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More DetailsThe Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial began on 3 May 2000, more than 11 years after the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988. The 36-week bench trial took place at a specially convened Scottish Court in the Netherlands set up under Scots law and held at a disused United States Air Fo ...
Read MoreJefferson Parish Library is the library system of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. It has its headquarters in the East Bank Regional Library in Metairie, an unincorporated area in the parish. History. Digested from a paper written by Cathy Gontar in 1998 Jefferson Parish, a long, narrow strip of land ...
Read MoreThe 1968 Columbia 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series stock car race that was held on April 18, 1968, at Columbia Speedway in Columbia, South Carolina. Background. Columbia Speedway was an oval racetrack located in Cayce, a suburb of Columbia, South Carolina. It was the site of auto races for ...
Read MorePedro Rodríguez de Campomanes y Pérez Sorriba, 1st Count of Campomanes , was a Spanish statesman, economist, and writer who was Minister of the Treasury in 1760. He was an adherent of the position that the state held supremacy over the Catholic Church in Spain, often called Erastianism or Caesaro ...
Read MoreThe Weiyang Palace was the main imperial palace complex of the Han dynasty and numerous other Chinese dynasties, located in the city of Chang'an. It was built in 200 BC at the request of the Emperor Gaozu of Han, under the supervision of his prime minister Xiao He. It served as the administrative ...
Read More1973–74 South Pacific cyclone season is a South Pacific cyclone season. ...
Read MoreBotafogo Futebol Clube , commonly referred to as Botafogo da Paraíba , Botafogo-PB or simply Botafogo is a Brazilian professional club based in João Pessoa, Paraíba founded on 28 September 1931. Botafogo is the top ranked team from Paraíba in CBF's national club ranking, at 51st overall. H ...
Read MoreKildu is a village in Põhja-Sakala Parish, Viljandi County in Estonia. ...
Read MoreAmar Hodžić , known by his stage name Buba Corelli , is a Bosnian rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is best-known for his collaborative efforts with Jala Brat, with whom he also founded their record label Imperia. Apart from his own musical career, Corelli has also attained significant ...
Read MoreVictoria Prison was the first and longest-running prison to date in Hong Kong. It is located on Old Bailey Street in Central, Hong Kong Island. Named in honour of Queen Victoria, it was originally known as Victoria Gaol and was renamed into Victoria Prison in 1899. Victoria Prison has been redev ...
Read MoreRaven , also known as Rachel Roth , is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a special insert in DC Comics Presents #26, and was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez. Her design was based on the Phantom Strange ...
Read MoreThe Centre Party , formerly the Farmer's Party , is an agrarian political party in Norway. Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum, it advocates for economic nationalist and protectionist policy to protect Norwegian farmers with toll tariffs, and it su ...
Read MoreLewis Evans was an English businessman and scientific instrument collector. His collection was the nucleus of the History of Science Museum, Oxford. He was the son of Sir John Evans, an archaeologist, and younger brother of the more famous archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans who excavated the archaeolo ...
Read MoreBad Ben is the name of a web series of independent found footage horror comedy films, the first of which released in 2016. The series has been written and directed by Tom Fanslau under the pen name of Nigel Bach. As of 2024, there are fourteen Bad Ben films. A fifteenth installment will release ...
Read MoreHayat Mohammad Khan Sherpao , simply known as Hayat Sherpao , was a left-wing intellectual and socialist, who served as the 15th Governor of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, as well as vice-chairman of Pakistan People's Party. Sherpao held important executive offices, including serving as ...
Read MorePassing , in the context of race, occurs when one conceals their socially applied racial identity or ethnicity in order to be perceived as another race for acceptance and/or other benefits. Historically, the term has been used primarily in the United States to describe a person of mixed race who ha ...
Read MoreCola lizae is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Gabon. It is threatened by habitat loss. This species was first described in 1987 and named after Liz Williamson, a researcher at Lopé. ...
Read MoreEvents. Pre-1600. * 461 - Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer. * 636 - The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq. 1601–1900. *1646 - The current Saint ...
Read MoreFood Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, who manages and operates it as a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group. The channel airs both special and regular episodic programs about food and cooking. ...
Read MoreProto-Armenian is the earlier, unattested stage of the Armenian language which has been reconstructed by linguists. As Armenian is the only known language of its branch of the Indo-European languages, the comparative method cannot be used to reconstruct its earlier stages. Instead, a combination o ...
Read MoreThe 2016 Pacific hurricane season was tied as the fifth-most active Pacific hurricane season on record, alongside the 2014 season. Throughout the course of the year, a total of 22 named storms, 13 hurricanes and six major hurricanes were observed within the basin. Although the season was very acti ...
Read MoreAmy Reeve Williams Fielding was a female tennis player from the United States who played in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. She was married to Mantle Fielding; they had two children, Richard M. and Frances. After Fielding's death in 1941, she married J ...
Read MoreThe following is a list of former state routes in Pennsylvania . These roads are now either parts of other routes or no longer carry a traffic route number. This list also includes original routes of numbers that were decommissioned and later reactivated in other locations in which most of these ar ...
Read MoreThaal Sinestro is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, particularly those featuring Green Lantern. Created by John Broome and Gil Kane, Sinestro is a former Green Lantern Corps member who was dishonorably discharged for abusing his power. He has since endured as ...
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