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This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected in the 1983 general election, held on 9 June. This Parliament was dissolved in 1987.
During 1983-1987 Bernard Weatherill was the speaker, Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister, Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock served as Leaders of the Opposition.
Composition
The... | {"Legislative body": "Parliament of the United Kingdom", "Election": "1983 United Kingdom general election", "Government": "Second Thatcher ministry", "Term": "1987 06 11 y", "Members": "650"} |
Castlederg (earlier Caslanadergy, ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Derg and is near the border with County Donegal, Ireland. It stands in the townlands of Castlesessagh and Churchtown, in the historic barony of Omagh West and the civil parish of Urney. The village has a ruined castle... | {"Population": "(2021 Census)Settlement 2015 https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&%7ESETTLEMENT15=N11000619 NISRA 17 August 2023", "Irish grid reference": "H262845", "District": "Derry City and Strabane", "Sovereign state": "Northern Ireland", "Postcode district": "BT81", "Dialling code"... |
thumb|right|250px|Jordan's Castle, 2007
thumb|right|250px|Bathing house
Ardglass ()Placenames NI is a coastal fishing village, townland (of 321 acres) and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland, in the historic barony of Lecale Lower. It is still a relatively important fishing harbour. It is situated on the B1... | {"Population": "2011 Census", "District": "Newry, Mourne and Down", "Sovereign state": "Northern Ireland", "Postcode district": "BT30", "Dialling code": "028", "UK Parliament": "South Down", "NI Assembly": "South Down", "County": "County Down"} |
Donaghadee ( , ) is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the northeast coast of the Ards Peninsula, about east of Belfast and about six miles (10 km) south east of Bangor. It is in the civil parish of Donaghadee and the historic barony of Ards Lower. It had a population of 6,869 people in the 2011... | {"Population": "(2011 Census)", "District": "Ards and North Down Borough", "County": "County Down", "UK Parliament": "North Down", "Sovereign state": "Northern Ireland", "Postcode district": "BT21", "Dialling code": "028"} |
The Kissel Motor Car Company was an American automobile and truck manufacturer founded by Louis Kissel and his sons, in Hartford, Wisconsin. The company custom built high-quality automobiles, hearses, fire trucks, taxicabs, and trucks from their plant at 123 Kissel Avenue in Hartford.Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early Am... | {"Type": "Automobile Manufacturing", "Industry": "Automotive", "Fate": "Bankruptcy", "Founded": "1906", "Defunct": "1931", "Headquarters": "Hartford, Wisconsin", "Website": "www.kisselsandclassiccars.com"} |
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (often shortened to Rainbow Six) is a tactical first-person shooter video game franchise by Red Storm Entertainment and Ubisoft, based on the novel Rainbow Six by American author Tom Clancy. Critically and commercially successful, the franchise revolves around a fictional international countert... | {"Title": "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six", "Developer": "Red Storm EntertainmentCameron HowUbisoft MontrealUbisoft ShanghaiUbisoft Quebec", "Publisher": "Ubisoft", "Platforms": "Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Classic Mac OS, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, macOS, Mob... |
Mu is a mythical lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825-1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851-1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. The pla... | {"Created by": "Augustus Le Plongeon", "Genre": "Pseudoscience", "Type": "Hypothetical lost continent", "Location": "Pacific Ocean"} |
General Erich Georg Sebastian Anton von Falkenhayn (11 September 1861 - 8 April 1922) was the second Chief of the German General Staff of the First World War from September 1914 until 29 August 1916. Falkenhayn was removed on 29 August 1916 after the failure of his offensive strategy in the west at the Battle of Verdun... | {"Name": "Erich von Falkenhayn", "Image caption": "Falkenhayn, 1913", "Term start": "7 June 1913", "Term end": "21 January 1915", "Order 2": "Chief of the German Great General Staff", "Monarch 2": "Wilhelm II", "Chancellor 2": "Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg", "Predecessor 2": "Helmuth von Moltke the Younger", "Success... |
Golden Sun is a role-playing video game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in August 2001 in Japan, November 2001 in North America and February 2002 in Europe.
Golden Suns story follows a band of magic-attuned teenagers called Adepts on a mission... | {"Title": "Golden Sun", "Caption": "North American box art showcasing the game's main characters. Clockwise from top: Mia, Ivan, Isaac, and Garet.", "Developer": "Camelot Software Planning", "Publisher": "Nintendo", "Director": "Shugo Takahashi", "Producer": "Shinji Hatano Hiroyuki Takahashi Shugo Takahashi", "Artist":... |
The British Second Army was a field army active during the First and Second World Wars. During the First World War the army was active on the Western Front throughout most of the war and later active in Italy. During the Second World War the army was the main British contribution to the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944... | {"Allegiance": "United Kingdom, British Army", "Branch": "23px British Army", "Type": "Field army", "Size": "Field Army", "Notablecommanders": "Horace Smith-DorrienHerbert PlumerMiles Dempsey"} |
thumb|Portrait of William Slim, as commander of the Fourteenth Army, commissioned by the Ministry of Information.
The British Fourteenth Army was a multi-national force comprising units from Commonwealth countries during the Second World War. As well as British Army units, many of its units were from the Indian Army an... | {"Branch": "United KingdomBritish India", "Type": "Field army", "Notablecommanders": "Lieutenant-General William Slim", "Nickname(s)": "The Forgotten Army"} |
thumb|SGI Indigo2 IMPACT and a promotional SGI espresso machine in an Indigo case
thumb|Indigo2 IMPACT R10000
thumb|Badge for a Power Indigo2 with Extreme Graphics
The SGI Indigo2 (stylized as "Indigo2") and the SGI Challenge M are Unix workstations which were designed and sold by SGI from 1992 to 1997.
The Indigo2, ... | {"Manufacturer": "Silicon Graphics, Inc.", "Release date": "1992", "Discontinuation date": "1997", "Operating system": "IRIX", "CPU make and model": "MIPS architecture", "Amount of memory installed": "16 MB - 1 GB", "Predecessor": "SGI Indigo", "Successor": "SGI Octane"} |
The 2004 Nunavut general election was held on February 16, 2004, to elect the 19 members of the 2nd Legislative Assembly of Nunavut.
Premier Paul Okalik asked for the five-year-old territory's first parliament to be dissolved on January 16.
The territory operates on a consensus government system with no political par... | {"Name": "2004 Nunavut general election", "Country": "Nunavut", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1999 Nunavut general election", "Previous year": "1999", "Election date": "February 16, 2004", "Next election": "2008 Nunavut general election", "Next year": "2008", "Seats for election": "19... |
Bobby Ray "Bob" Etheridge (born August 7, 1941) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1997 to 2011.
He previously served as a county commissioner, state representative and state superintendent of public instruction. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was an unsuccessful candidate ... | {"Birth name": "Bobby Ray Etheridge", "Term start": "January 3, 1997", "Term end": "January 3, 2011", "Office 2": "North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction", "Governor 2": "Jim Martin Jim Hunt", "Predecessor 2": "A. Craig Phillips", "Successor 2": "Michael Ward", "Birth date": "1941 08 07", "Birth place": "... |
Reach for the Top (also known simply as Reach) is a Canadian academic quiz competition for high school students. In the past, it has also been a game show nationally broadcast on the CBC. Matches are currently aired online through Reach for the Top's official YouTube channel. Teams qualify for national rounds through s... | {"Genre": "Game show", "Country of origin": "Canada", "Original network": "CBUT (1961–1966)CBC (1966–1985)", "Original release": "1985Revival series:2000–2010", "Presented by": "Ryan Vickers", "Directed by": "Paul Russell"} |
Scotstoun () is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, west of Glasgow City Centre. It is bounded by Garscadden and Yoker to the west, Victoria Park, Jordanhill and Whiteinch to the east, Jordanhill to the north and the River Clyde (and Braehead beyond) to the south. At the heart of Scotstoun lies Scotstounhill, an enclave of l... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "OS grid reference": "NS532675", "Council area": "Glasgow City Council", "Lieutenancy area": "Glasgow", "UK Parliament": "Glasgow North West", "Scottish Parliament": "Glasgow Anniesland", "Postcode district": "G", "Dialling code": "0141"} |
The Monster Manual (MM is the primary bestiary sourcebook for monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D fantasy role-playing game, first published in 1977 by TSR. The Monster Manual was the first hardcover D&D book and includes monsters derived from mythology and folklore, as well as creatures created specifically for D&... | {"Publisher": "TSR", "Media type": "Print (Hardback)", "ISBN": "(4th printing)", "Pages": "112"} |
Peter the Iberian () (c. 417-491) was a Georgian royal prince, theologian and philosopher who was a prominent figure in early Christianity and one of the founders of Christian Neoplatonism. Some have claimed that he is the author known conventionally as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.Sh. Nutsubidze. "Mystery of Pseudo... | {"Born": "Kingdom of Iberia", "Died": "Yavne-Yam", "Feast": "2 December (Georgian Church)27 November & 1 December (Syriac Christianity)Peter the Iberian The Syriac Biographical Dictionary", "Controversy": "Christology"} |
Jalal Talabani (; ; 1933 - 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi politician who served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq.
Talabani was the founder and secretary-general of one of the main Kurdish political p... | {"Name": "Jalal Talabani", "Native name": "ku جەلال تاڵەبانی", "Native name language": "kur", "Birth name": "Jalal Husamuddin Talabanihttps://www.rulers.org/indext1.html Index Ta-Ti www.rulers.org", "Image caption": "Talabani in 2005", "Vice president": "Adil Abdul-Mahdi Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer Tariq al-Hashimi Khod... |
Rudolf Bahro (18 November 1935 - 5 December 1997) was a dissident from East Germany who, since his death, has been recognised as a philosopher, political figure and author. Bahro was a leader of the West German party The Greens, but became disenchanted with its political organization, left the party and explored spirit... | {"Name": "Rudolf Bahro", "Caption": "Bahro in 1991", "Birth date": "1935 11 18 y", "Birth place": "Bad Flinsberg, Free State of Prussia, German Reich(now Świeradów-Zdrój, Poland)", "Death date": "1997 12 05 1935 11 18 y", "Death place": "Berlin, Germany", "Occupation": "Philosopher, politician", "Nationality": "German"... |
thumb|Memorial plaque, Meinekestraße 6, Berlin
Irmgard Keun (; 6 February 1905 - 5 May 1982) was a German novelist. Noted for her portrayals of the life of women, she is described as "often reduced to the bold sexuality of her writing, [yet] a significant author of the late Weimar period and die Neue Sachlichkeit." She... | {"Born": "6 February 1905", "Died": "5 May 1982 6 February 1905", "Resting place": "Melaten cemetery, Cologne", "Occupation": "author", "Language": "German", "Nationality": "German", "Alma mater": "Berlitz school", "Period": "1931-1962", "Literary movement": "New Objectivity", "Children": "1"} |
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Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.
Biography
Josef Hofmann was born in Podgórze (a district of Kraków), in Austro-Hungarian Galicia (present-day Poland) in 1876. His fa... | {"Name": "Josef Hofmann", "Birth name": "Józef Kazimierz Hofmann", "Birth date": "1876 1 20", "Birth place": "Kraków, Poland", "Death date": "1957 2 16 1876 1 20", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California", "Spouse(s)": "Marie Eustis 1905 1924 Bet... |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year... | {"Name": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "Birth date": "1850 11 05 yes", "Birth place": "Johnstown, Wisconsin, U.S.", "Death date": "1919 10 30 1850 11 05 yes", "Death place": "Short Beach, Connecticut, U.S.", "Occupation": "Author, poet"} |
Chiyou (; Old Chinese (ZS): *tʰjɯ-ɢʷɯ) is a mythological being that appears in Chinese mythology. He was a tribal leader of the Nine Li tribe () in ancient China. He is best known as a king who lost against the future Yellow Emperor during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era in Chinese mythology. According to th... | {"Infobox title": "Chiyou", "Picture": "Chi You.gif", "Name in traditional characters": "蚩尤", "Name in simplified characters": "蚩尤", "Mandarin IPA": "ch i 1 . you 2", "Jyutping": "ci1 jau4", "Wade-Giles": "Chʻih1-yu2", "Pinyin transcription": "chīyóu"} |
Raja Habib al-Khuzaai was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and one of only three women on the twenty-five-member governing body. She has also been a member of the Iraqi National Assembly, elected under the banner of the United Iraqi Alliance. A... | {"Name": "Raja Habib al-Khuzaai", "Native name": "رجاء حبيب الخزاعي", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "President George W. Bush greets Dr. Raja Habib al-Khuzaai", "Term start": "July 2003", "Term end": "28 June 2004", "Birth place": "Iraq"} |
Salahaddin Mohammed Bahaaddin Sadiq (; ) is a Kurdish Iraqi politician, (born July 1, 1950) in Tawela, a town referring to Halabja.He is a graduate of The House of Teachers 1969. He is the co-founder and current Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Islamic Union, and a former member of the Iraqi Governing Council.
Care... | {"Name": "Salahaddin Mohammed Bahaaddin", "Native name": "صلاح الدين محمد بهاء الدين", "Native name language": "سەڵاحەدین محەممەد بەهائەدین", "Term start": "2016", "Office 2": "Member of the Governing Council", "Predecessor 2": "Council created", "Successor 2": "Council dissolved", "Birth date": "1950", "Birth place": ... |
Mahmoud Ali Othman (born 1938) was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. A Kurd and Sunni Muslim, Othman was a member of the Political Bureau Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). He then founded the Kurdish Socialist Party. He was also the Chief Negotia... | {"Name": "Mahmoud Othman", "Term start": "March 2005", "Order 2": "Member of the National Assembly", "Birth date": "1938", "Birth place": "Sulaymaniyah, Kingdom of Iraq", "Nationality": "Iraqi", "Other political party": "Kurdistan Socialist Democratic PartyKurdistan Democratic Party(1962 - 1980)", "Alma mater": "Univer... |
Hamid Majid Mousa () was the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party.Ismail, Tariq, The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq Cambridge University Press (2008) He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and previously held a seat in t... | {"Name": "Hamid Majid Mousa", "Native name": "ar حميد مجيد موسى", "Image size": "240", "Nationality": "Iraqi", "Term start": "1993", "Term end": "2016", "Office 2": "Member of the Governing Council", "Predecessor 2": "Council created", "Successor 2": "Council dissolved", "Birth date": "1941 01 07 yes", "Birth place": "... |
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar (, born 1958) is an Iraqi politician. He was the vice president under the Iraqi Transitional Government in 2006, and was interim president of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005. He also served as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq in 2004 following the US-le... | {"Name": "Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawarar غازي مشعل عجيل الياور", "Term start": "28 June 2004", "Term end": "7 April 2005", "Office 2": "Vice President of Iraq", "Alongside 2": "Adil Abdul-Mahdi", "President 2": "Jalal Talabani", "Predecessor 2": "Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Rowsch Shaways", "Successor 2": "Adil Abdul-Mahdi an... |
Mohsen Abdel Hamid (born 1937 ) is an Iraqi politician and Islamic scholar who was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council (president, February 2004), created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. He served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq (42nd Prime Minister of Iraq).
Biograph... | {"Name": "Mohsen Abdel Hamidمحسن عبد الحميد", "Term start": "1 February 2004", "Term end": "29 February 2004", "Birth date": "1937", "Birth place": "Kirkuk, Iraq"} |
Ayad Allawi ( ; born 31 May 1944) is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the president of the Governing Council of Iraq (38th prime minister of Iraq) in 2003.
A prominent Iraqi political ... | {"Name": "Ayad Allawiإيَاد عَلَّاوِي", "Image caption": "Allawi in 2010", "Term start": "10 October 2016", "Term end": "2 October 2018", "Office 2": "Prime Minister of Iraq", "Predecessor 2": "Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (President of the Governing Council)", "Successor 2": "Ibrahim al-Jaafari", "Birth date": "1944 05 3... |
Hope is the second album by the Canadian rock band Klaatu and their first concept album. Released in September 1977, it won a Juno Award for "Best Engineered Album" and a Canadian Music Critics award for "Best Album" that same year. The album follows the loose concept of space travelers visiting a distant planet.
An a... | {"Released": "September 12, 1977http://www.klaatu.org/promomaterial/CapitolRecords-September-1977.pdf Capitol Records Releasing 11 LPs on September 12th Klaatu.org 2020-09-04", "Recorded": "June 1976 – June 1977http://www.klaatu.org/fanclub/mornsun5.html The Morning Sun - 5th Edition Klaatu.org 2016-11-16", "... |
Carlos Villagrán Eslava (born 12 January 1944) is a Mexican actor, comedian, and former journalist best known for playing Quico in the Televisa sitcom El Chavo del Ocho.
Life and career
He was a newspaper writer for Mexico City. As a writer, he became friends with screenwriter and future co-star Rubén Aguirre. Aguirre... | {"Name": "Carlos Villagrán", "Caption": "Villagrán in 2015", "Birth name": "Carlos Villagrán Eslava", "Birth date": "1944 1 12 yes", "Birth place": "Mexico City, Mexico", "Years active": "1964-2023", "Occupation": "Actor, comedian, journalist (former)", "Children": "6", "Notable works": "Quico in El Chavo del Ocho"} |
Nisrin Mustafa Barwari (or Nesreen Barwari, born 1967) is an Iraqi politician of Kurdish origin who acted as Iraqi Minister for Municipalities and Public Works following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 and held it until 2006.
Early life and education
Barwari was born in Baghdad in 1967 to a Kurdish family and was i... | {"Name": "Nesreen Barwari", "Caption": "Barwari in 2004", "Birth date": "1967", "Birth place": "Baghdad, Iraq", "Nationality": "Iraqi", "Occupation": "Politician, public official", "Known For": "Iraqi Minister for Municipalities and Public Works"} |
John Jamieson Carswell Smart (16 September 1920 - 6 October 2012), was a British-Australian philosopher and was appointed as an Emeritus Professor by the Australian National University. He worked in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. ... | {"Region": "Western philosophy", "Era": "20th-century philosophy", "School": "Analytic philosophy Australian realism", "Institutions": "University of Adelaide La Trobe University Australian National University", "Doctoral students": "Mark ColyvanPhillip H. Wiebe"} |
The Free Trade Hall on Peter Street, Manchester, England, was constructed in 1853-56 on St Peter's Fields, the site of the Peterloo Massacre. It is now a Radisson hotel.
The hall was built to commemorate the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. The architect was Edward Walters. It was owned by the Manchester Corporation a... | {"Architectural style": "Palazzo", "Location": "Manchester, England", "Coordinates": "53 28 40 N 2 14 50 W type:landmark inline,title", "Construction started": "1853", "Status": "Grade II* listed building"} |
William Cushing (March 1, 1732 - September 13, 1810) was one of the original five associate justices of the United States Supreme Court; confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1789, he served until his death. His Supreme Court tenure of 20 years and 11 months was the longest among the Court's inaugural ... | {"Name": "William Cushing", "Term start": "February 2, 1790Justices 1789 to Present https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C. August 31, 2018 April 15, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100415034624/https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx live... |
Wine Country is the region of California, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, known worldwide as a premier wine-growing region. The region is famed for its wineries, its cuisine,Michael Chiarello, Michael Chiarello's Casual Cooking: Wine Country Recipes for Family and Friends, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, Califo... | {"Year established": "1812", "Years of wine industry": "1812-present", "Country": "United States", "Part of": "California wine", "Sub-regions": "Wine Country AVAs", "Climate region": "Mediterranean"} |
The mineral petzite, Ag3AuTe2, is a soft, steel-gray telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity. It forms isometric crystals, and is usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals, often with silver, mercury, and copper.
The name comes from chemist W. Petz, who first analyzed the mineral ... | {"Category": "telluride mineral", "IMA symbol": "PtzWarr L.N. 2021 IMA-CNMNC approved mineral symbols Mineralogical Magazine 85 3 291-320 10.1180/mgm.2021.43 2021MinM...85..291W 235729616 free", "Strunz classification": "2.BA.40a", "Fracture": "Subconchoidal irregular", "Tenacity": "Slightly sectile to brittle.", "... |
thumb|upright|Mur source (Murursprung) in the Ankogel Group of the High Tauern
thumb|The Mur passing through Frohnleiten, from left to right in the middle the expressway S35 (regarding southwest and downwards from the Gschwendtberg mountain)
thumb|The Mur in Graz, view from Schlossberg (Southwest direction)
thumb|rig... | {"Location": "Drava near Legrad, Croatia", "Coordinates": "46 18 19 N 16 52 39 E region:AT inline,title", "Mouth": "130 m ft on", "Basin size": "14109 km2 sqmi on"} |
thumb|Map of the Salton Sea drainage area
The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline body of water in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
Over mi... | {"Location": "Colorado DesertImperial and Riverside Counties, California, U.S.", "Coordinates": "33 18 47 N 115 50 04 W region:US-CA_type:waterbody_dim:58km inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Alamo RiverNew RiverWhitewater River", "Primary outflows": "None", "Catchment area": "8360 sqmi km2", "Basin": "Mexico and Unite... |
Francis Philip Fleming (September 28, 1841December 20, 1908) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 15th Governor of Florida from 1889 to 1893. A Confederate soldier and lawyer before Governor, Fleming's "racist record is undisputed".
Biography
Fleming was born September 28, 1841 in Panama Park (now p... | {"Name": "Francis Philip Fleming", "Term start": "January 8, 1889", "Term end": "January 3, 1893", "Birth date": "1841 09 28", "Birth place": "Panama Park, Florida (now Jacksonville)", "Death date": "1908 12 20 1841 09 28", "Death place": "Jacksonville, Florida", "Spouse(s)": "Floride Lydia Pearson", "Battles fought": ... |
Boy Meets Boy is an American reality television series broadcast by Bravo. The six-episode series premiered on July 29, 2003, and concluded on September 2, 2003. Filmed in Palm Springs, California, the series followed James Getzlaff, a 32-year-old human resources manager, in search of a partner among a group of fifteen... | {"Created by": "Douglas Ross\n Tom Campbell\n Dean Minerd", "Genre": "Reality television", "Presented by": "Dani Behr", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "46 minutes", "Original network": "Bravo", "Original release": "2003 09 02"} |
Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi (; born 25 April 1952) is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from September 2014 until October 2018. Previously he served as Minister of Communication from 2003 to 2004, in the first government after Saddam Hussein was deposed.
He was designated as Prime Minister by Preside... | {"Name": "Haider al-Abadi", "Image caption": "Haider Al-Abadi in 2015", "Term start": "8 September 2014", "Term end": "25 October 2018", "Office 2": "Deputy Leader of the Islamic Dawa Party", "Predecessor 2": "Nouri al-Maliki", "Successor 2": "Baha Araji", "Birth name": "Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi", "Birth date": "19... |
Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi (), also known as Bayan Jabr Solagh (), is a former commander of the Badr Brigades who served as the Finance Minister of Iraq in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He served as Minister of Interior, in charge of the police, in the Iraqi Transitional Government and was Minister of Housing and Recon... | {"Name": "Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi", "Native name": "باقر جبر الزبيدي", "Image caption": "Baqr Al-Zubeidi in 2006.", "Term start": "September 2014", "Term end": "August 2016", "Office 2": "Minister of Finance", "Predecessor 2": "Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi", "Successor 2": "Rafi al-Issawi", "President 2": "Jalal Talabani", "Pri... |
Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (Arabic: علي عبد الامير علاوي) (born 1947) was Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
He is an Iraqi politician and scholar. From May 2020 to August 2022, he ran as Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. He resigned from the post of finance minister on August 16, 2022 due t... | {"Name": "Ali Allawi", "Native name": "Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi", "Native name language": "علي عبد الامير علاوي", "Alternative text": "علي علاوي نائب رئيس الوزراء وزير المالية العراقي", "Term start": "7 May 2020", "Term end": "16 August 2022", "Office 2": "Minister of Defence", "President 2": "Ghazi Mashal", "Prime minist... |
Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari, also simply known as Hoshyar Zebari (also spelled Hoshyar Zebari/Zibari, Kurdish: Hişyar Zêbarî; born 23 September 1953) is an Iraqi politician who formerly served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq in 2014 and also as the Minister of Finance until 2016. He was Minister of Foreign Affa... | {"Name": "Hoshyar Zebari", "Birth date": "1953 9 23 y", "Birth place": "Akre, Kingdom of Iraq", "Nationality": "Iraqi", "Alma mater": "University of Essex", "Term start": "8 September 2014", "Term end": "18 October 2014", "Office 2": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "Predecessor 2": "Naji Sabri", "Prime minister 2": "Aya... |
Mohammad Tofiq Rahim (Kurdish: محهمهد تۆفیق رهحیم) (born 1953) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician. Born in Sulaimaniyah city in 1953, Rahim is currently the secretary of the internal departments of Iraqi Kurdistan's largest opposition grouping Movement for Change.
Early life
Rahim, popularly known as Hama Tofiq, was bo... | {"Name": "Mohammad Tofiq Rahim", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "Hama Tofiq Rahim", "Birth date": "yes 1953 07 01", "Birth place": "Silemani, Kurdistan, Iraq", "Residence": "Silemani, Kurdistan, Iraq", "Official website": "http://www.gorran.org"} |
Jarlsberg ( , ) is a mild cheese made from cow's milk, with large, regular eyes, originating from Jarlsberg, Norway. It is produced in Norway, as well as in Ireland and the US state of Ohio, licensed from Norwegian dairy producers. It is classified as a Swiss-type cheese.
thumb|right|Jarlsberg Cheese in wholefoods in W... | {"Country of origin": "Norway", "Region": "Jarlsberg", "Source of milk": "Cows", "Texture": "Semi-soft"} |
Oakley, Inc. is an American company headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California, which is an autonomous subsidiary of EssilorLuxottica. The company designs, develops and manufactures sports performance equipment and lifestyle pieces including sunglasses, safety glasses, eyeglasses, sports visors, ski/snowboard goggles... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Sunglasses Clothing Sports equipment", "Founded": "1975", "Headquarters": "United States", "Parent": "EssilorLuxottica", "Subsidiaries": "ESS (Eye Safety Systems) Oliver Peoples", "Website": "http://www.oakley.com www.oakley.com"} |
Sayyid Dr. Muhammad-Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloom (; born 1954) is an Iraqi politician, academician, and petroleum expert. He has served twice as the Iraqi Minister of Oil. He first took the ministerial role as part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 until June 2004. Bahraluloom we... | {"Name": "Ibrahim Bahraluloom", "Birth date": "1954", "Native name": "ابراهيم بحر العلوم", "Birth place": "Najaf, Iraq"} |
Aiham Alsammarae (also spelled Ayham Al-Samarie, and Ayham Al-Sammarae; ; born 15 July 1951) is a nationalistic, Sunni, Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Electricity from August 2003 until May 2005. He has been an active member of the Iraqi National List (headed by Iyad Allawi) and has fought hard for politica... | {"Name": "Aiham Alsammarae", "Native name": "أيهم السامرائي", "Native name language": "ar", "Term start": "August 2003", "Term end": "May 2005", "Birth date": "5 July 1951", "Birth place": "Baghdad, Iraq", "Alma mater": "University of Baghdad (BSc) Illinois Institute of Technology (M.S., PhD)"} |
Abdul Latif Rashid (; born 10 August 1944), also known as Latif Rashid () is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and the ninth president of Iraq, following the 2022 Iraqi presidential election."Iraqi parliament elects Abdul Latif Rashid as new president", Al Jazeera, 13 Oct 2022. He was previously the Minister of Water Resourc... | {"Name": "Abdul Latif Rashid", "Image caption": "Rashid in 2023", "Birth date": "1944 08 10 yes", "Birth place": "Sulaymaniyah, Iraq", "Nationality": "Iraq United Kingdom", "Native name": "عبد اللطيف رشيد", "Native name language": "Kurdish", "Residence": "Radwaniyah Palace, Baghdad, Iraq", "Alma mater": "University of ... |
WWE Raw, also known as Monday Night Raw or simply Raw, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It airs live every Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on USA Network. The show features characters from the Raw brand, to which WWE employees are assigned to work and perform. The show debute... | {"Genre": "Professional wrestling", "Created by": "Vince McMahon", "Written by": "Jonathan Baeckstrom (Lead Writer)\nSee list of Raw creative writers", "Presented by": "WWECurrentCommentators>Otterson Joe https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/wwe-commentary-team-michael-cole-wade-barrett-raw-kevin-patrick-corey-graves-smack... |
David Keith Cobb is an American political activist who was the Green Party presidential candidate for the 2004 election. Cobb later became the campaign manager for fellow Green Jill Stein for her presidential run in 2016.
2004 presidential campaign
thumb|Cobb campaigning for President in Wisconsin in September 2004
... | {"Name": "David Cobb", "Birth name": "David Keith Cobb", "Occupation": "Activist attorney campaign director", "Organization": "Move to Amend", "Birth place": "San Leon, Texas, U.S.", "Party": "Democratic (former) \nGreen", "Alma mater": "University of Houston"} |
Cleveland Public Power (also known as CPP) is a publicly owned electricity generation and distribution company in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1907 by then-Cleveland mayor Tom L. Johnson. Prior to 1983, it was known as Municipal Light (or "Muny Light" for short). CPP does not have sufficient capacity to compete a... | {"Formed": "1907", "Headquarters": "41.50740 -81.689523 type:landmark inline", "Motto": "Count on It", "Type": "Public Utility", "Website": "http://www.cpp.org/"} |
María de los Ángeles Fernández Abad (30 July 1924 - 25 March 1994), known professionally as Angelines Fernández, was a Spanish-Mexican actress and comedian. She is best remembered for playing Doña Clotilde "La Bruja del 71" in the sitcom El Chavo del Ocho. She was an anti-Franco refugee who remained in Mexico (in addit... | {"Name": "Angelines Fernández", "Caption": "Fernández, 1940s", "Birth name": "María de los Ángeles Fernández Abad", "Birth date": "1924 7 30 yChavodelOcho_Of Hoy queremos recordar a nuestra querida brujita del 71, Angelines Fernández, ya que nació un día como hoy pero de 1924. Today we want to remember our beloved litt... |
Emperor An of Jin (; 382 - 28 January 419According to Sima Dezong's biography in Book of Jin, he died aged 37 (by East Asian reckoning) on the wuyin day of the 12th month of the 14th year of the Yixi era of his reign. This corresponds to 28 Jan 419 on the Julian calendar. [(义熙十四年)十二月戊寅，帝崩于东堂，时年三十七。] Jin Shu, vol. 10. T... | {"Born": "382", "Died": "Jiankang, Eastern Jin", "Burial": "Xiuping ling (休平陵), Nanjing, Jiangsu", "Father": "Emperor Xiaowu", "Mother": "Empress Dowager Ande"} |
known in Europe and Japan as is a 1996 platform game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series for the Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn. As Sonic the Hedgehog, the player embarks on a journey to save the Flickies, birds enslaved by Doctor Robotnik. The player must guide Sonic through a series of themed levels to collect Flickies a... | {"Title": "Sonic 3D Blast", "Developer": "Traveller's Tales Sonic Team", "Publisher": "Sega", "Director": "Takao Miyoshi", "Producer": "Kats Sato Yoji Ishii Yutaka Sugano", "Designer": "Takao Miyoshi Kats Sato Kenji Ono Takashi Iizuka Hirokazu Yasuhara", "Programmer": "Sega Genesis Jon Burton Sega Saturn Neil Harding S... |
William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Breteuil ( 1011 - 22 February 1071), was a relative and close counsellor of William the Conqueror and one of the great magnates of early Norman England. FitzOsbern was created Earl of Hereford in 1067, one of the first peerage titles in the English peerage. He is one of... | {"Name": "The Earl of Hereford", "Title": "The Earl of Hereford\nLord of Breteuil", "Caption": "Coat of arms of William FitzOsbern", "Birth date": "1011", "Death date": "1071 02 22 1010 y", "Death place": "Flanders", "Death cause": "War", "Known For": "Lord of Breteuil\n Earl of Hereford\n companion of William the Conq... |
Yoshi, known as Mario & Yoshi in PAL regions, is a puzzle video game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. It was released for the NES and Game Boy platforms. Both versions were first released simultaneously in Japan on December 14, 1991, and released in all other regions the following year.
In Yoshi, th... | {"Title": "Yoshi", "Caption": "North American NES box art", "Developer": "Game Freak", "Publisher": "Nintendo", "Producer": "Shigeru Miyamoto\n Tsunekazu Ishihara", "Director": "Satoshi TajiriPeterson Helen November 15, 1999 King of Craze Too Shy For Spotlight Pifather Is an Introvert Daily News Mortimer Zuckerman... |
Synon was a software company which, at its height, dominated the worldwide market for third-party application development tools for the IBM i (formerly AS/400) platform. Its products continue to be used in that sector today, distributed and supported by CA Inc.
Chronology
Synon Ltd was founded in London in 1984 by Si... | {"Fate": "acquired", "Founded": "1984", "Defunct": "1998", "Headquarters": "London", "Industry": "Development tools for IBM midrange", "Products": "Synon/2, Obsydian"} |
The Current is a Canadian current affairs radio program which airs weekday mornings on CBC Radio One.The Current. Canadian Communications Foundation. It airs weekdays starting at 8:37 a.m. local time and runs until 10 a.m., and features interview sessions and radio documentaries that typically take up a half hour each.... | {"Genre": "current affairs", "Running time": "90 minutes", "Country of origin": "Canada", "Language(s)": "English", "Home station": "CBC Radio One", "Hosted by": "Matt Galloway", "Original release": "present", "Website": "http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/"} |
Emperor Gong of Jin (; 386 - October or November 421According to Sima Dewen's biography in Book of Jin, he was killed aged 36 (by East Asian reckoning) on the dingchou day of the 9th month of the 2nd year of the Yongchu era of Liu Yu's reign. However, there is no dingchou day in the month; the month corresponds to 12 O... | {"Born": "386", "Died": "Jiankang, Eastern Jin", "Burial": "Chongping ling (沖平陵), Nanjing, Jiangsu", "Father": "Emperor Xiaowu", "Mother": "Empress Dowager Ande"} |
Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community of Ponto-chō, which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The institution of the geisha in modern J... | {"Name": "Liza Crihfield Dalby", "Birth date": "1950", "Nationality": "American", "Other names": "Kikuko (name given to Dalby as a teenager living in Japan) \"Geisha 1998\">Dalby Liza 1998 Geisha California University of California Press 0-520-20495-6105 [Image of a summer fan with the name Ichigiku in kanji] (na... |
The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912. It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of Nuevo México becoming part of the American frontier after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It existed ... | {"Conventional long name": "Territory of New Mexico", "Common name": "New Mexico Territory", "Year founded": "1850", "Year dissolved": "1912", "Capital": "Santa Fe", "Government type": "Organized incorporated territory", "Legislature": "New Mexico Territorial Legislature"} |
Dead Like Me is an American comedy-drama television series starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers who reside and work in Seattle, Washington. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime cable network, where it ran for two seasons (2003-04). Fuller left th... | {"Genre": "Dark comedy\n Comedy drama\n Fantasy", "Running time": "40-50 minutes74 minutes (\"Pilot\")", "Created by": "Bryan Fuller", "Starring": "Ellen MuthLaura HarrisCallum BlueJasmine GuyCynthia StevensonMandy Patinkin", "Narrated by": "Ellen Muth", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original network": "Showti... |
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend, Edie Hart. The series aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960-1961. The series was created by Blake Edwards, who, on occasion, was also writer (for 39 episodes) an... | {"Genre": "Action/Crime drama", "Created by": "Blake Edwards", "Written by": "Steffi BarrettTony BarrettGene L. CoonBlake EdwardsGeorge FassGertrude FassVick KnightP. K. PalmerLester PineLewis Reed", "Starring": "Craig StevensLola AlbrightHerschel BernardiHope EmersonMinerva UrecalByron Kane", "Country of origin": "Uni... |
Crédit Agricole Group (), sometimes called La banque verte () due to its historical ties to farming, is a French international banking group and the world's largest cooperative financial institution. It is France's second largest bank, after BNP Paribas, as well as the third largest in Europe and tenth largest in the w... | {"Type": "Public, Cooperative", "Founded": "yes 1894 11 05", "Headquarters": "France", "Industry": "Financial services", "Services": "Retail banking Corporate banking Investment banking Private banking Wealth management Asset management", "Revenue": "2019", "AUM": "€2.172 trillion (2022)https://www.credit-agricole.com/... |
William Jones (1760September 6, 1831) was an American politician.
Early career
Jones was born in Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania. Apprenticed in a shipyard, during the American Revolutionary War, he saw combat in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and later served at sea. In the decades that followed th... | {"Name": "William Jones", "Term start": "January 7, 1817", "Term end": "January 25, 1819", "Office 2": "4th United States Secretary of the Navy", "President 2": "James Madison", "Predecessor 2": "Paul Hamilton", "Successor 2": "Benjamin Crowninshield", "Birth date": "1760", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Province of Pen... |
Basava Premanand (17 February 1930 - 4 October 2009) was an Indian skeptic and rationalist from Kerala, India. He organised many tours around rural India for the promotion of scientific thinking, exposing alleged miracles and scams carried out by various charlatans and godmen while spreading awareness of dangerous supe... | {"Name": "Basava Premanand", "Image": "Basava_Premanand.JPG", "Caption": "Basava Premanand in June 2008", "Birth date": "17 February 1930", "Birth place": "Kozhikode, Kerala, India", "Death date": "4 October 2009\n(aged 79)", "Death place": "Podanur, Tamil Nadu, India", "Occupation": "Rationalist, skeptic, owner-writer... |
Amoeba is a distributed operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and others at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The aim of the Amoeba project was to build a timesharing system that makes an entire network of computers appear to the user as a single machine. Development at the Vrije Universiteit was stopped: ... | {"Developer": "Andrew S. TanenbaumFrans Kaashoek", "Kernel": "Microkernel", "Platforms": "i386/i486, MIPS, Motorola 68030, NS 32016, Sun 3/50 and 3/60, SPARC, VAX", "OS family": "Unix-like", "Written in": "C, Modula 2, Orca, Pascal", "Available in": "English", "License": "MIT Licensehttps://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/amoe... |
John Walter Olver (September 3, 1936 - February 23, 2023) was an American politician and chemist who was the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district from 1991 to 2013. Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, Olver graduated from college at the age of 18 and went on to earn a PhD in chemistry from t... | {"Name": "John Olver", "Image caption": "Olver in the 111th United States Congress", "Term start": "June 18, 1991", "Term end": "January 3, 2013", "State house 2": "Massachusetts", "District 2": "2nd Hampshire", "Predecessor 2": "Donald Madsen", "Successor 2": "James Collins", "Birth name": "John Walter Olver", "Birth ... |
Richard Edmund Neal (born February 14, 1949) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 1989. The district, numbered as the 2nd district from 1989 to 2013, includes Springfield, West Springfield, Pittsfield, Holyoke, Agawam, Chicopee and Westfield, and is much more rural than the rest of th... | {"Name": "Richard Neal", "Predecessor 2": "Sander Levin", "Successor 2": "Kevin Brady", "Birth name": "Richard Edmund Neal", "Birth date": "1949 2 14", "Birth place": "Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Maureen Conway 1975", "Education": "Holyoke Community CollegeAmerican International College (BA)Universit... |
South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The council is based in the town of Swadlincote. The district also contains numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. About a third of the National Forest lies within the district.
The neighbouring districts are Derbyshire Dales, Amber Valley... | {"Type": "Non-metropolitan district", "Body": "South Derbyshire District Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000039", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1"} |
Erewash () is a local government district with borough status in Derbyshire, England. The borough is named after the River Erewash. The council has offices in both the borough's towns of Ilkeston and Long Eaton. The borough also includes several villages and surrounding rural areas. Some of the built-up areas in the ea... | {"Type": "Erewash Borough Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000036", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1"} |
James Patrick McGovern (born November 20, 1959) is a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, chaired the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is the co-chair of the Tom... | {"Name": "Jim McGovern", "Predecessor 2": "Louise Slaughter", "Successor 2": "Tom Cole", "Birth name": "James Patrick McGovern", "Birth date": "1959 11 20", "Birth place": "Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Lisa Murray 1989", "Education": "American University (BA, MPA)", "Official website": "mcgovern.house... |
Martin Thomas Meehan (born December 30, 1956) is an American academic administrator, politician, and attorney. Since July 2015, Meehan has served as the President of the University of Massachusetts after serving as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell since September 2007.
Meehan, a Democrat, served in... | {"Name": "Marty Meehan", "Term start": "July 1, 2015", "Office 2": "Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell", "Predecessor 2": "William T. Hogan", "Successor 2": "Jacqueline Moloney", "Birth name": "Martin Thomas Meehan", "Birth date": "1956 12 30", "Birth place": "Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Spouse(s)... |
Rouvroy () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.INSEE commune file (Also known as: "Gouphy Hauts")
Geography
Rouvroy is a farming and light industrial town, southeast of Lens, at the junction of the D40 and the D46 roads.
Population
The inhabitants are called Rouvroysi... | {"Name": "Rouvroy", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "The town hall of Rouvroy", "Arrondissement": "Lens", "Canton": "Harnes", "Postal code": "62320", "Mayor": "Valérie CuvillierRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503 data.gouv.fr, Plat... |
Edward John Markey ( ; born July 11, 1946) is an American lawyer, politician, and former Army reservist serving as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served 20 terms (18 full, two partial) as the U.S. representative for from 1976 to 2013. Before his con... | {"Name": "Ed Markey", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2013", "Term start": "July 16, 2013", "Office 2": "Member of theU.S. House of Representativesfrom Massachusetts", "Predecessor 2": "Torbert Macdonald", "Successor 2": "Katherine Clark", "Birth name": "Edward John Markey", "Birth date": "1946 7 11", "Birth place... |
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Ashfield () is a local government district in Nottinghamshire, England.
The population of Ashfield wa... | {"Type": "Ashfield District Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000170", "Density": "auto", "Website": "https://www.ashfield.gov.uk/", "DST": "+1"} |
thumb|Retford, a market town and the second-largest settlement in Bassetlaw District
Bassetlaw is a local government district in north Nottinghamshire, England. Its council is based in the town of Worksop; the other towns in the district are Tuxford, Harworth Bircotes and Retford. Bassetlaw is bounded to the south by t... | {"Type": "Non-metropolitan district", "Rank": "Ranked E07000171", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "https://www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/"} |
Broxtowe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies immediately west of the city of Nottingham, and most of the built-up areas of the borough form part of the Nottingham Urban Area. The council is based in Beeston and the borough also includes the towns of Eastwood, Kimberle... | {"Type": "Borough Council (non-metropolitan district)", "Rank": "Ranked E07000172", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1"} |
Michael Everett Capuano ( ; born January 9, 1952) is an American politician and attorney who served as a U.S. Representative of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2019. A Democrat, his district included the northern three-fourths of Boston, as well as parts of Cambridge, his hometown of Somerville, and other communities immed... | {"Name": "Mike Capuano", "Term start": "January 3, 1999", "Term end": "January 3, 2019", "Office 2": "33rd Mayor of Somerville", "Predecessor 2": "Eugene Brune", "Successor 2": "Dorothy Kelly Gay", "Birth name": "Michael Everett Capuano", "Birth date": "1952 1 9", "Birth place": "Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Spou... |
Stephen Francis Lynch (born March 31, 1955) is an American businessman, attorney and politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. A Democrat, he represents Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, which includes the southern fourth of Boston and many of it... | {"Alternative text": "Official portrait, 2019", "Term start": "October 16, 2001", "State house 2": "Massachusetts", "District 2": "4th Suffolk", "Predecessor 2": "Paul J. Gannon", "Successor 2": "Jack Hart", "Birth name": "Stephen Francis Lynch", "Birth date": "1955 3 31", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", ... |
William David DelahuntUnited States congressional serial set. DOC 14489 1998 (born July 18, 1941) is an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He is a former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1997 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Delahunt did not seek re-election in 2010, and left Congr... | {"Name": "Bill Delahunt", "Birth name": "William David Delahunt", "Birth date": "1941 07 18", "Birth place": "Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Term start": "January 3, 1997", "Term end": "January 3, 2011", "Office 2": "Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives", "Predecessor 2": "Joseph E. Brett", "Successor 2... |
Virgil Hamlin Goode Jr. (born October 17, 1946) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 5th congressional district of Virginia between 1997 and 2009. He was initially a Democrat, but became an independent in 2000 and switched to the Republican Party in 2002. H... | {"Name": "Virgil Goode", "Term start": "January 3, 1997", "Term end": "January 3, 2009", "Birth name": "Virgil Hamlin Goode Jr.", "Birth date": "1946 10 17", "Birth place": "Richmond, Virginia, U.S.", "Other political party": "Republican (2002-2010)Independent (2000-2002)Democratic (before 2000)", "Spouse(s)": "Lucy Do... |
The Narmer Palette, also known as the Great Hierakonpolis Palette or the Palette of Narmer, is a significant Egyptian archaeological find, dating from about the 31st century BC, belonging, at least nominally, to the category of cosmetic palettes. It contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. Th... | {"Material": "siltstone", "Size": "64 cm × 42 cm", "Created": "3200-3000 BC (circa)", "Discovered": "1897-1898", "Present location": "Egyptian Museum, Cairo", "Identification": "CG 14716"} |
Mathew B. Brady ( - January 15, 1896) was one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history. Best known for his scenes of the Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York City in 1844, and went on to ... | {"Name": "Mathew Brady", "Caption": "Brady 1875", "Birth date": "1822-1824", "Birth place": "Warren County, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "1896 1 15 (aged 71-74)", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Resting place": "Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.", "Occupation": "Photographer photojournalist", "Spouse... |
The Group of Eight (Go8) comprises Australia's most research intensive universities (in alphabetical order) - the University of Adelaide, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney and the ... | {"Type": "Nonprofit organisation", "Headquarters": "Canberra, ACT", "Location": "Australia", "Website": "http://www.go8.edu.au/"} |
James Rupert Jacob Murdoch (born 13 December 1972) is a British-American businessman. He is the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the former chief executive officer (CEO) of 21st Century Fox from 2015 to 2019.
He was the chairman and CEO for Europe and Asia of News Corporation until 2013 when it was split ... | {"Birth name": "James Rupert Jacob Murdoch", "Name": "James Murdoch", "Caption": "Murdoch in 2008", "Birth date": "yes 1972 12 13", "Birth place": "Wimbledon, London, England", "Citizenship": "United Kingdom\nUnited States", "Spouse(s)": "Kathryn Hufschmid 2000", "Children": "3", "Parent(s)": "Rupert Murdoch Anna Maria... |
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (, ) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world,UNESCO. , June 2014. as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.Clottes (2003b), p. 214. It is located near the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Ar... | {"Location": "Ardèche, France", "Criteria": "I,III,V,VI,VII,VIII,X", "Reference": "1426", "Inscription": "2014"} |
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing C... | {"Name": "New York City Ballet", "Previous names": "American Ballet\n Ballet Caravan\n American Ballet Caravan\n The Ballet Society", "Year founded": "1948", "Founding choreographers": "George Balanchine\n Jerome Robbins", "Principal venue": "David H. Koch TheaterLincoln Center for the Performing ArtsNew Yo... |
John Daniel Baskeyfield (18 November 1922 - 20 September 1944) was a British Army soldier and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.
Born in 1922, Baskeyfield was called up t... | {"Born": "Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England", "Died": "Oosterbeek, Netherlands", "Allegiance": "United Kingdom", "Awards": "Victoria Cross"} |
is a 1994 platform game developed and published by Sega. Players control Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna in their quests to save Angel Island; Sonic tries to stop Doctor Robotnik from re-launching his orbital weapon, the Death Egg, while Knuckles scuffles with Robotnik's minion, EggRobo. Like previous Sonic... | {"Title": "Sonic & Knuckles", "Caption": "North American box art", "Developer": "Sega Technical Institute", "Publisher": "Sega", "Producer": "Yuji NakaSonic & Knuckles US manual 28 http://info.sonicretro.org/File:Sk_us_manual_28_29.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20150206030402/http://info.sonicretro.org/File:Sk_us_man... |
Fractint (originally FRACT386) is a freeware computer program to render and display many kinds of fractals. The program originated on MS-DOS, then ported to the Atari ST, Linux, and Macintosh. During the early 1990s, Fractint was the definitive fractal generating program for personal computers.
The name is a portmante... | {"Developer(s)": "Stone Soup Group", "Initial release": "1988 09", "Available in": "English", "Type": "Fractal generating software", "License": "Freeware", "Website": "fractint.org"} |
Mount Parnitha (, , Katharevousa and Parnis/Parnes; sometimes Parnetha) is a densely forested mountain range north of Athens, the highest on the peninsula of Attica, with an elevation of 1,413 m, and a summit known as Karavola (Καραβόλα). Much of the mountain is designated a national park, and is a protected habitat ... | {"Elevation": "1413", "Prominence": "10 to 15 km, north to southapprox. 10 km from east to west", "Location": "north of Athens, Greece", "Coordinates": "38.1734 23.7174 type:mountain_region:GR inline,title"} |
Clifton College is a public school in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862 and offering both boarding and day school for pupils aged 13-18. In its early years, unlike most contemporary public schools, it emphasised science rather than classics in the curriculum, and was less concerned with social ... | {"Coordinates": "51.4618° N, 2.6200° W", "Capacity": "1,200", "Houses": "12 (in the Upper School)", "Website": "cliftoncollege.com/"} |
"Clancy of the Overflow" is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 21 December 1889. The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works.
The poem is written in eight stanzas of four lines, lines one and three i... | {"Name": "Clancy of the Overflow", "Author": "Banjo Paterson", "Date written": "1889", "First published in": "The Bulletin", "Country": "Australia", "Language": "English", "Form": "Quatrain", "Meter": "Trochaic octameter", "Rhyme scheme": "AA-B-CC-B", "Date of publication": "21 December 1889", "Lines": "32", "Wikisourc... |
John McCallum (born 9 April 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist, diplomat and former university professor. A former Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), McCallum was the Canadian Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2019. He was asked for his resignation by Prime Minister Trudeau in 2019.Canada’s new ambassador to Bei... | {"Name": "John McCallum", "Term start": "18 March 2017", "Term end": "26 January 2019", "Office 2": "Minister of National Revenue", "Prime minister 2": "Paul Martin", "Predecessor 2": "Stan Keyes", "Successor 2": "Carol Skelton", "Birth date": "yes 1950 04 09", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Alma mater": "... |
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