geography

Victoria Barracks is a British Army barracks located 0.25 miles (0.40 km) south of Windsor Castle.

Neufahrn bei Freising (German pronunciation: ⓘ, lit. 'Neufahrn near Freising') is a municipality in the district of Freising, in Bavaria, Germany. It has about 20,000 inhabitants and is located near the river Isar, 12 km southwest of Freising and 20 km northeast of Munich.

John Phillip Lipsky (born February 19, 1947) is an American economist. He was the acting managing director of the International Monetary Fund from May to July 2011. He assumed the post of acting managing director after Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May 2011 accused of sexual assault. After the appointment of Christine Lagarde he returned to his post as the first deputy managing director of the IMF. He retired from the IMF in November 2011 and is currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Sclessin (French pronunciation: ) is a quarter of the city of Liège located in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Before the fusion of the Belgian municipalities in 1977, it was a quarter of the municipality of Ougrée. On 1 January 1977, it was merged into Liège. Sclessin has never been a municipality, but in some sources, Sclessin is mentioned as a "section" (sub-municipality).

Oom-pah, Oompah, Ooumpah or Umpapa is an onomatopoeic term describing the rhythmic sound of a deep brass instrument in combination with the response of other instruments or registers in a band, a form of background ostinato.

The Hall of Transportation, Treasure Island, on Treasure Island, California, also known as Building 2, was built in 1938 for the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition. It served as the hall of transportation for the exposition. It was constructed with the idea that it would serve as an airplane hangar after the Exposition but it never did. It was designed in Moderne style by architects William Peyton Day and George William Kelham. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Chittenango Creek is a small river in central New York, United States. The creek partially forms the boundary between Onondaga County and Madison County.

Emma Louise Batchelor Lee French (April 21, 1836 – November 16, 1897), better known as Emma Lee French, was an English nurse born in Uckfield, East Sussex. She travelled to Utah and Arizona in the United States, where she became well known as a carer for the sick.

The NWSL Midfielder of the Year award is presented annually to the best midfielder in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

John Monteath Robertson (24 July 1900 – 27 December 1989) was a Scottish chemist and crystallographer. He was the recipient of the Davy Medal in 1960 and president of the Chemical Society from 1962 to 1964.

Muriaé is a municipality in southeast Minas Gerais state, Brazil. It is located in the Zona da Mata region and its population in 2022 (IBGE) was approximately 104,108 inhabitants.

A theme restaurant is a type of restaurant that uses theming to attract diners by creating a memorable experience. Theme restaurants have a unifying or dominant subject or concept, and utilize architecture, decor, special effects, and other techniques, often to create exotic environments that are not normally associated with dining because they are inaccessible, no longer exist, are fictional or supernatural, or taboo. The theme may be further extended through the naming and choices of food, though food is usually secondary to entertaining guests.

Castelmassa is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about 90 kilometres (56 mi) southwest of Venice and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Rovigo. Castelmassa borders the following municipalities: Calto, Castelnovo Bariano, Ceneselli, Felonica, Sermide.

Robert Desiderio (born September 9, 1951) is an American actor best known for his roles on television. He starred as Steve Piermont in the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live (1982–83) opposite his future wife, Judith Light. He starred in the HBO drama series, Maximum Security (1984–85), the ABC crime drama Heart of the City (1986–87), and from 1988 to 1989 played Ted Melcher in the CBS prime time soap opera, Knots Landing.

Jean Mary Dawnay, Princess George Galitzine MBE (22 March 1925 – 14 December 2016) was a British fashion model, television personality, stage and film actress, who worked for Christian Dior.

Laura M. McCullough (born 1960) is an American poet and writer living in the state of New Jersey. McCullough is the author of seven published collections and is the founding editor of Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations. She was a finalist for the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize.

A backlist is a list of older books available from a publisher. This is opposed to newly-published titles, which is sometimes known as the frontlist.

Horace B. Chase (December 25, 1810 – September 1, 1886) was an American Democratic politician and Milwaukee County pioneer. He was the 14th mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (1862) and represented southern Milwaukee County in the Wisconsin State Assembly during the 1st Wisconsin Legislature (1848).

HD 47186 b is a “hot Neptune” extrasolar planet located approximately 123 light years away in the constellation of Canis Major, orbiting the star HD 47186. This planet has a minimum mass of 22.78 times that of Earth and orbits very close to the star at a similar distance from the star as 51 Pegasi b is from 51 Pegasi. As in consequence, it takes 4.0845 days to complete an orbit with an eccentricity of 0.038, which is similar to the 5.66 year-period planet HD 70642 b.

Geographical Analysis is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Department of Geography (Ohio State University). It was established in 1969 and the current editor-in-chief is Rachel S. Franklin. The journal covers geographical theory, model building, and quantitative methods. These topics together are frequently referred to as geospatial analysis.

Sapiyat Akhmedovna Magomedova (Russian: Сапият Ахмедовна Магомедова; born 11 February 1979), sometimes spelled Sapijat Magomedova, is a Russian human rights activist and lawyer from Dagestan. A noted local lawyer in human rights abuses cases, she has presented cases before local courts and national courts, as well as at the European Court of Human Rights. She has experienced harassment, intimidation and threats due to her activism, and in recognition of her work was awarded the Homo Homini in 2013.

Mount Macolod (other spelling: Maculot) is a flank dormant stratovolcano of Taal located in the municipality of Cuenca, Batangas in the Philippines. Popular with mountain climbers and campers, it is the main tourist attraction of Cuenca.

Mohammed ibn Khalil al-Qawuqji (Arabic: محمد بن خليل القاوقجي) (1809 - 1888) was a Lebanese Hanafi scholar, preacher and jurist.

Atenguillo is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 610.2 km2.

The Canadian Institute of Technology (CIT; Albanian: Instituti Kanadez i Teknologjisë) is a for-profit university college located in Tirana, Albania. The university college is known to offer Bachelor and Master programs, entirely in English, divided into two faculties, the two faculties being the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Economy. Its curriculum is based on the Canadian one. The university college was established on 10 November 2021.

The Magdalena State (Spanish: Estado del Magdalena) was one of the states of Colombia, which existed from 1863 until 1886. Today the area of the former state makes up most of modern-day areas of the departments of Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira, northern Colombia.

In aeronautics and aviation, loiter is the phase of flight consisting of flying over some small region.

Felix Idubor (1928–1991) was a Nigerian sculptor from Benin City, a city with a rich history of artistic excellence. He was part of a young group of artists in the 1950s and 1960s who raised awareness of the artistic consciousness of African tradition in an emerging and nascent social milieu. He is sometimes considered one of the pioneers of Nigerian contemporary art. In 1966, he opened Nigeria's first contemporary art gallery in Kakawa street, Lagos.

Shaindel Kalish (January 15, 1910 – November 30, 2002) was an American actress on stage, on old-time radio, and in films. Her first name was sometimes spelled "Scheindel". She was also known at various times as Judith Blake, Ann Shepherd, Ann Preston, Judith Preston Blake, Ann S. Sheps, and Ann Shepherd Mann. She was a victim of the Hollywood Blacklist.

Qamardeen Yusuf Odunlami (Arabic: قمر الدين; born 27 August 1973) better known by his stage name Ayeloyun is a Nigerian Islamic singer and producer. He released his debut album Taqwallah in 1994 and his Igbeyawo album was released in 2003 which was his 9th album and brought him prominence and spotlight.

Loch Craignish is a sea loch on the mid-Argyll coast.

Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake (Mongolian: Тэрхийн Цагаан нуур, IPA: ᠲᠡᠷᠬᠢᠶ ᠤᠨ ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ terkiy-un čaɣan naɣur) is a freshwater lake in Tariat, Arkhangai, Mongolia. It flows through the Khangai Mountains. The lake is located 670 km from the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and 180 km from the center of Tariat.

Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Νικόλαος Ντε Γκρες, romanized: Nikólaos de Grèce; born 1 October 1969) is the third child of Constantine II and Anne-Marie, who were the last King and Queen of Greece, from 1964 to 1973.

The Speyer wine bottle (or Römerwein) is a sealed vessel, presumed to contain liquid wine, and so named because it was unearthed from a Roman tomb found near Speyer, Germany. It contained the world's oldest known liquid wine (dated to about AD 325), until 2024, when a 1st century AD urn within a Roman tomb, found in the southern Spanish town of Carmona in 2019, was confirmed to still contain liquid wine.

Warid (Arabic: وريد Bengali: ওয়ারিদ) was a GSM based mobile network operator in Bangladesh. It entered into Bangladeshi telecommunication industry as the sixth mobile carrier. It commenced commercial operations on May 10, 2007.

The Crypt Holdings, Inc., doing business as Crypt TV, is an American entertainment company founded by Jack Davis and filmmaker Eli Roth in September 2014, focused on the creation and distribution of horror-themed digital content with an emphasis on recurring monsters and characters in linked universes. Its creation was backed by producer Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions.

The California Child Actor's Bill (also known as Coogan Act or Coogan Bill) is a law applicable to child performers, designed to safeguard a portion of their earnings for when they reach the age of majority, and protect them from exploitation and abuse.

Louise Leonard McLaren (August 10, 1885 – December 16, 1968) born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, was founder of the Southern Summer School for Women Workers.

Sellapan Ramanathan DUT PJG (Tamil: செல்லப்பன் ராமநாதன், IPA: ; 3 July 1924 – 22 August 2016), often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011. He was the longest-serving president in the country's history, holding office for two full terms. Prior to his presidency, Nathan held various key positions in the public service, including roles in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Security and Intelligence Division (SID). He also served as Singapore's High Commissioner to Malaysia and Ambassador to the United States.

Jheison Failde de Souza (born 20 October 1988), better known by his artistic name Ferrugem, is a Brazilian singer and composer.

Isaac Alzamora was the first Vice President of Peru from 1899 to 1903. He also served from 1888 to 1889 as the foreign minister of Peru.

Dustin Demri-Burns is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work in Cardinal Burns (2012–2014) and Slow Horses (2022).

Ola Mildred Rexroat (August 28, 1917 – June 28, 2017) was the only Native American woman to serve in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).

São Francisco is one of the 48 neighborhoods in which the Brazilian city of Niterói is divided. As of 2000, its population was 9,654.

Potentilla breweri is a species of Potentilla known by the common name Brewer's cinquefoil.

Mike Botha is a South African Canadian diamond cutter.

Langon (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Occitan: Lengon) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Langon serves as the seat of its district, canton and subprefecture. Its inhabitants are called Langonnais and Langonnaise.

Spartocus III (Greek: Σπάρτοκος, romanized: Spartokos; died c. 284 BC) was king of the Bosporan Kingdom from 304 to 284 BC. He succeeded to the throne after the death of his father Eumelus in a carriage accident.

Daniel Wyman is an American musician, educator, and composer for film & television. He is an Emeritus Professor at San Jose State University, and perhaps is best known for his collaborations with director John Carpenter on films such as Halloween and The Fog, where he worked as an orchestrator and synth programmer.

The California Reporter of Decisions is a reporter of decisions supervised by the Supreme Court of California responsible for editing and publishing the published opinions of the judiciary of California. The Supreme Court's decisions are published in official reporters known as California Reports and the decisions of the Courts of Appeal are published in the California Appellate Reports.