 34 km (21 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kielce.[1]

August 10, 2024

Grantfork is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 341 as of the 2020 census.[3] It is part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.

August 9, 2024

Caloptilia betulivora is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Canada (Nova Scotia and Québec) the United States.[1]

August 8, 2024

Shreya Tripathi (died 9 October 2018) was an Indian health activist.

August 7, 2024

The 2005 Holland Series was a series of baseball games held from September 24, 2005 to October 1, 2005 between the two Dutch play-off winners DOOR Neptunus and Mr. Cocker HCAW. The first team to have won three games in the best-of-five-games series became Dutch champions in this case, Door Neptunus with 3 shutout wins.[1]

August 6, 2024

Holly A. Cork (born March 8, 1966) is an American politician. She served as a Republican[1] member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1989 to 1992 representing District 123, and a member of the South Carolina State Senate, representing District 46 from 1992 to 1999.[2] Cork was succeeded by Scott Head Richardson. At the time of her election in 1992, she and Sherry Shealy Martschink were the only women in the South Carolina Senate. She was a supporter of abortion rights.[1]

August 5, 2024

The Hwanghae Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line is an electrified standard-gauge secondary line of the Korean State Railway in the North and South Hwanghae provinces of North Korea, running from Sariwŏn to Haeju.[1] It connects to the P'yŏngbu Line at Sariwŏn, to the Ŭnnyul Line at Ŭnp'a, to the Paech'ŏn Line at Changbang, and to the Ongjin Line at Haeju.[1] It plays an important role in the transportation of freight and passengers in North and South Hwanghae provinces, serving important mining and industrial areas, as well as one of the DPRK's most important ports for foreign trade.[2]

August 4, 2024

Fergal mac Máele Dúin (died 11 December 722) was High King of Ireland. Fergal belonged to the Cenél nEógain sept of the northern Uí Néill. He was the son of Máel Dúin mac Máele Fithrich (died 681), a King of Ailech, and great-grandson of the high king Áed Uaridnach (died 612).[1] He belonged to the Cenél maic Ercae branch of the Cenél nEógain and was King of Ailech from 700 to 722.

August 3, 2024

T. D. Crittenden (né Trockwood Dwight Crittenden; September 27, 1878 – February 17, 1938) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1912 and 1924. He was born in Oakland, California, and died in Los Angeles, California.[1][2]

August 2, 2024

Podpiwek is a Polish and Lithuanian non-alcoholic beverage (even though it contains a small amount of alcohol, about 0.5%).

August 1, 2024

Vigo Meulengracht Madsen (13 November 1889 – 17 June 1979) was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]

July 31, 2024

The Saxon is an armoured personnel carrier formerly used by the British Army and supplied in small numbers to various overseas organisations. It was developed by GKN Sankey from earlier projects, AT 100 IS and AT104, and was due to be replaced by the Future Rapid Effect System.

July 30, 2024

The Yellow World (Spanish: El Mundo Amarillo) is a semi-autobiographical work by Albert Espinosa. The book details the author's experience with cancer and describes his hospital experience.[1] Written as a series of twenty-three discoveries made by the author during his ten-year fight against cancer,[2] Espinosa describes the people he met during his stay in the hospital, recalling those who inspired him. In the last chapters of the book, Espinosa describes such people as "Yellows" – people who make a significant impact on one's life and help transform it for the better.

July 29, 2024

WFLX (channel 29), branded on-air as Fox 29, is a television station in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with the E. W. Scripps Company, owner of NBC affiliate WPTV-TV (channel 5) and Stuart-licensed news-formatted independent station WHDT (channel 9), for the provision of certain services. The stations share studios on South Australian Avenue in downtown West Palm Beach (mailing address says Banyan Boulevard, also known as 1st Street); WFLX's transmitter is located near Wellington west of US 441/SR 7.

July 28, 2024

A Room of One's Own is an independent bookstore located at 2717 Atwood Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. The store was founded in 1975[1] as a feminist bookstore and was named after Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay of the same name. A Room of One's Own carries a broad selection of books, with a focus on works by women and non-binary people and the LGBT community.

July 27, 2024

Keet-McElhany House is a historic home located at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. It was built in 1881, and enlarged in 1886, and remodeled in 1900. It is a two-story, brick dwelling with a frame attic and reflects Italianate and Queen Anne style design elements. It features a multi-hipped and gable roof, porch with a projecting gable, and round corner tower.[2]: 2 

July 26, 2024

Ajmaline (also known by trade names Gilurytmal, Ritmos, and Aritmina) is an alkaloid that is classified as a 1-A antiarrhythmic agent. It is often used to induce arrhythmic contraction in patients suspected of having Brugada syndrome. Individuals suffering from Brugada syndrome will be more susceptible to the arrhythmogenic effects of the drug, and this can be observed on an electrocardiogram as an ST elevation.

July 25, 2024

Ban Phiadouang is a village in Phouvong District in the Attopu Province of south-eastern Laos.[1]

July 24, 2024

A seed nucleus is an isotope that is the starting point for any of a variety of fusion chain reactions. The mix of nuclei produced at the conclusion of the chain reaction generally depends strongly on the relative availability of the seed nucleus or nuclei and the component being fused--whether neutrons as in the r-process and s-process or protons as in the rp-process. A smaller proportion of seed nuclei will generally result in products of larger mass, whereas a larger seed-to-neutron or seed-to-proton ratio will tend to produce comparatively lighter masses.

July 23, 2024

Foss O. Eldred (1884–1956) was Attorney General of Michigan in 1946 when he was appointed to fill out an unexpired term. He also held many other political offices.

July 22, 2024

Sindora inermis is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree found in Sumatra and the Philippines. It is threatened by habitat loss.

July 21, 2024

Nancy Pyle (née Halloran; 1937 or 1938 – July 14, 2023) was an American educator and politician. A Democrat, she served on the San Jose City Council from 2005 to 2012. Pyle was previously a school teacher and president of her local community college district board.

July 20, 2024

The 1981 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 3–5 at a combination of on-campus gymnasiums and the Beaumont Civic Center in Beaumont, Texas.[2] This was the first edition of the tournament.

July 19, 2024

Bacillus aminovorans is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped species of bacteria. Samples of this species have been isolated from dust above the Atlantic Ocean.[1] Though phenotypically similar to the species Sporosarcina globispora (formerly Bacillus globisporus), Bacillus marinus, and Bacillus insolitus, B. aminovorans is the only one of these species capable of using sucrose as a sole carbon source.[2]

July 18, 2024

Hammarby IF Speedway was a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Stockholm, Sweden. The club has not been competing in the domestic leagues since 2016, after their home ground Gubbängens IP was demolished. Their biggest success was winning the bronze medal in Elitserien in 2007.[1]

July 17, 2024

The Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) is an organization supporting medical marijuana that was founded in 1981 by Robert C. Randall and Alice O'Leary.[1] Randall was the first person known to have successfully used medical necessity as a defense against a charge of marijuana possession in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.[2]

July 16, 2024

The National Textile Association is the United States's oldest and largest association of fabric-forming companies. NTA members knit and weave fabric in the U.S.; supply fibers, yarns to the fabric-forming industry; or supply other materials or services to the American textile industry.

July 15, 2024

Cláudio Seto (1944 – November 15, 2008) was a Brazilian journalist, visual artist, comic artist, poet, photographer, cultural animator and bonsai artist.[1][2] Of Japanese descent, at age nine he went to study at a Zen monastery in Japan, where he took the opportunity to visit Osamu Tezuka's studio on weekends.[3] When he returned to Brazil in the 1960s, he was hired by Edrel publishing house, where he published stories about samurai and ninja, who were still little known by Brazilians.[4] Seto is considered the forerunner of the use of the manga style in Brazilian comics and his best-known character was O Samurai.[5][6] In the 1970s, he moved to Curitiba to work at the Grafipar publishing house, which had hired some of the best Brazilian comic artists of the time (in addition to Seto, other artists who also moved to the city were Flavio Colin, Julio Shimamoto, Mozart Couto, Watson Portela, Rodval Matias and Franco de Rosa).[7] In 1988, he was awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.[8]

July 14, 2024

John Birkbeck (6 July 1817 – 31 July 1890)[1] was a Yorkshireman, banker, alpinist, and pioneer potholer.

July 13, 2024

Moshe "Misha" Lewin (/ˌləˈvin/ lə-VEEN; 7 November 1921 – 14 August 2010) was a scholar of Russian and Soviet history. He was a major figure in the school of Soviet studies which emerged in the 1960s.

July 12, 2024

Carlos Lalanne (born 14 December 1906, date of death unknown) was a Chilean sports shooter. He competed in the 50 m pistol event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

July 11, 2024

Alexandria "Allie" Quigley (born June 20, 1986) is an American and Hungarian professional basketball player who last played for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).[1]

July 10, 2024

Conus crosnieri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]

July 9, 2024

In molecular genetics, a repressor is a DNA- or RNA-binding protein that inhibits the expression of one or more genes by binding to the operator or associated silencers. A DNA-binding repressor blocks the attachment of RNA polymerase to the promoter, thus preventing transcription of the genes into messenger RNA. An RNA-binding repressor binds to the mRNA and prevents translation of the mRNA into protein. This blocking or reducing of expression is called repression.

July 8, 2024

Major General James Lester Bradley (May 18, 1891 − July 30, 1957) was a United States Army officer who commanded the 96th Infantry Division throughout its existence in World War II.

July 7, 2024

Ypthima avanta, the jewel fourring, is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in Asia.[1]

July 6, 2024

Fernando "Nando" Maria Neves (born 9 June 1978) is a retired Cape Verdean football defender who played for the Cape Verde national football team.

July 5, 2024

Adriana Iliescu (born 31 May 1938) is a Romanian retired university teacher, philologist and author of children's novels. She received international media attention in 2005, when she gave birth to daughter Eliza at age 66, making her the oldest birth mother in the world until this record was broken in 2006 by María del Carmen Bousada de Lara. Eliza, who was delivered at Giuleşti Maternity Hospital on 16 January 2005 in Bucharest, is Iliescu's biological (but not genetic) child, since she gestated in Iliescu's womb but was conceived by an ovum and sperm donated anonymously.[1][2][3]

July 4, 2024

The Nishitetsu 9000 series (西鉄9000形) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) in Japan on the Nishitetsu Tenjin Ōmuta Line since 20 March 2017.

July 3, 2024

Stanley is an American brand of food and beverage containers invented by William Stanley Jr.[1][2] The company was founded in 1913, and is best known for its Stanley Quencher line, also known as Stanley cups.

July 2, 2024

Porter Creek South is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Canada. It comprises part of the Whitehorse subdivision of Porter Creek and is the smallest riding in Whitehorse. It is bordered by the ridings of Porter Creek Centre, Porter Creek North, and Takhini-Kopper King.

July 1, 2024

John Holmes (1828 – 22 September 1879)[1] was a Canadian politician and surveyor.[2]

June 30, 2024

Castle Hill is a neighborhood located in the southeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Its boundaries are Waterbury Avenue and Westchester Avenue to the north, Westchester Creek to the east, the East River to the south, and White Plains Road to the west. Unionport is a subsection of Castle Hill, typically considered north of Lafayette Avenue.

June 29, 2024

A leadership election was held by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party on 10 October 1996. It was won by incumbent Prime Minister and President of UMNO, Mahathir Mohamad.

June 28, 2024

Ashk (Persian: اشك, also Romanized as Ashg and Eshk; also known as Kaleh Ishq, Qal‘eh Ishq, and Qal‘eh-ye ‘Eshq)[1] is a village in Darmian Rural District, in the Central District of Darmian County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 569, in 109 families.[2]

June 27, 2024

Andrzej Barszczyński (born 26 March 1941) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and camera operator. He is best known as a co-screenwriter for the cult film Rejs (1970).[1]

June 26, 2024

"Do the Dangle" is a song written by John Entwistle. The song is on his album, Rigor Mortis Sets In. This entire album is an affectionate homage to, or satire of, 1950s and 1960s rock music. In addition to some actual "oldies", original compositions include "Roller Skate Kate" and "Peg Leg Peggy". The lyrics for the latter say that Peggy "really knows how to hop", a phrase originally used in rock songs to mean that a person was a skilled dancer, but in this case is a blackly humorous reference to Peggy having an artificial ("peg") leg.

June 25, 2024

Adolf Dahm-Petersen (2 January 1856 – 29 January 1922[1]) was a Norwegian voice specialist and singing teacher.

June 24, 2024

The Battle of Sarakhs took place between the Seljuk Turks and the Ghaznavid state during which Tughril Beg and Chaghri Beg inflicted a major defeat against the Ghaznavids.[1][2]

June 23, 2024

The term Scoto-Norman (also Franco-Scottish or Franco-Gaelic) is used to describe people, families, institutions and archaeological artifacts that are partly Scottish (in some sense) and partly Anglo-Norman (in some sense). It is used to refer to people or things of Norman, Anglo-Norman, French or even Flemish or Breton origin,[1][2] but who are associated with Scotland in the Middle Ages like Scoto-Anglo-Saxon.[1][2] It is also used for any of these things where they exhibit syncretism between French or Anglo-French culture on the one hand and Gaelic culture on the other.

June 22, 2024

The 1985 Lombard regional election took place on 12 May 1985. The 4th term of the Regional Council was chosen.

June 21, 2024

The men's 5000 metres event at the Friendship Games was held on 18 August 1984 at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union.

June 20, 2024

Peter John Bowles (16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022)[1] was an English screen and stage actor. He gained prominence for television dramas such as Callan: A Magnum for Schneider and I, Claudius. He is however, best remembered for his roles in sitcoms and television comedy dramas, including: Rumpole of the Bailey, Only When I Laugh, To the Manor Born, The Bounder, The Irish R.M., Lytton's Diary, Executive Stress and Perfect Scoundrels.

June 19, 2024

"Operation Chronicle" is the twelfth episode of the second season of the American television drama series The Americans, and the 25th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on FX in the United States on May 14, 2014.

June 18, 2024

The Picton–Battersby line was a railway line running from Picton, North Yorkshire, England, on what is now the Northallerton–Eaglescliffe line, to Battersby on what is now the Esk Valley line.

June 17, 2024

Setsuko Shimada (島田 節子, Shimada Setsuko, born 14 August 1938) is a Japanese former swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[1]

June 16, 2024

Licinius Valerianus Minor (died 268) was the son of Roman emperor Valerian and his second wife Cornelia Gallonia, and half-brother of Gallienus.

June 15, 2024

Alibis & Other Lies is the fifth studio album by Grinspoon, which was released 21 July 2007. The first single from the album is Black Tattoo, being released as a digital download on 23 June and on Single 30 June 2007. Ramesh Sathiah, producer of Green Album and Licker Bottle Cozy, is producing the album. "Black Tattoo" is more similar to songs from Guide to Better Living than the songs off their last album, but the rest of the songs range from AC/DC-esque rockers like "Choirboy" to country rock songs like "Find Your Own Way", to glam metal songs like "Carried Away" and to soft rock songs like "Minute by Minute".

June 14, 2024

The Standard Bank of Malawi, previously known as the Commercial Bank of Malawi, is a commercial bank in Malawi. It is licensed by the Reserve Bank of Malawi, the central bank and national banking regulator.[3]

June 13, 2024

Monckton's Gazeka, also called the Papuan Devil-Pig is an animal said to have been seen on Papua New Guinea in the early 20th century. It is said to resemble a tapir or a giant sloth, having a long, proboscis-like snout, and some theories suggest it may be the descendant of an extinct marsupial belonging to the family Palorchestidae.

June 12, 2024

Universalist Herald is a publication of the Universalist Herald Publishing company. "Universalist Heritage and Spirit Today" and "The Oldest Continuously Published Liberal Religious Periodical in North America" are the subtitles of the modern edition.

June 11, 2024

Colle Umberto (Venetian: Cołe Unberto) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Venice and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Treviso.

June 10, 2024

Julie Meyers (born 17 August 2000) is a Belgian artistic gymnast and a member of the national team.[1] She represented Belgium at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, and she competed at the 2016 European Championships in the senior category.[2]

June 9, 2024

Wrocław (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvrɔt͡swaf] ⓘ; UK: /ˈvrɒtswɑːf/ VROT-swahf,[3] US: /ˈvrɔːtswɑːf, -slɑːf/ ⓘ VRAWT-swahf, -⁠slahf.[4][5] German: Breslau, [ˈbʁɛslaʊ] ⓘ, also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Sudeten Mountains to the south. As of 2023, the official population of Wrocław is 674,132 making it the third largest city in Poland. The population of the Wrocław metropolitan area is around 1.25 million.

June 8, 2024

Adubarie "Chris"[1] Otorubio is a former Nigerian football (soccer) defender who played professionally in the American Soccer League.

June 7, 2024

Syed Javed Ali Shah (Urdu: سید جاوید علی شاہ; born 6 January 1955) is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Water Resources, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, between 1990 and May 2018 and had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 1988 to 1990.

June 6, 2024

The plumbeous-crowned tyrannulet (Phyllomyias plumbeiceps) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is found in the countries of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

June 5, 2024

Onatas (Ancient Greek: Ὀνάτας) was a Pythagorean philosopher who lived in or around the 5th century BC,[1] possibly in either Croton[2] or Tarentum[3] in Magna Graecia. Nothing more is known about his life, but he is credited by Stobaeus as the author of a pseudonymous Neo-Pythagorean work from the 1st century BC or AD entitled On God and the Divine (Ancient Greek: Περὶ θεοῦ καὶ θείου), which Stobaeus excerpts a long passage from.[4] The author of the passage ("Pseudo-Onatas") argues against the belief in a single deity, on the basis that the universe itself is not God but only divine,[5] but that God is a governing part of the universe.[6] He argues that since there are many "powers" in the universe, therefore they must belong to different gods.[7] Pseudo-Onatas also claimed that the earthy mixture of the body defiles the purity of the soul.[8]

June 4, 2024

Lucius H. Langworthy (February 1807 – June 9, 1865) was an American lead miner, businessman, banker and local politician from Dubuque, Iowa who held public office in Michigan Territory, Wisconsin Territory and Iowa Territory.

June 3, 2024

BAS World also known as Brabant Automobile Service is a Dutch company that offers a platform to buy and sell commercial vehicles machinery and equipment.[1]

June 2, 2024

Taherabad (Persian: طاهراباد, also Romanized as Ţāherābād)[1] is a village in Darzab Rural District, in the Central District of Mashhad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 24, in 6 families.[2]

June 1, 2024

Joseph Seraphim Fortes[1] (9 February 1863 – 4 February 1922) was a British-Canadian lifeguard. He was a prominent figure in the early history of Vancouver, and the city's first official lifeguard.

May 31, 2024

Lower Kinnerton Hall, also known as Bridge Farmhouse, stands adjacent to the England-Wales border to the west of the village of Lower Kinnerton, Cheshire, England. The house is dated 1685, and carries the initials TTET.[1] Attached to it is a shippon (cattle-shed) dating from the 18th century.[2] A wing was added to the rear in the 19th century.[1] The house is constructed in brown brick with stone dressings, and has a slated roof. It is in two storeys and its entrance front has five bays.[2] There are three large Dutch gables on the entrance front, and another on the north face, each with reverse-curved scrolls supporting pediments.[1] The windows are casements. At the rear of the house is a semi-hexagonal bay window and a timber-framed porch. The shippon is also in two storeys, and constructed in brick with slate roofs.[2] Also at the rear of the house is a cobbled courtyard.[1] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner describes the building as "quite an impressive house".[3] The house and attached shippon are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

May 30, 2024

The Western Governors' Association (WGA) is a non-partisan organization of all 22 United States governors (representing 19 U.S. states and 3 U.S. territories) that are considered to be part of the Western region of the nation.

May 29, 2024

Kahkadan (Persian: كهكدان)[a] is a village in, and the capital of, Samen Rural District of Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan province, Iran.[4]

May 28, 2024

Mariamman temple Kampung Sungai Bakau, also known as Arulmigu Sri Maha Mariamman Aalayam, is situated in the village of Kampung Sungai Bakau, Rawang, Selangor, Malaysia. It was founded in 1907 by a person called Late Kanniammah, as a small hut maintained by the Sungai Bakau villagers. Not long afterwards, this wood-built Mariamman temple was constructed, and religious activity continued for the benefit of the village residents. The temple is also directly led by several leaders in Sungai Bakau, and through specific development. in 1989, it was visited by the then Malaysian Indian Congress President Datuk Seri S. Samy Velu who also contributed RM 5000 to fund the development. In 1989 also posted the history of this temple for the ceremony of Kumbhabhishekham.[clarification needed] As of February 2012, the temple was headed by Mr. Manimaran.

May 27, 2024

An ink eraser is an instrument used to scrape away or chemically bleach ink from a writing surface. This is a more involved process than removing pencil markings. Pencil marks can be gradually adhered to natural rubber fragments by rubbing the mark with a pencil eraser (this action is what prompted Joseph Priestley to give solidified latex its common name.) Ink, however readily penetrates the fibers of most papers and is therefore more difficult to extract by mechanical action.

May 26, 2024

Dorcadion tianshanskii is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Suvorov in 1910.[1]

May 25, 2024

Franco Egidio Malerba (born 10 October 1946 in Busalla, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy) is an Italian astronaut and Member of the European Parliament. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space. In 1994, he was elected to the European Parliament on the lists of Forza Italia, serving until 1999.

May 24, 2024

The first railway in Austria was the narrow-gauge line from Gmunden in the Salzkammergut to Budweis, now in the Czech Republic, this was 1,106 mm (3 ft 7 + 1⁄2 in) gauge. Some two dozen lines were built in 760 mm (2 ft 5 + 15⁄16 in) gauge, a few in 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3⁄8 in) metre gauge gauge. The first was the Steyrtalbahn. Others were built by provincial governments, some lines are still in common carrier use and a number of others are preservation projects. The tramway network in Innsbruck is also metre gauge; in Linz the rather unusual gauge of 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7⁄16 in) is in use.

May 23, 2024

Triisopropylphosphine is the tertiary phosphine with the formula P(CH(CH3)2)3. Commonly used as a ligand in organometallic chemistry, it is often abbreviated to Pi-Pr3 or PiPr3. This ligand is one of the most basic alkyl phosphines with a large ligand cone angle of 160.[1]

May 22, 2024

South Carolina Amendment 1 of 2006 amended the South Carolina Constitution to make it unconstitutional for the U.S. state to recognize or perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. The referendum was approved by 78% of voters.[1] Unlike the other sixteen such state amendments, South Carolina's explicitly disavows any effort to prevent private contracts between same-sex partners from being recognized[2]—Virginia being the only state to do so.[3][4]

May 21, 2024

The Daily Biological is an album by the Chad Taylor Trio, led by drummer Taylor, and featuring saxophonist Brian Settles and pianist Neil Podgurski. It was recorded on August 9, 2019, and September 18, 2019, at Park West Studios in Brooklyn, New York, and was released in 2020 by Cuneiform Records.[1][2][3]

May 20, 2024

Charles Hudson (November 14, 1795 – May 4, 1881) was an American minister, writer, historian and politician. Hudson served in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court, on the Massachusetts Governor's Council, and as United States Representative from Massachusetts.

May 19, 2024

Gescom is an electronic music project based in the UK with close ties to the electronic duo Autechre.

May 18, 2024

Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger (December 23, 1862 – February 22, 1938) was an American Democratic politician and the 15th Governor of Nebraska from 1909 to 1911.

May 17, 2024

The 2000 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at the Santos Stadium in Adelaide, Australia, between August 24–26, 2000.

May 16, 2024

GoodPop is an American Certified B Corporation[1] and a producer of all natural and organic ice pops, frozen desserts and sparkling juices, headquartered in Austin, Texas.[2] The company was founded in 2009 by then University of Texas student Daniel Goetz.[3]

May 15, 2024

Shozin Fukui (福居ショウジン, Fukui Shōjin) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has produced three experimental shorts (Metal Days, Gerorisuto, and Caterpillar) and two full-length films (964 Pinocchio, and Rubber's Lover). These movies (excluding Metal Days) were widely available, having been issued on DVD by Unearthed Films. However, these releases have since gone out of print. He has released four more films since then (Onne, Den-Sen, The Hiding and S-94).[1][2] These are almost completely unknown outside Japan.