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Ronald Wayne Van Zant (January 15, 1948 - October 20, 1977) was an American singer, best known as the original lead vocalist, primary lyricist and a founding member of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of Johnny Van Zant, the current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist, and Donnie Van Zant, the f... | {"Born": "Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.", "Died": "Gillsburg, Mississippi, U.S.", "Genres": "Southern rock hard rock blues rock", "Formerly of": "Lynyrd Skynyrd"} |
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English musician and recording artist. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer-songwriter, he also plays guitar and piano and produces his own recordings and occasionally those of other artists. In 2012... | {"Born": "Ealing, London, England", "Origin": "Manchester, England", "Genres": "Progressive rock\n art rock\n experimental rock\n new wave\n psychedelic rock", "Labels": "Charisma, S-Type, Virgin, Naive, Foundry, Enigma, Fie!", "Member of": "Van der Graaf Generator", "Website": "www.sofasound.com"} |
The Omni Group is an American software company that develops software for the macOS, iOS, and watchOS platforms. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Developmen... | {"Type": "Private", "Founded": "1989", "Headquarters": "Seattle, Washington, U.S.", "Industry": "Computer software", "Products": "macOS software, see #Products, below", "Website": "omnigroup.com"} |
is a Japanese role-playing game released by Square in 1996, and the company's last developed for the Super Famicom.
The plot incorporates elements from Indian religions, centrally the concept of the wheel of time - every 4000 years the world is destroyed and recreated by a Rudra - the name taken from an aspect of the ... | {"Title": "Rudra no Hihou", "Developer": "Square", "Publisher": "Square", "Director": "Kouze Ide", "Artist": "Keita Amemiya", "Writer": "Kouze IdeKatsuyoshi KawaharaHideshi Kyounen", "Composer": "Ryuji Sasai", "Released": "JP April 5, 1996", "Genre": "Role-playing", "Modes": "Single-player", "Platforms": "Super Famicom... |
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson. The series began as a trilogy, entitled The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. This was followed by another trilogy, The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and finally a tetralogy, T... | {"Cover artist": "Peter Goodfellow\n Darrell K. Sweet", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Ballantine Books\n Gollancz Science Fiction\n Del Rey Books\n G.P. Putnam's Sons", "Published": "1977-2013", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)\n Audiobook\n E-book", "No. of books": "10"} |
West Midlands County Council (WMCC) was, from 1974 to 1986, the upper-tier administrative body for the West Midlands county, a metropolitan county in England.
History
The WMCC existed for a total of twelve years. It was established on 1 April 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972 and was abolished on 31 March 1986. I... | {"Type": "County council of West Midlands", "Succeeded by": "Various agencies", "Disbanded": "31 March 1986", "Seats": "104"} |
Syndicate is a series of science fiction video games created by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts. There are two main titles: Syndicate (1993) and Syndicate Wars (1996), both of which are isometric real-time tactics games. An additional first-person shooter Syndicate title was released in 2012, and ... | {"Title": "Syndicate", "Platforms": "MS-DOS, Windows, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Mac, Sega Genesis, SNES, 3DO, Atari Jaguar, Acorn Archimedes, FM Towns, NEC PC-9801, Sega-CD, PSP", "Developer": "Bullfrog Productions, Ocean Software, Starbreeze Studios", "Publisher": "Electronic Arts", "Gen... |
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Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School ("Columbia Grammar", "Columbia Prep", "CGPS", "Columbia") is the oldest nonsectarian independent school in New York City, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (5 West 93rd Street). The school serves grades Pre-kindergarten to 12 and offers a college prepar... | {"Coordinates": "40.790244 -73.966893 region:US-NY dms inline,title", "Student to teacher ratio": "5.7:1", "Campus type": "Urban", "Athletics conference": "NYSAISAAPSAA", "Mascot": "Leo The Lion", "Team name": "Lions", "Website": "http://www.cgps.org"} |
The Case for Israel is a 2003 book by Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard University. The work is a response to common criticisms of Israel. The Case for Israel was a New York Times bestseller.
Summary
The book is divided into several chapters, each of which addresses what Dershowitz identifies as being partic... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "John Wiley & Sons", "Media type": "Print (hardcover)", "Pages": "264", "ISBN": "978-0-471-46502-7"} |
Longwood Gardens is a botanical garden that consists of over 1,077 acres (436 hectares; 4.36 km2) of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States in the Brandywine Creek Valley. It is one of the premier horticultural display gardens in the United States and is open to visitors year-rou... | {"Location": "Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States", "Area": "1077 acre on", "Visitation": "2017", "Website": "longwoodgardens.org"} |
Anti-Scrunti Faction were an American queercore punk trio from Boulder, Colorado, United States.
The band made their first appearance in 1984 on the Restless Records compilation LP entitled FlipSide Vinyl Fanzine Volume 1, assembled by the fanzine Flipside, with the song "Big Women". In 1985, Anti-Scrunti Faction r... | {"Origin": "Boulder, Colorado, United States", "Genres": "Punk, riot grrrl", "Labels": "Unclean Records, Flipside", "Members": "Leslie MahTracie ThomasEric Van LeuvenSarah Bibb"} |
The Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (, LDPD) was a political party in East Germany. Like the other allied bloc parties of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the National Front, it had 52 representatives in the People's Chamber.
Foundation
The history of the party dates back to 16 June 1945, when a Berli... | {"Founded": "5 July 1945", "Headquarters": "East Berlin, East Germany", "Merged into": "Association of Free Democrats (party)", "Newspaper": "Der Morgen", "Ideology": "Liberalism (1945-1949, 1989-1990)Liberal socialism (1950-1988)", "National affiliation": "Democratic Bloc (1945-1950)National Front (1950-1990)Associati... |
The Free German Trade Union Federation ( or FDGB) was the sole national trade union centre of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) which existed from 1946 to 1990. As a mass organisation of the GDR, nominally representing all workers, the FDGB was a constituent member of the National Front. The leaders ... | {"Full name": "Free German Trade Union Federation", "Native name language": "de", "Formation": "1946", "Predecessor": "General German Trade Union Federation", "Successor": "German Trade Union Federation", "Dissolved": "1990", "Membership": "9,600,000", "Main organ": "de Tribüne", "Location country": "East Germany"} |
Suave is a brand name based in Chicago, Illinois, used by the Unilever company in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada. Targeting discount stores, the brand represents more than 100 products including shampoo, lotions, soaps and deodorant.
On September 5, 2023, the brand was acquired by Yellow Wood ... | {"Product type": "Personal care", "Owner": "Suave Brands Company (2023-present)", "Country": "United States", "Introduced": "1937", "Markets": "United States, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, Brazil", "Previous owners": "Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. Unilever (1996-2023)", "Website": "http://www.suave.com/"} |
Wheeling University (WU, formerly Wheeling Jesuit University) is a private Roman Catholic university in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was founded as Wheeling College in 1954 by the Society of Jesus (also known as the Jesuits) and was a Jesuit institution until 2019. Wheeling University competes in Division II of the Nati... | {"Motto": "Luceat Lux Vestra (Latin)", "Type": "Private", "Endowment": "$16.1 million2019 Rankings: Wheeling Jesuit University http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/wheeling-wv/wheeling-jesuit-3831 U.S. News & World Report August 20, 2009 January 5, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/2011010522... |
John Ned Shines (April 26, 1915 - April 20, 1992) was an American blues singer and guitarist.
Biography
Shines was born in the community of Frayser, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was taught to play the guitar by his mother and spent most of his childhood in Memphis, playing slide guitar at an early age in juke joints and ... | {"Born": "Frayser, Memphis, Tennessee, United States", "Died": "Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States", "Genres": "Blues", "Labels": "Chess RecordsJ.O.B. RecordsVanguard RecordsVarious"} |
Allameh Ali-Akbar Dehkhodā (; 1879 – March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian literary writer, philologist, and lexicographer. He was the author of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language published to date.
Biography
Dehkhoda was born in Tehran to parents from Qazvin. His father, K... | {"Name": "Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda", "Native name": "fa علیاکبر دهخدا", "Caption": "Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda", "Birth name": "Ali-Akbar Ghazvini", "Birth date": "1879", "Birth place": "Tehran, Iran", "Death date": "1956 3 9 1879 1 1", "Death place": "Tehran, Iran", "Occupation": "Lexicographer, Linguist, Satirist", "Party": "Mode... |
Christian Metz (; December 12, 1931 - September 7, 1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering film semiotics, the application of theories of signification to the cinema. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain, Latin America, and the United States. As Constance P... | {"Birth date": "y 1931 12 12", "Place of birth": "Béziers, France", "Death date": "y 1993 09 07 1931 12 12", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Workplace": "School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)"} |
Karl Wolf Biermann (; born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song "Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976.
Early life
Biermann was born in Hamburg, Germany. His mother, Emma (née Dietrich), was a Communist ... | {"Born": "Hamburg, Germany", "Genres": "Folk music, political ballads", "Labels": "Broadside Records", "Website": "https://wolf-biermann.de/"} |
Fania Records is a New York-based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and his American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. The label took its name from a popular luncheonette frequented by musicians in Havana, Cuba that Masucci frequented when he worked for a public relations firm th... | {"Founded": "1964", "Founder": "Johnny Pacheco Jerry Masucci", "Parent company": "Concord", "Distributor(s)": "Universal Music Group", "Genre": "Salsa Latin", "Location": "New York City, Miami, Florida", "Official website": "www.fania.com"} |
Champlain Regional College, is an English-language Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel (CEGEP) with campuses located in three distinct administrative regions of Quebec: Lennoxville, Saint-Lambert, and Quebec City. The college offers post-secondary pre-university and technical DEC diploma programs as well as... | {"Type": "College", "Students": "5,026 Regular Day, 249 Continuing Education (Fall 2014 - at all 3 campuses combined) http://admin.crc-sher.qc.ca/wp-content/themes/champlain/pdf/projects/report_2015/CC7-SRH-150_BIL_120815_FIN.pdf March 2022", "Website": "www.crc-sher.qc.ca", "Director": "Dr. Odette Côté"} |
The Staten Island Greenbelt is a system of contiguous public parkland and natural areas in the central hills of the New York City borough of Staten Island. It is the second largest component of the parks owned by the government of New York City and is maintained by the city's Department of Parks and Recreation and the ... | {"Type": "Urban park", "Location": "Staten Island, New York City, United States", "Area": "2800 acre km2", "Coordinates": "40.58846 -74.139073 region:US_type:landmark title,inline", "Owned by": "NYC Parks", "Status": "Open all year", "Website": "http://www.sigreenbelt.org/"} |
In computing, touch is a command used to update the access date and/or modification date of a computer file or directory. It is included in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, TSC's FLEX, Digital Research/Novell DR DOS, the AROS shell, the Microware OS-9 shell, and ReactOS.
The command is also available for FreeDOS a... | {"Original author(s)": "AT&T Bell Laboratories", "Developer(s)": "Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, Randy Smith, TSC, Microware, Apple, Digital Research, Novell, Kris Heidenstrom", "Initial release": "1979 1", "Written in": "C", "Platform": "Cross-platform", "Type": "Command", "License": "coreut... |
The Control Language (CL) is a scripting language originally created by IBM for the System/38 Control Program Facility and later used in OS/400 (now known as IBM i). It bears a resemblance to the IBM Job Control Language and consists of a set of command objects (*CMD) used to invoke traditional programs or get help on ... | {"Name": "Control Language", "Paradigm": "imperative", "Initial release date": "1978", "Designer": "IBM", "Developer": "IBM", "Influenced by": "Job Control Language, PL/I", "Influenced": "Windows PowerShell", "Operating system": "Control Program Facility, IBM i", "License": "Proprietary"} |
Lucien Laurin (March 18, 1912 - June 26, 2000) was a French-Canadian jockey and Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was best known for training Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown in 1973.
Life and career
Laurin was born in Joliette, Quebec, Canada. His career in Thoroughbred horse racing began in 1929 as a ... | {"Occupation": "Jockey / Trainer", "Born": "March 18, 1912", "Died": "Miami, Florida, United States", "Career wins": "1,161"} |
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 12% ownership investment by Bank of America through their brokerage subsidiary Me... | {"Type": "Private", "Industry": "Technology, Financial technology, mass media", "Founded": "1981 10 1", "Headquarters": "United States", "Revenue": "2019", "Parent": "Michael Bloomberg (88%)Others (12%)", "Website": "bloomberg.com"} |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (August 17, 1914 - August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as a United States congressman from New York from 1949 to 1955 and in 1963 was appointed United States Under Secretary of Commerce by President John F. Kennedy. He was appointed as the first ... | {"Name": "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.", "Image caption": "From 1953's Pocket Congressional Directory of the Eighty-Third Congress", "Term start": "May 26, 1965", "Term end": "May 11, 1966", "District 2": "NY 20 20th", "Preceded 2": "Sol Bloom", "Succeeded 2": "Irwin D. Davidson", "Birth name": "Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... |
Vice-Admiral Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, KG, PC, PC (Ire) (1634-1680) was an Irish soldier and politician. He was the eldest son of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond but predeceased his father and therefore never succeeded as duke.
Birth and origins
Thomas was born on 8 July 1634, at Kilkenny Castle. He was th... | {"Image caption": "Detail from the portrait below", "Image alt text": "Face of a clean-shaven man with brown eyes and shoulder-long brown curly hair", "Issue link": "chldrn", "Father": "James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond", "Mother": "Elizabeth Preston", "Birth date": "8 July 1634", "Birth place": "Kilkenny Castle", "Deat... |
Horatio A. Luro (February 27, 1901 - December 16, 1991) was a thoroughbred horse racing trainer in the United States.
Luro was born in Argentina as one of nine children into the wealthy family of rancher and meat packer Adolfo Luro. The family had been involved for several generations with the lucrative business of po... | {"Occupation": "Trainer", "Born": "1901 02 27", "Died": "Bal Harbour, Florida", "Career wins": "910"} |
Passage of Arms is a 1959 novel by Eric Ambler.
Plot
Girija Krishnan is a bookkeeper at a rubber plantation in Malaya who has one ambition in life: to found and establish a local bus company and transport system. However, he has no money to finance this endeavor.
The local authorities kill a gang of Communist terror... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Heinemann", "Preceded by": "The Night-Comers", "Followed by": "The Light of Day"} |
Botho Wendt August Graf zu Eulenburg (31 July 1831 – 5 February 1912) was a Prussian statesman.
Early life and career
Eulenburg was born in Wicken (now in Pravdinsky District)Biography at University of Oldenburg to Botho Heinrich zu Eulenburg (1804–1879) and Therese née von Dönhoff (1806–1882).Biography at Allgemeine... | {"Name": "Count Botho zu Eulenburg", "Birth date": "1831 7 31 y", "Birth place": "Wicken, Province of Prussia", "Death date": "1912 2 5 1831 7 31 y", "Death place": "Berlin, Imperial Germany", "Term start": "22 March 1892", "Term end": "26 October 1894", "Spouse(s)": "Elisabeth von Alvensleben"} |
Substance (also known as Substance 1987) is a compilation album by English alternative dance band New Order. It was released in August 1987 by Factory Records. The album compiles all of the band's singles at that point in their 12-inch versions, along with their respective B-side tracks. The then-newly released non-alb... | {"Released": "17 August 1987", "Recorded": "1981-1987", "Genre": "Dance-rock\nalternative danceAlternative Dance https://www.allmusic.com/style/alternative-dance-ma0000011883 AllMusic 22 April 2021 AllMusic Alternative Dance 1 September 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230901225832/https://www.allmusic.com/styl... |
The San Gabriel Mountains () are a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States. The mountain range is part of the Transverse Ranges and lies between the Los Angeles Basin and the Mojave Desert, with Interstate 5 to the west and Interstate 15 to the ... | {"Elevation": "10069", "Coordinates": "34.2889 -117.6467 type:mountain", "Length": "68.4", "Width": "22.5", "Area": "970"} |
The Crusaders (; formerly Canterbury Crusaders and BNZ Crusaders due to sponsorship by the Bank of New Zealand) are a New Zealand professional rugby union team based in Christchurch, who compete in the Super Rugby competition. They are the most successful team in the competition's history and have won 12 titles (1998, ... | {"Union": "New Zealand Rugby Union", "Location": "Christchurch, New Zealand", "Founded": "1996", "Region": "BullerCanterburyMid-CanterburySouth CanterburyTasmanWest Coast"} |
The Raritan refers to two groups of Lenape people who lived around the lower Raritan RiverIves Goddard, "Delaware," p. 213. and the Raritan Bay, in what is now northeastern New Jersey, in the 16th century.
Name
The name Raritan likely came from one of the Lenape languages (among the languages in the Algonquian langu... | {"Name": "Raritan", "Image caption": "General area of Raritan territory", "Population": "No longer distinct tribes.", "Languages": "Munsee language", "Religions": "Indigenous religion", "Related ethnic groups": "other Lenape tribes"} |
Louis J. Montulli II (best known as Lou Montulli) is a computer programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. In 1991 and 1992, he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx, with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac, while he was at the University of Kansas.Grobe, Michael. (April 10, 1997) An Early H... | {"Name": "Lou Montulli", "Birth name": "Louis J. Montulli II", "Education": "University of Kansas", "Occupation": "Computer programmer"} |
The American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) is a private university in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Established in 1991, AUBG had about 1,000 students from over 40 countries on 5 continents as of Fall 2022. Close to 40% of the students are international.
History
Founded in 1991, the American University in Bulgaria is the fir... | {"Type": "Private university", "Endowment": "$27.8 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment ... |
Francis Lovelace (c. 1621-1675) was an English Royalist and the second Governor of New York colony.
Early life
Lovelace was born circa 1621. He was the third son of Sir William Lovelace (1584-1627) and his wife Anne Barne of Lovelace Place, Bethersden and Woolwich, Kent. He was the younger brother of Richard Lovelac... | {"Name": "Francis Lovelace", "Term start": "1668", "Term end": "1673", "Birth date": "circa 1621", "Birth place": "Kent, England", "Death date": "1675", "Death place": "England"} |
Adios (January 3, 1940 – June 22, 1965) was a champion harness racing sire.
The son of Hal Dale and the mare Adioo Volo, the horse named Adios was born on January 3, 1940, at Two Gaits Farm, in Carmel, Indiana. Trained and driven by Frank Ervin and for a while owned by Harry Warner of Warner Bros. film studio, Adios wa... | {"Breed": "Standardbred", "Sire": "Hal Dale", "Dam": "Adioo Volo", "Sex": "Stallion", "Foaled": "1940", "Country": "United States", "Owner": "Delvin Miller", "Trainer": "Frank Ervin"} |
Winton is a town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia. It is northwest of Longreach. The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising. The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen, after his place of birth, Winton, Dorset. Winton was the first home of the airli... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Winton", "State Abbreviation": "qld", "Caption": "Elderslie Street", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Winton Shire", "County": "Ayrshire County, Queensland", "Postcode": "4735", "Coordinates": "22.3913 S 143.0381 E inline,title Winton (town centre)", "Maximum Temperature": "32.8", "Maximum Temp... |
Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) was a British holding company formed in 1928 through the merger of the British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH) and Metropolitan-Vickers electrical engineering companies. In 1967 AEI was acquired by GEC, to create the UK's largest industrial group. A scandal that followed the acquis... | {"Type": "Holding company", "Industry": "Electrical engineering", "Founded": "1928", "Headquarters": "United Kingdom", "Parent": "Telent"} |
Northwest College is a public community college in Powell, Wyoming.
History
Northwest College opened in 1946, as the "University of Wyoming Northwest Center," with the support of the University of Wyoming and the local school district. University support ended in 1950, and the current name was adopted in 1989.
Notabl... | {"Motto": "Your future, our focus", "Type": "Public community college", "Endowment": "$37.1 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowm... |
Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, 1st Earl of Winton, KT, PC (29 September 18124 October 1861), styled Lord Montgomerie from 1814 to 1819, was a British Conservative politician. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1852 and again from 1858 to 1859.
Background and education
Eglinton was born in Pale... | {"Name": "The Earl of Eglinton", "Monarch 2": "Queen Victoria", "Prime minister 2": "The Earl of Derby", "Predecessor 2": "The Earl of Carlisle", "Successor 2": "The Earl of Carlisle", "Birth date": "29 September 1812", "Birth place": "Palermo, Sicily", "Death date": "4 October 1861 29 September 1812", "Nationality": "... |
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 - May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher known for his comedic roles on stage, film, and television. Reilly performed in the original Broadway casts of Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for whi... | {"Name": "Charles Nelson Reilly", "Caption": "Reilly as \"Randy Robinson\" on the CBS television series Arnie in 1971", "Birth date": "1931 1 13", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2007 5 25 1931 1 13", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Cremated", "Occupation": "Actor,... |
Todt Hill ( ) is a hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York. It is the highest natural point in the five boroughs of New York City and the highest elevation on the entire Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod. The summit of the ridge is largely covered in woodlands as part of the Staten Isla... | {"Photo size": "300", "Photo caption": "Todt Hill view", "Coordinates": "40 36 08 N 74 06 44 W region:US-NY inline,title", "Map": "USA New York City##USA New York", "Map caption": "Location of Todt Hill on Staten Island"} |
Sir William Augustus Fraser, 4th Baronet (10 February 182617 August 1898), of Pilton House, near Barnstaple, Devon, was an English politician, author and collector. He was elected member of parliament for Barnstaple (Devon) in 1852, and again in 1857, and for Ludlow (Shropshire) in 1863 and for Kidderminster (Worcester... | {"Name": "William Fraser, 4th Baronet", "Alternative text": "William Augustus Fraser, Vanity Fair", "Image caption": "\"The Sanitary\". Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1875.", "Term start": "1852", "Term end": "1853", "Alongside 2": "John Laurie", "Predecessor 2": "Richard Samuel Guinness George Buck", ... |
Pat Smith (born September 21, 1970) is a former folkstyle and freestyle wrestler. He competed collegiately at Oklahoma State University (OSU) and later served as an assistant coach at OSU. During his collegiate wrestling career, Smith became the first four-time NCAA Division I champion in the sport's history. His older... | {"Name": "Pat Smith", "Birth date": "September 21, 1970", "Place of birth": "Del City, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Header color": "lightsteelblue", "Show medals?": "yes", "Medal templates": "Collegiate Wrestling the Oklahoma State Cowboys NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships \n1990 College Park 158 lb\n1991 Iowa City 158 lb\n... |
Window Maker is a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System, allowing graphical applications to be run on Unix-like operating-systems. It is designed to emulate NeXTSTEP's GUI as an OpenStep-compatible environment. Window Maker is part of the GNU Project.
Overview
Window Maker has been characterize... | {"Developer(s)": "Window Maker developers", "Initial release": "1997", "Type": "Window manager", "License": "GPL-2.0-or-later"} |
Samuel Huntington (October 4, 1765 - June 8, 1817) was an American jurist who was the third governor of Ohio from 1808 to 1810.
Biography
Huntington was born in Coventry in the Colony of Connecticut. He was the nephew (and, later, the adopted son) of Samuel Huntington, the fourth President of the Continental Congress ... | {"Name": "Samuel Huntington", "Term start": "December 12, 1808", "Term end": "December 8, 1810", "Office 2": "Ohio Senate from Trumbull County", "Predecessor 2": "New District", "Successor 2": "Benjamin Tappan", "Birth date": "1765 10 4", "Birth place": "Coventry, Colony of Connecticut, British America", "Death date":... |
Ursus Breweries, a subsidiary of Asahi Breweries Europe Ltd., is a Romanian beer producer. The company is based in Bucharest and owns 3 breweries in Timișoara, Buzău and Brașov as well as a craft mini-brewery in Cluj-Napoca and employs around 1,400 people. Ursus Breweries’ brands are: Ursus, Timișoreana, Ciucaș, Grolsc... | {"Headquarters": "Romania", "Industry": "Alcoholic beverage", "Products": "Beer", "Parent": "Asahi Breweries", "Website": "Ursus-breweries.ro"} |
The Embedded Configurable Operating System (eCos) is a free and open-source real-time operating system intended for embedded systems and applications which need only one process with multiple threads. It is designed to be customizable to precise application requirements of run-time performance and hardware needs. It is... | {"Developer": "eCos community, Free Software Foundation", "Initial release": "1998 09", "License": "eCos License: GNU General Public License (with linking exception)eCos official website eCos License Overview http://ecos.sourceware.org/license-overview.html eCos is released under a modified version of the well known... |
Food First, also known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy, is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, US. Founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, it describes itself as a "people's think tank and education-for-action center".2001 Progress Report , Food First News and View... | {"Type": "Think tank", "Location": "United States", "Award(s)": "Right Livelihood Award", "Website": "https://foodfirst.org/"} |
Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his feature-film directing debut. It stars Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol, along with E.G. Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, and Judd Omen. Described as a "... | {"Directed by": "Tim Burton", "Produced by": "Robert Shapiro\n Richard Gilbert Abramson", "Written by": "Phil Hartman\n Paul Reubens\n Michael Varhol", "Starring": "Paul Reubens\n E.G. Daily\n Mark Holton\n Diane Salinger\n Judd Omen", "Music by": "Danny Elfman", "Cinematography": "Victor J. Kemper", "Edited by": "Bill... |
Grant Hill (born September 20, 1943) is a former Canadian Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party of Canada (2004), and a former member of the Canadian Alliance (2000-2004) and the Reform Party of Canada (1993-2000).
Life and career
From January to March 2004, Hill served as interim leader of the Official Opp... | {"Name": "Grant Hill", "Birth date": "1943 09 20", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Residence": "Okotoks, Alberta", "Term start": "January 9, 2004", "Term end": "March 19, 2004", "Other political party": "ReformCanadian Alliance", "Spouse(s)": "Sue"} |
The Workers Socialist League (WSL) was a Trotskyist group in Britain. The group was formed by Alan Thornett and other members of the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) after their expulsion from that group in 1974.
Origins
Thornett and his comrades had questioned what they saw as a sectarian turn of the WRP. They ... | {"Founded": "1974", "Split from": "Workers' Revolutionary Party (UK)", "Succeeded by": "Socialist Organiser Alliance, Socialist Group, Workers' Internationalist League", "Newspaper": "Socialist Press, Socialist Organiser", "Ideology": "Trotskyism", "Headquarters": "London", "International affiliation": "Trotskyist Inte... |
James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films. His television and film work includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, The Simpsons, Broadcast News, As Good as It Gets, and Terms of Endearment.
While growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks... | {"Name": "James L. Brooks", "Alt": "A video camera is being pointed at a bearded man who is wearing glasses. Some other people stand in the background.", "Caption": "Brooks in 2007", "Birth name": "James Lawrence Brooks", "Birth date": "1940 5 9", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Years active": "1965-present", "P... |
Jerry O'Neil Lawler (born November 29, 1949), better known as Jerry "the King" Lawler, is an American color commentator and professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, although he has not performed as a full-time commentator since April 2020.
Prior to joining the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in ... | {"Ring name(s)": "Jerry \"The King\" Lawler", "Spouse(s)": "Kay Lawler 1971 1978 divorced Paula Lawler February 14, 1982 October 2, 1991 divorced Stacy Carter September 2000 October 15, 2003 divorced", "Children": "2; including Brian Christopher", "Billed height": "6 ft 0 inhttp://www.wwe.com/superstars/jerrylawler Jer... |
The Operative: No One Lives Forever (abbreviated as NOLF) is a first-person shooter video game with stealth gameplay elements, developed by Monolith Productions and published by Fox Interactive, released for Windows in 2000. The game was ported later to the PlayStation 2 and Mac OS X in 2002.
A story-driven game set i... | {"Title": "The Operative: No One Lives Forever", "Caption": "Box art, portraying protagonist Cate Archer", "Developer": "Monolith Productions", "Publisher": "Windows Fox Interactive Mac OS X MacPlay PlayStation 2 Sierra Entertainment", "Producer": "Chris MillerSamantha Ryan", "Designer": "Craig Hubbard", "Programmer": ... |
The 1st Division is an infantry division of the British Army that has been formed and disestablished numerous times since 1809 and is still currently active as the 1st (United Kingdom) Division. Lieutenant-General Arthur Wellesley raised the division for service in the Peninsular War, which was part of the Coalition Wa... | {"Branch": "United Kingdom", "Nickname(s)": "Peninsular War: The Gentlemen's Sons' Second Boer War: Mobile Marvels Mudcrushers The Salvation Army Beecham's", "Anniversaries": "Peninsular Day1 (UK) Division https://twitter.com/1UKDivision/status/1544783310009913344 1 (UK) Division 6 July 2022 Twitter 6 July 2022, 1 (UK)... |
The Liang dynasty (), alternatively known as the Southern Liang () in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the third of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. It was preceded by the Southern Qi dynasty and succeeded by the Chen dynasty. The rump state of Western L... | {"Native name": "zh 梁", "Conventional long name": "Liang", "Type of government": "Monarchy", "Date established": "30 AprilZizhi Tongjian, vol. 145.", "End date": "16 November", "Event 1": "Jiankang's fall to Hou Jing", "Event 1 date": "24 April 549Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 162.", "Event 2": "Jiangling's fall to Western Wei"... |
Herbert Eser Gray (May 25, 1931 - April 21, 2014) was a Canadian lawyer who became a prominent federal politician. He was a Liberal member of parliament for the Windsor area over the course of four decades, from 1962 to 2002, making Gray one of the longest-serving members in Canadian history. He was a cabinet minister... | {"Name": "Herb Gray", "Image caption": "Gray in 2008", "Term start": "June 11, 1997", "Term end": "January 14, 2002", "Office 2": "Leader of the Government in the House of Commons", "Prime minister 2": "Jean Chrétien", "Predecessor 2": "Doug Lewis", "Successor 2": "Don Boudria", "Birth name": "Herbert Eser Gray", "Birt... |
thumb|right|Biggle's novelette "The Botticelli Horror" was the cover story for the March 1960 issue of Fantastic
Lloyd Biggle Jr. (April 17, 1923 - September 12, 2002) was an American musician, author, and internationally known oral historian.
Biography
Biggle was born in 1923 in Waterloo, Iowa. He served in World Wa... | {"Born": "1923 4 17", "Died": "2002 9 12 1923 4 17", "Occupation": "Musician\nauthor\noral historian", "Nationality": "American", "Education": "Wayne State University (BA)University of Michigan (MM, PhD)"} |
The 1990 Plainfield tornado was a devastating tornado that occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 28, 1990. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 353. It is the only F5/EF5 rated tornado ever recorded in August in the United States, and the only F5 tornado to strike the Chicago area. There are no known... | {"Name": "1990 Plainfield tornado", "Formed": "August 28, 1990 3:15 p.m. CDT", "Duration": "30 minutes", "Dissipated": "August 28, 1990 3:45 p.m. CDT", "Fujita scale / Enhanced Fujita scale": "F5", "Fatalities": "29 fatalities, 353 injuries", "Damage": "$165 million", "Areas affected": "Oswego, Plainfield, Crest Hill,... |
Monolith Productions, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington. The company has been a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Games since August 2004.
History
Monolith Productions was founded on October 25, 1994, by Brian Goble, Brian Waite, Bryan Bouwman, Garrett Price, Jace Hall, Paul Renault, an... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1994 10 25MonolithDev 1179501628631552001 October 2, 2019 October 25th is Monolith's 25th Anniversary. Twenty. Five. Years. In the business. And we've got a lot of fun stuff planned this month to celebrate. Stay tuned here for a big ol' look back at a long history of #gamedev.", "Head... |
Gouverneur Morris ( ; January 31, 1752 - November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. He wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution and has been called the "Penman of the Constitution... | {"Name": "Gouverneur Morris", "Image caption": "Portrait of Morris, 1817", "Term start": "April 3, 1800", "Term end": "March 3, 1803", "Minister from 1": "United States", "Birth date": "1752 1 31", "Birth place": "The Bronx, Province of New York, British America", "Death date": "1816 11 6 1752 1 31", "Death place": "Th... |
The Hotchkiss School is a coeducational preparatory school in Lakeville, Connecticut, United States. Hotchkiss is a member of the Eight Schools Association and Ten Schools Admissions Organization. It is also a former member of the G30 Schools group.
History
thumb|left|250px|Postcard circa 1905
In 1891, Maria Harrison ... | {"Coordinates": "41 56 43 N 73 26 23 W region:US-CT_type:edu inline,title", "CEEB code": "070335", "Religious affiliation(s)": "Nonsectarianhttp://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolName=hotchkiss&NumOfStudentsRange=more&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1&ID=00233115 PSS Privat... |
Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 - February 23, 2019) was an American actress. Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as Jessica Tate on the sitcom Soap (1977-1981) and her co-starring role as Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984-1992). Helmond also appeared in a 1993 epi... | {"Name": "Katherine Helmond", "Caption": "Helmond at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards in 1989", "Birth name": "Katherine Marie Helmond", "Birth date": "1929 7 5", "Death date": "2019 02 23 1929 7 5", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Birth place": "Galveston, Texas, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years a... |
Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 - November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature. With his wife Diana Trilling (née Ru... | {"Name": "Lionel Trilling", "Birth name": "Lionel Mordechai Trilling", "Birth date": "1905 07 04", "Birth place": "New York City, US", "Death date": "1975 11 05 1905 07 04", "Death place": "New York City, US", "Alma mater": "Columbia University", "Occupation": "Literary critic, professor", "Years active": "1931-1975", ... |
Bully is a 2001 crime drama film directed by Larry Clark, and starring Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner, Michael Pitt, Leo Fitzpatrick, Daniel Franzese, Kelli Garner, and Nick Stahl. Its plot follows a group of teenagers in South Florida who enact a murder plot against their mutual bully who has emotionally, p... | {"Directed by": "Larry Clark", "Produced by": "Don MurphyChris HanleyFernando Sulichin", "Screenplay by": "Zachary LongRoger Pullis", "Based on": "Bully Jim Schutze", "Starring": "Brad Renfro\n Bijou Phillips\n Rachel Miner\n Michael Pitt\n Kelli Garner\n Leo Fitzpatrick\n Nick Stahl", "Music by": "Joe PoledourisJerome... |
Little League Baseball and Softball (officially, Little League Baseball Inc) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization"Little League Baseball Inc, EIN: 23-1688231". Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved August 22, 2018."Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax". Little League Ba... | {"Title": "Little League Baseball, Incorporated", "Last season": "2022", "Upcoming season": "2023 Little League World Series", "Sport": "Baseball, softball", "Founded": "1939 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Claim to fame": "Largest organized youth sports organization in the world", "Motto": "Character, Courage, ... |
St. Olave's Grammar School (formally St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Church of England Grammar School) ( or ) is a selective secondary school for boys in Orpington, Greater London, England. Founded by royal charter in 1571, the school occupied several sites in Southwark, before establishing a location on Tooley Street in... | {"Coordinates": "51.3675 0.104 type:edu_region:GB_dim:100 dec inline,title", "Religious affiliation(s)": "Church of England", "Local authority": "Bromley", "Headmaster": "Andrew Rees", "Chaplain": "Julie Bowenhttp://www.saintolaves.net/chaplaincy St. Olave's Grammar School", "Capacity": "838 St Olave's and St Saviour's... |
The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census. This was the twenty-second federal census and was at the time the largest... | {"Name of the census": "Twenty-second census of the United States", "Logo caption": "U.S. Census Bureau seal", "Image caption": "2000 U.S. census logo", "Country": "United States", "Region type": "state", "Census date": "April 1, 2000", "Population recorded": "281,421,906", "Population percentage point change": "13.2%"... |
Deere & Company, doing business as John Deere (), is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment, and lawn care equipment. It also provides financial services and other relate... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "1837Grand Detour, Illinois, U.S.VanderMey Anne John Deere Plows Ahead Fortune February 25, 2013 167 3 19", "Headquarters": "U.S.", "Industry": "Agricultural machinery Heavy equipment", "Products": "Tractors Combine harvesters Forage harvesters Sugarcane harvesters Seed drills Field spraye... |
thumb|Four Corners report on the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute, presented by David Hardaker
Four Corners is an Australian investigative journalism/current affairs documentary television program. Broadcast on ABC TV, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and is the longest-running Australian television program in histor... | {"Genre": "Documentary", "Presented by": "Michael Charlton (1961)Gerald Lyons (1962-1963)Frank Bennett (1964)John Penlington (1964)Richard Oxenburgh (1964)Robert Moore (1964-1967)John Temple (1968)Mike Willesee (1969-1971)David Flatman (1971-1972)Caroline Jones (1973-1981)Andrew Olle (1985-1994)Liz Jackson (1995-1999, ... |
Emily "Mickey" Hahn (, January 14, 1905 - February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and writer. Considered an early feminist and called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 54 books and more than 200 articles and short stories. Her novels in the 20th century pla... | {"Name": "Emily Hahn", "Birth date": "January 14, 1905", "Birth place": "St. Louis, Missouri", "Death date": "1997 2 18 1905 1 14", "Death place": "Manhattan, New York", "Occupation": "Journalist\n biographer\n novelist", "Spouse(s)": "C. R. Boxer 1945", "Partner(s)": "Shao Xunmei", "Children": "2, including Amanda Box... |
Ormoc (IPA: [ʔoɾˈmok]), officially the City of Ormoc (; ; ), is a 1st class independent component city in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 230,998 inhabitants, making it the second most-populous city in the province of Leyte after the provincial capital... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
Mandaue (), officially the City of Mandaue (; ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 364,116 people.
Mandaue City is located on the central-eastern coastal region of Cebu. Its southeast coast borders Mactan Island w... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
Toledo, officially the City of Toledo (; ), is a 3rd class component city in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 207,314 people.
Toledo City is bordered to the north by the town of Balamban, to the west is the Tañon Strait, to the east is Cebu City and Naga and the t... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
La Vía Campesina (from , ) is an international farmers organization founded in 1993 in Mons, Belgium, formed by 182 organisations in 81 countries, and describing itself as "an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indig... | {"Abbreviation": "LVC", "Named after": "Globalizing hope, globalizing the struggle!", "Type": "Social Movement, Small-Scale Food Producers' Organization", "Headquarters": "Bagnolet, France", "Website": "viacampesina.org"} |
Pokémon Pikachu, also known as in Japan, is a limited series of two portable Pokémon digital pets (similar to Tamagotchi) featuring the famous yellow electric-type Pokémon, Pikachu. It debuted on March 27, 1998, in Japan, on November 2, 1998 in North America, and in December 1998 in Europe.
Gameplay
The first release... | {"Also known as? (\"AKA\")": "Pocket Pikachuポケットピカチュウ", "Image size": "220px", "Manufacturer": "Nintendo", "Release date": "JP March 27, 1998 EU December, 1998 NA November 2, 1998", "Base price": "press>http://www.nintendo.com/corp/press/110698.html Take a Walk on the Pokémon Side With Pokémon Pikachu™ Nintendo Novembe... |
Washburn University (WU) is a public university in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and business. Washburn has 550 faculty members, who teach more than 6,100 undergraduate students and nearly 800 graduate students. The university's ass... | {"Motto": "Non Nobis Solum", "Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "$155.3 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Va... |
The Kingdom of Majorca (, ; ; ; ) was a realm on the east coast of Spain, which included certain Mediterranean islands, and which was founded by James I of Aragon, also known as James the Conqueror. In a will written in 1262 after the death of his firstborn son Alfonso, he ceded the kingdom to his son James. The dispos... | {"Native name": "ca Regne de Mallorcaes Reino de Mallorcala Regnum Maioricaefr Royaume de Majorque", "Conventional long name": "Kingdom of Majorca", "Common languages": "Catalan", "Type of government": "Aragonese led-Royal Constitutional Monarchy", "Event ending the country": "Nueva Planta decrees", "Capital": "Palma a... |
thumb|right|An 1887 map showing the Crown colony of Bechuanaland (shaded pink) and the Bechuanaland Protectorate (pink border). This was prior to the extension northward to include Ngamiland in 1890.
The Bechuanaland Protectorate () was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885 in Southern Africa by the United Kingd... | {"Conventional long name": "Bechuanaland Protectorate", "Type of government": "Protectorate", "Starting event": "Protectorate established", "Date established": "31 March", "Event ending the country": "Independence", "End date": "30 September", "Event 1": "Expanded", "Event 1 date": "1890", "Event 2": "General election"... |
right|thumb|Birthplace of Carl Laemmle in Laupheim
Carl Laemmle (; born Karl Lämmle; January 17, 1867 - September 24, 1939) was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. He produced or worked on over 400 films.
Regarded as one of the most important of the early f... | {"Name": "Carl Laemmle", "Caption": "Portrait, Exhibitors' Times, 1913", "Birth name": "Karl Lämmle", "Birth date": "1867 1 17", "Birth place": "Laupheim, Kingdom of Württemberg (now Germany)", "Death date": "1939 9 24 1867 1 17", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Home of Peace Cemetery,... |
Terry A. Anderson (born October 27, 1947) is an American journalist. He reported for the Associated Press. In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Jihad Organization in Lebanon and held until 1991. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio State Senate.
Early life
Anderson was born i... | {"Caption": "Anderson in 1996", "Birth date": "1947 10 27", "Birth place": "Lorain, Ohio, U.S.", "Occupation": "Journalist", "Known For": "Hostage in Lebanon (1985-1991)", "Alma mater": "Iowa State University", "Employer": "Columbia UniversityOhio UniversitySyracuse UniversityUniversity of FloridaUniversity of Kentucky... |
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (; February 11, 1909 - February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and... | {"Name": "Joseph L. Mankiewicz", "Birth name": "Joseph Leo Mankiewicz", "Birth date": "1909 02 11", "Birth place": "Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "1993 02 05 1909 02 11", "Death place": "Bedford, New York, U.S.", "Other names": "Joseph L. Mankiewicz", "Alma mater": "Columbia University (BA)", "Occupa... |
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (; November 7, 1897 - March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles would go on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. He was previously a Berlin correspondent for Wome... | {"Name": "Herman J. Mankiewicz", "Caption": "Mankiewicz in the 1940s", "Birth name": "Herman Jacob Mankiewicz", "Birth date": "1897 11 7", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "1953 3 5 1897 11 7", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Columbia University (BA)", "Occupation": "Sc... |
Jian Ghomeshi (born June 9, 1967) is a Canadian broadcaster, writer, musician, producer and former CBC personality. From 1990 to 2000, he was a vocalist and drummer in the Thornhill-based folk-pop band Moxy Früvous. In the 2000s, he became a television and radio broadcaster. He hosted, among others, the CBC Newsworld p... | {"Name": "Jian Ghomeshi", "Caption": "Ghomeshi hosting his radio show Q in 2009", "Birth date": "1967 06 09", "Birth place": "London, England, UK", "Other names": "Jean Ghomeshi", "Occupation": "Broadcaster Writer MusicianProducer", "Years active": "1989present", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Alma mater": "York Universit... |
Jake 2.0 is an American science fiction television series created by Silvio Horta that premiered on UPN on September 10, 2003. The series was canceled on January 14, 2004, due to low ratings, leaving four episodes unaired in the United States. In the United Kingdom, all the episodes aired on Sky One. The series later a... | {"Genre": "Science fiction\nAction\nDrama", "Created by": "Silvio Horta", "Starring": "Christopher Gorham\nPhilip Anthony-Rodriguez\nJudith Scott\nMarina Black\nKeegan Connor Tracy", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "42 minutes", "Original network": "UPN", "Original release": "2004 2 6"} |
thumb|243px|Arms of Sir John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel, KG - 1 and 4, gules a lion rampant or (FitzAlan); 2 and 3, sable, a fret or (Maltravers)
John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel, 4th Baron Maltravers KG (14 February 140812 June 1435) was an English nobleman and military commander during the later phases of the H... | {"Image size": "240px", "Image caption": "John FitzAlan's funeral effigy in Arundel Castle", "Birth date": "14 February 1408", "Birth place": "Lytchett Matravers, Dorset", "Death date": "1435 06 12 1408 02 14 yes", "Death place": "Beauvais, France", "Death cause": "Wounded in battle", "Resting place coordinates": "50 5... |
The Central Hockey League (CHL) was a North American mid-level minor professional ice hockey league which operated from 1992 until 2014. It was founded by Ray Miron and Bill Levins and later sold to Global Entertainment Corporation, which operated the league from 2000 to 2013, at which point it was purchased by the ind... | {"Map size": "200px", "Caption": "Final CHL logo, used until 2014", "Sport": "Ice hockey", "Founded": "1992", "Folded": "2014", "Champions": "Allen Americans", "Most titles (player)": "(tie) Allen Americans, Wichita Thunder, Oklahoma City Blazers, Memphis RiverKings, Laredo Bucks, & Colorado Eagles (2)"} |
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a state law enforcement agency of the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enforcement powers anywhere within the state. The California Highway Patrol can assi... | {"Uniformed as": "California Highway Patrol", "Abbreviation": "CHP", "Formed": "1929 8 14 df", "Employees": "11,000 (as of 2023)Table 76 FBI 2015-09-19 https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/table-76/Table_76_Full_time_State_Law_Enforcement_Employees_by_state_2014.xls 2020-10-06", "... |
Ronald Paul Bucca (May 6, 1954 – September 11, 2001) was a New York City Fire Department Marshal killed during the September 11 attacks during the collapse of the World Trade Center. He was the only fire marshal in the history of the New York City Fire Department to be killed in the line of duty.
Military career
Bucca... | {"Name": "Ronald Paul Bucca", "Birth date": "1954 05 06", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S", "Death date": "2001 09 11 1954 05 06", "Death place": "New York City, U.S", "Death cause": "Terrorist attack, Collapse of the South Tower", "Module": "yes\n New York City Fire Department\n 1979-2001", "Module two": "yes\n ... |
Michael Bartley Peters (born October 9, 1943), better known as Mike Peters, is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm.
Early life
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where his mother, Charlotte Peters, was a local television personality with o... | {"Name": "Mike Peters", "Birth name": "Michael Bartley Peters", "Birth date": "1943 10 9", "Birth place": "St. Louis, Missouri", "Occupation": "Cartoonist", "Known For": "Mother Goose and Grimm", "Awards": "Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, 1981Inkpot Award, 1987Inkpot AwardNational Cartoonists Society Reuben Aw... |
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Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress and model who has appeared on screen since 1989. She was nominated three times for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Swimming Pool (2003), Peter Pan (2003), and A Secret (2007).
Personal life
Sagnier was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the départem... | {"Name": "Ludivine Sagnier", "Caption": "Sagnier at the 38th César Awards in 2013", "Birth date": "3 July 1979", "Birth place": "La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines, France", "Occupation": "Actress model", "Years active": "1989present", "Partner(s)": "Kim Chapiron", "Children": "3", "Nationality": "French"} |
CTV Northern Ontario, formerly known as MCTV, is a system of four television stations in Northern Ontario, Canada, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media.
These stations are:
CICI - Greater Sudbury (flagship station)
CKNY - North Bay
CHBX - Sault Ste. Marie
CITO - Timmins
Since... | {"Type": "Broadcast television system", "Country": "Canada", "Broadcast area": "Most communities in Northeastern Ontario, also available nationally via satellite", "Network": "CTV Television Network", "Stations": "CICI-TVCKNY-TVCHBX-TVCITO-TV", "Owner": "BCE Inc.", "Parent": "Bell Media", "Launched": "1953 10 25 y", "F... |
Asa Shinn Mercer (June 6, 1839 - August 10, 1917) was the first president of the Territorial University of Washington and a member of the Washington State Senate.
He is remembered primarily for his role in three milestones of the old American West: the founding of the University of Washington, the Mercer Girls, and th... | {"Term start": "1861", "Term end": "1863", "Birth name": "Asa Shinn Mercer", "Birth date": "1839 6 6", "Birth place": "Princeton, Illinois", "Death date": "1917 8 10 1839 6 6", "Death place": "Buffalo, Wyoming", "Alma mater": "Franklin College"} |
Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 - 14 January 2004) was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, who called her "a profoundly truthful actress." Because Hagen was on the Hollywood blacklist, in pa... | {"Name": "Uta Hagen", "Caption": "Hagen with Paul Robeson in the 1943Theatre Guild production of Othello", "Birth name": "Uta Thyra Hagen", "Birth date": "1919 06 12 y", "Birth place": "Göttingen, Germany", "Death date": "2004 01 14 1919 06 12 y", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Education": "University of Wiscon... |
{{Tokyo Tech Name}} is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as a Top Type university of Top Global University Project by ... | {"Motto": "時代を創る知・技・志・和の理工人 Jidai o tsukuru chi, waza, kokorozashi, wa no rikōjin", "Type": "Public (National)", "President": "Dr. Kazuya Masu", "Undergraduates": "4,940", "Postgraduates": "5,096", "Campus": "Urban/rural", "Website": "http://www.titech.ac.jp/"} |
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