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More DetailsThe sweet potato or sweetpotato is a dicotyledonous plant in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its sizeable, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable, which is a staple food in parts of the world. Cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with ...
Read MoreTroubling a Star is the last full-length novel in the Austin family series by Madeleine L'Engle. The young adult suspense thriller, published in 1994, reunites L'Engle's most frequent protagonist, Vicky Austin, with Adam Eddington, both of whom become enmeshed in international intrigue as they tra ...
Read MoreBookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles point of sale data for book sales, owned by Circana in the United States and NIQ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Poland. In the United States, N ...
Read MoreBar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 CE. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill. A computer generated fly around for the site has been produced. Lidar scans have been done along the length of the wall including Ba ...
Read MoreThe vote linkage or vote transfer system is type of compensatory mixed electoral system, where votes may be transferred across multiple tiers of an electoral system, in order to avoid wasted votes - in contrast to the more common proportional representation|seat linkage compensatory system. It o ...
Read MoreSam Ah Chookoon , also known as Mr. Cowboy 62 , is a country singer from Western Samoa. He attracted attention following a guest appearance on the Ray Hadley show on Radio 2GB. Background. A banana farmer from Vaitoloa in Apia, Western Samoa, Ah Chookoon first fell in love with country music at t ...
Read MoreGoretti Chadwick is a Samoan-New Zealand stage and television actress, writer, director and tutor. Chadwick completed a Diploma in Stage and Screen Acting at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. She has worked in theatre and television as an actor, writer and director. Her work ...
Read MoreWindows is a proprietary graphical operating system developed and marketed by Microsoft. Windows is grouped into families that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows for personal computers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems. Windows itself ...
Read MoreA fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie wafer made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. The message inside may also include a Chinese phrase with translation or a list of lucky numbers used by s ...
Read MoreChanna harcourtbutleri , the Burmese snakehead , is a species of snakehead endemic to Inle Lake and surroundings in Myanmar. Locally called nga ohn-ma , among aquarists it is considered one of the dwarf snakeheads, but no significant import for aquarists is known. It is one of the smaller specie ...
Read MoreLow-level laser therapy , cold laser therapy or photobiomodulation is a photochemical reaction-based medical treatment that applies low-level lasers or light-emitting diodes to the surface of the body without damaging tissue. Proponents claim that this treatment stimulates healing, relieves pai ...
Read MoreGregory Alan Semu is a New Zealand-born photographic artist of Samoan descent. In 1995 his exhibition O le Tatau Samona / The Tatoo Arts of Samoa was the first solo exhibition by a photographer of Samoan heritage at Auckland Art Gallery. Career. Semu is largely self-taught as an artist and film ...
Read MoreFools of Fashion is a 1926 silent society drama film directed by James C. McKay (director)|James C. McKay. It was produced and released by Tiffany Pictures. Cast. Preservation. A print of Fools of Fashion survives in the BFI National Archive. ...
Read MoreMorals for Men is a 1925 American's silent drama film directed by Bernard H. Hyman and starring Conway Tearle, Agnes Ayres, and Alyce Mills. It is based upon the novel The Lucky Serum by Gouverneur Morris. Plot. As described in a review in a film magazine, Joe and Bessie, living in defiance of ...
Read MoreThe Eternal Sin is a lost 1917 American silent historical drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Florence Reed. Brenon produced and Lewis J. Selznick handled the distribution. Plot. Cast. *Florence Reed - Lucretia Borgia *William E. Shay - The Duke of Ferrara *Stephen Grattan - Her ...
Read MoreNeal Shusterman is an American writer of young adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep (novel)| Challenger Deep and his novel, Scythe , was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book. He won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2024 "h ...
Read MoreMerry-Go-Round is a 1923 American feature film directed by Erich von Stroheim and Rupert Julian, starring Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin, and released by Universal Pictures. A copy of the film is held in a collection and it has been released on DVD. Plot. As described in a film magazine, Count Fra ...
Read MoreThe Princess from Hoboken is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Allen Dale and featuring Boris Karloff. Cast. * Edmund Burns as Terence O'Brien * Blanche Mehaffey as Sheila O'Toole * Ethel Clayton as Mrs. O'Brien * Lou Tellegen as Prince Anton Balakrieff * Babe London as Princess Soni ...
Read MoreSouls for Sables is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by James C. McKay and starring Claire Windsor. It was produced and released by Tiffany Pictures. Plot. As described in a film magazine reviews, Fred Garlan is devoted to his wife Alice but has little time and not too much money to lav ...
Read MoreDNA Lover is a 2024 South Korean romantic comedy television series written by Jung Soo-mi, directed by, and starring Jung In-sun, Choi Si-won, Lee Tae-hwan, and Jung Yoo-jin. It aired on TV Chosun from August 17, to October 6, 2024, every Saturday and Sunday at 21:10. It is also available for stre ...
Read MoreThe Moon by Night is the title of a young adult novel by Madeleine L'Engle. Published in 1963, it is the second novel about Vicky Austin and her family, taking place between the events of Meet the Austins and The Young Unicorns , and more or less concurrently with the O'Keefe family novel The ...
Read MoreMichael Andrew Gielen is a New Zealand prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the 11th Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch|Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand since May 2022. Gielen was previously auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Auckland. Early life and education. Gielen was ...
Read MoreA Severed Wasp is a novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It continues the story of a pianist, Katherine Forrester, who was first seen in The Small Rain . Now a widow in her seventies, Katherine Forrester Vigneras returns to New York City in retirement from concert touring in Europe. There she encounters F ...
Read MoreEleitino Edwina Diana Patricia Walker was a New Zealand teacher, peace activist and politician. Biography. Walker was born in American Samoa to a New Zealand father and Samoan mother from a chiefly family. At age 10 she attended St Cuthbert's College in Auckland carrying "only a suitcase and ...
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