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Quintus Gargilius Martialis

Quintus Gargilius Martialis was a third-century Roman writer on horticulture, botany and medicine. He has been identified by some with the military commander of the same name, mentioned in a Latin inscription of 260 as having lost his life in the colony of Auzia in Mauretania Caesariensis. Conside ...

Cleo (magazine)

Cleo is a Malaysian, Singaporean, Thai and Indonesian monthly women's magazine. The magazine was founded in 1972 in Australia; the Australia and New Zealand editions were discontinued in 2016. Aimed at an older audience than the teenage-focused Australian magazine Dolly , Cleo was published by ...

Collared pratincole

The collared pratincole , also known as the common pratincole or red-winged pratincole , is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. As with other pratincoles, it is native to the Old World. Etymology. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea , "gravel", referring to a ty ...

Carl Robert

Carl Georg Ludwig Theodor Herwig Joseph Robert was a German classical philologist and archaeologist. He began his studies of ancient philology and archaeology at the University of Bonn, where he was a student of Otto Jahn, Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz and Anton Springer. In 1870 he began servic ...

Young Rewired State

Young Rewired State was an organisation based in the United Kingdom, which ran events and schemes for technically gifted young people aged 18 and under. It brought together young developers, designers, and those with other technical skills to build projects to attempt to solve real world problems. ...

1998 IAAF World Cup

The 8th IAAF World Cup in Athletics were held September 11–13, 1998 at the Johannesburg Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. Overall results. Men. Women. Medal summary. Men. Africa || 3:40.87 Women. Results. ...

Marina Ginestà

Marina Ginestà i Coloma was a French-born Spanish veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and a member of the Unified Socialist Youth. She became famous due to the photo taken by Juan Guzmán on the rooftop of Plaça de Catalunya 9, 08002 Barcelona, Catalonia, Barcelona during the July 1936 military up ...

Gustave Trouvé

Gustave Pierre Trouvé was a French electrical engineer and inventor in the 19th century. Trouvé was born on 2 January 1839 in La Haye-Descartes and died on 27 July 1902 in Paris. A polymath, he was highly respected for his innovative skill in miniaturization. Youth. Gustave Trouvé was born i ...

Parque del Drago

Drago Park is a park and one of the main visitor attractions in Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife. Created at the turn of the millennium, it contains El Drago Milenario, a dragon tree thought to be around 1,000 years old, as well as a variety of other native plants. Contents. The park has an area of ar ...

Fastball

The fastball is the most common type of pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball and softball. "Power pitchers," such as former American major leaguers Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens, rely on speed to prevent the ball from being hit, and have thrown fastballs at speeds of and up to . Pitchers ...

Edward Lyon Berthon

Edward Lyon Berthon FRAS was an English inventor and clergyman. Life. He was born in Finsbury Square, London, on 20 February 1813, was the tenth child of Peter Berthon, and his wife, Elizabeth Green Park, daughter of Henry Park of Liverpool, who were married in 1797. His father was great-grandso ...

Heribert Bruchhagen

Heribert Bruchhagen will be the new chairman of Hamburg SV effective 14 December 2016. He replaces Dietmar Beiersdorfer. From 1988 until 1992 he was general manager at FC Schalke 04. From 1992 until 1995 he worked in the same position for Hamburg and from 1998 until 2001 for Arminia Bielefeld. Aft ...

Admiral Dewey March

" Admiral Dewey March " is patriotic w...