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Andrija Mohorovičić (23 January 1857 - 18 December 1936) was a Croatian geophysicist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered one of the founders of modern seismology.
Early years
thumb|left|upright=0.65|The house in Volosko where Mohorovičić was born
Mohorovičić was born in Volo... | {"Name": "Andrija Mohorovičić", "Image": "Portrait of Andria Mohorovicic.gif", "Caption": "Portrait of Andrija Mohorovičić", "Birth date": "23 January 1857", "Birth place": "Opatija, Austrian Littoral, Austrian Empire", "Death date": "1936 12 18 1857 1 23 y", "Death place": "Zagreb, Sava Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia... |
José Antonio Labordeta Subías (10 March 1935, in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain - 19 September 2010, Zaragoza, Aragon, SpainAdiós, Labordeta Heraldo.es ) was a Spanish (Aragonese) singer, songwriter, poet, writer and political activist. He was described by The Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa 2000 (Great Aragonese Encyclopedia) as... | {"Name": "José Antonio Labordeta", "Term start": "2000", "Term end": "2008", "Order 2": "Deputy in the Aragonese Corts", "Monarch 2": "Juan Carlos I", "President 2": "Mariano Rajoy", "Birth name": "José Antonio Labordeta Subías", "Nationality": "ESP Spanish", "Birth date": "y 1935 03 10", "Birth place": "Zaragoza, Arag... |
Catherine Bach (born Catherine Bachman; March 1, 1954) is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies. In 2012, she joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Anita Lawson.
Early life
Bach was born i... | {"Caption": "Bach at the Chiller Theatre Expo in 2013", "Birth name": "Catherine Bachman", "Birth date": "1954 3 1", "Birth place": "Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.", "Known For": "Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard", "Alma mater": "University of California, Los Angeles", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1973-present", ... |
Gaebler Children's Center was a psychiatric institution operated by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health for severely mentally ill children and adolescents, located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The center opened on October 8, 1955, near the grounds of the Metropolitan State Hospital and closed in September 1992... | {"Location": "Waltham", "Lists": "United States", "Coordinates": "42.39836 -71.207993 dms region:US-MA_type:landmark inline,title", "Opened": "October 8, 1955", "Closed": "September 1992"} |
The Division of Werriwa is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The name Werriwa derives from a local Aboriginal name for Lake George, which was located in the division when it was established in 1900. The division was one of the original 65 divisions first contested at the first federal el... | {"Federal?": "yes", "Name": "Werriwa", "Caption": "Division of Werriwa in New South Wales, as of the 2016 federal election", "Created": "1901", "MP name(s)": "Anne Stanley", "MP party": "Labor", "Namesake": "Lake George (Aboriginal name)", "Electors": "126141", "Electors year": "2022", "Area": "172", "Class": "Outer me... |
Grove City College (GCC) is a private, conservative Christian liberal arts collegehttps://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/grove-city-college-3269https://wydaily.com/latest-news/2023/03/04/college-and-university-accolades-continue-to-roll-in-for-area-students/ in Grove City, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1876 as a normal school... | {"Motto": "Lux Mea (Latin)", "Type": "Private Christian liberal arts college", "Endowment": "$125.6 millionGrove City College Fact Sheet http://www.gcc.edu/Utility/Offices/Office-of-Marketing-Communications/Media-Kit/Fact-Sheet Grove City College September 17, 2019", "President": "Paul McNulty", "Undergraduates": "2,40... |
Corner Gas is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Re-runs still air on CTV, CTV2, CTV Comedy Channel, Much, MTV, E! and are streaming on Crave and Amazon Prime. The series was followed by a feature film titled Corner Gas: The Movie, with the entire cast ... | {"Running time": "21-23 minutes", "Genre": "Comedy", "Created by": "Brent Butt", "Starring": "Brent Butt\n Gabrielle Miller\n Fred Ewanuick\n Eric Peterson\n Janet Wright\n Lorne Cardinal\n Tara Spencer-Nairn\n Nancy Robertson", "Country of origin": "Canada", "Original network": "CTV", "Original release": "2009 4 13", ... |
Walid Kamal Jumblatt (; born 7 August 1949) is a Lebanese Druze politician and former militia commander who led the Progressive Socialist Party from 1977 until 2023. While leading the Lebanese National Resistance Front and allying with the Amal Movement during the Lebanese Civil War, he worked closely with Suleiman Fra... | {"Name": "Walid Jumblatt", "Native name": "ar وليد جنبلاط", "Image caption": "Jumblatt in 2010", "Term start": "23 August 1992", "Term end": "15 May 2018", "Birth date": "1949 8 7 y", "Birth place": "Moukhtara, Chouf District, Lebanon", "Spouse(s)": "Nora Jumblatt", "Other political party": "March 14 Alliance (2005-200... |
Larry Merchant (born Larry Kaufman; February 11, 1931) is an American sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, called "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by some, including ESPN Boxing analyst ... | {"Name": "Larry Merchant", "Birth name": "Larry Kaufman", "Birth date": "1931 2 11", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Television journalistBoxing commentator", "Spouse(s)": "Patricia Stich", "Children": "Two daughters, three step-sons", "Notable works": "HBO World Championship Boxing commentator (19... |
thumb|Kautiak villagers in Nuristan province with U.S. Navy commander (right)
The Nuristanis, formerly known as Kafiristanis, are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. Their languages comprise the Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian langu... | {"Name": "Nuristanis", "Image caption": "A young Nuristani girl in an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan (January 2002)", "Population": "125,000-300,000http://www.geohive.com/cntry/afghanistan.aspx Afghanistan population statistics GeoHive 4 June 2016", "Languages": "Nuristani languages, Pashto, serving as the lingua ... |
The GMHC (formerly Gay Men's Health Crisis) is a New York City-based non-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based AIDS service organization whose mission statement is to "end the AIDS epidemic and uplift the lives of all affected."
History
1980s
The organization was founded in January 1982 after reports began... | {"Headquarters": "New York, New York, U.S.", "Coordinates": "40.755067 -73.992387 inline, title", "Legal status": "501(c)(3)", "Type": "nonprofit organization", "Subsidiaries": "GMHC Health Services (501(c)(3)), Gay Men's Health Crisis Action (501(c)(4))"} |
Crystal Boys (孽子, pinyin: Nièzǐ, "sons of sin") is a novel written by author Pai Hsien-yung and first published in 1983 in Taiwan. In 1988, this novel went into circulation in China; its French and English translations were published in 1985 and 1989, respectively. A translation into German ("Treffpunkt Lotussee") appe... | {"Original title": "孽子", "Country": "Taiwan", "Language": "Chinese", "Publisher": "Yuan Jing", "Media type": "Print", "Pages": "397 p."} |
Vincent Saint John (1876–1929) was an American labor leader and prominent Wobbly, among the most influential radical labor leaders of the 20th century.
Biography
Vincent St. John was born in Newport, Kentucky and was the only son of New York City native Silas St. John and Irish immigrant Marian "Mary" Cecilia Magee. H... | {"Name": "Vincent Saint John", "Birth date": "1876", "Birth place": "Newport, Kentucky", "Death date": "1929 1876", "Death place": "San Francisco", "Resting place": "Oakland, California", "Occupation": "Miner, Labor leader", "Parent(s)": "Silas St. John and \"Mary\" Cecilia Magee"} |
Banu Abd Shams () refers to a clan within the Meccan tribe of Quraysh.
Ancestry
The clan names itself after Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf, the son of Abd Manaf ibn Qusai and brother of Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf, who was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He married Layla bint Asad ibn Abdal-Uzza, she bore fo... | {"Nisba": "al-ʿAbshamī", "Location": "Mecca, Arabia", "Parent tribe": "Quraysh", "Branches": "Banu Umayya (clan) \n Umayyads (dynasty) \n Banu Rabi'ah ibn Abd Shams"} |
is an American football video game developed and released by Tecmo. Originally released as an arcade game in 1987, the game features a large dual screen cabinet with up to four players between two fictitious teams. A port for the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in 1989 and was the first console game to inclu... | {"Title": "Tecmo Bowl", "Caption": "European arcade flyer of Tecmo Bowl", "Developer": "Tecmo Sculptured Software (Game Boy)", "Publisher": "Tecmo", "Composer": "Keiji Yamagishi", "Modes": "Single-player, multiplayer", "Platforms": "Arcade, Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayChoice-10, Game Boy", "Released": "Arcade W... |
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. (May 27, 1935 - September 12, 2022) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and radio personality. Lewis recorded over 80 albums and received five gold records and three Grammy Awards in his career. His album The In Crowd earned Lewis critical praise and the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Per... | {"Born": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Died": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Genres": "Jazz\n jazz-funk\n pop", "Labels": "Cadet\n Columbia\n GRP\n Narada\n Concord\n Hidden Beach", "Website": "https://www.ramseylewis.com/"} |
Ruby Vroom is the debut studio album by American rock band Soul Coughing, released in 1994. The album's sound is a mixture of sample-based tunes (loops of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" on "Bus to Beelzebub", Toots and the Maytals, Howlin' Wolf, The Andrews Sisters, and The Roches on "Down to This", and a loop of sampler... | {"Released": "September 27, 1994", "Recorded": "April-June 1994", "Label": "Slash/Warner Bros. Records45752", "Producer": "Tchad Blake"} |
The Ford Mainline is an automobile which was produced by Ford in the United States in the models years 1952 to 1956.John Gunnell, Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975, Revised 4th Edition, pages 389-397 It was introduced as the base trim level of the 1952 Ford range below the Customline and Crestline models.John... | {"Manufacturer": "Ford", "Production": "1952-1956", "Assembly": "U.S.A.", "Class": "Full-size", "Layout": "FR layout", "Successor": "Ford Custom"} |
The 51st (Highland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought on the Western Front in France during the First World War from 1915 to 1918. The division was raised in 1908, upon the creation of the Territorial Force, as the Highland Division and later 51st (Highland) Division from 1915. The divis... | {"Branch": "Territorial Army", "Type": "Infantry", "Size": "Division", "Nickname(s)": "First World War:*Harper's Duds*Ladies from HellSecond World War:*Highway Decorators", "Notablecommanders": "First World War:Major-General George HarperSecond World War: Victor FortuneAlan CunninghamNeil RitchieDouglas WimberleyTom Re... |
Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969) is an American actress and singer. She has worked extensively in animation, voicing long-running characters such as Susie Carmichael in Rugrats and Elmyra Duff in Tiny Toon Adventures and related media. She is also known for her roles in Inspector Gadget, Clifford the Big Red Dog... | {"Name": "Cree Summer", "Caption": "Summer in 2020", "Birth name": "Cree Summer Francks", "Birth date": "1969 7 7http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/cree-summer-57248488/ Cree Summer Hollywood.com July 8, 2017 live https://web.archive.org/web/20170810205926/http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/cree-summer-57248488/ Au... |
The Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas is a predominantly African-American Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination based in the United States. Originating when the African American members of the integrated Fire-Baptized Holiness Church withdrew to form their own organization, the church was found... | {"Abbreviation": "FBHC", "Classification": "Protestant", "Orientation": "Holiness", "Polity": "Episcopal polity", "Headquarters": "Greenville, South Carolina", "Founder": "Benjamin Hardin Irwin and Bishop William Edward Fuller Sr.", "Origin": "Greer, South Carolina", "Official website": "www.thefbhchurch.com"} |
Cleto de Jesús González Víquez (13 October 1858 - 23 September 1937) was, on two occasions, the President of Costa Rica, firstly as the 18th president in 1906 and lastly as the 26th president in 1928.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica Don Cleto was born in Barva, Heredia on Oct... | {"Name": "Cleto González Víquez", "Term start": "May 8, 1906", "Term end": "May 8, 1910", "Office 2": "26th President of Costa Rica", "Predecessor 2": "Ricardo Jiménez (second term)", "Successor 2": "Ricardo Jiménez (third term)", "Birth date": "1858 10 13", "Birth place": "Barva, Heredia, Costa Rica", "Death date": "1... |
Mu'awiya ibn Yazid (; 664 - 684 CE), usually known simply as Mu'awiya II was the third Umayyad caliph. He succeeded his father Yazid I as the third caliph and last caliph of the Sufyanid line in the Umayyad dynasty. He ruled briefly in 683-684 (64 AH) before he died.
Early life
Mu'awiya was the son of Yazid I and an ... | {"Father": "Yazid", "Religion": "Islam", "Born": "Bilad al-Sham, Umayyad Caliphate", "Died": "Damascus, Umayyad Caliphate (present-day Syria)"} |
Alfredo González Flores served as President of Costa Rica from 1914 to 1917.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica He was unable to complete his presidential mandate following a coup d'état on 27 January 1917, led by Federico Tinoco, his secretary for War and the Navy.
Early life
... | {"Name": "Alfredo González", "Term start": "8 May 1914", "Term end": "27 January 1917", "Birth date": "15 June 1877", "Birth place": "Heredia", "Death date": "28 December 1962 (aged 85)", "Death place": "Heredia", "Office 2": "Deputy of the Constitutional Congress"} |
General José Federico Alberto de Jesús Tinoco Granados (21 November 1868 – 7 September 1931) was a politician, soldier, and the Dictator of Costa Rica from 1917 to 1919.
Biography
Tinoco was born in 1868. On 5 June 1898 in San José, he married María de las Mercedes Elodia Fernández Le Cappellain. The couple had no c... | {"Name": "Gen. Federico Tinoco", "Term start": "27 January 1917", "Term end": "12 August 1919", "Birth name": "José Federico Alberto de Jesús Tinoco Granados", "Birth date": "21 November 1868", "Birth place": "San José, Costa Rica", "Death date": "7 September 1931 (aged 62)", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Spouse(s)"... |
Robert Francis Convey (; born May 27, 1983) is an American former soccer player who last played for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.
In addition to several MLS clubs, Convey spent five years in England with Reading, whom he helped into the Premier League for the first time. He played in 46 international matc... | {"Name": "Bobby Convey", "Picture caption": "Convey training with the United States Men's National Team", "Full name": "Robert Francis Conveyhttps://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: United States FIFA 32 March 21, 2014 https://web.archive.... |
The is a research organization specializing in the "biological and social sciences related to whales".
In the past, it killed several hundred whales per year in the name of its 'research', the validity and necessity of which has been called into question. Among its activities, the ICR also used to sell "whale resear... | {"Abbreviation": "ICR", "Predecessor": "Nakabe Scientific Research Centre (1941-1947) \"ICR\" />", "Headquarters": "Chūō, Tokyo, Japan", "Website": "icrwhale.org"} |
Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya (), commonly known as MarwanI (623 or 626April/May 685), was the fourth Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in 684-685. He founded the Marwanid ruling house of the Umayyad dynasty, which replaced the Sufyanid house after its collapse in the Second Muslim Civil War an... | {"Father": "Al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿAs", "Mother": "Āmina bint ʿAlqama al-Kinānīyya", "Born": "Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia", "Died": "Damascus or al-Sinnabra, Umayyad Caliphate", "Religion": "Islam"} |
Francisco Ramón de Jesús Aguilar Barquero (21 May 1857 - 11 October 1924) served as provisional President of Costa Rica for eight months between 1919 and 1920.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica
He was Governor of Cartago, Deputy for Limón (1888-1889), Secretary of War and Navy... | {"Name": "Francisco Aguilar Barquero", "Term start": "2 September 1919", "Term end": "8 May 1920", "Birth date": "21 May 1857", "Birth place": "Cartago", "Death date": "11 October 1924 (aged 67)", "Death place": "San José"} |
A deadly tornado outbreak occurred in Central Texas during the afternoon and evening of May 27, 1997, in conjunction with a southwestward-moving cluster of supercell thunderstorms. These storms produced 20 tornadoes, mainly along the Interstate 35 corridor from northeast of Waco to north of San Antonio. The strongest t... | {"Name": "1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak", "Image caption": "WSR-88D radar imagery of storms across Central Texas at 3:40 pm CDTTimes on May 27, 1997", "Image alternative text": "Radar image of the storms", "Type": "Tornado outbreak", "Duration": "May 27, 1997", "Tornadoes confirmed": "20 confirmed", "Fujita scale... |
Julio Acosta García (23 May 1872 - 6 July 1954) served as 24th President of Costa Rica from 1920 to 1924.El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica
Early life
Rafael Julio del Rosario Acosta García was born on 23 May 1872 in San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica to Jesús de la Rosa García Z... | {"Name": "Julio Acosta García", "Image": "Julio Acosta García.JPG", "Term start": "8 May 1920", "Term end": "8 May 1924", "Birth date": "1872 05 23", "Birth place": "San Ramón, Costa Rica", "Death date": "1954 07 06 1872 05 23"} |
Bruce Arena (born September 21, 1951) is an American soccer coach who most recently served as the head coach and sporting director of the New England Revolution.
He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the NJCAA Lacrosse Hall of Fame.https://d2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.net/2/n/akpz4fo358q3on/Men-s_Lacross... | {"Name": "Bruce Arena", "Picture": "BruceArena 20060511.jpgborder", "Picture caption": "Arena in 2006", "Birth date": "1951 9 21", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Height": "6 0", "Position": "Goalkeeper", "Youth club 1 years": "1968", "Youth club 1": "New York Hota", "Club 1 years": "1976", "Club 1": "Tacoma Tid... |
Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian mockumentary sitcom television series created by Mike Clattenburg that began airing in 2001 as a continuation of his 1999 film bearing the same name. The show follows the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, including two lead characters in and out of prison, living in the... | {"Genre": "Mockumentary\nSitcom\nBlack comedy\nCrime comedy", "Created by": "Mike Clattenburg", "Starring": "John Paul Tremblay\n Robb Wells\n Mike Smith\n John Dunsworth\n Patrick Roach\n Lucy DeCoutere\n Sarah E. Dunsworth\n Cory Bowles\n Michael Jackson\n Barrie Dunn\n Jonathan Torrens\n Jacob Rolfe\n Shelley Thomps... |
Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (; - 23 February 715), commonly known as al-Walid I (), was the sixth Umayyad caliph, ruling from October 705 until his death in 715. He was the eldest son of his predecessor, Caliph Abd al-Malik (). As a prince, he led annual raids against the Byzantines from 695 to 698 and built ... | {"Father": "ʿAbd al-Malīk", "Mother": "Wallāda bint al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Jazʾ", "Born": "Medina, Hejaz, Arabia", "Died": "Dayr Murran, Damascus, Syria", "Burial": "Bab al-Saghir or Bab al-Faradis, Damascus", "Religion": "Islam"} |
Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (, - 24 September 717) was the seventh Umayyad caliph, ruling from 24 February 715 until his death. He began his career as governor of Palestine, while his father Abd al-Malik () and brother al-Walid I () reigned as caliphs. There, the theologian Raja ibn Haywa al-Kindi mentored him, and he f... | {"Father": "Abd al-Malik", "Mother": "Wallada bint al-Abbas ibn al-Jaz al-Absiyya", "Born": "Medina, Umayyad Caliphate", "Died": "Dabiq, Umayyad Caliphate", "Burial": "Dabiq, Umayyad Caliphate", "Religion": "Islam"} |
thumb|Husky Oil headquarters in Calgary
Husky Energy Inc. was a Canadian company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It operates in Western and Atlantic Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region, with upstream and downstream business segments. In the 2020 Forbes G... | {"Formerly": "BP/Husky Oil Limited", "Type": "Public company (1953-87, 2000-2021)", "Founded": "1938 as Husky Refining Company", "Fate": "Acquired by Cenovus Energy", "Headquarters": "Calgary, Alberta, Canada", "Industry": "Petroleum industry", "Products": "Oil, natural gas, asphalt, associated products", "Parent": "Ce... |
Petro-Canada (colloquially known as Petro-Can) is a retail and wholesale marketing brand subsidiary of Suncor Energy. Until 1991, it was a federal Crown corporation (a state-owned enterprise). In August 2009, Petro-Canada merged with Suncor Energy, with Suncor shareholders receiving approximately 60 percent ownership o... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "Ottawa, Ontario (1975)", "Headquarters": "Canada", "Industry": "Oil and gas industry", "Revenue": "12pxC$76.911 billion (2022)", "Parent": "Suncor Energy"} |
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (; 2 November 680 - ), commonly known as Umar II (), was the eighth Umayyad caliph. He made various significant contributions and reforms to the society, and he has been described as and was called the first Mujaddid and sixth righteous caliph of Islam after Hasan Bin Ali according to some Muslim S... | {"Born": "Medina, Arabia, Umayyad Caliphate", "Died": "Dayr Sim'an, Syria, Umayyad Caliphate", "Burial": "Dayr Sim'an, Syria, Umayyad Caliphate", "Father": "Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan", "Mother": "Umm Asim Layla bint Asim", "Religion": "Islam"} |
Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik (; — 26 January 724), also referred to as Yazid II, was the ninth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 9 February 720 until his death in 724. Although he lacked administrative or military experience, he derived prestige from his lineage, being a descendant of both ruling branches of the Umayyad dynasty, ... | {"Name": "Yazid II يزيد بن عبد الملك", "Title": "Khalīfah Amir al-Mu'minin", "Image": "300px", "Caption": "Gold dinar of Yazid II", "Succession": "9th Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate", "Reign": "9 February 720 - 26 January 724", "Full name": "Abū Khālid Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān", "Predecessor": "Umar II", "... |
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (; 691 – 6 February 743) was the tenth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 724 until his death in 743.
Early life
Hisham was born in Damascus, the administrative capital of the Umayyad Caliphate, in AH 72 (691-692 CE). His father was the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik (). His mother, A'isha, was a daughte... | {"Name": "Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik هشام بن عبد الملك", "Title": "Amir al-mu'mininEnglish: Commander of the Faithful Khalifat AllahEnglish: Caliph of God", "Caption": "Bust of the standing caliph statue, most likely depicting Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik", "Succession": "10th Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate", "Reign": "26 J... |
Al-Walīd ibn Yazīd (709 - 17 April 744) () usually known simply as Al-Walid II was an Umayyad Caliph who ruled from 743 until his assassination in the year 744. He succeeded his uncle, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
Birth and background
Al-Walid was the son of Umayyad caliph Yazid II and his wife Umm al-Hajjaj bint Muhamm... | {"Name": "Al-Walid ibn Yazid الوليد بن يزيد", "Title": "Khalīfah Amir al-Mu'minin", "Succession": "11th Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate", "Reign": "6 February 743 - 17 April 744", "Full name": "Al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik", "Predecessor": "Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik", "Successor": "Yazid ibn al-Walid", "Father": ... |
Yazīd ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (701 - 3/4 October 744) () usually known simply as Yazid III was the twelfth Umayyad caliph. He reigned for six months, from April 15 to October 3 or 4, 744, and he reigned until his death.
Birth and background
Yazid was the member of the influential Umayyad dynasty.
His father, ... | {"Born": "Damascus, Bilad al-Sham, Umayyad Caliphate", "Died": "Damascus, Umayyad Caliphate", "Father": "Al-Walid I", "Mother": "Shah-i-Afrid", "Religion": "Islam"} |
Center on Halsted is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community center in Chicago, Illinois. Kim Fountain serves as Chief Operating Officer.
The center is located in the Lakeview neighborhood on the corner of Halsted Street and Waveland, attached to Whole Foods Market. It is open every day from 8 am to... | {"Legal status": "501(c)(3)", "Type": "Nonprofit organization", "Location": "Lakeview, Chicago, Illinois, USA", "Coordinates": "41.949064 -87.649628", "Website": "https://www.centeronhalsted.org/"} |
Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (died 25 January 750) () was an Umayyad caliph, and a son of Caliph al-Walid I (r. 743-744). He ruled from 4 October 744 to 4 December 744. He was the penultimate Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate.
Background
Ibrahim was a son of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I (). His mother was ... | {"Name": "Ibrahim ibn al-Walidإبراهيم ابن الوليد", "Succession": "13th Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate", "Image": "300px", "Title": "Khalīfah Amir al-Mu'minin", "Caption": "Dirham of Ibrahim ibn Al-Walid", "Reign": "4 October 744 - 4 December 744", "Full name": "Ibrahim ibn al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik", "Predecessor": "... |
Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam (; - 6 August 750), commonly known as Marwan II, was the fourteenth and last caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 744 until his death. His reign was dominated by a civil war, and he was the last Umayyad ruler to rule the united Caliphate before the Abbasid Revolution ... | {"Born": "Syria, As-Sham, Umayyad Caliphate (present-day Syria)", "Died": "Al-Misr, Umayyad Caliphate (present-day Egypt)", "Father": "Muhammad ibn Marwan", "Mother": "Umm Marwan (Umm walad)", "Religion": "Islam"} |
Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council (#055) is a Boy Scouts of America council headquartered in San Jose, California. It was the result of a council merger between the Santa Clara County Council and the Monterey Bay Area Council. In 2004, the previous two councils served over 11,000 youth in over 400 Boy Scout troops, C... | {"Owner": "Boy Scouts of America", "Headquarters": "San Jose, California", "Location": "Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County, San Benito County, Monterey County", "Country": "United States", "Coordinates": "37.333113 N 121.909557 W inline"} |
María Antonieta Gómez Rodríguez (born 22 December 1949), more commonly known by her stage name María Antonieta de las Nieves, is a Mexican actress, comedian, singer, and author. Her best remembered role is that of La Chilindrina, one of the main characters of the Televisa sitcom El Chavo del Ocho.Biographical Dictionar... | {"Name": "Maria Antonieta de las Nieves", "Caption": "De las Nieves dressed as La Chilindrina in December 2014", "Birth name": "María Antonieta Gómez Rodríguez", "Birth date": "1949 12 22 yes", "Birth place": "Mexico City, Mexicode las Nieves 2015 290", "Occupation": "Actress comedian singer", "Years active": "1957-pre... |
Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago, located approximately south of mainland Rhode Island and east of Long Island's Montauk Point. The island is coterminous with the town of New Shoreham and is part of Rhode Island's Washington County. It is named after Dutch explorer Adriaen Block.
Bloc... | {"Type": "Council-manager", "Land": "9.73", "Density": "1410", "DST": "-4", "Website": "new-shoreham.com"} |
The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital.
History and government
The earliest European ex... | {"Conventional long name": "Territory of Michigan", "Common name": "Michigan Territory", "Year founded": "1805", "Year dissolved": "1837", "Capital": "Detroit", "Government type": "Organized incorporated territory", "Legislature": "Governor and judges (1805-1824)Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan (1824-18... |
The National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) is an Indian government laboratory based in Pune, in western India.
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Popularly known as NCL, a constituent member of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) India, it was established in 1950. Dr Ashish Lele is the Director of NCL and took charge... | {"Established": "1950", "Staff": "≈200 (PhD)", "Address": "Pashan Road", "Location": "18.541598 N 73.81065 E type:edu inline,title", "Website": "http://www.ncl-india.org/"} |
Temiskaming Shores is a city in the Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It was created by the amalgamation of the town of New Liskeard, the town of Haileybury, and the township of Dymond in 2004. The city had a total population of 9,634 in the Canada 2021 Census. Temiskaming Shores is Ontario's second... | {"Land": "178.11", "Density": "55.7", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.temiskamingshores.ca"} |
Robert Lane Saget (May 17, 1956 - January 9, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host. He portrayed Danny Tanner on the sitcom Full House (1987-1995) and its sequel Fuller House (2016-2020). Saget was the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos (1989-1997), and the voice of narrator T... | {"Birth name": "Robert Lane Saget", "Born": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Died": "Orange County, Florida, U.S.", "Resting place": "Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, U.S.", "Medium": "Stand-up television film", "Alma mater": "Temple University (BA)", "Years active": "1977-2022", "Ge... |
John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist, academician and businessman who serves as Chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. as well as Atheros and served as the tenth President of Stanford University. Hennessy announced that he would... | {"Name": "John Hennessy", "Image caption": "Hennessy at Stanford, June 2007", "Birth name": "John Leroy Hennessy", "Birth date": "1952 9 22 yes", "Birth place": "Huntington, New York, U.S.", "Title 2": "Provost of Stanford University", "Order 2": "11th", "Predecessor 2": "Condoleezza Rice", "Successor 2": "John Etcheme... |
Trevor Berbick (1 August 1954 - 28 October 2006) was a Jamaican professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 2000. He won the WBC heavyweight title in 1986 by defeating Pinklon Thomas, then lost it in his first defense in the same year to Mike Tyson. Berbick was the last boxer to fight Muhammad Ali, defeating him in 19... | {"Weight(s)": "Heavyweight", "Height": "6 ft 2 in", "Reach": "78 in", "Nationality": "Jamaican", "Born": "Norwich, Port Antonio, Jamaica", "Died": "Norwich, Port Antonio, Jamaica", "Stance": "Orthodox", "Total fights": "61", "Wins": "49", "Wins by KO": "29", "Losses": "11", "Draws": "1"} |
Edwin George Morgan (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010)Professor Edwin Morgan: Writer celebrated as one of the finest Scottish poets of the 20th century , The Independent. was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th... | {"Name": "Edwin Morgan", "Honorific suffix": "GBR OBE FRSE", "Image size": "200", "Term start": "16 February 2004", "Term end": "19 August 2010", "Birth date": "1920 04 27 y", "Birth place": "Glasgow, Scotland", "Death date": "2010 08 19 1920 04 27 y", "Death place": "Glasgow, Scotland", "Nationality": "Scottish", "Alm... |
Musa ibn Nusayr ( Mūsá bin Nuṣayr; 640 - c. 716) served as an Umayyad governor and an Arab general under the Umayyad caliph Al-Walid I. He ruled over the Muslim provinces of North Africa (Ifriqiya), and directed the Islamic conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania (Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Andorra and part of... | {"Name": "Musa ibn Nusayr", "Image caption": "Musa governed Ifriqiya", "Birth date": "640", "Birth place": "Hebron", "Death date": "716", "Death place": "Hejaz", "Battles fought": "Muslim conquest of the Maghreb\nUmayyad conquest of Hispania"} |
Jonathan Peter Wilkinson, (born 25 May 1979) is an English former rugby union player. A fly-half, he played for Newcastle Falcons and Toulon and represented England and the British & Irish Lions. He is particularly known for scoring the winning drop goal in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final and is widely acknowledged as ... | {"Name": "Jonny WilkinsonCBE", "Caption": "Wilkinson in September 2015", "Birth date": "yes 1979 5 25", "Birth place": "Frimley, England", "Full birth name": "Jonathan Peter Wilkinson", "Height": "1.78 m ftin flip onhttp://www.rfu.com/SquadsAndPlayers/EnglandElite/JonnyWilkinson.aspx RFU England Player Profile, Jonny ... |
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is the name of a range of mountains in southeastern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
Outline
thumb|150px|left|alt=931|Marker at the highest peak of Mount Rokkō
There is no single mountain or peak called "Rokkō," although the highest peak of the mountains is called , (literal... | {"Elevation": "931.6", "Language of name": "Japanese", "Pronunciation": "ɾokkoːsaɴ lang", "Location": "Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan", "Coordinates": "34 46 40 N 135 15 50 E type:mountain"} |
The War Hound and the World's Pain is a 1981 fantasy novel by English writer Michael Moorcock, the first of the "von Bek" series of novels.
Plot summary
The book is set in Europe ravaged by the Thirty Years' War. Its hero Ulrich von Bek is a mercenary and freethinker, who finds himself a damned soul in a castle owned ... | {"Cover artist": "Rowena Morrill", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Ulrich von Bek", "Publisher": "Timescape", "Media type": "Print (hardback)", "Pages": "239", "ISBN": "0-671-43708-9", "Followed by": "The City in the Autumn Stars"} |
Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957)[ Lyle Lovett Page] at Allmusic - Lovett's Genre and Styles. Retrieved February 2, 2007 is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded 13 albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10... | {"Born": "Houston, Texas, U.S.", "Origin": "Klein, Texas, U.S.", "Genres": "Alternative countryhttps://www.allmusic.com/artist/lyle-lovett-mn0000174122/biography Lyle Lovett Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Erlewine Stephen Thomas AllMusic 2023-07-19 AmericanaDansby Andrew August 18, 2016 30 years since fi... |
Memcached (pronounced variously mem-cash-dee or mem-cashed) is a general-purpose distributed memory-caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or API) must be read. Memcached i... | {"Developer(s)": "Danga Interactive", "Initial release": "2003 5 22", "Written in": "C", "Type": "distributed memory caching system", "License": "Revised BSD licensehttps://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/COPYING Memcached license GitHub 2014-06-27"} |
Nailsea is a town in Somerset, England, southwest of Bristol, and northeast of Weston-super-Mare. The nearest village is Backwell, which lies south of Nailsea on the opposite side of the Bristol to Exeter railway line. Nailsea had a population of 15,630 in the 2011 Census.
The town was an industrial centre based on ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011)", "Unitary authority": "North Somerset", "Ceremonial county": "Somerset", "UK Parliament": "North Somerset", "Postcode district": "BS", "Dialling code": "01275", "OS grid reference": "ST473703"} |
Bearsden () is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow. Approximately from Glasgow City Centre, the town is effectively a suburb, and its housing development coincided with the 1863 introduction of a railway line. The town was named after Bearsden railway station, which w... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "OS grid reference": "NS542720", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "Lieutenancy area": "Dunbartonshire", "Postcode district": "G", "Dialling code": "0141", "UK Parliament": "East Dunbartonshire", "Scottish Parliament": "Strathkelvin and BearsdenClydebank and Milngavie"} |
thumb|upright=1.5|The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian (ruled AD 117-138), showing, on the upper Rhine river, the imperial province of Germania Superior (Franche-Comté/Alsace-Lorraine/Baden-Württemberg), and the two legions deployed there in 125.
Germania Superior ("Upper Germania") was an imperial province of the... | {"Native name": "Provincia Germania Superior", "Common name": "Germania Superior\n<!-- unsupported param: continent", "Historical era": "Antiquity", "Capital": "Mogontiacum", "Year founded": "85", "Year dissolved": "475", "Today part of": "FranceGermanySwitzerland"} |
The Peace of Bautzen (; ; ) was a treaty concluded on 30 January 1018, between Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and Bolesław I of Poland which ended a series of Polish-German wars over the control of Lusatia and Upper Lusatia (Milzenerland or Milsko, the eastern part of the margraviate of Meissen (Miśnia)) as well as Bohemi... | {"Name": "Peace of Bautzen", "Image size": "175px", "Image caption": "Memorial in Bautzen", "Treaty type": "Peace treaty", "Date signed": "30 January 1018", "Location signed": "Budziszyn, Poland (now Bautzen, Germany)", "Parties": "Duchy of PolandHoly Roman Empire"} |
Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (6 July 1930 - 22 November 2016) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer, and character actor. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1978. He has garnered two National Film Awards (1976, 1987), the Sangeet Nat... | {"Born": "Sankaraguptam, East Godavari District, Madras Presidency, British India (now part of Andhra Pradesh, India)", "Died": "Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India", "Genres": "Carnatic music", "Labels": "Lahari Music, Sangeetha, PM Audios & Entertainments, Aditya Music"} |
Bridge of Weir is a village within the Renfrewshire council area and wider historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
Lying within the Gryffe Valley, Bridge of Weir owes its name to the historic crossing point that it provided over the River Gryffe. The village was initially formed aroun... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "OS grid reference": "NS387655", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "Council area": "Renfrewshire", "Lieutenancy area": "Renfrewshire", "Postcode district": "PA", "Dialling code": "01505", "UK Parliament": "Paisley and Renfrewshire North", "Scottish Parliament": "Renfrewshire North and We... |
right|thumb|280px|Aerial photograph of WJHS taken during construction on April 7, 2002 - credit USGS.
Walter Johnson High School (also known as Walter Johnson or WJ) is a public upper secondary school located in the census-designated place of North Bethesda, Maryland (Bethesda postal address). - Compare the street addr... | {"Coordinates": "39.026110 -77.134955 title,inline dms", "School district": "Montgomery County Public Schools", "Teaching staff": "140.40 (FTE) (2019-2020)nces_sch", "Student to teacher ratio": "18.43:1 (2019-2020)nces_sch", "Mascot": "Wildcat", "Nickname": "WJ", "Newspaper": "The Pitch", "Yearbook": "The Windup", "Cam... |
The 2003 State of the Union Address was given by the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, on January 28, 2003, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 108th United States Congress. It was Bush's second State of the Union Address and his third speech to a joi... | {"Title": "2003 State of the Union Address", "Image caption": "President George W. Bush during the speech, with Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Dennis Hastert behind him", "Duration of the event": "59 minutes", "Venue": "House Chamber, United States Capitol", "Coordinates": "38 53 19.8 N 77 00 32.8 W regio... |
John "Jack" Sheppard (4 March 1702 - 16 November 1724), or "Honest Jack", was a notorious English thief and prison escapee of early 18th-century London.
Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but began committing theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete.... | {"Name": "Jack Sheppard", "Caption": "Chalk and pencil sketch of Jack Sheppard in Newgate Prison, attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1723", "Birth date": "4 March 1702", "Birth place": "White's Row, Spitalfields, London, England", "Baptised": "5 March 1702", "Death date": "16 November 1724 (aged 22)", "Death place": "... |
Bank of Baroda (BOB or BoB) is an Indian public sector bank headquartered in Vadodara, Gujarat. It is the second largest public sector bank in India after State Bank of India, with 153 million customers, a total business of US$218 billion, and a global presence of 100 overseas offices. Based on 2019 data, it is ranked ... | {"Type": "Public", "ISIN": "n y INE028A01039", "Industry": "BankingFinancial services", "Founded": "yes 1908 07 20", "Headquarters": "IndiaContact Us https://www.bankofbaroda.com/contact-us.htm Bank of Baroda 16 March 2019", "Services": "Asset management\n Commercial banking\n Financial services\n Investment bank... |
Susan Howlet Butcher (December 26, 1954 - August 5, 2006) was an American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years. She is commemorated in Alaska by the Susan Butcher Day.
Life... | {"Name": "Susan Butcher", "Image": "Susan Butcher 1997.JPG", "Caption": "Susan Butcher and dogs in 1997, speaking to tourists aboard a Riverboat Discovery cruise from her kennels near Fairbanks International Airport", "Birth date": "1954 12 26", "Birth place": "Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "2006 8 5 1... |
Transmetropolitan is a cyberpunk transhumanist comic book series written by Warren Ellis and co-created and designed by Darick Robertson; it was published by the American company DC Comics in 1997-2002. The series was originally part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix, but upon the end of the book's first year ... | {"Schedule": "Monthly", "Format": "Ongoing series", "Publisher": "Helix, Vertigo (imprints of DC Comics)", "Publication date": "1997-2002", "Genre": "Cyberpunk, science fiction, black comedy", "Main character(s)": "Spider Jerusalem\nYelena Rossini\nChannon Yarrow\nMitchell Royce", "Written by": "Warren Ellis", "Artist(... |
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Harborough () is a local government district of Leicestershire, England, named after its main town, Market Harborough. Covering , the district is by far the largest of the eight district authorities in Leicestershire and covers alm... | {"Type": "Harborough District Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000131", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "https://www.harborough.gov.uk/"} |
Bunillidh Thistle Football Club is a senior Scottish football club playing in the North Caledonian Football League based at Couper Park representing the village of Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands.
History
Bunillidh Thistle joined the North Caledonian League in the early 1970s, where they competed until their wit... | {"Full name": "Bunillidh Thistle Football Club", "Nickname(s)": "The Jags", "Capacity": "500", "League": "BunilliT"} |
thumb|right|Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Hugh Trenchard.
Marshal of the Royal Air Force (MRAF) is the highest rank in the Royal Air Force (RAF). In peacetime it was granted to RAF officers in the appointment of Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), and to retired Chiefs of the Air Staff (CAS), who were promoted to it... | {"Country": "United Kingdom United Kingdom", "Service branch": "United Kingdom", "Abbreviation": "Mshl of RAF / MRAF", "Rank": "Five-star rank", "Rank code": "OF-10", "Formation": "1927", "Abolished": "No active MRAFs since 1995.", "Next lower rank": "Air chief marshal", "Equivalent ranks": "Admiral of the Fleet (RN) F... |
Francis of Paola, O.M. (or: Francesco di Paola or Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 - 2 April 1507), was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims. Unlike the majority of founders of men's religious orders, and like his patron saint, Francis was never ordained a priest.
Bi... | {"Born": "Paola, Calabria Citra, Kingdom of Naples", "Died": "Plessis-lez-Tours, Touraine, Kingdom of France", "Feast": "2 AprilOhio Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon Saints and feast days : lives of the saints : with a calendar and ways to celebrate 1985 Loyola University Press Chicago 9780829405057 2 https://bo... |
The St. Johns River () is the longest river in the U.S. state of Florida and it is the most significant one for commercial and recreational use. At long, it flows north and winds through or borders twelve counties. The drop in elevation from headwaters to mouth is less than ; like most Florida waterways, the St. Johns... | {"Etymology": "San Juan del Puerto no", "Mouth": "0 ft on", "Location": "Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida", "Coordinates": "30 24 05 N 81 24 3 W inline,title", "Basin size": "8840 sqmi on", "Left": "Mills Creek River, Econlockhatchee River, Wekiva River, Alexander Springs, Salt Springs Run, Ocklawaha River, Rice Cre... |
The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the professional head of the British Armed Forces and the most senior uniformed military adviser to the secretary of state for defence and the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The chief of the defence staff is based at the Ministry of Defence and works alongside the Permanen... | {"Post": "Chief", "Body": "the Defence Staff", "Flag caption": "Flag of the Chief of the Defence Staff", "Insignia size": "110", "Insignia caption": "Badge of the Ministry of Defence", "Incumbent": "Admiral Sir Tony Radakin", "Incumbent since": "30 November 2021", "Department": "Ministry of DefenceBritish Armed Forces"... |
Headingley is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660 road. Headingley is the location of the Beckett Park campus of Leeds Beckett University and Headingley Stadium.
The vast majority of the area sits in the Headingley and Hyde Park w... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Metropolitan borough": "City of Leeds", "Metropolitan county": "West Yorkshire", "UK Parliament": "Leeds North West", "Postcode district": "LS", "Dialling code": "0113", "OS grid reference": "SE278362"} |
Drunken Master () is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, and Hwang Jang-lee. It was a success at the Hong Kong box office, earning two and a half times the amount of Yuen's and Chan's previous film, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, which was also con... | {"Directed by": "Yuen Woo-ping", "Produced by": "Ng See-yuen", "Written by": "Siao Lung\n Ng See-yuen", "Starring": "Jackie Chan\n Yuen Siu-tien\n Hwang Jang-lee\n Dean Shek", "Music by": "Chow Fu-liang", "Cinematography": "Chang Hui", "Edited by": "Pan Hsiung", "Distributed by": "Seasonal Film Corporation", "Box offic... |
Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in an airplane crash. He was also the first active-duty member of the U.S. military to die in a crash while on duty. He was killed while seated as a passenger in a Wright Flyer, on a demo... | {"Born": "San Francisco, California, U.S.", "Died": "Fort Myer, Virginia, U.S.", "Allegiance": "United States 1896", "Relations": "Thomas O. Selfridge Sr. (grandfather),Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. (uncle)"} |
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (; born 14 February 1967) is a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur. Born into a wealthy ship-owning family, he is best known for founding the low-cost airline easyJet and the Stelmar shipping line with start-up funds provided by his father, Loucas. easyJet's foundation in 1995 marked the beginning of a ... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Name": "Stelios Haji-Ioannou", "Caption": "Haji-Ioannou in 1984", "Native name": "Στέλιος Χατζηιωάννου", "Birth date": "1967 2 14 y", "Birth place": "Athens, Greece", "Occupation": "Entrepreneur", "Known For": "Founder and part-owner of easyJet", "Alma mater": "Bayes Business SchoolLondon S... |
Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its main town, Melton Mowbray. Other settlements include Asfordby and Bottesford. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 50,376.
Melton is a rural area in the north-east part of Leicestershire and ... | {"Type": "Melton Borough Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000133", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "melton.gov.uk"} |
Blaby ()G.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 15. is a large village in the Blaby District in central Leicestershire, England, some five miles south of Leicester city centre. At the time of the 2011 census, Blaby had a population of 6,194, a slight fall from 6,240 in 2001 figure... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "District": "Blaby", "Shire county": "Leicestershire", "Postcode district": "LE8", "Population": "6,194", "UK Parliament": "South Leicestershire"} |
Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and Fort Whipple, the post merged in 2005 with the neighboring Marine Corps installation, Hend... | {"Location": "Arlington County, Virginia", "Built": "1861", "Architect": "US Army", "Architectural style": "Late Victorian"} |
The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929 and resulted in a hung parliament. Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party won the most seats in the House of Commons for the first time. The Liberal Party led again by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George regained some ground lost in the 1924 gener... | {"Name": "1929 United Kingdom general election", "Country": "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1924 United Kingdom general election", "Previous year": "1924", "Outgoing members": "List of MPs elected in the 1924 United Kingdom general... |
The 1924 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the Labour minority government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence. It was the third general election to be held in less than two years. Parliament was d... | {"Name": "1924 United Kingdom general election", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1923 United Kingdom general election", "Previous year": "1923", "Outgoing members": "List of MPs elected in the 1923 United Kingdom general election", "Next election": "1929 Uni... |
Richard "Ricky" Manning Jr. (born November 18, 1980) is an American football coach and former cornerback who is the defensive assistant for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at UCLA and was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft. Alon... | {"CFL status:": "New York Jets", "Born:": "Fresno, California, U.S.", "Height:": "9", "Weight:": "193", "High school:": "Edison (Fresno, California)", "College:": "UCLA", "NFL Draft:": "82"} |
MewithoutYou, usually styled as mewithoutYou, was an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band consisted of Aaron Weiss (vocals), Michael Weiss and Brandon Beaver (guitars), Greg Jehanian (bass guitar), and Rickie Mazzotta (drums). The band's music is generally dominated by spoken-word vocals and fr... | {"Origin": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Genres": "\"Consequence\">mewithoutYou - Pale Horses http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/06/album-review-mewithoutyou-pale-horses/ Corcoran Nina Consequence of Sound June 11, 2015 December 12, 2015 On Pale Horses, [mewithoutYou] seek a comfortable spot between weighty post... |
Grant Robert Gee (born 24 October 1964) is a British film maker, photographer and cinematographer. He is most noted for his 1998 documentary Meeting People Is Easy about the British alternative rock group Radiohead.
Early life
Gee was born in Plymouth, Devon and studied Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He ... | {"Name": "Grant Gee", "Caption": "Grant Gee (2008)", "Birth name": "Grant Robert Gee", "Birth date": "1964 10 24 yes", "Birth place": "Plymouth, Devon, England", "Occupation": "Film director Cinematographer", "Nationality": "British", "Years active": "1989-present"} |
A pickert is a flat, fried or baked potato dish from Westphalia, Germany. It can be considered a kind of flattened dumpling or very nourishing pancake. It comes as a round Pfannenpickert the size of a pan, a rectangular Kastenpickert, or a palm-sized regular Pickert. The name is derived from Low German picken, pecken (... | {"Name of food": "Heap of several Pickerts", "Width of image": "250px", "Region of origin": "Lippe and Westphalia", "Type of dish": "Dumpling", "Main ingredient": "Potatoes, flour, milk, eggs, usually raisins, yeast, salt, sugar, oil"} |
The is a foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens working in tandem (the bottom one being a touchscreen), a built-in microphone and... | {"Image caption": "An electric blue Nintendo DS", "Manufacturer": "Foxconn", "Family": "Nintendo DS", "Base price": "US$149.99October 15, 2013\n The Real Cost of Gaming: Inflation, Time, and Purchasing Power\n August 28, 2020\n https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/15/the-real-cost-of-gaming-inflation-time-and-purchasin... |
Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (; ) was a paternal uncle and Sahabi (companion) of Muhammad, just three years older than his nephew. A wealthy merchant, during the early years of Islam he protected Muhammad while he was in Mecca, but only became a convert after the Battle of Badr in 624 CE (2 AH). His descendants founde... | {"Name": "Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalibar ٱلْعَبَّاسُبْنُ عَبْدِ ٱلْمُطَّلِبِ", "Birth date": "567", "Birth place": "Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia (present-day KSA)", "Death date": "653 (aged 89)", "Death place": "Medina, Rashidun Caliphate (present-day KSA)", "Known For": "Paternal uncle of Muhammad and eponymous ancestor of th... |
Tito Lutwa Okello (1914 - 3 June 1996) was an Ugandan military officer and politician. He was the eighth president of Uganda from 29 July 1985 until 26 January 1986.
Background
Tito Okello was born into an ethnic Acholi family in circa 1914 in Nam Okora, Kitgum District.
He joined the King's African Rifles in 1940 an... | {"Name": "Tito Lutwa Okello", "Term start": "29 July 1985", "Term end": "26 January 1986", "Birth name": "Tito Lutwa Okello", "Birth date": "1914", "Birth place": "Kitgum District, Uganda", "Death date": "1996 6 3 1914 7 1 y", "Death place": "Kampala, Uganda", "Battles fought": "East African Campaign1972 invasion of Ug... |
The Qingming festival or Ching Ming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English (sometimes also called Chinese Memorial Day, Ancestors' Day, the Clear Brightness Festival, or the Pure Brightness Festival), is a traditional Chinese festival observed by ethnic Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, T... | {"Type": "Cultural, Asian", "Official name": "Qingming Jie (zh 清明节)\nChing Ming Festival (zh-tw 清明節)Tomb Sweeping Day (zh 掃墳節)", "Observed by": "Chinese, Chittyhttps://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/meet-chetti-melaka-peranakan-indians-striving-save-culture-hindu-10849258 Meet the Chetti Melaka, or Peranakan I... |
Guilford College is a private liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Guilford has both traditional students and students who attend its Center for Continuing Education (CCE). Founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Guilford's program offerings include such majors as Peace ... | {"Motto": "la", "Endowment": "$92.7 million (2021)As of June 30, 2021. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value fr... |
Philip George Zimbardo (; born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for ... | {"Name": "Philip Zimbardo", "Caption": "Zimbardo in 2017", "Birth date": "yes 1933 03 23", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Spouse(s)": "Rose Abdelnour 1957 1971 divorced Christina Maslach 1972", "Alma mater": "Brooklyn College (BA)Yale University (MS, PhD)", "Known For": "Sta... |
Elias Boudinot (; 1802June 22, 1839), also known as Buck Watie) was a writer, newspaper editor, and leader of the Cherokee Nation. He was a member of a prominent family, and was born and grew up in Cherokee territory, now part of present-day Georgia. Born to parents of mixed Cherokee and European ancestry and educated ... | {"Name": "Elias Boudinot", "Native name": "ᎦᎴᎩᎾ ᎤᏪᏘ", "Native name language": "chr", "Caption": "Muriel Wright Collection,Oklahoma Historical Society", "Other names": "Buck Watie", "Birth date": "1802", "Birth place": "Oothcaloga, Cherokee Nation (present-day Calhoun, Georgia), U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Harriet Boudinot 182... |
Elias Cornelius Boudinot (August 1, 1835September 27, 1890) was an American politician, lawyer, newspaper editor, and co-founder of the Arkansan who served as the delegate to the Confederate States House of Representatives representing the Cherokee Nation. Prior to this he served as an officer of the Confederate States... | {"Name": "Elias C. Boudinot", "Image caption": "Boudinot, 1860", "Term start": "February 18, 1862", "Term end": "May 10, 1865", "Birth date": "1835 8 1", "Birth place": "New Echota, Cherokee Nation (present-day Gordon County, Georgia), U.S.", "Death date": "1890 9 27 1835 8 1", "Death place": "Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.... |
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