Zits (comics)

Zits is a comic strip written by cartoonist Jerry Scott and illustrated by Jim Borgman about the life of Jeremy Duncan, a 17-year-old high school junior. The comic debuted in July 1997 in over 200 newspapers and has since become popular worldwide and received multiple awards. As of 2010, it continues to be syndicated by King Features and is now included in "more than 1,700 newspapers worldwide in 45 countries and is translated into 15 different languages."

Nariyah

Nariyah, No'ayriyah, Nariya or An Nariyah is a town situated at Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. It has approximate total area of approximately 25 square km. It is located 150 km away from Jubail. It has a population over 60,000

Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels (Botticelli)

Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels is a tondo or round painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, completed between 1485 and 1490. It is housed in the Baltimore Museum of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland

Gimenez stain

The Gimenez staining technique uses biological stains to detect and identify bacterial infections in tissue samples. Although largely superseded by techniques like Giemsa staining, the Gimenez technique may be valuable for detecting certain slow-growing

Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks

The Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks occurred on June 11, 2000 in Manhattan, New York City, and involved multiple assailants who harassed, sexually assaulted, and robbed random victims. Many of the attacks were caught on video, and received worldwide

Gin pennant

The gin pennant is a maritime flag. When flown aboard ship, it indicates an open invitation to other ships' officers to come aboard for drinks

Rug plot

A rug plot is a plot of data for a single quantitative variable, displayed as marks along an axis. It is used to visualise the distribution of the data. As such it is analogous to a histogram with zero-width bins, or a one-dimensional scatter plot

Purple trades

In the Canadian Armed Forces, the purple trades are occupations and careers that are not strongly linked to one of the three major 'environments' or 'elements': sea, land, or air

Harold E. Johns

Harold Elford Johns was a Canadian medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer

Ellen Asher

Ellen Asher is an American science fiction editor who served as editor-in-chief of the Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC) for thirty-four years, from February 8, 1973, through June 1, 2007. She grew up in New York City and began editing science fiction at

Jessie G. Beach

Jessie G. Beach was an American paleontologist and museum aide. She worked for the Smithsonian Institution's department of paleobiology at the United States National Museum. Beach is one of the notable "Smithsonian women in science", working at a time