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The Appointments of Dennis Jennings is a 1988 American short comedy film, starring, co-written and co-produced by Steven Wright, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988.Short Film Winners: 1989 Oscars-YouTube
Plot
Dennis Jennings (Steven Wright) is an introvert, showing s... | {"Directed by": "Dean Parisot", "Written by": "Mike ArmstrongSteven Wright", "Produced by": "Dean ParisotSteven Wright", "Starring": "Steven WrightRowan AtkinsonLaurie Metcalf", "Cinematography": "Frank Prinzi", "Edited by": "Peter Frank", "Distributed by": "HBO"} |
A sigma factor (σ factor or specificity factor) is a protein needed for initiation of transcription in bacteria. It is a bacterial transcription initiation factor that enables specific binding of RNA polymerase (RNAP) to gene promoters. It is homologous to archaeal transcription factor B and to eukaryotic factor TFIIB.... | {"Symbol": "Sigma70_r1_1", "Caption": "Autoregulation of a group 1 bacterial sigma factor involves the formation of a region 1.1- induced compacted structure", "Pfam family identifier": "PF03979", "InterPro family identifier": "IPR007127"} |
The Bishop of Blackburn is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Blackburn in the Province of York.
The diocese covers much of the county of Lancashire and has its see in the town of Blackburn, where the seat of the diocese is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary. Despite having a cathedral Blackb... | {"Residence": "Bishop's House, Salesbury", "Established": "1927", "Cathedral": "Blackburn Cathedral", "First holder": "Percy Herbert", "Diocese": "Blackburn"} |
The University of Bridgeport (UB or UBPT) is a private university in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. In 2021, the university was purchased by Goodwin University; it retained its own name, brand, and board of trustees.
Founded originally as the Ju... | {"Accreditation": "NECHE", "Type": "Private university", "Endowment": "$34.133 millionBest Colleges - US News & World Report", "President": "Danielle Wilken", "Undergraduates": "3,152", "Postgraduates": "2,282", "Campus": "Midsize City, 86 acre m2", "Website": "http://www.bridgeport.edu"} |
Rasheed Abdul Wallace (born September 17, 1974) is an American basketball coach and former professional player. A native of Philadelphia, Wallace played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before declaring for the draft in 1995. He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Orig... | {"Position": "Assistant coach", "Listed height": "11", "Listed weight": "230", "Born": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "High school": "Simon Gratz(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)", "College": "North Carolina (1993-1995)"} |
Gandhāra was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization centered in the present-day north-west Pakistan and including parts of north-east Afghanistan, roughly in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. The core of the region of Gandhara was the Peshawar valley and Swat valley, though the cultural influence of "Greate... | {"Native name": "Gandhara", "Conventional long name": "Gandhāra", "Common name": "Gandhara", "Historical era": "Antiquity", "Capital": "Kapisi (Bagram)Puṣkalavati (Charsadda)Puruṣapura (Peshawer)Takshashila (Taxila)Udabhandapura (Hund)", "Year founded": "1500 BCE", "Year dissolved": "1000 CE", "Today part of": "Afghani... |
The Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the new-age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the ... | {"Awarded for": "Quality albums in the new-age music genre", "Presented by": "National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences", "Formerly called": "Grammy Award for Best New Age Album (1992-2022); others", "First awarded": "1987", "Website": "grammy.com"} |
Sacred Heart University (SHU) is a private, Roman Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1963 by Walter W. Curtis, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Sacred Heart was the first Catholic university in the United States to be staffed by the laity.
Sacred Heart is the second-large... | {"Motto": "Inspiring Minds, Unleashing Hearts", "Type": "Private university", "Endowment": "$189.8 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020... |
Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938, New York City) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer, and one of eighteen of the "EGOT" - people to have won all four major American showbusiness awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their... | {"Name": "Jonathan Tunick", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, United States", "Birth date": "April 19, 1938", "Education": "Bard College, Juilliard School", "Occupation": "Orchestrator musical director composer", "Spouse(s)": "Leigh Beery", "Awards": "EGOT"} |
Age of Mythology: The Titans is an expansion pack to the real-time strategy video game of Age of Mythology. It was developed by Ensemble Studios and released on October 1, 2003. It was followed in 2016 by a second expansion pack to the original game called Tale of the Dragon.
The Titans adds a fourth culture to the ga... | {"Title": "Age of Mythology: The Titans", "Developer": "Ensemble Studios", "Publisher": "Microsoft Game Studios", "Released": "NA 1 October 2003I. G. N. Staff 2003-10-01 Age of Mythology: The Titans Ships https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/10/01/age-of-mythology-the-titans-ships 2023-03-08 IGN en AUS 21 October 20... |
Southern Connecticut State University (Southern Connecticut, Southern Connecticut State, SCSU, or simply Southern) is a public university in New Haven, Connecticut. Part of the Connecticut State University System, it was founded in 1893 and is governed by the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education.
History... | {"Type": "Public University", "Endowment": "$30.6 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment M... |
Forbidden Zone is an American absurdist musical fantasy comedy film produced and directed by independent filmmaker Richard Elfman,‘Bloody Bridget’ Exclusive Trailer - Richard Elfman Unleashes His Valentine Vampire! - Bloody Disgusting and co-written by Elfman and Matthew Bright. Shot in 1977 and 1978, the film premiere... | {"Directed by": "Richard Elfman", "Screenplay by": "Richard Elfman\n Matthew Bright\n Nick James\n Nick L. Martinson", "Story by": "Richard Elfman", "Produced by": "Richard Elfman", "Starring": "Hervé Villechaize\n Susan Tyrrell\n Marie-Pascale Elfman\n Danny Elfman\n Gisele Lindley\n Jan Stuart Schwartz\n Virginia Ros... |
Sherman Martin Austin (born April 10, 1983) is an American anarchist and musician who was arrested for inflammatory content on his website and subsequently convicted. He was the first person to be successfully prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. 842(p), a United States federal law which makes the distribution of information on ... | {"Name": "Sherman Austin", "Birth date": "1983 4 10http://www.shermanaustinmusic.com/bio.html Sherman Austin Shermanaustinmusic.com 2008-03-31", "Birth place": "Los Angeles, California", "Known For": "activism"} |
Central Connecticut State University (Central Connecticut, CCSU, Central Connecticut State, or informally Central) is a public university in New Britain, Connecticut. Founded in 1849 as the State Normal School, CCSU is Connecticut's oldest publicly-funded university. It is made up of four schools: the Ammon College of ... | {"Type": "Public university", "President": "Zulma R. Toro", "Endowment": "$80 million (2020)Fundraising and the Endowment https://www.ccsu.edu/presidenttoro/fundraising.html www.ccsu.edu 25 October 2020", "Students": "9,653 (Spring 2023)https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Central+Connecticut&s=all&id=128771 Col... |
Jacques Rivette (; 1 March 1928 - 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991)... | {"Name": "Jacques Rivette", "Alt": "Jacques Rivette looking at the camera", "Caption": "Rivette in 2006", "Birth name": "Jacques Pierre Louis Rivette", "Birth date": "1928 03 01 y", "Birth place": "Rouen, France", "Death date": "2016 1 29 1928 3 1 yes", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Occupation": "Film director, film... |
John Rettie "Jock" McKernan Jr. (born May 20, 1948) is an American politician who served two terms as the 71st Governor of Maine, from 1987 to 1995.
Born in Bangor, Maine, McKernan attended Dartmouth College and then the University of Maine School of Law. A Republican, McKernan was a member of the U.S. House of Repres... | {"Name": "Jock McKernan", "Term start": "January 7, 1987", "Term end": "January 5, 1995", "Office 2": "Member of the Maine House of Representatives", "Predecessor 2": "multi-member district", "Successor 2": "multi-member district", "Birth name": "John Rettie McKernan Jr.", "Birth date": "1948 5 20", "Birth place": "Ban... |
The 22nd Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 23, 2002 at the Abracadabra Theater at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, California, to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 2001. In a break with Razzie tradition, Tom Green accepted his five awards in person for Freddy Got Fingered, entertaining attende... | {"Date": "March 23, 2002", "Site": "Abracadabra Theater at Magicopolis, Santa Monica, California", "Most awards": "Freddy Got Fingered (5)", "Most nominations": "Freddy Got Fingered (8)"} |
Lituya Bay (; Tlingit: Ltu.aa,. Spelled L'tua in translation of Tebenkov's log. meaning 'lake within the point')
is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is long and wide at its widest point. The bay was noted in 1786 by Jean-François de Lapérouse, who named it Port des... | {"Location": "North Pacific Ocean", "Coordinates": "58 38 13 N 137 34 23 W region:CA_type:waterbody_scale:500000 inline,title Lituya Bay", "River sources": "Lituya Glacier Cascade Glacier Crillion Glacier", "Basin": "United States", "Max. length": "14.5 km 0", "Max. width": "3.2 km 0"} |
Recipe for Hate is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on June 4, 1993. It was their last album on Epitaph Records for nine years (until 2002's The Process of Belief) and the band had switched to Atlantic Records, who re-released the album several months after its release.
While ... | {"Released": "June 4, 1993", "Recorded": "1993", "Studio": "Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California", "Genre": "Melodic hardcorehttps://www.altpress.com/features/best-punk-albums-of-2002-sleater-kinney-the-used/ The 15 best punk albums of 2002, from Sleater-Kinney to the Used December 20, 2021 Alternative Press Maga... |
Attica is a village in Wyoming and Genesee counties, New York, United States. The population was 2,547 at the 2010 census.
The village is on the northern border of Wyoming County. The village lies mostly within the town of Attica, but the northern part of the village is within the adjacent town of Alexander in Genesee... | {"Named for": "Attica, Ancient Greece", "Land": "1.69", "Water": "0.00", "Density": "1448.85", "DST": "-4", "Website": "http://www.attica.org"} |
Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It has a length of (along Highway 1) or via the former alignments of the highway, although these routes are slower and connections to the bypassed sections... | {"Type": "Princes Highway", "Junction type": "Highway", "Coordinates": "West", "Length": "1898"} |
The Gray Race is the ninth full-length album of the punk rock band Bad Religion, which was released in 1996. It was the follow-up to the band's highly successful 1994 album Stranger Than Fiction.
This was the band's first album not recorded with original guitarist Brett Gurewitz (since the 1985 EP Back to the Known) a... | {"Released": "February 27, 1996", "Recorded": "October-November 1995", "Studio": "Electric Lady (New York City)", "Genre": "Punk rock\n hardcore punk", "Label": "Atlantic", "Producer": "Ric Ocasek"} |
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a unit of the university, Morehead receives about one-third of its funding through state sources, one-third through ticket and gift sales, and one-third through gifts and grants.
First opened in 1949... | {"Coordinates": "35.91399 -79.05025 inline", "Established": "May 10, 1949", "Location": "Chapel Hill, North Carolina", "Type": "Planetarium", "Director": "Todd R. Boyette", "Public transit access": "Chapel Hill Transit", "Website": "http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/"} |
Australias Highway 1 is a network of highways that circumnavigate the country, joining all mainland capital cities except the national capital of Canberra. At a total length of approximately it is the longest national highway in the world, surpassing the Trans-Siberian Highway (over ) and the Trans-Canada Highway ().... | {"Junction type": "highway", "Type": "Highway 1", "Coordinates": "au", "Length": "14500"} |
Them (stylized in all lowercase) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the third in the Wonderland Quartet she inaugurated with A Garden of Earthly Delights. It was published by Vanguard in 1969 and it won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1970.
"National Book Awards - 1970". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrie... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "The Wonderland Quartet", "Publisher": "Vanguard Press (first); Fawcett Books (reissue paperback)", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "Pages": "508 pp (hard) 480 pp (paper)", "ISBN": "0-8149-0668-0", "Preceded by": "Expensive People", "Followed b... |
The V operating system (sometimes written V-System) is a discontinued microkernel distributed operating system that was developed by faculty and students in the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University from 1981 to 1988, led by Professors David Cheriton and Keith A. Lantz. V was the successor to the Thoth opera... | {"Developer": "David Cheriton", "OS family": "Distributed operating system", "Working state": "Discontinued", "Initial release": "1981", "Marketing target": "Research", "Available in": "English", "Written in": "C", "Update method": "Compile from source code", "Platforms": "Workstations:SUN, MicroVAX, DEC Firefly", "Ker... |
Roman Egypt ; was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai. It was bordered by the provinces of Crete and Cyrenaica to the west and Judaea, later Arabia Petraea, to the East.
Egypt was conquered by Roman forces in 30 BC and... | {"Native name": "la Provincia Aegypti nogrc-x-koine Ἐπαρχία Αἰγύπτου no", "Conventional long name": "Province of Egypt", "Common name": "Egypt", "Historical era": "Classical antiquityLate antiquity", "Capital": "Alexandria", "Year founded": "30 BC", "Year dissolved": "641", "Today part of": "Egypt"} |
Propofol, marketed as Diprivan, among other names, also known as 2,6-Diisopropylphenol, is a short-acting medication that results in a decreased level of consciousness and a lack of memory for events. Its uses include the induction and maintenance of general anesthesia, sedation for mechanically ventilated adults, and ... | {"Trade name": "Diprivan, othersPropofol https://www.drugs.com/international/propofol.html 2 January 2019 Drugs.com", "AHFS": "monograph Propofol", "Pregnancycategory": "C", "Addictionliability": "Moderate Ruffle JK Molecular neurobiology of addiction: what's all the (Δ)FosB about? The American Journal of Drug a... |
Vincent Lamar Carter Jr. (born January 26, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player who serves as a basketball analyst for ESPN. He primarily played the shooting guard and small forward positions, but occasionally played power forward later in his NBA career. He was an eight-time All-Star and a two-ti... | {"Position": "Power forwardpoint Forward (basketball)", "Listed height": "6", "Listed weight": "220", "Born": "Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.", "High school": "Mainland (Daytona Beach, Florida)", "College": "North Carolina (1995-1998)"} |
thumb|right|A diagram of Bushnell's American Turtle
David Bushnell (August 30, 1740 - 1824 or 1826), of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, one of the first American combat engineers, a teacher, and a medical doctor.
Bushnell invented the first submarine to be used in battle, as well as a flo... | {"Name": "David Bushnell", "Birth date": "1740 08 30", "Birth place": "Westbrook, Connecticut", "Death date": "1824 08 30 1740 08 30-1824/1826", "Death place": "Warrenton", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Inventor", "Known For": "Building \"Turtle\" submersible"} |
300px|right|thumb|The St. Croix River watershed
The St. Croix River (; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: Skutik) is a river in northeastern North America, in length,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 22, 2011 that forms part of the Canada-United St... | {"Location": "Passamaquoddy Bay", "Coordinates": "45.073 -67.093 dms inline,title", "Mouth": "sea level", "Basin size": "1500 sqmi km2 2"} |
Great Bear Lake (; ) is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada (Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada-US border), the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world. The lake is in the Northwest Territories, on the Arctic Circle b... | {"Native name": "den Sahtú\n fr Grand lac de l'Ours", "Location": "Northwest Territories", "Coordinates": "65 50 01 N 120 45 06 W region:CA-NT_type:waterbody_scale:2000000 LAJMV Great Bear Lake inline,title", "Primary outflows": "Great Bear River", "Catchment area": "114717 km2", "Basin": "Canada", "Average depth": "71... |
Century City is an American science fiction-legal drama television series created by Ed Zuckerman, that aired on CBS from March 16, 2004, to January 20, 2005, before being cancelled due to low ratings. The series is set in Los Angeles in the year 2030.
Synopsis
The show follows the legal team of Crane, Constable, McN... | {"Genre": "Science fiction-legal drama", "Created by": "Ed Zuckerman", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "60 minutes", "Original network": "CBS", "Original release": "2005 1 20"} |
The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Seibu Railway, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Holdings. The team experienced a recent p... | {"Former names": "Seibu Lions (1979-2007)\nCrown Lighter Lions (1977-1978)\nTaiheiyo Club Lions (1973-1976)\nNishitetsu Lions (1951-1972)\nNishitetsu Clippers (1950)", "League championship seasons": "23 (1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2002, 20... |
The Barbarian Invasions () is a 2003 Canadian-French sex comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau and Marie-Josée Croze. The film is a sequel to Arcand's 1986 film The Decline of the American Empire, continuing the story of the character Rémy, a womanizing histo... | {"Directed by": "Denys Arcand", "Produced by": "Daniel LouisDenise Robert", "Written by": "Denys Arcand", "Starring": "Rémy GirardStéphane RousseauDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalMarie-Josée CrozeMarina Hands", "Music by": "Pierre Aviat", "Cinematography": "Guy Dufaux", "Edited by": "Isabelle Dedieu", "Distributed by": "... |
Anthony Minghella, (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He directed Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), The English Patient (1996), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and Cold Mountai... | {"Name": "Anthony Minghella", "Post-nominals": "CBE", "Caption": "Minghella in 2004", "Birth date": "y 1954 1 6", "Birth place": "Ryde, Isle of Wight, England", "Death date": "y 2008 3 18 1954 1 6", "Death place": "London, England", "Years active": "1975-2008", "Occupation": "Playwright director screenwriter", "Spouse(... |
Wardell Edwin Bond (April 9, 1903 - November 5, 1960) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and starred in the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1960. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert the cop in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Captain Clayton in Joh... | {"Name": "Ward Bond", "Caption": "Publicity image of Bond for Wagon Train, c. 1957", "Birth name": "Wardell Edwin Bond", "Birth date": "1903 04 09 yes", "Birth place": "Benkelman, Nebraska, U.S.", "Death date": "1960 11 05 1903 04 09 yes", "Death place": "Dallas, Texas, U.S.", "Education": "East High SchoolColorado Sch... |
Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts college in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1832, the campus is adjacent to the Gettysburg Battlefield. Gettysburg College has about 2,600 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women. Gettysburg students come from 41 states, Washington, D.C., and 39 countries.... | {"Motto": "en", "Type": "Private liberal arts college", "Endowment": "$409.0 million (2021)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.gettysburg.edu/offices/finance-administration/pdfs/gettysburg%20college%20-%20fy%202021%20annual%20report.pdf U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and ... |
Wayne James Bennett (born 1 January 1950), also known by the nickname "Benny", is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL), and has previously coached the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Brisbane Broncos, the... | {"Full name": "Wayne James Bennett", "Born": "Allora, Queensland, Australia", "Position": "no", "Height": "191 cm ftin on"} |
Angus Stanley King Jr. (born March 31, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maine since 2013. A political independent, he served as the 72nd governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003.
Born and raised in Virginia, King moved to Maine after graduating from law school. He ... | {"Name": "Angus King", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2013", "Term start": "January 3, 2013", "Birth name": "Angus Stanley King Jr.", "Birth date": "1944 03 31", "Birth place": "Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.", "Other political party": "Democratic Caucus (2013-present)", "Spouse(s)": "Edith Hazard 1982 divorced\n Mar... |
The grapheme Čč (Latin C with caron, also known as háček in Czech, mäkčeň in Slovak, kvačica in Serbo-Croatian, and strešica in Slovene) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant like the English ch in the word chocolate. It is represented in Unicode as U+010C (upperc... | {"Development": "Ċ ċ", "Phonetic usage": "alphabet", "Language of origin": "Czech", "Writing system": "Latin", "Type": "ic"} |
Newfane is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 9,666 at the 2010 census. The name was suggested by an early settler.
The Town of Newfane is in the north-central part of the county, north of the City of Lockport.
History
The Town of Newfane was established in 1824 by Wesley R. Ru... | {"Type": "Town Council", "Land": "51.82", "Water": "1.66", "Density": "180.50", "DST": "-4"} |
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined First Amendment rights of students in U.S. public schools. The Tinker test, also known as the "substantial disruption" test, is still used by courts today to determine... | {"Date argued": "November 12", "Year argued": "1968", "Date decided": "February 24", "Year decided": "1969", "Full case name": "John F. Tinker and Mary Beth Tinker, minors, by their father and next friend, Leonard Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt, minor, by his father and next friend, William Eckhardt v. The Des Moines ... |
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire - Barron County (also known as UWEC-Barron County or UWEC-BC) is a branch campus to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. It is located in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and is a member of the University of Wisconsin System. As of the 2016-17 school year, there were 497 full and part-tim... | {"Type": "State University", "Undergraduates": "497", "Campus": "Small town, 110 acre ha 0", "Website": "https://barron.uwec.edu/", "Chancellor": "James Schmidt", "Director": "Abbey Fischer"} |
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UW-Eau Claire, UWEC or simply Eau Claire) is a public university in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and offers bachelor's and master's degrees.
The campus consists of 28 major buildings spanning . An additional of forested land is used f... | {"Motto": "Excellence", "Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "$80.5 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value an... |
The Prime Minister of Malaysia (; ) is the head of government of Malaysia. The prime minister directs the executive branch of the federal government. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong appoints the prime minister as a member of Parliament (MP) who, in his opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of a majority of MPs. T... | {"Post": "Prime Minister", "Body": "Malaysia", "Native name": "ms Perdana Menteri Malaysia ms Arab ڤردان منتري مليسيا", "Insignia size": "100px", "Insignia caption": "Coat of arms of Malaysia", "Flag size": "130px", "Flag caption": "Emblem of the Prime Minister's Office", "Incumbent": "Anwar Ibrahim", "Incumbent since... |
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UW Parkside or UWP) is a public university in Somers, Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and has 4,644 students, 161 full-time faculty, and 89 lecturers and part-time faculty. The university offers 33 undergraduate majors and 11 master's degrees in 22 acade... | {"Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "$5,550,342 (2014) http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/uw-parkside-5015 University of Wisconsin--Parkside https://web.archive.org/web/20120223061045/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/uw-parkside-5015 2012-02-23 2023-08-21 dea... |
The University of Wisconsin-Stout (UW-Stout or Stout) is a public university in Menomonie, Wisconsin. A member of the University of Wisconsin System, it enrolls more than 9,600 students. The school was founded in 1891 and named in honor of its founder, lumber magnate James Huff Stout.
Stout is "Wisconsin's Polytechnic... | {"Endowment": "$64,505,176 (2019)https://www.uwstout.edu/about-us/stout-university-foundation Form 990 November 2017 2019-07-05", "Type": "Public university", "Students": "8,393 (fall 2019)", "Undergraduates": "7,289 (fall 2019)", "Postgraduates": "1,104 (fall 2019)", "Chancellor": "Katherine Frank", "Campus": "Rura... |
The University of Wisconsin-Superior (UW-Superior or UWS) is a public liberal arts university in Superior, Wisconsin. UW-Superior grants associate, bachelor's, master's and specialist's degrees. The university enrolls 2,559 undergraduates and 364 graduate students.
History
Originally named Superior Normal School, the... | {"Chancellor": "Renée M. Wachter", "Type": "Public liberal arts university", "Undergraduates": "2,559 (2021)", "Postgraduates": "364 (2021)", "Campus": "Urban, small city", "Website": "www.uwsuper.edu"} |
Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo (7 April 1890 - 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual. Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time. Her sis... | {"Post-nominals": "GBR 100% CBE", "Caption": "Ocampo in 1931", "Birth name": "Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo", "Birth date": "1890 4 7 y", "Birth place": "Buenos Aires, Argentina", "Death date": "1979 1 27 1890 4 7 y", "Death place": "Buenos Aires, Argentina", "Alma mater": "University of Paris", "Occupation": ... |
Lyn McLeod (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 2003. McLeod was a cabinet minister in the Liberal government of David Peterson from 1987 to 1990, and served as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 1992 to 1996.
Background
McLeod graduat... | {"Name": "Lyn McLeod", "Term start": "March 8, 2017", "Term end": "2021", "Predecessor 2": "Mickey Hennessy", "Successor 2": "Riding abolished", "Birth date": "1942", "Residence": "Thunder Bay, Ontario", "Spouse(s)": "Neil McLeod"} |
Prince Frederick Henry Louis of Prussia (; 18 January 1726 - 3 August 1802) was a Prussian general, statesman, and diplomat. He was a son of King Frederick William I of Prussia and Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, and the younger brother of Frederick the Great. Prince Henry led Prussian armies in the Silesian Wars ... | {"Born": "Berlin, Prussia", "Died": "Rheinsberg, Prussia", "Burial": "Rheinsberg Palace, Rheinsberg, Germany", "Father": "Frederick William I of Prussia", "Mother": "Sophia Dorothea of Hanover", "Religion": "Calvinism"} |
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UW Oshkosh or UWO) is a public university in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs to around 14,000 students each year.
History
In 1871, Oshkosh State Normal School, a teacher-training sch... | {"Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "$22 million (2017)University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh https://datausa.io/profile/university/university-of-wisconsin-oshkosh Data USA 19 November 2020", "Budget": "$250.5 million(2019)University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 2018-19 Budget Summary https://secure.uwsa.edu/redbook-2018-1... |
Gil Gerard (born January 23, 1943) is an American actor, whose roles include Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the 1979-81 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
Early life
Gerard was born January 23, 1943, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a college instructor mother and a salesman father. In 1960, he attended ... | {"Name": "Gil Gerard", "Caption": "Gerard at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, October 17, 2009", "Birth date": "1943 1 23", "Birth place": "Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.", "Known For": "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", "Education": "University of Central Arkansas (withdrawn)", "Children": "1", "Occupation": "Actor... |
Pamela Gail Hensley (born October 3, 1950) is an American actress and author. Her notable acting roles include Princess Ardala on the 1979-1981 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and C.J. Parsons on the 1982-1985 television series Matt Houston. She also appeared in Rollerball and Doc Savage (both 1975) a... | {"Name": "Pamela Hensley", "Image": "Pamela Hensley 1982.JPG", "Caption": "Hensley in a promotional photograph for Matt Houston, 1982", "Birth name": "Pamela Gail Hensley", "Birth date": "1950 10 3", "Birth place": "Los Angeles, U.S.", "Known For": "Matt HoustonBuck Rogers in the 25th CenturyBuck Rogers in the 25th Cen... |
Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors (April 10, 1921 - November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951)... | {"Name": "Chuck Connors", "Image": "Chuck Connors The Rifleman 1962.JPG", "Caption": "Publicity still of Connors for The Rifleman, 1963", "Birth name": "Kevin Joseph Connors", "Birth date": "1921 04 10 y", "Birth place": "Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "1992 11 10 1921 04 10 y", "Death place": "Los Angel... |
Richard Bennett Hatfield (April 9, 1931 – April 26, 1991) was a New Brunswick politician and the longest serving premier of New Brunswick from 1970 to 1987.Richard Starr, Richard Hatfield, The Seventeen Year Saga, 1987,
Early life
The youngest of five children of Heber Hatfield and Dora Robinson, Richard was broug... | {"Lieutenant governor 1": "Wallace Samuel BirdHédard RobichaudGeorge StanleyGilbert Finn", "Office 2": "Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick", "Predecessor 2": "Charles Van Horne", "Successor 2": "Malcolm MacLeod", "Birth name": "Richard Bennett Hatfield", "Birth date": "1931 04 09 y", "Birth p... |
John Joseph Cahill (21 January 189122 October 1959), also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1959. Born the son of Irish migrants in Redfern, New South Wales, Cahill worke... | {"Name": "Joseph Cahill", "Term start": "2 April 1952", "Term end": "22 October 1959", "Order 2": "Secretary for Public Works", "Premier 2": "William McKellJames McGirr", "Predecessor 2": "Lewis Martin", "Successor 2": "Jack Renshaw", "Birth date": "1891 1 21 y", "Birth place": "Redfern, Colony of New South Wales", "De... |
Frank Duff Moores (February 18, 1933 – July 10, 2005) served as the second premier of Newfoundland. He served as leader of the Progressive Conservatives from 1972 until his retirement in 1979. Moores was also a successful businessman in both the fishing industry and federal lobbying.
Early life and education
Born in C... | {"Name": "Frank Moores", "Image size": "220px", "Lieutenant governor 1": "Ewart HarnumGordon A. Winter", "Office 2": "Member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly for Humber West", "Predecessor 2": "Joey Smallwood", "Successor 2": "Ray Baird", "Birth name": "Frank Duff Moores", "Birth date": "1933 02 18", "Birth place"... |
Barrie Mitchell Osborne (born February 7, 1944) is an American film producer, production manager and director.
Biography
The son of Hertha Schwarz and William Osborne, Barrie was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, New York where he graduated New Rochelle High School. He is an alumnus of Carleton Colle... | {"Name": "Barrie M. Osborne", "Post-nominals": "NZL ONZM 100%", "Caption": "Osborne in 2017", "Birth date": "1944 2 7", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, United States", "Occupation": "Film producer", "Years active": "1976-present", "Awards": "Academy Award for Best Picture 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Retur... |
The Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador is a political party in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The party is the provincial branch, and affiliate of the federal Liberal Party of Canada. It has served as the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador since December 14, 2015. The NL Liberals were r... | {"Leader": "Andrew Furey", "President": "Ashley Power-Stack", "Founded": "1948", "Preceded by": "Confederate Association", "Headquarters": "Suite 205, Beothuk Building20 Crosbie PlaceSt. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador", "Ideology": "Liberalism", "Political position": "Centre", "National affiliation": "Liberal Party ... |
The Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador is a provincial political party in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The party was founded in 1949 and most recently formed the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador from the 2003 general election until the 2015 general election. The party has served as... | {"Leader": "David Brazil (interim)", "President": "Shane Skinner", "Founded": "1949", "Headquarters": "20 Hallett Crescent, P.O. Box 8551 St. John's, NL", "Ideology": "Progressive conservatismRed ToryismFactions:Liberal conservatismSocial democracy", "Political position": "Centre to centre-righthttps://votecompass.cbc.... |
Rendang ( ; ) is a Minangkabau dish. It is a rich dish of meat that has been slow cooked and braised in a coconut milk seasoned with a herb and spice mixture over a period of several hours until the liquids evaporate and the meat turns dark brown and tender, becoming caramelized and infused with rich flavours.
It orig... | {"Name of food": "Rendang", "Image filename": "Rendang daging sapi asli Padang.JPG", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "Authentic Minangkabau (Padang) beef rendang has a dark colour, very little liquid content.", "Alternate name": "Randang (in Minangkabau)", "Course served": "Main course", "Place of origin": ... |
KeyBank Center is a multipurpose indoor arena located in Buffalo, New York. Originally known as Marine Midland Arena, the venue has since been named HSBC Arena and First Niagara Center. Home to the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League since 1996, is the largest indoor arena in Western New York, seating 19,070. ... | {"Location": "Buffalo, New York", "Coordinates": "42 52 30 N 78 52 35 W type:landmark_scale:2000 inline,title", "Broke ground": "November 4, 1994Sabres Alumni Game to Cap Arena Event 5,000 Expected for Groundbreaking Kevin Collison http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BN&p_theme=bn&p_action=search&p_m... |
The prime minister of Myanmar is the head of government of Myanmar. The post was re-established in 2021 by the State Administration Council, the country's ruling military junta, to lead its nominally-civilian provisional government. The provisional government is subject to the decision-making of the SAC; additionally, ... | {"Post": "Prime Minister", "Body": "Myanmar", "Native name": "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်", "Insignia size": "125px", "Insignia caption": "State Seal of Myanmar", "Image caption": "Prime Minister", "Incumbent": "Min Aung Hlaing", "Incumbent since": "1 August 2021", "Style": "His Excellency (formal)", "Type": "Head o... |
Chance is a 2002 film, the directing debut of actress Amber Benson. Benson directed, wrote, produced and starred in this film. Many of Benson's co-stars from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer appeared in the film. It was estimated to cost $25,000.
As documented on Chances official site, the cost of making... | {"Directed by": "Amber Benson", "Produced by": "Amber Benson Danielle Benson Diane Benson Kelly Wheeler Rupert Cole", "Written by": "Amber Benson", "Starring": "Amber Benson James Marsters Christine Estabrook Andy Hallett", "Music by": "Aaron Fruchtman", "Cinematography": "Patrice Lucien Cochet", "Edited by": "Joshua C... |
Ngila Beryl Dickson (born 1958) is a costume designer from New Zealand.
Her most notable work is in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, both of which were filmed in New Zealand, as well as her years of work on Xena: Warrior Princess.
She and Richard Ta... | {"Name": "Ngila Dickson", "Post-nominals": "NZL ONZM 100%", "Birth date": "1958", "Birth place": "Dunedin, New Zealand", "Spouse(s)": "Hamish Keith"} |
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Sables-Spanish Rivers is a township in Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Georgian Bay. It is located in the Sudbury District, approximately west of Sudbury.
The township was created in 1998 by amalgamating the former towns of Massey and Webbwood with the towns... | {"Type": "Township", "Land": "815.21", "Density": "3.9", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.sables-spanish.ca"} |
Kenner Products, known simply as Kenner, was an American toy company founded in 1946. Throughout its history, the Kenner brand produced several highly recognizable toys and merchandise lines including action figures like the original series of Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Batman as well as die cast models. The company ... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1946 y", "Defunct": "2000", "Fate": "Closed, properties and brand name sold. Product lines merged into Hasbro", "Headquarters": "Cincinnati, Ohio", "Industry": "Toys", "Products": "Action figures, Die-cast model vehicles", "Parent": "Independent (1946-1967)\n General Mills (1967-1985)... |
Ole von Beust (born 13 April 1955) is a former German politician who was First Mayor of Hamburg from 31 October 2001 to 25 August 2010, serving as President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2007 on for one year. He was succeeded as mayor by Christoph Ahlhaus.
Life and work
Born in Hamburg as Carl-Friedrich Arp Freiher... | {"Name": "Ole von Beust", "Image": "Ole von Beust 3289c.JPG", "Image caption": "Ole von Beust in 2009", "Term start": "31 October 2001", "Term end": "25 August 2010", "Birth date": "1955 4 13 y", "Birth place": "Hamburg, West Germany", "Residence": "Hamburg", "Alma mater": "University of Hamburg"} |
Costabile "Gus" Farace, Jr. (June 21, 1960 Bushwick, Brooklyn - November 17, 1989 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn) was an Italian American criminal and mobster. He was an associate of the Bonanno crime family who murdered a teenage male prostitute and a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent in New York City. He was... | {"Name": "Costabile Farace", "Caption": "FBI Wanted Poster of Costabile Farace issued on March 10, 1989", "Birth name": "Costabile \"Gus\" Farace, Jr.", "Birth date": "June 21, 1960", "Other names": "Nicholas", "Birth place": "Bushwick, Brooklyn", "Death place": "Bensonhurst, Brooklyn", "Death date": "November 17, 1989... |
Nia Tsholofelo Künzer (born 18 January 1980) is a retired German women's football player.
Early life
She was born in Mochudi, Botswana, as Nia Tsholofelo Künzer (her first name being Swahili for "aim" or "intention" and her second name being Tswana for "hope"), where her parents were on a two-year tour with a developm... | {"Name": "Nia Künzer", "Picture size": "200", "Picture caption": "Nia Künzer in 2013", "Full name": "Nia Tsholofelo KünzerNia Künzer http://www.nia-kuenzer.de/content/nia/sport-karriere 13 March 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150308144059/http://www.nia-kuenzer.de/content/nia/sport-karriere 8 March 2015 dead", "Bir... |
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is an award that was first presented in 1959.
History
From 1959 to 2011, the Award was called Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group. In 2012, it was shortened to Best Jazz Instrumental Album, encompassing albums that previously fell under the categories Bes... | {"Awarded for": "quality instrumental jazz albums", "Presented by": "National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences", "Country": "United States", "First awarded": "1959", "Website": "grammy.com"} |
The Enterprise is a Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy with a double-chined hull and distinctive blue sails. Normally crewed by two, and sometimes carrying a third crew member, it may also be sailed single-handed.
History
The Enterprise was designed by Jack Holt in 1956 for The News Chronicle during the post-war sailing bo... | {"Name": "Enterprise", "Crew": "2", "Type": "Monohull", "Rig type": "Sloop", "Keel/board type": "Centreboard", "LOA": "13 ft 3 in m on", "LOH": "12 ft 11 in m on", "Beam": "5 ft 3 in m on", "Draft": "8 in m on3 ft 10 in m on", "Hull": "207 lb kg on", "Upwind sail area": "115 sqft m2 on", "D-PN": "92.6http://offshore.us... |
The Tura (), also known as Dolgaya (Long River, ) is a historically important Siberian river which flows eastward from the central Ural Mountains into the Tobol, a part of the Ob basin. The main town on it is Tyumen.
Description
From about 1600 to 1750 the Tura was the main entry point into Siberia. Most people and go... | {"Native name": "ru Тура́", "Mouth": "44 m ft on", "Location": "Tarkhany, Tyumen Oblast", "Coordinates": "57.2055 66.9529 dms it", "Basin size": "80400 km2 on", "Left": "Is", "Right": "Salda, Tagil, Nitsa, Pyshma"} |
The Kolyma (, ; ) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia.
The Kolyma is frozen to depths of several metres for about 250 days each year, becoming free of ice only in early June, until October.
Course
The Kolyma begin... | {"Native name": "ru Колыма", "Etymology": "Tundra Yukaghir kulumaa, \"river\"https://books.google.com/books?id=AR7xAwAAQBAJ&q=kolyma+etymology&pg=PA19 Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis Vol. 127 (2010) Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld September 1, 2010 Wydawnictwo UJ 9788323330271 Google Books", "Mouth... |
is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and Love and Honor).
Biography
He was born in Osaka, but due to his father's job as an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, he was brought up in Dalian, China. from the... | {"Name": "Yōji Yamada", "Caption": "Yoji Yamada at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019", "Native name": "山田 洋次", "Native name language": "ja", "Birth date": "1931 9 13 yes", "Birth place": "Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan", "Occupation": "Film director, screenwriter", "Years active": "1961-present", "Module... |
2061: Odyssey Three is a science-fiction novel by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1987. It is the third book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series. It returns to one of the lead characters of the previous novels, Heywood Floyd, and his adventures from the 2061 return of Halley's Comet to Jupiter's moon Eur... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Series": "The Space Odyssey series", "Publisher": "Del Rey", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "Pages": "256", "ISBN": "0-345-35173-8", "Preceded by": "2010: Odyssey Two", "Followed by": "3001: The Final Odyssey"} |
3001: The Final Odyssey is a 1997 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is the fourth and final book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series.
Plot summary
The novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms - dubbed the First-Born - who created the black monoliths. They evolved from "primord... | {"Cover artist": "Chris Moore", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Voyager Books (UK)Del Rey Books (US)", "ISBN": "(US hardback edition)", "Preceded by": "2061: Odyssey Three"} |
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 435 U.S. 191 (1978), is a United States Supreme Court case deciding that Indian tribal courts have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians.. The case was decided on March 6, 1978 with a 6-2 majority. The court opinion was written by William Rehnquist, and a dissenting opinion was w... | {"Date argued": "January 9", "Year argued": "1978", "Date decided": "March 6", "Year decided": "1978", "Full case name": "Mark Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe", "United States Reports volume number": "435", "United States Reports page number": "191", "Parallel citations": "98 S. Ct. 1011, 55 L. Ed. 2d 209, 1978 U.S.... |
The She people (; Shehua: ; Cantonese: , Fuzhou: ) are an ethnic group in China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
The She are the largest ethnic minority in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Provinces. They are also present in the provinces of Anhui and Guangdo... | {"Name": "She, Sa", "Image caption": "She traditional dance performance in Huanglongyan (zh-Hans 黄龙岩), Heyuan, Guangdong\n<!-- infobox doesn't support this --", "Population": "709,592 (2000)", "Languages": "Predominantly Shehua. A minuscule minority speak She in Zengcheng, Boluo County, Huidong County and Haifeng Count... |
The Jaguar E-Type, or the Jaguar XK-E for the North American market, is a British sports car that was manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd between 1961 and 1974. Its combination of aesthetics, high performance, and competitive pricing established the model as an icon of the motoring world. The E-Type's claimed top speed,Ne... | {"Also called": "Jaguar XK-E Jaguar V-12", "Manufacturer": "Jaguar Cars", "Production": "1961-1974http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/292399/jaguar_etype_lightweight_revealed.html Jaguar E-type Lightweight revealed Evo live https://web.archive.org/web/20140815023928/http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/292399/jaguar_etype_... |
Isabella of Austria (18 July 1501 - 19 January 1526), also known as Elizabeth, was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as the wife of King Christian II. She was the daughter of King Philip I and Queen Joanna of Castile and the sister of Emperor Charles V. She ruled Denmark as regent in 1520.Anne J. Duggan: Queens and q... | {"Father": "Philip I of Castile", "Mother": "Joanna of Castile", "Born": "Brussels, Habsburg Netherlands", "Died": "Ghent", "Burial": "St. Peter's Abbey, Ghent (1526-1883)St. Canute's Cathedral, Odense (since 1883)", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
A canapé () is a type of hors d'oeuvre, a small, prepared, and often decorative food, consisting of a small piece of bread (sometimes toasted) or cracker, wrapped or topped with some savoury food, held in the fingers and often eaten in one bite.
Name
The name comes from the French word for sofa,James Beard, Hors d'Oeu... | {"Name of food": "Canapé", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "Tray of canapés", "Place of origin": "France", "Course served": "Hors d'oeuvre", "Main ingredient": "Base: one of crackers, bread, toast or puff pastryTopping: savoury butters, spreads, or pastes", "Variations": "Amuse-bouche, vol-au-vent"} |
Louis Knox Barlow (born July 17, 1966) is an American alternative rock musician and songwriter. A founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His first band, which was formed in Am... | {"Born": "Dayton, Ohio, U.S.", "Genres": "Alternative rock\nindie rock\nslacker rock\nhardcore punk", "Labels": "Joyful Noise Recordings, Shrimper, Smells Like, Mint, Sub Pop, Lo-Fi, Little Brother, Dark Beloved Cloud, City Slang, Merge, Acuarela, Domino", "Website": "http://loobiecore.com/"} |
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, doing business as Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, BMS is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and consistently ranks on the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations. For fis... | {"Formerly": "Bristol-Myers Company (1933-1989)", "Type": "Public company", "Industry": "Pharmaceuticals", "Founded": "1887", "Headquarters": "Princeton, New JerseyBristol-Myers Squibb Company Current Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Form 8-K) https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/... |
Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889 - August 28, 1967) was an American board game designer who is credited as the inventor of the board game Monopoly. Although the original idea for the game came from Lizzie Magie's The Landlord's Game, Darrow has been credited as the creator by Parker Brothers, the game's publisher.... | {"Birth name": "Charles Brace Darrow", "Birth date": "1889 8 10", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US", "Death date": "1967 8 28 1889 8 10", "Death place": "Bucks County, Pennsylvania, US"} |
Start the Week is a discussion programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 which began in April 1970. The current presenter is Tom Sutcliffe. The previous regular presenters were Richard Baker, Russell Harty, Melvyn Bragg, Jeremy Paxman and Andrew Marr
It is broadcast (usually) live on Monday mornings between 9:02am and 9:45am... | {"Genre": "Discussion", "Running time": "Approx. 43 minutes", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Language(s)": "English", "Home station": "BBC Radio 4", "Hosted by": "Tom Sutcliffe", "Original release": "present", "Podcast": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/stw", "Website": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/... |
Chasewater is a reservoir located in the parish of Burntwood and the district of Lichfield in Staffordshire, England. Originally known as Norton Pool and Cannock Chase Reservoir, it was created as a canal feeder reservoir in 1797. The reservoir was created to directly supply the Wyrley and Essington Canal and maintain ... | {"Location": "near Burntwood, Staffordshire", "Coordinates": "52.664074 -1.941686 region:GB title,inline", "Primary inflows": "Big Crane Brook, Little Crane Brook, Norton Brook, Chasetown Brook", "Primary outflows": "via culvert to Anglesey Branch of Wyrley and Essington Canal", "Catchment area": "9 km2 acre", "Basin":... |
Hans Eichel (born 24 December 1941) is a German politician (SPD) and the co-founder of the G20, or "Group of Twenty", an international forum for the governments and central bank governors of twenty developed and developing nations to discuss policy issues pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability... | {"Name": "Hans Eichel", "Office 2": "Minister President of Hesse", "Deputy 2": "Joschka Fischer Rupert von Plottnitz", "Predecessor 2": "Walter Wallmann", "Successor 2": "Roland Koch", "Birth date": "1941 12 24 yhttp://www.hans-eichel-kassel.de/ Hans Eichel Hans-eichel-kassel.de 1941-12-24 2022-04-14", "Birth plac... |
Claude Berri (; 1 July 1934 - 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
Early life
Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents. His mother, Beila (née Bercu), was from Romania, and his father, Hirsch Langmann, was a furrier from Poland.... | {"Name": "Claude Berri", "Birth date": "1934 07 01 y", "Birth place": "Paris, France", "Death date": "2009 01 12 1934 07 01 y", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Birth name": "Claude Beri Langmann", "Occupation": "Film producer, actor, screenwriter, film director", "Years active": "1953-2008", "Spouse(s)": "Anne-Marie R... |
A tea sandwich (also referred to as finger sandwich) is a small prepared sandwich meant to be eaten at afternoon teatime to stave off hunger until the main meal.
The tea sandwich may take a number of different forms, but should be easy to handle, and should be capable of being eaten in two or three bites. It may be a ... | {"Name of food": "Tea sandwich", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "Cucumber sandwiches and tea", "Place of origin": "United Kingdom", "Course served": "Tea", "Type of dish": "Sandwich"} |
Andrea Fischer (born January 14, 1960) is a former member of the German Bundestag for the German Green Party and from 1998 until 2001 was Federal Minister for Health. She dropped out of the Bundestag in 2002.
Life
Education and profession
After graduating from high school, Andrea Fischer completed an apprenticeship as... | {"Name": "Andrea Fischer", "Image": "Andrea Fischer.JPG", "Image caption": "Fischer in 2000", "Term start": "27 October 1998", "Term end": "12 January 2001", "Birth date": "1960 1 14", "Birth place": "Arnsberg, West Germany", "Nationality": "German", "Alma mater": "Free University of Berlin"} |
(, ; released in the United States as Hate) is a 1995 French social thriller film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui, the film chronicles a day and night in the lives of three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the suburbs of Pari... | {"Directed by": "Mathieu Kassovitz", "Written by": "Mathieu Kassovitz", "Produced by": "Christophe Rossignon", "Starring": "Vincent CasselHubert KoundéSaïd Taghmaoui", "Cinematography": "Pierre Aïm", "Edited by": "Mathieu Kassovitz\n Scott Stevenson", "Music by": "Assassin", "Distributed by": "MKL Distribution", "Budge... |
Mathieu Kassovitz (; born 3 August 1967) is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for See How They Fall (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for La Haine (1995). He also receive... | {"Birth date": "1967 08 03 yes", "Birth place": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "Caption": "Kassovitz at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival", "Nationality": "French", "Occupation": "Actor • film director • film producer • screenwriter", "Years active": "1978-present", "Website": "www.mathieukassovitz.com (Archived)", "Spous... |
Rama Revealed (1993) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. It is the last in a four-book series of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors, and as the title suggests reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic Rama spacecraft.
Plot summary
The book picks up the story immediately afte... | {"Cover artist": "Bob Corley", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Series": "Rama", "Publisher": "Gollancz", "Media type": "Print (Hardcover)", "Pages": "480", "ISBN": "0-575-05577-4", "Preceded by": "The Garden of Rama"} |
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA; Gaelic: Ùghdarras Theisteanas na h-AlbaSQA - About SQA (Gaelic)) is the executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government responsible for accrediting educational awards. It is partly funded by the Education and Lifelong Learning Directorate of the Scottish G... | {"Abbreviation": "SQA", "Named after": "Pride o' Worth", "Merger of": "Scottish Examination Board and Scottish Vocational Education Council", "Headquarters": "Glasgow / Dalkeith", "Location": "Scotland", "Website": "http://www.sqa.org.uk"} |
Party Monster is a 2003 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, who are also producers along with Jon Marcus and Christine Vachon. It stars Macaulay Culkin as the drug-addled "king of the Club Kids". The film tells the story of the rise and fall of the infamous Ne... | {"Directed by": "Fenton BaileyRandy Barbato", "Produced by": "Fenton BaileyRandy BarbatoJon MarcusChristine Vachon", "Written by": "Fenton BaileyRandy Barbato", "Based on": "Disco Bloodbath James St. James", "Starring": "Macaulay CulkinSeth GreenChloë SevignyDiana ScarwidWilmer ValderramaNatasha LyonneWilson CruzDylan ... |
In the Scottish secondary education system, the Higher () is one of the national school-leaving certificate exams and university entrance qualifications of the Scottish Qualifications Certificate (SQC) offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority. It superseded the old Higher Grade on the Scottish Certificate of Ed... | {"Year started": "1888", "Offered": "S5 and S6", "Restrictions on attempts": "Multiple attempts just taken over multiple years", "Countries / regions": "Scotland", "Fee": "Free"} |
Xfig is a free and open-source vector graphics editor which runs under the X Window System on most UNIX-compatible platforms.
In Xfig, figures may be drawn using objects such as circles, boxes, lines, spline curves, text, etc. It is also possible to import images in a number of formats, including JPEG, EPS, PostScript... | {"Initial release": "1985", "Written in": "C and Xlib", "Available in": "English and Japanese", "Type": "Vector graphics editor", "License": "xfigXfig license", "Website": "http://mcj.sourceforge.net"} |
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