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1988 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 58th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League. See also: 1988 Soviet Second League Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR Season 1988 Champions Bukovyna Chernivtsi Promoted none (lost playoffs) Relegated Shakhtar Horlivka Top […]

Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) is a Swiss-American multinational cigarette and tobacco manufacturing company, with products sold in over 180 countries.[3] The most recognized and best selling product of the company is Marlboro.[4] Philip Morris International is often referred to as one of the companies comprising Big Tobacco. This article […]

Plan B was a monthly music magazine based in London, England. It catered mainly towards independent music but did not discriminate between the relative popularity of the bands it features. Plan B also documented alternative culture such as film, comics, video games, visual art and books. It was founded by […]

Yaletown-False Creek encompasses the established neighbourhood of Yaletown and the still-developing area of Southeast False Creek (better known as the Athlete’s Village from the 2010 Winter Olympics). Reclaimed industrial areas, both neighbourhoods are a mix of modern condo architecture and restored industrial warehouses. Yaletown, in particular, is considered the yuppie […]

Betty L. Corwin (November 19, 1920 – September 10, 2019) was an American theater archivist, known for her creation in 1970 of what would become the Theater on Film and Tape Archive of the New York Library for the Performing Arts.[1] Corwin proposed the idea of the archive to the […]

Ernest Hugo Meggeson HoodDSO, CdG (27 August 1915 – 1 August 1968), known as Hugo Hood, was an English war hero, schoolmaster and, for one game, a first-classcricketer.[1] He was a left-arm bowler who played for Somerset.[2][3] He was born at Burnby, Pocklington, Yorkshire and died in Scarborough. English cricketer […]

The Huon Peninsula montane rain forests is a tropical moist forestecoregion in New Guinea. The ecoregion covers the mountains of northeastern New Guinea’s Huon Peninsula. Huon Peninsula montane rain forests Kasanombe Base Camp Ecoregion territory (in purple) Ecology Realm Australasian realm Biome tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Borders Central […]

Cochrane is a town of 5300 people (2016) in Northern Ontario. Cochrane as seen across Lake Commando . . . Cochrane (Ontario) . . . The main industries in Cochrane are transportation, railway, tourism, and forestry. There is also marginal farming around Cochrane. Although the soil is considered to be […]

Erich Würdemann (15 January 1914, in Hamburg – 14 July 1943, west of Vigo in the Bay of Biscay) was a GermanU-boat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). The Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross was […]

Będzin County (Polish: powiat będziński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Będzin, which lies […]