WEBAmsale Woldegibriel (born 8 October 1960) is an Ethiopian middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 1500 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics. [1] References This page was last edited on 22 May 2023, at 13:50 (UTC). Text …
WEBBy this time Australia had developed great depth in the 400m, and a solo (but officially timed) 4 × 400 m run on a Sunday morning by Peter Van Miltenburg, Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, and Mitchell resulted in a new Australian record of 3:02.10. This time ensured that an Australian...
Meri Wilson Edgmon (June 15, 1949 – December 28, 2002), [1] known professionally as Meri Wilson, was an American singer best known for singing double entendre novelty songs. "Telephone Man" and success.
WebThe Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens), commonly known as the betta, is a freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, namely Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is one of 73 species of the genus Betta, but the only one eponymously called "betta", owing to its global popularity...
The name commando has been applied to a variety of Australian special forces and light infantry units that have been formed since 1941–42. The first Australian "commando" units were formed during the Second World War, where they mainly performed reconnaissance and long-range patrol roles during Australia's campaigns in New Guinea...
WebPlot. Angelo Ledda, a former hitman for organized crime, agrees to one last contract, despite his recently developed Alzheimer's disease.He is to kill two people; on killing the first and recovering a package from the first victim, he then learns the second victim is Bieke, a twelve-year-old girl pimped by...
WebAerial View of Hawthorne Army Depot with Walker Lake to the north (above) and Mount Grant to the west (left).. Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is a U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command ammunition storage depot located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. It is directly...
Jane Elizabeth Leeves (born 18 April 1961) [1] is an English actress, best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1993–2004), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. [2] [3] She also played Joy Scroggs on TV Land's...
Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band Bleachers, and previously the guitarist and …
A microchannel plate is a slab made from resistive material (most often glass) 0.5 to 2mm thick with a regular array of tiny tubes (microchannels) leading from one face to the other. The microchannels are typically 5-20 micrometers in diameter, parallel to each other and enter the plate at a...
Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements.Euclid's approach consists in assuming a small set of intuitively appealing axioms (postulates) and deducing many other propositions from these.Although many of Euclid's results had been stated earlier, [1] Euclid...
Star Gazers (formerly known as Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler and later Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer) is a short astronomy show on American public television previously hosted by Jack Horkheimer, executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. [1] [2] After his death in 2010, a series of guest astronomers hosted...
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Known for her versatility and adept accent work, she has been described as "the best actress of her generation". [1] [2] She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a record 21 Academy...
Culprit (French: Le coupable) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Signoret and Suzet Maïs. [1] It is a remake of the 1917 silent film Culprit, which was based on a novel by François Coppée. Partial cast.
December 1: Carmen Get It!, the final Tom & Jerry cartoon by Gene Deitch, premieres.Deitch failed to produce anymore Tom and Jerry short films for MGM as Chuck Jones would take over production, which returned to Hollywood after five years. [9]December 17: Abe Levitow's Gay Purr-ee premieres. [citation needed]December 18:...
Zygo Corporation, or simply Zygo, is a manufacturer headquartered at Middlefield, Connecticut, that specializes in optical systems and equipment. Their metrology product lines include 3D measuring microscopes using coherence scanning interferometry , laser Fizeau interferometers for testing optical components, laser displacement interferometers ...
Winters celebrates one of her two gold medal wins at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Winters shown smiling pre race at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. She was born in Kempsey, New …
Geometry Wars is a series of top-down multi-directional shooter video games developed by Bizarre Creations, and, later, Lucid Games.Originally published by Microsoft Games Studios, the first title was included as a minigame in Project Gotham Racing 2 for Xbox.An updated version was released in 2005 as a launch title for...
WEBCamilla Tominey (born 14 June 1978) is a British journalist and broadcaster. She reports on politics and the British royal family as an associate editor of The Daily Telegraph.She also writes a weekly column for the newspaper. Since January 2023, she has presented The Camilla Tominey Show, a Sunday morning...
WEBJack Hargreaves OBE (31 December 1911 – 15 March 1994), full name John Herbert Hargreaves, was an English television presenter and writer whose enduring interest was to comment without nostalgia or sentimentality on accelerating distortions in relations between the city and the countryside, seeking – in entertaining ways – to question and rebut …