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William McKeeva Bush, (born 20 January 1955) is a Caymanian politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of the Cayman Islands and former Premier of the Cayman Islands. Bush, the former leader of the Cayman Democratic Party, is the elected member for the constituency of West Bay West. He is the territory's longest eve... | {"Name": "McKeeva Bush", "Term start": "31 May 2017", "Term end": "12 October 2022", "Office 2": "Leader of Government Business", "Monarch 2": "Elizabeth II", "Governor 2": "Peter Smith Bruce Dinwiddy", "Predecessor 2": "Kurt Tibbetts", "Successor 2": "Kurt Tibbetts", "Birth name": "William McKeeva Bush", "Birth date":... |
Pound Hill is one of 14 neighbourhoods within the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England. Pound Hill is located on the east of Crawley. It is bordered by Three Bridges and Manor Royal to the west and Maidenbower to the south.
It is the largest of the 13 neighbourhoods of Crawley. Until 2004, it was the first one to b... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2001 data)", "District": "Crawley", "Shire county": "West Sussex", "UK Parliament": "Crawley", "Postcode district": "RH", "Dialling code": "01293", "OS grid reference": "TQ295375"} |
Maximumrocknroll, often written as Maximum Rocknroll and usually abbreviated as MRR, is a not-for-profit monthly online zine of punk subculture and radio show of punk music. Based in San Francisco, MRR focuses on punk rock and hardcore music, and primarily features artist interviews and music reviews. Op/ed columns and... | {"Categories": "Music magazine", "Frequency": "Monthly", "Founder": "Tim Yohannan", "First issue": "1982 08", "Country": "United States", "Based in": "Berkeley, California", "Language": "English", "Website": "https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/", "ISSN": "0743-3530", "OCLC": "10553172"} |
The death of Bridget Driscoll (c. 185117 August 1896) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in Great Britain. Driscoll, in the company of her teenage daughter May and her friend Elizabeth Murphy, was crossing Dolphin Terrace in the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London whe... | {"Name": "Bridget Driscoll", "Image": "Image:BDriscoll.jpeg", "Caption": "Bridget Driscoll (circled)", "Birth name": "Bridget Swift", "Birth date": "1851/1852", "Birth place": "Ireland", "Death date": "17 August 1896 (aged 44)", "Death place": "Croydon, Surrey, England", "Resting place": "Queen's Road Cemetery", "Known... |
Leeds East Airport Church Fenton , formerly RAF Church Fenton, is an airport and former Royal Air Force station located south-east of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England and north-west of Selby, North Yorkshire, near the village of Church Fenton. The airport has had a licensing application from the UK Civil Aviation ... | {"Airport type": "Private", "Serves": "Leeds, West Yorkshire", "Location": "Church Fenton, North Yorkshire", "AMSL": "30", "Coordinates": "53 50 04 N 001 11 44 W type:airport_region:GB-NYK inline,title", "Website": "leedseastairport.co.uk/"} |
Tincture of iodine, iodine tincture, or weak iodine solution is an antiseptic. It is usually 2 to 3% elemental iodine, along with potassium iodide or sodium iodide, dissolved in a mixture of ethanol and water. Tincture solutions are characterized by the presence of alcohol. It was used from 1908 in pre-operative skin p... | {"AHFS": "monograph Iodine-tincture", "Pregnancycategory": "D", "Routes ofadministration": "Topical", "ATCvet code": "yes"} |
"Blind Alley" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, and later included in the collection The Early Asimov (1972).
Although the story postulates a race of intelligent non-humans, it is set in the Foundation univers... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Empire series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)", "Publication date": "March 1945"} |
Isin (,ETCSL. Sumerian King List . Accessed 19 Dec 2010. modern Arabic: Ishan al-Bahriyat) is an archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq. Excavations have shown that it was an important city-state in the past.
History of archaeological research
thumb|Looters at the site of Isin
Ishan al-Bahriyat was vis... | {"Alternative name": "Ishan al-Bahriyat", "Coordinates": "31 53 06 N 45 16 07 E inline,title", "Location": "Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq", "Region": "Mesopotamia", "Type": "Settlement", "Periods": "Early Dynastic, Isin-Larsa, Old Babylonian, Kassite", "Excavation dates": "1924, 1973-1989", "Archaeologists": "Stephen... |
Soy milk (simplified Chinese: 豆浆; traditional Chinese: 豆漿), also known as soya milk or soymilk, is a plant-based drink produced by soaking and grinding soybeans, boiling the mixture, and filtering out remaining particulates. It is a stable emulsion of oil, water, and protein. Its original form is an intermediate produc... | {"Name of food": "Soy milk", "Alternate name": "Soya milk", "Place of origin": "China", "Year": "a before.1365Shurtleff & Aoyagi 2013 5 & 23-4Shurtleff & Aoyagi 2014 9 & 127", "Serving size": "100 g", "Calories per serving": "33", "Protein per serving": "2.86", "Fat per serving": "1.61", "Carbohydrate per serving": "1.... |
Sass Jordan (c. 1962) is a British-born Canadian rock singer from Montreal, Quebec. Her first single, "Tell Somebody," from her debut album of the same name won the Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1989. Since then, she has been nominated three more times for Juno Awards. Her album Rebel Moon Blues hit ... | {"Origin": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Born": "1962 12 23", "Genres": "Rock", "Labels": "Aquarius Records, MapleMusic Recordings, Impact Records, True North Records, Stony Plain Records", "Website": "SassJordan.com"} |
The 2003/04 football season saw Plymouth Argyle regain a place in the second tier of English football for the first time in twelve seasons, Along the way to capturing the Division Two championship they accumulated 90 league points, 21 clean sheets and a club record of seven straight clean sheets whilst also losing argu... | {"Club": "Plymouth Argyle", "Season": "2003-04", "League": "Division Two", "League result": "1st", "League topscorer": "David Friio (14 goals)", "Highest attendance": "Queens Park Rangers (19,888)Away: Sheffield Wednesday (20,090)", "Lowest attendance": "Wycombe Wanderers (4,298)Away: Colchester United (2,367)", "Bigge... |
"Robbie" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was the first of Asimov's positronic robot stories. In 2016, "'Robbie" won a retrospective 1941 Hugo Award for best short story.1941 Retro-Hugos at the Hugo Awards website "Robbie" was the fourteenth story written by Asimov, and the ninth t... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Published in": "Super Science Stories", "Publisher": "Popular Publications", "Media type": "Print (magazine, hardback, paperback)", "Publication date": "September 1940"} |
Jet is an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne, Victoria, in 2001. For most of the band's existence, it has consisted of Cameron Muncey (lead guitar and vocals), Mark Wilson (bass), and brothers Nic (vocals, rhythm guitar, piano) and Chris Cester (drums, vocals). They have sold 6.5 million records worldwide, releas... | {"Origin": "Melbourne, Australia", "Discography": "Jet discography", "Genres": "Garage rock hard rock alternative rock indie rock", "Labels": "Atlantic Elektra EMI Five Seven", "Members": "Nic Cester\n Cameron Muncey\n Chris Cester\n Mark Wilson"} |
Shau Kei Wan or Shaukiwan is a neighborhood in the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island. The area is bordered by Chai Wan to the east, Mount Parker to the south, Sai Wan Ho to the west, and Victoria Harbour to the north.
Shau Kei Wan is considered as an area surrounded by A Kung Ngam Road and A Kung Ngam Village Road... | {"Name in traditional characters": "筲箕灣", "Name in simplified characters": "筲箕湾", "Pinyin transcription": "Shāojīwān", "Jyutping": "Saau1 gei1 waan1", "Literal meaning": "Winnow Basket Bay"} |
Royal Air Force Waddington otherwise known as RAF Waddington is a Royal Air Force station located beside the village of Waddington, south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in England.
The station is the RAF's Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) hub and is home to a fleet of aircraft compo... | {"Coordinates": "53 10 21 N 000 31 51 W region:GB_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "Main Operating Base", "Area": "391 ha acreshttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-estates-development-plan-dedp-2009 Defence Estates Development Plan 2009 - Annex A 3 July 2009 GOV.UK Ministry of Defence 18 24 March 2019"... |
Royal Air Force Marham, commonly abbreviated RAF Marham is a Royal Air Force station and military airbase near the village of Marham in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia.
It is home to No. 138 Expeditionary Air Wing (138 EAW) and, as such, is one of the RAF's 'main operating bases' (MOB). Since 6 June 2018,... | {"Coordinates": "52 38 54 N 000 33 02 E region:GB-NFK_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "Main operating base", "Area": "667 ha acreshttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-estates-development-plan-dedp-2009 Defence Estates Development Plan 2009 - Annex A 3 July 2009 GOV.UK Ministry of Defence 15 22 March 2... |
Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or more commonly RAF Lossiemouth is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland.
Lossiemouth is one of the largest and busiest fast-jet stations in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and known for its close proximity to flight training ar... | {"Coordinates": "57 42 19 N 003 20 21 W region:GB_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "Main Operating Base", "Area": "580 ha acreshttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-estates-development-plan-dedp-2009 Defence Estates Development Plan 2009 - Annex A 3 July 2009 GOV.UK Ministry of Defence A3 21 April 2016"... |
thumb|Aerial photograph of RAF Cottesmore looking north east, the technical site with four C-Type hangars is on the right, 3 Jun 1942.
Royal Air Force Cottesmore or more simply RAF Cottesmore is a former Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England, situated between Cottesmore and Market Overton. On 15 December 2009, De... | {"Type": "Royal Air Force station", "Coordinates": "52 43 46 N 000 39 05 W region:GB_type:airport inline,title", "Owner": "Ministry of Defence", "Operator": "Royal Air Force (1938-1942 and 1945-2012)United States Army Air Forces (1943-1945)", "Controlled by": "RAF Bomber Command* No. 5 Group RAF* No. 6 (T) Group RAF* N... |
"Runaround" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring his recurring characters Powell and Donovan. It was written in October 1941 and first published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It appears in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and R... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Print (magazine, hardback, paperback)", "Publication date": "March 1942"} |
Royal Air Force Coltishall, more commonly known as RAF Coltishall , is a former Royal Air Force station located north-north-east of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, which operated from 1939 to 2006.Official Commemorative Magazine: Royal Air Force Coltishall, 65th Anniversary, 'Aggressive in Defe... | {"Coordinates": "52 45 17 N 001 21 26 E region:GB-NFK_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "Royal Air Force station", "Code": "CSFalconer 2012 68", "Owner": "Ministry of Defence", "Operator": "Royal Air Force", "Controlled by": "RAF Fighter Command 1940-* No. 12 Group RAFRAF Strike Command", "Built": "February 1939-1940... |
Royal Air Force Leeming or more simply RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station located near Leeming, North Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1940 and was jointly used by the RAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Between 1950 and 1991, it operated mostly as a training base with Quick Reaction Force (QRF) Pana... | {"Coordinates": "54 17 33 N 001 32 08 W region:GB_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "Air combat support station", "Area": "508 ha acreshttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-estates-development-plan-dedp-2009 Defence Estates Development Plan 2009 - Annex A 3 July 2009 GOV.UK Ministry of Defence 12 27 Marc... |
Royal Air Force Kinloss or RAF Kinloss is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north east of Scotland.
The RAF station opened on 1 April 1939 and served as a training establishment during the Second World War. After the war it was handed over to Coastal... | {"Type": "Royal Air Force station", "Coordinates": "57 38 58 N 003 33 38 W type:airport_region:GB inline,title", "Owner": "Ministry of Defence", "Operator": "Royal Air Force", "Area": "666 hectareshttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/33240/DEDP09_annex_a.pdf Defence Estates Developm... |
Ministry of Defence Lyneham or MOD Lyneham is a Ministry of Defence site in Wiltshire, England, about north-east of Chippenham and south-west of Swindon. The site houses the Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering. Also here is Prince Philip Barracks, housing the regimental headquarters of the Royal E... | {"Type": "British Army training establishment", "Coordinates": "51 30 19 N 001 59 36 W region:GB-WIL_type:airport inline,title", "Owner": "Ministry of Defence", "Operator": "United Kingdom", "Controlled by": "Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers", "Area": "494 hectares", "Built": "2015", "In use": "1939-2012 (Roya... |
"Reason" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). It is part of Asimov's Robot series, and was the second of Asimov's positronic robot sto... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Magazine", "Publication date": "April 1941"} |
Royal Air Force Brize Norton or RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, about west north-west of London, is the largest station of the Royal Air Force. It is close to the village of Brize Norton, and the towns of Carterton and Witney.
The station is the base for air transport, air-to-air refuelling and military parachuting... | {"Coordinates": "51 45 00 N 001 35 01 W region:GB_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "Main Operating Base", "Area": "481 ha acreshttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-estates-development-plan-dedp-2009 Defence Estates Development Plan 2009 - Annex A 3 July 2009 GOV.UK Ministry of Defence 32 27 February 20... |
Robert Lewis Bell (January 18, 1922 - December 8, 1997), better known as Bob Bell, was an American actor and announcer famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown. He was the original portrayer of the character for Chicago superstation WGN-TV.
Early life
Bell was born in Flint, Michigan, to a General Motors factory wo... | {"Name": "Bob Bell", "Alt": "Bob Bell without Bozo the Clown makeup and costume", "Caption": "Bell on the Bozo's Circus set at WGN-TV before getting into character, c. 1960s", "Birth name": "Robert Lewis Bell", "Birth date": "1922 01 18", "Birth place": "Flint, Michigan, U.S.", "Death date": "1997 12 08 1922 01 18", "D... |
Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. While being an RAF station, Fairford hosts United States Air Force personnel. Since 2019, the base has played host to a Lockheed U-2S Dragon Lady detachment from the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaiss... | {"Coordinates": "51 40 56 N 001 47 24 W region:GB_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "RAF station (US Visiting Forces)", "Area": "470 ha acreshttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-estates-development-plan-dedp-2009 Defence Estates Development Plan 2009 - Annex A 3 July 2009 GOV.UK Ministry of Defence 43 4... |
"Catch that Rabbit" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the February 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections I, Robot (1950) and The Complete Robot (1982).
Plot summary
The recurring team of Powell and Donovan are testing a new ... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Print (magazine, hardback and paperback)", "Publication date": "February 1944"} |
Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Guangdong Province. It is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau and among Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. Like all versions of Chinese opera, it is a traditional Chinese art form, involving music, singing, ... | {"Picture": "Vancouver Cantonese Opera Extravaganza 22May2005 - 11 crop.jpeg", "Name in traditional characters": "1. 粵劇2. 大戲", "Jyutping": "1. Jyut6 kek62. daai6 hei3", "Pinyin transcription": "1. Yuè jù2. dà xì"} |
Royal Air Force Odiham or more simply RAF Odiham is a Royal Air Force station situated a little to the south of the village of Odiham in Hampshire, England. It is the home of the Royal Air Force's heavy lift helicopter, the Boeing Chinook, and of the King's Helicopter Flight (TKHF) . Its current station commander is G... | {"Coordinates": "51 14 03 N 000 56 34 W region:GB_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "Main Operating Base", "Area": "263 ha acreshttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-estates-development-plan-dedp-2009 Defence Estates Development Plan 2009 - Annex A 3 July 2009 GOV.UK Ministry of Defence 15 24 March 2019"... |
Royal Air Force Benson or RAF Benson is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located at Benson, near Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire, England. It is a front-line station and home to the RAF's fleet of Westland Puma HC2 support helicopters, used primarily for the transportation of troops & equipment. Flying squadrons comp... | {"Coordinates": "51 36 59 N 001 05 45 W region:GB_type:airport inline,title", "Type": "Main Operating Base", "Code": "EB", "Area": "261 ha acres", "Owner": "Ministry of Defence", "Operator": "Royal Air Force", "Controlled by": "Joint Helicopter CommandNo. 2 Group RAF", "Built": "1938-1939", "Built by": "John Laing & So... |
"Liar!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and was reprinted in the collections I, Robot (1950) and The Complete Robot (1982). It was Asimov's third published positronic robot story. Although the word "robot" was introd... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Print (magazine, hardback and paperback)", "Publication date": "May 1941"} |
George Blake ( Behar; 11 November 1922 - 26 December 2020) was a spy with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union. He became a communist and decided to work for the MGB while a prisoner during the Korean War. Discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison, h... | {"Birth name": "George Behar", "Born": "Rotterdam, Netherlands", "Died": "Moscow, Russia", "Known for": "Double agent", "Allegiance": "United Kingdom Soviet Union Russia"} |
The al-Khisas massacre took place in al-Khisas in Mandatory Palestine on December 18, 1947, near the Syrian border and was carried out by Haganah militiamen, possibly from Palmach.
The raid was performed in reprisal to a shooting in which a passenger on a horse-cart from a nearby kibbutz was shot and killed earlier t... | {"Title": "Al-Khisas raid", "Location": "Al-Khisas, Mandatory Palestine", "Date": "18 December 1947", "Part of": "the 1947-1949 Palestine war", "Coordinates": "33 13 31 N 35 37 10 E type:event_region:PS inline,title", "Target": "Palestinian Arabs", "Type of attack": "Arson, Massacre", "Fatalities": "12 Arabs (5 childre... |
CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is an American police procedural drama television series that ran from September 23, 2002 until April 8, 2012 on CBS. Featuring David Caruso as Lieutenant Horatio Caine, Emily Procter as Detective Calleigh Duquesne, and Adam Rodriguez as Detective Eric Delko, the series is ... | {"Genre": "\"tucker2003\">Tucker Ken https://www.ew.com/article/2003/12/15/csi-miami CSI: Miami EW.com 2016-07-23\n DramaTucker Ken https://www.ew.com/article/2003/12/15/csi-miami CSI: Miami EW.com 2016-07-23", "Running time": "39-45 minutes\n ~63 minutes (2 episodes)", "Created by": "Anthony E. Zuiker\n Ann ... |
Tattoo You is the 16th British and 18th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 24 August 1981 by Rolling Stones Records. The album is mostly composed of studio outtakes recorded during the 1970s, and contains one of the band's most well-known songs, "Start Me Up", which hit numbe... | {"Released": "1981 8 24 yes", "Recorded": "November and December 1972\n January - March 1975\n January - March 1978\n January - October 1979\n October 1980 - June 1981", "Genre": "Rock\nhard rock\nrock and roll", "Label": "Rolling Stones", "Producer": "The Glimmer Twins"} |
thumb|Pat Hingle and Nan Martin in "The Incredible World of Horace Ford", a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone.
Martin Patterson Hingle (July 19, 1924 - January 3, 2009) was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. His first film was On the Wate... | {"Name": "Pat Hingle", "Caption": "Hingle as Thomas Edison in a General Electric ad, in 1977", "Birth name": "Martin Patterson Hingle", "Birth date": "1924 7 19", "Birth place": "Miami, Florida, U.S.", "Death date": "2009 1 3 1924 7 19", "Death place": "Carolina Beach, North Carolina, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University o... |
Greater Netherlands () is an irredentist concept which unites the Netherlands, Flanders, and sometimes Brussels. Additionally, a Greater Netherlands state may include the annexation of the French Westhoek, Suriname, formerly Dutch-speaking areas of Germany and France, or even the ethnically Dutch and/or Afrikaans-speak... | {"Flag": "border|100px border|100px", "Population estimate year": "2022https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/themas/bevolking/structuur-van-de-bevolking Structuur van de bevolking | Statbel statbel.fgov.behttps://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/dashboard-bevolking/bevolkingsteller Bevolkingsteller Statistics Netherlands Dutch 9 Ju... |
St John's College is a college of the University of Durham, United Kingdom. It is one of only two "recognised colleges" of the university, the other being St Chad's. This means that it is financially and constitutionally independent of the university and has a greater degree of administrative independence than the othe... | {"Blazon": "150px", "Motto": "Fides nostra victoria", "Established": "1909", "Principal": "David Wilkinson", "Senior tutor": "Rebecca Bouveng", "Mascot": "Olav III (an alligator)", "Undergraduates": "392", "Postgraduates": "160", "Coordinates": "54.7718825 -1.5757305 inline,title", "Website": "St John's College\n St ... |
Melissa Warburg Rosenberg (previously Endicott; born January 20, 1968), known professionally as Melissa Rivers, is an American actress and television host. She is the only child of the late comedian Joan Rivers and producer Edgar Rosenberg.
Early life
Melissa Warburg Rosenberg was born on January 20, 1968, in New York... | {"Name": "Melissa Rivers", "Caption": "Rivers during New York Fashion Week in 2012", "Birth name": "Melissa Warburg Rosenberg", "Birth date": "1968 01 20", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of Pennsylvania", "Occupation": "Television host, producer, actress, philanthropist", "Television": ... |
Fanqie () is a method in traditional Chinese lexicography to indicate the pronunciation of a monosyllabic character by using two other characters, one with the same initial consonant as the desired syllable and one with the same rest of the syllable (the final).
The method was introduced in the 3rd century AD and used ... | {"Name in Chinese": "反切", "Yale Romanization (Cantonese)": "fáanchit", "Jyutping": "faan2cit3", "Peh-oe-ji": "Hoán-chhiat", "Wade-Giles": "fan3-ch'ieh4", "Pinyin transcription": "fǎnqiè", "Korean name in Korean characters": "반절", "Korean name in Hanja": "反切", "Korean revised romanization": "banjeol", "Japanese name in ... |
The Qieyun () is a Chinese rhyme dictionary, published in 601 during the Sui dynasty. The book was a guide to proper reading of classical texts, using the fanqie method to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters.
The Qieyun and later redactions, notably the Guangyun, are important documentary sources used in t... | {"Infobox title": "Qieyun", "Name in traditional characters": "切韻", "Name in simplified characters": "切韵", "Jyutping": "Cit3-wan6", "Yale Romanization (Cantonese)": "Chit-wahn", "Peh-oe-ji": "Chhiat-ūn", "Tâi-Lô (Taiwanese romanization)": "Tshiat-ūn", "Pinyin transcription": "Qièyùn", "Wade-Giles": "Ch'ieh4-yün4", "Man... |
Atahualpa Yupanqui (; born Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburu; 31 January 1908 - 23 May 1992) was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century.
Biography
Yupanqui was born Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburu in Pergamino (Buenos Aires ... | {"Born": "yes 1908 1 31", "Origin": "Juan A. de la Peña, Pergamino Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina", "Died": "Nîmes, France", "Genres": "Payada, trova"} |
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Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (A number of dates as late as 1742 have been found on record; the veracity of any one is unlikely to be proved. This is his "official" birth-date as given on his tombstone.) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Serene Highness Prince", "Name": "Grigory Potemkin", "Image caption": "Non-contemporary portrait of Potemkin in later life", "Term start": "1774", "Term end": "1791", "Spouse(s)": "Catherine II of Russia (possible)", "Birth date": "1739 10 11 y (N.S.)", "Birth place": "Chizhovo, Russian Empire... |
Pinot Meunier, , also known as Meunier or Schwarzriesling, is a variety of red wine grape most noted for being one of the three main varieties used in the production of Champagne (the other two are the red variety Pinot noir and the white Chardonnay). Until recently, producers in Champagne generally did not acknowledge... | {"Species": "Vitis vinifera", "Also called": "Meunier, Schwarzriesling, Müllerrebe, Miller's Burgundy", "Origin": "France", "Notable regions": "Champagne (France), Württemberg (Germany), Oregon (USA), Okanagan Valley (British Columbia, Canada), Carneros AVA (USA)", "VIVC": "9278", "Notable wines": "Champagne, Soaring E... |
Temple Street is a street located in the areas of Jordan and Yau Ma Tei in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is known for its night market and as one of the busiest flea markets at night in the territory. The night market lies in the Yau Ma Tei, Jordan part of the street. Popular with tourists and locals alike in the evening, it ... | {"Name": "Temple Street", "Native name": "zh 廟街", "Namesake": "Tin Hau Temple Complex, Yau Ma Tei", "Location": "Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong", "Known for": "Temple Street Night Market"} |
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, is a multinational conglomerate, based in Hong Kong. It was one of Hong Kong's leading multi-national conglomerates. The company merged with its subsidiary Hutchison Whampoa on 3 June 2015, as part of a major reorganisation, to become part of CK Hutchison Holdings.
The Chairman of Cheun... | {"Type": "Private", "Founded": "1972", "Headquarters": "Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong", "Industry": "Conglomerate", "Products": "Real estate, Investment, life sciences, IT, Hotels, telecommunications; & internet", "Revenue": "HK$32.863 billion (US$4.2 billion) (2010)", "Parent": "CK Hutchison Holdings... |
Edme Mariotte (;"Mariotte experiment". Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing. ; c. 162012 May 1684) was a French physicist and priest (abbé). He is particularly well known for formulating Boyle's law independently of Robert Boyle. Mariotte is also credited with designing the first Newton's cradle.
... | {"Name": "Edme Mariotte", "Birth date": "c. 1620", "Birth place": "Til-Châtel, France", "Death date": "12 May 1684 (aged 63-64)", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Nationality": "French", "Known For": "Design of the first Newton's cradle"} |
Eigg (; ; ) is one of the Small Isles in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It lies to the south of the Isle of Skye and to the north of the Ardnamurchan peninsula. Eigg is long from north to south, and east to west. With an area of , it is the second-largest of the Small Isles after Rùm. Eigg generates virtually all of it... | {"Coordinates": "56.9 -6.15 inline", "OS grid reference": "NM476868", "Scots": "Eigghttps://d3lmsxlb5aor5x.cloudfront.net/library/document/Map_of_Scotland_in_Scots-Guide_and_gazetteer.pdf Map of Scotland in Scots - Guide and gazetteer", "Meaning of name": "Scottish Gaelic for 'notched island' (eag)", "Area": "3049 ha ... |
The Mandrake Press was a British small press founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. In 1930 the company had financial problems and a consortium led by Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press Ltd to take it over. The consortium was likewise unsuccessful, and the company was dissolved in 1930.
Notable a... | {"Founded": "1929(as Mandrake Press Ltd)", "Defunct": "1930", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Headquarters location": "London, United Kingdom", "Key people": "Aleister Crowley(Chairman & CEO)", "Publication types": "Books", "Fiction genres": "Magic, Occultism, Thelema"} |
Novgorod Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Veliky Novgorod. Some of the oldest Russian cities, including Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa, are located in the oblast. The historic monuments of Veliky Novgorod and surroundings have been declared a UNESCO World... | {"English name": "Novgorod Oblast", "Russian name": "Новгородская 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": "54501", "Area rank": "48th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-NGR", "Leader title": "Governor... |
Saratov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Saratov. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,521,892.
Geography
The oblast is located in the southeast of European Russia, in the northern part of the Lower Volga region. F... | {"English name": "Saratov Oblast", "Russian name": "Саратовская 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": "101240", "Area rank": "36th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-SAR", "Leader title": "Governor"... |
Rona (), sometimes called South Rona to distinguish it from North Rona (a small uninhabited island to the northwest of Cape Wrath), is an inhabited island in the Inner Hebrides. It lies between the Sound of Raasay and the Inner Sound just north of the neighbouring island of Raasay and east of the Trotternish peninsula ... | {"OS grid reference": "NG619563", "Meaning of name": "Norse for \"rough islands\"", "Area": "930 ha sqmi 1", "Population rank": "80=", "Highest elevation": "Meall na h-Acarsaid 125 m ft 0\"Get-a-Map\". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 29 November 2009.", "Population": "3", "Population density": "0.3 people/km2", "Largest set... |
"Little Lost Robot" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1947 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), Robot Dreams (1986), and Robot Visions (1990).
"Little Lost Robot" was adapted ... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Print (magazine, hardback and paperback)", "Publication date": "March 1947"} |
"Escape!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published as "Paradoxical Escape" (a publisher's change in the title) in the August 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted as "Escape!" (Asimov's choice of title) in the collections I, Robot (1950) and The Complete... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Print (magazine, hardback and paperback)", "Publication date": "August 1945"} |
Mark Ivor Satin (born November 16, 1946) is an American political theorist, author, and newsletter publisher. He is best known for contributing to the development and dissemination of three political perspectives - neopacifism in the 1960s, New Age politics in the 1970s and 1980s, and radical centrism in the 1990s and... | {"Name": "Mark Satin", "Caption": "Satin talking about \"life and political ideologies\" in 2011", "Birth name": "Mark Ivor Satin", "Birth date": "1946 11 16", "Nationality": "American", "Alma mater": "New York University School of LawUniversity of British Columbia", "Occupation": "Political theoristAuthorNewsletter pu... |
"Evidence" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the September 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990).
Background
"Evidence" was the only story Isaac Asimov wro... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Magazine", "Publication date": "September 1946"} |
"The Evitable Conflict" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the June 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and subsequently appeared in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). It features the character Stephen Byerley f... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Print (magazine, hardback, paperback)", "Publication date": "June 1950"} |
The Feast of the Goat (, 2000) is a novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart: during and immediately aft... | {"Original title": "La Fiesta del Chivo", "Country": "Peru", "Language": "Spanish", "Publisher": "Alfaguara (Spanish) Picador (imprint) (English)", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "ISBN": "(Spanish) 0-374-15476-7 (English)"} |
Chelyabinsk Oblast () is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city of Chelyabinsk. Its population is 3,431,224. (2021 Census).
History
During the Middle Ages, Bashkir tribes inhabited the Southern Urals; they formed par... | {"English name": "Chelyabinsk Oblast", "Russian name": "Челябинская 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": "88529", "Area rank": "36th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-CHE", "Leader title": "Govern... |
Teterboro Airport is a general aviation relief airport in the boroughs of Teterboro, Moonachie, and Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County, New Jersey.Directions to and from the Airport, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Accessed July 7, 2008. "Teterboro Airport is located in the Boroughs of Teterboro, Moonachie, a... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Teterboro, New Jersey", "Hub": "Tradewind Aviation", "Location": "Bergen County, New Jersey", "AMSL": "8.4", "Coordinates": "40 51 00 N 074 03 39 W region:US-NJ inline,title"} |
The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the Robot series, most of which take place in the Foundation universe. Another collection of short stories about robots,... | {"Cover artist": "Thomas Chibbaro", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Robot series", "Publisher": "Doubleday", "Media type": "Print (hardback)", "Pages": "556"} |
Scalpay (; ) is an inhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland which has a population of 4.
Geology
The bedrock of Scalpay is largely the Neoproterozoic age sandstone and conglomerates of the Sithean Glac an Ime Member of the Applecross Formation and in the west, the Mullach nan Carn members of the Diabaig F... | {"Coordinates": "57.31 -5.98 inline", "OS grid reference": "NG605315", "Meaning of name": "ship islandMac an Tàilleir (2003) p. 103", "Area": "2483 ha sqmi 8 on", "Population rank": "77=", "Highest elevation": "Mullach na Càrn, 396 m ft 0 on", "Population": "4", "Population density": "0.16 PD/km2", "Island group": "Sky... |
Sanday (Scottish Gaelic: Sandaigh; ) is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is a tidal island linked to its larger neighbour, Canna, via sandbanks at low tide, and also connected to the larger island by a bridge. Canna and Sanday form a single community, and are usually described as Canna.thumb|... | {"Coordinates": "57.05 -6.49 type:isle_region:GB inline,title", "OS grid reference": "NG282043", "Scots": "Sandeehttps://d3lmsxlb5aor5x.cloudfront.net/library/document/Map_of_Scotland_in_Scots-Guide_and_gazetteer.pdf Map of Scotland in Scots - Guide and gazetteer", "Area": "184 ha sqmi 2 on", "Population rank": "69", ... |
Stephanie Anne Birkitt (born January 7, 1975) is an American attorney and former assistant to David Letterman on the Late Show with David Letterman.Letterman's Monday mea culpa was OK ... but did this really belong on the show? from blogs.kansascity.com Although Birkitt frequently appeared on the program as a characte... | {"Name": "Stephanie Birkitt", "Birth place": "Plymouth, New Hampshire", "Nationality": "American", "Birth name": "Stephanie Anne Birkitt", "Birth date": "1975 1 7", "Known For": "Former assistant to David Letterman on the Late Show with David Letterman", "Alma mater": "Wake Forest University, Yeshiva University", "Occu... |
"Mother Earth" is a science fiction novella by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was written from September 1 to October 10, 1948, and published in the May 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It was republished in Asimov's 1972 short story collection The Early Asimov.
Context within Asimov's universe
No individua... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Genre(s)": "Science fiction", "Published in": "Astounding Science Fiction", "Publisher": "Street & Smith", "Media type": "Magazine", "Publication date": "May 1949"} |
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,310,597 as of the 2010 Census. From 1932 to 1990 it was known as Gorky Oblast ().
The oblast is crossed by the Volga River. Apart from Nizhny Novgorod's metropolitan ... | {"English name": "Nizhny Novgorod Oblast", "Russian name": "Нижегородская 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": "76624", "Area rank": "40th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-NIZ", "Leader title": "... |
The Peak is the independent student newspaper of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is split into six major sections: News, Opinions, Features, Arts, Sports, and Humour.
History
The Peak was founded on October 6, 1965"Newspapers dissolve, form new publication," The Peak, (Vol. 1, No. 1),... | {"School": "Simon Fraser University", "Type": "Weekly Student Newspaper", "Format": "Tabloid", "Headquarters": "MBC 2901, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, BC", "Owner(s)": "The Peak Publications Society", "Circulation": "10,000", "Website": "the-peak.ca"} |
Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada. Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a major part of Bre-X based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it reported it was sitting on an enormous gold deposit at , East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced signifi... | {"Industry": "Mining", "Founded": "1989", "Defunct": "2003", "Headquarters": "Canada", "Products": "Minerals, metals, gold", "Parent": "-->"} |
Lost in a Good Book is an alternate history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde.Fforde, Jasper (2002) Lost in a Good Book, Hodder & Stoughton, 0-340-82283-X It won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association 2004 Dilys Award. It is the second in the Thursday Next series.
Synopsis
Lost in a Good Book is the second book ... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Series": "Thursday Next", "Publisher": "Hodder & Stoughton", "Media type": "Print (Hardback)", "Pages": "384", "ISBN": "0-340-82283-X", "Preceded by": "The Eyre Affair", "Followed by": "The Well of Lost Plots"} |
Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character appearing in Isaac Asimov's Robot series of science fiction short stories. According to I, Robot, Susan Calvin was born in the year 1982 and died at the age of 82, either in 2064 or 2065.
She was the chief robopsychologist at US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., posited as the ... | {"First appearance": "\"Liar!\" (1941)", "Last appearance": "I, Robot: To Preserve (2016)", "Created by": "Isaac Asimov", "Portrayed by": "Maxine Audley Beatrix Lehmann Ann Firbank Margaret Robertson Bridget Moynahan", "Gender": "Female", "Nationality": "American"} |
The Story of Civilization (1935-1975), by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering both Eastern and Western civilizations for the general reader, with a particular emphasis on European (Western) history.
The series was written over a span of four decades.
The first six volumes o... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Published": "1935-1975", "Publisher": "Simon & Schuster", "ISBN": "978-1567310238", "Pages": "13,549"} |
Pan is an 1894 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. He wrote it while living in Paris and in Kristiansand, Norway. It remains one of his most famous works.
Plot summary
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a hut in the forest with his faithful dog Aesop. Upon meeting Edvarda, the da... | {"Original title": "Pan", "Country": "Norway", "Language": "Danish", "Publisher": "Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Farrar, Straus and Giroux Penguin Classics", "Media type": "Print", "Pages": "192", "Preceded by": "Ny Jord", "Followed by": "Ved Rigets Port"} |
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it is the only club in the Nordic countries that has won one of the main UEFA competitions, ... | {"Full name": "Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg FotbollStadgar för IFK Göteborg Fotboll)", "Nickname(s)": "Blåvitt (Blue-white) Änglarna (The Angels) Kamraterna (The Comrades)", "Short name": "IFK", "Founded": "1904 10 4 yes", "Capacity": "18,416", "League": "Allsvenskan", "Website": "http... |
Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very high research activity". It was founded in 1870 a... | {"Type": "Public land-grant research university", "Motto": "\"Education, Service, Research, Extension\"", "Endowment": "$558 million (2021)as of end of 2021 Investment Performance and Impact https://foundation.colostate.edu/investments/ March 5, 2022 March 5, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220305175109/https:... |
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (July 3, 1949 - December 7, 2010) was an American attorney, author, and health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee.
Edwards lived a private life until her husband's ... | {"Name": "Elizabeth Edwards", "Caption": "Edwards in 2008", "Birth name": "Mary Elizabeth Anania", "Birth date": "1949 7 3", "Birth place": "Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.", "Death date": "2010 12 7 1949 7 3", "Death place": "Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.", "Occupation": "Attorney", "Spouse(s)": "John Edwards 1977 201... |
The Eye of Argon is a 1970 heroic fantasy novella by Jim Theis (1953-2002) that narrates the adventures of Grignr, a mighty barbarian. It has been notorious within science fiction fandom since its publication, described as "one of the genre's most beloved pieces of appalling prose," the "infamous 'worst fantasy novel e... | {"Country": "US", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Wildside Press (2006 reprint)", "Media type": "Print (magazine, 1970; chapbook, 1987; trade paperback, 2006)", "Pages": "23 in zine, 52 and 76 in book editions", "ISBN": "0-8095-6261-8"} |
Sanday (, ) is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of , it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands.Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 334. The main centres of population are Lady Village and Kettletoft. Sanday can be reached by Orkney Ferries or by plane (Sand... | {"Coordinates": "59.25 -2.55 inline", "OS grid reference": "HY677411", "Scots": "Sandeehttps://d3lmsxlb5aor5x.cloudfront.net/library/document/Map_of_Scotland_in_Scots-Guide_and_gazetteer.pdf Map of Scotland in Scots - Guide and gazetteer", "Meaning of name": "Old Norse: sand island", "Area": "5043 ha sqmi 1 onHaswell-... |
Knut Vollebæk (born 11 February 1946 in Oslo) is a former Norwegian diplomat to the United States, (2001-2007, and centrist politician (Norwegian Christian Democratic Party). He is currently a member of the International Commission on Missing Persons Board of Commissioners and heads a government commission investigatin... | {"Name": "Knut Vollebæk", "Image size": "300px", "Ambassador from": "Norwegian", "Term start": "17 April 2001", "Term end": "17 April 2007", "Office 2": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "Prime minister 2": "Kjell Magne Bondevik", "Predecessor 2": "Bjørn Tore Godal", "Successor 2": "Thorbjørn Jagland", "Birth date": "1946... |
Lothar Herbert Matthäus (; born 21 March 1961) is a German football pundit, former professional football player and manager. After captaining West Germany to victory in the 1990 FIFA World Cup where he lifted the World Cup trophy, he was awarded the Ballon d'Or. In 1991, he was named the first FIFA World Player of the ... | {"Name": "Lothar Matthäus", "Picture caption": "Matthäus in 2019", "Full name": "Lothar Herbert Matthäus", "Birth date": "1961 3 21 y", "Birth place": "Erlangen, West Germany", "Height": "1.74 m", "Position": "Midfielder, sweeper", "Youth club 1 years": "1971-1979", "Youth club 1": "1. FC Herzogenaurach", "Club 1 years... |
The governor-general of Pakistan () was the representative of the Pakistani monarch in the Dominion of Pakistan, established by the Indian Independence Act 1947. The office of governor-general was abolished when Pakistan became an Islamic republic in 1956.
Constitutional role
thumb|left|Muhammad Ali Jinnah, seated on ... | {"Post": "Governor-General", "Body": "Pakistan", "Native name": "ur گورنر جنرل پاکستان", "Insignia caption": "Coat of arms of Pakistan", "Image caption": "Longest servingSir Ghulam Muhammad17 October 1951 - 7 August 1955", "Style": "His Excellency", "Status": "Abolished", "Residence": "Governor-General's House", "Appoi... |
Lloyd Robertson (born January 19, 1934) is a Canadian journalist and former news anchor who is special correspondent on CTV's weekly magazine series, W5. Robertson served as the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV's national evening newscast, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, until September 2011, when he retired from ... | {"Name": "Lloyd Robertson", "Caption": "Lloyd Robertson (left) and Brian Williams", "Birth name": "Lloyd John Robertson", "Birth date": "1934 1 19", "Birth place": "Stratford, Ontario, Canada", "Occupation": "News anchor", "Family": "7 grandchildren", "Spouse(s)": "Nancy Robertson 1956", "Children": "4 daughters", "Nat... |
is a Japanese actress and former teen idol,"Rie MIyazawa" Naver "Avtivities of Rie Miyazawa" Naver modeling for hundreds of photo shoots. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film Prizes and three Kinema Junpo Awards.
Miyazawa began her career as a child model,... | {"Name": "Rie Miyazawa", "Alt": "photo", "Caption": "Rie Miyazawa at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival", "Native name": "宮沢 りえ", "Native name language": "ja", "Birth date": "1973 4 6", "Birth place": "Tokyo, Japan", "Nationality": "Japanese", "Spouse(s)": "Go Morita 2018", "Height": "167", "Occupation": "actre... |
right|thumb|350px|Audley End, the former seat of the Barons Braybrooke
Baron Braybrooke, of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1788 for John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, with remainder to his kinsman Richard Neville-Aldworth. Lord Howard de Wal... | {"Creation date": "5 September 1788 dmy", "Created by": "George III", "Peerage": "Peerage of Great Britain", "First holder": "John Griffin Griffin, 1st Baron Braybrooke", "Heir apparent": "Hon. Edward Alfred Nevillebraybrooke-debretts", "Remainder to": "1st baron's heirs male in default to his kinsman Richard Aldworth ... |
is a 1967 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara, Annu Mari and Mariko Ogawa. The story follows contract killer Goro Hanada as he is recruited by a mysterious woman named Misako for a seemingly impossible mission. When the mission fails, he is hunted by the phantom Number... | {"Directed by": "Seijun Suzuki", "Produced by": "Kaneo Iwai", "Written by": "Hachiro GuryuHachiro Guryu 具流八郎 Group of Eight is the collective pen name for Seijun Suzuki, Takeo Kimura, Atsushi Yamatoya, Yōzō Tanaka, Chūsei Sone, Yutaka Okada, Seiichirō Yamaguchi and Yasuaki Hangai. 川勝正幸\n ピストルオペラ Review\n テレビ東京 Cinema... |
Kenneth A. Minihan (born December 31, 1943) is a former United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as the director of the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, retiring on May 1, 1999.
Career
Minihan was born in Pampa, Texas. He entered the United States Air Force in 1966 as a distin... | {"Term start": "1996", "Term end": "1999", "Order 2": "12th", "Title 2": "Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency", "Predecessor 2": "James R. Clapper", "Successor 2": "Patrick M. Hughes", "President 2": "Bill Clinton", "Birth date": "1943 12 31", "Birth place": "Pampa, Texas, United States", "Alma mater": "Florida... |
The Treaty of Washington was a treaty signed and ratified by the United Kingdom and the United States in 1871 during the first premiership of William Gladstone and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. It settled various disputes between the countries, including the Alabama Claims for damages to American shipping caused ... | {"Name": "Treaty of Washington", "Long name": "Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the Amicable Settlement of all Causes of Difference Between the Two Countries (\"Alabama\" Claims; Fisheries; Claims of Corporations, Companies or Private Individuals; Navigation of Rivers and Lakes; San Juan ... |
is a 1952 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda is based on various stories from Saikaku Ihara's 1686 work The Life of an Amorous Woman. Kinuyo Tanaka stars as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyō (and mother of a later daimyō) who struggles to escape the stigma... | {"Directed by": "Kenji Mizoguchi", "Screenplay by": "Kenji Mizoguchi\n Yoshikata Yoda", "Based on": "The Life of an Amorous Woman Saikaku Ihara", "Produced by": "Hideo Koi\n Kenji Mizoguchi", "Starring": "Kinuyo Tanaka\n Tsukie Matsuura\n Ichirō Sugai\n Toshiro Mifune\n Takashi Shimura", "Cinematography": "Yoshimi Hira... |
Kirov Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in Eastern Europe. Its administrative center is the city of Kirov. As of the 2010 census, the population is 1,341,312.
Geography
Natural resources
The basis of the natural resources are forest (mostly conifers), phosphate rock, peat, furs, water and l... | {"English name": "Kirov Oblast", "Russian name": "Кировская 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": "120374", "Area rank": "30th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-KIR", "Leader title": "Governor", "L... |
Mike McConnell (born July 26, 1943) is a former vice admiral in the United States Navy. During his naval career he served as Director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996. His civilian career includes serving as the United States Director of National Intelligence from 20 February 2007 to 27 January 2009 du... | {"Name": "Mike McConnell", "Term start": "February 20, 2007", "Term end": "January 27, 2009", "Birth date": "1943 7 26", "Birth place": "Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.", "Education": "North Greenville UniversityFurman University (BA)George Washington University (MPA)", "Battles fought": "Vietnam WarGulf War"} |
Austin Deasy (26 August 1936 - 10 June 2017) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Agriculture from 1982 to 1987. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 1977 to 2002. He was a Senator from 1973 to 1977, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.
Early life
Deasy was bo... | {"Name": "Austin Deasy", "Term start": "14 December 1982", "Term end": "10 March 1987", "Office 2": "Senator", "Birth date": "1936 8 26 y", "Birth place": "Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland", "Death date": "2017 6 10 1936 8 26 y", "Death place": "Waterford, Ireland", "Nationality": "Irish", "Spouse(s)": "Kathleen Ke... |
New Carlisle, Quebec is a town in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of Quebec, Canada. It best known as the boyhood home of René Lévesque although he was born in Campbellton, New Brunswick. Its population is approximately 1,388, approximately two-thirds of whom are anglophone and the remainder francophone. New C... | {"Land": "67.57", "Density": "20.5", "Website": "www.new-carlisle.ca", "DST": "-4"} |
Desmond FitzGerald (13 February 1888 - 9 April 1947) was an Irish revolutionary, poet, publicist and Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1927 to 1932, Minister for External Affairs from 1922 to 1927, Minister for Publicity from 1921 to 1922 and Director of Publicity from 1919 to 1921. He served... | {"Term start": "23 June 1927", "Term end": "9 March 1932", "Office 2": "Minister for Publicity", "President 2": "W. T. Cosgrave", "Predecessor 2": "Office created", "Successor 2": "Office abolished", "Birth name": "Thomas Joseph FitzGerald", "Birth date": "1888 2 13 y", "Birth place": "Forest Gate, Essex, England", "De... |
Quantrill's Raiders were the best-known of the pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas (also known as "bushwhackers") who fought in the American Civil War. Their leader was William Quantrill and they included Jesse James and his brother Frank.
Early in the war Missouri and Kansas were nominally under Union government cont... | {"Allegiance": "border|23px Confederate States", "Type": "Partisan", "Branch": "Partisan Rangers", "Role": "Direct actionGuerrilla warfareRaidingReconnaissanceSkirmisher", "Size": "~400 (1863)", "Notablecommanders": "Captain William Quantrill"} |
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. It became part of t... | {"Alternative names": "Rylands", "Status": "Grade I listed", "Type": "Library", "Architectural style": "Victorian Neo-Gothic", "Location": "Deansgate, Manchester, England", "Coordinates": "53.480321 -2.2487 inline,title", "Construction started": "1890"} |
William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 - June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader and mass murdererSee:
Benzkofer, Stephan (August 18, 2013) "Massacre in Kansas" Chicago Tribune
Rosen, Fred (2015) Gold!: The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation New York: Open Road Media.
Mayo, Mike (2008) Am... | {"Birth name": "William Clarke Quantrill", "Born": "Canal Dover (now Dover), Ohio", "Died": "Louisville, Kentucky", "Allegiance": "Confederate States of America"} |
Claude Antoine Marie François (; 1 February 1939 - 11 March 1978), also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, drummer and dancer. François co-wrote the lyrics of "Comme d'habitude" (composed by Jacques Revaux), the original version of "My Way" and composed the mus... | {"Born": "Ismailia, Kingdom of Egypt", "Died": "Paris, France", "Genres": "Pop", "Labels": "Fontana, Phillips, Flèche, Phonogram", "Website": "http://www.claudefrancois.fr"} |
thumb|260px|Several types of amazake from a supermarket
is a traditional sweet, low-alcohol or non-alcoholic Japanese drink made from fermented rice. Amazake dates from the Kofun period, and it is mentioned in the Nihon Shoki. It is part of the family of traditional Japanese foods made using the koji mold , which als... | {"Name of food": "Amazake", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "A cup of amazake", "Place of origin": "Japan", "Region of origin": "East Asia", "Cuisine": "Japanese cuisine", "Creator": "Kofun period in Japan", "Course served": "Drink", "Type of dish": "Plant milk", "Serving temperature": "Warm, room temperatu... |
Jason Woliner is an American director, writer and a former child actor. He was the non-performing member of the comedy group Human Giant and directed the bulk of their output. After that, he directed, co-wrote, and acted as showrunner on the cult Adult Swim series Eagleheart starring Chris Elliott. Woliner has directe... | {"Name": "Jason Woliner", "Caption": "Woliner in July 2011", "Birth name": "Jason Woliner", "Birth date": "1980 06 1", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Director, writer, actor", "Years active": "1989-present"} |
Canary Wharf is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Canary Wharf in East London. Located next to One Canada Square and between two parts of a shopping centre,Canary Wharf - Transport for London TfL official site Retrieved 3 September 2007 it serves the Canary Wharf office complex. Each of its three tracks featur... | {"External links": "dlr", "Managed by": "Docklands Light Railway", "Location": "Canary Wharf", "Local authority": "Tower Hamlets", "Number of platforms": "3", "Accessible": "yes", "Fare zone": "2", "2007-08": "16.055", "2008-09": "15.979", "2010-11": "16.989 -->"} |
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