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More DetailsPulau Sekudu , or Frog Island , is an islet located just off Chek Jawa on Pulau Ubin, Singapore. It lies in the Serangoon Harbour opposite Changi. Despite its proximity, it is only reachable by boat, even at low tides. One can see the islet directly opposite the Chek Jawa Visitor Centre. Legend. ...
Read MoreThe Brainerd Lakes Area Lunkers were a baseball team that played in the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. Their home games were played at Mills Field in Brainerd, Minnesota. History. The Lunkers were not the first Northwoods League team to play in Brainerd. From 1998 to 2002 ...
Read MoreJonas Pleškys was a Soviet Navy barge captain who defected from the Soviet Union to the United States in April 1961. As a captain of a barge, he directed his vessel to Gotland, Sweden, where he asked for political asylum. The crew and the barge were returned to the Soviet Union. His defection ser ...
Read MoreRiitta Kyllikki Hari is a Finnish neuroscientist, physician and professor at Aalto University. She has led the Brain Research Unit at the Low Temperature Laboratory since 1982. Hari was appointed as Academician of Science on 26 November 2010. Her most significant achievements relate to the underst ...
Read MoreVacuum induction melting utilizes electric currents to melt metal within a vacuum. The first prototype was developed in 1920. Induction heating induces eddy currents within conductors. Eddy currents create heating effects to melt the metal. Vacuum induction melting has been used in both the aerosp ...
Read MorePinnes was the son of Agron, king of the Ardiaei in Illyria, and Agron's first wife Triteuta. He officially succeeded his father as king in 230 BC, but the Ardiaean kingdom was ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta. Biography. Pinnes was only a young boy when his father died in 230 BC, and hi ...
Read MoreYağcıoğlu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Polatlı, Ankara Province, Turkey. Its population is 196. ...
Read MoreThe Ice Forest is a 2014 thriller film written and directed by Claudio Noce and starring Emir Kusturica, Kseniya Rappoport and Adriano Giannini. It premiered at the 2014 Rome Film Festival. Plot. Pietro, a young specialized technician, arrives in a small Alpine town on the Slovenian border to rep ...
Read MoreVince McKay is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in the 2023 election. He represents the electoral district of Hay River South. He previously served as the municipal council in Hay River. Election results. ...
Read MoreThe Hotel Blanche is a historic site in Lake City, Florida, United States. It is located at 212 North Marion Street. On January 18, 1990, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. History. Hotel Blanche was constructed in 1902 by Frank Pierce Milburn. A south wing was added i ...
Read MoreGolf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses i ...
Read MoreGuillermo Álvarez Guedes was a Cuban comedian, actor, writer & businessman. He was better known across Latin America as Álvarez Guedes . Early years. Alvarez Guedes was born in Unión de Reyes, Matanzas, a town from where, according to a popular song, hails a legendary and probably fictional r ...
Read MoreLiar's poker is an American bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight numerical digits of the serial number on U.S. dollar bills. The digits are usually ranked with the 1 as "ace" as the highest value, followed by 0 as "10", down t ...
Read MoreThe Punjab Educational Endowment Fund is a flagship initiative of Government of the Punjab, launched in 2008 under the leadership of then Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. Designed to support high-achieving yet financially disadvantaged students, PEEF provides merit and need-based scholarships to enabl ...
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Read MoreAristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the ...
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Read MorePark Jung-geun is a South Korean photographer. He received a suspended 10-month prison term for violating South Korean National Security Law by resending North Korean tweets. He claimed that the Twitter posts he made that were used to convict him were sarcastic, and that the case built against him ...
Read MoreOld Chapel , formerly known as the Old Chapel Library , is a former library on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst that is on the National Register of Historic Places. History. Old Chapel was originally constructed in Richardson Romanesque-style between 1884 and 1887 at a cost o ...
Read MorePiotr Włostowic , also known as Peter Wlast , was a Polish noble, castellan of Wrocław, and a ruler of part of Silesia. From 1117 he was voivode of the Duke of Poland Bolesław III Wrymouth. Part of the Łabędzie family, and son of Włost, he is likely to have been related to older princes of S ...
Read MoreTaldra is a small settlement in the northeastern Murray Mallee region of South Australia adjoining the border with Victoria. The aboriginal word taldra means kangaroo. At the, Taldra had a population of 36. The railway through Taldra opened on 13 October 1913 but closed in the 1980s. The former ...
Read MoreClaire Lois Whitaker is a director of several UK companies. Whitaker was the Bid Director for the Southampton City of Culture for 2025. She was formerly Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and a Trustee of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empir ...
Read MoreThe Book of Fortresses is a sixteenth-century manuscript written in 1509–1510 by the Royal Clerk Duarte de Armas at the behest King Manuel I of Portugal. The work contains drawings of all the 56 Portuguese border castles, all of which have been personally visited by the author. The book is consi ...
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