title: William Beach Thomas section title: Later years hierarchical section title: William Beach Thomas / Later years caption reference description: Panorama of some of the Snowdon Massif including Snowdon (centre right) taken from Mynydd Mawr. The Glyderau are visible in the distance. William Beach Thomas supported moves to make Snowdonia a national park. caption attribution description: Panorama of some of the northern Snowdonia hills taken from Mynydd Mawr caption alt text description: Colour photograph content: Sir William Beach Thomas, KBE was a British author and journalist known for his work as a war correspondent and his writings about nature and country life.
Thomas was the son of a clergyman in Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, before he embarked on a short-lived career as a schoolmaster. Finding that work unpleasant, he turned his attention to writing articles for newspapers and periodicals and began to write books.
During the early part of the First World War, Thomas defied military authorities to report news stories from the Western Front for his employer, the Daily Mail. As a result, he was briefly arrested before being granted official accreditation as a war correspondent. His reportage for the remainder of the war received national recognition, despite being criticised by some and parodied by soldiers. His book With the British on the Somme portrayed the English soldier in a very favourable light. Both France and Britain rewarded him with knighthoods after the war, but Thomas regretted some of his wartime output.
Thomas's primary interest as an adult was in rural matters.


title: Rick Leach (baseball) hierarchical section title: Rick Leach (baseball) caption reference description: Leach from 1976 Michiganensian caption attribution description: English: Photograph of Rick Leach playing quarterback for the 1975 Michigan Wolverines football team. content: Richard Max Leach is a former college football player and professional baseball player.
Leach was an all-state quarterback at Flint Southwestern High School in 1974 before enrolling at the University of Michigan in 1975. He was Michigan's starting quarterback for four consecutive years from 1975 to 1978, leading the Wolverines to three consecutive Big Ten Conference championships and three appearances in the Rose Bowl. As a senior in 1978, he won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten, was selected as a first-team All-American, and finished third in balloting for the Heisman Trophy.
After being drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the first round of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft, Leach opted to play professional baseball. He played, primarily as a backup outfielder and first baseman for the Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays, from 1981 to 1990. He compiled a .268 batting average and .335 on-base percentage in 1,719 major league at bats.


title: Goldonna, Louisiana section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Goldonna, Louisiana / Gallery caption reference description: Mural of Goldonna Family Church, located across from the United States Post Office caption attribution description: English: Goldonna Family Church mural content: Goldonna is a village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 430 at the 2010 census. All but sixteen of the residents are whites. It is part of the Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area. South of Goldonna along Louisiana Highway 156, one may access Saline Bayou, popular for blackwater canoeing.
The village is the birthplace of the American romance author Patricia Maxwell, also known as Jennifer Blake, who resides in Quitman in Jackson Parish. Riley J. Wilson, a former U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 5th Congressional District who opposed Huey Pierce Long, Jr., was born in Goldonna.
The Mayor of Goldonna is Jennifer Garner Smith, a Republican. The Chief of Police is Joseph Hines, an Independent. The three Aldermen are Norvel Garner, Fonda Garner, and Reed Franklin, Republican.
The Goldonna Elementary/Junior High School serves pre-kindergarten through grade 8. Pupils come from as far away as the village of Ashland to the west, where the defunct Ashland High School was located.


title: Bobae Market hierarchical section title: Bobae Market caption reference description: Bobae Tower and Prince Palace Hotel caption attribution description: English: Bobae tower content: Bobae Market, usually shortened to Bobae, is a well-known cheap clothing market, both retail and wholesale. The market area has two huge wholesale shopping areas, Bobae Market and Bobae Tower.
Bobae Market's site on Krung Kasem Road along Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem in Khlong Maha Nak Subdistrict, Pom Prap Sattru Phai District, is between the Yotse Bridge and Jaturapak Rangsarit Bridge in Si Yaek Maha Nak Subdistrict, Dusit District, with some parts overlaps Rong Mueang Subdistrict, Pathum Wan District.
The term bobae in Thai means 'noisy' or 'boisterous'. It's assumed that the name is derived from the word bong beng, which describes the general condition of the market.
Bobae Market was founded c. 1927 by Thai-Chinese group who gathered to sell local products such as coconut water, tea, coffee, or various agricultural products. During World War II the focus changed to used clothing. At first, the clothes sold were those of persons who had died in the war.
The market is open from 06:00 to 18:00 daily, Then during the night other sellers arrive to sell until dawn. Especially during the night, this is a very bustling market.


title: Calvary (sculpture) hierarchical section title: Calvary (sculpture) caption reference description: Calvaire at Notre Dame de Tronoën, in context caption attribution description: Français : Le calvaire de Notre-Dame de Tronoën. XVe siècle. English: The calvaire of Notre-Dame de Tronoën. 15th century. Deutsch: Notre Dame de Tronoën ist eine kleine gotische Kapelle mit dem ältesten Kalvarienberg der Bretagne. Sie liegt einsam in einer weiten Dünen- und Heidelandschaft zwischen dem Pointe de la Torche und Saint-Jean-Trolimon, 9 Kilometer westlich von Pont-l’Abbé. Die Entstehungszeit von Kapelle und Kalvarienberg wird auf den Zeitraum 1450 bis 1470 datiert. Im romanisch geprägten Portal ist eine Männerfigur verborgen, die aus einem Spalt herauszuschauen scheint - der Späher. content: A calvary is a type of monumental public crucifix, sometimes encased in an open shrine, most commonly found across northern France from Brittany east, through Belgium and Portugal and Galicia, where they are called "cruzeiro", "cruceiro" or "crucero". They are equally familiar as wayside structures provided with minimal sheltering roofs in Italy and Spain. The Breton calvaire is distinguished from a simple crucifix cross by the inclusion of three-dimensional figures surrounding the Crucifixion itself, typically representing Mary and the apostles of Jesus, though later saints and symbolic figures may also be depicted.
In northern France and Belgium, such wayside calvaries erected at the junction of routes and tracks "function both as navigation devices and objects of veneration", Nicholas J. Saunders has observed "Since medieval times they have fixed the landscape, symbolically acquiring it for the Christian faith, in the same way that, previously, Megalithic monuments marked prehistoric landscapes according to presumed religious and ideological imperatives".


title: Kaushalya Dam section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Kaushalya Dam / Gallery caption attribution description: English: Kaushalya Dam,Pinjor ,district Panchkula ,Haryana ,India content: The Kaushalya Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Kaushalya river, which is a tributary of Ghaggar-Hakra River, in Pinjore of Haryana state, India. It was constructed between 2008 and 2012 with the primary purpose of water supply.


title: The Times of Ceylon section title: History hierarchical section title: The Times of Ceylon / History caption reference description: John Capper caption attribution description: John Capper (1814-1898), Colonial British journalist and planter in Ceylon content: The Times of Ceylon was an English language daily newspaper in Sri Lanka published by Times of Ceylon Limited. It was founded in 1846 as the Ceylon Times and was published from Colombo. It ceased publication in 1985.


title: Women's suffrage section title: Spain hierarchical section title: Women's suffrage / By continent / Europe / Spain caption reference description: Women exercising the right to vote during the Second Spanish Republic, November 5, 1933 caption attribution description: Euskara: 1933ko azaroaren 5ean Autonomia Estatutua aldarrikatzeko hauteskundeak. Español: Referéndum sobre el Estatuto vasco-navarro del 5 de noviembre de 1933 en Éibar. Fue la primera ocasión en que votaron las mujeres durante la Segunda República Española, que en el resto del país pudieron hacerlo en las elecciones generales del 19 de noviembre de 1933. Tras la mesa: presidenta de la mesa, Pastora Medina Corta; interventor (a la derecha de la presidenta), Isaías Cañizal; a su izquierda, Cleto Loide, conserje del ayuntamiento de Éibar; testigo de la votación, María Magunacelaya; alguacil de Elgueta, Garitaonaindia. Votantes: Josefa Gervasia Aguirrebengoa, del caserío Aginaga Azpikoa; Josefa Suinaga, del caserío Suinaga; María Josefa Acha Belaustegui, del caserío Aginaga Gainekoa; e Isidoro Arano, del caserío Arano Iturralde. La mesa electoral estaba ubicada en las escuelas de la casa consistorial de Éibar. content: Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the mid-19th century, aside from the work being done by women for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, women sought to change voting laws to allow them to vote. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts towards that objective, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, as well as for equal civil rights for women.
Many instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. The first province in the world to award and maintain women’s suffrage continuously, was Wyoming Territory in 1869, and the first sovereign nation was Norway in 1913. In the years after 1869, a number of provinces held by the British and Russian empires conferred women’s suffrage, and some of these became sovereign nations at a later point, like New Zealand, Australia, and Finland. Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893, women in the then British colony of New Zealand were granted the right to vote.


title: National Assembly Building of Belize hierarchical section title: National Assembly Building of Belize caption reference description: Belmopan National Assembly Building at Independence Plaza caption attribution description: English: Parliament of Belize, Belmopan Norsk bokmål: Belizes parlament i Belmopan content: The National Assembly Building of Belize is the home of Belize's two houses of Parliament, House of Representatives and Senate of Belize.
Opened on October 9, 1971, the building is within a complex of government buildings at Melhado Parade on Independence Plaza in Belmopan and mimics Pre-Columbian Mayan and Brutalist architectural designs. The Building is flanked by two three storey buildings that houses offices.


title: Carrère and Hastings hierarchical section title: Carrère and Hastings caption reference description: The New York Public Library Main Branch, built 1897–1911, Carrère and Hastings, architects. Photographed during late construction in 1908. caption attribution description: English: The New York Public Library, glass negative from 1908 depicting horse carriages and trolleys. Late stage construction: trademark lions not yet installed. فارسی: گتابخانهٔ عمومی نیویورک content: Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, was one of the outstanding American Beaux-Arts architecture firms. Located in New York City, the firm practiced from 1885 until 1929, although Carrère died in an automobile accident in 1911.
Both men studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in France and worked at the firm of McKim, Mead and White before they established their firm. The partnership's first success was the Ponce de León Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, designed for Henry Flagler. They went on to establish a successful practice during the 1880s and early 1890s, and rose to national prominence by winning the competition for the New York Public Library in 1897. The firm designed commercial buildings, elaborate residences, and prominent public buildings in New York, Washington and as far afield as Toronto, London, Paris, Rome, and Havana.


title: Maria Petronella Woesthoven hierarchical section title: Maria Petronella Woesthoven caption reference description: Maria Woesthoven, by Leonardus Temminck caption attribution description: Nederlands: Portret, door Leonardus Temminck, ongedateerd (Bilderdijk Museum, Amsterdam / foto Alfred van Weperen). content: Maria Petronella Woesthoven was a Dutch poet.


title: Propylaea (Acropolis of Athens) section title: Plans for eastern and western side of Propylaea hierarchical section title: Propylaea (Acropolis of Athens) / Plans for eastern and western side of Propylaea caption reference description: Plan of the Propylaea caption attribution description: Deutsch: Plan der Propyläen zur Athener AkropolisEnglish: Plan of the propylaea, Athenian acropolis content: The Propylaea was the monumental gateway to the Acropolis of Athens, and was one of several public works commissioned by the Athenian leader Pericles in order to rebuild the Acropolis a generation after the conclusion of the Persian Wars. Pericles appointed his friend Phidias as the supervisor and lead architect of this massive project, which Pericles allegedly financed with funds appropriated from the treasury of the Delian League. According to Plutarch, the Propylaea was designed by the architect Mnesikles, about whom nothing else is known. Construction began in 437 BC and was terminated in 432, when the building was still unfinished.
The Propylaea was constructed of white Pentelic marble and gray Eleusinian marble or limestone, which was used only for accents. Structural iron was also used, though William Bell Dinsmoor analyzed the structure and concluded that the iron weakened the building. The structure consists of a central building with two adjoining wings on the west side, one to the north and one to the south.


title: Marines section title: History hierarchical section title: Marines / History caption reference description: Ancient Greek trireme caption attribution description: English: Depiction of a Greek trireme: this graphic was first published in May, Elmer; Stadler, Gerald; Votaw, John; Griess, Thomas (series ed) (1984) Ancient and Medieval Warfare: The History of the Strategies, Tactics, and Leadership of Classical Warfare, New Jersey, United States:  Avery Publishing Group ISBN: 0-89529-262-9.  Español: Trirreme griega caption alt text description: sketch of an ancient Greek sailing trireme with the sail extended content: Marines, also known as naval infantry, are typically an infantry force that specializes in the support of naval and army operations at sea and on land and air, as well as the execution of their own operations. In many countries, the marines are an integral part of that state's navy. In others, it is a separate organization altogether, such as in the United States, where the Marine Corps falls under the US Department of the Navy, yet it operates independently. Marines can also fall under a country's army like the Troupes de marine.
Historically, tasks undertaken by marines have included: helping maintain discipline and order aboard the ship, the boarding of vessels during combat or capture of prize ships, and providing manpower for raiding ashore in support of the naval objectives.
With the industrialization of warfare in the 20th century the scale of landing operations increased; this brought with it an increased likelihood of opposition and a need for co-ordination of various military elements. Marine forces evolved to specialize in the skills and capabilities required for amphibious warfare.


title: Masanori Taguchi hierarchical section title: Masanori Taguchi caption reference description: Taguchi with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles caption attribution description: English: Masanori Taguchi, coach of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, at Seibu Dome. 日本語: 東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス・コーチの田口昌徳。西武ドームにて。 content: Masanori Taguchi is a former Nippon Professional Baseball catcher.


title: Revolt of Abdal-Latif Mirza hierarchical section title: Revolt of Abdal-Latif Mirza caption attribution description: English: Map of the Amu Darya's watershed in Central Asia, that drains parts of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan into the Aral Sea content: It is not clear what led Abdal-Latif Mirza to revolt against his father Ulugh Beg in 1449 C.E. Many theories abound; one being that he was raised by Gawhar Shad in Herat and not by his father Ulugh Beg who was governor of Samarkand during the reign of Shah Rukh, therefore Abdal-Latif Mirza was not attached to his father. Ulugh Beg on the other hand preferred his second son Abdal-Aziz Mirza to be his heir, whom he had raised himself and groomed to take over. Another reason was that when the Baysonqor brothers invaded Khurasan, Ulugh Beg left his son Abdal-Latif Mirza, to deal with a difficult situation making it look as if it were his failures that led to the loss of Khurasan; this Abdal-Latif Mirza resented deeply. And finally, during a revolt in Balkh in Spring of 1449 by a certain Miranshah, which was crushed by Abdal-Latif Mirza, was discovered a letter from Ulugh Beg to this Miranshah ordering him to instigate the revolt. This story is not corroborated by any other source than Mirkhond but is given as a last excuse for all out war with his father.


title: List of oldest heraldry section title: List of oldest heraldry hierarchical section title: List of oldest heraldry / List of oldest heraldry caption attribution description: Seal of King Canute VI of Denmark, the earliest known example of the coat of arms of Denmark. The original insignia dated from c. 1190 and the title indicated on the seal was assumed by the king c. 1187-1193. The only known copy of this seal was discovered in the Grand Ducal Archive in Schwerin, Germany in 1879. content: This list of oldest heraldry aims to include the oldest documented, non-attributed heraldic achievements for individuals, families, locations or institutions.
Heraldry developed in the High Middle Ages, based on earlier, "pre-heraldic" or "ante-heraldic", traditions of visual identification by means of seals, field signs, emblems used on coins, etc. Notably, lions that would subsequently appear in 12th-century coats of arms of European nobility have pre-figurations in the animal style of ancient art.
The origin of the term heraldry itself, can be placed in the context of the early forms of the knightly tournaments in the 12th century. Combatants wore full armour, and identified themselves by wearing their emblems on their shields. A herald was an officer who would announce the competitors.
The display of heraldic emblems on shields is an innovation of the 12th century. The kite shields shown in the Bayeux Tapestry sometimes show simple cross or spiral ornaments, but no heraldic emblems. Similarly, Frankish or German round shields of the 11th century are sometimes depicted with simple geometric ornamentation, but not with figurative emblems.


title: List of epidemics hierarchical section title: List of epidemics caption reference description: H3N2 virus content: This is a list of the largest known epidemics caused by an infectious disease. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included.
An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time. For example, in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic.


title: Bill Terry section title: Playing career summary hierarchical section title: Bill Terry / Playing career summary caption reference description: Plaque of Bill Terry at the Baseball Hall of Fame caption attribution description: English: Bill Terry plaque in the National Baseball Hall of Fame content: William Harold Terry was a Major League Baseball first baseman and manager. He stood 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed 200 pounds. Terry was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. In 1999, he ranked number 59 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. The Giants retired Terry's uniform number 3 in 1984; it is posted on the facade of the upper deck in the left field corner of Oracle Park. Nicknamed "Memphis Bill", he is most remembered for being the last National League player to hit .400, a feat he accomplished by batting .401 in 1930.


title: Takume hierarchical section title: Takume caption reference description: NASA picture of Takume Atoll caption attribution description: Deutsch: NASA-Astronautenbild des Atolls Takume (Tuamotu-Archipel, Französisch-Polynesien) im Pazifischen Ozean English: NASA astronaut image of Takume Atoll (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia) in the Pacific Ocean content: Takume or Pukamaru is an atoll of the Tuamotus chain in French Polynesia, located 790 km northeast of Tahiti and 6 km northeast of Raroia and 128 kilometres to the west of Fangatau.
This elongated atoll measures 24 by 5 kilometres. Its lagoon has an area of 43.5 square kilometres
Takume has many small motus on its reef; most are located on its eastern fringes. The long and deep lagoon has one navigable pass to enter it.
Takume Atoll has 116 inhabitants. The main village is Ohomo.


title: Sherwood, Calgary hierarchical section title: Sherwood, Calgary caption reference description: Location of Sherwood in Calgary caption attribution description: English: Outline map of Calgary. caption alt text description: Sherwood, Calgary is located in Calgary content: Sherwood is a residential neighbourhood in the northwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located near the north edge of the city, it is bounded by Sarcee Trail to the west, the Nolan Hill community across 128 Avenue N.W. to the north, the Kincora community across Shaganappi Trail to the east, and the Hamptons community across Stoney Trail to the south. It is one of five communities located within the Symons Valley area.
Sherwood is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 2 councillor.


title: Talyllyn Railway section title: Operation hierarchical section title: Talyllyn Railway / Operation caption reference description: Dolgoch at Brynglas level crossing caption attribution description: Bryn-glas level crossing, Talyllyn Railway. A train bound for Abergynolwyn crosses the level crossing at Pandy. content: The Talyllyn Railway is a narrow gauge preserved railway in Wales running for 7 ¹⁄₄ miles from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. The line was opened in 1865 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow gauge railway in Britain authorised by Act of Parliament to carry passengers using steam haulage. Despite severe under-investment, the line remained open, and in 1951 it became the first railway in the world to be preserved as a heritage railway by volunteers.
Since preservation, the railway has operated as a tourist attraction, expanding its rolling stock through acquisition and an engineering programme to build new locomotives and carriages. In 1976, an extension was opened along the former mineral line from Abergynolwyn to the new station at Nant Gwernol. In 2001, the preservation society celebrated its 50th anniversary, and in 2005 a major rebuilding and extension of Tywyn Wharf station took place, including a much-expanded facility for the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum.
The fictional Skarloey Railway, which formed part of The Railway Series of children's books by The Rev. W.


title: Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail section title: History hierarchical section title: Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail / History caption reference description: Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail maker at Cowpens National Battlefield, South Carolina caption attribution description: Taken by me in 2015 content: The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail is part of the U.S. National Trails System, and N.C. State Trail System. It recognizes the Revolutionary War Overmountain Men, Patriots from what is now East Tennessee who crossed the Unaka Mountains and then fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.


title: Multiplex (company) section title: History hierarchical section title: Multiplex (company) / History caption reference description: Wembley Stadium under construction caption attribution description: New en:Wembley Stadium under construction. Taken by ProhibitOnions, January 2006, from top floor of adjacent building. content: Multiplex is an international construction contractor founded in Australia and currently headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Operating in Australia, India, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, the company specialises in high-rise buildings, stadia, high-end residential, mixed-use, education, health and civil infrastructure developments.


title: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum section title: History hierarchical section title: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum / History caption reference description: Most of the school rooms were divided into cells caption attribution description: Photographed and uploaded to English Wikipedia by User:Adam Carr content: The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, chronicling the Cambodian genocide. The site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng. Tuol Sleng means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill". Tuol Sleng was just one of at least 150 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge, though other sources put the figure at 196 prison centers. On July 26, 2010, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia convicted the chief of Tuol Sleng Prison, Kang Kek Iew, for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and sentenced him to life imprisonment.


title: Michaela Denis hierarchical section title: Michaela Denis caption reference description: Michaela and Armand Denis (1962) caption attribution description: Nederlands: TV-echtpaar Armand en Michaela Denis van het programma "Luipaard op schoot" op Schiphol 21 juni 1962 content: Michaela Denis was a British-born wildlife documentary film-maker and presenter, working with her husband, Armand Denis.


title: Thracian horseman section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Thracian horseman / Gallery caption attribution description: English: The relief of the Thracian Horseman in the Histria Museum, Romania Polski: Relief z trackim jeźdźcem, muzeum Histrii, Rumunia Ελληνικά: Παράσταση αρχαίου Θραξ Ιππέα , μουσείο Ίστριας, Ρουμανία This is a photo of a historic monument in județul Constanța, classified with number CT-I-m-A-02681.01 content: The Thracian horseman is the name given to a recurring motif of a horseman depicted in reliefs of the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Balkans. Inscriptions found in Romania identify the horseman as Heros, apparently the word heros used as a proper name.
The Thracian horseman is depicted as a hunter on horseback, riding from left to right. Between the horse's hooves is depicted either a hunting dog or a boar. In some instances, the dog is replaced by a lion. Its depiction is in the tradition of the funerary steles of Roman cavalrymen, with the addition of syncretistic elements from Hellenistic and Paleo-Balkanic religious or mythological tradition.


title: Outline of Gibraltar section title: Culture of Gibraltar hierarchical section title: Outline of Gibraltar / Culture of Gibraltar caption reference description: The symbolic release of 30,000 red and white balloons on National Day, one for every person living on The Rock. caption attribution description: English: Picture of release of balloons for Gibraltar National Day 2001 Français : Lâcher symbolique des ballons rouges et blancs. content: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Gibraltar:
Gibraltar – British Overseas Territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula of Southeastern Europe overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar between the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. The territory shares a border with Spain to the north. Gibraltar was ceded by Spain to Great Britain in perpetuity in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht though Spain requests its return. The Government of the United Kingdom has stated it is committed to respecting the wishes of the Gibraltarians, who strongly oppose the idea of annexation along with any proposal for shared sovereignty with Spain.


title: Orange Line (Lahore Metro) section title: Route hierarchical section title: Orange Line (Lahore Metro) / Route caption reference description: Lakshmi Station is named after the historic Lakshmi Building, which in turn was named in honour of the Hindu goddess of fortune and prosperity, Lakshmi. caption attribution description: English: Lakshmi Building This is a photo of a monument in Pakistan identified as the PB-P-73 content: Orange Line is an automated rapid transit system in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
When it will open on 25th October 2020, the line will be Pakistan's first metro in the entire country since the Karachi Metro that was started in 1969 and closed in 1999. The Orange line is the first of the three proposed rail lines proposed for the Lahore Metro. The line will span 27.1 km with 25.4 km elevated and 1.72 km underground. The line will be served by 26 stations and is expected to handle 250,000 passenger daily. It is a part of the wider CPEC China Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Orange line is being financed by both the Government of Pakistan, and Government of China.


title: List of World Heritage Sites in the Arab states section title: List hierarchical section title: List of World Heritage Sites in the Arab states / List caption attribution description: English: Falaj in Misfah (Oman) Français : Falaj à Misfah (Oman) content: This is a list of World Heritage Sites in the Arab states, in Western Asia and North Africa, occupying an area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea.


title: Brown County, Kansas section title: Communities hierarchical section title: Brown County, Kansas / Communities caption reference description: 2005 KDOT Map of Brown County (map legend) caption attribution description: This map of Brown County, Kansas, USA, is copied at a resolution of 300 pixels/inch from the original PDF file. content: Brown County is a county located in the northeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 9,984. Its county seat and most populous city is Hiawatha. Brown County is the location of the Kickapoo Indian Reservation of Kansas, the majority of the Sac and Fox Reservation and the majority of the Iowa Reservation of Kansas and Nebraska.


title: Unidentified flying object section title: Project Blue Book hierarchical section title: Unidentified flying object / Investigations / Project Blue Book caption reference description: Allen Hynek (left) and Jacques Vallée caption attribution description: Dr. J. Allen Hynek (left) and Dr. Jacques Vallée (right). content: An unidentified flying object is any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified or explained. Most UFOs are identified on investigation as conventional objects or phenomena. The term is widely used for claimed observations of extraterrestrial spacecraft.


title: Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Tornado hierarchical section title: Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Tornado caption reference description: Line drawing of the Tornado content: The Mixed Tornado was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics program in Qingdao International Sailing Centre. Eleven races were scheduled and completed. 30 sailors, on 15 boats, from 15 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race.


title: Panepistimiou Street hierarchical section title: Panepistimiou Street caption reference description: Panepistimiou street facing towards Syntagma square. On the left the Propylaea and the main building of the Academy of Athens. caption attribution description: English: View of Panepistimiou Street. content: Panepistimiou Street is a major street in Athens that has run one way for non-transit vehicles since 2002 from Vasilissis Amalias Avenue, Syntagma Square and Vassilissis Sofias Avenue to Omonoia Square in which is now a pedestrian crossing and before an intersection. Its total length is about 1.2 km. The street was formally renamed as Eleftherios Venizelos Avenue in 1945 but is still usually known by its historical name. It has six lanes, of which five are for traffic and one eastbound lane for transit buses only. Most of the street runs almost diagonally from southeast to northwest.
Buildings along the street include the Bank of Greece, Athens Eye Clinic, the University of Athens, the Academy of Athens, the National Library, the Numismatic Museum, Titania Hotel, Attica Department Store, as well as a part of the Grande Bretagne Hotel and the Catholic Cathedral of Athens. Many buildings as high as ten to fifteen stories line this street. Old neoclassical buildings of no higher than two to three stories used to exist until the 1950s, when a construction spree, which lasted several decades, demolished all but a few of them.


title: 1775 section title: Births hierarchical section title: 1775 / Births caption reference description: Phineas Riall born 15 December caption attribution description: Portrait of Field Marshal Sir Phineas Riall content: 1775 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1775th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 775th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1775, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.


title: Angorichina hierarchical section title: Angorichina caption reference description: Angorichina Creek, ca. 1935 content: Angorichina Station is a pastoral lease operating as sheep station located approximately 10 kilometres east of Blinman in the Flinders Ranges.
The lease was first taken up by Mr. Boord, who established Angorichina in the 1850s.
In 1859, the property was visited by the surveyors Selwyn and Goyder and by the Governor of South Australia, Richard MacDonnell. Later the same year a shepherd on Angorichina Station, Robert Blinman, first discovered copper and took out a mining lease which later became the Blinman mine.
Walter Henry McFarlane acquired Angorichina in the early 1920s after disposing of Warrioota Station. In 1941 the 1,200 square miles property was carrying a flock of 38,000 sheep that produced 1,300 bales of wool.
Angorichina now occupies an area of 554 square kilometres and is currently owned and managed by Ian and Di Fargher.
The property is composed of hills, creek beds and gorges as well as extensive plains of saltbush. The station homestead was constructed in the 1860s and has been extensively renovated to offer tourist accommodation.


title: Ottoman clothing section title: Folk costumes in 1873 hierarchical section title: Ottoman clothing / Gallery / Folk costumes in 1873 caption attribution description: VILAYET DE BOSNA PLANCHE XXIII: Habitant de Mostar Bourgeois de Bosna-Séraï Dame de Bosna-Sèraï content: Ottoman clothing is the style and design of clothing worn by the Ottoman Turks.


title: List of Olympic men's ice hockey players for the United States hierarchical section title: List of Olympic men's ice hockey players for the United States caption reference description: The American team (in white) against the Canadian team (in red) at the 2010 Winter Olympics. caption attribution description: Game between the United States and Canada hockey teams at the 2010 Winter Olympics caption alt text description: An ice hockey game. Two referees in black and white striped shirts are visible, as are four players from each team. One team is wearing red jerseys with a maple leaf on the front, and the other is wearing white jerseys with blue accents and the letters "U-S-A" on the front. content: Men's ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and permanently added to the Winter Olympic Games in 1924. The United States has participated in 22 of 23 tournaments, sending 43 goaltenders and 282 skaters.
For the first two tournaments, the United States sent club amateur teams with additional players from other squads. After sitting out the 1928 tournament, they returned in 1932 with a team made up almost entirely of players attending college in the US. The early American teams were successful, winning three silver medals and a bronze in the first five tournaments. In 1948, controversy struck when the US sent two teams to the Olympics. Two competing bodies, the American Hockey Association and the Amateur Athletic Union, each claimed that their team had the right to represent the United States. As a compromise, the AHA team was permitted to compete, but they would be prohibited from qualifying for a medal.
In 1960, an unheralded American squad defeated the Canadian and Soviet squads on American soil en route to their first Olympic gold medal.


title: Gurley, New South Wales hierarchical section title: Gurley, New South Wales caption reference description: Royal Hotel at Gurley caption attribution description: English: Royal Hotel at en:Gurley, New South Wales content: Gurley is a small town in the northwest of New South Wales, Australia between Narrabri and Moree. The Newell Highway and the North-West railway line pass through the township. A now-closed railway station opened in 1897.
Gurley Siding Post Office opened on 16 March 1898 and was renamed Gurley in 1917.


title: 1720 in Ireland section title: Events hierarchical section title: 1720 in Ireland / Events caption reference description: Ambrosio O'Higgins caption attribution description: Español: Retrato de Ambrosio O'Higgins (1720-1801), gobernador de Chile (1788-1796) y virrey del Perú (1796-1800) content: Events from the year 1720 in Ireland.


title: Tryne Fjord hierarchical section title: Tryne Fjord caption reference description: Location of Tryne Fjord
Antarctica caption attribution description: Deutsch: Physische Positionskarte Antarktis, Mittabstandstreue Azimutalprojektion English: Physical Location map Antarctica, Azimuthal equidistant projection Longitude of central meridian: 0° Latitude of projection origin: -90° Tangent latitude at the map boundaries: -60°; geographic limits of the map: -135°,-47.57359° to 45°,-47.57359° caption alt text description: Tryne Fjord is located in Antarctica content: Tryne Fjord is an irregular-shaped fjord that idents the northern side of Langnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills. Mapped and named Tryne Fjord by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37.


title: San Isidro, Buenos Aires section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: San Isidro, Buenos Aires / Gallery caption attribution description: English: San Isidro station on the Mitre Line. content: San Isidro is a city in Greater Buenos Aires. It is located 27.9 km from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. It ranks as the province's most affluent neighborhood.
The center of San Isidro is a historic area with cobbled streets and old single-story houses. At the heart of Plaza Mitre is the neo-gothic San Isidro Cathedral built in 1898. The sloping plaza, home to the recently opened Rugby Museum, hosts an antiques and crafts fair. The plaza leads down to the Río de la Plata, where the riverside park is popular with mate drinkers and tourists. The city is also known as the "National Capital of Rugby" being the cradle of many important players and hosting the national rugby union's derby match between CASI and SIC.
San Isidro is served by two rail lines, the Mitre Line and the Tren de la Costa. The latter station is a vintage 1891 building designed in the style of British stations. The facility also houses a shopping arcade, a cinema complex and restaurants. The station is located just 200 meters from the San Isidro Cathedral.
Many large houses surround the historic center and line the riverside.


title: Ormurin Langi hierarchical section title: Ormurin Langi caption reference description: The launching of the ship, from a Faroese stamp commemorating the ballad content: Ormurin Langi is a ballad type song in the Faroe Islands. It was written ca. 1830 by Jens Christian Djurhuus.
The song has 86 verses and is in Faeroese, and deals with the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason. The title Ormurin Langi refers to Olaf Tryggvason's ship with the same name.


title: Zaku (video game) section title: Development hierarchical section title: Zaku (video game) / Development caption reference description: Zaku was in development for the Atari Lynx over the course of six years. caption attribution description: English: An Atari Lynx I handheld video game console. content: Zaku is a homebrew scrolling shooter video game developed by PenguiNet and published by Super Fighter Team exclusively for the Atari Lynx on 24 October, 2009. Taking place on a futuristic setting where Captain Bran and his minions plan to oversaturate the worldwide market with poor quality software using the "Rarity 9" programming tool, players assume the role of the titular character in an effort to retrieve the stolen tool from Bran.
Zaku was conceived by Osman Celimli at a young age during his time working at PenguiNet, who wanted to create a project for a handheld game console, initially focusing on the Game Boy before shifting towards the Atari Lynx and was influenced by Air Zonk, lasting over a course of six years under development prior to release.
Zaku was met with positive reception from reviewers since its initial release, with praise towards the presentation, audio, plot and gameplay, but criticism pointed to the length of the game and some of its design aspects. As of 2018, the game has sold over 1,000 copies in total.


title: Cold Spring Tavern hierarchical section title: Cold Spring Tavern caption reference description: Cold Spring Tavern in 2010. caption attribution description: English: Cold Springs Tavern near the Cold Springs Canyon Arch Bridge dates to the 1880s content: Cold Spring Tavern was established as a stagecoach stop in 1865. Originally known as the "Cold Spring Relay Station", it was a horse changeover and meals break station. The tavern is located 20 minutes north of Santa Barbara, California in Cold Spring Canyon, which is about a mile off Highway 154 along Stagecoach Road.
The tavern serves steak, lamb, venison, duck, and rabbit.


title: Big Gold Belt section title: Undisputed WWF Championship hierarchical section title: Big Gold Belt / History / Undisputed WWF Championship caption reference description: Chris Jericho held the Big Gold Belt six times in WWE over the course of a decade under three different incarnations, with two WCW Championship reigns during The Invasion, one reign with the Undisputed WWF Championship, and three reigns as World Heavyweight Champion caption attribution description: English: World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho in Milan,Italy content: The Big Gold Belt is a historic professional wrestling championship belt that has represented multiple world championships throughout its history.
Originally designed in 1985 by silversmith Charles Crumrine and commissioned by Jim Crockett Promotions for NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair, the championship belt has three large gold plates with a distinctive name plate onto which the champion's name was etched. While not the first wrestling championship belt to incorporate a name plate, it popularized the concept. The original championship belt design was known for being unbranded as it only read "World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion" and bore no initials or trademark of its owning promotion.
In 2003, World Wrestling Entertainment added its logo to the design for copyright purposes. Following the championship belt's introduction in WWE, the distinctive name plate feature of the Big Gold Belt was swiftly incorporated into the belt designs of other WWE championships.


title: Second Avenue Subway section title: Phase 2 construction hierarchical section title: Second Avenue Subway / History / Phase 2 construction caption reference description: The location of the planned Phase 2 station at 106th Street and Second Avenue caption attribution description: English: Intersection of 2nd Avenue and East 106th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan content: The Second Avenue Subway is a New York City Subway line that runs under Second Avenue on the East Side of Manhattan. The first phase of this new line, with three new stations on Manhattan's Upper East Side, opened on January 1, 2017. The full Second Avenue Line, if and when it is funded, will be built in three more phases to eventually connect Harlem–125th Street in Harlem to Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan. The proposed full line would be 8.5 miles and 16 stations long, serve a projected 560,000 daily riders, and cost more than $17 billion.
The line was originally proposed in 1920 as part of a massive expansion of what would become the Independent Subway System. In anticipation of the Second Avenue Subway being built to replace them, parallel elevated lines along Second Avenue and Third Avenue were demolished in 1942 and 1955, respectively, despite several factors causing plans for the Second Avenue Subway to be cancelled. Construction on the line finally began in 1972 as part of the Program for Action, but was halted in 1975 because of the city's fiscal crisis, leaving only a few short segments of tunnels completed.


title: Baseball rules section title: Baserunning hierarchical section title: Baseball rules / Gameplay / Batting team / Baserunning caption reference description: Pick-off attempt on runner (in red) at first base caption attribution description: English: 040229-N-8629D-070 USA Stadium, Millington, Tenn. (Feb. 29, 2004) – U.S. Naval Academy first basemen Midshipman 1st Class Chris Ashinhurst attempts to pick-off an Indiana University opponent during the third round of the 2004 Service Academies Spring Classic in Millington, Tenn. The Midshipmen lost 4-3 in eleven innings to the Hoosiers in the fourteenth annual baseball tournament. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Brett A. Dawson. (RELEASED) content: The rules of baseball differ slightly from league to league, but in general share the same basic game play.


title: Drumright, Oklahoma hierarchical section title: Drumright, Oklahoma caption reference description: Downtown Drumright (2010) caption attribution description: English: Downtown Drumright from the parking lot of the Drumright Community Historical Museum. Photo taken November 5. caption alt text description: Downtown Drumright (2010) content: Drumright is a city in Creek and Payne counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It began as an oil boom town. However, the population has declined as oil production has waned in the area. The population was 2,907 at the 2010 census, almost unchanged from 2,905 at the 2000 census. Drumright and nearby Cushing were at the center of a large, productive oilfield in the 1910s and 1920s.


title: Senec (Rakovník District) hierarchical section title: Senec (Rakovník District) caption reference description: View of the village from the fields caption attribution description: Čeština: Chalupy Seneci. Okres Rakovník, Česká republika. caption alt text description: View of the village from the fields content: Senec (Rakovník District) is a village and municipality in Rakovník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 230 inhabitants.


title: Bear River (Feather River tributary) section title: History hierarchical section title: Bear River (Feather River tributary) / History caption reference description: Gold miners using hydraulic mining to excavate an eroded bluff with jets of water at Dutch Flat, California, sometime between 1857 and 1870. caption attribution description: View of gold miners excavating an eroded bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California, between 1857 and 1870. content: The Bear River is a tributary of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada, winding through four California counties: Yuba, Sutter, Placer, and Nevada. About 73 miles long, the river flows generally southwest through the Sierra then west through the Central Valley, draining a narrow, rugged watershed of 295 square miles.
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued a safe advisory for any fish caught in Bear River due to elevated levels of mercury.


title: Nine Years' War section title: Expanding war: 1690–91 hierarchical section title: Nine Years' War / Nine years of war: 1689–1697 / Expanding war: 1690–91 caption reference description: North Italian campaign 1690–96. The territories of Victor Amadeus II, the Duke of Savoy, comprised the County of Nice, Duchy of Savoy and the Principality of Piedmont, which contained the capital city, Turin. caption attribution description: English: Lands of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy. content: The Nine Years' War, often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, was a conflict between France and a European coalition which mainly included the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, England, Spain, Savoy and Portugal. It was fought in Europe and the surrounding seas, in North America, and in India. It is sometimes considered the first global war. The conflict encompassed the Williamite war in Ireland and Jacobite risings in Scotland, where William III and James II struggled for control of England and Ireland, and a campaign in colonial North America between French and English settlers and their respective Indigenous allies, today called King William's War by Americans.
Louis XIV of France had emerged from the Franco-Dutch War in 1678 as the most powerful monarch in Europe, an absolute ruler whose armies had won numerous military victories. Using a combination of aggression, annexation, and quasi-legal means, Louis XIV set about extending his gains to stabilize and strengthen France's frontiers, culminating in the brief War of the Reunions.


title: Wólka Czepowa hierarchical section title: Wólka Czepowa caption reference description: Manor in Wólka Czepowa caption attribution description: Polski: Wólka Czepowa, dwór, 1930-1938 This is a photo of a monument in Poland identified by the ID 651599 caption alt text description: Manor in Wólka Czepowa content: Wólka Czepowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kłodawa, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres south-east of Kłodawa, 21 km east of Koło, and 139 km east of the regional capital Poznań.


title: Xiping County hierarchical section title: Xiping County caption reference description: Xiping station in February 2009 caption attribution description: English: Xiping station Deutsch: Der Bahnhof von Xiping 中文: 西平火车站 content: Xiping County is a county in the southeast-central part of Henan province in the People's Republic of China. It is the northernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Zhumadian. Xiping covers an area of 1,098 square kilometres and has 840,000 inhabitants.
The place of the iron forge of Jiudian from the Warring States period till the Jin Dynasty and the pagoda of the Baoyan temple from the Tang Dynasty are listed in the list of Monuments of the People's Republic of China.


title: Gorkha Kingdom section title: Origin hierarchical section title: Gorkha Kingdom / Origin caption attribution description: English: Mohar of king Prithvi Narayan Shah as king of of Patan (Nepal), dated Saka Era 1685 ( AD 1763)), obverse content: Gorkha Kingdom was a kingdom in the confederation of 24 Khas tribes states, known as Chaubisi rajya, located in the Indian subcontinent, present-day western Nepal. The Kingdom of Gorkha extended from the Marshyangdi River in the west to the Trishuli River in the east, which separated it from the kingdoms of Lamjung and Nepal respectively. The Gorkha Kingdom was established by Prince Dravya Shah, second son of King Yasho Brahma Shah of Lamjung Kingdom, on 1559 CE replacing the Khadka chiefs.


title: Nomadic empire section title: Uyghurs hierarchical section title: Nomadic empire / Post-classical history / Mongolic people and Turkic expansion / Uyghurs caption reference description: Asia in 800 AD, showing the Uyghur Khanate and its neighbors. caption attribution description: Eastern Hemisphere in 800 AD. content: Nomadic empires, sometimes also called steppe empires, Central or Inner Asian empires, were the empires erected by the bow-wielding, horse-riding, nomadic people in the Eurasian steppe, from classical antiquity to the early modern era. They are the most prominent example of non-sedentary polities.
Some nomadic empires consolidated by establishing a capital city inside a conquered sedentary state and then exploiting the existing bureaucrats and commercial resources of that non-nomadic society. In such a scenario, the originally nomadic dynasty may become culturally assimilated to the culture of the occupied nation before it is ultimately overthrown. Ibn Khaldun described a similar cycle on a smaller scale in 1377 in his Asabiyyah theory.
Historians of the early medieval period may refer to these polities as "khanates". After the Mongol conquests of the 13th century the term orda also came into use — as in "Golden Horde".


title: Battle of Strasbourg section title: Prelude hierarchical section title: Battle of Strasbourg / Prelude caption reference description: Aerial view of Colonia Agrippina (Cologne, Germany) in the Roman era. Note (bottom right) the Constantinian fortress of Divitia (Deutz), on the opposite bank of the Rhine. Its main function was to guard the approach to the newly built bridge (310) and to act as a base to protect traffic on the river. Several such cross-river forts were built along the Rhine-Danube frontier in the late period. Cologne was sacked and occupied by the Franks in 353 and recaptured by Julian in 356 caption attribution description: Deutsch: COLONIA CLAUDIA ARA AGRIPPINENSIUM (CCAA), das römische Köln. Rekonstruktion im Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Köln. Dieses Bild ist mit Image:Roman Cologne, reconstruction.JPG identisch, enthält aber keine Beschriftungen. English: COLONIA CLAUDIA ARA AGRIPPINENSIUM (CCAA), Cologne in roman times. A reconstruction in the Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne. This picture is identical with Image:Roman Cologne, reconstruction.JPG but is a blank version without indications. Français : COLONIA CLAUDIA ARA AGRIPPINENSIUM (CCAA), Cologne à l'époque romaine. Une reconstitution présentée dans le musée Römisch-Germanisches Museum à Cologne. content: The Battle of Strasbourg, also known as the Battle of Argentoratum, was fought in 357 between the Western Roman army under the Caesar Julian and the Alamanni tribal confederation led by the joint paramount King Chnodomar. The battle took place near Strasbourg, called Argentoratum in Ammianus Marcellinus' account, Argentorate in the Tabula Peutingeriana.
Although outnumbered by a substantial margin, the Roman army won a decisive victory after a hard-fought struggle with the Alamanni. With negligible casualties of their own, the Romans drove the Alamanni beyond the river, inflicting heavy losses. The Roman force, the imperial escort army of Julian, was small but of high quality. The battle was won by the skill of the Roman infantry, with the Roman cavalry initially performing poorly.
The battle was the climax of Julian's campaigns in 355–57 to evict barbarian marauders from Gaul and to restore the Roman defensive line of fortifications along the Rhine, which had been largely destroyed during the Roman civil war of 350–53.


title: 2011 Pure Michigan 400 section title: Practice and qualifying hierarchical section title: 2011 Pure Michigan 400 / Report / Practice and qualifying caption reference description: Greg Biffle won the pole position for Roush Fenway Racing caption attribution description: 060608 Long Pond, Pennsylvania USA. Greg Biffle signs autograph to loyal Ford Racing fans along pit lane of the Pocono International Raceway before qualifying. For more, visit www.fordracing.com. Autostock content: The 2011 Pure Michigan 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on August 21, 2011 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 200 laps on the 2 -mile D-shaped oval, it was the 23rd race of the 2011 season. The race was won by Kyle Busch for the Joe Gibbs Racing team. Jimmie Johnson finished second, and Brad Keselowski clinched third.


title: List of astronauts educated at the United States Naval Academy section title: Astronauts hierarchical section title: List of astronauts educated at the United States Naval Academy / Astronauts caption reference description: Charles Bolden caption attribution description: English: Official portrait of Astronaut Charles F. Bolden Jr. wearing an orange launch and entry suit. content: Over 50 United States astronauts have graduated from the United States Naval Academy, more than from any other undergraduate institution. The Naval Academy is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Academy is often referred to as Annapolis. Sports media refer to the Academy as "Navy" and the students as "Midshipmen"; this usage is officially endorsed. During the latter half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, the United States Naval Academy was the primary source of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps officers, with the Class of 1881 being the first to provide officers to the Marine Corps. Graduates of the Academy are also given the option of entering the United States Army or United States Air Force; known as cross-commissioning. Most Midshipmen are admitted through the congressional appointment system. The curriculum emphasizes various fields of engineering. Annapolis graduates who enter aviation and space-related fields have the opportunity to be selected for astronaut training by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.


title: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Enescu) hierarchical section title: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Enescu) caption reference description: Enescu in 1930 caption attribution description: English: Romanian composer George Enescu (1881-1955) at the piano. content: The Sonata No. 1 for Piano in F-sharp minor, Op. 24, No. 1, is a work by the Romanian composer George Enescu, completed in 1924.


title: Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford section title: Events in Grand Rapids hierarchical section title: Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford / Events in Grand Rapids caption reference description: Billboard in Grand Rapids following the death of Gerald R. Ford. caption attribution description: English: Gerald Ford: Billboard in Grand Rapids, MI. Français : Gerald Ford: Panneau d'affichage avec la mention Gerald Our Ford («Gerald Notre Ford») à Grand Rapids dans le Michigan. content: On December 26, 2006, Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California at 6:45 p.m. local time. At 8:49 p.m. local time, President Ford's wife of 58 years, Betty Ford, issued a statement that confirmed his death: "My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country." The causes of death listed on the subsequent death certificate were arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and
diffuse arteriosclerosis.
At the age of 93 years and 165 days, Ford was the longest-lived U.S. president in history until November 25, 2017, when his record was then surpassed by George H. W. Bush, who lived to be past 94 years.
Ford was the second president to die during the presidency of George W. Bush, as well as the second to die in the twenty-first century. The other was Ronald Reagan.


title: Blue Lightning (1989 video game) section title: Development and release hierarchical section title: Blue Lightning (1989 video game) / Development and release caption reference description: After Burner served as a source of inspiration for Blue Lightning during its development process, which originated as a commission to create a combat flight title for the Atari Lynx. caption attribution description: English: An Atari Lynx I handheld video game console. content: Blue Lightning is a 1989 combat flight simulation video game developed by Epyx and published by Atari Corporation in North America and Europe exclusively for the Atari Lynx. It was also released in Japan on December 1 of the same year, where it was instead distributed by Mumin Corporation. It was one of the launch titles that were released along with the system in North America and was jointly written by Stephen Landrum, lead programmer Brian Bowhay, who also developed the Lynx hardware and Chip's Challenge creator Chuck Sommerville.
Assuming the role of a chosen rookie aircraft pilot from the United States Air Force by the Flight Command squadron, the player takes control of the titular prototype fighter aircraft in a desperation attempt of The Pentagon to penetrate multiple enemy territories and aid the allies in order to win the war against the enemies. Conceived as a commission to create a pseudo-3D combat flight game by Landrum and graphic artist Arthur Koch, Blue Lightning was heavily inspired by Sega's 1987 Super Scaler arcade game After Burner, in addition of also bearing similarity with the feature film and TV-series Blue Thunder.


title: Rechnitz hierarchical section title: Rechnitz caption reference description: Church of Saint Catherine caption attribution description: Deutsch: Kath. Pfarrkirche hl. Katharina   This media shows the protected monument with the number 8430 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata) caption alt text description: Church of Saint Catherine content: Rechnitz is a municipality in Burgenland in the Oberwart district in Austria.


title: Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri hierarchical section title: Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri caption reference description: A picture of Badi Dargah caption attribution description: English: Badi Dargah Mosque at Bihar Sharif content: Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed bin Yahya Maneri, popularly known as Makhdoom-ul-Mulk Bihari and Makhdoom-e-Jahan, was a 13th-century Sufi mystic.


title: Tom Waits section title: Real Gone and later work: 2004– hierarchical section title: Tom Waits / Biography / Real Gone and later work: 2004– caption reference description: Tom Waits performing in Prague in 2008 as part of his Glitter and Doom tour caption attribution description: English: Tom Waits concert, July 2008, Prague. Polski: Koncert Toma Waitsa, lipiec 2008, Praga. content: Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He worked primarily in jazz during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected greater influence from blues, rock, vaudeville, and experimental genres.
Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in Pomona, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk music circuit as a teenager. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His first albums were the jazz-oriented Closing Time and The Heart of Saturday Night, which reflected his lyrical interest in nightlife, poverty, and criminality. He repeatedly toured the United States, Europe, and Japan, and attracted greater critical recognition and commercial success with Small Change, Blue Valentine, and Heartattack and Vine. He produced the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's film One from the Heart, and subsequently made cameo appearances in several Coppola films.


title: Villa Heinrich Dietz in Bydgoszcz section title: Bibliography hierarchical section title: Villa Heinrich Dietz in Bydgoszcz / Bibliography caption reference description: Panorama of Gdanska street in the vicinity of Villa Heinrich Dietz (right side) caption attribution description: Polski: Ulica Gdańska w Bydgoszczy content: The Villa Heinrich Dietz is a historical house in downtown Bydgoszcz, also called Villa Flora.


title: Storm Clouds Cantata hierarchical section title: Storm Clouds Cantata caption reference description: The Royal Albert Hall, the scene of the "Storm Clouds Cantata" in both versions caption attribution description: London, en:Royal Albert Hall content: The Storm Clouds Cantata is a cantata by the Australian composer Arthur Benjamin.
This cantata was written for the assassination scene in the Alfred Hitchcock 1934 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, in the Royal Albert Hall. In the film version of 1934, the London Symphony Orchestra was directed by H. Wynn Reeves. In the 1956 version, however, the London Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Bernard Herrmann, the composer of new music for the remake, and the chorus is the Covent Garden Opera Chorus with soloist Barbara Howitt.
The Cantata runs 8-9 minutes. It starts with a Lento in three-quarter time in C major. The first half of the cantata is Lento, at 108 beats per minute. Then begins the Allegro agitato, characterized by rhythmic strokes of the timpani. The conclusion is Presto.


title: Basilica section title: Development hierarchical section title: Basilica / Late Antiquity / Christian adoption of the basilica form / Development caption attribution description: Central Sofia, showing Alexandar Nevski Church and the Bulgarian Parlament Created from a plane landing in Sofia, 2006. Author: Georgi Petrov content: In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building gave its name to the architectural form of the basilica.
Originally, a basilica was an ancient Roman public building, where courts were held, as well as serving other official and public functions. Basilicas are typically rectangular buildings with a central nave flanked by two or more longitudinal aisles, with the roof at two levels, being higher in the centre over the nave to admit a clerestory and lower over the side-aisles. An apse at one end, or less frequently at both ends or on the side, usually contained the raised tribunal occupied by the Roman magistrates. The basilica was centrally located in every Roman town, usually adjacent to the forum and often opposite a temple in imperial-era forums. Basilicas were also built in private residences and imperial palaces and were known as "palace basilicas".
In late antiquity, church buildings were typically constructed either as martyria, or with a basilica's architectural plan.


title: Gabriel Lalemant hierarchical section title: Gabriel Lalemant caption attribution description: Saint Gabriel Lallemant content: Saint Gabriel Lalemant was a Jesuit missionary in New France beginning in 1646. Caught up in warfare between the Huron and nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, he was killed in St. Ignace by Mohawk warriors and is one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.


title: Butrint hierarchical section title: Butrint caption reference description: Theatre of Buthrotum caption attribution description: Butrint theatre at archeological site in Albania, near the Albanian city Saranda; Not an Amphitheatre! content: Butrint was an ancient Greek and later Roman city and bishopric in Epirus. Perhaps inhabited since prehistoric times, Buthrotum was a city of the Epirote tribe of the Chaonians, later a Roman colony and a bishopric. It entered into decline in Late Antiquity, before being abandoned during the Middle Ages after a major earthquake flooded most of the city. In modern times it is an archeological site in Vlorë County, Albania, some 14 kilometres south of Sarandë and close to the Greek border. It is located on a hill overlooking the Vivari Channel and is part of the Butrint National Park. Today Bouthrotum is a Latin Catholic titular see and also features the Ali Pasha Castle.
The city is considered as one of the most important archaeological sites in Albania. On the strength of the immense wealth of cultural, historical and natural value with a considerable history, Butrint was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992 and further a National Park in 2000.


title: The Amazing Race Vietnam 2012 section title: Leg 1 (Hanoi) hierarchical section title: The Amazing Race Vietnam 2012 / Race summary / Leg 1 (Hanoi) caption reference description: The courtyard of the National Museum of Vietnamese History served as the first ever Pit Stop on The Amazing Race Vietnam. caption attribution description: English: National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi content: The Amazing Race Vietnam: Cuộc đua kỳ thú 2012 is the first season of the reality television game show, The Amazing Race Vietnam. It featured ten teams of two race around Vietnam for 300 million₫.
The program premiered on VTV3 and aired every Friday primetime from 18 May to 10 August 2012.
The first season was directed and hosted by Dustin Nguyen. He also served as an executive producer.
Friends and actors Saettie Baggio and Thành Phúc were the winners of the first season of The Amazing Race Vietnam.


title: Siege of Kilkenny hierarchical section title: Siege of Kilkenny caption reference description: Ireland and Kilkenny caption attribution description: Relief location map of Ireland Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170% Geographic limits: West: 11.0° W East: 5.0° W North: 55.6° N South: 51.2° N caption alt text description: Siege of Kilkenny is located in Ireland content: The Siege of Kilkenny was the isolation and capture of the fortified capital of the Irish Confederates by the New Model Army of the English Parliamentarians in March 1650 during the conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell.


title: Diana Nyad hierarchical section title: Diana Nyad caption reference description: Nyad in September 2016 caption attribution description: English: Diana Nyad speaking at an event in Phoenix, Arizona. content: Diana Nyad is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan and in 1979 when she swam from North Bimini, The Bahamas, to Juno Beach, Florida. In 2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, she became the first person confirmed to swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage, swimming from Havana to Key West. Nyad was also once ranked thirteenth among US women squash players.


title: António Maria Braga section title: Major Projects hierarchical section title: António Maria Braga / Major Projects caption attribution description: Português: Edifício principal do Museu Arqueológico de São Miguel de Odrinhas content: António Maria Braga is a Portuguese architect, who specializes in traditional Portuguese architecture. Together with the architect Alberto Castro Nunes, he was the 8th winner of the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture, awarded in 2019.


title: San Francisco in the 1970s section title: 1978–79 hierarchical section title: San Francisco in the 1970s / 1978–79 caption reference description: Maynard Ferguson at The Warfield in 1978 caption attribution description: English: Trumpet player Maynard Ferguson, at The Warfield. San Francisco, CA 1978 Español: El trompetista Maynard Ferguson, en The Warfield. San Francisco, CA 1978 content: San Francisco in the 1970s was a global hub of culture. It was known worldwide for hippies and radicals. The city was heavily affected by drugs, prostitution and crime. Outcasts and the socially marginalized were attracted by a greater tolerance and acceptance of diverse cultures in the city. It grew as one of world's biggest centres for the LGBT community and LGBT rights. The rock music known as the San Francisco Sound was performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in the city at the time.
San Francisco was the cradle of the pornography industry in the United States in the 1970s, and led to a dramatic growth of strip clubs, adult movie theaters, "peep show" booths, and sex shops downtown, as well as to the creation of the first feminist advocacy groups for sex workers. Many skyscrapers were built in the city during this period. The city is also associated with West Coast jazz and was one of the major centers of jazz fusion which took off in the 1970s.


title: List of historic places in rural municipalities of Saskatchewan section title: List of historic places hierarchical section title: List of historic places in rural municipalities of Saskatchewan / List of historic places caption attribution description: English: Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of St. Elia content: None


title: Gasland section title: Synopsis hierarchical section title: Gasland / Synopsis caption reference description: John Fenton, a farmer and rancher from Pavillion, Wyoming, become an internationally recognized anti-hydraulic fracturing activist following his appearance in Gasland.  He is pictured here at a public event in Sheridan, Wyoming, on September 15, 2012. [5] caption attribution description: English: John Fenton, a farmer and rancher from Pavillion, Wyoming, USA, has become an internationally recognized anti-hydraulic fracturing activist following his appearance in the documentary Gasland. He is pictured here at a public event in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA, on September 15, 2012. This picture was taken at the Powder River Basin Resource Council's annual Harvest Festival, held in the Exhibit Hall of the Sheridan County Fairgrounds in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. content: Gasland is a 2010 American documentary written and directed by Josh Fox. The film focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing, a method of stimulating production in otherwise impermeable rock.
Fracking is a technique that has been used routinely since the late 1940s as an aid to stimulating production in oil and gas wells. Horizontal drilling, a recent innovation in drilling techniques, can create horizontal pathways deep within the earth, and has successfully incorporated hydraulic fracturing to release fluids from shale formations. Horizontal drilling coupled with fracking has transformed the energy business, enabled vast new supplies of natural gas, and advanced the goal of United States energy independence.
The film was a key mobilizer for the anti-fracking movement, and "brought the term 'hydraulic fracturing' into the nation's living rooms" according to The New York Times. GASLAND premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, where it was awarded the 2010 Special Jury Prize for Documentary.


title: Taake section title: Controversies hierarchical section title: Taake / Controversies caption reference description: Hoest at Hellfest 2009 caption attribution description: Français : Taake au Hellfest 2009: Hoest. content: Taake is a Norwegian black metal band from Bergen, formed in 1993 and originally named Thule. The band's one continuous member is Hoest, who writes and records most of the music. He has released seven full-length albums and several EPs. The band describes itself as "True Norwegian black metal", and Hoest said that he wants to "awaken national pride and cultural nostalgia in my Norwegian listeners" as well as to remind people "that Hell is right here on Earth and that humans can be demons". All lyrics are in Hoest's native dialect and are printed in Norse runes. "Taake" is the old spelling of the Norwegian word "tåke", meaning "fog".


title: Český Šternberk Castle section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Český Šternberk Castle / Gallery caption attribution description: Čeština: Středočeský hrad Český Šternberk při soumraku.English: Český Šternberk Castle at dusk - Central Bohemia, Czechia. Français : Chateau Český Šternberk, Boheme Centrale, Tchéquie. This is a photo of a cultural monument of the Czech Republic,number: 32457/2-24.Památkový katalogMIS hledat obrázky hledat seznamyWikidata content: Český Šternberk Castle is a Bohemian castle of the mid-13th century, located on the west side of the River Sazava overlooking the village with the same name of the Central Bohemian Region in Czech Republic. It is an early Gothic castle which was constructed, named and still owned by members of the same family. Český Šternberk Castle is today a residence that bears a long historical and architectural heritage and represents an attractive tourist destination open to the public. It is considered one of the best preserved Gothic Bohemian castles.


title: Caimito, Cuba hierarchical section title: Caimito, Cuba caption reference description: Caimito municipality (red) within
 Artemisa Province (yellow) and Cuba caption attribution description: English: A map of the municipality of Caimito (shown in red) within the Province of Artemisa (yellow) and Cuba. caption alt text description: Caimito municipality (red) within Artemisa Province (yellow) and Cuba content: Caimito is a municipality and town in Artemisa Province of Cuba.
The town was founded in 1820. The municipality of Caimito del Guayabal was created in 1910, based on the previously existing municipality of Guayabal in the Pinar del Río Province. Since 1976, the official name is Caimito.


title: Spring Gully, Victoria hierarchical section title: Spring Gully, Victoria caption reference description: One Tree Hill  Hotel in Spring Gully, 2010 caption attribution description: English: One Tree Hill Hotel at en:Spring Gully, Victoria content: Spring Gully is a suburb of the regional city of Bendigo in north central Victoria, Australia, 5 kilometres south of the Bendigo city centre.
At the 2016 census, Spring Gully had a population of 3,000.


title: British Rail Class 221 section title: Formation and passenger facilities hierarchical section title: British Rail Class 221 / Formation and passenger facilities caption reference description: The electronic information display board on Virgin Trains West Coast 221109. Here this board shows that the train is bound for Holyhead caption attribution description: English: A slightly more useful destination board on the side of Virgin West Coast Class 221 "Super Voyager" DEMU 221109 at London Euston. The train is going to Holyhead, and the next station is Milton Keynes Central. Compare with File:Euston station MMB 80 221110.jpg. content: The Class 221 Super Voyager is a class of tilting diesel-electric multiple-unit express passenger trains built in Bruges, Belgium, by Bombardier Transportation in 2001/02.
The Class 221 are similar to the Class 220 Voyager units, but were built with a tilting mechanism enabling up to six degrees of tilt to allow higher speeds on curved tracks, most have five coaches, and they have a different bogie design. They have a maximum speed of 125 mph.
Currently these trains are divided between two operators, Avanti West Coast and CrossCountry. The sets operated by CrossCountry had their tilt function disabled in 2008 to improve reliability and reduce maintenance costs.


title: Tabasco pepper hierarchical section title: Tabasco pepper caption reference description: Tabasco peppers caption attribution description: Tabasco peppers content: The tabasco pepper is a variety of chili pepper species Capsicum frutescens. It is best known through its use in Tabasco sauce, followed by peppered vinegar.


title: South of the Rio Grande (1932 film) hierarchical section title: South of the Rio Grande (1932 film) caption reference description: Theatrical release poster caption attribution description: English: Poster for the 1932 film South of the Rio Grande content: South of the Rio Grande is a 1932 American pre-Code sound film western directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Buck Jones.
A copy is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.


title: Anglo-Spanish War (1762–63) section title: Philippines hierarchical section title: Anglo-Spanish War (1762–63) / War / Philippines caption reference description: Map of the British conquest of Manila 1762 caption attribution description: English: Map of British Conquest of Manila in 1762 which lead to the British Occupation of Manila from 1762 to 1764 during the Seven Years War content: The Anglo–Spanish War was a military conflict fought between Britain and Spain as part of the Seven Years' War. It lasted from January 1762 until February 1763 when the Treaty of Paris brought it to an end.
For most of the Seven Years' War, Spain remained neutral, turning down offers from the Kingdom of France to join the war on their side, but during the war's latter stages, the newly crowned King of Spain, Charles III, had signalled his intention to enter the war on the side of the French. After Charles had signed the family compact with France and seized British shipping alongside expelling British merchants, the British declared war on Spain. In August 1762, a British expedition captured Havana, then a month later the British took Manila. The loss of both the capitals of the Spanish West Indies and the Spanish East Indies represented a blow to Spanish prestige. Between May and November, three major Franco-Spanish invasions of Portugal were defeated and they were forced to withdraw with heavy losses inflicted by the Portuguese.


title: Esfahān hierarchical section title: Esfahān caption attribution description: فارسی: پل خواجو در اصفهانEnglish: Khaju Bridge In Isfahan, Iran content: Esfahān or Isfahan is the capital of Esfahan Province in Iran. It is about 340 km south of Tehran. It has a population of 1,583,609. It is Iran's third largest city after Tehran and Mashhad.
Isfahan was once one of the largest cities in the world. It was strong from 1050 to 1722, particularly in the 16th century under the Safavid dynasty. During this time it was the capital of Persia for the second time in its history. Even today, the city keeps much of its past glory. It is famous for its Islamic architecture, with many beautiful boulevards, covered bridges, palaces, mosques, and minarets.
The Naghsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan is one of the largest city squares in the world. It is an outstanding example of Iranian and Islamic architecture. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city also has a many historic monuments.


title: Winchelsea, Victoria hierarchical section title: Winchelsea, Victoria caption reference description: Former town hall, now tea rooms caption attribution description: Former Shire offices, now tea rooms at en:Winchelsea, Victoria content: Winchelsea is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Surf Coast Shire local government area, the suburb or locality of Winchelsea is predominantly within Surf Coast Shire with a small section within the Colac Otway Shire. Winchelsea is located on the Barwon River 115 km south-west of Melbourne and close to Geelong.


title: List of birds of Madagascar section title: Table legend hierarchical section title: List of birds of Madagascar / Table legend caption reference description: Though not often seen from land, the Wilson's storm petrel is regularly recorded on migration through Malagasy waters, sometimes in large numbers.[7] caption attribution description: Wilson's Storm-petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, Location: Gulf Stream off of Hatteras, North Carolina, United States content: Madagascar is an island nation located off the southeastern coast of Africa. Because of its long separation from neighboring continents—through tectonic movement, it split from Africa about 160 million years ago, and from India around 90 million years ago—it contains many species endemic to the island. Of the 308 bird species recorded on Madagascar, 108 are found nowhere else on earth, and a handful of others are shared only with the neighbouring Comoro Islands, 2 have been declared extinct, 36 are globally threatened, 7 species are introduced by humans.
This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2019 edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for Madagascar.
Species status comments are taken from Morris and Hawkins's Birds of Madagascar: A Photographic Guide unless otherwise noted. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts.


title: Indo-Roman trade relations section title: Early Common Era hierarchical section title: Indo-Roman trade relations / Early Common Era caption reference description: Indian ship on lead coin of Vasisthiputra Sri Pulamavi, 1st–2nd century CE caption attribution description: English: Indian_ship_on_lead_coin_of_Vashishtiputra_Shri_Pulumavi content: Indo-Roman trade relations was trade between the Indian subcontinent and the Roman Empire in Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Trade through the overland caravan routes via Asia Minor and the Middle East, though at a relative trickle compared to later times, antedated the southern trade route via the Red Sea and monsoons which started around the beginning of the Common Era following the reign of Augustus and his conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE.
The southern route so helped enhance trade between the ancient Roman Empire and the Indian subcontinent, that Roman politicians and historians are on record decrying the loss of silver and gold to buy silk to pamper Roman wives, and the southern route grew to eclipse and then totally supplant the overland trade route.


title: M734 fuze section title: History hierarchical section title: M734 fuze / History caption reference description: Inert 120mm mortar and M734 fuze content: The M734 multi-option fuze is a rangefinder and collision detection system used on 60mm, 81mm, and 120mm mortar shells as a trigger to detonate the shells at the most damaging heights of burst when combating four types of battlefield threats:
The rangefinder is a Doppler radar using FMCW technology to emit a radar signal and can be set to trigger two types of air-bursts, one being a near surface burst to combat standing targets and the other being a higher proximity burst downward onto prone or dug-in targets.
The collision detection portion of the fuze consists of two mechanical devices, one being a quick response electric inertial switch for a burst upon impact with a target, such as a vehicle, and the other being a slow response mechanical detonator that allows shell penetration, such as through a forest canopy, before detonating.
This integration of four functions into a single fuze reduces the logistics and cost to support mortar crews on the battlefield.


title: Hegebeintum hierarchical section title: Hegebeintum caption reference description: Church and dwarf of Hogebeintum caption attribution description: Nederlands: De kerk en terp van Hogebeintum caption alt text description: Church and dwarf of Hogebeintum content: Hegebeintum is a small village in Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 90 in January 2017. Before 2019, the village was part of the Ferwerderadiel municipality.
Hegebeintum is also home to the highest artificial dwelling hill, or terp, in the Netherlands, measuring around 8.8 metres tall. The high ground of the terp was historically used as a place of refuge during unusually high tides and storm floods, and also had a number of dwellings. There is a well-known restored windmill located south of the village: De Hogebeintumermolen.


title: Nenagh hierarchical section title: Nenagh caption reference description: Nenagh town centre caption attribution description: Centre of Nenagh caption alt text description: Nenagh town centre content: Nenagh meaning “The Fair of Ormond” or simply "The Fair", is the county town and second largest town in County Tipperary in Ireland. Nenagh used to be a market town, and the site of the East Munster Ormond Fair.


title: Ryan Bow hierarchical section title: Ryan Bow caption reference description: Ryan Bow caption attribution description: English: Ryan Bow content: Ryan Bow is a retired American mixed martial arts fighter from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bow is a coach, author and entrepreneur. He fought in both the Lightweight and Welterweight divisions and is a black belt in Kodokan Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Bow was taught by prominent fighters such as former five times UFC Middleweight Champion Frank Shamrock, and was a member of the American Kickboxing Academy's professional fight team.


title: Meade County, Kentucky hierarchical section title: Meade County, Kentucky caption reference description: Meade County Courthouse in Brandenburg caption attribution description: Meade County, Kentucky courthouse caption alt text description: Meade County Courthouse in Brandenburg content: Meade County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,602. Its county seat is Brandenburg. It was formed on December 17, 1823.


title: Gjin Aleksi Mosque hierarchical section title: Gjin Aleksi Mosque caption attribution description: Deutsch: Moschee von Rusan bei Delvina (Albanien). Der im 15. Jhdt. entstandene Bau ist eine der ältesten erhaltenen Moscheen in Epirus. Die Form des Baus verweist deutlich auf spätbyzantinische Kirchen als Vorbild. content: Gjin Aleksi Mosque is a 15th century mosque in the village of Rusan, near Delvinë, Albania. It is a Cultural Monument of Albania. The mosque is distinguished for the high quality of acoustics that is obtained through casks that are strategically placed in holes in the walls.


title: Acid jazz section title: Origins in the United Kingdom hierarchical section title: Acid jazz / History / Origins in the United Kingdom caption reference description: Brand New Heavies shown in 2013 caption attribution description: Svenska: The Brand New Heavies with Dawn Joseph besöker Sommarkrysset 2013 (Gröna Lund, Stockholm) English: The Brand New Heavies with Dawn Joseph visting the show Sommarkrysset 2013 at Gröna Lund, Stockholm content: Acid jazz, also known as club jazz, is a music genre that combines elements of jazz, soul, funk, and disco. Acid jazz originated in the London club scene of the mid-1980s in the rare groove movement and spread to the United States, Japan, Eastern Europe, and Brazil. Major acts included the Brand New Heavies, Incognito, Us3, and Jamiroquai from the UK and Buckshot LeFonque and Digable Planets from the US. The rise of electronic club music in the mid to late 1990s led to a decline in interest, and in the twenty-first century, the movement became indistinct as a genre. Many acts that might have been defined as acid jazz are now seen as jazz-funk, neo soul, or jazz rap.


title: List of diplomatic missions of Lithuania hierarchical section title: List of diplomatic missions of Lithuania caption reference description: Lithuanian shield caption attribution description: English: Plaque near the entrance of the Embassy of Lithuania (1908, George Oakley Totten, Jr.) at 2622 16th Street NW, in Washington, DC. Note my reflection at the bottom. Blogged:http://naprimer.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/lithuanian-embassy-plaque/ content: This is a list of diplomatic missions of Lithuania, excluding honorary consulates.


title: Ace Hotel Los Angeles section title: United Artists Theatre period hierarchical section title: Ace Hotel Los Angeles / United Artists Theatre period caption reference description: Street facade on Broadway. caption attribution description: United Artist Theatre, 933 S. Broadway, Los Angeles (Los Angeles County, California) content: Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, originally built as the California Petroleum Corporation Building and later known as the Texaco Building, is a 243 ft, 13-story highrise hotel and theater building located at 937 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California. It was the tallest building in the city for one year after its completion in 1927, and was the tallest privately owned structure in Los Angeles until 1956. Its style is Spanish Gothic, patterned after Segovia Cathedral in Segovia, Spain.
The building contains the historic United Artists Theatre, the flagship theater built for the United Artists motion picture studio. The theater was later used as a church by pastors Gene Scott and his widow Melissa Scott under the name "University Cathedral". In October 2011, Scott's Wescott Christian Center Inc. sold the building to Greenfield Partners, a real estate investment company located in Westport, Connecticut, for $11 million. It was converted to a hotel, and opened in 2014. The hotel is part of the Ace Hotels chain.


title: Columbus Pump House hierarchical section title: Columbus Pump House caption reference description: 2013 View of the North Elevation of the Columbus Pump House caption attribution description: English: The City Power House, which is also known as the Pump House, Columbus Power House, Holly Works, and the Senior Center, was designed by architect Harrison Albright and completed in 1903. The building stands on the banks of the East Fork of the White River at the foot of Second Street in Columbus, IN, Indiana. From 1903 to 1951 it pumped water from the river, which was then filtered and used domestically; it also produced the electricity for the city's street lighting, hence the name "Power House." The city sold the property in 1952. It later became a Shell gas station and with a renovation that was completed in 1974 became the "Senior Center." content: The Columbus Pump House, which is also known as the Columbus Power House, and the Senior Center, was designed by architect Harrison Albright and completed in 1903. In 2016 the building was renovated to become a restaurant for the Upland Brewing Company. The building stands on the banks of the East Fork of the White River at the foot of Second Street in Columbus, IN, Indiana. From 1903 to 1951 it served as the city's water works and pumped water from the river for domestic use; it also produced electricity for the city's street lighting. The city sold the property in 1952 and it was renovated to become Southern Machine Company. With a 1976 renovation it became the home to the "Senior Center", which used the building until 2011 when that group relocated into the newly built Mill Race Center. It is currently a brewpub operated by Upland Brewing Company.


title: Milltown Reservoir Superfund Site section title: Remediation hierarchical section title: Milltown Reservoir Superfund Site / Three Rs of the Superfund project / Remediation caption reference description: Sediment removal as part of the remediation in the fall of 2008 caption attribution description: English: Remediation work at the Milltown Reservoir Superfund Site, Montana. content: The Milltown Reservoir Sediments Superfund Site is a major Superfund site in Missoula County, Montana, seven miles east of Missoula. It was added to the National Priorities List in 1983 when arsenic groundwater contamination was found in the Milltown area. The contamination resulted from a massive flood three years after its construction in 1905, which washed millions of tons of mine waste into the Clark Fork River, ultimately ending up behind the Milltown Dam.
Since 1992, the site has been a part of the Clark Fork River Superfund Complex, consisting of three major sites along a 120-mile stretch of the Clark Fork River. The Complex is the largest and most expensive Superfund site in the United States.


title: Bhutan section title: Government and politics hierarchical section title: Bhutan / Government and politics caption reference description: Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck has been the king and head of state since 2006, but crowned in 2008 caption attribution description: King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan content: Bhutan, officially known as the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet in the north, the Chumbi Valley of Tibet and the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal in the west, and the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal and Arunachal Pradesh in the south and east. Bhutan is geopolitically in South Asia and is the region's second-least-populous nation after the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and the largest city, while Phuntsholing is its financial center.
Bhutan's independence has endured for centuries. It has never been colonized in its history. Situated on the ancient Silk Road between Tibet, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, the Bhutanese state developed a distinct national identity based on Buddhism. Headed by a spiritual leader known as the Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the territory comprised many fiefdoms and was governed as a Buddhist theocracy. Following a civil war in the 19th century, the House of Wangchuck reunited the country and established relations with the British Empire.


title: Palace of Serbia hierarchical section title: Palace of Serbia caption reference description: The Palace of Serbia, pictured in 2006 caption attribution description: The building of SIV. Zemun is to be seen behind. content: The Palace of Serbia is a building located in the Novi Beograd municipality of Belgrade, Serbia. The building is used by the government of Serbia and currently houses several cabinet level ministries and agencies.