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Gryfino [ɡrɨˈfʲinɔ] (German: Greifenhagen) is a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland, with 21,393 inhabitants . It is the capital of Gryfino County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. The town is located on the Odra Wschodnia, the eastern branch of the Oder river, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Szczecin in Poland.
General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Baronet, was a senior British Army officer who served in both World Wars. In the Second World War he was General Officer Commanding Anti-Aircraft Command, one of the elements that protected Britain from aerial attack.
Tarik Shah is an African American Muslim with a career as a professional jazz musician. As the sole student of Slam Stewart, Shah began playing the upright bass at age 12 and went on to play with Betty Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Abbey Lincoln and Art Taylor among others. He is a composer, a jazz educator, and lyricist.
The Battle of Helsingborg was the last major engagement of the Great Northern War to take place on Swedish soil. It resulted in a decisive victory of a Swedish force of 14,000 men under the command of Magnus Stenbock against a Danish force of equal strength under the command of Jørgen Rantzau, ensuring that Denmark's final effort to regain the Scanian territories that it had lost to Sweden in 1658 failed. The battle was fought on 10 March 1710 in the province of Scania, just outside the city of Helsingborg, and directly on the Ringstorp heights just north-east of the city.
These are the official results of the Women's Long Jump event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There were a total number of 23 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups, and the final held on August 6, 1984.
Wang Zhengming (王睁茗) is a Chinese badminton player from Guangzhou, Guangdong. He was the boys' singles gold medalist at the 2008 Asian and World Junior Championships.
The Singles: 1969–1973 is a compilation album by the pop duo the Carpenters. It topped the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom and became one of the best-selling albums of the 1970s.
The 738th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron is a provisional United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to Air Combat Command (ACC) to activate or inactivate as needed. Reactivated after 2002, it operates Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
Ma vie en rose (English: My Life in Pink) is a 1997 Franco-Belgian drama film directed by Alain Berliner. It tells the story of Ludovic, a transgender girl, and depicts her family and community struggling to accept her gender identity. The film received largely positive reviews and was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Bacem Anas Romdhani is a Tunisian-British award-winning concert violinist. He was the winner of the World Philharmonic Orchestra (five children of the world) International competition in Paris , where he was scouted to represent Tunisia, Africa and the Arab world, first prize winner at the Vatelot-Rampal International violin competition in Paris and third prize winner at the Vienna New Year's Concert International music competition in Vienna . He performs on the "Menuhin" 1998 violin made by Andreas Hellinge in Geneva, Switzerland.
Kosheen are an Anglo-Welsh electronic music group based in Bristol. The group consist of singer-songwriter Sian Evans, songwriter-producer Ron Mcelroy and drummer Mitchell Glover. The name Kosheen derives from the name of a North American Apache warrior, Cochise.
Heart and Soul: New Songs from Ally McBeal is a soundtrack album by American singer Vonda Shepard, featuring music from the American television series Ally McBeal. It was released on November 9, 1999, by Epic Records, 550 Music, and Sony Music Soundtrax.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Station, Vidhana Soudha (formerly known as Vidhana Soudha), is an underground metro station on the East-West corridor of the Purple Line of Namma Metro.
INPEX Corporation is a Japanese oil company established in February 1966 as North Sumatra Offshore Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. INPEX is the largest oil and gas exploration and production company in Japan, with global exploration, development and production projects in 20 countries. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, INPEX was ranked as the 597th -largest public company in the world.
Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup (Bengali: শেখ কামাল আন্তর্জাতিক ক্লাব কাপ), also known as Sheikh Kamal Gold Cup, is a biennial international club football tournament held in Bangladesh. The inaugural edition took place in 2015. It is hosted by the Chittagong Abahani in association with the Bangladesh Football Federation.
Margaret Read MacDonald is an American storyteller, folklorist, and award-winning children's book author. She has published more than 65 books, of stories and about storytelling, which have been translated into many languages. She has performed internationally as a storyteller, is considered a "master storyteller", and has been dubbed a "grand dame of storytelling".
The women's freestyle 46 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2000 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Universiada Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria from 1 to 3 September 2000.
Lower Swatara Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 9,528 at the 2020 census. Harrisburg International Airport and Penn State Harrisburg are located within the township.
Cushing Academy is a private, coeducational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, United States. It serves approximately 400 students in grades 9–12 and a postgraduate year.
Henry Ernest Atkins was a British chess master who is best known for his unparalleled record of winning the British Chess Championship nine times in eleven attempts. He won every year from 1905 to 1911, and again in 1924 and 1925. A schoolmaster, Atkins treated chess as a hobby, devoting relatively little time to it and playing in only a handful of international tournaments.