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Jane Margaret Lakes Harman (born June 28, 1945) is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011; she is a member of the Democratic Party. Harman was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee (2002-2006), and chaired the Homeland Security Committee's Intelligence S... | {"Name": "Jane Harman", "Term start": "February 28, 2011", "Term end": "February 28, 2021", "Predecessor 2": "Steven T. Kuykendall", "Successor 2": "Janice Hahn", "Birth name": "Jane Margaret Lakes", "Birth date": "1945 6 28", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Richard A. Frank 1969 1978\"jj\... |
Charles William Blunt (born 19 January 1951) is a former Australian politician who served as leader of the National Party of Australia from 1989 to 1990.
Early life
Blunt was born in Sydney and graduated from the University of Sydney with a degree in economics. After working in various positions he was hired as New So... | {"Name": "Charles Blunt", "Term start": "9 May 1989", "Term end": "6 April 1990", "Birth date": "yes 1951 1 19", "Birth place": "Sydney, New South Wales", "Nationality": "Australian", "Alma mater": "University of Sydney"} |
Snowflake was a low-cost airline that operated out of Stockholm, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark between 30 March 2003 and 30 October 2004. Owned by the SAS Group, it was organized as a business unit within Scandinavian Airlines, operating as a virtual airline using their crew and aircraft. Snowflake served a total 28 ... | {"Airline name": "Snowflake", "IATA Designator": "SK", "ICAO Designator": "SAS", "Callsign": "Scandinavian", "Parent Company": "SAS Group", "Commenced operations": "19 March 2003", "Ceased operations": "31 October 2004", "Operating bases": "Copenhagen Airport\nStockholm Arlanda Airport", "Frequent Flyer Program": "Euro... |
thumb|right|Les Chiffres secrets dévoilés (or The Secret Numbers Unveiled )by Étienne Bazeries
Étienne Bazeries (21 August 1846, in Port Vendres - 7 November 1931, in Noyon) was a French military cryptanalyst active between 1890 and the First World War. He is best known for developing the "Bazeries Cylinder", an impr... | {"Name": "Étienne Bazeries", "Birth date": "1846 8 21", "Birth place": "Port Vendres, France", "Death date": "1931 11 7 1846 8 21", "Death place": "Noyon", "Nationality": "French", "Occupation": "Soldier, military cryptographer", "Years active": "1863-1924", "Known For": "Developing the Bazeries Cylinder", "Spouse(s)":... |
Rebel Rabbit is a 1949 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short. The cartoon was released on April 9, 1949, and features Bugs Bunny.
Plot
Bugs notices high bounties on various animals: $50 on foxes, $75 on bears, but then he becomes offended by the two-cent bounty on rabbits. Bugs has himself mailed to Washington, ... | {"Directed by": "Robert McKimson", "Story by": "Warren Foster", "Animation by": "Charles McKimsonPhil DeLaraManny GouldJohn Carey", "Layouts by": "Cornett Wood", "Backgrounds by": "Richard H. Thomas", "Starring": "Mel Blanc", "Music by": "Carl Stalling", "Produced by": "Edward Selzer", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros.Th... |
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (14 October 1827 - 1 October 1904) was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He served as Member of Parliament for Oxford, Derby then West Monmouthshire and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladsto... | {"Name": "Sir William Harcourt", "Image size": "200px", "Birth date": "yes 1827 10 14", "Death date": "yes 1904 10 01 1827 10 14", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "Trinity College, Cambridge", "Spouse(s)": "(1) Maria Theresa Lister (d. 1863) (2) Elizabeth Cabot Motley (d. 1928)"} |
Thomas Pryor GoreInfidels.org: "Vidal, Gore (1925- )", accessed March 16, 2010 (December 10, 1870March 16, 1949) was an American politician who served as one of the first two United States senators from Oklahoma, from 1907 to 1921 and again from 1931 to 1937. He first entered politics as an activist for the Populist Pa... | {"Name": "Thomas Gore", "Birth name": "Thomas Pryor Gore", "Nationality": "American", "Term start": "December 11, 1907", "Term end": "March 4, 1921", "Preceded 2": "William B. Pine", "Succeeded 2": "Joshua B. Lee", "Birth date": "1870 12 10", "Birth place": "Webster County, Mississippi, U.S.", "Death date": "1949 3 16 ... |
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Taiyuan
| official_name =
| native_name = 太原市
| native_name_lang = zh
| settlement_type = Prefecture-level city
| nickname = Bīngzhōu (); Jìnyáng (); Dragon City ()
| image_skyline = Taiyuan Montage.png
| motto =
| image_caption... | {"Picture caption": "\"Taiyuan\" in Chinese characters", "Name in Chinese": "zh 太原", "Literal meaning": "\"Great Plain\"", "Pinyin transcription": "Tàiyuán", "Wade-Giles": "Tai4-yüan2", "Gwoyeu Romatzyh": "Tayyuan", "Bopomofo (Zhuyin)": "ㄊㄞˋ ㄩㄢˊ", "Mandarin IPA": "t ai 4 . yuan 2", "Jyutping": "Taai3-jyun4", "Yale Ro... |
thumb|Maghrib prayer at Masjid al-Haram in Saudi Arabia.
The Maghrib prayer ( , "vespers") is the fourth of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayer).
According to Sunni Muslims, the period for Maghrib prayer starts just after sunset, following Asr prayer, and ends at the beginning of night, the start of the Isha pra... | {"Type": "Islamic", "Official name": "صلاة المغرب", "Also called": "vespers", "Observed by": "Muslims", "Significance": "A Muslim prayer offered to God at the sunset hour of the day.", "Begins": "Sunset/The moment when the redness of the east, which is found after sunset, disappears.", "Ends": "Dusk", "Observances": "S... |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (5 January 1928 - 4 April 1979) was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and later as the ninth prime minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. He was the founder of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and served as its chairma... | {"Name": "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto", "Native name": "ur ذُوالفِقار علی بُھٹّوsd ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1971", "Term start": "14 August 1973", "Term end": "5 July 1977", "Office 2": "1st Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan", "Prime minister 2": "Nurul Amin", "Predecessor 2": "Position establis... |
Preston Sturges (;"Sturges". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 - August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surpri... | {"Name": "Preston Sturges", "Image": "Preston Sturges.gif", "Birth name": "Edmund Preston Biden", "Birth date": "1898 08 29 y", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "1959 08 06 1898 08 29", "Death place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Occupation": "Playwright\n screenwriter\n film director", "Yea... |
Nmap (Network Mapper) is a network scanner created by Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich). Nmap is used to discover hosts and services on a computer network by sending packets and analyzing the responses.
Nmap provides a number of features for probing computer networks, including host discovery ... | {"Original author(s)": "Gordon Lyon (Fyodor)", "Initial release": "1997 09 yes", "Written in": "C, C++, Python, Lua", "Available in": "English", "Type": "Network security", "License": "NPSLNmap Public Source License https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/LICENSE 2021-12-15 or modified GPLv2Nmap license https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/COP... |
Timothy Andrew Fischer (3 May 1946 - 22 August 2019) was an Australian politician and diplomat who served as leader of the National Party from 1990 to 1999. He was Deputy Prime Minister in the Howard government from 1996 to 1999.
Fischer was born in Lockhart, New South Wales. He served with the Australian Army in the... | {"Name": "Tim Fischer", "Image caption": "Fischer as deputy prime minister", "Term start": "11 March 1996", "Term end": "20 July 1999", "Office 2": "Minister for Trade", "Prime minister 2": "John Howard", "Predecessor 2": "Bob McMullan", "Successor 2": "Mark Vaile", "Birth name": "Timothy Andrew Fischer", "Birth date":... |
The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and (in her final screen appearance) Muriel Angelus. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount Pictures for just $10 o... | {"Directed by": "Preston Sturges", "Produced by": "Paul JonesBuddy G. DeSylva (uncredited)", "Written by": "Preston Sturges", "Starring": "Brian DonlevyMuriel AngelusAkim Tamiroff", "Music by": "Frederick HollanderJohn Leipold (uncredited)", "Cinematography": "William C. Mellor", "Edited by": "Hugh Bennett", "Distribut... |
Blas Fajardo Ople (February 3, 1927 - December 14, 2003) was a Filipino journalist and politician who held several high-ranking positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Philippine government, including as Senate President from 1999 to 2000, and as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2002 until his death... | {"Name": "Blas Ople", "Image size": "200px", "Term start": "June 29, 1999", "Term end": "July 12, 2000\"Biography of Senate President Ople - Senate of the Philippines\" https://web.archive.org/web/20080317190832/http://www.senate.gov.ph/senators/senpres/ople.asp March 17, 2008 . senate.gov.ph.", "Office 2": "17th and ... |
Team Fortress Classic is a first-person shooter game developed by Valve and published by Sierra Studios. It was originally released in April 1999 for Windows, and is based on Team Fortress, a mod for the 1996 game Quake. The game puts two teams against each other in online multiplayer matches; each member plays as one ... | {"Title": "Team Fortress Classic", "Developer": "Valve", "Publisher": "Sierra Studios Valve (digital)", "Engine": "GoldSrc", "Platforms": "Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux", "Released": "April 7, 1999\n font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left;\n Windows\n April 7, 1999\n OS X, Linux\n August 12, 20... |
Stefan Themerson (25 January 1910 - 6 September 1988) was a Polish writer of children's literature, poet and inventor of Semantic Poetry, novelist, script writer filmmaker, composer and philosopher. He wrote in at least three languages. With his wife, Franciszka Themerson, they are regarded as leading husband-and-wife... | {"Name": "Stefan Themerson", "Caption": "Themerson in his studio in London, in front of a painting by his wife Franciszka", "Birth date": "January 25, 1910", "Birth place": "Plock", "Death date": "September 6, 1988 January 25, 1910", "Death place": "London", "Known For": "the Gaberbocchus Press, novelist, filmmaker, co... |
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 - 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British India. He supported the idea of self-governance by Indians and founded the Indian National Congress. A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Ind... | {"Term start": "1885", "Term end": "1887", "Image caption": "Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) (scanned from a Woodburytype)", "Birth date": "1829 06 04 y", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "1912 07 31 1829 06 06 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Spouse(s)": "Mary Anne Grindall 1853", "Alma mater": "U... |
Halesowen ( ) is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the county of West Midlands, England.
Historically an exclave of Shropshire and, from 1844, in Worcestershire, the town is around from Birmingham city centre, and from Dudley town centre. The population of the town, as measured by the United Ki... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021)population Figure for the Halesowen Built-Up Area, 2019 estimate.West Midlands (United Kingdom) https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/westmidlands/ City Population - Country Statistics 12 July 2021", "OS grid reference": "SO9583", "Postcode district": "B62, B63", "Di... |
St Edward's Crown is the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. Named after Saint Edward the Confessor, versions of it have traditionally been used to crown English and British monarchs at their coronations since the 13th century.
The original crown was a holy relic kept at Westminster Abbey, Edward's... | {"Material": "22-carat gold", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Weight": "2.23 kg lb on", "Arches": "2", "Made": "1661", "Owner": "Charles III in right of the Crown.United Kingdom House of Commons Crown Jewels http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1992/jul/16/crown-jewels#column_944w 16 July 1992 211 944... |
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub or Ivan Mykytovych Kozhedub (Russian: Иван Hикитович Кожедуб; Ukrainian: Іван Микитович Кожедуб; 8 June 1920 - 8 August 1991) was a Soviet World War II fighter ace. Universally credited with over 60 solo victories, he is considered to be the highest scoring Soviet and Allied fighter pilot of Wo... | {"Native name": "uk", "Born": "Obrazhiivka, Chernihiv Governorate, Ukrainian SSRNazarian, E. A. http://encyclopedia.mil.ru/encyclopedia/history/more.htm?id=12043725@cmsArticle ru:Маршал авиации Иван Никитович Кожедуб Air Marshal Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub ru Encyclopaedia of the Russian Ministry of Defence 22 March 2016"... |
Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin (; - 13 November 1985) was a Soviet fighter pilot in World War II, and later a Marshal of Aviation. He was one of the highest-scoring Soviet aces, and the highest-scoring pilot ever to fly an American aircraft, having achieved the great majority of his kills in the Lend-Lease Bell P-39 A... | {"Native name": "The Soviet Ace", "Born": "Novosibirsk, Russian Empire", "Died": "Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union", "Awards": "Hero of the Soviet Union (thrice)US Army Distinguished Service Medal", "Spouse(s)": "Mariya Kuzmichna"} |
The Imperial State Crown is one of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom and symbolises the sovereignty of the British monarch. It has existed in various forms since the 15th century. The 1937 version is worn by a new monarch for the first time in the royal procession following their coronation (having been crowned wi... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Made": "1937", "Owner": "King Charles III in right of the CrownUnited Kingdom House of Commons Crown Jewels https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1992-07-16/debates/3d3e9243-81f5-46da-95c4-303f9614f54b/CrownJewels 16 July 1992 211 944W", "Weight": "1.06 kg (2.3 lb)", "Arches": "2 (o... |
Auchel (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
Geography
An ex-mining town, nowadays a light industrial & farming commune, situated southwest of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D183 and the D183E roads.
History
Following the discove... | {"Name": "Auchel", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "The mining memorial", "Arrondissement": "Béthune", "Canton": "Auchel", "Postal code": "62260", "Mayor": "Phillibert BerrierRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503 data.gouv.fr, Platef... |
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky (; 23 March 1908 - 29 April 1983) was a Soviet aircraft pilot and one of the first people to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (in June 1934). A graduate of the Soviet Air Force Academy, he reached the rank of Major general of the Soviet Air Force at 1946.
Birth and yout... | {"Native name": "Анатолий Васильевич Ляпидевский", "Born": "Belaya Glina, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire", "Died": "Moscow, Soviet Union", "Allegiance": "Soviet Union", "Awards": "Hero of the Soviet Union"} |
Audruicq (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.INSEE commune file
Geography
A town located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.
History
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrou... | {"Name": "Audruicq", "Native Name": "Ouderwijk", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Image": "Audruicq (Pas-de-Calais) mairie.JPG", "Caption": "The town hall of Audruicq", "Arrondissement": "Calais", "Canton": "Marck", "Postal code": "62370", "Mayor": "Nicole ChevalierRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data... |
"Mirror, Mirror" is the fourth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast on October 6, 1967.
The episode involves a transporter malfunction that swaps Captain Kirk and his companions with their... | {"Written by": "Jerome Bixby", "Directed by": "Marc Daniels", "Featured music": "Fred Steiner", "Cinematography by": "Jerry Finnerman"} |
The June 1927 Irish general election was to elect the 5th Dáil held on Thursday, 9 June following the dissolution of the 4th Dáil on 23 May 1927. It was the first election contested by Fianna Fáil, which had been formed a year earlier when Éamon de Valera, leader of the abstentionist Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin, failed to co... | {"Name": "June 1927 Irish general election", "Country": "Ireland", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1923 Irish general election", "Previous year": "1923", "Next election": "September 1927 Irish general election", "Next year": "Sep 1927", "Seats for election": "153 seats in Dáil ÉireannCC... |
The 1923 Irish general election to elect the 4th Dáil was held on Monday, 27 August, following the dissolution of the Third Dáil on 9 August 1923. It was the first general election held since the establishment of the Irish Free State on 6 December 1922. The election was held shortly after the end of the Irish Civil War... | {"Name": "1923 Irish general election", "Country": "Ireland", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1922 Irish general election", "Previous year": "1922", "Next election": "June 1927 Irish general election", "Next year": "Jun 1927", "Seats for election": "All 153 seats in Dáil Éireann", "Majo... |
Sigizmund Aleksandrovich Levanevsky (, ; – 13 August 1937) was a Soviet pioneer of long-range flight who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for his role in the SS Chelyuskin rescue.
Life and career
Sigizmund Levanevsky was born to a Polish family in Saint Petersburg on . His brother Józef Lewoni... | {"Native name": "Сигизмунд Александрович ЛеваневскийZygmunt Lewoniewski", "Born": "St. Petersburg, Russian empire", "Died": "Arctic Ocean", "Awards": "Hero of the Soviet Union"} |
Mikhail Vasilyevich Vodopyanov (; – 11 August 1980) was a Soviet aircraft pilot, one of the first Heroes of the Soviet Union, and a Major General of the Soviet Air Force. Together with Mikhail Babushkin, he was the first to land an airplane on the North Pole.
Biography
He was born on 18 November (6 November Old Style... | {"Native name": "Михаил Васильевич Водопьянов", "Born": "Bolshiye Studyonki village, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire(now part of Lipetsk, Russia)", "Died": "Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union", "Commands held": "81st Special Purpose Aviation Division", "Awards": "Hero of the Soviet Union"} |
"The City on the Edge of Forever" is the twenty-eighth and penultimate episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Harlan Ellison, contributors and/or editors to the script included Steven W. Carabatsos, D. C. Fontana and Gene L. Coon. Gene Roddenberry made the fi... | {"Written by": "Harlan EllisonD. C. Fontana (uncredited)Gene L. Coon (uncredited)", "Directed by": "Joseph Pevney", "Featured music": "Fred Steiner (original)", "Cinematography by": "Jerry Finnerman"} |
The All-Seeing Eye, known to its community of users as ASE, was a game server browser designed by Finnish company UDP Soft. It helped online gamers find game servers. ASE took two years to develop and was introduced as shareware on June 15, 2001.
Despite UDP Soft lacking the marketing power of GameSpy, ASE's popularit... | {"Original author(s)": "UDP Soft", "Developer(s)": "Yahoo!", "Initial release": "June 15, 2001", "Available in": "English", "Type": "Game server browser", "License": "Proprietary"} |
Samira Shahbandar (, born 1946) is a former Iraqi physician. She was the second wife of Saddam Hussein.
Early life
Shahbandar was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1946. Shahbandar was born into an aristocratic Baghdad family.
Career
Shahbandar was reported to have had careers as a flight attendant and as a physician.
P... | {"Name": "Samira Shahbandar", "Birth date": "1946", "Birth place": "Baghdad, Iraq", "Nationality": "Iraqi", "Occupation": "Physician", "Spouse(s)": "Saddam Hussein 1986 2006 died"} |
Ralphs is an American supermarket chain in Southern California. The largest subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Kroger, it is the oldest such chain west of the Mississippi River. Kroger also operates stores under the Food 4 Less and Foods Co. names in California.
History
thumb|Ralphs Brothers Grocery and New York Bakery, ... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1873 y in Los Angeles, California", "Headquarters": "United StatesContact us, The Kroger Company", "Industry": "Retail (Supermarket)", "Products": "Bakery, dairy, delicatessen, frozen foods, grocery, meat, liquor, pharmacy, produce, seafood and snacks", "Revenue": "US$3 billion (2021)... |
Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide is a four-track EP by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on December 16, 1986, on the UZI Suicide record label.This was ostensibly a self-released record but UZI Suicide was actually part of Geffen Records. When referred to by band members, they have simply called the EP Live Like ... | {"Released": "December 16, 1986", "Recorded": "1986", "Studio": "Pasha Music House\nNorth Hollywood, California", "Label": "UZI Suicide", "Producer": "Guns N' Roses"} |
G N' R Lies (also known simply as Lies) is the second studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released by Geffen Records on November 29, 1988. It is the band's shortest studio album, running at 33 and a half minutes. The album reached number two on the US Billboard 200, and according to the RIAA, has shi... | {"Released": "November 29, 1988", "Studio": "Rumbo Studios, Take One Studio, and Image Recording Studios", "Genre": "\"chuck\"/>\n acoustic rockHal Leonard Corp. 25 Top Acoustic Songs - Tab. Tone. Technique.: Tab+ Series https://books.google.com/books?id=1tiZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT14 August 1, 2013 Hal Leonard 978-1-4803-5937-6... |
"The Trouble with Tribbles" is the fifteenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by David Gerrold and directed by Joseph Pevney, it was first broadcast on December 29, 1967. In this comic episode, the starship Enterprise visits a space station that soon beco... | {"Written by": "David Gerrold", "Directed by": "Joseph Pevney", "Featured music": "Jerry Fielding", "Cinematography by": "Jerry Finnerman"} |
Aarhus University (, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Group, the Guild, and Utrecht Network of European universities and is a member of the European Uni... | {"Motto": "la Solidum petit in profundis (Latin)", "Type": "Public research university", "Budget": "DKK 7 Billion (EUR 933 Million) (2021) http://medarbejdere.au.dk/fileadmin/www.au.dk/om_au/profil/noegletal/121219_-_Budget_2013_netversion.pdf Budget 2013 2012-12-30 Aarhus University da", "Rector": "Brian Bech ... |
The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (, abbreviated as OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that branched off from the Cistercians. They follow the Rule of Saint Bened... | {"Abbreviation": "OCSO", "Founded at": "La Trappe Abbey", "Headquarters": "Viale Africa, 33 Rome, Italy", "Type": "Catholic religious order", "Website": "www.ocso.org"} |
William Torelle Joppy (born September 11, 1970) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2011, and held the WBA middleweight title three times between 1996 and 2003.
Professional career
Joppy won his first of three WBA middleweight titles in June 1996 by stopping defender Shinji Takehara in J... | {"Real name": "William Torelle Joppy", "Height": "5 ft 9 in", "Reach": "72+1/2 in", "Weight(s)": "Middleweight\nLight heavyweight", "Nationality": "American", "Born": "Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.", "Stance": "Orthodox", "Total fights": "49", "Wins": "40", "Wins by KO": "30", "Losses": "7", "Draws": "2"} |
"Encounter at Farpoint" is the pilot episode and series premiere of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, which premiered in syndication on September 28, 1987. It was written by D. C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry and directed by Corey Allen. Roddenberry was the creator of Star T... | {"Running time": "1 hour 32 minutes", "Written by": "D. C. Fontana Gene Roddenberry", "Directed by": "Corey Allen", "Featured music": "Dennis McCarthy", "Cinematography by": "Edward R. Brown"} |
The Honours of Scotland (, ), informally known as the Scottish Crown Jewels, are the regalia that were worn by Scottish monarchs at their coronation. Kept in the Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle, they date from the 15th and 16th centuries, and are the oldest surviving set of crown jewels in the British Isles.
The Honour... | {"Country": "Scotland", "Location": "Crown Room at Edinburgh Castle", "Size": "3 objects:\n1 crown (1540)\n1 sceptre (c. 1494)\n1 sword (1507)", "Owner": "Commissioners for the Keeping of the Regaliahttps://collections.historicenvironment.scot/collections/5/objects?query=CONTROLLING_INSTITUTION%3A%22Commissioners+for+t... |
"Emissary" is the series premiere of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was aired as a single two-hour episode on its initial broadcast,Edrmann and Block (2000) but was divided into two one-hour episodes when it aired in reruns.Okuda et al.
Set in the 24th century, the series... | {"Story by": "Rick Berman\n Michael Piller", "Teleplay by": "Michael Piller", "Directed by": "David Carson", "Featured music": "Dennis McCarthy"} |
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the third episode of the first season of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Samuel A. Peeples and directed by James Goldstone, it first aired on September 22, 1966.
In the episode, after the Enterprise attempts to cross the energy barrier at the edge ... | {"Written by": "Samuel A. Peeples", "Directed by": "James Goldstone", "Featured music": "Alexander Courage", "Cinematography by": "Ernest Haller"} |
"Caretaker" is the series premiere of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. It was first broadcast as a double-length episode on January 16, 1995, as the first telecast of the fledgling UPN network. It was later split into two parts for syndication, but released in its original one-episode ... | {"Story by": "Rick BermanMichael PillerJeri Taylor", "Teleplay by": "Michael PillerJeri Taylor", "Directed by": "Winrich Kolbe", "Featured music": "Jay Chattaway"} |
thumb|300px|right|Ballcourt marker from Chinkultic.In the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
Chinkultic, sometimes Chincultic, is a moderate-size archeological ruin in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. It is part of the Lagunas de Montebello National Park.
This pre-Columbian city belongs to the ancient Maya ci... | {"Coordinates": "16 7 34 N 91 47 0 W inline", "Location": "Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico", "Region": "Chiapas", "Founded": "3rd century", "Abandoned": "13th century", "Cultures": "Maya civilization", "Archaeologists": "Edward Seler, Enrique Juan Palacios"} |
Shattered Galaxy is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game (MMORTS) that was released in 2001 by KRU Interactive., now known as Nexon Inc, after an extensive open beta period. In the US, it was published by Tri Synergy. It combines the attributes of a massive multiplayer online role-playing game and a... | {"Title": "Shattered Galaxy", "Developer": "Kru Interactive", "Publisher": "Tri SynergyWalker Trey May 25, 2001 https://www.gamespot.com/articles/tri-synergy-to-publish-shattered-galaxy/1100-2766083/ Tri Synergy to publish Shattered Galaxy GameSpot CBS Interactive", "Released": "August 30, 2001", "Genre": "MMORTS... |
Lombard Street is an east-west street in San Francisco, California that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. Stretching from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill), most of the street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 10... | {"Name": "Lombard Street", "Namesake": "Philadelphia's Lombard Street", "Maintained by": "San Francisco DPW\n Caltrans (US 101 portion)", "Length": "November 2022", "Part of": "CA US 101 between Richardson Ave./Broderick St. and Van Ness Avenue", "Majorjunctions": "CA US 101\n Fillmore Street\n CA US 101\n Columbus Ave... |
Kaffe is a discontinued "clean room design" (reverse engineering) version of a Java Virtual Machine. It comes with a subset of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), Java API, and tools needed to provide a Java runtime environment. Like most other Free Java virtual machines, Kaffe uses GNU Classpath as its clas... | {"Original author(s)": "Tim Wilkinson Peter Mehlitz", "Developer(s)": "Transvirtual Technologies", "Initial release": "1996", "Written in": "C and Java", "Type": "Java Virtual Machine", "License": "GPL-2.0-only", "Website": "www.kaffe.org"} |
Field Marshal John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, (7 November 168028 April 1770), was a French Huguenot exile, born Jean Louis de Ligonier in Castres, Southern France. He had a long and distinguished career in the British army and was appointed Commander-in-chief in 1757.
During the Seven Years' War, he also served as ... | {"Honorific prefix": "Field Marshal The Right Honourable", "Name": "John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier", "Image caption": "John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier", "Office 2": "Commander-in-Chief of the Forces", "Birth date": "1680 11 07 yes", "Birth place": "Castres, France", "Death date": "1770 04 28 1680 11 07 yes", "Death ... |
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution on the University of California campus in Berkeley, California. It is widely regarded as a world leading mathematical center for collabo... | {"Type": "501(c)(3) nonprofit mathematical research institute", "Endowment": "$89 million (2022)https://www.msri.org/web/cms Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute msri.org", "Director": "Tatiana Toro", "Website": "slmath.org"} |
The deputy secretary of state of the United States is the principal deputy to the secretary of state. The position is currently held by Victoria Nuland, who is serving under secretary of state Antony Blinken in an acting capacity following the retirement of Wendy Sherman on July 28, 2023. If the secretary of state resi... | {"Post": "Deputy Secretary of State", "Body": "the United States of America", "Flag size": "130", "Flag caption": "Flag of the Deputy Secretary of State", "Insignia size": "120", "Insignia caption": "Seal of the Department of State", "Incumbent": "Victoria Nuland", "Incumbent since": "July 29, 2023", "Department": "Dep... |
Martian Chess is an abstract strategy game for two or four players invented by Andrew Looney in 1999. It is played with Icehouse pyramids on a chessboard. To play with a number of players other than two or four, a non-Euclidean surface can be tiled to produce a board of the required size, allowing up to six players.
I... | {"Name": "Martian chess", "Designers": "Andrew Looney", "Publishers": "Looney Labs", "Publication": "n 1999", "Years active": "1999-present", "Genres": "Tabletop game Abstract strategy game", "Systems": "Icehouse", "Players": "2 or 4", "Skills required": "Strategy, tactics", "Materials required": "Icehouse pieces chess... |
Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby (2 January 1721 - 18 October 1770) was a British Army officer, politician and nobleman. The eldest son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, as he did not outlive his father and inherit the dukedom, Manners was known by his father's subsidiary title, Marquess of Gran... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "Marquess of Granby", "Birth date": "2 January 1721", "Birth place": "Kelham, Nottinghamshire", "Death date": "18 October 1770 (aged 49)", "Death place": "Scarborough, North Yorkshire", "Spouse(s)": "Lady Frances Seymour (m. 1750)", "Alma mater": "Eton College Univ... |
Google Shopping, formerly Google Product Search, Google Products and Froogle, is a Google service created by Craig Nevill-Manning which allows users to search for products on online shopping websites and compare prices between different vendors. Google announced at its Marketing Live event in May 2019 that the new Goog... | {"Created by": "Craig Nevill-Manning", "URL": "https://shopping.google.com", "Commercial": "Yes", "Registration": "Optional", "Launched": "2002 12 12 (as Froogle)"} |
Franz Xaver Josef Conrad von Hötzendorf (after 1919 Franz Conrad; 11 November 1852 - 25 August 1925), sometimes anglicised as Hoetzendorf, was an Austrian general who played a central role in World War I. He served as K.u.k. Feldmarschall (field marshal) and Chief of the General Staff of the military of the Austro-Hun... | {"Born": "Penzing, Vienna, Austrian Empire", "Died": "Mergentheim, Württemberg, Weimar Republic", "Allegiance": "Austria-Hungary", "Awards": "See below"} |
Esade (Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses) is an international private educational institution based in Barcelona, Spain. Esade runs two schools of the university, Esade Business School and Esade Law School, as well as a language centre, the Esade Executive Language Center. The school has also forme... | {"Motto": "Do good. Do better", "Type": "Private", "Dean": "Josep Franch Bullich (Esade Business School) Eduardo Berché Moreno (Esade Law School) David Dinwoodie (Esade Executive Education)", "Director": "Koldo Echebarria", "Students": "10,600 (Business & Law, 2017)", "Website": "Esade"} |
Moorgate was one of the City of London, England's northern gates in its defensive wall, the last to be built. The gate took its name from the Moorfields, an area of marshy land that lay immediately north of the wall.
The gate was demolished in 1762, but gave its name to a major street, Moorgate, laid out in 1834. The ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "London Assembly": "City of London", "OS grid reference": "TQ327811", "Postcode district": "EC2", "Dialling code": "020", "UK Parliament": "Cities of London and Westminster"} |
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (; abbreviated MOL) is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan."Corporate Profile ." Mitsui O.S.K. Lines. Retrieved on 21 June 2010. It is one of the largest shipping companies in the world.
MOL fleet includes dry cargo ships (bulk carriers), liquefied natural ... | {"Type": "Public (KK)", "Industry": "Transport", "Founded": "1884", "Headquarters": "Japan", "Parent": "-->", "Website": "http://www.mol.co.jp"} |
María Rosalía Rita de Castro (; 23 February 1837 - 15 July 1885), was a Galician poet and novelist, considered one of the most important figures of the 19th-century Spanish literature and modern lyricism. Widely regarded as the greatest Galician cultural icon, she was a leading figure in the emergence of the literary G... | {"Born": "y 1837 2 23", "Died": "y 1885 7 15 1837 2 24", "Occupation": "Poet", "Language": "Galician Spanish", "Citizenship": "Spanish", "Period": "Romanticism", "Literary movement": "Rexurdimento"} |
"Broken Bow" is the two-part series premiere of the science fiction television series Enterprise (later renamed Star Trek: Enterprise). It originally aired as a double-length episode, but was split into two parts for syndication, though releases on home media and streaming maintain its original one-episode format. A no... | {"Written by": "Rick Berman Brannon Braga", "Directed by": "James Conway", "Featured music": "Dennis McCarthy", "Produced by": "Dawn Velazquez"} |
Outback Steakhouse is an American chain of Australian-themed casual dining restaurants, serving American cuisine, based in Tampa, Florida. The chain has over 1,000 locations in 23 countries throughout North America, South America, Asia, and Australia. It was founded in March 1988 with its first location in Tampa by Bob... | {"Type": "Wholly owned subsidiary", "Genre": "Casual dining", "Products": "Australian themed American cuisine", "Founded": "1988 3", "Headquarters": "U.S.", "Industry": "Restaurants", "Parent": "Bloomin' Brands", "Website": "www.outback.com", "Revenue": "US$ 3.888 billion (2017)"} |
The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA, , , , ), so named since 1979, is one of the seven Departments of the Swiss government federal administration of Switzerland, and corresponds in its range of tasks to the ministry of foreign affairs in other countries. The department is always headed by one of the members... | {"Formed": "1848", "Jurisdiction": "Federal administration of Switzerland", "Headquarters": "Bern", "Website": "www.eda.admin.ch"} |
Rotary Rocket Company was a rocketry company that developed the Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) crewed spacecraft. The design was initially conceived by Bevin McKinney, who shared it with Gary Hudson. In 1996, Rotary Rocket Company was formed to commercialize the concept... | {"Founded": "1996", "Defunct": "2001", "Industry": "Aerospace", "Products": "Roton"} |
thumb|International headquartersOptimist International is an international service club organization with almost 3,000 clubs and over 80,000 members in more than 20 countries. The international headquarters is located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Optimist International is also the sponsor of Junior Optimist I... | {"Type": "Service", "Location": "St. Louis, United States", "Origins": "Louisville, Kentucky, United States", "Named after": "\"Friend of Youth\"", "Website": "www.optimist.org"} |
The Environmentalist Agrarian Party () is an Albanian political party founded in 1991.
The party was founded by Lufter Xhuveli. Initially, the party was known as the Agrarian Party of Albania (Partia Agrare e Shqipërisë), until a name change took place in 2003. It is a reformist party that supports a free market econo... | {"Leader": "Agron Duka", "Founded": "1991", "Ideology": "Agrarianismhttp://parties-and-elections.eu/albania.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120401134713/http://parties-and-elections.eu/albania.html 1 April 2012 Albania Nordsieck Wolfram Parties and Elections in Europe 2009 3 May 2019 dead", "Political position": "Ce... |
The Socialist Party of Albania (, PS or PSSh) is a social-democratic political party in Albania. It has been described as centre-left. It was founded on 13 June 1991.Elsie, Robert (2010), Historical Dictionary of Albania. Scarecrow Press. p. 422. The PS is an associate of the Party of European Socialists and a member o... | {"Abbreviation": "PS, SP", "Founded": "13 June 1991", "Preceded by": "Party of Labour of Albania", "Headquarters": "Sheshi Austria 4, 1001 Tirana", "Newspaper": "Zëri i Popullit", "Ideology": "Social democracyThird WayPro-Europeanism", "Political position": "Centre-left", "European affiliation": "Party of European Soci... |
Thomas Pownall (bapt. 4 September 1722 N.S. - 25 February 1805) was a British colonial official and politician. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, and afterwards sat in the House of Commons from 1767 to 1780. He travelled widely in the North American colonies prior to the American ... | {"Name": "Thomas Pownall", "Death date": "yes 1805 2 25 1722 9 4", "Death place": "Bath, Somerset, England", "Alma mater": "Trinity College, Cambridge", "Spouse(s)": "Harriet Fawkener", "Term start": "1774", "Term end": "1780", "Predecessor 2": "William Trevanion", "Successor 2": "George Lane Parker", "Alongside 2": "S... |
William Victor Roth Jr. (July 22, 1921 - December 13, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Republican Party. He served from 1967 to 1970 as the lone U.S. Representative from Delaware and from 1971 to 2001 as a U.S. Senator from Delaw... | {"Image caption": "Official portrait of Roth as U.S. Senator", "Term start": "January 1, 1971", "Term end": "January 3, 2001", "Office 2": "Chair of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee", "Predecessor 2": "John Glenn", "Successor 2": "Ted Stevens", "Birth name": "William Victor Roth Jr.", "Birth date": "1921 7 22"... |
The Democratic Alliance Party () is a liberal political party in Albania. The party was formed in 1992 by Neritan Ceka and other dissidents of the Democratic Party of Albania. They opposed the leadership of the party's leader Sali Berisha.
History
PAD was founded in early 1992 by including two of the original found... | {"Leader": "Eduart Abazi", "Founded": "1992", "Split from": "Democratic Party of Albania", "Ideology": "Liberalism", "Political position": "Centre", "Headquarters": "Tirana"} |
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The Social Democratic Party of Albania (, PSD or PSDSH) is a minor social-democratic political party in Albania. Its founder is Skënder Gjinushi, a former Minister of Education (1987-1991) and Speaker of Parliament (1997-2001).
History
The party was formed in March 1991, and was admitted... | {"Abbreviation": "PSD", "Leader": "Tom Doshi", "Founded": "March 1991", "Ideology": "\"CSIS\"/>http://parties-and-elections.eu/albania.html Albania Nordsieck Wolfram 2017 Parties and Elections in EuropePro-Europeanismhttps://europeelects.eu/albania/ Albania", "Political position": "Centre-lefthttps://www.csis.org/prog... |
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot, first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York.
Plot summary
thumb|Plaque in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, noting it as the model for St. Ogg's: "one of those old... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback): octavo", "Pages": "993, in three volumes", "Set in": "Lincolnshire, c. 1829-1840", "Preceded by": "Adam Bede", "Followed by": "Silas Marner"} |
The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance is an award presented by the Recording Academy to honor quality alternative music performances in any given year. The award was presented for the first time on 5 February 2023 at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, is a companion category to the Grammy Award for Best A... | {"Awarded for": "Quality vocal or instrumental alternative recordings (tracks or singles only)", "Presented by": "National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences", "First awarded": "2023", "Website": "grammy.com"} |
Sir Philip Francis GCB (22 October 1740 - 23 December 1818) was an Irish-born British politician and pamphleteer, thought to be the author of the Letters of Junius, and the chief antagonist of Warren Hastings. His accusations against the latter led to the impeachment of Warren Hastings and Elijah Impey by Parliament. H... | {"Name": "Sir Philip Francis", "Image caption": "Portrait by James Lonsdale, 1808", "Term start": "20 October 1774", "Term end": "3 December 1780", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for Bletchingley", "Predecessor 2": "John Kenrick", "Successor 2": "Sir Lionel Copley, Bt", "Birth date": "1740 10 22 y", "Death date": "... |
The Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS, , , , ) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government. It is headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council, the Swiss defence minister.
Organisation
The department is composed of the following administrative units:
General Secre... | {"Formed": "1848", "Jurisdiction": "Federal administration of Switzerland", "Headquarters": "Federal Palace (east wing), Bern", "Employees": "11,595The Swiss Confederation - a brief guide 2009 Swiss Federal Chancellery http://www.bk.admin.ch/dokumentation/02070/index.html?lang=en 4 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/w... |
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland KG PC (21 October 1696 - 29 May 1779) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and Catherine Russell. Styled Marquess of Granby from 1711, he succeeded to the title in 1721, cutting short a brief career in the House of Commons, where he had represent... | {"Name": "The Duke of Rutland", "Image caption": "John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland in Garter robes, by Charles Jervis, 1725, Belvoir Castle", "Birth date": "21 October 1696", "Death date": "29 May 1779 21 October 1696", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Bridget Sutton"} |
The Albanian National Front Party () is a nationalist political party in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia.
History
The Balli Kombëtar was revived in Albania as a political party in the early 1990s . Founded under the leadership of Abas Ermenji, a surviving Ballist, who escaped from Albania when the communists decl... | {"Abbreviation": "PBK", "Preceded by": "Balli Kombëtar (1939-1945)", "Founded": "1989 12 23 y", "Slogan": "Albania of Albanians(Shqipëria e shqiptarëve)", "Ideology": "nowrap \n Albanian irredentism\n Albanian nationalism\n Anti-communism\n National conservatism\n Right-wing populism\n Social conservatism", "Poli... |
The Elefant (German for "elephant") was a heavy tank destroyer used by German Wehrmacht Panzerjäger during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand, after its designer Ferdinand Porsche, using VK 45.01 (P) tank hulls produced for the Tiger I tank design abandoned in favour of a Hensche... | {"Steeringsystem": "yes", "Type": "Heavy tank destroyer", "Place of origin": "Nazi Germany", "Designer": "Ferdinand Porsche", "Designed": "1942-1943", "Manufacturer": "Nibelungenwerk", "Produced": "March-May 1943(substantial upgrades in January to April 1944)", "Length": "8.14 m ftin on with gun", "Width": "3.38 m ftin... |
The Liberal Democratic Union () is a political party in Albania.
History
It was founded in 1995 with the name Social Democratic Union of Albania. The party began as a breakaway faction of the Social Democratic Party of Albania. The break-away was motivated by the Social Democratic Party leaving the governing coalition... | {"Leader": "Arian Starova", "Founded": "1995", "Ideology": "nowrap \n Liberalismhttp://parties-and-elections.eu/albania.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120401134713/http://parties-and-elections.eu/albania.html 1 April 2012 dead Albania Nordsieck Wolfram Parties and Elections in Europe 2009\n Social democracy", "Po... |
Zheng Yin () is a Chinese pianist from Shanghai.
Career
Zheng has performed at Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall. She has worked with pianists such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Alicia de Larrocha, Vladimir Viardo, Jacques Rouvier, Russell Sherman, Claude Frank and John Perry.
She trained at the Secondary School affiliated to ... | {"Name": "Yin Zheng", "Caption": "Zheng in 2008", "Birth place": "Shanghai, China", "Birth name": "Zheng Yin 郑吟", "Occupation": "Pianist"} |
Burnham is a large village and civil parish that lies north of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, between the towns of Maidenhead and Slough, about 24 miles west of Charing Cross, London. It is probably best known for the nearby Burnham Beeches woodland.
The village is served by Burnham railway station on the main l... | {"OS grid reference": "SU9282", "Population": "(2011 census)Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "UK Parliament": "Beaconsfield", "Postco... |
The Legality Movement Party (; PLL) is a monarchist political party in Albania lead by Shpetim Axhami. It supports the return to power of the House of Zogu under Crown Prince Leka of the Albanians. In the 2001 parliamentary election it was part of the Union for Victory (Bashkimi për Fitoren) coalition which received 37... | {"Leader": "Shpetim Axhami", "Founded": "1924", "Ideology": "nowrap \n Monarchism \n Social conservatismJuly 2023", "International affiliation": "International Monarchist Conference", "Political position": "Right WingJuly 2023"} |
Cadmore, also known as Cadmore End, is a village in the civil parish of Lane End in the English county of Buckinghamshire.
Historically Cadmore End was in two parishes and two counties. Part was a detached part of the parish of Lewknor in Oxfordshire, part of a division of the parish known as Lewknor Uphill consistin... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01494", "OS grid reference": "SU785925"} |
The Republican Party of Albania (, PR or PRSH ) is a national-conservative political party in Albania. It currently holds 3 of the 140 seats in the Parliament of Albania, in alliance with the Democratic Party of Albania.
History
The party was founded on 10 January 1991 under the leadership of the writer Sabri Godo, wh... | {"Leader": "Fatmir Mediu", "Founded": "10 January 1991Robert Elsie (2010) Historical Dictionary of Albania, Scarecrow Press, p384", "Ideology": "nowrap \n \"Nordsieck\">http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/albania.html Parties and Elections in Europe Wolfram Nordsieck Albania 2017\n Social conservatism\n Economic lib... |
Derrida is a 2002 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman about the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival before being released theatrically on October 23, 2002.
Synopsis
The film uses interviews shot by the filmmakers, footage of Derrida'... | {"Directed by": "Kirby DickAmy Ziering Kofman", "Produced by": "Amy Ziering Kofman", "Music by": "Ryuichi Sakamoto and Robert Miles", "Cinematography": "Kirsten Johnson", "Edited by": "Kirby DickMatthew Clarke", "Distributed by": "Zeitgeist Films"} |
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (; ) was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks and the leader of the Pugachev's Rebellion, a major popular uprising in the Russian Empire during the reign of Catherine the Great.
The son of a Don Cossack landowner, Pugachev served in the Imperial Russian Army during the Seven Years' War and the Ru... | {"Name": "Yemelyan Pugachev", "Native name": "Емельян Пугачёв", "Native name language": "ru", "Alt": "Yemelyan Pugachev", "Caption": "Yemelyan Pugachev", "Other names": "Claimed to be Emperor Peter III", "Occupation": "Leader of a Russian peasant uprising", "Birth date": "1742", "Death date": "1775 1742 yes", "Birth pl... |
The Unity for Human Rights Party (, ) is a social-liberal political party in Albania supporting the Greek minority. Founded in 1992, it represents Albania's minorities and is mainly related to the Greek minority, and is the political continuation of Omonoia. It works with Omonoia, MEGA and other Greek parties in Albani... | {"Leader": "Vangjel Dule", "Founded": "1992", "Ideology": "nowrap \n \"Nordsieck\">http://parties-and-elections.eu/albania.html Albania Nordsieck Wolfram 2017 Parties and Elections in Europe\n aeob13>The Albanian Electoral Systems since 1990 Albanian Elections Observatory Brief 19 April 2013 1 http://www.eliamep.gr/w... |
Calverton is a civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and just outside the Milton Keynes urban area, situated roughly south of Stony Stratford, and west of Central Milton Keynes. The parish consists of one village, Lower Weald and two hamlets: Upper Weald and... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Milton Keynes", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Milton Keynes South", "Postcode district": "MK19", "Dialling code": "01908", "Population": "(2011 Census)E04012180 Calverton 17 November 2019", "OS grid reference": "SP788387"} |
José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella GE (24 April 1903 - 20 November 1936), often referred to simply as José Antonio, was a Spanish politician who founded the falangist Falange Española ("Spanish Phalanx"), later Falange Española de las JONS.
The eldest ... | {"Name": "José Antonio Primo de Rivera", "Term start": "30 November 1933", "Term end": "7 January 1936", "Birth name": "José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia", "Birth date": "24 April 1903", "Birth place": "Madrid, Spain", "Death date": "y 20 November 1936 24 April 1903", "Death place": "Alicante, Spain", "Re... |
Chackmore is a hamlet in the parish of Radclive-cum-Chackmore, in north Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet is approached using the avenue that links Buckingham with Stowe Park.
History
The hamlet name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Ceacca's moor'. It has been suggested though that the first part of the name ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census", "Postcode district": "MK18", "Dialling code": "01280", "UK Parliament": "Buckingham", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Website": "Parish Council website"} |
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB (28 June 18064 July 1857) was a British military officer, surveyor, administrator and statesman in British India. He is best known for leading a group of administrators in the Punjab affectionately known as Henry Lawrence's "Young Men", as the founder of the Lawrence ... | {"Born": "Matara, British Ceylon", "Died": "Lucknow, Oudh State, Company India", "Allegiance": "East India Company", "Spouse(s)": "Honoria Marshall 21 August 1837", "Relations": "The 1st Baron LawrenceSir George Lawrence", "Other work": "Resident Minister at LahoreChief Commissioner of Awadh"} |
The National Space Centre is a museum and educational resource covering the fields of space science and astronomy, along with a space research programme in partnership with the University of Leicester. It is located on the north side of the city in Belgrave, Leicester, England, next to the River Soar. Many of the exhib... | {"Coordinates": "52 39 13 N 01 07 56 W inline,title", "Established": "2001 06 30 yes", "Location": "Belgrave, Leicester LE4 5NS", "Type": "Space (and aerospace) museum", "Visitors": "330,000 (2016)", "Curator": "Dan Kendall", "Employees": "189", "Public transit access": "First Bus 54", "Website": "http://www.spacecentr... |
Charndon is a hamlet and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.
Name
The hamlet's toponym combines Brittonic and Old English Germanic origins, as is common with other places in this part of the country (see Brill and Bow Brickhill). It means "cairn hill", cairn being a Celtic word f... | {"OS grid reference": "SP6724", "Population": "{2011 Census including Calvert}Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "UK Parliament": "Aylesbury", "Postcode district": "OX", "Dialling ... |
The Union for Victory Coalition () was a coalition of political parties in Albania. The spokesman was Gent Strazimiri. It received 37.1% of the vote and 46 members of parliament in the 2001 election.
Following the 1997 election and the Civil War. The Democratic party of Albania had lost its majority in parliament and ... | {"Leader": "Sali Berisha", "Political position": "Centre to centre-right", "Slogan": "Per Nje Fillim Te Ri!", "Founded": "2001 04 21", "Ideology": "nowrap \n Liberalism\n Social democracy\n Liberal conservatism\n Conservatism\n National conservatism\n Economic liberalism\n Atlanticism\n Pro-Europeanism\n Anti-... |
ABC () is a Spanish national daily newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is the second-largest general-interest newspaper in Spain, number one in Madrid, and the oldest newspaper still operating in Madrid. Along with and , it is one of Spain's three newspapers of record.
History and profile
ABC was first published in Madrid... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Format": "Compact", "Founder(s)": "Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio", "Owner(s)": "Grupo Vocento", "Publisher": "Catalina Luca de Tena", "Editor": "Bieito Rubido Ramonde", "Language": "Spanish", "Political alignment": "Conservatism, monarchism, Catholicism", "Circulation": "243,154 (... |
Lori Anne Loughlin (; born July 28, 1964) is an American actress. From 1988 to 1995, she played Rebecca Donaldson Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House, and reprised the role for its Netflix sequel Fuller House (2016-2018). Loughlin is also known for her roles of Jody Travis in The Edge of Night (1980-1983), Debbie W... | {"Name": "Lori Loughlin", "Caption": "Loughlin in 2014", "Birth name": "Lori Anne Loughlin", "Birth date": "1964 7 28", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1979-present", "Spouse(s)": "Michael R. Burns 1989 1996 divorced\n Mossimo Giannulli 1997", "Children": "2; including Ol... |
Chartridge is a village in Buckinghamshire, England situated 2 miles North West of Chesham.
Chartridge is also the name of a civil parish in Chiltern District which also includes the village of Bellingdon and the hamlets of Pednor, Hundridge and Asheridge. It was created in 1899 having previously been part of the par... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Retrieved 1 February 2013", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Amersham", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01494", "OS grid reference": "SP9303"} |
Major-General Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes DCL (12 November 1819 - 23 December 1868) was a British administrator, soldier, and statesman active in the Punjab region of British India. He is best known as the "Hero of Multan" for his pivotal role in securing British victory in the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
Background and... | {"Born": "Frodesley, Shropshire, United Kingdom", "Died": "London, United Kingdom", "Allegiance": "22x25px East India CompanyBritish India British India", "Awards": "Knight Commander of the Order of the BathKnight Commander of the Star of IndiaDoctor of Civil Law", "Other work": "Commissioner of Ambala (1862-1865)"} |
Chearsley is a village and civil parish within the Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated about seven miles south west of Aylesbury, and about four miles north of Thame, in Oxfordshire.
History
The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cerdeslai. I... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)Neighbourhood Statistics Census 2011, Accessed 3 February 2011", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Buckingham", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01844", "OS grid reference": "SP715105"} |
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