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Q561568 Rittersheim is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. |
Q6755587 Marc Gopin, scholar and practitioner, is the director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC), and James H. Laue Professor at the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University Arlington, Virginia, USA. The Association of Conflict Resolution recently awarded Gopin The Peacemaker Award for his contribution to the Conflict Resolution Field. Note that, in 2008 he also received the Andrew Thomas Peacebuilder Award from the New York State Dispute Resolution Association (NYSDRA). Gopin has pioneered peacebuilding projects at CRDC and trained thousands of peacebuilders in Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Palestine and Israel on strategies to address complex conflicts. He studies dilemmas of values in global conflicts and diverse contexts where religion and culture play a crucial role in conflicts and conflict resolution.Gopin's particular emphasis is on the role of religion and culture in not only key to conflict, but is critical to reaching lasting resolution between peoples and nations. Widely recognized for his lectures and training on peacemaking strategies, Gopin has worked in Ireland, Israel, India, Switzerland, and Italy, and has presented at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. He has also engaged in back channel diplomacy with religious, political, and military figures on both sides of entrenched conflicts, especially in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Jordan, and Syria |
Q1155797 Total Access Communication Public Company Limited, commonly known as DTAC, is the third-largest GSM mobile phone provider in Thailand after AIS and True. DTAC is owned by Telenor both directly and indirectly, and both companies share the same logo. As of 31 December 2011, DTAC had 23.2 million subscribers with the market share of subscribers at around 30 percent.In 2015 DTAC reported total assets of 110,965 million baht, with revenues of 87,753 million baht, and a net profit of 5,893 million baht.As of 11 April 2012, DTAC's parent company became BCTN Holding.DTAC has won the "Best Mobile Operator of Thailand" award for three consecutive years (2005–2007) from Asian MobileNews Awards 2007, organized by Asian MobileNews Magazine. |
Q4741722 The Ambridge Area School District is a midsized, urban public school district in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. It serves the boroughs of Ambridge, Baden, Economy and South Heights and Harmony Township. The district encompasses approximately 27 square miles (70 km2). According to 2000 United States Census Bureau data, it serves a resident population of 25,022. By 2010, the District's population declined to 23,831 people. The educational attainment levels for the Ambridge Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 89.8% high school graduates and 21.8% college graduates. The District is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania.According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 40.6% of the District's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level [1] as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, reported that 16 students in the Ambridge Area School District were homeless. In 2009, Ambridge Area School District residents’ per capita income was $18,652, while the median family income was $46,294. In Beaver County, the median household income was $49,217. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. By 2014, the median household income in the USA was $53,700.According to Ambridge Area School District officials, in school year 2007-08 the Ambridge Area School District provided basic educational services to 2,822 pupils through the employment of 214 teachers, 197 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 16 administrators. Ambridge Area School District received more than $15.4 million in state funding in school year 2007-08. Ambridge Area School District enrollment declined to 2,749 pupils in 2011. The District employed: 193 teachers, 134 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 15 administrators during the 2011-12 school year. The District received more than $16 million in state funding in the 2011-12 school year.Ambridge Area School District operates five schools: Ambridge Area High School, Ambridge Area Junior High School, Economy Elementary, Highland Elementary and State Street Elementary. High school students may choose to attend the Beaver County Career and Technology Center for training in the construction and mechanical trades. For the 2014-15 school year, 381 resident students chose to enroll in public charter schools and cyber charter schools, rather than attend the District's schools.The Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit IU27 provides the District with a wide variety of services like: specialized education for disabled students; state mandated training on recognizing and reporting child abuse; speech and visual disability services; criminal background check processing for prospective employees and professional development for staff and faculty. |
Q7489138 Shanzu is a suburb of Mombasa, Kenya. Shanzu is located in Mombasa, off the Mombasa-Malindi highway. Shanzu beach has a number of popular hotels, bars and restaurants and is within easy reach of Mombasa, Bamburi, Nyali and Mtwapa. |
Q5978170 Club de Fútbol Lobos de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Premier were a Mexican football club based in Puebla, Mexico. The club represented the Autonomous University of Puebla. The clubs was affiliated with Lobos BUAP and plays in the Liga Premier. |
Q16191848 NASL Final 1970 was the North American Soccer League's postseason championship final of the 1970 season. The event was contested in a two-game aggregate match between the Rochester Lancers and the Washington Darts. The first leg was held on September 5, 1970 at Aquinas Memorial Stadium in Rochester, New York, with the Lancers victorious by a score of 3–0. The second leg was played on September 13, 1970 at Brookland Stadium in Washington, DC. That day the Darts came out on top by the score of 3–1. Renato Costa, who played under the alias of "Raul Herrera" that year, scored three of Rochester's four goals. With the two-day competition completed, the Rochester Lancers held a 4–3 aggregate lead and were crowned the 1970 NASL champions. |
Q18115394 Francis Alexander FitzGerald (1807–1897) was an Irish barrister and judge, who had a distinguished career. He resigned from the Bench in unusual circumstance, on a point of principle.He was the third son of Maurice FitzGerald (died 1838), Royal Physician to the British Crown at Madras, and his wife Mary Burton. William FitzGerald, Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert (1814–1883), was his youngest brother. |
Q22003139 John Anderson (born 15 February 1955) is an Australian former cricketer. He played four first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1976 and 1977. |
Q20180202 This article lists the results and fixtures for the Thailand women's national football team. |
Q28405182 Paul Oberschneider (born 16 August 1958) is an American-Estonian businessman, investor, and property developer. He is best known for founding real estate companies including lt:Ober-Haus Real Estate and Hauser-Oberschneider. |
Q35841277 Beautiful Trauma is the seventh studio album by American singer Pink. It was released on October 13, 2017, by RCA Records after a 5 year hiatus from music. The album's release was preceded by the release of the first single, "What About Us", on August 10, 2017. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, it was the third global best-selling album of 2017 with sales of 1.8 million copies and the eight global best-selling album of 2018 with sales of 1.2 million copies. Pink embarked on the Beautiful Trauma World Tour to promote the album. |
Q27593 AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock, and heavy metal; however, the band themselves describe their music as simply "rock and roll".AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, High Voltage, in 1975. Membership subsequently stabilised around the Young brothers, singer Bon Scott, drummer Phil Rudd, and bass player Mark Evans. Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977 for the album Powerage. In February 1980, a few months after recording the album Highway to Hell, lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott died of acute alcohol poisoning. The group considered disbanding but stayed together, bringing in Brian Johnson as replacement for Scott. Later that year, the band released their first album with Johnson, Back in Black, which they dedicated to Scott's memory. The album launched them to new heights of success and became one of the best selling albums of all time.The band's next album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, was their first album to reach number one in the United States. The band fired Phil Rudd as drummer in 1983, and Simon Wright filled his place until quitting in 1989, being in turn replaced by Chris Slade. The band experienced a commercial resurgence in the early 1990s with the release of The Razors Edge. Phil Rudd returned in 1994, contributing to the band's 1995 album Ballbreaker. The band's studio album Black Ice, released in 2008, was the second highest-selling album of that year, and their biggest chart hit since For Those About to Rock, eventually reaching No.1 on all charts worldwide. The band's line-up remained the same until 2014 with Malcolm Young's retirement due to early-onset dementia and Rudd's legal troubles. In 2016, Johnson was advised to stop touring due to worsening hearing loss, and Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose stepped in as the band's vocalist for the remainder of that year's dates. Long-term bass player and background vocalist Cliff Williams retired from the band at the end of their 2016 Rock or Bust World Tour. Nevertheless the group has not officially disbanded and unconfirmed reports of a new album and possible tour continue to circulate.AC/DC have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 71.5 million albums in the United States, making them the tenth highest-selling artist in the United States and the 14th best selling artist worldwide. Back in Black has sold an estimated 50 million units worldwide, making it the third highest-selling album by any artist, and the highest-selling album by any band. The album has sold 22 million units in the US, where it is the sixth-highest-selling album of all time. AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" and were named the seventh "Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All Time" by MTV. In 2004, AC/DC ranked No. 72 on the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Producer Rick Rubin, who wrote an essay on the band for the Rolling Stone list, referred to AC/DC as "the greatest rock and roll band of all time". In 2010, VH1 ranked AC/DC number 23 in its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". |
Q5738 Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (French: [maʁi ʒozɛf lwi adɔlf tjɛʁ]; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic.Thiers was a key figure in the July Revolution of 1830, which overthrew the Bourbon monarchy, and the French Revolution of 1848, which established the Second French Republic. He served as a prime minister in 1836, 1840 and 1848, dedicated the Arc de Triomphe, and arranged the return to France of the ashes of Napoleon from Saint-Helena. He was first a supporter, then a vocal opponent of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (who served from 1848 to 1852 as President of the Second Republic and then called himself Emperor Napoleon III, reigning from 1852 to 1871). When Napoleon III seized power, Thiers was arrested and briefly expelled from France. He then returned and became an opponent of the government.Following the defeat of France in the Franco-German War, which Thiers opposed, he was elected chief executive of the new French government and negotiated the end of the war. When the Paris Commune seized power in March 1871, Thiers gave the orders to the army for its suppression. At the age of seventy-four, he was named President of the Republic by the French National Assembly in August 1871. His chief accomplishment as president was to achieve the departure of German soldiers from most of French territory two years ahead of schedule. Opposed by the monarchists in the French assembly and the left wing of the Republicans, he resigned on 24 May 1873, and was replaced as President by Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta. When he died in 1877, his funeral became a major political event; the procession was led by two of the leaders of the republican movement, Victor Hugo and Leon Gambetta, who, at the time of his death, were his allies against the conservative monarchists.He was also a notable literary figure, the author of a very successful ten-volume history of the French Revolution, and a twenty-volume history of the Consulate and Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1834 he was elected to the Académie Française. |
Q458732 Conradin Kreutzer or Kreuzer (Messkirch in Baden, 22 November 1780 – Riga, 14 December 1849) was a German composer and conductor. His works include the opera Das Nachtlager in Granada, and Der Verschwender (Incidental music), both produced in 1834 in Vienna.Kreutzer abandoned his studies in the law (University of Freiburg) and went to Vienna about 1804, where he met Joseph Haydn and may have studied with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, while he tried his hand unsuccessfully at singspielen. He spent 1811–12 in Stuttgart, where at least three of his operas were staged and he was awarded the post of Hofkapellmeister. He was from 1812 to 1816 Kapellmeister to the king of Württemberg. Once he was successful, he became a prolific composer, and wrote a number of operas for the Theater am Kärntnertor, Theater in der Josefstadt and Theater an der Wien Vienna, which have disappeared from the stage.In 1840 he became conductor of the opera at Cologne. His daughters, Cecilia and Marie Kreutzer, were sopranos of some renown.Kreutzer owes his fame almost exclusively to Das Nachtlager in Granada (1834), which kept the stage for half a century in spite of changes in musical taste. It was written in the style of Carl Maria von Weber. The same qualities are found in Kreutzer's part-songs for men's voices, which at one time were extremely popular in Germany. Among these "Das ist der Tag des Herrn" ("The Lord's Day") may be named as the most excellent. His Septet for winds and strings, Op. 62, remains in the chamber music repertory. He was one of the 50 composers who wrote a Variation on a waltz of Anton Diabelli for Part II of the "Vaterländischer Künstlerverein" (published 1824). |
Q2931633 CKGN-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 89.7 FM in Kapuskasing, Ontario and 94.7 FM in Smooth Rock Falls. Owned and operated by Radio communautaire KapNord cooperative, it is a non-profit community radio station for the region's franco-ontarian community.The station is a member of the Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada. |
Q465127 Denaun M. Porter (born December 7, 1978), better known by his stage names Mr. Porter, Kon Artis, and Denaun (often stylized as dEnAuN), is an American music producer, singer, songwriter, and rapper. He was a member of Detroit hip-hop group D12 until its disbandment.He has a close association with rapper Eminem, often appearing on his tours and has produced for a manifold of other notable artists such as 50 Cent, Royce Da 5'9, The Game, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, Jadakiss and more. |
Q540799 Gregory of Rimini (c. 1300 – November 1358), also called Gregorius de Arimino or Ariminensis, was one of the great scholastic philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages. He was the first scholastic writer to unite the Oxonian and Parisian traditions in 14th-century philosophy, and his work had a lasting influence in the Late Middle Ages and Reformation. His scholastic nicknames were Doctor acutus and Doctor authenticus. |
Q1052298 Cecil Gordon (June 21, 1941 – September 19, 2012) was an American stock car racing driver. A competitor in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series between 1968 and 1985, he competed in 449 events without winning a race. |
Q3163246 Jay Newman (February 28, 1948 – June 17, 2007) was a philosopher and Professor at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. |
Q880496 The Black River is one of the longest rivers in Jamaica. At a length of 53.4 km (33.2 mi), it was believed to be the longest until it was discovered that the Rio Minho was 92.8 km long. Its name refers to the darkness of the river bed caused by thick layers of decomposing vegetation. Over 100 species of birds have been recorded in the Black River morass. |
Q1952845 Loyew District or Lójeŭski Rajon (Belarusian: Лоеўскі раён, romanized: Lojeŭski rajon; Russian: Лоевский район, romanized: Loyevsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Belarus located in the Gomel Region. Its administrative center is Loyew. |
Q5000437 Burretiodendron is a genus of trees. Traditionally included in the family Tiliaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. It contains some species formerly in the (not too closely related) Pentace. Thus, Parapentace Gagnep. may be a synonym of Burretiodendron rather than Pentace.These are deciduous or semi-evergreen trees with heart-shaped leaves and winged capsules.This genus is native to and distributed in Asia. |
Q5347555 Efonidipine (INN) is a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker marketed by Shionogi & Co. of Japan. It was launched in 1995, under the brand name Landel (ランデル). The drug blocks both T-type and L-type calcium channels. Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) granted approval to Zuventus Healthcare Limited for marketing efonidipine under brand name Efnocar in India . |
Q861277 Vera Vladimirovna Shimanskaya (Russian: Вера Владимировна Шиманская, born 10 April 1981) is a Russian rhythmic gymnast. She won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. |
Q256529 The Men's 15 kilometre biathlon mass start competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 25 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting twenty times, ten prone and ten standing. Each miss required a competitor to ski a 150-metre penalty loop.Only thirty athletes competed in the mass start, which was making its Olympic debut. Ole Einar Bjørndalen was defending World Champion, but was tenth in the overall World Cup, which was led by France's Raphaël Poirée. Tomasz Sikora's silver medal finish was the first biathlon medal ever for Poland, men's or women's. |
Q2506627 The VTB United League 2012–13 was the fourth complete season of the VTB United League, which is Northern and Eastern Europe's top-tier level men's professional club basketball competition. The tournament featured 20 teams, from 10 countries. CSKA Moscow won its 4th VTB title, by beating Lokomotiv-Kuban Krasnodar, 3–1, in a best-of-five Finals series. |
Q6564010 This is a list of singles that charted in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, an all-genre singles chart, in 2013.During the year, 62 songs and 59 acts charted in the tier, and 34 of these acts scored their first top-ten single in the US either as a lead or featured artist. Drake had the most top tens in 2013, with four, while Lorde's debut single "Royals" became the longest-running top-ten single of the year, spending twenty-three consecutive weeks in the tier. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis spent the most consecutive weeks in the top ten during 2013, with thirty-two spanning from January 5 to August 10. |
Q17015873 The Final Count was the fourth Bulldog Drummond novel. It was published in 1926 and written by H. C. McNeile under the pen name Sapper. |
Q17984476 An election to Donegal County Council took place on 5 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 29 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office. |
Q17626693 Jack Edwin Harper (8 April 1914 – 17 January 2005) was an Australian amateur tennis player who competed mainly in the 1930s and 1940s. He reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships in 1946 and was runner-up in the men's doubles in 1937 partnering John Bromwich.In April 1946 Harper lost just a single point when he defeated J. Sandiford 6–0, 6–0 at the Surrey Open Hard Court Championships in a match that lasted 18 minutes, the shortest singles match on record. |
Q9151187 Andrey Parfenov (born 17 December 1987) is a Russian cross-country skier who competes internationally with the Russian national team.He made his World Cup debut in 2007, and competed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015. |
Q10909316 Penance is repentance of sins as well as an alternate name for the Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession. It also plays a part in confession among Anglicans and Methodists, in which it is a rite, as well as among other Protestants. The word penance derives from Old French and Latin paenitentia, both of which derive from the same root meaning repentance, the desire to be forgiven (in English see contrition). Penance and repentance, similar in their derivation and original sense, have come to symbolize conflicting views of the essence of repentance, arising from the controversy as to the respective merits of "faith" and "good works". Word derivations occur in many languages. |
Q1373529 Matthew James Welsh, OAM (born 18 November 1976) is an Australian swimmer who is the former world champion in the backstroke and butterfly. He took two golds in 50-metre butterfly and 50-metre backstroke, during one hour, at the World Championships in Shanghai 2006. Welsh retired from professional swimming in March 2008 when he failed to secure a place in the team for the Beijing Olympics. |
Q7870109 USS Hendrick Hudson (1859) was a schooner-rigged screw steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union blockade of the ports of the Confederate States of America. |
Q1513958 Manasseh Cutler (May 13, 1742 – July 28, 1823) was an American clergyman involved in the American Revolutionary War. Cutler was also a member of the United States House of Representatives. Cutler is "rightly entitled to be called 'The Father of Ohio University.'"Cutler was born in Killingly, Connecticut. In 1765, he graduated from Yale College and after being a school teacher in Dedham, Massachusetts and a merchant – and occasionally appearing in court as a lawyer – he decided to enter the ministry. He married Mary Balch within a year of graduating from Yale. Cutler studied under Mary's father, Thomas Balch, the minister at Dedham's First Church and Parish, for the ministry. From 1771 until his death, he was pastor of the Congregational church in what was the parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts until 1793, now Hamilton.For a few months in 1776, he was chaplain to the 11th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Francis, raised for the defense of Boston. In 1778, he became chaplain to General Jonathan Titcomb's brigade and took part in General John Sullivan's expedition to Rhode Island. Soon after his return from this expedition he trained in medicine to supplement the scanty income of a minister. In 1782, he established a private boarding school, directing it for nearly a quarter of a century.In 1786, Cutler became interested in the settlement of western lands by American pioneers to the Northwest Territory. The following year, as agent of the Ohio Company of Associates that he had been involved in creating, he organized a contract with Congress whereby his associates (former soldiers of the Revolutionary War) might purchase one and a half million acres (6,000 km²) of land at the mouth of the Muskingum River with their Certificate of Indebtedness. Cutler also took a leading part in drafting the famous Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory, which was finally presented to Congress by Massachusetts delegate Nathan Dane. In order to smooth passage of the Northwest Ordinance, Cutler bribed key congressmen by making them partners in his land company. By changing the office of provisional governor from an elected to an appointed position, Cutler was able to offer the position to the president of Congress, Arthur St. Clair. From 1801 to 1805, Cutler was a Federalist representative in Congress.Cutler was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1781. Besides being proficient in the theology, law and medicine of his day, he conducted painstaking astronomical and meteorological investigations and was one of the first Americans to conduct significant botanical research. He is considered a founder of Ohio University and the National Historic Landmark Cutler Hall on that campus is named in his honor. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Yale University in 1789. Manasseh was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1813.Cutler died in 1823 at Hamilton, Massachusetts.Three of his descendants were members of the U.S. Congress-and one vice president:William P. Cutler [1812-1889] son of Ephraim CutlerRufus Dawes [1838-1899] father of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes and Beman Gates Dawes; he was the son of Mrs. Sarah (Cutler) Dawes daughter of Ephraim CutlerBeman Gates Dawes [1870-1953] son of Congressman Rufus Dawes |
Q6811373 Melanie M. Valerio (born May 7, 1969) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.Valerio was born in Campbell, Ohio and graduated from the Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio. Afterward, she attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she swam for the Virginia Cavaliers swimming and diving team.At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Valerio earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay.Valerio races Ironman and is an elite age-group member of the Timex Multisport Team. She often blogs her races and training for Timex.[1]. |
Q205470 Blast furnace gas (BFG) is a by-product of blast furnaces that is generated when the iron ore is reduced with coke to metallic iron. It has a very low heating value, about 93 BTU/cubic foot (3.5 MJ/m3), because it consists of about 60 percent nitrogen and 18-20% carbon dioxide, which are not flammable. The rest is mostly carbon monoxide, which has a fairly low heating value already and some (2-4%) hydrogen. It is commonly used as a fuel within the steel works, but it can be used in boilers and power plants equipped to burn it. It may be combined with natural gas or coke oven gas before combustion or a flame support with richer gas or oil is provided to sustain combustion. Particulate matter is removed so that it can be burned more cleanly. Blast furnace gas is sometimes flared without generating heat or electricity.Blast furnace gas is generated at higher pressure and at about 100–150 °C (212–302 °F) in a modern blast furnace. This pressure is utilized to operate a generator (Top-gas-pressure Recovery Turbine - i.e. TRT in short), which can generate electrical energy up to 35 kWh/t of pig iron without burning any fuel. Dry type TRTs can generate more power than wet type TRT.Auto ignition point of blast furnace gas is approximate 630–650 °C (1,166–1,202 °F) and it has LEL (Lower Explosive Limit) of 27% & UEL (Upper Explosive Limit) of 75% in an air-gas mixture at normal temperature and pressure.The high concentration of carbon monoxide makes the gas hazardous. |
Q1023121 Luntai County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Bügür County, is a county in central Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 14,189 km2 (5,478 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 90,000.Luntai has a long history associated with China. When the city refused aid to Li Guangli's Fergana campaign (c. 101 BC), the inhabitants were slaughtered. Around 80 BC, a Han military colony was established on the site. |
Q7715354 The Baj Pomorski Theatre is a puppet theatre, located in Toruń in Poland. |
Q6144781 James Wheeler Fleming (February 15, 1867, in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York – April 27, 1928, in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York) was an American businessman, banker and politician. |
Q782529 NGC 5229 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is a member of the M51 Group although in reality it is relatively isolated from other galaxies. The galaxy's disc is somewhat warped and appears to consist of a series of interconnected clusters of stars from our vantage point on Earth. It is approximately 7 kiloparsecs (23,000 light-years) in diameter and is about 13.7 billion years old. |
Q4884511 Belomorets (Bulgarian: Беломорец) is a Bulgarian football club from the village of Svetlen, Targovishte Province. |
Q5316766 Durresi block is a large off-shore Albanian oil and gas field. It was discovered in 2003. It is located 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of the city of Durrës in the west of central Albania. It is Albania's largest offshore oil and gas field. |
Q7030018 Nicole Clerico (Italian pronunciation: [niˈkɔl ˈklɛːriko, - ˈkleː-]; born 8 March 1983 in Cuneo) is a retired Italian tennis player.On 21 September 2009, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 381. On 11 October 2010, she peaked at No. 171 in the doubles rankings.Clerico started playing tennis at the age of eight was coached by Matteo Costa. She won 27 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.In 2015, Clerico retired from the professional tour. |
Q8536067 Mount Eagle (1,160 feet (350 m))(+) is located on the island of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and is the highest point on the island.A hiking trail leading from West Scenic Road leads to the summit from 17°75'8264°N, -64°80'4354 |
Q7749333 The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein is a 2001 film. In Greece the film is known as Ta tragoudia trelas tis Fernanda Hussein. |
Q5308475 Dropped Pianos is an EP by Tim Hecker, released on October 10, 2011 by Kranky. It was recorded in early 2010 in Montreal and Banff, Canada, before its companion album, Ravedeath, 1972.The EP is described as an "inversion" of Ravedeath, released previously in 2011. Its tone is "starker and colder" than its predecessor, deemed "intimate" whilst Ravedeath is described as "grand". |
Q6851949 Military is a 2003 Indian Tamil film, directed by G. Sai Suresh, who earlier directed Kunguma Pottu Gounder (2001). The film stars Sathyaraj and Rambha in lead roles. The film, produced by "Metti Oli" S. Siddiq, had musical score by Deva and was released on 28 February 2003. The film is a remake of the Malayalam film Hitler starring Mammootty and Shobhana in lead roles. The film is a remake of Malayalam film Hitler (1996). |
Q16979812 Yousef Abu Laben (Arabic: يوسف أبو لبن, Hebrew: יוסף אבו לבן; born 26 May 1992) is an Arab-Israeli footballer who currently plays at F.C. Dimona. |
Q7082815 The Bayer designation κ Lupi (Kappa Lupi) is shared by two star systems in the constellation Lupus:κ1 Lupi (HD 134481)κ2 Lupi (HD 134482) |
Q26231870 Nick Lim (born 22 July 1998) is a Dutch football player who plays for Jong FC Utrecht. |
Q937712 The 1020s BC is a decade which lasted from 1029 BC to 1020 BC. |
Q3914617 Gravelbourg Airport, (TC LID: CJM4), is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) southwest of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada. |
Q2508419 The 1974 Amstel Gold Race was the ninth edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday April 13, 1974, in the Dutch provinces of Limburg. The race stretched 238 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total of 137 competitors, and 31 cyclists finished the race. |
Q973229 The Michoacan pocket gopher (Zygogeomys trichopus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is monotypic within the genus Zygogeomys. It is endemic to Mexico where its natural habitat is temperate, high-altitude forests. Its numbers are declining and it is listed by the IUCN as "endangered". |
Q1370970 Crespin is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. |
Q457677 Israil Magomedgireyevich Arsamakov (Russian: Исраил Магомедгиреевич Арсамаков, (born February 8, 1962 in Grozny, Chechen–Ingush ASSR) is a former Ingush and Soviet weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.Arsamakov won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. |
Q7842487 Trinidad and Tobago – United States relations are bilateral relations between Trinidad and Tobago and the United States.The United States and Trinidad and Tobago enjoy cordial relations. U.S. interests here and throughout the hemisphere focus on increasing investment and trade, and ensuring more stable supplies of energy. They also include enhancing Trinidad and Tobago's political and social stability and positive regional role through assistance in drug interdiction, health issues, and legal affairs. The U.S. embassy was established in Port of Spain in 1962, replacing the former consulate general. |
Q6553986 The lingual branches of glossopharyngeal nerve are two in number; one supplies the circumvallate papillae and the mucous membrane covering the base of the tongue; the other supplies the mucous membrane and follicular glands of the posterior part of the tongue, and communicates with the lingual nerve. |
Q12125749 Little Beau Porky is a Looney Tunes cartoon short produced by Leon Schlesinger and released in 1936. Porky is in the French Foreign Legion as a camel scrubber, but after fighting off the enemy, ends up as Commandant. |
Q6247994 John 'Mackey' McKenna (born 1938 in Borrisokane, County Tipperary) is an Irish sportsman. He played hurling with his local clubs Borrisokane and Burgess and was a member of the Tipperary senior inter-county team from 1961 until 1968. McKenna won four All-Ireland titles, five Munster titles and one National Hurling League title with Tipperary. |
Q5379511 Enrica Clay Dillon (June 22, 1885 – October 9, 1946) was an American opera singer, opera director, and voice teacher. |
Q4898028 Bethlehem Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building at Wall and Gilmore Streets in Barnwell, South Carolina.The Eclectic style building was constructed in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. |
Q6461628 La Cenicienta is an unscripted American reality television telenovela series. It is one of Telemundo's early entries into reality television. La Cenicienta (Cinderella) creator and executive producer is Nely Galán former President of Telemundo. |
Q6241246 John J. Pershing Intermediate School 220, is a public middle school located at 4812 Ninth Avenue in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in the 1930s, and was named after World War I general John J. Pershing.IS 220 is a magnet school for science-oriented education. It is divided into three "mini schools": the Health & Biomedical School, the School for Architecture & Mathematics and the Academy of Environmental Sciences. Top students in the school had been admitted to school such as Stuyvesant High School (only in 2005) The Bronx High School of Science; Brooklyn Technical High School; Midwood High School; and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School The school's population is 51% Asian, 42% Hispanic, 6% White and 2% Black. A quarter of the Asian population are new immigrants to the United States. |
Q4905450 "Big City" is the fifth and last single from the English alternative rock band Spacemen 3. It entered the UK charts at position #88. It was released in January 1991, shortly after the band split up, as a 7", 12" and CD single. The 7" contains a shorter version of the song than the 12". A remixed version was released separately. The 7" edit appears on the band's final album Recurring under the title "Big City (Everyone I Know Can Be Found Here)". |
Q15638922 Auratonota exoptata is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in Brazil.The wingspan is about 15 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is strongly suffused brown with darker markings, edged silver mainly in the distal half where black strigulae are present. The hindwings are grey-brown, but paler in the basal third. |
Q13527131 Eilema elegans is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in Ethiopia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Q15616160 The Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election of 1921 was held on 4 March 1921. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Coalition Liberal MP, Henry Dalziel. It was won by the Labour candidate Tom Kennedy. |
Q16729817 Russell Allan Higgins is a former senior Australian public servant and policymaker. |
Q19364780 The UK R&B Chart is a weekly chart, first introduced in October 1994, that ranks the 40 biggest-selling singles and albums that are classified in the R&B genre in the United Kingdom. The chart is compiled by the Official Charts Company, and is based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl and other formats over the previous seven days.The following are the number-one albums of 1995. |
Q31292 Samuel P. Spiegel (November 11, 1901 – December 31, 1985) was a Austro-Polish-born American independent film producer. Financially responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed motion pictures of the twentieth century, Spiegel’s movies won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times, a Hollywood first for a sole independent producer. |
Q218165 This article is about the footballer. For the futsal player, see Pauleta (futsal player).Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes, ComM, OIH (born 28 April 1973), known as Pauleta (Portuguese pronunciation: [pawˈletɐ]), is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a striker.During 18 years as a senior, he never played in the Primeira Liga, having spent 12 of those campaigns in Spain and France. He had his most successful spell at Paris Saint-Germain, where he scored 109 goals across all competitions. Three times the top goalscorer in Ligue 1, he was also voted twice as the division's player of the season.Pauleta also scored 47 goals in 88 matches for Portugal, a national record at the time of his retirement. He played for his country in two World Cups and two European Championships. |
Q5109515 The Centrist Democratic Party (French: Parti Démocrate Centriste, PDC) is a political party in Rwanda. |
Q338578 Edward Walter "Moose" Krause (born Edward Walter Kriaučiūnas; Lithuanian: Edvardas Valteris Kriaučiūnas; February 2, 1913 – December 11, 1992) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator. He lettered in four sports at the University of Notre Dame, where he was a three-time consensus All-American in basketball (1932–1934). Krause served as the head basketball coach at Saint Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, now Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, from 1934 to 1939, at the College of the Holy Cross from 1939 to 1942, and at Notre Dame from 1943 to 1944 and 1946 to 1951, compiling a career college basketball record of 155–114. He was Notre Dame's athletic director from 1949 to 1981. Krause was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1976 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. |
Q6421273 Klondike Independent School District is a public school district located in southwestern Dawson County, Texas (USA). The district also serves most of northern Martin County.In 2009, the school district was rated "recognized" by the Texas Education Agency. In 2010, Klondike ISD was recognized as an Exemplary District by the Texas Education Agency. |
Q5321685 E. A. Belyaev (Evgenie Aleksandrovich Belyaev) (1895–1964) was an Islamic scholar and a prominent Soviet Islamist and member of the Institute of Asian Peoples of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. |
Q2613660 "(Always Be My) Sunshine" is a hip hop song by American rapper Jay-Z with guest vocals from fellow femcee Foxy Brown and R&B singer-songwriter Babyface who performs the song's chorus. It serves as the first single from his second album In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997). The track features production by Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool. Vanderpool samples MC Lyte's "Cha Cha Cha", Alexander O'Neal's "Sunshine", Kraftwerk's "Man Machine" and The Fearless Four's "Rockin' It" for the track's beat. In addition, George Fonenette plays keyboards on this song. The song's lyrics helped indicate Jay-Z's change from his Mafioso rap style to a more commercial "shiny suit" style. Steve Juon of RapReviews.com supports the song claiming that it is a less gangsta version of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Me & My Bitch", a well-received track. Jay-Z cites this song as "what killed the album." |
Q2525721 The ICHEC Brussels Management School or officially the Institut catholique des Hautes Études commerciales (French for: Catholic Institute of Higher Business Studies) is a Catholic college in Brussels (Belgium, Europe), serving as the economics department of the Haute école "Groupe ICHEC - ISC Saint-Louis - ISFSC", a Catholic vocational university of the French Community of Belgium. The college offers education in commercial and financial sciences. |
Q3534088 Arakkonam is a Lok Sabha (Parliament of India) constituency in Tamil Nadu. |
Q3281334 Guizhouichthyosaurus ("Guizhou fish lizard") is an extinct genus of Ichthyosaur which existed during the lower Carnian stage of the Late Triassic in southwest China. The genus contains the single species Guizhouichthyosaurus tangae. It had been referred to the genus Shastasaurus in the past, but later study showed that it is likely distinct, since it lacks the characteristically short snout of that genus. Originally named as a species of Cymbospondylus (Cymbospondylus asiaticus) in 2002, and again in 2003 with Panjiangsaurus (Panjiangsaurus epicharis) before finally being placed within its own genus. Size estimates based on the preserved collection of 86 presacral vertebrae and 110 caudal vertebrae brings its total length to 10 metres (33 ft). |
Q6942659 Musik ombord is a 1958 Swedish film directed by Sven Lindberg and starring Alice Babs. |
Q6595127 This is a list of launches made by the Proton rocket between 2000 and 2009. All launches were conducted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. |
Q540640 Chanel Preston (born December 1, 1985) is an American pornographic actress and the Penthouse magazine Penthouse Pet for March 2012. She entered the adult film industry in 2010 at the age of 24. |
Q5144279 Coleophora saturatella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found from Sweden to the Pyrenees, the Alps and Albania and from Great Britain to Romania. It has also been recorded from southern Russia.The wingspan is 12–15 mm.The larvae feed on Cytisus scoparius, Lembotropis nigricans, Genista scorpius, Genista tinctoria, Spartium junceum and Ulex europaeus. They create a very untidy, bivalved lobe case of 7–8 mm. The mouth angle is 90°. Full-grown larvae can be found in June. |
Q1694755 John III, Lord of Bergen op Zoom or John III of Glymes (1452 – 1532 in Brussels) was a noble from the Low Countries.He was the son of John II of Glymes and Margaret of Rouveroy and succeeded his father as Lord of Bergen op Zoom. In 1494 he purchased the Croy Castle.As his father, John III was an important political figure of his time. He was First Chamberlain at the Burgundian-Habsburg Court of Maximilian of Austria, Philip the Handsome, and Emperor Charles V. He became a Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece and was sent in 1508 to England to arrange the marriage between Charles V and Mary Tudor. However, changes in the political alliances of the European powers meant this wedding never took place.John III was advisor of Margaret of Austria, who was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1507–1515 and 1519–1530.He also corresponded with Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, Thomas More, Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas Wolsey and King Henry VIII of England.He was a member of the Secret Council of Mechelen, Dean of the Order of the Golden Fleece, chairman of the Council of Court and executor of the last will of Margaret of Austria (1480–1530). John died in Brussels in 1532.He married in 1487 with Adriana of Brimeu, daughter of Guy and had :John of Glymes of Bergen (1489–1514), killed in a duel.Anna of Glymes of Bergen (1492–1541), married Adolf of Burgundy.Adriana of Glymes of Bergen (1495–1524), married Philip I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-IdsteinPhilip of Glymes (1498–1525)Antony of Glymes (1500–1541), his successor. |
Q7534374 Skelethon is the sixth studio album by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock. It was released through Rhymesayers Entertainment on July 10, 2012. |
Q17079084 Qanat Zarshk-e Olya (Persian: قنات زرشك عليا, also Romanized as Qanāt Zarshk-e ‘Olyā) is a village in Chahar Gonbad Rural District, in the Central District of Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q19872813 Athos II was a passenger and cargo liner for Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes making her maiden voyage from Marseilles 25 March 1927 starting on the line's Far East service serving Marseilles, Malaya, Indo-China, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama. The ship, laid down in 1923 and launched 12 November 1925, had been completed by Aktien-Gesellschaft „Weser", Bremen and delivered to the French as part of World War I reparations. After a 1937 refit, including boilers increasing speed to 19 knots (21.9 mph; 35.2 km/h), Athos II resumed Far East service.The ship started World War II in French national service until captured by the Allies in North Africa and then being turned over to the United States War Shipping Administration by Free French authorities at Casablanca for operation as a troop transport allocated to the United States Army until returned to the French government in March 1946.Athos II transported French troops to French Indochina, Korea, during the Suez intervention and lastly Algeria in the postwar years as well as a period carrying North African pilgrims to Jeddah. |
Q20054064 Samuel Hugh Stowell Akinsope "Sope" Johnson was Provost of the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos from 1970 until 1995.Johnson was educated at King's College, London and Lichfield Theological College. From 1955 to 1962 he gained experience in London as a curate (including two years at St. Martin-in-the Fields) before returning to Nigeria to become the head of religious broadcasting at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. |
Q28221079 The 1950 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1950, to elect the Governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Jim Folsom was term-limited, and could not seek a second consecutive term. |
Q11538 A mathematical proof is an inferential argument for a mathematical statement. In the argument, other previously established statements, such as theorems, can be used. In principle, a proof can be traced back to self-evident or assumed statements, known as axioms, along with accepted rules of inference. Axioms may be treated as conditions that must be met before the statement applies. Proofs are examples of exhaustive deductive reasoning or inductive reasoning and are distinguished from empirical arguments or non-exhaustive inductive reasoning (or "reasonable expectation"). A proof must demonstrate that a statement is always true (occasionally by listing all possible cases and showing that it holds in each), rather than enumerate many confirmatory cases. An unproved proposition that is believed to be true is known as a conjecture.Proofs employ logic but usually include some amount of natural language which usually admits some ambiguity. In fact, the vast majority of proofs in written mathematics can be considered as applications of rigorous informal logic. Purely formal proofs, written in symbolic language instead of natural language, are considered in proof theory. The distinction between formal and informal proofs has led to much examination of current and historical mathematical practice, quasi-empiricism in mathematics, and so-called folk mathematics (in both senses of that term). The philosophy of mathematics is concerned with the role of language and logic in proofs, and mathematics as a language. |
Q883805 John Brough (rhymes with "huff") (September 17, 1811 – August 29, 1865) was a War Democrat politician from Ohio. He served as the 26th Governor of Ohio during the final years of the American Civil War, dying in office of gangrene shortly after the war concluded. |
Q5115332 Charles Clay (Chuck) Anderson (September 29, 1917 – February 13, 1975) was an all-star and Grey Cup-champion professional Canadian football player. |
Q806172 Banco Angolano de Investimentos (formerly Banco Africano de Investimentos), short BAI, was founded in 1996 as the first private bank in Angola. The BAI is a full-service bank operating in Angola with a nationwide network of (mid-2012) 89 branches in all 18 provinces, with 41 of those branches in Luanda Province. In 9 of the 18 provinces, BAI operates only one branch office.The largest shareholder is Sonangol, with 8.5% of the bank's capital. Arcinella Assets and Sforza Properties hold 7% respective 6.5% of the shares, six others hold 5% each; the remaining 48% are spread in smaller allotments.The BAI has one representation in Portugal, the Banco BAI Europa S.A. with two branches, Lisbon and Porto. In 2008 BAI opened the Banco BAI Cabo Verde in Cape Verde with several branches.During the last year, BAI bought the Banco BAI Microfinanças (BMF), a small bank in Angola that offers several services including Western Union payment transfers.BAI also is the shareholder in other companies, like the Banco Sul Atlantico (BSA), IFI in Cape Verde, Brasil Banco Múltiplo in Brazil, Banco Internacional de S. Tomé e Príncipe (BISTP) in São Tomé and Principe and other companies. |
Q1677293 John Gillespie Henderson (17 January 1932 – 26 January 2005) was a Scottish international footballer who played as a forward in the English Football League for Portsmouth, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arsenal and Fulham. |
Q4118051 The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Moro Crater Massacre, was a counter insurgency action fought by the United States Army against Moros in March 1906, during the Moro Rebellion in the southwestern Philippines. Whether the occupants of Bud Dajo were hostile to U.S. forces is disputed, as inhabitants of Jolo Island had previously used the crater as a place of refuge during Spanish assaults. Major Hugh Scott, the District Governor of Sulu Province, where the incident occurred, recounted that those who fled to the crater "declared they had no intention of fighting, - ran up there only in fright, [and] had some crops planted and desired to cultivate them."The description of the engagement as a "battle" is disputed because of both the overwhelming firepower of the attackers and the lopsided casualties. The author Vic Hurley wrote, "By no stretch of the imagination could Bud Dajo be termed a 'battle'". Mark Twain commented, "In what way was it a battle? It has no resemblance to a battle ... We cleaned up our four days' work and made it complete by butchering these helpless people." A higher percentage of Moros were killed than in other incidents now considered massacres. For example, the highest estimate of Native Americans killed at the Wounded Knee Massacre is 300 out of 350 (a death rate of 85 percent), whereas in Bud Dajo there were only six Moro survivors out of a group estimated at 1,000 (a death rate of over 99 percent). As at Wounded Knee, the Moro group included women and children.Moro men in the crater who had arms possessed melee weapons. While fighting was limited to ground action on Jolo, use of naval gunfire contributed significantly to the overwhelming firepower brought to bear against the Moros.During the engagement, 750 men and officers, under the command of Colonel J.W. Duncan, assaulted the volcanic crater of Bud Dajo (Tausūg: Būd Dahu), which was populated by 800 to 1,000 Tausug villagers. According to Herman Hagedorn (who was writing prior to World War II), the position held by the Moros was "the strongest which hostiles in the Philippines have ever defended against American assault." Although the engagement was a victory for the American forces, it was also an unmitigated public-relations disaster. Whether a battle or massacre, it was certainly the bloodiest of any engagement of the Moro Rebellion, with only six of the hundreds of Moro surviving the bloodshed. Estimates of American casualties range from fifteen killed to twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded. |
Q10315179 Labordia is a genus of plant in family Loganiaceae. There are 16 species all endemic to Hawaii. It is closely related to GeniostomaSpecies include:Labordia cyrtandrae (Baill.) H.St.JohnLabordia degeneri SherffLabordia fagraeoidea Gaudich.Labordia hedyosmifolia Baill.Labordia helleri SherffLabordia hirtella H.MannLabordia hosakana (Sherff) W.L.Wagner, D.R.Herbst & SohmerLabordia kaalae C.N.ForbesLabordia lorenciana K.R.Wood, W.L.Wagner & T.MotleyLabordia lydgatei C.N.ForbesLabordia pumila (Hillebr.) Skottsb.Labordia sessilis A.GrayLabordia tinifolia A.Gray var. tinifoliaLabordia tinifolia A.Gray var. lanaiensis SherffLabordia tinifolia A.Gray var. wahiawaensis H.St.JohnLabordia triflora Hillebr.Labordia venosa SherffLabordia waialealae WawraLabordia waiolani Wawra |
Q2554784 Robin Kornman (April 17, 1947 – July 31, 2007) is best known for his work as a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, as well as a founding member of the Nalanda Translation Committee. Up until his death, he had spent many years working on an English translation of the Tibetan (living) epic Gesar of Ling — it is his work on this translation that has gained him the most recognition. A longtime student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kornman had been co-director of Trungpa Rinpoche's first Shambhala Buddhist retreat center in North America, Karmê Chöling, when first established in 1970.Having earned his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, Kornman was a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, published various translations and articles dealing with Buddhism, and acted as a meditation instructor and mentor to the Shambhala Buddhist Community. |