Beast Machines: Transformers is an American-Canadian animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment. Hasbro has the full distribution rights to the show as of 2011. It was a direct sequel to Beast Wars, taking place within the continuity of the original Transformers series. The show ran for two seasons, airing on YTV and Fox Kids from 1999 to 2000. Of the Transformers animated series produced in North America, Beast Machines was the only one to have been completely conceptualized and outlined in advance, lending it a more serialized and linear storyline than the others. Prior to Transformers: Prime in 2010, Beast Machines was also the last, and second only entirely computer-animated Transformers series produced, along with its predecessor Beast Wars. The Beast Machines intr

The following is a list of sites of interest in the Charlotte, North Carolina metropolitan area:
* Bank of America Stadium, football stadium in uptown Charlotte, home of the Carolina Panthers NFL team.
* BareBones Theatre Group, a cutting-edge alternative theatre company operating out of the NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
* Belmont Abbey College and Basilica, on the historic registry for the college, the monastery and grotto
* Billy Graham Library, on the grounds of the headquarters of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
* Carolina Raptor Center, dedicated to the conservation and rehabilitation of birds of prey
* Carolinas Aviation Museum, dedicated to the preservation of historic aircraft
* Carowinds, a regional amusement park located on the border of North and South Carolina
* The Charlotte Comedy Theater, Charlotte's only professionally trained improv theater and training center
* Charlotte Convention Center, located uptown, housing numerous events of interest
* Charlotte Motor Speedway, northeast of Charlotte in Concord, NC
* Charlotte Museum of History
* Children's Theatre of Charlotte, one of the top youth theatres in the country
* Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, a 111-acre (0.5 km²) botanical garden located in Belmont
* Discovery Place, a science museum and IMAX Dome theater
* The Gaffney Peachoid, an hour south of Charlotte on Interstate 85 in Gaffney, South Carolina
* Harvey B. Gantt Center, preserves, promotes and presents African-American art, history and culture
* Historic Latta Plantation, a cotton plantation turned living history farm
* Historic Rosedale Plantation
* Historic Rural Hill Farm
* ImaginOn, educational children's library and theater
* Kings Mountain National Military Park, the site of a decisive Revolutionary War battle, located approximately 30 miles (50 km) west of Charlotte in Blacksburg, South Carolina
* Levine Museum of the New South, located in Uptown Charlotte, focusing on the city's post-Civil War growth from a textile mill town to a financial hub
* The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film
* Lowe's Motor Speedway, located in the neighboring city of Concord
* McGill Rose Garden
* Mint Museums, two separate facilities, one dedicated to fine art and the other to craft and design
* NASCAR Hall of Fame
* NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in uptown Charlotte
* Point8 Forum, an open forum for artists, designers and all creative individuals
* Reed Gold Mine, site of the first gold find in the United States
* Spectrum Center (arena), an area in uptown Charlotte, home of the Charlotte Hornets NBA team
* U.S. National Whitewater Center, facility opened in August 2006
* University of North Carolina at Charlotte Botanical Gardens
* Wing Haven Gardens and Bird Sanctuary

Brad Colbert (born July 25, 1974) is a former United States Marine, whose platoon's role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was featured in a series of articles in Rolling Stone by Evan Wright. Wright was an embedded reporter who rode in the backseat of Colbert's vehicle during this time until his departure on May 4, 2003. Wright later expanded these articles into the book Generation Kill which was turned into a HBO miniseries of the same name in which Colbert was portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård.

The following is a list of notable episodes from Late Show with David Letterman since its inception on August 30, 1993. Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman that ran on CBS between August 30, 1993 and May 20, 2015.

Czechoslovakian ČSD Class T 458.1 diesel locomotives remain in use as shunters in both Slovakia and the Czech Republic. They are now classified as class 721.

Impure Thoughts is a 1986 American film.

John B. Nixon, Sr. (April 1, 1928 – December 14, 2005) was a convicted murderer. He was convicted of the January 22, 1985 murder-for-hire of Virginia Tucker in Rankin County, Mississippi. Born in Midnight in Humphreys County, Mississippi, he was executed in 2005 by the U.S. state of Mississippi.

Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) is a University of Technology situated on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa, on a site overlooking the Indian Ocean. MUT is located in the academic hub in the eThekwini metropole, a dynamic growing economy, focused for future growth. It is a residential university, largely serving previously disadvantaged communities with a strategic intent to educate and empower students and communities, and address pressing transformation and multicultural issues facing South Africa. A brief history of Mangosuthu University of Technology The story of the establishment of MUT is one shaped by benevolence and empowerment of the disenfranchised. It begins in 1974 with Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, former Prime-Minister in KwaZulu Homeland in apartheid South Africa. At a meeting with the Chairman of the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines, Mr Harry F Oppenheimer, Prince Buthelezi first put forward the idea of establishing a tertiary education institution specialising in technical subjects. The proposal was taken up by the Anglo American and De Beers Chairman’s Fund, and, although funds were not immediately available to construct such an institution, research was commissioned to investigate the potential in South Africa for the training and employment of black technicians. This work was undertaken by the South African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) of the University of Cape Town, which analysed the enrolment of the then existing advanced technical education centres and calculated that the output of engineering technicians in 1976 was 1035, whereas there was a demand for 3000 additional technicians per annum. Thus if black youths were to become available for training, an annual output of 2000 engineering technicians could be considered. SALDRU then ascertained the willingness of employers to employ black technicians if they were to become available. The response indicated that the categories most in immediate demand were mechanical, civil and construction, electrical, and chemical engineering. As the SALDRU study by Nigel Bloch showed that there was an immediate need and demand for black technicians, Mr Oppenheimer undertook that The Anglo American and De Beers group Chairman’s Fund would provide R5 million to build the necessary facilities. At a later stage, Mobil Oil, AECI and the South African Sugar Millers’ Association agreed to sponsor the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Rembrandt and Distillers Corporation groups provided the establishment of a Commercial and Secretarial Department. LTA Limited added funds for the expansion of the Civil Engineering Department so that Construction Engineering could be included in the curriculum. In mid-1977 the go-ahead was given for the project to begin and it was decided by the KwaZulu cabinet that the institution would be named ‘Mangosuthu’, the first name of KwaZulu’s Chief Minister, Prince Buthelezi, the man who conceived the idea of a technikon in KwaZulu. An eminently suitable site for the technikon was found in Umlazi which, while part of KwaZulu, is also part of the Durban metropolitan area. Umlazi Township is a township developed in 1967 for Black people during the apartheid era. It is located south-west of Durban and it is one of the largest townships in South Africa. At the time it was a large and rapidly growing area of some 370 000 people which is close to and easily accessible from the major industrial area as well as the city centre of Durban and the then Louis Botha Airport, later to become Durban International Airport (which has now been relocated to the North Coast and renamed King Shaka International Airport). One of the recent life-defining moments for MUT was the 2011 Institutional Audit by the Council for Higher Education (CHE) which was positive. Every higher education institution aspires to be declared ‘fit for purpose’ and this pronouncement affirmed that MUT was on the right course. From this Institutional Audit; MUT developed an institutional strategy around the Institutional Improvement Plan (IIP) that the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) had recommended. This then formed part of the basis for the Strategic Thrusts 2013-2014, encapsulated in the Operational Plan. Bringing these to action has put a direction for quality imperative within the University. By 2015, MUT had developed Strategic Plan 2020. In spite of wide-ranging leadership challenges that MUT has experienced, its standards have not been dropped. According to the Employer Satisfaction Survey which MUT’s Quality Management Directorate (QMD) conducted in 2013 among top MUT graduate employers; the survey revealed that business was happy about the technical skills MUT students acquire. However; they recommended that students be given more soft skills that would make them cope easier in the corporate world. As a University; we believe that the sports development programme could also add value in this regard. As MUT prepares for its 40th milestone; it is also finalising its Strategic Plan 2020-2025 which is anchored in its community. The recently appointed MUT Vice-Chancellor & Principal, *, is at the vanguard of leading the development of this strategy. Calling it an Anchor Strategy, Shaping and Owning the Future, this constitutes a response to the global trends shaping higher education, the national policy imperatives and the challenges of this 4th Industrial Revolution. It focuses on building the future of MUT and takes cognisance of MUT’s primary strategic advantage of being a public residential university serving previously disadvantaged communities, with the hub of our academic activities within a metropole with a vibrant multicultural population and a dynamic growing economy. “We stand to be a leader in educating and empowering our communities and matching the needs of our region”, Dr Malaza has repeatedly said during various stakeholder engagement meetings. The new vision for MUT is to become: “A transformed, equitable, sustainable and academically excellent University of Technology anchored in its communities”. These are the values that MUT’s internal and external stakeholders have agreed should guide MUT: [DEEDS]
* To DELIVER on our obligations to each other, our students and stakeholders while maintaining high standards and ethical behavior.
* To ENGAGE and collaborate with each other, our students and all stakeholders.
* To EMPOWER each other and our students to make a difference.
* To DISCOVER and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, intellectual engagement and use of technology.
* To SUSTAIN our local and global environment, organizational health and ability to create a viable future. At the heart of the new strategic direction for MUT is thus the need University, its staff, students and stakeholders are:
* Empowered to participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
* Protected from its long-term adverse effects of exclusion and disadvantage Achieve this through: Revitalised Academic Purpose:
* Knowledge and learning to advance the professions, business, industry, government and our communities
* Advance knowledge and understanding among our communities Institutional Culture and Values:
* Put our people first as the major asset of the University
* Embrace and promote diversity
* Ensure sustainable use of resources Being located at Umlazi is at the centre of MUT Strategy 2020-2025. MUT is more than ever poised to become an anchor University for the long historically disadvantaged Umlazi Township and aspires to put our people first. MUT believes that the students and the people of Umlazi Township must be beneficiaries of the efforts it is making and this would spread across South Africa. Dr Enoch Duma Malaza – ready to lead MUT into a new season With the appointment of Dr Enoch Duma Malaza as the new Vice-Chancellor of MUT on 02 May 2018; the University has secured the services of a distinguished leader and seasoned academic. Below we look at some of the key attributes he brings to MUT at an exciting moment in its history. Dr Malaza, who grew up in Springs, Gauteng and was a top student and leader at school, obtained his B.Sc at the University of Fort Hare in 1983. As a Fulbright Scholar he was able to attend Brown University in the USA, where he completed his M.Sc in Physics in 1986. A British Council scholarship enabled him to continue his studies in the United Kingdom, where he went on to complete his PhD in Physics at Cambridge University. On returning home to South Africa, he conducted postdoctoral research in Physics at the University of Cape Town, followed by another stint abroad at the Universite de Paris XI (ORSAY) in Paris in 1991. In 1996 he was recognised by the National Research Foundation (NRF) as a promising young researcher. Dr Malaza’s illustrious career includes serving as Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic at the former University of Transkei; Director: Institutional Planning at the University of Cape Town; Director: Quality Assurance at the University of Pretoria; CEO of Higher Education South Africa (HESA), now known as Universities South Africa (USAf); Executive Director: Institutional Planning and Quality Assurance at Vaal University of Technology; and most recently, Executive Director: Institutional Planning and Governance at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Highlights of his career include managing the preparations for the Higher Education Quality Committee pilot audit in 2005 at the University of Pretoria and being the first CEO of HESA, where he successfully built and maintained strategic relations for HESA at national, regional and international levels. His association with various prestigious and strategic organisations over the years includes being a member of the board of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (2006-2011), the International Association of Universities (2006-2008), the Tertiary Education and Research Network (2006-2012) and the South African Technology Network (2008-2011). He has also served as a member of Council for the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking (2008-2012) and the American Council on Education's Internationalisation Network (2008-2012). An asset to MUT Through his vast executive leadership experience in South African higher education, Dr Malaza has demonstrated an ability to lead and deliver on vision and mission‐critical results at institutional level. He has a sound understanding of all levels of the University's academic business, from institution-wide planning to academic planning and quality assurance. His experience and expertise in providing institutional leadership and his ability to oversee the University's academic mission and support functions with cost-effective management of resources, planning and budgeting, and quality performance, will be critical in taking us forward as an institution. Lastly, his wide knowledge of global trends shaping higher education and his in-depth knowledge of the South African higher education policy landscape will be invaluable in delivering on MUT’s vision and mission.

Horace Brisbin Liveright (10 December 1884 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer. With Albert Boni, he founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers. He published the books of numerous influential American and British authors. Turning to theatre, he produced the successful 1927 Broadway play Dracula, with Béla Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan in the roles they would make famous in the 1931 film by the same name.

Nagda is an industrial city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It lies in the Malwa region of western Madhya Pradesh and is situated on the bank of Chambal River. The name of the town was actually nag-dah which means cremation/burning (dah) of snakes (nag). The ancient city was developed by King Janamejaya. Janamejaya was a Hindu Kuru Dynasty. Nagda was mentioned in the literature of Kalidasa. Presently, Nagda is a major industrial town with a manufacturing unit of Viscose fibre, thermal power plant and a chemical plant. Nagda is a major ISO granted railway junction on the Delhi–Mumbai railway line. It is exactly 694 km from both Delhi and Mumbai.

Vale Royal Abbey is a medieval abbey, and later a country house, located in Whitegate, between Northwich and Winsford in Cheshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1270 by Prince Edward for monks of the austere Cistercian order. Edward intended the abbey to be on the grandest scale. However, financial difficulties meant that these ambitions could not be fulfilled and the final building was considerably smaller than planned. The project ran into problems in other ways. The abbey was frequently grossly mismanaged, relations with the local population were so poor as to cause outbreaks of large-scale violence on a number of occasions, and internal discipline was frequently bad.

Taj-ul-Masajid is a mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "mosques" (Plural of "masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest mosque in India and one of the largest mosques in Asia's.

Mike Royce (born 1964) is an American comedian, screenwriter and television producer.

Regina Mingotti, born in Naples 16 February 1722, died Neuburg an der Donau 1 October 1808, was an Italian-Austrian operatic soprano. Besides achieving great success as a performer in Germany, Spain, France, Britain and Italy, she composed and published songs and is notable for being the first woman to manage an opera company in London.

Iron Chef America is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef, and is the second American adaptation of the series, following the failed Iron Chef USA that aired in 2001. The show is produced by Food Network, which also carried a dubbed version of the original Iron Chef. Like the original Japanese program, the program is a culinary game show. In each episode, a new challenger chef competes against one of the resident "Iron Chefs" in a one-hour cooking competition based on a secret ingredient or ingredients, and sometimes theme. The show is presented as a successor to the original Iron Chef, as opposed to being a remake. The Chairman is portrayed by actor and martial artist Mark Dacascos, who is introduced as the nephew of the original Japanese chairman Takeshi Kaga. The commentary is provided solely by Alton Brown and Kevin Brauch is the floor reporter. The music is written by composer Craig Marks, who released the soundtrack titled "Iron Chef America & The Next Iron Chef" by the end of 2010. In addition, regular ICA judge and Chopped host Ted Allen provided additional floor commentary for two special battles: Battle First Thanksgiving (Symon/Flay v. Cora/Morimoto) and Battle White House Produce (Batali/Lagasse v. Flay/Comerford). Per the introduction fiction from the Battle of the Masters miniseries (and ignoring story elements from the 2002 Iron Chef Japan Cup Special), Chairman Kaga (the character) has ordered his nephew to continue the tradition of Kitchen Stadium, initially in Los Angeles, where the Battle of the Masters took place, before establishing a permanent Kitchen Stadium in New York's Chelsea Market. For the Battle of the Masters, the elder Chairman dispatched two Iron Chefs: Hiroyuki Sakai and Masaharu Morimoto. In Season 11, the show's fiction expanded to include international Iron Chefs, spread by the Chairman "like Johnny Appleseed". In the first episode of that season, Iron Chef UK chef Judy Joo competed on the US show against Iron Chef Guarnaschelli as an Iron Chef. Unlike the original Iron Chef or Iron Chef USA, Alton Brown, rather than the Chairman, is credited as the show's host. In 2017, Iron Chef Showdown premiered as the spiritual successor to Iron Chef America, with a revised format and returning Iron Chefs Bobby Flay, Jose Garces, Alex Guarnaschelli, and Michael Symon joined by Iron Chef Gauntlet winner Stephanie Izard. On April 5, 2018, Food Network announced Iron Chef America returning under its original name, with Jet Tila serving as floor reporter. Notably, Iron Chef Bobby Flay will not be returning, as he dramatically announced his exit from Iron Chef during his last battle on Showdown.

The Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (Croatian: Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Latin: Universitas studiorum Polensis Georgii Dobrila) is a university in Pula, Croatia. It was founded in 2006 and is comprised of eleven constituents.

The 2010 United States Senate election in Connecticut was a midterm election which took place on November 2, 2010 to decide a Class III Senator from the State of Connecticut to join the 112th United States Congress. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd suffered from dropping approval ratings in the past few years due to major controversies, leading him to announce in January 2010 that he would retire, instead of seeking a sixth term. As Dodd was a Democrat, Richard Blumenthal, incumbent State Attorney General, announced on the same day that he would run for Dodd's seat. The Connecticut Democratic Party nominated Blumenthal on May 21. Businesswoman Linda McMahon won the state party's nominating convention and the August 10 Republican primary to become the Republican candidate.

The Upper Mohawk First Nation is a Mohawk band based in southern Ontario, and is a member nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River. Members of the Upper Mohawk share the territory of Six Nations, and is governed under their council.

Marcel Schrötter (born 2 January 1993) is a German motorcycle racer, currently competing in the Moto2 class of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing championship. Born in Vilgertshofen, Schrötter started out in the German 125cc National Championship in 2007 and finished fifth in his debut campaign, before he took back-to-back titles in 2008 and 2009. In the 2008 season the youngster made his World Championship debut as a wildcard rider at Sachsenring, before three further rides in 2009 with a highly impressive fifth place in the final round of the season at Valencia. His full debut in 2010 with the Interwetten Honda 125 Team provided a steep learning curve and in 2011 Schrötter aimed for further progress with Mahindra.

Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker (French: Tendre Dracula) is a 1974 French horror-comedy film directed by . The film stars Peter Cushing, Alida Valli and Miou-Miou. The film involves two scriptwriters and two girls who are ordered by their director to visit the castle home of a horror actor (Peter Cushing) and to talk him out of his intention to change from horror films to romantic ones. The longer they stay in the castle, the more likely it seems that the actor is an actual vampire.

French forces in Afghanistan have been involved in the ongoing War in Afghanistan since late 2001. They operate within two distinct frameworks:
* the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), carried out by NATO on a United Nations mandate
* "Operation Enduring Freedom", under US command, as part of the War on Terror. French forces have contributed to both chapters in several national operations:
* with the ISAF,
* Opération Héraklès for the naval and air components
* for training of the Afghan Army
* for special operations within "Operation Enduring Freedom"

The Battle of Dahaneh was a battle in the town of Dahaneh, Helmand Province, and its surrounding areas as part of the Afghanistan War. It began when U.S. and Afghan troops launched an Operation to capture the town from the Taliban, in the Helmand Province of Southern Afghanistan. Coalition troops met heavy resistance, and believe the Taliban were forewarned of the incoming attack, though they were successful in securing Dahaneh.

The Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball program represents the University of Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference in Division I of the NCAA. The team is coached by Tony Bennett. Since 2006 the team has played at John Paul Jones Arena, an on-campus arena on the North Grounds of the university, in front of 14,593 spectators whom ESPN College Gameday has called some of the most responsive and engaged fans in college basketball. Virginia has been ranked AP No. 1 on 17 occasions, first in January 1981 and most recently in March 2018. The Cavaliers have a total of ten ACC regular season championship seasons, third best (behind Duke and North Carolina) all-time. UVA won those titles outright (no ties) in 1981, 2014, 2015 and 2018; won the 1976, 2014, and 2018 ACC Tournaments, and are six-time Runners-Up of the ACC Tournament.

The Khost rebellion began on 2 May 1912, when Mangal and Jadran tribesmen in Khost, Afghanistan rose up against the local governor and besieged him at Matun. On 13 June, the rebellion was reported to be subsiding. It ended on 14 August 1912, when the rebels surrendered after concessions were given by Afghan authorities.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Православна церква України, translit. Pravoslavna tserkva Ukrayiny) (OCU), or Ukrainian Orthodox Church, also known as the Most Holy Church of Ukraine is a partially recognized autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church whose canonical territory is Ukraine. The church was established by a unification council on 15 December 2018, and received its Tomos of autocephaly (decree of ecclesial independence) on 5 January 2019. The council voted to unite the existing Ukrainian Orthodox jurisdictions: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP), the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and a part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The primate of the church is the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine. The unification council elected Epiphanius Dumenko as its primate, previously the Metropolitan of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Bila Tserkva (UOC-KP). The other Orthodox jurisdiction in Ukraine is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), an autonomous branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, which considers the Orthodox Church of Ukraine to be schismatic. According to the Statute of the OCU adopted at the 2018 unification council, "Orthodox Christians of Ukrainian provenance" shall be forthwith subject to the jurisdiction of the diocesan bishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Article 4 of the Statute). This provision is also enshrined in the OCU′s Tomos of autocephaly. In March 2019, Metroplitan Epiphanius said that the transfer of parishes of the dissolved Kiev Patriarchate to the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate had already begun.

Volumes of Blood is a 2015 horror anthology film directed by P.J. Starks (segment "Ghastly"), Jakob Bilinski (segment "13 After Midnight"), Nathan Thomas Milliner (segment "The Encyclopedia Satanica"), John Kenneth Muir (segment "A Little Pick Me Up"), and Lee Vervoort (segment "That’s A Wrap!"). It stars Kristine Renee Farley, Jason Crowe, Jim O'Rear, and Roni Jonah.

Alexander Sascha Ritter (7 June 1833 – 12 April 1896) was a German composer and violinist. He wrote two operas - Der faule Hans and Wem die Krone?, a few songs, a symphonic waltz and two symphonic fantasias. Ritter died in Munich.

Onyx Cave is a solutional cave system with about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) of passages formed in Permian limestone in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona. It is part of the Coronado National Forest. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974.

This is the discography of Michael Ball. Listed are all the singles and albums in order of their release with their United Kingdom peak chart positions.

Karishma Manandhar is a Nepali actress. She made her acting debut at the age of 17 in the 1988 Nepali film Santaan.

Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (Russian: Оле́г Константи́нович Анто́нов; 7 February 1906 – 4 April 1984) was a prominent Soviet aircraft designer, and the first chief of Antonov - a world-famous aircraft company in Ukraine, later named in his honour. Antonov was personally responsible for designing a number of very successful Soviet airplanes (such as the Antonov An-12) and gliders for both civilian and military use.

The following lists events that happened during 2012 in Australia.

League tables for teams participating in Ykkönen, the second tier of the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2004.

Microtransit is a form of Demand Responsive Transit (DRT). This technology enabled transit service offers flexible routing and/or flexible scheduling of minibus vehicles. Microtransit providers use instant exchange of information, enabling an extra real-time matching of demand (trip) and supply (driven vehicle) on top of an in-advance matching, which extends the accessibility of the transit service. Possible pick-up/drop-off stops are usually pre-defined to allow better routes' optimization. Conceptually, microtransit fits somewhere between private individual transportation (cars or taxicabs) and public mass transit (bus). The current implementations result from public-private partnerships or are brought by the private sector as B2C. Some are subsidized. It is unsure if microtransit can be profitable.Some actors provide the technology as well as the vehicles/drivers and their management. Examples of such private actors include TransLoc, Chariot (creating crowdsourced routes for example), Lyft Shuttle, SHARE, Shotl, Split, and Via.Some actors, such as Padam, focus on providing the technology only. Success of microtransit systems depends on its configuration. Some experiences in the USA resulted in failures. The term may have emerged into widespread industry discussion around 2015.

Allion Healthcare (NASDAQ: ALLI) is the parent company of MOMSpharmacy based in Melville, New York primarily known for providing mail order HIV medications to patients who are primarily on Medicaid or the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). Among the offerings is the MOMSPak in which the drugs are packed together in dated individual packages to make the multi-drug regimen easier. The company reported having 15,610 patients in 2007. The company has distribution centers in New York, California, Florida, New Jersey, and Washington.

Flood control is an important issue for the Netherlands, as due to its low elevation, approximately two thirds of its area is vulnerable to flooding, while the country is densely populated. Natural sand dunes and constructed dikes, dams, and floodgates provide defense against storm surges from the sea. River dikes prevent flooding from water flowing into the country by the major rivers Rhine and Meuse, while a complicated system of drainage ditches, canals, and pumping stations (historically: windmills) keep the low-lying parts dry for habitation and agriculture. Water control boards are the independent local government bodies responsible for maintaining this system.

The Egna Spring Trophy, formerly the Gardena Spring Trophy (through 2016), is an annual international figure skating competition. It is held every spring in Val Gardena in Italy. Medals are awarded in men's and ladies' singles and sometimes in other disciplines. Since its inception in 1990, the event has included a junior-level competition. Advanced novice categories were added in 2006 and senior categories in 2011. An ice dancing competition, the Egna Dance Trophy, was first held in February 2018.

Marcy Harriell is an American actress, singer and writer. She is best known for her appearances on Broadway, starring in the musicals In the Heights and Rent, and as the hosts the fashion series Re:Fashion on NBCUniversal's Bluprint.

Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir (Urdu: مصحف على مير; March 5, 1947 – 20 February 2003) NI(m), HI(m), SI(m), SBt. was an influential statesman and a four-star air force general who served as the Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), appointed on 20 November 2000 until his accidental death in a plane crash on 20 February 2003. A fighter pilot and a strategist, he briefly served at command level in the ISI before controversially promoted as a four-star air officer to command the air force in 2000. In 2001-02, he also commanded and provided the strategy to deploy troops during the military standoff with India. In addition, Air Chief Marshal Mir later went onto facilitate the United States military's war logistics for war operations in Afghanistan. His appointment was cut short when a former PAF Fokker F-27 in which he was a passenger crashed near Kohat, Pakistan. His death has been subject of numerous conspiracy theories with many American authors charging him of having advanced-knowledge on terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.

An observation balloon is a type of balloon that is employed as an aerial platform for intelligence gathering and artillery spotting. Use of observation balloons began during the French Revolutionary Wars, reaching their zenith during World War I, and they continue in limited use today. Typically, balloons were tethered to a steel cable attached to a winch that reeled the gasbag to its desired height (usually 1,000-1,500 metres) and retrieved it at the end of an observation session.

The 10th millennium BC spanned the years 10,000 through 9001 BC. It marks the beginning of the Mesolithic (northern and western Europe) and Epipaleolithic (Levant and Near East) periods, which together form the first part of the Holocene epoch that is generally reckoned to have begun c.9,700 BC (about 11.7ka) and is the current geological epoch. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological and anthropological analysis.

Swarm of the Snakehead is a 2006 comedy/horror feature film directed by Frank A. Lama and Joel C. Denning and written by Seth Hurwitz. It is the first feature from producers Lama and Hurwitz's Baltimore-based production company Ten Pound Films. The ensemble cast includes Gunnar Hansen (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Rigg Kennedy (Slumber Party Massacre) and Miss Maryland Teen USA 2006 Jamie O'Brien. Swarm of the Snakehead was shot on 16 mm film in and around Easton, Maryland between 2002 and 2005. Post-production was completed during the summer of 2006. A rough cut of the film was premiered for friends and family at The Charles Theatre in Baltimore (where John Waters premiered many of his early films) on June 21, 2006. The sold-out screening led to several articles in Maryland papers including The Baltimore Sun, as well as radio and television appearances. During one such appearance on the Baltimore CBS affiliate WJZ-TV, anchor and longtime Maryland personality Marty Bass called Swarm of the Snakehead "lots of fun" and "John Waters-esque." While making Swarm of the Snakehead, Lama starred in Fear of Clowns released by Lions Gate Entertainment in 2005 and the upcoming Fear of Clowns 2, which he also produced. At the same time, Hurwitz edited Swarm and shepherded the film through post-production, working closely with sound designer Kevin Hill and composer Tom Alonso.

Rumpelstiltskin is a 1995 fantasy horror comedy film directed by Mark Jones and starring Max Grodénchik as the title character.

Major General Eldon A. Bargewell was a General in the United States Army and former commander of Delta Force. Bargewell was born in Hoquiam, Washington and graduated from Hoquiam High School in 1965 and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967. He completed the Special Forces Qualification Course in 1968. During the Vietnam War Bargewell was accepted into MACV-SOG where he served at the "Command And Control North (CCN)" launch site at Da Nang and served as Non-Commissioned Officer Team Leader for Reconnaissance Team "Viper" (all CCN teams were named for states or snakes). While serving with CCN, Bargewell earned the Distinguished Service Cross in September 1971 for his actions in combat his saving his team and getting them to safety. He then received his officer's commission in 1973.Bargewell fir

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) is an American bare-knuckle boxing promotion based in Philadelphia. BKFC is the first promotion to hold a state sanctioned bare-knuckle boxing event in the United States since 1889. Its first event was held in 2018, with 4 "numbered" events held as of February 2019. BKFC has featured notable talents such as Ricco Rodriguez, Charles Bennett, Kendall Grove, Chris Lytle, Joe Riggs, Leonard Garcia, Eric Prindle, Joey Beltran, Bec Rawlings, Shannon Ritch and Bobby Gunn

Ryan Olowofela (born 17 April 1998) is an English Rugby Union player who plays centre or wing. Most recently, Ryan has been a part of the England national rugby sevens team. He will join Northampton Saints in the summer of 2019.

Swarm of the Snakehead is a 2006 comedy/horror feature film directed by Frank A. Lama and Joel C. Denning and written by Seth Hurwitz. It is the first feature from producers Lama and Hurwitz's Baltimore-based production company Ten Pound Films. The ensemble cast includes Gunnar Hansen (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Rigg Kennedy (Slumber Party Massacre) and Miss Maryland Teen USA 2006 Jamie O'Brien.

The Cubuy River is a river of Puerto Rico.

Stephen Baker (born 16 June 1962) is an English former professional association football player who played as a defender.

Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) is a University of Technology situated on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa, on a site overlooking the Indian Ocean. MUT is located in the academic hub in the eThekwini metropole, a dynamic growing economy, focused for future growth. It is a residential university, largely serving previously disadvantaged communities with a strategic intent to educate and empower students and communities, and address pressing transformation and multicultural issues facing South Africa. A brief history of Mangosuthu University of Technology Achieve this through:

Ruben Estephan Vargas Martinez (born 5 August 1998) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a winger for Luzern in the Swiss Super League.

Mark Curtis is a British historian and journalist who has been involved with developmental charities. He has written several books on the foreign policy of the United Kingdom and the United States mainly concerning the period since the Second World War.

Mongrel is a 1982 American horror film written and directed by Robert A. Burns. This is the only feature film Burns directed.

Stephen Wright (born 27 August 1971) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a right back. Wright is currently a coach for some of the academy teams at Rangers, one of his former clubs as a player.

Lieutenant General Richard P. Mills is a retired United States Marine Corps officer, who served as commander of the Marine Forces Reserve from 2013 to 2015 and Marine Forces North, headquartered at the Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans. Previously he was Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration and Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Virginia, and, prior to that assignment, was commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)/Regional Command Southwest in Afghanistan.

James William Crabtree (1871–1908) was a gifted English footballer of the end of the 19th century.

Aims college, Biratnagar, is a private college in Biratnagar, Nepal, which offers BBS, BA , BSc.CSIT , and programmes. The college has produced some prominent students such as Mr. Sandesh Pokhrel and Ms. Sheela Parajuli who were both toppers in exams held by Tribhuwan University in BSc.CSIT programmes.

Kunnam also often called Kunnam of Elam was a military expedition leader of the kingdom of Elam in the 18th century BC. He was part of a military campaign into Mesopotamia and is mainly known from cuneiform letters found at Mari, a Syrian city state where there are the royal archives preserved. He was a contemporary of Zimri-Lim (Mari) and Hammurabi (Babylon).

Aurad is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka and it is Birthplace of the Member of Parliament Bhagwanth Khuba. It is located in the Bidar district.

Hemmige is a small village located near Mysore, India. The village was once home to a sizable population but now consists of less than 30 households. On the banks of the river Kaveri, this village is the site of one of the oldest temples of Varadaraja, a form of Vishnu.

Silvio Berlusconi was the Prime Minister of Italy, the head of the country's government, for almost ten years.

Nagda is an industrial city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It lies in the Malwa region of western Madhya Pradesh and is situated on the bank of Chambal River. The name of the town was actually nag-dah which means cremation/burning (dah) of snakes (nag). The ancient city was developed by King Janamejaya. Janamejaya was a Hindu Kuru Dynasty. Nagda was mentioned in the literature of Kalidasa. Presently, Nagda is a major industrial town with a manufacturing unit of Viscose fibre, thermal power plant and a chemical plant. Nagda is a major ISO granted railway junction on the Delhi–Mumbai railway line. It is exactly 694 km from both Delhi and Mumbai. Prior to being an industrial town, Nagda was a small village. The location near river Chambal and availability of acres of land plus the added advantage of being at the centre of India's two biggest markets(Delhi & Mumbai) attracted Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla to set up a major facility. Today Grasim's industrial unit at Nagda is the largest manufacturer of Viscose staple fibre in Asia.

Abdul Qayyum Jamal is a Canadian janitor and school bus driver who was labelled the ringleader of an alleged terrorist plot in Toronto in June 2006 after a Canadian Member of Parliament reported his virulent criticism of Canadian troops in Afghanistan to police. He was held for nearly two years protesting his innocence before all charges against him were dropped. After spending much of his imprisonment in solitary confinement, his family announced they were pursuing legal action seeking millions of dollars in damages; including from the prison where he was incarcerated.

Paul Costelloe (born on 27 June 1945) is an Irish designer and artist.

Alan A'Court (30 September 1934 – 14 December 2009) was an English footballer who mostly played for Liverpool. He gained five caps for England and represented the nation at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Daniel Stephen Redmond (born 2 March 1991) is an English professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder for The New Saints. He has previously played for Wigan Athletic, Hamilton Academical and Carlisle United.

Pablo Laso Biurrún (born October 13, 1967) is a Spanish professional basketball head coach of the Real Madrid basketball team, and a former professional player.

The Anglican Digest (sometimes called TAD) is a quarterly religious magazine in the United States providing information related to Anglicanism, including news, essays, book reviews, and devotional material. It is published by SPEAK, the Society for Promoting and Encouraging Arts and Knowledge (of the Church), which was founded as the Episcopal Book Club in 1953 by , an Episcopal priest in Nevada, Missouri. Since 1960, it has been based on a former dairy farm in the Ozarks called Hillspeak near Eureka Springs, Arkansas. When it began in 1958, it described itself as "A quarterly miscellany reflecting the words and work of the Churches of the Anglican Communion: some things oldmany things newmost things borrowedeverything true." The Anglican Digest affirms a “Prayer Book Catholic” heritage but says it serves "all expressions of Anglicanism: Anglo-Catholic, Broad, and Evangelical." James B. Simpson became executive director after its founder retired in 1980. At that time, it reported a paid circulation of over 100,000 worldwide. By 1989, subscriptions had increased to almost 250,000 with six issues per year. However, in 2012 it reported 45,000 readers. Edward L. Salmon, Jr. chaired the publication's board for 41 years. Currently his daughter, Catherine S. Salmon, and Anthony F. M. Clavier serve as the editorial committee..

Henry Newton Brown, Jr. (born December 30, 1941), is a former Louisiana appellate judge, legal lecturer, and former district attorney. He is serving his third 10-year elected term on the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Shreveport, having been elected in 1990, 2000, and 2010.

This is a list of presidential trips made by Barack Obama during 2010, the second year of his presidency as the 44th President of the United States. During 2010, Obama traveled to eight different nation states internationally, in addition to many more trips made domestically within the United States.

SremmLife 2 (sometimes stylized as SremmLife II) is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd. It was released on August 12, 2016, by Ear Drummer Records and Interscope Records. The album serves as a sequel to their previous studio effort, SremmLife (2015). It features guest appearances from Kodak Black, Gucci Mane, Juicy J, Lil Jon and Bobo Swae.

Stephen Fain Earle () (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. His breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 15 studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Shawn Colvin, Ian Stuart Donaldson and Emmylou Harris. He has appeared in film and television, and has written a novel, a play, and a book of short stories.

James Douglas (Doug) Bremner, M.D., (born June 5, 1961) is a physician, researcher, and writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has conducted research on posttraumatic stress disorder and the relationship between depression and suicide and the acne drug Accutane (Roaccutane, or isotretinoin).

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Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir (Urdu: مصحف على مير; March 5, 1947 – 20 February 2003) NI(m), HI(m), SI(m), SBt. was an influential statesman and a four-star air force general who served as the Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), appointed on 20 November 2000 until his accidental death in a plane crash on 20 February 2003. His death has been subject of numerous conspiracy theories with many American authors charging him of having advanced-knowledge on terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.

Peggy Adler (born February 10, 1942) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and investigative researcher. She is the daughter of Irving Adler and Ruth Adler and younger sister of Stephen L. Adler.

Bajkani is a Pakistani Baloch tribe, living primarily in District Jacobabad, Kashmore, Kandhkot, Sukkur, Hyderabad and Karachi in the province of Sindh of Pakistan and some districts of Balochistan province as well. The Bajkani tribe is named after .The sardar of this tribe is of Bijarani tribe of Karampur sindh.

League tables for teams participating in Ykkönen, the second tier of the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2003.

O Baby! Yentha Sakkagunnave is an upcoming Telugu language comedy-drama film. Inspired by the South Korean film Miss Granny, the film stars Samantha Akkineni, Lakshmi and Rao Ramesh, helmed by B. V. Nandini Reddy and bankrolled by People's Media Factory, Suresh Productions and Sunita Tati.

The BOMA Project is a U.S . nonprofit organization and Kenyan NGO that works to provide poor women living in the arid and semi-arid lands of Northern Kenya with the educational, financial, and technological resources to lift themselves out of poverty. Its mission is to “empower women in the drylands of Africa to establish sustainable livelihoods, build resilient families, graduate from extreme poverty and catalyze change in their rural communities.” Since 2009, The BOMA Project claims to have aided 22,915 women in starting new businesses and impacted 114,575 dependent children, also reporting their participants’ increased ability to afford food, school fees, and medical care. It aims to reach 1 million women and children by 2022.

Our Man in Iraq (Croatian: Naš čovjek na terenu) is a novel by Croatian author Robert Perišić. It was originally published in Croatia, where it became a bestseller and received the Jutarnji list prize for best prose in 2007. The novel was also awarded the Literaturpreis der Steiermärkischen Sparkasse in 2011. Our Man in Iraq was translated into English by Will Firth and published in the United States on April 2, 2013 by Black Balloon Publishing in paperback and e-book formats. The Guardian called the English translation "a must-read ... brilliantly captures modern-day Zagreb." It was also praised by Publishers Weekly as a "smart, cutting book" and by The Toronto Star as "terrifically witty and original." The Times Literary Supplement compared the English translation to The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. According to The New Yorker described the novel as "has a levity informed by the sense of social fluidity that comes with democracy." Saul Austerlitz, writing in The Boston Globe, called the work a comic novel, stating "an extended ruse ... [with] combat scrupulously at a distance". Set in Zagreb during 2003, Our Man in Iraq follows Toni, a journalist who is besieged by his rural relatives with requests for work. Succumbing to his mother's nagging, Toni arranges for his cousin Boris to cover the ongoing U.S invasion of Iraq despite his lasting shell shock from the Croatian War of Independence. As Boris's reports from Iraq become increasingly strange, Toni secretly rewrites them until they cease coming in altogether and Boris goes missing. Toni is forced to keep Boris's disappearance from his family and his newspaper while negotiating his own romantic, cultural and professional hurdles in a nation that is awkwardly progressing from socialism to global capitalism.

Bokosuka Wars (ボコスカウォーズ) is a 1983 action-strategy role-playing video game developed by Kōji Sumii (住井浩司) and released by ASCII for the Sharp X1 computer, followed by ports to the MSX, FM-7, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-8801 and NEC PC-9801 computer platforms, as well as an altered version released for the Family Computer console and later the Virtual Console service. It revolves around a leader who must lead an army in phalanx formation across a battlefield in real-time against overwhelming enemy forces while freeing and recruiting soldiers along the way, with each unit able to gain experience and level up through battle. The player must make sure that the leader stays alive, until the army reaches the enemy castle to defeat the leader of the opposing forces. The game was responsible for laying the foundations for the tactical role-playing game genre, or the "simulation RPG" genre as it is known in Japan, with its blend of role-playing and strategy game elements. The game has also variously been described as an early example of an action role-playing game, an early prototype real-time strategy game, and a unique reverse tower defense game. In its time, the game was considered a major success in Japan.

The Class T 448.0 (factory designation 1435 Bó Bó 883) is a group of four-axle diesel-electric locomotives manufactured by ČKD Praha for shunting and freight service on secondary and industrial lines built for industrial use in Czechoslovakia and Poland and for the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). Following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, these were divided between the successor companies, the Czech Railways and the Slovak Republic Railways. They have also found their way to a considerable number of private railways in both countries, and ten have been sold to the Korean State Railway of North Korea. Small numbers have also gone elsewhere, such as Italy and Serbia.

League tables for teams participating in Kakkonen, the third tier of the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2004. Kakkonen was reduced to 3 groups of 14 teams for season 2006.

Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. He draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, gospel, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions. Hornsby's recordings have been recognized on a number of occasions with industry awards, including the 1987 Grammy Award for Best New Artist with Bruce Hornsby and the Range, the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Hornsby has played on records for Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Bonnie Raitt (piano on her iconic "I Can't Make You Love Me"), Willie Nelson, Don Henley, Bob Seger, Squeeze, Stevie Nicks, Chaka Khan, Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver), Leon Russell, Chris Whitley, Warren Zevon, Bernie Taupin, Brandon Flowers (of the Killers), Cowboy Junkies, Shawn Colvin, Bela Fleck, Randy Scruggs, Hillary Scott, the Wild Magnolias, Clint Black, Sara Evans, Clannad and many more. He has worked on his own records with Ornette Coleman, Jerry Garcia, Eric Clapton, Sting, Elton John, Mavis Staples, Phil Collins, Pat Metheny, Branford Marsalis, Wayne Shorter and Justin Vernon, among others. Along with his early collaborator, brother Jonathan Hornsby and latter-day partner Chip deMatteo, Bruce has co-written songs with Robert Hunter (the great Grateful Dead lyricist), Robbie Robertson, Don Henley, Leon Russell, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnette.Hornsby has also achieved recognition for his solo albums and performances, his touring band Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, his bluegrass project with Ricky Skaggs and his appearances as a session and guest musician. He also collaborated with Grateful Dead and was a member of the band from September 1990 to March 1992, playing over 100 shows during that period. His 21st album, “Absolute Zero” will be released in April 2019 and features collaborations with Justin Vernon and Sean Carey of Bon Iver, Jack DeJohnette, Blake Mills, yMusic, The Staves, and Brad Cook.

Splatter Beach is a 2007 low-budget horror comedy film directed by the Polonia brothers and starring Erin Brown, Erika Smith, Alison Whitney, Brice Kennedy, Ken Van Sant and Dave Fife. It was released on DVD by Camp Motion Pictures. The screenplay concerns a reporter who hopes to write a story on a series of disappearances that have plagued a local beach, and who finds instead a sea monster in full rubbery attire.

Timothy John Follin (born 19 December 1970) is an English former video game music composer who has written tracks for a variety of titles and home gaming systems, including the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, Nintendo Entertainment System, Mega Drive, Super NES, Game Boy, Dreamcast and PlayStation. Among Follin's works are the soundtracks to Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (Dreamcast), Silver Surfer (NES), Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (Super NES) and Plok (also for Super NES). In March 2019, In Quezon City, Philippines, Angelo Yebra Added 5 Letters For Their April Tour In England (Including Her Hometown Tewkesbury & His Hometown St. Helens, With Quotes From BBC News), Also including Former BBC News, TV-am & ITV News Anchor Anna Ford. But Were Rejected.

Knüffeln is a very old trick-taking card game for four players, playing in pairs, that is still played in North Germany. It is a descendant of Karnöffel, which itself probably originated in Bavaria in the first quarter of the 15th century and is thus the oldest identifiable European card game in the history of playing cards.

Lim Ju-hwan (Hangul: 임주환; born May 18, 1982) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his leading roles in the television dramas Tamra, the Island (2009), Ugly Alert (2013), Uncontrollably Fond (2016) and The Bride of Habaek (2017).

Beast Machines: Transformers is an American-Canadian animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment. Hasbro has the full distribution rights to the show as of 2011. It was a direct sequel to Beast Wars, taking place within the continuity of the original Transformers series. The show ran for two seasons, airing on YTV and Fox Kids from 1999 to 2000. Of the Transformers animated series produced in North America, Beast Machines was the only one to have been completely conceptualized and outlined in advance, lending it a more serialized and linear storyline than the others. Prior to Transformers: Prime in 2010, Beast Machines was also the last, and second only entirely computer-animated Transformers series produced, along with its predecessor Beast Wars. The Beast Machines intro theme was "Phat Planet", by Leftfield. It is also final installment in the Beast Era.

Heist or Hit is an independent record label and music publisher located in London and Manchester, founded in 2007.

John B. Nixon, Sr. (April 1, 1928 – December 14, 2005) was a convicted murderer. He was convicted of the January 22, 1985 murder-for-hire of Virginia Tucker in Rankin County, Mississippi. Born in Midnight in Humphreys County, Mississippi, he was executed in 2005 by the U.S. state of Mississippi. At 77 years old, he was the oldest person executed since 1976 and, according to the Espy Files compiled by M. Watt Espy, the oldest person executed in United States since Joe Lee in Virginia at the age of 83 on April 21, 1916. Nixon's record was surpassed by Walter Moody who was executed on April 19, 2018 at the age of 83.

The women's individual table tennis – Class 6 tournament at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro took place during 8–12 September 2016 at Riocentro Pavilion 3. Classes 6–10 were for athletes with a physical impairment who competed from a standing position; the lower the number, the greater the impact the impairment was on an athlete’s ability to compete. In the preliminary stage, athletes competed in two groups of three. Winners and runners-up of each group qualified to the semifinals.

The Social Democratic Party of India is an Indian political party, founded on 21 June 2009.MK Faizey is the party's National President.

The Jaguar XE is a rear or four-wheel drive, front-engine, four-door compact executive sedan manufactured and marketed by Jaguar, designed by Ian Callum and launched at the October 2014 Paris Auto Show. XE production began in April 2015 under the internal designation X760. The XE is noted for its aluminium suspension componentry as well as its bonded and riveted aluminium unitary structure — the first in its segment.

The Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie (VBCI, "Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle") is a French Infantry fighting vehicle designed to replace the AMX-10P. They entered active service with the French Army in 2008, with 630 vehicles ordered up to 2010. Spain and the UK have shown interest in the vehicle. The Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie is built on an aluminium hull which carries a modular THD steel and titanium armour, which can be replaced in the field. The 8x8 wheel combination is designed to make the VBCI more comfortable and less costly than a tracked vehicle, while giving it sufficient mobility to back the Leclerc tank. The VBCI is also designed to be transportable by the Airbus A400M, with an empty mass less than 18 tonnes (full load mass up to 28 tonnes).

"Green Light" is a song by New Zealand singer Lorde, from her second studio album Melodrama (2017). Universal Music New Zealand released the song on 2 March 2017 as the album's lead single. Lorde co-wrote and co-produced the song with Jack Antonoff, with additional writing by Joel Little and production assistance from Frank Dukes and Kuk Harrell. "Green Light" was described as an electropop, dance-pop, and post-disco song with an upbeat piano loop, hand-claps, bass and strings in its instrumentation. In the lyrics, Lorde uses a "green light" as a street signal metaphor that gives her permission to move on into the future.

Master sergeant (retired) Zachary Rhyner is a Combat Controller (CCT) in the United States Air Force. His hometown is Medford, Wisconsin. While still a Senior Airman, he received the Air Force Cross for his actions in the Battle of Shok Valley on 6 April 2008 in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. He was the first living, and second ever, Combat Controller to receive the Air Force Cross after TSgt John A. Chapman was posthumously awarded the medal in 2002 for his actions during the Battle of Takur Ghar. In addition to his Air Force Cross Rhyner is the recipient of two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star Medal and the Air Force Combat Action Medal among others. His first Purple Heart he received for the Battle of Shok Valley, while the second Purple Heart was from a deployment to northern Afghanistan in March 2013 where a gunshot wound shattered his right femur and hip. He has deployed six times, including Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also participated in humanitarian assistance operations as well and was a part of Operation Unified Response in Haiti during the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Rhyner medically retired in 2015 as a result of wounds sustained in combat that prevented mobility below the knee.

The Florida Fire Frogs are a minor league baseball team that plays as a member of the Florida State League in Kissimmee, Florida, part of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. Founded in 2017, the team is the Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. They play their home games at Osceola County Stadium. The team's name was announced on October 26, 2016, at the conclusion of a name the team contest. The finalists from which the team's name was selected were: Florida Dragonflies, Florida Fire Frogs, Florida Mud Kickers, Florida Rodeo Clowns, Florida Sorcerers, and Florida Toucans.

Matthew "Matt" Parkman, Sr., is a fictional character of the NBC science fiction serial drama Heroes, played by Greg Grunberg. Matt is a police officer, who works for the LAPD and NYPD in Seasons One and Two respectively. He is a telepath; his ability allows him to read minds, and eventually extends into aspects of mind control, as stated by Bob Bishop.

Nils Politt (born 6 March 1994) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Katusha–Alpecin. In September 2015 Team Katusha announced that Politt had signed a two-year contract with the team from 2016, and that he would make his debut for the team as a stagiaire at the Tour de l'Eurométropole later that month. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France.

Knüffeln is a very old trick-taking card game for four players, playing in pairs, that is still played in North Germany. It is a descendant of Karnöffel, which itself probably originated in Bavaria in the first quarter of the 15th century and is thus the oldest identifiable European card game in the history of playing cards. Knüffeln, itself several centuries old, was a derivative of Karnöffel that became popular in Friesland in North Germany and, despite being described in 1924 as in danger of extinction, is still taught and played in North Frisia. Like its parent, it uses a 48-card pack and features a highly unusual trump system and cards with special properties; in addition it has the "surprising feature" of having two trump suits. Another oddity is that partners are allowed to openly communicate with one another and try and bluff the opposition about their hands.

Roger Granet is an American psychiatrist and an author of a number of books on understanding mental disorders and diseases. Granet is a consulting psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, a Lecturer of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Morristown Medical Center. He founded the Center for Psychiatry and Psycho-oncology in Morristown, New Jersey, his private practice. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the author and editor of numerous books and journal articles.With , he wrote "Why am I Up, Why am I Down: Understanding Bipolar Disorder." Granet is also author of “If You Think You Have Depression”and “If You Think You Have Panic Disorder.” He s the editor of The Dell Mental Health Series, a collection of 10 books directed to the lay public to inform them about specific emotional issues. In "Surviving Cancer Emotionally: Learning How to Heal" he argues that "a patient's emotional well-being improves her quality of life" while not connecting emotional states directly to the spread of cancer. He is also the author of "Is it Alzheimers: What to do When Loved Ones Can't Remember What They Should" (1998), "Museum of Dreams," and "The World's A Small Town."Granet is also a poet with over 100 poems published in The New York Times Metropolitan Diary as well as other periodicals.Many of his poems focus on coping with cancer, which have appeared in The Journal of Cancer and Palliative Care and other medical periodicals.His book, coauthored with Robert Aquinas McNally, "If You Think You Have Panic Disorder" took Panic Disorder: A Critical Analysis (1994), McNally's original "comprehensive and lucid" and "well written" text, and adapted it for a wider audience. Granet's medical degree is from the Rutgers University University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.He obtained his undergraduate degree from New York University and did his internship and residency at The New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.

The Entognatha are a class of wingless and ametabolous arthropods, which, together with the insects, makes up the subphylum Hexapoda. Their mouthparts are entognathous, meaning that they are retracted within the head. Entognatha are apterous, meaning that they lack wings. The class contains three orders: Collembola (springtails), Diplura and Protura, and over 5000 known species. These three groups were historically united with the now-obsolete order Thysanura to form the class Apterygota, but it has since been recognized that the hexapodous condition of these animals has evolved independently from that of insects, and independently within each order. The orders may not be closely related, in which case Entognatha would be a polyphyletic group.

Kick & Fennick is a platform video game developed and published by Dutch indie studio Jaywalkers Interactive for PlayStation Vita. It was released in North America on 3 February 2015 and in Europe the following day. The game was also released free for PlayStation Plus members. On 28 January 2016, Abstraction Games announced on Twitter that they are bringing the game to Nintendo's Wii U. The two companies announced that the game will be released on the PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One in June 2016.

This is a list of Russia's official representatives and their placements at the Big Four international beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won three victory:
* One— Miss Universe crown (2002)
* Two— Miss World crowns (1992 • 2008) In 28 May 2002, Oxana Fedorova was crowned as Miss Universe 2002 and was dethroned on 24 September 2002 (119 days) and first runner-up Justine Pasek of Panama took over the Miss Universe title.

Route 128 (designated as the Yankee Division Highway) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Spanning 57 miles (92 km), it is one of two beltways (the other being Interstate 495) around Boston, and is known as the "inner" beltway, especially around areas where it is 15 miles (25 km) or less outside of Boston. As designated in 1927, The original Route 128, called the "Circumferential Highway," followed existing roadways from Gloucester to Hull through Boston's suburbs. The first (northernmost) segment of the present controlled-access highway, which is still just four lanes wide, opened in 1951. Construction progressed southward. The final (southernmost) segment, originally built as the present eight-lane highway that spliced into the John Fitzgerald Expressway (then Route 3 for its entire length, and popularly also known as the Southeast Expressway) at a wye junction now known as the Braintree Split in Braintree. This segment, which opened in 1960, replaced a two-lane undivided road to complete the first circumferential highway around any major city. Upon completion of the final segment of the Yankee Division Highway, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation assigned the concurrent designation of Route 128 to the segment of the John Fitzgerald Expressway (Route 3) from Exit 14 to the Braintree Split (Exit 19), linking to the segment of the original Route 128 from the intersection with Route 53 at Queen Anne's Corner at the Hingham-Norwell line to the southern terminus in Hull. That action removed the designation as Route 128 from Blue Hill River Road in Randolph and Braintree, which is now closed to traffic, and West Street, Franklin Street, segments of Washington Street and Plain Street, and Grove Street in Braintree, a segment of Columbian Street, Park Avenue, and a segment of Ralph Talbot Street in Weymouth, and Derby Street and a segment of Whiting Street (Route 53) in Hingham, all of which remain in service for local traffic. However, fate was not so kind to the rest of the original route. Although some segments of remain in service as local parallel streets, other segments became part of the present right of way, but with connections severed at both ends, and some segments were severed where they cross the present right of way and closed to traffic. Thus, it is no longer feasible to drive the original route between Braintree and Gloucester. In 1965, the Massachusetts Highway Department truncated Route 128 at the Braintree Split and redesignated the non-freeway section of Route 128 from Route 3 through Hingham and Hull as Route 228, with its direction reversed to reflect the actual geographical direction of that segment of the route. This action ended the concurrent route designation on the John Fitzgerald Expressway. In the wake of a political decision not to complete I-95 through Boston as originally planned, the United States Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Highway Department redesignated the segment of the Yankee Division Highway between the junction with the completed segment of I-95 from Peabody to the New Hampshire border and the junction with the completed segment of I-95 from Canton to the Rhode Island border as I-95 to complete that highway. Concurrently, these agencies extended I-93 from its original terminus in Boston southward on the John Fitzgerald Expressway to the Braintree Split, then westward on the southern segment of the Yankee Division Highway to the junction with the completed southern segment of I-95 from Canton. At that time, the Massachusetts Highway Department officially truncated Route 128 at its intersection with I-95 in Peabody, began removal of Route 128 signage, and assigned I-93 and I-95 exit numbers to the interchanges on both affected segments of the Yankee Division Highway. The Massachusetts Highway Department subsequently restored the designation of Route 128 and reinstalled signage on the segment of the Yankee Division Highway designated as I-95, partly in response to public protest and partly due to the fact that an Amtrak and MBTA commuter rail station adjacent to the highway at the University Avenue interchange bears the name Route 128 (RTE on the railroad timetables and in the Amtrak reservation system). The station is located at the first interchange north of what's now the junction of I-93 and I-95 in Canton. Despite no longer officially carrying the designation, the section of the Yankee Division Highway between Braintree and Canton is popularly called Route 128 within Massachusetts. However, signage for Route 128 has gradually disappeared from the segment designated as I-95 as the Massachusetts Department of Transportation has replaced signage along that segment of the road and on the intersecting roads. At its current terminus, Route 128 begins running concurrently with I-95 (same direction) and US 1 (opposite direction). While its concurrency with US 1 ends in Dedham, its concurrency with I-95 continues as it intersects with expressways including I-90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike) in Weston; US 20 in Waltham; Route 2 in Lexington; US 3 in Burlington (with which it runs concurrently within the town); and I-93 and US 1 again in Reading and Lynnfield, respectively. 128 and I-95 split in Peabody; as I-95 continues north towards New Hampshire, 128 travels east towards its northern terminus at an interchange with Route 127A in Gloucester. In local culture, 128 is recognized as an approximate dividing line between the more urban municipalities of Greater Boston and the more suburban communities. It delimits the areas accessible by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) public transit system, and is used to reference the high-technology industry that developed from the 1960s to the 1980s in the suburban areas along the highway.

Ixelles (French pronunciation: [iksɛl]; Dutch: Elsene pronounced [ˈɛlsənə] ()) is one of the nineteen municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. Ixelles is located in the suburbs towards the south of Brussels' city centre and is geographically bisected by the City of Brussels municipality. It is also bordered by the municipalities of Auderghem, Etterbeek, Forest, Uccle, Saint-Gilles and Watermael-Boitsfort. It is generally considered an affluent area of the city and is particularly noted for its communities of European and Congolese immigrants. In common with all the Brussels municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).

On the road from Yelvala of Mysore to K R Nagara at about 25 km away we find a village called Dodde Koppalu. Left side of this road falls to Hunsur taluk and the right side belongs to K R Nagara taluk. Take a right turn at this village and go ahead. After a hamlet and a grove you are able to see twin towers of a church at a distance. That is the famous Doranahalli (Dornahalli) Church located 3 km away.

Tomoko Ohta (太田 朋子 Ōta Tomoko, born Tomoko Harada 原田 朋子 September 7, 1933, Miyoshi, Aichi) is a Japanese scientist working on population genetics/molecular evolution. She and Richard Lewontin were jointly awarded the Crafoord Prize for 2015 "for their pioneering analyses and fundamental contributions to the understanding of genetic polymorphism".

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California. In 2005 Robert Entenmann, of St. Olaf College wrote that the book is "certainly the most widely read book on the Hmong experience in America." On the most basic level, the book tells the story of the family's second youngest and favored daughter, Lia Lee, who was diagnosed with a severe form of epilepsy named Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome and the culture conflict that obstructs her treatment. Through miscommunications about medical dosages and parental refusal to give certain medicines due to mistrust, misunderstandings, and behavioral side effects, and the inability of the doctors to develop more empathy with the traditional Hmong lifestyle or try to learn more about the Hmong culture, Lia's condition worsens. The dichotomy between the Hmong's perceived spiritual factors and the Americans' perceived scientific factors comprises the overall theme of the book. The book is written in a unique style, with every other chapter returning to Lia's story and the chapters in-between discussing broader themes of Hmong culture, customs, and history; American involvement in and responsibility for the war in Laos; and the many problems of immigration, especially assimilation and discrimination. While particularly sympathetic to the Hmong, Fadiman presents the situation from the perspectives of both the doctors and the family. An example of medical anthropology, the book has been cited by medical journals and lecturers as an argument for greater cultural competence, and often assigned to medical, pharmaceutic, and anthropological students in the US. In 1997, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction.

Optional flex acreage is a term in United States agricultural policy. Under the planting flexibility provision of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the 1990 farm bill, producers could choose to plant up to 25% of the crop acreage base in other Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)-specified crops (except fruits and vegetables) without a reduction in crop acreage bases on the farm, but receive no deficiency payments on this acreage. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 further amended the 1949 Act to make a 15% reduction in payment acreage mandatory. The remaining 10% was optional flex acreage. Optional flex acreage was eligible for deficiency payments when planted to the program crop. The 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104-127) expanded planting flexibility to all of the base acres, and this policy was continued by the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 101-171, Sec. 1106).
Optional flex acreage is a term in United States agricultural policy. Under the planting flexibility provision of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the 1990 farm bill, producers could choose to plant up to 25% of the crop acreage base in other Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)-specified crops (except fruits and vegetables) without a reduction in crop acreage bases on the farm, but receive no deficiency payments on this acreage. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 further amended the 1949 Act to make a 15% reduction in payment acreage mandatory. The remaining 10% was optional flex acreage. Optional flex acreage was eligible for deficiency payments when planted to the program crop. The 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104-127) expanded planting flexibility to all of the base acres,

Colonel Matthew Bogdanos is an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan (since 1988), author, and a colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. In 2003, while on active duty in the Marine Corps, he led an investigation into the looting of Iraq's National Museum, and was subsequently awarded the National Humanities Medal for his efforts. He had previously gained national attention for the prosecution of Sean Combs, who was acquitted of weapons and bribery charges in a 2001 trial stemming from a 1999 nightclub shootout.

Yoo Ji-tae (born April 13, 1976) is a South Korean actor, film director and screenwriter. After a stint as a fashion model, Yoo launched his acting career in 1998 then rose to fame through the films Attack the Gas Station (1999) and Ditto (2000). In the succeeding years, he gained acting recognition by working with acclaimed directors such as Hur Jin-ho in One Fine Spring Day (2001), Park Chan-wook in Oldboy (2003), and Hong Sang-soo in Woman is the Future of Man (2004). Yoo began directing short films in 2003, which were well received in the film festival circuit. His feature directorial debut Mai Ratima was released in 2013.

Monica Mundu is an Indian playback singer who sings nagpuri songs. She has sung song in 12 languages including Munda, Santal, Kurukh, Khortha, Hindi and Bengali. Her first film was Jharkhand kar Chhaila, She also in film M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story.

Reshmi Menon is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil films.

The Boy Next Door is a 2015 American erotic thriller-horror film directed by Rob Cohen and written by Barbara Curry. The film stars Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, and Ian Nelson, with John Corbett and Kristin Chenoweth playing supporting roles. Lopez plays a high school teacher named Claire who, in the midst of being separated from her husband (Corbett), has a one-night stand with a younger neighbor (Guzman), who develops a dangerous obsession with her. Barbara Curry, a former criminal lawyer, wrote the screenplay for the film inspired from her life's experiences. Blumhouse Productions financed and produced the film, which was filmed for 23 days in Los Angeles and other locations in California at the end of 2013. The film was released on January 23, 2015 by Universal Pictures. It received generally negative reviews from film critics, but was a box office success, grossing over fifteen times its budget. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on April 28, 2015.

Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while the detail of his work along with the deglorified portrayal of historic figures follow the trends of Academicism and Neoclassicism. Delaroche aimed to depict his subjects and history with pragmatic realism. He did not consider popular ideals and norms in his creations, but rather painted all his subjects in the same light whether they were historical figures, founders of Christianity, or real people of his time like Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie-Antoinette. Delaroch

French forces in Afghanistan have been involved in the ongoing War in Afghanistan since late 2001. They operate within two distinct frameworks:
* the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), carried out by NATO on a United Nations mandate
* "Operation Enduring Freedom", under US command, as part of the War on Terror. French forces have contributed to both chapters in several national operations:
* with the ISAF,
* Opération Héraklès for the naval and air components
* for training of the Afghan Army
* for special operations within "Operation Enduring Freedom" As of 1 November 2009, 4,000 French personnel were deployed in Afghanistan, including the air support of Combined Task Force 150 in the Indian Ocean. Furthermore, 150 gendarmes were deployed in late 2009. Operations in 2009 alone cost 450 million Euros, amounting to over half the 870 million Euros devoted to military operations abroad. 88 men have been killed. In February 2012, after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, French president Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to suspend French operations in Afghanistan. The newly elected president Francois Hollande, announced in June 2012 that he would be withdrawing 2,000 of France's 3,400 troops in Afghanistan, leaving 1,400 for training and logistics. In November 2012, France's combat troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan, leaving just the logistical contingent in the country.

The BOMA Project is a U.S . nonprofit organization and Kenyan NGO that works to provide poor women living in the arid and semi-arid lands of Northern Kenya with the educational, financial, and technological resources to lift themselves out of poverty. Its mission is to “empower women in the drylands of Africa to establish sustainable livelihoods, build resilient families, graduate from extreme poverty and catalyze change in their rural communities.”

Century Mile Racetrack and Casino is a casino and horse racing track in Edmonton International Airport, Alberta. Located just south of Edmonton, Century Mile Racetrack and Casino is one of two "A-level" horse racing venues in the province of Alberta. It is the only one mile racetrack in western Canada. Century Mile offers live Thoroughbred racing from April to August and Standardbred racing September to December. The casino features 700 slot machines, an off track betting location for simulcast wagering for both thoroughbred and Standardbred racing from around North America. Dining facilities include a lounge and the Derby Restaurant. Century Mile Casino first opened on April 1st, 2019 and the first day of live racing is April 28, 2019.

The Kachari kingdom (or Dimasa kingdom) was a powerful kingdom ruled by Dimasa kings on the Indian subcontinent, located in the region of Assam, India. The kachari kingdom and others (Kamata, Chutiya) that developed in the wake of the Kamarupa kingdom were led by chieftains of indigenous communities of Assam and are examples of indigenous state formations in Medieval Assam. Remnants of the Dimasa kingdom lingered until the advent of the British, and this kingdom gave its name to two districts in Assam: Cachar and North Cachar Hills (Dima Hasao district). It should be clear that Although Kachari is used as Umbrella term but All People are not from Kachari kingdom. Kachari word got it's origin outside Kachari Kingdom i.e In Koch Darrang and Ahom Kingdom .

Century Mile Racetrack and Casino is a casino and horse racing track in Edmonton International Airport, Alberta. Located just south of Edmonton, Century Mile Racetrack and Casino is one of two "A-level" horse racing venues in the province of Alberta. It is the only one mile racetrack in western Canada. Century Mile offers live Thoroughbred racing from April to August and Standardbred racing September to December. The casino features 700 slot machines, an off track betting location for simulcast wagering for both thoroughbred and Standardbred racing from around North America. Dining facilities include a lounge and the Derby Restaurant.

Joseph Christian "Joey" Chestnut (born November 25, 1983) is an American competitive eater. He is currently ranked first in the world by Major League Eating. He is a Vallejo, California native and resides in San Jose, California. Chestnut's height is 6-feet-one-inch (1.85 m); his weight is 230 pounds (104 kg). Chestnut proposed to his longtime girlfriend Neslie Ricasa just before defending his title in the 2014 Nathan's competition. The couple split up in early 2015, prior to their scheduled wedding date.

Sharda Rajan Iyengar, or Sharda, is an Indiam playback singer in the 1960s and 1970s. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the cabaret "Baat Zara Hai Aapas Ki" in Jahan Pyar Miley (1970), though she is most remembered for her song "Titli Udi" in Suraj (1966). In 2007, she released the album Andaaz-e-Bayan Aur, featuring her own compositions based on Mirza Ghalib's ghazals.

The 13 September 2008 Delhi bombings were a series of five synchronised bomb blasts that took place within a span of few minutes on Saturday, 13 September 2008 at various locations in Delhi, India. The first bomb exploded at 18:07 IST, and four other blasts followed in succession, with at least 20 people killed and over 90 injured.

This is a list of notable Puerto Rican scientists involved in the United States Space Program, also known as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and their contributions to said program. This list is not limited to Puerto Ricans born in Puerto Rico, it also includes people of Puerto Rican descent born elsewhere. According to an article written by Margarita Santori Lopez for the official newspaper of the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez Campus, "Prensa RUM", as of 2003, of the 114 Hispanics working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, 70 were Puerto Ricans or of Puerto Rican descent.

Francisco "Paco" Rabaneda Cuervo (born 18 February 1934), more commonly known under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne (French: [pako ʁaban]; Spanish: [ˈpako raˈβan]), is a Spanish fashion designer of Basque origin who became known as l'enfant terrible (unruly child) of the 1960s French fashion world.

Actinocyclidae is a family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Doridoidea. This family is within the clade Euctenidiacea.

Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while the detail of his work along with the deglorified portrayal of historic figures follow the trends of Academicism and Neoclassicism. Delaroche aimed to depict his subjects and history with pragmatic realism. He did not consider popular ideals and norms in his creations, but rather painted all his subjects in the same light whether they were historical figures, founders of Christianity, or real people of his time like Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie-Antoinette. Delaroche was a leading pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and later mentored a number of notable artists like Thomas Couture, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Jean-François Millet. Delaroche was born into a generation that saw the stylistic conflicts between Romanticism and Davidian Classicism. Davidian Classicism was widely accepted and enjoyed by society so as a developing artist at the time of the introduction of Romanticism in Paris, Delaroche found his place between the two movements. Subjects from Delaroche’s medieval and sixteenth and seventeenth-century history paintings appealed to Romantics while the accuracy of information along with the highly finished surfaces of his paintings appealed to Academics and Neoclassicism. Delaroche’s works completed in the early 1830s most reflected the position he took between the two movements and were admired by contemporary artists of the time—the Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833; National Gallery, London) was the most acclaimed of Delaroche’s paintings in its day. Later in the 1830s, Delaroche exhibited the first of his major religious works. His change of subject and “the painting’s austere manner” were ill-received by critics and after 1837, he stopped exhibiting his work altogether. At the time of his death in 1856, he was painting a series of four scenes from the Life of the Virgin. Only one work from this series was completed: the Virgin Contemplating the Crown of Thorns.

Wagawattage Maithree Bathiya Perera (born 28 April 1977) is a former Sri Lankan first class cricketer. A right-handed batsman and part-time leg break bowler, he has represented Sri Lanka A at international level. Perera impressed in the under 23 and the premier tournaments of 2001/02 and 2002/03 where he was the highest runs scorer for both seasons. As a member of Sri Lanka A he has toured South Africa and played in the ICC six nation tournament in Namibia, New Zealand and the UK. In domestic cricket he has played for Colts Cricket Club, Colombo Cricket Club and Moors Sports Club. He has also spent time in the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide.

Michael Anthony Woods is an English producer, DJ, and remixer of various EDM genres, mainly progressive house, electro house and trance. He is the founder of the imprint label Diffused Music, which was established in 2010 and focuses primarily on progressive house and tech house. He has worked under the stage names of Out of Office, Warrior, Accadia, M1 and M3.

Frontis Archive Publishing System is a content management system and electronic document and records management system (EDRMS) and is primarily used for publishing historical archives on-lines for researchers to search.

Wagawattage Maithree Bathiya Perera (born 28 April 1977) is a former Sri Lankan first class cricketer. A right-handed batsman and part-time leg break bowler, he has represented Sri Lanka A at international level.

The Florida Fire Frogs are a minor league baseball team that plays as a member of the Florida State League in Kissimmee, Florida, part of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. Founded in 2017, the team is the Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. They play their home games at Osceola County Stadium. The team's name was announced on October 26, 2016, at the conclusion of a name the team contest. The finalists from which the team's name was selected were: Florida Dragonflies, Florida Fire Frogs, Florida Mud Kickers, Florida Rodeo Clowns, Florida Sorcerers, and Florida Toucans. The team is the relocation of the Brevard County Manatees.

The Best So Far... 2018 Tour Edition is a greatest hits album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Sony Music in Asia-Pacific to coincide with Dion's 2018 tour in this part of the world. The album was issued in Japan on 30 May 2018, in Australia on 6 July 2018 and in New Zealand on 20 July 2018. It includes studio versions of seventeen hits from the years 1993 to 2013. The album artwork consists of a photo taken during Dion's previous 2017 tour. The Best So Far... 2018 Tour Edition peaked at number four in Australia and New Zealand, and number twenty-four in Japan.

The Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie (VBCI, "Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle") is a French Infantry fighting vehicle designed to replace the AMX-10P. They entered active service with the French Army in 2008, with 630 vehicles ordered up to 2010. Spain and the UK have shown interest in the vehicle.

Robert William Kostelka, usually known as Bob Kostelka (born February 18, 1933), is a former district attorney, district judge, and circuit judge, and, currently, a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Monroe. As state senator, he has represented Ouachita, Lincoln, and Jackson parishes in District 35 since 2004. He was unopposed for a second Senate term in the October 20, 2007, nonpartisan blanket primary. Kostelka retired from his circuit judgeship in 2003, when he reached the age of seventy, as required by an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution of 1974.

Vale Royal Abbey is a medieval abbey, and later a country house, located in Whitegate, between Northwich and Winsford in Cheshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1270 by Prince Edward for monks of the austere Cistercian order. Edward intended the abbey to be on the grandest scale. However, financial difficulties meant that these ambitions could not be fulfilled and the final building was considerably smaller than planned. The project ran into problems in other ways. The abbey was frequently grossly mismanaged, relations with the local population were so poor as to cause outbreaks of large-scale violence on a number of occasions, and internal discipline was frequently bad. Vale Royal was closed in 1538 by Henry VIII as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Much of the abbey, including the church, was demolished but some of the cloister buildings were incorporated into a mansion by Sir Thomas Holcroft, an important government official, during the 1540s. Over subsequent centuries this house was considerably altered and extended by successive generations of the Holcroft family. Vale Royal came into the possession of the Cholmondeley family in the early 1600s and remained a seat of the family for more than 300 years. It was sold after the Second World War and was turned into a private golf club. The building remains habitable and contains surviving rooms from the medieval abbey, including the refectory and kitchen. The foundations of the church and cloister have been excavated. Vale Royal Abbey is a scheduled ancient monument, and recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

Iron Chef America is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef, and is the second American adaptation of the series, following the failed Iron Chef USA that aired in 2001. The show is produced by Food Network, which also carried a dubbed version of the original Iron Chef. Like the original Japanese program, the program is a culinary game show. In each episode, a new challenger chef competes against one of the resident "Iron Chefs" in a one-hour cooking competition based on a secret ingredient or ingredients, and sometimes theme.

The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a UK-based company. Its intention is to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states. The index was first published in 2006, with updates for 2008, 2010 and later years. The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories, measuring pluralism, civil liberties and political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorises each country in one of four regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes.

The Kachari kingdom (or Dimasa kingdom) was a powerful kingdom ruled by Dimasa kings on the Indian subcontinent, located in the region of Assam, India. The kachari kingdom and others (Kamata, Chutiya) that developed in the wake of the Kamarupa kingdom were led by chieftains of indigenous communities of Assam and are examples of indigenous state formations in Medieval Assam. Remnants of the Dimasa kingdom lingered until the advent of the British, and this kingdom gave its name to two districts in Assam: Cachar and North Cachar Hills (Dima Hasao district). It should be clear that Although Kachari is used as Umbrella term but All People are not from Kachari kingdom. Kachari word got it's origin outside Kachari Kingdom i.e In Koch Darrang and Ahom Kingdom . The origin of the Dimasa Kingdom is not clear. It's believed that Some Kacharis had to leave the Kamarupa Kingdom in the ancient period due to political turmoil. Since those kacharis crossed the mighty Brahmaputra river (or "Dilao" in Dimasa), they were named the Dimasa, meaning sons of the river. The kachari ghat on the river banks of the Brahmaputra holds proof to this day. Dimasa had a tradition of worshiping Kechai Khaiti, the goddess of in Sadiya, though the titular deity changed to Ranachandi at Maibong as a result of Hinduisation. The royal family came under Hindu influence at Maibang, though the first conversion of a Kachari king to Hinduism is recorded from Khaspur. According to a legend constructed at the time, the royal family descends from Ghatotkacha, the son of Bhima of the Mahabharata fame, and Hidimbi, a princess of the kachari people.
* Kachari ruin Mushroom Pillars at Dimapur
* Entrance to Kachari Ruins

MT Haven, formerly Amoco Milford Haven, was a VLCC (very large crude carrier), leased to (a company run by and his son Stelios Haji-Ioannou). In 1991, while loaded with 144,000 tonnes (1 million barrels) of crude oil, the ship exploded, caught fire and sank off the coast of Genoa, Italy, killing six Cypriot crew and flooding the Mediterranean with up to 50,000 tonnes of crude oil. It broke in two and sank after burning for three days, and for the next 12 years the Mediterranean coast of Italy and France was polluted, especially around Genoa and southern France.

Flood control is an important issue for the Netherlands, as due to its low elevation, approximately two thirds of its area is vulnerable to flooding, while the country is densely populated. Natural sand dunes and constructed dikes, dams, and floodgates provide defense against storm surges from the sea. River dikes prevent flooding from water flowing into the country by the major rivers Rhine and Meuse, while a complicated system of drainage ditches, canals, and pumping stations (historically: windmills) keep the low-lying parts dry for habitation and agriculture. Water control boards are the independent local government bodies responsible for maintaining this system. In modern times, flood disasters coupled with technological developments have led to large construction works to reduce the influence of the sea and prevent future floods.

Bokosuka Wars (ボコスカウォーズ) is a 1983 action-strategy role-playing video game developed by Kōji Sumii (住井浩司) and released by ASCII for the Sharp X1 computer, followed by ports to the MSX, FM-7, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-8801 and NEC PC-9801 computer platforms, as well as an altered version released for the Family Computer console and later the Virtual Console service. It revolves around a leader who must lead an army in phalanx formation across a battlefield in real-time against overwhelming enemy forces while freeing and recruiting soldiers along the way, with each unit able to gain experience and level up through battle. The player must make sure that the leader stays alive, until the army reaches the enemy castle to defeat the leader of the opposing forces.

Magee Secondary School is a public secondary school on West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the first public high schools located in the Kerrisdale neighbourhood and is fed by the surrounding elementary schools in its catchment area. They include Maple Grove Elementary School, Dr. R. E. McKechnie Elementary School, Sir William Osler Elementary School, and David Lloyd George Elementary School. It was used as a temporary hospital during the Influenza Epidemic in 1918.

Major General Eldon A. Bargewell was a General in the United States Army and former commander of Delta Force. Bargewell was born in Hoquiam, Washington and graduated from Hoquiam High School in 1965 and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967. He completed the Special Forces Qualification Course in 1968. During the Vietnam War Bargewell was accepted into MACV-SOG where he served at the "Command And Control North (CCN)" launch site at Da Nang and served as Non-Commissioned Officer Team Leader for Reconnaissance Team "Viper" (all CCN teams were named for states or snakes). While serving with CCN, Bargewell earned the Distinguished Service Cross in September 1971 for his actions in combat his saving his team and getting them to safety. He then received his officer's commission in 1973.Bargewell first assignment as a member of the 2nd Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis, Washington where he later served as rifle platoon leader and executive officer. As a Captain, Bargewell was assigned as Rifle Company Commander with 2d Battalion, 47th Infantry.. In 1981 Bargewell volunteered for and completed a specialized selection course for assignment to Delta Force where he would serve as Operations Officer, Squadron Executive Officer, Troop commander, Squadron Commander (twice), Deputy Commander and unit commander from July 1996 to July 1998. While in Delta Force Bargewell participated in Operation Acid Gambit during the invasion of Panama, including the rescue of American citizen Curt Muse from the Modelo prison. He commanded a Delta Force Squadron during Operation Desert Storm in western Iraq.In 1998 Bargewell became Commanding General of Special Operations Command Europefollowed by assistant chief of staff for SFOR military operations in Sarajevo,Bargewell returned to the continental United States and served as director of the center operations, plans, and policies of United States Special Operations Command. In 2005, Bargwell became Director of Strategic Operations at Multinational Force Iraq. While serving as the Operations Officer Bargewell pursued an outside administrative investigation as to how knowledge of the Haditha incident in Iraq passed up the Marine chain of command and whether or not any commanders lied in their reports. The informal investigation, pursuant to Army regulation AR 15-6, began on March 19, 2006 and was expected to examine how servicemembers and their commanders were trained in the rules of engagement. The completed report was sent to Army Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the second-ranked US commander in Iraq, on the morning of June 15, 2006. This was separate from a criminal investigation being conducted by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Omar Sharif Amanat is an American entrepreneur, film producer, and investor in media, technology and hospitality companies. He was convicted in December 2017 of fraud for his involvement in a scheme that involved a number of companies, including KIT Digital and Enable Invest. Business Insider reported that he was expected to spend a minimum of 10 years in jail after "a striking fall from power".

Microtransit is a form of Demand Responsive Transit (DRT). This technology enabled transit service offers flexible routing and/or flexible scheduling of minibus vehicles. Microtransit providers use instant exchange of information, enabling an extra real-time matching of demand (trip) and supply (driven vehicle) on top of an in-advance matching, which extends the accessibility of the transit service. Possible pick-up/drop-off stops are usually pre-defined to allow better routes' optimization. Conceptually, microtransit fits somewhere between private individual transportation (cars or taxicabs) and public mass transit (bus).

Different Dreams (Hangul: 이몽; RR: Yimong) is an upcoming South Korean television series starring Lee Yo-won, Yoo Ji-tae, Lim Ju-hwan and Nam Gyu-ri. It is set to air four episodes every Saturday on MBC TV from 20:45 to 23:10 (KST), starting from May 4, 2019.

This is a list of presidential trips made by Barack Obama during 2010, the second year of his presidency as the 44th President of the United States. During 2010, Obama traveled to eight different nation states internationally, in addition to many more trips made domestically within the United States. This list excludes trips made within Washington, D.C., the U.S. federal capital in which the White House, the official residence and principal workplace of the President, is located. Additionally excluded are trips to Camp David, the country residence of the President, and to the private home of the Obama family in Kenwood, Chicago.

James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437), the youngest of three sons, was born in Dunfermline Abbey to King Robert III and his wife Annabella Drummond. His older brother David, Duke of Rothesay, died suspiciously while being detained by their uncle, Robert, Duke of Albany. Fears for James's safety grew through the winter of 1405/6 and plans were made to send him to France. In February 1406, James was forced to take refuge in the castle of the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth after his retinue was attacked by supporters of Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas where he remained until mid-March when he boarded a vessel bound for France. On 22 March English pirates captured the ship and delivered the prince to Henry IV of England. The ailing Robert III died on 4 April and the 12-year-old James, now the uncrowned King of Scots, would not regain his freedom for another eighteen years. James was educated well at the English Court where he developed respect for English methods of governance and for Henry V. The Scottish king, apparently willingly, joined Henry in his military campaign in France during 1420 – 1421. His cousin, Murdoch Stewart, Albany's son, an English prisoner since 1402 was traded for Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland in 1416. James had married Joan Beaufort, daughter of the Earl of Somerset in February 1424 just before his release in April. The King's re-entry into Scottish affairs was not altogether popular since he had fought on behalf of Henry V in France and at times against Scottish forces. Noble families were now faced with paying increased taxes to cover the ransom repayments but would also have to provide family hostages as security. James, who excelled in sporting activities and appreciated literature and music, also held a strong desire to impose law and order on his subjects although he applied it selectively at times. To secure his position, James launched preemptive attacks on some of his nobles beginning in 1425 with his close kinsmen the Albany Stewarts resulting in the execution of Duke Murdoch and his sons. In 1428 James detained Alexander, Lord of the Isles, while attending a parliament in Inverness. Archibald, 5th Earl of Douglas, was arrested in 1431, followed by George, Earl of March, in 1434. The plight of the ransom hostages held in England was ignored and the repayment money was diverted into the construction of Linlithgow Palace and other grandiose schemes. In August 1436, James failed in his siege of the English-held Roxburgh Castle and then faced an ineffective attempt by Sir Robert Graham to arrest him at a general council. James was assassinated at Perth on the night of 20/21 February 1437 in a failed coup by his uncle Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl. Queen Joan, although wounded, managed to evade the attackers and reached her son, now King James II, in Edinburgh Castle.

This is a list of Russia's official representatives and their placements at the Big Four international beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won three victory:
* One— Miss Universe crown (2002)
* Two— Miss World crowns (1992 • 2008) In 28 May 2002, Oxana Fedorova was crowned as Miss Universe 2002 and was dethroned on 24 September 2002 (119 days) and first runner-up Justine Pasek of Panama took over the Miss Universe title. The criteria for the Big Four inclusion is based on specific standards such as the pageants global prominence and prestige approved by worldwide media, the quality and quantity of crowned delegates recognized by international franchisees and pageant aficionados, the winner's post pageant activities; the pageants longevity, consistency, and history; the sincerity of the pageant's specific cause, platform, and advocacy; the overall pre-pageant activities, production quality and global telecast; the enormity of internet traffic; and the extent of popularity amongst pageant fans across the globe.

Larry McNabney (December 19, 1948 - September 12, 2001) was a Sacramento, California attorney whose body was found buried in a vineyard on March 5, 2002. After a nationwide manhunt, his wife, Elisa McNabney, was captured in Florida and arraigned for first-degree murder. The case made national headlines when police learned that her real name was actually Laren Sims, and that she had served time in a Florida prison for fraud and identity theft. Before Elisa could stand trial however, she hanged herself in her jail cell. Elisa's friend Sarah Dutra was later convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years in prison for murdering Larry McNabney. Elisa McNabney (January 20, 1966 - March 31, 2002) was born Laren Renee Sims to parents Jesse and Jackie Sims in Attleboro, Massachusetts, before moving to Florida. Laren was a cheerleader and excellent student at Hernando High School; she had an IQ of 140. Despite her intelligence, she dropped out of high school, had two children with two different fathers, and started stealing. Laren was arrested for stealing a L'Oreal hair color kit from a Woolworth's in Tampa, Florida. After being released on that charge, she violated her probation by illegally using a credit card. She cut off her ankle monitor and headed to Las Vegas, Nevada with her daughter Haylei (born January 29, 1985).

"Green Light" is a song by New Zealand singer Lorde, from her second studio album Melodrama (2017). Universal Music New Zealand released the song on 2 March 2017 as the album's lead single. Lorde co-wrote and co-produced the song with Jack Antonoff, with additional writing by Joel Little and production assistance from Frank Dukes and Kuk Harrell. "Green Light" was described as an electropop, dance-pop, and post-disco song with an upbeat piano loop, hand-claps, bass and strings in its instrumentation. In the lyrics, Lorde uses a "green light" as a street signal metaphor that gives her permission to move on into the future. Contemporary critics received "Green Light" with acclaim and praised its musical style, and Lorde's vocal delivery. It was called a break-up anthem. Several sites ranked it as one of the best songs of the year, with NME and The Guardian placing it in the top spot on their respective lists. The single garnered success on charts internationally, peaking at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and at number nine on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. In Oceania, it reached number four in Australia, and number one in New Zealand. "Green Light" was certified Platinum in the United Kingdom and the United States, double Platinum in New Zealand and quadruple Platinum in Australia. Grant Singer directed the song's accompanying music video which premiered on Lorde's Vevo account on 2 March 2017. It shows the artist leaving a nightclub and walking the streets of Los Angeles as she tries to move on from a breakup. The visual attracted the attention of various music critics, who commended the singer's new artistic direction. Lorde has performed "Green Light" at Saturday Night Live taping in New York, and at Coachella Valley Music Festival in California. The television shows New Girl, Quantico and Siesta Key used the track on their soundtracks.

James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437), the youngest of three sons, was born in Dunfermline Abbey to King Robert III and his wife Annabella Drummond. His older brother David, Duke of Rothesay, died suspiciously while being detained by their uncle, Robert, Duke of Albany. Fears for James's safety grew through the winter of 1405/6 and plans were made to send him to France. In February 1406, James was forced to take refuge in the castle of the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth after his retinue was attacked by supporters of Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas where he remained until mid-March when he boarded a vessel bound for France. On 22 March English pirates captured the ship and delivered the prince to Henry IV of England. The ailing Robert III died on 4 April and the 12-year-old James, no

Kunnam also often called Kunnam of Elam was a military expedition leader of the kingdom of Elam in the 18th century BC. He was part of a military campaign into Mesopotamia and is mainly known from cuneiform letters found at Mari, a Syrian city state where there are the royal archives preserved. He was a contemporary of Zimri-Lim (Mari) and Hammurabi (Babylon). The king of Elam connected with the military expedition is not mentioned in the texts from Mari as agrressor, but for chronological reasons it was most likely Siwe-Palar-Khuppak, who tried to get control over Mesopotamia, attacked several cities and was only defeated in year 30 of king Hammurabi. Kunnam guided the expedition against Tell Shubat-Enlil (most likely Tell Leilan) and entered the city with a huge army. He installed there Ibni-Addu as king of . Kunnam had the repution of always telling the truth and is several times described as drunken.

Medicine shows were touring acts (traveling by truck, horse, or wagon teams) that peddled "miracle cure" patent medicines and other products between various entertainments. They developed from European mountebank shows and were common in the United States in the nineteenth century, especially in the Old West (though some continued until World War II). They usually promoted "miracle elixirs" (sometimes referred to as snake oil), which, it was claimed, had the ability to cure disease, smooth wrinkles, remove stains, prolong life or cure any number of common ailments. Most shows had their own patent medicine (these medicines were for the most part unpatented but took the name to sound official). Entertainments often included a freak show, a flea circus, musical acts, magic tricks, jokes, or storytelling. Each show was run by a man posing as a doctor who drew the crowd with a monologue. The entertainers, such as acrobats, musclemen, magicians, dancers, ventriloquists, exotic performers, and trick shots, kept the audience engaged until the salesman sold his medicine.

An observation balloon is a type of balloon that is employed as an aerial platform for intelligence gathering and artillery spotting. Use of observation balloons began during the French Revolutionary Wars, reaching their zenith during World War I, and they continue in limited use today. Historically, observation balloons were filled with hydrogen. The balloons were fabric envelopes filled with hydrogen gas, whose flammable nature led to the destruction of hundreds of balloons on both sides. Observers manning these observation balloons frequently had to use a parachute to evacuate their balloon when it came under attack. To avoid the potentially flammable consequences of hydrogen, observation balloons after World War I were often filled with non-flammable helium. Typically, balloons were tethered to a steel cable attached to a winch that reeled the gasbag to its desired height (usually 1,000-1,500 metres) and retrieved it at the end of an observation session.

SremmLife 2 (sometimes stylized as SremmLife II) is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd. It was released on August 12, 2016, by Ear Drummer Records and Interscope Records. The album serves as a sequel to their previous studio effort, SremmLife (2015). It features guest appearances from Kodak Black, Gucci Mane, Juicy J, Lil Jon and Bobo Swae. SremmLife 2 was supported by four singles: "By Chance", "Look Alive", "Black Beatles" and "Swang". The album debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 and later reached number five. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

The following is a list of sites of interest in the Charlotte, North Carolina metropolitan area:
* Bank of America Stadium, football stadium in uptown Charlotte, home of the Carolina Panthers NFL team.
* BareBones Theatre Group, a cutting-edge alternative theatre company operating out of the NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
* Belmont Abbey College and Basilica, on the historic registry for the college, the monastery and grotto
* Billy Graham Library, on the grounds of the headquarters of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
* Carolina Raptor Center, dedicated to the conservation and rehabilitation of birds of prey
* Carolinas Aviation Museum, dedicated to the preservation of historic aircraft
* Carowinds, a regional amusement park located on the border of North and South Ca

Joseph Christian "Joey" Chestnut (born November 25, 1983) is an American competitive eater. He is currently ranked first in the world by Major League Eating. He is a Vallejo, California native and resides in San Jose, California. Chestnut's height is 6-feet-one-inch (1.85 m); his weight is 230 pounds (104 kg). On July 4, 2007, Chestnut won the 92nd Annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating six-time defending champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi by consuming 66 hot dogs and buns (HDB) in 12 minutes, which set a new world record. The following year, he successfully defended his title by winning a 5 hot dog eat-off after tying Kobayashi in consuming 59 HDB in 10 minutes. On July 4, 2009, Chestnut beat Kobayashi again, by consuming a new world record of 68 HDB and winning his third consecutive title. On July 4, 2010, Chestnut took home his 4th consecutive Mustard Belt eating 54 HDB. The 2010 contest was a runaway victory, as Kobayashi did not compete due to a contract dispute with Major League Eating. On July 4, 2011, he won his fifth-consecutive championship with 62 HDB. 2012 marked his sixth consecutive win, when Chestnut tied his own world record from 2009 by devouring 68 HDB. In 2013, Chestnut captured his seventh straight title, eating a total of 69 HDB, breaking his previous world record. In 2014, Chestnut captured his eighth straight title eating a total of 61 HDB. Chestnut proposed to his longtime girlfriend Neslie Ricasa just before defending his title in the 2014 Nathan's competition. The couple split up in early 2015, prior to their scheduled wedding date. Chestnut lost the 2015 Hot Dog eating contest to Matt Stonie. On July 4, 2016, Chestnut regained the championship belt from Stonie by eating 70 hot dogs; 3.5 hot dogs short of his record-setting qualifying round. A year later on July 4, 2017, he raised the bar again by raising his record to 72 hot dogs; and again the following year to a world record of 74.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Православна церква України, translit. Pravoslavna tserkva Ukrayiny) (OCU), or Ukrainian Orthodox Church, also known as the Most Holy Church of Ukraine is a partially recognized autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church whose canonical territory is Ukraine. The other Orthodox jurisdiction in Ukraine is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), an autonomous branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, which considers the Orthodox Church of Ukraine to be schismatic.

Medicine shows were touring acts (traveling by truck, horse, or wagon teams) that peddled "miracle cure" patent medicines and other products between various entertainments. They developed from European mountebank shows and were common in the United States in the nineteenth century, especially in the Old West (though some continued until World War II). They usually promoted "miracle elixirs" (sometimes referred to as snake oil), which, it was claimed, had the ability to cure disease, smooth wrinkles, remove stains, prolong life or cure any number of common ailments. Most shows had their own patent medicine (these medicines were for the most part unpatented but took the name to sound official). Entertainments often included a freak show, a flea circus, musical acts, magic tricks, jokes, or s

Robert William Kostelka, usually known as Bob Kostelka (born February 18, 1933), is a former district attorney, district judge, and circuit judge, and, currently, a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Monroe. As state senator, he has represented Ouachita, Lincoln, and Jackson parishes in District 35 since 2004. He was unopposed for a second Senate term in the October 20, 2007, nonpartisan blanket primary. Kostelka retired from his circuit judgeship in 2003, when he reached the age of seventy, as required by an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution of 1974. Kostelka endorsed U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He told delegates at the state convention in Baton Rouge on February 16, 2008, that they should coalesce behind McCain, who trailed former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas in the February 9 Louisiana presidential primary. "Can you believe the United States is on the verge of electing Barack Hussein Obama or the wife of Monica's ex-boyfriend?", a reference to Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who had an affair with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. "It's enough to make you want to cry," the Monroe Republican continued. In 1992, Kostelka was nominated by then President George Herbert Walker Bush for the federal judgeship held by the retiring Richard M. Nixon appointee Tom Stagg of Shreveport in Caddo Parish. The nomination died with the election of Bill Clinton as president.

Master sergeant (retired) Zachary Rhyner is a Combat Controller (CCT) in the United States Air Force. His hometown is Medford, Wisconsin. While still a Senior Airman, he received the Air Force Cross for his actions in the Battle of Shok Valley on 6 April 2008 in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. He was the first living, and second ever, Combat Controller to receive the Air Force Cross after TSgt John A. Chapman was posthumously awarded the medal in 2002 for his actions during the Battle of Takur Ghar. In addition to his Air Force Cross Rhyner is the recipient of two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star Medal and the Air Force Combat Action Medal among others. His first Purple Heart he received for the Battle of Shok Valley, while the second Purple Heart was from a deployment to northern Afghanistan

On the road from Yelvala of Mysore to K R Nagara at about 25 km away we find a village called Dodde Koppalu. Left side of this road falls to Hunsur taluk and the right side belongs to K R Nagara taluk. Take a right turn at this village and go ahead. After a hamlet and a grove you are able to see twin towers of a church at a distance. That is the famous Doranahalli (Dornahalli) Church located 3 km away. Doranahalli (Dornahalli), known locally as Christian Koppalu since it is dwelt by Christians only. As you walk along the road leading to the Church, on your left side before approaching the rivulet branched out of Cauvery, you can see a cluster of trees on an elevated land. This place was the erstwhile Doranahalli. After the turbulent strike of big famine and plague in the last century this village was abandoned and a new planned village was built at a new site by the efforts of Christian priests. Doranahalli is famous for the miracle man St. Anthony. The story of Doranahalli goes back to some 200 years. That day it is said, a peasant of Doranahalli was ploughing his fields with a pair of bullocks. To a surprise, something struck the plough and the farmer stopped his work to look at it. It was a human faced wooden doll. The farmer took it in his hands and closely examined it. To his surprise it was not eaten away by the termites being in the mud for several years. The farmer thought it a wonder. He kept it aside thinking that it could be a toy for his kids and continued his ploughing task. The doll went with him to his home in the evening and suffered torture at the hands of his innocent kids. On that night the farmer was in his dreams and to a surprise the wooden doll appeared to him like a sage. The sage in sanyasi robes told him not to dishonour the doll and promised him all good he wished. But next morning the farmer ignored it and carried on with his normal works. Later in the due course of time he lost his oxen, his intimates died and children fell ill. He was shaken now and began to recollect the events preceding these calamities. He then thought of the dream and realised that there he erred. He repented and built a small temple in his field at the spot where he found the doll and began worshipping it. Thus all his ailments were healed and he prospered. Several years later he met a Christian priest at Mysore who was wearing the dress resembling the doll, narrated him about the doll. The priest accompanied him to his village and closely watched the small 13 inches wooden doll, which didn’t have hands. He, at once, recognised it as the statue of St. Anthony with its revealing characteristics. He then beatified the temple, made it a church. It is recorded in the history that the Franciscan missionaries were on the missionary work around south India during the period of Vijayanagara Empire. But the Jesuits entered the Mysore province only after 1648 AD. These Jesuits were fond of Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola. Definitely they wouldn’t have planted Anthony cult. Later after the end of Tippu Sultan in 1799, somewhere around 1803 AD Abbe du Bois entered Mysore province under the banner of Paris Foreign Mission (MEP). So we can surely conclude that the statue found at Doranahalli is the one belonging to the Franciscan missionaries and its date can be pointed to 14th to 16th century AD.

The Boy Next Door is a 2015 American erotic thriller-horror film directed by Rob Cohen and written by Barbara Curry. The film stars Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, and Ian Nelson, with John Corbett and Kristin Chenoweth playing supporting roles. Lopez plays a high school teacher named Claire who, in the midst of being separated from her husband (Corbett), has a one-night stand with a younger neighbor (Guzman), who develops a dangerous obsession with her.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California. In 2005 Robert Entenmann, of St. Olaf College wrote that the book is "certainly the most widely read book on the Hmong experience in America."

This is a list of notable Puerto Rican scientists involved in the United States Space Program, also known as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and their contributions to said program. This list is not limited to Puerto Ricans born in Puerto Rico, it also includes people of Puerto Rican descent born elsewhere. According to an article written by Margarita Santori Lopez for the official newspaper of the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez Campus, "Prensa RUM", as of 2003, of the 114 Hispanics working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, 70 were Puerto Ricans or of Puerto Rican descent. Puerto Ricans and people of Puerto Rican descent, both men and women, have reached top positions in NASA, serving in sensitive leadership positions. On May 6, 2004, Joseph M. Acaba became the first person of Puerto Rican heritage to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19. On an average, only the top 4% of the qualified applicants are invited to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, for final interviews for a position in the Astronaut Candidate Class. Out of this group, an average of only 0.63% of the qualified applicants are selected. Other notable individuals who have reached finalist status include: Nitza Margarita Cintron, Astronaut Class 8 (1978), Carlos Ortiz Longo, Astronaut Class 16 (1996)., Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano, Astronaut Class 19 (2004) and Class 20 (2009) , and Vanessa Aponte Williams, Astronaut Class 20 (2009) and Class 21 (2012). The following are short profiles of these men and women: Contents: - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Larry McNabney (December 19, 1948 - September 12, 2001) was a Sacramento, California attorney whose body was found buried in a vineyard on March 5, 2002. After a nationwide manhunt, his wife, Elisa McNabney, was captured in Florida and arraigned for first-degree murder. The case made national headlines when police learned that her real name was actually Laren Sims, and that she had served time in a Florida prison for fraud and identity theft. Before Elisa could stand trial however, she hanged herself in her jail cell. Elisa's friend Sarah Dutra was later convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years in prison for murdering Larry McNabney.