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Allyn McLerie Allyn Ann McLerie (b. December 1, 1926, in Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian actress, singer and dancer who worked with most of Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins.
Allyn's Point Allyn's Point is a location on the Thames River in Ledyard, Connecticut, United States. It was the southern terminal of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad from 1843 to 1899, and briefly hosted a steamboat connection with the Long Island Rail Road.
Allyson Kay Duncan Allyson Kay Duncan (born September 5, 1951, in Durham, North Carolina) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She is the Fourth Circuit's first female African American judge.
Alţâna Alţâna (German: Alzen) is a commune in the north of the Sibiu County, in central Romania (in the informal region of Transylvania). It was one of the most important villages of the Transylvanian Saxon seat of Nocrich.
Alma AdamkienÄ— Alma AdamkienÄ— (born Alma NutautaitÄ— on February 10, 1927,) is a wife of the President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, and is the current First Lady. Besides Lithuanian, she also holds a United States citizenship.
Alma Ata Declaration The Declaration of Alma-Ata was adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, presently in Kazakhstan, 6-12 September 1978. It was the first international declaration underlining the importance of Primary health care.
Alma Award The Alma Awards or American Latino Media Arts Awards are distinctions awarded to Latino performers (actors, film and television directors, and musicians) who promote positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment field. The acronym aptly describes the spirit of the organization because in Spanish alma means spirit or soul.
Alma Cogan Alma Angela Cohen, known as Alma Cogan (May 19, 1932 - October 26, 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed "The Girl With A Giggle In Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
Alma Evans-Freake Alma Evans-Freake is an actress and public speaker, born Alma Johnson, in 1960 she became New Zealand's first newsreader with her future husband, former Royal Air Force pilot Tim Evans-Freake. She later appeared on children's television with Chic Littlewood, (and a variety of badly behaved puppets), before retiring to a beautifully maintained cottage on Huia Road, Titirangi in Auckland where she spent her retirement teaching speech and drama to local children at nominal rates, and assisting local stage productions.
Alma Gluck Alma Gluck (born Reba Feinsohn; May 11, 1884-October 27, 1938), was an American soprano, one of the world's most famous female singers at the peak of her career (around 1910). Marcia Davenport was the child of her first marriage (to Bernard Glick); Alma Gluck later married violinist Efrem Zimbalist and had two children, Efrem Jr.
Alma Guillermoprieto Alma Guillermoprieto (born May 27, 1949) is a Mexican journalist who has written extensively about Latin America for the British and American press. Her writings have also been widely disseminated within the Spanish-speaking world.
Alma Llanera Alma Llanera is a popular Joropo song composed by Pedro Elías Gutiérrez with lyrics by Rafael Bolívar Coronado. It was part of a Zarzuela whom premiere was made September 19th of 1914 at the Teatro De caracas
Alma Mater (sculpture) Alma Mater is the name given to a sculpture of the goddess Minerva by Daniel Chester French on the outdoor steps leading to Low Memorial Library on the campus of Columbia University in New York City. French also sculpted the statue of John Harvard that sits in Harvard Yard.
Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is the student society of UBC and represents more than 43,000 undergraduate and graduate students at UBC. The AMS also operates student services, student owned businesses, resource groups and clubs.
Alma Moreno Alma Moreno is a Filipino actress who has made her mark both as a popular movie and television personality. She was born Venessa Lacasamana on May 25, 1959 in Cervantes, Ilocos Sur to Frank Lacsamana and Jean Moreno, a couple who lived a simple, yet noble life.
Alma Redemptoris Mater Alma Redemptoris Mater or, in English, "Loving Mother of our Savior," is one of four liturgical Marian antiphons (the other three being: Ave Maria; Salve Regina; and Queen of Heaven, Rejoice) sung at the end of the office of Compline. Hermannus Contractus (Herman the Cripple) (1013 - 1054) is said to have authored the anthem based on the writings of Ss.
Alma Reville Alma Lucy Reville (formally Lady Hitchcock) (August 14, 1899 in England – July 6, 1982 in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California) was an assistant director, screenwriter and editor. She is perhaps best-known as the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, whom she met while they were working together at Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky studio in London, during the early 1920s.
Alma the Younger According to the Book of Mormon, Alma the Younger is the son of Alma the Elder, a Nephite prophet. The appellations ("the Younger" and "the Elder") are not used in the Book of Mormon but are used when speaking of these two people.
Alma y Vida Alma y Vida were an important musical group in Argentina during the first half of the 1970s. Composed of jazz musicians that turned to rock music in the late 60s (Carlos Mellino was a member of The Seasons), while other future members were regular visitors at the historic "La Cueva" club, Alma y Vida were pioneers in Argentina of jazz-rock in the vein of Blood, Sweat & Tears, group whose music influenced the band's formative sound.
Alma-0 Alma-0 is a small imperative programming language that includes a limited number of features inspired by the logical programming paradigm. These additions support and encourage declarative programming and make Alma-0 an attractive option for programmers used to imperative languages when facing problems that involve search.
Alma-Ata Tower The Almaty Tower in the Kazakh city of Almaty was built between 1975 and 1983 and is one of the tallest free-standing towers in the world. The tower is located on high slopes of Kok Tyube mountain (Kok Tyube is Kazakh for: "blue hill").
Alma, Quebec Alma (2001 population: 30,126) is a town located on the southeast coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows into the Saguenay River, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, approximately 175 km north of Quebec City. Alma is the seat of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality.
Almace In the legendary Song of Roland, Almace, Almice or Almacia is the sword of Turpin, Archbishop of Reims, one of the last three Franks to die at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass , along with Roland (Orlando in Italian) and Gualter de Hum.
Almack's Almack's Assembly Rooms was one of the first clubs in London which welcomed both men and women. It was one of a limited number of upper class mixed-sex public social venues in the British capital in an era when the most important venues for the hectic social season were the grand houses of the aristocracy.
Almadén Almadén, Spain, is a town and municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, within the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. The town is located at 4° 49' W and 38° 46' N and is 589 meters above sea level.
Almaden Air Force Station Almaden Air Force Station was a US Air Force early warning radar base in operation from 1958 to 1980. Located on the summit of Mount Umunhum in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the station is a few miles south of San Jose, California and sits about 3,486 feet (1062 m) above Almaden Valley.
Almaden Quicksilver County Park Almaden Quicksilver County Park is a 4,147 acres (17 km²) park that includes the grounds of former mercury ("quicksilver") mines adjacent to south San Jose, California, USA. The park's elevation varies greatly: the most used entrances (on the east side of the park) are less than 600 feet above sea level, while the highest point in the park is over 1700 feet above sea level.
Almaden Research Center The IBM Almaden Research Center, located near San Jose, California, is one of IBM's research centers, specializing in both basic research in material science and applied research in things like computer storage, where many refinements and improvements were made in hard disc drive technology. The relational database is said to have been developed there.
Almaden Valley, San Jose, California Almaden Valley (often just called Almaden) is a neighborhood of about 37,000 in the south of San Jose, California, USA, roughly equivalent to the 95120 ZIP Code. The neighborhood is south east of Los Gatos, west of Santa Teresa, and south of Coleman Ave.
Almah Almah ("עלמה") or plural: alamot ("עלמות") is a Hebrew feminine noun, for a girl who has reached puberty but is still under the shielding protection of her family; she is a young, marriageable (i.e.
Almah (album) Almah is the first solo project of Brazilian heavy metal singer and Angra frontman Edu Falaschi. The lyrics are about the different feelings of the human being and the title phonetically means "soul" in the Portuguese language.
Almai Almai, or Alme, (from alim, "wise", "learned"), the name of a class of singing girls in Egypt who are present at festivals and entertainments, and act as hired mourners at funerals. They are to be distinguished from the ghawazee, or dancing girls, who perform in the public streets and are of a lower order.
Almanac An almanac (also spelled almanack) is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomical data and various statistics are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more.
Almanac (newspaper) The Almanac is a weekly newspaper detailing the happenings of the South Hills region of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and northern Washington County, Pennsylvania. It is published by the Observer Publishing Company of McMurray, Pennsylvania.
Almanac of American Politics The Almanac of American Politics is a reference work published biennially by the National Journal Group. It aims to provide a detailed look at the politics of the United States through an approach of profiling individual leaders and areas of the country.
Almanac Singers The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who achieved brief popularity in the early 1940s. Members Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie began playing together informally after Seeger and Hays had been playing at left-wing political functions for a time.
Almanach Cracoviense ad annum 1474 The Almanach Cracoviense ad annum 1474 (Cracovian Almanac for the year 1474) is a single-sheet astronomical calendar for the year 1474 and the oldest known Polish print. This incunabulum, which is also known as the Calendarium Cracoviense (Cracovian Calendar), was published in KrakĂłw in 1473 by Kaspar Straube, a traveling Bavarian printer who worked in that city between 1473 and 1476.
Almanach de Gotha The Almanach de Gotha was, between 1763 and 1944, a respected directory of Europe's highest nobility and royalty. First published at the ducal court of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha which was regarded as an authority in classification of monarchies and ducal houses, families of former rulers and royalty.
Almanbet Matubraimov Almanbet Matubraimov (Алманбет Матубраимов) (born 1952) served as a Speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan and briefly the acting Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan. He took over from Tursunbek Chyngyshev on 13 December 1993.
Almandine Almandine, or almandite, is a name applied to certain kinds of precious garnet, being apparently a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor. Almandine is an iron alumina garnet, of deep red color, inclining to purple.
Almanon (crater) Almanon is a lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged highlands in the south-central region of the Moon. It is located to the south-southeast of Abulfeda crater, and to the north-northeast of the smaller Geber crater.
Almaqah Almaqah or Ilmuqah (Epigraphic South Arabian ; Ge'ez አለመቀሀ, ʾLMQH) was the moon god of the South Arabian kingdom of Saba and the Ethiopian kingdoms of Dʿmt and Aksum. The ruling dynasty of Saba regarded themselves as his children.
Almas (cryptozoology) The Almas, Mongolian for 'wild man', is a cryptozoological species of presumed hominid reputed to inhabit the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia. Most mainstream scientists consider the Almas to be a purely legendary creature.
Almas Kishkenbayev Almas Kishkenbayev (Kaz: Алмас Кiшкенбаев) (born June 1 1985 in Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan) is a singer who rose to popularity after winning SuperStar KZ, the Kazakh version of Pop Idol, shown by Perviy Kanal Evraziya.
Almathera Almathera Systems Ltd was a company that specialised in developing software for Amigas. The firm was in business between 1990 and 1997, developing CD-ROM based software for the CDTV and Amiga CD32, along with multimedia software for Amiga computers.
Almaty Almaty (Алматы; formerly known as Alma-Ata, also Vernyj, Vyernyi (Верный) in Imperial Russia) is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,185,900 (2004) (8% of the population of Kazakhstan) citizens.
Almaz The Almaz ( - "Diamond") program was a series of military space stations launched by the Soviet Union under cover of the civilian Salyut program. Three Almaz stations were launched: Salyut 2, Salyut 3 and Salyut 5.
Almeda University Almeda University is an unaccredited American institution of higher learning that offers an MBA program through online courses, doctorate degrees in religion and theology, a "Life Experience Degree," and an online certificate program.
Almeida Garrett João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount Almeida Garrett, pron. , (Porto, February 4, 1799—December 9, 1854) was a Portuguese Romanticist poet, novelist, dramatist, and Liberal politician.
Almeida Theatre The Almeida Theatre, which was founded in 1980, is one of the key theatres in London, England. It was conceived by Lebanese-born, Oxford-educated Pierre Audi in 1978, after he had acquired a derelict building which first opened in 1837 as the "Islington Literary and Scientific Institution" followed by a music hall and Salvation Army Hall in a then-unfashionable part of Islington near the Kings Cross railway station, just North of Central London.
Almenara de Tormes Almenara de Tormes is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 18 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and has a population of 255 people.
Almendares (baseball club) The Almendares club was one of the oldest and most distinguished teams in the old Cuban League, which existed from 1878 to 1961. Almendares represented the Almendares district on the outskirts of the old city of Havana—when the league was founded it was still considered a suburban area, but later became a district within the enlarged city.
Almendra Almendra was one of the most important rock and roll groups from Buenos Aires, Argentina in the late 1960s. Led by guitarist and lyricist Luis Alberto Spinetta, between 1968 and 1971 Almendra released a few singles and two albums that revolutionized the sound of Argentine rock for the remainder of the 20th century and almost single-handedly changed the way local rock music was respected by critics and audiences.
Almendres Cromlech The Almendres Cromlech megalithic complex, located near Evora - Portugal, is one of the first public monuments. It's the largest existing group of structured menhirs in the Iberian Peninsula, and one of the largest in Europe.
Almeria grape The Almeria grape is a mild white grape, grown in both the US and Spain. It is unusual among cultivated grapevines in that it is pistillate, and requires a second grape cultivar to provide pollen, but has remained in cultivation for centuries despite this due to its quality as a table grape.
Almetyevsk Almetyevsk (; Tatar: Älmät/Әлмәт), also spelled Almat and Elmet, is a city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Zay River (Kama's tributary). Population: 140,437 (2002 Census); 77,000 (1969); 49,000 (1959).
Almidae A notable peculiarity of the subfamily Alminae is a tendency to extensions of the body wall in the vicinity of or including the male pores. These extensions may be mere protuberances, as in some Drilocrius species; or involve a greater extent of the body wall, as in Glyphidrilocrius, or take the form of wing or keel-like structures (alae) in Glyphidrilus
Almighty dollar Almighty dollar is an idiom often used to satirize an obsession for material wealth (the phrase implies that money is a kind of deity). The phrase is commonly attributed to Washington Irving, who used it in the story "The Creole Village", which was published in the November 1836 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine:
Almir Guineto Almir Guineto is a brazilian sambista, musician, singer and composer. He was director of the samba school Salgueiro, a founder of the Fundo de Quintal samba group, and integrated the Originais do Samba group for 10 years before leaving for a solo career.
Almirante Brown Antarctic Base Almirante Brown Antarctic Base (64 51' S, 62 54' W) is an Argentine Antarctic base named after Admiral Guillermo Brown, the father of the Argentine Navy. The station located in Paradise Bay, which is considered to be one of the most beautiful settings in Antarctica, was burned down in 1984 by a disturbed member of the overwintering party just as the last supply ship was leaving for the season.
Almo Sounds Almo Sounds is a record label which was started in 1994 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss after they sold A&M Records to Polygram. The intent of the label was to recreate the initial concept of A&M Records as a small, "boutique" label.
Almogavars The Almogavars (Aragonese: Almogabars, Catalan: Almogàvers, Spanish: Almogávares, from Arabic: Al-Mugavari) were a class of Aragonese soldiers, well-known during the Christian reconquista (reconquest) of the Iberian peninsula. They were much employed as mercenaries in Italy and the Levant during the 13th and 14th centuries.
Almonaster Road Almonaster is a four-lane divided road in New Orleans, Louisiana, named after Royal Notary Public Andres Almonaster y Rojas. It forms in the residential neighborhoods of the Upper Ninth Ward by branching off at a Y-type intersection with Franklin Avenue.
Almond moth The Almond moth (Ephestia cautella) is a small stored-products pest found in flour, bran, oats and other grains. Adults live for about 10 days after emergence and do not eat, but may drink if water is available.
Almondell and Calderwood Country Park Almondell and Calderwood Country Park is a 220-acre Country Park in Mid Calder and East Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. The Almondell estate originally belonged to the Erskine family of Broxburn whilst the Calderwood estate once belonged to the Barons of Torphichen.
Almondsbury Almondsbury is a large village near junction 16 of the M5 motorway, in South Gloucestershire, England. From early times, Almondsbury has been a residential area for Bristol's merchants and professional classes.
Almoner Almoner (from the Greek ελεημοσύνη eleimosyne, westernized as eelmosyna, 'alms' via Latin Almosunartius and French, known in English since circa 1300) is a chaplain or church officer who originally was in charge of distributing charity.
Almonte, Ontario The former town of Almonte (pronounced "AL-mont" as opposed to the original Spanish pronunciation of "al-MON-tay") , in Ontario, is now a ward of the town of Mississippi Mills, created on January 1, 1998 by the merging of Almonte with Ramsay and Pakenham townships. Almonte is located 50 km south-west of Ottawa, Ontario, at latitude 45.
Almoravid dynasty Almoravides (In Arabic المرابطون al-Murabitun, sing. مرابط Murabit), was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that flourished over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the 11th century.
Almost a Full Moon Almost a Full Moon is a Christmas album by the Canadian artist Hawksley Workman, originally released in 2001. It was written, produced & performed by Hawksley Workman, recorded & mixed at Recall Rooms in Paris, France by Stephane Lumbroso (except "Common Cold" which was recorded & mixed by James Paul at the Rogue, Toronto, Ontario).
Almost a Woman Almost A Woman is a 2001 made-for-television film, directed by Betty Kaplan and based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Puerto Rican writer Esmeralda Santiago. This captivating movie is about a young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico.
Almost complete In computer science, a problem is almost complete for a complexity class C if it is both in C and "many" other problems in C reduce to it. More specifically, the subset of problems of C which reduce to the problem is a measure one set, in terms of Lutz's resource bounded measure.
Almost complex manifold In mathematics, an almost complex manifold is a smooth manifold equipped with smooth linear complex structure on each tangent space. The existence of this structure is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for a manifold to be a complex manifold.
Almost disjoint sets In mathematics, two sets are almost disjoint if their intersection is small in some sense. Different definitions of "small" will therefore result in different definitions of "almost disjoint".
Almost Doesn't Count "Almost Doesn't Count" is an R&B song written by Shelly Peiken, and Guy Roche for Brandy's sophomore studio album Never Say Never (1998). Released in 1999 as the album's fourth single, the slow jam became another hit for Brandy with peaking at #16 on the U.
Almost Famous Almost Famous is a film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and released in 2000. It tells a fictional story of a teenage journalist initially writing for Creem magazine and then later for Rolling Stone covering the rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published.
Almost Got 'Im Almost Got 'Im is the thirty-fifth episode of the Warner Bros. animated television series Batman: The Animated Series, which first aired on November 11, 1992, and was written by Paul Dini and directed by Eric Radomski.
Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life is a young adult novel by Beatrice Sparks, cited as non-fiction by her, but with no viable sources to suggest that the story, the characters, or the narrator are in any way factual. Almost Lost tells the story of Sammy, a runaway teenager who dabbles in rap, the occult, and drugs, and is turned into a happy, wholesome teen by attending therapy with Sparks.
Almost perfect number In mathematics, an almost perfect number (sometimes also called slightly defective number) is a natural number n such that the sum of all divisors of n (the divisor function σ(n)) is equal to 2n - 1. The only known odd almost perfect number is 1, and the only even almost perfect numbers known are those of the form 2k for some natural number k; however, it has not been shown yet that all almost perfect numbers are of this form.
Almost periodic function In mathematics, almost periodicity is a property of dynamical systems that appear to retrace their paths through phase space, but not exactly. An example would be a planetary system, with planets in orbits moving with periods that are not commensurable (i.
Almost prime In mathematics, a natural number is called k-almost prime if and only if it has exactly k prime factors, counted with multiplicity. More formally, a number n is k-almost prime if and only if Ω(n) = k, where Ω(n) is the sum of the exponents in the prime factorization of n:
Almost Ready to Fly Almost Ready to Fly (or ARF or ARTF) is a term used for radio-controlled airplane kits that come partially built, usually just requiring assembly to complete them. They normally include partially assembled wings, along with a fuselage and stabilizers already pre-covered in plastic film sheeting material such as Ultracote or Monokote.
Almost Skateboards Almost Skateboards is a skateboard company set up by Rodney Mullen and Daewon Song in early 2003. The company sponsors a team which includes Rodney Mullen, Daewon Song, Chris Haslam, Greg Lutzka, Cooper Wilt, and Lewis Marnell.
Almost Summer Almost Summer is a 1978 motion picture directed by Martin Davidson, and produced by Motown Productions for Universal Pictures. It is the only Motown theatrical feature not to center around African-American characters.
Almost Unreal "Almost Unreal," written by Per Gessle and performed by Swedish pop duo Roxette, was included on the soundtrack of the 1993 film Super Mario Bros starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper and released as a single in May 1993. It reached the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart and a low position on the Billboard Hot 100.
Almost Unreal (Roxette single) "Almost Unreal," written by Per Gessle and performed by Roxette, was included on the soundtrack of the 1993 film Super Mario Bros. starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper and released as a single.
Almoth Almoth is a fictional country in the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. Almoth Plain lies on the Aryth Ocean between the nations of Arad Doman and Tarabon, who have squabbled with each other to lay claim to the region for 300 years.
Almquist shell The Almquist shell (also known as A Shell or ash) was originally Kenneth Almquist's clone of the SVR4-variant of the Bourne shell; it is a fast, small, POSIX-compatible Unix shell designed to replace the Bourne shell in later BSD distributions. By intention it did not feature line editing or history mechanisms originally, because Almquist felt that such should be moved into the terminal driver.
Almroth Wright Sir Almroth Edward Wright (1861-1947) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist. He is best known for advancing vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines (prepared from the bacteria harboured by the patient) and also through typhoid vaccination with typhoid bacilli killed by heat.
Almshouse Almshouses are charitable housing provided to enable people (typically elderly people who can no longer work to earn enough to pay rent) to live in a particular community. They are often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain forms of previous employment, or their widows, and are generally maintained by a charity or the trustees of a bequest.
Almurta railway station, Victoria Almurta was a railway station on the Wonthaggi line located on the Bass Coast, Victoria, the station operated until the closure of the Wonthaggi line in the late 1970's. The retaining wall from the stations platform is in poor condition and a nearby trestle bridge is still intact.
Almus Dam Almus Dam (Almus Barajı in Turkish) is near town of Almus 28 km South of Tokat city in center north of Turkey and located on the Kelkit, , a tributary of the Yeşilırmak River which runs into the Black Sea .
Almyros Almyros, (Greek: Αλμυρός) which means salty in the Greek language, is the capital town of the homonymous province of the prefecture of Magnesia, Greece, which is in the center of prosperous plain, known as 'Krokio Pedio' and is crossed by torrents. The Municipality of Almyros counts 12.
Alne, North Yorkshire Alne is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, about twelve miles north-west of York and four miles from Easingwold. The parish has a population of 711 (2001 census).
Alnwick Abbey Alnwick Abbey was founded as a Premonstratensian monastery in 1147 by Eustace FitzJohn near Alnwick, UK, as a daughter house of Newsham Abbey in Lincolnshire. It was dissolved in 1535, refounded in 1536 and finally suppressed in 1539.
Aloísio dos Santos Aloísio dos Santos or simply Aloísio born June 10, 1988, in Araranguá, Brazil is a Brazilian striker who plays for Grêmio. Signed first pro contract on June 19, 2006, which ties him to the club until 2011.
AloĂ­sio Pires Alves AloĂ­sio Pires Alves, best known as AloĂ­sio (born August 16, 1963 in Pelotas) was a Brazilian footballer, playing as a central defender. He won the silver medal for Brazil at the 1988 Olympic Games football tournament and had several caps for the main national team.
Aloba Arch Aloba Arch is the name of a natural arch located in the African nation of Chad. Large natural arches are somewhat rare outside of the Colorado_Plateau of the southwest United States, although it is unknown if this is a true reflection of the geology or simply due to the fact that many areas rich in sandstone, a key ingredient for arches, are not nearly well explored as the Colorado Plateau.
Alodia Alodia or Alwa was the southernmost of the three kingdoms of Christian Nubia; the other two were Nobatia and Makuria to the north. Alodia was converted to Christianity in the 6th century by missionaries sent by Byzantine Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora.
Alodia Almira Gosiengfiao Alodia Almira Arraiza Gosiengfiao is a model/member of the Philippine Avon Teen Advisory Council. She is currently taking up Information Design at the Ateneo De Manila University, and is fond of art and video games.

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