title: Beijing city fortifications section title: Influences hierarchical section title: Beijing city fortifications / Influences caption reference description: A map of Beijing from 1914. It was created by the German East-Asian Expeditionary Corps content: The Beijing city fortifications were constructed from the early 1400s to the year 1553. The inner city's wall was 24 kilometres long and 15 metres high, with a thickness of 20 metres at ground level and 12 metres at the top, and had nine gates. The wall stood for nearly 530 years, but in 1965, it was removed to allow for construction of the 2nd Ring Road and Line 2 of the Beijing Subway. Only one part of the original wall still exists, just south of the Beijing railway station in the southeast portion of the city. The Outer city walls had a perimeter of approximately 28 kilometres. The entire enclosure of the Inner and Outer cities formed a "凸" shape with a perimeter of nearly 60 kilometres.
Beijing was the capital for the majority of the last three Chinese imperial dynasties. It was also a secondary capital to two northern dynasties, and is therefore often referred to as an ancient capital of five dynasties. It had an extensive fortification system, consisting of the Forbidden City, the Imperial City, the Inner city, and the Outer city.


title: 2002 WTA Tour hierarchical section title: 2002 WTA Tour caption reference description: Serena Williams won eight titles, including three Grand Slams, to finish the year at No. 1 in the singles ranking. caption attribution description: English: Serena Williams during the quarter-finals of a single match in Sydney WTA tournament in 2002. Williams won 6-4 7-6(6) against Amélie Mauresmo. Français : Serena Williams lors des quart-de-finales du simple au tournoi WTA de Sydney en 2002. Williams avait gagné 6-4 7-6(6) contre Amélie Mauresmo. content: The 2002 Sanex WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association for the 2002 tennis season. The WTA Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tier I-V Events, the Fed Cup and the year-end championships.
New tournaments created for the 2002 season included the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium; a new green clay event, the Sarasota Clay Court Classic, in Sarasota, U.S.; and the Nordea Nordic Light Open held in Espoo, Finland. Another new tournament was created to be held in Aarhus, Denmark, but was later cancelled. Also, the French Community Championships moved cities from Knokke-Heist to Brussels, and the Kroger St. Jude Championship was moved from Oklahoma City, U.S. to a new location in Memphis.


title: Lifeboats of the Titanic hierarchical section title: Lifeboats of the Titanic caption reference description: RMS Titanic, showing eight lifeboats along the starboard-side boat deck (upper deck): four lifeboats near the bridge wheel house and four lifeboats near the 4th funnel. caption attribution description: English: RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912. Italiano: L'RMS Titanic in partenza da Southampton il 10 aprile 1912. content: The lifeboats of the RMS Titanic played a crucial role in the disaster of 14–15 April 1912. One of the ship's legacies was that she had 20 lifeboats that in total could only accommodate 1,178 people, despite the fact that there were approximately 2,208 on board. RMS Titanic had a maximum capacity of 3,547 passengers and crew.
18 lifeboats were used, loading between 11:45 p.m.–2:15 a.m., though Collapsible Boat A floated off the ship's partially submerged deck, and Collapsible Boat B floated away upside down minutes before the ship upended and sank.
Many lifeboats only carried half of their maximum capacity; there are many versions as to the reasoning behind half-filled lifeboats. Some sources claimed they were afraid of the lifeboat buckling under the weight, others suggested it was because the crew were following orders to evacuate women and children first. As the half-filled boats rowed away from the ship, they were too far for other passengers to reach, and most lifeboats did not return to the wreck, due to fear of being swamped by drowning victims. Only lifeboats 4 and 14 returned to retrieve survivors from the water, some of whom later died.


title: Megamastax section title: Paleobiology hierarchical section title: Megamastax / Paleobiology caption reference description: Life restoration of Megamastax feeding on Dunyu caption attribution description: English: Life reconstruction of Megamastax amblyodus consuming the galeaspid Dunyu longiforus content: Megamastax is a genus of lobe-finned fish which lived during the late Silurian period, about 423 million years ago, in China. Before the discovery of Megamastax, it was thought that jawed vertebrates were limited in size and variation before the Devonian period. Megamastax is known only from jaw bones and it is estimated that it reached about 1 metre long.


title: Taagepera Church hierarchical section title: Taagepera Church 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: Taagepera Church is a church in the village of Taagepera, Helme Parish, Valga County in southern Estonia. The building, which is made of stone and has a wooden tower, was constructed in 1674. It is located on a small hill overlooking the village of Taagepera and has an associated cemetery. It has an organ built by Ernst Carl Kessler, who made the first organ in Sitka, Alaska.
The building is registered in the Kultuurimälestiste riiklik register of Estonia, effective
27 September 1999.


title: List of Remarkable Gardens of France section title: Gardens of the Pays de la Loire hierarchical section title: List of Remarkable Gardens of France / Gardens of the Pays de la Loire caption reference description: Jardin des plantes de Nantes caption attribution description: jardin botanique de Nantes content: The Remarkable Gardens of France is intended to be a list and description, by region, of the more than three hundred gardens classified as "Jardins remarquables" by the French Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France. The complete list of gardens can be found on: site of the Comité des Parcs et Jardins.


title: Millicent Carey McIntosh hierarchical section title: Millicent Carey McIntosh caption reference description: Millicent Carey McIntosh, circa 1956 content: Millicent Carey McIntosh was an educational administrator and American feminist who led the Brearley School, and most prominently Barnard College. The first married woman to head one of the Seven Sisters, she was "considered a national role model for generations of young women who wanted to combine career and family," advocating for working mothers and for child care as a dignified profession.


title: Reconstruction era section title: Emancipation Proclamation hierarchical section title: Reconstruction era / Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction / Emancipation Proclamation caption reference description: Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation in Massachusetts, 1862 caption attribution description: Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation in Massachusetts - not known to be January 1, 1863. The only known photograph "related to" the event according to the Burns Archives. A crowd and a Union band pose. According to an old, since forgotten tradition, the honored person, a black man, is seated comfortably in a wheelbarrow. content: The Reconstruction era was the period in American history that lasted from 1863 to 1877 following the American Civil War and is a significant chapter in the history of American civil rights. Reconstruction ended the remnants of Confederate secession and abolished slavery, making the newly freed slaves citizens with civil rights ostensibly guaranteed by three new constitutional amendments. Reconstruction also refers to the attempt to transform the 11 Southern former Confederate states, as directed by Congress, and the role of the Union states in that transformation.
Three visions of Civil War memory appeared during Reconstruction: the reconciliationist vision, which was rooted in coping with the death and devastation the war had brought; the white supremacist vision, which included racial segregation and the preservation of white political and cultural domination in the South; and the emancipationist vision, which sought full freedom, citizenship, male suffrage, and constitutional equality for African Americans.


title: Ray Crist hierarchical section title: Ray Crist caption reference description: Ray Crist in 1996 caption attribution description: English: Ray Crist in an interview with Burtron Davis content: Ray Crist was an American chemist who participated in the Manhattan Project. When he retired from teaching at the age of 104 in 2004, Crist is widely believed to have been America's oldest worker at the time.


title: List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state section title: List of female deputy heads of state hierarchical section title: List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state / List of female deputy heads of state caption attribution description: English: Her Excellency Ms. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, Vice-President of the Dominican Republic at the UNCTAD Special Event: Release of 2nd Report of UNCTAD Secretary-General's Panel of Eminent Persons, Addressing Key Economic Issues to Advance Sustainable Development: Ideas for Actions, 21 May 2013 content: This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed deputy head of state of their respective countries. This list does not include female deputy heads of government who are not concurrently deputy head of state, such as deputy prime ministers.


title: Fire in the Hole (Silver Dollar City) section title: Theme hierarchical section title: Fire in the Hole (Silver Dollar City) / Theme caption reference description: A bartender rescues a dance hall girl from the town's tavern. caption attribution description: English: Main Street on FITH content: Fire in the Hole is a three-story steel enclosed roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The ride was built in-house by Silver Dollar City in 1972. The ride is often referred to as a cross between dark ride and roller coaster. A similar ride, "Blazing Fury", was built at Herschend Family Entertainment's other theme park, Silver Dollar City Tennessee, in 1978, now known as Dollywood.


title: Fort Road, Lahore hierarchical section title: Fort Road, Lahore caption reference description: Lahore Fort. caption attribution description: English: Shahi Qila, Baadshahi Qila, Lahore Fort content: Fort Road, Lahore is a road in the Old Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. It is one of Lahore's most famous and historically significant roads.
It is so named because it flanks the Lahore Fort on its southern and eastern sides.
Fort Road is a popular tourist destination in Lahore with some of Lahore's most important historical buildings, restaurants and antique shops situated on it. Famous landmarks on Fort Road include the world's fifth largest mosque, the Badshahi Mosque, the Lahore Fort, Coco's Den and Andaaz Restaurant. Fort Road Food Street is also located on this road.
The De Montmorency College of Dentistry and Lady Willingdon Hospital are also situated on Fort Road.


title: Comes section title: Ancient Roman religion hierarchical section title: Comes / Ancient Roman religion caption reference description: Constantine I SOLI INVICTO COMITI (Comes to Sol Invictus) caption attribution description: Constantine I. 307-337 AD. Æ en:Follis (5.10 gm). Struck circa 309-310 AD. en:Lugdunum mint. IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI, Sol standing facing, head left, right hand raised and holding globe in left; F-T/PLG. RIC VI 309. Coin from Wildwinds. Used with permission. Follis 310 Constantine 1 content: "Comes", plural "comites", is the Latin word for "companion", either individually or as a member of a collective denominated a "comitatus", especially the suite of a magnate, being in some instances sufficiently large and/or formal to justify specific denomination, e. g. a "cohors amicorum". "Comes" derives from "com-" and "ire".


title: Royal Bank of Queensland hierarchical section title: Royal Bank of Queensland caption reference description: Royal Bank of Queensland, in Lowood, after merger in 1922 content: The Royal Bank of Queensland was a bank in Queensland, Australia.


title: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz section title: Life and work hierarchical section title: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz / Life and work caption reference description: Bortkiewicz' 1971 book The economic theory of Marx content: Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics. He lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University and Berlin University.


title: Brandon Montour hierarchical section title: Brandon Montour caption reference description: Montour at the 2016 AHL All-Star Game caption attribution description: AHL All-Star Challenge Eastern Conference locker room at the War Memorial Arena in Syracuse, New York on Monday, February 1, 2016. content: Brandon Montour is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League. Montour was selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the second round, 55th overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.


title: List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Kyōto) section title: National Cultural Properties hierarchical section title: List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Kyōto) / National Cultural Properties caption attribution description: English: Tai Gong Wang by Ogata Korin, Kyoto National Museum, Japan 日本語: 金地著色太公望図 尾形光琳筆 二曲屏風 content: This list is of the Cultural Properties of Japan designated in the category of paintings for the Urban Prefecture of Kyōto.


title: Architecture of Kosovo section title: Antiquity hierarchical section title: Architecture of Kosovo / Antiquity caption reference description: The basilica at Ulpiana caption attribution description: Shqip: BalsamariumEnglish: Balsamarium at Ulpiana This is a photo of a monument in Kosovo, number: 3894 content: The architecture of Kosovo dates back to the Neolithic period and includes the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages, Antiquity and the Medieval period. It has been influenced by the presence of different civilizations and religions as evidenced by the structures which have survived to this day. Local builders have combined building techniques of conquering empires with the materials at hand and the existing conditions to develop their own varieties of dwellings.
The monasteries and churches from the 14th century represent the Serbian Orthodox legacy. Architectural heritage from the Ottoman period includes mosques and hamams from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Other historical architectural structures of interest include kullas from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as a number of bridges, urban centers and fortresses. While some vernacular buildings are not considered important in their own right, taken together they are of considerable interest. During the 1999 conflict in Kosovo many buildings that represent this heritage were destroyed or damaged. In the Dukagjini region, at least 500 kullas were attacked, and most of them destroyed or otherwise damaged.


title: List of cities in Bahrain hierarchical section title: List of cities in Bahrain caption reference description: Map of Bahrain caption attribution description: English: A map of the Bahrain, showing major cities. content: This is a list of cities and towns in Bahrain with listed governorates:


title: Tartan hierarchical section title: Tartan caption reference description: Three examples of Scottish tartan. content: Tartan is a pattern that has criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in many different colors.


title: History of Melbourne section title: 2000s hierarchical section title: History of Melbourne / 2000s caption reference description: A view of the Yarra River at twilight, with Melbourne's central business district on the left and Southbank on the right content: The history of Melbourne details the city's growth from a fledgling settlement into a modern commercial and financial centre as Australia's second largest city.


title: Harmony Grove Church hierarchical section title: Harmony Grove Church caption reference description: Harmony Grove Church content: The Harmony Grove Church is a church in Lockeford, California. Built in 1859, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.


title: Jesse Root Grant section title: Family and community life hierarchical section title: Jesse Root Grant / Family and community life caption reference description: Jesse and Hannah Grant caption attribution description: Photo of Jesse Root Grant, with wife Hannah Simpson, parents of Ulysses S. Grant content: Jesse Root Grant was a farmer, tanner and successful leather merchant who owned tanneries and leather goods shops in several different states throughout his adult life. He is best known as the father of Ulysses S. Grant and the one who introduced Ulysses to military life at West Point. Jesse was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and was one of seven children. He was a self-made man who rose from poverty to become a somewhat wealthy merchant.
At age five, Jesse's family moved to Ohio and settled in the Ohio River Valley. Unable to support all his children Jesse's father arranged for his apprenticeship at farms and tanneries during his youth. Jesse married Hannah Simpson Grant and they became the parents of three boys and three girls, with Ulysses being their oldest. Raised in a poor family that was forced to split up and having to work at an early age, Jesse persistently encouraged his sons in the ways of education, industry and hard work, his methods sometimes testing his father-son relationship with Ulysses. As a young man he worked for and came to know Owen Brown and soon acquired strong abolitionist sympathies.


title: George Champlin Mason Sr. section title: Architectural writings hierarchical section title: George Champlin Mason Sr. / Architectural career / Architectural writings caption reference description: Front view of the house George Champlin Mason Sr. designed for himself in Newport, R.I. (now an inn). content: George Champlin Mason Sr. was an American architect who built a number of mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, during the Gilded Age. He helped to found the Newport Historical Society as well.


title: Art of Europe section title: Byzantine hierarchical section title: Art of Europe / Medieval / Byzantine caption attribution description: Italiano: Abside della Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore a Roma. English: Apse of the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome. Français : Basilique Sainte-Marie-Majeure á Rome. Deutsch: Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore Kirche in Rom content: The art of Europe, or Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic rock and cave painting and petroglyph art and was characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age. Written histories of European art often begin with the art of the Ancient Middle East and the Ancient Aegean civilizations, dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Parallel with these significant cultures, art of one form or another existed all over Europe, wherever there were people, leaving signs such as carvings, decorated artifacts and huge standing stones. However a consistent pattern of artistic development within Europe becomes clear only with the art of Ancient Greece, adopted and transformed by Rome and carried; with the Roman Empire, across much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.


title: Offingawier hierarchical section title: Offingawier caption reference description: Offingawier Church caption attribution description: Nederlands: Offingawier, kerkEnglish: Offingawier, church caption alt text description: Offingawier Church content: Offingawier is a small village in Súdwest-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 205 in January 2017.


title: Hubert Humphrey section title: 1976 Presidential election hierarchical section title: Hubert Humphrey / Post-Vice Presidency (1969–1978) / 1976 Presidential election caption reference description: Senator Hubert Humphrey with President Jimmy Carter aboard Air Force One in 1977 content: Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.
Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. At one point he helped run his father's pharmacy. He earned a master's degree from Louisiana State University and worked for the Works Progress Administration, the Minnesota war service program, and the War Manpower Commission. In 1943, he became a professor of political science at Macalester College and ran a failed campaign for mayor of Minneapolis. He helped found the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party in 1944. In 1945, he won election as mayor of Minneapolis, serving until 1948 and co-founding the liberal anti-communist group Americans for Democratic Action in 1947. In 1948, he was elected to the U.S.


title: Isamu Akasaki section title: National hierarchical section title: Isamu Akasaki / Honors and awards / National caption reference description: Akasaki received the Order of Culture. After that, they posed for the photo. (at the East Garden of the Tokyo Imperial Palace on November 3, 2011) caption attribution description: Isamu Akasaki, Director of the Research Center for Nitride Semiconductor Core Technologies, Meijo University, Toshirō Nara, Member of Japan Art Academy, Saiichi Nemura, Member of Japan Art Academy, Taichirō Mitani, Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo, and Mitsuhiro Yanagida, Principal Investigator of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation, received the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward, Tōkyō Metropolis on November 3, 2011. After that, they posed for the photo at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace. content: Isamu Akasaki is a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well.
For this and other achievements, Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009, and the IEEE Edison Medal in 2011. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics, together with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".


title: Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area hierarchical section title: Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area caption reference description: Map of Texas highlighting the Brownsville–Harlingen MSA covering Cameron County content: The Brownsville–Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county–Cameron–in the Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas, anchored by the cities of Brownsville and Harlingen. The 2012 U.S. Census Bureau estimate places its metropolitan area population at 415,557, ranking as the eighth most populous metropolitan area in the state of Texas. It is also a component of the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville combined statistical area, which covers two counties and had an estimated population of 416,766 as of July 1, 2009.
Brownsville is frequently cited as having one of the highest poverty rates in the United States, with more than 35% of area residents living under the federal poverty line. The typical Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas household earns $32,093 a year, or $21,564 less than the typical American household. 64.6% of Brownsville area adults have at least a high school diploma, 22.3 percentage points fewer than the national average. About 29% of area households rely on food stamps, the third highest percentage of any metro area in the country.


title: Brittany Boyd hierarchical section title: Brittany Boyd caption reference description: Brittany Boyd at Madison Square Garden in 2015 caption attribution description: English: Brittany Boyd at 2 August 2015 game content: Brittany Boyd is an American basketball player who last played for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association. She played college basketball for the California Golden Bears. She was selected by New York in the first round of the 2015 WNBA draft with the ninth overall pick.
Boyd grew up in Richmond, California, and attended high school in Berkeley at Berkeley High. As a senior in college, she helped Cal advance to the second round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament. Boyd averaged 13.4 points, 7.7 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 2.9 steals per game for the season, and was a semifinalist for the Naismith College Player of the Year. She was the first player in the history of the Pac-12 Conference to reach career totals of 1,400 points, 700 rebounds, 600 assists and 300 steals.
Boyd played five seasons with New York. In 2019, she tied a career high with 33 games played while starting in a career-high 17 contests. The Liberty waived her after the season.


title: Anthony Gose section title: Major league career hierarchical section title: Anthony Gose / Career / Toronto Blue Jays / Major league career caption reference description: Gose during his tenure with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2012 caption attribution description: Anthony Gose content: Anthony Robert Gose is an American professional baseball pitcher and outfielder in the Cleveland Indians organization. He changed positions, from center fielder to pitcher, following the 2016 season. He previously played in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Detroit Tigers.


title: Amazonas (Brazilian state) section title: Rubber and economic exploitation hierarchical section title: Amazonas (Brazilian state) / History / Rubber and economic exploitation caption reference description: November 15 Square, Manaus, 1906. content: Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the 9th largest country subdivision in the world, and is greater than the areas of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile combined. Mostly located in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the third largest country subdivision in the Southern Hemisphere after the Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland. It would be the sixteenth largest country in land area, slightly larger than Mongolia. Neighbouring states are Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. It also borders the nations of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the Departments of Amazonas, Vaupés and Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas state in Venezuela, and the Loreto Region in Peru.
Amazonas is named after the Amazon River, and was formerly part of the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru, a region called Spanish Guyana. It was settled by the Portuguese moving northwest from Brazil in the early 18th century and incorporated into the Portuguese empire after the Treaty of Madrid in 1750. It became a state under the First Brazilian Republic in 1889.


title: Monroe, Utah hierarchical section title: Monroe, Utah caption reference description: Welcome sign at the northern entrance to Monroe caption attribution description: Welcome sign in Monroe, Utah, United States. caption alt text description: Welcome sign at the northern entrance to Monroe content: Monroe is a city in Sevier County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,256 at the 2010 United States Census. The city is home to both Mystic Hot Springs and South Sevier High School.


title: Walt Disney Concert Hall section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Walt Disney Concert Hall / Gallery caption attribution description: English: View from opposite corner of Grand and 2nd Street content: The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It opened on October 24, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, and 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves, among other purposes, as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. The hall is a compromise between a vinyard-style seating configuration, like the Berliner Philharmonie by Hans Scharoun, and a classical shoebox design like the Vienna Musikverein or the Boston Symphony Hall.
Lillian Disney made an initial gift of $50 million in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city. Both Gehry's architecture and the acoustics of the concert hall, designed by Minoru Nagata, the final completion supervised by Nagata's assistant and protege Yasuhisa Toyota, have been praised, in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.


title: Bang Khae Market section title: History & presently hierarchical section title: Bang Khae Market / History & presently caption reference description: Khlong Ratcha Montri in the phase near Bang Khae Market. caption attribution description: English: Local houses along Khlong Ratchamontree, BKK content: Bang Khae Market or Bang Khae Wet Market is a large wet market in Bangkok, its one of the largest markets of Thonburi side and Bangkok. Located on Phet Kasem Road in areas of Phasi Charoen and Bang Khae Districts.


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


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


title: 258th Field Artillery Regiment section title: American Civil War hierarchical section title: 258th Field Artillery Regiment / History / American Civil War caption reference description: The Washington Greys in 1858 caption attribution description: English: Title: Washington Greys 8th Regt. N.Y.S.T. Colonel George Lyons Commandant on special duty at Camp Washington Quarantine, St. I. [i.e., Staten Island] Sept. 11th to 28th 1858 by order of the Commander in Chief, Governor John A. King Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 30 7/16 x 41 9/16 in. Notes: Copyright by Otto Botticher.; This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. content: The 258th Field Artillery Regiment or "Washington Greys" is a Field Artillery Branch unit of the New York Army National Guard. It once consisted of 4 battalions.


title: Jorge Ben hierarchical section title: Jorge Ben caption reference description: Jorge Ben in 1972 content: Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes is a Brazilian popular musician, performing under the stage name Jorge Ben Jor since the 1980s, though commonly known by his former stage name Jorge Ben. His characteristic style fuses samba, funk, rock and bossa nova with lyrics that blend humor and satire with often esoteric subject matter. His hits include "Chove Chuva", "Mas Que Nada", "Ive Brussel" and "Balança Pema", and have been interpreted by artists such as Caetano Veloso, Sérgio Mendes, Miriam Makeba, and Marisa Monte.
Ben's broad-minded and original approach to samba led him through participation in some of Brazilian popular music's most important musical movements, such as bossa nova, Jovem Guarda, and Tropicália, with the latter period defined by his albums Jorge Ben and Fôrça Bruta. He has been called "the father of samba rock", by Billboard magazine. According to American music critic Robert Christgau, Ben and his contemporary Gilberto Gil were "always ready to go further out on a beat than the other samba/bossa geniuses".


title: Australian Capital Territory section title: Transport hierarchical section title: Australian Capital Territory / Infrastructure / Transport caption reference description: Aerial view of Tuggeranong Parkway, a major highway which links Canberra's city centre with Tuggeranong. caption attribution description: 700m altitude over Tuggeranong Parkway reveals the fast evolving/expanding National Arboretum and the convolutions of the already infamous GDE! content: The Australian Capital Territory, known as the Federal Capital Territory until 1938, is a federal territory of Australia containing the Australian capital city of Canberra and some surrounding townships. It is located in the south-east of the country and is an enclave within the state of New South Wales. Founded after Federation as the seat of government for the new nation, all important institutions of the Australian Government are headquartered in the territory.
On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved. Section 125 of the new Australian Constitution provided that land, situated in New South Wales and at least 100 miles from Sydney, would be ceded to the new federal government. Following discussion and exploration of various areas within New South Wales, the Seat of Government Act 1908 was passed in 1908 which specified a capital in the Yass-Canberra region. The territory was transferred to the federal government by New South Wales in 1911, two years prior to the capital city being founded and formally named as Canberra in 1913.


title: Al-Ram section title: Jordanian period hierarchical section title: Al-Ram / History / Jordanian period caption reference description: Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium, Al-Ram, 2011 caption attribution description: Jerusalem, Al-Ram, Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium content: Al-Ram, A-Ram, Er Ram or al-Ramm is a Palestinian town which lies northeast of Jerusalem, just outside the city's municipal border. The village is part of the built-up urban area of Jerusalem, the Atarot industrial zone and Beit Hanina lie to the west, and Neve Ya'akov borders it on the south. with a built-up area of 3,289 dunums. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, a-Ram had a population of 25,595 in 2006. The head of a-Ram village council estimates that 58,000 people live there, more than half of them holding Israeli identity cards.


title: Sutherland Springs, Texas hierarchical section title: Sutherland Springs, Texas caption reference description: Historic building in Sutherland Springs content: Sutherland Springs is an unincorporated community in northern Wilson County, Texas, United States. It is on U.S. Highway 87 at the intersection of Farm Road 539. It is about 21 miles east of downtown San Antonio. Old Sutherland Springs occupies a portion of the South bank of the Cibolo According to the Handbook of Texas, the population was 362 in 2000.


title: Guerbigny hierarchical section title: Guerbigny caption reference description: Saint-Pierre church and memorial caption attribution description: Guerbigny (Somme, France) - L'église Saint-Pierre. This building is indexed in the Base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00116170. brezhoneg | català | Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | español | euskara | suomi | français | magyar | italiano | македонски | Nederlands | português | português do Brasil | русский | +/− . content: Guerbigny is a commune. It is in the region Picardie in the Somme department in the north of France.


title: Paço de São Cristóvão section title: Grounds hierarchical section title: Paço de São Cristóvão / Gallery / Grounds caption attribution description: Português: Museu Nacional, UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. content: Paço de São Cristóvão was an imperial palace located in the Quinta da Boa Vista park in the Imperial Neighbourhood of São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It served as residence to the Portuguese Royal Family and later to the Brazilian Imperial Family until 1889, when the country became a republic through a coup d'état deposing Emperor Pedro II. The palace briefly served as a public building by the provisional government for the constituent assembly of the first republican constitution. It housed the major part of the collections of the National Museum of Brazil, which, together with the building, were largely destroyed by a fire on 2 September 2018.


title: Count of Merenberg hierarchical section title: Count of Merenberg caption reference description: Natalia Pushkina, countess of Merenberg. One of the most charming women of her time caption attribution description: English: Portrait of Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, Daughter of poet, Countess of Merenberg (1836–1913) Русский: Портрет Натальи Александровны Пушкиной, дочери поэта, графини Меренберг (1836—1913) content: Count of Merenberg is the title bestowed in 1868 by the reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, George Victor, upon the morganatic wife and male-line descendants of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, who married Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, former wife of Russian General Mikhail Leontievich von Dubelt.
Nikolaus was a son of William, Duke of Nassau and his second wife, Princess Pauline of Württemberg. He was also a younger half-brother of Adolphe, who was deposed by Prussia as last reigning Duke of Nassau in 1866, but succeeded as Grand Duke of Luxembourg in 1890. Natalia was a daughter of Alexander Pushkin, the most renowned Russian writer who ranked, however, only as a dvoryanin; an untitled member of the lower nobility. Therefore, Natalia was created Countess von Merenberg, a title without territory, as she was not legally permitted to share her husband's princely title or rank, even though his family had ceased to be hereditary rulers when the kingdom of Prussia annexed Nassau.
Through Pushkin, Natalia descends from Peter the Great's African protégé, Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Through her mother, Natalia descends from the Cossack leader Prince Petro Doroshenko.


title: Latin section title: Literature hierarchical section title: Latin / Legacy / Literature caption reference description: Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico is one of the most famous classical Latin texts of the Golden Age of Latin. The unvarnished, journalistic style of this patrician general has long been taught as a model of the urbane Latin officially spoken and written in the floruit of the Roman Republic. content: Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken in the area around Rome, known as Latium. Through the power of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in Italy, and subsequently throughout the western Roman Empire. Latin has contributed many words to the English language. In particular, Latin roots are used in English descriptions of theology, the sciences, medicine, and law. It is the official language in the Holy See.
By the late Roman Republic, Old Latin had been standardised into Classical Latin. Vulgar Latin was the colloquial form spoken during the same time and attested in inscriptions and the works of comic playwrights like Plautus and Terence and author Petronius. Late Latin is the written language from the 3rd century; its colloquial form Vulgar Latin developed in the 6th to 9th centuries into the Romance languages, such as Italian, Sardinian, Venetian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Piedmontese, Lombard, French, Franco-Provençal, Occitan, Corsican, Ladin, Friulan, Romansh, Catalan/Valencian, Aragonese, Spanish, Asturian, Galician, and Portuguese.


title: Conrad Buno hierarchical section title: Conrad Buno caption reference description: Schloss Wolfenbüttel 1650 engraving

after Conrad Buno caption attribution description: :de:Schloss/Castle of Wolfenbüttel de:Wolfenbüttel, en:Wolfenbüttel, Kupferstich, 1650 content: Conrad Buno, was a German copperplate engraver, cartographer and publisher at the court of Wolfenbüttel and brother of Johann Buno, the theologian and pedagogue from Lüneburg.
Conrad Buno prepared a set of maps for the 1641 Brunswick-Lüneburg edition of Philipp Cluver’s famous Introductio in Universam Geographicam, an atlas with maps of Africa, America, Asia and the World, and text written by Johann Buno.


title: Rudolf Hilferding section title: Finance Capital hierarchical section title: Rudolf Hilferding / Finance Capital caption reference description: Finanzkapital, 1923 content: Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, leading socialist theorist, politician and chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic. He is almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of his century, and a physician.
He was born in Vienna, where he received a doctorate having studied medicine. After becoming a leading journalist for the SPD, he participated in the November Revolution in Germany and was Finance Minister of Germany in 1923 and from 1928 to 1929. In 1933 he fled into exile, living in Zurich and then Paris, where he died in custody of the Gestapo in 1941.
Hilferding was a proponent of the "economic" reading of Karl Marx identifying with the "Austro-Marxian" group. He was the first to put forward the theory of organized capitalism. He was the main defender of Marxism from critiques by Austrian School economist and fellow Vienna resident Eugen Boehm von Bawerk. Hilferding also participated in the "Crises Debate" – disputing Marx's theory of the instability and eventual breakdown of capitalism on the basis that the concentration of capital is actually stabilizing.


title: U.S. Bank Tower (Los Angeles) section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: U.S. Bank Tower (Los Angeles) / Gallery caption attribution description: English: The US Bank Tower in Downtown Los Angeles during the 2009 NBA Finals content: U.S. Bank Tower, formerly Library Tower and First Interstate Bank World Center, is a 1,018-foot skyscraper at 633 West Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. It is, by structural height, the third-tallest building in California, the second-tallest building in Los Angeles, the Eighteenth-tallest in the United States, the third-tallest west of the Mississippi River after the Salesforce Tower and the Wilshire Grand Center, and the 129th-tallest building in the world, after being surpassed by the Wilshire Grand Center. It is the only building in California whose roof height exceeds 1,000 feet. Because local building codes required all high-rise buildings to have a helipad, it was known as the tallest building in the world with a roof-top heliport from its completion in 1989 to 2010 when the China World Trade Center Tower III opened. It is also the third-tallest building in a major active seismic region; its structure was designed to resist an earthquake of 8.3 on the Richter scale. It consists of 73 stories above ground and two parking levels below ground. Construction began in 1987 with completion in 1989. The building was designed by Henry N.


title: Draria District hierarchical section title: Draria District caption reference description: Map of Algiers Province highlighting Draria District content: Draria is a district in Algiers Province, Algeria. It was named after its capital, Draria.


title: Baruel Mansion hierarchical section title: Baruel Mansion caption attribution description: Palacete Baruel no Alto de Santana, zona norte de São Paulo. content: Baruel Mansion is a mansion built in the 19th century, located in Alto de Santana, northern area of São Paulo city.
The construction had been the headquarters of the Baruel estate, a farm where rice, beans, corn and sugarcane were grown with slave labour. The wealth of the owner is perceived in the buildings that make up the area.
The estate was 24,250 square metres in area, and after the death of Mr. Baruel the property was divided and sold in lots. The farm included the house of Dona Maria, daughter of Mr. Baruel, built in 1925, which today houses the Narbal Fontes Library.
The Baruel were a traditional and influential family of Santana. Near the farm, in the current Voluntários da Pátria street is located in the Chapel of Santa Cruz, built in 1895 by Pedro Doll and the Baruel family.
Built in the Norman style, the mansion is considered a historic site, it saves time and remnants of the neighbourhood. It has never been inhabited. Currently the building is a physiotherapy clinic.


title: Pat Nixon section title: Life in the White House hierarchical section title: Pat Nixon / First Lady of the United States, 1969–1974 / Life in the White House caption reference description: The First Lady with Queen Elizabeth II, 1970 content: Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon, also commonly known as Patricia Nixon, was an American educator and the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States. During her more than 30 years in public life, she served as both the Second and First Lady of the United States.
Born in Ely, Nevada, she grew up with her two brothers in what is now Cerritos, California, graduating from high school in 1929. She attended Fullerton Junior College and later the University of Southern California. She paid for her schooling by working multiple jobs, including pharmacy manager, typist, radiographer, and retail clerk. In 1940, she married lawyer Richard Nixon and they had two daughters, Tricia and Julie. Dubbed the "Nixon team," Richard and Pat Nixon campaigned together in his successful congressional campaigns of 1946 and 1948. Richard Nixon was elected Vice President in 1952 alongside General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whereupon Pat became Second Lady. Pat Nixon did much to add substance to the role of the Vice President's wife, insisting on visiting schools, orphanages, hospitals, and village markets as she undertook many missions of goodwill across the world.


title: Midway City, California section title: 1880s to 1930s hierarchical section title: Midway City, California / History / 1880s to 1930s caption reference description: Henry Lotz in May 1937 closing the gate to the barns at the Midway City Dairy Association, which was rehabilitated with a June 1936 loan from the U.S. Resettlement Administration. content: Midway City is a census-designated place in the United States that forms part of the county land controlled by Orange County, California. The only area in Orange County that incorporates its chamber of commerce and homeowners association to act in concert like a city council, the area mostly is surrounded by Westminster with Huntington Beach bordering it on the southwest. Midway City was so named because it is horizontally midway between Seal Beach, to the west, and Santa Ana, to the east. The 2010 census listed the population as 8,485.
Midway City is one of Orange County's oldest communities, and many of its homes are 1950s construction. The area includes two mobile home parks and the residents who live here are of moderate income, with many of them senior citizens. As described by Midway City local historian in 2008, "Midway City is desirable because of its large lots – typically over 8,000 square feet with many larger lots as well.... The trend is that buyers are scraping the lots and building big homes or adding large additions onto the original home." The community fits within a 1.3 square miles area and takes up 0.632 square miles of land.


title: Murder of Sandeep Kothari section title: Context hierarchical section title: Murder of Sandeep Kothari / Context caption reference description: Illegal sandmining operation in India. caption attribution description: English: Illegal sand mining is extensive around cities like Mumbai where it is required for construction. There is often a link between politicians and illegal sand mining in India. content: Sandeep Kothari, an Indian freelancer investigative crime journalist for the NaiDunia, was murdered in the Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India. He was murdered as a result of exposing illegal mining and land grabbing.


title: Alabama's 3rd congressional district hierarchical section title: Alabama's 3rd congressional district caption reference description: Alabama's 3rd congressional district - since January 3, 2013. content: Alabama's 3rd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama that elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It is based in east central Alabama and encompasses portions of Montgomery and the entirety of Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Lee, Macon, Randolph, Russell, St. Clair, Talladega, and Tallapoosa counties.
The district takes in some of the city of Montgomery. Other cities in the district include Phenix City, Talladega, Tuskegee and Auburn. At the federal level, the district is fairly Republican-leaning, albeit not as strongly as many of the other districts in the state. John McCain carried the district in 2008 with 56.21% of the vote while Barack Obama clinched 43.04% of the vote.
The district is currently represented by Republican Mike Rogers and was once represented by Bob Riley, the former Governor of Alabama.


title: Çorlu hierarchical section title: Çorlu caption reference description: Place name sign of Çorlu (2017) on the state road  D.100. caption attribution description: English: Place name sign of Çorlu, Tekirdağ, Turkey content: Çorlu is a northwestern Turkish city in inland Eastern Thrace that falls under the administration of the Province of Tekirdağ. It is a rapidly developing industrial centre built on flatland located on the highway D.100 and off the motorway O-3/E80 between Istanbul and Turkey's border with Greece and Bulgaria.


title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Robertson County, Texas hierarchical section title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Robertson County, Texas caption reference description: Location of Robertson County in Texas content: This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Robertson County, Texas.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Robertson County, Texas. There are one district and four individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. One individually listed property is a State Antiquities Landmark and contains within it a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. The remaining three individually listed properties are each also RTHLs while the district holds several more.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 23, 2019.


title: Kristien Hemmerechts hierarchical section title: Kristien Hemmerechts caption reference description: Kristien Hemmerechts (2013) caption attribution description: Nederlands: Kristien Hemmerechts vertelt en leest voor content: Kristien Hemmerechts is a Belgian writer.


title: Operations security hierarchical section title: Operations security caption reference description: Women's Army Corps anti-rumor propaganda (1941–1945) content: Operations security is a process that identifies critical information to determine if friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then executes selected measures that eliminate or reduce adversary exploitation of friendly critical information.
In a more general sense, OPSEC is the process of protecting individual pieces of data that could be grouped together to give the bigger picture. OPSEC is the protection of critical information deemed mission-essential from military commanders, senior leaders, management or other decision-making bodies. The process results in the development of countermeasures, which include technical and non-technical measures such as the use of email encryption software, taking precautions against eavesdropping, paying close attention to a picture you have taken, or not talking openly on social media sites about information on the unit, activity or organization's Critical Information List.
The term "operations security" was coined by the United States military during the Vietnam War.


title: Alpa-Reflex Camera hierarchical section title: Alpa-Reflex Camera caption attribution description: English: Alpa camera content: The 35mm SLR camera Alpa-Reflex has its origins back in the 1930s when a Swiss precision mechanical manufacturer decided to diversify their product range, having mainly relied on manufacturing parts for the watch industry. They sought outside assistance and by 1939 the plans were ready and building cameras commenced at a very slow rate. The camera was eventually named the Alpa because it was light, pocketable, and might easily be brought along travelling in the Alps. The Alpa-Reflex is only predated by the Kine Exakta, the Sport, and the Praktiflex 35mm SLRs. The manufacturer was Pignons S.A, Ballaigues, and the designer was Jacques Bolsky born December 31, 1895 in Kiev as Yakob Bogopolsky. He emigrated to the United States of America once the design was completed. He was also the inventor of the renowned Bolsey and Bolex cine cameras.


title: Lance Briggs hierarchical section title: Lance Briggs caption reference description: Briggs in 2011 caption attribution description: English: Lance Briggs, a player on the National Football League. content: Lance Marell Briggs is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He played college football at Arizona and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft, where he played his entire 12-year career.


title: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Harbhajan Singh section title: Key hierarchical section title: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Harbhajan Singh / Key caption reference description: Harbhajan bowling against Australia during the 2010–11 Border–Gavaskar Trophy. caption attribution description: Harbhajan Singh bowls a delivery during Day 2 of the Second Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2010 - 11. caption alt text description: A Black bearded man wearing a black turban in his bowling action. The stumps, off-strike batsman, field, boundary ropes and the spectators can be seen in the background. content: In cricket, a five-wicket haul refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and as of October 2019 only 48 bowlers have taken 15 or more five-wicket hauls at the international level. A right-arm off break bowler, Harbhajan Singh has taken 417 wickets in Test, 269 wickets in One Day International and 25 wickets in Twenty20 International matches for India. He has the second-highest number of five-wicket hauls in international cricket—next to Anil Kumble—among Indian cricketers and the eleventh among overall.
Harbhajan made his Test debut against Australia in 1998. His first five-wicket haul came against the same team during the second Test of the 2000–01 series at Eden Gardens. His six wickets for 73 runs in the second innings of the match raised his tally to thirteen wickets in the match; his performance was instrumental in India winning the match after being forced to follow-on. In the third Test of the series, he claimed fifteen wickets for 217 runs, including career-best figures of eight wickets for 84 runs.


title: Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station section title: Services and tracks hierarchical section title: Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station / Station layout / Services and tracks caption reference description: Track plan as proposed in 1915, showing all tracks as through tracks. This image is oriented 90 degrees clockwise from north, so that the image shows the eastward view of the track plan content: Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue is a New York City Subway terminal in Coney Island, Brooklyn. It is the railroad-south terminus for the D, F, N, and Q trains at all times and for the <F> train during rush hours in the peak direction.
Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue has eight tracks and four island platforms, with trains entering from both compass north and south. Opened in 1919–20, the large facility was designed at a time when Coney Island was the primary summer resort area for the New York metropolitan area, with all of the rail lines in southern Brooklyn funneling service to the area. The station has seen many service patterns throughout its history, and was completely renovated from 2001 to 2004.
The station is located at the corner of Stillwell and Surf Avenues in Coney Island, the site of the former West End Terminal. Geographically, the station is the southernmost terminal in the New York City Subway system. In addition, it is one of the largest elevated transportation terminals in the world.


title: Caroleans section title: Organisation hierarchical section title: Caroleans / Organisation caption reference description: The death of Charles XII effectively ended the Carolean era (painting by Gustaf Cederström). content: Caroleans were soldiers of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, in order to compensate for its lack of manpower and resources, Sweden strove for innovative ways to make a more effective army. The tactics of Caroleans differed from those of Western European soldiers in their greater reliance upon pikes, rapiers, bayonets, and offensive strategy, which helped them to be victorious, even when greatly outnumbered, in many important Swedish battles. The Carolean army is regarded as one of the most effective military forces of their time.
The Carolean army was always relatively small. As a result, heavy losses were irreparable, which forced commanders to choose their battles wisely and strategize carefully to keep casualties low. Despite the Carolean army's effectiveness, its small size prevented Sweden from maintaining its hold on power, as evidenced by the decline of the Swedish Empire after its defeat in the Great Northern War.


title: Trams in Amsterdam section title: Rolling stock hierarchical section title: Trams in Amsterdam / Rolling stock caption attribution description: Nederlands: GVB tram type 12G, wagen 822, lijn 16, De Boelelaan (Amsterdam) content: The Amsterdam Tram is a tram network in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It dates back to 1875 and has been operated by municipal public transport operator Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf since 1943, which also runs the Amsterdam Metro and the city bus and ferry services. The Amsterdam Tram is the largest tram network in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe.
The trams on the network run on standard gauge track. Since 1900, they have been powered by electricity, at 600 V DC. At the terminus station of almost every tram line is a turning loop, so that the line can be operated by unidirectional trams. The only exception is Amstelveen Binnenhof, one of the termini of line 5, which must therefore be served by bidirectional vehicles. As of 2019, there are 15 tram lines. The network comprises a total of 80.5 kilometres of route, and 200 kilometres of track. The fleet consists of 200 trams, of which 24 are bidirectional for use on the loop-less line 5.


title: Mellieħa S.C. section title: Honours hierarchical section title: Mellieħa S.C. / Honours caption reference description: Second/Third Division FA Cup winners caption attribution description: English: 2nd&3rd Division FA Cup Winners content: Mellieħa Sports Club is a Maltese sports club based in the town of Mellieħa. Founded in 1947, just after the end of the Second World War, the primary aim was that of promoting and fostering the development of sports in the village and its surroundings, including football, baseball, softball, netball and snooker.
Mellieħa S.C. began as a football club in 1961 and has competed ever since. Their most notable achievement happened in 1992 when they finished runners-up in the Maltese First Division, which earned them a promotion to the Premier League, the top-tier in Maltese football. For the 2018–19 season, they are competing in the Maltese Second Division following their promotion from the Third Division.


title: 2017 Venezuelan regional elections hierarchical section title: 2017 Venezuelan regional elections caption reference description: Red denotes states won by the Great Patriotic Pole. Blue denotes those won by the Coalition for Democratic Unity. content: Regional elections were held in Venezuela on 15 October 2017 to elect state governors. The two main participants were the Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition coalition and the Great Patriotic Pole alliance of the ruling Bolivarian government. The election resulted in a victory for the GPP, which won the majority of governorships. The GPP won 18 out of the 23 governorships, while the MUD won the remaining five. Four Democratic Action governors of five opposition governors elected decided to be sworn in under the Bolivarian government-led National Constituent Assembly despite promises to never recognize the body.


title: Thylacine section title: Extinction in Tasmania hierarchical section title: Thylacine / Relationship with humans / Extinction in Tasmania caption attribution description: Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) photographed in cage with chicken by Henry Burrell. Cage cropped out. content: The thylacine, now extinct, is one of the largest known carnivorous marsupials, evolving about 4 million years ago. The last known live animal was captured in 1933 in Tasmania. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger because of its striped lower back, or the Tasmanian wolf because of its canid-like characteristics. It was native to Tasmania, New Guinea, and the Australian mainland.
The thylacine was relatively shy and nocturnal, with the general appearance of a medium-to-large-size dog, except for its stiff tail and abdominal pouch similar to a kangaroo's, and dark transverse stripes that radiated from the top of its back, reminiscent of a tiger. The thylacine was a formidable apex predator, though exactly how large its prey animals were is disputed. Because of convergent evolution it displayed a form and adaptations similar to the tiger and wolf of the Northern Hemisphere, despite being unrelated. Its closest living relative is either the Tasmanian devil or the numbat. The thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes: the other is the water opossum.


title: Astoria, Oregon section title: 20th and 21st centuries hierarchical section title: Astoria, Oregon / History / 20th and 21st centuries caption reference description: Photograph of Astoria c. 1912. content: Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state of Oregon and was the first American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. The county is the northwest corner of Oregon, and Astoria is located on the south shore of the Columbia River, where the river flows into the Pacific Ocean. The city is named for John Jacob Astor, an investor and entrepreneur from New York City, whose American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site and established a monopoly in the fur trade in the early nineteenth century. Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1876.
The city is served by the deepwater Port of Astoria. Transportation includes the Astoria Regional Airport. U.S. Route 30 and U.S. Route 101 are the main highways, and the 4.1-mile Astoria–Megler Bridge connects to neighboring Washington across the river. The population was 9,477 at the 2010 census.


title: Bhagalpur section title: Shri Champapur Digamber Jain Temple hierarchical section title: Bhagalpur / Local attractions / Shri Champapur Digamber Jain Temple caption reference description: The tallest statue of Lord Vasupujya, Champapur caption attribution description: English: Lord Vasupujya content: Bhagalpur is a city of historical importance on the southern banks of the river Ganges in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the 3rd largest city of Bihar and also the headquarters of Bhagalpur district and Bhagalpur division. Known as the "Silk City", it is a major educational, commercial, and political centre, and listed for development under the Smart City program, a joint venture between Government and industry. The Gangetic plains surrounding the city are very fertile and the main crops include rice, wheat, maize, barley, and oilseeds. The river is home to the Gangetic dolphin, the National Aquatic Animal of India, and the Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary is established near the town.


title: El Hatillo Municipality section title: Environment hierarchical section title: El Hatillo Municipality / Geography / Environment caption reference description: Shops into the colonial houses caption attribution description: Español: Tiendas en Calle La Paz - El Hatillo, municipio El Hatillo, estado Miranda - Venezuela content: El Hatillo Municipality is an administrative division of the State of Miranda, Venezuela; along with Baruta, Chacao, Libertador and Sucre, it is one of the five municipalities of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. It is located in the southeastern area of Caracas, and in the northwestern part of the State of Miranda.
The seat of the municipal government is El Hatillo Town, founded in 1784 by Don Baltasar de León, who was instrumental in the area's development. Although the town had its origins during the Spanish colonisation, the municipality was not established until 1991. In 2000 – the year after a new constitution was enacted in Venezuela – some of the municipality functions were delegated to a consolidated mayor's office called Alcaldía Mayor, which also has some authority over the other four municipalities of Caracas.
El Hatillo preserves some of its colonial architecture, including an 18th-century parish church and a unique Romanian Orthodox Church. The municipality also has a rich artistic culture, with at least two important musical festivals celebrated yearly, and numerous holiday celebrations reflecting the heritage of El Hatillo.


title: Telekom Tower hierarchical section title: Telekom Tower caption reference description: Menara Telekom.Headquarters of the TM Group caption attribution description: Menara Telekom taken by me. de:Bild:Menaratelekom.jpg content: The Telekom Tower or Menara TM is a skyscraper in Lembah Pantai, southwestern Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is 310 m tall, has 55 floors, and is shaped to represent a sprouting "bamboo shoot". It is located along the Federal Highway, Sprint Expressway and Jalan Pantai Baharu and is served by the Rapid KL Kerinchi LRT station. It was designed by Hijjas Kasturi Associates and was constructed between 1998 and 2001 by Deawoo Construction. The building was officially opened on 11 February 2003 by the fourth Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
It resembles the Bitexco Financial Tower of Ho Chi Minh City and the Telecommunications Tower in Montevideo.
With a series of hanging gardens climbing it, the structure cost over $160 million. The tower has been designed to benefit from its surrounding environment, using its windows, orientation, and air condition system to encourage energy saving.
The complex also includes a theatre able to seat a 2,500 audience, a large prayer hall and a sports facility. A unique feature of the tower is its 22 open skygardens alternating every three floors.


title: Merion Cricket Club section title: Facilities hierarchical section title: Merion Cricket Club / Facilities caption reference description: The fourth clubhouse (1892), backing onto Montgomery Avenue, was destroyed by fire in January 1896. caption attribution description: The Merion Cricket Club in 1880. content: Merion Cricket Club is a private club in Haverford, Pennsylvania, founded in 1865. The current clubhouse is its sixth, the last four having been designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and his partner, Allen Evans, who was also a founder of the club. The club was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 for its leading role in the promotion, development and continued support of cricket, golf, squash, and tennis in the United States.


title: Campaign history of the Roman military section title: Kingdom (753–509 BC) hierarchical section title: Campaign history of the Roman military / Kingdom (753–509 BC) caption reference description: Rape of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin, Rome, 1637–38 (Louvre Museum) content: From its origin as a city-state on the peninsula of Italy in the 8th century BC, to its rise as an empire covering much of Southern Europe, Western Europe, Near East and North Africa to its fall in the 5th century AD, the political history of Ancient Rome was closely entwined with its military history. The core of the campaign history of the Roman military is an aggregate of different accounts of the Roman military's land battles, from its initial defense against and subsequent conquest of the city's hilltop neighbors on the Italian peninsula, to the ultimate struggle of the Western Roman Empire for its existence against invading Huns, Vandals and Germanic tribes. These accounts were written by various authors throughout and after the history of the Empire. Following the First Punic War, naval battles were less significant than land battles to the military history of Rome due to its encompassment of lands of the periphery and its unchallenged dominance of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Roman army battled first against its tribal neighbours and Etruscan towns within Italy, and later came to dominate the Mediterranean and at its height the provinces of Britannia and Asia Minor.


title: Pennsylvania Avenue section title: History hierarchical section title: Pennsylvania Avenue / History caption reference description: Drawing of Pennsylvania Avenue and the Capitol before it was burned down in 1814 content: Pennsylvania Avenue is a diagonal street in Washington, D.C. and Prince George's County, Maryland that connects the White House and the United States Capitol and then crosses the city to Maryland. In Maryland it is also Maryland Route 4 to MD 717 in Upper Marlboro, where it becomes Stephanie Roper Highway. The section between the White House and Congress is called "America's Main Street"; it is the location of official parades and processions, as well as protest marches. Moreover, Pennsylvania Avenue is an important commuter road and is part of the National Highway System.


title: Prang Ku District hierarchical section title: Prang Ku District caption reference description: District location in Sisaket Province content: Prang Ku is a district in the western part of Sisaket Province, northeastern Thailand.


title: Bulls Head, Staten Island hierarchical section title: Bulls Head, Staten Island caption reference description: Bulls Head Brook content: Bulls Head is a neighborhood in west-central Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is bordered by New Springville to the south, Bloomfield to the west, Willowbrook to the east, Graniteville to the north, and Westerleigh to the north.
The community received its name from an 18th-century tavern located at the intersection of Victory Boulevard and Richmond Avenue, from which a sign bearing a bull's head was displayed. The Bulls Head area was also known as Phoenixville. During the American Revolution, this tavern became the local headquarters of the faction loyal to the British crown, or Tories, as they were colloquially known. As recently as the early 1960s, Bulls Head and the surrounding neighborhoods, such as Willowbrook to the east and Graniteville to the north, were dominated by farmland. Dramatic change came soon after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964, opening up the area to residential development. Soon many Jewish families, mostly from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, settled in Bulls Head and other west mid-island neighborhoods. A smaller number of Asian immigrants live in Bulls Head.


title: 2014 in Europe section title: April hierarchical section title: 2014 in Europe / Events / April caption reference description: Huge crowds attending the canonization ceremony of Pope John XXIII and Pope 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: This is a list of 2014 events that occurred in Europe.


title: Captain John L. Chapin High School hierarchical section title: Captain John L. Chapin High School caption reference description: This is a locator map showing El Paso County in Texas. content: Chapin High School is a public high school in El Paso, Texas. Chapin is located at the intersection of Dyer Street and Ellerthorpe Avenue on land reserved for the United States Government and is a part of the El Paso Independent School District. It is the only high school in the continental United States that is on government property but not owned by the government. The school enrolls approximately 1,900 students in grades 9 to 12. Nearly half the students are military dependents from the nearby Fort Bliss installation. The school also accepts students from throughout the city of El Paso as part of the school's pre-engineering magnet program.


title: Pre-Tolstojan hierarchical section title: Pre-Tolstojan caption reference description: View of Mercury (planet) from Mariner 10 caption attribution description: English: Distant en:Mercury image from «en:Mariner 10». Processed from clear and blue filter images to aproximate visible color by Ricardo Nunes. Esperanto: Merkuro Polski: Merkury Русский: Изображение планеты ru:Меркурий, полученное АМС «Mariner 10». Обработано Ricardo Nunes. Deutsch: Merkur Planet content: Pre-Tolstojan, also Pretolstojan Period, refers to the oldest period of the history of Mercury, 4500–3900 MYA. It is the "first period of the Eomercurian Era and of the Mercurian Eon, as well as being the first period in Mercury's geologic history", and refers to its formation and the 600 million or so years in its aftermath. Mercury was formed with a tiny crust, mantle, and a giant core and as it evolved it faced heavy bombardments that created most of the craters and intercrater plains seen on the planet's surface today.
Many of the smaller basins and multi-ring basins were created during this period. Considered a "dead" planet, its geology is highly diverse with craters forming the dominant terrain.
The name Pre-Tolstojan refers to the Tolstoj crater on the surface of Mercury, which is believed to have been formed in an impact event circa 3900 MYA. The latter has been named after the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.


title: Slovenian Catholic Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Association section title: History hierarchical section title: Slovenian Catholic Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Association / History caption reference description: Pre-war Slovenian Scout Pavel Kunaver (1889-1988) caption attribution description: English: Pavel Kunaver (19 December 1889 – 19 April 1988) , Slovene pedagogue and writer content: Združenje slovenskih katoliških skavtinj in skavtov is the national Guiding organization of Slovenia.
Slovenian Catholic Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Association is Slovenian Scout and Guide association, established in 1990.
ZSKSS was the first catholic youth and non communist organisation, established in one of former Yugoslav republics. It was reborn on experiences and values from other scout and guide associations, especially by support of AGESCI leaders from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, who helped much establishing the concept of the organizations activities.
ZSKSS is affiliated to the Slovenska Zamejska Skavtska Organizacija serving Slovenian Scouts in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy, and also to the Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani.


title: Arizona's 3rd congressional district hierarchical section title: Arizona's 3rd congressional district caption reference description: Arizona's 3rd congressional district - since January 3, 2013. content: Arizona's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district that contains the southwestern portions of the state, sharing the border of Mexico from Nogales to the California border. Much of the district's population lives in the western third of Tucson. It is currently represented by Democrat Raúl Grijalva.


title: Salsa music section title: Guajeo hierarchical section title: Salsa music / Music structure / Guajeo caption reference description: 2-3 plena guajeo: onbeat/offbeat motif. content: Salsa music is a popular dance music genre that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s. Salsa is the product of various Cuban musical genres including the Afro-Cuban son montuno, guaracha, cha cha chá, mambo, and Puerto Rican plena and bomba. Latin jazz has had a significant influence on salsa arrangers, piano guajeos, and instrumental soloists.
Salsa is primarily Cuban son, itself a fusion of Spanish canción and guitar and Afro-Cuban percussion, Salsa also occasionally incorporates elements of Latin jazz, bomba and plena. All of these non-Cuban elements are grafted onto the basic Cuban son montuno template when performed within the context of salsa.
The first salsa bands were predominantly Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The music eventually spread throughout Colombia and the rest of the Americas. Ultimately, it became a global phenomenon. Some of the founding salsa artists were Johnny Pacheco, Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades, Richie Ray, Bobby Cruz, Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, Larry Harlow, Roberto Roena, Bobby Valentín, Eddie Palmieri, and Héctor Lavoe.


title: Eleftherios Venizelos section title: Revolution of Theriso hierarchical section title: Eleftherios Venizelos / Political career in Crete / Revolution of Theriso caption reference description: A speech by Venizelos on 25 March 1905. caption attribution description: English: Discours d'Eleftherios venizelos à Therissos le 25 mars 1905 content: Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. He is noted for his contribution in the expansion of Greece and promotion of liberal-democratic policies. As leader of the Liberal Party, he was elected eight times as Prime Minister of Greece, serving from 1910 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1933. Venizelos had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of Greece that he is credited with being "the maker of modern Greece", and is still widely known as the "Ethnarch".
His first entry into the international scene was with his significant role in the autonomy of the Cretan State and later in the union of Crete with Greece. Soon, he was invited to Greece to resolve the political deadlock and became the country's Prime Minister. Not only did he initiate constitutional and economic reforms that set the basis for the modernization of Greek society, but also reorganized both army and navy in preparation of future conflicts. Before the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Venizelos' catalytic role helped gain Greece entrance to the Balkan League, an alliance of the Balkan states against the Ottoman Empire.


title: Herzl Shafir hierarchical section title: Herzl Shafir caption reference description: A visit by the officers of the IDF's Armoured Corps to the Shevach school for boys in Tel-Aviv. Shafir on the right. November 21, 1954 caption attribution description: English: Aluf Herzl Shafir (on the right); A visit by the officers of the IDF's Armoured Corps to the Shevach School for boys in Tel-Aviv. עברית: הרצל שפיר content: Herzl Shekhterman Shafir was an Israel Defense Forces Major General, head of the Manpower Directorate, head of Israel's Southern Command, and later assistant head of the Operations Directorate. He later served as the 7th General Commissioner of Israel Police.


title: Jelmoli hierarchical section title: Jelmoli caption reference description: Jelmoli with Christmas lights (2006) caption attribution description: Deutsch: Kaufhaus Jelmoli (Zürich, Schweiz) mit Weihnachtsbeleuchtung (2006) English: Department store Jelmoli (Zurich, Switzerland) with Christmas lights (2006) content: Jelmoli is a department store in Zürich, Switzerland. It is one of the oldest and best known in the world. It introduced features such as no-haggle pricing and a mail order catalog. It is located along the famous Bahnhofstrasse in Zürich.


title: Fayard Nicholas section title: Career hierarchical section title: Fayard Nicholas / Career caption reference description: Fayard Nicholas dances with Harold Nicholas and Bob Hope, 1965 content: Fayard Antonio Nicholas was an American choreographer, dancer and actor. He and his younger brother Harold Nicholas made up the Nicholas Brothers tap dance duo, who starred in the MGM musicals An All-Colored Vaudeville Show, Stormy Weather, The Pirate, and Hard Four. The Nicholas brothers also starred in the 20th Century-Fox musicals Down Argentine Way, Sun Valley Serenade, and Orchestra Wives.


title: Pikeville, Kentucky section title: Arts and culture hierarchical section title: Pikeville, Kentucky / Arts and culture caption reference description: Crowded Hambley Boulevard during Hillbilly Days 2013 caption attribution description: English: Picture of the crowd and vendors on Hambley Blvd. in Pikeville, KY at Hillbilly Days content: Pikeville is a city in and the county seat of Pike County, Kentucky, United States. During the 2010 U.S. Census, the population within Pikeville's city limits was 6,903.
In Kentucky's current city classification system, Pikeville is a home rule-class city, a category that includes all of the state's more than 400 cities except for the two largest, Louisville and Lexington.


title: Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute hierarchical section title: Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute caption attribution description: English: The Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute, housing Michael Power/St. Joseph H.S. since 1993. content: Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute is a Toronto District School Board facility that was previously operated as public secondary school for the Etobicoke Board of Education located at 105 Eringate Drive in Etobicoke from its opening in 1961 until its closure in 1985 and later became the Vincent Massey Centre as an adult school until 1993. Owned and oversighted by the board's arms-length division, Toronto Lands Corporation, it is one of two schools in Etobicoke to be named for the late Governor General of Canada, the other was Vincent Massey Public School.


title: 1974 Brisbane flood hierarchical section title: 1974 Brisbane flood caption reference description: Aerial view looking at the flooding in Mary and Margaret Streets in the Brisbane CBD, January 1974 caption attribution description: English: Aerial view of Brisbane City during the 1974 flood, January 1974, looking NE along Mary and Margaret Streets towards the Brisbane River with Kangaroo Point and the Story Bridge in the background. The Parkroyal Motor Inn is visible on the far right of the photo (now known as Royal on the Park). content: In January 1974 a flood occurred in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia after three weeks of continual rain. The Brisbane River, which runs through the heart of the city, broke its banks and flooded the surrounding areas. The cyclone that produced the flood also flooded surrounding cities: Ipswich, Beenleigh, and the Gold Coast.
In total, there were 16 fatalities, 300 people injured, 8000 homes destroyed and an estimated A$980 million in damages.


title: Clan Campbell section title: Tartans hierarchical section title: Clan Campbell / Tartans caption reference description: The Black Watch tartan, also known as the Government sett, or the Campbell tartan. The tartan was used, and is in current use, by several military units throughout the Commonwealth.[33] content: Clan Campbell is a Highland Scottish clan. Historically one of the largest and most powerful of the Highland clans, their lands were in Argyll and the chief of the clan became the Earl and later Duke of Argyll.


title: Northern Main Line hierarchical section title: Northern Main Line caption reference description: Northern Main Line, railway line in Sweden caption attribution description: Svenska: Norra stambanan vid en järnvägskorsning i Ljusdal content: The Northern Main Line is a 268-kilometre long electrified railway in Sweden, between Gävle or Storvik and Ånge. The railway consists of single track except the parts between Mo grindar and Holmsveden, Kilafors and Bollnäs, and Ramsjö and Ovansjö, a total of 91 kilometres double track.
The railway passes Gävle or Storvik, Ockelbo, Ljusdal and Ånge.


title: National Memorial Arch hierarchical section title: National Memorial Arch caption reference description: The National Memorial Arch is Revolutionary War memorial at Valley Forge. content: The United States National Memorial Arch, located in Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania, is a monument built to celebrate the arrival of General George Washington and the Continental Army at Valley Forge. Valley Forge was the military camp 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War. Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed more than 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778.
The arch is physically in Upper Merion Township in Montgomery County.


title: Harry Nixon section title: Life and career hierarchical section title: Harry Nixon / Life and career caption reference description: Last surviving members of the UFO-Labour coalition government (1919-1923) in 1955. From left to right: Harry Mills, E.C. Drury, Harry Nixon and Walter Rollo caption attribution description: Last surviving members of the UFO-Labour coalition government (1919-1923) at Walter Rollo's house in w:Hamilton, Ontario. From left to right: Harry Mills, w:E.C. Drury, w:Harry Nixon and w:Walter Rollo content: Harry Corwin Nixon was a Canadian politician and briefly the 13th Premier of Ontario.


title: Railway Bridge, Riga hierarchical section title: Railway Bridge, Riga caption attribution description: Español: Puente del Ferrocarril, Riga, LetoniaEnglish: Railway bridge, Riga, Latvia content: The Railway Bridge is a bridge that crosses the Daugava river in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
The first iron railway bridge in Riga, over 600 ftm long, was erected in 1871–1872 for the Riga–Jelgava Railway.
The new bridge was inaugurated 1914, shelled twice, during World War I in 1917 and World War II in 1944, and was rebuilt both times. The bridge is nowadays the only railway bridge in Riga.
The bridge will be duplicated as part of the new Rail Baltica line through Riga.


title: Derby hierarchical section title: Derby caption reference description: Derby Skyline and landmarks, clockwise from top left: Quad, Derby Cathedral, Intu Derby caption attribution description: English: Derby Skyline and landmarks, clockwise from top left: Derby Quad, Derby Cathedral, Westfield Derby. caption alt text description: Derby Skyline and landmarks, clockwise from top left: Quad, Derby Cathedral, Intu Derby content: Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, of which it was traditionally the county town. Derby gained city status in 1977, and by the 2011 census its population was 248,700.
Derby was settled by Romans – who established the town of Derventio – Saxons and Vikings, who made Derby one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era. Home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory, Derby has a claim to be one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. It contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry.
Derby is a centre for advanced transport manufacturing, being home to the world's second largest aero-engine manufacturer: Rolls-Royce. Bombardier Transportation are based at the Derby Litchurch Lane Works and were for many years the UK's only train manufacturers. Toyota Manufacturing UK's automobile headquarters is southwest of the city at Burnaston.


title: University of Illinois system section title: Springfield hierarchical section title: University of Illinois system / Organization / Springfield caption reference description: University of Illinois Springfield campus caption attribution description: English: UIS campus content: The University of Illinois System is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three universities: Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana–Champaign. Across its three universities, the University of Illinois System enrolls more than 89,270 students. It had an operating budget of $6.97 billion in 2020.


title: Quito section title: Historic center hierarchical section title: Quito / Points of interest / Historic center caption attribution description: English: Antiguo Hospital Militar, Quito Centro Histórico, Quito Historic Center of Quito Photography by David Adam Kess content: Quito is the capital of Ecuador, the country's most populous city, and at an elevation of 2,850 metres above sea level, it is the second highest official capital city in the world, and the closest to the equator. It is located in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains.
In 2008, the city was designated as the headquarters of the Union of South American Nations.
The historic centre of Quito is one of the largest, least-altered and best-preserved in the Americas. Quito and Kraków, Poland, were the first World Cultural Heritage Sites declared by UNESCO, in 1978. The central square of Quito is located about 25 kilometres south of the equator; the city itself extends to within about 1 kilometre of zero latitude. A monument and museum marking the general location of the equator is known locally as la mitad del mundo, to avoid confusion, as the word Ecuador is Spanish for equator.


title: History of Armenia section title: Persian Armenia hierarchical section title: History of Armenia / Early Modern period / Persian Armenia caption reference description: Robert de Vaugondy Map of Persia, Arabia and Turkey, 1753. Armenia is divided between Persia and Turkey. caption attribution description: English: This is Robert de Vaugondy’s spectacular 1753 map of the Ottoman Empire. Vaugondy maps the empire at its height, with territory spanning from the Black Sea to the southernmost extension of Arabia and west, inclusive of Persia, as far as the Mongol Empire of India. Includes the modern day nations of Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, and Greece. Vaugondy employs all of the latest geographical information of the time incorporating both French and transliterations Arabic place names. This map offers splendid detail throughout inclusive of undersea shoals and reefs in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, and historical sites. A highly decorative title cartouche showing an Ottoman prince appears in the lower left quadrant. Five distance scales are in the lower right. Drawn by Robert de Vaugondy in 1753 and published in the 1757 issue of his Atlas Universal . content: The history of Armenia covers the topics related to the history of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Armenian people, the Armenian language, and the regions historically and geographically considered Armenian.
Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat. The original Armenian name for the country was Hayk, later Hayastan, translated as 'the land of Hayk', derrived from Hayk and the Persian suffix '-stan'. The historical enemy of Hayk was Bel, or in other words Baal.
The name Armenia was given to the country by the surrounding states, and it is traditionally derived from Armenak or Aram. In the Bronze Age, several states flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including the Hittite Empire, Mitanni, and Hayasa-Azzi. Soon after the Hayasa-Azzi were the Nairi and the Kingdom of Urartu, who successively established their sovereignty over the Armenian Highland. Each of the aforementioned nations and tribes participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenian people.


title: Haymarket Square (Boston) section title: The name "Haymarket" in Boston hierarchical section title: Haymarket Square (Boston) / The name "Haymarket" in Boston caption reference description: 360 degree view of Haymarket Square painted in about 1895, that "purports to show the area in 1835."[2]:98 It shows Haymarket Square connected to Boston Harbor by Canal Street, along which also ran railroad tracks and the canal for which the street was named. caption attribution description: English: 360 degree view of Haymarket Square, Boston, in 1835. According to Nancy Seasholes' 2003 book, Gaining Ground, this drawing was "probably made in 1895. ... It purports to show the area in 1835, but the railroad did not exist then nor did most of the buildings." caption alt text description: Panoramic view of Haymarket Square in 1835. content: Haymarket Square is the historic name of a former town square in Boston, located between the North End, Government Center, the Bulfinch Triangle, and the West End. The square was a well-known feature of Boston from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when the buildings around it were demolished to make way for the Central Artery and Government Center. The Haymarket produce market continues to operate at a location near the historic site of the square.


title: List of Tachinidae genera section title: G hierarchical section title: List of Tachinidae genera / G caption reference description: Gonia capitata caption attribution description: Deutsch: Raupenfliege (Gonia capitata). Die Raupenfliegen (Tachinidae), auch Schmarotzerfliegen sind eine artenreiche Familie der Zweiflügler mit weltweit etwa 8000 Arten, die mit etwa 500 Arten in Mitteleuropa vertreten ist. English: Tachina fly (Gonia capitata).Tachinidae is a large and rather variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Français : Gonia capitata, un Tachinide. Les tachinides forment une grande famille de diptères avec près de 8200 espèces décrites. Leurs larves parasitent d'autres insectes. content: This is a list of the genera currently recognised in the fly family Tachinidae.


title: Luanda section title: Demographics hierarchical section title: Luanda / Demographics caption reference description: N. Sra. da Nazaré Church, b. 1664. caption attribution description: The Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Nazaré (1664) faces the Marginal promenade in Luanda, Angola. content: Luanda, is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world, with over 8 million inhabitants in 2019.
Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, it was founded in January 1576 as São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais. The city served as the centre of the slave trade to Brazil before its prohibition. At the start of the Angolan Civil War in 1975, most of the white Portuguese left as refugees, principally for Portugal. Luanda's population increased greatly from refugees fleeing the war, but its infrastructure was inadequate to handle the increase. This also caused the exacerbation of slums, or musseques, around Luanda. The city is undergoing a major reconstruction, with many large developments taking place that will alter its cityscape significantly.


title: Blandair section title: Structures hierarchical section title: Blandair / Structures caption reference description: Blandair Slave Quarters content: Blandair, also known as Blandair Farm, Blandair Park, and Blandair Regional Park, is 300 acres of former slave plantation located in Columbia, Maryland. The Blandair Foundation estate of Mrs. Smith was purchased by Howard County, Maryland in the late 1990s and is in the process of being developed as a regional park.