title: Portville Free Library hierarchical section title: Portville Free Library caption reference description: Portville Free Library, April 2010 caption attribution description: English: Portville Free Library, April 2010 content: Portville Free Library, formerly the Smith Parish House, is a historic library building located at Portville in Cattaraugus County, New York. The original house was built for early Portville settler Smith Parish in 1847 as a two-story, three bay dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It was subsequently expanded in the 1860s with a one-story, one bay wing. The building became the Portville Free Library in 1909 and expanded in 1915, in 1930, and finally in 1960.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.


title: Pearl S. Buck hierarchical section title: Pearl S. Buck caption reference description: Pearl Buck in 1972 caption attribution description: English: Pearl Buck caption alt text description: Pearl Buck in 1972 content: Pearl S. Buck was an American writer. She lived in China for over 20 of 40 years and wrote about the country. Her book The Good Earth was a bestseller in 1931 and 1932. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
She won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature for a trilogy of novels about a Chinese farm family and biographies about her missionary parents. When she returned to the United States, she became active in charitable and political causes.


title: Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration section title: Gulf War hierarchical section title: Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration / Gulf War caption reference description: Bush meets with Robert Gates, General Colin Powell, Secretary Dick Cheney and others about the situation in the Persian Gulf and Operation Desert Shield, January 15, 1991 content: The foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration was the foreign policy of the United States from January 1989 to January 1993 while George H. W. Bush was the Republican president. He had very extensive foreign policy experience, but unlike Ronald Reagan he downplayed vision and emphasized caution and careful management. His main foreign policy advisors were Secretaries of State James Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger, and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Momentous geopolitical events that occurred during Bush's presidency include:
The Gulf War, in which Bush led a large coalition that defeated Iraq when it invaded Kuwait.
The United States invasion of Panama to overthrow a local dictator.
The signing with the USSR of the START I and START II treaties for nuclear disarmament.
Victory in the Cold War.
Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse Communism, especially in Eastern Europe
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, replaced by Russia and 14 other countries.
German reunification in 1990, with the democratic West absorbing the ex-Communist East.


title: 2020 24 Hours of Daytona hierarchical section title: 2020 24 Hours of Daytona caption reference description: Map of the Daytona International Speedway combined road course content: The 2020 24 Hours of Daytona was an endurance sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association. The event was held at the Daytona International Speedway combined road course in Daytona Beach, Florida, on January 25–26, 2020. This event was the 58th running of the 24 Hours of Daytona, and the first of 12 races across multiple classes in the 2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as well as the first of four rounds in the 2020 Michelin Endurance Cup.


title: Exidia glandulosa section title: Similar species hierarchical section title: Exidia glandulosa / Description / Similar species caption reference description: Bulgaria inquinans caption attribution description: Zwarte knoopzwam volwassen, november 2004 content: Exidia glandulosa is a jelly fungus in the family Auriculariaceae. It is a common, wood-rotting species in Europe, typically growing on dead attached branches of oak. The fruit bodies are up to 3 cm wide, shiny, black and blister-like, and grow singly or in clusters. Its occurrence elsewhere is uncertain because of confusion with the related species, Exidia nigricans.


title: Air India Flight 182 hierarchical section title: Air India Flight 182 caption reference description: Location of the explosion of Flight 182 caption attribution description: English: Location map of oceans around the United Kingdom and Ireland Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 150 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 65° N S: 45° N W: 15° W E: 10° E caption alt text description: Air India Flight 182 is located in Oceans around British Isles content: Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal–London–Delhi route. On 23 June 1985 it was operated using Boeing 747-237B registered VT-EFO. It disintegrated in midair en route from Montreal to London, at an altitude of 31,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean, as a result of the explosion from a bomb planted by Khalistani Canadians, Sikh terrorists. The remnants of the airliner fell into the ocean approximately 120 miles west-southwest of the southwest tip of Ireland, killing all aboard: 329 people, including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens and 24 Indian citizens. The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the largest mass killing in Canadian history, the deadliest aviation accident in the history of Air India and was the deadliest act of aviation terrorism until the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Babbar Khalsa terror group was implicated in the bombings.
The bombing of this flight coincided with the Narita Airport bombing. Investigators believe the two plots were linked, and that those responsible were aiming for a double aircraft bombing. However, the bomb at Narita exploded before it could be loaded onto the plane.


title: Bridge End Gardens section title: History and restoration hierarchical section title: Bridge End Gardens / History and restoration caption reference description: Plan of the Bridge End Gardens hedge maze content: Bridge End Gardens is a group of linked ornamental gardens in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. The gardens are listed Grade II* on the Register of Parks and Gardens. They are located off Castle Street, close to the Fry Art Gallery. Features include a maze.


title: James Luther Slayden hierarchical section title: James Luther Slayden caption reference description: Harris & Ewing photo, circa 1918.  Library of Congress. caption attribution description: English: Title: SLAYDEN, JAMES L. HONORABLE Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller content: James Luther Slayden, was a cotton merchant and rancher, and a politician, elected from San Antonio to United States House of Representative from Texas' 12th congressional district, serving 1897–1903.
He supported the development of railroads in the state, as well as making San Antonio a United States military center. Slayden was also active in the peace movement and, in 1910, was appointed by Andrew Carnegie, an industrialist and philanthropist, as one of the original trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.


title: Grandchester railway station section title: History hierarchical section title: Grandchester railway station / History caption reference description: Steam train at Grandchester Railway Station Queensland, circa 1879 content: Grandchester railway station is a heritage-listed former railway station at Ipswich Road, Grandchester, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1875 to 1876. It is also known as Bigge's Camp. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.


title: Viktor Andersson (floorball) hierarchical section title: Viktor Andersson (floorball) caption attribution description: Русский: Виктор Андерссон - шведский флорболист English: Victor Andersson, a floorball player from Sweden Svenska: Victor Andersson, en svensk innebandyspelare content: Viktor Andersson, born 28 September 1982, is a Swedish floorball player. Being a defender, he has represented several club teams, and played in the SSL. His first club is Hagaboda SK.


title: Mexican Hat, Utah hierarchical section title: Mexican Hat, Utah caption reference description: Location in San Juan County and the state of Utah. content: Mexican Hat is a census-designated place on the San Juan River on the northern edge of the Navajo Nation's borders in south-central San Juan County, Utah, United States. The population was 31 at the 2010 census, a sharp decline from the previous two censuses.


title: Blast furnace section title: Coke blast furnaces hierarchical section title: Blast furnace / Origin and spread of early modern blast furnaces / Coke blast furnaces caption reference description: Charging the experimental blast furnace, Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, 1930 content: A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. Blast refers to the combustion air being "forced" or supplied above atmospheric pressure.
In a blast furnace, fuel, ores, and flux are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while a hot blast of air is blown into the lower section of the furnace through a series of pipes called tuyeres, so that the chemical reactions take place throughout the furnace as the material falls downward. The end products are usually molten metal and slag phases tapped from the bottom, and waste gases exiting from the top of the furnace. The downward flow of the ore along with the flux in contact with an upflow of hot, carbon monoxide-rich combustion gases is a countercurrent exchange and chemical reaction process.
In contrast, air furnaces are naturally aspirated, usually by the convection of hot gases in a chimney flue. According to this broad definition, bloomeries for iron, blowing houses for tin, and smelt mills for lead would be classified as blast furnaces.


title: Gibraltar Dam section title: Background and construction hierarchical section title: Gibraltar Dam / Background and construction caption reference description: The Santa Ynez River at Gibraltar dam site, before damming. content: Gibraltar Dam is located on the Santa Ynez River, in southeastern Santa Barbara County, California, in the United States. Forming Gibraltar Reservoir, the dam is owned by the city of Santa Barbara. Originally constructed in 1920 and expanded in 1948, the dam and reservoir are located in a remote part of the Los Padres National Forest.
The main purpose of Gibraltar Dam is domestic water supply. It provides about 4,600 acre feet of water to Santa Barbara each year, supplying almost 30% of the city's needs. Water diverted from the dam also powers a small hydroelectric plant. Due to having lost a massive portion of its capacity to sediment build-up, the lake can often fill and spill after a single storm, while drying up completely in some years. As of February 2019, sedimentation has reduced the reservoir's capacity to 4,314 acre feet, only 19% of its designed capacity.
The dam is built in a part of the Santa Ynez River called the "Gibraltar Narrows" that gave its name to the Gibraltar mercury mine, which operated next to what is now Gibraltar Reservoir between the 1870s and 1990s.


title: Maryland's 7th congressional district hierarchical section title: Maryland's 7th congressional district caption reference description: Maryland's 7th congressional district - since January 3, 2013. content: Maryland's 7th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives encompasses just over half of the city of Baltimore, some sections of Baltimore County, and the majority of Howard County. The district was created following the census of 1790, which gave Maryland one additional representative in the House. It has been drawn as a majority-African American district since 1973. Kweisi Mfume is the current representative, winning a special election on April 28, 2020 to finish the term of Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019.


title: Vias, Hérault hierarchical section title: Vias, Hérault caption attribution description: Français : Un bateau sur le Canal du Midi, Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, Vias, Hérault, France.English: A boat on the Canal du Midi, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Vias, Hérault, France. content: Vias is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
It is a popular holiday destination with many camp and caravan sites. The Canal du midi passes close to the town at the site of the canal crossing the river Libron, an interesting historic engineering work.


title: Daimler SP250 section title: B-spec hierarchical section title: Daimler SP250 / Development / B-spec caption reference description: Later version with front bumper, no quarter flashes, and no recess behind the door handle caption attribution description: Daimler England, Swiss licence registration TG-58005 content: The Daimler SP250 is a sports car built by the Daimler Company, a British manufacturer in Coventry, from 1959 to 1964. It was the last car to be launched by Daimler before its parent company, the Birmingham Small Arms Company, sold it to Jaguar Cars in 1960.


title: Glengyle Station hierarchical section title: Glengyle Station caption reference description: Channel Country caption attribution description: Cooper Creek / Channel Country (QLD) content: Glengyle Station most commonly known as Glengyle is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in central west Queensland.


title: Manly Tram Depot section title: History hierarchical section title: Manly Tram Depot / History caption reference description: Tram crossing The Spit on a punt caption attribution description: English: A tram crossing The Spit on a punt content: Manly Tram Depot was part of the Sydney tram network.


title: Lake Kuwakatai section title: References hierarchical section title: Lake Kuwakatai / References caption reference description: Lake Kuwakatai in April caption attribution description: English: Lake Kuwakatai in April content: Lake Kuwakatai is a small dune lake located on the south head of Kaipara Harbour in New Zealand. It is located 0.5 kilometres south of the larger Lake Rototoa It has a surface area of 0.36 square kilometres


title: Jagdgeschwader 27 section title: France and the Low Countries hierarchical section title: Jagdgeschwader 27 / World War II / France and the Low Countries caption reference description: Bf 109Es of JG 51 in 1940, similar to those flown by JG 27 content: Jagdgeschwader 27 "Afrika" was a fighter wing of the Luftwaffe during World War II. The wing was given the name "Africa" for serving in the North African Campaign predominantly alone in the period from April 1941 to September 1942. Elements of JG 27 fought in every major theatre of operations in which the Wehrmacht operated.
Stab JG 27 was created in October 1939 and assigned two gruppen in the Phoney War. The wing's first campaign was Fall Gelb, the battles of the Low Countries and France. In the second half of 1940 JG 27 received a third gruppe and fought in the Battle of Britain. In 1941 it returned to Germany then fought in the German invasion of Yugoslavia and Battle of Greece in April 1941. The wing was then separated with two gruppen sent to support Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. I. Gruppe was sent to Italian Libya beginning JG 27s North African Campaign from mid-April 1941. It was joined by II. Gruppe which was withdrawn from the Eastern Front after les than two weeks and transferred to Africa. III. Gruppe joined the other gruppen in North Africa in late 1941.


title: List of Counts Palatine of the Rhine section title: Table of rulers hierarchical section title: List of Counts Palatine of the Rhine / The Palatinate under the Wittelsbach: the Electoral dignity (1214–1803) / House of Wittelsbach / Table of rulers caption attribution description: English: John Casimir of the Palatinate and Stegeborg (1589-1652), consort of Princess Catherine of Sweden content: The Elector of the Palatinate ruled the Palatinate of the Rhine in the Kingdom of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire from 915 to 1803. Counts palatine of smaller states were not electors.


title: Bishop's Lodge, Townsville section title: History hierarchical section title: Bishop's Lodge, Townsville / History caption reference description: Bishop's Lodge, 1903 (before Cyclone Leonta damaged it) content: Bishop's Lodge is a heritage-listed house at 13 St James Drive, Belgian Gardens, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Tunbridge & Tunbridge and built in 1897. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.


title: Bofete section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Bofete / Gallery caption attribution description: Português: Bofete é um município brasileiro do estado de São Paulo, Brasil. content: Bofete is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 10,879 in an area of 654 km². The elevation is 576 m.


title: Salvator Mundi (Leonardo) section title: Attribution hierarchical section title: Salvator Mundi (Leonardo) / Attribution caption reference description: Pentimenti visible in the palm of the left hand shown through the transparent orb may be evidence of Leonardo's authorship.[8] caption attribution description: Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi. The painting was sold at Christie's New York, November 15, 2017, for $450.3 million, making it the most expensive painting ever sold. content: Salvator Mundi is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci dated to c. 1500. Long thought to be a copy of a lost original veiled with overpainting, it was rediscovered, restored, and included in a major Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 2011–12. Although most leading scholars have considered it to be an original work by Leonardo, this attribution has been disputed by other specialists, some of whom posit that he only contributed certain elements.
The painting depicts Jesus in Renaissance dress, making the sign of the cross with his right hand, while holding a transparent, non-refracting crystal orb in his left, signaling his role as Salvator Mundi and representing the 'celestial sphere' of the heavens. Around 20 other variations of the work are known, by students and followers of Leonardo. Preparatory chalk and ink drawings of the drapery by Leonardo are held in the British Royal Collection.
It is one of fewer than 20 known works by Leonardo, and was the only one to remain in a private collection.


title: COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia section title: March 2020 hierarchical section title: COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia / Confirmed cases timeline / March 2020 caption reference description: A graph showing the number of COVID-19 cases in Namibia for the month of April 2020. Day 19 represents the 1st of April; 19 days after the initial infection. Day 48 represents the 30th of April. content: The COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, announced on 14 March 2020 that the virus had reached Namibia. A Romanian couple constituted the two first cases and recovered after 79 days after their initial diagnosis.
On 17 March 2020, President Hage Geingob declared a state of emergency which introduced measures such as the closure of all borders, suspension of gatherings and economic related resolutions. The Ministry of Health and Social Services also established an Emergency Response team, operating 24/7, which aimed to intensify the surveillance of COVID-19 in the country, especially at the borders of Namibia. On 28 March 2020, the country went into a full lockdown.
No infections were reported from 6 April 2020 to 20 May 2020, however there was a notable increase in cases after this period - possibly due to local transmission. A second and higher rise of infections began in July 2020, following relaxed restrictions in several regions.


title: Cebu City section title: Barangays hierarchical section title: Cebu City / Geography / Barangays caption reference description: Political map of Cebu City caption attribution description: English: Political map of Cebu City content: Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu, is a 1st class highly urbanized city of the island of Cebu in the Central Visayas Region, Philippines.
According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 922,611 people, making it the fifth-most populated city in the nation and the most populous in Visayas.
It is the regional center of Central Visayas and is the seat of government for the province of Cebu, but is governed separately from it. The city is a significant center of commerce, trade and education in Visayas. It is the Philippines' main domestic shipping port and is home to about 80% of the country's domestic shipping companies.
Located in the middle of the eastern side of Cebu Island, it is the center of Metro Cebu, the second largest metropolitan area in the Philippines by population, economy and land area, which includes the cities of Carcar, Danao, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue, Naga and Talisay and the municipalities of Compostela, Consolacion, Cordova, Liloan, Minglanilla and San Fernando. Metro Cebu had a total population of 2,849,213 as of 2015, making it the second-most populous metropolitan area of the nation, after Metro Manila in Luzon.


title: University of Michigan section title: North Campus hierarchical section title: University of Michigan / Campus / North Campus caption reference description: Students learn pole climbing in course for telephone electricians, c. 1918 content: The University of Michigan, often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The university is Michigan's oldest; it was founded in 1817 in Detroit, as the Catholepistemiad, or the University of Michigania, 20 years before the territory became a state. The school was moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the flagship university campus has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 34 million gross square feet spread out over Central Campus and North Campus, two regional campuses in Flint and Dearborn, and a Center in Detroit. The university is a founding member of the Association of American Universities.
Considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States with annual research expenditures approaching $1.5 billion, Michigan is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". As of October 2019, 52 MacArthur "genius award" winners, 25 Nobel Prize winners, 6 Turing Award winners and 1 Fields Medalist have been affiliated with the University of Michigan.


title: Philippine Christian University section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Philippine Christian University / Campuses / Gallery caption attribution description: English: Philippine Christian University[1] or simply referred to as PCU is a private university along Taft Avenue, Manila. It was founded in 1946 through the initiatives of the Laymen of the Evangelical Association of the Philippines. Originally named as Manila Union University, it was renamed as Philippine Christian College (PCC). In 1976, the PCC acquired university status.Website [2] Taft Avenue, 1648 corner Pedro Gil Street, Metro Manila 1004 Coordinates: 14°34'32"N 120°59'20"E content: The Philippine Christian University is a private, coeducational protestant university located in Ermita, Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1946 through the initiatives of the Laymen of the Evangelical Association of the Philippines. Originally named as Manila Union University, it was renamed as Philippine Christian College. In 1976, the PCC acquired university status.
PCU is one of the two major mainline protestant universities at the heart of Metro Manila. The other is Trinity University of Asia. It is also a member institution of Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities.
The university maintains a satellite campus in Iloilo City through a partnership with the St. Roberts International Academy.


title: Jobbers Canyon Historic District hierarchical section title: Jobbers Canyon Historic District caption reference description: A view of the canyon. content: Jobbers Canyon Historic District was a large industrial and warehouse area comprising 24 buildings located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, US. It was roughly bound by Farnam Street on the north, South Eighth Street on the east, Jackson Street on the south, and South Tenth Street on the west. In 1989, all 24 buildings in Jobbers Canyon were demolished, representing the largest National Register historic district loss to date.


title: Truganina Explosives Reserve section title: Narrow-gauge tramway hierarchical section title: Truganina Explosives Reserve / Narrow-gauge tramway caption reference description: Drawing of tramway bridge, 25 November 1940 content: The Truganina Explosives Reserve was a secure storage facility near Altona in the Australian state of Victoria. It was in operation from 1901 to 1962 to store mainly civilian explosives for mining and construction. The camp included several storage sheds and a jetty, which were connected by a narrow-gauge horse-drawn tramway. Like the Dry Creek explosives depot at Port Adelaide, the site is a testimony to history and transportation in Australia.


title: Jim Hogg County, Texas hierarchical section title: Jim Hogg County, Texas caption reference description: Location within the U.S. state of Texas content: Jim Hogg County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,300. Its county seat is Hebbronville. The county is named for James Stephen Hogg, the governor of Texas from 1891 to 1895.


title: List of people from Texas section title: Music hierarchical section title: List of people from Texas / Entertainment / Music caption reference description: Albert Collins caption attribution description: Albert Collins at the Long Beach Blues Festival content: The following are notable people who were either born, raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the U.S. state of Texas.


title: River Cart hierarchical section title: River Cart caption reference description: River Cart, looking south caption attribution description: English: River Cart Looking south. content: The River Cart is a tributary of the River Clyde, Scotland, which it joins from the west roughly midway between the towns of Erskine and Renfrew and opposite the town of Clydebank.
The River Cart itself is very short, being formed from the confluence of the Black Cart Water and the White Cart Water and is only 0.75 mile long. The River Cart and its tributary the White Cart Water were navigable as far as the Seedhill Craigs at Paisley; and, as with the River Clyde, various improvements were made to this river navigation.
In 1840 the 0.50 mile Forth and Cart Canal was opened, linking the Forth and Clyde Canal, at Whitecrook near Clydebank, to the River Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart. The aim was to provide a direct link between Paisley, Port Dundas, Edinburgh, and the Firth of Forth.


title: St Joseph's Cathedral, Rockhampton section title: History hierarchical section title: St Joseph's Cathedral, Rockhampton / History caption reference description: Giovanni John Cani, Bishop of Rockhampton from 1882 to 1898 content: St Josephs Cathedral is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic cathedral at 170 William Street, Allenstown, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built from 1893 to 1982. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.


title: Yingjiang Temple section title: History hierarchical section title: Yingjiang Temple / History caption reference description: A front view of Yingfeng Temple. caption attribution description: English: The Zhenfeng Pagoda in Anqing, Anhui, China. content: Yingfeng Temple is a Buddhist temple located in Yingjiang District of Anqing, Anhui, China.


title: Saint Louis River (Lake Superior tributary) section title: Pollution hierarchical section title: Saint Louis River (Lake Superior tributary) / Pollution caption reference description: Northwest Paper Company discharges sulfite into the river at Cloquet, 1973 content: The Saint Louis River is a river in the U.S. states of Minnesota and Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior. The largest U.S. river to flow into the lake, it is 192 miles in length and starts 13 miles east of Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. The river's watershed covers 3,634 square miles. Near the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin, the river becomes a freshwater estuary. The lower St. Louis is the only river in the state with whitewater rafting opportunities.


title: Potter's wheel section title: Techniques of throwing hierarchical section title: Potter's wheel / Techniques of throwing caption reference description: 1836 pottery wheel demonstration at Conner Prairie living historical museum content: In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping of round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming the excess body from dried ware, and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour. Use of the potter's wheel became widespread throughout the Old World but was unknown in the Pre-Columbian New World, where pottery was handmade by methods that included coiling and beating.
A potter's wheel may occasionally be referred to as a "potter's lathe". However, that term is better used for another kind of machine that is used for a different shaping process, turning, similar to that used for shaping of metal and wooden articles.
The techniques of jiggering and jolleying can be seen as extensions of the potter's wheel: in jiggering, a shaped tool is slowly brought down onto the plastic clay body that has been placed on top of the rotating plaster mould. The jigger tool shapes one face, the mould the other. The term is specific to the shaping of flat ware, such as plates, whilst a similar technique, jolleying, refers to the production of hollow ware, such as cups.


title: Bahía de Ponce section title: History hierarchical section title: Bahía de Ponce / History caption reference description: President Roosevelt on his visit to Puerto Rico via Bahía de Ponce on 21 November 1906 content: Bahía de Ponce is a bay in Barrio Playa, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The Bay is home to the most important commercial harbor on the Puerto Rico south coast and the second largest in Puerto Rico. The Cardona Island Light is located on the Bay to mark the way into the Bay from the nearby Caja de Muertos Light.
Bahía de Ponce is located in southern Puerto Rico, about midway on the southern coast. It has a width of 3.5 mi, a length of 1.5 miles, its shore is about 4.0 mi and its area is approximately 3,300 acres. Typical bay depths are in the 20 ft-to-40 ft range, but these dip to 50 feet at the drenched piers.
The Bay provides recreation, sightseeing and tourist attractions. It also provides for commercial and industrial activities. The Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas is located here as well as the La Guancha Recreational and Cultural Complex, the La Guancha Boardwalk, and Club Náutico de Ponce. The annual Cruce a Nado Internacional swimming sports event is held at this Bay every September.


title: Belgian Congo hierarchical section title: Belgian Congo caption reference description: The Belgian Congo caption attribution description: Français : On sait peu de choses sur le cartographe et graveur de cette carte, Léon de Moor lui-même. On en sait plus sur la maison d'édition, J. Lebègue et Cie. L'entreprise publia de nombreux documents géographiques, y compris des cartes et des récits de voyage. En 1896, au moment de la publication de cette carte, le Congo Belge - connu sous le nom d'État indépendant du Congo - est en fait une possession personnelle du roi Léopold II et non pas une colonie officielle de la Belgique. Le roi était engagé dans une vigoureuse campagne de publicité visant à convaincre les autres puissances européennes de reconnaître la légitimité de son règne, une tâche difficile en raison de la brutalité notoire de son administration en Afrique. En regardant de plus près la légende de la carte on découvre que J. Lebègue et Cie. est l'éditeur, mais que le "Bureau de la publicité" est son rédacteur. La carte comprend des encadrés détaillés des provinces de Léopoldville au Bas-Congo et d' Elisabethville au Katanga. English: "Little is known about the actual cartographer and engraver of this map, Léon de Moor. More is known about the publishing house, J. Lebègue and Co. The firm published many geographical documents, including maps and travel accounts. In 1896, when this map was published, the Belgian Congo–known as the Congo Free State–was actually a personal possession of King Leopold II and not an official Belgian colony. The king was engaged in a vigorous publicity campaign aimed at convincing the other European powers to recognize the legitimacy of his rule, a difficult task in view of the notorious brutality of his administration in Africa. A close look at the legend of the map reveals J. Lebègue and Co. as the publisher, but the “Office of Publicity” as its editor. The map includes detailed insets of the provinces of Leopoldville in the lower Congo and of Elisabethville in Katanga." caption alt text description: The Belgian Congo content: Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in central Africa. It was formed in 1908. The government of Belgium took over the previously separate kingdom of Belgium's monarch Léopold II; the Congo Free State. Today it is called the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It existed between Léopold II's formal transfer of his personal control to Belgium on 15 November 1908, and Congolese independence on 30 June 1960.


title: Mississippi's 3rd congressional district hierarchical section title: Mississippi's 3rd congressional district caption reference description: Mississippi's 3rd congressional district - since January 3, 2013. content: Mississippi's 3rd congressional district covers central portions of state and stretches from the Louisiana border in the west to the Alabama border in the east.
Large cities in the district include Meridian, Starkville, Pearl, and Natchez. It also includes most of the wealthier portions of Jackson, including the portion of the city located in Rankin County. The district includes the state's largest college and land-grant university, Mississippi State University in Starkville.
From statehood to the election of 1846, Mississippi elected representatives at-large statewide on a general ticket. This district has been redefined based on changes in statewide population.
Its current representative is Republican Michael Guest.


title: HSM-51 section title: 2011 hierarchical section title: HSM-51 / History / 2011 caption reference description: A HSM-51 Seahawk transports relief supplies in Operation Damayan in Ormoc, Philippines, 2013 caption attribution description: English: A U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 51 transports international relief supplies in support of Operation Damayan in Ormoc, Philippines, Nov. 17, 2013. U.S. military forces were deployed to the Philippines to support humanitarian efforts in response to Typhoon Haiyan. content: Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron Five One "WARLORDS" is a United States Navy helicopter squadron based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Ayase City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. HSM-51 one of the seven squadrons making up Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing, Pacific Fleet, based in San Diego and deploys aboard multiple ships in the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan.


title: Pope John XXIII section title: Beatification and canonization hierarchical section title: Pope John XXIII / Beatification and canonization caption reference description: The canonization ceremony of John XXIII and John Paul II caption attribution description: ROME,VATICAN 27 APRIL: Images taken from what will go down in history as one of the largest and most important days in current history. The Canonization of Blessed Pope John XXIII and Blessed Pope John Paul II. Two beloved Popes from the 20th Century. content: Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was one of thirteen children born to a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, as nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to naming him as the Patriarch of Venice. Roncalli was unexpectedly elected pope on 28 October 1958 at age 76 after 11 ballots. Pope John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council, the first session opening on 11 October 1962.
John XXIII made many passionate speeches during his pontificate. His views on equality were summed up in his statement, "We were all made in God's image, and thus, we are all Godly alike." He made a major impact on the Catholic Church, opening it up to dramatic unexpected changes promulgated at the Vatican Council and by his own dealings with other churches and nations.


title: List of the Paleozoic life of Arizona section title: C hierarchical section title: List of the Paleozoic life of Arizona / C caption reference description: Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites caption attribution description: Calamites from the Sedgwick Museum's collection. content: This list of the Paleozoic life of Arizona contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Arizona and are between 541 and 252.17 million years of age.


title: Nick DeWolf hierarchical section title: Nick DeWolf caption reference description: Nick DeWolf at the lectern on future plans at Teradyne (1959) caption attribution description: Computer engineer Nick DeWolf in 1959. content: Nicholas DeWolf was co-founder of Teradyne, a Boston, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of automatic test equipment. He founded the company in 1960 with Alex d'Arbeloff, a classmate at MIT.


title: Utica, New York section title: Iroquois natives and European settlement hierarchical section title: Utica, New York / History / Iroquois natives and European settlement caption reference description: An 1802 engraved map of Utica. The Mohawk River is at the top, and Bagg's Tavern is at the center right. content: Utica is a city in the Mohawk Valley and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The tenth-most-populous city in New York, its population was 62,235 in the 2010 U.S. census. Located on the Mohawk River at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, Utica is approximately 95 miles northwest of Albany, 55 mi east of Syracuse and 240 mi northwest of New York City. Utica and the nearby city of Rome anchor the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which comprises all of Oneida and Herkimer counties.
Formerly a river settlement inhabited by the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, Utica attracted European-American settlers from New England during and after the American Revolution. In the 19th century, immigrants strengthened its position as a layover city between Albany and Syracuse on the Erie and Chenango Canals and the New York Central Railroad. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city's infrastructure contributed to its success as a manufacturing center and defined its role as a worldwide hub for the textile industry. Utica's 20th-century political corruption and organized crime gave it the nickname "Sin City."


title: River Thames section title: Human history hierarchical section title: River Thames / Human history caption reference description: The Tower of London, with Tower Bridge, built 800 years later caption attribution description: An aerial view of the Tower of London as seen from the SwissRe Tower. content: The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 215 miles, it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.
It flows through Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary. The Thames drains the whole of Greater London.
Its tidal section, reaching up to Teddington Lock, includes most of its London stretch and has a rise and fall of 23 feet. Running through some of the driest parts of mainland Britain and heavily abstracted for drinking water, the Thames' discharge is low considering its length and breadth: the Severn has a discharge almost twice as large on average despite having a smaller drainage basin. In Scotland, the Tay achieves more than double the Thames' average discharge from a drainage basin that is 60% smaller.
Along its course are 45 navigation locks with accompanying weirs.


title: Elisa Brătianu section title: Early life hierarchical section title: Elisa Brătianu / Early life caption reference description: Alexandru B. Știrbei family content: Elisa Brătianu was a Romanian aristocrat, political figure and participant in the Inter-Allied Women's Conference of 1919. An avid gardener, she designed the gardens at the Albatross Villa in Buzău and discussed plans for gardens in Bucharest with the town gardener. Concerned about the loss of traditional Romanian culture, she developed schools to keep stitchery traditions alive and published books of patterns. When her husband, long-serving prime minister Ion I.C. Brătianu died, she spearheaded a foundation to collect his archives and create a library to publish his most important works.


title: Route 46 Passaic River Bridge hierarchical section title: Route 46 Passaic River Bridge caption reference description: Passaic River Bridge content: The Route 46 Passaic River Bridge can refer to a number of bridges that carry U.S. Route 46 over the Passaic River in Northern New Jersey. US 46 was originally developed as Route 6 under the direction of Morris Goodkind who was chief engineer of the New Jersey Highway Department from 1922 until 1955.
The highway is designated the United Spanish War Veterans Memorial Highway. It crosses the river several times as both wind their way through Bergen, Passaic, Essex, and Morris counties. To the east the highway also crosses the Hackensack River on the Winant Avenue Bridge and the Hudson River on the George Washington Bridge. To the west the highway crosses several of the Passaic's tributaries.


title: Royal Military College Paladins section title: West Point Weekend hierarchical section title: Royal Military College Paladins / West Point Weekend caption reference description: West Point series plaque, RMC vs USMA, Currie Hall, RMC caption attribution description: English: International Hockey Series Plaque, RMC vs West Point, Currie Hall, Royal Military College of Canada content: The RMC Paladins are the athletic teams that represent Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its facilities include the Kingston Military Community Sport Centre with seating for 3737, the Navy Bay fields with seating for 800 and Constantine Arena with seating for 1500 and the Birchall Pavilion.


title: Albertite hierarchical section title: Albertite caption reference description: Drawing of the asphalt-like ore known as Albertite. caption attribution description: English: DRAWING OF A PIECE OF THE HURONIAN SHALE ENCLOSING THE ALBERTITE VEIN IN NEW BRUNSWICK, SHOWING THE MANNER IN WHICH THE ALBERTITE CLEAVES FROM THE ENCLOSING ROCK. Identifier: reportonproducti00peck (find matches) Title: Report on the production, technology, and uses of petroleum and its products Year: 1885 (1880s) Authors: Peckham, Stephen Farnum, 1839-1918 Subjects: Petroleum Petroleum Petroleum Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off. Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: w Brunswick, for which no adequate explanation has been proposed that does not regard them as a product of distillation from deep-seated strata, which has been projected into a fissure formed by the sudden rupture of the earths crust. Dr. R. C. Taylor examined the vein which occurs in metamorphic rocks near Havana, and gives a section (Fig. 8) of the vein as it is exposed in the working of the mine. He says: It was evidently originally an irregular open fissure, terminating upwards in a wedge-like form, having various branches, all ofwhich have been subsequently filled with carbonaceous matter, as if injected from below, and that not by slow degrees, but suddenlyand at once, (j) a J. K.K.G. R.,xviii,311. o Bruno Walter, J. K. K. G. R., xxx, 115. c B. S. G. P., xxiv, 12. d Bleekrode, C. N., v, 188. e Phil. Trans., 1823. / L. J. Inglestrom : The Geo. Mag., iv, 160. g Quar. Jour. Geo. Sod, xi, 4G8. h A. J. S. (I), xxxvi, 114; (3), xvi, 112. i A. J. S. (3). xvi, 130. ,; Phil. Mag.,x, 161. Text Appearing After Image: DRAWING OF A PIECE OF THE HURONIAN SHALE ENCLOSING THE ALBERTITE VEIN IN NEW BRUNSWICK, SHOWING THE MANNER IN WHICH THE ALBERTITE CLEAVES FROM THE ENCLOSING ROCK. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PETROLEUM 73 In 18091 made the origin of albertite and allied substances the subject of a paper, (a) in which I discussed the viewsheld by others regarding it and compared them with the observations made in New Brunswick and West Virginiaby Jackson, Wetherell, Lesley, Wurtz, and others, with my own observation of a vein on the coast of California.This latter vein is exposed on the coast west of Santa Barbara, and stands vertical, cutting the Pliocene andrecent sands. With this vein are associated lenticular masses, extending horizontally, from which a sort of talusprojects vertically into the sands beneath. The eruptive origin of these deposits is beyond question. Similar deposits are described by M. Coquand as occurring in Albania, as follows: The bitumen at SeUenitza does not lie in regular beds, but Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. content: Albertite is a variety of asphalt found in the Albert Formation in Albert County, New Brunswick. It is a type of solid hydrocarbon.
Albertite has a black colour, a resinous luster, and a hardness of 2½. It is less soluble in turpentine than the usual type of asphalt. It was from a mixture of albertite and pitch that kerosene was first distilled in 1846 by Abraham Gesner, a New Brunswick geologist who had heard stories of rocks that burned in the area and gave the material its first scientific study.


title: Ayvalık section title: Modern Ayvalık hierarchical section title: Ayvalık / Modern Ayvalık caption reference description: Ayvalık Islands in the Aegean Sea, viewed from Şeytan Sofrası hill. caption attribution description: Kendi çektiğim bir fotoğraf. content: Ayvalık is a seaside town on the northwestern Aegean coast of Turkey. It is a district of Balıkesir Province. The town center of Ayvalık is surrounded by the archipelago of Ayvalık Islands, which face the nearby Greek island of Lesbos.
It was an ancient Aeolian port-town, called Kydonies and it served surrounding Greek Aeolian cities, such as Pergamos; since the Ottoman era, the name of the city changed to Ayvalik, the town remained predominantly Greek, and although the Turks used its Turkish name, its Greek population used indiscriminately its ancient name Kydonies and its new name Hellenized to Aivali.


title: Agroeca pratensis hierarchical section title: Agroeca pratensis caption attribution description: English: Agroeca pratensis, adult male from Ontario, Canada content: Agroeca pratensis is a species of liocranid sac spider in the family Liocranidae. It is found in the United States and Canada.


title: History of War in Afghanistan (2001–present) section title: 2019 hierarchical section title: History of War in Afghanistan (2001–present) / 2018 - present / 2019 caption reference description: Ongoing armed conflicts in June 2019.    Major wars, 10,000 or more deaths in current or past year content: It currently runs through 2017.


title: List of cultural heritage sites in Karachi section title: Bunder Quarter hierarchical section title: List of cultural heritage sites in Karachi / Protected Heritage / Bunder Quarter caption attribution description: English: City Courts, M.A. Jinnah road, Karachi This is a photo of a monument in Pakistan identified as the SD-P-10 caption alt text description: City Courts content: Following is the list of cultural heritage sites in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.


title: The Immortal (1970 TV series) hierarchical section title: The Immortal (1970 TV series) caption reference description: Christopher George, Ross Martin and Mitch Vogel, 1970. caption attribution description: English: Publicity photo of Christopher George, Ross Martin, and Mitch Vogel from an episode of TV's The Immortal. content: The Immortal is an American television series. It's about a man who has blood that can guard against diseases. This makes him almost unable to die. It was shown on ABC from September 24, 1970 to January 14, 1971.


title: Surgeon-General (United Kingdom) hierarchical section title: Surgeon-General (United Kingdom) caption reference description: Ministry of Defence tri-Service Badge content: The Surgeon-General of the United Kingdom Armed Forces is the most senior uniformed medical officer in the British Armed Forces, currently Air Vice-Marshal Alastair Reid.


title: 2011 Cannes Film Festival section title: Awards hierarchical section title: 2011 Cannes Film Festival / Awards caption reference description: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, winners of the Gran Prix caption attribution description: Français : Les frères Dardenne (à gauche, Luc Dardenne, à droite Jean-Pierre Dardenne) au festival de Cannes content: The 64th Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 May 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry headed the jury for the short film competition. South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho was the head of the jury for the Caméra d'Or prize, which is awarded to the best first-time filmmaker. The American film The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or.
Midnight in Paris, written and directed by Woody Allen, opened the festival and Beloved, directed by Christophe Honoré and screened as out of competition, closed the festival. Mélanie Laurent hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with the third Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the festival. Though the award had been given out sporadically in the past the Honorary Palme d'Or was supposed to presented annually after 2011. However it was not given again until the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Gus Van Sant's Restless opened the Un Certain Regard section. Jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof were honoured at the festival.


title: Engadin hierarchical section title: Engadin caption reference description: The lakes of the Upper Engadine and the town of St. Moritz caption attribution description: English: The famous view of Upper Engadine valley from the Muottas Muragl area. The lakes of Staz, St. Moritz, Silvaplana and Sils are visible on the photo. content: The Engadin or Engadine is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants. It follows the route of the Inn from its headwaters at Maloja Pass in the southwest running roughly northeast until the Inn flows into Austria, one hundred kilometers downstream. The En/Inn subsequently flows at Passau into the Danube, making it the only Swiss river to drain into the Black Sea. The Engadine is protected by high mountain ranges on all sides and is famous for its sunny climate, beautiful landscapes and outdoor activities.


title: Abraham-Louis Breguet section title: The Salomons Collection hierarchical section title: Abraham-Louis Breguet / The Salomons Collection caption reference description: Breguet watch No. 92 (1785), bought by the Duc de Choiseul-Praslin. Musée des Arts et Métiers. caption attribution description: English: Breguet watch 1785, bought by the Duc de Choiseul-Praslin content: Abraham-Louis Breguet, born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking in France. In his lifetime he was considered the leading watchmaker of his day, and he built up a clientele that included many leading public figures and members of the European nobility.
Alongside his friend and contemporary John Arnold, Breguet is now widely acknowledged as one of the greatest horologists of all time. One of his famous ancestors was Jean Breguet a Protestant pastor in Neuchâtel very much influenced by the ideas of John Calvin.
He is the founder of the Breguet company, which is now the luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch Group.


title: Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker State Nature Preserve hierarchical section title: Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker State Nature Preserve caption reference description: Side of the esker caption attribution description: Esker in Nature Preserve in Ohio content: Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker is a 37-acre state nature preserve located in Champaign County, Ohio, United States. It contains an esker, kame, and kettle, all glacial landforms.


title: Mitch Vogel hierarchical section title: Mitch Vogel caption reference description: Clockwise from top left: Christopher George, Ross Martin, and Mitch Vogel on TV's The Immortal caption attribution description: English: Publicity photo of Christopher George, Ross Martin, and Mitch Vogel from an episode of TV's The Immortal. content: Mitchel L Vogel is an American former child actor.
Having begun his professional acting career at age ten, Vogel is widely known for his role as the red-headed orphan, Jamie Hunter-Cartwright on the NBC western series Bonanza, as well as for his feature film roles: as Tommy North in Yours, Mine and Ours and as Lucius McCaslin in The Reivers.


title: A Man to Remember hierarchical section title: A Man to Remember caption reference description: Theatrical release lobby card caption attribution description: English: Lobby card for the American film A Man to Remember (1938) with Edward Ellis. The item has no copyright marks on it as can be seen at links and original upload. At bottom right is Country of origin USA. United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies. 1 The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.” 2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles. 3 The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.1 Example © 2007 Jane Doe.") content: A Man to Remember is a 1938 American drama film directed by Garson Kanin, his first film credit as a director. The picture was based on the short story Failure, written by Katharine Haviland-Taylor, and the screenplay was penned by Dalton Trumbo. The story tells of a saintly small town doctor working under difficult circumstances somewhere in the United States after World War I. The movie is a remake of One Man's Journey starring Lionel Barrymore.


title: Bodh Gaya section title: Transportation hierarchical section title: Bodh Gaya / Transportation caption reference description: Map of Bodh Gaya in relation to other Eight Great Places Buddhist pilgrimage sites and notable nearby cities content: Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous as it is the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have attained Enlightenment under what became known as the Bodhi Tree. Since antiquity, Bodh Gaya has remained the object of pilgrimage and veneration for both Hindus and Buddhists.
For Buddhists, Bodh Gaya is the most important of the main four pilgrimage sites related to the life of Gautama Buddha, the other three being Kushinagar, Lumbini, and Sarnath. In 2002, Mahabodhi Temple, located in Bodh Gaya, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


title: Tower Bridge section title: Historic places adjacent to Tower Bridge hierarchical section title: Tower Bridge / See also / Historic places adjacent to Tower Bridge caption reference description: Comparison of the side elevations of the Tower Bridge and some notable bridges at the same scale. (click for interactive version) content: Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and has become a world-famous symbol of London. As a result, it is sometimes confused with London Bridge, about half a mile upstream. Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the trust's bridges not to connect the City of London directly to the Southwark bank, as its northern landfall is in Tower Hamlets.
The bridge consists of two bridge towers tied together at the upper level by two horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal tension forces imposed by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. The vertical components of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower.


title: Republic of Karelia section title: Geography hierarchical section title: Republic of Karelia / Geography caption reference description: Geological map of Fennoscandia.   Archean rocks of the Karelia and Kola domains   Proterozoic rocks of the Karelia and Kola domains   Svecofennian Domain  Transscandinavian Igneous Belt   Timanide Orogen   Sveconorwegian Domain inc. the Western Gneiss Region  Caledonian nappes content: The Republic of Karelia, or Karelia, is a federal subject of Russia, located in the northwest of Russia. Its capital is the city of Petrozavodsk. Its population in 2010 was 643,548.
The modern Karelian Republic was founded as an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of June 27, 1923, and by the Decree of the VTsIK and the Council of People's Commissars of July 25, 1923, from the Karelian Labor Commune.
From 1940 to 1956, it was known as the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the union republics in the Soviet Union. In 1956, it was once again an autonomous republic and remains part of Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.


title: Scots language hierarchical section title: Scots language caption reference description: The proportion of respondents in the 2011 census in Northern Ireland aged 3 and above who stated that they can speak Ulster Scots caption attribution description: English: The proportion of respondents in the 2011 census aged 3 and above who stated that they can speak Ulster-Scots. content: Scots is a West Germanic language variety spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in Ireland. It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Goidelic Celtic language that was historically restricted to most of the Highlands, the Hebrides and Galloway after the 16th century. Modern Scots is a sister language of Modern English; the two diverged in the Early Middle English period.
Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland, a regional or minority language of Europe, and as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
As there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing a language from a dialect, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots, particularly its relationship to English. Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects exist, they often render contradictory results. Braid Scots is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Scottish Standard English at the other. Scots is often regarded as one of the ancient varieties of English, but it has its own distinct dialects.


title: Battle of Jackson, Tennessee hierarchical section title: Battle of Jackson, Tennessee caption attribution description: English: Scenes from Jackson Tennessee. From the Artist, "I herewith send you [Harpers Weekly] a couple of sketches from Jackson, Tennessee. This place is the largest on the railroad front Columbus to Corinth, and is a fine town. Pretty dwellings embowered in trees meet the eye at almost every turn. "Brigadier-General John A. Logan has command of the post, and is fortifying it very strongly. "The enemy is known to have a great desire to repossess the town, and an attack from them is momentarily expected. All the streets entering into the city are barricaded with cotton bales, and, from appearance, are fully sufficient to oppose the ingress of a very large force. "Near the depot is a cotton fort—a sketch of which I send you—for the protection of that portion of the town. It is amply provided with water reservoirs, in the shape of barrels sunk into the ground, to stand a long siege. "An engineer on General Logan's staff has constructed an admirable railroad battery for the protection of the road from guerrilla raids. They have as yet had but one occasion to use it, and that was at Henderson, a few days since, where the woods were shelled sufficiently to make it too hot to hold the rebels. At every trestle-work or bridge along the road are stationed a few soldiers as guard, and it is to this we owe our security as we go dashing along at a headlong pace." content: The Battle of Jackson, also known as the Battle of Salem Cemetery, was fought on December 19, 1862, in Madison County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War.


title: Molokai Airport hierarchical section title: Molokai Airport caption reference description: Approach to Runway 5 (2008) caption attribution description: English: Flying base leg for runway 5 at Molokai Airport content: Founded in 1927, Molokai Airport, also known as Hoolehua Airport is a state-owned, public use airport located six nautical miles northwest of Kaunakakai, on the island of Molokai in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. It is the principal airport of the island. The largest plane to ever fly here regularly was a Boeing 737-200 jet, which seats 127 passengers.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 89,468 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 65,984 enplanements in 2009, and 88,688 in 2010. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.


title: Mount Morgan School of Arts section title: History hierarchical section title: Mount Morgan School of Arts / History caption reference description: The first Mount Morgan School of Arts, circa 1890 content: Mount Morgan School of Arts is a heritage-listed school of arts at 31 Morgan Street, Mount Morgan, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1924. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.


title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Kimble County, Texas hierarchical section title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Kimble County, Texas caption reference description: Location of Kimble County in Texas content: This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kimble County, Texas.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kimble County, Texas. There are three properties listed on the National Register in the county. One property is also a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 23, 2019.


title: History of Honduras (1900–1954) section title: Fall of Bonilla hierarchical section title: History of Honduras (1900–1954) / Banana republic / Fall of Bonilla caption reference description: USS Chicago content: During the first half of the 20th century the economy of Honduras was dominated by American companies such as the United Fruit Company, the Standard Fruit Company and the Cuyamel Fruit Company, which established enormous banana plantations along the north coast. These companies quickly made bananas the primary export of the country in return for large land grants from conservative politicians. Foreign capital, life in the banana plantations, and conservatives determined the politics of Honduras from the mid-20th century to 1988.
Manuel Bonilla came to the presidency of Honduras through a military operation. Once in power, he became an even better friend of the banana companies than his predecessor, Terencio Sierra. He gave the banana companies tax breaks and permission to build a variety of infrastructure, including the National Railway of Honduras. One of Bonilla's greater accomplishments was the delimitation of the border with Nicaragua, especially in the area of La Mosquitia where there had been a long dispute.
Miguel R. Dávila succeeded Bonilla as president.


title: Dang Le Nguyen Vu hierarchical section title: Dang Le Nguyen Vu caption reference description: Chairman Vu beside his Akhal-Teke horse in 2012 caption attribution description: English: Mr Dang Le Nguyen Vu beside his horses content: Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ, better known as Chairman Vu, is a Vietnamese entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder, president and general director of Trung Nguyên Group. He has been described by National Geographic and Forbes as "Zero to Hero", "Vietnam Coffee King" and "Philosopher-King". He is also an activist and philanthropist.


title: Home front during World War II section title: Canada hierarchical section title: Home front during World War II / Allies / Britain and Commonwealth / Canada caption reference description: Two boys in Montreal gather rubber for wartime salvage, 1942. caption attribution description: Français : Deux garçons du quartier Rosemont à Montréal portent des vieux pneus de voiture et des chaussures à un centre de récupération du caoutchouc pour les forces armées. Montréal, Canada. English: Two boys in the Rosemont neighbourhood gather rubber for wartime salvage. Montreal, Canada. content: The 'home front' covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. World War II was a total war; homeland production became even more invaluable to both the Allied and Axis powers. Life on the home front during World War II was a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Governments became involved with new issues such as rationing, manpower allocation, home defense, evacuation in the face of air raids, and response to occupation by an enemy power. The morale and psychology of the people responded to leadership and propaganda. Typically women were mobilized to an unprecedented degree.
All of the powers used lessons from their experiences on the home front during World War I. Their success in mobilizing economic output was a major factor in supporting combat operations. Among morale-boosting activities that also benefited combat efforts, the home front engaged in a variety of scrap drives for materials crucial to the war effort such as metal, rubber, and rags. Such drives helped strengthen civilian morale and support for the war effort.


title: Semyonovka, Russia section title: Republic of Bashkortostan hierarchical section title: Semyonovka, Russia / Modern localities / Republic of Bashkortostan caption reference description: Distribution of the inhabited localities called Semyonovka in the Republic of Bashkortostan. content: Semyonovka is the name of several rural localities in Russia.


title: Michael Yaki section title: Member of the Board of Supervisors, 1996-2001 hierarchical section title: Michael Yaki / Member of the Board of Supervisors, 1996-2001 caption reference description: Yaki in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1999 caption attribution description: English: Michael YAKI 22JUN99 member of SF Board of Supervisors speaking in City Hall. Photo by Nancy Wong, 1999 content: Michael Yaki is a San Francisco attorney/consultant/political analyst, running his own consulting firm and currently serving as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, succeeding Christopher Edley, Jr. in February 2005. Yaki graduated from UC Berkeley, and then from Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge Harry Low, the first Chinese-American appointed to the California Court of Appeal. After a brief stint with the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, Yaki was appointed by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to be her District Director and as a senior advisor. Yaki was also a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, serving from his appointment by then-mayor Willie Brown in February 1996. He ran for election and won in November 1996, and served until his election defeat in 2000. He owns his own consulting company, Michael Yaki Consulting.


title: Sierra County, California hierarchical section title: Sierra County, California caption reference description: Location in the state of California content: Sierra County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,240 making it California's second-least populous county. The county seat is Downieville, and the only incorporated city is Loyalton. The county is in the Sierra Nevada, northeast of Sacramento on the border with Nevada. Sierra County was founded in 1852. The county derives its name from the Sierra Nevada.


title: Mount Meru section title: In Jainism hierarchical section title: Mount Meru / In Jainism caption reference description: Depiction of Mount Meru at Jambudweep, a Jain temple in Uttar Pradesh content: Mount Meru, also recognized as Sumeru, Sineru or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.
Many famous Buddhist and similar Jain as well as Hindu temples have been built as symbolic representations of this mountain. The "Sumeru Throne" 須彌座 xūmízuò style base is a common feature of Chinese pagodas. The highest point on the pyatthat, a Burmese-style multi-tiered roof, represents Mount Meru.


title: Ralph Wormeley Curtis hierarchical section title: Ralph Wormeley Curtis caption reference description: Portrait of Curtis by Frank Duveneck, c. 1878 content: Ralph Wormeley Curtis was an American painter and graphic artist in the Impressionist style. He spent most of his life in Europe, where he was a close associate of his distant cousin, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler. He painted in a variety of genres, but was known mostly for landscapes and urban scenes; especially of Venice.


title: American Advertising Federation section title: American Advertising Awards hierarchical section title: American Advertising Federation / American Advertising Awards caption reference description: Gold and Silver National ADDY® Awards content: The American Advertising Federation, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the oldest national advertising trade association in the United States. The AAF also has 15 district operations, each located in and representing a different region of the nation. The AAF's members are nearly 100 corporate members which are advertisers, advertising agencies, and media companies; a national network of nearly 200 local federations, representing 40,000 advertising professionals, located across the country; and more than 200 AAF college chapters, with over 6,500 student members. The AAF operates programs and initiatives including the Advertising Hall of Fame, the ADDY Awards, the National Student Advertising Competition, the Mosaic Center on Multiculturalism, and summer Ad Camps for high school students in Chicago and Washington.


title: Massimo Gramellini hierarchical section title: Massimo Gramellini caption reference description: Gramellini at Festivaletteratura of Mantua, 2012 caption attribution description: Italiano: Massimo Gramellini a Mantova per il Festivaletteratura 2012 caption alt text description: Gramellini at Festivaletteratura of Mantua, 2012 content: Massimo Gramellini is an Italian writer and journalist currently working at Corriere della Sera.


title: February 2016 Ankara bombing section title: Bombings hierarchical section title: February 2016 Ankara bombing / Bombings caption reference description: Merasim Street caption attribution description: English: Map of the road network of Ankara from Openstreetmap. caption alt text description: Location where the attack occurred is located in Turkey content: On 17 February 2016, in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, at least 30 people died and 60 were injured in a bombing. According to Turkish authorities, the attack targeted a convoy of shuttles carrying both civilian and military personnel working at the military headquarters during the evening rush hour as the vehicles were stopped at traffic lights at an intersection with İsmet İnönü Boulevard close to Kızılay neighborhood. Several ministries, the headquarters of the army and the Turkish Parliament are located in the neighbourhood where the attack occurred. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks took responsibility for the attack and said they targeted security forces. Censorship monitoring organization Turkey Blocks reported nationwide internet restrictions beginning approximately one hour after the blast pursuant to an administrative order.


title: Edwards County, Texas hierarchical section title: Edwards County, Texas caption reference description: Location within the U.S. state of Texas content: Edwards County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,002. The county seat is Rocksprings. The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1883. It is named for Haden Edwards, an early settler of Nacogdoches, Texas. The Edwards Aquifer and Edwards Plateau are named after the county by reason of their locations.


title: 1873 Guatemalan general election hierarchical section title: 1873 Guatemalan general election caption attribution description: Español: General Miguel García Granados, líder de la Revolución Liberal de 1871 content: Presidential elections were held in Guatemala in November 1873. Justo Rufino Barrios wins the presidency.


title: Newark Black Film Festival hierarchical section title: Newark Black Film Festival caption reference description: The New Jersey-born singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson in 1942. The Paul Robeson Awards are held biannually at the Newark Black Film Festival. caption attribution description: Paul Robeson,American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Spingarn Medal winner, and Stalin peace prize laureate. content: The Newark Black Film Festival, held every summer since 1974 at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, is the longest running Black film festival in the United States. The NBFF focuses on the work and history of African Americans and the African Diaspora. Screenings are typically followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers and scholars.
The Newark Black Film Festival Paul Robeson Awards began as a biennial competition in 1985.
Festival screenings are held in the Billy Johnson Auditorium at the Newark Museum.
The Festival is free of charge to the public and receives funding in the form of grants from various foundations and corporations.


title: Sona, Veneto section title: Twin towns hierarchical section title: Sona, Veneto / Twin towns caption reference description: The moraine hills created by the glacier of Lake Garda during the last glaciation. Area between Sona and Sommacampagna caption attribution description: Italiano: Le colline moreniche create dal ghiacciaio del lago di Garda durante le ultime glaciazioni. Zona tra Sona e Sommacampagna. content: Sona is a comune with 14 269 inhabitants in the province of Verona in Italy. It has an area of 41.14 square kilometres.


title: Cranston Street Armory hierarchical section title: Cranston Street Armory caption reference description: The Cranston Street Armory in 2012 caption attribution description: English: Cranston Street Armory, 1907. Currently houses the Providence State Fire Marshall Academy. Part of the Broadway-Armory Historic District. Cranston Street, Providence. content: The Cranston Street Armory is an historic building in the Broadway–Armory Historic District of Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1907 at a cost of $650,000.00. The building was occupied by the Rhode Island National Guard from its opening until 1996. Since then, parts of the building have been used as film studios, and some of its offices occupied by the Rhode Island State Fire Marshal. The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the Armory as one of "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places" in its annual list for 1997. Its distinctive yellow bricks, crenellated turrets, and decorative stonework mark it as a historically significant building and neighborhood icon.


title: Watch section title: Electronic hierarchical section title: Watch / Movement / Electronic caption reference description: Quartz Movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969 (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2010-006) caption attribution description: Deutsch: Erstes Quarzarmbanduhrwerk Kal. 35A, Nr. 00234, Seiko, Japan, 1969 (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2010-006) content: A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached by a watch strap or other type of bracelet, including metal bands, leather straps or any other kind of bracelet. A pocket watch is designed for a person to carry in a pocket, often attached to a chain. The study of timekeeping is known as horology.
Watches progressed in the 17th century from spring-powered clocks, which appeared as early as the 14th century. During most of its history the watch was a mechanical device, driven by clockwork, powered by winding a mainspring, and keeping time with an oscillating balance wheel. These are called mechanical watches. In the 1960s the electronic quartz watch was invented, which was powered by a battery and kept time with a vibrating quartz crystal. By the 1980s the quartz watch had taken over most of the market from the mechanical watch. Historically, this is called the quartz revolution.


title: Oregon Route 216 section title: Highways comprising hierarchical section title: Oregon Route 216 / Route description / Highways comprising caption reference description: Start of Oregon Route 216 caption attribution description: English: Start of Oregon Route 216 at US 26 near Warm Springs, Oregon. content: Oregon Route 216 is an Oregon state highway running from U.S. Route 26 at Warm Springs Junction to U.S. Route 97 in Grass Valley. OR 216 is 61.30 miles long and runs east–west.


title: Sacred prostitution section title: Mesoamerica and South America hierarchical section title: Sacred prostitution / Mesoamerica and South America caption reference description: Statue of Xochipilli, Aztec god of homosexuality. caption attribution description: English: fungi content: Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, cult prostitution, and religious prostitution are general terms for a sexual rite consisting of sexual intercourse or other sexual activity performed in the context of religious worship, perhaps as a form of fertility rite or divine marriage. Some scholars prefer the terms "sacred sex" or "sacred sexual rites" to "sacred prostitution" in cases where payment for services was not involved.
The historicity of literal sacred prostitution, particularly in some places and periods, is a controversial topic within the academic world. Mainstream historiography has traditionally considered it a probable historical reality, based on the abundance of ancient sources and chroniclers detailing its rites, while some modern gender researchers challenge those views as mistranslations and cultural slander. Regardless of its historicity, the myth of sacred prostitution has been adopted as a sign of distinction by sex workers, modern pagans and practitioners of sex magic.


title: Gungahlin Enclosed Oval hierarchical section title: Gungahlin Enclosed Oval caption attribution description: English: Gungahlin Enclosed Oval from the northern side content: Gungahlin Enclosed Oval is a multi-use stadium located in the north Canberra region of Gungahlin, Australian Capital Territory. It is the home ground for Gungahlin United, Gungahlin Jets, Gungahlin Bulls and Gungahlin Eagles. The venue has a seating capacity of 1,150 people and an overall capacity of 5,000.


title: Inauguration of William Howard Taft hierarchical section title: Inauguration of William Howard Taft caption reference description: Presidents Taft and Roosevelt driving to Capitol content: The inauguration of William Howard Taft as the 27th President of the United States was held on Thursday, March 4, 1909, at the Senate chamber inside the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. instead of the regular East Portico due to blizzard. This was the 31st inauguration and marked the commencement of William Howard Taft's only term as President and James S. Sherman's only term as Vice President. Sherman died 3 years, 240 days into this term, and the office remained vacant for the balance. He was the last Vice President to leave office intra-term prior to the ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967, which constitutionally allow filling a vacancy in the office of vice president. Sherman was also the most recent vice president to die in office.


title: Kuwana-juku hierarchical section title: Kuwana-juku caption reference description: Kuwana-juku in the 1830s,  as depicted by Hiroshige in the Hōeidō edition of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1831–1834) caption attribution description: Kuwana on the Tokaido, ukiyo-e prints by Hiroshige content: Kuwana-juku was the forty-second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in former Ise Province in what is now part of the city of Kuwana, in Mie Prefecture, Japan. It was located on the western shores of the Ibi River and is considered to be the easternmost point of the Kansai dialect. It is 28 km from the preceding post station of Miya-juku.


title: Jérôme Lejeune hierarchical section title: Jérôme Lejeune caption reference description: Jérôme Lejeune content: Servant of God Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for discovering the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities and for his subsequent opposition to prenatal diagnosis and abortion.


title: Mazda Premacy section title: First generation (1999–2004) hierarchical section title: Mazda Premacy / First generation (1999–2004) caption attribution description: English: Ford Ixion photographed in Beijing, China. content: The Mazda Premacy is a compact MPV that was built by the Japanese manufacturer Mazda from 1999.
The first generation Premacy was built in Japan and exported to Europe and Asia. A re-badged version was sold by Ford in a few Asian markets as the Ford Ixion or Ford MAV.
The second generation onward is sold outside Japan as the Mazda5. Ford Lio Ho in Taiwan, which assembles Mazda5 for the local market, adapted a re-badged version as the Ford i-MAX in 2007.
The first generation Premacy was a two- or three-row, five- or seven-passenger vehicle, while the second generation adds a third row of seats for up to six passengers in American form, and seven passengers outside the United States. Both generations feature near-flat floors, folding or removable second row, and fold-flat rear seats.


title: Eddie Shore section title: Playing career hierarchical section title: Eddie Shore / Playing career caption reference description: Shore with the Melville Millionaires. caption attribution description: Ice hockey player Eddie Shore of the Melville Millionaires in the 1923–24 season. content: Edward William Shore was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, principally for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and the longtime owner of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League, iconic for his toughness and defensive skill. In 2017 Shore was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
Shore won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player four times, the most of any defenceman; only Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe have won it more often. After the league began naming NHL All-Star Teams at the end of Shore's fifth season, Shore was honoured as a First Team All-Star in seven of his last nine seasons, while being named a Second Team All-Star one of the other seasons; in the remaining season he missed over half the schedule due to injury. A bruiser known for his violence, Shore set a then-NHL record for 165 penalty minutes in his second season.


title: Filipești hierarchical section title: Filipești caption reference description: Location in Bacău County caption attribution description: ro:Categorie:Hărţi ale judeţului Bacău caption alt text description: Location in Bacău County content: Filipești is a commune in Bacău County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of eight villages: Boanța, Cârligi, Cornești, Cotu Grosului, Filipești, Galbeni, Hârlești and Onișcani.


title: V-3 cannon section title: Background hierarchical section title: V-3 cannon / Background caption attribution description: English: Drawing of the U.S. patent specification 241 978 from 24 May 1881. Cannon working on the multi-charge principle of the american inventor James Richard Haskell. Deutsch: Zeichnung aus der U.S. Patentschrift 241 978 vom 24. Mai 1881. Mehrkammergeschütz des Amerikaners James Richard Haskell. content: The V-3 was a German World War II large-caliber gun working on the multi-charge principle whereby secondary propellant charges are fired to add velocity to a projectile.
The weapon was planned to be used to bombard London from two large bunkers in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France, but they were rendered unusable by Allied bombing raids before completion. Two similar guns were used to bombard Luxembourg from December 1944 to February 1945.
The V-3 was also known as the Hochdruckpumpe, which was a code name intended to hide the real purpose of the project. It was also known as Fleißiges Lieschen.


title: List of commemorative coins of Ukraine section title: History hierarchical section title: List of commemorative coins of Ukraine / History caption attribution description: English: Coin of Ukraine Русский: Юбилейная монета Украины content: This is a list of Commemorative and Jubilee coins issued by the Ukrainian government.


title: List of Historic Sites of Japan (Ōsaka) section title: Municipal Historic Sites hierarchical section title: List of Historic Sites of Japan (Ōsaka) / Municipal Historic Sites caption attribution description: 日本語: 原田城の標碑と案内看板 content: This list is of the Historic Sites of Japan located within the Urban Prefecture of Ōsaka.


title: Il Divo section title: Il Divo on Broadway hierarchical section title: Il Divo / Musical career / Career / First decade: 2004–2014 / Il Divo on Broadway caption reference description: Il Divo during a concert tour of the Il Divo – A Musical Affair: The Greatest Songs of Broadway. caption attribution description: Español: Il Divo en concierto en 2014 content: Il Divo is a multi-national classical crossover vocal group. The male quartet originated in the United Kingdom in December 2003, bringing together singers Urs Bühler, Carlos Marín, David Miller, and Sébastien Izambard. The group was created and promoted by music producer Simon Cowell for the label Syco Music. Although it is unclear how the group's name came about, "Il Divo" is translated from Italian as "divine performer."
As of 2018, the group has released ten albums: Il Divo, Ancora, Siempre, The Promise, Wicked Game, A Musical Affair, Amor & Pasión and Timeless; a compilation album The Greatest Hits; special Christmas songs album The Christmas Collection. Two other albums – An Evening with Il Divo: Live in Barcelona and Live in Japan – presented recordings of live concerts. Additionally, they have collaborated with other artists.
Since its inception, Il Divo has enjoyed success worldwide, selling well over 30 million copies of its albums worldwide. With 160 certified gold and platinum hits in 35 countries, it pioneered the genre of operatic pop, or "popera", in classical crossover music.


title: Valga County section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Valga County / Gallery caption attribution description: Eesti: Taagepera kirik, ehitatud 1674. English: Taagepera church, built in 1674. This is a photo of cultural heritage monument of Estonia number 23077. content: Valga County, or Valgamaa is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and largest town of Valga County is Valga, followed by Tõrva and Otepää. It is situated in the southern part of the country and borders Põlva and Võru County to the east, Latvia to the south and west, and Viljandi and Tartu County to the north. 29,944 people live in Valga County.


title: George Anderson Lawson section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: George Anderson Lawson / Gallery caption attribution description: English: Liverpool content: George Anderson Lawson was a British Victorian era sculptor who was associated with the New Sculpture movement.


title: Zico (footballer) section title: Early years hierarchical section title: Zico (footballer) / Early years caption reference description: An early Zico in 1971 content: Arthur Antunes Coimbra, better known as Zico, is a Brazilian coach and former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Often called the "White Pelé", he was a creative playmaker, with excellent technical skills, vision, and an eye for goal, who is considered one of the most clinical finishers and best passers ever, as well as one of the greatest players of all time. Arguably the world's best player of the late 1970s and early 80s, he is regarded as one of the best playmakers and free kick specialists in history, able to bend the ball in all directions. In 1999, Zico came eighth in the FIFA Player of the Century grand jury vote, and in 2004 was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. According to Pelé, considered one of the best players ever, "throughout the years, the one player that came closest to me was Zico".
With 48 goals in 71 official appearances for Brazil, Zico is fifth highest goalscorer for his national team. He represented them in the 1978, 1982 and 1986 World Cups. They did not win any of those tournaments, even though the 1982 squad is considered one of the greatest Brazilian national squads ever.


title: Salernitano hierarchical section title: Salernitano caption reference description: At Fieracavalli, Verona, in 2014 caption attribution description: Salernitano, photographed at Fieracavalli, Verona, Italy, on 9 November 2014. content: The Salernitano is an endangered Italian breed of horse. It originates from the floodplain of the Sele river, in the province of Salerno in southern Italy. It was formerly used as a military horse, but in the twentieth century became principally a sport horse.


title: Supermarine Spitfire section title: Restorations and replicas hierarchical section title: Supermarine Spitfire / Restorations and replicas caption reference description: Replica Mk Vb on display in 2009 caption attribution description: English: Replica Supermarine Spitfire model Vb on display in 2009 content: The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. Many variants of the Spitfire were built, using several wing configurations, and it was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft. It was also the only British fighter produced continuously throughout the war. The Spitfire continues to be popular among enthusiasts; nearly 60 remain airworthy, and many more are static exhibits in aviation museums throughout the world.
The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works, which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong from 1928. Mitchell pushed the Spitfire's distinctive elliptical wing with cutting-edge sunken rivets to have the thinnest possible cross-section, helping give the aircraft a higher top speed than several contemporary fighters, including the Hawker Hurricane.


title: Daniel Frank Gerber section title: Mid-life hierarchical section title: Daniel Frank Gerber / Mid-life caption reference description: "Dan" with grandkids content: Daniel Frank Gerber was an American manufacturer of baby food.


title: Roger Scruton hierarchical section title: Roger Scruton caption attribution description: English: Roger Scruton content: Sir Roger Vernon Scruton FBA FRSL was an English philosopher and writer who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.
Editor from 1982 to 2001 of The Salisbury Review, a conservative political journal, Scruton wrote over 50 books on philosophy, art, music, politics, literature, culture, sexuality, and religion; he also wrote novels and two operas. His most notable publications include The Meaning of Conservatism, Sexual Desire, The Aesthetics of Music, and How to Be a Conservative. He was a regular contributor to the popular media, including The Times, The Spectator, and the New Statesman.
Scruton embraced conservatism after witnessing the May 1968 student protests in France. From 1971 to 1992 he was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, after which he held several part-time academic positions, including in the United States. In the 1980s he helped to establish underground academic networks in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, for which he was awarded the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit by President Václav Havel in 1998.


title: William Chambers (architect) section title: Writings hierarchical section title: William Chambers (architect) / Writings caption reference description: A treatise on civil architecture, second edition 1768 content: Sir William Chambers RA was a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, London, and the pagoda at Kew. Chambers was a founder member of the Royal Academy.


title: Tianliao District hierarchical section title: Tianliao District caption reference description: Badlands formation in Tianliao caption attribution description: 中文（繁體）: 田寮月世界。 English: Tianliao Moon World. caption alt text description: Badlands formation in Tianliao content: Tianliao District is a suburban district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.


title: Samuel Beckett section title: Middle period hierarchical section title: Samuel Beckett / Works / Middle period caption reference description: Beckett's Waiting for Godot is considered a hallmark of the Theatre of the Absurd. The play's two protagonists, Vladimir and Estragon (pictured, in a 2010 production at The Doon School, India), give voice to Beckett's existentialism. caption attribution description: English: Naseer's Motley Group in The Rose Bowl content: Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both French and English.
Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragi-comic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd". His most well known work is his 1953 play Waiting for Godot.
Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.


title: Damenstiftskirche St. Anna hierarchical section title: Damenstiftskirche St. Anna caption reference description: choir caption attribution description: Damenstiftskirche, München, Innenraum content: Damenstiftskirche St. Anna is a chapel in Munich, southern Germany.
It was commissioned in the 18th century by Elector Charles Albert and the cornerstone was laid in 1733. A monastery in the legal form of a chapter of nuns was set up. The architect was Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer, while the Asam brothers were responsible for the interior. The women's collegiate church was consecrated in 1735.
All but the outer walls were destroyed in World War II. The interior was restored from old photographs in 1980, but the murals are now painted in black and white.