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ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (; 600 - 661 CE) was the last Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, the successor state to the Islamic prophet Muhammad's political dominions. A senior companion of Muhammad, he is considered by Shia Muslims to be the first Imam, the rightful religious and political successor to Muhammad. The issue of s... | {"Born": "Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia)", "Died": "Kufa, Rashidun Caliphate (present-day Iraq)", "Burial": "Imam Ali Shrine, Najaf31.996111 44.314167 inline", "Father": "Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib", "Mother": "Fatimah bint Asad", "Religion": "Islam"} |
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC, PC (Ire), FRS (28 April 1756 - 4 July 1826), styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician. He notably held office as Home Secretary under H... | {"Name": "The Earl of Chichester", "Image size": "200px", "Birth date": "yes 1756 4 28", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "yes 1826 7 4 1756 4 28", "Death place": "London, England", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "Clare Hall, Cambridge", "Spouse(s)": "Lady Mary Osborne (1776-1862)"} |
Beauty and the Beast is an American fantasy-drama television series that first aired on CBS from September 25, 1987 to August 4, 1990. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a s... | {"Running time": "approx. 48 minutes (per episode)", "Genre": "Fantasy-drama", "Created by": "Ron Koslow", "Starring": "Linda Hamilton\nRon Perlman\nRoy Dotrice\nJay Acovone\nRen Woods\nJo Anderson\nEdward Albert\nStephen McHattie", "Written by": "Alex Gansa\nHoward Gordon\nDavid Peckinpah\nGeorge R. R. Martin", "Count... |
Ceiba () is both a small town and a municipality in northeast Puerto Rico. It is named after the famous Ceiba tree. Ceiba is located in the north-east coast of the island, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, south of Fajardo, north of Naguabo and southeast of Río Grande. Located about one hour's driving distance from San Jua... | {"Land": "70.5", "Water": "129.78", "Density": "auto", "Rank": "73rd in Puerto Rico"} |
The 1970 Polish protests () occurred in northern Poland during 14-19 December 1970. The protests were sparked by a sudden increase in the prices of food and other everyday items. Strikes were put down by the Polish People's Army and the Citizen's Militia, resulting in at least 44 people killed and more than 1,000 wound... | {"Date": "14-19 December 1970", "Location": "Gdańsk, Gdynia, Elbląg, Szczecin", "Caused by": "Massive increases in the prices of basic foodstuffs", "Methods": "Demonstrations, Protests, Riots", "Fined": "Deaths: 44 Injuries: 1,000+ Arrests: 3,000+"} |
Ariel is the fourth-largest of the 27 known moons of Uranus. Ariel orbits and rotates in the equatorial plane of Uranus, which is almost perpendicular to the orbit of Uranus and so has an extreme seasonal cycle.
It was discovered in October 1851 by William Lassell and named for a character in two different pieces of l... | {"Name of planet": "Ariel", "Caption": "Ariel in greyscale by Voyager 2 in 1986. Numerous graben are visible, including the Kachina Chasmata canyon system stretching across the upper part of the image.", "Discoverer": "William Lassell", "Discovered": "24 October 1851", "Pronounced": "ˈ ɛər i ə l or ˈ ær i ə lAriel", "A... |
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Francysk Skaryna (alternative transcriptions of his name: Francišak Skaryna or Francisk Skaryna; , ; , ; 1470 - 1551/29 January 1552) was a Belarusian humanist, physician, and translator. He is known to be one of the first book printers in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in all of... | {"Name": "Francysk Skaryna", "Birth name": "Francišak Skaryna", "Birth date": "1470", "Birth place": "Polockas, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (present-day Polotsk, Belarus)", "Death date": "1551/29 January 1552 (aged 81-82)", "Death place": "Prague, Bohemia", "Occupation": "humanist, physician, and translator", "Known For":... |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas had approached Spivak in the mid-1940s about creating a fanta... | {"Categories": "fantasy and science fiction", "Frequency": "Bimonthly", "Founder": "Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas, Lawrence Spivak", "Founded": "1949", "Company": "Spilogale, Inc.", "Country": "United States", "Based in": "Hoboken, New Jersey", "Language": "English", "Website": "http://fandsf.com", "ISSN": "0024-... |
Loíza (Spanish pronunciation: ) is a town and municipality on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico, north of Canóvanas; east of Carolina, Puerto Rico; and west of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Loíza is spread over five barrios and Loíza Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is part of the... | {"Land": "50.36", "Water": "119.83", "Density": "auto", "Rank": "50th in Puerto Rico"} |
The tárogató (töröksíp, Turkish pipe; plural tárogatók or, anglicized, tárogatós; or torogoata) woodwind instruments commonly used in Hungarian folk music. The modern tárogató was intended to be a recreation of the original tárogató, but the two instruments are thought to have little in common.
History
Early use
Men... | {"Name": "Tárogató", "Names": "Taragot, Töröksíp", "Classification": "Wind\nWoodwind\nAerophone", "Range": "Written Range: Bflat3 to C6 (scientific pitch notation)", "Related": "Shawm\nClarinet\nSaxophone"} |
The Italian National Institute of Statistics (; Istat) is the primary source of official statistics in Italy. The institute conducts a variety of activities, including the census of population, economic censuses, and numerous social, economic, and environmental surveys and analyses. Istat is the largest producer of sta... | {"Formed": "1926", "Jurisdiction": "Italian Government", "Headquarters": "Rome, Italy", "Website": "www.istat.it/en/"} |
Joseph Ritson (2 October 1752 - 23 September 1803) was an English antiquary who is well known for editing the first scholarly collection of Robin Hood ballads (1795). After a visit to France in 1791,The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times he became a staunch supporter of... | {"Name": "Joseph Ritson", "Caption": "Joseph Ritson (Engraving by James Sayers, published in 1803)", "Birth date": "1752 10 02 y", "Birth place": "Stockton-on-Tees, England", "Death date": "1803 09 23 1752 10 02 y", "Death place": "Hoxton, London, England", "Nationality": "English", "Occupation": "Antiquarian, writer"} |
The University of Dundee is a public research university based in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded as a university college in 1881 with a donation from the prominent Baxter family of textile manufacturers. The institution was, for most of its early existence, a constituent college of the University of St Andrews alongs... | {"Motto": "Magnificat anima mea dominumThe motto is taken from the first line of the Magnificat, a prayer offered by Mary, mother of Jesus, the Patron Saint of the City of Dundee.", "Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "£33.9 million (2022)https://www.dundee.ac.uk/download/118276/media Financial Statements July 20... |
Edward Dowden (3 May 18434 April 1913) was an Irish critic, professor, and poet.
Biography
He was the son of John Wheeler Dowden, a merchant and landowner, and was born at Cork, three years after his brother John, who became Bishop of Edinburgh in 1886. Edward's literary tastes emerged early, in a series of essays wr... | {"Died": "4 April 1913 (aged 69)", "Born": "3 May 1843", "Occupation": "Critic, professor, and poet", "Relatives": "John Dowden (brother) Hester Dowden (daughter)", "Alma mater": "Queen's College, Cork Trinity College, Dublin"} |
Highway Patrol is a 156-episode action crime drama series produced for syndication from 1955 to 1959. It was "one of the most popular syndicated series in television history", and it was the first American series broadcast in West Germany on that country's commercial TV channel.
Overview
Highway Patrol stars Broderick... | {"Also known as": "Ten-4", "Genre": "Action/Police crime drama", "Starring": "Broderick Crawford", "Narrated by": "Art Gilmore", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "30 minutes", "Original network": "Syndication", "Original release": "1959 9 1"} |
Altern 8 is a British electronic music act, comprising Mark Archer and Chris Peat, until Peat left the group in 1994. Best known in the early 1990s, their trademark was electronic rave music with a heavy bass line. Notable Altern 8 tracks included "Activ 8", "E-Vapor-8", "Frequency", "Brutal-8-E", "Armageddon", "Move ... | {"Origin": "Stafford, Staffordshire, England", "Genres": "Rave, Detroit techno, Techno", "Labels": "Network", "Members": "Mark Archer"} |
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 3 October 1990.
A study in animal behaviour, it was the third in a trilogy of major series (beginning with Life on Earth) that took a broad ove... | {"Genre": "Nature documentary", "Presented by": "David Attenborough", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Running time": "50 minutes (35 minutes)", "Original network": "BBC One", "Original release": "1990 12 19 yes"} |
The Blue Planet is a British nature documentary series created and produced by the BBC. It premiered on 12 September 2001 in the United Kingdom. It is narrated by David Attenborough.
Described as "the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans",From DVD cover each of the eight 50-minu... | {"Also known as": "The Blue Planet: Seas of Life", "Genre": "Nature documentary", "Narrated by": "David Attenborough", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Running time": "50 minutes", "Original release": "2001 10 31 yes", "Original network": "BBC One"} |
Life in the Freezer is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 18 November 1993.
A study of the seasonal cycle of Antarctica, it was the first of Attenborough's more specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on... | {"Genre": "Nature documentary", "Presented by": "David Attenborough", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Running time": "30 minutes", "Original network": "BBC One", "Original release": "1993 12 23 yes"} |
The Life of Birds is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 21 October 1998.
A study of the evolution and habits of birds, it was the third of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth.... | {"Genre": "Nature documentary", "Written by": "Mike Slevia", "Directed by": "Brock White", "Presented by": "David Attenborough", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Running time": "50 minutes", "Original network": "BBC One", "Original release": "1998 12 23 yes"} |
The Life of Mammals is a nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 20 November 2002.
A study of the evolution and habits of the various mammal species, it was the fourth of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that bega... | {"Genre": "Nature documentary", "Presented by": "David Attenborough", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Running time": "50 minutes", "Original network": "BBC One", "Original release": "2003 2 5 yes"} |
In New Zealand, the speaker of the House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House (), is the presiding officer and highest authority of the New Zealand House of Representatives. The individual who holds the position is elected by members of the House from among their number in the first session af... | {"Post": "Speaker", "Body": "the New Zealand House of Representatives", "Native name": "mi Te Mana Whakawā o te Whare", "Image size": "200px", "Incumbent": "Adrian Rurawhe", "Incumbent since": "24 August 2022", "Style": "The Right Honourable", "Nominator": "New Zealand House of Representatives", "Appointer": "Governor-... |
The World and the Child () is an anonymous English morality play. Its source is a late 14th-century or 15th-century poem The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life, from which the play borrows significantly while reducing the number of characters.Lester (1981, xix-xx) and MacCracken (1908, 486-496). It is thought to have ... | {"Written by": "Unknown", "Characters": "Mundus, the worldInfans, the childWantonLust and LikingManhoodConscienceFollyPerseveranceAge", "Date premiered": "1508", "Original language": "English", "Genre": "Morality play"} |
In particle physics, the W and Z bosons are vector bosons that are together known as the weak bosons or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons. These elementary particles mediate the weak interaction; the respective symbols are , , and . The bosons have either a positive or negative electric charge of 1 elem... | {"Composition": "Elementary particle", "Statistics": "Bosonic", "Family": "Gauge boson", "Interaction": "Weak interaction", "Discovered": "UA1 and UA2 collaborations, CERN, 1983", "Mass": "W: 80.377 0.012 GeV/c2 (2022)\nM. Tanabashi\n etal\n Particle Data Group\n Review of Particle Physics\n 2018\n Physical Revi... |
Purno Agitok Sangma (1 September 1947 - 4 March 2016) was an Indian politician who has served as the 4th Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990 and the 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. He also served as a member of the Lok Sabha from Tura from 2014 to 2016, 1991 to 2008 and from 1977 to 1989 and ... | {"Name": "Purno Agitok Sangma", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1996", "Term start": "25 May 1996", "Term end": "23 March 1998", "Office 2": "Member of the Parliament, Lok Sabha", "Predecessor 2": "Agatha Sangma", "Successor 2": "Conrad Sangma", "Birth name": "Purno Agitok Sangma", "Birth date": "1947 9 1 yes", "B... |
The Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude written c.1560 by Thomas Ingelend (an author who is known only as a "late student of Cambridge", as described on the first edition's title-page) and first performed in a Tudor hall.Southern (1973, 467-469).
This play contains the famous line: "None is so deaf as wh... | {"Written by": "Thomas Ingelend", "Date premiered": "c.1560", "Original language": "Early Modern English", "Genre": "Morality play"} |
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (; , ) is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was one of the two major parties in the country, along with New Democracy, its main political rival.
Following the collapse of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967-1974,... | {"Abbreviation": "PASOK, ΠΑΣΟΚ", "President": "Nikos Androulakis", "Founded": "1974 09 03 y", "Ideology": "Nordsieck>http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/greece.html Greece Nordsieck Wolfram 2019 Parties and Elections in Europe\n Pro-EuropeanismGaffney John Political Parties and the European Union 2002 Routledge 978-1... |
José Moscardó e Ituarte, 1st Count of the Alcázar of Toledo, Grandee of Spain (26 October 1878 - 12 April 1956) was the military Governor of Toledo Province during the Spanish Civil War. He sided with the Nationalist army fighting the Republican government and his most notable action was the defence and holding of the ... | {"Born": "Madrid, Spain", "Died": "Madrid, Spain", "Birth name": "José Moscardó Ituarte", "Allegiance": "Kingdom of Spain 1785Spanish State 1938", "Commands held": "Military Governor of ToledoCaptain General of AndalusiaCaptain General of Catalonia", "Awards": "Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand"} |
Janine Pommy Vega (February 5, 1942 - December 23, 2010) was an American poet associated with the Beats.
Early life
Janine Pommy was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.Hunt, Ken (February 22, 2011). "Obituary: Janine Pommy Vega: Beat poet and close associate of Corso, Ginsberg and Orlovsky". The Independent. Her father w... | {"Name": "Janine Pommy Vega", "Birth date": "February 5, 1942", "Birth place": "Jersey City, New Jersey", "Death date": "2010 12 23 1942 02 05 yes", "Death place": "Willow, New York", "Occupation": "Writer, poet", "Notable works": "Poems to Fernando; Tracking the Serpent; The Green Piano"} |
4hero are an electronic music group from Dollis Hill, London, comprising producers Mark "Marc Mac" Clair & Denis "Dego" McFarlane. While the band is often cited as 4 Hero or 4-Hero, the name is stylised as 4hero on their albums and website. 4hero are known for being pioneers of breakbeat hardcore, jungle/drum and bass,... | {"Origin": "Dollis Hill, London, England", "Genres": "Breakbeat hardcore, jungle/drum and bass, broken beat, nu jazz", "Labels": "Reinforced Records, Talkin' Loud, PIAS, 2000Black, Raw Canvas", "Members": "Mark \"Marc Mac\" Clair Denis \"Dego\" McFarlane"} |
Techstep is a dark subgenre of drum and bass that was created in the mid-1990s.
Style
It is characterized by a dark, sci-fi mood, near-exclusive use of synthesised or sampled sound sources, 2-step kicks and snares and influences from industrial and techno music, what some writers have described as a "clinical" sound. ... | {"Name": "Techstep", "Stylistic origins": "Drum and bass industrial darkcore \ntechno Belgian hardcore techno", "Cultural origins": "1990s, Great Britain", "Derivative forms": "breakcore darkstep neurofunk", "Other genre topics": "List of jungle and drum n bass artists\nDrum and bass record labels"} |
Adam Fenton (born 8 February 1972) is an English record producer and DJ who has worked across various genres. He is also the co-founder of the drum and bass label Breakbeat Kaos along with DJ Fresh. He found initial success with the 1990s drum and bass singles "Circles", "Metropolis" / "Mother Earth", and "F-Jam", befo... | {"Born": "Liverpool, England", "Genres": "Electronic drum and bass hip hop big beat", "Labels": "Breakbeat Kaos Astralwerks EMI", "Formerly of": "Metalheadz"} |
Andrew John Clarke (born 7 April 1976) is a British DJ and record producer and is co-founder of RAM Records, a label in the drum and bass genre.
Music career
Early years
Andy C was a DJ in his own right but gained a strong reputation and more bookings off the back of the successful "Valley of the Shadows" track, an ... | {"Born": "Hornchurch, England, United Kingdom", "Genres": "Drum and bass", "Labels": "RAM", "Website": "www.andyc.cc"} |
Bramley is a village and civil parish about three miles (5 km) south of Guildford in the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, south east England. Most of the parish lies in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Within its boundaries there is evidence of the Iron Age but documents record a village at the end o... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(Civil Parish 2011)Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013", "OS grid reference": "TQ0145", "District": "Waverley", "Shire county": "Surrey", "UK Parliament": "South West Surre... |
Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an offshoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, the owner of Epitaph, and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, who was generally responsible for signing bands.
Hellcat published its Give... | {"Parent company": "Epitaph Records", "Founded": "1997", "Founder": "Tim Armstrong", "Distributor(s)": "ADA", "Genre": "Oi! hardcore punk psychobilly punk rock ska punk street punk", "Country of origin": "United States", "Location": "Los Angeles, California", "Official website": "https://hellcatrecords.com"} |
Lethal Injection is the fourth studio album by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released on December 7, 1993, through Lench Mob Records and Priority Records. The production on the album was handled by QDIII, Madness 4 Real, Sir Jinx, Laylaw, D'Mag, and Ice Cube himself.
Lethal Injection was supported by three singles:... | {"Released": "December 7, 1993", "Studio": "Echo Sound\n Skip Saylor Recordings\n Westlake Studios\n (Los Angeles, California)", "Genre": "West Coast hip hop\n gangsta rap\n G-funk", "Label": "Lench Mob\n Priority", "Producer": "QDIII\n Madness 4 Real\n Sir Jinx\n Laylaw\n Ice Cube\n D'Maq"} |
Carvin () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.INSEE commune file
Geography
thumb|300px|left|East of Pas-de-Calais (Béthune, Lens, Hénin-Beaumont)
An ex-coalmining commune, now a light industrial and farming town, situated some northeast of Lens, completely encircled by... | {"Name": "Carvin", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "The town hall of Carvin", "Arrondissement": "Lens", "Canton": "Carvin", "Postal code": "62220", "Mayor": "Philippe KemelRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503 data.gouv.fr, Plateform... |
Cauchy-à-la-Tour (; ; Dutch:"Turringhem" (house of the sons of Turr)) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.INSEE commune file
Geography
A farming and ex-coalmining village some southwest of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D183 and the D341 roads.... | {"Name": "Cauchy-à-la-Tour", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Image": "Cauchy-à-la-Tour (Pas-de-Calais, Fr) église.JPG", "Caption": "The church of Cauchy-à-la-Tour", "Arrondissement": "Béthune", "Canton": "Auchel", "Postal code": "62260", "Mayor": "Jacques FlahautRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.g... |
Croisilles () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
The mother of explorer Dumont D'Urville was born in Croisilles. He named an inlet of New Zealand's coast Croisilles Harbour after the village.Reed, A.W., (1975) Place Names of New Zealand. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed.... | {"Name": "Croisilles", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "Town hall", "Arrondissement": "Caen", "Canton": "Le Hom", "Postal code": "14220", "Mayor": "Élisabeth MaillouxRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503 data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouve... |
Croisilles () is a village and commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of the Hauts-de-France region of France.INSEE commune file
Geography
A small farming village located 8 miles (13 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D5 and D9 roads. Many of the residents commute to work in Arras or the town of Bapaume to the... | {"Name": "Croisilles", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Image": "Croisilles (62) - Place de l'église.JPG", "Caption": "The church of Croisilles", "Arrondissement": "Arras", "Canton": "Bapaume", "Postal code": "62128", "Mayor": "Gérard DuéRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a... |
Courrières () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.INSEE commune file
Geography
An ex-coalmining commune, now a light industrial and farming town, situated some northeast of Lens, at the junction of the D46 and D919 roads and next to the A1 autoroute. The Lens canal and... | {"Name": "Courrières", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Image": "Courrières - Église Saint-Piat.JPG", "Caption": "The church of Courrières", "Arrondissement": "Lens", "Canton": "Carvin", "Postal code": "62710", "Mayor": "Christophe PilchRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a3... |
Dainville () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.INSEE commune file
Geography
A farming and light industrial suburb west of Arras at the junction of the N25 with the D60 and D59 roads.
Population
Places of interest
The church of St. Martin, dating from the thirteent... | {"Name": "Dainville", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "The church of Dainville", "Arrondissement": "Arras", "Canton": "Arras-1", "Postal code": "62000", "Mayor": "Françoise RossignolRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503 data.gouv.fr,... |
Kilmarnock Football Club, commonly known as Killie, is a Scottish professional football team based in the town of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. The team is currently managed by Derek McInnes, who was appointed in January 2022. The club has achieved several honours since its formation in 1869, most recently the 2011-12 Sco... | {"Full name": "Kilmarnock Football Club", "Nickname(s)": "Killie", "Founded": "yes 1869 1 5", "Capacity": "15,003http://spfl.co.uk/clubs/kilmarnock/ Kilmarnock Football Club Scottish Professional Football League 11 November 2013", "League": "Kilmarno", "Website": "https://www.kilmarnockfc.co.uk"} |
is an amateur flight simulator game developed by Nintendo and Paradigm Simulation and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was one of three launch titles for the Nintendo 64 in Japan as well as Europe and one of two launch titles in North America, along with Super Mario 64. Pilotwings 64 is a sequel to Pilotwi... | {"Caption": "North American box art", "Developer": "Nintendo EAD Nintendo R&D3 Paradigm Simulation", "Publisher": "Nintendo", "Director": "Makoto Wada", "Producer": "Genyo TakedaShigeru Miyamoto", "Artist": "Yoshiyuki KatoHiroaki Takenaka", "Composer": "Dan Hess", "Platforms": "Nintendo 64", "Series": "Pilotwings", "Re... |
Quintet is a 1979 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Robert Altman. It stars Paul Newman, Brigitte Fossey, Bibi Andersson, Fernando Rey, Vittorio Gassman and Nina Van Pallandt.
Plot
The story takes place during a new ice age. The camera tracks a blank, frozen, seemingly deserted tundra until tw... | {"Written by": "Frank BarhydtPatricia ResnickRobert Altman", "Starring": "Paul NewmanVittorio GassmanFernando ReyBibi AnderssonBrigitte FosseyNina Van Pallandt", "Directed by": "Robert Altman", "Edited by": "Dennis M. Hill", "Cinematography": "Jean Boffety", "Music by": "Tom Pierson", "Produced by": "Robert Altman", "D... |
The German National People's Party (, DNVP) was a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the Nazi Party, it was the major conservative and nationalist party in Weimar Germany. It was an alliance of German conservative, German nationalist, ... | {"Founded": "24 November 1918", "Merger of": "DkP, FkP, DVLP, DvP, CSP, NlPn The far-right wing of the Free Conservative Party and the National Liberals joined the German National People's Party.", "Succeeded by": "Nonen \"Westdeutscher Verlag\">Peter Dudek Hans-Gerd Jaschke Entstehung und Entwicklung des Rechtsext... |
Blast Corps is an action game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. In the game, the player uses vehicles to destroy buildings in the path of a runaway nuclear missile carrier. In the game's 57 levels, the player solves puzzles by transferring between vehicles to move objects and bridge gaps.... | {"Title": "Blast Corps", "Caption": "North American box art", "Developer": "Rare", "Publisher": "Nintendo", "Director": "Paul Mountain\n George Andreas", "Producer": "Chris Stamper\n Tim Stamper", "Designer": "Martin Wakeley", "Artist": "Ricky Berwick", "Composer": "Graeme NorgatePolygon: Graeme", "Platforms": "Nintend... |
250 px|right|Bust of Nathan Söderblom at Kungsholms Church in Stockholm, Sweden
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom (; 15 January 1866 – 12 July 1931) was a Swedish clergyman. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala between 1914 and 1931, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is commemorated in the Calenda... | {"Church": "Church of Sweden", "Diocese": "Uppsala", "Predecessor": "Johan August Ekman", "Successor": "Erling Eidem", "Ordination": "1893 (priest)", "Consecration": "Gottfrid Billing", "Born": "Trönö, Sweden", "Died": "Uppsala, Sweden", "Nationality": "Swedish", "Denomination": "Church of Sweden", "Parents": "Jonas Sö... |
Christopher Anthony John Martin (born 2 March 1977) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and philanthropist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, pianist, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Born in Exeter, Devon, he went to University College London, where he formed the band with classma... | {"Name": "Chris Martin", "Alt": "A short-haired man wearing a tye-die shirt and a dark-coloured jacket performs with a microphone", "Caption": "Martin performing with Coldplay in 2023", "Birth name": "Christopher AnthonyJohn Martin", "Birth date": "yes 1977 03 02", "Birth place": "Exeter, Devon, England", "Alma mater":... |
Robert Lorne Stanfield (April 11, 1914 - December 16, 2003) was a Canadian politician who served as the 17th premier of Nova Scotia from 1956 to 1967 and the leader of the Official Opposition and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1967 to 1976.
Born into an affluent Nova Scotia clothi... | {"Birth name": "Robert Lorne Stanfield", "Term start": "November 9, 1967", "Term end": "February 21, 1976", "Office 2": "Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada", "Predecessor 2": "John Diefenbaker", "Successor 2": "Joe Clark", "Birth date": "1914 04 11", "Birth place": "Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada", "Dea... |
They'd Rather Be Right (also known as The Forever Machine) is a science fiction novel by American writers Mark Clifton and Frank Riley.
Plot
Two professors create an advanced cybernetic brain, which they call "Bossy." Bossy can "optimise your mind...and give you eternal youth into the bargain, but only if you're read... | {"Cover artist": "W. I. van der Poel", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Gnome Press (1957 novel)", "Media type": "Print (Hardcover)", "Pages": "189"} |
Grey College is a college of Durham University in England. Although it was originally planned for the college to be named Oliver Cromwell College, this proved too controversialHill, Christopher; God's Englishman - Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (Penguin, 1970) p. 265. and it was instead named after Charles ... | {"Blazon": "150px", "Motto": "Gradibus ascendimus", "Established": "1959", "Mascot": "Felix the Phoenixhttp://community.dur.ac.uk/grey.jcr/applicants/index.php 7 October 2015 Grey College JCR Welcome! dead https://web.archive.org/web/20151007150933/http://community.dur.ac.uk/grey.jcr/applicants/index.php 7 October 2015... |
Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is a retired English musician. A founding member of the influential Canterbury scene bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, he was initially a kit drummer and singer before becoming paraplegic following an accidental fall from a window in 1973, which led him to a... | {"Born": "Bristol, England", "Origin": "Lydden, Kent, England", "Genres": "\"Dougan\">Dougan John Robert Wyatt https://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-wyatt-mn0000292915/biography AllMusic 6 November 2018\n Canterbury sound\n progressive pophttp://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/737-medulla/ Björk Medulla Pitchfork ... |
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery, (c. 165622 January 1733), styled The Honourable Thomas Herbert until 1683, was an English and later British statesman during the reigns of William III and Anne.
Background
Herbert was the third son of Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke and his wife Ca... | {"Name": "The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery", "Image caption": "Thomas Herbert by John Greenhill", "Office 2": "First Lord of the Admiralty", "Monarch 2": "William III and Mary II", "Predecessor 2": "The Earl of Torrington", "Successor 2": "The Lord Cornwallis", "Birth date": "1656", "Death date": "1733 01 22 1656 ye... |
Robert Nelson (August 8, 1794 – March 1, 1873) was an Anglo-Quebecer physician and a leading figure in the Lower Canada Rebellion in 19th century Quebec (Lower Canada).
Nelson was born in Sorel (near Montreal) to William Nelson, an immigrant to Colonial America from Newsham, North Yorkshire. His mother, Jane Dies, was... | {"Name": "Robert Nelson", "Image caption": "Robert Nelson \n- L'opinion publique, Vol. 4, no. 14, pp. 161 (April 3, 1873)", "Birth date": "1794 08 08", "Birth place": "Sorel, Quebec, Lower Canada", "Death date": "1873 03 01 (aged 78)", "Death place": "Staten Island, New York"} |
Wolfred Nelson (10 July 1791 - 17 June 1863) was the mayor of Montreal, Quebec, from 1854 to 1856.
Biography
Nelson was born in Montreal. His father, William Nelson, was an immigrant to Colonial America from Newsham, North Yorkshire, England. His mother, Jane Dies, was a teacher and daughter of an important land ow... | {"Image size": "180px", "Name": "Wolfred Nelson", "Image caption": "Wolfred Nelson, by Théophile Hamel, 1848", "Term start": "1854", "Term end": "1856", "Birth date": "10 July 1791", "Birth place": "Montreal, Lower Canada", "Death date": "1863 6 17 1791 7 10 y", "Death place": "Montreal, Province of Canada"} |
John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn-Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, (28 July 1904 - 18 May 1978) was a British politician. Born and raised in Cheshire, he was an active Liberal as a young man in the 1920s. In the following decade, he practised as a barrister and served on Hoylake Urban District Council, by which time he had become a... | {"Name": "The Lord Selwyn-Lloyd", "Image caption": "Lloyd in 1960", "Term start": "12 January 1971", "Term end": "3 February 1976", "Office 2": "Leader of the House of CommonsLord Keeper of the Privy Seal", "Prime minister 2": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "Predecessor 2": "Iain Macleod", "Successor 2": "The Earl of Longfor... |
Parade is a ballet choreographed by Leonide Massine, with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed in 1916-17 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on Friday, May 18, 1917, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with costumes and sets designed by Pablo Pica... | {"Choreographer": "Léonide Massine", "Music": "Erik Satie", "Design": "Pablo Picasso", "Premiere": "Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris", "Original ballet company": "Ballets Russes"} |
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, PC (c. 16838 December 1756) was a British statesman and diplomat.
Life
thumb|left|200px|Family home in Elvaston, Derbyshire, late 19th century
William Stanhope was born in 1683 at the family home in Elvaston, Derbyshire, third surviving son of John Stanhope and Dorothy Agard. ... | {"Name": "The Earl of Harrington", "Image caption": "William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington (Godfrey Kneller, 1646-1723)", "Term start": "19 June 1730", "Term end": "12 February 1742", "Office 2": "Lord Lieutenant of Ireland", "Monarch 2": "George II", "Predecessor 2": "The Earl of Chesterfield", "Successor 2": "The ... |
Lackland Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located in Bexar County, Texas. The base is under the jurisdiction of the 802d Mission Support Group, Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and an enclave of the city of San Antonio. It is the only site for USAF and United States Space Force enliste... | {"Coordinates": "29.3880 -98.6207 type:landmark_region:US dms inline,title", "Type": "Air Force Base", "Built": "1941", "In use": "1941-present", "Owner": "Department of Defense", "Operator": "USA", "Controlled by": "Air Education and Training Command (AETC)", "Garrison": "802d Mission Support Group", "Website": "www.b... |
The Botswana Democratic Party (abbr. BDP) is the governing party in Botswana. Its chairman is the Vice-President of Botswana, Slumber Tsogwane, and its symbol is a lift jack. The party has ruled Botswana continuously since gaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1966. The BDP is sometimes classified as a patern... | {"Founded": "November 1961", "Abbreviation": "BDP", "Headquarters": "Tsholetsa House, Gaborone", "International affiliation": "Socialist International\n(consultative)Member parties of the Socialist International", "Ideology": "Paternalistic conservatismSeekings, J. (2017). ‘Building A Conservative Welfare State In Bots... |
Ketumile Quett Joni Masire, GCMG (24 July 1926 – 22 June 2017), was the second and longest-serving president of Botswana, in office from 1980 to 1998. He was honored with the Knighthood of the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.
He was a leading figure in the independence move... | {"Name": "Quett Masire", "Image": "Quett Masire detail DF-SC-85-12044.JPEG", "Image caption": "Masire in 1984", "Term start": "13 July 1980", "Term end": "31 March 1998Acting to 18 July 1980", "Vice president": "Lenyeletse SeretsePeter MmusiFestus Mogae", "Office 2": "1st Vice-President of Botswana", "President 2": "Se... |
Iuliu Maniu (; Maniu Gyula Tusványos 2023: Orbán Viktor beszédeit itthon és külföldön is egyre nagyobb figyelem kíséri https://www.origo.hu/888/20230717-tusvanyos-romanmagyar-parbeszed-zakarias-zoltan-erdelyi-magyar-szovetseg-klaus-iohannis.html Hozzáférés: 2023.07.188 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was an Austro-Hung... | {"Name": "Iuliu Maniu", "Image size": "200px", "Term start": "10 November 1928", "Term end": "6 June 1930", "Monarch 2": "Carol II", "Predecessor 2": "Alexandru Vaida-Voevod", "Successor 2": "Alexandru Vaida-Voevod", "Birth date": "1873 1 8 y", "Birth place": "Szilágybadacsony, Austria-Hungary (now Bădăcin, part of Per... |
Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form (creating filetypes as , , , etc., and its own hypertext format, ) with a single source file. It is implemented by a computer program released as free software of the same name, created and made available by the GNU Proje... | {"Original author(s)": "Richard StallmanRobert Chassell", "Developer(s)": "Brian FoxGNU's Who, The GNU Team has grown larger in the last few months: Brian Fox and Opus Goldstein have joined Jay Fenlason as the only employees of the Foundation. Most recently, Brian created a stand-alone texinfo formatter and browser...,... |
The Christian Democratic Party (, PDC) is a Christian democratic political party in Chile. There have been three Christian Democrat presidents in the past, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Patricio Aylwin, and Eduardo Frei Montalva.
Customarily, the PDC backs specific initiatives in an effort to bridge socialism and laissez-f... | {"President": "Alberto Undurraga", "Merger of": "Social Christian Conservative PartyNational Falange", "Founded": "1957 07 28 y", "Headquarters": "Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 1460, Santiago de Chile", "Ideology": "nowrap\n \"Garrido2012\">Revolución en Libertad, Concepto y programa político de la Democracia cris... |
The Party for Democracy (, PPD), also known as For Democracy () is a centre-left political party in Chile. It states to stand in the traditions of liberal progressivism.Party for Democracy. Declaration of Principles (1993), p. 6. ""The PPD is a progressive party, where you find the tradition of the democratic socialism... | {"Leader": "Natalia Piergentili", "Founded": "1987 12 15 y", "Headquarters": "Santo Domingo 1828 Santiago", "Ideology": "ProgressivismThird Wayhttps://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/18/world/man-ricardo-lagos-escobar-chilean-socialist-clinton-blair-mold.html Man in the News: Ricardo Lagos Escobar; A Chilean Socialist in the C... |
The National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia, commonly referred to as FUNCINPEC, is a royalist political party in Cambodia. Founded in 1981 by Norodom Sihanouk, it began as a resistance movement against the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) government. In 1982, it formed a... | {"Abbreviation": "FUNCINPEC", "Preceded by": "Sangkum", "Headquarters": "National Road 6A, Phum Kdey Chas, Sangkat Chroy Changvar, Khan Chroy Changvar, Phnom Penh, Cambodia", "Founded": "1981 3 21 y", "Ideology": "Royalism (Norodom)ConservatismClassical liberalism", "Political position": "Centre-right", "International ... |
The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) is a Cambodian political party which has ruled the country since 1979. Founded in 1951, it was originally known as the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP).
During the Cold War it allied itself with Vietnam and the Soviet Union, in contrast to the pro-Chinese Communist Part... | {"Abbreviation": "CPPKPRP (before 1991)", "President": "Hun Sen", "Founded": "y 1951 6 28https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-set-mark-anniversary-vows-maintain-public-trust CPP set to mark anniversary, vows to maintain public trust Chheng Niem The Phnom Penh Post 26 June 2019 26 June 2019", "Split from": "Indoch... |
The Socialist Party of Chile (, or PS) is a centre-left political party founded in 1933. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a CIA-backed coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. The military junta immediately banned socialist, Marxist and other leftist political part... | {"President": "Paulina Vodanovic", "Founded": "1933 04 19 y", "Headquarters": "París 873, Barrio París-Londres, Santiago, Chile", "Ideology": "nowrap \n \"Sommer1997\">Jörn Sommer Die Herausforderung: zum Weltmarktdiskurs der chilenischen Gewerkschaften jenseits ihrer Akteurfähigkeit https://books.google.com/books?id=... |
The New Wafd Party (), officially the Egyptian Wafd Party and also known as the Al-Wafd Party, is a nationalist liberal party in Egypt.
It is the extension of one of the oldest and historically most active political parties in Egypt, Wafd Party, which was dismantled after the 1952 Revolution. The New Wafd was establis... | {"Founded": "1978 2 4 y", "Preceded by": "Wafd Party", "Slogan": "\"Rights are above power, and the nation is above the government\"\n الحق فوق القوة والامة فوق الحكومة", "Headquarters": "Giza", "Newspaper": "Al-Wafd", "Ideology": "nowrap\n \"Jazeera:Brotherhood\">http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/2... |
"Balance of Terror" is the fourteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Paul Schneider and directed by Vincent McEveety, it first aired on December 15, 1966.
In the episode, the USS Enterprise battles a Romulan ship after investigating an unidentified ... | {"Written by": "Paul Schneider", "Cinematography by": "Jerry Finnerman", "Directed by": "Vincent McEveety", "Featured music": "Fred Steiner"} |
Pasqual Maragall i Mira (; born 13 January 1941) is a Spanish politician and former President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He had previously been Mayor of Barcelona, from 1982 to 1997, and helped run the city's successful Olympic bid.
Early life and education
He was born in Barcelona in 1941 as the third of eight si... | {"Name": "Pasqual Maragall", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2003", "Term start": "20 December 2003", "Term end": "28 November 2006", "First minister": "Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira (2003-2004) Josep Bargalló (2004-2006)", "Order 2": "114th Mayor of Barcelona", "Predecessor 2": "Narcís Serra", "Successor 2": "Joan Clo... |
The Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM; , RDPC) is the ruling political party in Cameroon. Previously known as the Cameroonian National Union, which had dominated Cameroon politics since independence in the 1960s, it was renamed in 1985. The national president of the CPDM is Paul Biya, the president of Camero... | {"President": "Paul Biya", "Ideology": "NationalismFrancophiliaPopulismJideonwo Chude We've seen Donald Trump's type of populism in Africa, it always ends in tears https://qz.com/africa/695291/weve-seen-donald-trumps-type-of-populism-in-africa-it-always-ends-in-tears/ Quartz Africa 30 May 2016 10 October 2020 en... |
The Patriotic Salvation Movement (, , MPS) is the ruling political party in Chad.
History
After Idriss Déby, an army commander who participated in an unsuccessful plot against President Hissène Habré in 1989, fled to Sudan, he and his supporters, known as the 1 April Movement, operated from Sudan with Libyan backing a... | {"President": "Haroun Kabadi", "Ideology": "Nationalism", "Political position": "Big tent", "Abbreviation": "MPS", "Founded": "1990 03 11 y", "Preceded by": "1 April Movement", "Slogan": "\"fr Mourir pour le Salut\" (\"Dying for Salvation\")"} |
The Province of Hesse-Nassau () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868 to 1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944.
Hesse-Nassau was created as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the previously independent Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), the Duchy of Nassau, ... | {"Conventional long name": "Province of Hesse-Nassau", "Common name": "Hesse-Nassau", "Native name": "de Provinz Hessen-Nassau", "Capital": "Kassel", "Today part of": "Germany", "Year founded": "1868", "Year dissolved": "1944"} |
The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF; ) was an ethnic federalist political coalition in Ethiopia that existed from 1988 to 2019. It consisted of four political parties, namely Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Amhara Democratic Party (ADP), Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) and Southern Ethiop... | {"Founded": "1988 5 8 yes", "Succeeded by": "Prosperity Party", "Headquarters": "Addis Ababa", "Newspaper": "New Vision", "Ideology": "After 1991:Revolutionary democracyEthnic federalismPoly-Ethnic nationalismAlem Habtu Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia: Background, Present Conditions and Future Prospects 11477280Until 199... |
thumb|200px|Arms of the Earl of Northington: Quarterly: 1st and 4th: Azure, a lion rampant argent ducally crowned or a bordure of the second charged with eight torteaux (Henley); 2nd and 3rd: Argent, three battering rams proper armed and garnished azure (Bertie).
Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington, PC (c. 1708 - 14... | {"Name": "The Earl of Northington", "Alternative text": "Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington by Thomas Hudson", "Image caption": "Portrait by Thomas Hudson", "Office 2": "Lord High Chancellor of Great BritainLord High Steward for the trial of:The Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull", "Monarch 2": "George III", "Prime mini... |
Hesse-Homburg was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt; it was to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668. It was briefly divided into Hesse-Homburg and Hesse-Homburg-Bingenheim; but these parts were reunited in 1681.
History
... | {"Native name": "Landgrafschaft Hessen-Homburg", "Conventional long name": "Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg", "Type of government": "Landgraviate", "Event ending the country": "Inherited by Grand Duchy of Hesse1", "Land area (km²)": "430", "Land area (mi²)": "166", "Event 1": "Ceded by Darmstadt", "Event 1 date": "1668",... |
Apollonia (; ), known in the Early Islamic period as Arsuf () and in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem as Arsur, was an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of today's Israel. In Israeli archaeology it is known as Tel Arshaf (). Founded by the Phoenicians during the Persian period in the late sixth century BCE, it w... | {"Alternative name": "Arsur", "Coordinates": "32 11 43 N 34 48 24 E inline,title", "Location": "Tel Aviv District, Israel", "Type": "Lowland castle1. It is on a slight elevation towards the E, and over a high cliff to the W, the sea. Not sure term applies (cliff, coast!). 2. The article deals with the city as much as i... |
Newton Stewart (Gd: Baile Ùr nan Stiùbhartach) is a former burgh town in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland.
The town is on the River Cree with most of the town to the west of the river, and is sometimes referred to as the "Gateway to the Galloway Hills".
The main local ... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NX405655", "Council area": "Dumfries and Galloway", "Lieutenancy area": "Wigtownshire", "UK Parliament": "Dumfries and Galloway", "Scottish Parliament": "Galloway and West Dumfries", "Postcode district": "DG", "Dialling code": "0167... |
Port Glasgow (, ) is the second-largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons. The most recent census in 2011 states that the population has declined to 15,414. It is located immediately ... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NS321746", "Postcode district": "PA14", "Dialling code": "01475", "UK Parliament": "Inverclyde", "Council area": "Inverclyde", "Lieutenancy area": "Renfrewshire", "Scottish Parliament": "Greenock and Inverclyde"} |
Portsoy () is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Historically, Portsoy was in Banffshire. The original name may come from Port Saoithe, meaning "saithe harbour". Portsoy is located on the Moray Firth coast of northeast Scotland, northwest of Aberdeen and east of Inverness. It had a population of 1,752 at the time of ... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "OS grid reference": "NJ589660", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "Council area": "Aberdeenshire", "Lieutenancy area": "Aberdeenshire", "UK Parliament": "Banff and Buchan", "Scottish Parliament": "Banffshire and Buchan Coast", "Postcode district": "AB", "Dialling code": "01261"} |
thumb|200px|Lord Westbury by Michele Gordigiani.
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, (30 June 1800 - 20 July 1873) was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1861 and 1865. He was knighted in 1852 and raised to the peerage in 1861.
Background and e... | {"Name": "The Lord Westbury", "Birth date": "30 June 1800", "Birth place": "Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire", "Death date": "20 July 1873 30 June 1800", "Death place": "Lancaster Gate, London", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Ellinor Abraham 1823 1863 d\n Eleanor Tennant 1873", "Alma mater": "Wadham College, Oxfo... |
The Colombian Liberal Party (; PLC) is a centre to centre-left political party in Colombia. It was founded as a classical liberal party but later developed a more social-democratic tradition, joining the Socialist International in 1999.
The Liberal Party along with the Colombian Conservative Party dominated the Colomb... | {"Founded": "yes 1848 07 16", "Headquarters": "Bogotá, Colombia", "Slogan": "Para que vivas mejor", "Newspaper": "Vanguardia", "Ideology": "Liberalism (Colombian)https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1245016 Qué Pasa en el Partido Liberal 8 February 2000\nSocial liberalismSocial democracyPeter Lamb James C. ... |
Fanmi Lavalas (, Lavalas is Haitian Creole for flood), is a social-democratic political party in Haiti. Its leader is former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. It has been a powerful force in Haitian politics since 1991. Fanmi Lavalas governments advocate a policy of "growth with equity" based on Western Europe... | {"Leader": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide", "Founded": "30 October 1996", "Split from": "Lavalas Political Organization", "Headquarters": "HT6110 Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti", "Ideology": "Social democracyPopulism", "Political position": "Centre-left"} |
Primetime was an American news magazine television program that debuted on ABC in 1989 with co-hosts Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer and originally had the title Primetime Live. The program's final episode aired May 18, 2012.
History
Early history
Originally, the program aired live on the ABC network and featured a li... | {"Genre": "Newsmagazine", "Created by": "Roone Arledge", "Presented by": "Diane SawyerSam Donaldson", "Country of origin": "United States", "Camera setup": "Multi-camera", "Running time": "60 minutes", "Original network": "ABC", "Original release": "2012 5 18http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20120517abc01/ Listing... |
Sehnsucht (; "Desire" or "Longing") is the second studio album by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. It was released on August 22, 1997, through Motor Music in Europe and Slash Records in the United States. It is the only album entirely in German to be certified platinum by the RIAA in the US. The album peaked ... | {"Released": "22 August 1997", "Recorded": "November 1996 - July 1997", "Studio": "Temple (St. Paul's Bay)", "Genre": "Neue Deutsche Härte\n industrial metal", "Label": "Motor", "Producer": "Jacob Hellner\n Rammstein"} |
Lichtspielhaus (obsolete German for "cinema"; literally "light-play house") is the second DVD by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, released on 1 December 2003. It is a compilation of all their videos until then, and some live performances, commercial advertisements, trailers and makings-of features.LeVasseur, ... | {"Released": "1 December 2003", "Genre": "Neue Deutsche Härte", "Label": "Motor, Universal", "Producer": "Jacob Hellner, Rammstein", "Compiler": "Emanuel Fialik, Arne Weingart"} |
Grant's Tomb, officially the General Grant National Memorial, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, and of his wife Julia. It is a classical domed mausoleum in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. The structure is in the middle of R... | {"Location": "Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street, Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City", "Architect": "John H. Duncan", "Architectural style": "Neoclassical", "Area": "0.76 acre ha", "Built": "April 27, 1897", "Visitation": "2005", "Website": "General Grant National Memorial"} |
Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns (27 December 1819 - 2 April 1885) was an Anglo-Irish statesman who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain during the first two ministries of Benjamin Disraeli. He was one of the most prominent Conservative statesmen in the House of Lords during this period of Victorian p... | {"Name": "The Earl Cairns", "Prime minister 2": "Benjamin Disraeli", "Predecessor 2": "The Lord Selborne", "Successor 2": "The Lord Selborne", "Birth date": "1819 12 27 y", "Birth place": "Cultra, County Down, Ireland", "Death date": "1885 04 2 1819 12 27 y", "Death place": "Bournemouth, Hampshire, England", "Nationali... |
William Howitt (18 December 1792 - 3 March 1879), was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects. Howitt Primary Community School in Heanor, Derbyshire, is named after him and his wife.
Biography
Howitt was born in Heanor, Derbyshire. His parents were Quakers, and he was educated at the Friends public sch... | {"Name": "William Howitt", "Birth date": "yes 1792 12 18Dictionary of National Biography,1885-1900, Volume 28, William Howitt, now in the public domain.", "Birth place": "Heanor, Derbyshire, England", "Death date": "yes 1879 03 3 1792 12 18", "Death place": "Rome, Kingdom of Italy", "Education": "Friends public school ... |
Andrew Neil Hamilton (born 28 May 1954) is a British comedian, game show panellist, television director, comedy screenwriter, radio dramatist, novelist and actor.
Early life and education
Hamilton was born in Fulham, southwest London. He was educated at Westminster City School which was then a voluntary aided grammar... | {"Birth name": "Andrew Neil Hamilton", "Born": "Fulham, London, England", "Medium": "Radio, television", "Nationality": "British", "Years active": "1972-present", "Genres": "Political satire", "Spouse": "Libby Asher 1988", "Children": "3", "Notable works and roles": "Old Harry's GameOutnumbered", "Alma mater": "Downing... |
"If I Ruled the World" is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick (based on Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers).
Background
In the context of the stage musical, the song is sung by Samuel Pickwick, when he is mistaken for an electio... | {"B-side": "Take the Moment", "Released": "January 25, 1965", "Recorded": "1964", "Genre": "Easy listening", "Label": "Columbia", "Songwriter(s)": "Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel", "Producer(s)": "Ernie Altschuler"} |
The Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children was an honor presented to recording artists for quality children's music albums at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Nati... | {"Awarded for": "quality children's music albums", "Presented by": "National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences", "Country": "United States", "First awarded": "1994", "Last awarded": "2011", "Website": "grammy.com"} |
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The (CNES; French: Centre national d'études spatiales) is the French national space agency (administratively, a "public administration with industrial and commercial purpose") headquartered in central Paris and it comes under the supervision of the French Minist... | {"Abbreviation": "CNES", "Jurisdiction": "Government of France", "Formed": "y 1961 12 19", "Headquarters": "Paris, Île-de-France", "Administrator": "Philippe Baptiste", "Annual budget": "€2.566 billion (2022)UN BUDGET EXCEPTIONNEL 17 August 2022 CNES https://cnes.fr/fr/budget-exceptionnel 2022-11-04"} |
Dead Can Dance is the debut studio album by Australian musical act Dead Can Dance. It was released on 27 February 1984 on the 4AD label.
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Dead Can Dance commented on their official website regarding the name of the band and album:
To understand why we chose the name, think of the transformation of inanimacy... | {"Released": "27 February 1984", "Recorded": "1983", "Genre": "Gothic rock post-punk ethereal wave", "Label": "4AD", "Producer": "Dead Can Dance"} |
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality "spoken word" performances aimed at children. Honors in several categories are pres... | {"Awarded for": "Quality spoken word performances aimed at children", "Presented by": "National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences", "Country": "United States", "First awarded": "1994", "Last awarded": "2011", "Website": "grammy.com"} |
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, PC (9 December 1731 - 12 September 1806), was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1778 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Thurlow. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers... | {"Name": "The Lord Thurlow", "Image caption": "Portrait by Thomas Lawrence", "Monarch 2": "George III", "Prime minister 2": "William Pitt the Younger", "Predecessor 2": "In Commission", "Successor 2": "In Commission", "Birth date": "1731 12 9 yes", "Death date": "1806 9 12 1731 12 9 yes", "Nationality": "English"} |
Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 - 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.
Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding ... | {"Name": "Henri Cartier-Bresson", "Caption": "Henri in 1972", "Birth date": "1908 8 22 y", "Birth place": "Chanteloup-en-Brie, France", "Death date": "2004 8 3 1908 8 22 y", "Death place": "Céreste, France", "Burial place": "Montjustin, France", "Alma mater": "Lycée Condorcet, Paris", "Occupation": "Photographer painte... |
Charles Yorke PC (30 December 172220 January 1770) was briefly Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. His father was also Lord Chancellor, and he began his career as a Member of Parliament. He served successively as Solicitor-General and Attorney-General for several governments, during which he was best known for writi... | {"Name": "Charles Yorke", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "Portrait by Thomas Hudson", "Birth date": "1722 12 30 y", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "1770 01 20 1722 12 30 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "Corpus Christi College, Cambridge", "Term sta... |
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