The National Maritime Museum in Galle, Sri Lanka is located within the Galle fort. This museum specializes in the fauna and flora of the sea. Artifacts consist of underwater artifacts and scaled-down models of whales and fish.
Other exhibits include life-size dioramas of the traditional methods of fishing and the “walk into the sea” diorama, showing […]
Hillenbrand Industries, Inc., is a holding company. It has two subsidiaries. Hill-Rom makes hospital beds, furniture, and other equipment. Batesville Casket Company makes caskets and cremation urns.
References
Hillenbrand Industries Annual Report 2004
External link
Company website
DOC a sofa bed that converts in to a bunk bed in two secounds A compact living solutions, Doc […]
Saint Marys Hospital is one of two hospitals in Rochester, Minnesota operated by the Mayo Clinic. It was founded in 1889 by a local Franciscan religious community, the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota, led by Mother Alfred Moes, in partnership with Doctors William W., William J., and Charles H. Mayo.
Today it is […]
Baden is a town near Bremen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is known to Africanists and Phoneticians as the place where Diedrich Hermann Westermann was born and died.
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Raised bed gardening is a form of gardening in which the soil is formed in 3–4 foot (1.0–1.2 m) wide beds, which can be of any length. The soil is about 0.5–1 foot (15–30 cm) above the surrounding soil, sometimes enclosed by a frame generally made of wood or concrete blocks, and enriched with compost […]
Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California (TMMBC) is an automobile manufacturing plant in Baja California, Mexico. The plant was established in 2002.
TMMBC builds Tacoma pickup trucks and Tacoma truck beds. The plant has an annual capacity of 180,000 truck beds and 30,000 Tacoma pickup trucks. The truck beds are used in production both at […]
Captain Jack’s Stronghold, named for Modoc chief Captain Jack, is a part of Lava Beds National Monument.
The stronghold can be accessed from the Perez turnoff, off Highway 139 between Tule Lake and Canby, California.
During the Modoc War, Captain Jack’s band settled here following the Battle of Lost River, and held off a United States Army […]
Clay Walker is the self-titled debut album by country singer Clay Walker . It was released in 1993 and produced by James Stroud.
Track listing
“Dreaming With My Eyes Wide Open” (Tony Arata) – 3:30
“What’s It to You” (Robert Ellis Orrall/Curtis Wright) – 2:46
“The Silence Speaks For Itself” (Chris Waters/Clay Walker/Tom Shapiro) – 4:20
“How to Make a […]
Det Norske Studentersamfund (”The student society of Norway”) is Norway’s oldest student society. Established in 1813 in Oslo, it has been the centre of debate, culture and politics for over 200 years.
Studentersamfundet resides at Chateau Neuf, opened in 1971, where it runs a couple of cafes and a cinema. Studentersamfundet frequently arrange debates, lectures and […]
Mark “Bill” Bailey (born 24 February 1964, Bath, Somerset) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, Have I Got News for You, and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. He is a self proclaimed “confused hippy” known for his thin goatee and long […]
A four poster bed is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. There are a number of antique four poster beds extant dating to the 16th century and earlier; many of these early beds are highly ornate and are made from oak. […]
Flower Garden is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is not known why the game is called such, but the terms used in this game do have a relation to those in gardening and it takes merit that some skill is needed. It is also known under the names […]
East San Jose (or the East Side; less commonly the East Valley) is the name for several neighborhoods east of downtown San Jose, California. These neighborhoods include:
King and Story
Alum Rock, California
East Foothills, California
Little Portugal
Demographics
East San Jose’s residents are predominantly Mexican American and also includes Vietnamese, Cambodians, Samoans, and Filipinos, respectively in […]
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England.
See also list of civil parishes in Wiltshire
See the list of places in England for places in other counties.
A
Aldbourne,
Alderbury,
All Cannings,
Allington (near Chippenham),
Allington (near Devizes),
Allington (near Salisbury),
Alton Barnes,
Alton Priors,
Alvediston,
Amesbury,
Ansty,
Avebury,
Axford
B
Bagshot,
Barbury Castle,
Barrow Street
Baydon,
Beckhampton,
Beechingstoke,
Berwick Bassett,
Berwick St. John,
Berwick St. Leonard,
Biddestone,
Bishops Cannings,
Bishopstone,
Bourton,
Blunsdon St Andrew,
Bowerchalke,
Bowood House,
Bradford […]
Idaho Maximum Security Institution (IMSI) is a high-security state prison near Boise, Idaho, USA. It opened in November 1989 to confine Idaho’s most violent offenders.
The compound is located within a double perimeter fence reinforced with razor wire, an electronic detection system and a 24-hour armed perimeter patrol. The offender population is comprised of a large […]
Friday’s Child is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. It is generally considered one of Heyer’s best Regency romances, and was reportedly the favourite of the author herself.<ref name=”hodge”>Hodge, JA. The Private World of Georgette Heyer (Bodley Head; 1984)</ref> Heyer retained only a single fan letter which was from a Romanian political prisoner who kept […]
Mount Druitt Hospital is a 200 bed hospital in the Mount Druitt suburb of Blacktown (in Western Sydney), Australia. It was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in October 1982.
Both Mt Druitt Hospital and the near-by Blacktown Hospital operate under one administration, the Blacktown/Mt Druitt Health (BMDH). BMDH is a unit of the Sydney […]
This article is about minor droids in the fictional Star Wars universe. It includes specific droids rather than droid types (such as protocol droids and battle droids).
2-1B
2-1B (articulated as “two-one-bee”) is a fictional Star Wars Imperial humanoid medical and surgeon droid with a skull-shaped head, a transparent trunk, and numerous surgical appendages […]
Lower Egypt is the northern-most section of Egypt. It refers to the fertile Nile Delta region, which stretches from the area between El-Aiyat and Zawyet Dahshur, south of modern-day Cairo, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Today there are two principal channels that the Nile takes through the river’s delta: one in the west at Rashid and one […]
Retinite a general name applied to various resins, particularly those from beds of brown coal, which are near amber in appearance, but contain little or no succinic acid. It may conveniently serve as a generic name, since no two independent occurrences prove to be alike, and the indefinite multiplication of names, no one of them […]
Weston Turville is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about a mile and a half south east of Aylesbury.
The village name ‘Weston’ is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means ‘western estate’. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village is recorded as Westone. The suffix ‘Turville’ was added […]
A Murphy Bed or Wallbed is a bed that flips up at the head end for storage inside a closet. To achieve this, the mattress is attached to the bed frame, often with a bolt at each corner. Murphy beds are used for space-saving purposes, much like a trundle bed is. Due […]
In geology, the Ludlovian or Ludlow Group is the name of the uppermost subdivision of the Silurian rocks in Great Britain. This group contains the following formations in descending order:
Cilestones, Downton Castle sandstones (90 ft./27.7 m),
Ledbury shales 270 ft./83 m),
Upper Ludlow rocks (140 ft./43 m),
Aymestry limestone (up to 40 ft./12.3 m),
Lower Ludlow rocks (350 to […]
Coal Harbour is the name for a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver, Canada’s downtown peninsula and the Brockton Peninsula of Stanley Park. It is also in recent years the name of the neighbourhood adjacent to its southern shoreline, which was redeveloped as an upscale high-rise condominium district in the 1990s.
The harbour is […]
The San Leandro Oyster Beds in San Leandro, California, were the origin of the oyster industry in the U.S. state of California. During the 1890s the oyster industry thrived until it became the single most important fishery in the state. Moses Wicks is supposed to have been the first to bring seed oysters around Cape […]