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Britten-Norman (BN) is a privately owned British aircraft manufacturer and aviation services provider. The company is the sole independent commercial aircraft producer in the United Kingdom.
Britten-Norman has so far manufactured and sold almost 1,300 aircraft to customers in more than 120 countries. In addition to ai... | {"Type": "Limited", "Founded": "1954 06 29", "Headquarters": "Bembridge, England, UK", "Products": "Islander Defender 4000", "Parent": "Fairey Aviation(1973-1978) Oerlikon-Bührle(1978-1998) British Aerospace(1998) Biofarm(1998-2000) B-N Group(2000-Present)", "Subsidiaries": "Cushioncraft(1960-1972)", "Website": "https:... |
Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 - 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing the Krogh Principle.
In... | {"Fields": "Zoophysiology", "Institutions": "University of Copenhagen", "Influences": "Christian Bohr, A. Bornstein", "Influenced": "Joseph Barcroft, Torkel Weis-Fogh, Hans Ussing"} |
UTF-7 (7-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is an obsolete variable-length character encoding for representing Unicode text using a stream of ASCII characters. It was originally intended to provide a means of encoding Unicode text for use in Internet E-mail messages that was more efficient than the combination of UTF-8... | {"Standard": "2152", "Language(s)": "International\n<!-- Not", "Extends": "US-ASCII as even plain ASCII text can be reinterpreted. -->", "Transforms / Encodes": "ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)", "Preceded by": "HZ-GB-2312", "Succeeded by": "UTF-8 over 8BITMIME", "Classification": "Unicode Transformation Format, ASCII armor, v... |
Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. The program opens, modifies and saves image files in Windows bitmap (BMP), JPEG, GIF, PNG, and single-page TIFF formats. The program can be in color mode or two-color black-and-white, but there is no grayscale mode. ... | {"Other names": "Paintbrush (1985-1995)", "Developer(s)": "Microsoft", "Platform": "IA-32, x86-64, and ARM (historically Itanium, DEC Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC)", "Type": "Raster graphics editor", "Included with": "All Microsoft Windows versions"} |
John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, (born 22 June 1932) is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. Between 1998 and 2012, he was chancellor of Brunel University, and since then has been its chancellor emeritus.
Wakeham was a director of Enron from 1994 until its bankruptcy in 2001.
Early life and education... | {"Name": "The Lord Wakeham", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2019", "Term start": "11 April 1992", "Term end": "20 July 1994", "Office 2": "Lord President of the Council", "Monarch 2": "Elizabeth II", "Prime minister 2": "Margaret Thatcher", "Predecessor 2": "The Viscount Whitelaw", "Successor 2": "Geoffrey Howe",... |
Liu Biao () () (151According to Wang Chang's biography in Book of the Later Han, Liu Biao was 17 (by East Asian reckoning) when he became Wang's student. At the time, Wang Chang was Administrator of Nanyang. (寻拜南阳太守....同郡刘表时年十七，从畅受学.) Houhanshu, vol.56. Wang Chang's biography recorded that he became Administrator of Na... | {"Name": "Liu Biao", "Native name": "劉表", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "A Qing dynasty illustration of Liu Biao", "Term start": "192", "Term end": "208", "Office 2": "Inspector of Jing Province (荊州刺史)", "Monarch 2": "Emperor Xian of Han", "Birth date": "142de Crespigny 2007 485de Crespigny likely used \"Stel... |
Portland ( ) is a city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. It is also the main urban centre in the Shire of Glenelg and is located on Portland Bay. As of the 2021 census the population was 10,016, increasing from a population of 9,712 taken at the 2016 census.
History
Early hist... | {"Type": "city", "Name": "Portland", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Image": "PortlandBentinckStreet.JPG", "Caption": "Bentinck Street, looking north", "Locator Map Set to LGA Map": "yes", "Coordinates": "38 20 0 S 141 36 0 E inline,title", "Population": "10,016", "Population Year": "2021", "Established": "1834", "Postco... |
Fergus Stewart Ewing (born 23 September 1957) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy from 2016 to 2021, having previously held two junior ministerial posts. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999: for Inverness ... | {"Name": "Fergus Ewing", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2021", "Term start": "18 May 2016", "Term end": "20 May 2021", "First minister": "Nicola Sturgeon", "Office 2": "Minister for Community Safety", "First minister 2": "Alex Salmond", "Predecessor 2": "Johann Lamont", "Successor 2": "Roseanna Cunningham", "Birt... |
Ogier the Dane (; ) is a legendary paladin of Charlemagne who appears in many Old French chansons de geste. In particular, he features as the protagonist in La Chevalerie Ogier (ca. 1220), which belongs to the Geste de Doon de Mayence ("cycle of the rebellious vassals"; Doon is Ogier's grandfather). The first part of t... | {"First appearance": "The Song of Roland", "Based on": "Autcharius Francus, Adalgis, Othgerius Francus", "Weapon": "Cortain", "Nationality": "Danish"} |
Sky UK Limited is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of Sky Group and, from 2018 onwards, part of Comcast. It is the UK's largest pay... | {"Type": "Limited company", "Formerly": "British Sky Broadcasting Ltd (BSkyB)", "Founded": "1990 11 2 yes (as British Sky Broadcasting)", "Headquarters": "London, England, UKhttps://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02906991 SKY UK LIMITED - Overview (Free company information from Companies House)", "Subsidiaries": "... |
The Saab 99 is a car which was produced by Saab from 1968 to 1984; their first foray into a larger class than the 96. While considered a large family car in Scandinavia, it was marketed as a niche compact executive car in most other markets. It was manufactured both in Sweden and Finland and was succeeded by the Saab 9... | {"Manufacturer": "Saab Automobile", "Production": "1968-1984", "Class": "Compact executive car (D)", "Predecessor": "None", "Successor": "Saab 90Saab 900", "Length": "4340 mm in 1 on (coupe)", "Width": "1676 mm in 1 on (coupe)", "Height": "1450 mm in 1 on (coupe)", "Layout": "Longitudinal front-engine, front-wheel driv... |
The M4 carbine (officially Carbine, Caliber 5.56 mm, M4) is a 5.56×45mm NATO, gas-operated, magazine-fed carbine developed in the United States during the 1980s. It is a shortened version of the M16A2 assault rifle.
The M4 is extensively used by the United States Armed Forces, with decisions to largely replace the M16... | {"Place of origin": "United States", "Type": "Assault rifle Carbine", "Sights": "Iron sights or various optics", "In service": "1994-present", "Used by": "See Users", "Wars": "See Conflicts", "Designed": "1982-1993", "Manufacturer": "See Manufacturers", "Unit cost": "$700 (avg. cost)Curtis Rob http://militarytimes.co... |
Susan Haack (born 1945) is a distinguished professor in the humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy, and professor of law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Haack has written on logic, the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Her pragmatism fo... | {"Region": "Western philosophy", "Era": "Contemporary philosophy", "School": "AnalyticNeopragmatismPragmatism - Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyFoundherentism", "Institutions": "University of CambridgeUniversity of WarwickUniversity of Miami"} |
The Northern Ireland Assembly (; ), often referred to by the metonym Stormont, is the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland. It has power to legislate in a wide range of areas that are not explicitly reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and to appoint the Northern Ireland Executive. It sits at Parliamen... | {"Type": "Unicameral", "Seats": "90", "Salary": "£55,000 per year + expenses", "Preceded by": "Parliament of Northern Ireland (1921-1972)"} |
James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 - August 8, 1991) was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing. He was the 8th person to walk on the Moon and the first, and youngest, of those astronaut... | {"Rank": "USAFO6 25 Colonel,United States Air Force 23px", "Selection": "1966 NASA Group 5", "Missions": "Apollo 15", "Retirement": "July 31, 1972"} |
The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as "Queen's College, Belfast", and opened four years later.
Queen's offers approximat... | {"Motto": "Pro tanto quid retribuamus?", "Type": "Public research university", "Endowment": "£69.0 million (2022)", "Budget": "£434.9 million (2021-22)", "Chancellor": "Hillary Clintonhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-50970400 Hillary Clinton appointed chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast BBC News L... |
Tom the Dancing Bug is a weekly satirical comic strip by cartoonist and political commentator Ruben Bolling that covers mostly US current events from a liberal point of view. Tom the Dancing Bug won the 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008,Gardner, Alan. Ruben Bolling Wins Best Cartoon Award from AAN. The Daily Cartoonist (June 10,... | {"Author(s)": "Ruben Bolling", "Current status/schedule": "Weekly", "Syndicate(s)": "Quaternary Features (1990-1997)Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication (1997-present)", "Publisher(s)": "HarperPerennial, NBM Publishing, Andrews McMeel Publishing", "Genre(s)": "Humor, Politics, Satire", ... |
Ruben Bolling (born c. 1963 in New Jersey) is a pseudonym for Ken Fisher, an American cartoonist, the author of Tom the Dancing Bug. His work started out apolitical, instead featuring absurdist humor, parodying comic strip conventions, or critiquing celebrity culture. He came to increasingly satirize conservative polit... | {"Born": "New Jersey, U.S.Bolonik Kera http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/spring2006/features/feature2.html The World According to Ruben Bolling Tufts Magazine Spring 2016 2021-03-20.", "Nationality": "American", "Awards": "Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Best Cartoon, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009Socie... |
Not a Pretty Girl is the sixth studio album released by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco on her own record label, Righteous Babe Records. It was released July 18, 1995. The album extended the folk singer's early formula of acoustic guitar and drums. On subsequent records, DiFranco would add electric guitar, horns, band m... | {"Released": "July 18, 1995", "Genre": "Indie rock, folk rock", "Label": "Righteous Babe", "Producer": "Ani DiFranco"} |
Vlorë ( , ; ) is the third most populous city of the Republic of Albania and seat of Vlorë County and Vlorë Municipality. Located in southwestern Albania, Vlorë sprawls on the Bay of Vlorë and is surrounded by the foothills of the Ceraunian Mountains along the Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea Coasts. It experiences a M... | {"Type": "Mayor-council", "Body": "Vlorë Municipal Council", "DST": "+2", "Website": "http://www.vlora.gov.al vlora.gov.al"} |
The Taipei Times is a major English-language newspaper in Taiwan.
History
It is published by the Liberty Times Group and launched its first edition on 15 June 1999. The Taipei Times claims to be the third newspaper in English established on the island.
The Taipei Times has been involved in several controversies, ... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Founder(s)": "Lin Rong-San", "Format": "Broadsheet", "Owner(s)": "The Liberty Times Group", "Political alignment": "Pan-Green", "Publisher": "The Liberty Times Group", "Headquarters": "Taipei, Taiwan", "ISSN": "1563-9525", "Language": "English"} |
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province,Arkadiusz Belczyk,Tłumaczenie polskich nazw geograficznych na język angielski [Translation of Polish Geographical Names into English], 2002-2006. in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. The voivodeship was cr... | {"Density": "auto", "Urban density": "1986877", "ISO 3166 code": "PL-02", "Website": "www.umwd.dolnyslask.pl"} |
Richard A. "Dick" Grasso (born July 26, 1946 in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York) was chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2003. He started in 1968 when he was hired by the Exchange as a floor clerk.
He later became embroiled in controversies and lawsuits about his allegedly excess... | {"Name": "Richard Grasso", "Other names": "Dick Grasso", "Caption": "Richard “Dick” Grasso in 2005", "Birth date": "1946 7 26", "Birth place": "Jackson Heights, New York, U.S.", "Relatives": "John Mateer (cousin)", "Title": "CEO - New York Stock Exchange (1995-2003) Founder - Gladiator Holdings Inc.", "Occupation": "Bu... |
Swanage () is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns, approximately south of Poole and east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 9,601. Nearby are Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks,... | {"Population": "(2011)", "OS grid reference": "SZ0278", "Unitary authority": "Dorset", "Ceremonial county": "Dorset", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "BH19", "Dialling code": "01929", "UK Parliament": "South Dorset"} |
Peter Allen Greenbaum (29 October 194625 July 2020), known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. As the founder of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Green founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967 after a stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreak... | {"Born": "Bethnal Green, London, England", "Died": "Canvey Island, Essex, England", "Genres": "Blues rock\nblues\nrock\njazz fusion\npsychedelia", "Labels": "Epic\nReprise\nPVK\nCreole"} |
Eve is an American sitcom created by Meg DeLoatch that originally aired for three seasons on UPN from September 15, 2003, to May 11, 2006. Featuring an ensemble cast consisting of Eve, Jason George, Ali Landry, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Brian Hooks, and Sean Maguire, the show revolves around two sets of male and female fr... | {"Genre": "Sitcom", "Created by": "Meg DeLoatch", "Starring": "Eve\nJason George\nAli Landry\nNatalie Desselle-Reid\nBrian Hooks\nSean Maguire", "Opening theme": "\"The Opposite Sex\" by Missy Elliott", "Country of origin": "United States", "Camera setup": "Multi-camera", "Running time": "20-22 minutes", "Original netw... |
Whoopi is an American sitcom created by Bonnie and Terry Turner, starring Whoopi Goldberg that aired for one season on NBC. The series premiered on September 9, 2003, and ran until April 20, 2004. It was canceled by NBC in May 2004. The series revolved around the events and people at her hotel, the fictional Larchmont ... | {"Genre": "Sitcom", "Created by": "Bonnie and Terry Turner", "Developed by": "Whoopi Goldberg", "Directed by": "Terry Hughes", "Starring": "Whoopi Goldberg\nWren T. Brown\nElizabeth Regen\nOmid Djalili", "Opening theme": "\"Whoopi\" by Whoopi Goldberg", "Country of origin": "United States", "Camera setup": "Multi-camer... |
The Don River is a watercourse in southern Ontario that empties into Lake Ontario, at Toronto Harbour. Its mouth was just east of the street grid of the town of York, Upper Canada, the municipality that evolved into Toronto, Ontario. The Don is one of the major watercourses draining Toronto (along with the Humber, and ... | {"Mouth": "75 m on", "Location": "Ontario, Canada", "Coordinates": "43 39 4 N 79 20 51 W inline,title", "Basin size": "360 km2 on", "Left": "Taylor-Massey Creek", "Right": "German Mills Creek, Burke Brook, Mud Creek, Yellow Creek, Castle Frank Brook"} |
Las Vegas is an American comedy-drama television series created by Gary Scott Thompson. It was broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003, to February 15, 2008, airing for five seasons. It focuses on a team of people working at the Montecito, a fictional hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The employees deal with va... | {"Genre": "Comedy drama", "Created by": "Gary Scott Thompson", "Starring": "James Caan\n Josh Duhamel\n Nikki Cox\n James Lesure\n Vanessa Marcil\n Molly Sims\n Marsha Thomason\n Tom Selleck", "Opening theme": "\"A Little Less Conversation\" by Elvis Presley on US TV broadcasts (\"Let It Ride\" by Charlie Clouser was u... |
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons and 262 episodes, from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015. Originally starring Charlie Sheen in the lead role alongside Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones, the series was about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper,... | {"Genre": "Sitcom", "Running time": "21 minutes", "Camera setup": "Film; Multi-camera", "Created by": "Chuck Lorre\n Lee Aronsohn", "Cinematography": "Steven V. Silver\n Alan K. Walker (first pilot)\n Tony Askins (second pilot)\n Mark Davison", "Starring": "TaylorNote1 group=note/>\n April Bowlby\n Ashton Kutcher\n Amb... |
Paul van Buitenen (; born 28 May 1957) is a retired Dutch politician of the Europe Transparent Party who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009.
He was an assistant-auditor in the European Commission's Financial Control Directorate becoming the whistleblower who first drew the attention of a M... | {"Image": "Paul van Buitenen (NL, Breda, 28 mei 1957) former Dutch MEP and (before that) famous wistle blower in the EU..JPG", "Name": "Paul van Buitenen", "Term start": "20 July 2004", "Term end": "14 July 2009", "Birth date": "1957 5 28 y", "Birth place": "Breda, Netherlands", "Nationality": "Dutch", "Residence": "Br... |
Prince George of Denmark and Norway (; 2 April 165328 October 1708) was the husband of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. He was the consort of the British monarch from Anne's accession on 8 March 1702 until his death in 1708.
The marriage of George and Anne was arranged in the early 1680s with a view to developing an Angl... | {"Father": "Frederick III of Denmark", "Mother": "Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg", "Born": "Copenhagen Castle, Denmark-Norway", "Died": "Kensington Palace, London, England", "Burial": "Westminster Abbey", "Religion": "Protestant (Lutheran)"} |
(Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). The German title means "a little night music". The work is written for an ensemble of two violins, viola, cello and double bass, but is often performed by string orchestras. The serenad... | {"Other name": "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", "Key": "G major", "Catalogue": "K. 525", "Composed": "10 August 1787", "Published": "1827, Offenbach am Main", "Duration": "about 16 minutes", "Movements": "Four", "Scoring": "two violins viola cello double bass"} |
Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974) is the Director of Jesuit Refugee Service UK and a former British Member of Parliament and Minister. As a Liberal Democrat politician, she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay and was chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. On stepping d... | {"Name": "Sarah Teather", "Image caption": "Teather in 2009", "Birth name": "Sarah Louise Teather", "Birth date": "y 1974 06 01", "Birth place": "Enfield, London, England", "Term start": "13 May 2010", "Term end": "4 September 2012", "Office 2": "Islington London Borough Councillor", "Predecessor 2": "Sheila Camp", "Su... |
Malinao, officially the Municipality of Malinao (Aklanon: Banwa it Malinao; Hiligaynon: Banwa sang Malinao; ), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Aklan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,517 people.
History
Once an arrabal of the town of Banga to the east, Malinao's town... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
James Alan Bidgood (March 28, 1933 - January 31, 2022) was an American filmmaker, photographer and visual and performance artist, known for his highly stylized and homoerotic works.
Life and career
James Alan Bidgood was born in Stoughton, Wisconsin, and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. He moved to New York City in ... | {"Name": "James Bidgood", "Birth name": "James Alan Bidgood", "Birth date": "1933 3 28", "Birth place": "Stoughton, Wisconsin, U.S.", "Death date": "2022 1 31 1933 3 28", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Artist photographer filmmaker", "Notable works": "Pink Narcissus (1971)"} |
Micheál Mac Liammóir (born Alfred Willmore; 25 October 1899 - 6 March 1978) was an actor, designer, dramatist, writer, and impresario in 20th-century Ireland. Though born in London to an English family with no Irish connections, he emigrated to Ireland in early adulthood, changed his name, invented an Irish ancestry, a... | {"Name": "Micheál Mac Liammóir", "Caption": "Mac Liammóir in The Importance of Being Oscar", "Birth name": "Alfred Lee Willmore", "Birth date": "1899 10 25 y", "Birth place": "Willesden, Middlesex, England", "Death date": "1978 3 6 1899 10 25 y", "Occupation": "Actor, author, playwright, painter, poet, impresario", "Kn... |
Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar; 20 February 1867 - 4 January 1931) was the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom; she was a younger sister of King George V. Louise was given the title of Princess Royal in 1905. Known f... | {"Father": "Edward VII", "Mother": "Alexandra of Denmark", "Born": "Marlborough House, London", "Died": "Portman Square, London", "Burial": "Royal Vault, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 21 May 1931 St Ninian's Chapel, Braemar"} |
The 1900 Galveston hurricane, also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm, is the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. The strongest storm of the 1900 Atlantic hurricane season, it left between 6,000 and 12,000 fa... | {"Name": "1900 Galveston hurricane", "Image": "Galveston Hurricane (1900) SWA.JPG", "Caption": "Surface weather analysis of the hurricane on September 8, just before landfall.", "Alternate text": "A weather map showing the storm near Texas. Tight contour rings pressure are close to the center, indicating an intense hur... |
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Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfico y técnico. Entries for Paila criolla; Timbal crio... | {"Name": "Timbales", "Names": "Timbaleta, pailas, pailas criollas", "Caption": "Timbales with a single cowbell", "Background": "percussion", "Classification": "drum", "Hornbostel-Sachs": "percussion", "Hornbostel-Sachs Description": "membranophone", "Developed": "c. 1900 in Cuba", "Related": "Timpani, bongo drum"} |
was a Japanese fashion designer. He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which became his best-known product.
Life and career
Miyake was born on 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima. He was still living in the city seven years later when the U.S. military drop... | {"Caption": "Miyake in Tokyo, 2016", "Name": "Issey Miyake", "Birth date": "y 1938 04 22", "Birth place": "Hiroshima, Empire of Japan", "Birth name": "Kazunaru Miyake", "Death date": "y 2022 08 05 1938 04 22", "Education": "Tama Art University", "Notable works": "L'eau d'Issey, Pleats Please, Bao Bao bags", "Awards": "... |
Lambeth Palace is the official London residence of the archbishop of Canterbury. It is situated in north Lambeth, London, on the south bank of the River Thames, south-east of the Palace of Westminster, which houses Parliament, on the opposite bank.
History
thumb|upright=1.3|The Great Hall, St Mary-at-Lambeth, and the... | {"Type": "Archbishop's Palace", "Coordinates": "51 29 44 N 0 7 11 W region:GB inline,title dms", "Location": "Lambeth, London", "Architectural style(s)": "Tudor", "Owner": "See of Canterbury"} |
"Sonne" (German for "sun") is a song by German rock band Rammstein. It was released in February 2001, as the first single from their album Mutter. According to Till Lindemann, the song was originally written as an entrance song for the boxer Vitali Klitschko, whose surname was also the working title of the song.Rammste... | {"B-side": "\"Adios\" Remixes", "Released": "12 February 2001", "Recorded": "May and June 2000", "Studio": "Miraval (Correns, France)", "Genre": "Neue Deutsche Härte", "Label": "Motor", "Songwriter(s)": "Richard Kruspe Paul Landers Till Lindemann Christian Lorenz Oliver Riedel Christoph Schneider", "Producer(s)": "Jaco... |
Alan Samuel Colmes (September 24, 1950 - February 23, 2017) was an American radio and television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He was the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that was broadcast throughout the Uni... | {"Name": "Alan Colmes", "Caption": "Colmes in 2014", "Birth name": "Alan Samuel Colmes", "Birth date": "1950 9 24", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2017 2 23 1950 9 24", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Education": "Hofstra University", "Occupation": "Television and radio host, political comm... |
The Mono-Inyo Craters are a volcanic chain of craters, domes and lava flows in Mono County, Eastern California. The chain stretches from the northwest shore of Mono Lake to the south of Mammoth Mountain. The Mono Lake Volcanic Field forms the northernmost part of the chain and consists of two volcanic islands in the l... | {"Location": "Mono-Inyo Craters satellite image-annotated.jpeg", "Elevation": "9172", "Coordinates": "37 52 40 N 119 0 25 W type:mountain dms inline", "Length": "25"} |
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 - January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduc... | {"Name": "Emily Greene Balch", "Birth date": "1867 01 08", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "1961 01 09 1867 01 08", "Death place": "Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Writer, economist, professor", "Known For": "Nobel Peace Prize in 1946"} |
Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza (, ), often referred to as the Rinas International Airport, is one of the two main international airports of the Republic of Albania. It serves the city of Tirana, its metropolitan area, and surrounding region in the county of Tirana. The airport is named in honour of the Albani... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Tirana, Tirana County, Albania", "Location": "Rinas, Durrës County, Albania", "Hub": "Air Albania\nAlbawings\nWizz Air", "AMSL": "33", "Website": "https://www.tirana-airport.com/ tirana-airport.com", "Coordinates": "41 24 53 N 19 43 14 E region:AL inline,title"} |
Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (; born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; August 15, 1924 - September 5, 2016) was an American attorney, conservative activist, author, and anti-feminist spokesperson for the national conservative movement. She held paleoconservative social and political views, opposed feminism, gay rights and abortion,... | {"Name": "Phyllis Schlafly", "Caption": "Schlafly in 1977", "Birth name": "Phyllis McAlpin Stewart", "Birth date": "1924 8 15", "Birth place": "St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.Phyllis Schlafly profile http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5221/is_2005/ai_n19140122/print?tag=artBody;col1 UXL Newsmakers FindArticles.com 2... |
Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, (10 November 1849 - 29 January 1912) styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as the Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
Early life ... | {"Name": "The Duke of Fife", "Image caption": "The Duke of Fife, 1889", "Term start": "3 May 1880", "Term end": "21 January 1881", "Birth date": "1849 11 10 y", "Birth place": "Edinburgh, Scotland", "Death date": "1912 1 29 1849 11 10 y", "Death place": "Aswan, Egypt", "Resting place": "Royal Vault, St George's Chapel,... |
Joe Conason (born January 25, 1954)Profile, google.com; accessed August 17, 2016. is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The National Memo, a daily political newsletter and website that features breaking news and commentary. Since 2006, he has serve... | {"Born": "1954 1 25", "Occupation": "Journalist, author, commentator", "Alma mater": "Brandeis University", "Children": "2"} |
Robert David Sanders Novak (February 26, 1931 - August 18, 2009) was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press... | {"Caption": "Novak in 2002", "Birth name": "Robert David Sanders Novak", "Birth date": "1931 02 26", "Birth place": "Joliet, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "2009 08 18 1931 02 26", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Rosanna Hall (div. divorced) Geraldine (Williams) Novak 1962", "Alma mater": "Univ... |
thumb|The United States - Mexico Commission. Standing from left to right are: Stephen Bonsal, Attache of the State Department and Advisor to the American Commission; American Secretary of State Robert Lansing; Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican ambassador designate, and L.S. Rowe, the Secretary to the American Commission. S... | {"Name": "John Raleigh Mott", "Birth date": "yes 1865 5 25", "Birth place": "Livingston Manor, Sullivan County, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 1955 1 31 1865 5 25", "Death place": "Orlando, Florida, U.S.", "Caption": "Mott circa 1946", "Parent(s)": "John Mott, Sr.Elmira (Dodge) Mott", "Spouse(s)": "Leila Ada Whit... |
Taipei Songshan Airport is a regional airport and military airbase located in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. The airport covers an area of .
The civilian section of Songshan Airport has scheduled flights to domestic destinations in Taiwan and international destinations including Seoul, Tokyo, and select cities in... | {"Airport type": "Public / Military", "Serves": "Greater Taipei", "Location": "Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan", "Opened": "1936 y n n", "Hub": "Uni Air", "AMSL": "yes", "Coordinates": "25 04 10 N 121 33 06 E type:airport_region:TW inline,title", "Website": "www.tsa.gov.tw"} |
Donny Lalonde (born March 12, 1960) is a retired professional
boxer. His nickname is "Golden Boy," after the Golden Boy statue atop the Manitoba Legislative Building in his boxing home town of Winnipeg. Lalonde held the WBC Light Heavyweight Championship from 1987 to 1988.
Early career
Lalonde was born in Kitchener, O... | {"Nickname(s)": "Golden Boy", "Real name": "Donald Drew Lalonde", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Weight(s)": "Light HeavyweightCruiserweight", "Born": "Kitchener, Ontario, Canada", "Stance": "Orthodox", "Total fights": "47", "Wins": "41", "Wins by KO": "33", "Losses": "5", "Draws": "1", "No contests": "0"} |
Isabela, officially the City of Isabela (Chavacano: Ciudad de Isabela; Tausūg: Dāira sin Isabela; Yakan: Suidad Isabelahin; ), is a 4th class Independent component city and de facto capital of the province of Basilan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 130,379 people.
It is also colloqui... | {"Named for": "Isabella II of Spain", "Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
Scotty Maurice Pippen Sr. (born September 25, 1965), usually spelled Scottie Pippen, is an American former professional basketball player. He played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Considered one of the greatest small forwards of all time, P... | {"Born": "Hamburg, Arkansas, U.S.", "Listed height": "8", "Listed weight": "https://stats.nba.com/player/937/career/ Scottie Pippen National Basketball Association September 25, 2020 September 25, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200925082045/https://stats.nba.com/player/937/career/ live", "High school": "Hamburg (Ha... |
Horace Junior Grant Sr. (born July 4, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who is a special advisor for Michael Reinsdorf, the president and chief operating officer of the Chicago Bulls. He played college basketball at Clemson University before playing professionally in the National Basketball Ass... | {"Listed height": "10", "Listed weight": "245", "Conference": "NBA", "Position": "Special advisor", "Born": "Augusta, Georgia, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "High school": "Hancock Central (Sparta, Georgia)", "College": "Clemson (1983-1987)"} |
Dealey Plaza is a city park in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is sometimes called the "birthplace of Dallas". It was also the location of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963; 30 minutes after the shooting, Kennedy was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital. The Dealey Plaz... | {"Location": "Roughly bounded by Pacific Ave., Market St., Jackson St. and right of way of Dallas Right of Way Management Company, Dallas, Texas", "Built": "1890", "Architect": "Multiple", "Architectural style": "Chicago, Early Commercial, Romanesque", "Area": "15 acre"} |
Benjamin Roy Armstrong Jr. (born September 9, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player. Armstrong won three National Basketball Association (NBA) championships during his career as a point guard for the Chicago Bulls.
Early life
Armstrong was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended Brother Rice High S... | {"Listed height": "2", "Listed weight": "185", "Born": "Detroit, Michigan, U.S.", "High school": "Brother Rice(Bloomfield Hills, Michigan)", "College": "Iowa (1985-1989)"} |
Toni Kukoč (; born September 18, 1968) is a Croatian former professional basketball player who serves as Special Advisor to Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner of the Chicago Bulls. After a highly successful period in European basketball, he was one of the first established European stars to play in the National Basketball Asso... | {"Conference": "NBA", "Position": "Special advisor", "Born": "Split, Croatia", "Nationality": "Croatian", "Listed height": "10", "Listed weight": "https://www.nba.com/stats/player/389/passes-dash/ Toni Kukoč NBA.com December 10, 2020"} |
Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy that follows the misadventures of a suburban boy, his family and his friends. It stars Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers ("as The Beaver", as the opening credits put it).
CBS first broadcast the show on October 4, 1957, but drop... | {"Genre": "Sitcom, children's television series", "Created by": "Joe ConnellyBob Mosher", "Starring": "Hugh BeaumontBarbara BillingsleyTony DowJerry Mathers", "Opening theme": "\"The Toy Parade\"", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "30 minutes", "Original network": "CBS (1957-58)ABC (1958-63)", "Cam... |
Vlade Divac (, ; born February 3, 1968) is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player who was most recently the vice president of basketball operations and general manager of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Divac spent most of his playing career in the NBA. At , he... | {"Name": "Vlade Divac", "Native name": "Владе Дивац", "Native name language": "sr-Cyrl", "Image size": "225px", "Image caption": "Divac in 2016", "Birth date": "1968 02 03", "Birth place": "Prijepolje, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia", "Nationality": "Serbian", "Term start": "2009", "Term end": "2017"} |
Bevagna is a town and comune in the central part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria), in the flood plain of the Topino river.
Bevagna is south-east of Perugia, west of Foligno, north-north-west of Montefalco, south of Assisi and north-west of Trevi.
It has a population of c. 5,000, with the town of Bevag... | {"Name": "Bevagna", "Official name": "Comune di Bevagna", "Image caption": "Piazza Silvestri", "Coordinates": "42 56 25 N 12 36 34 E inline,title", "Region": "Umbria", "Province": "Perugia", "Frazioni": "Cantalupo, Gaglioli, Limigiano, Torre del Colle, Campofondo, Castelbuono, Madonna della Pia", "Mayor": "Annarita Fal... |
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas. With a population of 7,122,240 in 2020, Greater Houston... | {"Density": "2,978.5", "Urban density": "5,853,575(5th)", "DST": "-5", "Rank": "430"} |
Bunjevci (, ; , ) are a South Slavic sub-ethnic group living mostly in the Bačka area of northern Serbia and southern Hungary (Bács-Kiskun County), particularly in Baja and surroundings, in Croatia (e.g. Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Lika-Senj County, Slavonia, Split-Dalmatia County, Vukovar-Srijem County), and in Bosn... | {"Name": "Bunjevci", "Population": "Unknown", "Languages": "Serbo-Croatian (Bunjevac)", "Religions": "Roman Catholicism", "Related ethnic groups": "Šokci, Croats and other South Slavs"} |
Kim Christian Beazley (born 14 December 1948) is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, having previously been a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments. After leaving parliament, he ... | {"Name": "Kim Beazley", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2010s", "Term start": "1 May 2018", "Term end": "30 June 2022", "Birth name": "Kim Christian Beazley", "Birth date": "yes 1948 12 14", "Birth place": "Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia", "Spouse(s)": "Mary Ciccarelli 1974 1988 div. Susie Annus 1990", "Edu... |
Donald Winfred Ohlmeyer Jr. (February 3, 1945September 10, 2017) was an American television producer and president of the NBC network's west coast division. He received notoriety for firing Norm Macdonald from Saturday Night Live in early 1998, a move that is widely believed to have been motivated by Macdonald's refusa... | {"Name": "Don Ohlmeyer", "Birth name": "Donald Winfred Ohlmeyer Jr.", "Birth date": "1945 02 03", "Birth place": "New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.", "Death date": "2017 09 10 1945 02 03", "Death place": "Indian Wells, California, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of Notre Dame", "Occupation": "Entertainment executive, live ... |
Jean-Baptiste Bessières (; 6 August 1768 - 1 May 1813), 1st Duke of Istria (Duc d'Istrie), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. His younger brother, Bertrand, followed in his footsteps and eventually became a divisional ... | {"Born": "Prayssac, Kingdom of France", "Died": "Weißenfels, Kingdom of Saxony", "Allegiance": "Kingdom of the French Kingdom of FranceFrench First RepublicFirst French Empire", "Awards": "Grand Cross of the Legion of HonourCommander of the Order of the Iron CrownGrand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg CrownGrand C... |
Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 - July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backing singers, most notably Frank Sinatra.
Biography
Edison was born in Columbus, Oh... | {"Born": "Columbus, Ohio, U.S.", "Died": "Columbus, Ohio, U.S.", "Genres": "Jazz, swing", "Labels": "Pacific Jazz, Verve, Roulette, Riverside, Vee-Jay, Liberty, Sue, Black & Blue, Pablo, Storyville, Candid"} |
Kim Edward Beazley (30 September 1917 - 12 October 2007) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1945 to 1977, representing the Labor Party. He was Minister for Education in the Whitlam government from 1972 to 1975.
Early life and education
Beazley, the youngest of sev... | {"Name": "Kim Beazley", "Image caption": "Beazley in 1971", "Term start": "19 December 1972", "Term end": "11 November 1975", "Office 2": "Member of the Australian Parliament for Fremantle", "Predecessor 2": "John Curtin", "Successor 2": "John Dawkins", "Birth name": "Kim Edward Beazley", "Birth date": "1917 9 30 y", "... |
HSBC Holdings plc (former name: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with unique historical and business links to East Asia and a highly multinational footprint. It is the largest Europe-based bank by total assets, ahea... | {"Type": "Public limited company", "Industry": "Financial services", "Products": "Asset management\n Banking\n Commodities\n Credit cards\n Equities trading\n Insurance\n Investment banking\n Investment management\n Mortgage loans\n Mutual funds\n Private equity\n Securities services\n Risk management\n We... |
thumb|Kzinti on the cover of Man-Kzin Wars III.
The Kzinti (singular: Kzin) are a fictional, warlike, and bloodthirsty race of cat-like aliens in Larry Niven's Known Space series.
The Kzinti were initially introduced in Niven's story "The Warriors" (originally in Worlds of If (1966), collected in Tales of Known Space ... | {"Created by": "Larry Niven", "Genre": "Science fiction", "Type": "Planet", "Locations": "Blood-of-Chwarambr City, Patriarch's Harem", "Race(s)": "Kzinti, slave races", "Characters": "Kzinti Patriarch, Speaker-to-Animals, Chuut-Riit, Traat-Admiral, Kdapt-Preacher, Eater-of-Grass"} |
Taiwan News (formerly China News) is an English-language online newspaper and former print newspaper in Taiwan. Its editorial position shifted to pan-Green after I-Mei Foods acquired a majority stake. I-Mei also publishes the Chinese-language news weekly of the same name.
History
China News was founded on 6 June 1949... | {"Type": "Online newspaper", "Format": "Online", "Owner(s)": "I-Mei Foods", "Political alignment": "Pan-Green", "Publisher": "Luis Ko", "Headquarters": "Taipei, Taiwan", "Website": "taiwannews.com.tw"} |
China Post, legally the China Post Group Corporation (中国邮政集团有限公司改制公告 (Announcement on the restructure of China Post Group Company)), is the state-owned enterprise operating the official postal service of China, which provides the service in mainland China, excluding its special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Mac... | {"Type": "State-owned enterprise, Limited company", "Founded": "1949", "Headquarters": "No. A3 Jinrong Street,Xicheng District, Beijing, China", "Industry": "Courier", "Services": "Letter post, parcel service, EMS, delivery, freight forwarding, third-party logistics, deposit account", "Revenue": "US$89.347 billion", "S... |
Phan Văn Khải (; 25 December 1933 - 17 March 2018) was a Vietnamese politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Vietnam from 25 September 1997 until his resignation on 27 June 2006. He is considered as a technocratic, innovative and benevolent leader.
Life and career
Phan Văn Khải was born on 25 December 1933... | {"Name": "Phan Văn Khải", "Term start": "24 September 1997", "Term end": "27 June 2006", "Birth date": "1933 12 25 yes", "Birth place": "Củ Chi District,http://www.nhandan.com.vn/chinhtri/item/35821402-tom-tat-tieu-su-dong-chi-phan-van-khai-nguyen-uy-vien-bo-chinh-tri-nguyen-thu-tuong-chinh-phu-nuoc-cong-hoa-xa-hoi-chu... |
The PenPoint OS was a product of GO Corporation and was one of the earliest operating systems written specifically for graphical tablets and personal digital assistants. It ran on AT&T Corporation's EO Personal Communicator as well as a number of Intel x86 powered tablet PCs including IBM's ThinkPad 700T series, NCR's... | {"Developer": "GO Corporation", "Source model": "Closed source", "Platforms": "EO Personal Communicator, IBM's ThinkPad 700T series, NCR's 3125, 3130 and some of GRiD Systems' pen-based portables", "Defaultuser interface": "Graphical user interface", "Initial release": "1991", "Marketing target": "Tablet computer", "Av... |
The Liberty Times is a national newspaper published in Taiwan. Founded by Lin Rong-San, it is published by the Liberty Times Group, which also publishes Taipei Times, an English language newspaper. The newspaper was first published on 17 April 1980, as Liberty Daily, before adopting its current name in 1987.
It is one... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Format": "Broadsheet", "Political alignment": "Pan-Green", "Publisher": "Liberty Times Group", "Circulation": "2,810,000", "Headquarters": "Taipei, Taiwan", "Language": "Chinese", "Website": "ltn.com.tw\nlibertytimes.com.tw"} |
Joe Frank Edwards Jr. (born February 3, 1958), (Cmdr, USN, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer,former naval officer, aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut.
Early life and education
Edwards was born February 3, 1958, in Richmond, Virginia, but considers both Lineville, and Roanoke Alabama to be his hometowns. He... | {"Rank": "Commander, USN", "Selection": "1994 NASA Group 15", "Missions": "STS-89", "Retirement": "April 30, 2000"} |
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spi... | {"Born": "1926 3 3", "Died": "1995 2 6 1926 3 3", "Occupation": "Poet", "Alma mater": "The Lawrenceville School Amherst College", "Relatives": "Charles E. Merrill, Jr. (brother) Peter Magowan (nephew)", "Notable awards": "Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award, Bollingen Prize"} |
The International Boxing Organization (IBO) is a US based corporation that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and regional championships.
It is an independent and well-known organization not recognized by the "big four" governing bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO), who only recognize each other in the... | {"Abbreviation": "IBO", "Type": "Corporation", "Headquarters": "Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.", "Website": "iboboxing.com"} |
Sir William Edward Parry (19 December 1790 - 8 July 1855) was an Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his 1819-1820 expedition through the Parry Channel, probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage, until it was finally negotiated by Roald Amundsen in 1906. In 1827, Parry attempt... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Name": "Edward Parry", "Honorific suffix": "GBR FRS 100%", "Image caption": "portrait by Charles Skottowe", "Birth name": "William Edward Parry", "Birth date": "1790 12 19 y", "Birth place": "Bath, Somerset, England", "Death date": "1855 07 08 1790 12 19 y", "Death place": "Bad Ems, Kingdom... |
Herbert Vere Evatt, (30 April 1894 - 2 November 1965) was an Australian politician and judge. He served as a judge of the High Court of Australia from 1930 to 1940, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs from 1941 to 1949, and leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and Leader of the Opposition from 195... | {"Name": "Dr Herbert Evatt", "Term start": "19 December 1930", "Term end": "2 September 1940", "Order 2": "15th Leader of the Opposition", "Prime minister 2": "Robert Menzies", "Deputy 2": "Arthur Calwell", "Predecessor 2": "Ben Chifley", "Successor 2": "Arthur Calwell", "Birth name": "Herbert Vere Evatt", "Birth date"... |
Hang Seng Bank Limited () is a Hong Kong-based banking and financial services company with headquarters in Central, Hong Kong. It is one of Hong Kong's leading public companies in terms of market capitalisation and is part of the HSBC Group, which holds a majority equity interest in the bank.
Hang Seng Bank is a comm... | {"Type": "Public", "Parent": "HSBC Group (62.14%)", "Founded": "yes 1933 03 03", "Headquarters": "Hang Seng Bank Headquarters Building, Central, Hong Kong", "Industry": "Finance and insurance", "Products": "Financial services", "Website": "hangseng.com"} |
Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, , Royal Sporting Club Mallorca), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands. Founded on 5 March 1916, they currently compete in La Liga, holding home games at the Estad... | {"Full name": "Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D.", "Founded": "yes 1916 3 5 as Alfonso XIII Foot-Ball Club", "Nickname(s)": "Los Piratas (The Pirates) Los Bermellones (The Vermilions) Els Barralets (The Barralet)", "Capacity": "23,142 - RCD Mallorca Official Page", "League": "Mallorca", "Website": "http://www.rcdm... |
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The agency focuses on minimizing human health risks associated with exposure to hazardous substances. It works closely with other federal, state, and local age... | {"Formed": "December 31, 1980 (authorized)\n April 19, 1983 (created)\n June 11, 1985 (formally organized)", "Jurisdiction": "Federal government of the United States", "Headquarters": "33.8788 N 84.2923 W type:landmark_region:US inline,title", "Employees": "228 FTE (FY2022)ATSDR 2021 Department of Health and Human Se... |
Porthmadog (; ), originally Portmadoc until 1974 and locally as "Port", is a coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, Wales, and the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It lies east of Criccieth, south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north of Dolgellau and south of Caernarfon. The community populati... | {"Sovereign state": "Wales", "Population": "(2011)", "Community": "Porthmadog", "Principal area": "Gwynedd", "Preserved county": "Gwynedd", "Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament": "Dwyfor Meirionnydd", "UK Parliament": "Dwyfor Meirionnydd", "Postcode district": "LL", "Dialling code": "01766", "OS grid reference": "SH565385"... |
William George Hayden (born 23 January 1933) is an Australian politician who served as the 21st governor-general of Australia from 1989 to 1996. He was Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1977 to 1983, and served as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade from 1983 to 1988 under Bob Hawke and as... | {"Name": "Bill Hayden", "Term start": "16 February 1989", "Term end": "16 February 1996", "Order 2": "Leader of the Labor Party", "Deputy 2": "Lionel Bowen", "Predecessor 2": "Gough Whitlam", "Successor 2": "Bob Hawke", "Birth name": "William George Hayden", "Birth date": "1933 1 23 y", "Birth place": "Spring Hill, Que... |
The Australian Alps montane grasslands is a montane grassland ecoregion of south-eastern Australia, restricted to the montane regions above 1300 metres (the upper altitudinal limit of Eucalyptus pauciflora).
thumb|right|Mount Ginini in Namadgi National Park
Location and description
The Australian Alps occupy less ... | {"Realm": "Australasian", "Coordinates": "12,330", "Conservation status": "Relatively stable/intact", "Protected": ")Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534-545; Supplemental material 2 table ... |
Sir John Ross (24 June 1777 - 30 August 1856) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarctica.
Biography
Early life
John Ross was born in Balsarroch, West Galloway, Scotland, on , the son of ... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Name": "John Ross", "Honorific suffix": "GBR CB 100%", "Birth date": "1777 06 24 y", "Birth place": "Kirkcolm, Wigtown, Scotland", "Death date": "1856 08 30 1777 06 24 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Awards": "Founder's Medal (1834)\n Knight Commander of the Order of the Sword (1834... |
Willapa Bay () is a bay located on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States. The Long Beach Peninsula separates Willapa Bay from the greater expanse of the Pacific Ocean. With over of surface area Willapa Bay is the second-largest riverine estuary on the Pacific coast of the continental Un... | {"Location": "Pacific Ocean", "Coordinates": "46 39 44 N 124 0 38 W region:US_type:waterbody_scale:500000 inline, title", "River sources": "Bone River, Niawiakum River, Palix River, Naselle River, Bear River", "Ocean/sea sources": "Pacific Ocean", "Basin": "United States"} |
(from German "to swing"), also known as Swiss wrestling (French ) and natively (and colloquially) as (Swiss German for "breeches-lifting"), is a style of folk wrestling native to Switzerland, more specifically the pre-alpine parts of German-speaking Switzerland. Wrestlers wear ("wrestling breeches") with belts that ... | {"Also known as": "Swiss Wrestling\nAlpine wrestling\nHosenlupf", "Focus": "Grappling", "Country of origin": "Switzerland Switzerland", "Olympic sport": "No"} |
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z, but can read and write several others.
The program can be used from a Wind... | {"Developer(s)": "Igor Pavlovhttps://www.drdobbs.com/dr-dobbs-data-compression-newsletter/184405338 A Few Questions for Igor Pavlov 2003-04-30 Dr. Dobb's Data Compression Newsletter 2023-03-28", "Initial release": "1999 7 19 yeshttps://7-zip.org/history.txt History of 7-zip changes 7-Zip 20.02 alpha 8 August 202... |
New Westminster (colloquially known as New West) is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District. It was founded by Major-General Richard Moody as the capital of the Colony of British Columbia in 1858 and continued in that role until... | {"Founded by": "Richard Moody", "Named for": "City of Westminster", "Type": "Mayor-council government", "Body": "New Westminster City Council", "Land": "15.62", "Density": "5052.4", "DST": "-07:00"} |
Rex Applegate (June 21, 1914 - July 14, 1998) was an American military officer who worked for the Office of Strategic Services, where he trained Allied special forces personnel in close-quarters combat during World War II. He held the rank of colonel.
Early life
Applegate was born on June 21, 1914, in Oregon. He was ... | {"Born": "1914 6 21", "Died": "1998 7 14 1914 6 21", "Occupation": "Author and journalist", "Nationality": "American", "Period": "1943-1998", "Children": "Shannon Applegate (daughter), Rex Applegate (son), Lisha Allen (daughter)"} |
Atom Egoyan (; ; born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker. He was part of a loosely affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Egoyan's... | {"Name": "Atom Egoyan", "Post-nominals": "100% CC", "Caption": "Egoyan in 2016", "Birth name": "Atom Yeghoyan", "Birth date": "1960 7 19", "Birth place": "Cairo, United Arab Republic (now Egypt)", "Citizenship": "Canada Armenia (from 2018)PM Pashinyan hands Armenian passports to Arsinée Khanjian and Atom Egoyan https:... |
The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle-Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct, built by the Midland Railway, is north-west of Skipton and south-east of Kendal. It is a Grade II* listed structure. Ribblehead Viaduct is t... | {"Crosses": "Batty Moss", "Owner": "Network Rail", "Maintained by": "Network Rail", "Designer": "John Sydney Crossley", "Total length": "440 yd m", "Height": "104 ft m", "Construction start": "12 October 1870", "Coordinates": "54.210436 -2.370231 inline,title"} |
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission or CEA (French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. The CEA maintains a cro... | {"Formed": "1945 10 18 y by Charles de Gaulle", "Headquarters": "Paris and Gif-sur-Yvette, France", "Annual budget": "5.1 billion yes (2020)", "Website": "https://www.cea.fr/english cea.fr (en)"} |
In computing, DGCA is a freeware compression utility created in 2001 by . DGCA is also a compressed archive format, the next generation of 'GCA'. DGCA has a better compression ratio than ZIP, stronger encryption and Unicode filenames. However, DGCA is not a major compression format.
See also
List of archive formats
Co... | {"Name": "DGCA", "Extension": ".dgc", "MIME type": "application/x-dgc-compressed", "Developed by": "Shin-ichi Tsuruta", "Type of format": "data compression"} |
Lieutenant-Colonel William Ewart Fairbairn (; 28 February 1885 - 20 June 1960) was a British Royal Marine and police officer. He developed hand-to-hand combat methods for the Shanghai Police during the interwar period, as well as for the Allied special forces during World War II. He created his own fighting system know... | {"Name": "William E. Fairbairn", "Caption": "Fairbairn in 1942", "Birth name": "William Ewart Fairbairn", "Birth date": "1885 02 28 y", "Death date": "1960 06 20 1885 02 28 y", "Birth place": "Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England", "Death place": "Worthing, Sussex, England", "Occupation": "Royal Marines, Shanghai Muni... |
Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F minor, known as the "Farewell" Symphony (; modern orthography: ), is a symphony dated 1772 on the autograph score. A typical performance of the symphony lasts around twenty-five minutes.
The autograph manuscript of the symphony is preserved in the National Széchényi Library in Budap... | {"Other name": "Farewell Symphony", "Period": "Classical period", "Composed": "1772", "Duration": "About 25 minutes", "Movements": "Four", "Scoring": "Orchestra"} |
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