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Sir John Watson Gibson was an English civil engineer. He designed dams in England and in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and port installations in England and Ireland. In the UK he is most notable for having designed a key part of the Mulberry harbours for the 1944 Normandy landings.
Edna Mae Harris , sometimes credited as Edna May Harris, was an American actress and singer. Harris, an African–American, was a film actress in the late 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in films featuring mostly African–American casts.
Idarubicin or 4-demethoxydaunorubicin is an anthracycline antileukemic drug. It inserts itself into DNA and prevents DNA unwinding by interfering with the enzyme topoisomerase II. It is an analog of daunorubicin, but the absence of a methoxy group increases its fat solubility and cellular uptake.
Janusz Kazimierz Kaczmarek is a Polish lawyer, prosecutor and politician. He was National Public Prosecutor from 31 October 2005 to 8 February 2007, and Polish Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration from 8 February 2007 to 8 August 2007. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Gdańsk University.
Arthur Woollgar Verrall was an English writer and scholar. He was associated with Trinity College, Cambridge, and the first occupant of the King Edward VII Chair of English. He was noted for his translations and for his challenging, unorthodox interpretations of the Greek dramatists, such as his commentary on Agamemnon; his detractors found his readings contorted and too ingenious, too often overlooking obvious explanations in favour of the convoluted, and his published work is nowadays not highly regarded.
Julien Benneteau was the defending champion, but he did not participate this year. Qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis won the title, defeating Thiemo de Bakker in the final, 6–4, 1–6, 7–6(7–5).
OSv (stylized OSv) is a cloud computing focused computer operating system released on September 16, 2013. It is a special-purpose operating system built to run as a guest on top of a virtual machine, thus it does not include drivers for bare-metal hardware. It is a unikernel, designed to run a single Linux executable or an application written in one of the supported runtime environments (such as Java).
Mariel Vázquez is a Mexican mathematical biologist who specializes in the topology of DNA. She is a professor at the University of California, Davis, jointly affiliated with the departments of mathematics and of microbiology and molecular genetics.
This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral division of Sanderson in Northern Territory elections.
Dinajpur Medical College (Bengali: দিনাজপুর মেডিকেল কলেজ) or shortly DjMC is a public medical school in Bangladesh, established in 1992. It is located in the Dinajpur District of Rangpur Division. It is affiliated with Rajshahi Medical University.
Piper is an unincorporated community in Bibb County, Alabama, United States.
Ali Asllani was an Albanian poet, politician and activist of the Albanian National Awakening.
Guraidhoo (Dhivehi: ގުރައިދޫ) is one of the inhabited islands of Kaafu Atoll in the Maldives.
Haparanda FF is a football club located in Haparanda.
The soil carbon feedback concerns the releases of carbon from soils in response to global warming. This response under climate change is a positive climate feedback. There is approximately two to three times more carbon in global soils than the Earth's atmosphere, which makes understanding this feedback crucial to understand future climate change.
This Island is the second studio album by Australian pop band Eurogliders, released on 7 May 1984 by CBS Records. The album had a lengthy recording process. Eurogliders changed record labels from PolyGram to CBS in 1983, and recorded the track "No Action" with producer Mark Opitz; it was released as a single in 1983 and peaked at No.
The Javan or Eastern pipistrelle (Pipistrellus javanicus) is a species of pipistrelle bat found in South and Southeast Asia.
The 1946–47 La Liga was the 16th season since its establishment. Valencia conquered their third title.
"Sciccherie" is a song by Italian rapper Madame. It was released on 14 December 2018 by Sugar Music as Madame's debut release with a major label at the age of 16. The song received airplay from Italian major radio networks, including Radio DeeJay.
Amalie Materna (German pronunciation: [aˈmaːli̯ə maˈtɛʁna]) born Amalia, later Amalie Friedrich-Materna) was an Austrian operatic dramatic soprano. While possessing a famously powerful voice, Materna also maintained a youthful, bright vocal timbre throughout her career which spanned three decades. She is best remembered today for originating several roles (such as Brünnhilde) in operas by Richard Wagner.