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Sega Meganet, also known as the Net Work System, was an online service for the Mega Drive in Japan and later Brazil. Utilizing dial-up Internet access, Meganet was Sega's first online multiplayer gaming service, and functioned on a pay to play basis. The system functioned through the use of a peripheral called the Me... | {"Display name": "Sega Meganet", "Logo size": "102px", "Logo caption": "Logo for the Sega Net Work System", "Developer": "Sega", "Type/Genre": "Online service", "Launch date": "JP \"IGN\">Sega: A Soothsayer of the Games Industry 2013-11-05 http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/20/sega-a-soothsayer-of-the-games-industry R... |
is a science fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It was released in Japan in 1989, North America in 1990, and in Europe in 1990. It was later ported to a variety of different platforms. An updated remake, , was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2005 in Japan.
Phantasy... | {"Title": "Phantasy Star II", "Caption": "North American cover art", "Developer": "Sega", "Publisher": "Sega", "Director": "Chieko Aoki", "Producer": "Yuji Naka", "Programmer": "Yuji Naka", "Artist": "Rieko Kodama", "Writer": "Chieko Aoki", "Series": "Phantasy Star", "Composer": "Tokuhiko Uwabo", "Released": "JP March ... |
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT, ) was a major third-level institution in Dublin, Ireland. On 1 January 2019 DIT was dissolved and its functions were transferred to the Technological University Dublin, as TU Dublin City Campus. The institution began with the establishment of the first technical education institutio... | {"President": "Professor Brian Norton", "Students": "20,000", "Campus": "Multiple locations in Dublin.Relocating to a single inner suburban campus.", "Website": "http://www.dit.ie/ dit.ie"} |
George Mathew Fernandes "(i) Accused George Mathew Fernandes (hereinafter referred to as George Fernandes) was the former Chairman of the Socialist Party of India and also the President of the All India Railway- men's Federation." (3 June 1930 - 29 January 2019) was an Indian trade unionist, statesman, and journalist, ... | {"Name": "George Fernandes", "Image caption": "George Fernandes in 2002", "Birth name": "George Mathew Fernandes", "Birth date": "1930 6 3 y", "Nationality": "Indian", "Birth place": "Mangalore, Madras Presidency, British India(present-day Mangaluru, Karnataka, India)", "Death date": "2019 1 29 1930 6 3 y", "Death plac... |
Constantin Mugur Isărescu (; born 1 August 1949) is the Governor of the National Bank of Romania, a position he has been holding since September 1990, with the sole exception of a period of time of one year (22 December 1999 to 28 December 2000), during which he served as Prime Minister of Romania. In addition, he is a... | {"Name": "Mugur Isărescu", "Term start": "22 December 1999", "Term end": "28 December 2000", "Office 2": "Governor of the National Bank of Romania", "Predecessor 2": "Emil Iota Ghizari (ad interim)", "Birth date": "1949 8 1 y", "Birth place": "Drăgășani, Vâlcea County, Romanian People's Republic", "Alma mater": "Buchar... |
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), part of the Australian Government under t... | {"Abbreviation": "AIS", "Type": "Government agency", "Legal status": "Active", "Location": "Canberra, Australia", "Coordinates": "35 14 50 S 149 06 15 E region:AU-ACT_type:landmark title,inline", "Affiliations": "National Institute Network", "Website": "ais.gov.au"} |
The Sunday Post is a weekly newspaper published in Dundee, Scotland, by DC Thomson, and characterised by a mix of news, human interest stories and short features. The paper was founded in 1914 and has a wide circulation across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and parts of Northern England.
The current editor is Richard Pre... | {"Type": "Sunday newspaper", "Format": "Tabloid", "Owner(s)": "DC Thomson & Co Ltd.", "Headquarters": "Dundee, Scotland", "Circulation": "Sunday Post https://www.abc.org.uk/product/3061 Audit Bureau of Circulations 11 August 2023 2 September 2023", "Website": "http://www.sundaypost.com/"} |
Constantin Coandă (4 March 1857 – 30 September 1932) was a Romanian soldier and politician.
Biography
Constantin Coandă was born in Craiova. He reached the rank of general in the Romanian Army, and later became a mathematics professor at the National School of Bridges and Roads in Bucharest. Among his seven childr... | {"Name": "Constantin Coandă", "Term start": "24 October 1918", "Term end": "29 November 1918", "Office 2": "President of the Senate of Romania", "Monarch 2": "Ferdinand I of Romania", "Predecessor 2": "Paul Bujor", "Successor 2": "Mihail Pherekyde", "Birth date": "yes 1857 03 04", "Birth place": "Craiova, Wallachia", "... |
A mouth organ is any free reed aerophone with one or more air chambers fitted with a free reed.
Though it spans many traditions, it is played universally the same way by the musician placing their lips over a chamber or holes in the instrument, and blowing or sucking air to create a sound. Many of the chambers can be p... | {"Caption": "A Chinese Sheng (L) and a Japanese Shō (R).", "Image size": "150px", "Classification": "Wind\naerophone", "Hornbostel-Sachs": "412.132", "Hornbostel-Sachs Description": "Free reed aerophone", "Articles": "Sheng\nShō\nLusheng\nYu\nSaenghwang\nPlung\nSompoton\nKhene\nHarmonica\nMelodica"} |
Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music singer, songwriter and musician. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman of the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed h... | {"Born": "Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Origin": "Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Janis Oliver 1980 1997 divorced\n Amy Grant 2000", "Genres": "Country country pop bluegrass rock", "Labels": "RCA Nashville MCA MCA Nashville", "Member of": "Eagles", "Formerly of": "Pure Prairie League The Notorious Cherry Bombs T... |
Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (1 April 1889 - 21 June 1940), also known by his moniker Doctorji, was an Indian physician and the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).) Hedgewar founded the RSS in Nagpur in 1925, based on the ideology of Hindutva with the intention of creating a Hindu Rashtra.
Category:Indian fas... | {"Name": "Keshav Baliram Hedgewar", "Birth name": "Keshav Baliram Hedgewar", "Birth date": "yes 1889 04 01", "Birth place": "Kandakurthi, Central Provinces, British India(present day Nizamabad, Telangana, India)", "Death date": "yes 1940 06 21 1889 04 01", "Death place": "Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar, British In... |
thumb|Murrough surrenders his royalty to King Henry VIII at Greenwich upon the Thames July 1543 and receives the titles of Baron Inchiquin for his heirs male and Earl of Thomond with special remainder to his nephew Donough.
Baron Inchiquin () is one of the older titles in the Peerage of Ireland. It was one of two titl... | {"Creation date": "1 July 1543", "Created by": "King Henry VIII", "Peerage": "Peerage of Ireland", "First holder": "Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond, 1st Baron Inchiquin", "Remainder to": "the 1st Baron’s heirs male", "Status": "Extant", "Seat(s)": "Thomond House", "Former seat(s)": "Dromoland Castle"} |
Rewi Alley (known in China as 路易•艾黎, Lùyì Àilí, 2 December 1897 - 27 December 1987) was a New Zealand-born writer and political activist. A member of the Chinese Communist Party, he dedicated 60 years of his life to the cause and was a key figure in the establishment of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives and technical tr... | {"Name": "Rewi Alley", "Post-nominals": "NZL QSO MM 100%", "Birth date": "yes 1897 12 02", "Birth place": "Springfield, New Zealand", "Death date": "yes 1987 12 27 1897 12 02", "Death place": "Beijing, China", "Caption": "Portrait of Rewi Alley by Deng Bangzhen. Located in CPAFFC offices, Factory Street, Dongcheng Dis... |
Leningrad Oblast (, ; ; ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). The oblast has an area of and a population of 1,716,868 (2010 Census); up from 1,669,205 recorded in the 2002 Census. Leningrad Oblast is highly industrialized. Its administrative center and largest city is Gatchina.
The oblast was established on 1... | {"English name": "Leningrad Oblast", "Russian name": "Ленинградская область", "Coat of arms caption": "Coat of arms", "Flag caption": "Flag", "Anthem": "Anthem of Leningrad Oblast", "Type of polity": "Oblast", "Type of polity article": "Oblasts of Russia", "Area in sq. km": "83908", "Area rank": "38th", "ISO 3166-2:RU ... |
Murmansk Oblast (, ; ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country, with a total land area of . Its only internal border is the Republic of Karelia to the south, as well is bordered internationally by Finland to the west and Norway to the northwest and the Barents Sea lie... | {"English name": "Murmansk Oblast", "Russian name": "Мурманская область", "Coat of arms caption": "Coat of arms", "Flag caption": "Flag", "Anthem": "Anthem of Murmansk Oblast", "Type of polity": "Oblast", "Type of polity article": "Oblasts of Russia", "Area in sq. km": "144902", "Area rank": "26th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code... |
Kursk Oblast (, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kursk. As of the 2021 Census, Kursk Oblast has a population of 1,082,458.
Geography
The oblast, with an average elevation of , occupies the southern slopes of the middle-Russian plateau. The surface is hilly and inte... | {"English name": "Kursk Oblast", "Russian name": "Курская 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": "29997", "Area rank": "65th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-KRS", "Leader title": "Governor", "Lead... |
Lipetsk Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Lipetsk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 1,143,224.
Geography
Lipetsk Oblast borders with Ryazan Oblast (NE), Tambov Oblast (E), Voronezh Oblast (S), Kursk Oblast (SW), Oryol Oblast (W), and Tula Oblast (NW... | {"English name": "Lipetsk Oblast", "Russian name": "Липецкая 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": "24047", "Area rank": "71st", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-LIP", "Leader title": "Head", "Leade... |
Tula Oblast () is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in European Russia and is administratively part of the Central Federal District, covering an area of . It has a population of Tula is the largest city and the administrative center of the oblast.
Tula Oblast borders Moscow Oblast ... | {"English name": "Tula Oblast", "Russian name": "Тульская 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": "25679", "Area rank": "69th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-TUL", "Leader title": "Governor", "Lead... |
Tambov Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tambov. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,091,994.
Geography
Tambov Oblast is situated in a forest steppe. It borders the Ryazan, Penza, Saratov, Voronezh and Lipetsk oblasts.
History
The oldest known popul... | {"English name": "Tambov Oblast", "Russian name": "Тамбовская 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": "34300", "Area rank": "63rd", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-TAM", "Leader title": "Head", "Lead... |
Smolensk Oblast (), informally also called Smolenschina (), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative centre is the city of Smolensk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 888,421.
Geography
thumb|Roslavlsky old tract, the village of Boreshino
The oblast was founded on 27 September 1937.Испол... | {"English name": "Smolensk Oblast", "Russian name": "Смоленская 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": "49779", "Area rank": "53rd", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-SMO", "Leader title": "Governor",... |
Ryazan Oblast (, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Ryazan, which is also the oblast's largest city.
Geography
Ryazan Oblast borders Vladimir Oblast (N), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (NE), the Republic of Mordovia (E), Penza Oblast (SE), Tambov Oblast (S), Lipetsk Oblast ... | {"English name": "Ryazan Oblast", "Russian name": "Рязанская 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": "39605", "Area rank": "58th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-RYA", "Leader title": "Governor", "L... |
Oryol Oblast (), also known as Orlovshchina (), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Oryol. Population:
Geography
240px|left|thumb|Landscape of the eastern part of the region
280px|thumb|In the national park Orlovskoye Polesye
It is located in the southwestern part of... | {"English name": "Oryol Oblast", "Russian name": "Орловская 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": "24652", "Area rank": "71st", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-ORL", "Leader title": "Governor", "Le... |
12P/Pons-Brooks is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years. It fits the classical definition of a Halley-type comet with (20 years < period < 200 years), and is also one of the brightest known periodic comets, reaching an absolute visual magnitude ~5 in its approach to perihelion. Comet Pons-Brooks was disc... | {"Discovered by": "Jean-Louis PonsWilliam Robert Brooks", "Discovery date": "July 12, 1812", "Epoch": "2024-05-10", "Perihelion": "0.78078 AU", "Aphelion": "33.616 AU", "Eccentricity": "0.95460", "Inclination": "74.191°", "Argument ofperiapsis": "198.99°", "MOID": "0.176 AU e6km unit", "Last perihelion": "May 22, 1954J... |
The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) was an informal collaboration of academics devoted to Latter-day Saint historical scholarship. The organization was established in 1979 as a non-profit organization by John. W. Welch. In 1997, the group became a formal part of Brigham Young University (BYU... | {"Legal status": "Retired and retained by Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship", "Type": "Research Institute (Mormon studies)", "Headquarters": "Brigham Young University", "Location": "Provo, Utah, United States", "Affiliations": "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"} |
Magadan Oblast is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Far East region of the country, and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. Magadan Oblast has a population of 136,085 (2021 Census), making it the least populated oblast and the third-least populated fe... | {"English name": "Magadan Oblast", "Russian name": "Магаданская 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": "461400", "Area rank": "11th", "ISO 3166-2:RU code": "RU-MAG", "Leader title": "Governor"... |
Little Kennesaw Mountain is a mountain in Cobb County, Georgia, northwest of Marietta and south of Kennesaw. It is a sub-peak of Kennesaw Mountain, the site of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the 1864 Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.
The defensive-minded Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston constructed... | {"Elevation": "National Elevation Dataset United States Geological Survey http://ned.usgs.gov/ 2014-08-08", "Prominence": "140", "Location": "USA Georgia", "Coordinates": "332236 Little Kennesaw Mountain 2011-06-05"} |
Sugarcult is an American rock band from Santa Barbara, California, formed in 1998. The band currently consists of Tim Pagnotta (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Airin Older (bass guitar, backing vocals), Marko DeSantis (lead guitar), and Kenny Livingston (drums, percussion).
History
Formation (1998-99)
Tim Pagnotta met ex... | {"Origin": "Santa Barbara, California, United States", "Genres": "Punk rock\n pop-punk\n alternative rock", "Labels": "Avex\n Fearless\n V2", "Members": "Tim Pagnotta\n Airin Older\n Marko DeSantis\n Ken Livingston"} |
Jennifer Government is a 2003 dystopian novel by Max Barry, set in an alternate reality where most nations in the Americas and Oceania are dominated by powerful corporations and corporate coalitions, and where government power is extremely limited. It was a finalist for a Campbell Award in its year of eligibility, but ... | {"Cover artist": "Maria Carella", "Country": "Australia", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Doubleday", "Media type": "Print (hardcover & paperback) and e-book", "Pages": "336", "ISBN": "(hardcover)", "Preceded by": "Syrup", "Followed by": "Company"} |
The 1896 Canadian federal election was held on June 23, 1896, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 8th Parliament of Canada. Though the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Charles Tupper, won a plurality of the popular vote, the Liberal Party, led by Wilfrid Laurier, won the majority of seats... | {"Name": "1896 Canadian federal election", "Country": "Canada", "Flag year": "1868", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Show party colours?": "no", "Link to parties?": "no", "Previous election": "1891 Canadian federal election", "Previous year": "1891", "Next election": "1900 Canadian federal election", "Next ... |
The Calcutta Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the rugby match between England and Scotland played annually in the Six Nations Championship. Like the match itself (England-Scotland), the Calcutta Cup is the oldest trophy contested between any two international rugby union teams, pre-dating the Bledisloe Cup (A... | {"Sport": "Rugby union", "Awarded for": "Winner of England-Scotland fixtureThe trophy is awarded to the winner of the annual one-off England-Scotland fixture played in the Six Nations Championship.", "Nickname": "Kolkata Cup", "Country": "ENGSCO", "First award": "10 March 1879; 10 March 1879 ago", "Editions": "129", "M... |
Harry Hammond Hess (May 24, 1906 - August 25, 1969) was an American geologist and a United States Navy officer in World War II who is considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics. He is best known for his theories on sea floor spreading, specifically work on relationships between i... | {"Fields": "Geology", "Doctoral students": "Eugene Merle ShoemakerChemistry Tree profile Harry Hammond HessJohn Tuzo Wilson http://www.mssu.edu/seg-vm/bio_j__tuzo_wilson.html\n J Tuzo Wilson\n Society of Exploration Geophysics\n Virtual Geoscience Center\n dead\n https://web.archive.org/web/20100715172446/htt... |
Eggs Benedict is a common American breakfast or brunch dish, consisting of two halves of an English muffin, each topped with Canadian bacon, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce. It was popularized in New York City.
Origin and history
There are conflicting accounts as to the origin of eggs Benedict.
Delmonico's in ... | {"Name of food": "Eggs Benedict", "Image caption": "Traditional Eggs Benedict with Canadian bacon on an English muffin with Hollandaise sauce", "Place of origin": "United States", "Region of origin": "New York City", "Course served": "Breakfast, brunch", "Main ingredient": "English muffin, Canadian bacon, Eggs, Holland... |
Over the Edge (or OTE) is a sound collage radio program hosted and produced in the United States by Jon Leidecker ("Wobbly") and Robert Cole ("KrOB"), who took over in 2015 after the death of longtime host Don Joyce.
Leidecker, like Joyce, is a member of the pioneering sound collage band Negativland, other members of... | {"Genre": "Sound collage", "Running time": "3 hours", "Country of origin": "United States", "Home station": "KPFA", "Hosted by": "Jon Leidecker (\"Wobbly\") & Robert Cole (\"KrOB\")", "Created by": "Don Joyce", "Recording studio": "Berkeley, California", "Original release": "1981 06", "Website": "http://www.negativland... |
Adam Hochschild (; born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, historian and lecturer. His best-known works include King Leopold's Ghost (1998), To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (2011), Bury the Chains (2005), The Mirror at Midnight (1990), The Unquiet Ghost (1994), and Spain ... | {"Name": "Adam Hochschild", "Caption": "Hochschild in 2017", "Birth date": "1942 10 5", "Birth place": "New York City, United States", "Spouse(s)": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "Children": "2", "Occupation": "Writer, journalist", "Parent(s)": "Mary Marquand Hochschild Harold K. Hochschild", "Family": "Berthold Hochschil... |
Maybe You Should Drive is the second studio album by Barenaked Ladies. It was released in August 1994 and went double platinum in Canada, reaching No. 3 upon its release. It was also their first album to chart in the US, peaking at No. 175 on the Billboard 200. Unlike on their previous album Gordon, Steven Page and Ed ... | {"Released": "August 16, 1994", "Recorded": "1994", "Genre": "Alternative rock\njangle pop\ncollege rock", "Label": "Reprise", "Producer": "Ben Mink"} |
Howard Russell Pawley (November 21, 1934 - December 30, 2015) was a Canadian politician and professor who was the 18th premier of Manitoba from 1981 to 1988. Prior to his premiership, Pawley served in various ministerial positions after his tenure in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
Early life
The son of Methodi... | {"Name": "Howard Pawley", "Term start": "November 30, 1981", "Term end": "May 9, 1988", "Lieutenant governor": "Pearl McGonigalGeorge Johnson", "Office 2": "28th Attorney-General of Manitoba", "Premier 2": "Edward Schreyer", "Predecessor 2": "Alvin Mackling", "Successor 2": "Gerald Mercier", "Birth date": "1934 11 21",... |
Daniel J. O'Donnell (born November 17, 1960) is an American politician from the state of New York. A Democrat, he is a member of the New York State Assembly. O'Donnell represents the 69th district in Manhattan, made up of the neighborhoods of Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, and portions of the Upper West Side an... | {"Name": "Daniel O'Donnell", "Image caption": "O'Donnell in 2017", "State assembly": "New York", "Term start": "January 3, 2003", "Birth date": "1960 11 17", "Birth place": "Queens, New York, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "John Banta January 29, 2012", "Education": "George Washington University (BA)City University of New York, Q... |
Big Rock Brewery is a Canadian public company and the largest brewery that is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Additional brewing operations are located in Vancouver, British Columbia; Etobicoke, Ontario; and Liberty Village in Toronto, Ontario. Big Rock distributes a variety of beers and ciders throughout Canada.
H... | {"Founded": "1985", "Headquarters": "Canada", "Industry": "Alcoholic drink", "Products": "Beer", "Parent": "Public", "Revenue": "C$39,594,000 (2015) C$36,755,000 (2014)", "Website": "bigrockbeer.com"} |
Born on a Pirate Ship is the third full-length studio album by Barenaked Ladies (BNL), featuring the songs "Shoe Box", "The Old Apartment", "When I Fall" and "Break Your Heart". "The Old Apartment" would become BNL's first US hit in 1997.
Born on a Pirate Ship was recorded as a four-piece quartet, following the depart... | {"Released": "March 19, 1996", "Recorded": "April-July 1995", "Studio": "The Gas Station, TorontoReaction Studios, TorontoManta Eastern, TorontoRight Tracks Studio, Saskatoon", "Genre": "*Alternative rock\npop rock", "Label": "Reprise", "Producer": "Barenaked Ladies, Michael Phillip Wojewoda"} |
The Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty ( and ) are the annual records of Joseon, the last royal house to rule Korea. Kept from 1392 to 1865, the annals (or sillok) comprise 1,893 volumes and are thought to be the longest continual documentation of a single dynasty in the world. With the exception of two sillok c... | {"Caption": "Veritable Records of Jeongjo", "Hangul name": "조 선 왕 조 실 록", "Hanja": "朝 鮮 王 朝 實 錄", "Revised Romanization": "Joseon Wangjo Sillok", "McCune-Reischauer": "Chosŏn Wangjo Sillok", "Title": "Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty", "Other name 1 heading": "North Korean name", "Hangul other name 1": "조 선 봉 건 ... |
The prime minister of Latvia () is the most powerful member of the Government of Latvia, who presides over the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers. The officeholder is nominated by the president of Latvia, but must be able to obtain the support of a parliamentary majority in the Saeima.
The tables below display all Latvian p... | {"Post": "Prime Minister", "Body": "the Republic of Latvia", "Native name": "fr Latvijas Republikas Ministru prezidents", "Insignia image": "Flag of the Prime Minister of Latvia.svgborder", "Insignia size": "125px", "Insignia caption": "Flag of the prime minister of Latvia", "Incumbent": "Evika Siliņa", "Incumbent sinc... |
Rock Spectacle is the first live album by Barenaked Ladies. It was also the first major success for the band in the United States, selling over one million copies and producing a hit single in the country in its version of "Brian Wilson." The album was recorded at two concerts: at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago and at ... | {"Released": "November 19, 1996", "Recorded": "April 17, 1996May 23, 1996", "Venue": "Riviera Theatre, ChicagoOlympia, Montreal", "Genre": "Alternative rock", "Label": "Reprise", "Producer": "Michael Phillip Wojewoda"} |
Stunt is the fourth full-length studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies. Their most successful album, it entered the US charts at No. 3 and sold over 4 million units by the end of its chart run. Its first single, "One Week" became the band's breakthrough single in the US market by hitting No. 1 ... | {"Released": "1998 7 7", "Recorded": "February-March 1998", "Studio": "Arlyn Studios (Austin, Texas)\n Phase One Studios (Scarborough, Ontario)", "Genre": "Alternative rock\npop rockWilhelm Rich September 11, 2020 20 Years Ago Barenaked Ladies Found Maturity with 'Maroon', PopMatters https://www.popmatters.com/maro... |
Kids' WB (stylized as Kids' WB!) was an American children's programming service and brand of The WB that aired on the network from September 9, 1995, to September 16, 2006. The block moved to The CW (a result of the merger of Time Warner's The WB and CBS Corporation's UPN), where it aired from September 23, 2006, to Ma... | {"Launched": "1995 9 9", "Closed": "2008 5 17 (block)2015 5 17 (website)", "Network": "The WB (1995-2006)\n The CW (2006-2008)", "Country of origin": "United States", "Owner": "Warner Bros. Television Studios (Warner Bros. Discovery)", "Original language(s)": "English", "Headquarters": "Burbank, California, U.S."} |
Maroon is the fifth full-length studio album by Barenaked Ladies. The album was the follow-up to 1998's Stunt, the band's most successful album in the United States. Maroon debuted at No. 1 in Canada (their second to reach No. 1 after their 1992's debut Gordon) and No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard 200. In its first week, th... | {"Released": "September 12, 2000", "Recorded": "April-June 2000", "Genre": "Alternative rock", "Label": "Reprise", "Producer": "Don Was"} |
Black Moon is the eighth studio album, and the first in fourteen years, by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in May 1992. The band had broken up in 1979, and recorded Black Moon to kick off their 1990s revival.
Production
The track "Affairs of the Heart" originated in summer 1988 sessions ... | {"Released": "May 1992", "Studio": "Marcus Studios\n Front Page Recorders\n Conway Studios (mixing)\n Precision Mastering (mastering)", "Genre": "Progressive rock, synth-pop", "Label": "Victory Music", "Producer": "Mark Mancina\n Ian Morrow\n John Van Tongeren"} |
Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001) is a greatest hits compilation album by Barenaked Ladies which spans their first decade as a band. It contains released singles, plus new songs "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)" and "Thanks That Was Fun", the latter which was released as a single. Disc One was releas... | {"Released": "November 13, 2001", "Recorded": "1991-2001", "Genre": "Alternative rock", "Label": "Reprise", "Producer": "Barenaked Ladies, Dan Durbin, David Kahne, David Leonard, Ben Mink, Susan Rogers, Jim Scott, Don Was, Aubrey Winfield, Michael Phillip Wojewoda"} |
Everything to Everyone (commonly abbreviated E2E) is the sixth full-length studio album by Barenaked Ladies. It was released in 2003 and was produced by Ron Aniello. Singles from the album include "Another Postcard", "Testing 1, 2, 3", "For You", "Celebrity" and "Maybe Katie". The content of the album is noted for its ... | {"Released": "October 21, 2003", "Recorded": "April 3 - May 25, 2003", "Genre": "Alternative rock", "Label": "Reprise", "Producer": "Ron Aniello"} |
The Convergent Technologies Operating System, also known variously as CTOS, BTOS and STARSYS, is a discontinued modular, message-passing, multiprocess-based operating system.
Overview
CTOS had many innovative features for its time. System access was controlled with a user password and Volume or disk passwords. If one ... | {"Developer": "Convergent Technologies", "Working state": "Discontinued", "Initial release": "1980", "Written in": "PL/M", "Platforms": "x86", "Kernel": "Microkernel", "License": "Proprietary"} |
The Queensland Reds is the rugby union team for the Australian state of Queensland that competes in the Southern Hemisphere's Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996, they were a representative team selected from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland. With the introduction of the professional Super 12 competit... | {"Union": "Rugby Australia (Queensland)", "Location": "Brisbane, Queensland, Australia", "Founded": "y 1882", "Region": "Queensland"} |
Convergent Technologies, Inc., was an American computer company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation and Xerox PARC in 1979. Among the founders were CEO Allen Michels, VP Engineering Bob Garrow, head of marketing Kal Hubler, and operating system architect Ben Wegbreit. Convergent was primarily a... | {"Industry": "Computer hardware", "Fate": "Purchased by Unisys in 1988", "Founded": "1979", "Headquarters": "Santa Clara, California", "Products": "Multi-processor computerWork stationsPersonal computers", "Parent": "-->", "Website": "https://www.unisys.com"} |
UWC Atlantic (formally the United World College of the Atlantic; and often referred to by its original name, Atlantic College) is an independent boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. Founded in 1962, it was the first of the United World Colleges and was among the first educational institutions in the... | {"Staff": "144", "Campus type": "Residential", "Campus size": "30 Hectares", "Coordinates": "51 24 05 N 03 31 57 W region:GB inline,title", "Website": "atlanticcollege.org/"} |
The Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1532 (24 Hen. 8. c. 12), also called the Statute in Restraint of Appeals,Church Congress. Report of the Proceedings. 1889. Page 88. the Act of Appeals and the Act of Restraints in Appeals,Geoffrey Rudolph Elton. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Second Edition. Cambridge U... | {"Short title": "Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1532The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.", "Parliament": "Parliament of E... |
SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region.
The organization was founded as the Stanford Rese... | {"Type": "501(c)(3) nonprofit scientific research institute", "Founded": "Menlo Park, California(1946)", "Formerly": "Stanford Research Institute (1946-1970)", "Headquarters": "Menlo Park, California, U.S.", "Industry": "Research and development", "Services": "Scientific research", "Revenue": "368 million yes (2020)htt... |
Raul Jumkovich Khajimba (, ; born 21 March 1958) is an Abkhazian politician, and served as President of Abkhazia from 25 September 2014 until 12 January 2020. He was also Chairman of the Forum for the National Unity of Abkhazia from 2010 to 2015. Khajimba previously held the offices of Vice President (2005-2009), Prime... | {"Name": "Raul Khajimba", "Native name": "ab Рауль Ҳаџьымба ka რაულ ხაჯიმბა", "Vice president": "Vitali Gabnia Aslan Bartsits", "Term start": "25 September 2014", "Term end": "12 January 2020", "Order 2": "Chairman of the Forum for the National Unity of Abkhazia", "Predecessor 2": "Daur ArshbaAstamur Tania", "Successor... |
Adam James Powell (born 20 December 1976) is a Welsh computer programmer, game designer and businessman. He is the co-founder of Neopets and Meteor Games.
Career
Powell attended the University of Nottingham from 1995 to 1998 studying for a computer science degree. During his time at Nottingham, Powell created Dark H... | {"Birth name": "Adam James Powell", "Caption": "Adam Powell's Neopets Avator", "Birth date": "yes 1976 12 20", "Birth place": "Newport, Wales", "Occupation": "Game designer", "Spouse(s)": "Donna Powell"} |
C. Daniel Barrett is an attorney, legal author, and North Carolina political figure.
Barrett unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in the 2004 election. His gubernatorial campaign was noted for its grassroots efforts, including Barrett personally walking across the length of the state from Murph... | {"State senate": "North Carolina", "Term start": "August 23, 2017https://www.ncleg.gov/DocumentSites/SenateDocuments/Journals/2017%20Senate%20Journal%20(01-11-2017).pdf JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE 2017 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA FIRST SESSION North Carolina General Assembly", "Term end": "January ... |
William Wilfred Cobey Jr. (born May 13, 1939) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served one term in the United States House of Representatives for North Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1985 to 1987.
Biography
Cobey was born in Washington, D.C. and reared in the suburb of Univer... | {"Birth name": "William Wilfred Cobey, Jr.", "Birth date": "1939 5 13", "Birth place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Alma mater": "Emory University (BA)University of Pennsylvania (MBA)University of Pittsburgh (MEd)", "Residence": "Chapel Hill, North Carolina", "Term start": "2013", "Term end": "2018", "Office 2": "Secreta... |
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 direct-to-video animated Christmas musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is the follow-up to Disney's 1991 animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. The film sold 7.6million VHS tapes in 1997. This is the first of two sequels to B... | {"Directed by": "Andy Knight", "Produced by": "Lori Forte\n Susan Kapigian", "Written by": "Flip Kobler\n Cindy Marcus\n Bill Motz\n Bob Roth", "Starring": "Paige O'Hara\n Robby Benson\n Jerry Orbach\n David Ogden Stiers\n Angela Lansbury\n Haley Joel Osment\n Bernadette Peters\n Tim Curry\n Paul Reubens", "Music by": ... |
Louis Stanton Auchincloss (; September 27, 1917 - January 26, 2010)Holcomb B. Noble and Charles McGrath, Louis Auchincloss, Chronicler of New York's Upper Crust, Dies at 92 The New York Times. Retrieved on January 27, 2010. was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who pa... | {"Born": "1917 9 27 yes", "Died": "2010 1 26 1917 9 7 yes", "Occupation": "Writer, lawyer", "Nationality": "American", "Language": "English", "Alma mater": "Yale UniversityUniversity of Virginia", "Children": "3", "Relatives": "Nina Auchincloss Straight (cousin)", "Notable awards": "National Medal of Arts (2005)"} |
ArsDigita, LLC, was a web development company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. The company produced a popular open source toolkit, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), for building database-backed community websites, and flourished at the peak of the dot-com bubble. ACS was also the roots of OpenACS, which... | {"Industry": "Software", "Founded": "1997 in Cambridge, Massachusetts", "Defunct": "2002", "Fate": "Acquired by Red Hat", "Products": "ArsDigita Community System", "Divisions": "ArsDigita Foundation"} |
Philander Priestly Claxton (September 28, 1862 - January 12, 1957) was an American educator.
Biography
Philander Claxton was born in Bedford County, Tennessee. He was educated at the University of Tennessee where he obtained both his Bachelor (1882) and Masters of Arts (1887). He continued his studies at Johns Hopkins... | {"Name": "Philander Claxton", "Term start": "June 30, 1911", "Term end": "June 2, 1921", "Birth date": "1862 9 28", "Birth place": "Shelbyville, Tennessee, U.S.", "Death date": "1957 1 12 1862 9 28", "Death place": "Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.", "Education": "University of Tennessee, Knoxville (BA, MA)Johns Hopkins Univ... |
Cygwin/X is an implementation of the X Window System that runs under Microsoft Windows. It is part of the Cygwin project, and is installed using Cygwin's standard setup system. Cygwin/X is free software, licensed under the X11 License.
Cygwin/X was originally based on XFree86, but switched to the X.Org Server due to ... | {"Developer(s)": "Cygnus Solutions, Red Hat, Cygwin project volunteers", "Initial release": "1999 05 26https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-xfree/1999-May/000003.html Xfree 26 May 1999", "Written in": "C/C++", "Platform": "Cygwin", "License": "X11 license", "Website": "x.cygwin.com"} |
IRCnet is currently the third largest IRC network with around 25,000 users using it daily. An early 2005 record had approximately 123,110 users simultaneously connected to the network."IRCnet yearly user, channel and server statistics". irc.netsplit.de.
History
Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network,... | {"Founded": "1996", "Geographic location": "EuropeUnited States", "Based in": "Worldwide", "Website URL": "www.ircnet.com", "Average users": "IRCnet 20,000-30,000", "Average channels": "IRCnet 10,000-15,000", "Average servers": "IRCnet 30", "Content/subject": "Public/Unrestricted"} |
In computing, X-Win32 is a proprietary implementation of the X Window System for Microsoft Windows, produced by StarNet Communications. It is based on X11R7.4.
X- Win32 allows remote display of UNIX windows on Windows machines in a normal window alongside the other Windows applications
Version History
X-Win32 was fi... | {"Developer(s)": "StarNet Communications Inc", "Type": "Display server", "License": "Proprietary", "Website": "http://www.starnet.com"} |
Greenlaw is a town and civil parish situated in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 661.
History
thumb|left|Greenlaw Church completed in 1675
Greenlaw was first ... | {"Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NT710460", "Council area": "Scottish Borders", "Lieutenancy area": "Berwickshire", "Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Postcode district": "TD10", "Dialling code": "01361", "UK Parliament": "Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk", "Scottish Parliament": "Ettrick, Roxbur... |
Eleanor of Viseu (2 May 1458 – 17 November 1525; ) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) and later queen consort of Portugal. She is considered one of her country's most notable queens consort and one of the only two who were not foreigners. To distinguish her from other infantas of the same name, she is commonly known ... | {"Born": "Beja, Portugal", "Died": "Palace of Xabregas, Lisbon", "Burial": "Convent of the Mother of God", "Father": "Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu", "Mother": "Beatrice of Portugal", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
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The Elamo-Dravidian language family is a hypothesised language family that links the Dravidian languages of South Asia to the extinct Elamite language of ancient Elam (present-day southwestern Iran). The latest version (2... | {"Name": "Elamo-Dravidian", "Acceptance": "controversial", "Geographic distribution": "South Asia, West Asia", "Language family color": "Dravidian", "Family": "Proposed language family", "Child 2": "Dravidian", "Child 1": "Elamite", "Glottolog code": "none", "Alternative name": "Zagrosian"} |
The Venus of Willendorf is an Venus figurine estimated to have been made around 25,000-30,000 years ago. It was found on August 7, 1908, by a workman named Johann Veran or Josef Veram during excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier, and Josef Bayer at a Paleolithic site near Willendorf, ... | {"Material": "Oolitic limestone", "Created": "25,000 BP", "Discovered": "August 7, 1908, near Willendorf, by Josef Szombathy", "Present location": "Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria"} |
Lijiang (), also known as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China. It has an area of and had a population of 1,253,878 at the 2020 census whom 288,787 lived in the built-up area (metro) made of Gucheng District. Lijiang is famous for its UNESCO Heritage Site, the Old Town of Liji... | {"Density": "auto", "Urban density": "auto", "Metro density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "CN-YN-07", "Website": "lijiang.gov.cn"} |
Kelis Rogers (;She can be heard singing her name in the song "Blindfold Me" born August 21, 1979), known mononymously as Kelis, is an American singer-songwriter and chef. She attended New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she learned to play the saxophone and won a spot ... | {"Name": "Kelis", "Caption": "Kelis performing during Manchester Pride in Manchester on August 29, 2010", "Birth name": "Kelis Rogers", "Birth date": "yes 1979 8 21", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Le Cordon Bleu (Bachelor of Arts)", "Occupation": "Singer songwriter chef restaurateur", "Years acti... |
Expo 2005 was a world expo held for 185 days between Friday, March 25 and Sunday, September 25, 2005, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, east of the city of Nagoya. Japan has also hosted Expo '70 Osaka (World Expo), Expo '75 Okinawa (Specialised Expo), Expo '85 Tsukuba (Specialised Expo), and Expo '90 Osaka (Horticultural Exp... | {"Category": "3", "Name": "Ai-chikyūhaku (愛・地球博)", "Motto": "Nature's Wisdom", "Area": "173 ha acre off", "Invention(s)": "ASIMO", "Visitors": "22,049,544", "Mascot": "\"Morizo\" Forest Grandfather and \n\"Kiccoro\" Forest Child", "Countries": "121", "Organizations": "4", "Country": "Japan", "City": "Aichi Prefecture",... |
The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) is a standardized test administered by the College Board and cosponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) in the United States. In the 2018-2019 school year, 2.27 million high school sophomores and 1.74 million high school j... | {"Acronym": "PSAT/NMSQT", "Type": "Paper-based standardized test", "Developer / administrator": "College Board, NMSC", "Knowledge / skills tested": "Reading, mathematics", "Duration": "2 hours 45 minutes", "Score / grade range": "160-760 for two sections, adding up to a maximum score of 1520", "Offered": "High school j... |
Wenzhou (pronounced ; Wenzhounese: Yuziou , ), historically known as Wenchow is a prefecture-level city in China's Zhejiang province. Wenzhou is located at the extreme southeast of Zhejiang, bordering Lishui to the west, Taizhou to the north, and the province of Fujian to the south. The area consists of mostly mountain... | {"Land": "12255.74", "Density": "9,572,903", "Metro density": "6,642,592", "Urban density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "CN-ZJ-03", "Website": "www.wenzhou.gov.cn"} |
The 6th United States Army Group was an Allied army group that fought in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Made up of field armies from both the United States Army and the French Army, it fought in France, Germany, Austria, and, briefly, Italy. Also referred to as the Southern Group of Armies, i... | {"Branch": "United States", "Type": "Army group", "Role": "Army group headquarters", "Size": "c. 700,000 officers and men:At the end of the war, French forces in NW Europe amounted to around 450,000 menZaloga, \"Downfall 1945: the Fall of Hitler's Third Reich\" p. 28 while the Seventh Army had 230,000 during the Alsati... |
The Twelfth United States Army Group was the largest and most powerful United States Army formation ever to take to the field, commanding four field armies at its peak in 1945: First United States Army, Third United States Army, Ninth United States Army and Fifteenth United States Army. The order of battle across the f... | {"Branch": "United States", "Type": "Army group", "Role": "Army Group Headquarters", "Size": "1.3 million men", "Part of": "Allied Expeditionary Force", "Notablecommanders": "Omar Bradley"} |
Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the first since 2005.List of... | {"Category": "3", "Name": "Expo 2010", "Motto": "Better City - Better Life (城市，让生活更美好)", "Area": "523 ha acre off", "Visitors": "73,085,000", "Countries": "192", "Country": "China", "City": "Shanghai", "Coordinates": "31.194118 121.486387 type:landmark dms inline,title", "Awarded": "2002 12 3 y", "Opening": "2010 05 1 ... |
Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny (2 February 1889 - 11 January 1952) was a French général d'armée during World War II and the First Indochina War. He was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France in 1952.
As an officer during World War I, he fought in various battles, including at Verdun... | {"Honorific prefix": "Marshal", "Name": "Jean de Lattre de Tassigny", "Image caption": "General de Lattre in 1946", "Birth date": "1889 02 02 yes", "Death date": "1952 01 11 1889 02 02 yes", "Birth place": "Mouilleron-en-Pareds, France", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Spouse(s)": "Simonne Calary de Lamazière", "Alma ... |
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery networkJ. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. The company operates a network of servers worldwide and rents the capacity of the server... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "1998", "Headquarters": "U.S.", "Industry": "Internet Cloud computing", "Revenue": "$3.62 billion (2022)", "Website": "akamai.com"} |
RAF Transport Command was a Royal Air Force command that controlled all transport aircraft of the RAF. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming of the RAF Ferry Command, and was subsequently renamed RAF Air Support Command in 1967.
History
Second World War
During the Second World War, it at first ferried ... | {"Branch": "23px Royal Air Force", "Type": "Command", "Role": "Controlling transport aircraft", "Motto(s)": "Latin: Ferio Ferendo(\"I Strike by Carrying\")Pine L.G. A dictionary of mottoes 1983 Routledge & Kegan Paul London 0-7100-9339-X 74 1 registration https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmott00tion/page/74"} |
The 6620 is a smartphone created by Nokia, announced in 2005, running on Series 60 2nd Edition and the Symbian operating system. It was the first EDGE-capable phone for the Americas' market.Nokia introduces first edge capable smartphone for the America's market
It is a version of Nokia's 6600 smartphone for the North ... | {"Name": "Nokia 6620", "Image size": "250", "Manufacturer": "Nokia", "Availability by region": "2005", "Development status": "Available", "Display": "176 x 208 pixel 65,536 colors", "Rear camera": "0.3 Megapixels 640x480 VGA", "Operating system (OS)": "Series 60/Symbian OS", "Memory": "12 MB", "Memory card": "MMC (32 M... |
Kung Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts Western drama television series starring David Carradine. The series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, as he seeks Danny Caine, h... | {"Genre": "Action/Adventure\n Western\n Drama", "Created by": "Ed Spielman\n Jerry Thorpe\n Herman Miller", "Starring": "David Carradinehttp://www.insidekung-fu.com/content/view/176/37/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130727034947/http://www.insidekung-fu.com/content/view/176/37/ dead July 27, 2013 Martial Arts Myths Aug... |
Liu Shan () (207-271),Liu Shan's name is commonly mispronounced as "Liu Chan". See 阿斗的大名怎样读 (How to read Adou's name) by Lü Youren (吕友仁), published in Zhonghua Shuju Wenshi Zhishi (中华书局《文史知识》), 11th issue, 1988, retrieved November 30, 2006. courtesy name Gongsi, was the second and last emperor of the state of Shu Han... | {"Born": "Xinye County, Henan", "Died": "Luoyang, Henan", "Father": "Liu Bei", "Mother": "Empress Zhaolie"} |
John Sharp Williams (July 30, 1854September 27, 1932) was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s, and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1908.
Early life
Williams was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Yazoo ... | {"Name": "John S. Williams", "Term start": "March 4, 1903", "Term end": "March 4, 1909", "Predecessor 2": "Hernando Money", "Successor 2": "Hubert D. Stephens", "Birth name": "John Sharp Williams", "Birth date": "1854 7 30", "Birth place": "Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.", "Death date": "1932 9 27 1854 7 30", "Death place": ... |
Melvin Mermelstein (born Moric Mermelstein; September 25, 1926 - January 28, 2022) was a Czechoslovak-born American Holocaust survivor and autobiographer. A Jew, he was the sole survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp.
He is best known for his litigation with the Institute for Historica... | {"Name": "Mel Mermelstein", "Birth name": "Moric Mermelstein", "Birth date": "1926 09 22", "Birth place": "Örösveg, Czechoslovakia (now part of Ukraine, near Munkacs)", "Death date": "2022 01 28 1926 09 25", "Death place": "Long Beach, California, United States"} |
Vegreville () is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is on Highway 16A approximately east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. It was incorporated as a town in 1906, and that year also saw the founding of the Vegreville Observer, a weekly newspaper for the region.
A large percentage of Vegreville's population is ... | {"Land": "14.08", "Density": "404", "DST": "-06:00", "Website": "www.vegreville.com"} |
Russian dressing is a piquant American salad dressing consisting of mayonnaise, ketchup, and other ingredients.
Russian dressing is similar to Thousand Island. Some manufactured versions omit the mayonnaise and are clear rather than creamy, more similar to French or Catalina.Official website:
History
Russian dressin... | {"Name of food": "Russian dressing", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "Cheeseburger topped with grilled onions and Russian dressing", "Region of origin": "New Hampshire", "Creator": "James E. Colburn", "Type of dish": "Salad dressing or condiment", "Main ingredient": "Mayonnaise, ketchup, horseradish, piment... |
Trader Joe's is an American chain of grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. The chain has 560 stores across the United States.
The first Trader Joe's store was opened in 1967 by founder Joe Coulombe in Pasadena, California. The chain was owned by German entrepreneur Theo Albrecht from 1979 until his dea... | {"Industry": "Retail (grocery)", "Type": "Private", "Founded": "1958 as Pronto Markets\n 1967 as Trader Joe's\n Pasadena, California, US", "Headquarters": "Monrovia, California, U.S.", "Products": "Private label staple foods, organic foods and specialty products", "Revenue": "US$16.5 billion (FY 2020)", "Parent": "Aldi... |
Dorothy Buffum Chandler (May 19, 1901 - July 6, 1997; born Dorothy Mae Buffum) was a Los Angeles cultural leader. She is perhaps best known for her efforts on behalf of the performing arts.
Personal life
Born Dorothy Mae Buffum (nicknamed "Buff" or "Buffie") in 1901 in La Fayette, Illinois, she moved to Long Beach, Ca... | {"Name": "Dorothy Buffum Chandler", "Birth name": "Dorothy Mae Buffum", "Birth date": "1901 5 19", "Birth place": "La Fayette, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "1997 7 6 1901 5 19", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Parent(s)": "Charles Abel BuffumFern Smith Buffum", "Alma mater": "Stanford University", "S... |
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thumb|Exterior view of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh
thumb|Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament
thumb|Igualada Cemetery (Cementiri Nou), 1993 - View towards entrance
thumb|Igualada Cemetery (Cementiri Nou), Fall 1993 - View of precast concrete s... | {"Name": "Enric Miralles", "Portrait caption": "The Scottish Parliament Building committee room ceiling.", "Practice": "Piñon-ViaplanaMiralles + PinósEMBT", "Significant buildings": "Scottish Parliament BuildingIgualada Cemetery"} |
The Tualatin River is a tributary of the Willamette River in Oregon in the United States. The river is about long, and it drains a fertile farming region called the Tualatin Valley southwest and west of Portland at the northwest corner of the Willamette Valley. There are approximately 500,000 people residing on 15 per... | {"Etymology": "Probably an Indian word meaning \"lazy\" or \"sluggish\" but possibly meaning \"treeless plain\" for the plain near the river or \"forked\" for its many tributaries McArthur Lewis A. McArthur, Lewis L. 2003 Oregon Geographic Names Seventh Oregon Historical Society Press Portland, Oregon 971... |
Chanakya ( IAST: , ; 375-283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor. He is traditionally identified as Kauṭilya or Vishnugupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthashastra, a text dated to roughly be... | {"Honorific prefix": "Acharya", "Name": "Chanakya", "Caption": "Chanakya as depicted on the cover of R. Shamasastry's 1915 translation of Arthashastra", "Birth place": "375 BCE, Chanaka village in Golla region, South India (Jain legends);Trautmann 1971 21or in Takshashila (Buddhist legends)Trautmann 1971 12", "Death pl... |
Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Nolan and David S. Goyer. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman, with Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, a... | {"Directed by": "Christopher Nolan", "Produced by": "Charles Roven\n Emma Thomas\n Larry Franco", "Screenplay by": "Christopher Nolan\n David S. Goyer", "Story by": "David S. Goyer", "Based on": "Characters appearing in comic books published DC Comics", "Starring": "Christian Bale\n Michael Caine\n Liam Neeson\n Katie ... |
Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso (; 3 December 1934 - 11 September 2021), also known by his nom de guerre Chairman Gonzalo (), was a Peruvian Maoist guerrilla leader, considered a terrorist by various governments during his lifetime. He founded the organization Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) in 1969... | {"Name": "Abimael Guzmán", "Image caption": "Portrait of Guzmán", "Term start": "1969", "Term end": "12 September 1992", "Birth name": "Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso", "Birth date": "yes 1934 12 3", "Birth place": "Mollendo, Peru", "Death date": "yes 2021 9 11 1934 12 3", "Death place": "Callao, Peru", "Spouse(s)... |
Kay Toinette Oslin (May 15, 1942 - December 21, 2020) was an American country music singer-songwriter. She had several years of major commercial success in the late 1980s after signing a record deal at age 45. Oslin had four number one hits and placed additional singles on the Billboard country chart during that timesp... | {"Name": "K. T. Oslin", "Alt": "K. T. Oslin, 1980s.", "Caption": "Oslin in the 1980s", "Birth name": "Kay Toinette Oslin", "Birth date": "1942 5 15Trott Walt The Encyclopedia of Country Music 1998 Oxford University Press 9780199920839 300-01", "Birth place": "Crossett, Arkansas, U.S.", "Death date": "2020 12 21 1... |
Ra's al Ghul is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. Created by editor Julius Schwartz, writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams, the character first appeared in Batman #232's "Daughter of the Demon" (June 1971).
Most notable as th... | {"Publisher": "DC Comics", "Created by": "Dennis O'Neil (writer)Neal Adams (artist)Julius Schwartz (concept/name)", "Team affiliations": "League of AssassinsUnderground SocietyCouncil of Immortals Dark Days: The Forge #1 Legion of Doom", "Notable aliases": "The Demon's HeadDetective Comics #840 (March 2008)The Demon",... |
Cillian Murphy ( ; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. He made his professional debut in Enda Walsh's 1996 play Disco Pigs, a role he later reprised in the 2001 screen adaptation. His early notable film credits include the horror film 28 Days Later (2002), the dark comedy Intermission (2003), the thriller Red Eye (200... | {"Name": "Cillian Murphy", "Caption": "Murphy in 2014", "Birth date": "yes 1976 5 25", "Birth place": "Cork, Ireland", "Occupation": "Actor", "Notable works": "Full list", "Years active": "1996-present", "Spouse(s)": "Yvonne McGuinness 2004", "Children": "2", "Awards": "Full list", "Module": "center yes Cillian Murphy ... |
Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noirSilver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. Starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzund... | {"Directed by": "Paul Verhoeven", "Produced by": "Alan Marshall\n Mario Kassar", "Written by": "Joe Eszterhas", "Starring": "Michael Douglas\n Sharon Stone\n George Dzundza\n Jeanne Tripplehorn\n Wayne Knight", "Music by": "Jerry Goldsmith", "Cinematography": "Jan de Bont", "Edited by": "Frank J. Urioste", "Distributed... |
Perrette Pradier (born Perrette Marie Mathilde Chevau; 17 April 1938 – 16 January 2013) was a French actress and dubbing director. She is best known for her work as a voice actress which earned her the nickname of "Queen" or "High Priestess" of dubbing.
Biography
Pradier was born in Hanoi, French Indochina. Two years... | {"Name": "Perrette Pradier", "Birth name": "Perrette Marie Mathilde Chevau", "Birth date": "1938 4 17", "Birth place": "Hanoi, French Indochina", "Death date": "2013 1 16 1938 4 17", "Death place": "Rueil-Malmaison, France", "Occupation": "Actress art director", "Years active": "1961-2013", "Children": "Vanina Pradier"... |
Peter Finley Secchia (April 15, 1937 - October 21, 2020) was an American businessman and Republican political activist, who also served as the United States Ambassador to Italy and San Marino from 1989 to 1993.
Education and early life
Secchia was born in Englewood, New Jersey. He grew up in nearby Tenafly and gradu... | {"Term start": "July 3, 1989", "Term end": "January 20, 1993", "Birth date": "1937 04 15", "Birth place": "Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.", "Death date": "2020 10 21 1937 04 15", "Death place": "East Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.", "Education": "Michigan State University (BA)"} |
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