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Francis Sherman constructed the Odd Fellows Hall on Vashon Island, Washington in 1912 with labor and materials donated by members of the Lodge. The building, which faces Vashon Highway, features a welcoming full-width front porch. In 1927, the lodge expanded the hall by adding single-story wings.
Edwin Freame Odell was an English cricketer. Odell was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace. Odell made a single first-class appearance for Leicestershire against Northamptonshire in the 1912 County Championship at Aylestone Road, Leicester.
Bóaire was a title given to a member of medieval and earlier Gaelic societies prior to the introductions of English law according to Early Irish law. The term means a "Cow lord". Despite this, a Bóaire was a "free-holder", and ranked below the noble grades but above the unfree.
Vaadaka Gunda is a 1989 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Gandhikuttan and produced by Vaikkam Mani. The film stars Jagathy Sreekumar, Suresh Gopi, Vaikkam Mani and Captain Raju in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Perumbavoor G.
The Macpherson principle is an anti-discrimination principle, originating in the 1999 Macpherson Report by judge Sir William Macpherson into the 1993 racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, a British black teenager. In the report, Macpherson offered as a principle that all complaints about incidents of racism should be recorded and investigated as such, when they are perceived by the complainant or someone else as acts of racism. It was first articulated in the Macpherson Report of 1999.
The 2005 Begumpet suicide bombing resulted in the deaths of two persons at the Hyderabad City Police Commissioner's Task Force office at Begumpet. On 12 October 2005, at around 7.30 PM IST, a suicide bomber, reported to be a Bangladeshi national, Dalin, alias Mohtasim Billal, a member of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), a banned Islamic terror group, detonated explosives outside the Task Force office killing himself and 45-year-old home guard A. Satyanarayana.
The Jonathan H. Evans House is located in Platteville, Wisconsin.
Orthotylus mariagratiae is a species of bug from the Miridae family that is endemic to Crete.
Deacon John Larkin was an ordained minister of the First Congregational Church in his hometown of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was also a merchant, in the tea trade, for the East India Company, having in his possession chests of tea that he readily concealed to avoid England's Stamp Tax. John Larkin is most notable for aiding Paul Revere to obtain the horse he used in his "Midnight Ride".
Gunnedah, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1880 and abolished in 1904.
The 1973 WCT World Doubles, also known by its sponsored name Rothman's World Doubles Championship, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Canada that was part of the 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the tour finals for the doubles season of the WCT Tour and featured the eight top-ranking teams. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from May 3 through May 7, 1973.
Dorothy Bordass was a British artist. She studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under R T Mumford, and at the Heatherley School of Fine Art under Ian McNab. Bordass painted in St Ives during the later 1950s/early 1960s and took part in many group shows, including the important Metavisual Tachiste Abstract at The Redfern Gallery in 1957 and extensively abroad.
The Hurley Boxing Law was a law passed in New Jersey in 1918 that legalized boxing in the state for the first time.
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (ODLA) is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary reference work covering culture, history, religion, and life in Late Antiquity. This was the period in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from about AD 250 to 750. Written by more than 400 contributors and edited by Oliver Nicholson, the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity was published in 2018.
Radio Marañón was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1976 to further the integral development of the people in northern Peru. It is headquartered in the Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén, which is also administered by the Jesuits, and is named for the chief source of the Amazon River, the Marañón River, which flows through Jaén.
Paul (de) Choudens, also known under the pseudonym Paul Bérel , was a French musician, music publisher, poet and librettist.
Laxmipur is a ward in the Ghorahi Sub Metropolitan which is located in Dang District in Lumbini Province of south-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 9,075 persons residing in 1493 individual households.
Božo (Serbian: Божо) is a South Slavic masculine given name, cognate of the English Theo, and, similarly, a popular abbreviation of the name - Božidar, English Theodore. Notable people with the name include:.
Britany van Lange is a Guyanese swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 100 metre freestyle, finishing in 42nd place overall in the heats, coming close to qualifying for the semifinals. Just prior to the Olympics she had attended the 2012 Carifta Swimming Championships in the Bahamas.