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Jack brought Sylvia back to his apartment after a nice date. The dinner had gone well and Jack easily made her laugh. Suddenly, Sylvia started sneezing uncontrollably. Jack's two cats then greeted the pair at the door. Sylvia was allergic to cats. |
Stacey was only twelve, but she wanted to earn money by babysitting. Her parents decided to let her find work if she could be responsible. She decided to show she was responsible by making dinner for them. Unfortunately, she burned the food and it nearly caught on fire! Stacey's parents decided not to let her babysit y... |
Fritz Kachler was an Austrian figure skater. He was the 1912, 1913, and 1923 World champion and the 1914 & 1924 European champion. |
Lawrence was moving to Seattle. He noticed that it had been raining all week. He asked a cab driver how often the sun came out. The cab driver just left. Lawrence looked out the window at the rain pouring down. |
Akolouthos () was a Byzantine office with varying functions over time. Originally a subaltern officer of the imperial guard regiment (tagma) of the Vigla, it was associated with the command over the famed Varangian Guard in the 11th–12th centuries. |
Jordan was having a perfectly pleasant day at the beach. He was enjoying a chocolate ice cream cone. Then all of the sudden a seagull flew towards Jordan out of nowhere. The seagull grabbed Jordan's ice cream cone right out of his hand. The seagull incident really but a damper on Jordan's beach day. |
Steve Wisniewski (born April 7, 1967), nicknamed "the Wiz", is an American former professional football guard who played for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Los Angeles / Oakland Raiders, and later served as the team's assistant offensive line coach. He played college football for the Penn Sta... |
This is a list of cases reported in volume 21 (8 Wheat.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1823. |
A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad is the seventh studio album by English rock band Ocean Colour Scene. It was originally due to be released in September 2004 but Sanctuary Records requested the band record a live album instead and it was eventually released on 21 March 2005. The album was produced by Dave Erin... |
Stereo is a studio album by the American band Vallejo, released in 2002. |
Micrographia, an acquired disorder, features abnormally small, cramped handwriting. It is commonly associated with neurodegenerative disorders of the basal ganglia, such as in Parkinson's disease, but it has also been ascribed to subcortical focal lesions. O'Sullivan and Schmitz describe it as an abnormally small handw... |
Pokhara Airport is a domestic airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. Pokhara Airport will be gradually replaced by Nepal's third international airport, Pokhara International Airport, in 2023. While most operations were transferred to the new airport on 1 January 2023, the STOL-operations to Jomsom are still operated from t... |
Charles Emory Apgar (June 28, 1865 – August 17, 1950) was an American business executive and amateur radio operator. He is known for making early recordings of radio transmissions at the start of World War I. The recordings that he made of a wireless telegraphy station owned by a German Empire-based company operating f... |
The man wanted to go into nature. He drove to a large park. He went on a hike. He saw a black bear. He wanted to get out of the woods. |
Allison loves to swim. She decided to join her school's swim team. On the first day, she made the varsity team. Allison won many races. She is training for the Olympics now. |
Thein Nyunt () was one of six ministers of the President's Office, in the Cabinet of Burma (Myanmar), as well as the Mayor and the Chairman of the Naypyidaw Council, which governs the national capital. He served for State Peace and Development Council as the Minister of Progress of Border Areas, National Races and Deve... |
Leigh was the next door neighbor. She sat outside with her baby in a stroller. The winds were very high that day. The wind blew over the stroller. Leigh started screaming, but the baby was ok. |
Lane's Mill was a gristmill, sawmill and fulling mill on Four Mile Creek in Section 31 of Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio. |
The Senate (, ) was the upper house of Parliament in Mauritania from April 1992 to August 2017. The Senate had 56 members, 53 members elected indirectly for a six-year term by municipal councillors with one third renewed every two years and 3 members elected by Mauritanians abroad. |
The Weaver Mercantile Building is a historic building in the unincorporated community of Weaver, Minnesota, United States, built in 1875. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated for being one of the fe... |
Sidney couldn't sleep. She had watched a scary movie that night. Sidney decided to read a book instead. She read for a couple hours. Sidney finally fell asleep sleeping. |
The 1573 was one of many battles the warlord Oda Nobunaga fought against the Azai and Asakura clans during Japan's Sengoku period. These two families were among the staunchest opponents of Nobunaga's attempts to seize land and power for himself. |
The woman was getting married in just a month. She ordered a dress from the bridal shop. She was worried it wouldn't arrive in time. The dress showed up the day before the wedding. The woman was so relieved she cried! |
My sixteen year old daughter told me she wanted a tattoo. I knew she wouldn't take a simple no for an answer. I told her I have one answer to sex, tattoos and piercings. This got her attention and she asked what it was. I answered there is no getting poked until after she graduated! |
Ning Li (January 14, 1943 – July 27, 2021) was an Han Chinese scientist holding dual citizenship in both the USA and her birth country of China. She is known for her physics and anti-gravity research. In the 1990s, Li worked as a research scientist at the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Al... |
Christian Satellite Network (CSN) International is a Christian radio network based in Twin Falls, Idaho. KAWZ, 89.9 MHz, in Twin Falls is the uplink station, feeding 337 broadcast translators nationwide and 42 full-power radio stations across the United States, including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. CSN is a non-pr... |
Gerald Taggart (born 18 October 1970) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer. He played for Barnsley, Bolton Wanderers, Leicester City, Manchester City and Stoke City as well as the Northern Ireland national team. |
A Town area committee is a semi-municipal authority constituted for the administration of small towns in India. They are assigned a limited number of civic functions like street lighting, drainage, roads, conservancy, etc. Town area committees were established by an act passed by the state legislature. The act mentions... |
Drake was a fun loving guy. He liked to hang out with people all the time. He was always loud. This drove people away. So in the end, he lost many relationships. |
James was taking an online test to win 1 grand. He was told not to use the internet to find the answers. James tried very hard to follow the rules and not cheat. He found problems he couldn't answer and looked online for the answers. He won the contest but he felt really guilty and confessed to cheating. |
Jessica was redoing her kitchen. She found some beautiful rugs. She spread them out on her kitchen floor. They were exactly what the room had been missing! She couldn't wait to move on to the rest of the house. |
Sinclair Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and one of the southern island in the Cole Islands group and National Park and is about 100 km south-east of Cape Melville, Queensland. |
Mullen High School (formerly J.K. Mullen High School) is a Roman Catholic, Brothers of the Christian Schools, college-preparatory high school in Denver, Colorado. |
Sally and her friend Jill took her rowboat out on the lake. Halfway across they dropped the oars! They were stuck with no way to get in touch with anyone. After about an hour another boat finally came by. The girls got aboard and they rowed their boat to shore. |
From that point on, things were strained between us. My mother was angry and spiteful. My father became distant and blamed me for everything. My relationship with my parents began to sever. We never rebuilt a repertoire of any sort. |
Pierre Millière was a French entomologist chiefly interested in Lepidoptera. |
Our Economy (, ) is a foundational work on Islamic economics by the celebrated Shia cleric and martyr (shahid) Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. |
Christine Wachtel (born 6 January 1965) is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the 800 metres run. Her time of 1:56.64 put her second to her training partner Sigrun Wodars. |
Squitty Bay Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on Lasqueti Island in the Northern Gulf Islands of the Strait of Georgia region. |
Majority (absolute majority), a mathematic concept, is the greater part, or more than half, of the total. |
CFRY (920 AM) is a simulcasting radio station that broadcasts a country format. Licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, the station serves the Central Plains Region. The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting, and is located at 2390 Sissons Drive, along with CHPO-FM and CJPG-FM. |
Tina wanted to scare people. She put on a dinosaur costume. She found an old lady. She went up to her and screamed. The lady was so scared she passed out. |
Murun Buchstansangur is a series of animated shorts produced by Bevanfield Films for the TV station Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It comprised fifty-two episodes; each was written, directed and narrated by Timothy Forder. |
I was Xmas shopping the other day. I bought a tournament chess set for my friend. I bought it on eBay for $38. I got the item from Amazon Prime, with a price of $31. I sent a message to the seller telling him he was being unethical. |
The pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri) is a species of flat-shelled tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species is native to Tanzania and Kenya. There are also small populations in northern Zambia. Its common name refers to the flat shape of its shell. |
Madeleine Wing Adler was the first female president of West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and master's degree and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. |
Ritmo Kombina (Combined rhythm) is a style of popular Dutch Antillean music, influenced by zouk and soca music. The lyrics of combined rhythm are generally in the local Papiamento language. |
Private First Class James Dennis La Belle (November 22, 1925 – March 8, 1945) enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on November 18, 1943. Fifteen months later, in his first and last battle, he heroically sacrificed his life at Iwo Jima and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military ... |
Kiros was a Canadian rock and punk band formed in 2002 in Calgary. |
Mark was nearly finished with law school. The next step in becoming a lawyer was to pass the Bar exam. Mark studied very hard before taking the test. On the day of the test he was afraid that he wouldn't pass. Mark was happy when he got a letter telling him he had passed the test. |
Aubrey loves to go hiking. Unfortunately she noticed an injured wolf on a trail. Aubrey felt concerned for the wolf and decided not to touch it. She called a nearby park ranger for help. The wolf was taken to a nearby animal hospital for recovery. |
OneFamily Fund is an Israel based nonprofit organization that assists victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks, founded after the 2001 Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing. OneFamily describes itself as "the family of Israel's victims of militant attacks - those who have been bereaved, those who have been maimed, and thos... |
Royères (; ) in a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. |
Lincoln School, Providence RI, is a college preparatory school offering advanced education in small classes to girls from Kindergarten through Grade 12, with a co-educational Little School (6 weeks to Pre-K). |
Fiji was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. They would win one bronze medal in Rugby 7s, the only medal they would win in 2006. |
Trish's mom never wore makeup, so she never learned how to apply it. The school dance is coming up and she wants to go. Her friend Kathy is great at makeup, so Trish asked for her help. Kathy came over the night of the dance and applied Trish's makeup. No one at the dance recognized her because she was so beautiful. |
I usually play chess online with my friend George. George texted a lot today. He wanted to talk shop. By the time he was ready to play I had to go to dinner. We did not play chess at all. |
Damaris Ann Kennedy Hayman (16 June 1929 – 3 June 2021) was an English actress, often cast in upper class or eccentric roles. She made numerous performance in films and television series from the 1950s onwards. |
Eric Pratt Hamp (November 16, 1920 – February 17, 2019) was an American linguist widely respected as a leading authority on Indo-European linguistics, with particular interests in Celtic languages and Albanian. Unlike many Indo-Europeanists, who work entirely on the basis of written materials, he conducted extensive fi... |
Josef Fiala (Joseph Fiala) (3 February 1748 – 31 July 1816), was a Czech composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue of the Classical period. |
Jill Forster (born 1936), is an English Australian actress who came to Australia as a model in 1964 and appeared in the Crawford Production series Hunter. |
Tom had just turned 18 years old. He wanted all of the responsibilities and freedoms of an adult's life. Tom applied for a credit card at a booth at his school. Tom was happy to learn he was approved for the credit card. Tom was excited and proud to embark on adulthood owning a credit card. |
Kia had always gotten an allowance of $5 a week for her B average. One day she sat her parents down and proposed a bargain. If she could bring her average up to an A, could she get $10 weekly? They discussed it together, and finally her parents agreed. Kia was thrilled that her proposal had worked! |
A testimonial party () is a political party that focuses on its principles, instead of adapting them to local or temporal issues in the pursuit of coalition government participation. |
Nelson loved to ride on boats. He enjoyed the wind on his face. After many rides, he fell off the boat. He barely escaped the cold ocean as well. Now, Nelson wears a life jacket every time he gets on a boat. |
KROX (1260 kHz) is Crookston, Minnesota's only local AM radio station. It airs a locally based news/talk format in the day and a classic rock format at night. While not located in Grand Forks-East Grand Forks, the station receives most of its listening audience from that area. KROX also has earned the national Edward R... |
Cichorium endivia is a species of flowering plant belonging to the genus Cichorium, which is widely cultivated as one of the species of similar bitter-leafed vegetables known as endive and escarole. |
The 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 57th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 10 and 11 June 1989. |
Kenneth Doniell Moore (August 20, 1974 – October 14, 2007), better known by his stage name Big Moe, was an American rapper from Houston, Texas. |
6/16/00 – Katowice, Poland is a two-disc live album and the sixteenth in a series of 72 live bootlegs released by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam from the band's 2000 Binaural Tour. It was released along with the other official bootlegs from the European leg of the tour on September 26, 2000. |
Halstenbek () is a free municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the north-western border of the city of Hamburg and approximately 5 km southeast of Pinneberg. |
Oakshela is a hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada. It was founded in the late 19th century by farmers and quickly became a flourishing small town. It once housed a post office, three stores, a school, a church and several families both within town and just outside town. |
John Young (16 June 1916 – 30 October 1996) was a Scottish actor. He is the father of the actor Paul Young. |
Joseph Carcione ( ; October 31, 1914 – August 2, 1988) was a consumer advocate known as "The Green Grocer." |
Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The series started in 1995 replacing the previous format of a single event final. The first winner was Hans Nielsen of Denmark. |
Edward Barradall (c. 1703–1743) was a British attorney, admiralty judge and politician who represented the College of William and Mary in the House of Burgesses, and compiled the first volume of decisions of the general Court of the Colony of Virginia. |
Athan is a Greek male given name, which means "eternal life" or "immortal". It can be a variant of Athanasios, and is of rising popularity among younger Greek parents. The name Athan may refer to: |
My son took my wife to Fenway Park on Monday. She had tickets behind third base. She bought a cap and watched the game. She was on tv during a foul ball play. I recorded her appearance and emailed it to friends. |
Susie's dad got a new job. It was in England. So the family picked up and moved. She thought she would like it. But she ended up hating it. |
Grand Sierra Resort (formerly MGM Grand Reno, Bally's Reno and Reno Hilton) is a hotel and casino located approximately three miles east of Downtown Reno, Nevada. The hotel has 1,990 guest rooms and suites, 27 floors, 12 restaurants, including Charlie Palmer Steak by celebrity chef Charlie Palmer, and a casino with 80,... |
My sister in law Edna came to visit last week. Edna lives in Greenfield, 95 miles away from Boston. Edna gained a lot of weight since last we saw her. I was told it was because she stopped going to Weight Watchers. Her husband was not pleased with this situation but can do nothing. |
The design of the coat of arms of the Republic of Nauru originated in 1968 following the declaration of independence, and it began to be used officially in the early 1970s. |
Southwark was originally the Southwark District, a colonial-era municipality in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Today, it is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Because of its location south of the early Philadelphia, the name was adopted in allusion to the... |
Emily Faithfull (27 May 1835 – 31 May 1895) was an English women's rights activist who set up the Victoria Press to publish the English Woman's Journal. |
The western cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma) was once classified as a subspecies of the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus). However, DNA based studies published in 2008 and 2015, revealed no significant genetic difference between the eastern cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus) and the weste... |
Federal Route 59, or Jalan Tapah–Cameron Highlands, is a 90 km federal road in Perak and Pahang state, Malaysia. It was the main route to Cameron Highlands, Pahang from Tapah, Perak, before the second route Second East–West Highway was built in 2001. |
Germany has not been doing well since D-Day. They decide to make a stand in the Ardennes forest. They attack the Americans for an entire month. Finally the Americans break through. The Germans are on the run again. |
Tim had a crush on a girl in class. He would try to awkwardly flirt with her often. She never reciprocated any of his feelings. Eventually Tim became frustrated by it. He wound up insulting his crush and she never talked to him again. |
This article deals with Paul Bäumer the pilot. For the fictional Paul Bäumer, see All Quiet on the Western Front. For the late member of electronic music group Bingo Players, see Bingo Players |
Rose Zwi (8 May 1928 – 22 October 2018) was a Mexican-born South African–Australian writer and anti-apartheid activist best known for her work about the immigrants in South Africa. |
Heidi Grande Røys (born 6 May 1967) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. She became Minister of Modernisation in 2005, renamed to Minister of Government Administration and Reform since 2006 in the second cabinet Stoltenberg. She was replaced by Rigmor Aasrud in 2009. |
Ted had his license for a week, and was excited to go on the highway. He took his dad's truck for the first time, and called a friend. After picking up his friend, Mike, they decided to make a trip. Driving on the highway, they took the truck to 80 mph until it shook. When it began shaking, they pulled off the road to ... |
Channel 37 is an intentionally unused ultra-high frequency (UHF) television broadcasting channel by countries in most of ITU region 2 such as the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. The frequency range allocated to this channel is important for radio astronomy, so all broadcasting is prohibited within a window of... |
José Gomes Ferreira, GOSE, GOL (9 July 1900 – 1985) was a Portuguese poet and fiction writer with a vast work of varied influences. Gomes Ferreira was also a political activist that participated in the resistance against the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar, becoming later a member of the Portuguese Communist Party. In... |
The Municipality of Argos was a municipality of Argolis prefecture which was established by the Kapodistrias Plan from the merging of older communities of the area, which later formed the municipal districts of the municipality. The municipality operated in the period 1999-2010 when it was abolished with the implementa... |
Simon was never really good at math. He wanted to get better. His teacher told him to practice. Simon practiced in his free time, almost everyday. He eventually was better in math. |
André-Marie Ampère (, , ; 20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". He is also the inventor of numerous applications, such as the solenoid (a term coined by him) and the elect... |
Gary Zukav (born October 17, 1942) is an American spiritual teacher and the author of four consecutive New York Times Best Sellers. Beginning in 1998, he appeared more than 30 times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss transformation in human consciousness concepts presented in his book The Seat of the Soul. His first ... |
Kayla wanted a new shirt. The one she wanted was too expensive. She decided to save up. When she finally had enough, the shirt she wanted was gone. Kayla was disappointed. |
To Heart is a 1999 Japanese anime television series based on the visual novel To Heart by the Japanese software company Leaf. The episodes, produced by the animation studio Oriental Light and Magic, are directed by Naohito Takahashi and aired in Japan between April 1 and June 24, 1999 compiling thirteen episodes. Six s... |
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