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House at 28 Cordis Street
28 Cordis Street is a historic house located in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is significant as a well-preserved example of the Greek Revival style houses built during the early to mid 19th century.
Acali
The Acali was a raft which was used in the Acali Expedition or Acali Experiment. It has also been nicknamed the Sex Raft. The raft had a complement of eleven people: five men and six women. It left Las Palmas, Spain on 12 May 1973 and took 101 days to drift across the Atlantic Ocean …
Fireless locomotive
A fireless locomotive is a type of locomotive which uses reciprocating engines powered from a reservoir of compressed air or steam, which is filled at intervals from an external source. They offer advantages over conventional steam locomotives of lower cost per unit, cleanliness, and decreased risk from fire or boiler explosion; these are counterbalanced by …
KFFX-TV
KFFX-TV (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Pendleton, Oregon, United States, serving the Tri-Cities, Washington area as an affiliate of Fox and Telemundo. It is the only major commercial station in the Tri-Cities area that is licensed to the Oregon side of the market. Owned by Cox Media Group, KFFX-TV has studios on …
Bonnybridge
Bonnybridge is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It is 4.0 miles (6.4 km) west of Falkirk, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) north-east of Cumbernauld and 8.3 miles (13.4 km) south-southwest of Stirling. The village is situated near the Bonny Water which runs through the town and lies north of the Forth and …
Halland County
Halland County is a county on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad.
Missing middle housing
Missing middle housing describes a range of multi-family or clustered housing types that are compatible in scale with single-family or transitional neighborhoods. Missing middle housing is intended to meet the demand for walkable neighborhoods, respond to changing demographics, and provide housing at different price points. The term “missing middle” is meant to describe housing types …
Genesee, Wisconsin
Genesee is a town in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 7,284 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Bethesda, Genesee Depot, and Saylesville are in the town.
Niederneukirchen
Niederneukirchen is a municipality in the district Linz-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Läckeby
Läckeby is a locality situated in Kalmar Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 847 inhabitants in 2010.
New York Agreement
The New York Agreement is an agreement signed by the Netherlands and Indonesia regarding the administration of the territory of Western New Guinea. The first part of the agreement proposes that the United Nations assume administration of the territory, and a second part proposes a set of social conditions that will be provided if the …
Sickhouse
Sickhouse is a 2016 thriller that was written and directed by Hannah Macpherson and starring YouTube personality Andrea Russett. The film was initially released between April 29 and May 3, 2016 on the instant image messaging mobile app Snapchat via Russett’s account in one to ten second increments in the mobile 9:16 vertical orientation. On …
Giovanni Andrea Sirani
Giovanni Andrea Sirani (4 September 1610 – 21 May 1670) was an Italian Baroque painter from Bologna. He is best known as the father of the female painter Elisabetta Sirani. Sirani trained initially with Giacomo Cavedone, then worked in the studio with Guido Reni. He became entangled in various conspiracies circling around the death of …
Micklefield
Micklefield is a village and civil parish east of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It neighbours Garforth, Aberford and Brotherton and is close to the A1 Motorway. It is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. The population as of the 2011 Census was 1,893, increased from 1,852 in 2001.
Accessory spleen
An accessory spleen is a small nodule of splenic tissue found apart from the main body of the spleen. Accessory spleens are found in approximately 10 percent of the population and are typically around 1 centimetre in diameter. They may resemble a lymph node or a small spleen. They form either by the result of …
Denver Water
Denver Water is a utility in Colorado. It is Colorado’s oldest and largest water utility. Denver Water serves 1.4 million people in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, and a portion of its surrounding suburbs. Established in 1918, the utility is a public agency funded by water rates and new tap fees, not taxes.
Jared Nandin
Jarod Nandin was a member of the Blizzard fan community, known for his South Park World of Warcraft cosplay. Nandin rose to viral fame for his 2013 cosplay of “That Which Has No Life,” the unkempt antagonist of South Park’s World of Warcraft episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft.”
Mehrdasht District
Mehrdasht District is a district (bakhsh) in Najafabad County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 24,342, in 6,605 families. The District has two cities: Dehagh and Alavicheh. The District has two rural districts (dehestan): Eshen Rural District and Hoseynabad Rural District.
Rebreuve-sur-Canche
Rebreuve-sur-Canche is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Coordinates: 50°15′55″N 2°20′30″E Country France Region Hauts-de-France Department Pas-de-Calais Arrondissement Arras Canton Avesnes-le-Comte Intercommunality CC Campagnes de l’Artois Government • Mayor (2020–2026) Michel Dugarin Area1 8.28 km2 (3.20 sq mi) • Density 23/km2 (59/sq mi) Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST) INSEE/Postal code 62694 /62270 Elevation 72–149 m (236–489 ft)(avg. 76 m or 249 ft) Rebreuve-sur-Canche lies …
Buy Me a Boat (Song)
Buy Me a Boat is the debut album of American country music singer Chris Janson. The album was released on October 30, 2015. It features the singles “Buy Me a Boat”, “Power of Positive Drinkin’” and “Holdin’ Her”
55 Pandora
Pandora (minor planet designation: 55 Pandora) is a fairly large and very bright asteroid in the asteroid belt. Pandora was discovered by American astronomer and Catholic priest George Mary Searle on September 10, 1858, from the Dudley Observatory near Albany, NY. It was his first and only asteroid discovery.
Goomba
Goombas, known in Japan as Kuribo, are a fictional mushroom-like species from Nintendo’s Mario franchise. They first appeared in the NES video game Super Mario Bros. as the first enemy players encounter. They have appeared outside video games, including in film, television, and other media. They are usually brown and are most commonly seen walking …
Elatostema
Elatostema is a genus of flowering plants containing approximately 350 known species in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to tropical forest clearings throughout Australasia, Asia and Africa. There may be as many as 1,000 species of this little-known genus, which is susceptible to deforestation and other forms of human exploitation. Some species, for instance the …
Bartlehiem
Bartlehiem is a hamlet, located partially in Noardeast-Fryslân, partially in Tytsjerksteradiel, and partially in Leeuwarden. It consists of about 40 houses.
Euriphene amaranta
Euriphene amaranta is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele, Tshopo, Kivu) and in western Uganda.
Castle of Gioiosa Guardia
The Castle of Gioiosa Guardia is a medieval castle in Villamassargia, province of South Sardinia, Italy.
Pitersky District
Pitersky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,600 square kilometers (1,000 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Piterka. Population: 18,054 (2010 Census); 19,581 (2002 Census); …
Nyzhni Sirohozy Raion
Nyzhni Sirohozy Raion was one of the 18 administrative raions (a district) of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center was located in the urban-type settlement of Nyzhni Sirohozy. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast …
The Nippon Dental University
The Nippon Dental University is a private university in Tokyo and Niigata, Japan, established in 1947. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1907. One out of every seven dentists in Japan is a graduate of this school.
Nore Neset Church
Nore Neset Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bjørnafjorden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hagavik, just west of the municipal centre of Osøyro. It is one of the two churches for the Os parish which is part of the Fana prosti (deanery) in …
Songpan County
Songpan; former Songzhou, is a county of northwestern Sichuan province, China, and is one of the 13 counties administered by the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It has an area of 8,486 square kilometres (3,276 sq mi), and a population of approximately 68,000 composed of Tibetan, Qiang, Han and Hui populations.
Penitential Act
The Penitential Act is a form of general confession of sinfulness that normally takes place at the beginning of the celebration of Mass in the Roman Rite.
Pirenópolis
Pirenópolis is a town located in the Brazilian state of Goiás. It is known for its waterfalls and Portuguese colonial architecture, and a popular festival involving mounted horses called Festa do Divino Espírito Santo which takes place 45 days after Easter.
Oxathiapiprolin
Oxathiapiprolin (trade names Orondis, Zorvec, and Segovis) is a fungicide. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency has approved it for use against several fungal diseases including downy mildew and various Phytophthorae including late blight on crops including vegetables, ornamentals, and turf.
Din Daeng district
Din Daeng is one of the 50 districts (khet) of Bangkok, Thailand. Its neighbours, clockwise from north, are Chatuchak, Huai Khwang, Ratchathewi, and Phaya Thai.
Rangiya–New Tinsukia Express
The Rangiya–New Tinsukia Express is an Express train belonging to Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between Rangiya Junction and New Tinsukia Junction in India. It is currently being operated with 15927/15928 train numbers on a six days in a weekly basis.
Danoprevir
Danoprevir (INN) is an orally available 15-membered macrocyclic peptidomimetic inhibitor of NS3/4A HCV protease. It contains acylsulfonamide, fluoroisoindole and tert-butyl carbamate moieties. Danoprevir is a clinical candidate based on its favorable potency profile against multiple HCV genotypes 1–6 and key mutants (GT1b, IC50 = 0.2–0.4 nM; replicon GT1b, EC50 = 1.6 nM). Danoprevir has been …
Panhard et Levassor Dynamic
The Panhard et Levassor Dynamic is a large car introduced by the French auto-maker Panhard et Levassor as a replacement for the company’s CS model at the Paris Motor Show in October 1936.
Selliguea
Selliguea is a fern genus in the family Polypodiaceae. The type species is Selliguea feei.
Xenos vesparum
Xenos vesparum is a parasitic insect species of the order Strepsiptera that are endoparasites of paper wasps in the genus Polistes (most commonly Polistes dominula) that was first described in 1793. Like other members of this family, X. vesparum displays a peculiar lifestyle, and demonstrates extensive sexual dimorphism.
Treasurer of the Navy
The Treasurer of the Navy, originally called Treasurer of Marine Causes or Paymaster of the Navy, was a civilian officer of the Royal Navy, one of the principal commissioners of the Navy Board responsible for naval finance from 1524 to 1832. The treasurer was based at the Navy Pay Office.
Humerus fracture
A humerus fracture is a break of the humerus bone in the upper arm. Symptoms may include pain, swelling, and bruising. There may be a decreased ability to move the arm and the person may present holding their elbow. Complications may include injury to an artery or nerve, and compartment syndrome.
Cranidium
Cranidium is an monotypic genus of stick insects in the monotypic tribe Cranidiini. The single species Cranidium gibbosum has been recorded from northern Brazil, French Guiana and Surinam.
Lintneria lugens
Lintneria lugens is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Lapillopsidae
Lapillopsidae is a family of Temnospondyli.
Anthia maxillosa
Anthia maxillosa is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae.
Strakonice District
Strakonice District is a district (okres) within South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Strakonice.
Adams County, Wisconsin
Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Its county seat is Friendship. The county was created in 1848 and organized in 1853. Sources differ as to whether its name is in honor of the second President of the United States, John Adams, or his son, the sixth President, John Quincy Adams.
Springville, Wisconsin
Springville is a town in Adams County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
Kanamarua narcissisma
Kanamarua narcissisma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colubrariidae.
Spot-tail shark
The spot-tail shark, or sorrah shark, is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae. They are found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean between latitudes 31°N and 31°S, from the surface to a depth around 72 m (236 ft). This shark grows to about 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in). It is fished …
Cardamine micranthera
Cardamine micranthera is a rare species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names small-anthered bittercress and streambank bittercress. It is endemic to the Piedmont region around the border between Virginia and North Carolina, particularly in the Dan River watershed. It is in decline mainly because its habitat has been disturbed …
Blastoid
Blastoids are an extinct type of stemmed echinoderm, often referred to as sea buds. They first appear, along with many other echinoderm classes, in the Ordovician period, and reached their greatest diversity in the Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous period. However, blastoids may have originated in the Cambrian. Blastoids persisted until their extinction at the …
Peechelba, Victoria
Peechelba is a small town in north eastern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Rural City of Wangaratta and the Shire of Moira local government area between Wangaratta and Yarrawonga and 277 kilometres (172 mi) north west of the state capital, Melbourne. The town is home to a nature reserve, not far from …
Hahira, Georgia
Hahira is a city in northwest Lowndes County, Georgia, United States.
John Cederquist
John Carl Cederquist is an American sculptor in wood and builder of studio furniture who was born in Altadena, California. He graduated from Long Beach State College with a BA in 1969 and an MA in 1971.
Albert Gallatin Blakey House
Albert Gallatin Blakey House is a historic home located at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built about 1900, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It has a two-story, rectangular brick addition with flat, parapeted roof and a two-story frame porch added about 1910.
Cameron Dawson
Cameron Miles Dawson is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
Tatabánya
Tatabánya is a city in northwestern Hungary, in the Central Transdanubian region. It is the capital of Komárom-Esztergom County.
Metter, Georgia
Metter is a city in Candler County, Georgia, United States. The city is the county seat of Candler County.
Valle de Ayora
La Vall de Cofrents is a comarca in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain.
Aizuma Station
Aizuma Station is a railway station in the city of Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company.
Jiangshanosaurus
Jiangshanosaurus is a genus of herbivorous titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in China approximately 92-88 million years ago, during the Turonian-Coniacian stage of the Late Cretaceous.
New Toronto
New Toronto is a neighbourhood and former municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-west area of Toronto, along Lake Ontario. The Town of New Toronto was established in 1890, and was designed and planned as an industrial centre by a group of industrialists from Toronto who had visited Rochester, New York. …
Warsaw Open
The Warsaw Open, formerly the J&S Cup, was a women’s tennis tournament on the WTA Tour held in Warsaw, Poland. Held since 1995, the tournament was played on outdoor clay courts. The event returned for two years to the WTA Tour in 2009 after a year’s hiatus but its slot on the tour calendar was …
Apache Ant
Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes which originated from the Apache Tomcat project in early 2000 as a replacement for the Make build tool of Unix. It is similar to Make, but is implemented using the Java language and requires the Java platform. Unlike Make, which uses the Makefile format, …
Proboscis bat
The proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) is a bat species from South and Central America. Other common names include Long-nosed proboscis bat, sharp-nosed bat, Brazilian long-nosed bat and river bat in English, and murciélago narizón in Spanish. It is monotypic within its genus.
Strymon (butterfly)
Strymon is a genus of scrub hairstreak butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is a highly distinct lineage in the tribe Eumaeini, and was at one time even treated as a monotypic tribe Strymonini. The species of the genus are found in the Nearctic, the Palearctic and the Neotropical realms.
Hyun-jin Ryu
Hyun-jin Ryu is a South Korean professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Strawberry crinkle cytorhabdovirus
Strawberry crinkle cytorhabdovirus, commonly called Strawberry crinkle virus (SCV), is a negative sense single stranded RNA virus that threatens strawberry production worldwide. This virus reduces plant rigidity, runner production, fruit size, and production, while causing distortion and crinkling of the leaves. This virus was first described in 1932 in Oregon and California with commercial strawberry …
Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
On April 14, 2022, American entrepreneur Elon Musk proposed to buy out social media company Twitter, Inc. for $43 billion, after previously acquiring 9.1% of the company’s stock for $2.64 billion, becoming its largest single shareholder. Twitter had then invited Musk to join their board of directors, which Musk accepted before changing his mind. In …
Washington Monument State Park
Washington Monument State Park is a public recreation area located approximately one mile (1.6 km) southeast of Boonsboro, Maryland. The park preserves the Washington Monument, a tower honoring George Washington. The monument sits along the Appalachian Trail. The park is managed by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Bramstedt
Bramstedt is a village in the district of Cuxhaven, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884. University College of Sheffield was subsequently formed by the amalgamation of the three institutions in 1897 and was …
Pine Crest Inn
Pine Crest Inn is a historic resort inn complex located in Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina.
San Vicente de Cañete
San Vicente de Cañete, commonly known as San Vicente or Cañete, is a city and capital of the Cañete Province, in southern Lima Region.
Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Allen Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for playing a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld, which he created and wrote with Larry David. The show aired on NBC from 1989 until 1998, becoming one of the most acclaimed and …
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American sitcom television series created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989 to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends: best friend George …
Lake Volta
Lake Volta, the largest artificial reservoir in the world based on surface area, is contained behind the Akosombo Dam which generates a substantial amount of Ghana’s electricity. It is completely within the country of Ghana and has a surface area of 8,502 square kilometres (3,282+1⁄2 sq mi). It extends from Akosombo in the south to …
Reaction rate
The reaction rate or rate of reaction is the speed at which a chemical reaction takes place, defined as proportional to the increase in the concentration of a product per unit time and to the decrease in the concentration of a reactant per unit time.
Steam mill
A steam mill is a type of grinding mill using a stationary steam engine to power its mechanism.
Somasteroidea
The Somasteroidea, or Stomasteroidea, is an extinct order of asterozoan echinoderms first defined in 1951 by W. K. Spencer. Their first appearance in the fossil record was in the Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) and they had become extinct by the Late Devonian (Famennian). They are similar to the asteroids in that their bodies are flattened dorsoventrally …
Welshpool railway station, Perth
Welshpool Station is a railway station on the Transperth network. It is located on the Armadale/Thornlie Line, 9.5 kilometres from Perth Station serving the suburbs of Welshpool and Bentley, Western Australia.
Anoatok
Anoatok, now Kane Manor Inn, is an historic residence which is located in Kane, Pennsylvania, in McKean County. Commissioned by the author, physician and women’s rights activist Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane (1836–1909), one of the first women to enroll in the Medical College of Pennsylvania and the widow of American Civil War General Thomas L. …
Colorado Plateau
The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This province covers an area of 336,700 km2 (130,000 mi2) within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southern and eastern Utah, northern Arizona, and …
Pando (tree)
Pando (Latin for “I spread”), also known as the trembling giant, is a clonal colony of an individual male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers and assumed to have one massive underground root system. The plant is located in the Fremont River Ranger District of the …
Quiz of God
Quiz of God is a South Korean television series broadcast on cable channel OCN. It was the first medical/forensic crime investigation drama to air in Korea. The series follows genius but eccentric neurosurgeon and forensic doctor Han Jin-woo (played by Ryu Deok-hwan) and his team as they solve suspicious deaths and unravel mysteries involving rare …
Lake Murray of Richland, South Carolina
Lake Murray of Richland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 5,484 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Gordon Bradley
Gordon Bradley (23 November 1933 – 29 April 2008) was an English-American soccer midfielder born and raised on Wearside who played several seasons with lower-division English clubs before moving to play in Canada at the age of 30. During the Canadian off-season, he played and coached in the U.S.-based German American Soccer League. In 1971, …
Elly Maersk
Elly Maersk is one of the eight E-class container ships operated by the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group.
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to China, India and other East Asian countries. Tea is also rarely made from the leaves of Camellia taliensis. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. …
Indian Space Research Organisation
The Indian Space Research Organisation is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bengaluru. It operates under the Department of Space (DOS) which is directly overseen by the Prime Minister of India, while Chairman of ISRO acts as executive of DOS as well. ISRO is the primary agency in India to perform tasks related …
Moon landing
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was the Soviet Union’s Luna 2, on 13 September 1959.
Apollo 16
Apollo 16 (April 16–27, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon. It was the second of Apollo’s “J missions”, with an extended stay on the lunar surface, a focus on science, and the use of the …
Epic Games v. Apple
Epic Games v. Apple is a lawsuit brought by Epic Games against Apple in August 2020 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, related to Apple’s practices in the iOS App Store. Epic Games specifically had challenged Apple’s restrictions on apps from having other in-app purchasing methods outside of the …