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THQ Inc. was an American video game company based in Agoura Hills, California. It was founded in April 1990 by Jack Friedman, originally in Calabasas, and became a public company the following year through a reverse merger takeover. Initially working in the toy business, it expanded into the video game business through... | {"Type": "Public", "ISIN": "n y US8724434035", "Industry": "Video games", "Fate": "Chapter 11 bankruptcy", "Founded": "1990 04THQ's Video-Game Success Comes With Betting on Winners https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-24-fi-936-story.html Los Angeles Times May 1, 2022 December 24, 1991 James F. Peltz ... |
Frank Hoover Easterbrook (born September 3, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as a United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1985. He was the Seventh Circuit's chief judge from 2006 to 2013.
Early life and education
Easterbrook was born in Buffalo, New Y... | {"Name": "Frank Easterbrook", "Image": "JudgeEasterbrook (cropped).JPG", "Term start": "April 4, 1985", "Birth name": "Frank Hoover Easterbrook", "Birth date": "1948 9 3", "Birth place": "Buffalo, New York, U.S.", "Education": "Swarthmore College (BA)University of Chicago (JD)"} |
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (August 16, 1650 - December 9, 1718) was an Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He spent most of his life in Venice.
Biography
Vincenzo Coronelli was born, probably in Venice, on August 16, 1650, the... | {"Name": "Vincenzo Coronelli", "Image": "Coronelli Portrait 2.JPG", "Caption": "Coronelli from the frontispiece of the folio edition of Atlante Veneto, c. 1710", "Birth name": "Vincenzo Maria Coronelli", "Birth date": "1650 08 16", "Birth place": "Venice, Republic of Venice", "Death date": "1718 12 09 1650 08 16", "Dea... |
Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour. It was adapted for a 1961 musical film.
After their extraordina... | {"Name": "Flower Drum Song", "Caption": "Original Broadway poster (1958)", "Composer(s)": "Richard Rodgers", "Lyricist(s)": "Oscar Hammerstein II", "Book-writer": "Oscar Hammerstein II\n Joseph Fields\n David Henry Hwang (2002 revised version)", "Based on?": "The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee", "Productions": "margin... |
Alcoy, officially the Municipality of Alcoy (; ), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 19,186 people.
It is named after Alcoy in Spain.
History
Spanish colonization
The old town of Alcoy, located in the current barangay of Daanlungso... | {"Named for": "Alcoy, Spain", "Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
Henry Hindley (1701-1771) was an 18th-century clockmaker, watchmaker and maker of scientific instruments. He invented a screw-cutting lathe, a fusee-cutting engine and an improved wheel-cutting engine and made one of the first dividing engines,Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries and their... | {"Name": "Henry Hindley", "Birth date": "1701", "Birth place": "Wigan", "Death date": "1771", "Death place": "York", "Nationality": "British", "Occupation": "clockmaker"} |
Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1121 - 1190) was an English nobleman, one of the principal followers of Henry the Young King in the Revolt of 1173-1174 against his father King Henry II. He is also called Robert Blanchemains (French for "White Hands").
Life
He was the son of Amicia de Gael and Robert de Beau... | {"Name": "Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester", "Birth date": "1121", "Birth place": "Leicester, Leicestershire, England", "Death date": "1190", "Death place": "Dyrrachium on the Third Crusade", "Spouse(s)": "Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester"} |
Union Station is a major railway station and intermodal transportation hub in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Front Street West, on the south side of the block bounded by Bay Street and York Street in downtown Toronto. The municipal government of Toronto owns the station building while the provincial transit... | {"Name": "Union Station", "Style template": "Via Rail", "Caption": "Eastward view along the Front Street facade", "Address": "65 Front Street WestToronto, Ontario", "Country": "Canada", "Website": "torontounion.ca", "Coordinates": "43 38 43 N 79 22 50 W region:CA-ON_type:railwaystation inline,title", "Connections": "to... |
Parksville is a city on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2021 Census, Parksville's population was 13,642, representing a 9.5% increase over the 2016 Census.
Parksville is well known for its large, sandy beaches at Parksville Bay and Craig Bay. The city's best-known annual event since 1982 is a s... | {"Density": "939.5", "Metro density": "353.3", "DST": "-7", "Type": "Mayor-council government", "Body": "Municipal council"} |
La Fortaleza (lit., "The Fortress" ) is the official residence of the governor of Puerto Rico and has been since the 16th century. It was built between 1533 and 1540 to defend the harbor of San Juan, in Puerto Rico. The structure is also known as Palacio de Santa Catalina (Saint Catherine's Palace). It is the oldest ex... | {"Name": "La Fortaleza", "Native name": "Palacio de Santa Catalina", "Architectural_style": "Hispanic Renaissance, Neoclassical", "Location": "San Juan, Puerto Rico", "Address": "63 Calle Fortaleza, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901", "Coordinates": "18 27 50 N 66 7 9 W inline,title", "Completion_date": "1540", "Embedded": "... |
Clark Brian Howard (born June 20, 1955) is a consumer expert and podcast host of The Clark Howard Show.
Life and career
Howard grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents, Bernard and Joy Garson Howard, were prominent members of Atlanta's Jewish community. Howard has three children, born in 1988, 1999 and 2005.
He had... | {"Name": "Clark Howard", "Birth name": "Clark Brian Howard", "Birth date": "1955 6 20", "Birth place": "Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.", "Education": "American UniversityCentral Michigan University", "Occupation": "Syndicated talk radio host, consumer advocate, and author", "Spouse(s)": "Lane Carlock Howardhttps://books.google... |
was a Japanese securities trading firm. The company announced it would cease operations on November 24, 1997 and was declared bankrupt by the Tokyo District Court on June 2, 1999.
History
Yamaichi, formed in 1897, was at one time one of the four major Japanese brokerages. Its clients were major Japanese corporations... | {"Fate": "bankrupt", "Founded": "1897", "Defunct": "1999 06 02", "Headquarters": "Japan", "Industry": "Finance", "Services": "securities trading"} |
Taguig (), officially the City of Taguig (), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 886,722 people. Located in the northwestern shores of Laguna de Bay, the city is known for Bonifacio Global City, one of the leading financial centers of t... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "8th", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
, formerly Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.'(旭硝子株式会社), is a Japanese global glass manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo. It is the largest glass company in the world and one of the core Mitsubishi companies.
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX and Nikkei 225 stock indices.
... | {"Formerly": "Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.", "Type": "Public KK", "Founded": "Amagasaki, Hyōgo, Japan (1907 09 08)", "Headquarters": "Shin-Marunouchi Building, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8405, Japan", "Industry": "Glass Ceramics", "Products": "Glass products Ceramic products Chemicals", "Revenue": "yes1,282.570 bil... |
thumb|Aerial video of the cliffs (2014)
The Cliffs of Moher (; ) are sea cliffs located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland. They run for about . At their southern end, they rise above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head, and, to the north, they reach their maximum height of just no... | {"Coordinates": "52 58 18.302 N 9 25 34.802 W inline,title", "Nearest city": "Lahinch, County Clare, Ireland", "Elevation": "155 m on", "Owner": "Clare County Council, private farmers", "Website": "cliffsofmoher.ie"} |
Marcos Engineering was a British sports car manufacturer. The name derives from the surnames of founders Jem Marsh and Frank Costin.
History
Marcos was founded in Dolgellau, North Wales, in 1959, by Speedex cars' Jem Marsh with aerodynamicist Frank Costin. Costin had earlier worked on the de Havilland Mosquito fighter... | {"Type": "Private", "Founded": "1959", "Defunct": "2007", "Fate": "Liquidated", "Headquarters": "England", "Industry": "Automotive", "Products": "Automobile"} |
(UGA) was a subsidiary of Sega headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, a video game developer who had experience with Sega's AM3 division. After separating with Kenji Sasaki to form AM Annex, Mizuguchi left Sasaki's team to form another division. This studio would later be known ... | {"Formerly": "AM Annex, CS4, R&D #9 (AM9)", "Type": "Division", "Industry": "Video games", "Founded": "yes 1996", "Headquarters": "Japan", "Parent": "Sega", "Defunct": "2003", "Website": "https://web.archive.org/web/20020808143245/http://www.u-ga.com/jp/home/index.html u-ga.com (archived)"} |
Elpidio Rivera Quirino (; November 16, 1890 - February 29, 1956) was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 6th president of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953.
A lawyer by profession, Quirino entered politics when he became a representative of Ilocos Sur from 1919 to 1925. He was then elected as a senator ... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Excellency", "Term start": "April 17, 1948", "Term end": "December 30, 1953", "Vice president": "Ramon Avanceña (1948-1949 de facto)Fernando Lopez (1949-1953)", "Office 2": "Vice President of the Philippines", "President 2": "Manuel Roxas", "Predecessor 2": "Sergio Osmeña", "Successor 2": "Fer... |
The 1998 Australian federal election was held to determine the members of the 39th Parliament of Australia. It was held on 3 October 1998. All 148 seats of the House of Representatives and 40 seats of the 76-seat Senate were up for election. The incumbent centre-right Liberal/National Coalition government led by Prime ... | {"Name": "1998 Australian federal election", "Country": "Australia", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "Results of the 1996 Australian federal election (House of Representatives)", "Previous year": "1996", "Next election": "Results of the 2001 Australian federal election (House of Represen... |
Jack Donovan Foley (April 12, 1891 - November 9, 1967) was an American sound effects artist who was the developer of many sound effect techniques used in filmmaking. He is credited with developing a unique method for performing sound effects live and in synchrony with the picture during a film's post-production. Accord... | {"Name": "Jack Foley", "Birth name": "Jack Donovan Foley", "Birth date": "1891 4 12 y", "Birth place": "Yorkville, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "1967 11 9 1891 4 12 y", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Other names": "Joe Hyde (pen name)", "Occupation": "Sound effect artist (... |
The Longest Journey () is a magical realist point-and-click adventure video game developed by Norwegian studio Funcom for Microsoft Windows and released in 1999.
The game was a commercial success, with sales in excess of 500,000 units by 2004, and was acclaimed by critics. An iOS version was released on October 28, 20... | {"Title": "The Longest Journey", "Developer": "Funcom", "Publisher": "NOR IQ Media UK Empire Interactive NA Tri SynergyBreeden II, John February 21, 2001 http://www.gameindustry.com/reviews/game-review/the-longest-journey-is-paradise-found/ The Longest Journey is Paradise Found Game Industry News Noble Order Press... |
Sail Training International (STI) is a non-profit international sail training organisation, with members in 29 countries. Its main aim is the "development and education of young people of all nations, cultures, and social backgrounds through the experience of sail training.". It is based in Hampshire in the United King... | {"Type": "registered charity", "Founded": "Hampshire (2002)", "Headquarters": "Hampshire, England", "Industry": "Education through Sail training", "Products": "Adventure and education under sail", "Website": "https://sailtraininginternational.org/sailtraining/"} |
Aled Jones, (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and radio and television presenter. As a teenage chorister, he gained widespread fame in 1985 with his recording of "Walking in the Air", which reached the UK top five. Since then he has worked in television with the BBC and ITV, and on radio (for the BBC and Class... | {"Name": "Aled Jones", "Post-nominals": "GBR 100% on MBE", "Caption": "Jones in 2007", "Birth date": "1970 12 29 y", "Birth place": "Bangor, Wales", "Occupation": "Singer television and radio presenter", "Years active": "1983-present", "Employer": "BBC ITV Classic FM", "Television": "Songs of Praise (since 2004)\... |
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 - 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Africa and Asia, collectin... | {"Name": "Carl Peter Thunberg", "Birth date": "yes 1743 11 11", "Birth place": "Jönköping, Sweden", "Death date": "yes 1828 08 08 1743 11 11", "Death place": "Thunaberg, Uppland, Sweden", "Nationality": "Swedish", "Other names": "Carl Pehr Thunberg Carl Per Thunberg Thunb.", "Occupation": "Naturalist"} |
Robert Mylne (4 January 1733 - 5 May 1811) was a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars Bridge in London. Born and raised in Edinburgh, he travelled to Europe as a young man, studying architecture in Rome under Piranesi. In 1758, he became the first Briton to win t... | {"Name": "Robert Mylne", "Portrait caption": "Engraving of Mylne, aged 24, by Vincenzio Vangelisti, after a drawing by Richard Brompton.", "Significant buildings": "Blackfriars Bridge, London The Wick, Richmond Tusmore House, Oxfordshire", "Significant projects": "Inveraray new town, Argyll"} |
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 - September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He received fifteen Academy Award no... | {"Born": "Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Died": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Genres": "Film score, theatre, classical, jazz", "Website": "http://www.alexnorthmusic.com/"} |
James Benton Grant (January 2, 1848 - November 1, 1911) was an American mining magnate, mining engineer, Confederate Army soldier who served as the third Governor of Colorado from 1883 to 1885.
Early life, American Civil War, and education
Grant was born on January 2, 1848, on a plantation in Russell County, Alabama. ... | {"Name": "James Benton Grant", "Image": "James_Grant.gif", "Term start": "January 9, 1883", "Term end": "January 13, 1885", "Birth date": "1848 1 2 y", "Birth place": "Russell County, Alabama, U.S.", "Death date": "1911 11 1 1848 1 2", "Death place": "Excelsior Springs, Missouri, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Mary Matteson Good... |
The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France. Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Musée de l'Homme, and the Palais de Tokyo, which houses the Musée d'Art Moderne de ... | {"Category": "2", "Name": "Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques appliqués à la vie moderne", "Building(s)": "Palais de Chaillot, Palais de Tokyo", "Area": "101 ha acre off", "Visitors": "31,040,955", "Countries": "45", "Country": "France", "City": "Paris", "Venue": "Trocadéro, Champ-de-Mars, Embankment ... |
The Canigó (, ; ) is a mountain located in the Pyrenees of southern France.
The Canigó is located less than from the sea and has an elevation of . Due to its sharp flanks and its dramatic location near the coast, until the 18th century the Canigou was believed to be the highest mountain in the Pyrenees.Histoire du R... | {"Location": "Pyrenees", "Elevation": "2784", "Prominence": "550", "Coordinates": "42 31 08 N 02 27 24 E type:mountain_region:FR_scale:100000 dms inline,title"} |
Broken Sword is a series of adventure games. The first game in the series, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, was released and developed in 1996 by British developer Revolution Software. Its sequel, Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, was released a year later, and was followed by Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dra... | {"Title": "Broken Sword", "Genre": "Point-and-click adventureAdventure", "Developer": "Revolution Software (in partnership with Sumo Digital in 2006)", "Creator": "Charles Cecil", "Platforms": "Android, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Palm OS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation ... |
Zakhar Grigoryevich Chernyshev (172231 August 1784) was a Russian noble, courtier to Catherine the Great, Imperial Russian Army officer, and Imperial Russian politician in the 18th century.
After made a courtier to then-Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1744, Chernyshev remained a favorite of the future Russian mona... | {"Honorific prefix": "Count", "Name": "Zakhar Chernyshev", "Alt": "An oil-painted portrait of a Caucasoid man: he is looking to the observer's left, wearing a \"green robe with red spreads and stripes\".", "Caption": "Oil portrait of Chernyshev(1776 by Alexander Roslin)", "Native name": "Захаръ Чернышевъ", "Native name... |
Blade Runner is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive for Microsoft Windows, released on November 14, 1997. The game is not a direct adaptation of the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner but is instead a "sidequel", telling an original story, which runs paral... | {"Title": "Blade Runner", "Developer": "Westwood StudiosNightdive Studios (remaster)", "Publisher": "Virgin InteractiveNightdive Studios (remaster)", "Producer": "Donny Blank", "Designer": "David Leary Jim Walls", "Programmer": "Louis Castle", "Artist": "Louis Castle Aaron Powell", "Writer": "David Yorkin David Leary",... |
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH, in turn, is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and he... | {"Formed": "1949 4 15 y", "Headquarters": "Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.", "Annual budget": "$1.63 billion (2020)", "Website": "http://www.nimh.nih.gov"} |
Michiel Smit (born 21 August 1976) is a former Dutch politician who was leader of Nieuw Rechts, a far-right political party.
Political office
Michiel Smit was elected to the Rotterdam city council in 2002 as a member of Leefbaar Rotterdam. In February 2003, he came into conflict with Leefbaar-Rotterdam leader Ronald S... | {"Name": "Michiel Smit", "Image caption": "Michiel Smit (2003)", "Birth date": "1976 8 21 y", "Birth place": "Maasland, Netherlands", "Birth name": "Michiel Jorg Smit", "Office 2": "Municipal Councillor in Lansingerland"} |
ratpoison is a tiling window manager for the X Window System primarily developed by Shawn Betts. The user interface and much of their functionality are inspired by the GNU Screen terminal multiplexer.. While ratpoison is written in C, Betts' StumpWM re-implements a similar window manager in Common Lisp.
Overview
The ... | {"Developer(s)": "Shawn Betts", "Written in": "C", "Type": "Window manager", "License": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "Website": "http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/", "Initial release": "2000 12 04Earliest known release"} |
The RAF Second Tactical Air Force (2TAF) was one of three tactical air forces within the Royal Air Force (RAF) during and after the Second World War. It was made up of squadrons and personnel from the RAF, other British Commonwealth air forces, and exiles from German-occupied Europe. Renamed as British Air Forces of Oc... | {"Branch": "23px Royal Air Force", "Type": "tactical air force", "Role": "air superiority and support ground offensive", "Motto(s)": "Keepers of the peacePine L G A Dictionary of mottoes 1983 Routledge & K. Paul London 0-7100-9339-X 122 https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmott00tion/page/122", "March": "Roy... |
Tideswell is a village and civil parish in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England. It lies east of Buxton on the B6049, in a wide valley on a limestone plateau, at an altitude of above sea level, and is within the District of Derbyshire Dales. The population (including Wheston) was 1,820 in 2001, increasing sligh... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011)", "District": "Derbyshire Dales", "Shire county": "Derbyshire", "UK Parliament": "Derbyshire Dales", "Postcode district": "SK", "Dialling code": "01298", "OS grid reference": "SK1574"} |
Frederick James Archer (11 January 1857 - 8 November 1886), also known by the nickname The Tin Man, was an English flat race jockey of the Victorian era, described as "the best all-round jockey that the turf has ever seen".
He was Champion Jockey for 13 consecutive years until 1886, riding 2,748 winners from 8,084 sta... | {"Occupation": "Jockey", "Born": "yes 1857 1 11", "Died": "Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, England", "Career wins": "2,748"} |
Hampton in Arden is a village and civil parish located in the Forest of Arden in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands of England. Hampton in Arden was part of Warwickshire until the 1974 boundary changes. It lies within the Meriden Gap which is an area of countryside between Solihull and Coventry.... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)", "Metropolitan borough": "Solihull", "Metropolitan county": "West Midlands", "Postcode district": "B", "OS grid reference": "SP205815", "Website": "Welcome to the website for Hampton in Arden"} |
Restoration Day, more commonly known as Oak Apple Day or Royal Oak Day, was an English, Welsh and Irish public holiday, observed annually on 29 May, to commemorate the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in May 1660. In some parts of England the day is still celebrated. It has also been known as Shick Shack Day, or Oak ... | {"Type": "Historical", "Also called": "Restoration Day\nRoyal Oak Day\nShick Shack Day\nOak and Nettle Day\nYak Bob Day", "Next time": "29 May", "Observances": "Wearing of sprigs of oak leaves and/or oak apples"} |
thumb|right|The diameter granite CIA seal in the lobby of the original headquarters building.
thumb|The entrance of the CIA headquarters
The director of central intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005, acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president ... | {"Post": "Director", "Body": "Central Intelligence", "Flag caption": "Flag of the Director of Central Intelligence", "Department": "Central Intelligence Agency", "Official abbreviation": "DCI", "Member of": "United States National Security Council", "Appointer": "President of the United States", "Appointer qualificatio... |
Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 - March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955. He directed a broad program of legal challenges to racial segregation and disfranchisement. He was a... | {"Name": "Walter Francis White", "Image caption": "White photographed by Clara Sipprell, 1950", "Term start": "1929", "Term end": "1955", "Birth date": "1893 07 01", "Birth place": "Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.", "Death date": "1955 03 21 1893 07 01", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Education": "Atlanta University (B... |
thumb|right|250px|The pond in the centre of Hartington
Hartington is a village in the centre of the White Peak area of the Derbyshire Peak District, England, lying on the River Dove which is the Staffordshire border. According to the 2001 census, the parish of Hartington Town Quarter, which also includes Pilsbury, had... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(Town Quarter Civil Ward 2011)", "District": "Derbyshire Dales", "Shire county": "Derbyshire", "UK Parliament": "Derbyshire Dales", "Postcode district": "SK", "Dialling code": "01298", "OS grid reference": "SK129604"} |
The 106th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 1999, to January 3, 2001, during the last two years of Bill Clinton's preside... | {"Senate President": "Al Gore (D)", "House Speaker": "Dennis Hastert (R)", "Members": "5", "House majority": "Republican", "Senate majority": "Republican"} |
The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a senior, cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP)... | {"Post": "Director", "Body": "National Intelligence", "Insignia size": "125", "Insignia caption": "Seal of the Director of National Intelligence", "Incumbent": "Avril Haines", "Incumbent since": "January 21, 2021", "Department": "Office of the Director of National Intelligence", "Style": "Madam Director(informal)The Ho... |
Frank Press (December 4, 1924 - January 29, 2020) was an American geophysicist."1981-1993 NAS President", National Academy of Sciences online. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981-1993). He was the author of 160 sci... | {"Name": "Frank Press", "Alternative text": "Press looking at a machine", "Image caption": "Press in 1953", "Term start": "1981", "Term end": "1993", "Birth date": "1924 12 4", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2020 1 29 1924 12 4", "Death place": "Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.", "Education": "Ci... |
The 105th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1997, to January 3, 1999, during the fifth and sixth years of Bill Clinton's pre... | {"Senate President": "Al Gore (D)", "House Speaker": "Newt Gingrich (R)", "Members": "5", "House majority": "Republican", "Senate majority": "Republican"} |
The College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) is one of nine colleges at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (NU) in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. The college was established on June 6, 2003 when the College of Human Resources and Family Sciences was merged with Teachers College. CEHS uses facilities across NU'... | {"Type": "Public", "Dean": "Sherri Jones", "Students": "3,877 (2019)https://iea.unl.edu/publications/fb18_19.pdf Fact Book unl.edu 11 November 2022", "Undergraduates": "2,720 (2019)", "Postgraduates": "1,157 (2019)", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "https://cehs.unl.edu/"} |
The University of Genoa, known also with the acronym UniGe (), is a public research university. It is one of the largest universities in Italy and it is located in the city of Genoa, on the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region of northwestern Italy. The original university was founded in 1481.
Campuses
The University... | {"Type": "State-supported", "Rector": "Federico Delfino", "Students": "~ 40,000", "Website": "www.unige.it", "Campus": "Urban"} |
New Hampshire Business Review is a bi-monthly publication, published on newsprint and based in Manchester, covering business-related issues in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Business Review started in 1978, and was purchased from the Madden family of New London, New Hampshire by Pennsylvania-based Independent Publicatio... | {"Type": "Biweekly business newspaper", "Owner(s)": "Yankee Publishing", "Language": "English", "ISSN": "0164-8152", "Website": "http://www.nhbr.com"} |
Arbor Low is a well-preserved Neolithic henge in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. It lies on a Carboniferous Limestone plateau known as the White Peak area. The monument consists of a stone circle surrounded by earthworks and a ditch.
Description
The monument includes about 50 large limestone blocks, quarried ... | {"Location": "near Middleton-by-Youlgreave and Bakewellhttp://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=0003 The Megalithic Portal and Megalithic Map: Arbor Low 1 Stone Circle The Megalithic Portal 3 January 2008", "Region": "Derbyshire, England", "Coordinates": "53 10 08 N 01 45 42 W type:landmark inline,title", "Type": ... |
Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones; 7 January 1967) is an English comedian, radio disc jockey and television presenter. He was a team captain on Shooting Stars from 1995 to 1997, and hosted Never Mind the Buzzcocks from 1996 to 2005.
Early life
Lamarr was born in the Park South area of Swindon, Wiltshire. He has three eld... | {"Name": "Mark Lamarr", "Birth name": "Mark Jones", "Birth date": "1967 1 7 y", "Birth place": "Swindon, Wiltshire, England", "Occupation": "Comedian disc jockey television presenter", "Years active": "1985-present"} |
Sodalite ( ) is a tectosilicate mineral with the formula , with royal blue varieties widely used as an ornamental gemstone. Although massive sodalite samples are opaque, crystals are usually transparent to translucent. Sodalite is a member of the sodalite group with hauyne, nosean, lazurite and tugtupite.
The people o... | {"Category": "Tectosilicates without zeolitic H2O", "IMA symbol": "SdlWarr Laurence N. IMA-CNMNC approved mineral symbols Mineralogical Magazine June 2021 85 3 291-320 10.1180/mgm.2021.43 2021MinM...85..291W 235729616 free", "Strunz classification": "9.FB.10", "Unit cell": "a = 8.876(6) Å; Z = 1", "Twinning"... |
The Gallarus Oratory (, Gallarus being interpreted as either 'rocky headland' (Gall-iorrus) or 'house or shelter for foreigner(s)' (Gall Aras) is a chapel on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. It has been presented variously as an early-Christian stone church by antiquary Charles Smith, in 1756; a 12th-centu... | {"Country": "Ireland", "Location": "Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry", "Denomination": "Pre-Reformation Catholic", "Archdiocese": "Cashel", "Materials": "Old Red Sandstone", "Floor area": "14.4 m2 on"} |
William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920 - May 6, 1996) was an American intelligence officer who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September 1973 to January 1976.
During World War II, Colby served with the Office of Strategic Services. After the war, he joined the newly created Central Intelligence Agen... | {"Term start": "September 4, 1973", "Term end": "January 30, 1976", "Birth name": "William Egan Colby", "Birth date": "1920 1 4", "Birth place": "Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.", "Death date": "1996 05 06 1920 1 4", "Death place": "Rock Point, Maryland, U.S.", "Resting place": "Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Virg... |
David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American politician, white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the Republican Party. His politics and writings are largely de... | {"Name": "David Duke", "Image caption": "Duke as Grand Wizard, 1974", "Office 2": "Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan", "Predecessor 2": "Position established", "Successor 2": "Don Black", "Birth name": "David Ernest Duke", "Birth date": "1950 07 01", "Birth place": "Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "C... |
Freed-Hardeman University is a private university associated with the Churches of Christ and located in Henderson, Tennessee, USA. It is primarily undergraduate and residential, enrolling full-time students of traditional college age. The university also serves some commuting, part-time and adult students on-campus and... | {"Motto": "How to Live and Make a Living", "Type": "Private university", "President": "David Shannon", "Undergraduates": "1,850", "Postgraduates": "433", "Students": "2,283", "Endowment": "$62.4 million (2020)https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRU... |
New World Order is a 2002 online team-based tactical first-person shooter video game, similar to Counter-Strike. The game was developed by Swedish studio Termite Games.
Reception
The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GameSpot stated that it "fails in... | {"Title": "New World Order", "Developer": "Termite Games", "Publisher": "EU Project Three Interactive NA Strategy First", "Released": "EU December 5, 2002 NA March 25, 20032004-08-18 Strategy First - Press http://www.strategyfirst.com/press/DisplayArticle.asp?sLanguageCode=EN&iArticleID=2134 2023-04-23 https://web.... |
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also called the Parks Department or NYC Parks, is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational oppo... | {"Formed": "1870 1 6", "Jurisdiction": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Headquarters": "Arsenal, New York City, New York, 10065, U.S.", "Employees": "3,745", "Annual budget": "$545.3 million (FY 2021)", "Website": "http://www.nycgovparks.org/"} |
Blake Babies were an American college rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts. The three primary members were John Strohm, Freda Love, and Juliana Hatfield. They recorded three albums before splitting up in 1991. They reformed to record a new album in 1999, and again in 2016.
History
The band formed in 1986,... | {"Origin": "Boston, Massachusetts, United States", "Genres": "Alternative rock", "Labels": "Mammoth", "Website": "https://blakebabies.com/"} |
Andrew Peter Telegdi, PC (born András Telegdi; May 28, 1946 - January 23, 2017) was a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2008, representing Waterloo and the successor riding of Kitchener—Waterloo.
Early life and career
Telegdi was born in Budape... | {"Name": "Andrew Telegdi", "Image caption": "Telegdi in 2008", "Birth name": "András Telegdi", "Birth date": "1946 5 28", "Birth place": "Budapest, Hungary", "Death date": "2017 1 23 1946 5 28", "Death place": "Waterloo, Ontario, Canada", "Residence": "Waterloo, Ontario", "Term start": "1993", "Term end": "1997", "Ridi... |
Alberta Social Credit was a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on social credit monetary policy put forward by Clifford Hugh Douglas and on conservative Christian social values. The Canadian social credit movement was largely an out-growth of Alberta Social Credit. The Social Credit Party o... | {"Leader": "Jeremy Fraser", "President": "Earl Solberg", "Founded": "1934", "Ideology": "Christian rightAnti-communismAnti-socialismSocial conservatismFiscal conservatismRight-wing populismHistorical:Social creditAgrarianism", "Headquarters": "Calgary, Alberta", "Succeeded by": "Pro-Life Alberta Political Association",... |
ITV plc is a British media company that holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV network (Channel 3), the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom.
ITV plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
... | {"Type": "Public limited company", "Founded": "2004 02 02 y", "Headquarters": "London, England, UK", "Divisions": "ITV Studios", "Subsidiaries": "BritBox International (50%)\n BritBox UK (100%)", "Website": "itvplc.com", "Industry": "Media", "Products": "Broadcasting\n Television production", "Revenue": "£3,728 million... |
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Dave Douglas (born March 24, 1963) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator. His career includes more than fifty recordings as a leader and more than 500 published compositions. His ensembles include the Dave Douglas Quintet; Sound Prints, a quintet co-led... | {"Born": "Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.", "Genres": "Jazz, free jazz, electronic", "Labels": "Greenleaf, RCA, Winter & Winter, Arabesque, Soul Note", "Website": "davedouglas.com"} |
Tagliatelle (; from the Italian , meaning "to cut") is a traditional type of pasta from the Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions of Italy. Individual pieces of tagliatelle are long, flat ribbons that are similar in shape to fettuccine and are traditionally about wide.The Classic Italian Cookbook, 1973 by Marcella Hazan T... | {"Name of food": "Tagliatelle", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "The distinctive shape of tagliatelle pasta", "Region of origin": "Emilia-Romagna and Marche", "Course served": "Primo", "Type of dish": "Pasta", "Main ingredient": "flour and egg", "Variations": "Fettuccine, Pizzoccheri, tagliolini", "Other in... |
Ronald Joseph Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Peter Gibbons in the 1999 film Office Space and Captain Lewis Nixon III in the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
Livingston's other roles include the films Swingers (1996), Adaptation (2002), The Conjuring (2013); and the te... | {"Name": "Ron Livingston", "Caption": "Livingston in 2010", "Birth name": "Ronald Joseph Livingston", "Birth date": "1967 6 5", "Birth place": "Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Yale University", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1992-present", "Spouse(s)": "Rosemarie DeWitt 2009", "Children": "2"} |
Cobalt is a town in Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada. It had a population of 1,118 at the 2016 Census. The population is now closer to 943.
In the early 1900s, the area was heavily mined for silver; the silver ore also contained cobalt. By 1910, the community was the fourth highest producer of silver in the wor... | {"Land": "1.44", "Density": "776.0", "DST": "-4", "Website": "http://www.cobalt.ca/ cobalt.ca"} |
Liberty University (LU) is a private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (Southern Baptist Convention). Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns, Liberty is among the world's largest Christian universities and the l... | {"Motto": "Knowledge Aflamehttp://www.liberty.edu/aboutliberty/index.cfm?PID=6925 Liberty University Quick Facts Liberty.edu August 13, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20171005153158/http://www.liberty.edu/aboutliberty/index.cfm?PID=6925 October 5, 2017 live", "Type": "Private university", "Endowment": "$1.71 bi... |
Altered Space: A 3-D Alien Adventure is a 1991 video game produced for the Nintendo Game Boy.
Gameplay
The player is an astronaut named Humphrey trapped on a spaceship of an alien race known as the Zaks. In addition to avoiding the Zaks, the player must also avoid wardenlike spherical creatures known as Garffs. Humphr... | {"Title": "Altered Space: A 3-D Alien Adventure", "Caption": "North American cover art", "Developer": "Software Creations", "Publisher": "NA \"release-data\" />\n JP \"release-data\" />\n EU \"release-data\" />", "Artist": "Anthony Anderson", "Programmer": "Mike Follin", "Composer": "Geoff Follin", "Released": "NA \"re... |
The Peugeot 405 is a large family car released by the French automaker Peugeot in July 1987, and which continues to be manufactured under licence outside France, having been discontinued in Europe in 1997. It was voted European Car of the Year for 1988 by the largest number of votes in the history of the contest. About... | {"Manufacturer": "Peugeot", "Also called": "Peugeot Pars", "Production": "1987-1995 (Europe)1992-2022 (Iran) 2019-present\n(Azerbaijan)", "Assembly": "France (PSA Peugeot Sochaux; 1987-1997)\n Argentina (Sevel; 1992-2000)\n Azerbaijan (Khazar; 2019-present)\n Chile (Franco Chilena; 1988-2001)\n Egypt (AAV; ... |
Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English television presenter, radio DJ, writer, producer, and businessman. Edmonds first became known as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg before moving to BBC Radio 1 in the UK, presenting the breakfast show for almost 5 years. He has presented various radio shows and ... | {"Name": "Noel Edmonds", "Caption": "Edmonds in 2020", "Birth name": "Noel Ernest Edmonds", "Birth date": "1948 12 22 y", "Birth place": "Ilford, Essex, England", "Occupation": "Television presenter radio DJ writer producer businessman", "Years active": "1968-present", "Spouse(s)": "Gillian Slater 1971 1982 divorced\n ... |
Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and is one of the most selective academic institutions in the world. The 2020-21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United States. Its yield rate of 87... | {"Parent school": "Yale University", "Established": "1810", "School type": "Private law school", "Endowment": "$1.2 billion", "Parent endowment": "$42.3 billionhttps://news.yale.edu/2021/10/14/yale-endowment-earns-402-investment-return-fiscal-2021 Yale endowment earns 40.2% investment return in fiscal 2021 2021-10-14 Y... |
Rom is a recurring character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is played by Max Grodénchik.
Rom is a Ferengi, the son of Keldar and Ishka. He is Quark's younger brother, and the father of Nog. On the show he is often used for comic relief, but over the show's run the character grows in importance. In the early seasons... | {"First appearance": "\"Emissary\" (1993)", "Last appearance": "\"The Dogs of War\" (1999)", "Portrayed by": "Max Grodénchik", "Children": "Nog"} |
PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files are created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript printers.
A PPD also contains the PostScript code (commands) used to invoke features for the print job. As such, PPDs function as drivers for all PostScript printers,... | {"Name": "PostScript Printer Description", "Extension": ".ppd", "MIME type": "text/plain, application/vnd.cups-ppd", "Magic number": "*PPD-Adobe", "Developed by": "Adobe Systems"} |
Massey Ferguson Limited is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer. The company was established in 1953 through the merger of farm equipment makers Massey-Harris of Canada and the Ferguson Company of the United Kingdom. It was based in Toronto, then Brantford, Ontario, Canada, until 1988. The company transferre... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "Gary Moore", "Headquarters": "Duluth, Georgia, United States", "Industry": "Agricultural machinery", "Products": "TractorsCombine harvestersForage harvesters Grape HarvestersSugarcane harvestersBalersFront loadersHay rakePlough toolsTelescopic handlers", "Parent": "AGCO", "Website": "... |
The Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works was a railroad equipment manufacturing company founded by Andrew Carnegie and T.N. Miller in 1865. It was located in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh and since 1907 part of that city.
It repaired an early locomotive known as Bausman's Rhinoceros in April 1867.
St... | {"Industry": "Rail transport", "Fate": "Merged", "Founded": "by Andrew Carnegie and T.N. Miller in 1865", "Defunct": "1901 (Original facility)1919 (ALCO facility)", "Headquarters": "Allegheny, Pennsylvania", "Products": "Steam locomotives and Automobiles"} |
John Moore (1788 - June 17, 1867) was an American statesman and planter from Louisiana. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1840 to 1843 and again from 1851 to 1853. He was a lifelong member of the United States Whig Party.
Biography
John Moore was born in 1788 in Berkeley County, Virginia (no... | {"Name": "John Moore", "Birth date": "1788", "Birth place": "Berkeley County, Virginia (now in West Virginia)", "Death date": "1867 06 17 1788", "Death place": "Franklin, Louisiana"} |
The Peugeot 504 is a mid-size, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive automobile manufactured and marketed by Peugeot from 1968 to 1983 over a single generation, primarily in four-door sedan and wagon configurations - but also as twin two-door coupé and cabriolet configurations as well as pickup truck variants.
The sedan (ber... | {"Manufacturer": "Peugeot SA", "Also called": "Guangzhou-Peugeot GP 7200", "Production": "France: 1968–1983\n Argentina: 1969–1999\n China: 1989–1997\n Kenya: 1975–2004\n Nigeria: 1975–2006\n South Africa: 1970–1985\n Spain: 1977–1980\n Taiwan: 1979–1984", "Designer": "Aldo Brovaronehttp://www.stud... |
The Majipoor series is a series of novels and stories by American writer Robert Silverberg, set on the planet Majipoor. The setting is a mixture of science fiction and fantasy elements.
The series
Books in the series:
Lord Valentine Cycle:
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) , novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Harper, Eos Press, Roc Books", "Published": "y 1980-", "Media type": "Print", "No. of books": "8"} |
Carnival of Carnage is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, released on October 18, 1992, by Psychopathic Records.
Recording sessions for the album took place from 1991 to 1992 at Miller Midi Productions and The Tempermill Studio. The album is the first Joker's Card in the group's Dark ... | {"Released": "October 18, 1992", "Recorded": "1990-92", "Studio": "Miller Midi Productions(Detroit, Michigan)The Tempermill Studio(Ferndale, Michigan)", "Genre": "Horrorcore", "Label": "Psychopathic", "Producer": "Joseph Bruce\n Mike Clark\n Esham\n Chuck Miller"} |
James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, (17 April 1791 - 12 April 1868), styled Viscount Cranborne until 1823, was a British Conservative politician. He held office under The Earl of Derby as Lord Privy Seal in 1852 and Lord President of the Council between 1858 and 1859. He was the father of... | {"Name": "The Marquess of Salisbury", "Term start": "26 February 1858", "Term end": "11 June 1859", "Birth name": "James Brownlow William Cecil", "Birth date": "17 April 1791", "Death date": "12 April 1868 17 April 1791", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Frances Gascoyne 1821 1839 dLady Mary Sackville-West 1... |
Warburg (; Westphalian: Warberich or Warborg) is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in Höxter district and Detmold region. Warburg is the midpoint in the Warburger Börde. Since March 20... | {"Bundesland or state": "Nordrhein-Westfalen", "Kreis / Landkreis or district": "Höxter", "Höhe or elevation": "230", "Fläche or area": "168.71", "PLZ or postal_code": "34414", "Vorwahl or area_code": "0 56 41", "Kfz or licence": "HX", "Gliederung or divisions": "16", "Bürgermeister or mayor": "Tobias ScherfWahlergebni... |
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The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church or Basilica of the Agony, is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane. It enshrines a section of bedrock where Jesus is said to have... | {"Location": "Jerusalem", "Affiliation": "Roman Catholic", "Year consecrated": "June 1924", "Architect(s)": "Antonio Barluzzi", "Style": "Neo-Byzantine", "Completed": "1924"} |
Riddle Box is the third studio album by the American hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse, released in October 1995 on Battery Records and Island Records in association with Psychopathic Records. It is the third Joker's Card in the group's Dark Carnival mythology. It was released a second time by Battery Records and Jive Rec... | {"Released": "October 10, 1995", "Genre": "Horrorcore\ntrip hop https://www.wweek.com/music/2015/10/29/all-13-insane-clown-posse-albums-ranked/ All 13 Insane Clown Posse albums ranked MacMurdo Walker October 29, 2015 Willamette Week November 9, 2021", "Label": "Battery\n Psychopathic\n Island\n Jive", "Producer"... |
The Wraith: Hell's Pit is the ninth studio album by Insane Clown Posse. Released on August 31, 2004, the album is the final chapter of the first Joker's Card series. It is the second album for the 6th Joker Card in the 1st deck, and the group's 19th overall release.
History
Following the release of The Wraith: Shangri... | {"Released": "2004 8 31", "Recorded": "2003-04", "Genre": "Horrorcore MacMurdo> https://www.wweek.com/music/2015/10/29/all-13-insane-clown-posse-albums-ranked/ All 13 Insane Clown Posse Albums Ranked MacMurdo Walker October 29, 2015 Willamette Week November 9, 2021", "Label": "Psychopathic Records", "Producer": "I... |
Ringmaster is the second studio album by American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, released on March 8, 1994, by Psychopathic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in 1993 at The Tempermill Studio. The album is the second Joker's Card in the group's Dark Carnival mythology. The album's lyrics describe ... | {"Released": "March 8, 1994", "Recorded": "1993 at The Disc Ltd. Eastpointe, Michigan", "Genre": "Horrorcorehttps://www.wweek.com/music/2015/10/29/all-13-insane-clown-posse-albums-ranked/ All 13 Insane Clown Posse albums ranked MacMurdo Walker October 29, 2015 Willamette Week November 9, 2021", "Label": "Psychop... |
The Amazing Jeckel Brothers is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, released on May 25, 1999, by Island Records, in association with Psychopathic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1998 to 1999. The album is the fifth Joker's Card in the group's Dark Carnival mytho... | {"Released": "May 25, 1999", "Recorded": "1998-99", "Genre": "Rap rock https://www.wweek.com/music/2015/10/29/all-13-insane-clown-posse-albums-ranked/ All 13 Insane Clown Posse albums ranked MacMurdo Walker October 29, 2015 Willamette Week November 9, 2021", "Label": "Island\n Psychopathic524 661 (Jack)524 659 (... |
The Pixiphone was a range of toy glockenspiels (although they were inaccurately labelled as xylophones on their packaging). The larger Pixiphones had a 'raiser-bar' which could be used to end a note abruptly, rather than letting the sound fade naturally. Although marketed as a children's toy, the Pixiphone could be tun... | {"Name": "Pixiphone", "Background": "percussion", "Hornbostel-Sachs": "111.212", "Hornbostel-Sachs Description": "Sets of percussion sticks", "Developed": "1950s", "Builders": "Chas E. Methven Ltd"} |
The 104th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1995, to January 3, 1997, during the third and fourth years of Bill Clinton's ... | {"Senate President": "Al Gore (D)", "House Speaker": "Newt Gingrich (R)", "Members": "5", "House majority": "Republican", "Senate majority": "Republican"} |
The 103rd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1993, to January 3, 1995, during the final weeks of George H. W. Bush's presid... | {"Senate President": "Dan Quayle (R)\"VP switch\" U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle's term as President of the Senate ended at noon on January 20, 1993, when Al Gore's term began.(until January 20, 1993)Al Gore (D)(from January 20, 1993)", "House Speaker": "Tom Foley (D)", "Members": "5", "House majority": "Democratic",... |
The 102nd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 1991, to January 3, 1993, during the last two years of George H. W. Bush's pr... | {"Senate President": "Dan Quayle (R)", "House Speaker": "Tom Foley (D)", "Members": "5", "House majority": "Democratic", "Senate majority": "Democratic"} |
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England in the late 1960s. It developed from the British mod scene, based on a particular style of Black American soul music with a heavy beat and fast tempo (100 bpm and above).David Nowell The Story of Northern Soul, p. 79 Anova Books, 1999, , acces... | {"Name": "Northern soul", "Image caption": "The clenched fist symbol", "Stylistic origins": "American 1960s R&B and soul music.", "Cultural origins": "1960s, Northern England and North Midlands, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia", "Derivative forms": "Acid jazz rare groove rave culture", "Other genre topics": "Motown Reco... |
Dynamite Chicken is a 1971 American comedy film. Described in its opening credits as "an electronic magazine of American pop culture," it presents a series of interviews, stand-up comedy, countercultural sketches, documentary segments, and agitprop relating to the peace movement, based around a stream of consciousness ... | {"Directed by": "Ernest Pintoff", "Produced by": "Ernest Pintoff", "Written by": "Ernest Pintoff", "Starring": "Richard PryorPaul Krassner", "Distributed by": "Walter Reade Organization"} |
Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his 1997 Comedy Premiere special of the same name. The series follows three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance, origina... | {"Genre": "Comedy drama", "Created by": "Mike Bullen", "Starring": "James Nesbitt Helen Baxendale John Thomson Fay Ripley Robert Bathurst Hermione Norris Jacey Sallés Kimberley Joseph Sean Pertwee Lucy Robinson \nLeanne Best Ceallach Spellman", "Camera setup": "Single-camera", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Or... |
Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff films. Layers of dece... | {"Directed by": "David Cronenberg", "Produced by": "Claude Héroux", "Written by": "David Cronenberg", "Starring": "James Woods\n Sonja Smits\n Deborah Harry\n Peter Dvorsky\n Les Carlson\n Jack Creley\n Lynne Gorman", "Music by": "Howard Shore", "Cinematography": "Mark Irwin", "Edited by": "Ronald Sanders", "Distribute... |
Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American family comedy film directed by Shawn Levy. It is a remake of the 1950 film of the same name. Both films were inspired by the semi-autobiographical book Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and his sister Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. It stars Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, H... | {"Directed by": "Shawn Levy", "Produced by": "Robert Simonds\n Michael Barnathan\n Ben Myron", "Screenplay by": "Sam Harper\n Joel Cohen\n Alec Sokolow", "Story by": "Craig Titley", "Based on": "Cheaper by the Dozen Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey", "Starring": "Steve Martin\n Bonnie Hunt\n Hilary Duff\n... |
The Fly is a 1986 American science fiction horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. Produced by Brooksfilms and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story of the same name and the 1958 film of the same na... | {"Directed by": "David Cronenberg", "Produced by": "Stuart Cornfeldhttps://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=68348 The Fly American Film Institute 2016-07-04 2016-10-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20161023114438/http://www.afi.com/members//catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=68348 live", "Screenplay by"... |
Piper Lisa Perabo (; born October 31, 1976) is an American actress. Following her breakthrough in the comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly (2000), she starred in The Prestige (2006), Angel Has Fallen (2019), and as CIA agent Annie Walker in the USA Network spy drama series Covert Affairs (2010-2014), for which she was nominat... | {"Name": "Piper Perabo", "Caption": "Piper Perabo at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con", "Birth name": "Piper Lisa Perabo", "Birth date": "1976 10 31", "Birth place": "Dallas, Texas, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1997-present", "Spouse(s)": "Stephen Kay 2014", "Alma mater": "Ohio University"} |
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| image_caption = Cityscape of Turpan
| image_... | {"Name in simplified characters": "吐鲁番", "Name in traditional characters": "吐魯番", "Pinyin transcription": "Tǔlǔfān", "Wade-Giles": "Tʻu3-lu3-fan1", "Uyghur script": "تورپان", "Uyghur Latin script": "Turpan", "Uyghur New script": "Turpan", "Uyghur PRC transliteration": "Turpan", "Uyghur name (Cyrillic)": "Турпан", "Disp... |
Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 13 March 1935 - 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. He started writing under the name George Awoonor-... | {"Name": "Kofi Awoonor", "Image size": "150px", "Term start": "1990", "Term end": "1994", "Birth date": "yes 1935 03 13", "Birth place": "Wheta, Gold Coast, Ghana", "Death date": "yes 2013 09 21 1935 03 13", "Death place": "Nairobi, Kenya", "Birth name": "George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams", "Nationality": "Ghanaian"... |
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