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The NASCAR Rookie of the Year Award is presented to the first - year driver that has the best season in a NASCAR season . Each of NASCAR 's national and regional touring series selects a RotY winner each year .

The Latin Mass : A Journal of Catholic Culture , commonly referred to as Latin Mass Magazine , is an American Catholic magazine published quarterly , with a traditionalist Catholic viewpoint . It is based in Ramsey , New Jersey .

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell is a classic of American exploration literature . It is about the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869 which was the first trip down the Colorado River by boat , including the first trip through the Grand Canyon .

On Unix and Unix - like computer operating systems , a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution ( via the exit system call ) but still has an entry in the process table : it is a process in the `` Terminated state '' . This occurs for child processes , where the entry is still needed to allow the parent process to read its child 's exit status : once the exit status is read via the wait system call , the zombie 's entry is removed from the process table and it is said to be `` reaped '' . A child process always first becomes a zombie before being removed from the resource table . In most cases , under normal system operation zombies are immediately waited on by their parent and then reaped by the system -- processes that stay zombies for a long time are generally an error and cause a resource leak .

This is a list of songs about Pakistan ( known as Milli naghmay in Urdu ; ملی نغموں ) listed in alphabetical order . The list includes songs by current and former solo - singers and musical bands . It also includes some film songs originally recorded for Pakistani films .

January 21 , 2016The 100 ( pronounced The Hundred ) is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series developed by Jason Rothenberg , which premiered on March 19 , 2014 , on The CW . It is loosely based on a 2013 book of the same name , the first in a book series by Kass Morgan . The series follows a group of teens as they become the first people from a space habitat to return to Earth after a devastating nuclear apocalypse .

The Sandlot is a 1993 American coming - of - age baseball film co-written , directed and narrated by David Mickey Evans , which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962 . It stars Tom Guiry , Mike Vitar , Karen Allen , Denis Leary and James Earl Jones . The filming locations were in Glendale , Midvale , Salt Lake City , and Ogden , Utah .

`` Uma Thurman ''`` Uma Thurman '' is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy , released digitally on January 12 , 2015 . The song prominently features sampled theme music from the television series The Munsters ( 1964 -- 66 ) and lyrics celebrating the character actress Uma Thurman , famous for films such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill .

Mark DaytonThe Governor of Minnesota is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Minnesota , leading the state 's executive branch . Forty people have been governor of Minnesota , though historically there were also three governors of Minnesota Territory . Alexander Ramsey , the first territorial governor , also served as state governor several years later . State governors are elected to office by popular vote , but territorial governors were appointed to the office by the United States president . The current governor of Minnesota is Mark Dayton of the Democratic - Farmer - Labor Party ( DFL ) .

Extra innings is the extension of a baseball or softball game in order to break a tie .

The Samsung Galaxy A8 and A8+ ( 2018 ) are upper - midrange Android smartphones produced by Samsung Electronics . They were announced on 19 December 2017 . The devices run Android 7.1. 1 `` Nougat '' out - of - the - box with Samsung Experience 8.5 .

Mother 's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family , as well as motherhood , maternal bonds , and the influence of mothers in society . It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world , most commonly in the months of March or May . It complements similar celebrations honoring family members , such as Father 's Day , Siblings Day , and Grandparents Day .

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas . William Kelso writes that Jamestown `` is where the British Empire began '' . It was established by the Virginia Company of London as `` James Fort '' on May 4 , 1607 ( O.S. ; May 14 , 1607 N.S. ) , and was considered permanent after brief abandonment in 1610 . It followed several failed attempts , including the Lost Colony of Roanoke . Jamestown served as the capital of the colony of Virginia for 83 years , from 1616 until 1699 .

The territory which would later become the state of New York was settled by European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony ( parts of present - day New York , New Jersey , Connecticut and Delaware ) under the command of the Dutch West India Company in the Seventeenth Century . These colonists were largely of Dutch , Flemish , Walloon , and German stock , but the colony soon became a `` melting pot . '' In 1664 , at the onset of the Second Anglo - Dutch War , English forces under Richard Nicolls ousted the Dutch from control of New Netherland , and the territory became part of several different English colonies . Despite one brief year when the Dutch retook the colony ( 1673 -- 1674 ) , New York would remain an English possession until the American colonies declared independence in 1776 .

Clark BrandonThis is a list of characters from the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life .