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More DetailsHuneckia is a genus of crustose lichens in the subfamily Caloplacoideae of the family Teloschistaceae. It has four species. Taxonomy. The genus was circumscribed in 2014 by Sergei Kondratyuk, Jack Elix, Ingvar Kärnefelt, Arne Thell, and Jae-Seoun Hur, as a segregate of the genus Caloplaca . Hu ...
Read MoreErnest John Henry Mackay was a British archeologist from Bristol known for his excavations and studies of Mohenjo-daro and other sites belonging to the Indus Valley Civilisation. Early life. Ernest John Henry Mackay was born in Bristol. He had attended Bristol Grammar School and Bristol Universit ...
Read MorePyral SAS is a manufacturer of magnetic recording media products, based in Avranches, France. As of 2015, it is a subsidiary of Mulann, a French company in the smartcard and ticketing industry. In 1934, Pyral created a new type of transcription disc. Their innovation was to coat the aluminum disc ...
Read MoreIn computer programming, a comment is text embedded in source code that a translator ignores. Generally, a comment is an annotation intended to make the code easier for a programmer to understand often explaining an aspect that is not readily apparent in the program code. For this article, commen ...
Read MoreAn ashik or ashugh is traditionally a singer-poet and bard who accompanies his song—be it a dastan or a shorter original composition—with a long-necked lute in Azerbaijani culture, including Turkish and Iranian Azeri and non-Turkic cultures of South Caucasus. In Azerbaijan, the modern ashik ...
Read MoreCommon Base Event is an IBM implementation of the Web Services Distributed Management Event Format standard. IBM also implemented the Common Event Infrastructure, a unified set of APIs and infrastructure for the creation, transmission, persistence and distribution of a wide range of business, sys ...
Read MoreTuy is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It is located in the comarca of Bajo Miño on the right bank of the Miño River, facing the Portuguese town of Valença. The municipality of Tui is composed of 11 parishes: Randufe, Malvas, Pexegu ...
Read MoreBuzz TV was an Irish user-generated television channel that was launched in June 2008, it closed 2 years later in July 2010. The channel allowed viewers to upload their own content, as well as focusing on independent productions, and broadcast on cable and Internet Protocol TV. It was only availab ...
Read MoreWeekly Mansions is the thirty-fifth studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, released on 4 November 2016. It is his ninth release in the 12-album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings. Co-written between Omar and his brother Marcel, Weekly Mansions is described as "an eclectic ex ...
Read MoreThe Standard Vanguard is a car which was produced by the Standard Motor Company in Coventry, England, from 1947 until 1963. The car, announced in July 1947, was completely new, with no resemblance to previous models. Designed in 1945, it was Standard's first post-World War II car and intended for ...
Read MoreDai was a short-lived state from 228 BC to 222 BC during the Warring States period of Chinese history. Prince Zhao Jia, older brother of King Youmiu of Zhao, fled with the remnant forces to Dai Commandery after the conquest of Zhao and was proclaimed the new king of Zhao. His rump state was conque ...
Read MoreDanny Josue Vaca Figueroa is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for JIT. Vaca played for LDU Quito in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup. ...
Read MorePankinsky is a rural locality in Upornikovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 155 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Pankinsky is located between Akishevka River and 18K-6 Track, 23 km southeast of Nekhayevskaya by road. Upornikovska ...
Read MoreJessie C. Buettel is a researcher. Their employers include University of Tasmania. ...
Read MoreSt. James or Saint James is a town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,165 at the 2010 census, up from 804 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography. St. James is located in southern Brunswick County, it is ...
Read MoreThe 41st Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment served in the Western Theatre for the entire war, under such well-known generals as Grant and Sherman. It fought in many battles over the course of four years, suffering more than ...
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Read MoreJames Bates was an American organist and conductor, especially of Early music and Baroque music. Born in Pittsburgh, Bates studied at the Susquehanna University and continued at the Yale School of Music where he focused on organ and choral conducting. He recorded several Bach cantatas with the ens ...
Read MoreAntónio Carreira was a Portuguese composer and organist of the Renaissance. He held the post of organist at the Royal Chapel in Lisbon. His compositions reveal his high contrapuntal craftsmanship. Most of his surviving works can be found in manuscripts at the University of Coimbra. A particularly ...
Read MoreMicrotechnology is technology whose features have dimensions of the order of one micrometre. It focuses on physical and chemical processes as well as the production or manipulation of structures with one-micrometre magnitude. Development. Around 1970, scientists learned that by arraying large num ...
Read MoreParak is a village in Dasht-e Barm Rural District, Kuhmareh District, Kazerun County, Fars province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 109, in 20 families. ...
Read MoreWestern India Baker's Association is a brand of bread originated in Mumbai, India in 1973. It has been a staple in many Mumbai households and is especially favored by local sandwich makers. In 2019 it had a 46% market share of Mumbai's sliced bread market. Products. Wibs makes 4 categories of pro ...
Read MoreNot Going Out is a British television sitcom created by, written by and starring Lee Mack as Lee, a man from Lancashire who lives in London. The series premiered on BBC One on 6 October 2006 and has since become the second-longest British sitcom, after Last of the Summer Wine . The supporting cas ...
Read MoreSt. John's Lodge No. 1 A.Y.M. in New York City, United States, is the oldest operating Masonic Lodge under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of New York Free and Accepted Masons. The lodge was originally warranted as St. John's Lodge No. 2 on December 7, 1757 by George Harison, Esq. of the Provi ...
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