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Katherine Wilson Sheppard ( Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 - 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1868. There she became an active member ... | {"Name": "Kate Sheppard", "Caption": "Sheppard photographed in 1905", "Birth name": "Catherine Wilson Malcolm", "Birth date": "yes 1848 3 10", "Birth place": "Liverpool, England", "Death date": "yes 1934 07 13 1848 3 10", "Death place": "Christchurch, New Zealand", "Monuments": "Kate Sheppard National Memorial", "Other... |
Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s. It was originally characterized by a fast tempo (120-145 bpm), a percussion-driven rhythm, and a loud horn section. Musicians from Martinique and Guadeloupe eventually added MIDI instrumentation to their compas style, which de... | {"Name": "Zouk", "Stylistic origins": "Cadence rampa compas cadence-lypso bélé biguine gwo ka", "Cultural origins": "Early 1980s, French Antilles (esp. Guadeloupe and Martinique)", "Typical instruments": "Gwo ka tibwa shak shak brass synthesizer guitar bass guitar drum machine", "Derivative forms": "Zouk-love", "Region... |
Zouk is a Singaporean nightclub located in the Clarke Quay district. Opened in 1991, the brand has since expanded to various cities around Asia and North America. One of the country's most prominent nightclubs, it has won the Singapore Tourism Board's "Best Nightspot Experience" award 6 times, between 1996 and 2007. Zo... | {"Location": "3C River Valley Road, The Cannery, Clarke Quay, Singapore", "Coordinates": "1 17 26 N 103 50 46 E region:SG_type:landmark inline", "Type": "Night club", "Genre(s)": "Various", "Opened": "March 1991", "Owner": "Tulipa", "Seating type": "Standing Room, Reserved", "Capacity": "3,300https://djmag.com/top-100-... |
William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray (November 21, 1869 - October 15, 1956) was an American educator, lawyer, and politician who became active in Oklahoma before statehood as legal adviser to Governor Douglas H. Johnston of the Chickasaw Nation. Although not American Indian, he was appointed by Johnston as the Chi... | {"Image caption": "Murray, 1930s", "Term start": "January 12, 1931", "Term end": "January 15, 1935", "Order 2": "1st Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives", "Governor 2": "Charles N. Haskell", "Successor 2": "Ben Wilson", "Birth name": "William Henry Davis Murray", "Birth date": "1869 11 21 y", "Birth place... |
Johnston Murray (July 21, 1902 - April 16, 1974) was an American lawyer, politician, and the 14th governor of Oklahoma from 1951 to 1955. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Murray was the first Native American to be elected as governor in the United States.Murray was a blood Chickasaw but was not a registered me... | {"Name": "Johnston Murray", "Term start": "January 8, 1951", "Term end": "January 10, 1955", "Birth date": "1902 7 21", "Birth place": "Emet, Indian Territory, U.S. (now Oklahoma)", "Death date": "1974 4 16 1902 7 21", "Death place": "Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Education": "Murray State CollegeOklahoma City Unive... |
The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy is a trilogy of novels by American writer Robert Anton Wilson consisting of The Universe Next Door (1979), The Trick Top Hat (1980), and The Homing Pigeons (1981), each illustrating a different interpretation of quantum physics. They were collected into an omnibus edition in 1988.
Wilson ... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Published": "1988 (Dell Publishing)", "Pages": "560", "ISBN": "978-0-440-50070-4"} |
Robert Alphonso Taft III (born January 8, 1942) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 67th governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Taft political dynasty and Republican Party, Taft previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives, then as Hamilton County commissioner, and as Ohio S... | {"Name": "Bob Taft", "Term start": "January 11, 1999", "Term end": "January 8, 2007", "State house 2": "Ohio", "District 2": "65th", "Predecessor 2": "Frank H. Mayfield", "Successor 2": "John O'Brien", "Birth name": "Robert Alphonso Taft III", "Birth date": "1942 1 8", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Spo... |
Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford Jr. (born May 28, 1960) is an American politician and author who served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district from 1995 to 2001 and again from 2013 to 2019, and also as the 115th governor of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011. He is a member of the Repu... | {"Name": "Mark Sanford", "Term start": "January 15, 2003", "Term end": "January 12, 2011", "Predecessor 2": "Arthur Ravenel", "Successor 2": "Henry Brown", "Birth name": "Marshall Clement Sanford Jr.", "Birth date": "1960 5 28", "Birth place": "Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Jennifer Sullivan 1989 Febru... |
James Hovis Hodges (born November 19, 1956) is an American businessman, attorney, and politician who served as the 114th governor of South Carolina from 1999 to 2003. Since his victory in 1998, Hodges has remained the only Democrat elected to the South Carolina Governor's office since the 1982 election.
Early life and... | {"Name": "Jim Hodges", "Term start": "January 13, 1999", "Term end": "January 15, 2003", "Birth name": "James Hovis Hodges", "Birth date": "1956 11 19", "Birth place": "Lancaster, South Carolina", "Spouse(s)": "Rachel Gardner", "Alma mater": "University of South Carolina (BSBA, JD)"} |
David Muldrow Beasley (born February 26, 1957) is an American politician and the former Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. A member of the Republican Party, he served one term as the 113th Governor of South Carolina from 1995 until 1999 before losing reelection to Democrat Jim Hodges. He als... | {"Name": "David Beasley", "Term start": "April 4, 2017", "Term end": "April 5, 2023", "Lieutenant 1": "Bob Peeler", "State house 2": "South Carolina", "District 2": "56th", "Predecessor 2": "Gary Byrd", "Successor 2": "Denny Neilson", "Birth name": "David Muldrow Beasley", "Birth date": "1957 2 26", "Birth place": "Dar... |
Maxamed Cabdi Yuusuf (, ) (born 1 July 1941) was the Prime Minister of Somalia from November 8, 2003 to November 1, 2004.Somalia - Worldstatesmen.com
Biography
Yusuf was born in Xarardheere district, Mudug 1941 in the former Italian Somaliland. He hails from Awrtable subclan of Darod. Yusuf was appointed Prime Minist... | {"Name": "Muhammad Abdi Yusufمحمد يوسف عبدي", "Term start": "8 November 2003", "Term end": "1 November 2004", "Birth date": "1941 7 1 y", "Birth place": "Harardera, Italian Somaliland"} |
Major Johnny Paul Koroma (9 May 1960 - 1 June 2003/11 August 2017) was a Sierra Leonean military officer who was the head of state of Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998.
A member of the Limba people, Koroma began his military career in 1985, and quickly rose through the ranks of the Sierra Leonean army. Follo... | {"Name": "Johnny Paul Koroma", "Nationality": "Sierra Leonean", "Term start": "May 25, 1997", "Term end": "February 6, 1998", "Birth date": "1960 05 09", "Birth place": "Tombodu, Kono District, British Sierra Leone", "Death date": "2003 06 01 1960 05 09 or 2017 08 11 1960 05 09", "Death place": "Liberia or Sierra Leone... |
QVC (short for "Quality Value Convenience") is an American free-to-air television network and a flagship shopping channel specializing in televised home shopping, owned by Qurate Retail Group. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, QVC broadcasts to more than 350 million household... | {"Launched": "1986 11 24http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/QVC-Inc-Company-History.html History of QVC Inc. FundingUniverse 2021-07-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20120525184840/http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/QVC-Inc-company-History.html May 25, 2012 live", "Picture format": "2160p UHD... |
Fatal Fury, known as in Japan, is a fighting game series developed by SNK for the Neo Geo system.
Games
+ Titles in the Fatal Fury series English title Original platform Release date Ports Fatal Fury: King of Fighters Neo Geo Neo Geo (MVS, AES) Neo Geo CD, Genesis, X68000, SNES, PlayStation 2, Virtual Console, PSN... | {"Title": "Fatal Fury", "Genre": "Fighting", "Developer": "SNKTakaraAspectBandai Namco Studios (Wolves Series)", "Publisher": "SNK", "Creator": "Takashi Nishiyama", "Platforms": "ArcadeDreamcastFM TownsGame BoyWindowsNeo GeoNeo Geo CDNeo Geo Pocket ColorNintendo SwitchPC EnginePlayStationPlayStation 2PlayStation 4PlayS... |
Public holidays in New Zealand (also known as statutory holidays) consist of a variety of cultural, national, and religious holidays that are legislated in New Zealand. Workers can get a maximum of 12 public holidays (eleven national holidays plus one provincial holiday) and a minimum of 20 annual leave days a year.
... | {"Also called": "Statutory holidays, stat holidays", "Observed by": "New Zealanders", "Next time": "yes", "Type": "National, regional"} |
Johann Wilhelm Kinau (22 August 1880 - 31 May 1916), better known by his pseudonym Gorch Fock ("Fock, Gorch", in Webster's Biographical Dictionary (1960), Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.), was a German author. Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco.
Life
Kinau was the eldest child of fisherman ... | {"Name": "Gorch Fock", "Caption": "Gorch Fock", "Birth name": "Johann Wilhelm Kinau", "Birth date": "1880 08 22 y", "Birth place": "Finkenwerder, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire", "Death date": "1916 05 31 1880 08 22 y", "Death place": "Wiesbaden, North Sea", "Nationality": "German", "Other names": "Jakob Holst and G... |
Simon Lucas Baker (born 30 July 1969) is an Australian actor in television and film, as well as a director. He is known for his lead roles in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and The Guardian as Nicholas Fallin and has starred in several Hollywood films.
Early life
Baker was born in Launceston, ... | {"Name": "Simon Baker", "Caption": "Baker in February 2013", "Birth name": "Simon Lucas Baker", "Other names": "\":0\"/> \":0\"/> \":2\" />", "Birth date": "yes 1969 7 30", "Birth place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupation": "Actor Filmmaker", "Years active": "1992-present", "Spouse(s)": "Rebecca Rigg 1998 ... |
Warren Evan Spector (born October 2, 1955) is an American role-playing and video game designer, director, writer, producer and production designer. He is known for creating immersive sim games, which give players a wide variety of choices in how to progress. Consequences of those choices are then shown in the simulated... | {"Name": "Warren Spector", "Caption": "Spector in 2023", "Birth date": "1955 10 2 y", "Alma mater": "Northwestern University (B.S.)University of Texas at Austin (M.A.)", "Occupation": "Role-playing and video game designer\n director\n writer\n producer\n production designer", "Spouse(s)": "Caroline L. Spector 1987"} |
James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose (born 6 April 1935), known as Earl of Kincardine until 1954 and Marquess of Graham between 1954 and 1992, is a Southern Rhodesia-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland and a British Conservative Party politician.
Biography
Parents
The Duke was born in Southern Rhodesia, wher... | {"Name": "The Duke of Montrose", "Image caption": "The Duke of Montrose in 2018", "Birth name": "James Graham", "Birth date": "1935 4 6 y", "Birth place": "Southern Rhodesia", "Predecessor 2": "Seat established", "Spouse(s)": "Catherine Young 1970 2014 d"} |
Aylesbury Grammar School is a grammar school in Aylesbury, in the English county of Buckinghamshire, which educates approximately 1300 students.
Founded in 1598 by Sir Henry Lee, Champion of Queen Elizabeth I, Aylesbury Grammar School celebrated 100 years on its current site in Walton Road in 2007. It is commonly refe... | {"Coordinates": "51.8139 -0.8014 type:edu_region:GB_dim:100 dec inline,title", "Staff": "150 Teaching & Support staff", "Houses": "Denson SkyBlue, Hampden Green, Lee Yellow, Paterson Purple, Phillips Red, Ridley Darkblue", "Publication": "The Aylesburian", "Website": "http://www.ags.bucks.sch.uk"} |
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Linfield University is a private liberal arts college with campuses in McMinnville, and Portland, Oregon. Linfield Wildcats athletics participate in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference. Linfield reported a total of 1,755 students after the fall 2022... | {"Motto": "Connecting Learning, Life and Community", "Type": "Private liberal arts college", "Endowment": "$106.1 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by F... |
The Saskatchewan Progress Party (SPP) is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
The party was the provincial affiliate of the Liberal Party of Canada until 2009. It was named the Saskatchewan Liberal Party until July 18, 2023. It was previously one of the two largest parties in the provinc... | {"Abbreviation": "SPP", "Leader": "Jeff Walters", "President": "Roman TodosExecutive https://saskprogress.com/executive/ Saskatchewan Progress Party 24 July 2023", "Headquarters": "PO Box 825 Regina, SK S4P 3B1Registered Political Parties https://cdn.elections.sk.ca/upload/RPP-Info-for-Website-2023.07.19.pdf Elect... |
Maîtresse (French for "mistress" or "teacher") is a 1975 French sex comedy film co-written and directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Bulle Ogier and, in one of his earliest leading roles, Gérard Depardieu. The film provoked controversy in the United Kingdom and the United States due to its graphic depictions of BDSM.
... | {"Directed by": "Barbet Schroeder", "Written by": "Barbet Schroeder\n Paul Voujargol", "Produced by": "Pierre Andrieux", "Starring": "Bulle Ogier\n Gérard Depardieu\n André Rouyer\n Holger Löwenadler", "Cinematography": "Néstor Almendros", "Edited by": "Denise de Casabianca", "Music by": "Carlos d'Alessio", "Distribute... |
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the official opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s. The party is the successor to the Saskatchewan section of the Co-operative Comm... | {"Leader": "Carla Beck", "President": "Judy Bradley", "Founded": "1932 as the Farmer-Labour Group, became the Saskatchewan CCF in 1934, renamed CCF-NDP in 1961, renamed Saskatchewan NDP in 1967", "Ideology": "Social democracy", "Headquarters": "1122 Saskatchewan DriveRegina, SaskatchewanS4P 0C4", "Political position": ... |
Ralph Lauren ( ; ; born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. He has become well known for his collection of rare automobiles, some of which have been displayed in museum exhib... | {"Name": "Ralph Lauren", "Caption": "Lauren in 2013", "Birth name": "Ralph Lifshitz", "Birth date": "1939 10 14 yes", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Baruch College", "Occupation": "Executive chairman, Ralph Lauren Corporation", "Boards": "Ralph Lauren CorporationClub Monaco", "Spouse(s)": "Ricky L... |
The Golden Key International Honour Society (formerly Golden Key National Honor Society) is an Atlanta, Georgia-based non-profit organizationIRS Search for Charities. founded in 1977 to recognize academic achievement among college and university students.
Golden Key has chapters at colleges and universities in Austral... | {"Founded": "Georgia State University", "Affiliation": "ACHS (former)", "Chapters": "400+", "Members": "2,133,500", "Emphasis": "All-discipline", "Colors": "Navy Blue, Gold, White \n#002f5f #f1b03f #ffffff", "Mission statement": "To enable members to realize their potential through the advancement of academics, leader... |
Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 - June 5, 2001)Carlson, Michael. "L Fletcher Prouty: US officer obsessed by the conspiracy theory of President Kennedy's assassination" (obituary). The Guardian (June 21, 2001). Archived from the original. served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under ... | {"Birth name": "Leroy Fletcher Prouty", "Born": "Springfield, Massachusetts, US", "Died": "McLean, Virginia, US", "Allegiance": "United States", "Awards": "Legion of MeritJoint Service Commendation Medal", "Spouse(s)": "Elizabeth B. Prouty", "Children": "David F. ProutyJane E. ProutyLauren M. Prouty"} |
The New Democratic Party of Manitoba () is a social-democratic political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is the provincial wing of the federal New Democratic Party, and is a successor to the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. It is currently the opposition party in Manitoba.
Formation and early years
In the ... | {"Abbreviation": "NDP", "Leader": "Wab Kinew", "President": "Lonnie Patterson", "Founded": "1961, predecessor Co-operative Commonwealth Federation founded in 1932", "Ideology": "Social democracyChristopher Adams Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters https://books.google.com/books?id=mLQ3Nhdnv5sC&pg=PA129 1... |
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World is a book by L. Fletcher Prouty, a former colonel in the US Air Force, first published by Prentice-Hall in 1973.
Publication history
After initial publication in 1973, Prentice-Hall republished The Secret Team in 1992 and 1997. The b... | {"Publisher": "Prentice-Hall", "Media type": "book", "Pages": "496", "ISBN": "978-0137981731", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"} |
Alessandro Moreschi (11 November 1858 - 21 April 1922) was an Italian chorister of the late 19th century and the only castrato to make solo recordings.
Early life
Alessandro Moreschi was born on 11 November 1858 to Luigi Lorenzo Moreschi (1840-1897) and Rosa Maria Potelli, a Roman Catholic family in the town of Monte ... | {"Name": "Alessandro Moreschi", "Caption": "Moreschi 1900", "Birth date": "11 November 1858", "Birth place": "Monte Compatri, Latium, Papal States (now Latium, Italy)", "Death date": "21 April 1922 11 November 1858", "Death place": "Rome, Italy", "Alma mater": "Scuola di San Salvatore in Lauro", "Occupation": "Opera si... |
The Yukon New Democratic Party (NDP; ) is a social-democratic political party in the Yukon territory of Canada.
The Yukon NDP first formed the government of the territory under the leadership of Tony Penikett from 1985 to 1992, and under the leadership of Piers McDonald from 1996 to 2000. The party's current leader is... | {"Leader": "Kate White", "President": "Jan Stick", "Founded": "1978", "Headquarters": "Whitehorse, Yukon", "Ideology": "Social democracy", "Political position": "Centre-left", "National affiliation": "New Democratic Party"} |
Stephen Henry Lewis (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster, and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s.
During many of those years as leader, his father David Lewis was simultaneously the leader of the federal New... | {"Name": "Stephen Lewis", "Birth name": "Stephen Henry Lewis", "Image": "Stephen Lewis - photo by Gordon Griffiths - 17 April 2009 crop.JPG", "Image caption": "Lewis in 2009", "Term start": "2001", "Term end": "2006", "Office 2": "Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations", "Prime minister 2": "Brian Mulroney", "Predec... |
A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures as its second feature-length film, following Toy Story (1995). Directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Andrew Stanton from a screenplay written by Stanton, Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw and a st... | {"Directed by": "John Lasseter", "Produced by": "Darla K. Anderson\n Kevin Reher", "Screenplay by": "Andrew Stanton\n Donald McEnery\n Bob Shaw", "Story by": "John Lasseter\n Andrew Stanton\n Joe Ranft", "Starring": "Dave Foley\n Kevin Spacey\n Julia Louis-Dreyfus\n Hayden Panettiere", "Music by": "Randy Newman", "Cine... |
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was a British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure and sci-fi novels, plays and stories.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent duri... | {"Birth name": "Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace", "Name": "Edgar Wallace", "Caption": "Wallace in 1928", "Birth date": "1875 4 1 y", "Birth place": "Greenwich, Kent, England", "Death date": "1932 2 10 1875 4 1 y", "Death place": "Beverly Hills, California, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Ivy Maude Caldecott 1901 1918 divorced\n Eth... |
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (20 January 1915 - 27 October 2006), commonly known by his initials GIK, was a Pakistani bureaucrat, politician and statesman who served as the seventh president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. He previously served as Chairman of the Senate from 1985 to 1988 under president Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and was... | {"Name": "Ghulam Ishaq Khan", "Native name": "غلام اسحاق خان", "Image": "Ghulam Ishaq Khan (cropped).JPG", "Term start": "17 August 1988", "Term end": "18 July 1993Acting: 17 August 1988 - 12 December 1988", "Office 2": "13th Minister of Finance, Revenue & Economic Affairs", "President 2": "Fazal Ilahi ChaudhryZia-ul-H... |
Ida Lupino (4 February 1918Recorded in Births Mar 1918 Camberwell Vol. 1d, p. 1019 (Free BMD). Transcribed as "Lupine" in the official births index - 3 August 1995) was a British actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the... | {"Name": "Ida Lupino", "Image": "Ida Lupino Cavalcade of America.JPG", "Alt": "A headshot of Lupino looking up away from the camera", "Caption": "Lupino before performance on the radio series Cavalcade of America", "Birth date": "yes 1918 02 04", "Birth place": "Herne Hill, London, England", "Death date": "yes 1995 08 ... |
Wasim Sajjad (; born 30 March 1941) is a Pakistani conservative politician and lawyer who served as the acting president of Pakistan for two non-consecutive terms and as the Chairman of the Senate between 1988 and 1999.
Born in Jalandhar, British India, Sajjad's father (Justice Sajjad Ahmad Jan) went on to serve as a ... | {"Name": "Wasim Sajjad", "Native name language": "ur", "Term start": "2 December 1997", "Term end": "1 January 1998", "Prime minister 2": "Moeenuddin Qureshi (Caretaker) Benazir Bhutto", "Predecessor 2": "Ghulam Ishaq Khan", "Successor 2": "Farooq Leghari", "Birth name": "Wasim Sajjad", "Birth date": "yes 1941 03 30", ... |
Sir Donald Maclean (9 January 1864 - 15 June 1932) was a British Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Leader of the Opposition between 1918 and 1920 and served in the Cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald's National Government as President of the Board of Education from 1931 until his death in June the followi... | {"Name": "Sir Donald Maclean", "Birth name": "Donald Maclean", "Term start": "14 December 1918", "Term end": "12 February 1920", "Order 2": "President of the Liberal Party", "Leader 2": "H. H. Asquith", "Predecessor 2": "J. M. Robertson", "Successor 2": "J. A. Spender", "Birth date": "9 January 1864", "Birth place": "F... |
Nancy Walker (born Anna Myrtle Swoyer;Often mistranscribed as "Smoyer" May 10, 1922 - March 25, 1992) was an American actress and comedian of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director (lending her talents to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, on which she also made several guest appearances). D... | {"Name": "Nancy Walker", "Caption": "Trailer for Best Foot Forward (1943)", "Birth name": "Anna Myrtle Swoyer", "Birth date": "1922 5 10 yes", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "1992 03 25 1922 5 10 yes", "Death place": "Studio City, Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress,... |
John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, (15 September 1929 - 1 June 2018), known as John Julius Norwich, was an English popular historian, travel writer, and television personality.
Biography
Youth
Norwich was born at the Alfred House Nursing Home on Portland Place in Marylebone, London, on 15 September 1929. He w... | {"Born": "y 1929 9 15", "Died": "y 2018 6 1 1929 9 15", "Pen name": "John Julius Norwich", "Occupation": "Historian travel writer television personality", "Education": "Upper Canada College\n Eton College", "Alma mater": "University of Strasbourg\n New College, Oxford", "Children": "Artemis CooperJason Cooper, 3rd Vi... |
DymphnaNational Shrine of St. Dymphna, Massillon, Ohio is a Christian saint honoured in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. According to tradition, she lived in the 7th century and was martyred by her father.
The story of Dymphna was first recorded in the 13th century by a canon of the Church of Aubert of Avranc... | {"Born": "Ireland", "Died": "Geel, Belgium", "Feast": "\"rm2004\" /> \"surius\" />", "Canonized": "620", "Attributes": "lamp"} |
Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari (; 29 May 194020 October 2010), was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 14 November 1993 until resigning on 2 December 1997. He was the first Baloch to be elected as President.
Born into a Baloch tribal and influential feudal family, Leghari was educated... | {"Name": "Farooq Leghariفاروق لغاری", "Image caption": "Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari", "Term start": "14 November 1993", "Term end": "2 December 1997", "Office 2": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "Prime minister 2": "Benazir Bhutto", "Predecessor 2": "Abdul Sattar (acting)", "Successor 2": "Aseff Ahmad Ali", "Birth name": ... |
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (; ; 2 November 1929 - 7 March 2022) was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the ninth President of Pakistan from January 1998 until his resignation in June 2001, and prior to that as a senator from Punjab in 1997. Before entering politics, Tarar served as senior justice of the Supreme ... | {"Name": "Muhammad Rafiq Tarar", "Native name": "محمد رفیق تارڑ", "Native name language": "ur", "Image caption": "Tarar in 2000", "Term start": "1 January 1998", "Term end": "20 June 2001", "Order 2": "Member of Senate of Pakistan", "Successor 2": "Rafique Rajwana", "Birth name": "Muhammad Rafiq", "Birth date": "1929 1... |
Ludhiana ( ) is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Punjab.164.100.161.224
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Ludhiana State: Punjab Category: Business & Industrial Centre, Tier 2 1 ... The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 2011 census and distributed over , making Ludhiana the mo... | {"Named for": "Lodi (Pashtun tribe)", "Founded by": "Lodi dynasty", "Type": "Mayor-Council", "Body": "Ludhiana Municipal Corporation", "Rank": "22nd in India, 1st in Punjab", "Density": "auto", "Website": "www.ludhiana.nic.in"} |
was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being subsequently succeeded by Satoru Iwata. During his 53-year tenure, Yamauchi transformed Nintendo from a hanafuda card-making company that had been active solely in Japan into a multibill... | {"Name": "Hiroshi Yamauchi", "Term start": "25 April 1949", "Term end": "24 May 2002", "Native name": "山内溥", "Native name language": "Japanese", "Birth date": "1927 11 7 y", "Birth place": "Kyoto, Empire of Japan", "Death date": "2013 9 19 1927 11 7 y", "Death place": "Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan", "Alma mater": "Waseda Uni... |
Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell; October 16, 1923 - April 10, 1965) was an American actress. Darnell progressed from modeling as a child to acting in theater and film. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big-budget films for 20th Century Fo... | {"Name": "Linda Darnell", "Image": "Linda Darnell - publicity.JPG", "Caption": "Darnell c. 1940s", "Birth name": "Monetta Eloyse Darnell", "Birth date": "1923 10 16 yes", "Birth place": "Dallas, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "1965 04 10 1923 10 16 yes", "Death place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Resting place": "Union Hi... |
Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby ( 28 December 1898 – 19 August 1957) was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. He identified and characterized both the jet stream and the long waves in the westerlies that were later named Rossby waves.
... | {"Fields": "MeteorologyPhysical oceanographyAtmospheric chemistry", "Institutions": "Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of ChicagoWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionSwedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute", "Doctoral students": "Chaim L. PekerisHorace R. ByersHarry WexlerReid BrysonYe DuzhengHsi... |
The River Rother flows from Empshott in Hampshire, England, to Stopham in West Sussex, where it joins the River Arun. At long, most of the river lies within West Sussex except for the first which lie in Hampshire. The upper river, from its source to Midhurst, has been used to power watermills, with the earliest reco... | {"Mouth": "River Arun", "Location": "Pulborough, West Sussex", "Left": "River Lod", "Right": "Costers Brook"} |
The title Bailiff of Guernsey has been used since at least the 13th century and indicated the leading citizen of Guernsey.
The 90th and current Bailiff is Richard McMahon.
History
A Bailli, the early Norman name for Bailiff was the person who held and preserved the territory for the Duke of Normandy via the Sénécha... | {"Post": "Bailiff of Guernsey", "Flag size": "100px", "Flag border": "yes", "Flag caption": "Flag of Guernsey", "Incumbent": "Richard McMahon", "Incumbent since": "11 May 2020", "Style": "His Excellency", "Member of": "Royal Court\n Court of Appeal\n States of Guernsey", "Appointer": "Monarch of the United Kingdom", "A... |
Niles Crane (born 1957) is a fictional character on the American sitcom Frasier, a spin-off of the television show Cheers. He was portrayed by David Hyde Pierce. Niles is the younger brother of Frasier Crane (played by Kelsey Grammer).
Pierce was hired because Frasier producers saw his headshot and commented on how mu... | {"First appearance": "\"The Good Son\" (episode 1.01)", "Last appearance": "\"Goodnight, Seattle (Part 2)\" (episode 11.24)", "Portrayed by": "David Hyde Pierce Pierce Doesn't Even Like Niles Crane The Los Angeles Times April 6, 1996 http://articles.latimes.com/1996-04-06/entertainment/ca-55421_1_niles-crane 2010-08-... |
The Huntsman was the winner of the 1862 Grand National steeplechase run on 12 March at Aintree near Liverpool, England. The winner was owned by Viscount de Namur and trained in France by Yorkshire born trainer Henry (Harry) Jeremiah Lamplugh who also chose to ride the horse himself. The Huntsman had previously finished... | {"Sire": "Tupsley", "Grandsire": "Dr Faustus", "Dam": "The Abbess", "Damsire": "Young Augustus", "Sex": "Stallion", "Foaled": "1853", "Country": "Ireland", "Owner": "Viscount de Namur\n Baron de la Motte", "Trainer": "Harry Lamplugh"} |
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Group Captain Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, (9 June 1906 - 31 December 1988) was a British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath (1931-1945), business magnate and philanthropist. Guinness also financed the purchase of the Calypso, leasing her for one symbolic franc a year to famou... | {"Honorific prefix": "Group Captain", "Name": "Loel Guinness", "Honorific suffix": "GBR 100 OBE", "Term start": "1931", "Term end": "1945", "Birth date": "1906 6 9 y", "Birth place": "Manhattan, New York, U.S.New York, New York, Extracted Birth Index, 1878-19091910 United States Federal Census", "Death date": "1988 12 ... |
The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins. They are located in Jacksonville, Florida, and are named for shrimp caught in the area. The team plays their home games at 121 Financial Ballpark, which opened in 2003. They p... | {"Class": "Triple-A (2021-present)", "Previous classes": "Double-A (1970-2020)\nTriple-A (1962-1968)", "League": "International League (2022-present)", "Division": "East Division", "Previous teams": "Los Angeles Dodgers (2001-2008)\nDetroit Tigers (1995-2000)\nSeattle Mariners (1991-1994)\nMontreal Expos (1984-1990)\nK... |
Slow Burn is a 2005 American drama thriller film directed by Wayne Beach and starring Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock and LL Cool J. It is notable for the extended period between production and eventual release. A crime drama, the film was produced in 2003, was finally given a showing at the 2005 Toronto International Film ... | {"Directed by": "Wayne Beach", "Produced by": "Stephen Break", "Written by": "Wayne BeachAnthony Walton", "Starring": "Ray Liotta\n LL Cool J\n Mekhi Phifer\n Bruce McGill\n Chiwetel Ejiofor\n Guy Torry\n Taye Diggs\n Jolene Blalock", "Music by": "Jeff Rona", "Cinematography": "Wally Pfister", "Edited by": "Kristina Bo... |
OctaMED is a music tracker for the Amiga, written by Teijo Kinnunen. The first version, 1.12, was released in 1989 under the name MED, which stands for Music EDitor. In April 1990, version 2.00 was released with MIDI support as the main improvement. In 1991 the first version with the name OctaMED was released, so-calle... | {"Original author(s)": "Teijo Kinnunen et al.", "Developer(s)": "RBF Software", "Initial release": "1989", "Website": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110516074947/http://www.medsoundstudio.com/"} |
Penrith (, , ) is a market town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is less than outside the Lake District National Park and about south of Carlisle. It is between the Rivers Petteril and Eamont and just north of the River Lowther. The town had a population of 15,181 at t... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021 census)Penrith https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/northwestengland/admin/eden/E04012411__penrith/ City population 25 October 2022", "Unitary authority": "Westmorland and Furness", "Ceremonial county": "Cumbria", "UK Parliament": "Penrith and The Border", "Postcode... |
Alexander O'Neal (born November 15, 1953) is an American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger from Natchez, Mississippi.
O'Neal came to prominence in the mid-1980s as a solo artist, with eleven Top 40 singles on the US R&B chart, three of which also reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. However, he enjoyed more ... | {"Born": "Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.", "Origin": "Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.", "Genres": "R&B soul funk rock pop", "Labels": "Tabu Epic One World Eagle Eminence", "Website": "alexander-oneal.com"} |
Miriam Waddington (née Dworkin; 23 December 1917 – 3 March 2004) was a Canadian poet, short story writer and translator. She was part of a Montreal literary circle that included F. R. Scott, Irving Layton and Louis Dudek.
Biography
Miriam Waddington was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she studied English at the University... | {"Pen name": "E. B. MerritPseudonyms Joseph F. Clarke BCA 1977 114", "Born": "1917 12 23 y", "Died": "2004 03 03 1917 12 23 y", "Citizenship": "Canadian"} |
Huángbò Xīyùn (, ) (died 850) was an influential master of Zen Buddhism during the Tang dynasty.
Huángbò was a disciple of Baizhang Huaihai (720-840), and the teacher of Linji Yixuan (died 866) (Wade-Giles: Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: Rinzai Gigen).
Biography
Sources
Very little about Huángbò's life is known for cer... | {"Born": "China", "Died": "Mount Huangbo", "Nationality": "Chinese", "Religion": "Buddhism", "Title": "Ch'an master"} |
Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became infamous for their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding. The two lived in seclusion in their Harlem brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of... | {"Name": "Homer Collyer", "Birth name": "Homer Lusk Collyer", "Birth date": "1881 11 06 yes", "Birth place": "Manhattan, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "1947 3 21 1881 11 6 yes", "Death place": "Manhattan, New York, U.S.", "Death cause": "Starvation and heart disease", "Resting place": "Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn... |
Debenhams plc was a British department store chain operating in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1778 as a single store in London and grew to 178 locations across those countries, also owning the Danish department store chain Magasin du Nord. In its final years, its headquarter... | {"Type": "Private limited company", "Founded": "1778 y (by William Clark)1813 y (as Clark & Debenham)", "Defunct": "15 May 2021", "Fate": "Liquidation, folded into Boohoo.com", "Headquarters": "334-348 Oxford Street, London, England, UK", "Industry": "Fashion online retail Beauty store", "Products": "Fashion clothing\... |
Berwick-upon-Tweed was a local government district and borough in Northumberland in the north-east of England, on the border with Scotland. The district had a resident population of 25,949 according to the 2001 census, which also notes that it is the most ethnically homogeneous in the country, with 99.6% of the populat... | {"Type": "Berwick-upon-Tweed Council", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "berwick-upon-tweed.gov.uk"} |
James Clark (born 23 February 1964) is a software engineer and creator of various open-source software including groff, expat and several XML specifications.
Education and early life
Clark was born in London and educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.
Ca... | {"Name": "James Clark", "Birth name": "James Jackson Clark", "Birth date": "yes 1964 02 23", "Birth place": "London, England", "Education": "Charterhouse School", "Alma mater": "University of Oxford (BA)", "Known For": "groff\n Expat\n DSSSL\n XSLT\n XPath\n TREX\n RELAX NG\n Ballerina", "Spouse(s)": "Joy Chanpen", "Ch... |
Alnwick was a local government district of Northumberland, England. Its council was based in the town of Alnwick and the district had a population of 31,029 according to the 2001 census.
It was one of the most rural and sparsely populated districts in the United Kingdom, having a resident population of 32,300 in an ar... | {"Type": "Alnwick District Council", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "alnwick.gov.uk"} |
Renoise is a digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MIDI and OSC equipment. The main difference between Renoise and other music soft... | {"Original author(s)": "Eduard Müller (Taktik) and Zvonko Tesic (Phazze)", "Developer(s)": "Eduard Müller (Taktik), Lucio Asnaghi (kRAkEn/gORe) and Erik Jälevik", "Initial release": "2002", "Type": "Digital audio workstation, Tracker", "License": "Proprietary", "Website": "http://www.renoise.com/"} |
The Protection of Children Act 1978 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that criminalized indecent photographs of children. The Act applies in England and Wales. Similar provision for Scotland is contained in the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 and for Northern Ireland in the Protection of Children ... | {"Short title": "Protection of Children Act 1978", "Parliament": "Parliament of the United Kingdom", "Long title": "An Act to prevent the exploitation of children by making indecent photographs of them; and to penalise the distribution, showing and advertisement of such indecent photographs.", "Year": "1978", "Territor... |
Jan Kodeš (born 1 March 1946) is a Czech former professional tennis player. A three-time major singles champion, Kodeš was one of the premier players in the early 1970s.
Kodeš's greatest success was achieved on the clay courts of the French Open, where he won the singles title in 1970 and 1971. However, he also won Wi... | {"Residence": "Prague, Czech Republic", "Born": "Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)", "Height": "1.75", "Turned pro": "1968 (amateur from 1966)", "Retired": "1983", "Plays": "Right-handed (one-handed backhand)", "Prize money": "$693,197", "Int. Tennis HoF": "jan-kodes", "Career record": "313-183", "Career titl... |
Robert Primrose Wilson (born 30 October 1941) is a former Scotland international football goalkeeper and later broadcaster.
As a player, Wilson spent 11 years at Arsenal where he made over 300 appearances. He also featured as a youth and senior international for Scotland. After retiring as a player, he turned to coac... | {"Name": "Bob WilsonOBE", "Picture caption": "Wilson in 2009", "Full name": "Robert Primrose Wilson", "Birth date": "1941 10 30 y", "Birth place": "Chesterfield, England", "Position": "Goalkeeper", "Club 1 years": "1961-1963", "Club 1": "Wolverhampton Wanderershttp://www.wolvesheroes.com/2010/10/27/bob-wilson-obe-and-h... |
Čakovec (; ; ; ) is a city in Northern Croatia, located around north of Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Čakovec is both the county seat and the largest city of Međimurje County, the northernmost, smallest and most densely populated Croatian county.
Population
The city administrative area of Čakovec includes the followi... | {"Named for": "Csák I Hahót", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+2", "Website": "cakovec.hr"} |
A buoyancy compensator (BC), also called a buoyancy control device (BCD), stabilizer, stabilisor, stab jacket, wing or adjustable buoyancy life jacket (ABLJ), depending on design, is a type of diving equipment which is worn by divers to establish neutral buoyancy underwater and positive buoyancy at the surface, when ne... | {"Acronym": "BC or BCD", "Other names": "Buoyancy control device", "Uses": "To adjust and control the overall buoyancy of the diver", "Related items": "Backplate and wing"} |
Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 - October 1, 1993) was an American murder victim whose case garnered national media attention. On October 1, 1993, at age twelve, she was kidnapped at knifepoint during a slumber party at her mother's home in Petaluma, California, and strangled to death. Richard Allen Davis was convi... | {"Name": "Polly Klaas", "Birth name": "Polly Hannah Klaas", "Birth date": "1981 01 03", "Birth place": "Fairfax, California, U.S.", "Death date": "1993 10 01 1981 01 03", "Death place": "Petaluma, California, U.S.", "Body discovered": "December 4, 1993", "Death cause": "Strangulation", "Occupation": "Student", "Known F... |
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William Montagu, alias de Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Baron Montagu, King of Man (1301 - 30 January 1344) was an English nobleman and loyal servant of King Edward III.
The son of William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu, he entered ... | {"Name": "The Earl of Salisbury", "Caption": "William Montagu from the Salisbury Roll, c. 1463. He displays the Montagu arms (modern) Argent, three fusils conjoined in fess gules on his breastplate, whilst his maternal arms of de Montfort (Bendy of eight or and azure)As shown in the Dering Roll (1270/80), no 83 \"Peres... |
The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle, also Family-Go-Round) is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist Bil Keane and, since Keane's death in 2011, is written, inked and rendered (colored) by his son Jeff Keane. The strip generally uses a single captioned panel with a round border, hence the original n... | {"Author(s)": "Jeff Keane", "Current status/schedule": "Running", "Alternate name(s)": "The Family CircleFamily-Go-Round", "Syndicate(s)": "(Current) King Features Syndicate(Previous) Register and Tribune Syndicate (1960-1986)", "Genre(s)": "Humor, gag cartoon, family values, religious", "Launch date": "February 29, 19... |
The murder of Megan Nicole Kanka (December 7, 1986 - July 29, 1994) occurred in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Seven-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by her neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas, after he lured her into his house; Timmendequas had previously been convicted of child moles... | {"Title": "Murder of Megan Kanka", "Caption": "Megan Kanka", "Location": "Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, U.S.", "Date": "1994 07 29", "Type of attack": "Child murder by ligature strangulation, child rape, child abduction", "Motive": "Sexual gratification", "Victim": "Megan Nicole Kanka, aged 7", "Perpetr... |
Grete Waitz (, 1 October 195319 April 2011) was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons, women's division, between 1978 and 1988, th... | {"Name": "Grete Waitz", "Image size": "160 px", "Image caption": "Waitz in New York City in 2010", "Header color": "lightsteelblue", "Birth date": "1953 10 1 y", "Place of birth": "Oslo, Norway", "Death date": "2011 4 19 1953 10 1 y", "Place of death": "Oslo, Norway", "Height": "5 ft 8 in m", "Weight": "120 lb kg", "Co... |
Nadezhda Konstantinovna KrupskayaScientific transliteration: Nadežda Konstantinovna Krupskaja. (; 27 February 1939)McNeal, 13. was a Russian revolutionary and the wife of Vladimir Lenin.
Krupskaya was born in Saint Petersburg to an aristocratic family that had descended into poverty, and she developed strong views abo... | {"Name": "Nadezhda Krupskaya", "Native name": "instead.-->", "Native name language": "ru<!--ISO 639-1 code, e.g., \"fr\" for French. If more than one, use in", "Image caption": "Nadezhda Krupskaya, 1890s", "Term start": "1929", "Term end": "27 February 1939", "Birth name": "Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya", "Birth d... |
Central Macedonia (, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, consisting of the central part of the geographical and historical region of Macedonia. With a population of almost 1.8 million, it is the second most populous region in Greece after Attica.
Geography
The region of Central Macedonia is situ... | {"Density": "auto", "DST": "+3", "ISO 3166 code": "GR-B", "Website": "http://www.pkm.gov.gr"} |
Dobri Hristov (; 14 December 1875 - 23 January 1941) was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra.
Hristov was born in Varna, then in the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1903 (under the ... | {"Name": "Dobri Hristov", "Image": "BASA-1271K-1-161-57-Dobri Hristov.JPG", "Native name": "Добри Христов", "Birth date": "December 14th, 1875", "Nationality": "Bulgarian", "Occupation": "Composer"} |
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It consists of the northeastern parts of the country, comprising the eastern part of the region of Macedonia along with the region of Western Thrace, and the islands of Thasos and Samothrace.
Administration
Administrative histor... | {"Density": "auto", "DST": "+3", "ISO 3166 code": "GR-A", "Website": "http://www.pamth.gov.gr"} |
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The South Aegean (, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It consists of the Cyclades and Dodecanese island groups in the central and southeastern Aegean Sea.
Administration
The South Aegean region was established in the 1987 administrative reform. With ... | {"Density": "auto", "DST": "+3", "ISO 3166 code": "GR-L", "Website": "http://www.pnai.gov.gr/"} |
The North Aegean Region (, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, and the smallest of the thirteen by population. It comprises the islands of the north-eastern Aegean Sea, called the North Aegean islands, except for Thasos and Samothrace, which belong to the Greek region of Eastern Macedonia and Thr... | {"Density": "auto", "DST": "+3", "ISO 3166 code": "GR-K", "Website": "http://www.pvaigaiou.gov.gr/"} |
Western Greece Region (, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It comprises the western part of continental Greece and the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It occupies an area of and its population is, according to the 2011 census, at 679,796 inhabitants. The capital of the Western ... | {"Density": "auto", "DST": "+3", "ISO 3166 code": "GR-G", "Website": "http://www.pde.gov.gr/"} |
Western Macedonia (, ) is one of the thirteen regions of Greece, consisting of the western part of Macedonia. Located in north-western Greece, it is divided into the regional units of Florina, Grevena, Kastoria, and Kozani. With a population of approximately 255,000 people, as of 2021, the region had one of the highest... | {"Density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "GR-C", "Website": "https://www.pdm.gov.gr/", "DST": "+3"} |
thumb|right|300px|Arms of the Boscawen family, Earls and Viscounts Falmouth: Ermine, a rose gules barbed and seeded proper; crest, per Debrett's Peerage, 1968: A falcon close proper; supporters: Two sea lions erect on their tails argent gutte de larmes
Viscount Falmouth is a title that has been created twice, first in ... | {"Creation date": "1674 (first creation) 18 June 1720 (second creation)", "Peerage": "Peerage of England (first creation) Peerage of Great Britain (second creation)", "First holder": "George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (first creation) Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth (second creation)", "Heir apparent"... |
The Freedom Tower () is a building in Miami, Florida. It was designed by Schultze and Weaver and is currently used as a contemporary art museum and a central office to different disciplines in the arts associated with Miami Dade College. It is located at 600 Biscayne Boulevard on Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus.
O... | {"Location": "Miami, Florida, U.S.", "Built": "1925http://www.flheritage.com/services/sites/fht/record_t.cfm?ID=189&type=c&index=13 Freedom Tower June 24, 2007 Florida Heritage Tourism Interactive Catalog Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190832/http://www.flh... |
A diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for diving. The most commonly recognised application is to reduce pressurized breathing gas to ambient pressure and deliver it to the diver, but there are also other types of gas pressure regulator used for diving applications. The g... | {"Other names": "Demand valve", "Uses": "Reduces pressurized breathing gas to ambient pressure and delivers it to the diver", "Inventor": "Manuel Théodore Guillaumet (1838), Benoît Rouquayrol (1860), Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan (1942), Ted Eldred (1950)", "Related items": "Lightweight demand helmetFull-face ... |
Yaroslavl Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by the Tver, Moscow, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma, and Vologda oblasts.
This geographic location affords the oblast the advantages of proximity to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Additionally, the ci... | {"English name": "Yaroslavl Oblast", "Russian name": "Ярославская область", "Coat of arms caption": "Coat of arms", "Flag caption": "Flag", "Type of polity": "Oblast", "Type of polity article": "Oblasts of Russia", "Area in sq. km": "36177", "Area rank": "60th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-YAR", "Leader title": "Governor... |
Nagpur (pronunciation: [naːɡpuːɾ]) is the third-largest city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Known as the "Orange City", Nagpur is the 13th largest city in India by population and according to an Oxford's Economics report, Nagpur is projected to be the fifth fastest growing city in the world from 2019 to 2035 with ... | {"Named for": "Nag River", "Founded by": "Bakht Buland Shah", "Type": "Mayor-Council", "Body": "Nagpur Municipal Corporation Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority", "Density": "auto", "Metro density": "2,497,870", "Rank": "India: 13th Maharashtra : 3rd Vidarbha: 1st", "Website": "www.nagpur.gov.in www.nmc... |
The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) () is the air force of Norway. It was established as a separate arm of the Norwegian Armed Forces on 10 November 1944. The RNoAF's peacetime establishment is approximately 2,430 employees (officers, enlisted staff and civilians). 600 personnel also serve their draft period in the R... | {"Allegiance": "Kingdom of Norway", "Type": "Air force", "Role": "Aerial warfare", "Size": "3,650 \"World Air Forces 2023\"> https://www.flightglobal.com/download?ac=90688 World Air Forces 2023 Flight Global Flightglobal Insight 2022 23 November 2022", "Part of": "Norwegian Armed Forces", "Motto(s)": "no K... |
The Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) in Kassel was a German aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s. The company is remembered mostly for its military aircraft built for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
History
The firm was founded on April 1, 1930 as Fieseler Flugzeugbau Kassel by World War I flying ace an... | {"Founded": "1930", "Defunct": "15 October 1947", "Headquarters": "Kassel, Germany", "Industry": "Aircraft manufacture", "Products": "Aircraft"} |
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985. Her ... | {"Name": "Joan Benoit", "Image caption": "Benoit in 2008", "Header color": "B0C4DE", "Full name": "Joan Benoit Samuelson", "Nationality": "American", "Birth date": "1957 05 16", "Place of birth": "Cape Elizabeth, Maine, U.S.", "Height": "5 ft 2 in", "Weight": "100 lb", "Country": "USA", "Sport": "Track and field athlet... |
The College of the Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was founded by educators Benedict Joseph Fenwick and Thomas F. Mulledy in 1843 under the auspices of the Society of Jesus. Holy Cross was the first Catholic college in New England and is among the oldest Catholic inst... | {"Motto": "In hoc signo vinces (Latin)", "Type": "Private liberal arts college", "Endowment": "$1.273 billion (2022)Holy Cross at a Glance https://www.holycross.edu/about-holy-cross/holy-cross-glance 2022-05-11 College of the Holy Cross en April 17, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190417183911/https://www.holycross.... |
Cameron Lyndon Bennett (born in September 1955), better known as Bud Lee, is an American adult film director who is an AVN Hall of Fame member and also works as an agent for 101 Modeling, Inc.
Lee was married to adult film actresses Hyapatia Lee (1980-1992). and Asia Carrera (1995-2003). He took the last name of his f... | {"Name": "Bud Lee", "Image": "Bud Lee, September 2006.JPG", "Caption": "Lee in 2006", "Birth name": "Cameron Lyndon Bennett", "Birth date": "1955 9", "Birth place": "Indianapolis, Indiana, US", "Occupation": "Film director", "Spouse(s)": "Hyapatia Lee (1980-1992; divorced)https://books.google.com/books?id=Mx0DAAAAMBAJ&... |
Lake Nero () is a shallow, highly eutrophic lake in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. The lake has an area of 54.4 km2, a maximum length of 13 km, width 8 km and depth 3.6 m. The bottom of the lake is covered with thick layer of silt sapropel (a sort of ooze used as fertilizer and for other purposes).
The lake is estimated to... | {"Location": "Yaroslavl Oblast", "Coordinates": "57 9 53 N 39 26 12 E type:waterbody_region:RU inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Sara (Сара),https://translate.academic.ru/сара/xx/ru/ Перевод сара со всех языков на русский Ishnya (Ишня), Kuchibosh (Кучибош), Mazikha (Мазиха), Varus (Варус),https://translate.academic.... |
The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is a US labor law governing the federal law of occupational health and safety in the private sector and federal government in the United States. It was enacted by Congress in 1970 and was signed by President Richard Nixon on December 29, 1970. Its main goal is to ensure th... | {"Nicknames": "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970", "Other short titles": "OSH Act", "Long title": "An Act to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women; by authorizing enforcement of the standards developed under the Act; by assisting and encouraging the States in their efforts to a... |
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato (born August 1, 1937) is an American attorney and Republican former politician from the state of New York.
In 1980, after 25 years of involvement in the politics and government of Long Island,The Almanac of American Politics 1996, by Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa, National Journal Inc., 19... | {"Name": "Al D'Amato", "Term start": "January 3, 1995", "Term end": "January 3, 1999", "Birth name": "Alfonse Marcello D'Amato", "Birth date": "1937 8 1", "Birth place": "Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Penelope D'Amato 1960 1995 divorcedKaturia Smith 2004 2017 sep. separated", "Education": "Syracuse Univ... |
Josephine Edna O'Brien (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Elected to Aosdána by her fellow artists, she was honoured with the title Saoi in 2015 and the "UK and Ireland Nobel" David Cohen Prize in 2019, whilst France made her Commandeur de l'Ordre des Art... | {"Born": "1930 12 15 y", "Language": "English (Hiberno-English)", "Occupation": "Novelist\n memoirist\n playwright\n poet\n short story writer", "Years active": "1960-", "Notable awards": "Kingsley Amis Award 1962 The Yorkshire Post Book Award (Book of the Year) 1970 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction 1990 Premio... |
The Sheksna () is a river in the Belozersky, Kirillovsky, Sheksninsky, and Cherepovetsky districts of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Volga. It is long, and the area of its basin .«Река Шексна», Russian State Water Registry The principal tributaries of the Sheksna are the Sizma (left) and the K... | {"Native name": "ru Шексна", "Mouth": "Rybinsk Reservoir", "Coordinates": "59.0863 37.7624 it region:RU_type:river", "Basin size": "19000 km2 sqmi on", "Progression": "Rybinsk Reservoir→"} |
The House of the Dead (, Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma) is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-2The first part was published in 1860 and the second one in 1862. The novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1862. in the journal VremyaJoseph Frank, Introduction to The House of the Dead and Poor Folk,... | {"Original title": "Записки из Мёртвого дома (Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma)", "Language": "Russian", "Publisher": "Vremya", "Pages": "368"} |
The Kotorosl () is a right tributary of the Volga in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. The river flows from Lake Nero near Rostov past Karabikha and enters the Volga in Yaroslavl. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .«Река Которосль (Которость, Котороть, Векса)», Russian State Water Registry
In the medieval ages, the ri... | {"Native name": "ru Которосль", "Mouth": "Volga", "Coordinates": "57.6161 N 39.9058 E source:wikidata-and-enwiki-cat-tree_region:RU it", "Basin size": "6370 km2 sqmi on"} |
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