I’ve got the article on “Cisapline Gaul,” the end result of a search on “intersection persons.”
Zeldar
January 10, 2014, 4:26pm
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I didn’t have an active wiki page when I read the OP but I had recently been to Ivory Coast - Wikipedia to find the name of its capital which was a clue in a puzzle I was working.
In general, not that you asked, I get to Wikipedia by way of hits from Yahoo! searches. I scan the hits to see if the keyword I’m looking for is in the text of the hits themselves, and if not, go to wiki as a best first stab.
I only have a few, and I don’t recall the sequence of choosing them:
Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a sea turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea. There, he is entertained by the princess Otohime[a] as a reward. He spends what he believes to be several days with the princess. But when he returns to his home village, he discovers he has been gone for at least 100 years. When he opens the forbidden jewel...
Danger Theatre is an American half-hour comedy anthology series for television, produced by Universal Television and originally aired on the American Fox network from July 7 to August 22, 1993.
Each half-hour-long show consisted of two comedy segments, each a spoof of a familiar action/anthology format. There are two exceptions, one being “Go Ahead, Fry Me” with guest stars Liz Vassey and Sam Mann. The style of the comedy was somewhat similar to that of films like Airplane! and TV shows like Pol...
Ertuğrul, launched in 1863, was a sailing frigate of the Ottoman Navy. While returning from a goodwill voyage to Japan in 1890, she encountered a typhoon off the Kushimoto coast of Wakayama Prefecture. It subsequently drifted into a reef and sank. The shipwreck resulted in the loss of more than 500 sailors and officers, including Rear Admiral Ali Osman Pasha.
Only 69 sailors and officers survived and returned home later aboard two Japanese corvettes. The event is still commemorated as a foundatio...
A timar was a land grant by the sultans of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an annual tax revenue of less than 20,000 akçes. The revenues produced from the land acted as compensation for military service. A holder of a timar was known as a timariot. If the revenues produced from the timar were from 20,000 to 100,000 akçes, the land grant was called a zeamet, and if they were above 100,000 akçes, the grant would be called a hass.
In the Ottoman Empire, the ...
18 U.S.C.: Crimes and Criminal Procedure
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, commonly referred to as the 1994 Crime Bill, or the Clinton Crime Bill, is an Act of Congress dealing with crime and law enforcement; it became law in 1994. It is the largest crime bill in the history of the United States and consisted of 356 pages that provided for 100,000 new police officers, $9.7 billion in funding for prisons which were designed with significant input from experienced pol...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the People's Republic of China. It is applicable to offenses ranging from murder to drug trafficking. Executions are carried out by lethal injection or by shooting. A survey conducted by The New York Times in 2014 found the death penalty retained widespread support in Chinese society.
Capital punishment is used in most East Asian countries and territories, including Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, a...
Gu (Chinese: 蛊) or jincan (Chinese: 金蠶) was a venom-based poison associated with cultures of south China, particularly Nanyue. The traditional preparation of gu poison involved sealing several venomous creatures (e.g., centipede, snake, scorpion) inside a closed container, where they devoured one another and allegedly concentrated their toxins into a single survivor, whose body would be fed upon by larvae until consumed. The last surviving larva held the complex poison. Gu was used in black...
The 101 California Street shooting was a mass shooting on July 1, 1993, in San Francisco, California, United States. The killings sparked a number of legal and legislative actions that were precursors to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355, 103rd Congress. The Act took effect in 1994 and expired in September 2004 after the expiration of a sunset provision. At the time, the incident was the deadliest mass shooting in the Bay Area's history, being surpassed 28 years later...
Imre Nagy (/ˈɪmrə ˈnɒdʒ/ IM-rə NOJ; .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Hungarian: [ˈnɒɟ ˈimrɛ]; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (de facto Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian
Most are rather sad, except for Nagy,
He was buried, along with his co-defendants, in the prison yard where the executions were carried out and years later was moved to a distant corner (section 301) of the New Public Cemetery, Budapest., face-down, and with his hands and feet tied with barbed wire.
Serve the little bugger right.
I suppose I was looking up capital punishment around the world ( as a contest, China wins by numbers, followed by Iraq and Iran; but loses by offenses which deathworthy are only 55 ( until 1997, annoyingly not now, including murdering pandas ) compared to the USA’s all-time record, thanks to Mr. Biden’s sterling effort in the Violent Crime link, which led to 60 more death penalty offenses added to the list. )
Gu’s and Wugs represent the cutting edge of Science in pre-communist China; which explains why not all of us automatically worship scientists, nor consider an appeal to current belief an outstanding argument. Once this was the very latest thing.