Graspop Metal Meeting is a Belgian heavy metal festival held in Dessel each year since 1996. Despite the small size of the festival grounds (upholding a perimeter of only ~4 km) the festival draws a large number of spectators from around Europe, with a total of 152,000 visitors in the course […]
Month: January 2022
Tehachapi
Tehachapi is a city in Kern County, California at the top of the Tehachapi Mountains which separate the San Joaquin Valley from the Mojave Desert. The Alta Wind Energy Center and the neighboring Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm are two of the largest wind farms in the United States . . […]
Website monetization
Website monetization is the process of converting existing traffic being sent to a particular website into revenue. The most popular ways of monetizing a website are by implementing pay per click (PPC) and cost per impression (CPI/CPM) advertising. Various ad networks facilitate a webmaster in placing advertisements on pages of […]
Colorado’s 1st Senate district
Colorado‘s 1st State Senate district is one of 35 districts in the Colorado Senate. It has been represented by RepublicanJerry Sonnenberg since 2015, succeeding fellow Republican Greg Brophy.[3] It is the most Republican-leaning district in the Senate.[citation needed] American legislative district Colorado’s 1stState Senate district Senator Jerry SonnenbergR–Sterling Registration […]
Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Clifton Rocks
The dive site Clifton Rocks is an inshore rocky reef in the Clifton area on the Atlantic seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. . . . Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Clifton Rocks . . . Aerial view of […]
Thomas Thompson (American author)
Thomas Thompson (néThomas Van Thompson; October 3, 1933 – October 29, 1982) was a journalist and author.[1][2] . . . Thomas Thompson (American author) . . . Thompson was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Clarence Arnold Thompson (1897–1983) and Ruth Oswalt (1904–1983). He graduated from the University of Texas […]
SS Oregon (1883)
SS Oregon was a record breaking British passenger liner that won the Blue Riband for the Guion Line as the fastest liner on the Atlantic in 1884. She was sold to the Cunard Line after a few voyages and continued to improve her passage times for her new owner. In […]
Charles Searles
Charles Robert Searles (July 11, 1937 – November 27, 2004) was an African American artist born in Philadelphia in 1937.[1] He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and was active from the 1960s until he died in 2004[2] from complications from a stroke.[3] American artist Charles Searles Born […]
Dead Eyes Opened
“Dead Eyes Opened” is a song by the experimentalAustralian group Severed Heads, originally released on their 1983 album Since the Accident. Upon its initial release as a 12-inch record single in 1984, the track received critical success. A remixed version released in October 1994[2] achieved commercial success in Australia, peaking […]
List of Dyspnoi species
This page lists all described species of the harvestmen suborder Dyspnoi. Unless otherwise noted, information is taken from Schönhofer’s 2013 taxonomic catalogue.[1] The inclusion of Acropsopilionidae within Dyspnoi is based on Groh & Giribet, 2014.[2] Wikipedia list article Main article: Dyspnoi . . . List of Dyspnoi species . . […]