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Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer, who has served in foreign policy positions for presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative. He is currently a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relat... | {"Name": "Elliott Abrams", "Image caption": "Abrams in 2019", "Term start": "September 1, 2020", "Term end": "January 20, 2021", "Office 2": "24th United States Deputy National Security Advisor", "President 2": "George W. Bush", "Predecessor 2": "Stephen Hadley", "Successor 2": "Tom Donilon", "Birth date": "1948 1 24",... |
Austin Vernon Mitchell (19 September 1934 - 18 August 2021) was a British academic, journalist and Labour Party politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby from a 1977 by-election to 2015. He was also the chair of the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign. Before becoming an MP in the United Kingdom, ... | {"Name": "Austin Mitchell", "Image caption": "Mitchell in 2008", "Term start": "July 1979", "Term end": "July 1985", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby", "Predecessor 2": "Anthony Crosland", "Successor 2": "Melanie Onn", "Birth name": "Austin Vernon Mitchell", "Birth date": "1934 09 19 yes", "Birth pl... |
Bala Lake ( ) is a large freshwater glacial lake in Gwynedd, Wales. The River Dee, which has its source on the slopes of Dduallt in the mountains of Snowdonia, feeds the long by wide lake. It was the largest natural body of water in Wales even before its level was raised by Thomas Telford to provide water for the El... | {"Native name": "cy Llyn Tegid", "Location": "Wales", "Coordinates": "52 53 N 3 38 W region:GB_type:waterbody inline,title", "Primary inflows": "River Dee", "Primary outflows": "River Dee", "Basin": "United Kingdom", "Max. length": "3.7 mi on", "Max. width": "0.5 mi km 1 on", "Max. depth": "138 ft m on", "Settlements":... |
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular m... | {"Born": "Coalinga, California, U.S.", "Died": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "John Huddleston (1937-div.1943)Paul Weston (1952-d.1996)", "Genres": "Traditional pop", "Labels": "Capitol\n Columbia\n Dot\n Corinthian\n\n<!--", "Website": "http://mysite.verizon.net/resoadiv/www.corinthianrecords.com/index.... |
Tribune is a democratic socialist political magazine founded in 1937 and published in London, initially as a newspaper, then converting to a magazine in 2001. While it is independent, it has usually supported the Labour Party from the left. Previous editors at the magazine have included Aneurin Bevan, the Minister of H... | {"Format": "Quarterly magazine and website", "Headquarters": "46-48 New Road, Dagenham, London, England", "Circulation": "15,000Burtenshaw Ronan ronanburtenshaw 22 December 2020 1341509567717511171 With our latest issue, Tribune has passed 15,000 subscribers. 2020 wasn't an easy year but we've grown 50% since Apri... |
Alan John Simpson (born 20 September 1948) is a British former Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham South from 1992 to 2010.
Early life
Simpson attended Bootle Grammar School for Boys and studied economics at Trent Polytechnic, where he was President of the Student Union from 19... | {"Name": "Alan Simpson", "Term start": "10 April 1992", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "yes 1948 09 20", "Birth place": "Bootle, Lancashire, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Pascale Quiviger", "Alma mater": "Nottingham Trent University"} |
Philip Andrew Sawford (born 26 June 1950) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kettering from 1997 to 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he was Leader of Kettering Borough Council from 1991 to 1997.
Early life and career
Sawford was born in Loddington, a small Northamptonshire village w... | {"Name": "Phil Sawford", "Birth name": "Philip Andrew Sawford", "Birth date": "1950 06 26 yes", "Birth place": "Loddington, Northamptonshire", "Residence": "Desborough, Northamptonshire", "Spouse(s)": "Rosemary Stokes 1971", "Alma mater": "Ruskin College, OxfordUniversity of Leicester", "Education": "Loddington CE Prim... |
Christopher John Mullin (born 12 December 1947) is a British journalist, author and Labour politician.
As a journalist in the 1980s, Chris Mullin led a campaign that resulted in the release of the Birmingham Six, victims of a miscarriage of justice. In March 2022, a court case settled that Mullin would not need to rel... | {"Name": "Chris Mullin", "Image caption": "Mullin in 2009", "Term start": "13 June 2003", "Term end": "10 May 2005", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions", "Prime minister 2": "Tony Blair", "Predecessor 2": "Alan Meale", "Successor 2": "Bob Ainsworth", "Birt... |
Viação Aérea São Paulo S/A (São Paulo Airways), better known as VASP, was an airline with its head office in the VASP Building on the grounds of São Paulo-Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil."World Airline Directory." Flight International. 30 March 1985. "130". Retrieved 17 June 2009. "Edificio VASP, Aeroporto de C... | {"Airline name": "VASP Viação Aérea São Paulo", "Image size (px)": "250", "IATA Designator": "VP", "ICAO Designator": "VSP", "Callsign": "VASP", "Parent Company": "Viação Aérea São Paulo", "Founded": "1933 11 04 y", "Commenced operations": "1933 11 12 y", "Ceased operations": "2005 01 27 y", "Headquarters": "São Paulo-... |
John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951) is a British politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington since 1997.
McDonnell served as chair of the Socialist Campaign Group in Parliament and ... | {"Name": "John McDonnell", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2021", "Term start": "13 September 2015", "Term end": "5 April 2020", "Office 2": "Member of Parliamentfor Hayes and Harlington", "Predecessor 2": "Terry Dicks", "Majority 2": "9,261 (21.1%)", "Birth name": "John Martin McDonnell", "Birth date": "1951 9 8 ... |
Horseshoe Falls (Welsh: Rhaeadr y Bedolpontcysyllte-aqueduct.co.uk) () is a weir on the River Dee near Llantysilio Hall in Denbighshire, Wales, about north-west of the town of Llangollen.
History
The distinctively shaped weir, which is long, helps create a pool of water that can enter the Llangollen Canal (via an ad... | {"Coordinates": "52 58 52 N 3 11 57 W type:waterbody_region:GB-GWN_scale:50000 dec inline,title", "OS grid": "SJ195433", "Location": "About 3 mi km west of Llangollen", "Type": "artificial", "Elevation": "330 ft m on", "Watercourse": "River Dee", "Averageflow rate": "13.7 M gals per day (62 Mld)"} |
The Walter Payton Award is awarded annually to the most outstanding offensive player in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) of college football as chosen by a nationwide panel of media and college sports information directors. The honor was first given in 1987 to the outstand... | {"Awarded for": "\"Most outstanding offensive player in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision\"", "Presented by": "Stats Perform", "Country": "United States", "First award": "1987, 1987", "Most recent": "Lindsey Scott Jr., QBIncarnate Word", "Website": "http://www.fcs.football"} |
Robert Graham Marshall-Andrews KC (born 10 April 1944) is a British barrister, author, and retired politician, who was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Medway from 1997 to 2010. He defected from his former party at the 2017 general election and endorsed the Liberal Democrats.
Early life and career
Marshall-An... | {"Name": "Bob Marshall-Andrews", "Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1944 04 10 y", "Birth place": "Willesden, London", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Gill Marshall-Andrews", "Alma mater": "University of Bristol"} |
Alice Mahon (; 28 September 1937 - 25 December 2022) was a British trade unionist and Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax from 1987 until 2005.
Mahon was a left-winger who was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and was a Eurosceptic, and a frequent rebel against Labour's Blair g... | {"Image caption": "Mahon as an MP", "Term start": "11 June 1987", "Term end": "11 April 2005", "Birth name": "Alice Bottomley", "Birth date": "1937 09 28 yes", "Birth place": "Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England", "Death date": "2022 12 25 1937 9 28 yes", "Death place": "Halifax, West Yorkshire, England", "Spou... |
June Tripp (born June Howard-Tripp; 11 June 1901 - 14 January 1985), sometimes known just by her screen name, June, was a British-American actress.
Biography
Born June Howard-Tripp in Blackpool, she worked mainly on stage (in revue). She made a handful of films, mostly in the silent era. Her most notable screen role ... | {"Name": "June Tripp", "Caption": "June Tripp in 1923", "Birth name": "June Howard-Tripp", "Birth date": "yes 1901 6 11", "Birth place": "Blackpool, England", "Death date": "yes 1985 1 14 1901 6 11", "Death place": "New York City, US", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1920-1943", "Spouse(s)": "John Alan Burns,... |
Kelvin Peter Hopkins (born 22 August 1941) is a British politician. He was first elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Luton North in 1997. Hopkins was suspended by the Labour Party in 2017 after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him in the 2017 Westminster sexual misconduct allegations. Hopki... | {"Name": "Kelvin Hopkins", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "28 June 2016", "Term end": "7 October 2016", "Birth name": "Kelvin Peter Hopkins", "Birth date": "1941 8 22 y", "Birth place": "Leicester, England", "Spouse(s)": "Patricia Langley", "Alma mater": "University of Nottingham"} |
The West Central Railway (abbreviated WCR), one of the 19 zones of the Indian Railways, came into existence on 1 April 2003. It is headquartered at Jabalpur. It was created by taking away two divisions namely Bhopal division and Jabalpur division from central railways and one division namely Kota division from western ... | {"Locale": "Madhya Pradesh\nUttar Pradesh\nRajasthan", "Dates of operation": "present", "Length": "2911 km", "Headquarters": "Jabalpur", "Website": "http://www.wcr.indianrailways.gov.in/"} |
Neil Francis Gerrard (born 3 July 1942) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walthamstow from 1992 until 2010.
Early life
Gerrard was born in Farnworth, England, and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford where he was awarded a BA degree in natural sc... | {"Name": "Neil Gerrard", "Term start": "9 April 1992", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "yes 1942 07 3", "Birth place": "Farnworth, England, UK", "Spouse(s)": "Marion Fitzgerald 1968 1983 divorced", "Alma mater": "Wadham College, Oxford London South Bank University"} |
The Davey O'Brien Award, officially the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award, named after Davey O'Brien, is presented annually to the collegiate American football player judged by the Davey O'Brien Foundation to be the best of all National Collegiate Athletic Association quarterbacks. The Davey O'Brien Hall of Fam... | {"Awarded for": "The collegiate American football player judged to be the best of all NCAA quarterbacks (current) The best NCAA football player playing in the southwestern United States (original)", "Presented by": "Davey O'Brien Foundation", "Country": "United States", "First award": "1977; became a quarterback-only ... |
William Etherington (born 17 July 1941) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Sunderland North from 1992 to 2010.
Early life
Bill Etherington was born in Sunderland, County Durham and was educated at the Redby Infant and Junior Schools on Fulwell Road, Monkwearmouth Grammar School (... | {"Name": "Bill Etherington", "Term start": "10 April 1992", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1941 07 17 yes", "Birth place": "Sunderland, County Durham, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Irene Holton", "Alma mater": "Durham University"} |
XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is a 2002 American action film directed by Rob Cohen, produced by Neal H. Moritz and written by Rich Wilkes. The first installment in the XXX film series, the film stars Vin Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman and rebellious athlete-t... | {"Directed by": "Rob Cohen", "Produced by": "Neal H. Moritz", "Written by": "Rich Wilkes", "Starring": "Vin Diesel\n Asia Argento\n Marton Csokas", "Music by": "Randy Edelman", "Cinematography": "Dean Semler", "Edited by": "Chris Lebenzon\n Paul Rubell\n Joel Negron", "Distributed by": "Sony Pictures Releasing", "Budge... |
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union for coal miners in Great Britain, formed in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB). The NUM took part in three national miners' strikes, in 1972, 1974 and 1984-85. Following the 1984-85 strike, and the subsequent closure of most of Britain's coa... | {"Name": "National Union of Mineworkers", "Location country": "United Kingdom", "Membership": "423,085 (1946)Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.77750 (2016)Trade Union Certification Officer, \"Annual return for a trade union: National Union of Mineworkers\" (2016)311 (2018)... |
John Robert Cryer (born 11 April 1964) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton and Wanstead since the general election in May 2010. He was previously MP for Hornchurch from 1997 until his defeat at the 2005 general election. He is the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour ... | {"Name": "John Cryer", "Term start": "9 February 2015", "Office 2": "Member of Parliamentfor Hornchurch", "Predecessor 2": "Robin Squire", "Successor 2": "James Brokenshire", "Birth name": "John Robert Cryer", "Birth date": "1964 4 11 yes", "Birth place": "Darwen, Lancashire, England", "Spouse(s)": "Second wife: Ellie ... |
Mark Sinclair (born July 18, 1967), known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor and film producer. One of the world's highest-grossing actors, he is best known for playing Dominic Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise.
Diesel began his career in 1990, but faced difficulty achieving recognition until he ... | {"Name": "Vin Diesel", "Caption": "Diesel in 2013", "Birth name": "Mark Sinclair", "Birth date": "1967 7 18", "Education": "Hunter College, City University of New York", "Birth place": "Alameda County, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor producer writer director", "Years active": "1990-present", "Partner(s)": "Palo... |
Francis Cook (3 November 1935 - 10 January 2012) was a British Labour and later independent politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North from 1983 until 2010.
Background
Cook was born in West Hartlepool and was educated at the Corby School (Sunderland), the De la Salle College (Manchester) and... | {"Image caption": "Cook as an MP", "Term start": "9 June 1983", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth name": "Francis Cook", "Birth date": "1935 11 3 y", "Birth place": "Hartlepool, England", "Death date": "2012 1 10 1935 11 3 y", "Death place": "Stockton-on-Tees, England", "Other political party": "Labour", "Spouse(s)":... |
Since 1990 the Doak Walker Award honors the top running back in college football in the United States. It is named in honor of Doak Walker, a former running back who played for the SMU Mustangs from 1945 to 1949 and in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions from 1950 to 1955. The player is selected by... | {"Awarded for": "The nation's top college football running back", "Presented by": "SMU", "Country": "United States", "First award": "1990", "Most recent": "Bijan Robinson, Texas", "Website": "http://smu.edu/doakwalker"} |
Michael Clapham (born 15 May 1943) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley West and Penistone from 1992 to 2010.
Early life
Born in Darton, in Barnsley, Clapham was educated at the Darton Secondary Modern School on Churchfield Lane (now Darton High School) and the Barns... | {"Name": "Michael Clapham", "Term start": "9 April 1992", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1943 05 15 yes", "Birth place": "Darton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Yvonne Hallsworth", "Alma mater": "University of Leeds, University of Bradford, Leeds Metropolitan Un... |
Harry Michael Cohen (born 10 December 1949) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton from 1983 to 1997 and Leyton and Wanstead from 1997 to 2010.
Early life
Cohen left the George Gascoigne Secondary Modern school (closed in 1966) on Queens Road in Walthamstow at 15, and tr... | {"Name": "Harry Cohen", "Term start": "10 June 1983", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1949 12 10 yes", "Birth place": "Hackney, London", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Ellen Cohen", "Alma mater": "Birkbeck College, London"} |
, known internationally as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience.
Born in Fukuoka, Chiba played a variety of sports in high school, including baseball a... | {"Name": "Sonny Chiba", "Caption": "\"Movie Pictorial\", June 1965 issue.", "Native name": "千葉 真一", "Native name language": "ja", "Birth name": "Sadaho Maeda", "Birth date": "1939 1 22 y", "Birth place": "Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan", "Death date": "2021 8 19 1939 1 22 y", "Death place": "Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan", "Other na... |
Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, PC DL (born 27 June 1940) is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997.
On 29 September 1997 Lang was raised to the peerage. He was an active member of the Ho... | {"Name": "The Lord Lang of Monkton", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for Scotland", "Prime minister 2": "John Major", "Predecessor 2": "Malcolm Rifkind", "Successor 2": "Michael Forsyth", "Birth date": "1940 6 27 y", "Alma mater": "Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge"} |
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a right-wing, free market think tank registered as a UK charity. Associated with the New Right, the IEA describes itself as an "educational research institute" and says that it seeks to "further the dissemination of free-market thinking" by "analysing and expounding the role o... | {"Abbreviation": "IEA", "Type": "Free market think tank", "Headquarters": "London, United Kingdom", "Website": "iea.org.uk"} |
Kid Creole and the Coconuts is an American musical group created by August Darnell with Andy Hernandez and Adriana Kaegi. Its music incorporates a variety of styles and influences, in particular a mix of disco and Latin American, Caribbean, and Calloway styles conceptually inspired by the big band era. The Coconuts are... | {"Origin": "New York City", "Genres": "Billboard/> \"Going Places\"/>", "Labels": "ZE, Island, Sire/Warner Bros, 2C2C Music.", "Website": "http://www.kidcreoleandthecoconuts.com", "Members": "August Darnell Eva Tudor-Jones Mark Anthony Jones Mike Gorman Dave Imby Jamie McCredie Barnaby Dickinson Edgar Jones Otto Willia... |
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is an economic research institute based in London, United Kingdom, which specialises in UK taxation and public policy. It produces both academic and policy-related findings.
The institute's aim is to "advance education for the benefit of the public by promoting on a non-political... | {"Legal status": "Non-profit company", "Location": "London, WC 1", "Affiliations": "Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)", "Website": "http://www.ifs.org.uk"} |
The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, Univers... | {"Logo size": "150", "Founded": "1907", "Folded": "1996", "Association": "NCAA", "Division": "Division I", "Teams": "8 (final), 12 (total)", "Sports fielded": "10", "Region": "Midwestern United States, Mountain States, West South Central States", "Former": "Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1907-196... |
The Bruges Group is a think tank based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1989, it advocates for a restructuring of Britain's relationship with the European Union and other European countries. Its members and staff campaign against the notion of an "ever-closer union" in Europe and, above all, against British involvemen... | {"Type": "Political and economic think tank", "Affiliation": "Independent", "Chairman": "Barry Legg", "President": "Norman Tebbit", "Director": "Robert Oulds", "Website": "brugesgroup.com/"} |
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller.
Plot summary
Chesterton prefixed the novel with a poem written to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, revisiting the pair's early history and the challenges presented to their early faith by the time... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "J. W. Arrowsmith", "Media type": "Print (hardcover)", "Pages": "viii, 330 pp", "Set in": "London and France, 1900s"} |
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De Morgen (Dutch for The Morning) is a Flemish newspaper with a circulation of 53,860. The paper is published in Antwerp, Belgium.
History and profile
De Morgen originates from a merger in 1978 of two socialist newspapers (meaning "Onwards" in English) and (meaning "People's Newspaper" in English)... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Format": "Berliner", "Owner(s)": "De Persgroep", "Headquarters": "Antwerp", "Editor": "An Goovaerts", "Website": "www.demorgen.be"} |
The Atlantic Hockey Association (AHA) is an NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey conference which operates primarily in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference. Unlike several other college athletic conferences, Atlantic Hockey has no women's division, thoug... | {"Logo size": "188", "Founded": "1997 (as MAAC Hockey)2003 (as Atlantic Hockey)", "Association": "NCAA", "Division": "Division I", "Teams": "11", "Sports fielded": "Men's ice hockey", "Region": "Northeastern United States and Colorado", "Former": "MAAC (1997-2003)", "Headquarters": "Winthrop, Massachusetts", "Commissio... |
College Hockey America (CHA) is a college ice hockey conference in the United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. The conference is made up of six women's teams, with three in Pennsylvania; two in New York, and one in Missouri.
History
The CHA was founded as a men's-only lea... | {"Logo size": "171", "Founded": "1999 (men's)2002 (women's)", "Association": "NCAA", "Division": "Division I", "Teams": "6", "Sports fielded": "Ice hockey", "Region": "New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri", "Headquarters": "Winthrop, Massachusetts", "Commissioner": "2010", "Official website": "http://www.chawomenshockey.co... |
Hits+ is a compilation album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, which was released on 7 November 2000 by Deconstruction Records. The album was the last compilation album which was released by the record label at the time, because Minogue had released her then Parlophone album Light Years (2000). The album pe... | {"Released": "7 November 2000", "Recorded": "1993-1997", "Genre": "Pop\n dance\n R&B\n trip hop", "Label": "Deconstruction"} |
Thomas William Cochrane ( ; born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian musician best known as the frontman for the rock band Red Rider and for his work as a solo singer-songwriter. Cochrane has won eight Juno Awards. He is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame,Canadian Music Hall of Fame an officer of the Order of Canada,... | {"Born": "Lynn Lake, Manitoba, Canada", "Genres": "Hard rock, heartland rock, country", "Labels": "Capitol, Universal Music", "Member of": "Red Rider", "Website": "tomcochrane.com/"} |
Robert Jay Mathews (January 16, 1953 - December 8, 1984) was an American neo-Nazi activist and the leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group. He was killed during a shootout with approximately 75 federal law enforcement agents who surrounded his house on Whidbey Island, near Freeland, Washington... | {"Name": "Robert Jay Mathews", "Birth date": "1953 01 16", "Birth place": "Marfa, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "1984 12 08 1953 01 16", "Death place": "Whidbey Island, near Freeland, Washington", "Death cause": "Smoke inhalation, gunshot wounds, fire", "Organization": "Sons of Liberty and The Order", "Spouse(s)": "Debbi... |
Missing Persons is an American rock band founded in 1980 in Los Angeles by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, vocalist Dale Bozzio, and drummer Terry Bozzio. They later added bassist Patrick O'Hearn and keyboardist Chuck Wild. Dale's quirky voice and heavy makeup made the band a favorite on MTV in the early 1980s.
Dale and ... | {"Origin": "Los Angeles, California, United States", "Genres": "New wave, synthpop, post-punk, pop rock", "Labels": "One Way, Capitol, Pioneer, Sumthing Else, Cleopatra, Hypnotic, Warner Bros.", "Members": "Dale Bozzio\n Fred Bensi\n Karl D'Amico\n Prescott Niles\n Andy Sanesi"} |
William Wynn Westcott (17 December 1848 – 30 July 1925) was a coroner, ceremonial magician, theosophist and Freemason born in Leamington, Warwickshire, England.The Isiac Tablet, about the author section He was a Supreme Magus (chief) of the S.R.I.A and went on to co-found the Golden Dawn.
Biography
He was a doctor o... | {"Name": "William Wynn Westcott", "Caption": "Westcott in the garments of the rosicrucians", "Birth date": "1848 12 17 y", "Birth place": "Leamington, Warwickshire, England", "Death date": "1925 7 30 1848 12 17 y", "Death place": "Durban, Union of South Africa", "Known For": "Golden Dawn", "Occupation": "Coroner"} |
Fredrick Lawrence Grandy (born June 29, 1948) is an American actor who played "Gopher" on the sitcom The Love Boat and who later became a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy was most recently the host of The Grandy Group, a morning drive time radio talk show on 630 WMAL i... | {"Birth name": "Fredrick Lawrence Grandy", "Image caption": "Grandy in 1993", "Term start": "January 3, 1987", "Term end": "January 3, 1995", "Birth date": "1948 06 29", "Birth place": "Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Jan Gough 1969 1983 div Catherine Mann March 28, 1987", "Education": "Harvard University (AB)Ge... |
The River Dee () is a river in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It rises in the Cairngorms and flows through southern Aberdeenshire to reach the North Sea at Aberdeen. The area it passes through is known as Deeside, or Royal Deeside in the region between Braemar and Banchory because Queen Victoria came for a visit there in 184... | {"Native name": "gd Uisge Dhè", "Location": "Aberdeen", "Coordinates": "57.1422 -2.0673 type:river_region:GB dms inline,title", "Basin size": "2100 km2 on"} |
Lytham St Annes ()G.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 93. is a seaside town in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England. It is on the Fylde coast, directly south of Blackpool on the Ribble Estuary. The population of the built-up area at the 2021 census... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021) Lytham St Annes: population statistics, 2021 Census https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/cities/england/?cityid=7214 CityPopulation.de 20 June 2023", "District": "Fylde", "Shire county": "Lancashire", "UK Parliament": "Fylde", "Postcode district": "FY", "Diall... |
The River Dee (), in south-west Scotland, flows from its source in Loch Dee amongst the Galloway Hills, firstly to Clatteringshaws Loch, then into Loch Ken, where it joins the Water of Ken. From there, the Dee flows southwards to Kirkcudbright, and into Kirkcudbright Bay to reach the Solway Firth. The distance is ju... | {"Mouth": "Kirkcudbright Bay", "Basin size": "1050 km2 on", "Left": "Tarff Water", "Right": "Water of Ken"} |
Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 - February 25, 1964) was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best-selling works in publishing history.
Early life
Marie Grace DeRepentigny was born into poverty and a broken home in the mill town of Manchester, New Hampshire. Writing from an early age, at ... | {"Born": "1924 9 8 y", "Died": "1964 2 25 1924 9 8 y", "Occupation": "Novelist", "Children": "3"} |
thumb|260px|Photo of the Australia Act 1986 (United Kingdom) document located in Parliament House, Canberra
The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of each of a pair of separate but related pieces of legislation: one an Act of the Commonwealth (i.e. federal) Parliament of Australia, the other an Act of the Parliamen... | {"Legislature": "Parliament of Australia", "Long title": "An Act to bring constitutional arrangements affecting the Commonwealth and the States into conformity with the status of the Commonwealth of Australia as a sovereign, independent and federal nation", "Citation": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2004A0318... |
Lydney is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is on the west bank of the River Severn in the Forest of Dean District, and is 16 miles (25 km) southwest of Gloucester. The town has been bypassed by the A48 road since 1995. The population was about 8,960 in the 2001 census, reducing to 8,766 at the 20... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "UK Parliament": "Forest of Dean", "Postcode district": "GL", "Dialling code": "01594", "OS grid reference": "SO634032", "Population": "(2021 Census)Lydney https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/southwestengland/admin/forest_of_dean/E04004313__lydney/ City population 25 October 2022", "Di... |
Longridge is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is situated north-east of the city of Preston, at the western end of Longridge Fell, a long ridge above the River Ribble. The nearest villages are Grimsargh, to the southeast, and Ribchester to the southeast. The p... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)", "District": "Ribble Valley", "Shire county": "Lancashire", "UK Parliament": "Ribble Valley", "Postcode district": "PR", "Dialling code": "01772", "OS grid reference": "SD606374"} |
Angel Stadium of Anaheim, better known simply as Angel Stadium, is a baseball stadium located in Anaheim, California, United States. Since its opening in 1966, it has served as the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels. It served as the home stadium of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football Lea... | {"Location": "Anaheim, California, US", "Coordinates": "33 48 1 N 117 52 58 W type:landmark inline,title", "Broke ground": "August 31, 1964", "Opened": "April 19, 1966April 1, 1998 (renovations)", "Owner": "City of Anaheim", "Operator": "Angels Baseball LP", "Surface": "Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass", "Construction cost": "... |
Senlis () is a commune in the northern French department of Oise, Hauts-de-France.
The monarchs of the early French dynasties lived in Senlis, attracted by the proximity of the Chantilly forest. It is known for its Gothic cathedral and other historical monuments. Its inhabitants are called "Senlisiens" and "Senlisienn... | {"Name": "Senlis", "Commune Status": "Subprefecture and commune", "Caption": "Cathedral", "Arrondissement": "Senlis", "Canton": "Senlis", "Postal code": "60300", "Mayor": "Pascale LoiseleurRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503 data.gouv.fr, ... |
Tattenhall is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tattenhall and District, south-east of Chester, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In the 2001 census, the population was recorded as 1,986, increasing to 2,079 by the 2011 cens... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 census)", "Unitary authority": "Cheshire West and Chester", "Ceremonial county": "Cheshire", "UK Parliament": "Eddisbury", "Postcode district": "CH", "Dialling code": "01829", "OS grid reference": "SJ486585"} |
Preity G Zinta (pronounced ; born 31 January 1975) is an Indian actress and entrepreneur primarily known for her work in Hindi films. After graduating with degrees in English honours and criminal psychology, Zinta made her acting debut in Dil Se.. in 1998, followed by a role in Soldier in the same year. These performan... | {"Name": "Preity Zinta", "Caption": "Zinta in 2018", "Birth date": "yes 1975 1 31", "Birth place": "Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India", "Occupation": "Actress producer entrepreneur", "Years active": "1998-present", "Alma mater": "St. Bede's College, Shimla", "Spouse(s)": "Gene Goodenough 2016", "Children": "2", "Notable ... |
Alexandra Doig is a Canadian actress. She played the title role in the science fiction television series Andromeda (2000-2005). She also played the lead female role of Rowan in the science fiction-action horror film Jason X (2001), the tenth instalment of the Friday the 13th film series. Since 2015, Doig has appeared i... | {"Caption": "Lexa Doig at Fan Expo 2011 in Toronto", "Birth place": "Ontario, Canada", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1993-present", "Spouse(s)": "Michael Shanks 2003", "Children": "2"} |
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia. Its member states are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. SAARC comprises 3% of the world's land area, 21% of the worl... | {"Conventional long name": "South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation", "Native name": "text-align:center; font-size:85%;\n In other languages:\n yes font-size:80%;\n mergedrow Bengali: bn দক্ষিণ এশীয় আঞ্চলিক সহযোগিতা সংস্থা\n\n mergedrow Dari: prs اتحادیه همکاریهای منطقهای جنوب آسیا\n\n... |
thumb|The building of the Central Committee of Vietnamese Fatherland Front on Tràng Thi Street in Hanoi.
The Vietnamese Fatherland Front () is an umbrella group of mass movements in Vietnam aligned with the Communist Party of Vietnam forming the Vietnamese government. It was founded in February 1977 by the merger of th... | {"Abbreviation": "VFF or MTTQVN", "Founded": "y 1977 02", "Ideology": "CommunismMarxism-LeninismHo Chi Minh ThoughtVietnamese nationalism", "Headquarters": "Hanoi"} |
Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, (6 June 1919 - 9July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, Chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 198... | {"Name": "The Lord Carrington", "Image caption": "Carrington in 1984", "Order 2": "6th", "Office 2": "Secretary General of NATO", "Predecessor 2": "Joseph Luns", "Successor 2": "Manfred Wörner", "Birth name": "Peter Alexander Rupert Carington", "Birth date": "1919 6 6 y", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date":... |
Baron de Ros ( ) of Helmsley is the premier baron in the Peerage of England, created in 1288/89 for William de Ros, with precedence to 24 December 1264. (The spelling of the title and of the surname of the original holders has been rendered differently in various texts. The word "Ros" is sometimes spelt "Roos", and the... | {"Creation date": "6 February 1288/89, with a precedence to 24 December 1264Robson Thomas The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 1830 185 https://books.google.com/books?id=AXIUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT185 1 January 2017 en", "Created by": "King Henry III", "Peerage... |
Martin Olav Sabo (February 28, 1938 - March 13, 2016) was an American politician who served as United States Representative for , which includes Minneapolis; the district is one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota.
Early life and education
Sabo was born in Crosby, North Dakota, the son of Norwegian immigrant... | {"Name": "Martin Olav Sabo", "Birth date": "1938 2 28", "Birth place": "Crosby, North Dakota, U.S.", "Death date": "2016 3 13 1938 2 28", "Death place": "Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.", "Office 2": "Chairman of the House Budget Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Leon Panetta", "Successor 2": "John Kasich", "Spouse(s)": "Sylv... |
The McCaughey septuplets (; born November 19, 1997) are septuplets born to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. They are the world's first known set of surviving septuplets.
Background, conception and birth
Kenny McCaughey (b. 1969) and Bobbi McCaughey (b. 1968), were residents of the town of Carlisle, Iowa.... | {"Name": "McCaughey septuplets", "Birth date": "1997 11 19", "Birth place": "Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.", "Mother": "Bobbi McCaughey", "Father": "Kenny McCaughey", "Known For": "First known set of surviving septuplets"} |
Samuel Ryan Curtis (February 3, 1805 - December 26, 1866) was an American military officer and one of the first Republicans elected to Congress. He was most famous for his role as a Union Army general in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War, especially for his victories at the Battles of Pea Ridge in... | {"Name": "Samuel Ryan Curtis", "Office 2": "Member of theU.S. House of Representativesfrom Iowa's 1st district", "Predecessor 2": "Augustus Hall", "Successor 2": "James F. Wilson", "Birth date": "1805 2 3", "Death date": "1866 12 26 1805 2 3", "Birth place": "Champlain, New York, U.S.", "Death place": "Council Bluffs, ... |
Banana Republic is an upscale clothing and accessories retailer owned by The Gap. It was founded in 1978 by Mel and Patricia Ziegler, who originally called the company "Banana Republic Travel & Safari Clothing Company". In 1983, Gap purchased the company, changed the name to "Banana Republic," and rebranded the stores ... | {"Type": "Division of Gap", "Founded": "1978Mill Valley, California, U.S.", "Headquarters": "San Francisco, California, U.S.", "Industry": "Retail", "Parent": "Gap Inc. (1983-present)", "Products": "Clothing", "Website": "www.BananaRepublic.com"} |
Lieutenancy areas , officially counties and areas for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are the separate areas of the United Kingdom appointed a lord-lieutenant - a representative of the British monarch. In many cases they have similar demarcation and naming to, but are not necessarily coterminate with, the counties o... | {"Category": "County", "Location": "United Kingdom", "Created": "1997", "Created by": "Lieutenancies Act 1997", "Number": "2008", "Possible types": "Wales (8)", "Populations": "8,000-8,167,000Table 2 2011 Census: Usual resident population and population density, local authorities in the United Kingdom UK Census 2011 UK... |
The Boboli Gardens () is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally designed for the Medici, it represents one of the first and most important examples of the Italian garden, which later served as inspiration for many European courts. The large green area is a real open-... | {"Type": "Pleasure garden", "Location": "Florence, Italy", "Coordinates": "43 45 45 N 11 14 54 E type:landmark_region:IT inline,title", "Area": "45000 m² acres off", "Website": "https://www.uffizi.it/en/boboli-garden"} |
The First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during the First World War. It was formed as the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) following Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 15 August 1914, with an initial strength of one infantry division and one light hors... | {"Branch": "Australian Army", "Role": "Expeditionary warfare", "Size": "331,781 men (total)", "Nickname(s)": "1st AIF", "Notablecommanders": "Major General William BridgesGeneral William Birdwood Lieutenant General John Monash"} |
Maximilian I (17 April 157327 September 1651), occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which he obtained the title of a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire at the 1623 Diet of Regensburg.
Maximilia... | {"Father": "William V, Duke of Bavaria", "Mother": "Renata of Lorraine", "Born": "Munich", "Died": "Ingolstadt", "Burial": "St. Michael's Church, Munich", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
The Székelys (, Székely runes: ), also referred to as Szeklers, are a Hungarian subgroupSherrill Stroschein, [ Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe], Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 210 Cited: "Székely, a Hungarian sub-group that is concentrated in the mountainous Hungarian enclave"... | {"Name": "Székelys", "Flag caption": "Flag of the Székelys", "Population": "est. 500,000-700,000\"insse.ro\">http://www.insse.ro/cms/files/RPL2002INS/vol4/notavol4.pdf Nota metodologica Insse.ro 2013-11-26Archivum Ottomanicum, Volume 20, Mouton, 2002, original from: the University of Michigan, p. 66, Cited: \"A few ... |
MDC is an American punk rock band formed in 1979 in Austin, Texas, subsequently based in San Francisco, and currently Portland, Oregon. Among the first wave of bands to define the sound and style of American hardcore punk, MDC originally formed as The Stains; they have periodically changed the meaning of "MDC", the mos... | {"Origin": "Austin, Texas, U.S.", "Genres": "Hardcore punk, punk rock", "Labels": "R Radical, Crass, Boner, New Red Archives, Sudden Death, Tank Crimes, Grimacehttps://open.spotify.com/album/0fEowtxkTDhAD3zbaLB16g Millions of Dead Cowboys Spotify September 29, 2020", "Website": "https://www.mdcpunkofficial.com/", "M... |
Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau or Jean-Armand Dieskau, Baron de Dieskau or Ludwig August von Dieskau (1701 - 8 September 1767) was a German-born soldier remembered mostly as a French general and commander in America for a part of the French and Indian War.
Biography
He was aide-de-camp of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, and visi... | {"Born": "Dresden, Saxony", "Died": "Surenne", "Allegiance": "Kingdom of France", "Awards": "Order of Saint Louis"} |
Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985) is an Indian billiards and professional snooker player. He is a 25-time International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) world champion. He has won 17 billiards world titles, the IBSF World Billiards Championship on 16 occasions and the World Team Billiards Championship once... | {"Nickname": "Pankaj Advani", "Born": "Pune, Maharashtra, India", "Professional": "2012-2014", "Best ranking finish": "Quarter-final (x2)"} |
Mary Geneva "Mamie" Eisenhower (; November 14, 1896 – November 1, 1979) was the first lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 as the wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Born in Boone, Iowa, she was raised in a wealthy household in Colorado. She married Eisenhower, then a lieutenant in the United States Army, in... | {"Name": "Mamie Eisenhower", "Term start": "January 20, 1953", "Term end": "January 20, 1961", "Birth name": "Mary Geneva Doud", "Birth date": "1896 11 14", "Birth place": "Boone, Iowa, U.S.", "Death date": "1979 11 1 1896 11 14", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Dwight D. Eisenhower July 1, 1916 ... |
Elizabeth Virginia Truman (; February 13, 1885October 18, 1982) was the wife of President Harry S. Truman and the first lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. She also served as the second lady of the United States from January to April 1945. She currently holds the record of longest-lived first lady and longest-... | {"Name": "Bess Truman", "Term start": "April 12, 1945", "Term end": "January 20, 1953", "Birth name": "Elizabeth Virginia Wallace", "Birth date": "1885 2 13", "Birth place": "Independence, Missouri, U.S.", "Death date": "1982 10 18 1885 2 13", "Death place": "Independence, Missouri, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Harry S. Truman... |
Grace Anna Coolidge (née Goodhue; January 3, 1879 - July 8, 1957) was the wife of the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge. She was the first lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929 and the second lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902 with ... | {"Term start": "August 2, 1923", "Term end": "March 4, 1929", "Office 2": "First Lady of Massachusetts", "Governor 2": "Calvin Coolidge", "Predecessor 2": "Ella McCall", "Successor 2": "Mary Cox", "Birth name": "Grace Anna Goodhue", "Birth date": "1879 1 3", "Birth place": "Burlington, Vermont, U.S.", "Death date": "19... |
James Charles Lehrer (; May 19, 1934 - January 23, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He was the executive editor and a news anchor for the PBS NewsHour on PBS and was known for his role as a debate moderator during U.S. presidential election campaigns, moderating twelve president... | {"Caption": "Lehrer at the 2007 Texas Book Festival", "Birth name": "James Charles Lehrer", "Birth date": "1934 5 19", "Death date": "2020 1 23 1934 5 19", "Birth place": "Wichita, Kansas, U.S.", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Education": "University of Missouri (BA)", "Occupation": "Journalist\n news ancho... |
Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924) was the first lady of the United States from 1921 until her husband's death in 1923 as the wife of President Warren G. Harding.
In 1880, Florence married Henry De Wolfe and they had a son, Marshall. After divorcing DeWolfe in 1886, she married Har... | {"Name": "Florence Harding", "Term start": "March 4, 1921", "Term end": "August 2, 1923", "Birth name": "Florence Mabel Kling", "Birth date": "1860 8 15", "Birth place": "Marion, Ohio, U.S.", "Death date": "1924 11 21 1860 8 15", "Death place": "Marion, Ohio, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Henry DeWolfe 1880 1886 divorced Warren... |
Edith Wilson ( Bolling, formerly Galt; October 15, 1872 - December 28, 1961) was the first lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 and the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She married the widower Wilson in December 1915, during his first term as president. Edith Wilson played an influential role in Presiden... | {"Name": "Edith Wilson", "Term start": "December 18, 1915", "Term end": "March 4, 1921", "Birth name": "Edith Bolling", "Birth date": "1872 10 15", "Birth place": "Wytheville, Virginia, U.S.", "Death date": "1961 12 28 1872 10 15", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Norman Galt 1896 1908 diedWoodrow... |
Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, United States. It is the largest park in the city, containing , and the third-most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 24 million visitors annually.
The creation of a large park in San Francisco was fir... | {"Type": "Urban Park", "Location": "San Francisco, California, United States", "Coordinates": "37 46 11 N 122 28 37 W Region:US-CA_type:landmark inline,title", "Area": "1,017 acre km2", "Owned by": "Government of San Francisco", "Visitors": "about 24 million annually", "Open": "24 hours"} |
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914) was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson and the mother of their three daughters. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman. She was born in Savannah, Georgia, but raised in Rome, Georgia. Having an artistic bent, she s... | {"Image caption": "Wilson 1912", "Term start": "March 4, 1913", "Term end": "August 6, 1914", "Birth name": "Ellen Louise Axson", "Birth date": "1860 5 15", "Birth place": "Savannah, Georgia, U.S.", "Death date": "1914 8 6 1860 5 15", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Resting place": "Myrtle Hill Cemetery", "Sp... |
Helen Louise Taft (née Herron; June 2, 1861 – May 22, 1943), known as Nellie, was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 as the wife of President William Howard Taft. Born to a politically well-connected Ohio family, she took an early interest in political life, deciding at the age of 17 that she wished ... | {"Name": "Helen Herron Taft", "Term start": "March 4, 1909", "Term end": "March 4, 1913", "Birth name": "Helen Louise Herron", "Birth date": "1861 6 2", "Birth place": "Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.", "Death date": "1943 5 22 1861 6 2", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Resting place": "Arlington National Cemetery", "... |
Edith Kermit Roosevelt (née Carow; August 6, 1861 - September 30, 1948) was the second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909. She also was the second lady of the United States prior to that in 1901. Roosevelt was the first First Lady to employ a full-time, salari... | {"Image caption": "Portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1903", "Term start": "September 14, 1901", "Term end": "March 4, 1909", "Office 2": "First Lady of New York", "Governor 2": "Theodore Roosevelt", "Predecessor 2": "Lois Black", "Successor 2": "Linda Odell", "Birth name": "Edith Kermit Carow", "Birth date": "1861... |
The Army Air Corps (AAC) is a component of the British Army, first formed in 1942 during the Second World War by grouping the various airborne units of the British Army. Today, there are eight regiments (seven Regular Army and one Reserve) of the AAC as well as two Independent Flights and two Independent Squadrons depl... | {"Branch": "United Kingdom", "Type": "Army aviation", "Role": "Battlefield support, reconnaissance", "Size": "2,000 personnelApprox. 200 aircrafthttp://img.en25.com/Web/flightglobal/%7B88f2f053-6c3d-4ab4-a297-0b453358a560%7D_FC055_PREM_201312.pdf World Air Forces Flight International 2014 25 August 2014 https://we... |
The Malaysian People's Party (abbreviation: PRM; Malay: Parti Rakyat Malaysia) is a political party in Malaysia. Founded on 11 November 1955 as Partai Ra'ayat, it is one of the older political parties in Malaysia and traces its pedigree to the anti-colonial movements from the pre World War II period like the Kesatuan M... | {"Abbreviation": "PRM", "President": "Ariffin Salimon", "Founded": "11 November 1955", "Preceded by": "1955 - Partai Ra'ayat (People's Party; PR)\n 1965 - Parti Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia (Malaysian People's Socialist Party; PSRM)\n 1989 - Parti Rakyat Malaysia (Malaysian People's Party; PRM, MPP)", "Merged into": "Peo... |
Ida McKinley nee Saxton; June 8, 1847 - May 26, 1907) was the first lady of the United States from 1897 until 1901, as the wife of President William McKinley.
Born to a successful Ohio family, Ida met her future husband and later married him during the early Reconstruction years. She never recovered from losing their ... | {"Term start": "March 4, 1897", "Term end": "September 14, 1901", "Birth name": "Ida Saxton", "Birth date": "1847 6 8", "Birth place": "Canton, Ohio, U.S.", "Death date": "1907 5 26 1847 6 8", "Death place": "Canton, Ohio, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "William McKinley 1871 1901 died", "Education": "Brook Hall Seminary", "Image... |
James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (; 23 May 1950 - 21 March 2017) was an Irish republican politician and statesman for Sinn Féin and a leader within the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) during The Troubles. McGuinness was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to January 2017.About the Departm... | {"Name": "Martin McGuinness", "Image caption": "McGuinness in January 2017", "Term start": "8 May 2007", "Term end": "9 January 2017ch a", "Birth name": "James Martin Pacelli McGuinness", "Birth date": "1950 5 23 y", "Birth place": "Derry, Northern Ireland", "Death date": "2017 3 21 1950 5 23 y", "Death place": "Derry,... |
Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 - 8 April 2000) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, London, from 1987 to his death in 2000.
Biography
Early years and education
Bernie Grant was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, to schoolteacher parents, who i... | {"Name": "Bernie Grant", "Image caption": "Grant's funeral programme", "Term start": "11 June 1987", "Term end": "8 April 2000", "Birth name": "Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant", "Birth date": "yes 1944 02 17", "Birth place": "Georgetown, British Guiana", "Death date": "yes 2000 04 8 1944 02 17", "Death place": "Lond... |
Bryan Charles Gould (born 11 February 1939) is a New Zealand-born British former politician and diplomat. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994. He was a member of the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet from 1986 to 1992, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the p... | {"Name": "Bryan Gould", "Image caption": "Gould in 1992", "Term start": "18 July 1992", "Term end": "29 September 1992", "Office 2": "Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry", "Leader 2": "Neil Kinnock", "Predecessor 2": "John Smith", "Successor 2": "Gordon Brown", "Birth name": "Bryan Charles Gould", "Birth d... |
George Robert Cryer (3 December 1934 - 12 April 1994) was an English Labour Party politician from Yorkshire. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Keighley from 1974 until his defeat in 1983. He then served as the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Sheffield... | {"Name": "Bob Cryer", "Term start": "11 June 1987", "Term end": "12 April 1994", "Office 2": "Member of Parliamentfor Keighley", "Predecessor 2": "Joan Hall", "Successor 2": "Gary Waller", "Birth name": "George Robert Cryer", "Birth date": "1934 12 03 y", "Birth place": "Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England", "D... |
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is a British broadcaster, writer and former politician. He has worked as a television presenter, theatre producer, journalist, author and publisher.
He was a presenter for TV-am's Good Morning Britain in the 1980s, and has been regularly featured on Channel 4's game show C... | {"Name": "Gyles Brandreth", "Image caption": "Brandreth in 2022", "Term start": "11 December 1996", "Term end": "2 May 1997", "Office 2": "Chancellor of the University of Chester", "Predecessor 2": "The Duke of Westminster", "Birth date": "y 1948 03 08", "Birth place": "Wuppertal, Allied-occupied Germany", "Nationality... |
Frances Clara Cleveland Preston (, christened Frank Clara; July 21, 1864 - October 29, 1947) was the First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 until 1897, as the wife of President Grover Cleveland. She is the sole first lady in U.S. history to have served in the role during two non-consecuti... | {"Image caption": "Portrait by Charles Milton Bell, 1886", "Term start": "March 4, 1893", "Term end": "March 4, 1897", "Birth name": "Frances Clara Folsom", "Birth date": "1864 7 21", "Birth place": "Buffalo, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "1947 10 29 1864 7 21", "Death place": "Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.", "Spouse(s)":... |
Bridge Mountain is a mountain located in the Spring Mountain range of southern Nevada. It is located on land managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, part of the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness. Bridge Mountain is named for the natural feature of a bridge-lik... | {"Elevation": "13417 Bridge Mountain, Nevada 2008-04-03", "Prominence": "1991", "Location": "Clark County, Nevada, U.S.", "Coordinates": "839059 Bridge Mountain 2008-11-22"} |
Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, (; born 7 July 1944), is a British politician and former teacher who served as Minister of State for Europe from June to October 2009 and Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously a Mem... | {"Name": "The Baroness Kinnockof Holyhead", "Image caption": "Kinnock as a government minister", "Term start": "13 October 2009", "Term end": "11 May 2010", "Office 2": "Member of the House of LordsLord Temporal", "Birth name": "Glenys Elizabeth Parry", "Birth date": "1944 7 7 y", "Birth place": "Roade, Northamptonshir... |
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Jill Evans (born 8 May 1959) is a Plaid Cymru politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales from 1999 to 2020. She was the first person to use the Welsh language in debate at the European Parliament.
In June 1999, Evans was elected as one of ... | {"Name": "Jill Evans", "Term start": "10 June 1999", "Term end": "31 January 2020", "Birth date": "1959 5 8 y", "Birth place": "Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales", "Nationality": "Welsh", "Spouse(s)": "Syd Morgan", "Alma mater": "University of Wales, AberystwythGlamorgan University (now the University of South Wales)", "Official ... |
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet, (; 3 October 1789 - 18 March 1856) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator who became the first Governor of Hong Kong.
Early life
Henry Pottinger was born at his family estate of Mount Pottinger in Ballymacarrett, County Down, Ireland, on 3 October ... | {"Name": "Sir Henry Pottinger", "Image caption": "Portrait by Francis Grant, 1845", "Term start": "26 June 1843", "Term end": "8 May 1844", "Office 2": "Governor of the Cape Colony", "Predecessor 2": "Sir Peregrine Maitland", "Successor 2": "Sir Harry Smith", "Birth date": "yes 1789 10 3", "Birth place": "Mount Potting... |
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected in the 1992 general election, held on 9 April.
During the 1992-97 Parliament, Betty Boothroyd was the Speaker, John Major served as Prime Minister, and Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Margaret Beckett, and Tony Blair served as Leader of the Opposition. This Parliament w... | {"Legislative body": "Parliament of the United Kingdom", "Election": "1992 United Kingdom general election", "Government": "Second Major ministry", "Term": "1997 04 08 y", "Members": "651"} |
Josephine Richardson (28 August 1923 - 1 February 1994) was a British Labour Party politician. At the time of her death she was Member of Parliament for Barking, a post she had held almost exactly 20 years, since 1974.
Early life
She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and attended Southend High School for Girls. Her fat... | {"Name": "Jo Richardson", "Term start": "27 October 1989", "Term end": "1990", "Birth date": "y 1923 08 28", "Birth place": "Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England", "Death date": "1994 02 01 1923 08 28 y", "Death place": "Barking, London, England", "Nationality": "English"} |
Patrick Doherty (born 18 July 1945) is a retired Sinn Féin politician, and was the abstentionist Member of Parliament for West Tyrone from 2001 to 2017. He was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the Assembly constituency of the same name from June 1998 to June 2012. Doherty served as Vice President of Sinn F... | {"Name": "Pat Doherty", "Image caption": "Doherty in 2014", "Term start": "10 February 1988", "Term end": "22 February 2009", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for West Tyrone", "Predecessor 2": "William Thompson", "Successor 2": "Barry McElduff", "Birth date": "1945 7 18 yes", "Birth place": "Glasgow, Scotland", "Off... |
Dennis Andrew Canavan (born 8 August 1942) is a Scottish politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Falkirk West from 1974 to 2000 (known as West Stirlingshire from 1974 to 1983), first as a member of the Labour Party, and then as an Independent. He then served as an Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament... | {"Name": "Dennis Canavan", "Term start": "6 May 1999", "Term end": "2 April 2007", "Prior term 2": "West Stirlingshire (Oct 1974-1983)", "Predecessor 2": "William Baxter", "Successor 2": "Eric Joyce", "Birth date": "yes 1942 08 8", "Birth name": "Dennis Andrew Canavan", "Birth place": "Cowdenbeath, Scotland", "National... |
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