Month: January 2022

The many-colored rush tyrant or many-coloured rush tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra) is a small passerinebird of South America belonging to the tyrant flycatcher family, Tyrannidae. It is the only member of the genusTachuris and is sometimes placed in a separate monotypic family. It inhabits marshland and reedbeds around lakes and rivers. […]

In mid-August 1943 a Polish unit of the Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe (English: Striking Cadre Battalions, UBK), which was controlled by the resistance organizationKonfederacja Narodu, organized armed attack on East Prussian villages in the area of Johannisburg (now: Pisz). The attack, commanded by Colonel Stanislaw Karolkiewicz, was a revenge for German […]

Doodle God is a puzzle video game developed by JoyBits and originally released for iOS and Adobe Flash. It released around the same time as another similar browser gameLittle Alchemy, both of which share gameplay inspired by a DOS game Alchemy from 1997. 2010 puzzle video game This article needs […]

The Laggan Army, sometimes referred to as Lagan Army, was a militia formed by Protestant settlers in the fertile Laggan Valley of County Donegal, Ulster, during the time of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Militia in the Plantation of Ulster during the Irish Rebellion of 1641 Ireland and Ulster (Dark […]

The Chatham Islands (Rekohu in the indigenous Moriori language and Wharekauri in Māori) are the eastern-most settled islands in New Zealand. The islands lie 860 km east of Christchurch, in the middle of the “Roaring Forties”. Steeped in culture and history, these islands are on the very edge of civilisation. . […]

The women’s tournament in the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at AT&T Park in San Francisco alongside the men’s tournament in which the teams competed for the Women’s Rugby Sevens World Cup. 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women‘s tournament Tournament details Venue AT&T Park Dates 20 – […]

The 1973 Peachtree Corners Classic, also known as the Atlanta WCT, was a men’s tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States that was part of Group A of the 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the second […]

Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin (Russian: Влади́мир Па́влович Милю́тин; 1884 – 1937) was a RussianBolshevik leader, Soviet statesman, economist and statistician who was People’s Commissar for Agriculture in the original soviet government formed on the day of the Bolshevik Revolution, but resigned in protest against Vladimir Lenin‘s decision to impose one party […]

Rapid-onset obesity with hypothalamic dysregulation, hypoventilation, and autonomic dysregulation(ROHHAD) is a rare condition whose etiology is currently unknown.[1] ROHHAD mainly affects the endocrine system and autonomic nervous system, but patients can exhibit a variety of signs. Patients present with both alveolar hypoventilation along with hypothalamic dysfunction, which distinguishes ROHHAD from […]

“I Knew You When” is a song written and composed by Joe South. It became a popular hit in 1965 when recorded by American pop and country singer Billy Joe Royal. There have also been several other hit cover versions of this song, including by Donny Osmond and Linda Ronstadt. […]