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Glycerius, emperor of the Western Roman Empire (approximate date)


2004–05 South Pacific cyclone season

The 2004–05 South Pacific cyclone season, got off to an early start with the first tropical depression of the season forming on October 28 about 420 km, (260 miles) to the northeast of Honiara in the Solomon Islands.

Biographies of Exemplary Women

The online Chinese Text Initiative at the University of Virginia provides an e-text edition of the Lienu Zhuan, including both digitized Chinese content and images of a Song Dynasty woodblock edition with illustrations by Gu Kaizhi 顧凱之 (ca. 344-405 CE) of the Jin Dynasty.

Boeing KB-29 Superfortress

The KB-29P was operated by 420 Air Refueling Squadron based at RAF Sculthorpe Norfolk during the mid-1950s.

Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve

It rises from a height of about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, just behind the Clark Kerr campus of the University of California, Berkeley to the average 1300 ft (400 m) ridge of the East Bay hills, linking by way of other conserved land belonging to the University and the East Bay Municipal Utility District to other parks such as Tilden Regional Park and Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve.

Climate change in the United States

According to data from the US Energy Information Administration the top emitters by fossil fuels CO2 in 2009 were: China: 7,710 million tonnes (mt) (25.4%), US: 5,420 mt (17.8%), India: 5.3%, Russia: 5.2% and Japan: 3.6%.

Colin Ng

In 1997, he partnered with Khor Teck Lin to win the International 420 class in the 1997 Southeast Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Del Amo Fashion Center

In 2003 The Mills Corporation acquired Del Amo Fashion Center from the Guilford Glazer Family for $420 million (USD).

Dharmakṣema

While he was in Dunhuang, that city was subdued in 420 and again in 421 by the Northern Liang king, Juqu Mengxun.

He had been residing in Dunhuang for several years when that city was captured in 420 by Juqu Mengxun, the king of Northern Liang.

Els Guiamets

A local road links the village to the N-420 road between Falset and Móra la Nova.

Emperor Shun of Liu Song

He asked Wang, "Are you going to kill me?" Wang responded, "I will not kill you -- just letting you live elsewhere. Do not be sad -- this is what your Liu clan did to the Sima clan as well." (This was a reference to how Emperor Shun's great-grandfather Emperor Wu had seized the throne from Jin Dynasty.

Empress Wang Shaoming

Wang Shaoming was the daughter of the official Wang Ci (王慈), who came from a noble line with several ancestors being prime ministers, including the Jin prime minister Wang Dao and the Liu Song prime minister Wang Hong.

Fennemore Craig

Nogales - 420 W. Mariposa Road, Suite 200 Nogales, AZ 85621

General Electric LM1500

The LM1500 delivers 10,000 shaft horsepower (shp) (7,420 kW) with a thermal efficiency of 33 percent at ISO conditions

Gusen concentration camp

In 2009, New York artist Karen Finley installed a sculpture in the courtyard of the crematorium, Open Heart, which commemorates the death of 420 Jewish children over two days in 1945 by lethal injection to the heart, by Nazi doctors.

Jagdgeschwader 302

On 25 July 1944 420 B-17s and B-24s bombed the tank factories in Linz while other bombers hit the Villach marshalling yards.

Jassi Gill

He makes his debut on the big screen in the madcap ensemble comedy Mr and Mrs 420 co starring Yuvraj Hans, Binnu Dhillon, Babbal Rai and Jaswinder Bhalla.

Katayama Cabinet

Under the new constitution, the prime minister was no longer selected by the Emperor, but elected by the Diet, "before the conduct of any other business" – and the Socialists pushed for an early vote to prevent the other two major parties from excluding them from a ruling coalition: on May 23, Socialist Tetsu Katayama was elected almost unopposed (420 votes of 426 present in the House of Representatives, 205 of 207 in the House of Councillors) while the coalition negotiations were still in progress.

King George V Reservoir

The storage reservoir is bordered by Sewardstone and Chingford to the east and Brimsdown and Ponders End to the west, and covers 420 acres (170 hectares), making it the largest in London.

Lop Nur

Its location was discovered by Sven Hedin in 1899, who excavated some houses and found a wooden Kharosthi tablet and many Chinese manuscripts from the Western Jin Dynasty (265–420).

Lupghar Pir Pass

Lupghar Pir pass (el. 16,420 ft.) is a high mountain pass 6 miles to the west of village Lupghar in the upper Hunza valley in Gojal tehsil of Gilgit district in the Northern Areas in Pakistan.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3

However there is evidence that MiG-3 production at Zavod Nr. 1 was already planned to be reduced from a NKAP order of 27 August that required the factory to produce 420 fighters in September, declining to 100 in December with Il-2 production ramping up to 250 in December while the former aircraft repair plant at Khodynka Aerodrome was to be transferred to the NKAP, redesignated as Zavod Nr. 165, and begin production of MiG-3s.

National Library of Russia

The cornerstone of the foreign-language department came from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the form of Załuski's Library (420,000 volumes), nationalized by the Russian government at the time of the partitions.

Navoiy

The province possesses rich minerals and raw materials resources – Muruntau gold-bearing field, silica sand fields (of more than 1.5 billion tons), deposits of granite (1.9 billion cubic meters), marble (420 million cubic meters), phosphorites (1.5 billion tons) and many others.

Naypyidaw Zoological Gardens

Located on the Yangon-Mandalay highway about 250 miles (400 km) north of Yangon, the 612-acre (247-hectare) zoo opened its doors on Myanmar's Armed Forces Day (27 March) in 2008 with about 420 animals trucked in from the Yangon Zoological Gardens.

NER Class A

Withdrawals of the class took ten years with the last loco being No. 420 working at Tyne Dock, it was condemned on the 22nd of April and the class slipped in to history with non being preserved.

Night of the Ducks

For example, Soviet media claimed that the mobilization was possibly "to divert the workers' attention and to allow the government to insert into the defense clause of the budget 420 million Lirot, more than the previous year".

No. 420 Squadron RCAF

No. 420 Squadron was formed at Waddington, Lincolnshire, England on 19 December 1941 as the RCAF's 18th (and fourth Bomber) squadron formed overseas.

Ontario Highway 420

Highway 420 features stylized light fixtures with the letters "ER", which stand for Elizabeth Regina and are a tribute to the Queen mother.

Princess Li Jingshou

When he was subsequently defeated and killed in 420 by the Northern Liang prince Juqu Mengxun, the Western Liang capital Jiuquan (酒泉, in modern Jiuquan, Gansu) fell to Northern Liang, and Princess Dowager Yin and Li Jingshou were captured.

Rick Chartraw

Raymond Richard Chartraw (born July 13, 1954 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 420 games in the National Hockey League between 1974 and 1984.

Roderick Carr

Despite this they had covered a distance of 3,420 mi (5,506 km), which was sufficient to set a new world distance record, but which was beaten in turn within a few hours by Charles Lindbergh's solo Atlantic flight between New York and Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis, covering 3,590 mi (5,780 km).

San Rafael High School

The school is often cited as the origin (1971) of the time and codeword 420 in drug culture; originally "420" served as a code word for "The Waldos", a group of marijuana users who would meet in front of a statue of Louis Pasteur at 4:20 P. M. to smoke marijuana, both near the statue and at other clandestine locations on campus grounds.

Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code

The title of a two popular Hindi films - Chachi 420 (English: Trickster Aunt, a 1997 film) and Shri 420 (in English: "Mr. 420, a 1955 film), are direct references to Section 420 of the IPC.

Shaw Brothers Studio

During the late 1950s to early '60s productions of the Shaw Studio were dominated by actresses like Li Li-Hua, Ivy Ling Po, Linda Lin Dai, Betty Loh Ti and Li Ching in dramatic and romantic features. In particular, the Huangmei opera The Love Eterne, starring Ivy Ling Po and Betty Loh Ti based upon the Butterfly Lovers folk legend from the Jin Dynasty, is one of the highest grossing features of the Shaw Studio.

Spirit way

Literary sources attest to the resumption of the spirit way construction already by the time of the Eastern Jin (4th century AD), but the surviving spirit way statuary from the "period of disunion" pertains almost exclusively to the last four of the six Southern Dynasties: Liu Song, Southern Qi, Liang and Chen, which were usually centered around Jiankang (today's Nanjing).

Symbols of Islam

Excerpt: Yazdegerd I (399–420) was the monarch represented with a crescent moon on the front of his crown.

Tholthorpe

The main units that were stationed there were from No. 6 Group RCAF, including No 77 Sqn; No 420 Sqn; No 425 Sqn No 431 Sqn and No 434 Sqn.

Tortona

Majorian (420–461), Western Roman Emperor from 457 until his death, is said to have died here.

Virginia State Route 420

SR 420 continues east as Janneys Lane, a two-lane street that passes to the north of the Gerald R. Ford, Jr., House on its way to its eastern terminus at SR 7 (King Street).

Way of the Celestial Masters

After the fall of Luoyang to non-Chinese invaders in 311, the remnants of the court fled to Jiankang (modern-day Nanjing) and established a new state known as the Eastern Jin dynasty.

West Virginia University at Parkersburg

In a reorganization of the state's higher education governance structure in 1989, the West Virginia Legislature enacted S.B. 420 which, among other initiatives, renamed PCC as West Virginia University at Parkersburg, designated it a regional campus of WVU, and transferred its governance to the newly formed University of West Virginia Board of Trustees.

Xiaowu

Emperor Xiaowu of Jin (362–396), an emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (265–420) in China

Yahballaha

Yahballaha I, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 415 to 420

Zefania Carmel

As teammates on Israel’s Zevulun Bat-Yam Club, the two won the Israeli Championship in 1966 in the 420-Class, and topped an international field of competition in the same event on New York’s Hudson River in August 1967.


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