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Bhupat Singh was a famous dacoit in India in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was responsible for delaying the 1951–52 Indian general election. He was active in Saurashtra (state).
Thorsten Schmitt is a German nordic combined skier who has been competing since 1998. He won a silver medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 2003 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme. Schmitt competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, finishing sixth in the 4 x 5 km team event.
Prusinowice [pruɕinɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łęczyca, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 11 km (7 mi) west of Łęczyca and 42 km (26 mi) north-west of the regional capital Łódź.
Jonathan Carter is an American environmentalist, scientist, and political candidate who has run twice for governor of Maine as a Green and once for the U.S. Congress. In 1992, Carter ran for U.S.
"Contemporary Impressionists" is the twelfth episode of the third season of the American television series Community. It originally aired on March 22, 2012 on NBC. This episode was intended to air as the eleventh episode, before "Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts", but was aired as the twelfth episode because, according to Dan Harmon, "coming out of hiatus they wanted to air an episode that was more accessible to a general audience".
Capital punishment in Turkmenistan was originally allowed under Article 20 of the 1992 Constitution, where it was described as "an exceptional punishment for the heaviest of crimes". In December 1999, a presidential decree abolished capital punishment "forever". In the 2003 Constitution, Article 20 reads: "The death penalty in Turkmenistan is completely abolished and banned forever by the first President of Turkmenistan Great Saparmurat Türkmenbaşy".
Amédée Isola was a French runner. He competed in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1924 Summer Olympics and finished eighth. He was also a non-scoring member of the winning French team at the 1922 International Cross Country Championships.
Suerococha (possibly from Quechua suyru a very long dress tracked after when worn, qucha lake,) is a mountain in the west of the Huayhuash mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,100 metres (16,732 ft) high, and the name of a small lake near the mountain. The mountain is located in the Ancash Region, Bolognesi Province, Pacllon District. Suyruqucha lies on a sub-range west of Yerupaja, northwest of Huacrish and Auxilio and northeast of Rajucollota.
The Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO) was the main professional body for social workers looking after the welfare of children in the United Kingdom from 1949 to 1970. In 1946 the interim report of the Curtis Committee on Children Deprived of a Normal Home Life recommended that training courses for fieldworkers in child care be set up at universities, and four such courses were established. In July 1948 a meeting of students on these courses was called to consider the setting up of a professional association and in November 1949 the Association of Child Care Officers was formed.
Dağkaraağaç is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Germencik, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 173 .
Lärchenberg (330.8 m) is a mountain of Saxony, Germany. It's located in the Upper Lusatian Highlands, southwest of Löbau.
Boża Wola [ˈbɔʐa ˈvɔla] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kluczewsko, within Włoszczowa County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 9 km (6 mi) north of Kluczewsko, 17 km (11 mi) north of Włoszczowa, and 49 km (30 mi) west of the regional capital Kielce.
God's Crucible is a lost 1917 silent film drama directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Myrtle Gonzalez. It was produced by Bluebird Photoplays and released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
Dreifürstenstein is a mountain in Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Kondrashi (Russian: Кондраши) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kondrashovskoye Rural Settlement, Ilovlinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 846 as of 2010. There are 14 streets.
Mycena renati, commonly known as the beautiful bonnet, is a species of mushroom in the family Mycenaceae. It was described by French mycologist Lucien Quélet in 1886. It has been collected in Austria, Uşak Province in Western Turkey, and Yugoslavia.
The United Nations General Assembly had declared 2011–20 the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (Resolution 65/161). The UN Decade on Biodiversity had served to support and promote implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, with the goal of significantly reducing biodiversity loss. None of the 20 aichi targets were achieved, though progress was made towards several of them.
Der Mädchenchor Hannover is a girls' choir of girls and young women, based in Hannover, the state capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Girls and young woman between ages 14 and 20 perform a wide range of repertoire from Renaissance to contemporary music. The choir won prizes at international competitions and made recordings.
Łążek [ˈwɔ̃ʐɛk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubawa, within Iława County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 14 km (9 mi) south of Iława and 67 km (42 mi) south-west of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Baba Shah Ahmad (Kurdish: باوەشام, Bawe Şame, Persian: باباشاه احمد, also Romanized as Bābā Shāh Aḩmad) is a village in Gurani Rural District, Gahvareh District, Dalahu County, Kermanshah province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 122, in 29 families.