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Robert Owen (; 14 May 1771 - 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, and sought a more collective approach to ... | {"Name": "Robert Owen", "Caption": "Portrait by William Henry Brooke, 1834", "Birth date": "yes 1771 5 14", "Birth place": "Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales", "Death date": "yes 1858 11 17 1771 5 14", "Death place": "Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales", "Occupation": "Co-operator social reformer textile mill co-owner phila... |
Charles "Kid" McCoy (October 13, 1872 - April 18, 1940), born Norman Selby, was an American boxer and early Hollywood actor. He claimed the vacant world middleweight title when he scored an upset victory over Tommy Ryan by 15th-round knockout.
Overview
Born in Moscow, Rush County, Indiana, McCoy would eventually wei... | {"Real name": "Norman Selby", "Nationality": "American", "Height": "5 ft 11 in m 2 on", "Weight(s)": "Middleweight", "Born": "Moscow, Indiana, U.S.", "Died": "Detroit, Michigan, U.S.", "Total fights": "100", "Wins": "79", "Wins by KO": "59", "Losses": "7", "Draws": "10", "No contests": "4"} |
James Joseph Yee ( or 余优素福, also known by the Arabic name Yusuf Yee) (born c. 1968) is an American former United States Army chaplain with the rank of captain. He worked as a Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay detention camp and was subjected to an intense investigation by the United States for espionage and other crim... | {"Name": "James J. Yee", "Image": "James Yee.JPG", "Caption": "Yee at Lancaster University, 2007", "Birth date": "1968", "Birth place": "New Jersey, U.S.", "Other names": "余百康 Yusuf Yee (Arabic name)", "Occupation": "Former US Army Chaplain", "Known For": "Serving as the Muslim Chaplain for Muslim detainees held at the... |
A wooden fish, also known as a Chinese temple block, wooden bell, or muyu, is a type of woodblock that originated from East Asia that is used by monks and lay people in the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism. They are used by Buddhist ceremonies in China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other Asian countries. They may be referr... | {"Infobox title": "Wooden fish", "Picture caption": "Wooden fish", "Name in traditional characters": "木魚", "Pinyin transcription": "mùyú", "Japanese name in Kanji": "木魚", "Japanese kana": "もくぎょ", "Japanese Hepburn romanization": "mokugyo", "Tibetan": "ཤིང་ཉ།", "Tibetan Wylie romanisation": "shingnya"} |
Acts of Thomas is an early 3rd-century text, one of the New Testament apocrypha within the Acts of the Apostles subgenre. References to the work by Epiphanius of Salamis show that it was in circulation in the 4th century. The complete versions that survive are Syriac and Greek. There are many surviving fragments of the... | {"Author": "Unknown, sometimes ascribed to Leucius Charinus", "Religion": "Christianity", "Language": "Syriac, Greek", "Period": "Early Christianity"} |
Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle, ) is a Trotskyist communist party in France, named after its weekly paper. Arlette Laguiller has been the party's spokeswoman since 1973 and ran in each presidential election until 2012, when Nathalie Arthaud was the candidate. Robert Barcia (Hardy) was its founder and central leader.... | {"Split from": "Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party", "Leader": "Collective leadership:(Central Committee);Spokesperson:Nathalie Arthaud", "Founded": "1939 (groupe Barta)1956 (LO)", "Headquarters": "Paris", "Ideology": "CommunismTrotskyismFeminismAnti-capitalism", "Political position": "Far-left", "International affi... |
Ben Vautier, also known simply as Ben (born 18 July 1935 in Naples, Italy), is a French artist. Vautier lives and works in Nice, where he ran a record shop called Magazin between 1958 and 1973.
Biography
Benjamin Vautier was born on 18 July 1935 in Naples, Italy to a French family. He is the great-grandson of the Sw... | {"Name": "Ben Vautier", "Caption": "Benjamin Vautier in 2013", "Birth name": "Benjamin Vautier", "Birth date": "18 July 1935", "Birth place": "Naples, Italy", "Nationality": "French", "Known For": "Lettrism, Performance art", "Movement": "Fluxus, zero"} |
Lee Kyung Hae (1947 - September 10, 2003) was a South Korean farmer and activist who opposed neo-liberal globalization and protested for the local farmers and fishermen of his home country whose jobs were threatened. He was president of the Federation of Farmers and Fishermen of Korea. He died by suicide at the 2003 W... | {"Hangul name": "이경해", "Hanja": "李京海", "Revised Romanization": "I Gyeong-hae", "McCune-Reischauer": "I Kyŏnghae"} |
Canoga Park is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. Before the Mexican-American War, the district was part of a rancho, and after the American victory it was converted into wheat farms and then subdivided, with part of it named Owensmouth as a town founded in 1912. It... | {"Named for": "Canoga, New York", "Land": "4.35", "Density": "60,578", "DST": "-7"} |
300px|thumb|Map showing Lake Dongting and the major rivers flowing into it
Dongting Lake () is a large, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan Province, China. It is a flood basin of the Yangtze River, so its volume depends on the season. The provinces of Hubei and Hunan are named after their location relative to the lake... | {"Location": "Hunan Province", "Coordinates": "29 18 36 N 112 57 00 E region:CN-43_type:waterbody inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Yangtze, Xiang, Zi, Yuan, Li", "Primary outflows": "Yangtze", "Basin": "China"} |
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (; 12 December 1934 - 1 April 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.
Inheriting a severe economic and financial crisis from his predecessor José López Portillo as a result of th... | {"Name": "Miguel de la Madrid", "Image size": "220px", "Image caption": "Miguel de la Madrid in 1986", "Term start": "1 December 1982", "Term end": "30 November 1988", "Office 2": "Director of the Fund of Economic Culture", "Predecessor 2": "Enrique González Pedrero", "Successor 2": "Gonzalo Celorio Blasco", "Birth nam... |
Bienvenidos (Spanish for "Welcome") is a Venezuelan sketch comedy television show. Produced and hosted by Miguel Ángel Landa, the show was produced by Venevisión from 1982 until 2001, when the show moved to Televen for its final season. It has been taped both at Venevisión's studios and on location across Venezuela.
P... | {"Genre": "Comedy", "Running time": "60 minutes", "Created by": "Miguel Ángel Landa", "Written by": "Miguel Ángel LandaRaúl Zenteno", "Directed by": "Miguel Ángel Landa", "Presented by": "Miguel Ángel Landa", "Starring": "Gustavo GonzálezKoke CoronaErnesto CortésMaría Antonieta DuqueGabriela FleuriKatherine PardoGustav... |
The American Convention on Human Rights, also known as the Pact of San José, is an international human rights instrument. It was adopted by many countries in the Western Hemisphere in San José, Costa Rica, on 22 November 1969. It came into force after the eleventh instrument of ratification (that of Grenada) was deposi... | {"Name": "Pact of San José", "Long name": "American Convention on Human Rights", "Image size": "200px", "Date signed": "22 November 1969", "Location signed": "San José, Costa Rica", "Date effective": "18 July 1978", "Condition effective": "11 ratifications", "Parties": "2423 (from September 2013)", "Depositor": "Genera... |
HLN is an American basic cable network. Owned by CNN Global, the network primarily carries true-crime programming, as well as limited live news programming.
The channel was originally launched on January 1, 1982 by Turner Broadcasting as CNN2 (later renamed Headline News or CNN Headline News), a sister network to CNN ... | {"Launched": "1982 1 1 (as CNN2)1982 8 9 (as Headline News)2008 12 15 (as HLN)", "Picture format": "1080i HDTV(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)", "Owner": "Warner Bros. Discovery", "Parent": "CNN Global", "Country": "United States", "Language(s)": "English", "Broadcast area": "United States\n Canada\n ... |
The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, also known as the Bogota Declaration, was the world's first international human rights instrument of a general nature, predating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by less than a year.
The Declaration was adopted by the nations of the Americas at the Nin... | {"Name": "American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man", "Image size": "200px", "Date signed": "April 1948", "Location signed": "Bogotá, Colombia", "Date effective": "2 May 1948", "Wikisource link": "American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man"} |
Edward II (known also as EII, and previously as Edward the Second and the Red Hot Polkas and e2K) are an English band which play a fusion of world music, English folk and reggae. Active from 1980, the band broke up after losing several key members in 1999, relaunching as "e2K" in 2000. In 2003, the band dissolved once ... | {"Genres": "Folk, British folk rock, reggae, and World music", "Origin": "Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England", "Labels": "Cooking Vinyl (1987-9), Zest (1991-6), Ock (1998-2000), Topic (2001-3) Cadiz (2009)", "Website": "http://edwardthesecond.co.uk"} |
2300 AD, originally titled Traveller: 2300, is a tabletop science fiction role-playing game created by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) and first published in 1986.
Publication history
GDW created the popular science fiction role-playing game Traveller in 1977 with themes taken from Space Opera short stories and novels ... | {"Name": "2300 AD", "Subtitle": "Mankind Discovers the Stars", "Image caption": "First edition cover, 1986", "Designers": "Frank Chadwick Timothy B. Brown Lester W. Smith Marc W. Miller", "Publishers": "Game Designers' Workshop Mongoose Publishing", "Publication": "1986 (1st ed., Traveller: 2300) 1988 (2nd ed., 2300 AD... |
In number theory, a Wieferich prime is a prime number p such that p2 divides , therefore connecting these primes with Fermat's little theorem, which states that every odd prime p divides . Wieferich primes were first described by Arthur Wieferich in 1909 in works pertaining to Fermat's Last Theorem, at which time both ... | {"Named after": "Arthur Wieferich", "Publication year": "1909", "Author of publication": "Wieferich, A.", "First terms": "1093, 3511", "Largest known term": "3511", "OEIS": "A001220"} |
Nikola IV Zrinski or Miklós IV Zrínyi (, ; 1507/1508 - 7 September 1566), also commonly known as Nikola Šubić Zrinski (), was a Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and general, Ban of Croatia from 1542 until 1556, royal master of the treasury from 1557 until 1566, and a descendant of the Croatian noble families Zrinski and Kur... | {"Name": "Nikola IV ZrinskiMiklós IV Zrínyi", "Image size": "250", "Image caption": "A 16th-century engraving by Matthias Zündt", "Spouse(s)": "Katarina FrankopanEva Rosenberg", "Birth date": "circa 1508", "Birth place": "Zrin, Kingdom of Croatia", "Death date": "yes 1566 9 7 (circa 58)", "Death place": "Szigetvár, Kin... |
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS, ; , SCRS) is Canada's main national intelligence agency. It is responsible for collecting, analysing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad. The agency als... | {"Formed": "June 21, 1984", "Jurisdiction": "Government of Canada", "Headquarters": "45.4374 N 75.6139 W type:landmark_scale:4000 it", "Employees": "3,200+ (2020)https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/transparency/briefing-material/transition-materials/people-of-csis.html People of CSIS 16 N... |
Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB (; ; 31 January 1762 - 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, and had a leading role in the social, economic, and architectural development of the colony. He is con... | {"Name": "Lachlan Macquarie", "Birth date": "31 January 1762", "Birth place": "Ulva, Inner Hebrides, Scotland", "Death date": "1824 7 1 1762 1 31 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Spouse(s)": "Jane Jarvis (m. 1792-1796)Elizabeth Campbell (m. 1807)", "Term start": "1 January 1810", "Term end": "30 November 1821", "... |
Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, PC (; Isaac Leslie Belisha; 7 September 1893 - 16 February 1957) was a British Liberal, then National Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister. He later joined the Conservative Party. He proved highly successful in modernizing the British road system in 1934-1... | {"Name": "The Lord Hore-Belisha", "Image caption": "Leslie Hore-Belisha", "Term start": "28 May 1937", "Term end": "5 January 1940", "Order 2": "Financial Secretary to the Treasury", "Prime minister 2": "Ramsay MacDonald", "Predecessor 2": "Walter Elliot", "Successor 2": "Duff Cooper", "Birth name": "Isaac Leslie Belis... |
Nu jazz (also spelt nü jazz or known as jazztronica, or future jazz) is a genre of jazz and electronic music. The music blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, electronic music, and free improvisation.Definition from Sergey Chernov, June 7, 2002, in The St. Petersburg Times
Nu jazz typically ve... | {"Name": "Nu Jazz", "Stylistic origins": "Jazz acid jazz jazz fusion soul smooth jazz electronica free jazz house electronic techno EDM dance", "Cultural origins": "Early-1990s, United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, Mexico, and Brazil", "Other genre topics": "Electro swing trip hop"} |
MediaWiki is free and open-source wiki software originally developed by Magnus Manske for use on Wikipedia on January 25, 2002 and further improved by Lee Daniel Crocker,Magnus Manske's announcement of "PHP Wikipedia", wikipedia-l, August 24, 2001 after which it has since been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation. I... | {"Original author(s)": "Magnus Manske Lee Daniel Crocker", "Developer(s)": "Wikimedia Foundation", "Initial release": "2002 01 25 yes", "Written in": "PHPmediawiki-announce https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-December/000242.html Announcing MediaWiki 1.34.0 December 19, 2019 December 19, 2019 ... |
Troy is a 2004 epic historical war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by David Benioff. Produced by units in Malta, Mexico and Britain's Shepperton Studios, the film features an ensemble cast led by Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad in its narration of t... | {"Directed by": "Wolfgang Petersen", "Produced by": "Wolfgang Petersen\n Diana Rathbun\n Colin Wilson", "Screenplay by": "David Benioff", "Based on": "Iliad Homer\n Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus", "Starring": "Brad Pitt\n Eric Bana\n Orlando Bloom\n Diane Kruger\n Brian Cox\n Sean Bean\n Brendan Gleeson\n Rose Byrn... |
thumb|upright=1.25|Inigo Jones's plan, dated 1638, for a new palace at Whitehall, which was only realised in part.
The Palace of Whitehall — also spelled White Hall — at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, except notably Inigo Jones's Banqueting... | {"Coordinates": "51 30 16 N 00 07 32 W scale:10000_region:GB inline", "Location": "City of Westminster, Middlesex, Kingdom of England", "Built": "c. 1240, 15-17th cent.", "Demolished": "1698 (due to fire)"} |
Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle DBMS, Oracle Autonomous Database, or simply as Oracle) is a proprietary multi-model database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.
It is a database commonly used for running online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW) and mixed (O... | {"Developer(s)": "Oracle Corporation", "Initial release": "1979", "Type": "Multi-model database", "Written in": "Assembly language, C, C++ http://www.lextrait.com/Vincent/implementations.html The Programming Languages Beacon, v16 Lextrait Vincent March 2016 15 December 2016 https://archive.today/20120530/ht... |
The Treaty of London of 1839,also called the First Treaty of London, the Convention of 1839, the Treaty of Separation, the Quintuple Treaty of 1839, or the Treaty of the articles was signed on 19 April 1839 between the Concert of Europe, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Belgium. It was a direct... | {"Name": "Treaty of London", "Image caption": "Belgian borders claimed before The Treaty of the XXIV articles.", "Treaty type": "Multilateral Treaty", "Date signed": "yes 1839 4 19", "Location signed": "London, United Kingdom", "Original signatories": "Austrian Empire Austria\n Belgium\n July Monarchy France\n German C... |
Superfund is a United States federal environmental remediation program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).United States. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. , approved December 11, 1980. et seq. The progra... | {"Long title": "An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites.", "Nicknames": "Superfund", "Enacted by": "96th", "Public law": "P.L. 96-510", "Titles amended": "42 (Public H... |
Theo Nathaniel Epstein (born December 29, 1973) is an American Major League Baseball executive, who currently works for MLB as a consultant. He was the vice president and general manager for the Boston Red Sox and then the president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs. He worked for each team for nine seasons.
... | {"Name": "Theo Epstein", "Caption": "Epstein in 2010", "Birth date": "1973 12 29", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Alma mater": "Yale UniversityUniversity of San Diego School of Law", "Occupation": "Consultant", "Organization": "Major League Baseball", "Children": "2", "Spous... |
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (November 1, 1878 - May 5, 1959) was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.Haberman, Frederick W. (1999). Nobel lectures in peace 1926-1950.
Volume 2 of Peace 1901-. Nobel lectures, including presentation speeches and laureates' bio... | {"Name": "Carlos Saavedra Lamas", "Term start": "October 17, 1941", "Term end": "July 30, 1943", "Office 2": "Minister of Justice and Public Instruction", "President 2": "Victorino de la Plaza", "Predecessor 2": "Tomás R. Cullen", "Successor 2": "José Santos Salinas", "Birth date": "1878 11 1 y", "Birth place": "Buenos... |
Walter de Gray (died 1 May 1255) was an English prelate and statesman who was Archbishop of York from 1215 to 1255 and Lord Chancellor from 1205 to 1214. His uncle was John de Gray, who was a bishop and royal servant to King John of England. After securing the office of chancellor, the younger Gray was a supporter of t... | {"Predecessor": "Geoffrey Plantagenet", "Successor": "Sewal de Bovil", "Consecration": "5 October 1214", "Other post(s)": "Bishop of LichfieldBishop of Worcester", "Born": "Eaton, Norwich, Norfolk", "Died": "Fulham", "Parents": "John de Gray"} |
thumb|250px|Approximate boundaries of the New England North West region within New South Wales
New England is a geographical region in the north of the state of New South Wales, Australia, about 60 km inland from the Tasman Sea. The area includes the Northern Tablelands (or New England Tablelands) and the North West S... | {"Type": "region", "Name": "New England", "State Abbreviation": "NSW", "Caption": "Mount Duval in New England", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Tamworth Regional Council, Armidale Regional Council, Glen Innes Severn, Inverell Shire, Tenterfield Shire, Walcha Shire", "Population": "185,160", "Population Year": "2021", "... |
Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council. Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in Australia and had a population of 37,191 in June 2019.
Bathurst is often referr... | {"Type": "city", "Name": "Bathurst", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Caption": "William Street", "Postcode": "2795", "Population": "37191", "Population Year": "2019", "Established": "1814", "Elevation": "650", "Maximum Temperature": "20.8", "Minimum Temperature": "6.7", "Rainfall": "647.8", "Federal Government": "Calare"... |
Ivor Keith Caplin (born 8 November 1958) is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove from 1997 until 2005.
Early life
Caplin was born in Brighton into a Jewish familyWilliam D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein, The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Pa... | {"Name": "Ivor Caplin", "Term start": "13 June 2003", "Term end": "11 May 2005", "Birth date": "1958 11 8 yes", "Birth place": "Brighton", "Nationality": "British"} |
Sarah Jill "Lalla" Ward (born 28 June 1951) is an English actress, voice artist and author. She is best known for playing the role of Romana II in the BBC television series Doctor Who from 1979 to 1981.
Career
Early career
Ward's stage name, "Lalla", originates from her attempts as a toddler to pronounce her own name... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Honourable", "Name": "Lalla Ward", "Caption": "Ward in 2014", "Birth name": "Sarah Jill Ward", "Birth date": "1951 6 28 y", "Birth place": "London, England", "Alma mater": "Royal Central School of Speech and Drama", "Occupation": "Actress author voice artist", "Years active": "1969-1993, 2013,... |
Daniel Auteuil (; born 24 January 1950) is a French actor and director who has appeared in a wide range of film genres, including period dramas, romantic comedies, and crime thrillers. In 1996 he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival together with Belgian actor Pascal Duquenne. He is also the winner of t... | {"Name": "Daniel Auteuil", "Caption": "Daniel Auteuil in 2011", "Birth date": "1950 01 24 y", "Birth place": "French Algeria", "Spouse(s)": "Anne Jousset (?-?)\n Emmanuelle Béart 1993 1995\n Aude Ambroggi 22 July 2006", "Partner(s)": "Marianne Denicourt", "Children": "3; including Aurore Auteuil", "Years active": "1974... |
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) is an organisation that celebrates, supports, and promotes British independent cinema and film-making talent in the United Kingdom. Nominations for the annual awards ceremony are announced in early November, with the ceremony itself taking place in early December.
Since 2015,... | {"Awarded for": "Achievement in independently funded British film", "Country": "United Kingdom", "First awarded": "1998", "Website": "www.bifa.film"} |
Canadair Ltd. was a civil and military aircraft manufacturer in Canada. In 1986, its assets were acquired by Bombardier Aerospace, the aviation division of Canadian transport conglomerate Bombardier Inc.
Canadair's origins lie in the establishment of a factory for Canadian Vickers in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montr... | {"Fate": "Acquired by Bombardier", "Founded": "1944 11 11 yes", "Defunct": "1986", "Headquarters": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Parent": "General Dynamics (1952-1954) Convair (1954-1976)"} |
William Parry Murphy (Stoughton, Wisconsin, February 6, 1892 - October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia (specifically, pernicious anemia). ... | {"Name": "William P. Murphy", "Birth date": "1892 02 06Murphy, William Parry at American National Biography website", "Birth place": "Stoughton, Wisconsin", "Death date": "1987 10 09 1892 02 06", "Death place": "Brookline, Massachusetts", "Spouse(s)": "Harriett Adams", "Children": "2 (including William P. Murphy Jr.)",... |
The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) was founded in 1884 and is one of the oldest institutions in Hong Kong. In 1960, it was granted a royal charter and renamed The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club (). The institution reverted to its original name in 1996 due to the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. Membership of the club is by no... | {"Type": "Non-profit organisation", "Founded": "yes 1884 11 04", "Headquarters": "Hong Kong", "Industry": "Charity", "Products": "Betting, lottery, sports", "Website": "http://www.hkjc.com/home/english/index.aspx www.hkjc.com"} |
The Triple Alliance (; Swedish: Trippelalliansen) was signed by the Kingdom of England, the Swedish Empire and the Dutch Republic in May 1668. It was created in response to the occupation of the Spanish Netherlands and Franche-Comté by France. Although Spain and Emperor Leopold were not signatories, they were closely i... | {"Name": "The Triple Alliance", "Image caption": "Sir William Temple, English ambassador in the Hague and driving force behind the Alliance", "Treaty context": "England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden agree a pact of mutual support", "Date signed": "yes 1668 01 23 England, Dutch Republic yes 1668 04 25 Sweden", "Loca... |
Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 182224 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.
Biography
Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight fo... | {"Name": "Joachim Raff", "Image upright": "1.1", "Caption": "Raff in 1878, published in John Knowles Paine's Famous Composers, Vol. 2, 1891", "Birth date": "1822 05 27 y", "Birth place": "Lachen, Switzerland", "Death date": "1882 06 25 1822 05 27 y", "Death place": "Frankfurt", "Occupation": "Composer Pianist Music... |
Dith Pran (; 23 September 1942 - 30 March 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist. He was a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide and the subject of the film The Killing Fields (1984).
Early life
Dith was born in Siem Reap, Cambodia near Angkor Wat. His father worked as a public works official. He learned Fren... | {"Name": "Dith Pran", "Caption": "Dith speaking in Athens, Ohio in May 2007", "Birth date": "y 1942 9 23", "Birth place": "Siem Reap, French protectorate of Cambodia, French Indochina", "Death date": "y 2008 3 30 1942 9 27", "Death place": "New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.", "Occupation": "Photojournalist & translator",... |
William George Zane Jr. (born February 24, 1966) is an American actor. His breakthrough role was in the 1989 Australian film Dead Calm, a performance that earned him a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actor. He has since appeared in numerous films and television series, notab... | {"Caption": "Zane at GalaxyCon Raleigh in 2019", "Birth name": "William George Zane Jr.", "Birth date": "1966 02 24", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1985-present", "Spouse(s)": "Lisa Collins 1989 1995 divorced", "Partner(s)": "Candice Neil (2010-present; engaged)", "Ch... |
Matthew Jason Bloom (born November 14, 1972) is an American retired professional wrestler and professional football player. He is currently signed to WWE, where he is the head trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
Bloom is best known for his in-ring appearances with WWE as Prince Albert, Albert an... | {"Name": "Matt Bloom", "Caption": "Bloom in 2013", "Birth name": "Matthew Jason Bloom", "Birth date": "yes 1972 11 14http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/g/giant-bernard.html OWOW profile Onlineworldofwrestling.com December 15, 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110907060228/http://www.onlineworldof... |
The Megleno-Romanians, also known as Meglenites (), Moglenite Vlachs or simply Vlachs (), are an Eastern Romance ethnic group, originally inhabiting seven villages in the Moglena region spanning the Pella and Kilkis regional units of Central Macedonia, Greece, and one village, Huma, across the border in North Macedonia... | {"Name": "Megleno-Romanians", "Population": "5,000-20,000", "Languages": "Megleno-Romanian, Greek, Macedonian", "Religions": "Orthodox Christianity, Sunni Islam (in Turkey)", "Related ethnic groups": "Aromanians, Istro-Romanians, Romanians"} |
Albert Rust (April 4, 1870) was an American politician and slaveholder, who served as a delegate from Arkansas to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative from (1859-1861). He also served as a senior officer of the Confederat... | {"Name": "Albert Rust", "Term start": "May 18, 1861", "Term end": "February 17, 1862", "Office 2": "Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas's 2nd District", "Predecessor 2": "Edward A. Warren", "Successor 2": "None (1861-1868)James M. Hinds (Jun.-Oct. 1868)", "Birth date": "1818", "Birth place": "Fauq... |
Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 - 16 June 1953) was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929-31.... | {"Name": "Margaret Bondfield", "Image caption": "Bondfield in 1919", "Term start": "8 June 1929https://www.telegraph.co.uk/only-in-britain/first-female-cabinet-minister/ Who was the first female Cabinet minister? 8 June 2016 The Telegraph 6 June 2018 en-GB 0307-1235", "Term end": "24 August 1931", "Predecessor 2... |
The National Republican Movement (Mouvement national républicain or MNR) is a French nationalist political party, created by Bruno Mégret with former Club de l'Horloge members Yvan Blot (also a member of GRECE) and Jean-Yves Le Gallou, as a split from Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front on 24 January 1999.
Mégret has t... | {"Leader": "Annick Martin", "Founded": "2 October 1999", "Split from": "National Front", "Headquarters": "15 rue de Cronstadt 75015 Paris", "Ideology": "French nationalismNational conservatismSocial conservatismAnti-immigrationRight-wing populismNouvelle Droite", "Political position": "Far-righthttp://www.lexpress.fr/... |
James Montgomery Beck (July 9, 1861 - April 12, 1936) was an American lawyer, politician, and author from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Solicitor General and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
Beck was born July 9, 1861, in Philadel... | {"Name": "James M. Beck", "Image size": "150px", "Term start": "November 8, 1927", "Term end": "September 30, 1934", "Birth name": "James Montgomery Beck", "Birth date": "1861 7 9 y", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 1936 4 12 1861 7 9", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Res... |
The Office for National Statistics (ONS; ) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
Overview
The ONS is responsible for the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the UK; respo... | {"Formed": "yes 1996 04 01", "Jurisdiction": "United Kingdom", "Headquarters": "51 34 00 N 03 01 42 W type:landmark_region:GB inline,title", "Employees": "3,302 (including UK Statistics Authority)", "Annual budget": "£206.5 million (2009-2010)https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qMRvCVd8JNEJ:https://ww... |
The Revolutionary Communist League (, LCR) was a Trotskyist political party in France. It was the French section of the Fourth International (Post-Reunification). It published the weekly newspaper Rouge and the journal Critique communiste. Established in 1974, it became the leading party of the far-left in the 2000s. ... | {"Leader": "Collective leadership(Central Committee);three spokespersons:Olivier Besancenot,Alain Krivine,Roseline Vachetta", "Founded": "1974", "Succeeded by": "NPA", "Headquarters": "2, rue Richard-Lenoir, 93100 Montreuil", "Ideology": "Trotskyism", "Political position": "Left-wing to far-left", "European affiliation... |
Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. As a member of the cabinets of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1970 to 1977, Richardson is one of two men in United States history to hold four cabinet positions. He served as Secretary of Health, Education, a... | {"Name": "Elliot Richardson", "Term start": "February 2, 1976", "Term end": "January 20, 1977", "Office 2": "69th United States Attorney General", "President 2": "Richard Nixon", "Predecessor 2": "Richard Kleindienst", "Successor 2": "William B. Saxbe", "Birth name": "Elliot Lee Richardson", "Birth date": "1920 7 20", ... |
Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021.
Below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the Five Valleys, the town is noted for its steep streets. The Cotswold Area of Outstanding... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021 Census)Stroud Town Council https://www.stroudtown.gov.uk/ 25 October 2022", "District": "Stroud", "Shire county": "Gloucestershire", "UK Parliament": "Stroud", "Postcode district": "GL", "Dialling code": "01453", "OS grid reference": "SO851051"} |
Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (; 8 September 1783 - 2 September 1872), most often referred to as N. F. S. Grundtvig, was a Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician. He was one of the most influential people in Danish history, as his philosophy gave rise to a new form of nationali... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Reverend", "Name": "N. F. S. Grundtvig", "Caption": "Grundtvig in pastoral garments", "Birth date": "1783 9 8 y", "Birth place": "Udby, Zealand, Denmark-Norway", "Death date": "1872 9 2 1783 9 8 y", "Death place": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "Occupation": "Lutheran minister, teacher, author, poet, ... |
7th Heaven is an American family drama television series created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series debuted on August 26, 1996, on The WB, where it aired for ten seasons, making it the longest-running series in the history of the network. Following the shutdown of The WB and its merger with UPN to form The CW, ... | {"Genre": "Family drama\nSerial drama", "Created by": "Brenda Hampton", "Starring": "Stephen Collins\nCatherine Hicks\nBarry Watson\nDavid Gallagher\nJessica Biel\nBeverley Mitchell\nMackenzie Rosman\nChaz Lamar Shepherd\nMaureen Flannigan\nAdam LaVorgna\nNikolas Brino\nLorenzo Brino\nGeoff Stults\nGeorge Stults\nAshle... |
Supertramp were a British rock band that formed in London in 1970. They experienced their greatest global success in 1979 with their sixth album Breakfast in America. Marked by the individual songwriting of founders Roger Hodgson (vocals, keyboards and guitars) and Rick Davies (vocals and keyboards), the group were dis... | {"Origin": "London, England", "Genres": "\"Smith2016\">Smith Troy L. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: 7 so-called snubs that shouldn't be inducted http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/08/rock_roll_hall_of_fame_7_so-ca.html Cleveland 1 August 2016Kelly Brian Dreamer brings Supertramp's music to Sudbury http... |
lsh is a free software implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol version 2, by the GNU Project including both server and client programs. Featuring Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) as specified in secsh-srp besides, public-key authentication. Kerberos is somewhat supported as well. Currently however for pa... | {"Developer(s)": "Niels Möller", "Initial release": "1998 09http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/lsh-snapshot-19980908.tar.gz Initial release of snapshot version of lsh", "Type": "Networking, Security", "License": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "Website": "www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/lsh/"} |
Stonington is a town located in New London County, Connecticut. The municipal limits of the town include the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck, Lords Point, and Wequetequock, and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic. Stonington is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Regio... | {"Type": "Selectman-town meeting", "Land": "38.66", "Water": "10.32", "Density": "auto", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.stonington-ct.gov"} |
Dumog is the Filipino style of wrestling while standing upright and refers to the grappling aspect of Filipino martial arts. The word dumog is most commonly used in Mindanao and the Visayas, while the word buno is used in Luzon, specifically in the Southern Tagalog-speaking provinces as far south as Mindoro.Harimaw Bun... | {"Also known as": "Filipino wrestling", "Focus": "Grappling", "Country of origin": "Philippines Philippines", "Olympic sport": "no"} |
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 - 29 March 2019) was a Belgium-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films focused on achieving documentary r... | {"Name": "Agnès Varda", "Birth name": "Arlette Varda", "Caption": "Varda at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2019", "Birth date": "y 1928 5 30", "Birth place": "Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium", "Death date": "y 2019 3 29 1928 5 30", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Occupation": "Director, screenwriter, editor, actor, p... |
World War II combatives are techniques used in close quarters combat, including hand-to-hand fighting, advanced firearm point shooting methods, and weapons techniques (knife/bayonet/improvised weapons). They were taught to allied special forces in World War II by notable instructors such as Rex Applegate and William Ew... | {"Focus": "Hybrid", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom/United States", "Parenthood": "Boxing‚ Judo, Jujutsu, Wrestling, Savate, Street fighting", "Famous practitioners": "Rex Applegate, William Ewart Fairbairn, A.J. Drexel-Biddle, John Styers, Eric A. Sykes, Jack Dempsey, Bill Underwood", "Olympic sport": "No"} |
Birgitta Haukdal Brynjarsdóttir (born 28 July 1979), also known by her mononym Birgitta, is an Icelandic singer. She rose to domestic media prominence as the lead singer of pop band Írafár. She represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "Open Your Heart", tying in eighth place with the Spanis... | {"Born": "Húsavík, Iceland", "Genres": "Pop pop rock", "Labels": "Skífan\n Sena", "Member of": "Írafár"} |
thumb|right|Portrait of Nikolai Nekrasov by Nikolai Ge, 1872.
Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (, - ) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the mid-nineteenth century, pa... | {"Born": "10 December 1821 28 NovemberNikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov. Encyclopaedia Britannica.", "Died": "8 January 1878 27 December 1877 (aged 56)", "Occupation": "Poet, publisher", "Language": "Russian", "Nationality": "Russian"} |
The (abbreviated as VU Amsterdam or simply VU when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The literal translation of the Dut... | {"Motto": "la Auxilium nostrum in nomine Domini (Latin)", "Type": "Public", "Endowment": "€ 482.6 millionhttp://www.vu.nl/nl/Images/Jaarverslag%202014_tcm9-458182.pdf http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160520090654/http://www.vu.nl/nl/Images/Jaarverslag%202014_tcm9-458182.pdf dead 20 May 2016 Jaarverslag 2014 VU Universi... |
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 - November 23, 2012) was an American film and television actor, director, and producer, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978-1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the befuddled astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965-1970 sitcom I Dream ... | {"Name": "Larry Hagman", "Image": "Larry Hagman 1973.JPG", "Alt": "Hagman looking over his should to the camera", "Caption": "Hagman in 1973", "Birth name": "Larry Martin Hagman", "Birth date": "1931 9 21", "Birth place": "Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "2012 11 23 1931 9 21", "Death place": "Dallas, Texas, U.... |
Qinna () is the set of joint lock techniques used in the Chinese martial arts to control or lock an opponent's joints or muscles/tendons so they cannot move, thus neutralizing the opponent's fighting ability. Qinna Shu ( meaning "technique") literally translates as lock catch technique. Some schools simply use the word... | {"Focus": "Grappling", "Meaning": "Capture and hold", "Country of origin": "China", "Also known as": "擒拿, Qinna"} |
Greenwood Raceway (originally Woodbine Race Course) was a horse racing facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
Woodbine Race Course
Inaugurated in 1874 as Woodbine Race Course at the foot of Woodbine Avenue and Lake Ontario, it was owned and operated by Raymond Pardee and William J. "Jiggs" Howell. The facility'... | {"Location": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Coordinates": "43 40 N 79 18.7 W region:CA-ON_type:landmark inline,title", "Owned by": "Ontario Jockey Club", "Date opened": "1874", "Date closed": "1993", "Course type": "Flat"} |
Silla (; ; Old Korean: 徐羅伐 Syerapel, Sïrapïr; RR: Seorabeol; IPA: ), alternatively Shilla, was a Korean kingdom that existed between 57 BCE57 BCE according to the Samguk Sagi; however Seth 2010 notes that "these dates are dutifully given in many textbooks and published materials in Korea today, but their basis is in m... | {"Native name": "ko-Hant 新羅 (Hanja)ko 신라 (Hangul)ko-Hant 徐羅伐 (Old Korean)Yale: Syerapel (RR: Seorabeol)Pronunciation: [sʰʌ̹ɾa̠bʌ̹ɭ]Phonetic Hangul: [서라벌]ko-Hant 斯羅火 (Old Korean)Sïrapïr (Japanese linguistic notation)", "Conventional long name": "Silla", "Type of government": "Monarchy", "Starting event": "Establishment"... |
Joseon (; ), officially Great Joseon (; ), was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea, lasting just over 500 years. It was founded by Yi Seong-gye in July 1392 and replaced by the Korean Empire in October 1897. The kingdom was founded following the aftermath of the overthrow of Goryeo in what is today the city of Kaesong. ... | {"Conventional long name": "Great Joseon", "Native name": "조선국(1392-1894)ko-Hant-KR 朝鮮國대조선국(1894-1897)ko-Hant-KR 大朝鮮國", "Type of government": "Absolute monarchy https://books.google.com/books?id=vWNNWVwaUpMC&q=joseon+dynasty+absolute+monarchy&pg=PA16 Interior Space and Furniture of Joseon Upper-class Houses Sang-hu... |
SS Princess Alice, formerly PS Bute, was a British passenger paddle steamer that sank on 3 September 1878 after a collision with the collier on the River Thames. Between 600 and 700 people died, all from Princess Alice, the greatest loss of life of any British inland waterway shipping accident. No passenger list or he... | {"Title": "Sinking of SS Princess Alice", "Image alt text": "Viewed from the stern of Princess Alice, the tilting deck in front is filled with panicking passengers. Making contact with Princess Alice, pushing the vessel over, is the large bow of Bywell Castle, which towers above the smaller ship.", "Image caption": "Ar... |
Winslow is a market town and civil parish designated as a town council in north Buckinghamshire, England, within the Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority area. It has a population of just over 4,400. It is located approximately south-east of Buckingham, and south-west of Bletchley (Milton Keynes).
History
Wins... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census) http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130753&c=winslow&d=16&e=62&g=6404139&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1359846178097&enc=1 Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census Office for National Statistics 2 February 2013",... |
Apsley was a 19th-century mill village in the county of Hertfordshire, England. It is a historic industrial site situated in a valley of the Chiltern Hills. It is positioned below the confluence of two permanent rivers, the Gade and Bulbourne. In an area of little surface water this was an obvious site for the location... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "District": "Dacorum", "Shire county": "Hertfordshire", "UK Parliament": "Hemel Hempstead", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01442", "OS grid reference": "TL0505"} |
The Treaty of Karlowitz was signed in Karlowitz, Military Frontier of Archduchy of Austria (present-day Sremski Karlovci, Serbia), on 26 January 1699, concluding the Great Turkish War of 1683-1697 in which the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Holy League at the Battle of Zenta. It marks the end of Ottoman control in ... | {"Name": "Peace of Karlowitz", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "The official document of the treaty", "Treaty context": "Great Turkish War of 1683-1697", "Date drafted": "From 16 November 1698", "Date signed": "1699 1 26 y", "Location signed": "Karlowitz, Military Frontier, Habsburg monarchy (now Sremski Karlov... |
Full Moon Fever is the debut solo studio album by Tom Petty, released on April 24, 1989, by MCA Records. It features contributions from members of his band the Heartbreakers, notably Mike Campbell, as well as Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison (who died prior to its release), and George Harrison, Petty's bandmates in the Travelin... | {"Released": "April 24, 1989", "Recorded": "1987-88", "Studio": "M.C. Studios Rumbo (Los Angeles) Sunset Sound (Hollywood) Devonshire (Hollywood) Conway (Hollywood) Sound City (Los Angeles)", "Genre": "\"BogdanovWoodstra2001\">Vladimir Bogdanov Chris Woodstra Stephen Thomas Erlewine All Music Guide: The Definitive Guid... |
Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 - 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be us... | {"Field": "Economics", "Alma mater": "Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeKing's College, Cambridge", "Doctoralstudents": "James MirrleesAngus Deaton", "Influences": "James MeadeColin Clark", "Contributions": "National accounts, input-output", "Awards": "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1984)"} |
Thomas John Dempsey (January 12, 1947April 4, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers and Buffalo Bills. Unlike the "soccer style" approach which was becoming more and... | {"Born:": "Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.", "Died:": "New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.", "Height:": "2", "Weight:": "255", "High school:": "San Dieguito(Encinitas, California)", "College:": "Palomar", "Undrafted:": "1968"} |
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley,Los Angeles Dam and Reservoir Project, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California: Draft Environmental Impact Statement U.S. Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, Region Nine, 1975, p. 14. "The San Fernando Valley (commonly referred to as the Valley) i... | {"Native name": "es El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de los Encinos", "Location": "California", "Coordinates": "34.25 -118.45 region:US-CA_type:adm2nd_source:dewiki inline,title", "Area": "260 sqmi km2 2", "Borders on": "Santa Susana Mountains (northwest), Simi Hills (west), Santa Monica Mountains and Chalk Hills ... |
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter is a series of urban fantasy novels, short stories, and comic books by Laurell K. Hamilton. The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.
The series is narrated in the first person by Anita Blake, who works in St. Louis, Missouri, as a... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Ace Books, Berkley Books", "Published": "1993-present"} |
Anita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The series takes place in a parallel world in which supernatural characters like vampires and werewolves exist alongside regular humans, with Blake's jobs including the re-animation of the dead as well as ... | {"First appearance": "Guilty Pleasures (1993)", "Created by": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "Gender": "Female", "Family": "father (unnamed) Judith (step-mother) Andrea (step-sister) Josh (half-brother) Grandmother Blake Grandmother Flores"} |
Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of about 40,000. In 2011, according to the Census, there was a population of 40,408. Ramsgate's main attraction is its coastline, and its main indust... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127818&c=Ramsgate&d=16&e=62&g=6438985&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1443796820768&enc=1 Town population 2011 Neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk 2 October 2015 6 October 2015 https... |
Cambuslang (, from ) is a town on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater Glasgow, Scotland. With approximately 30,000 residents, it is the 27th largest town in Scotland by population, although, never having had a town hall, it may also be considered the largest village in Scotland. It is within the local authority are... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NS642605", "Lieutenancy area": "Lanarkshire", "UK Parliament": "Rutherglen and Hamilton West", "Scottish Parliament": "Rutherglen", "Postcode district": "G", "Dialling code": "0141"} |
The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project's implementation of the C standard library. Despite its name, it now also directly supports C++ (and, indirectly, other programming languages). It was started in the 1980s by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU operating system.
Released under t... | {"Original author(s)": "Roland McGrath", "Developer(s)": "GNU Project, most contributions by Ulrich Drepper", "Initial release": "1987 https://lwn.net/Articles/488847/\n A turning point for GNU libc\n Corbet\n Jonathan\n 28 March 2012\n LWN.net", "Written in": "C", "Type": "Runtime library", "License": "2001:... |
McCallum is a British television series that was produced by Scottish Television and ran from 1995 to 1998.
Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by Scottish actor John Hannah. McCallum is a forensic pathologist working in the morgue of St. Patrick's Hospital in London's East End,Show summary on TV.... | {"Genre": "Crime drama", "Running time": "120 minutes (w./advertisements)", "Created by": "Stuart HepburnMike Cullen", "Written by": "Various", "Directed by": "Various", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Starring": "John HannahGerard MurphyZara TurnerJames SaxonRichard O'CallaghanAlex WalkinshawSuzanna HamiltonRi... |
Wilhelm Waiblinger (; 21 November 1804 – 17 or 30 January 1830) was a German romantic poet, mostly remembered today in connection with Friedrich Hölderlin. After he had attended Gymnasium Illustre in Stuttgart, he was a student at the seminary of Tübingen in the 1820s, when Hölderlin, already mentally ill, lived there ... | {"Name": "Wilhelm Waiblinger", "Birth date": "21 November 1804", "Birth place": "Heilbronn, Electorate of Württemberg", "Death date": "17 or 30 January 1830", "Death place": "Rome, Papal States", "Occupation": "Poet", "Nationality": "German"} |
Tales from Topographic Oceans is the sixth studio album by English progressive rock band Yes, released on 7 December 1973 by Atlantic Records. It is their first studio album to feature drummer Alan White, who had replaced Bill Bruford the previous year. Frontman Jon Anderson devised its concept during the Close to the ... | {"Released": "7 December 1973", "Recorded": "July-September 1973", "Studio": "Morgan, Willesden, London", "Genre": "Progressive rock", "Label": "Atlantic", "Producer": "Yes\nEddy Offord"} |
OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California. The band is composed of Damian Kulash (lead vocals, guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar and vocals), Dan Konopka (drums and percussion), and Andy Ross (guitar, keyboards and vocals), who joined them in 2005, replacing... | {"Origin": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Genres": "Alternative rock\n power pop\n pop rock\n indie rock\n indie pop", "Labels": "Paracadute\n Capitol\n EMI\n BMG", "Website": "okgo.net", "Members": "Damian Kulash\n Tim Nordwind\n Dan Konopka\n Andy Ross"} |
Binyamin "Beny" Alagem (; born 1953) is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, business executive, hotelier and philanthropist. He is the founder and former Chief Executive of Packard Bell Computers. He is the owner of the Beverly Hilton Hotel and the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills, California.
Early life
Beny Alagem was... | {"Name": "Beny Alagem", "Birth date": "1953", "Birth place": "Israel", "Nationality": "Israeli-American", "Occupation": "Entrepreneur, business executive, hotelier, philanthropist", "Spouse(s)": "Adele Alagem"} |
iMesh was a media and file sharing client that was available in nine languages. It used a proprietary, centralized, P2P network (IM2Net) operating on ports 80, 443 and 1863. iMesh was owned by American company iMesh, Inc., who maintained development centers around the world. , it was the third most popular music subscr... | {"Developer(s)": "iMesh, Inc.", "Initial release": "November 1999", "Size": "14.0 MB", "Written in": "C++", "Type": "Peer-to-peer", "License": "Proprietary", "Website": "www.imesh.com (defunct)"} |
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford (August 25, 1828 - February 28, 1905) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University in 1885 (opened 1891), along with her husband, Leland Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15 in 1884. After her husband's ... | {"Name": "Jane Stanford", "Known For": "Co-founder of Stanford University", "Birth name": "Jane Elizabeth Lathrop", "Birth date": "1828 8 25 y", "Birth place": "Albany, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "1905 2 28 1828 8 25", "Death place": "Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii", "Resting place": "Stanford Mausoleum, Stanford, C... |
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (; 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity". One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern ... | {"Born": "1881 12 23 y", "Died": "1958 5 29 1881 12 24 y", "Occupation": "poet", "Nationality": "Spanish", "Notable awards": "Nobel Prize in Literature 1956"} |
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. He was known for his shot-making and volleying skills, his rivalries with Björn Borg and Jimmy Connors, and his confrontational on-court behavior, which frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authoritie... | {"Residence": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Born": "Wiesbaden, West Germany", "Height": "5 11http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/john-mcenroe/m047/overview John McEnroe ATP World Tour February 9, 2018", "College": "Stanford University", "Coach": "Antonio Palafox", "Turned pro": "1978", "Retired": "1994 (singl... |
Wuyashu (1061-1113) was a chieftain of the Wanyan tribe, the most dominant among the Jurchen tribes which later founded the Jin dynasty (1115-1234). He was the eldest son of Helibo and the elder brother of Aguda (Emperor Taizu), the founder and first emperor of the Jin dynasty. He was posthumously honoured with the tem... | {"Father": "Helibo", "Mother": "Lady Nalan", "Born": "1061", "Died": "1113 1061"} |
Infliximab, a chimeric monoclonal antibody, sold under the brand name Remicade among others, is a medication used to treat a number of autoimmune diseases. This includes Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and Behçet's disease. It is given b... | {"PDB ligand": "mab", "Type": "mab", "Target": "Tumor necrosis factors (TNF)", "Trade name": "Remicade, others", "AHFS": "monograph infliximab", "Pregnancycategory": "Infliximab Use During Pregnancy Drugs.com 2 July 2019 https://www.drugs.com/pregnancy/infliximab.html 13 August 2020", "Routes ofadministration": "In... |
Benedict Martin Paul Mulroney (born March 9, 1976) is a Canadian producer and former television host. He is the eldest son of Brian Mulroney, the 18th Prime Minister of Canada.
Best known for his 20-year broadcasting career with the Canadian network CTV, Mulroney began as an entertainment reporter on CTV's former morn... | {"Name": "Ben Mulroney", "Caption": "Mulroney at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival eTalk Star Schmooze", "Birth name": "Benedict Martin Paul Mulroney", "Birth date": "1976 3 9", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Alma mater": "Duke UniversityUniversité Laval", "Notable works": "etalk (2002-2020)Cana... |
Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons (appearing in comedy skits t... | {"Running time": "Varies", "Directed by": "Joan Tosoni", "Created by": "Simon Fuller", "Presented by": "Ben Mulroney (2003-2008) Jon Dore (2003-2005) Elena Juatco (2006) Dave Kerr (2007) Jully Black (2008)", "Judges": "Sass Jordan Farley Flex Zack Werner Jake Gold", "Country of origin": "Canada", "Original network":... |
Max Shachtman (; September 10, 1904 - November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He went from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL-CIO President George Meany.
Beginnings
Shachtman was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, which was then part of t... | {"Name": "Max Shachtman", "Birth date": "1904 9 10", "Birth place": "Warsaw, Congress Poland", "Death date": "1972 11 4 1904 9 10", "Death place": "Floral Park, New York, U.S.", "Occupation": "Political theorist activist", "Education": "City College of New York\n<!--", "Party": "Communist Party USA (until 1928)Workers ... |
Lekë III Dukagjini (1410-1481), mostly known as Lekë Dukagjini, was a 15th-century member of the Albanian nobility, from the Dukagjini family. A contemporary of Skanderbeg, Dukagjini is known for the Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit, a code of law instituted among the tribes of northern Albania. Dukagjini is believed to of bee... | {"Father": "Pal Dukagjini", "Born": "Shalë, Lipjan Municipality", "Died": "1481 (aged 71)", "Religion": "Christian (Roman Catholic)"} |
Angel Dust is the fourth studio album by American rock band Faith No More, released on June 8, 1992, by Slash and Reprise Records. It is the follow-up to 1989's highly successful The Real Thing, and was the band's final album to feature guitarist Jim Martin. It was also the first album where vocalist Mike Patton had an... | {"Released": "June 8, 1992", "Recorded": "Late 1991-January-March 1992", "Studio": "Coast Recorders and Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, CaliforniaThe Making of Angel Dust, Mike Bordin interview MTV", "Genre": "Alternative metalhttps://www.spin.com/2013/01/blame-nirvana-40-weirdest-post-nevermind-major-label-albums/1... |
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