corpus_id
stringlengths 1
4
| text
stringlengths 4
1.2k
⌀ | image
stringlengths 12
15
⌀ |
|---|---|---|
112 | Under the Whyte notation, a 2-8-4 is a steam locomotive that has one unpowered leading axle, usually in a leading truck, followed by four powered and coupled driving axles, and two unpowered trailing axles, usually mounted in a bogie. This locomotive type is most often referred to as a Berkshire, though the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway used the name Kanawha for their 2-8-4s. In Europe, this wheel arrangement was mostly seen in mainline passenger express locomotives and, in certain countries, in tank locomotives. | null |
113 | null | images/113.jpg |
115 | null | images/115.jpg |
116 | null | images/116.jpg |
117 | null | images/117.jpg |
119 | Rachispoda is a genus of flies belonging to the family Lesser Dung flies. | images/119.jpg |
120 | USS Pinafore (SP-450) was a United States Navy launch in commission from 1902 to 1920.
Pinafore was built in 1902 by the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, as a ferry launch. The Mare Island Navy Yard used her as a construction and repair launch. Around the time the United States entered World War I in April 1917, she received the section patrol registry number SP-450.
Pinafore was stricken from the Navy List on 1 July 1920. | images/120.jpg |
121 | Canningstown is a village in northeastern County Cavan, Ireland. It is located on the R191 regional road. | images/121.jpg |
123 | null | images/123.jpg |
124 | Vernon Decatur Stephens was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1941 through 1955. An eight-time All-Star, Stephens was notable for being the 1945 American League home run champion and was a three-time American League RBI champion. He was the cleanup hitter for the only St. Louis Browns team to win an American League pennant in 1944, and was a top power hitter for the Boston Red Sox. Nicknamed "Little Slug", "Junior", and "Buster", Stephens batted and threw right-handed. He was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2006. | images/124.jpg |
125 | This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Bertrix. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage. | null |
126 | Redford, officially the Charter Township of Redford, is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a suburb of Detroit. The population was 48,362 at the 2010 census. | null |
127 | Look Back Library is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of skateboard magazines, and other printed skateboard materials, through traveling exhibits and the building of publicly accessible skateboard magazine libraries. | images/127.jpg |
128 | Joe Garner Turman is a Christian author, speaker and retired missionary living in Marshall County, Alabama. He has authored several books including: Buddy, about a boxer in the 1950s and 1960s, and Sling Creek, a novel about the life and activities of a small community in the rural South and how it deals with a murder. | null |
129 | Hypsosinga rubens is a species of orb weaver in the spider family Araneidae. It is found in the United States and Canada. | images/129.jpg |
131 | The Duitse Huis is a complex of buildings in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, protected as a national monument.
The older parts date to a monastery of the Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Knights founded in 1348.
Originally Catholic, the order became Protestant during the Reformation.
A military hospital was added in 1823 after the knights had sold the property.
The property was sold back to the Bailiwick of Utrecht and a major renovation started in 1992.
Some of the older buildings are again the headquarters of the Bailiwick of Utrecht, now a charity, and hold an important collection of medieval manuscripts, coins and pictures.
Other buildings, including the former hospital, have been converted into a five-star hotel, the Grand Hotel Karel V. | images/131.jpg |
132 | Woden Town Centre is the main commercial centre of the district of Woden Valley in Canberra, Australia. It is located in the Canberra suburb of Phillip. The town centre has a variety of shops and amenities, including office blocks that house Australian departments, and shopping centres like Westfield Woden. The Woden Valley itself was the first satellite city, separate from the Canberra Central district.
Like Phillip, the town centre was established in 1966 and the suburb it is located in was named after Arthur Phillip, who was the first Governor of New South Wales. In 1971, a flash flood caused the deaths of seven people, which occurred right near the Woden Town Centre. The centre is the location of the tallest building in Canberra, the Lovett Tower. | images/132.jpg |
133 | null | images/133.jpg |
134 | The medieval state of Kievan Rus' incorporated parts of what is now modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, and was centered on Kiev and Novgorod. Its architecture is the earliest period of Russian architecture, with a style that quickly established itself after the adoption of Christianity in 988 and was strongly influenced by Byzantine architecture.
After the disintegration of Kievan Rus' followed by Mongol invasion in the first half of the 13th century, the architectural tradition continued in the principalities of Novgorod, Vladimir-Suzdal, Galicia-Volhynia and eventually had direct influence on the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian architecture. | images/134.jpg |
135 | The Žumberak Mountains is a range of hills and mountains in northwestern Croatia and southeastern Slovenia, extending from the southwest to the northeast between the Krka and the Kupa.
It covers an area of 430 km². The geographically unified massif consists of two parts, separated by the Bregana and Žumberak rivers. The northeastern part is the Samobor Hills with the foothills. The central and western part is named Žumberak Hills. Its northwesternmost part, named Gorjanci, lies in Slovenia. The highest peak of the range is Sveta Gera on the border between Croatia and Slovenia, being 1,178 m high. Since 1999, an area of the range in Croatia has been protected as the nature park Žumberak–Samobor Hills. | null |
136 | null | images/136.jpg |
137 | Pia Tajnikar is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Slovenia.
Tajnikar represented Slovenia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed in the 100 metres sprint and placed fifth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of 11.82 seconds. | null |
138 | null | images/138.jpg |
139 | Retiro Station is a railway terminus located in the district of Retiro of the city of Buenos Aires. The station is located just opposite Plaza San Martín, a large public square. It is part of the Retiro station complex. | null |
140 | Balranald is a town and local government area in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia.
The town of Balranald is located where the Sturt Highway crosses the Murrumbidgee River in a remote, semi-desert area. Although it is part of New South Wales, Balranald receives Victorian television stations, with a range of Sydney and Melbourne newspapers available.
Balranald was featured heavily in 2010–2015 Australian tourism ads, displaying the natural flora of the region with over 30 subspecies of shrubs native to Balranald and its surrounds. | images/140.jpg |
141 | Delphi is a programming language and an integrated development environment for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software, currently developed and maintained by Embarcadero Technologies which uses an event-driven paradigm. The language is also called Object Pascal.
Delphi's compilers generate native code for Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux. Since 2016, there have been new releases of Delphi every six months, with new platforms being added approximately every second release.
Delphi includes a code editor, a visual designer, an integrated debugger, a source code control component, and support for third-party plugins. The code editor features Code Insight, Error Insight, and refactoring. The visual forms designer has traditionally used Visual Component Library for native Windows development, but the FireMonkey platform was later added for cross-platform development. Database support in Delphi is very strong. A Delphi project of a million lines of code can compile in a few seconds – one benchmark compiled 170,000 lines per second. | images/141.jpg |
142 | null | images/142.jpg |
143 | Kennon Road, also known as Rosario–Baguio Road, is a two lane 33.53-kilometer roadway in Benguet province in the Philippines connecting the mountain city of Baguio to the lowland town of Rosario in La Union province. The project begun in 1903 and opened for travel on January 29, 1905. Originally called Benguet Road, it was later renamed in honor of its builder, Col. Lyman Walter Vere Kennon of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is the second oldest road that leads to Baguio, after Naguilian Road, and the shortest route to Baguio for travelers from Manila and provinces in central and southern Luzon.
The entire road forms part of National Route 54 of the Philippine highway network. | images/143.jpg |
145 | null | images/145.jpg |
146 | Bloodstock Open Air is a British heavy metal festival held annually at Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, since 2005.
Originally held indoors for one day with two stages, the festival started in 2001 at the Derby Assembly Rooms and has expanded over the years. It became an outdoor event in 2005 and had five stages in 2019. | null |
147 | Novi Sad is one of the most important Serbian centers of higher education and research, with four universities, numerous professional, technical, and private colleges, and a couple of research institutes. | null |
148 | Skriðuklaustur is an old farmstead and a historic site in the valley of Fljótsdalur in Iceland with the ruins of a 16th-century monastery which were revealed by an archaeological excavation between 2002 and 2012.
On site is the mansion of the famous Icelandic writer Gunnar Gunnarsson, built in 1939 when he returned home after living in Denmark for more than 30 years. The mansion was designed by German architect Fritz Höger is now a centre of culture & history with exhibitions, personal guided tours and the renowned restaurant Klausturkaffi. Snæfellsstofa, one of the visiting centers for the Vatnajökull National Park is also at Skriðuklaustur.
Nearby is the end of the tunnel that is leading water from Kárahnjúkastífla Dam, approx 50 km away, to the power plant in Fljótsdalur near Skriðuklaustur. | null |
149 | Cédric Barbosa is a French professional football player, who plays for AS Saint-Privat and is also the manager of AS Rousson. | images/149.jpg |
150 | null | images/150.jpg |
151 | This is a list of notable Presbyterian churches in Pennsylvania, where a church is notable either as a congregation or as a building. In Pennsylvania, numerous churches are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or are noted on state or local historic registers. This list also includes sites listed by the Presbyterian Historical Society as part of their American Presbyterian/Reformed Historical Sites Registry, which also includes sites from related Reformed churches and congregations. | null |
152 | Moldova has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 15 times, debuting in 2005. The country's best result is a third-place finish for SunStroke Project in 2017, with their song "Hey, Mamma!".
Moldova's debut in the contest in 2005 was successful, with Zdob și Zdub finishing sixth. The country also reached the top ten with Natalia Barbu and DoReDoS, finishing tenth both times. In total, Moldova has reached the final ten times, failing to qualify from the semi-finals in 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019 | null |
153 | null | images/153.jpg |
154 | Hang Tuah was a warrior who lived in Malacca during the reign of Sultan Mansur Shah in the 15th century. He was supposedly the most powerful of all the laksamana, or admirals, and is considered by the Malays to be one of history's greatest silat masters. Hang Tuah is held in the highest regard, even in present-day Malay culture, and is arguably the most well-known and illustrious warrior figure in Malay history and literature. | null |
155 | A Van Dyke is a style of facial hair named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. A Van Dyke specifically consists of any growth of both a moustache and goatee with all hair on the cheeks shaved. Even this particular style, though, has many variants, including a curled moustache versus a non-curled one and a soul patch versus none. The style is sometimes called a "Charlie" after King Charles I of England, who was painted with this type of beard by van Dyck. "Pike-devant" or "pickedevant" are other little-known synonyms for a Van Dyke beard. | null |
156 | null | images/156.jpg |
157 | Tahmina Rajabova is a Tajik actress, journalist and newscaster. She was honored awards like “The Journalist of the Year” in 2013, “The award for distinguished contribution to the culture and art of Tajikistan” in 2013, and “The award of the TV and Radio Committee of Tajikistan” in 2017 and others. | null |
158 | François-Edmond Pâris was a French admiral, notable for his contribution to naval engineering during the rise of the steam, for his books, and for his role in organising the Musée national de la Marine. | null |
159 | Perrottetia aquilonaria is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.
The specific name aquilonaria is from the Latin “aquilonaris” meaning “north or northern”. It refers to the distribution range of this new species in northern Thailand. | images/159.jpg |
160 | null | images/160.jpg |
161 | null | images/161.jpg |
162 | The mucous sheaths of the tendons around the ankle protect tendons in the ankle. All the tendons crossing the ankle-joint are enclosed for part of their length in mucous sheaths which have an almost uniform length of about 8 cm. each. | null |
164 | null | images/164.jpg |
166 | null | images/166.jpg |
167 | The 232nd Signal Regiment is a deployable signals regiment of the Italian Army based in Avellino in Campania. Today the regiment is administratively assigned to the army's Signal Command and affiliated with the Division "Acqui". | null |
168 | Roșiorii de Vede is a city in Teleorman County, Romania. Located in the Muntenia region, it is one of the oldest cities in the country. It was first mentioned in a document which dates back to 1385, when the city was visited by two German pilgrims who were returning from Jerusalem and stopped for a few days in a town they called Russenart.
Several Romanian personalities were born in and around the city, such as Iulian Miu, Radu Grămăticu, Alexandru Depărățeanu, Gala Galaction, Petru Bellu, Zaharia Stancu, Marin Preda and Viorica Dăncilă. | images/168.jpg |
169 | Erlbach is a river of Bavaria, Germany.
The Erlbach springs south of Großkarolinenfeld. and discharges near the center of Großkarolinenfeld from the right into the Rott. | null |
170 | Pope Innocent III was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 177th Pope from 1198 until his death in 1216. | images/170.jpg |
171 | This is a list of listed buildings in Edinburgh, Scotland. | null |
172 | Pulchri Studio is a Dutch art society, art institution and art studio based in The Hague, Netherlands.
This institute began in 1847 at the home of painter Lambertus Hardenberg. Since 1893 the club has its residence in the villa at Lange Voorhout 15 in The Hague, which is currently a brownish aubergine color. There are accepted as members artistically working members and art lovers. The members will be selected from a given by the general committee.
An artist membership allows the artist to exhibit his own works in the galleries of the Company. These so-called sales exhibitions have passed since the founding of the association until today integral part of this institution! Art lovers have to be invited by other members. The association leases its properties even to nonmembers, too. | null |
173 | Snowden Crags is a prehistoric archaeological site on Askwith Moor in North Yorkshire, England. Local antiquarian Eric Cowling recorded a stone circle and a concentration of cairns at the location in a 1946 survey, but the site remained obscure due to the density of heather covering it for most of the year. It was rediscovered in 2010 by amateur archaeologist Paul Bennett, who described the stone circle in more detail and noted the presence of a robber trench of unknown date at its centre.
A neighbouring area of moorland, Snowden Carr, contains a large amount of prehistoric rock carvings that were also recorded by Cowling. | images/173.jpg |
174 | null | images/174.jpg |
175 | Power League Wrestling is a professional wrestling promotion based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Former employees in PLW consist of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers and referees. | images/175.jpg |
176 | Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBE was an English actor who was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in supporting roles. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognisable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips and double chin, ... particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag." More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen." In his autobiography, Responsible Gentleman, Morley said his stage career started with managements valuing his appearance for playing "substantial gentleman" roles — as a doctor, lawyer, accountant or other professional member of society. | null |
177 | null | images/177.jpg |
178 | Blunden Shadbolt was a British architect who specialised in houses in the neo-Tudor and Arts and Crafts style. | null |
179 | Bennett Park was a ballpark, named after Charlie Bennett, that formerly existed in Detroit, Michigan, at Michigan and Trumbull. It was home to the Detroit Tigers. The ballclub began play here in the minor Western League with a 17–2 win over the Columbus Senators on April 28, 1896. That league was renamed the American League in 1900 but was still officially a minor league. The AL declared itself a major league starting in 1901.
Bennett Park was home to the first nighttime baseball game in Detroit. On September 24, 1896, the Tigers played their last game of their first season at Bennett Park, an exhibition doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds. Tigers owner George Arthur Vanderbeck had workers string lights above the stadium for the nighttime game. Nighttime baseball did not return to Detroit until June 15, 1948, when the first game under the lights was played at Briggs Stadium.
The ballpark sat 5,000 when it opened in 1896 and was gradually expanded to 14,000 by the time it was closed after the 1911 season. When the American League became a major league in 1901 the ballpark seated 8,500, the smallest park in the majors. | images/179.jpg |
180 | The 2005 Dissolution Honours List was issued after the General Election of the same year on the advice of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
The lists consists of 27 retiring MPs – 16 Labour, six Conservative and five Liberal Democrat. | null |
181 | null | images/181.jpg |
182 | null | images/182.jpg |
183 | Achatina craveni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae, the giant African snails. | null |
184 | null | images/184.jpg |
185 | null | images/185.jpg |
186 | null | images/186.jpg |
187 | List of Registered Historic Places in Bristol County, Massachusetts:
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted May 29, 2020. | images/187.jpg |
188 | The AVE Class 103 is a high-speed train used for the AVE service and operated in Spain by the state-run railway company RENFE.
The trains were constructed by Siemens, as the second member of the company's Velaro family. | images/188.jpg |
189 | null | images/189.jpg |
191 | The following list sorts all cities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with a population of more than 50,000. As of December 31, 2017, 76 cities fulfill this criterion and are listed here. This list refers only to the population of individual municipalities within their defined limits, which does not include other municipalities or suburban areas within urban agglomerations. | images/191.jpg |
192 | McKenzie Grant was an Australian pastoralist and politician. He owned or leased large quantities of land in Western Australia, especially in the North-West, and served in the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1880 to 1887 and again from 1889 to 1893. | null |
193 | The Lörrach Sculpture Path is a Sculpture trail of 23 works and fountains through the southern German city of Lörrach.
In 1986 extensive urban planning changes were made in the city. A busy main road was decommissioned in favour of a pedestrian street. The city was transformed with the goal of making Lörrach into a culturally attractive town in the Swiss-French-German border region. The sculpture trail, with works by both international and local artists, was commissioned. The route begins at the cultural centre Burghof Lörrach with a truncated pyramid by Bruce Nauman. The trail takes a circular route past Dreiländermuseum, the town hall and the market. | images/193.jpg |
194 | A side cap is a military cap that can be folded flat when not being worn. It is also known as a garrison cap or flight cap in the United States, wedge cap in Canada, or field service cap in the United Kingdom. In form the side cap is comparable to the glengarry, a folding version of the Scottish military bonnet. It has been associated with various military forces since the middle of the 19th century, as well as various civilian organizations. | null |
195 | null | images/195.jpg |
197 | Hengchun Old Town refers to the historic castle town of Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan. The town is known for its well-preserved city walls that surround the city, and is the only castle town in Taiwan where all of the original gates remain standing. It is protected as a national historical site. | null |
198 | Eris is the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent is Discordia, which means "discord". Eris's Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Roman counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona. The dwarf planet Eris is named after the goddess.
She had no temples in ancient Greece, and functions essentially as a personification, as which she appears in Homer and many later works. | images/198.jpg |
199 | Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some, like Darjeeling and Chinese greens, have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have vastly different profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral, or grassy notes. Tea has a stimulating effect in humans primarily by its caffeine content.
Tea originated in the region encompassing today's Northeast India, north Myanmar, Southwest China and Tibet, where it was used as a medicinal drink by various ethnic groups in the region. An early credible record of tea drinking dates to the 3rd century AD, in a medical text written by Hua Tuo. It was popularised as a recreational drink during the Chinese Tang dynasty, and tea drinking spread to other East Asian countries. Portuguese priests and merchants introduced it to Europe during the 16th century. During the 17th century, drinking tea became fashionable among the English, who started to plant tea on a large scale in India. | images/199.jpg |
200 | Recon Instruments was a Canadian technology company that produced smartglasses and wearable displays marketed by the company as "heads-up displays" for sports. Recon's products delivered live activity metrics, GPS maps, and notifications directly to the user's eye. Recon's first heads-up display offering was released commercially in October 2010, roughly a year and a half before Google introduced Google Glass.
Recon received investments from companies including Motorola Solutions and Intel. It also partnered with enterprise software vendors in order to make its latest smart eyewear device, the Jet, suitable for industrial applications.
On June 17, 2015, Recon was acquired by Intel. Recon then described itself as "an Intel company."
In June 2017, Intel announced that all remaining Recon Instruments products were going to be discontinued by the end of the year. According to a Bloomberg report in October 2017, Intel had in fact completely closed its Recon Instruments division already in early summer 2017. | images/200.jpg |
201 | null | images/201.jpg |
202 | Haliplus is a genus of crawling water beetles in the family Haliplidae. There are at least 180 described species in Haliplus. They are found worldwide, except for Antarctica, living among algae and aquatic vegetation at edges of ponds, lakes, and streams. They range in size from 1.75 to 5 mm. | images/202.jpg |
203 | Sloup is a rock castle in the Czech lands. It is near Nový Bor in the small town of Sloup v Čechách, in the Liberec Region, north Bohemia, Czech Republic. It takes its name from the special appearance of the freestanding sandstone rocks, 33-metre high, into which it was carved in the 14th century. Sloup means "column". | null |
205 | Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an independent country in the central Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is just over 110,000, more than half of whom live on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one raised coral island, Banaba. They have a total land area of 811 square kilometres and are dispersed over 3.5 million km².
Their spread straddles the equator and the 180th meridian, although the International Date Line goes round Kiribati and swings far to the east, almost reaching the 150° W meridian. This brings Kiribati's easternmost islands, the southern Line Islands south of Hawaii, into the same day as the Gilbert Islands and places them in the most advanced time zone on Earth: UTC+14. Kiribati is one of the few countries in the world to be situated in all four hemispheres.
Kiribati gained its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming a sovereign state in 1979. The capital, South Tarawa, now the most populated area, consists of a number of islets, connected by a series of causeways. These comprise about half the area of Tarawa atoll. | null |
206 | null | images/206.jpg |
207 | Bossier City is the sixth-largest city in the state of Louisiana. is in Bossier Parish, it is the suburb of Shreveport. The population, as of 2012, is less than 63,000. | images/207.jpg |
208 | Frederic Mistral was a French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. Mistral received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist". He was a founding member of the Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille.
His name in his native language was Frederi Mistral according to the Mistralian orthography or Frederic Mistral according to the classical orthography.
Mistral's fame was owing in part to Alphonse de Lamartine who sang his praises in the 40th edition of his periodical Cours familier de littérature, following the publication of Mistral's long poem Mirèio. Alphonse Daudet, with whom he maintained a long friendship, eulogized him in "Poet Mistral", one of the stories in his collection Letters from My Windmill. | images/208.jpg |
209 | The Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Airport railway is a single-track, electrified main line in Saxony, Germany. It runs from Dresden-Klotzsche station on the Görlitz–Dresden railway to Dresden Airport and today it is served exclusively by the Dresden S-Bahn. | null |
210 | null | images/210.jpg |
213 | null | images/213.jpg |
214 | Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd, commonly known as Geely, is a Chinese privately held multinational automotive company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The group was established in 1986 and entered the automotive industry in 1997 with its Geely Auto brand. It sells passenger vehicles under the Geely Auto, Lotus, Lynk & Co, PROTON, and Volvo brands as well as commercial only vehicles under the London EV Company and Yuan Cheng Auto brands. The group sold over 1.5 million cars in 2018.
Geely Group has been manufacturing its own cars before it owned the Swedish passenger car maker Volvo Cars since 2010, when it acquired the company from Ford. It completed the acquisition of British taxi maker The London Electric Vehicle Company in 2013, and acquired a majority stake in British sports carmaker Lotus Cars in 2017. | null |
215 | Ōtani Station is a train station on the Keihan Electric Railway Keishin Line in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. | null |
216 | The Battle of Eniwetok was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought between 17 February 1944 and 23 February 1944, on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The invasion of Eniwetok followed the American success in the Battle of Kwajalein to the southeast. Capture of Eniwetok would provide an airfield and harbor to support attacks on the Mariana Islands to the northwest. The operation was officially known as "Operation Catchpole", and was a three-phase operation involving the invasion of the three main islands in the Eniwetok Atoll.
Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance preceded the invasion with Operation Hailstone, a carrier strike against the Japanese base at Truk in the Caroline Islands. This raid destroyed 39 warships and more than 200 planes. | null |
217 | null | images/217.jpg |
218 | Christopher Robert Higgins is an American former professional ice hockey winger and current assistant director of Vancouver Canucks player development. While playing college hockey, he was selected 14th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He finished a two-year career with the Yale Bulldogs, earning ECAC Hockey Player of the Year honors as a sophomore, before turning professional for the 2003–04 season. After two seasons with the Canadiens' minor league affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League, he joined the NHL in 2005–06. He recorded three consecutive 20-goal seasons to begin his NHL career before being traded to the New York Rangers in June 2009. After brief stints with the Rangers, Calgary Flames and Florida Panthers, he joined the Vancouver Canucks in February 2011. Internationally, Higgins has competed for the United States in two World Junior Championships and one World Championship. | null |
219 | There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Epping Forest in Essex. | images/219.jpg |
220 | null | images/220.jpg |
222 | null | images/222.jpg |
223 | The Stolpersteine in Zlín Region lists the Stolpersteine in the Zlín Region in the central-eastern part of Moravia. Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.
Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence. The name of the Stolpersteine in Czech is stolpersteine, or alternatively, kameny zmizelých, stones of the disappeareds.
The lists are sortable; the basic order follows the alphabet according to the last name of the victim. | null |
224 | Beecraigs is a country park located in West Lothian, approximately 2 miles south of the town of Linlithgow and 3 miles north-east of Bathgate and is a 4 star Visitor Attraction. The Park comprises around 913 acres of upland forest, woodland and open country, and offers a range of amenities including walks & trails, play area, skills area & mountain bike trails, BBQ hire, caravan & camping site including 2 lodges, Countryside Ranger Service, animal attraction, fly fishery, Visitor Centre and Cafe. In 2010 prehistoric remains were uncovered on the site of the current visitor centre. To the west of the country park is privately owned Cockleroy Hill, which is topped by the remains of a prehistoric hillfort. | images/224.jpg |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.