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Talca
Talca is a city and commune in Chile located about south of Santiago, and is the capital of both Talca Province and Maule Region. As of the 2012 census, the city had a population of 201,142. The city is an important economic center, with agricultural and manufacturing activities, as well as wine p ...
Motion control photography
Motion control photography is a technique used in still and motion photography that enables precise control of, and optionally also allows repetition of, camera movements. It can be used to facilitate special effects photography. The process can involve filming several elements using the same came ...
MTV Pilipinas Music Award
MTV Pilipinas Music Awards was the MTV Pilipinas' annual music video awards event. Award categories. *Video of the Year *Favorite Male Video *Favorite Female Video *Favorite New Artist in a Video *Favorite Group Video *Favorite Indie Video *Favorite International Video *Best Animated Video *Best ...
Harold Saxton Burr
Harold Saxton Burr was E. K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine and researcher into bio-electrics. Early life. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1889, to parents Hanford Burr and Clara Saxton. He studied in public schools and at the Technical High School in Spri ...
Culture of Australia
The culture of Australia is primarily a Western culture, to some extent derived from Britain but also influenced by the unique geography of Australia, the cultural input of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Australian people. The British colonization of Australia began in 1788, and wave ...
Kaya, Burkina Faso
Kaya is the seventh-largest city in Burkina Faso, lying northeast of Ouagadougou, to which it is connected by railway. It is a centre for weaving and tanning. Kaya is the capital of Sanmatenga Province. It is from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. Demographics. Kaya had 66,851 inhabitants ...
Liberators' civil war
The Liberators' civil war was started by the Second Triumvirate to avenge Julius Caesar's assassination. The war was fought by the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian against the forces of Caesar's assassins, led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, also called the Liberatores . The ...
Saraburi Province
Saraburi is one of the central provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Lopburi, Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Nayok, Pathum Thani, and Ayutthaya. It is believed to have been constructed in the year 1548 during the reign of King Maha Chakkraphat of Ayutthaya as a centre for recruiting troops. ...
Bay Meadows Racetrack
Bay Meadows was a horse racing track in San Mateo, California from 1934 until 2008, in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. History. Built on the site of an old airfield, Bay Meadows Racecourse was the longest continually operating thoroughbred racetrack in California—having been fo ...
Taifu Comics
Taifu Comics is a French manga publisher established in 2004. Titles. * Akumetsu * Bond * Challengers * Cobra * Crossroad * Cut * Densha Otoko * Girl Friends * Hanjuku-Joshi * Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu * Himitsu no Recipe * Karasu Tengu Kabuto * Koi wa Ina Mono Myōna Mono * Little Butterf ...
Lorne Peterson
Lorne Peterson is a Canadian special effects artist most known for the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films. He won for Best Visual Effects at the 57th Academy Awards for his work on the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . He shared his Oscar with George Gibbs, Michael J. McAlister and D ...
Francisco de la Lastra
General Francisco de la Lastra y de la Sotta was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile. Biography. He was born in Santiago de Chile, the son of Antonio de la Lastra Cortés and of María de la Sotta y Águila. As a young man, he was sent to Spain to pursue his studies ...
Paul Stevens (actor)
Paul Stevens was an American film and television actor. Stevens played Colonel Charles R. Codman in the 1970 film Patton . He also appeared in Exodus , as a key congressional witness in Advise and Consent and in Marlowe . Stevens portrayed Paul on the serial The Nurses . He appeared on the ...
Zmanim
Zmanim are specific times of the day in Jewish law. *In Jewish law, a calendar day is defined as running from "evening" to "evening." This is based on the repetition of the phrase "... and there was evening, and there was morning..."—evening preceding morning—in t ...
Sperm whale
The sperm whale or cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia . The sper ...
Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments , also known in Christianity as the Decalogue , are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship. These are fundamental to both Judaism and Christianity. The text of the Ten Commandments appears twice in the Hebrew Bible: at Exodus and Deuteronomy. Modern schola ...
Wrestling Dontaku 2018
Wrestling Dontaku 2018 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The event took place on May 3 and 4, 2018, in Fukuoka, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. The first night of the event featured nine matches, with a championship at stake in one of these, while the second ni ...
Towering Inferno
* The Towering Inferno * Towering Inferno (band) * Towering Inferno (video game) ...
Economy of the United Kingdom
The economy of the United Kingdom is a highly developed social market and market-orientated economy. It is the sixth-largest national economy in the world measured by nominal gross domestic product, ninth-largest by purchasing power parity, and twenty second-largest by GDP per capita, comprising 3 ...
Consciousness raising
Consciousness raising is a form of activism, popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s. It often takes the form of a group of people attempting to focus the attention of a wider group on some cause or condition. Common issues include diseases, conflicts, movements, and political par ...
List of Steven Universe characters
Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios and is the first Cartoon Network show to be created by a woman. The series focuses on the adventures of the Crystal Gems—magical alien warriors who protect the Earth from ...
Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many of its studios such as Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures were founded there and Para ...
Live Free or Die
" Live Free or Die " is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945. It is possibly the best-known of all state mottos, partly because it conveys an assertive independence historically found in American political philosophy and partly because of its ...
Spectral bat
The spectral bat , also called the great false vampire bat or Linnaeus's false vampire bat , is a large, carnivorous leaf-nosed bat found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. It is the only member of the genus Vampyrum ; its closest living relative is the big-eared woolly bat. It is t ...
Shona languages
The Shona languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone S.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson, the languages form a valid node. They are: Eastern Shona group Central Shona group Western Shona group In the 1920s, the Rhodesian administration was faced with the chal ...