Month: December 2021

Castelfranco Veneto (Casteo in Veneto dialect) is between three main cities of the Veneto region, Treviso, Padova, and Vicenza, and is a walled city, with its medieval castle still in near-perfect condition. . . . Castelfranco Veneto . . . Castelfranco was the birthplace of the high-renaissance painter Giorgione and […]

The Kostroma constituency (No.107[lower-alpha 1]) is a Russian legislative constituency covering the entirety of Kostroma Oblast. Kostroma single-member constituency State Dumaconstituency Deputy Aleksey SitnikovUnited Russia Federal Subject Kostroma Oblast Districts Antropovsky, Buy, Buysky, Chukhlomsky, Galich, Galichsky, Kadyysky, Kologrivsky, Kostroma, Kostromskoy, Krasnoselsky, Makaryevsky, Manturovo, Manturovsky, Mezhevskoy, Nerekhta, Nerekhtsky, Neya, Neysky, Oktyabrsky, […]

Kaustinen (Swedish: Kaustby) in Central Ostrobothnia is known for its huge yearly folk music festival. The municipality with some 4,300 inhabitants welcomes thousands of guests during the festival. . . . Kaustinen . . . Folk musician ensemble playing in Pelimannitalo, the “folk musicians’ house” The folk music festival has […]

Mabul Island (Pulau Mabul in Malay) is a small island off the south-east coast of Sabah in MalaysianBorneo. The island is known as one of the best muck diving destinations in the world. One of the many nudibranchs in the waters around Mabul Island . . . Mabul . . […]

Fukuyama Castle Map of Fukuyama Fukuyama is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture. . . . Fukuyama . . . Fukuyama, an intermediate stop on the San’yo Shinkansen line, is approximately 25 minutes from Hiroshima via the Hikari (¥4800), one hour from Osaka (¥7850) and 90 minutes from Fukuoka (¥11000). One-seat […]

William Joseph Napier (1857 – 28 November 1925) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for City Auckland (1899–1902) in New Zealand. New Zealand politician William Joseph Napier Member of the New Zealand Parliamentfor City of Auckland In office1899–1902 Preceded by James Job Holland Succeeded by Frederick Baume Personal details […]

The Capitoline Wolf (Italian: Lupa Capitolina) is a bronze sculpture depicting a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome. The sculpture shows a she-wolf suckling the mythical twin founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. According to the legend, when King Numitor, grandfather of the twins, was overthrown by […]

Rivalen der Luft – ein Segelfliegerfilm (Engl: Rivals of the Air – a film on gliding) is a German film released in January 1934, which was banned in 1945 by the Allied Control Council as a NaziPropaganda film, although it was later removed from the list of so-called Conditional Films.[1] […]

Yanshuei District[1][2][3][4][5][6] (Chinese: 鹽水區; Hanyu Pinyin: Yánshuǐ Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Yánshuěi Cyu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kiâm-chúi-khu; lit. ‘salt-water town’), alternatively spelled Yanshui, is a district in Tainan, Taiwan, which is famous for its notoriously dangerous fireworks festival. The annual event commemorates a cholera epidemic more than a century ago, the fireworks symbolizing […]

The Taman Suntex station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station that serves the suburb of Taman Suntex in Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia. It serves as one of the stations on Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) Kajang Line. The station is located at EXIT 702 Hulu Langat interchange and Batu 9 […]