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More DetailsMunro Kenneth Chambers is a Canadian actor who is best known for his roles as Wilder on The Latest Buzz , Elijah "Eli" Goldsworthy on Degrassi , Frankie Chandler on Lockwood and Nate on Second Jen . Career. Chambers made his television debut on Little Men as Rob Bhaer in 1998. He appeared ...
Read MoreJames Armstrong Chadwin QC was a prominent British barrister, whose cases included defending Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper". Chadwin was born in Glasgow and educated at the High School of Glasgow, Glasgow University and Jesus College, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford, he was active as an actor an ...
Read MoreOry Dessau is an art curator and writer, based in Ghent, Belgium. He has collaborated with museums such as the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Moderna Museet Malmö. One of his renowned works, "Guess who died", explored the image and physiognomy of Palest ...
Read MoreArena Publishing Company was an American book and magazine publishing firm of the late 19th century, founded by author and editor B. O. Flower. Company history. Headquartered in Copley Square in Boston, the firm specialized in fiction and non-fiction books on the progressive causes of the 1890s. ...
Read MoreDivine Chocolate Limited is a British purveyor of Fairtrade chocolate. It was originally established in the United Kingdom in 1998 as a company limited by shares co-owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farmers' co-operative in Ghana, Twin Trading and The Body Shop, with support from Christian Aid and Co ...
Read MoreWei Chun may refer to: * Wei Guanzhi, chancellor during Emperor Xianzong's reign * Wei Chuhou, chancellor during Emperor Wenzong's reign ...
Read MoreUNI Airways is a Taiwanese regional airline based in Zhongshan, Taipei, Taiwan. With an operation focus on domestic routes, UNI Air is a subsidiary of Evergreen Group, making it a sister airline of the mainline operator EVA Air. It was known as Makung International Airlines until 1996, when EVA ...
Read MoreThe Pazzi Chapel is a chapel located in the "first cloister" on the southern flank of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. Commonly credited to Filippo Brunelleschi, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Renaissance architecture. History. Though funds for the chapel were as ...
Read MoreThe XX Bomber Command was a United States Army Air Forces bomber formation. Its last assignment was with Twentieth Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was inactivated on 16 July 1945. History. The idea of basing Boeing B-29 Superfortresses in China first surfaced at the Casablanca Conference in Janua ...
Read MoreThe ECW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in Extreme Championship Wrestling and later, World Wrestling Entertainment. It was the original world title of the ECW promotion, spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. ...
Read MoreHowards Alias were a band in the turn-of-the-millennium UK underground punk scene. They formed in 1999 in Southampton, England, and blended an eclectic mix of rock, progressive, punk and ska influences into their own musical output. They permanently disbanded in April 2008. The band released four ...
Read MoreTeja Oblak is a Slovenian basketball player for Galatasaray and the Slovenian national team. Club career. She began her basketball career in her hometown Škofja Loka, playing eight years for her local team Odeja Škofja Loka. In Euroleague, she combined one season in Polkowice with three seasons ...
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Read MoreGeorge Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers was a British anthropologist and eugenicist who was a wealthy landowner in England in the interwar period. He embraced anti-Bolshevism and anti-Semitism and became a supporter of Oswald Mosley, which led to him being interned by the British government in the Secon ...
Read MoreIn database design, a persistent object identifier is a unique identifier of a record on a table, used as the primary key. Important characteristics of a POID are that it does not carry business information and are not generally exported or otherwise made visible to data users; as such a POID has ...
Read MoreThe ashiko is a drum, shaped like a tapered cylinder or truncated cone with the head on the wide end, and the narrow end open. It is made of hardwood and generally has a calfskin hide. Nowadays, goatskin is sometimes used, in imitation of the high sound of the popular djembe drum. It is played wit ...
Read MoreHome and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared or will appear in 2013, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the soap's executive producer, Lucy ...
Read MoreLi Chuncheng is a former Chinese politician. He spent his early career in Heilongjiang Province, before being transferred to Sichuan in 1998. He served as the Mayor and then Party Secretary of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, between 2001 and 2011. He then served as Deputy Party Secretary of ...
Read MoreCharles Wallace Gray is an American musician, best known for his tenure as the guitarist for the Orange County rock band The Aquabats, of which he served as a member from 1997 to 1999 under the stage name of Ultra Kyu and later The Mysterious Kyu . Gray was the guitarist on The Aquabats 1995 d ...
Read MoreThe Deemster is a 1917 American drama silent film, released by Arrow Film Corporation, directed by Howell Hansel, starring Derwent Hall Caine and Marian Swayne. Plot. The plot description in the February 24, 1917 issue of Moving Picture World reads: Daniel Mylrea is the son of the Bishop of Man ...
Read MoreHorace John Mackennal was an Australian architect. He was educated at King's School in Fitzroy and the University of Melbourne. He worked as a draftsman in the office of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works before joining the Commonwealth public service in 1902. He worked as chief draftsm ...
Read MoreAlfred Kelley was a banker, canal builder, lawyer, railroad executive, and state legislator in the state of Ohio in the United States. He is considered by historians to be one of the most prominent commercial, financial, and political Ohioans of the first half of the 19th century. Kelley is known ...
Read MoreThe Constitution of the Italian Republic was ratified on 22 December 1947 by the Constituent Assembly, with 453 votes in favour and 62 against, before coming into force on 1 January 1948, one century after the previous Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy had been enacted. The text, which has sinc ...
Read MorePer Stavem was a Norwegian shot putter and discus thrower. He represented Stabæk IF. At the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the decathlon and finished eleventh with 6151 points. At the 1952 Summer Olympics he finished eighth in the shot final with 16.02 metres and sixteenth in discus throw wi ...
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