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Townsville Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, day, International Baccalaureate and boarding school, located in Townsville. Townsville Grammar School 1900 Townsville Grammar School 1905 This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) […]

Aleksandar “Saša” Habić (Serbian Cyrillic: Саша Хабић; born 17 March 1956) is a Serbian and former Yugoslav musician, record producer and composer. During his career as a producer he worked with artists like Piloti, Divlji Anđeli, U Škripcu, Jakarta, Beograd, Dorian Gray, Laki Pingvini, Bebi Dol, Željko Bebek, Luna, Laza […]

Herman Clarence Nixon (1886 – 1967) was an American political scientist and a member of the Southern Agrarians. Herman Clarence Nixon Born 1886 Possum Trot, Calhoun County, Alabama, U.S. Died 1967 Alma mater Auburn University Occupation Academic Children John Trice Nixon Relatives Mignon Nixon(granddaughter) . . . Herman Clarence Nixon . […]

Denise Lester OBE was a British teacher who founded the bilingual Queen Elizabeth’s School in Lisbon, Portugal in 1935 and was also the founder of the first Girl Guides group for Portuguese girls. British teacher who founded the Queen Elizabeth’s School in Lisbon, Portugal and was a Girl Guides pioneer […]

Reactionary modernism is a term first coined by Jeffrey Herf[1] in the 1980s, to describe the mixture of “great enthusiasm for modern technology with a rejection of the Enlightenment and the values and institutions of liberal democracy” which was characteristic of the German Conservative Revolutionary movement and Nazism.[2] In turn, […]

On September 5, 2005, PresidentGeorge W. Bush announced that he would nominate Judge John Roberts for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed William H. Rehnquist, who had died two days earlier. In July 2005, Roberts had been nominated to replace retiring […]

The 1981 League of Ireland Cup Final was the final match of the 1980–81 League of Ireland Cup, a knock-out association football competition played annually by clubs affiliated with the League of Ireland. It was contested by Dundalk and Galway Rovers, and took place across two legs – with the […]

Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang (Lao: ຫຼວງພຣະບາງ) is the former capital of Laos and a UNESCO World Heritage city. Wat Sen, Luang Prabang Haw Kam . . . Luang Prabang . . . Set at the confluence of two rivers that almost surround the town, and beneath a temple-topped hill, Luang […]

George M. Averoff (15 August 1815, Metsovo – 15 July 1899, Alexandria), alternately Jorgos Averof or Georgios Averof (in Greek: Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ), was a businessman and philanthropist. He is one of the great national benefactors of Greece. Born in the town of Metsovo (Epirus, Greece, then Ottoman Empire), Averoff moved […]

Cauvery Basin is a region in the south of Karnataka State. Lakshmi Narayanaswamy temple at Harohalli riverside, Pandavapura . . . Cauvery Basin . . .   Chamarajanagar   Chikmagalur   Hassan   Kodagu   Mandya   Mysore Agni Nethramba Temple, Thandavapura Chinnada Gudi Hundi Temple, Nanjangud 13.164175.86471 Belur— the […]