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"All Along the Watchtower" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album, John Wesley Harding (1967). The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. The song's lyrics, which in its original version contain twelve lines, feature a conversation between a joker and a thief. Th... | {"Released": "1967 12 27", "Recorded": "November 6, 1967", "Studio": "Columbia Studio A, Nashville", "Genre": "Folk rockhttps://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA131593338&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00030139&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=oregon_oweb&isGeoAuthType=true Gale - Product Login", "Label": "Colu... |
Cook Inlet (; Sugpiaq: Cungaaciq) stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end, almost surrounding Anchorage. On its southern end, it merges with Shelikof Strait, Stevenson Entrance, Kennedy Entrance and Chugach Pas... | {"Native name": "Tikahtnu tfn Cungaaciq ems", "Location": "South-central Alaska", "Coordinates": "60 20 16 N 151 52 30 W region:US_type:waterbody_scale:2000000 inline,title", "River sources": "Knik River, Little Susitna River, Susitna River, Matanuska River", "Max. length": "180 mi"} |
María Josefa Gabriela Cariño de Silang (; March 19, 1731 - September 20, 1763) was a Filipino military leader best known for her role as the female leader of the Ilocano independence movement from Spain. She took over from her second husband Diego Silang after his assassination in 1763, leading her people for four mont... | {"Name": "Gabriela Silang", "Caption": "Gabriela Silang on a 1974 stamp of the Philippines", "Birth name": "María Josefa Gabriela Cariño", "Birth date": "1731 3 19", "Birth place": "Santa, Ilocos Sur, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire", "Death date": "1763 9 20 1731 3 19", "Death place": "Vigan, Iloc... |
Gobeunok or Gogok are comma-shaped or curved beads and jewels that appeared from middle age of Mumun Period (1500 to 300 BC) through the Three Kingdoms of Korea (57 BC to 668 AD). The Gogok (곡옥; 曲玉) is posited by researchers to have been a symbol of prestige among Mumun culture community leaders as the tombs of presuma... | {"Caption": "Glass and jade beads excavated from the Tomb of King Muryeong with of Baekje gold cap ornaments.", "Hangul name": "곱은옥 or 곡옥", "Hanja": "곱은玉 or 曲玉", "Revised Romanization": "gobeunok or gogok", "McCune-Reischauer": "kobǔnok or kokok"} |
Themroc is a 1973 French satirical film by director Claude Faraldo. It was produced by François de Lannurien and Helène Vager and its original music was composed by Harald Maury. Made on a low budget with no intelligible dialog, Themroc tells the story of a French blue collar worker who rebels against modern society, r... | {"Directed by": "Claude Faraldo", "Produced by": "François de Lannurien Helène Vager", "Written by": "Claude Faraldo", "Starring": "Michel Piccoli Béatrice Romand", "Music by": "Harald Maury"} |
Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck (4 March 1665 - 2 July 16944 March and 2 July in the Old Style Julian calendar still in use at this time in the Duchy of Bremen (country of birth) and the Principality of Calenberg (country of death).), also spelled Philipp, was a Swedish count and soldier. He was allegedly the lo... | {"Name": "Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck", "Birth date": "4 March 1665", "Birth place": "Stade, Germany, Bremen-Verden (now Lower Saxony, Germany", "Nationality": "Swedish", "Disappeared date": "2 July 1694 (aged 29) in the Principality of Calenberg", "Occupation": "Count, Soldier", "Father": "Count Kurt Christ... |
The Former Qin, also called Fu Qin (苻秦), (351-394) was a dynastic state of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history ruled by the Di ethnicity. Founded by Fu Jian (posthumously Emperor Jingming) who originally served under the Later Zhao dynasty, it completed the unification of northern China in 376. Its capital was Xi'a... | {"Native name": "zh 秦 true", "Conventional long name": "Former Qin", "Type of government": "Monarchy", "Date established": "4 Marchhttps://www.sinica.edu.tw/ 中央研究院 中央研究院Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 99.", "Event 1": "Fu Jian (317-355)'s claim of imperial title", "Event 1 date": "352", "Event 2": "Fu Jian (337-385)'s destruction... |
Imam Shamil (; ; ; ; 26 June 1797 - 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840-1859), and a Sunni Muslim Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Tariqa.The Great Shamil, Imam of Daghestan and Chech... | {"Religion": "Sunni Islam", "Father": "Dengau", "Born": "Gimry, Dagestan", "Died": "Medina, Hejaz, Ottoman Empire", "Burial": "Jannatul Baqi, Medina, Hejaz, in today’s Saudi Arabia"} |
Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 - July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation.
In 2011, he donated a majority of the com... | {"Name": "Amar Bose", "Birth name": "Amar Gopal Bose", "Birth date": "yes 1929 11 2", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 2013 07 12 1929 11 2", "Death place": "Wayland, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Occupation": "Engineer, entrepreneur, founder of Bose Corporation", "Spouse(s)": "Ursula Bolt... |
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McMenamins is a family-owned chain of brewpubs, breweries, music venues, historic hotels, and theater pubs in Oregon and Washington. Many of their locations are in rehabilitated historical properties; at least nine are on the National Register of Historic Places... | {"Type": "Private", "Founded": "1983", "Headquarters": "USA", "Industry": "Hospitality, Microbrewery", "Products": "Beers, Wines, Cider, Distilled spirits, Coffee", "Revenue": "$180 million (estimated as of 2017)", "Parent": "Mike, Robert and Brian McMenamin (founders and majority owners)", "Website": "http://www.mcmen... |
George Edwin Starbuck (June 15, 1931 in Columbus, Ohio - August 15, 1996 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) was an American poet of the neo-formalist school.
Life
Starbuck studied at Chadwick School, the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, the American Academy in Rome, the University of C... | {"Born": "June 15, 1931", "Died": "1996 8 15 1931 6 15", "Alma mater": "Chadwick SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyAmerican Academy in RomeUniversity of ChicagoHarvard University", "Occupation": "Poet"} |
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 - 26 May 1883; ), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Hassani El Djazairi, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers in the early 19th century. As an Islamic scholar and Sufi who unexpectedly fo... | {"Native name": "ar عبد القادر ابن محي الدين", "Born": "Guetna, Regency of Algiers", "Died": "Damascus, Ottoman Syria", "Birth name": "Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine al-Hasani-", "Awards": "Legion of Honour (Grand Cross)Order of Pius IXFirst Class of the Order of the MedjidieOrder of the Redeemer (Grand Cross)"} |
Memory Alpha is a wiki encyclopedia for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe. Conceived by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson in September 2003 and officially launched on December 5 of that year, it uses the wiki model and is hosted by Fandom on the MediaWiki software. Doddema and Carlson retired from Memory A... | {"Created by": "Dan Carlson\n Harry Doddema", "URL": "memory-alpha.fandom.com", "Commercial": "Yes", "Registration": "Required", "Launched": "yes 2003 11 11 (test site)\n yes 2003 12 5 (official launch)"} |
The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit, aviation museum in McMinnville, Oregon. Its exhibits include the Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose) and more than fifty military and civilian aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and spacecraft. The museum complex includes four main... | {"Established": "1991 (as the Evergreen Museum)", "Location": "McMinnville, Oregon, United States", "Coordinates": "45 12 14 N 123 8 36 W type:edu_region:US_dim:550 inline,title", "Type": "Private: aerospace", "Founder": "Delford M. Smith and Michael King Smith", "Director": "Brandon Roben", "Website": "evergreenmuseum... |
Meerut (, IAST: Meraṭh) is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital Lucknow.
, Meerut is the 33rd most populous urban agglomeration and the 26th most ... | {"Body": "Meerut Municipal Corporation", "Density": "auto", "Metro density": "1871434", "Website": "meerut.nic.in"} |
Robin Beanland is a British composer of video game music, composing music for numerous Rare titles, such as the Killer Instinct franchise, Conker's Bad Fur Day (which he also co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Seavor), and many others. Prior to joining Rare, Beanland composed music for TV and films. The only current ga... | {"Name": "Robin Beanland", "Alt": "He has an older brother named Simon Beanland", "Nationality": "British", "Occupation": "Composer"} |
Emperor Yuan of Jin (; 276 - 3 January 323jichou day of the leap month of the 1st year of the Yong'chang era, per Emperor Yuan's biography in Book of Jin), personal name Sima Rui (司馬睿), courtesy name Jingwen (景文), was an emperor of the Jin dynasty and the first emperor of the Eastern Jin. His reign saw the steady grad... | {"Born": "276", "Died": "Jiankang, Eastern Jin", "Burial": "Jianping ling (建平陵), Nanjing, Jiangsu", "Father": "Sima Jin", "Mother": "Xiahou Guangji"} |
Michael Kevin Powell (born March 23, 1963) is an American attorney and lobbyist who served as the 24th chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2005. Since leaving office, Powell has since worked as the president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), a broadband industry t... | {"Name": "Michael Powell", "Term start": "January 22, 2001", "Term end": "January 21, 2005", "Birth name": "Michael Kevin Powell", "Birth date": "1963 3 23", "Birth place": "Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Jane Knott 1988", "Education": "College of William & Mary (BA)Georgetown University (JD)"} |
Gabriel Józef Narutowicz (; 29 March 1865 - 16 December 1922) was a Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December, five days after assuming office. He previously served as the Minister of Public Works... | {"Name": "Gabriel Narutowicz", "Image caption": "Narutowicz in 1915", "Term start": "11 December 1922", "Term end": "16 December 1922", "Order 2": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "Prime minister 2": "Artur ŚliwińskiJulian Nowak", "Predecessor 2": "Konstanty Skirmunt", "Successor 2": "Aleksander Skrzyński", "Birth name":... |
Mohammad Javed Miandad PP SI (Urdu: ; born 12 June 1957), popularly known as Javed Miandad (Urdu: ), is a Pakistani cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer known for his unconventional style of captaincy and batting. ESPNcricinfo described him as "the greatest batsman Pakistan has ever produced" and his contem... | {"Relations": "Anwar Miandad (brother) Faisal Iqbal (nephew)https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/682015-cricketing-dynasties-the-twenty-two-families-of-pakistan-test-cricket-part-7 Cricketing Dynasties: The Twenty Two Families of Pakistan Test Cricket - Part 7 | Sports | thenews.com.pk www.thenews.com.pk", "Full name... |
Aleksandar Stoimenov Stamboliyski (; 1 March 1879 - 14 June 1923) was a Bulgarian politcian who served as the Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923.
Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper. He opposed the c... | {"Name": "Aleksandar Stamboliyski", "Education": "University of Munich", "Term start": "14 October 1919", "Term end": "9 June 1923", "Birth date": "1879 3 1 y", "Birth name": "Aleksandar Stoimenov Stamboliyski", "Birth place": "Slavovitsa, Eastern Rumelia, Ottoman Empire(now Bulgaria)", "Death date": "1923 6 14 1879 3 ... |
Moshoeshoe II (2 May 1938 - 15 January 1996), previously known as Constantine Bereng Seeiso, was the Paramount Chief of Basutoland, succeeding paramount chief Seeiso from 1960 until the country gained full independence from Britain in 1966. He was King of Lesotho from 1966 until his exile in 1990, and from 1995 until h... | {"Father": "Simon Seeiso Griffith", "Mother": "'Maberenghttp://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/states/africa/lesotho.html LESOTHO Henry Soszynski members.iinet.net.au 8 March 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20170630221838/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/states/africa/lesotho.html 30 June 2017 dead", "Born": "Morija... |
Gottlieb (formerly D. Gottlieb & Co.) was an American arcade game corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is best known for creating a vast line of pinball machines and arcade games (including Q*bert) throughout much of the 20th century.
History
Gottlieb's main office and plant was at 1140-50 N. Kostner Avenue unti... | {"Industry": "Pinball and Arcade videogames", "Products": "Pinball Arcade video game", "Parent": "Columbia Pictures (1976-1984)", "Founded": "1927 (as D. Gottlieb & Co.)Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Defunct": "1996"} |
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (; 4 January 1785 - 17 February 1831) inherited the title of Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck as Frederick William IV in 1816. He subsequently changed his title to Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in 1825 and founded a line th... | {"Born": "Lindenau near Königsberg, East Prussia, Prussia", "Died": "Gottorf Castle, Schleswig, Schleswig", "Father": "Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck", "Mother": "Countess Friederike of Schlieben"} |
Faina Chiang Fang-liang (), born Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva (, ; 15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004), was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988 as the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo.
Early life
On 15 May 1916, Faina was born near Orsha, part of the Russian Empire, then part of the Soviet ... | {"Name": "Chiang Fang-liang", "Native name": "zh-TW 蔣方良ru Фаина Ипатьевна Вахрева", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Chiang in 1944", "Birth name": "Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva", "Birth date": "1916 5 15 y", "Birth place": "near Orsha, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire", "Term start": "20 May 1978", "Term end": ... |
The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is a think tank and pressure group in the United Kingdom. Its goal is to promote coherent and practical policies based on its founding principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax, national independence, self determination and responsibility.Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett Keit... | {"Abbreviation": "CPS", "Type": "Public policy think tank", "Headquarters": "57 Tufton Street", "Location": "London, United Kingdom", "Coordinates": "51.4961 -0.1283 inline,title", "Website": "http://www.cps.org.uk"} |
Vijayadashami (), also known as Dussehra, Dasara or Dashain, is a major Hindu festival celebrated every year at the end of Navaratri. It is observed on the tenth day of the month of Ashvin, the seventh in the Hindu Luni-Solar Calendar. The festival which typically falls in the Gregorian calendar months of September and... | {"Also called": "Dashahra, Dasara, Dashain", "Observed by": "Hindus", "Observances": "Pandals, plays, community gathering, recitation of scriptures, puja, fasting, immersion of idols or burning of Ravana.", "Celebrations": "Marks the end of Durga Puja and Navaratri", "Type": "Religious, Cultural", "Significance": "Cele... |
"Journey to Babel" is the tenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by D. C. Fontana and directed by Joseph Pevney, it was first broadcast on November 17, 1967.
In the episode, Enterprise is tasked with transporting dignitaries to a diplomatic conference.
... | {"Written by": "D. C. Fontana", "Directed by": "Joseph Pevney", "Featured music": "Gerald Fried", "Cinematography by": "Jerry Finnerman"} |
The Atlantic Council is an American think tank in the field of international affairs, favoring Atlanticism, founded in 1961. It manages sixteen regional centers and functional programs related to international security and global economic prosperity. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a member of the Atlanti... | {"Legal status": "501(c)(3)", "Type": "International affairs think tank", "Headquarters": "1030 15th Street, NW, 12th floor, Washington, D.C.", "Location": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Website": "https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/"} |
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is an American think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that conducts research on geopolitics, international relations, and international security in the various regions of the world and on ethnic conflict, U.S. national security, terrorism, and on think tanks themsel... | {"Abbreviation": "FPRI", "Type": "Public policy think tank", "Headquarters": "1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Location": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Website": "www.fpri.org"} |
The Democratic Left (Spanish: Izquierda Democrática, ID) is a social-democratic political party in Ecuador. At the legislative elections, held on 20 October 2002, the party won at least 13 out of 100 seats. Its candidate Rodrigo Borja, who was president of Ecuador from 1988 to 1992, won 14.4% of the vote in the preside... | {"Abbreviation": "ID", "President": "Enrique Chávez", "Founded": "1970", "Split from": "Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party", "Ideology": "nowrap\n Social democracy", "Political position": "Centre-left", "National affiliation": "National Agreement for Change es Acuerdo Nacional por el Cambio zh 全国争取变革协议", "Regional affil... |
"The Doomsday Machine" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Norman Spinrad and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast on October 20, 1967.
In the episode, the starship Enterprise fights a powerful planet-killing machine from another... | {"Written by": "Norman Spinrad", "Directed by": "Marc Daniels", "Featured music": "Sol Kaplan", "Cinematography by": "Jerry Finnerman"} |
Ann Clwyd Roberts (; ; 21 March 1937 - 21 July 2023) was a Welsh Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cynon Valley for 35 years, from 1984 until 2019. Although she had intended to stand down in 2015, she was re-elected in that year's general election and in 2017 before standing down in 2019.
E... | {"Name": "Ann Clwyd", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "24 May 2005", "Term end": "5 December 2006", "Office 2": "Shadow Secretary of State for Wales", "Leader 2": "John Smith", "Predecessor 2": "Barry Jones", "Successor 2": "Ron Davies", "Birth date": "1937 03 21 yes", "Birth place": "Halkyn, ... |
Ballard Down is an area of chalk downland on the Purbeck Hills in the English county of Dorset. The hills meet the English Channel here, and Ballard Down forms a headland, Ballard Point, between Studland Bay to the north and Swanage Bay to the south. The chalk here forms part of a system of chalk downlands in southern ... | {"Elevation": "162", "Prominence": "c. 65 m", "Location": "Ballard Down shown within Dorset(SZ025812)", "Coordinates": "50.63049 -1.96601 type:landmark_region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SZ025812) dms inline,title"} |
Jacob Ruppert Jr. (August 5, 1867 - January 13, 1939) was an American brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and politician who served for four terms representing New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1907. He also owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1915 until hi... | {"Term start": "March 4, 1899", "Term end": "March 3, 1907", "Image caption": "Ruppert in 1923", "Birth name": "Jacob Ruppert Jr.", "Birth date": "1867 8 5", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "1939 1 13 1867 8 5", "Death place": "New York City, U.S."} |
Alan James Beith, Baron Beith, (born 20 April 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Berwick-upon-Tweed as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2015.
From 1992 to 2003 he was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats. By 2015 he was the longest-serving member of his party's House of Commons... | {"Name": "The Lord Beith", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2019", "Term start": "21 July 2010", "Term end": "30 March 2015", "Office 2": "Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party", "Leader 2": "David Steel", "Predecessor 2": "John Pardoe (1979)", "Successor 2": "Russell Johnston (Liberal Democrats)\n yes\n Frontbench po... |
Keith John Charles Bradley, Baron Bradley, (born 17 May 1950, in Birmingham) is a British Labour Party politician and life peer. He was formerly the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Withington from 1987 until 2005.
Early life
He went to Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield. He studied at A... | {"Name": "The Lord Bradley", "Term start": "8 June 2001", "Term end": "28 May 2002", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security", "Prime minister 2": "Tony Blair", "Predecessor 2": "Oliver Heald", "Successor 2": "Angela Eagle", "Birth date": "1950 05 17 yes", "Birth place": "Birmingham", "N... |
Sir Thomas Clarke, (born 10 January 1941) is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1982 until 2015, representing Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill from 2005 until losing his seat to Philip Boswell of the SNP in the May 2015 general election.
Personal life
Clarke was born in Coatb... | {"Name": "Tom Clarke", "Image caption": "Clarke (right) with Ian Davidson (left) in 2011", "Term start": "4 May 1997", "Term end": "29 July 1998", "Title 2": "Shadow portfolios", "Birth date": "1941 1 10 y", "Birth place": "Coatbridge, Scotland", "Alma mater": "Scottish College of Commerce"} |
David Maurice Curry (born 13 June 1944) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Skipton and Ripon from 1987 to 2010.
Early life
Curry, the son of teachers, was educated at the Ripon Grammar School where he was head boy in 1962, and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford whe... | {"Name": "David Curry", "Term start": "20 October", "Term end": "19 November 2009", "Office 2": "Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food", "Leader 2": "William Hague", "Predecessor 2": "Douglas Hogg", "Successor 2": "Tim Yeo", "Birth date": "1944 6 13 y", "Birth place": "Burton-on-Trent, England", "Spouse(s)... |
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting ... | {"Directed by": "Michael Powell", "Produced by": "Michael Powell", "Written by": "Leo Marks", "Starring": "Carl BoehmMoira ShearerAnna MasseyMaxine Audley", "Music by": "Brian Easdale", "Cinematography": "Otto Heller", "Edited by": "Noreen Ackland", "Distributed by": "Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors", "Budget": "£1... |
Terence Anthony Gordon Davis (born 5 January 1938) is a British Labour Party politician and businessman. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove from 1971 to 1974, and for Birmingham Stechford and its successor seat, Birmingham Hodge Hill, from 1979 to 2004. He was then Secretary General of the Council of ... | {"Name": "Terry Davis", "Image caption": "Davis in 2009", "Term start": "1 September 2004", "Term end": "1 September 2009", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge HillBirmingham Stechford (1979-1983)", "Predecessor 2": "Andrew MacKay", "Successor 2": "Liam Byrne", "Birth date": "1938 1 5 yes", "Birth p... |
Sir David Anthony Andrew Amess ( ; 26 March 1952 - 15 October 2021) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Southend West from 1997 until his murder in 2021. He previously served as MP for Basildon from 1983 to 1997. A member of the Conservative Party, he was a Catholic with socially conser... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Alternative text": "Portrait photograph of Sir David Amess smiling", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2020", "Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "15 October 2021", "Birth name": "David Anthony Andrew Amess", "Birth date": "yes 1952 3 26", "Birth place": "Plaistow, Essex, England", "... |
Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 - 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom i... | {"Name": "Alan Clark", "Image size": "225px", "Image caption": "Clark appearing on Opinions in 1993", "Term start": "25 July 1989", "Term end": "14 April 1992", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment", "Prime minister 2": "Margaret Thatcher", "Predecessor 2": "Peter Morrison", "Successor 2":... |
Robert William Ainsworth (born 19 June 1952) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East from 1992 to 2015, and was the Secretary of State for Defence from 2009 to 2010. Following the general election in 2010 he was the Shadow Defence Secretary, but was replaced by... | {"Name": "Bob Ainsworth", "Term start": "11 May 2010", "Term end": "8 October 2010", "Office 2": "Minister for the Armed Forces", "Prime minister 2": "Gordon Brown", "Predecessor 2": "Adam Ingram", "Successor 2": "Bill Rammell", "Birth date": "1952 6 19 y", "Birth place": "Coventry, Warwickshire, England", "Spouse(s)":... |
Douglas Garven Alexander (born 26 October 1967) is a Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, previously Paisley South, from 1997 until his defeat in 2015. During this time, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Scottish Secretary, Transport Secretary a... | {"Name": "Douglas Alexander", "Term start": "28 June 2007", "Term end": "11 May 2010", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for Transport", "Prime minister 2": "Tony Blair", "Predecessor 2": "Alistair Darling", "Successor 2": "Ruth Kelly", "Birth name": "Douglas Garven Alexander", "Birth date": "1967 10 26 y", "Birth place"... |
The Jaguar X-Type is a car built by British marque Jaguar from 2001 to 2009. Considered a large family car in Europe and a compact car in the US, the X-Type was part of the compact-executive market segment and was sold in four-door saloon and five-door estate body styles. Given the internal designation X400, it was fro... | {"Manufacturer": "Jaguar Cars", "Production": "2001-2009 (355,227 Produced)", "Assembly": "United Kingdom: Halewood, England (Halewood Body & Assembly)", "Class": "Compact executive car (D)", "Body style": "4-door saloon\n 5-door estate", "Layout": "Front-engine, front-wheel-drive\n Front-engine, all-wheel-drive", "Pla... |
Richard Beecroft Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam (born 11 February 1966) is a British politician and life peer. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from 1997 to 2005.
He was made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours.Lords Hansard text for 26 Jul 201026 July 2010 (pt 0001)
Early l... | {"Name": "The Lord Allan of Hallam", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2023", "Term start": "22 July 2010Life peerage", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam", "Predecessor 2": "Irvine Patnick", "Successor 2": "Nick Clegg", "Birth date": "1966 2 11 y", "Birth place": "Sheffield, England", "National... |
Janet Anderson (6 December 1949 - 6 February 2023) was a British politician from the Labour Party. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rossendale and Darwen from 1992 until 2010, when she lost her seat. She was the Minister for Tourism from 1998 to 2001, a period which included the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth ... | {"Name": "Janet Anderson", "Image caption": "Anderson in 2007", "Term start": "27 July 1998", "Term end": "7 June 2001", "Office 2": "Shadow Minister for Women", "Leader 2": "Tony Blair", "Predecessor 2": "Tessa Jowell", "Successor 2": "Gillian Shephard", "Birth date": "1949 12 6 y", "Birth place": "Newcastle upon Tyne... |
Frank Ernest Field, Baron Field of Birkenhead, (born 16 July 1942) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead for 40 years, from 1979 to 2019, serving as a Labour MP until August 2018 and thereafter as an Independent. In 2019, he formed the Birkenhead Social Justice Party and stood un... | {"Name": "The Lord Field of Birkenhead", "Term start": "18 June 2015", "Term end": "6 November 2019", "Birth date": "1942 7 16 y", "Birth place": "Edmonton, Middlesex, England", "Nationality": "British", "Other political party": "Non-affiliated (2020) Birkenhead Social Justice Party (2019) Independent (2018-2019) Labou... |
Eric Forth (9 September 1944 - 17 May 2006) was a British Conservative politician. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Birmingham North from 1979 to 1984. He then served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Worcestershire from 1983 to 1997. Finally, he served as MP for Bromley and Chislehurst from ... | {"Image caption": "Official portrait, 2005", "Term start": "18 September 2001", "Term end": "11 November 2003", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education", "Prime minister 2": "John Major", "Predecessor 2": "Robert Key\n Tim Yeo", "Successor 2": "Robin Squire", "Birth date": "1944 09 09 y", "Bir... |
The Billings ovulation method is a method in which women use their vaginal mucus to determine their fertility. It does not rely on the presence of ovulation, rather it identifies patterns of potential fertility and obvious infertility within the cycle, whatever its length. Effectiveness, however, is not very clear.
E... | {"Type": "Behavioral", "First use": "developed in 1950s", "Perfect use": "0.5-3", "Typical use": "1-22", "Reversibility": "immediate", "User reminders": "Accurate teaching and daily charting are essential.", "Clinic review": "None", "STI": "No", "Period advantages": "Prediction", "Benefits": "Low cost, no prerequisites... |
Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnyov (; sometimes spelled Dezhnev; 1605 - 1673) was a Russian explorer of Siberia and the first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. In 1648 he sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic Ocean to the Anadyr River on the Pacific. His exploit was forgotten fo... | {"Birth date": "1605 03 07https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%91%D0%A1/%D0%92%D0%A2/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Archived copy 2023-09-18 2022-11-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20221130062901/https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki... |
Candice Kathleen Atherton (21 September 1955 - 30 October 2017) was a British Labour politician and journalist. After serving as a councillor in Islington, where she was mayor, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Falmouth and Camborne from 1997 to 2005. In her later life she lived in Cornwall and was a member of Corn... | {"Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "11 April 2005", "Birth name": "Candice Kathleen Atherton", "Birth date": "yes 1955 9 21", "Birth place": "Surrey, England", "Death date": "yes 2017 10 30 1955 09 21", "Death place": "Luton, Bedfordshire, England", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "Polytechnic of North Lo... |
John Yorke Denham (born 15 July 1953) is an English politician who served as Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills from 2007 to 2009 and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Southampton Itchen ... | {"Name": "John Denham", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2009", "Term start": "5 June 2009", "Term end": "11 May 2010", "Birth date": "1953 7 15 y", "Birth place": "Seaton, England", "Spouse(s)": "Ruth Eleanor Dixon (Divorced)", "Education": "Woodroffe School", "Alma mater": "University of Southampton"} |
David Anthony Atkinson (24 March 1940 - 23 January 2012) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth East from a 1977 by-election until he stepped down at the 2005 general election.
Early life
Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Atkinson attended St George's College, Weybridge a... | {"Image caption": "Atkinson in 2005", "Term start": "25 November 1977", "Term end": "11 April 2005", "Birth name": "David Anthony Atkinson", "Birth date": "1940 3 24 yes", "Birth place": "Essex, England", "Death date": "2012 1 23 1940 3 24 yes", "Spouse(s)": "Sue Pilsworth 1968 1992 div", "Partner(s)": "Robert Reid (20... |
Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, (25 June 1937 - 5 January 2019) was a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland, in County Durham, from 1979 to 2005.
Political career
Foster was first elected to represent Bishop Auckland at the 1979 general election, and held this... | {"Name": "The Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland", "Term start": "19 October 1995", "Term end": "2 May 1997", "Office 2": "Shadow Minister for the Citizen's Charter", "Leader 2": "Tony Blair", "Predecessor 2": "Ann Taylor", "Successor 2": "Position abolished", "Birth name": "Derek Foster", "Birth date": "1937 6 25 yes", "B... |
Peter Landreth Atkinson (born 19 January 1943) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Hexham from 1992 until 2010.
Early life
Atkinson was educated at Cheltenham College and after leaving school he became a journalist and joined the Newcastle Journal in November 1968. He moved ... | {"Name": "Peter Atkinson", "Term start": "9 April 1992", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1943 01 19 yes", "Birth place": "Corbridge, Northumberland England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Brione Darley", "Official website": "http://www.peteratkinson.com/"} |
David John Denzil Davies (9 October 1938 - 10 October 2018) was a Welsh Labour Party politician. He served for 35 years as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli from 1970 to 2005, and was a member of the Privy Council.
Early life
Davies was born in Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Gr... | {"Name": "Denzil Davies", "Term start": "26 October 1984", "Term end": "14 June 1988", "Office 2": "Minister of State at the Treasury", "Prime minister 2": "James Callaghan", "Predecessor 2": "Robert Sheldon", "Successor 2": "Arthur CockfieldPeter Rees", "Birth name": "David John Denzil Davies", "Birth date": "1938 10 ... |
Bruce Thomas George (1 June 1942 - 24 February 2020) was a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall South from February 1974 until 2010.
Early life
George was born in Mountain Ash, Mid-Glamorgan, to Phyllis George and her husband Edgar George, a policeman. He was educat... | {"Name": "Bruce George", "Image caption": "George in 2008", "Term start": "28 February 1974", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth name": "Bruce Thomas George", "Birth date": "yes 1942 06 1", "Birth place": "Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales", "Death date": "yes 2020 02 24 1942 06 1", "Death place": "London, England", "Nat... |
John Eric Austin (born 21 August 1944), formerly Austin-Walker, is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Woolwich from 1992 to 1997 and for Erith and Thamesmead from 1997 to 2010.
Early life
He attended the Glyn Grammar School for Boys (now called Glyn School) on The Kingswa... | {"Name": "John Austin", "Term start": "9 April 1992", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "yes 1944 08 21", "Birth place": "Blaby, Leicestershire", "Nationality": "British"} |
Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst, (born 23 June 1937), is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017, having previously represented Middleton and Prestwich from 1970 to 1974. Haselhurst was Chairman of Ways and Means from 14 ... | {"Name": "The Lord Haselhurst", "Office 2": "Chairman of the Administration Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Frank Doran", "Successor 2": "Sir Paul Beresford", "Birth date": "1937 06 23 yes", "Birth place": "South Elmsall, Yorkshire, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Angela Bailey 1977", "Alma mater": "Ori... |
David Philip Heathcoat-Amory (born 21 March 1949) is a British politician, accountant, and farmer. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wells from 1983 until he lost the seat in the 2010 general election. He became a member of the British Privy Council in 1996. Heathcoat-Amory was previously Chair of the Eu... | {"Name": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "Image": "David_Heathcoat-Amery.JPG", "Term start": "26 September 2000", "Term end": "14 September 2001", "Office 2": "Paymaster General", "Prime minister 2": "John Major", "Predecessor 2": "Sir John Cope", "Successor 2": "David Willetts", "Birth date": "yes 1949 03 21", "Nationality":... |
Jessurun James Oppenheimer (November 11, 1913 - December 27, 1988)"Jess Oppenheimer, 75, a Creator and a Producer of 'I Love Lucy'", "New York Times", December 30, 1988 was an American radio and television writer, producer, and director. He was the producer and head writer of the CBS sitcom I Love Lucy."Lucy and the G... | {"Name": "Jess Oppenheimer", "Caption": "Oppenheimer (second from left) with Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz in 1955", "Birth name": "Jessurun James OppenheimerBroadcasting, Broadcasting Publications, 1981, p. 306.", "Birth date": "1913 11 11 y", "Birth place": "San Francisco, California, U.S.", "Death date"... |
Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe (born 5 February 1945), is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in John Major’s second government as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997, and was a Member of Parliament (MP)... | {"Name": "The Viscount Hailsham", "Image caption": "Hogg in 2004", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "17 June 1997", "Office 2": "Minister of State for Foreign Affairs", "Prime minister 2": "Margaret ThatcherJohn Major", "Predecessor 2": "William Waldegrave", "Successor 2": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "Birth date": "1... |
Luxair Flight 9642 (LG9642/LGL9642) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Berlin, Germany, to Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, operated by Luxembourg national airline Luxair. On 6 November 2002, the aircraft operating the flight, a Fokker 50 registered as LX-LGB, lost control and crashed onto a field during a... | {"Date": "2002 11 06 y", "Summary": "Pilot error aggravated by inclement weather", "Site": "49 39 21 N 6 16 26 E type:event_source:kolossus-itwiki inline,title", "Passengers": "19", "Crew": "3", "Fatalities": "20", "Survivors": "2", "Operator": "Luxair", "Registration": "LX-LGB", "Flight origin": "Berlin Tempelhof Airp... |
Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, (born 11 June 1944), is a British Labour Party politician and life peer who was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2005. First elected as a Conservative, he is one of few politicians in recent years to have served as a minister in both Labour and Conservative govern... | {"Name": "The Lord Howarth of Newport", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2018", "Term start": "28 July 1998", "Term end": "7 June 2001", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education", "Prime minister 2": "Tony Blair", "Predecessor 2": "Jim Paice", "Successor 2": "Margaret Hodge", "Birth name": ... |
Edward Glenn Bryant (born September 7, 1948) is an American politician who is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee (1995-2003). From 1991-1993, he served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. On December 12, 2008, Bryant was sworn in as a... | {"Name": "Ed Bryant", "Term start": "December 12, 2008", "Term end": "February 28, 2019", "Office 2": "United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee", "President 2": "George H. W. Bush", "Predecessor 2": "Hickman Ewing", "Successor 2": "Veronica Coleman", "Birth name": "Edward Glenn Bryant", "Birth date"... |
"Creeping Death" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on November 23, 1984, as the lead and only commercial single from their album Ride the Lightning ("Fade to Black" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls", from the same album, were issued as promotional singles). Written from the perspective of th... | {"Songwriter(s)": "Cliff Burton James Hetfield Lars Ulrich Kirk Hammett", "B-side": "\"Am I Evil?\"\n \"Blitzkrieg\"", "Released": "November 23, 1984Creeping Death https://www.metallica.com/releases/singles-eps/4288/creeping-death Metallica September 22, 2017", "Recorded": "February-March 1984", "Studio": "Sweet Silenc... |
Ian David Francis Callinan AC KC (born 1 September 1937) is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.
Education
Born in Casino, New South Wales, Callinan was raised in Brisbane, Queensland, and educated at Brisbane Grammar School. He received a Bachelor of La... | {"Name": "Ian Callinan", "Image size": "200px", "Term start": "3 February 1998", "Term end": "31 August 2007", "Birth name": "Ian David Francis Callinan", "Birth date": "yes 1937 09 01", "Birth place": "Casino, New South Wales", "Nationality": "Australian"} |
Pierre du Calvet (1735 - March 28, 1786) was a Montreal trader, justice of the peace, political prisoner and epistle writer of French Huguenot origin.
Biography
Family
Pierre du Calvet was born in the Summer of 1735 in Caussade in the French province of Guyenne (today the Tarn-et-Garonne département). He was the olde... | {"Name": "Pierre du Calvet", "Birth date": "1735", "Birth place": "Caussade, France", "Death date": "1786 03 28", "Death place": "Lost at sea", "Occupation": "trader, justice of the peace"} |
J-pop (, jeipoppu; often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and... | {"Name": "J-pop", "Stylistic origins": "Pop G-sound Crossover", "Cultural origins": "Nominally 1980s–early 1990s Japan; Roots traced to the 1960s–1970s", "Derivative forms": "Japanese hip hop J-Euro", "Subgenres": "City pop", "Fusion genres": "Kawaii metal", "Regional scenes": "Shibuya-kei", "Other genre topics": "Enk... |
Gunter d'Alquen (24 October 1910 - 15 May 1998) was chief editor of the weekly Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps"), the official newspaper of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers.
Early life
Gunter d'Alquen was born to a Catholic-Freemason wool merchant and reserve officer named C... | {"Name": "Gunter d'Alquen", "Caption": "d'Alquen circa. 1941-1945", "Birth date": "1910 10 24 y", "Birth place": "Essen, Rhine Province, German Empire", "Death date": "1998 5 15 1910 10 24 y", "Death place": "Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany", "Nationality": "German", "Party": "Nazi Party", "Module": "y... |
Ludolf-Hermann Emmanuel Georg Kurt Werner von Alvensleben (17 March 1901 - 1 April 1970)needs ref was an SS functionary of Nazi Germany. He held positions of SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union, and was indicted for war crimes including the killing of at least 4,247 Poles by units under his com... | {"Born": "Halle, Province of Saxony, German Empire", "Died": "Santa Rosa de Calamuchita, Córdoba Province, Argentina", "Birth name": "Ludolf-Hermann Emmanuel Georg Kurt Werner von Alvensleben", "Allegiance": "German EmpireNazi Germany"} |
Max Amann (24 November 1891 - 30 March 1957) was a high-ranking member of the Nazi Party, a German politician, businessman and art collector, including of looted art. He was the first business manager of the Nazi Party and later became the head of (Eher Publishing), the official Nazi Party publishing house. He was als... | {"Image caption": "Amann as an SS-de Gruppenführer", "Term start": "15 November 1933", "Term end": "8 May 1945", "Office 2": "Reichsleiter for the Press", "Birth date": "1891 11 24 y", "Birth place": "Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire", "Death date": "1957 3 30 1891 11 24 y", "Death place": "Munich, Bavaria, We... |
Benno von Arent (19 July 1898 - 14 October 1956) was a German film director, artist, architect, designer and a member of the Nazi Party and SS.
Early life
Arent was born Benno Georg Eduard Wilhelm Joachim von Arent in Görlitz on 19 July 1898, the son of a Prussian Lieutenant Colonel also named Benno von Arent (1868-... | {"Name": "Benno von Arent", "Birth date": "1898 7 19 y", "Birth place": "Görlitz, Province of Silesia, German Empire", "Death date": "1956 10 14 1898 7 19 y", "Death place": "Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany", "Nationality": "German", "Party": "Nazi Party", "Occupation": "ArchitectStage designer"} |
Heinz Auerswald (26 July 1908 - 5 December 1970) was a German lawyer and member of the SS in Nazi Germany, which he joined in 1933. In 1937 he became member of the NSDAP.
Early years
Heinz Auerswald was born on 26 July 1908 in Berlin He spent his youth with his mother and relatives in the countryside. He attended el... | {"Name": "Heinz Auerswald", "Birth date": "1908 7 26 y", "Birth place": "Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, German Empire", "Death date": "y 1970 12 5 1908 7 26", "Death place": "Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany", "Nationality": "German", "Party": "National Socialist German Workers' Party"} |
Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor. He is known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi (1978-1983), John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John (1988-1992), and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs (2005-2010). He is also well known for his career in theatre and for his role... | {"Name": "Judd Hirsch", "Caption": "Hirsch in 1967", "Birth name": "Judd Seymore Hirsch", "Birth date": "1935 03 15", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor", "Alma mater": "City College of New York (BS)American Academy of Dramatic Arts", "Years active": "1959-present", "Spouse(s)": "Elisa Sadaune 1... |
Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 - 24 October 1996) was the German Nazi national leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) from 1940 to 1945, when the war ended. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsleiter.
Early life and career
Axmann was born in Hagen, Westphalia, the son ... | {"Name": "Artur Axmann", "Term start": "8 August 1940", "Term end": "8 May 1945", "Birth date": "yes 1913 2 18", "Birth place": "Hagen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire", "Death date": "yes 1996 10 24 1913 2 18", "Death place": "Berlin, Germany", "Nationality": "German", "Battles fought": "Bat... |
The Lord of the Rings is a series of three epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003). Produced and distributed by... | {"Directed by": "Peter Jackson", "Screenplay by": "Fran Walsh\n Philippa Boyens\n Peter Jackson\n Stephen SinclairNoteTT TT", "Based on": "The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien", "Produced by": "Barrie M. Osborne\n Peter Jackson\n Fran Walsh\n Tim SandersNoteFOTR FOTR", "Starring": "Elijah Wood\n Ian McKellen\n Liv Ty... |
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is the first novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta and it focuses on his own self-discovery in a fictionalized manner. An autobiography, the plot presents an alienated lawyer of Mexican descent, who works in an Oakland, California antipoverty agency, without any sense of purpose or identity.
Plot... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Straight Arrow Books", "Media type": "Print (paperback)", "ISBN": "0-87932-035-4", "Followed by": "The Revolt of the Cockroach People"} |
Rochelle "Shelley" Berkley (née Levine; born January 20, 1951) is an American businesswoman, politician and attorney who served as the U.S. Representative for from 1999 to 2013. In 2012, she was the unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. Senate. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and is currently run... | {"Name": "Shelley Berkley", "Term start": "January 3, 1999", "Term end": "January 3, 2013", "Birth date": "1951 1 20", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Education": "University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BA)University of San Diego (JD)"} |
The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field of the baseball National League's team, the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1945, because of financial difficulties and the increasin... | {"Founded": "1930", "Suspended": "1945", "Folded": "Players assigned to Boston Yanks", "Based in": "Brooklyn, New York, United States", "Home field(s)": "Ebbets Field (1930-1944) old Yankee Stadium (1945)", "League": "National Football League", "Division": "old Eastern Division", "Team colors": "Blue, silver, white (1... |
James Arthur Gibbons (born December 16, 1944) is an American attorney, aviator, geologist, hydrologist and politician who was the 28th Governor of Nevada from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 2nd congressional district from 1997 to 2006.
Follo... | {"Name": "Jim Gibbons", "Term start": "January 1, 2007", "Term end": "January 3, 2011", "Office 2": "Member of the Nevada Assembly", "Predecessor 2": "Bob Kerns", "Successor 2": "Brian Sandoval", "Birth name": "James Arthur Gibbons", "Birth date": "1944 12 16", "Birth place": "Sparks, Nevada, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Dawn ... |
Something's Gotta Give is a 2003 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers. It stars Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton as a successful 60-something and 50-something, who find love for each other in later life, despite being complete opposites. Keanu Reeves and Amanda Peet co-star,... | {"Directed by": "Nancy Meyers", "Produced by": "Nancy Meyers Bruce A. Block", "Written by": "Nancy Meyers", "Starring": "Jack Nicholson\n Diane Keaton\n Keanu Reeves\n Frances McDormand\n Amanda Peet\n Jon Favreau", "Music by": "Hans Zimmer", "Cinematography": "Michael Ballhaus", "Edited by": "Joe Hutshing", "Distribut... |
In the United States and Canada, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is a corps of trained amateur radio operator volunteers organized to assist in public service and emergency communications. It is organized and sponsored by the American Radio Relay League and the Radio Amateurs of Canada.
Communication failur... | {"Abbreviation": "ARES", "Type": "Non-profit organization", "Affiliations": "Radio Amateurs of Canada, American Radio Relay League", "Website": "(via ARRL)"} |
Black Africa Sports Club is a Namibian football team from Katutura, Windhoek that plays in the Namibia Premier Football League.
Performance
Season League Place 2022/23 Namibia Premier Football League 14th 2021/22 No League 2020/21 No League 2019/20 No League 2018/19 Namibia Premier League 1st 2017/... | {"Full name": "Black Africa Sports Club", "Nickname(s)": "Lively Lions", "Short name": "BA", "Founded": "1964", "Capacity": "25,000", "Coach": "Brain Isaacs", "League": "Namibia Premier Football League"} |
Gary "Gedde" Watanabe (born June 26, 1955) is a Japanese-American actor. He is known for voicing the character of Ling in the animated film Mulan (1998) and its sequel Mulan II (2004), as well as playing Long Duk Dong in the film Sixteen Candles (1984) and Takahara "Kaz" Kazihiro in Gung Ho (1986), and Nurse Yoshi Taka... | {"Name": "Gedde Watanabe", "Caption": "Watanabe in 2014", "Birth name": "Gary Watanabe", "Birth date": "1955 6 26", "Birth place": "Ogden, Utah, U.S.", "Education": "American Conservatory Theater", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1976-present"} |
Helen Joy Davidman (18 April 1915 - 13 July 1960) was an American poet and writer. Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature at age twenty in 1935. For her book of poems, Letter to a Comrade, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in... | {"Birth name": "Helen Joy Davidman", "Alt": "Joy Davidman", "Birth date": "yes 1915 4 18", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 1960 7 13 1915 4 8", "Death place": "Oxford, England", "Spouse(s)": "William Lindsay Gresham 1942 1954 div C. S. Lewis 1956", "Children": "2, David and Douglas Gresham", "N... |
An autonomous municipality or city, previously provincial city, is a de jure second-level administrative division unit in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
The provincial cities were formerly under the jurisdiction of provinces, but the provinces were streamlined and effectively downsized to non-self-governing bodies in... | {"Category": "Special municipalities, counties, and cities", "Location": "Island of Taiwan", "Number": "2019", "Populations": "267,772-448,207", "Areas": "60-133 km2", "Government": "City government\n City council", "Subdivisions": "District"} |
Douglas Howard Gresham (born November 10, 1945) is an American British stage and voice-over actor, biographer, film producer, and executive record producer. He is one of the two stepsons of C. S. Lewis.
Early life
Gresham was born in New York City, the son of writers William Lindsay Gresham and Joy Davidman. William... | {"Name": "Douglas Gresham", "Caption": "Gresham in 2008", "Birth date": "1945 11 10", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Nationality": "American, British", "Spouse(s)": "Merrie Gresham", "Children": "5", "Parent(s)": "William Lindsay GreshamJoy Davidman", "Occupation": "Actor, voice-over actor, biographer... |
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Maurice Félix Charles Allais (31 May 19119 October 2010) was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources", along with John Hicks (Value and Capital, 1939) and Paul Sam... | {"School ortradition": "Walrasian economics", "Field": "MacroeconomicsBehavioral economics", "Alma mater": "École PolytechniqueÉcole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de ParisUniversity of Paris", "Influences": "Léon Walras Irving FisherVilfredo Pareto", "Contributions": "Overlapping generations modelgolden rule of optima... |
Revolution Studios Distribution Company, LLC, operating as Revolution Studios, is an American motion picture and television studio headed by Chief Executive Officer Scott Hemming, founded in 2000, and based in Los Angeles, California.
The company focuses primarily on the distribution, remake, and sequel rights to titl... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "2000 01 12 (as film studio)2001 3 30 (as television studio)", "Headquarters": "10877 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 620 Los Angeles, California, United States", "Industry": "FilmTelevision", "Products": "Motion picturesTelevision series", "Parent": "Content Partners LLChttps://deadline.com/201... |
Prefectures are one of four types of prefecture-level divisions in China, the second-level administrative division in the country. While at one time prefectures were the most common prefecture-level division, they are in the process of being abolished and only seven formally-designated prefectures remain.
The term "p... | {"Category": "Second level administrative division of a unitary state", "Location": "China", "Number": "7 prefectures", "Populations": "95,465 (Ngari) - 3,979,362 (Kaxgar)", "Areas": "46755 sqkm on (Daxing'anling) - 304683 sqkm on (Ngari)", "Government": "Various, Central Government", "Subdivisions": "Counties"} |
Eligius (; 11 June 588 - 1 December 660), venerated as Saint Eligius, was a Frankish goldsmith, courtier and bishop who was chief counsellor to Dagobert I and later Bishop of Noyon-Tournai. His deeds were recorded in Vita Sancti Eligii, written by his friend Audoin of Rouen.
Born into a Gallo-Roman family, Eligius fou... | {"Born": "Chaptelat, Aquitaine (modern-day France)", "Died": "Noyon, Picardy (modern-day France)", "Canonized": "Pre-Congregation", "Feast": "1 December", "Attributes": "Anvil; Bishop with a crosier in his right hand, on the open palm of his left a miniature church of chased gold; bishop with a hammer, anvil, and horse... |
Joseph Emanuel Roth (born June 13, 1948) is an American film executive, producer and director. He co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1988 and was chairman of 20th Century Fox (1989-1993), Caravan Pictures (1993-1994), and Walt Disney Studios (1994-2000) before founding Revolution Studios in 2000, then Roth Films.
... | {"Name": "Joe Roth", "Caption": "Roth in December 2016", "Birth name": "Joseph Emanuel Roth", "Birth date": "y 1948 6 13https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/joe_roth Joe Roth Rotten Tomatoes 11 February 2023", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Occupation": "Film producer film director studio executiv... |
Kurtis Eugene Warner (born June 22, 1971) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons, primarily with the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals. His career, which saw him ascend from an undrafted free agent to a two-time Most Valuable Player and Super Bowl M... | {"Born:": "Burlington, Iowa, U.S.", "Height:": "2", "Weight:": "214", "High school:": "Regis (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)", "College:": "Northern Iowa (1989-1993)", "Undrafted:": "1994"} |
250px|thumb|right|The 2006 honorees at the Kennedy Center on December 6, 2006, with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush; from left, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Steven Spielberg, Dolly Parton, Zubin Mehta, Smokey Robinson, Vice President Dick Cheney and Second Lady Lynne Cheney.
The Kennedy Center Honors are an... | {"Awarded for": "Lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts.", "Presented by": "Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center", "Country": "United States", "First awarded": "1978"} |
Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. (; November 29, 1961 - March 3, 2023) was an American actor.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Sizemore started his career with supporting appearances in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Lock Up (1989) and Blue Steel (1990). These appearances led to more prominent roles in films like Passenger 5... | {"Name": "Tom Sizemore", "Caption": "Sizemore in 2011", "Birth name": "Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr.", "Birth date": "1961 11 29", "Birth place": "Detroit, Michigan, U.S.", "Death date": "2023 3 3 1961 11 29", "Death place": "Burbank, California, U.S.", "Education": "Temple UniversityWayne State University", "Occupation":... |
Bambuco is a traditional music genre from Colombia. Its metric structure is similar to the European waltz or polska (not to be confused with the polka). Typically a bambuco piece is accompanied by a stylized group dance in either a or meter.
Bambuco took a cultural foothold in the Andean region of Colombia and has s... | {"Name": "Danza Del Bambuco", "Stylistic origins": "Basque folk, European Waltz", "Cultural origins": "19th and 20th centuries in the Andean Region of Colombia", "Subgenres": "Sanjuanero - Bambuco Fiestero", "Fusion genres": "Bambuco Jazz"} |
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