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The Premyslid Crucifix (Premyslidenkreuz in German) from Jihlava. The Premyslid Crucifix is a polychromed wooden cross dating from the first half of the 14th century. It is on display at the Picture Gallery of Strahov Monastery in Prague. In 2010 it was declared a National Cultural Monument by the Czech […]

Samuel Vaughan (1720–1802) was an Anglo-Irish merchant, plantation owner, and political radical. For the Union Army officer, see Samuel K. Vaughan. Samuel Vaughan, 1760 portrait by Robert Edge Pine . . . Samuel Vaughan . . . Vaughan was born in Ireland, the son of Benjamin Vaughan and Ann Wolf; […]

Fort Albany was a bastioned earthwork that the Union Army built in Arlington County (known at the time as Alexandria County) in Virginia. The Army constructed the fort during May 1861 as part of its Civil War defenses of Washington (see Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War).[1] Fort Albany […]

Danielle J. Forrest, formerly known as Danielle J. Hunsaker (born 1977),[1] is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. American judge Danielle J. Forrest Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Incumbent Assumed office November 12, […]

The Garrison Grist Mill Historic District is a 13.4-acre (5.4 ha) parcel of Highlands Country Club located at the southwest corner of the intersection of NY 9D and Lower Station Road (Putnam County Route 12) in Garrison, New York, United States. It contains three buildings, including the titular gristmill (believed to […]

Tornio (Swedish: Torneå) is a city in Finnish Lapland, by the border to Sweden. A view to the Suensaari island, where the city center is situated . . . Tornio . . . Being estabilished in 1621 Tornio is definitely the oldest city in Lapland. Today the city has approximately […]

While most Canadians choose to travel between major cities by airplane, there still exists today a continuous series of connecting train services from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and a trans-continental journey on the passenger trains of Canada remains one of the greatest railway journeys in the world. This article […]

Life on Mars is a British television drama series, produced by Kudos Film & Television for the BBC in 2006 and 2007. The transmission dates given below refer to the original UK showings on the BBC — for the first series in 2006 all episodes premiered on BBC One, but […]

The5 were an Arab popboy band composed of Kazem Chamas, Ahmed Hassan, Adil Echbiy, Said Karmouz and Mohamed Bouhezza (aka BMd).[1][2][3][4] They finished third in the fourth series of the Arabic televised singing competition The X Factor Arabia in 2015 [5][6][7][8] Arab pop boy band This article is about Arab […]

The Great Manchester Cycle is a closed-road cyclosportive held in Manchester, Trafford and Salford, England, during summer. Participants are invited to ride one, two or four laps of a 13-mile course which starts at the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, heads along the Mancunian Way and into Old […]