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Hoath

24-Mar-2023 13:38:34

Hoath is a semi-rural village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury local government district. The hamlets of Knaves Ash, Maypole, Ford, Old Tree, Shelvingford and Stoney Acre are included in the parish. History. Hoath was part of the estate granted by King Ecgberht of Kent in 669 for the fo ...


Prisoner of war

24-Mar-2023 13:38:34

A prisoner of war is a non-combatant—whether a military member, an irregular military fighter, or a civilian—who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belli ...


Library

24-Mar-2023 13:38:34

A library is a curated collection of sources of information and similar resources, selected by experts and made accessible to a defined community for reference or 24-Mar-2023 13:48:54...


Cambridge

24-Mar-2023 13:48:54

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, the population of the Cambridge built-up area was 158,434 including 29,327 students. Cambridge became an important trading centre during ...


Future Echoes

24-Mar-2023 13:48:54

" Future Echoes " is the second episode of the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf series one, and was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 22 February 1988. It was written by co-creators Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye. The episode—which has the cre ...


Woodwind instrument

24-Mar-2023 13:48:54

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, and bassoon. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments. The main distinction between these in ...


Warren Brusstar

24-Mar-2023 13:48:55

Warren Scott Brusstar is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played nine years in Major League Baseball, for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox, and Chicago Cubs. He is currently the pitching coach at Napa Valley College. Brusstar was inducted into the Napa Valley Colle ...


Patti Smith

24-Mar-2023 13:48:55

Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses . Called the "punk poet laureate", Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Her most widely known ...


Evolvability

24-Mar-2023 13:48:55

Evolvability is defined as the capacity of a system for adaptive evolution. Evolvability is the ability of a population of organisms to not merely generate genetic diversity, but to generate adaptive genetic diversity, and thereby evolve through natural selection. In order for a biological organ ...


Antonio Buehler

24-Mar-2023 13:48:55

Antonio Buehler is an American educator, entrepreneur, and activist known for his work on police accountability and his pursuit of a more widely recognized constitutional right to photograph, film and document the public activities of police. In 2012, Buehler was arrested in Austin, Texas, for vid ...


Jeff Baxter

24-Mar-2023 13:48:55

Jeffrey Allen " Skunk " Baxter is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s. More recently, he has worked as a defense consultant and chaired a Congressional Advisory Board on 24-Mar-2023 16:20:02...


Engagement (military)

24-Mar-2023 16:20:02

A military engagement is a combat between two forces, neither larger than a division nor smaller than a company, in which each has an assigned or perceived mission. An engagement begins when the attacking force initiates combat in pursuit of its mission, and ends when the attacker has accomplished ...


2MASS J06372843+1002552

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2MASS J06372843+1002552 - long period variable. ...


Peter Gillespie

24-Mar-2023 16:20:03

Peter Gerard Gillespie is an Irish former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he had played for the Ireland cricket team 116 times up to the start of the 2007 World Cup, including twelve first-class matches and 35 List A matches, four of which were One Day Internati ...


Elbow (strike)

24-Mar-2023 16:20:03

An elbow strike is a strike with the point of the elbow, the part of the forearm nearest to the elbow, or the part of the upper arm nearest to the elbow. Elbows can be thrown sideways similarly to a hook, upwards similarly to an uppercut, downwards with the point of the elbow, diagonally or in dir ...


Glastonbury Festival

24-Mar-2023 16:20:03

Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, in England. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousa ...


Public address system

24-Mar-2023 16:20:03

A public address system is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment. It increases the apparent volume of a human voice, musical instrument, or other acoustic sound source or recorded sound or music. PA systems are used in any public venue that re ...


Wang Shizhen (Beiyang government)

24-Mar-2023 16:20:04

Wang Shizhen was a Chinese general and politician of the Republic of China. Biography. Wang was born in Zhengding, Hebei in 1861. He was the Minister of War in the Qing Dynasty under Yuan Shikai and in the Republic of China three times, 1915–1916 and twice in 1917. He was the Premier of China f ...


2MASS J04445123+5820405

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2MASS J04445123+5820405 - Red Giant Branch star. ...


Margaret Lee (English actress)

24-Mar-2023 16:20:06

Margaret Lee is a British actress who was a popular leading lady in Italian films in the 1960s and 1970s. She is the mother of production manager/producer Roberto Malerba and production coordinator Damian Anderson. Early career. Lee was born in Wolverhampton, England and educated at the Italia Co ...


Amos Singletary

24-Mar-2023 16:20:06

Amos Singletary was an American gristmill operator and justice of the peace from Sutton, Massachusetts, who served in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court. An Anti-Federalist, he voted against the U.S. Constitution as a delegate to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention. He was angered b ...


Hardy Bridge

24-Mar-2023 16:20:07

Hardy Bridge is a Warren through truss, three-span, two-lane bridge in the western United States. It crosses the Missouri River and is located at milepost 6 on Old U.S. Route 91, about southwest of Cascade, Montana, which is southwest of Great Falls. Constructed in 1931, it was one of many similar ...


Phillip Lim

24-Mar-2023 16:20:08

Phillip Lim is an American fashion designer of Chinese descent whose parents immigrated to America from Thailand during the Cambodian genocide. Lim co-founded and worked at the Los Angeles-based fashion label Development from 2000 to 2004. In the fall of 2005, he co-founded 3.1 Phillip Lim with fr ...


Ethiopia

24-Mar-2023 16:20:08

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia , is a landlocked country in East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west and Sudan to the northwest. With over million inhabit ...


Musical ensemble

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A musical ensembl24-Mar-2023 16:21:07...