Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In the early nineteenth century, there were no standard weight classes. In 1823, the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue said the limit for a "light weight" was 12 stone (168 lb, 76.2 kg) while Sportsman's Slang the same year gave 11 stone (154 lb, 69.9 kg) as the limit. [8]
A typical family, consisting of a man, a woman and four children, would eat 18 stone (110 kg) of potatoes per week. [214] Consequently, dishes that are considered as national dishes represent a fundamental simplicity to cooking, such as the Irish stew , bacon and cabbage , boxty , a type of potato pancake, or colcannon , a dish of mashed ...
This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, undergrounds, tubes, mass rapid transit (MRT), metrô or U-Bahn.
South of the Long Island Expressway, connected with the rest of the fair only via one overpass, was the Lake Amusement Area [219] [350] [352] (known as the Lake Area during 1965). [297] Eight gates provided access to the fairground. [218] The 1964 World's Fair had 139 pavilions on opening day, in addition to 34 concessions and shows.
Matthew Brett Cardona [4] (born May 14, 1985) is an American professional wrestler.He is a freelancer who competes on the independent circuit as well as making in ring appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and their sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), as well as Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), under his real name, stylized as Matt Cardona.
The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".
The Class D51 (D51形) is a type of 2-8-2 steam locomotive operated by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) and later by the Japanese National Railways (JNR). Designed by JGR's cheaf mechanical engineer Hideo Shima, they were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company, Kisha Seizo, Hitachi, Nippon Sharyo, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JGR's factories from 1936 to ...
The historic train station of Afula in 2006. Afula (Hebrew: עֲפוּלָה, ʿĂfūlā) is a city in the Northern District of Israel, often known as the "Capital of the Valley" due to its strategic location in the Jezreel Valley.