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Kurt Kluxen (10 September 1911 – 16 April 2003) was a German historian. From 1963 to 1979 Kluxen taught as a full professor for middle and modern history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He became known to a wider audience mainly through his History of England. This article needs additional […]

The Los Angeles Times 500 was an annual NASCARWinston Cup race held at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, United States, in February from 1971 to 1972 and in November from 1974 to 1980. Former annual auto race held in California Los Angeles Times 500 NASCARWinston Cup Series Venue Ontario […]

June Antoinette Pointer (November 30, 1953 – April 11, 2006) was an American singer, best known as the youngest of the founding members of the vocal group The Pointer Sisters.[1] American musician June Pointer Background information Birth name June Antoinette Pointer Born (1953-11-30)November 30, 1953Oakland, California, U.S. Died April 11, […]

Paola (Maltese: Raħal Ġdid, Italian: Casal Nuovo, both meaning “New Town”) is a town in the South Eastern Region of Malta, with 8,706 inhabitants as of 2019. The town is a commercial centre in the Southern Harbour area of Malta, about 5 km from the capital Valletta, contiguous to Tarxien and […]

Denis Sefton Delmer (24 May 1904, Berlin, Germany – 4 September 1979, Lamarsh, Essex) was a British journalist of Australian heritage and propagandist for the British government during the Second World War. Fluent in German, he became friendly with Ernst Röhm, who arranged for him to interview Adolf Hitler in […]

Robin B. Foster is a botanist studying tropical forests. He co-originated the “tropical forest dynamics plot”.[2] American ecologist Robin B. Foster Nationality American Alma mater Dartmouth College, Duke University Scientific career Fields Ecology Institutions University of Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History Thesis Seasonality of fruit production and seedfall in a […]

Qom (Persian: قم) is a holy city between Tehran and Isfahan. Qom is 120 km from Tehran. . . . Qom . . . Imam Hossain (as) silver chamber built in Qom and carried to Karbala Qom is one of the holiest cities in Iran and the Middle East, and […]

Stauroderus is a genus of slant-faced grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are three described species in Stauroderus, found in the Palearctic.[1][2] Stauroderus Stauroderus scalaris Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Orthoptera Suborder: Caelifera Family: Acrididae Subfamily: Gomphocerinae Tribe: Gomphocerini Genus: StauroderusBolívar, 1897 . . . Stauroderus […]

Víkar (Old Norse nominative case formVíkarr; LatinWicarus) was a legendary Norwegian king who found himself and his ships becalmed for a long period. To raise a wind, a human blood sacrifice was needed, and the lots fell on King Víkar himself. Starkad (Starkaðr), Víkar’s counselor urged a mock hanging from […]

The 2005 Japan Football League (Japanese: 第7回日本フットボールリーグ, Hepburn: Dai Nana-kai Nihon Futtobōru Rīgu) was the seventh season of the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese football league system. Japan Football League Season 2005 Dates 27 March – 4 December Champions Ehime FC1st JFL title1st D3 title Promoted […]