Frank LaRose (born April 18, 1979) is an American politician. He is Ohio’s secretary of state after serving two terms as a Republican member of the Ohio State Senate from Ohio’s 27th Senate district which includes Wayne County as well as portions of Stark and Summit counties. Ohio Secretary of […]
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Comberow railway station
Comberow was an intermediate station on the West Somerset Mineral Railway (WSMR), which was built primarily to carry iron ore from mines to Watchet harbour in Somerset, England. The line was unconnected to any other, though it passed under what is now the West Somerset Railway south of the town […]
Financial Reporting Council
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is an independent regulator in the UK and Ireland, responsible for regulating auditors, accountants and actuaries, and setting the UK’s Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes. The FRC seeks to promote transparency and integrity in business by aiming its work at investors and others who rely […]
TRESOR
TRESOR (recursive acronym for “TRESOR Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM”, and also the French word for a treasure) is a Linux kernel patch which provides CPU-only based encryption to defend against cold boot attacks on computer systems by performing encryption outside usual random-access memory (RAM). It is one of two […]
Toronto/Harbourfront
The Harbourfront neighbourhood in Toronto encompasses the area from the lakeshore corridor railway line in the north down to Lake Ontario in the south and from Exhibition Place in the west to Parliament Street in the east. Nearly the entire neighbourhood is built on land reclaimed from Lake Ontario in […]
Klement Gottwald
Klement Gottwald (Czech pronunciation: [ˈklɛmɛnd ˈɡodvalt]; 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953) was a Czech communist politician, who was the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929 until his death in 1953–titled as general secretary until 1945 and as chairman from 1945 to 1953. He was the […]
Duida-Marahuaca National Park
Duida-Marahuaca National Park (rarely Cerros Duida and Marahuaca National Park) is in Amazonas Region of Venezuela. . . . Duida-Marahuaca National Park . . . It has an area of 210,000 ha and was created in 1978. It is in the geographical center of the Amazon in the Middle Orinoco, […]
Ocean liners
Before the widespread adoption of air travel, trans-oceanic crossings by necessity relied on ships which plied the high seas. While the first crossings were made by sailing vessels, steamships became common in the mid-19th century; by the early 20th century, ocean liners of various rival lines competed aggressively on both […]
KUPK
KUPK, virtual and VHFdigital channel 13, is an ABC–affiliatedtelevision stationlicensed to Garden City, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by Hampton, Virginia-based Lockwood Broadcast Group. KUPK’s news bureau and advertising sales office are located on East Schulman Avenue in Garden City,[1] and its transmitter is located near Copeland, Kansas. […]