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Fairy Gold is a 1926 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. A Cornish knight living on an island, who has lost his son during the First World War, resents a young English soldier stationed nearby.
Battaristis pasadenae is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Keifer in 1935. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.
Luz de Peña Matos Estévez, commonly known by her stage name Lina Salomé, is a Cuban-born Mexican dancer and actress. She died in 2001 at 70.
A Schandmantel or Schandtonne (German, "coat of shame" or "barrel of shame"), sometimes also Spanish coat, is a torture device which came into use in the 13th century. Schandmantels were fashioned from wood and sometimes lined with sheet metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them.
Bāḍiʿ was a medieval African port on the Red Sea. It was the first port established by the Arabs in the Bilād al-Sūdān and flourished between about 600 and 1100. It was a merchant settlement conducting trade between its hinterland and Arabia.
The Ryton River is a river of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows southwest down a long valley within the Craigieburn Range to reach the northeastern shore of Lake Coleridge.
San Felices is the Spanish name of Saint Felix of Bilibio (5th century). It may also refer to:.
The Valea Crișului is a right tributary of the river Olt in Romania. It flows into the Olt in Ghidfalău. Its length is 16 km (9.9 mi) and its basin size is 33 km2 (13 sq mi).
Isla El Requeson, is an island in the Gulf of California, located within Bahía Concepción east of the Baja California Peninsula. The island is uninhabited and is part of the Mulegé Municipality.
Md Mazharul Islam Suzon is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing from the Thakurgaon-2 constituency in 2024.
Sakar Şakir is a 1977 Turkish comedy film directed by Natuk Baytan.
Roland Brunner is a former ice speed skater from Austria, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 in Albertville, France.
Benjamin Wallach was a South African cricketer who played in first-class matches in South Africa and England between 1898 and 1905. He was born in Queenstown, Cape Colony, and died in Troyeville, Johannesburg. Wallach was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.
Pseudo-Simeon (or Pseudo-Symeon Magistros) is the conventional name given to the anonymous author of a late 10th-century Byzantine Greek chronicle which survives in a single codex, Parisinus Graecus 1712, copied in the 12th or 13th century. It is a universal history from the creation of the world to the year 963. His main sources are Theophanes the Confessor and Symeon Logothete.
Améyo Adja is a Togolese politician and a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Togo. Adja was born in Lomé. She was elected to the National Assembly of Togo in the October 2002 parliamentary election as a candidate of the Rally for the Strengthening of Democracy and Development (RSDD) from the Second Constituency of Lomé, and she became President of the Opposition Parliamentary Group.
Cowboys and Outlaws is a documentary series on the History Channel that details key figures and events in the history of the American West in the latter half of the 19th century. It uses dramatic reenactments, historian interviews and forensic evidence to highlight famous figures such as Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Tom Horn. It also covers historical events such as the first drive along the Goodnight-Loving Trail and the transformation of Abilene, Kansas from a small settlement into a major cattle town.
Mats Arehn is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. At the 16th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Film for To Be a Millionaire.
According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Lyra is located within the northern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized as the Black Tortoise of the North (北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ). The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 天琴座 (tiān qín zuò), meaning "the celestial zither constellation".