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Rubén Aguirre Fuentes (; 15 June 1934 - 17 June 2016) was a Mexican actor and comedian. He was best known for his character in Televisa's 1970s television show El Chavo del Ocho. Aguirre also participated in another well known television show of the era, El Chapulín Colorado, albeit less frequently.
Life and educatio... | {"Name": "Rubén Aguirre", "Birth name": "Rubén Aguirre Fuentes", "Birth date": "1934 06 15 yes", "Birth place": "Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico", "Death date": "2016 06 17 1934 06 15 yes", "Death place": "Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexicohttps://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-36566133/mexican-actor-ruben-aguirre-die... |
Rafael Cordero Santiago (24 October 1942 - 17 January 2004), better known as "Churumba", was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1989 to 2004. Many considered him as a synonym of Ponce, being baptized as "El León Mayor" (Spanish for "The Greatest Lion"), an allusion to the city's official symbol, the lion. Mayor Cord... | {"Name": "Rafael Cordero Santiago", "Image caption": "Mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago", "Birth date": "yes 1942 10 24", "Birth place": "Ponce, Puerto Rico", "Death date": "yes 2004 1 17 1942 10 24", "Death place": "San Juan, Puerto Rico", "Spouse(s)": "Madeleine Velasco-AlvaradoMuere madre de fallecida ex primera dama de... |
Yoon Young-kwan (born January 12, 1951) is a South Korean academic and politician, who was the Foreign Minister of South Korea in 2003.
Yoon is a professor emeritus at Seoul National University's Department of Political Science and International Relations and taught courses on International Political Economy, Introduc... | {"Name": "Yoon Young-kwan", "Native name": "윤영관", "Native name language": "ko", "Term start": "27 February 2003", "Term end": "15 January 2004"} |
The chief minister of Gibraltar is the head of His Majesty's Government of Gibraltar who is elected by the Gibraltar Parliament, and formally appointed by the governor of Gibraltar, representative of the British monarch. The incumbent chief minister is Fabian Picardo, since 9 December 2011, leader of the Gibraltar Soci... | {"Post": "Chief Minister", "Body": "Gibraltar", "Insignia size": "100px", "Insignia caption": "Coat of arms of HM Government of Gibraltar", "Image size": "200px", "Incumbent": "Fabian Picardo", "Incumbent since": "9 December 2011", "Style": "The Honourable", "Residence": "6 Convent Place", "Appointer": "Governor of Gib... |
The governor of Gibraltar is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government. The role of the governor is to act as the de facto head of state. They are responsible for formally appointing the chie... | {"Post": "Governor of Gibraltar", "Flag size": "125px", "Flag caption": "Flag of the governor of Gibraltar", "Insignia size": "100px", "Insignia caption": "Coat of arms of Gibraltar", "Image size": "200px", "Incumbent": "Sir David Steel", "Incumbent since": "11 June 2020", "Style": "His Excellency", "Residence": "The C... |
Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 biographical drama film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. The film stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward, and features an introduction presented by Alistair Cooke; the original music score was composed by Mischa Spoliansky. The film is based on the book Hitler's L... | {"Directed by": "Ennio De Concini", "Produced by": "Wolfgang Reinhardt", "Written by": "Gerhard BoldtEnnio De ConciniMaria Pia FuscoIvan MoffatWolfgang Reinhardt", "Starring": "Alec GuinnessSimon WardAdolfo CeliDiane CilentoGabriele Ferzetti", "Music by": "Mischa Spoliansky", "Cinematography": "Ennio Guarnieri", "Edite... |
Saif al-Adel (; born April 11, 1960/63) is a former Egyptian colonelJamal al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al., trial transcript, Day 2, February 6, 2001. and explosives expert, who is considered by many to be the de facto leader of al-Qaeda. He is a member of Al-Qaeda's Majlis al-Shura and has h... | {"Name": "Saif al-Adel", "Native name": "ar سيف العدل", "Image caption": "Saif al-Adel at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, January 2000", "Birth name": "Mohamed Salah al-Din Zaidan", "Birth date": "1960 4 11 yes or 1963 4 11 yes", "Birth place": "Monufia Governorate, United Arab Republichttps://rewardsforjusti... |
The is a peninsula that encompasses the entirety of Chiba Prefecture on Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It is part of the Greater Tokyo Area. It forms the eastern edge of Tokyo Bay, separating it from the Pacific Ocean. The peninsula covers approximately .
Description
The Bōsō Peninsula is defined by the Pacifi... | {"Location": "Kantō Region, Chiba Prefecture, Japan", "Surface elevation": "-->", "Highest elevation": "408.2 m on", "Total": "5034 km2 on"} |
Edensor Park is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Edensor Park is located 38 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield. It is mainly a residential area, Edensor Park is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.
History
John Brown Bossle... | {"Type": "suburb", "Name": "Edensor Park", "City": "Sydney", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Caption": "Wat Prayortkeo Dhammayanaram Buddhist temple", "Image 2": "yes\n 260\n 280\n center\n 13\n shape\n #C60C30\n 3", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "City of Fairfield", "Postcode": "2176", "Established": "1970s", "Populati... |
The Fitzroy River (Darumbal: ) is a river in Central Queensland, Australia. Its catchment covers an area of , making it the largest river catchment flowing to the eastern coast of Australia. It is also the largest river basin that discharges onto the Great Barrier Reef.
Course and features
Formed by the confluence of... | {"Native name": "xgm Toonooba", "Etymology": "In honour of Sir Charles FitzRoy", "Mouth": "0 m on", "Location": "near Port Alma", "Coordinates": "23 32 15 S 150 53 13 E inline,title", "Basin size": "142665 km2 on"} |
Grand Port () is a district of Mauritius, situated in the east of the island. The name means "large port" in French. The district has an area of 260.3 km2 and the population estimate was at 112,997 as of 31 December 2015.
History
Grand Port is named after the village of 'Old Grand Port' which saw the first Dutch land... | {"Type": "District Council", "Density": "auto", "Rank": "5th in Mauritius", "ISO 3166 code": "MU-GP (Grand Port)"} |
The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November, and resulted in a large, albeit reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party. The greatest number of members, as before, were Conservatives, while the National Liberal vote held steady. The m... | {"Name": "1935 United Kingdom general election", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1931 United Kingdom general election", "Previous year": "1931", "Outgoing members": "List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1931", "Next election": "1945 Un... |
Wood Quay () is a riverside area of Dublin that was a site of Viking settlement. It is now the location of the Dublin City Council offices.
thumb|Wooden Sculpture 'Wood Quay' by Michael Warren outside the offices of Dublin City Council. The sculpture is intended to invoke the prow of a Viking longship
Location
The ... | {"Name": "Wood Quay", "Native name": "ga Cé Adhmaid", "Namesake": "was originally surfaced with wood", "Length": "130", "Width": "30 m", "Location": "Dublin, Ireland", "Coordinates": "53.345 -6.271 it dim:10000_region:IE", "Construction start": "medieval", "Known for": "Dublin City Council offices, archaeological remai... |
is an American-born Japanese former professional sumo wrestler and professional wrestler from Waimānalo, Hawaii. Joining sumo in Japan in 1988, he was trained by pioneering Hawaiian wrestler Takamiyama and rose swiftly up the rankings, reaching the top division in 1990. After two consecutive yusho or tournament champio... | {"Born": "Waimānalo, Hawaii,United States", "Height": "203 cm ftin onhttp://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=2529/ Cagematch Bio 3 November 2008 Cagematch https://web.archive.org/web/20151208214423/http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=2529/ 8 December 2015 bot: unknown", "Weight": "233 kg lb st on", "Stable": "Azumazeki", "Reco... |
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011. The company owns Rolls-Royce, a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries. Rolls-Royce is the world's second-largest maker... | {"Type": "Public limited company", "Headquarters": "Kings Place, London, England, United Kingdom", "Industry": "Aerospace, Defence, Energy, Marine", "Products": "Civil and military aero engines Marine propulsion systems Power generation equipment", "Revenue": "£13,520 million (2022)https://www.rolls-royce.com/~/media/F... |
Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope (27 December 1923Profile of Lucas Mangope - 18 January 2018)Motau, K. 2018. Condolences pour in for former Bophuthatswana leader Lucas Mangope. Eyewitness News. Accessed 26 March. was the leader of the Bantustan (homeland) of Bophuthatswana. The territory he ruled over was distributed betwee... | {"Name": "Lucas Mangope", "Term start": "6 December 1977", "Term end": "13 March 1994Homelands. Rulers. Accessed 26 March.", "Office 2": "Chief Minister of Bophuthatswana", "Birth date": "1923 12 27 y", "Birth place": "Motswedi, Transvaal, South AfricaLucas Manyane Mangope, president of the former homeland Bophuthatswa... |
Velvet Revolver was an American hard rock supergroup consisting of Guns N' Roses members Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals) and Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals), alongside Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar) formerly of punk band Wasted Youth, and Scott Weiland (lead vocalist) formerly of Stone Temple ... | {"Origin": "Rancho Santa Margarita, California, U.S.", "Discography": "Velvet Revolver discography", "Genres": "Hard rock\n alternative metal", "Labels": "Sony BMG\n RCA", "Spinoff of": "Guns N' Roses\n Kings of Chaos\n Loaded\n Neurotic Outsiders\n Road Crew\n Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts\n Slash's Snakepit\n Ston... |
The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday 27 October 1931 and saw a landslide election victory for the National Government which had been formed two months previously after the collapse of the second Labour government. Collectively, the parties forming the National Government won 67% of the votes and... | {"Name": "1931 United Kingdom general election", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1929 United Kingdom general election", "Previous year": "1929", "Outgoing members": "List of MPs elected in the 1929 United Kingdom general election", "Next election": "1935 Uni... |
George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton (born 13 November 1935)The Times, 12 November 2009. is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, having previously been the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
During his time as archbishop the Church of England ordained its first women priest... | {"Church": "Church of England", "Province": "Canterbury", "Diocese": "Canterbury", "Predecessor": "Robert Runcie", "Successor": "Rowan Williams", "Other post(s)": "Honorary assistant bishop in Swansea & Brecon (2004-?), in Southwark and in Bristol; in Oxford (?-2017) Life peer (2002); Primate of All England", "Ordi... |
The United Christian Democratic Party is a minor political party in South Africa. It was founded by Lucas Mangope, leader of the Bophuthatswana bantustan in 1997, as a successor to the Tswana National Party, and led by him for the first fifteen years of its existence. Mavis Matladi was elected as its leader on 29 Janua... | {"Leader": "Modiri Desmond Sehume", "President": "Modiri Desmond Sehume", "Slogan": "'Stand up and Speak out'", "Founded": "1997", "Headquarters": "Mafikeng, North West Province", "Ideology": "Christian democracy", "Political position": "Centre-right to right-wing"} |
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The Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) was a political party in Kenya. It was founded in 1960 when several leading politicians refused to join Jomo Kenyatta's Kenya African National Union (KANU). It was led by Ronald Ngala who was joined by Moi's Kalenjin Political Alliance, the Masai
United F... | {"Leader": "Ronald Ngala", "Ideology": "Majimboism", "Founded": "1960", "Merged into": "KANU"} |
Patrick Hart Cash (born 27 May 1965) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 4 in May 1988 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 6 in August 1988. Upon winning the 1987 singles title at Wimbledon, Cash climbed into the stands to celebrat... | {"Residence": "London, England", "Born": "Melbourne, Australia", "Height": "1.83 mhttps://www.atptour.com/en/players/pat-cash/c023/overview Players - Pat Cash Association of Tennis Professionals", "Turned pro": "1982", "Retired": "1997 (singles)2006 (doubles)", "Plays": "Right-handed (one-handed backhand)", "Prize mone... |
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Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC (28 April 1898 - 28 November 1971) was a Barbadian politician. He served as the inaugural premier of Barbados from 1953 to 1958 and then became the first and only prime minister o... | {"Name": "Grantley Adams", "Image caption": "Adams in the 1950s", "Image size": "200px", "Order 2": "1st", "Office 2": "Premier of Barbados", "Monarch 2": "Elizabeth II", "Governor 2": "Sir Alfred SavageSir Robert Arundell", "Predecessor 2": "Position established", "Successor 2": "Hugh Cummins", "Birth date": "28 April... |
This is a list of heads of government of Grenada, from the establishment of the office of Chief Minister in 1960 to the present day.
The Prime Minister appoints the Cabinet of Grenada.
Heads of government before the 1974 independence
Chief ministers of Grenada (1960-1967)
PortraitNameElectionTerm of officePolitical ... | {"Post": "Prime Minister", "Body": "Grenada", "Insignia image": "Flag of Grenada.svgborder", "Insignia size": "125px", "Insignia caption": "Flag of Grenada", "Image size": "165px", "Incumbent": "Dickon Mitchell", "Incumbent since": "24 June 2022", "Style": "The Honourable", "Appointer": "The Governor-General", "Appoint... |
Blyth () is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne. It had a population of 37,339 in the 2011 Census.
The port of Blyth dates from the 12th century, but the development of the modern town... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)", "Unitary authority": "Northumberland", "Ceremonial county": "Northumberland", "UK Parliament": "Blyth Valley", "Postcode district": "NE", "Dialling code": "01670", "OS grid reference": "NZ310814"} |
I Shot Andy Warhol is a 1996 biographical drama film about the life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy Warhol.Kaufman, Anthony (December 3, 2009). "Decade: Mary Harron on 'American Psycho'". indieWire. Retrieved November 29, 2011. The film marked the feature film directorial debut of Canadian ... | {"Directed by": "Mary Harron", "Produced by": "Tom Kalin\n Christine Vachon", "Screenplay by": "Mary Harron\n Daniel Minahan", "Based on": "The Letters and Diaries of Candy Darling, 1992 Jeremiah Newton", "Starring": "Lili Taylor\n Jared Harris\n Martha Plimpton\n Stephen Dorff", "Music by": "John Cale", "Cinematograph... |
Sir Eric Matthew Gairy PC (18 February 192223 August 1997) was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from his country's independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979. Gairy also served as head of government in pre-independence Grenada as Chief Minister from 1961 to 1962, and as Pre... | {"Name": "Sir Eric Matthew Gairy", "Image caption": "Gairy in 1977", "Term start": "7 February 1974", "Term end": "9 March 1979", "Office 2": "Premier of Grenada", "Monarch 2": "Elizabeth II", "Predecessor 2": "Herbert A. Blaize", "Successor 2": "Himself as Prime Minister", "Birth date": "1922 2 18", "Birth place": "Du... |
Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 - 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of New Jewel Movement - a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education, and black liberation - that came to power during the 13 March 1979 revolution that removed Eric Gairy from ... | {"Name": "Maurice Bishop", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "Bishop in Saxony, East Germany11 June 1982", "Birth name": "Maurice Rupert Bishop", "Birth date": "1944 5 29 y", "Birth place": "Aruba, Curaçao and Dependencies", "Death date": "1983 10 19 1944 5 29 y", "Death place": "Fort Rupert, St. George's, Grenad... |
The National Labour Organisation, also known as the National Labour Committee or simply as National Labour, was a British political group formed after the 1931 creation of the National Government to co-ordinate the efforts of the supporters of the government who had come from the Labour Party. The party leaders were Ra... | {"Abbreviation": "NLO", "Leader": "Ramsay MacDonald Malcolm MacDonald", "Founded": "1931", "Split from": "Labour Party", "Headquarters": "London, England", "Newspaper": "News-Letter", "Ideology": "Social democracy", "Political position": "Centre-leftThorpe, Andrew (1991). The British General Election of 1931. Oxford Un... |
Bradninch is a small town, civil parish and manor in Devon, England, lying about south of Cullompton. Much of the surrounding farmland belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall. There is an electoral ward with the same name, which since May 2023 comprises the entire parish.LGBCE Mid-Devon The population was 2,165 in 2021.
In ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "2,165 (2021 census)https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/southwestengland/admin/mid_devon/E04003007__bradninch/ Bradninch (Parish, United Kingdom) www.citypopulation.de", "Shire county": "Devon", "District": "Mid Devon", "OS grid reference": "SS9903", "Dialling code": "01392"... |
Janata Dal (“People’s Party”) was an Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha united on 11 October 1988 on the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan under the leadership of V. P. Singh.
History
V. P. Sin... | {"Founded": "yes y 1988 10 11", "Abbreviation": "JD", "Preceded by": "Janata Party", "Merger of": "Janata Party Janata Party (Secular) Lok Dal Indian National Congress (Jagjivan) Jan Morcha Thamizhaga Munnetra Munnani", "Succeeded by": "Samata PartySamata Party https://samataparty.org/ 2022-02-15 2022-02-15 https:... |
Kimberley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire, England, lying 6 miles northwest of Nottingham along the A610. The town grew as a centre for coal mining, brewing and hosiery manufacturing. Together with the neighbouring villages of Giltbrook, Greasley and Swingate it has a populatio... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(Kimberley ward estimate. 2019)", "District": "Broxtowe", "Shire county": "Nottinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Broxtowe", "Postcode district": "NG", "Dialling code": "0115", "OS grid reference": "SK 49995 44702", "Website": "http://www.kimberley-tc.gov.uk/"} |
KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an American global investment company that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and, through its strategic partners, hedge funds. , the firm had completed more than 690 private e... | {"Type": "Public", "Industry": "Financial services:Private equity(1976-present)Investment banking(2004-present)", "Products": "Management buyouts Leveraged finance Venture capital Growth capital", "Revenue": "5.721 billion yes (2022)", "AUM": "US$503.9 billion (2022)", "Website": "kkr.com", "Founded": "1976 (as Kohlber... |
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Henry Kravis September 2015 He is a co-founder of KKR & Co. Inc.
His lavish lifestyle has been criticized by activists looking to reform private equity regulations and restrict the practic... | {"Name": "Henry Kravis", "Birth date": "1944 1 6", "Birth place": "Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Hedi Shulman (Divorced)Carolyne Roehm 1985 1993 divMarie-Josée Drouin 1994", "Education": "Claremont McKenna College (BA)Columbia University (MBA)"} |
The African Christian Democratic Party is a South African political party founded in 1993. It is a conservative Christian party based on Biblical principles. The leader of the party is Kenneth Meshoe.
Following the 2016 municipal elections, the ACDP joined with the much larger Democratic Alliance (DA) and several othe... | {"Abbreviation": "ACDP", "President": "Kenneth Meshoe", "Founded": "1993 12 09 y", "Headquarters": "Alberton, Gauteng", "Ideology": "Christian democracy Social conservatismChristian right", "Political position": "Centre-right to right-wing", "Religion": "Christianity", "Continental affiliation": "Democrat Union of Afr... |
MacDraw is a discontinued vector graphics drawing application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. MacDraw was one of the first WYSIWYG drawing programs that could be used in collaboration with MacWrite. It was eventually adapted by Claris and, in the early 1990s, MacDraw Pro was released wit... | {"Developer(s)": "Apple Computer, Claris", "Initial release": "1984", "Written in": "Pascal", "Type": "Vector-based drawingDoyle Susan Grove Jaleen Sherman Whitney History of Illustration Fairchild Books (Bloomsbury Publishing) 2019 https://books.google.com/books?id=vVBDDwAAQBAJ&q=macdraw+vector&pg=PA534 534 978-1-5013... |
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song originally written and recorded by Solomon Linda under the title "Mbube" for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939. Linda's original was written in Zulu, while the English version's lyrics were written by George David Weiss.
The song has been adapted and covered internation... | {"A-side": "Tina", "Released": "1961", "Recorded": "1961", "Genre": "Rhythm and blues\ndoo-wop\nfolk Bob Stanley 2022 Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop Music: A History Revival: Trad Jazz and Folk Pegasus Books New York 477", "Label": "RCA Victor", "Songwriter(s)": "Solomon Linda\nHugo Peretti\nLuigi Creatore\nG... |
The People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT; ; ) has been the dominant and ruling party of Tajikistan since 1994. Founded in 1994 by Abdulmajid Dostiev as the People's Party of Tajikistan, the seat of the party is located in the Palace of Unity in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. Since April 1998, the leader ... | {"Abbreviation": "PDPT (English)HXDT (Tajik)NDPT (Russian)", "Leader": "Emomali Rahmon", "Founded": "1994 12 10 yes", "Headquarters": "Kohi Vahdat, Dushanbe, Tajikistan", "Newspaper": "Minbari Khalq (People's Tribune)", "Ideology": "Tajik nationalismSecularismStatismAuthoritarianism"} |
Democratic Beginning () was an East German political movement and political party that was active during the Revolutions of 1989 and in the period leading up to the German reunification. While it was a relatively minor party, it took part in the first democratically elected government in East Germany in 1990, and is es... | {"Abbreviation": "DA", "Founded": "29 October 1989", "Headquarters": "East Berlin", "Merged into": "Christian Democratic Union (East Germany)", "Ideology": "Christian democracyGerman unionismAnti-communism", "Political position": "Centre-right"} |
The General People's Congress (GPC; ) is a political party in Yemen. It has been the de jure ruling party of Yemen since 1993, three years after unification. The party is dominated by a nationalist line, and its official ideology is Arab nationalism, seeking Arab unity. In the course of the Yemeni Civil War, the party'... | {"Founded": "24 August 1982", "Headquarters": "Sanaa", "Ideology": "Yemeni nationalismArab nationalismPan-ArabismBig tentBurrowes Robert D. Historical Dictionary of Yemen Rowman & Littlefield 2010 134", "Political position": "CentreBurrowes, p111", "Newspaper": "Al-Motamar"} |
thumb|right|Helmut Kohl at an election rally of Alliance for Germany, 1990.
The Alliance for Germany () was an opposition coalition in East Germany. It was formed on 5 February 1990 in Berlin (then West Berlin) to stand in the East-German Volkskammer elections.
It consisted of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), De... | {"Abbreviation": "AFD", "Leader": "Lothar de Maizière", "Founded": "1990 2 5 yes", "Merged into": "Christian Democratic Union", "Ideology": "Christian democracyAnti-communismAnti-socialismGerman unionism", "Political position": "Centre-right to right-wing", "Slogan": "\"Freedom and Prosperity\"(\"Freiheit und Wohlstand... |
Patrick John Mercer (born 26 June 1956) is a British author and former politician.List of former living MPs He was elected as a Conservative in the 2001 general election, until resigning the party's parliamentary whip in May 2013 following questions surrounding paid advocacy, and was an Independent MP representing the... | {"Name": "Patrick Mercer", "Term start": "7 June 2001", "Term end": "30 April 2014", "Birth name": "Patrick John Mercer", "Birth date": "1956 6 26 yes", "Birth place": "Stockport, Cheshire, England", "Spouse(s)": "Cait Mercer", "Other political party": "Conservative (until 2013)", "Alma mater": "Exeter College, OxfordC... |
Gillian Joanna Merron, Baroness Merron (born 12 April 1959) is a British politician and life peer serving as Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews since 2014. A member of the Labour Party, she has been a shadow spokesperson for Health and Social Care since 2021. She was previously Member of Parliame... | {"Name": "The Baroness Merron", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2021", "Term start": "18 May 2021", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs", "Predecessor 2": "Meg Munn", "Successor 2": "Chris Bryant", "Prime minister 2": "Gordon Brown", "Birth date": "1959 04 12 ye... |
Andrew Peter Miller (23 March 1949 - 24 December 2019) was a British Labour politician and scientist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellesmere Port and Neston from 1992 to 2015.
Early life
Born in Isleworth, Middlesex, Miller was educated in Malta before attending the Hayling Island Secondary School (now k... | {"Image caption": "Miller as an MP", "Term start": "9 April 1992", "Term end": "30 March 2015", "Birth name": "Andrew Peter Miller", "Birth date": "1949 3 23 yes", "Birth place": "Isleworth, Middlesex, England", "Death date": "2019 12 24 1949 3 23 yes", "Death place": "Clatterbridge, Wirral, England", "Spouse(s)": "Fra... |
Laura Jean Moffatt (née Field; born 9 April 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Crawley from 1997 until 2010.
Early life
Born Laura Jean Field in London in 1954, she was educated at Hazelwick School in Crawley, West Sussex before attending the Crawley College of Technol... | {"Name": "Laura Moffatt", "Image caption": "Laura Moffatt, 6 March 2006, launching the 2006 local election campaign in Crawley.", "Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Office 2": "Mayor of Crawley", "Predecessor 2": "RG Rudd", "Successor 2": "BA Smith", "Birth date": "1954 04 9 yes", "Birth place": ... |
Lewis George Moonie, Baron Moonie (born 25 February 1947) is a British politician. He was the Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Kirkcaldy from 1987 to 2005.
Early life
He attended the Grove Academy in Dundee. He studied medicine at the Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews graduating with a MB ... | {"Name": "The Lord Moonie", "Term start": "31 January 2000", "Term end": "13 June 2003", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy", "Predecessor 2": "Harry Gourlay", "Successor 2": "Constituency Abolished", "Birth date": "1947 02 25 yes", "Birth place": "Dundee, Scotland", "Nationality": "Scottish", "Spouse(s)":... |
Margaret Mary Moran (born 24 April 1955) is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Moran was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton South from the 1997 general election to 2010. In November 2012, jurors at Southwark Crown Court ruled that she had falsified her parliamentary expenses; she had been unab... | {"Name": "Margaret Moran", "Term start": "26 March 2009", "Term end": "11 May 2010", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for Luton South", "Predecessor 2": "Sir Graham Bright", "Successor 2": "Gavin Shuker", "Birth date": "1955 04 24 yes", "Birth place": "Bethnal Green, London, UK", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)"... |
Malcolm Douglas Moss (born 6 March 1943) is a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Cambridgeshire from 1987 until his retirement in the 2010 general election.
Early life
Born in Audenshaw, Lancashire, he went to Audenshaw Grammar School on Stamford Roa... | {"Name": "Malcolm Moss", "Term start": "25 October 1994", "Term end": "2 May 1997", "Birth date": "1943 3 6 y", "Birth place": "Audenshaw, Lancashire, England", "Spouse(s)": "Vivian Lorraine Peake (d. 1997)Sonya Alexandra McFarlin", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "St John's College, Cambridge"} |
Carol Jean Mountford (née Newton; born 12 January 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Colne Valley from 1997 until she retired from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election.
Early life
Mountford was born in Crewe, the daughter of an engine driver. She att... | {"Name": "Kali Mountford", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1954 01 12 yes", "Birth place": "Crewe, Cheshire, England", "Spouse(s)": "Ian Leedham 1995"} |
George Edward Mudie (born 6 February 1945) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East from 1992 to 2015.
Early life
Born in Dundee, Scotland's fourth-largest city, George Mudie was educated at the Waid Academy in Anstruther and later studied Social Studies a... | {"Name": "George Mudie", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "27 July 1998", "Office 2": "Leader of Leeds City Council", "Predecessor 2": "Peter Sparling", "Successor 2": "Jon Trickett", "Birth name": "George Edward Mudie", "Birth date": "1945 02 6 yes", "Birth place": "Dundee, Angus, Scotland", "Nationality": "Bri... |
The German Forum Party () was an opposition political party in East Germany. It was formed from the New Forum (Neues Forum) citizens' movement. It was founded in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) on 27 January 1990. Its first chairman was Jürgen Schmieder. It described itself as being at the political centre.
It was invi... | {"Leader": "Jürgen Schmieder", "Founded": "27 January 1990", "Merged into": "Association of Free Democrats", "Headquarters": "Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany", "Political position": "Centre", "Ideology": "Liberalism"} |
Margaret Patricia Munn (born 1959) is a British politician and served as a Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley from 2001 to 2015. After leaving Parliament, she has served in a variety of roles across the public sector, academia and international bodies.
Before Parliament
Munn went to Mundella Primary School on Mundella Pla... | {"Name": "Meg Munn", "Image caption": "Munn as a Foreign Office minister", "Term start": "29 June 2007", "Term end": "5 October 2008", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley", "Majority 2": "5,807 (14.2%)", "Predecessor 2": "Bill Michie", "Successor 2": "Louise Haigh", "Birth date": "1959 08 24 yes", "... |
Denis Murphy (born 2 November 1948) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wansbeck from 1997 until 2010.
Early life
He attended the (Roman Catholic) St Cuthbert's Grammar School on Gretna Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. He then attended Northumberland College in Ashi... | {"Name": "Denis Murphy", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1948 11 2 yes", "Birth place": "Ashington, England", "Nationality": "British"} |
thumb|right|125px|The South West Wiltshire constituency within Wiltshire
Andrew William Murrison (born 24 April 1961) is a British doctor, naval officer and politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Wiltshire, previously Westbury, since the 2001 genera... | {"Name": "Andrew Murrison", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2019", "Term start": "30 October 2022", "Office 2": "Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Laurence Robertson", "Successor 2": "Simon Hoare", "Birth date": "1961 04 24 yes", "Birth place": "Colchester, England", "Spous... |
Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. A member of the Conservative Party, Mitchell was previously the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. Mitchell served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Dev... | {"Name": "Andrew Mitchell", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2022", "Term start": "25 October 2022", "Office 2": "Chief Whip of the House of CommonsParliamentary Secretary to the Treasury", "Prime minister 2": "David Cameron", "Predecessor 2": "Patrick McLoughlin", "Successor 2": "Sir George Young", "Birth name": "... |
Mark Richard Tami (born 3 October 1962) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Alyn and Deeside since 2001. He has served as Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons since 2023.
Early life
Born in Enfield, north London, Tami was educated at Enfield Grammar School... | {"Name": "Mark Tami", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2020", "Office 2": "Member of Parliament for Alyn and Deeside", "Majority 2": "213 (0.5%)", "Predecessor 2": "Barry Jones", "Birth name": "Mark Richard Tami", "Birth date": "1962 10 3 yes", "Birth place": "Enfield, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s... |
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell (1 February 1930 - 18 August 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth and Horncastle. He served in the House of Commons continuously from 1966 until 2015, and was also previously an MP from 1959 to 1964. He was Father of the House between ... | {"Name": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "Image caption": "Tapsell at Prime Minister's Questions in September 2012", "Office 2": "Member of Parliamentfor Nottingham West", "Predecessor 2": "Tom O'Brien", "Successor 2": "Michael English", "Birth name": "Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell", "Birth date": "1930 2 1 y", "Birth place": "Hove... |
Dari Jean Taylor (née Jones; born 13 December 1944) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton South between the 1997 and 2010 general elections.
Biography
Taylor was born into a staunch Labour Party-supporting family in Rhondda, South Wales, in December 1944. She attended ... | {"Name": "Dari Taylor", "Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth name": "Dari Jean Jones", "Birth date": "yes 1944 12 13", "Birth place": "Rhondda, Wales", "Spouse(s)": "David Taylor", "Alma mater": "University of NottinghamUniversity of Durham"} |
David Leslie Taylor (22 August 1946 - 26 December 2009) was a British Labour Co-operative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire from 1997 until his death in 2009.
Biography
David Taylor was born in Ashby de la Zouch. He went to Heather County Primary School near Coalville, As... | {"Image caption": "Taylor as an MP", "Term start": "1 May 1997", "Term end": "26 December 2009", "Birth name": "David Leslie Taylor", "Birth date": "1946 08 22 yes", "Birth place": "Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England", "Death date": "2009 12 26 1946 08 22 yes", "Death place": "Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, ... |
Ian Colin Taylor MBE (born 18 April 1945) is a British former Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher from 1987 to 1997, and then for Esher and Walton from 1997 to 2010.
Early life
He went to Whitley Abbey School, Abbey Road, Coventry. He was an accomplished sprinter and played ru... | {"Name": "Ian Taylor", "Image caption": "Taylor asking Tony Blair's first Prime Minister's Question in May 1997", "Term start": "11 June 1987", "Term end": "12 April 2010", "Birth date": "1945 04 18 yes", "Birth place": "Coventry, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Carole Alport", "Alma mater": "Keele U... |
John Mark Taylor (19 August 1941 - 28 May 2017) was a British solicitor and Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Solihull from 1983 to 2005, when he lost his seat to Lorely Burt of the Liberal Democrats by a margin of 279 votes in the 2005 general election. He had previously been a Member... | {"Image caption": "Taylor as an MP", "Term start": "29 November 1995", "Term end": "1 May 1997", "Office 2": "Lord Commissioner of the Treasury", "Prime minister 2": "Margaret Thatcher", "Predecessor 2": "David Maclean", "Successor 2": "Tim Wood (1992)", "Birth name": "John Mark Taylor", "Birth date": "1941 08 19 yes",... |
The Association of Free Democrats () was a liberal coalition, later party, formed in East Germany on 12 February 1990. It originally consisted of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Free Democratic Party (GDR) and the German Forum Party. In the Volkskammer election of the 18 March 1990 the Association of Free Democrats, ... | {"Leader": "Jürgen Schmieder", "Founded": "12 February 1990 (as coalition)27 March 1990 (as party)", "Political position": "Centre to centre-right", "Ideology": "Liberalism", "Merged into": "Free Democratic Party", "Slogan": "\"Freedom needs Work.\"(\"Freiheit braucht Leistung.\")\"You've had the left. You don't want t... |
Clydebank () is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling and Milton beyond) to the west, and the Yoker and Drumchapel areas of the adjacent City of Glasgow immediately to the east. Depending on the definition of the to... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NS500700", "Lieutenancy area": "Dunbartonshire", "UK Parliament": "West Dunbartonshire", "Scottish Parliament": "Clydebank and Milngavie", "Postcode district": "G", "Dialling code": "0141 & 01389"} |
Charlie, also known as Charlie the Curser is a female blue-and-yellow macaw who lived for decades in a garden centre in Reigate, Surrey, England.
Claimed association with Churchill
The owner claimed the parrot was that of Sir Winston Churchill while he was prime minister during World War II. He claims that his father... | {"Sex": "Female", "Hatched": "England", "Employer": "Heathfield nurseries", "Notable role": "Captive", "Training": "English words"} |
MacsBug is a low-level (assembly language/machine-level) debugger for the classic Mac OS operating system. MacsBug is an acronym for Motorola Advanced Computer Systems Debugger, as opposed to Macintosh debugger (The Motorola 68000 Microprocessor is imprinted with the MACSS acronym). The original version was developed b... | {"Developer(s)": "Motorola, Apple Computer", "Initial release": "1979", "Platform": "680x0 and PowerPC", "Type": "debugger"} |
George Robert Wendt Jr. (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Norm Peterson on the television sitcom Cheers (1982-1993), which earned him six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. After Cheers, he starr... | {"Name": "George Wendt", "Caption": "Wendt at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards in September 1989", "Birth name": "George Robert Wendt Jr.", "Birth date": "1948 10 17", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois, US", "Alma mater": "Rockhurst University", "Occupation": "Actor comedian", "Years active": "1978-present", "Spouse(s)":... |
The Klamath Mountains are a rugged and lightly-populated mountain range in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States. As a mountain system within both the greater Pacific Coast Ranges and the California Coast Ranges, the Klamath Mountains have a varied geology, with substantial areas ... | {"Elevation": "9025", "Location": "Map of the Klamath Mountains Geologic Province, Pacific Coast Ranges", "Coordinates": "41.32 N 122.479 W type:mountain dms inline,title", "Length": "Klamath Mountains http://www.peakbagger.com/range.aspx?rid=1223 Peakbagger.com March 26, 2013", "Width": "181", "Area": "25595"} |
The Hotel San Carlos branch in Phoenix, Arizona, also known as San Carlos Hotel, is both an operating hotel and tourist site. It has been associated with ghost sightings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1983 as San Carlos Hotel. Hotel San Carlos is a member of Historic Hotels of Ame... | {"Name": "Hotel San Carlos", "Caption": "The Hotel San Carlos marquee as seen from Central Avenue", "Location": "202 N Central Ave., Phoenix, Arizona, 85004 U.S.", "Coordinates": "33 27 2 N 112 4 27 W type:landmark_region:US-AZ inline,title", "Groundbreaking_date": "August 17, 1927", "Opened_date": "March 19, 1928", "M... |
Camelot is a musical with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and a book by Alan Jay Lerner. It is based on the legend of King Arthur as adapted from the 1958 novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White.
The original 1960 production, directed by Moss Hart with orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. L... | {"Name": "Camelot", "Caption": "Original Cast Recording cover", "Composer(s)": "Frederick Loewe", "Lyricist(s)": "Alan Jay Lerner", "Book-writer": "Alan Jay Lerner (original book)\n Aaron Sorkin (revised book)", "Based on?": "The Once and Future King T. H. White", "Premiere date": "October 1, 1960", "Premiere location"... |
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría (born 9 January 1940) is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002. He was minister of planning from 1968 to 1970 and minister of the presidency in 1970 during the administration of Jose Joaquin Trejos Fernandez ... | {"Name": "Miguel Ángel Rodríguez", "Term start": "15 September 2004", "Term end": "15 October 2004", "Order 2": "43rd President of Costa Rica", "Vice president 2": "Astrid Fischel VolioElizabeth Odio Benito", "Predecessor 2": "José María Figueres", "Successor 2": "Abel Pacheco", "Birth date": "1940 1 9 y", "Birth place... |
José María Figueres Olsen (born 24 December 1954 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican businessman and politician, who served as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. He also ran for president in the 2022 presidential election but was defeated by Rodrigo Chaves.
Figueres started his career as an engineer work... | {"Name": "José María Figueres", "Image caption": "Figueres in 2012", "Term start": "8 May 1994", "Term end": "8 May 1998", "Vice president": "Rodrigo Oreamuno BlancoRebeca Grynspan", "Order 2": "CEO and Director of the World Economic Forum", "Birth date": "1954 12 24 y", "Birth place": "San José, Costa Rica", "Spouse(s... |
Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (born 14 March 1949) was President of Costa Rica from 1990 to 1994.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica He was the presidential candidate of the Social Christian Unity Party for the national elections held in February 2010, but resigned his candidac... | {"Name": "Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier", "Term start": "8 May 1990", "Term end": "8 May 1994", "Vice president": "Germán Serrano PintoArnoldo López Echandi", "Birth date": "yes 1949 03 14", "Birth place": "Diriamba, Nicaragua", "Spouse(s)": "Gloria Bejarano Almada"} |
Up with People (UWP) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Up with People stages song and dance performances promoting themes such as multiculturalism, racial equality, and positive thinking.
History
Archives
The UWP Archives is housed at the University of Arizona Special Collections library. The archi... | {"Type": "Educational, cultural, civic", "Legal status": "501(c)(3) nonprofit organization", "Headquarters": "Denver, Colorado, U.S.", "Website": "http://upwithpeople.org"} |
Harry Hill's Fruit Corner was a radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It ran for four series between 1993 and 1997. The series starred Harry Hill, Al Murray, Burt Kwouk and Martin Hyder, and was the predecessor for Hill's breakthrough television series, Harry Hill.
Background
Hill achieved his big... | {"Running time": "30 mins.", "Created by": "Harry Hill", "Starring": "Harry HillSteve BowditchAl MurrayBurt KwoukMatt BradstockMartin Hyder", "Original network": "BBC Radio 4", "Original release": "1997 04 24 y", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom"} |
The Green Party () in East Germany was founded in February 1990. At the first free Volkskammer elections it stood with the Independent Women's Association () and received 2.0% of the vote. They received 8 seats but could not resolve how to allocate them. The Women's Association pulled out and the Green Party formed a j... | {"Founded": "9 February 1990", "Merged into": "Alliance 90/The Greens", "Headquarters": "East Berlin, East Germany", "Ideology": "Green politics", "Political position": "Centre-left"} |
thumb|Map of Lenapehoking and approximate boundaries of languages spoken, including all of present-day New Jersey, most of eastern Pennsylvania, and southern New York
Lenapehoking () is widely translated as 'homelands of the Lenape', which in the 16th and 17th centuries, ranged along the Eastern seaboard from western C... | {"Person": "Lënape(Monsi /Wënami)", "People": "Lënapeyok(Monsiyok /Wënamiyok)", "Language": "Lënapei èlixsuwakàn(Monsii èlixsuwakàn /Wënami èlixsuwakàn)", "Country": "Lënapehòkink(Monsihòkink /Wënamihòkink)"} |
Daniel Glazman is a JavaScript programmer, best known for his work on Mozilla's Editor and Composer components and Nvu, a standalone version of the Mozilla Composer, created for Linspire Corporation.MozillaZine - Lindows.com Announces Mozilla-Based Nvu Web Publishing Software He lives in France.
Glazman studied at Éco... | {"Name": "Daniel Glazman", "Caption": "Daniel Glazman", "Alt": "Daniel Glazman speaking at a conference", "Alma mater": "École Polytechnique", "Occupation": "Programmer", "Nationality": "French", "Website": "http://glazman.org/"} |
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes; 25 July 1860 - 14 March 1917), later Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn VA CI RRC DStJ, was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and of the British royal family. She served as the viceregal consort of Canada while her husband, Prince Arthu... | {"Born": "Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia", "Died": "Clarence House, London", "Burial": "Royal Vault, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 23 October 1928 Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore", "Father": "Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia", "Mother": "Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau"} |
Ezzedine Salim (), also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed (23 March 1943http://www.mawazin.net/%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%87%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85-/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A - 17 May 2004, عبد الزهراء عثمان محمد), was an Iraqi polit... | {"Name": "Ezzedine Salimعز الدين سليم", "Term start": "1 May 2004", "Term end": "17 May 2004", "Birth date": "1943 3 23 y", "Birth place": "Basra, Iraq", "Death date": "2004 5 17 1943 3 23 y", "Death place": "Baghdad, Iraq"} |
Rodrigo José Ramón Francisco de Jesús Carazo Odio (27 December 1926 – 9 December 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from 8 May 1978 to 8 May 1982.Political Leaders: Costa RicaEl Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica
Early life
Carazo was born in Cartago. Before serving as presi... | {"Name": "Rodrigo Carazo Odio", "Term start": "8 May 1978", "Term end": "8 May 1982", "Vice president": "Rodrigo Altmann OrtizJosé Miguel Alfaro Rodríguez", "Birth date": "1926 12 27 yes", "Birth place": "Cartago, Costa Rica", "Death date": "2009 12 09 1926 12 27 yes", "Death place": "San José, Costa Rica", "Spouse(s)"... |
Ziff Davis, Inc. is an American digital media and internet company. First founded in 1927 by William Bernard Ziff Sr. and Bernard George Davis, the company primarily owns technology- and health-oriented media websites, online shopping-related services, internet connectivity services, gaming and entertainment brands, an... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "1927 8Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Headquarters": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Industry": "Digital media and internet", "Products": "Multimedia, software, video games, data licensing", "Revenue": "1.38 billion yes (2021)", "Website": "ziffdavis.com"} |
ZDNET is a business technology news website owned and operated by Red Ventures.
The brand was founded on April 1, 1991, as a general interest technology portal from Ziff Davis and evolved into an enterprise IT-focused online publication.
History
Beginnings: 1991 to 1995
ZDNET began as a subscription-based digital se... | {"URL": "https://www.zdnet.com/ zdnet.com", "Registration": "Optional", "Available in": "English, Japanese, French, Korean, German", "Users": "36 million monthly https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=monthly+visitors+zdnet.com Monthly visitors to zdnet.com Wolfram Alpha", "Launched": "\"IDCH\"/>"} |
Porfirio Ricardo José Luis Daniel Oduber Quirós (August 25, 1921 - October 13, 1991) was a Costa Rican politician, lawyer, philosopher, poet, and essayist. He served as the President of Costa Rica from 1974 to 1978. He is credited with the creation of the Sistema Nacional de Radio y Televisión and the Universidad Estat... | {"Name": "Daniel Oduber Quirós", "Term start": "8 May 1974", "Term end": "8 May 1978", "Vice president": "Carlos Manuel Castillo Morales Fernando Guzmán Mata", "Birth date": "1921 08 25 yes", "Birth place": "San José, Costa Rica", "Death date": "1991 10 13 1921 08 25 yes", "Death place": "Escazú, Costa Rica", "Spouse(s... |
José Joaquín Antonio Trejos Fernández (18 April 1916 10 February 2010) was 35th President of Costa Rica from 1966 to 1970.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica
His parents were Juan Trejos Quirós and Emilia Fernández Aguilar. As a student he obtained degrees in mathematics and eco... | {"Name": "Joaquín Trejos", "Term start": "8 May 1966", "Term end": "8 May 1970", "Vice president": "Jorge Vega RodríguezVirgilio Calvo Sánchez", "Birth date": "1916 04 18 yes", "Birth place": "San José", "Death date": "2010 2 10 1916 04 18 yes", "Death place": "San José", "Alma mater": "University of Costa Ricahttp://w... |
José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer (25 September 1906 - 8 June 1990) served as President of Costa Rica on three occasions: 1948-1949, 1953-1958 and 1970-1974.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica During his first term in office he abolished the country's army, nationalized its ba... | {"Image caption": "Figueres in 1973", "Predecessor 2": "Teodoro Picado Michalski", "Successor 2": "Otilio Ulate Blanco", "Term start": "8 May 1970", "Term end": "8 May 1974", "Vice president": "Manuel Aguilar BonillaJorge Rossi Chavarría", "Birth name": "José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer", "Birth date": "yes 1906 09 ... |
thumbnail|An Albacore dinghy planing
thumb|Albacore racing fleet rounding the windward mark
The Albacore is a 4.57 m (15 ft) two-person planing dinghy with fractional sloop rig, for competitive racing and lake and near-inshore day sailing. Hulls are made of either wood or fiberglass. The basic shape was developed in 1... | {"Crew": "2", "LOA": "4570 mm ftin on 2", "Beam": "1550 mm ftin on 2", "Draft": "1270 mm ftin on 2 (foils down) 200 mm ftin on 1 (foils up)", "Hull": "109 kg on", "Upwind sail area": "11.61 m2 on 3", "Genoa": "3.25 m2 on 2", "RYA PN": "1062", "D-PN": "90.3", "Year": "1954"} |
Francisco José Orlich BolmarcichRulers.org (10 March 190729 October 1969) was the 34th President of Costa Rica from 1962 to 1966.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica
He was an ethnic Croat, a descendant of Croatian settlers from the town Punat on the island of Krk, Croatia. His ... | {"Name": "Francisco Orlich", "Term start": "8 May 1962", "Term end": "8 May 1966", "Vice president": "Raúl Blanco CervantesCarlos Sáenz Herrera", "Birth name": "Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich", "Birth date": "1907 3 10 y", "Birth place": "San Ramón, Costa Rica", "Death date": "1969 10 29 1907 3 10 y", "Death place": ... |
Mario José Echandi Jiménez (17 June 1915 - 30 July 2011) was the 33rd President of Costa Rica, serving from 1958 to 1962.
As diplomat
Mario Echandi was a career diplomat.
Prior to his election, he had served as Costa Rica's ambassador to the United States and as the country's representative to both the United Nation... | {"Name": "Mario Echandi Jimenéz", "Term start": "8 May 1958", "Term end": "8 May 1962", "Vice president": "Abelardo Bonilla BaldaresJosé Joaquín Peralta Esquivel", "Birth date": "1915 06 17 yes", "Birth place": "San José, Costa Rica", "Death date": "2011 07 30 1915 6 17 yes", "Death place": "San José, Costa Rica"} |
Efren Manalang Reyes (born August 26, 1954), popularly known by the nicknames "Bata" (English: "Kid") and "The Magician", is a Filipino professional pool player, who is widely regarded as the greatest pool player of all time. In 2003 he was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame. A winner of ove... | {"Born": "Angeles, Pampanga, Philippines", "Nickname": "\"The Magician\", \"tl Bata\"", "Professional": "1978", "Pool": "Nine-ball, Eight-ball, Ten-ball, One-pocket, Rotation, Balkline, Three-cushion"} |
Luis Rafael de la Trinidad Otilio Ulate Blanco (August 25, 1891 - October 10, 1973) served as President of Costa Rica from 1949 to 1953.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica His French heritage comes from his mother, Ermida Blanco. He never married but had two daughters, Olga Mart... | {"Name": "Otilio Ulate Blanco", "Term start": "1949 11 8 y", "Term end": "1953 11 8 y", "Vice president": "Alberto Oreamuno FloresAlfredo Volio Mata", "Birth date": "1891 08 25 y", "Birth place": "Alajuela, Costa Rica", "Death date": "1973 10 27 y (aged 82)", "Death place": "San José"} |
Teodoro Picado Michalski (10 January 1900 – 1 June 1960) was the president of Costa Rica from 1944 to 1948.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica
Overview
Picado governed Costa Rica immediately after the presidency of Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia and preceded the de facto junta ... | {"Name": "Teodoro Picado Michalski", "Term start": "8 May 1944", "Term end": "20 April 1948", "Office 2": "Deputy of the Constitutional Congress", "Birth date": "1900 01 10 yes", "Birth place": "San José, Costa Rica", "Death date": "1960 06 01 yes (aged 60)", "Death place": "Managua, Nicaragua", "Spouse(s)": "Mercedes ... |
The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is a service academy of the United States Coast Guard in New London, Connecticut. Founded in 1876, it is the smallest of the five U.S. service academies and provides education to future Coast Guard officers in one of nine major fields of study.
Students are officers-in-tra... | {"Motto": "Scientiæ Cedit Mare (Latin)", "Type": "U.S. Service Academy", "Superintendent": "Michael J. Johnston", "Provost": "Amy K. Donahue", "Students": "1,095 cadets (As of fall 2023)September 2023", "Campus": "Suburban103 acre sqm United States Coast Guard Academy - Profile, Rankings and Data US News Best Colleges.... |
León Cortés Castro (December 8, 1882 - March 3, 1946) was a Costa Rican politician. He served as President of Costa Rica from 1936 to 1940.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica During his term he introduced new bank reforms, supported banana plantations in the South Pacific region... | {"Name": "León Cortés Castro", "Term start": "1936 5 8", "Term end": "1940 5 8", "Birth date": "1882 12 8", "Birth place": "Alajuela, Costa Rica", "Death date": "1946 3 3 1882 12 8", "Death place": "Santa Ana, Costa Rica"} |
dbx is a source-level debugger found primarily on Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux and BSD operating systems. It provides symbolic debugging for programs written in C, C++, Fortran, Pascal and Java. Useful features include stepping through programs one source line or machine instruction at a time. In addition to s... | {"Original author(s)": "Mark Linton", "Developer(s)": "Oracle Corporation", "Initial release": "1981", "Type": "Debugger", "License": "Free for download and use as described in the Sun Studio product license."} |
The Lost Road and Other Writings - Language and Legend before 'The Lord of the Rings' is the fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth, a series of compilations of drafts and essays written by J. R. R. Tolkien in around 1936-1937. It was edited and published posthumously in 1987 by Christopher Tolkien.
Book
Insc... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Series": "The History of Middle-earth", "Publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (UK)", "Media type": "Print (hardback and paperback)", "Pages": "464 (paperback)", "ISBN": "978-0261102255", "Preceded by": "The Shaping of Middle-earth", "Followed by": "The Return of the Sh... |
Zechariah ( Zəḵaryā, meaning "remembered by Yah"; also Zachariah, Zacharias; ) was the fourteenth king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel, and son of Jeroboam II.
Zechariah became king of Israel in Samaria in the thirty-eighth year of Azariah, king of Judah. () William F. Albright has dated his reign to 746 B... | {"Name": "Zechariah", "Caption": "Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553)", "Succession": "King of Northern Israel", "Reign": "752 BC (reigned 6 months)", "Full name": "Zechariah ben Jeroboam", "Death date": "752 BC", "Death place": "Kingdom of Israel", "Predecessor": "Jeroboam II", "Successor": "Shallum",... |
Herbert Lange (29 September 1909 - 20 April 1945) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was commandant of Chełmno extermination camp until April 1942, as well as leader of the SS Special Detachment Lange conducting the murder of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto. Lange was responsible for numerous crimes against ... | {"Born": "Menzlin, Ziethen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, German Empire", "Died": "Bernau bei Berlin, Nazi Germany", "Allegiance": "Nazi Germany", "Commands held": "Chełmno extermination camp (November 1941 - April 1942)Friedlander 1997 138"} |
Romualdo Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno (February 6, 1859 - January 4, 1945) served as president of Costa Rica on three occasions: 1910-1914, 1924-1928 and 1932-1936.
He was one of the best known lawyers in Costa Rican history and a University of Santo Tomás graduate. Shortly before assuming power in 1910, the province of C... | {"Name": "Ricardo Jiménez", "Term start": "8 May 1910", "Term end": "8 May 1914", "Predecessor 2": "Julio Acosta García", "Successor 2": "Cleto González Víquez (second term)", "Birth date": "1859 02 06 y", "Birth place": "Cartago, Costa Rica", "Death date": "1945 01 04 1859 02 06 y", "Death place": "San José, Costa Ric... |
William Scott Goldberg (born December 27, 1966), often known mononymously as Goldberg, is an American former professional wrestler and former American football defensive tackle. He is best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and WWE.
One of the most popular figures of the professional wrestling... | {"Name": "Bill Goldberg", "Caption": "Goldberg in 2021", "Birth name": "William Scott Goldberg", "Birth date": "1966 12 27", "Birth place": "Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Occupation": "Professional wrestler actor football player", "Years active": "1996-2004; 2016-present (wrestling)1998-present (acting)1990-1995 (football)"... |
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 - February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career.Erica Reder: "Julia Morgan was a local, in The New Fillmore, 1 February 2011. Retrieved 2015-10-23. She is best known for her work on Hearst Cas... | {"Name": "Julia Morgan", "Portrait caption": "Morgan in 1926", "Significant buildings": "Los Angeles Examiner BuildingThe YWCA in Chinatown, San FranciscoRiverside Art MuseumAsilomar Conference Grounds", "Significant projects": "Hearst Castle"} |
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