1884 total articles
HMS Worcester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Joseph Allin the younger at Portsmouth Dockyard to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 20 December 1735. She took part in the battle of Portobello under Captain Perry Mayne in 1739. Worcester was broken up in 1765.
Kathleen Mullan Harris is a distinguished professor of sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center.
Çakallar is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of Alanya, Antalya Province, Turkey. Its population is 615 .
Luis Roberto Gneiting Dichtiar was a Paraguayan politician. His parents were Miguel Gneiting and Irene Dichtiar. Prior to his political career, Luis Gneiting was a veterinarian.
Koło [ˈkɔwɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łaziska, within Opole Lubelskie County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
Auchroisk distillery is a whisky distillery in Banffshire, Speyside, Scotland. It was established after Dorie's Well was discovered and found to have water similar to the water used by the Glen Spey distillery, which was used by Justerini & Brooks to produce malt whisky for their blends. The well's water was used to produce a test batch of whisky at Glen Spey distillery, and was approved, which led to the start of construction of the Auchroisk distillery at the site of the well in 1972 to produce whisky for the J&B blend.
Papaveria Press is an independent British publishing house based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It specializes in special, limited handbound editions and paperbacks in the fields of fairy tale, myth and poetry.
Épaumesnil (French pronunciation: [epomɛnil]; Picard: Épeuméni ) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Simson Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. The Simson Provincial Park is located on the southern half of South Thormanby Island and is opposite Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia. The park is 461 acres (1.87 km2) of mostly forested land, though it also contains the remains of an abandoned farm and orchard.
Ocellularia portoricensis is a rare species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It was discovered in Puerto Rico, where it grows on tree trunks within shadowy understories of specific forests. This organism is distinct from other related lichens by its unique characteristics such as a white medulla and relatively larger, brown-tinted ascospores.
Uzungulovo (Russian: Узунгулово; Bashkir: Оҙонгүл, Oźongül) is a rural locality (a village) in Mindyaksky Selsoviet, Uchalinsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 198 as of 2010. There are 8 streets.
Ian Stafford Ross Munro was an Australian ichthyologist and marine biologist. Munro grew up in Brisbane and received degrees from the University of Queensland in the early 1940s, studying marine biology, while also conducted service in the Australian Reserve Military Forces (as part of WW2). In 1943 he started work as an assistant research officer with the CSIR Division of Fisheries at Cronulla, New South Wales, which became the CSIRO after 1956.
Jeff Campitelli is an American drummer best known for his collaborations with Joe Satriani. He has played on most of Satriani's albums and is a frequent member of his touring band. Before Satriani's breakthrough in instrumental music he played with Joe Satriani in a band called The Squares.
Melquises Fonseca is a retired Cuban middle-distance runner who specialised in the 1500 metres. She won several medals at regional level.
Manzoor Ahmed is a Pakistani former international footballer who played as a defender. He is the secretary of sports in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.
Camptopus is a genus of true bugs in the family Alydidae, subfamily Alydinae.
Edward Hawkins was an American architect, developer, and builder in Colorado. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, he designed houses of the Usonian-style architecture for his Arapahoe Acres development in Englewood, Colorado. He also began development of the Arapahoe Hills neighborhood.
In medicine, the poppy seed test is a diagnostic test used before surgery to predict if surgery will find a vesicointestinal fistula or colovesical fistula (an abnormal direct pathway between the colon and urinary bladder) or other type of vesicointestinal fistula.
The 2012 Astrakhan gas explosion occurred on February 27, 2012, at an apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. It was caused by a natural gas explosion. Anzhelika Barinova of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry says another five people are missing after Monday's explosion in Astrakhan, 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) southeast of Moscow.
Monica Amon Chang’anamuno is a Malawian politician and educator who has bben the Minister of Mining and the Minister of Defence in Malawi. She is a Member of Parliament for Lilongwe North Constituency. She was re-elected in 2025.