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East Rainton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hetton, in the Sunderland district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It...

The Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg (German: Herzogtum Sachsen-Wittenberg) was a medieval duchy of the Holy Roman Empire centered at Wittenberg, which emerged...

Heinz Strehl (20 July 1938 – 11 August 1986) was a German footballer who played as a forward. A Bundesliga title-winner with 1. FC Nürnberg in 1968, Heinz...

Yuri Fyodorovich Lisyansky (Ukrainian: Юрій Федорович Лисянський, romanized: Yuri Fedorovych Lysianskyi; Russian: Юрий Фёдорович Лисянский; 12 April [O...

The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge. The Regius Professor chair was founded in 1540 by...

Ion (Ioan) Petrovici (June 14, 1882 – February 17, 1972) was a Romanian professor of philosophy at the University of Iași and titular member of the Romanian...

The coat of arms of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on 14 March 1919 by the government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and...

In the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) tradition, a comedia is a three-act play combining dramatic and comic elements. The principal characters are noblemen...

The Uzhhorod–Košice broad-gauge line is a single-track 1,520-mm-gauge railway mostly in eastern Slovakia, which is used especially for transporting iron...

The title Baron Bourchier is an abeyant peerage which was created in the Peerage of England in 1342 for Sir Robert Bourchier, who had been Lord High Chancellor...

The emblem of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on February 14, 1937 by the government of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. The emblem...

Henry of France (circa 1121 – 13 November 1175), bishop of Beauvais (1149–1161), then archbishop of Reims (1161–1175), was the third son of King Louis...

Sigurd Hart or Sigurd Hjort was a legendary king of Ringerike (modern central south Norway), during the late 9th or early 10th centuries. he is mentioned...

Ursule Molinaro (1916, Paris –10 July 2000, New York City) was a prolific novelist, playwright, translator and visual artist, the author of 12 novels,...

The Jewish presence in north east England is focused on a number of important towns. Gateshead is the home to a sizable community of what are often called...

Louis-Nathaniel Rossel (9 September 1844 – 28 November 1871) was a French army officer and a politician. On 19 March 1871, he became the only senior French...

Praskovya Semyonovna Ivanovskaya (Russian: Праско́вья Семёновна Ивано́вская; 3 November 1852 – 19 September 1935) was a Russian revolutionary; she was...

Dancing on Ice in the Netherlands and Belgium is broadcast by the Dutch TV channel RTL 4 and the Belgian TV channel VTM and hosted by Martijn Krabbe and...

General Girolamo Ramorino (8 April 1792 – 22 May 1849) was born in Genoa, in northern Italy. In the Napoleonic Wars, he fought under Napoleon in Russia...

Lieuwe Steiger (born in Haarlem, 15 April 1924 – died in Eindhoven, 17 October 2006) was a Dutch football goalkeeper. He played 383 Eredivisie matches...