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Geek Love is a novel by American writer Katherine Dunn, published completely by Alfred A. Knopf (a division of Random House) in 1989. Dunn published parts of the novel in Mississippi Mud Book of Days (1983) and Looking Glass Bookstore Review (1988). It was a finalist for the National Book Award.Abernethy, Michael. "Fam... | {"Cover artist": "David Hughes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Catherine Marshal", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "Pages": "368", "ISBN": "0-394-56902-4"} |
The Hunger Project (THP), founded in 1977 with the stated goal of ending world hunger in 25 years, is an organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. It has ongoing programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where it implements programs aimed at mobilizing rural grassroots communities to achieve sus... | {"Type": "501(c)(3) non-profit", "Industry": "charitable organization", "Revenue": "$17,863,018 USD (2017)", "Founded": "1977", "Headquarters": "New York, New York", "Website": "http://www.thp.org/"} |
Dangerously in Love is the debut solo studio album by American singer Beyoncé. It was released on June 23, 2003, by Columbia Records and Music World Entertainment.
During the recording of Destiny's Child's third studio album Survivor (2001), the group announced that each member would produce solo albums. Recording ses... | {"Released": "2003 6 23 y", "Recorded": "2000\"Dangerously in Love 2\" was first recorded in 2000 for Destiny's Child's third studio album Survivor (2001). Its instrumentals were subsequently reworked and re-recorded in 2002 for Dangerously in Love. March 2002-March 2003", "Studio": "BaselineTracks 4 and 10 Right Track... |
Henryk Zygalski (; 15 July 1908 - 30 August 1978) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II.
Life
Zygalski was born on 15 July 1908 in Posen, German Empire (now Poznań, Poland). He was, from September 1932, a civilian cryptologist with the P... | {"Name": "Henryk Zygalski", "Caption": "Henryk Zygalski about 1930", "Birth date": "1908 07 15 y", "Birth place": "Posen, German Empire (now Poznań, Poland)", "Death date": "1978 08 30 1908 07 15 y", "Death place": "Liss, England", "Nationality": "Polish", "Occupation": "Mathematician, cryptologist", "Known For": "Solv... |
The Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123, is a Solemn Mass composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819 to 1823. It was first performed on 7 April 1824 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, under the auspices of Beethoven's patron Prince Nikolai Galitzin; an incomplete performance was given in Vienna on 7 May 1824, when the Kyrie, ... | {"Key": "D major", "Opus": "123", "Text": "Mass ordinary", "Language": "Latin", "Dedication": "Rudolf of Austria", "Performed": "1824 04 07 y Saint Petersburg", "Scoring": "soloists choir orchestra"} |
George Joshua Richard Monbiot ( ; born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and is the author of a number of books.
Monbiot grew up in Oxfordshire and studied zoology at the University of Oxford. He then began a career in i... | {"Name": "George Monbiot", "Caption": "Monbiot in 2013", "Birth date": "yes 1963 1 27", "Birth place": "London, England", "Alma mater": "Brasenose College, Oxford", "Occupation": "Journalist", "Spouse(s)": "Angharad Penrhyn Jones 2006 2010 div", "Children": "2", "Awards": "United Nations Global 500 Award (1995)", "Webs... |
thumb|262px|Sandy Hook, part of the Gateway National Recreation Area
Sandy Hook is a barrier spit in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The barrier spit, approximately in length and varying from wide, is located at the north end of the Jersey Shore. It encloses the southern entrance of ... | {"Location": "Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States", "Offshore water bodies": "Atlantic Ocean (to the east)Shrewsbury River (to the west)", "Surface elevation": "-->", "Length": "6 mi", "Width": "0.1 to 1.0 mi", "Total": "2,044 acres", "Depth": "250 to 300 ftCoreholes Reveal Glacial and Postg... |
Benita Ferrero-Waldner (born 5 September 1948) is an Austrian diplomat and politician, and a member of the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Ferrero-Waldner served as Foreign Minister of Austria 2000-2004 and was the candidate of the Austrian People's Party in the 2004 Austrian presidential election, which sh... | {"Name": "Benita Ferrero-Waldner", "Term start": "22 November 2004", "Term end": "9 February 2010", "Office 2": "European Commissioner for External Relations", "President 2": "José Manuel Barroso", "Predecessor 2": "The Lord Patten of Barnes", "Successor 2": "Catherine Ashton (High Representative for Foreign Affairs an... |
Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru (11 September 1917 - 27 September 2012), known professionally as Herbert Lom (), was a Czech-British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he generally appeared in character roles, often portraying criminals or suave v... | {"Name": "Herbert Lom", "Caption": "Lom in a 1940s publicity photo", "Birth name": "Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru", "Birth date": "1917 9 11 yes", "Birth place": "Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary", "Death date": "2012 9 27 1917 9 11 yes", "Death place": "Camden, London, England", "Nati... |
Heiligenkreuz Abbey (; ) is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, c. 13 km north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world.
History
The monastery was founded in 1133 by Margrave St. Leopold III of ... | {"Location": "Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria", "Geographic coordinates": "48.05510 16.13122 inline,title", "Affiliation": "Roman Catholic Church", "Year consecrated": "Abbey Church (1187)Monastery complex (1240)", "Status": "Active", "Architect(s)": "Giovanni Giuliani", "Type": "Abbey", "Style": "Cistercian, Gothic, Roma... |
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Bliss Dandridge ( Taylor; April 20, 1824 – July 25, 1909), was the youngest of the three surviving daughters of President Zachary Taylor and Margaret Smith.
In 1848, after her father was elected president, Mary Elizabeth married William Wallace Smith Bliss, an army officer who had served ... | {"Name": "Mary Elizabeth Bliss", "Birth name": "Mary Elizabeth Taylor", "Birth date": "1824 4 20", "Birth place": "Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.", "Death date": "1909 7 25 1824 4 20", "Spouse(s)": "William Wallace Smith Bliss December 5, 1848 August 5, 1853 d\n Philip Pendleton Dandridge February 11, 1858 1881 d", "Parent... |
John Robert Stillman (July 11, 1946 - April 7, 2009), billed professionally as Jack Wrangler, was an American gay and straight pornographic film actor, theatrical producer, director and writer. Open about his homosexuality and adult film work throughout his career, Wrangler was considered an icon of the gay-liberation ... | {"Birth name": "John Robert Stillman", "Birth date": "1946 7 11 y", "Birth place": "Beverly Hills, California, U.S.", "Death date": "2009 4 7 1946 7 11 y", "Death place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Other names": "Jack Stillman", "Alma mater": "Northwestern University", "Occupation": "Actor, director and producer... |
The Pontiac Solstice is a sports car that was produced by Pontiac. Introduced at the 2004 North American International Auto Show, the Solstice roadster began production in Wilmington, Delaware, starting in mid-2005 for the 2006 model year. It is powered by a naturally aspirated 2.4 L I4 engine, producing and of torqu... | {"Manufacturer": "General Motors", "Production": "2005-2010 (65,724 Units)", "Assembly": "Wilmington, Delaware (Wilmington Assembly)", "Class": "Sports car", "Layout": "FR layout", "Platform": "GM Kappa platformGMX020 (roadster) GMX627 (coupe)", "Predecessor": "Pontiac Fiero", "Body style": "2-door roadster\n2-door cou... |
Fahreta Živojinović (; ; born 20 October 1960), known by her stage name Lepa Brena (), is a Yugoslav singer, actress, and businesswoman. With around 25 million sold records, she is regarded as the commercially most successful recording artist from the former Yugoslavia. Brena is also often credited with creating the tu... | {"Name": "Lepa Brena", "Native name": "Лепа Брена", "Native name language": "sr-Cyrl", "Caption": "Brena performing in the Belgrade Arena, 20 October 2011", "Birth name": "Fahreta Jahić", "Other names": "Fahreta Živojinović", "Birth date": "1960 10 20 y", "Birth place": "Tuzla, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia... |
MEPIS was a set of Linux distributions, distributed as Live CDs or DVDs that could be installed onto a hard disk drive. MEPIS was started by Warren Woodford and MEPIS LLC.
The most popular MEPIS distribution was SimplyMEPIS, which was based primarily on Debian stable, with the last version of SimplyMEPIS being based ... | {"Developer": "Warren Woodford", "OS family": "Linux (Unix-like)", "Working state": "Inactive", "Platforms": "IA-32, x86-64", "Initial release": "2003 05", "Update method": "APT", "Kernel": "Monolithic", "Defaultuser interface": "KDE Plasma Desktop", "License": "Various", "Official website": "http://www.mepis.org/"} |
Christopher Robert Lionel Abrahams (born 1961, Oamaru, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born, Australian-based musician. He is a founding mainstay member of experimental, jazz trio the Necks (1987-present), collaborated with Melanie Oxley as a soul pop duo (1989-2003), and has issued ten solo albums.
Biography
Early ... | {"Born": "Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand", "Origin": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Genres": "Jazz experimental krautrock electronic", "Labels": "Hot/Making Waves Vegetable/Vitamin Room40 Vegetable/MGM", "Member of": "The Necks"} |
The Treaty of London (1913) was signed on 30 May following the London Conference of 1912-1913. It dealt with the territorial adjustments arising out of the conclusion of the First Balkan War. The London Conference had ended on 23 January 1913, when the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état took place and Ottoman Grand Vizier Kâmil ... | {"Name": "Treaty of London", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Borders of the Balkan states after the Treaty of London and the Treaty of Bucharest", "Date signed": "30 May 1913", "Location signed": "London, United Kingdom", "Signatories": "Kingdom of Bulgaria\n Kingdom of Serbia\n Kingdom of Greece\n Kingdom of ... |
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War is a 1999 book by journalist Mark Bowden. It documents efforts by the Unified Task Force to capture Somali faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, and the resulting battle in Mogadishu between United States forces and Aidid's militia. One of the key events is the downing of t... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Signet Books", "Media type": "HardcoverTrade paperback", "Pages": "392", "ISBN": "978-0-87113-738-8"} |
Jamboree on the Trail, known by its acronym JOTT,Jamboree on the Trail is a co-ordinated international Scouting activity held annually, following on the idea of the Join-in events from the World Jamboree Year. Scouts from all over the world simultaneously participate in their local area by holding a hiking event.
The... | {"Genre": "Scouting activity", "Frequency": "2nd Saturday in May", "Location(s)": "International", "Website": "jamboreeonthetrail.org"} |
The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the New Songhees 1A Indian... | {"Type": "Municipal council", "Density": "2,476.7", "DST": "-07:00", "Website": "www.esquimalt.ca"} |
Charles-Gilbert Romme (26 March 1750 - 17 June 1795) was a French politician and mathematician who developed the French Republican Calendar.
Biography
Charles Gilbert Romme was born in Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France, where he received an education in medicine and mathematics. After spending five y... | {"Name": "Gilbert Romme", "Caption": "Gilbert Romme", "Birth date": "1750 03 26 y", "Birth place": "Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne region, France", "Death date": "1795 06 17 1750 03 26 y", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Nationality": "French", "Occupation": "politician and mathematician", "Known For": "Developed the Fre... |
ISO/IEC 8859-5:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1988. It is informally referred to as Latin/Cyrillic. It was designed to cover langua... | {"Alias(es)": "ISO-IR-144, cyrillic, csISOLatinCyrillicCharacter Sets 2018-12-12 https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).", "Standard": "ISO/IEC 8859-5,ECMA-113 (since 1988 edition)", "Classification": "Extended ASCII, ISO 8859", "Extends": "US-... |
ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as Latin/Arabic. It was designed to cover Arabic. On... | {"Standard": "ASMO 708, ECMA-114, ISO/IEC 8859-6", "MIME / IANA": "ISO-8859-6", "Alias(es)": "iso-ir-127, ECMA-114, ASMO-708, arabic, csISOLatinArabicCharacter Sets https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 2018-12-12", "Preceded by": "ASMO 449", "Cl... |
Targets is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Bogdanovich in his directorial debut, and starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Nancy Hsueh, and Monte Landis. The film depicts two parallel narratives which converge during the climax: one follows Bobby Thompson, a seemingly ordinary and ... | {"Directed by": "Peter Bogdanovich", "Produced by": "Peter Bogdanovich", "Screenplay by": "Peter Bogdanovich", "Story by": "Polly Platt\nPeter Bogdanovich", "Starring": "Boris Karloff\nTim O'Kelly\nNancy Hsueh\nJames Brown\nSandy Baron", "Cinematography": "László Kovács", "Edited by": "Peter Bogdanovich", "Distributed ... |
ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as Latin/Greek. It was designed to cover the modern G... | {"Language(s)": "Greek, English", "MIME / IANA": "ISO-8859-7", "Alias(es)": "iso-ir-126, ELOT_928, ECMA-118, greek, greek8, csISOLatinGreekCharacter Sets https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 2018-12-12", "Standard": "ELOT 928, ISO/IEC 8859-7", "... |
Julius Lippert (9 July 1895 - 30 June 1956) was a German Nazi Party politician who served as the Staatskommissar (State Commissioner) for Berlin from 1933 to 1937 and as its Oberbürgermeister and Stadtspräsident (City President) from 1937 to 1940.
Early life
Born in Basel, Switzerland, Lippert became an extreme anti... | {"Name": "Julius Lippert", "Image caption": "Julius Lippert in 1938.", "Term start": "5 January 1937", "Term end": "July 1940", "Office 2": "Staatskommissar of Berlin", "Predecessor 2": "Position created", "Successor 2": "Himself", "Birth date": "1895 7 9 y", "Birth place": "Basel, Switzerland", "Death date": "1956 6 3... |
ISO/IEC 8859-9:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1989. It is designated ECMA-128 by Ecma International and TS 5881 as a Turkish standard.... | {"MIME / IANA": "ISO-8859-9", "Standard": "TS 5881, ECMA-128, ISO/IEC 8859", "Alias(es)": "iso-ir-148, latin5, l5, csISOLatin5Character Sets https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 2018-12-12", "Classification": "ISO 8859 (extended ASCII, ISO 4873 ... |
Jerry Alan Fodor (; April 22, 1935 - November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of many crucial works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, and he is recognized as ... | {"Region": "Western philosophy", "Era": "20th-/21st-century philosophy", "Institutions": "Rutgers University", "School": "Analytic"} |
ISO/IEC 8859-10:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 10: Latin alphabet No. 6, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1992. It is informally referred to as Latin-6. It was designed to cover the Nordic lan... | {"MIME / IANA": "ISO-8859-10", "Alias(es)": "iso-ir-157, l6, csISOLatin6, latin6Character Sets https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 2018-12-12", "Standard": "ECMA-144, ISO/IEC 8859", "Language(s)": "Nordic languages", "Extends": "US-ASCII", "Bas... |
General Sir Henry George Chauvel, (16 April 1865 - 4 March 1945) was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War. He was the first Australian to attain the rank of lieutenant general and later... | {"Born": "Tabulam, New South Wales", "Died": "Melbourne, Victoria", "Allegiance": "QueenslandAustralia", "Commands held": "Volunteer Defence Corps (1940-45)Chief of the General Staff (1923-30)Desert Mounted Corps (1917-19)Desert Column (1917)Anzac Mounted Division (1916)1st Division (1915-16)New Zealand and Australian ... |
ISO/IEC 8859-13:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 13: Latin alphabet No. 7, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1998. It is informally referred to as Latin-7 or Baltic Rim. It was designed to cover ... | {"MIME / IANA": "ISO-8859-13", "Alias(es)": "iso-ir-179, l7, csISOLatin7, latin7Character Sets https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 2018-12-12", "Standard": "ISO/IEC 8859", "Language(s)": "Baltic languages", "Extends": "US-ASCII", "Based on": "W... |
ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 14: Latin alphabet No. 8 (Celtic), is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1998. It is informally referred to as Latin-8 or Celtic. It was designed to c... | {"Standard": "ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998", "MIME / IANA": "ISO-8859-14", "Alias(es)": "iso-ir-199, latin8, iso-celtic, l8Character Sets https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 2018-12-12", "Classification": "ISO/IEC 8859 (Extended ASCII, ISO/IEC 4873 lev... |
ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001. The same encoding was defined as Romanian Standard SR 14111 in 1998, named the ... | {"Standard": "SR 14111:1998, ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001", "MIME / IANA": "ISO-8859-16", "Alias(es)": "iso-ir-226, latin10, l10Character Sets https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 2018-12-12", "Language(s)": "Albanian, Gaj's Latin alphabet (Croatian, Bo... |
Damon Michael Gough (born 2 October 1969), known by the stage name Badly Drawn Boy, is an English indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Gough chose his stage name from a character in the show Sam and his Magic Ball, which he saw on TV at a party in Trafford, Greater Manchester, in 1995. Before he thought ... | {"Born": "Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England", "Origin": "Bolton, Greater Manchester, England", "Genres": "Indie rock, indie folk, lo-fi", "Labels": "Twisted Nerve RecordsXL Recordings (1998-2004)EMI (2006-2008)BDB Records/One Last Fruit (2009-present)", "Website": "badlydrawnboy.co.uk"} |
The 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army. The division was raised in 1908 as part of the Territorial Force (TF), originally as the East Lancashire Division, and was redesignated as the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division on 25 May 1915.Gibbon 1920, page 33 It was the first T... | {"Branch": "United Kingdom", "Type": "Infantry", "Size": "Division", "Motto(s)": "Go One BetterThe motto \"Go One Better\" was bestowed on the division by its commander Major-General Arthur Solly-Flood on 1 March 1918, as part of his address to the officers and N.C.O.s in anticipation of the German Spring Offensive. Gi... |
The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Sgr dSph), also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (Sgr dE or Sag DEG), is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It contains four globular clusters in its main body, with the brightest of them—NGC 6715 (M54)—being known well before the discov... | {"Type": "dSph(t) Saggitarius Dwarf Spheroidal\n NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database\n http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=Sagittarius+Dwarf+Spheroidal\n 28 November 2006", "Distance": "65 ± 7 kly (20 ± 2 kpc) Karachentsev I. D.\n Karachentseva V. E.\n Hutchmeier W. K.\n Makarov D. I.... |
is one of the fictional species from the Pokémon franchise. It is a small, pink, Psychic-type Mythical Pokémon, it was added to Pokémon Red and Blue by Game Freak programmer Shigeki Morimoto, with the intent of making it obtainable, but was ultimately left out for development and technical reasons. After being discover... | {"First game": "Pokémon Red and Blue (1996)", "Created by": "Shigeki Morimoto", "Designed by": "Ken Sugimori", "Voiced by": "Various Kōichi Yamadera (Mewtwo Strikes Back and Super Smash Bros. series)Satomi Kōrogi (Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon)Christine Marie Cabanos (Poké... |
StuffIt is a discontinued family of computer software utilities for archiving and compressing files. Originally produced for the Macintosh, versions for Microsoft Windows, Linux (x86), and Sun Solaris were later created.Official vendor information about StuffIt for Linux and Solaris Stuffit Archives, explains how to op... | {"Developer(s)": "Aladdin Systems, Smith Micro Software", "Type": "File Compressor", "License": "Proprietary", "Website": "https://stuffit.com/"} |
The 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought in both the First and Second World Wars. Originally raised in 1908 as the Welsh Division, part of the Territorial Force (TF), the division saw service in First World War, being designated 53rd (Welsh) Division in mid-1915, and f... | {"Branch": "23px Territorial Army", "Type": "Infantry", "Size": "Division", "Notablecommanders": "Archibald Montgomery-MassingberdGerard BucknallRobert Knox Ross"} |
Caloian (also Calian(i), Caloiță, Scaloian, Gherman, or Iene) was a rainmaking and fertility rite in Romania, similar in some ways to Dodola. Its namesake is a clay effigy, whose sculpting, funeral, exhumation, and eventual destruction are centerpieces of the display. The source of this ritual, as is the case with thos... | {"Other name(s)": "Calian(i), Caloiță, Scaloian, Gherman, Iene", "Grouping": "Effigy", "Folklore": "Romanian(also Csángó, Gagauz)", "Region": "Muntenia, Northern Dobruja, Oltenia, Western Moldavia (principally)Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania (locally)"} |
Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) is a public historically black university in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It enrolls nearly 2,500 students in 28 undergraduate programs and 4 graduate programs and is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the University of North Carolina system.
History
thu... | {"Motto": "To Live is to Learn", "Type": "Public historically black university", "Chancellor": "Karrie Dixonhttp://www.ecsu.edu/about/governance/chancellor/index.html Chancellor's Office www.ecsu.edu en 2018-05-18", "Students": "2,054", "Undergraduates": "1,956", "Postgraduates": "98", "Campus": "200 acre km2", "Websit... |
230px|thumb|Arms of Richard Fitzalan
Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel, 8th Earl of Surrey (c. 1313 - 24 January 1376) was an English nobleman and medieval military leader and distinguished admiral. Arundel was one of the wealthiest nobles, and most loyal noble retainer of the chivalric code that governed the reign... | {"Father": "Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel", "Mother": "Alice de Warenne", "Born": "Sussex", "Died": "Sussex"} |
The Tories were a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They first emerged during the 1679 Exclusion Crisis, when they opposed Whig efforts to exclude James, Duke of York from the succession on the grounds... | {"Founded": "1678 yes", "Preceded by": "Cavaliers", "Succeeded by": "Conservative Party", "Ideology": "\"consoff\">http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=party.history.page Conservatives A Brief History of the Conservative Party 24 October 2007 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080313085926/http://www.conservatives.... |
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, (12 January 185820 June 1945), known as The Honourable Robert Milnes from 1863 to 1885, The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, was a British Liberal politician, statesman and writer.
Early life
Robert Offley Ashburto... | {"Name": "The Marquess of Crewe", "Image caption": "Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe", "Term start": "25 August 1931", "Term end": "5 November 1931", "Order 2": "Leader of the House of Lords", "Monarch 2": "Edward VII George V", "Prime minister 2": "H. H. Asquith", "Predecessor 2": "The Marquess o... |
The Toronto Santa Claus Parade, also branded as The Original Santa Claus Parade, is a Santa Claus parade held annually on the third Sunday of November in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
First held in 1905, it is one of the largest parade productions in North America, the oldest Santa Claus parade in the world, and one of th... | {"Status": "Active", "Genre": "Christmas parade", "Frequency": "Annually, third Sunday in November", "Location(s)": "Toronto, Ontario", "Years active": "1905-present", "Website": "thesantaclausparade.com/"} |
thumb|Major ninth interval on C.
thumb|Minor ninth interval on C.
thumb|Cmaj9 chord (see chord symbols)
In music, a ninth is a compound interval consisting of an octave plus a second.
Like the second, the interval of a ninth is classified as a dissonance in common practice tonality. Since a ninth is an octave la... | {"Inverse": "minor seventh", "Other names": "compound second", "Abbreviation": "M9", "Semitones": "14", "Equal temperament": "1400.0"} |
thumb|Compound interval of a major thirteenth from F to D in the next octave up
thumb|Minor thirteenth: F to D
In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the note thirteen scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the thirteenth. The thirteenth is most commonly major or minor .... | {"Inverse": "minor third", "Other names": "compound sixth", "Abbreviation": "M13", "Semitones": "21", "Equal temperament": "2100.0"} |
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1788. It is sometimes referred to as the "Great G minor symphony", to distinguish it from the "Little G minor symphony", No. 25. The two are the only extant minor key symphonies Mozart wrote.
History
Composition
The date of completion of t... | {"Key": "G minor", "Catalogue": "K. 550", "Composed": "1788", "Movements": "four"} |
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California Institution for Women (CIW) is a women's state prison located in the city of Chino, San Bernardino County, California, east of Los Angeles, although the mailing address states "Corona," which is in Riverside County, California.
Facilities
Although the official California Department of Corr... | {"Location": "Chino, California", "Coordinates": "33.950 -117.635 region:US-CA_type:landmark_source:wikimapia inline,title", "Status": "Operational", "Security class": "Minimum to medium", "Capacity": "1,398", "Population": "July 31, 2022https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2022/08/Tpop4_d2207.... |
The Liberty Head nickel, sometimes referred to as the V nickel because of its reverse (or tails) design, is an American five-cent piece. It was struck for circulation from 1883 until 1912, with at least five pieces being surreptitiously struck dated 1913. The obverse features a left-facing image of the goddess of Libe... | {"Value": "US dollars)", "Mass": "5.000", "Diameter": "21.21", "Edge": "Plain", "Composition": "75% copper\n 25% nickel", "Years of minting": "1883-1913", "Mint marks": "D, S. 1912 only; adjacent to the dot separating the words \"CENTS\" and \"UNITED\". Philadelphia Mint pieces lack mint mark.", "Design": "Roman numer... |
Azar Nafisi (; born 1948)Following eighth grade, Nafisi's parents sent her to England for schooling from 1961 to 1963. Nafisi 2010, chapter 8, pp. 69-70; chapter 13, p. 115 is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became... | {"Born": "1948 12 1 y", "Occupation": "Writer, professor", "Language": "English", "Citizenship": "American", "Alma mater": "University of Oklahoma", "Notable awards": "2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award (Booksense), Persian Golden Lioness Award"} |
Vladimir II Monomakh (; Christian name: Vasily; 26 May 1053 - 19 May 1125) was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1113 to 1125. He is considered a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and is celebrated on May 6.
Family background
In 1046, to seal an armistice in the Rus'-Byzantine War, the future father of Vladimir Monomakh... | {"Born": "26 May 1053", "Died": "Kiev", "Burial": "Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev", "Father": "Vsevolod I", "Mother": "Anastasia of Byzantium", "Religion": "Eastern Orthodox"} |
Korean court music (Kor: 궁중음악, RR: gungjung eumak) comprises three main musical genres: aak, an imported form of Chinese ritual music; a pure Korean form called hyangak; and a combination of Chinese and Korean styles called dangak.
Korean court music and its historical origins can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms ... | {"Name": "Korean court music", "Stylistic origins": "yayue early Korean music", "Cultural origins": "Early 600s - Mid-1400s, Korea", "Typical instruments": "piri daegeum gayageum ajaeng", "Subgenres": "aak hyangak dangak", "Other genre topics": "Korean traditional music Jeongak Korean folk music"} |
Enric Bernat Fontlladonosa (; 20 October 1923 – 27 December 2003) was a Spanish scientist and businessman, and the founder of the Chupa Chups lollipop company.
Life
Bernat was the child of a confectioner Catalan family in the third generation and started his working life in his parents' cake shop. In the early 1950s h... | {"Name": "Enric Bernat", "Birth name": "Enric Bernat Fontlladonosa", "Image upright": "0.7", "Caption": "Portrait of Enric Bernat Fontlladonosa by Eulogia Merle, exosed at es Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología no", "Birth date": "1923 10 20 yes", "Birth place": "Barcelona, Spain", "Death date": "2003 12... |
The University of North Dakota (also known as UND or North Dakota) is a public research university in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota.
The university has the only schools of law and medicine in the... | {"Motto": "Lux et Lex (Latin)", "Type": "Public research university", "Accreditation": "HLC", "Endowment": "$352.1 million (2022)As of August 25, 2022. https://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2022/08/alumni-association-foundation-sees-second-best-fundraising-year-ever/ Alumni Association & Foundation sees second-best fundrais... |
The Cairns Group (Cairns Group of Fair Trading Nations) is an interest group of 19 agricultural exporting countries, composed of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Uruguay, and... | {"Conventional long name": "Cairns Group of Fair Trading Nations", "Symbol width": "150px", "Map caption": "Cairns Group countries in dark green", "Organization type": "Agricultural exporting countries"} |
Chupa Chups () is a Spanish brand of lollipop and confectionery company found in over 150 countries around the world. The brand was founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, and is currently owned by the Italian-Dutch company Perfetti Van Melle. The name of the brand comes from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning "to suck". Simila... | {"Type": "Sociedad Anónima", "Fate": "Acquired by Perfetti Van Melle in 2006", "Founded": "Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Barcelona, Spain (1958)", "Headquarters": "Spain", "Industry": "Confectionery", "Products": "Lollipops", "Revenue": "€500 million (2006)", "Parent": "Perfetti Van Melle", "Website": "chupachups.com"} |
The Maison carrée (; French for "square house") is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France; it is one of the best preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire.
The Maison carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris, St. Marcellinus Church in Rogalin, Pol... | {"Type": "Religious architecture", "Architectural style": "Roman", "Town or city": "Nîmes", "Coordinates": "43 50 18 N 4 21 22 E type:landmark_region:FR inline,title"} |
Janus Friis (; born 26 June 1976)tvweek.com is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B. Friis has maintained ownership interest in ... | {"Name": "Janus Friis", "Birth date": "1976 06 26 y", "Birth place": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "Known For": "Co-founder of Skype, KaZaA and Rdio", "Occupation": "Entrepreneur"} |
thumb|Bronze statue by Toni Turek next to the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf-Stockum.
Anton Turek (18 January 1919 - 11 May 1984) was a German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Career
Born in Duisburg, Turek started his career at Duisburger Sportverein, but he soon switched to TuS Duisburg 48/99. He first cam... | {"Name": "Toni Turek", "Full name": "Anton Turek", "Birth date": "1919 01 18 yes", "Birth place": "Duisburg, Germany", "Date of death": "1984 05 11 1919 01 18 yes", "Place of death": "Neuss, West Germany", "Height": "1.81 m", "Position": "Goalkeeper", "Youth club 1 years": "1929-1936", "Youth club 1": "Duisburger SV", ... |
Heinz Fischer GColIH, OMRI, RSerafO, GCollSE (; born 9 October 1938) is a former Austrian politician. He took office as President of Austria on 8 July 2004 and was re-elected for a second and last term on 25 April 2010, leaving office on 8 July 2016. Fischer previously served as minister of science from 1983 to 1987 a... | {"Name": "Heinz Fischer", "Image": "Heinz Fischer - Buchmesse Wien 2018.JPG", "Image caption": "Fischer in 2018", "Term start": "8 July 2004", "Term end": "8 July 2016", "Office 2": "President of the National Council", "Predecessor 2": "Rudolf Pöder", "Successor 2": "Andreas Khol", "Birth date": "1938 10 9 y", "Birth p... |
Valgrind () is a programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.
Valgrind was originally designed to be a freely licensed memory debugging tool for Linux on x86, but has since evolved to become a generic framework for creating dynamic analysis tools such as checkers and profilers.
Overvie... | {"Original author(s)": "Julian Seward, Nicholas NethercoteAUTHORS https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.authors.html 2022-09-19 valgrind.org", "Developer(s)": "Valgrind Development Teamhttps://valgrind.org/info/developers.html Valgrind: The Developers", "Initial release": "Jul 27, 2002Twenty years of Valgrind http... |
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. The arts funding system in England un... | {"Type": "Non-departmental public body and charity", "Industry": "Arts", "Products": "Research, grants, music education hubs", "Revenue": "£993 million GBP (2019)", "Headquarters": "Manchester, England, UK", "Founded": "1994", "Website": "https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/"} |
Splint, short for Secure Programming Lint, is a programming tool for statically checking C programs for security vulnerabilities and coding mistakes. Formerly called LCLint, it is a modern version of the Unix lint tool.
Splint has the ability to interpret special annotations to the source code, which gives it stronger... | {"Developer(s)": "The Splint Developers", "Type": "Static code analysis", "License": "GPL", "Website": "www.splint.org", "Repository": "github.com/splintchecker/splint"} |
The 75th Ranger Regiment, also known as Army Rangers, is the premier light infantry unit and special operations force within the United States Army Special Operations Command. The regiment is headquartered at Fort Moore, Georgia and is composed of a regimental headquarters company, a military intelligence battalion, a ... | {"Nickname(s)": "Army RangersAirborne Rangers", "Size": "3,623 personnel authorized:http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/671462.pdf SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES Opportunities Exist to Improve Transparency of Funding and Assess Potential to Lessen Some Deployments. GAO-15-571 July 2015 Government Accountability Office 2 June ... |
The Northrop SM-62 Snark is an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead. The Snark was deployed by the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command from 1958 through 1961. It represented an important step in weapons technology during the Cold War... | {"Transport": "yes", "Type": "Surface-to-surface cruise missile", "Place of origin": "United States", "Used by": "United States Air Force", "Manufacturer": "Northrop Corporation", "Produced": "1958-61", "In service": "1959-61", "Mass": "48150 lb without boosters; 60000 lb with boosters", "Length": "67 ft 2 in", "Wingsp... |
Mititaiagimene Young Vivian (born 12 November 1935)Profile of Mititaiagimene Young Vivian is a Niuean politician and diplomat, who served as Premier of Niue twice, the first time from December 1992 to March 1993 following the death of Sir Robert Rex, and the second from 2002 to 2008. He also served as a Cabinet Minist... | {"Name": "Young Vivian", "Honorific suffix": "NZL CNZM NDSC 100%", "Image caption": "Vivian at a fiafia in Hakupu, 2006", "Term start": "1 May 2002", "Term end": "19 June 2008", "Predecessor 2": "Sir Robert Rex", "Successor 2": "Frank Lui", "Birth date": "yes 1935 11 12", "Spouse(s)": "Vaitofuola (nee Ikiua-Lupo)"} |
Sir Robert Richmond Rex (25 January 190912 December 1992) was the first Premier of the Pacific island state of Niue.
Early life and family
Rex was born to parents Leslie Lucas Richmond Rex, a European trader on Niue, and Fisimonomono Tufaina of Avatele Village in the south of Niue. He later settled down in Alofi, the... | {"Name": "Sir Robert Rex", "Term start": "19 October 1974", "Term end": "12 December 1992", "Birth date": "1909 1 25 y", "Birth place": "Anafonua, Avatele, Niue", "Death date": "yes 1992 12 12 1909 1 25", "Death place": "Halamahaga, Alofi South, Niue", "Spouse(s)": "Tuagatagaloa Patricia, Lady Rex"} |
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (; born Corneliu Codreanu, according to his birth certificate; 13 September 1899 - 30 November 1938) was a Romanian politician of the far right, the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Archangel Michael (also known as the Legionary Movement), an ultranationalist... | {"Honorific prefix": "Căpitanul", "Name": "Corneliu Zelea Codreanu", "Image caption": "Corneliu Zelea Codreanu", "Term start": "24 June 1927", "Term end": "May 1938", "Birth name": "Corneliu Codreanu", "Birth date": "yes 1899 09 13", "Birth place": "Huși, Fălciu County, Kingdom of Romania", "Death date": "yes 1938 11 3... |
thumb|Map of Canada, showing the results of the 1984 election by riding.
The 1984 Canadian federal election was held on September 4, 1984, to elect members to the House of Commons of the 33rd Parliament of Canada.
In one of the largest landslide victories in Canadian political history, the Progressive Conservative Par... | {"Name": "1984 Canadian federal election", "Country": "Canada", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Show party colours?": "no", "Link to parties?": "no", "Turnout": "75.3%Pomfret R. Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=turn&document=index⟨=e Ele... |
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, and relat... | {"Type": "Scientific society", "Legal status": "501(c)(3) nonprofit organization", "Headquarters": "Washington, D.C.", "Location": "United States", "Website": "www.acs.org"} |
Matthew Dillon (born 1966) is an American software engineer known for Amiga software, contributions to FreeBSD and for starting and leading the DragonFly BSD project since 2003.
Biography
Dillon studied electronic engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he first became involve... | {"Name": "Matthew Dillon", "Image": "File:Matthew Dillon (DragonFly BSD leader) on bicycle with bicycle helmet--2008-08.jpeg", "Caption": "Matthew Dillon on bicycle with bicycle helmet, August 2008", "Birth date": "1966 07 01 y", "Birth place": "San Francisco\n<!--", "Alma mater": "University of California, Berkeley", ... |
Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (German: Kasimir Felix Graf von Badeni, Polish: Kazimierz Feliks hrabia Badeni; 14 October 1846 - 9 July 1909), a member of the Polish noble House of Badeni, was an Austrian statesman, who served as Minister-President of Cisleithania from 1895 until 1897. Many people in Austria, especially Em... | {"Name": "Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni", "Term start": "30 September 1895", "Term end": "28 November 1897", "Birth date": "1846 10 14 y", "Death date": "1909 7 9 1846 10 14 y", "Birth place": "Surochów, Galicia, Austrian Empire", "Death place": "Krasne, Galicia, Austria-Hungary"} |
Huang Xing or Huang Hsing (; 25 October 1874 - 31 October 1916) was a Chinese revolutionary leader and politician, and the first commander-in-chief of the Republic of China. As one of the founders of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Republic of China, his position was second only to Sun Yat-sen. Together they were known a... | {"Born": "Huangxing, Changsha, Qing Empire", "Died": "Shanghai, Republic of China", "Nickname(s)": "Eight Fingered General", "Allegiance": "Tongmenghui, Kuomintang", "Relations": "Liao Danru (wife)"} |
William John Hartack Jr. (December 9, 1932 – November 26, 2007), born in Colver, Pennsylvania, was a Hall of Fame jockey. Colver is in the northwestern part of Cambria Township, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Ebensburg, the county seat.
Early life and career
Referred to by the media as both "Bill" and "Willie" (Hartack ... | {"Occupation": "Jockey", "Born": "1932 12 09", "Died": "2007 11 26 1932 12 09", "Career wins": "4,272"} |
thumb|The front door of the administrative building with the former name
thumb|Koffler particle accelerator
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( Machon Vaitzman LeMada) is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli universitie... | {"Type": "Public research", "Endowment": "$600.427 million (2019)FY 2019 Audited Financial Statements https://www.weizmann-usa.org/media/2zyj1ngk/fy-2019-audited-financial-statements.pdf Weizmann Institute of Science 3 March 2021", "President": "Alon Chen", "Students": "1,082", "Postgraduates": "356", "Campus": "Urb... |
IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by Lewis Swift in 1887 and in 1935 Nicholas Mayall became the first to suggest that the object is extragalactic. Edwin Hubble suspected it might belong to the Local Group of galaxies, but its status remained uncertain for decades. The radia... | {"Type": "dIrr IV/BCDNASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database\n Results for IC 10\n http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?search_type=Obj_id&objid=58126&objname=57\n 2007-03-15", "Distance": "2.5 ± 0.5 Mly (750 ± 150 kpc)NED Query Results for IC 0010 http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nDistance?name=IC+00... |
Left Turn was a bimonthly activist news magazine that focused on international social justice movements. Based in New York City and produced by an all volunteer editorial collective, the magazine promoted anti-imperialism and anti-authoritarianism.
Left Turn had its roots in the anti-capitalist wing of the Global Just... | {"Frequency": "Bimonthly", "Founder": "Bilal El-Amine", "Founded": "1999", "First issue": "2001 April", "Country": "United States", "Based in": "New York City", "Language": "English", "Website": "leftturn.org"} |
Dame Eleanor Fulton Laing, ( Pritchard; born 1 February 1958) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Epping Forest constituency since 1997. Laing is a member of the Conservative Party and has served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons since 2013, and as Chairman of Ways and ... | {"Image caption": "Official portrait, 2022", "Term start": "8 January 2020", "Leader 2": "Michael Howard", "Office 2": "Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland", "Predecessor 2": "James Gray", "Successor 2": "David Mundell", "Birth name": "Eleanor Fulton Pritchard", "Birth date": "1958 2 1 yes", "Birth place": "Paisley,... |
Sir Norman Peter Lamb (born 16 September 1957) is a British politician and solicitor. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019, and was the chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee from 2017 to 2019.
Lamb was a candidate in the 2015 Liberal Democrats leade... | {"Name": "Norman Lamb", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "13 July 2017", "Term end": "6 November 2019", "Birth name": "Norman Peter Lamb", "Birth date": "1957 9 16 y", "Birth place": "Watford, England", "Other political party": "Liberal Democrats (1988-2021)Social Democratic Party (1981-1988)La... |
David Lammy (born 19 July 1972) is an English politician and lawyer serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since the 2000 Tottenham by-election.
Lammy was a Minister under Tony ... | {"Name": "David Lammy", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2019", "Office 2": "Shadow Secretary of State for JusticeShadow Lord Chancellor", "Leader 2": "Keir Starmer", "Predecessor 2": "Richard Burgon", "Successor 2": "Steve Reed", "Birth name": "David Lindon Lammy", "Birth date": "yes 1972 7 19", "Birth place": "Ho... |
Andrew David Lansley, Baron Lansley, (born 11 December 1956) is a British Conservative politician who previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Leader of the House of Commons. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2015.
Lansley was born in Hornchurch, Essex and studied Po... | {"Name": "The Lord Lansley", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2018", "Term start": "4 September 2012", "Term end": "14 July 2014", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for Health", "Prime minister 2": "David Cameron", "Predecessor 2": "Andy Burnham", "Successor 2": "Jeremy Hunt"} |
Jacqueline Rita Lawrence (born 9 August 1948, Birmingham) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was Labour Member of Parliament for the Welsh seat of Preseli Pembrokeshire, from 1997 until 2005.
Early life
Lawrence studied at Upperthorpe College in Darlington, and the Open University. She moved to Pembrokeshire... | {"Name": "Jackie Lawrence", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "11 April 2005", "Birth date": "1948 08 9 yes", "Birth place": "Birmingham, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "David Lawrence", "Alma mater": "Open University"} |
Frightwig is an all-female punk rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1982 by Deanna Ashley and Mia Levin. After many lineup changes, Frightwig retired in 1994.
Frightwig reformed in 2012 with Rebecca Sevrin and Rachel Thoele. Frightwig's current lineup is Deanna Mitchell, Mia d'Bruzzi, and Eric Drew Fel... | {"Origin": "San Francisco, California, U.S.", "Genres": "Punk rock, post-punkAnkeny Jason Gentle Creatures - Tarnation http://allmusic.com/album/gentle-creatures-r220847 Allmusic July 19, 2023 Paula Frazer is best known for her work with the L.A. post-punk band Frightwig", "Labels": "Subterrranean Caroline Boner Southe... |
Robert Laxton (born 7 September 1944) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby North from 1997 until standing down at the 2010 general election.
Early life and education
Laxton attended the Woodlands Secondary Modern School (became the Woodlands Community School) on Blenheim... | {"Name": "Bob Laxton", "Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1944 09 7 yes", "Birth place": "Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom", "Nationality": "British"} |
Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (born 20 July 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983.
Leigh has represented Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in the House of Commons since 1983 (representing its predecessor constituency, Gainsborough and Horncastle, until 199... | {"Name": "Edward Leigh", "Term start": "2 November 1990", "Term end": "27 May 1993", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for GainsboroughGainsborough and Horncastle (1983-1997)", "Majority 2": "22,967 (45.0%)", "Predecessor 2": "Marcus Kimball", "Birth name": "Edward Julian Egerton Leigh", "Birth date": "1950 07 20 yes"... |
David Lepper (born 15 September 1945) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion from 1997 to 2010.
Non-political life
Lepper was educated at the University of Kent where he took a degree in English and American literature. He also has a PGCE qualificati... | {"Name": "David Lepper", "Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1945 09 15 yes", "Birth place": "Richmond, Surrey, London, United Kingdom", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "University of Kent University of Sussex University of Westminster"} |
Christopher Michael Leslie (born 28 June 1972) is a debt collection executive and a former British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from 2010 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he defected to form Change UK and later became an independen... | {"Name": "Chris Leslie", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "11 May 2015", "Term end": "12 September 2015", "Birth name": "Christopher Michael Leslie", "Birth date": "1972 6 28 y", "Birth place": "Keighley, England", "Other political party": "Change UK (2019)Labour and Co-operative (until 2019)",... |
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, (24 December 1838 - 23 September 1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.
Initially a journalist in the North of England and then editor of the newly Liberal-leaning Pall Mall Gazette from 1880 to 1883, he was elected a Member of Parliament for... | {"Name": "The Viscount Morley of Blackburn", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Lord Morley of Blackburn", "Birth date": "1838 12 24 y", "Birth place": "Blackburn, Lancashire, England", "Death date": "1923 09 23 1838 12 24 y", "Monarch 2": "Queen Victoria", "Prime minister 2": "William Ewart Gladstone The Earl o... |
Tom Levitt (born 10 April 1954) is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for High Peak from the 1997 to 2010 general elections.
Early life
Born in Crewe in 1954, Levitt was raised in Leek, Staffordshire. He was one of the first male intakes when a girls' grammar school, Westwoo... | {"Name": "Tom Levitt", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "yes 1954 04 10", "Birth place": "Crewe, Cheshire, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Teresa Levitt", "Alma mater": "Lancaster University"} |
Graham bread is a name for whole wheat bread that was inspired by the teachings of famous health reformer Sylvester Graham.
History
Sylvester Graham was a 19th-century health reformer who argued that a vegetarian diet, anchored by bread that was baked at home from a coarsely ground whole-wheat flour, was part of a h... | {"Name of food": "Graham bread", "Width of image": "250px", "Type of dish": "Bread", "Main ingredient": "Whole-wheat flour"} |
Ivan Lewis (born 4 March 1967) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South from 1997 to 2019, initially as a member of the Labour Party then as an independent from 2017.
After serving in various ministerial positions, including Foreign Affairs, International Development, Education a... | {"Name": "Ivan Lewis", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "7 October 2013", "Term end": "13 September 2015", "Office 2": "Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport", "Leader 2": "Ed Miliband", "Predecessor 2": "Ben Bradshaw", "Successor 2": "Harriet Harman", "Birth date": "1967 3 4 y... |
Sir Julian Murray Lewis (born 26 September 1951) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP), representing New Forest East since 1997. Lewis has served as Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee since 2020, succeeding Dominic Grieve.
Lewis served as Chair of the Defence... | {"Name": "Julian Lewis", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2018", "Term start": "15 July 2020", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for New Forest East", "Majority 2": "25,251 (49.7%)", "Predecessor 2": "Constituency created", "Birth name": "Julian Murray Lewis", "Birth date": "1951 9 26 yes", "Birth place": "Swansea... |
Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (born 23 February 1959) is a British Conservative Party politician and former property developer. He was MP for Bridgwater from 2001 until 2010, and since then has been MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria through his mother.
... | {"Name": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "Honorific suffix": "MP", "Term start": "7 June 2001", "Birth date": "1959 02 23 yes", "Birth place": "Edinburgh, Scotland", "Spouse(s)": "Jill Nesbitt 1985", "Education": "Millfield School", "Alma mater": "West of Scotland Agricultural College"} |
Montigny-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.INSEE commune file
Geography
Montigny-en-Gohelle is former coalmining town, nowadays a light industrial and dormitory town, east of Lens, on the D46, D39e and the N43 roads. The A21 autoroute runs straight throug... | {"Name": "Montigny-en-Gohelle", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Image": "Eglise Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Montigny-en-Gohelle - 2.JPG", "Caption": "The church of Montigny-en-Gohelle", "Arrondissement": "Lens", "Canton": "Hénin-Beaumont-1", "Postal code": "62640", "Mayor": "Marcello Della FrancaRépertoire national des élu... |
Terence Lewis (born 29 December 1935), known as Terry Lewis, is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Mount Carmel School, Salford and did his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps before becoming a Personnel Officer. He was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Worsley, Greater Man... | {"Name": "Terence Lewis", "Term start": "9 June 1983", "Term end": "11 April 2005", "Birth date": "1935 12 29 yes", "Nationality": "British"} |
John Martin Linton (born 11 August 1944) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Battersea from 1997 to 2010.
Early life
Linton attended Limpsfield Primary School in Limpsfield, Surrey; Christ's Hospital school in Horsham, Sussex; and Pembroke College, Oxford gaining an MA in PPE; an... | {"Name": "Martin Linton", "Image": "Martin Linton MP.JPG", "Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth place": "Stockholm, Sweden", "Birth date": "1944 08 11 y", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "Pembroke College, Oxford"} |
Montreuil-sur-Mer (; or , literally Montreuil on Sea; also ) is a sub-prefecture in the Pas-de-Calais department, northern France.INSEE commune file It was known officially as Montreuil until 31 December 2022. It is located on the Canche river, not far from Étaples. The sea, however, is now some distance away. Montreu... | {"Name": "Montreuil-sur-Mer", "Native Name": "Monsterole", "Commune Status": "Subprefecture and commune", "Image": "Montreuil-Sur-Mer mairie 2499.JPG", "Caption": "The town hall of Montreuil-Sur-Mer", "Image Flag": "Flag of Montreuil-sur-Mer.gif", "Arrondissement": "Montreuil", "Canton": "Berck", "Postal code": "62170"... |
Norrent-Fontes (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.INSEE commune file
Geography
Norrent-Fontes is situated some northwest of Béthune and west of Lille, at the junction of the D94 and D91 roads. The A26 autoroute passes through the commune.
History
Known to the R... | {"Name": "Norrent-Fontes", "Native Name": "Norrem", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Image": "Norrent-Fontes (Pas-de-Calais, Fr) église Saint-Vaast extérieur.JPG", "Caption": "The church of Norrent-Fontes", "Arrondissement": "Béthune", "Canton": "Lillers", "Postal code": "62120", "Mayor": "Bertrand CocqRépertoire national... |
Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd (born 25 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who has discontinuously served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983, currently as the MP for Rochdale since 2017. He was MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997 and Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012. He then became Greater Manchest... | {"Image caption": "Official portrait, 2021", "Term start": "29 May 2015", "Term end": "8 May 2017", "Office 2": "Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party", "Leader 2": "Tony BlairGordon BrownHarriet Harman (acting)Ed Miliband", "Predecessor 2": "Ann Clwyd", "Successor 2": "David Watts", "Birth name": "Anthony Joseph Llo... |
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