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Beefeater is a term often used to refer to the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London, but originally referring to the Yeomen of the Guard. Beefeater may also refer to: Beefeater Gin, a British brand of spirits; Beefeater (restaurant), a chain of pub restaurants in the UK, owned by Whitbread Group PLC; The Beefeaters, a Danish beat group (1964 ...
Chinese New Year: Tahun Baru Imlek 農曆新年 农历新年 (Nónglì Xīnnián) 1st day of 1st month of Chinese calendar. Public holiday since 2003 15th date of 1st month Lantern Festival: Festival Lampion 元宵節 元宵节 (Yuánxiāo Jié) 十五暝 (Cha̍p Gō͘ Mê) Festival marking the last day of Chinese New Year celebration.
Beefeaters generally live in the Tower along with their families, which led to the existence of a dedicated pub. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The current name of the pub, "The Keys", refers to a nightly locking-up ritual in the Tower ; the name is a recent change, and the establishment was historically known as the Yeoman Warders Club.
In February 2009, the Indonesian Wikipedia achieved the milestone of 100,000 articles. One of the contributors mentioned in the article was the user borgx, who made 80,000 edits starting in 2005. That year, the Indonesian Wikipedia only had about fifty active contributors. [13] [14]
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands , including Sumatra , Java , Sulawesi , and parts of Borneo and New Guinea .
In a full-text search, a search engine examines all of the words in every stored document as it tries to match search criteria (for example, text specified by a user). Full-text-searching techniques appeared in the 1960s, for example IBM STAIRS from 1969, and became common in online bibliographic databases in the 1990s. [verification needed ...
Hennell was a lieutenant in the Guard at the time, who discovered that there were no records save for one old order book and miscellaneous papers. [ 3 ] : vii Extensive modern research [ 2 ] : vii-viii has been done by Anita Hewerdine for her 1998 doctoral thesis The Yeomen of the King’s Guard 1485-1547 . [ 2 ]
In Australia the rainbow bee-eater is migratory in the southern areas of its range, migrating to Indonesia and New Guinea, but occurs year-round in northern Australia. Several species of bee-eater, are intra-African migrants; [ 5 ] the white-throated bee-eater, for example, breeds on the southern edge of the Sahara and winters further south in ...