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More DetailsNiani was a Mandinka kingdom located on the north bank of the Gambia River from approximately the 14th to the late 19th century in what is now The Gambia and Senegal. History. Founding. Oral histories relate that, during the 14th century, many members of the Kamara clan left the town of Niani i ...
Read MoreOn August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, shot 45 people, killing 23 and injuring 22 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate c ...
Read MoreThe 2006–07 Sussex County Football League season was the 82nd in the history of Sussex County Football League a football competition in England. Division One. Division One featured 18 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division Two: *Oakwoo ...
Read MoreSimon Nkoro Egbong was a Nigerian politician who represented the Ikom II State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly. He died in 2018 after a prolonged illness, at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital. Following his death, his wife, Stella Nkoro, succeeded him as the repre ...
Read MoreA gill or ghyll is a ravine or narrow valley in the North of England and parts of Scotland. The word originates from the Old Norse gil. Examples include Dufton Ghyll Wood, Dungeon Ghyll, Troller's Gill and Trow Ghyll. As a related usage, Gaping Gill is the name of a cave, not the associated stre ...
Read MoreBerkeley " Bert " Lionel Scudamore Dallard was a New Zealand accountant, senior public servant and prison administrator. Biography. Early life. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 27 August 1889, and attended Rangiora High School. He completed a junior civil service examination and i ...
Read MoreVera Rózsa OBE was a Hungarian singer, voice teacher, and vocal consultant. She lived in the United Kingdom from 1954. Education. She started her music education at the age of five. Her parents were teachers and having no baby-sitter at home, they simply took her along to school. Her parents, es ...
Read MoreOn July 6, 1964, a large explosion engulfed the American Cyanamid chemical plant in Edinburg, Pennsylvania. 5 workers were killed, and the blast damaged dozens of buildings in the immediate area. The explosion resulted from the ignition of chemical materials within the facility. Emergency response e ...
Read MoreThe Croquet Player is a 1936 novella by H. G. Wells, "a sort of ghost story." It has been called "a short allegory written under the stimulus of the Spanish War." Plot summary. Georgie, a gentleman with "soft hands and an ineffective will," is dependent on his wealthy aunt, Miss Frobisher. He is ...
Read MoreTomas Gadeikis is a retired Lithuanian sprint canoeist who competed from 2005 to 2014. He won four medals in the C-2 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds and two bronzes. Gadeikis also competed in the C-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but was ...
Read MoreAbu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari , was an important representative of the Sunni theological school of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi and the author of Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid which is a voluminous kalam work. He lived in Bukhara under the dominance of West Karakhanids. His theological works, ...
Read MoreTahmela is a district in Tampere, Finland. It is located between Ylä-Pispala and Pyynikki on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi. There is a Varala Sports College in Tahmela. There are rental agricultural plots on the shore of Tahmela, and Kurpitsaliike ry was founded in 1998 to defend the continuatio ...
Read MoreJodie Marie Warlow is a Welsh singer-songwriter better known by her stage name, Jodie Marie . She was signed to Decca Records in 2010. Jodie Marie's 2012 debut album Mountain Echo has been described by The Guardian as 'velvety and bittersweet' and The Independent as 'having a light-blues and ja ...
Read MorePilgrims Progress is the fourth studio album by Kula Shaker and was released on 28 June 2010. The first single to be taken from the album was "Peter Pan R.I.P", which was made available to download as an MP3 from the band's website on 22 April 2010. A three-track "Peter Pan R.I.P" EP was later mad ...
Read MoreTahmela is a district in Tampere, Finland. It is located between Ylä-Pispala and Pyynikki on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi. There is a Varala Sports College in Tahmela. There are rental agricultural plots on the shore of Tahmela, and Kurpitsaliike ry was founded in 1998 to defend the continuatio ...
Read MoreEugen Papst was a German composer and music teacher. Life. Papst was born in Oberammergau, the son of an educator and head teacher of the same name, Eugen Papst, after whom the Eugen-Papst-Förderschule in Germering was later named. He then attended the teacher training seminar in Freising and st ...
Read MoreRibacoa is a historical area in central Portugal. It is located roughly between Côa and Águeda rivers. ...
Read MoreLoren R. Pierce was a Vermont attorney and politician who had a long career in the Vermont General Assembly. In addition to serving multiple terms in the House of Representatives and Vermont Senate, Pierce served one term as Speaker of the House. Biography. Loren Ray Pierce was born in Londonderr ...
Read MoreThis is a list of transfers involving German football clubs during the 2020 summer transfer window. Only transfers of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga are included. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and the resulting impact on the scheduling of the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons, the German F ...
Read MoreCBR , formerly Comic Book Resources , is a news website primarily covering comic book news, comic book reviews, and comic book–related topics involving movies, television, anime, and video games. It is owned by Valnet, parent of publications including Screen Rant , Collider , MovieWeb and XD ...
Read MoreMartin Nešpor is a Czech professional footballer who played as a forward for Benešov. Club career. Sparta Prague. On 16 June 2016. Nešpor signed to Czech First League side Sparta Prague. Loan at Piast Gliwice. On 9 July 2017. Nešpor joined Ekstraklasa side Piast Gliwice, on a season-long l ...
Read MoreMahmudul Hoque is a justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. Early life. Mahmudul Hoque was born on 13 December 1958. He has a bachelor's of law and master's of art from the University of Chittagong. Career. Mahmudul Hoque became a lawyer in the District Courts on 26 S ...
Read MoreParvimolge is a genus of salamanders in the family Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders. It is currently considered as monotypic, although this may yet change as molecular data suggest that it is embedded within a paraphyletic Pseudoeurycea . Parvimolge townsendi is endemic to the northern ...
Read MoreLeeds Akkies were a rugby league team based in The Old Modernians Sports Club, Cookridge Lane, Leeds, LS16 7ND, West Yorkshire. They played in the Yorkshire Men's League. History. Leeds Akademiks were founded in 2003 by students from the three Universities of Leeds to provide a pathway from stu ...
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