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More DetailsSospiri , Op. 70, is an adagio for string orchestra, harp, and organ composed by Edward Elgar just before and performed just after the beginning of World War I. Elgar originally intended it for violin and piano, as a companion piece to Salut d'Amour and had in mind the title Soupir d'Amour . Whi ...
Read MoreMichael Manning was an Irish man who was convicted for rape and murder and executed in 1954. He was the 29th and last person to be executed in the Republic of Ireland, as capital punishment was gradually abolished in the decades following Manning's execution. Murder and trial. Manning, a 25-year- ...
Read MoreFrederike Martine ten Harmsen van der Beek , known as Fritzi Harmsen van Beek , was a Dutch writer. The daughter of the cartoonist Harmsen van der Beek, she became an illustrator and poet, receiving significant attention for her debut collection Geachte Muizenpoot en Achttien Andere Gedichten . ...
Read MoreSri Raja Vairicherla Veerabhadra Raju Bahadur Garu was an Indian aristocrat and politician who served as the hereditary zamindar of Kurupam from September 1891 and as a member of the Madras Legislative Council Early life and education. Veerabhadra Raja Bahadur was born to Suryanarayana Raja, th ...
Read More" These Kids " is a song by Australian beatboxer Joel Turner and Australian hip hop duo the Modern Day Poets. It was independently released as the lead single from their self-titled debut album on 27 September 2004. The song was written in December 2001, with the music composed by Turner and the lyr ...
Read MoreThe Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as Soviet Kazakhstan , the Kazakh SSR , KSSR , or simply Kazakhstan , was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1991. Being located in northern Central Asia, the Kazakh SSR was created on 5 December 1936 from the erst ...
Read MoreEvents. Pre-1600. * 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. *1081 - Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formall ...
Read MoreOlivais is a station on the Red Line of the Lisbon Metro. The station is located under Rua Cidade de Bissau, at the junction with Rua Cidade de Luanda. History. The architectural design is by Rui Cardim with installation art by plastic artists Nuno de Siqueira and Cecilia de Sousa. Connections. ...
Read MoreThe Infamous is the second studio album by the American hip hop duo Mobb Deep, released on April 25, 1995, by BMG, RCA Records and Loud Records. The album features guest appearances by Nas, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, and Q-Tip. It was largely produced by group member Havoc, with Q-Tip also contrib ...
Read MoreAdolf Opel was an Austrian writer, filmmaker, and editor. He edited publications of the writings of Adolf Loos, Elsie Altmann-Loos, Else Feldmann, and Lina Loos. He also made films about Paul Celan, Elisabeth Bergner, Viktor Frankl, Hans Weigel, Franz Theodor Csokor, and H. C. Artmann. He was the ...
Read MoreThe Halifax Three , originally the Colonials, was a folk music band in Canada in the 1960s. The band performed in Toronto and Montreal before becoming part of the New York folk scene and recording an album. History. Denny Doherty, Pat LaCroix, and Richard Byrne formed the Colonials in 1960 in Hali ...
Read MoreThe Cheddar Valley line was a railway line in Somerset, England, running between Yatton and Witham. It was opened in parts: the first section connecting Shepton Mallet to Witham, later extended to Wells, was built by the East Somerset Railway from 1858. Later the Bristol and Exeter Railway built t ...
Read MoreDante Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, located on the Upper West Side in front of Lincoln Center near Central Park. Dante Park was established in 1921 by Italian-Americans in honor of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri on a triangular plot of land opposite Lincoln Center, bounded b ...
Read MoreMinayev or Minaev is a Russian male surname, its feminine counterpart is Minayeva or Minaeva . It may refer to *Aleksandr Minayev (disambiguation), several people *Dmitry Minayev, Russian poet, satirist, journalist, translator and literary critic *Ivan Minayev, the first Russian Indologist ...
Read MoreNarkanda is a town and a hill station. It is a nagar panchayat in Kumarsain subdivision of Shimla district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is at an elevation of 2708 meters on the Indo-Tibet Road in Himachal Pradesh, India within a fir forest. It is about 60 km away from Shimla and sur ...
Read MoreFire to Fire is the 22nd studio album by American country music singer Tanya Tucker, released on March 21, 1995 as her last album for Liberty Records, after this album's release, Tanya Tucker left Liberty's roster and returned to Capitol Records. It produced the singles "Between the Two of Them" a ...
Read MoreIn geometry, a bicone or dicone is the three-dimensional surface of revolution of a rhombus around one of its axes of symmetry. Equivalently, a bicone is the surface created by joining two congruent right circular cones at their bases. A bicone has circular symmetry and orthogonal bilateral symm ...
Read MorePitina , peta or petuccia is an Italian salume originating in the Dolomite valleys of Tramonti di Sopra and Tramonti di Sotto, and the River Cellina, in the northeastern province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is not a true sausage, but a meatball made of smoked meats. The recipe was ...
Read MoreRichard Douglas was a Scottish landowner, courtier, and letter writer. Career. He was a son of William Douglas of Whittinghame and Elizabeth Lauder. He wrote letters to his uncle, Mr Archibald Douglas, a diplomat and intriguer who was often in London, with news from Scotland. Some sources state t ...
Read MoreFernando Becerril was a Mexican actor. He appeared in numerous Spanish-language films since 1998, including El crimen del padre Amaro , Tlatelolco, verano del 68 and The Legend of Zorro . Life. Becerril was born in San Luis Potosí and grew up in Cuernavaca, Morelos, where he realized his pas ...
Read MorePreikapė is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 35 people. It is located from Paaluonys, nearby a small forest and swamp. There is an ancient burial place. The southern part of the vil ...
Read MoreOvertime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours. The term is also used for the pay received for this time. Normal hours may be determined in several ways: *by custom, *by practices of a given trade or profession, *by legislation, *by agreement between employers and workers ...
Read MoreDecentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within it. Concepts of decen ...
Read MoreMark Hancock is a Canadian trade union activist who is currently the National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He was elected as the sixth National President of CUPE in 2015. CUPE is the largest trade union in Canada, with 800,000 members. Career. Hancock got his start with th ...
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