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Villa Panorama

Villa Panorama is a historic home located in Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It was built in 1907, and is a 2 1/2-story, Colonial Revival style brick dwelling. It sits on a rough ashlar limestone basement and has a slate gambrel roof with dormers. It features an entrance portico and porte cochere. Also on the property are the contributing brick carriage house, pump house, and landscaped property with stone grotto. (includes 19 photos from 1984) It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Albert Falco

Albert Falco (17 October 1927 - 21 April 2012) was a French scuba diving veteran and champion of underwater conservation. He was one of the longest- serving diving companions of Jacques Cousteau, Chief Diver, and later Captain of the RV Calypso. He lived in France and was active in preserving aquatic ecosystems.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9229653/Albert- Falco.html He played several leading roles on Cousteau's films, like The Silent World (1956), World Without Sun (1964) and Voyage to the Edge of the World (1976).

1950 Duquesne Dukes football team

The 1950 Duquesne Dukes football team was an American football team that represented Duquesne University as an independent during the 1950 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Doc Skender, Duquesne compiled a 2–6–1 record and was outscored by a total of 265 to 169. In January 1951, Duquesne president, the Rev. Vernon F. Gallagher, announced that the school had decided to suspend its participation in intercollegiate football.

Ceratias tentaculatus

Ceratias tentaculatus, commonly known as the southern seadevil, is a species of sea devil, a type of anglerfish. The fish is bathydemersal and can be found at depths ranging from . It is endemic to the Southern Ocean.

Shane Dye

Raymond Shane Dye (born , in the township of Matamata New Zealand) is a jockey. He was an apprentice jockey to Dave O’Sullivan at Matamata, before moving to Sydney, Australia initially working with Vic Thompson at Warwick Farm in the late-1980s. Dye rode in Mauritius after eight years in Hong Kong.MAURITIUS: Shane Dye Accepts Riding Contract, Racing and Sports Tuesday, 17 March 2009 Dye has not ridden in competitive racing since 2013 and has said he will not return to racing. On 9 March 2014 he was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.

Pristimantis peraticus

Pristimantis peraticus is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae. It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitats are tropical moist montane forests and high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Treaty of Casalanza

The Treaty of Casalanza, which ended the Neapolitan War, was signed on 20 May 1815 between the pro-Napoleon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies on the one hand and the Austrian Empire, as well as the Great Britain, on the other. The signature occurred in a patrician villa, owned by the Lanza family ("Casalanza" meaning "Lanza House" in Italian), in what is now the commune of Pastorano, Campania, southern Italy.

1977 in Brazil

Events in the year 1977 in Brazil.

Jer-Kazar

Jer-Kazar is a village in the Chuy Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 1,738 in 2009.

Wayne Engelstad

Wayne Edward EngelstadSpelled "Engelstad" in DBTI and UCI athletic records, but "Englestad" in some sources referring to his later professional career. (born December 6, 1965) is a retired American professional basketball player. Born in Rosemead, California, he was a 6'8" (2.03 cm) 245 lb (111 kg) forward and played collegiately at the University of California, Irvine. He played for the Denver Nuggets for 11 games in 1988–89, averaging 2.5 points and 1.5 rebounds per contest.

Nóra Simóka

Nóra Simóka (born 10 December 1980) is a Hungarian modern pentathlete. She represented Hungary at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia in the women's modern pentathlon and she finished in 23rd place.

The Harp and the Shadow

The Harp and the Shadow (Spanish: El arpa y la sombra) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier. The novel was first published in 1978. Consisting of three parts, The Harp, The Hand and The Shadow, the book describes many historic characters, including pope Pius XI, Christopher Columbus and pope Leo XIII. The book, Carpentier's last published work, has been considered part of the literary genres new historical fiction, Neo-Baroque and La nueva crónica de Indias, also expanding on the Borgesian concept of the text as a palimpsest.

Garga (sage)

Garga is a male Indian name. It is a sage name who did "nam karan" to lord Sri Krishna. It is found in Vedic and Puranic literature. In Vedic literature, Garga is either related to Bharadvaja or Angiras. Some ancient Jyotisha (time keeping, astronomy) texts are attributed to Garga. He is presented as belonging to the Yadavas and a part of King Prithu mythology. His passages have been quoted by Max Muller as a part of his evidence that time keeping using constellations was a part of the Vedic era knowledge. A Sanskrit text on astronomy dated to about 1st-century CE is called Garga samhita.

The Novas

Novas were an American garage rock band from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, who were active in the 1960s. Noted for their harmonies, they became one of the most popular bands in the local area and toured throughout the Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana region, enjoying a following outside of their immediate vicinity. The group released a single featuring the song "William Junior" in 1966. In the intervening years since their breakup, the Novas' music has come to the attention of garage rock collectors and enthusiasts and their collected work is included on two anthologies.

Michele Ansaldi

Michele Ansaldi was an Italian automobile engineer, designer, and industrialist. He is known for creating the Ansaldi automobile in Milan in 1904 which became the F.I.A.T. Brevetti, and for co-founding the S.P.A. (Società Piemontese Automobili) in Turin in 1906 which manufactured cars, commercial vehicles, aero engines and military vehicles.