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Haworthia magnifica is a species of the genus Haworthia belonging to the family Asphodelaceae. It is popular as an ornamental in cultivation, especially in the form of its unique and colourful variety, "splendens".
Four-field kono (Korean: 네밭고누) is an abstract strategy game from Korea for two players. Each player attempts to capture the other player's pieces by jumping over their own piece and landing on the other player's piece. Although the game is often described as being medieval, this assertion does not seem to be backed by evidence.
Tween Waters Inn Historic District is a national historic district located at Captiva, Florida in Lee County. It was established by F. Bowman and Grace B.
The Intermunicipal League Doboj (Serbian: Међуопштинска лига Добој / Međuopštinska liga Doboj) is a sixth level league in the Bosnia and Herzegovina football league system and a fifth level league in the Republika Srpska.
The Gray Gardens East and West Historic District is a historic district encompassing an early 20th century residential subdivision in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The subdivision includes all of the properties on Gray Gardens (East and West), as well as the adjacent 91 Garden Street and 60 Raymond Street. The subdivision was created by a group of interested individuals who sought to control development of one of the last estates in the area to be developed.
The Igneri were an Indigenous Arawak people of the southern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Historically, it was believed that the Igneri were conquered and displaced by the Island Caribs or Kalinago in an invasion some time before European contact. However, linguistic and archaeological studies in the 20th century have led scholars to more nuanced theories as to the fate of the Igneri.
Wiggins-Rolph House is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1848 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay shingled residence in the Greek Revival style. It has a modern 1-story south wing and modern 2-story north wing.
Glotovka (Russian: Глотовка) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Inzensky District of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: 2,428 ; 3,066 ; 3,504 .
The Fujiwara Nan-ke (藤原南家; lit. Fujiwara southern house) was a cadet branch of the Fujiwara clan of Japan.
The Dr. Samuel D. Mercer House was built in 1885 in the historic Walnut Hill neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
The In Crowd is a 1988 American teen drama film directed by Mark Rosenthal and written by Rosenthal and his long-time writing partner Lawrence Konner. The period piece set in the 1960s features music of the era, including "Land of a Thousand Dances" and the instrumental "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by Vince Guaraldi.
Círculo de Ex-Cadetes del Liceo Militar General San Martín, or simply Liceo Militar, is an Argentine rugby union and field hockey club sited in the Loma Hermosa district of General San Martín Partido in Greater Buenos Aires. The rugby union team currently plays in Primera C, the fourth division of the URBA league system.
Kimberley Jim is a 1963 South African musical comedy film directed by Emil Nofal and starring American singer Jim Reeves.
Ollndorf is a small village in Germany and belongs to the municipality Siemz-Niendorf and is located on west of the Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg which is in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Erik Ehn is an American playwright and director known for proposing the Regional Alternative Theatre movement. The former dean of theater at CalArts, the California Institute of Arts, he is the former head of playwriting and professor of theatre and performance studies at Brown University. His published works include The Saint Plays, Beginner, and 13 Christs.
Caesium lithium borate or cesium lithium borate (CsLiB6O10), also known as CLBO, is a non-linear crystal for ultraviolet applications and generates the fourth and fifth harmonics of the Nd:YAG fundamental laser wavelength .
Calycanthus chinensis, known as Chinese sweetshrub, is a species of flowering plant in the family Calycanthaceae, native to Southeast China. It was first given a valid scientific name in 1964. It is cultivated as an ornamental flowering shrub, and has been hybridized with two other species in the genus Calycanthus to combine its larger and broader tepalled flowers with their scented and more colourful ones.
Margot Leonie Luise Philips was a New Zealand painter. Her artworks are held in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Chase the Ace is a form of lottery that has gained popularity since 2013 in parts of Canada. The game is used to raise funds for charities. It is also known as Crown the King and Jig the Joker.
Francisco de Cabrera was a Spanish merchant and politician, who served as regidor, alcalde and prosecutor of Buenos Aires during the Viceroyalty of Peru.