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Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck (pronounced "Howk"; born April 11, 1941) is a retired captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26.
Personal data
He was born April 11, 1941, in Long Beach, California, but conside... | {"Rank": "USNO6 25 Captain, USN", "Selection": "1978 NASA Group 8", "Missions": "STS-7, STS-51-A, STS-26", "Retirement": "April 3, 1989"} |
The Selkirk locomotives were 36 steam locomotives of the 2-10-4 wheel arrangement built for Canadian Pacific Railway by Montreal Locomotive Works, Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
History
The first of these large engines, which had a 2-10-4 wheel arrangement, was built in July 1929. Altogether, twenty were constructed befo... | {"Power type": "Steam", "Manufacturer": "Montreal Locomotive Works", "Build date": "1929 (20); 1938 (10); 1949 (6)", "Total production": "36", "Order number": "Q-415 (T1c)", "Serial number": "67921-67940 (T1a)69110-69119 (T1b)76221-76226 (T1c)", "Whyte type": "2-10-4", "UIC classification": "1′E2′h2G", "Gauge": "ussg o... |
thumb|John and Dora Rabe autograph signatures, Nanjing, 22 May 1932.
John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 - 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre (also romanized as Nanking) and his work to protect and he... | {"Name": "John Rabe", "Image": "John Rabe.jpeg", "Birth date": "yes 1882 11 23", "Birth place": "Hamburg, German Empire", "Death date": "yes 1950 1 5 1882 11 23", "Death place": "Berlin, West Germany", "Known For": "Saving about 250,000 Chinese civilians during the Nanjing MassacreEstablishing the Nanking Safety Zone",... |
thumb|300px|US Army No. 101, a Consolidation Class 2-8-0, on display at the National Railroad Museum on April 26, 2004. This locomotive was built for use in France during WWI but never made it there. The original European style cab was replaced by an American style one.
thumb|300 px|The Bauer Drumhead Collection. These... | {"Coordinates": "44 28 59.9 N 88 02 52.8 W region:US-WI_type:landmark title,inline", "Established": "1956 y", "Location": "Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin", "Type": "Railway museum", "CEO": "Jacqueline Frank", "Website": "https://nationalrrmuseum.org/"} |
Parker Hannifin Corporation, originally Parker Appliance Company, usually referred to as just Parker, is an American corporation specializing in motion and control technologies. Its corporate headquarters are in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, in Greater Cleveland (with a Cleveland mailing address)."CERTIFICATE OF PROPERTY INS... | {"Type": "Public", "Industry": "Manufacturing", "Founded": "1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.", "Headquarters": "United States", "Revenue": "19.06 billion yes (2023)", "Subsidiaries": "Parker Meggitt", "Website": "parker.com"} |
Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957) is an author of novels, short stories, and comics, as well as a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. Grubb worked on the Dragonlance campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the Forgotten Realms setting with Ed Greenwood. His written works include The Finder's... | {"Name": "Jeff Grubb", "Birth date": "1957 8 27 y", "Birth place": "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Occupation": "Writer", "Spouse(s)": "Kate Novak 1983"} |
The Apple Store is a chain of retail stores owned and operated by Apple Inc. The stores sell various Apple products, including Mac personal computers, iPhone smartphones, iPad tablet computers, Apple Watch smartwatches, Apple TV digital media players, software, and both Apple-branded and selected third-party accessorie... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Retail", "Products": "Mac\n iPhone\n iPad\n Apple Watch\n Apple TV\n Apple & third-party software and accessories", "Parent": "Apple Inc.", "Founded": "2001 5 19Tysons, Virginia, and Glendale, California U.S.", "Headquarters": "United States", "Website": "apple.com/retail"} |
Jarosite is a basic hydrous sulfate of potassium and ferric iron (Fe-III) with a chemical formula of KFe3(SO4)2(OH)6. This sulfate mineral is formed in ore deposits by the oxidation of iron sulfides. Jarosite is often produced as a byproduct during the purification and refining of zinc and is also commonly associated w... | {"Category": "Sulfate minerals", "IMA symbol": "JrsWarr L.N. 2021 IMA-CNMNC approved mineral symbols Mineralogical Magazine 85 3 291-320 10.1180/mgm.2021.43 2021MinM...85..291W 235729616 free", "Strunz classification": "7.BC.10", "Dana classification": "30.2.5.1", "Unit cell": "a = 7.304 Å, c = 17.268 Å; Z = 3", "Cleav... |
Martin Joseph "Marty" Chávez (born March 2, 1952) is an American politician, businessman, and attorney who served as a member of the New Mexico Senate from 1987 to 1993 and as the 26th and 28th mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He served as the Executive Director of ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA.Martin... | {"Name": "Marty Chávez", "Term start": "December 1, 2001", "Term end": "December 1, 2009", "Office 2": "Member of the New Mexico Senate", "Birth name": "Martin Joseph Chávez", "Birth date": "1952 3 2", "Birth place": "Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.", "Education": "University of New Mexico (BA)Georgetown University (JD)"... |
The University of Mumbai is a public state university in Mumbai. It is one of the largest university systems in the world with over 549,000 students on its campuses and affiliated colleges."Mumbai University records 60% rise in students" : DNA - Daily News and Analysis newspaper article, Monday, 21 March 2011. , the un... | {"Motto": "Śīlavṛttaphalā Vidyā (Sanskrit)", "Type": "Public", "Chancellor": "Governor of Maharashtra", "Students": "7,579University Student Enrollment Details https://www.ugc.ac.in/stateuniversitylist.aspx?id=21&Unitype=2 www.ugc.ac.in 10 February 2020 16 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201016032106/ht... |
Gary Graham (born June 6, 1950) is an American actor, musician, and author. He may be best known for his starring role as Detective Matthew Sikes in the television series Alien Nation (1989-1990) and five subsequent Alien Nation television films (1994-1997).
Biography and career
Graham was born in Long Beach, Califo... | {"Name": "Gary Graham", "Caption": "Gary Graham at 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International", "Birth place": "Long Beach, California, U.S.", "Birth date": "1950 06 06", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1975-present"} |
Clathrin is a protein that plays a major role in the formation of coated vesicles. Clathrin was first isolated and named by Barbara Pearse in 1976. It forms a triskelion shape composed of three clathrin heavy chains and three light chains. When the triskelia interact they form a polyhedral lattice that surrounds the ve... | {"Symbol": "Clathrin_propel", "Caption": "Clathrin terminal domain", "Pfam family identifier": "PF01394", "Pfam clan identifier": "CL0020", "InterPro family identifier": "IPR022365", "SCOP (domain/PDB accession number)": "1bpo"} |
Honorius (died 30 September 653) was a member of the Gregorian mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism in 597 AD who later became Archbishop of Canterbury. During his archiepiscopate, he consecrated the first native English bishop of Rochester as well as helping the missionary ef... | {"Predecessor": "Justus", "Successor": "Deusdedit", "Consecration": "627", "Born": "Rome", "Died": "30 September 653", "Feast day": "30 September", "Venerated in": "Eastern Orthodox ChurchRoman Catholic ChurchAnglican CommunionFarmer Oxford Dictionary of Saints p. 253", "Canonized": "Pre-Congregation", "Shrines": "St A... |
Intermediate filaments (IFs) are cytoskeletal structural components found in the cells of vertebrates, and many invertebrates. Homologues of the IF protein have been noted in an invertebrate, the cephalochordate Branchiostoma.
Intermediate filaments are composed of a family of related proteins sharing common structura... | {"Symbol": "IF_tail", "Caption": "Structure of lamin a/c globular domain", "Pfam family identifier": "PF00932", "InterPro family identifier": "IPR001322", "PROSITE record identifier": "PDOC00198", "SCOP (domain/PDB accession number)": "1ivt"} |
Vlad II (), also known as Vlad Dracul () or Vlad the Dragon (before 1395 - November 1447), was Voivode of Wallachia from 1436 to 1442, and again from 1443 to 1447. He is internationally known as the father of Vlad the Impaler, or Dracula. Born an illegitimate son of Mircea I of Wallachia, he spent his youth at the cour... | {"Born": "before 1395", "Died": "Bălteni, Principality of Wallachia", "Burial": "Dealu Monastery, Dâmbovița County", "Father": "Mircea I of Wallachia", "Religion": "Eastern Orthodox"} |
William Harrison Hays Sr. (; November 5, 1879 - March 7, 1954) was an American politician, and member of the Republican Party. As chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918-1921, Hays managed the successful 1920 presidential campaign of Warren G. Harding. Harding then appointed Hays to his cabinet as his f... | {"Name": "Will H. Hays", "Term start": "1922", "Term end": "1945", "Office 2": "Chair of the Republican National Committee", "Predecessor 2": "William Willcox", "Successor 2": "John T. Adams", "Birth name": "William Harrison Hays", "Birth date": "1879 11 5", "Birth place": "Sullivan, Indiana, U.S.", "Death date": "1954... |
Julia Stimson Thorne (September 16, 1944 - April 27, 2006) was an American writer. She was the first wife of John Kerry, who was U.S. Senator during their marriage.
Biography
Thorne was born in New York City on September 16, 1944, the daughter of Alice (Barry) and Landon Ketchum Thorne, Jr. Her maternal great-grandfat... | {"Lieutenant governor": "John Kerry", "Term start": "March 6, 1983", "Term end": "January 2, 1985", "Birth name": "Julia Stimson Thorne", "Birth date": "1944 9 16", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2006 4 27 1944 9 16", "Death place": "Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "John Kerry 1970 198... |
The New Living Translation (NLT) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1996 by Tyndale House Foundation, the NLT was created "by 90 leading Bible scholars." The NLT relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.
The origin of the NLT came ... | {"Online as": "New Living Translation", "Abbreviation": "NLTThe NLT was sometimes abbreviated as the NLTse (New Living Translation, Second Edition) after a major text revision in 2004. This branding was retired by the time of the 2013 text revision.", "Textual basis": "\"NLT_OT_Basis\">Translation Process https://www.t... |
thumb|right|Association of American Railroads WWII poster
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is an industry trade group representing primarily the major freight railroads of North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States). Amtrak and some regional commuter railroads are also members. Smaller freight rail... | {"Abbreviation": "AAR", "Type": "Trade Association", "Legal status": "Active", "Headquarters": "425 Third Street SWSuite 1000", "Location": "Washington, D.C.", "Subsidiaries": "Railinc CorporationTransportation Technology Center, Inc.", "Website": "www.aar.org"} |
thumb|right|Maj-Gen Edward Bulfin
The 60th (2/2nd London) Division was an infantry division of the British Army raised during the First World War. It was the second line-formation of the 47th (1/2nd London) Division, and was the second of two such Territorial Force divisions formed from the surplus of London recruits i... | {"Branch": "United Kingdom 23px", "Type": "Infantry", "Size": "Division", "Notablecommanders": "Edward Bulfin"} |
Magrath is a town in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada. Its population was 3,281 in 2022. Magrath is (approximately 25 minutes) south of Lethbridge and (approximately 3.5 hours) south of Calgary.
History
Magrath was established in 1899 by settlers sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church... | {"Named for": "Charles Alexander Magrath", "Land": "5.88", "Density": "422", "DST": "-6"} |
Christopher James Berman (born May 10, 1955), nicknamed "Boomer", is an American sportscaster. He has been an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN since 1979, joining a month after its initial launch, and hosted the network's Sunday NFL Countdown program from 1985 to 2016 and NFL Primetime from 1987 to 2005 and since 2019. ... | {"Name": "Chris Berman", "Caption": "Berman in March 2007", "Birth name": "Christopher James Berman", "Birth date": "1955 5 10", "Birth place": "Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.", "Education": "Brown University (B.A.)", "Occupation": "TV, radio sportscaster, television personality", "Years active": "1977-present", "Title":... |
Fiji Airways (trading as and formerly known as Air Pacific) is the flag carrier of Fiji and operates international services from its hubs in Fiji to 15 countries and 27 cities including, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands (Oceania), Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Canada an... | {"Airline name": "Fiji Airways", "Image size (px)": "280px", "Current Fleet Size": "14", "IATA Designator": "FJ", "ICAO Designator": "FJI", "Callsign": "FIJI", "Founded": "1947", "Commenced operations": "1951 9 1 y", "Headquarters": "Nadi International AirportNadi, Fiji", "Key People": "Andre Viljoen (Managing Director... |
Big Daddy is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, written by Steve Franks, Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler based on a story by Franks, and starring Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Rob Schneider, Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, and Leslie Mann with supporting roles done by Allen Covert and Josh ... | {"Directed by": "Dennis Dugan", "Produced by": "Sid Ganis Jack Giarraputo", "Screenplay by": "Steve Franks Tim Herlihy Adam Sandler", "Story by": "Steve Franks", "Starring": "Adam Sandler\n Joey Lauren Adams\n Jon Stewart\n Rob Schneider\n Cole Sprouse\n Dylan Sprouse\n Leslie Mann", "Music by": "Teddy Castellucci", "C... |
Escape from Noise is the fourth studio album by Negativland. It marked the band's first release on an established independent record label, SST Records. On the album, they continued to develop their experimental style, as well as incorporating elements of pop music with shorter tracks and more conventional melodies. "C... | {"Released": "1987 (original)1999 (reissue)", "Recorded": "1983-1987", "Studio": "'Our home and other people's homes'", "Genre": "Experimental\n electronic\n sound collage\n avant-rock", "Label": "SST/Seeland Records (original)Seeland (1999 \"un-remixed\" reissue)", "Producer": "Negativland"} |
Influenza hemagglutinin (HA) or haemagglutinin[p] (British English) is a homotrimeric glycoprotein found on the surface of influenza viruses and is integral to its infectivity.
Hemagglutinin is a Class I Fusion Protein, having multifunctional activity as both an attachment factor and membrane fusion protein. Therefore... | {"Symbol": "Hemagglutinin", "Pfam family identifier": "PF00509", "InterPro family identifier": "IPR001364", "SCOP (domain/PDB accession number)": "1hgd", "OPM superfamily identifier": "109", "OPM protein identifier": "6hjq"} |
Ruby Ridge was the site of an 11-day siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho in August 1992. It began on August 21, when deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant after his failure to appear on federal firearms charges. Durin... | {"Date": "August 21-31, 1992", "Location": "48 37 14 N 116 25 59 W region:US-ID_type:incident", "Caused by": "Resistance to USMS actions taken while serving a bench warrant for Randy Weaver; FBI actions taken following shooting death of a U.S. Marshal, statements by Weaver, and shots allegedly fired at a news helicopte... |
The 20th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 25, 2000 at the Sheraton Hotel in Santa Monica, California to recognize the worst the film industry had to offer in 1999.
Included with the normal Golden Raspberry categories to mark the dawn of the year 2000 were four special awards: Worst Picture of the Decade, Wor... | {"Date": "March 25, 2000", "Site": "Sheraton Hotel, Santa Monica, California", "Most awards": "Wild Wild West (5)", "Most nominations": "Wild Wild West (9)"} |
Wasim Akram HI (; born 3 June 1966) is a Pakistani cricket commentator, coach, and former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. Akram is regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, as well as one of the greatest left-arm fast bowlers in cricket history. He is often revered as The Su... | {"Born": "Lahore, West Pakistan (now, Punjab, Pakistan)", "Relations": "Huma Akram 1995 2009 diedShaniera Akram 2013", "Height": "1.91mAkram keeps his tryst with destiny http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/IND/FEATURES/MOM/WC2003/ODI28.html ESPNcricinfo 20 April 2022 […] Wasim Akram hasn't done too badly. Pla... |
Steel Beasts is the name for a family of tank simulators created by eSim Games for Microsoft Windows.
Its subject is contemporary combined arms tactics (with emphasis on modern armoured fighting vehicles) at a company scale. As a consumer game, it is a genre mix of strategy game, action game, simulation game, and warg... | {"Title": "Steel Beasts", "Developer": "eSim Games", "Publisher": "Shrapnel Games", "Series": "Steel Beasts", "Platforms": "Microsoft Windows XP/2000/ME/98/95", "Released": "September 2000", "Genre": "Tank simulator"} |
"Clubbed to Death" is an instrumental composition by Australian music producer Rob Dougan, originally released on Mo' Wax records in 1995. It featured in the 1997 film Clubbed to Death and was given renewed attention in 1999 due to its inclusion in the film The Matrix. It was re-released with new remixes in 2002.
Rele... | {"B-side": "\"Clubbed to Death\" (Remixes)", "Released": "February 1995", "Recorded": "1994", "Genre": "Trip hop\n neo-classical", "Label": "Mo' Wax", "Songwriter(s)": "Rob Dougan", "Producer(s)": "Rob Dougan"} |
Chaffey College is a public community college in Rancho Cucamonga, California. The college serves students in Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga and Upland. It is the oldest community college in California.
History
thumb|left|Chaffey College of Agriculture, 1885.
The school was establis... | {"Type": "Public community college", "Budget": "$445 million", "President": "Henry D. Shannon, Ph.D.", "Students": "28,000 annually About Chaffey https://www.chaffey.edu/about/index.php", "Undergraduates": "28,000 annually", "Campus": "Suburban", "Website": "www.chaffey.edu"} |
Empower Field at Mile High (previously known as Broncos Stadium at Mile High, Invesco Field at Mile High, and Sports Authority Field at Mile High, and commonly known as Mile High, New Mile High, or Mile High Stadium) is an American football stadium in Denver, Colorado, United States. Its primary tenant is the Denver Br... | {"Location": "Sun Valley", "Coordinates": "39 44 38 N 105 1 12 W type:landmark_scale:2000 inline,title", "Broke ground": "August 17, 1999", "Opened": "August 11, 2001", "Owner": "Metropolitan Football Stadium District", "Surface": "Kentucky Bluegrasshttp://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/02/11/broncos-ditching-synthetic-field... |
Michael Ballack (; born 26 September 1976) is a German former professional footballer. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of the Germany national team. Ballack wore the number 13 shirt for every team he has played for, except 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He was selected by Pelé as one of FIFA's 100 Greatest Livi... | {"Name": "Michael Ballack", "Picture caption": "Ballack in 2014", "Full name": "Michael Ballackhttps://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Germany FIFA 12 21 March 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20190610174527/https://www.fifadata.com/docum... |
thumb|Neil Armstrong being awarded the first medal by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, with subsequent recipients Borman and Conrad seated.
The Congressional Space Medal of Honor was authorized by the United States Congress in 1969 to recognize "any astronaut who in the performance of his or her duties has distinguished... | {"Presented by": "the United States Congress", "Country": "United States", "Type": "Medal", "Eligibility": "NASA astronauts", "Awarded for": "\"exceptionally meritorious efforts and contributions to the welfare of the Nation and mankind\"", "Status": "Active", "Established": "September 29, 1969", "First awarded": "Octo... |
Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger (; 21 August 189315 March 1918) was a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize. Her older sister was the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.
Biography
Early years
As a child prodigy born in Paris, Boulanger's talent... | {"Name": "Lili Boulanger", "Caption": "Lili Boulanger in a 1913 photograph taken by Henri Manuel", "Birth name": "Marie-Juliette Olga Boulanger", "Birth date": "21 August 1893", "Birth place": "9th arrondissement of Paris, France", "Death date": "1918 3 15 1893 8 21 y", "Death place": "Mézy-sur-Seine, Yvelines, France"... |
Li Qingzhao (1084 - ca. 1155), also known as Yian Jushi (Chinese: 易安居士) was a Chinese poet and essayist during the Song dynasty. She is considered one of the greatest poets in Chinese history.
Biography
thumb|left|upright|Li Qingzhao, painted by Qing dynasty painter Jiang Xun (1764-1821).
thumb|Li Qingzhao Memorial ... | {"Image": "Li Qingzhao statue.JPG", "Caption": "Statue of Li Qingzhao in the Li Qingzhao Memorial, Zhangqiu District, Jinan", "Name": "Li Qingzhao", "Native name": "李清照", "Native name language": "zh-hant", "Birth date": "1084", "Birth place": "Jinan, Shandong, Song China", "Death date": "1155 1084", "Death place": "Sha... |
Sussex Drive (), also known as Ottawa Regional Road93, is an arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital of Canada. It is one of the city's main ceremonial and institutional routes. Travelling roughly parallel to the Ottawa River, Sussex Drive begins as a continuation of Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway at Rideau G... | {"Name": "Sussex Drive", "Type": "Street", "Maintained by": "City of Ottawa", "Length": "2.4", "Location": "Ottawa", "Majorjunctions": "Ottawa 99 King Edward Avenue to Quebec Autoroute 5 via Macdonald-Cartier Bridge"} |
The Chukotko-Kamchatkan or Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages are a language family of extreme northeastern Siberia. Its speakers traditionally were indigenous hunter-gatherers and reindeer-herders. Chukotko-Kamchatkan is endangered. The Kamchatkan branch is moribund, represented only by Western Itelmen, with only 4 or 5 eld... | {"Name": "Chukotko-Kamchatkan", "Alternative name": "Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Luorawetlan", "Geographic distribution": "Russian Far East", "Language family color": "Paleosiberian", "Family": "One of the world's primary language families", "Glottolog code": "chuk1271", "Glottolog reference name": "Chukotko-Kamchatkan", "Prot... |
John James Conyers Jr. (May 16, 1929October 27, 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative from Michigan from 1965 to 2017. The districts he represented always included part of western Detroit. During his final three terms, his district included many of Detroit's wester... | {"Name": "John Conyers", "Term start": "January 3, 2015", "Term end": "December 5, 2017", "Office 2": "Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Lamar Smith", "Successor 2": "Jerry Nadler", "Birth name": "John James Conyers Jr.", "Birth date": "1929 5 16", "Birth place": "Detroit, Michigan, U.... |
The Antelope Valley is located in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, and the southeast portion of California's Kern County, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert. It is situated between the Tehachapi, Sierra Pelona, and the San Gabriel Mountains. The valley was named for the prongho... | {"Location": "California, United States", "Coordinates": "34.8 -118.2 source:gnis-1930539_region:US-CA inline,title", "Area": "2200 mi2 km2 0 us", "Borders on": "Victor Valley, Great Basin (east); San Gabriel Mountains (south); Tehachapis (northwest); Sierra Pelona Mountains (west)", "Traversed by": "State Route 14, St... |
"Frankenstein" is an instrumental by the Edgar Winter Group from their 1972 album They Only Come Out at Night.
The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in May 1973, being replaced by Paul McCartney's "My Love". It sold over one million copies. In Canada it fared equally well, reaching number 1 on th... | {"B-side": "Undercover Man", "Released": "February 21, 1973", "Recorded": "1972", "Genre": "Instrumental rock\nhard rock\nprogressive rock\nart rock", "Label": "Epic", "Songwriter(s)": "Edgar Winter", "Producer(s)": "Rick Derringer"} |
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3 was a full-sized luxury performance car built by Mercedes Benz from 1968 to 1972. It featured the company's powerful 6.3-litre M100 V8 from the flagship 600 (W100) limousine installed in the normally six-cylinder powered (but still premium) Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL (W109). The result was a n... | {"Manufacturer": "Mercedes-Benz", "Production": "1968-1972", "Platform": "Mercedes-Benz W109", "Class": "Full-size luxury car", "Layout": "FR layout", "Transmission": "4-speed automatic", "Length": "5000 mm in 1 on", "Width": "1810 mm in 1 on", "Height": "1420 mm in 1 on", "Successor": "Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9"} |
The Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran () is the primary intelligence agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a member of the Iran Intelligence Community. It is also known as VAJA and previously as VEVAK (Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniyat-e Keshvar) or alternatively MOIS. It was initially known as... | {"Formed": "1983 8 18 yes", "Jurisdiction": "Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran", "Headquarters": "Hirmand Street, Pasdaran, Tehran", "Employees": "Classified(30,000 by estimation of Magnus Ranstorp)https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2008/0620/p07s04-wome.html How Iran would retaliate if it comes to wa... |
Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera; June 29, 1930October 26, 2019) was an American film producer, studio executive, and actor, best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974).
Evans began his career in a successful business venture with his brother, se... | {"Name": "Robert Evans", "Caption": "Evans in 2012", "Birth name": "Robert J. Shapera", "Birth date": "1930 6 29", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2019 10 26 1930 6 29", "Death place": "Beverly Hills, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Ferncliff Cemetery", "Spouse(s)": "Sharon Hugueny 1961 1962 d... |
Digital Anvil, Inc. (formerly Digital Anvil Holdings, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas owned by Microsoft Game Studios (MGS). It was founded in 1996 by brothers Chris and Erin Roberts along with Tony Zurovec, Marten Davies, Craig Cox, John Miles, Eric Peterson and Robert Rodriguez, crea... | {"Formerly": "Digital Anvil Holdings, Inc.(1996-2001)", "Fate": "Dissolved", "Founded": "1996 04 08", "Defunct": "January 31, 2006", "Headquarters": "Austin, Texas, U.S.", "Industry": "Video games", "Products": "Starlancer Freelancer Brute Force", "Parent": "Microsoft Game Studios(2000-2006)"} |
William McMichael "Bill" Shepherd (born July 26, 1949), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is an American former Navy SEAL, aerospace, ocean, and mechanical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station. He is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Hon... | {"Rank": "USNO6 25 Captain,United States Navy 23px", "Selection": "1984 NASA Group 10", "Missions": "STS-27, STS-41, STS-52, Soyuz TM-31, Expedition 1, STS-102", "Retirement": "August 14, 2002"} |
The Sabreman series of games was released by Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum in the 1980s. Some of the instalments were also released on other popular home microcomputers, namely the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and MSX. The series stars Sabreman, who is depicted wearing khakis and a pith helmet.
G... | {"Title": "Sabreman", "Developer": "Ultimate Play the Game", "Publisher": "Ultimate Play the Game", "Platforms": "Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MSX, Game Boy Advance", "First release version": "Sabre Wulf", "First release date": "1984", "Latest release version": "Sabre Wulf (2004)", "Latest release date": "2004... |
The Anaang (also spelled Annang and Ànnang) are an ethnic group in southern Nigeria, whose land is primarily within 8 of the present 31 local government areas in Akwa Ibom State: Abak, Essien Udim, Etim Ekpo, Ika, Ikot Ekpene, Obot Akara, Oruk Anam, Ukanafun in Akwa Ibom State. The Anaang are the second largest ethnic ... | {"Name": "Anaang", "Population": "2.6 million", "Languages": "Anaang", "Religions": "Christianity and Paganism", "Related ethnic groups": "Efik, Bahumono, Ibibio and Igbo"} |
The Saint was an American gay nightclub, located in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It operated from 1980 to 1988.
History
It opened in the old premises of the Fillmore East, a 1926-built, former-theater-turned-classic-rock-and-roll venue of the late 1960s and early 1970s, at 105 Second Av... | {"Coordinates": "40.7276 N 73.9886 W inline, title", "Type": "Nightclub", "Genre(s)": "Discothèque", "Built": "1926 yes", "Opened": "1980 yes", "Closed": "1988 yes Staff Bruce Mailman, 55, Owner of Businesses In the East Village June 12, 1994 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/obituaries/bruce-mailman-55-owner-of-bus... |
, stylized as BEMANI, is Konami's music video game division. Originally named the Games & Music Division (G.M.D.), it changed its name in honor of its first and most successful game, Beatmania, and expanded into other music-based games, most notably rhythm games such as Dance Dance Revolution, GuitarFreaks, and DrumMan... | {"Formerly": "Games & Music Division (1997-1999)", "Type": "Division", "Industry": "Video games", "Founded": "1997", "Headquarters": "Japan", "Products": "Beatmania Beatmania IIDX Dance Dance Revolution Dance Dance Revolution Solo Dance Maniax Dancerush Stardom GuitarFreaks and DrumMania Jubeat Karaoke Revolution Keyb... |
Conker's Bad Fur Day is a 2001 platform game developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. The game follows Conker, a greedy, hard-drinking red squirrel who must return home to his girlfriend after binge drinking. Most of the game requires the player to complete a linear sequence of challenges that involve jumpi... | {"Title": "Conker's Bad Fur Day", "Developer": "Rare", "Publisher": "NA Rare EU THQ", "Director": "Chris Seavor", "Designer": "Chris Seavor", "Artist": "Don Murphy", "Writer": "Robin Beanland Chris Seavor", "Composer": "Robin Beanland", "Series": "Conker", "Platforms": "Nintendo 64", "Released": "NA 5 March 2001 EU 13 ... |
Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan, sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is universally accepted by linguists, and significant progress has been made in reconstructing the proto-language, Pro... | {"Name": "Japonic", "Alternative name": "Japanese-Ryukyuan or Japanic", "Geographic distribution": "Japan, possibly formerly on the Korean Peninsula", "Language family color": "Altaic", "Family": "One of the world's primary language families", "Protolanguage name": "Proto-Japonic", "Child 1": "Japanese", "Child 2": "Ry... |
Aswad are a British reggae group, noted for adding strong R&B and soul influences to the reggae sound. They have been performing since the mid-1970s, having released a total of 21 albums. Their UK hit singles include the number one "Don't Turn Around" (1988) and "Shine" (1994). "Aswad" is Arabic for "black". They are t... | {"Origin": "London, England", "Genres": "Reggae, reggae fusion, RB", "Labels": "Island RecordsGrove MusicCBS (UK)Simba MesaArk 21PROTV", "Members": "Tony Robinson"} |
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a 2003 third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sequel to 2001's Max Payne and the second game in the Max Payne series. Set two years after the events of the first game, the sequel finds Max Payne working again as ... | {"Title": "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne", "Border": "yes", "Developer": "Remedy EntertainmentPorted to Xbox and PlayStation 2 by Rockstar Vienna.", "Publisher": "Rockstar Games", "Director": "Markus Mäki", "Designer": "Petri Järvilehto", "Programmer": "Kim Salo", "Artist": "Saku Lehtinen", "Writer": "Sam Lake", "... |
Troika Games was an American video game developer co-founded by Jason Anderson, Tim Cain, and Leonard Boyarsky. The company was focused on role-playing video games between 1998 and 2005, best known for Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
History
thumb|Troika founders Leo... | {"Type": "Privately held", "Industry": "Video games", "Products": "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines", "Founded": "April 1, 1998", "Defunct": "February 24, 2005", "Headquarters": "Irvine, California, United States", "Website": "troikagames.com ... |
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A sweetheart cake or wife cake or marriage pie is a traditional Chinese cake with a thin crust of flaky pastry, and made with a filling of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder.Chinese-sweetheart-cake
"Wife cake" is the translation of 老婆饼 from Chinese, and although ... | {"Name of food": "Sweetheart cake", "Image alt string": "Wifecake", "Alternate name": "Wife cake, Lo por beng, Lao po bing, 老婆餅,（Chinese name (simplified)）老婆饼", "Place of origin": "Guangdong, China", "Region of origin": "Cantonese-speaking areas", "Type of dish": "Cake", "Course served": "Snack, dessert", "Main ingred... |
Frank Brian Fargo (born December 15, 1962) is an American video game designer, producer, programmer and executive, and founder of Interplay Entertainment, inXile Entertainment and Robot Cache.
Biography
Early life
A descendant of the family that created the banking giants Wells Fargo and American Express, Fargo was b... | {"Name": "Brian Fargo", "Caption": "Brian Fargo during his keynote at the Game Developers Conference China 2011.", "Birth name": "Frank Brian Fargo", "Birth date": "1962 12 15\nAmerican Pioneers: The Fargo Family History 0-918329-33-7", "Birth place": "Long Beach, California, US", "Occupation": "CEO of inXile Entertai... |
Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov (; August 11, 1882 - September 28, 1969) was a Bulgarian general who was the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1934 to 1935 and again from 1944 to 1946.
Born in Pazardzhik in a middle-class family, he would begin his military career in 1902 where he started from second-lieutenant a... | {"Name": "Kimon Georgiev", "Native name": "Кимон Георгиев", "Nationality": "Bulgarian", "Term start": "19 May 1934", "Term end": "22 January 1935", "Monarch 2": "Simeon II (1944-1946)", "President 2": "Vasil Kolarov (1946)", "Predecessor 2": "Konstantin Muraviev", "Successor 2": "Georgi Dimitrov", "Birth date": "1882 8... |
The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin is a daily newspaper based in Ontario, California, serving the Pomona Valley and southwest San Bernardino County. The Daily Bulletin is a member of the Southern California News Group (formerly the Los Angeles Newspaper Group), a division of Digital First Media. After 30 years of operati... | {"Type": "Daily Newspaper", "Format": "Broadsheet", "Owner(s)": "Digital First Media", "Headquarters": "3200 Guasti Road, Suite 100\nOntario, California 91730", "Publisher": "Ron Hasse", "Editor": "Frank Pine", "Circulation": "38,286 Daily52,308 Sunday(September 2014)", "Language": "English", "Website": "http://www.dai... |
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is a 2001 role-playing video game developed by Troika Games and published by Sierra On-Line for Microsoft Windows. The game's story takes place within a fantasy setting currently undergoing a transformation from its own industrial revolution, in which magic competes against tec... | {"Title": "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura", "Caption": "Cover art by Glenn FabryPowell Simon Fabry, Glenn - Arcanum game https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=164809 26 September 2020 5 September 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220905212927/https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gs... |
Ontario Mills is a shopping and outlet mall located in Ontario, California, within the Los Angeles metropolitan area. With 28 million annual visitors, it is one of the top shopping and tourist destinations in California. It is one of three Mills landmarks in California that are now managed by Simon Property Group sinc... | {"Location": "Ontario, California, United States", "Address": "1 Mills Cir", "Coordinates": "34.073777 N 117.551908 W inline,title", "Opening date": "November 14, 1996", "Developer": "Mills Corporation", "Management": "Simon Property Group", "Owner": "Simon Property Group (50%)JPMorgan Chase", "No. of stores and servic... |
The Los Angeles County Fair is an annual county fair. It was first held on October 17, 1922, and ran for five days through October 21, 1922, in a former beet field in Pomona, California. Highlights of the fair's first year were harness racing, chariot races and an airplane wing-walking exhibition. The fair is one of th... | {"Location(s)": "Pomona, California", "Coordinates": "34 05 00 N 117 45 45 W inline,title", "Years active": "1922-1941, 1948-2019, 2022- (no fair during WWII from 1942-47, nor 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic)", "Genre": "County fair", "Attendance": "0 (2020-21)", "Website": "LACF"} |
Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich (August 8, 1922 April 21, 1985) was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposefully used fashion design as a social statement to advance sexual freedom, producing clothes... | {"Name": "Rudi Gernreich", "Caption": "Gernreich at a Mattachine Society meeting, 1951", "Birth name": "Rudolf Gernreich", "Birth date": "1922 8 8", "Birth place": "Vienna, Austria", "Death date": "1985 4 21 1922 8 8", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, US", "Alma mater": "Los Angeles City College", "Occupation":... |
Zveno (), Politicheski krŭg "Zveno", officially Political Circle "Zveno" was a Bulgarian political organization, founded in 1930 by Bulgarian politicians, intellectuals and Bulgarian Army officers. It was associated with a newspaper of that name.
As a palingenetic nationalist movement, Zveno advocated for rationalizat... | {"Founded": "1930Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2007, February 2). Zveno Group. Encyclopedia Britannica. \"[...] Founded in 1930, the Zveno Group was led by Col. Kimon Georgiev and was composed primarily of radical civilians, who had become disillusioned with a government hampered by military domination, irre... |
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1907 - 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. She has been also addressed as the Modern Meera. Archived from th... | {"Born": "yes 1907 3 26", "Died": "yes 1987 9 11 1907 3 26", "Occupation": "Poet, essayist and sketch story writer", "Alma mater": "Allahabad University", "Literary movement": "Chhayavaad", "Notable awards": "19562Padma Bhushan19822Jnanpith Award19882Padma Vibhushan"} |
Suryakant Tripathi "Nirala" (21 February 1897 – 15 October 1961) was an Indian poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer who wrote in Hindi. He was also an artist, who drew many contemporary sketches.
Biography
Tripathi was born on 21 February 1897 in Midnapore in Bengal Presidency. Nirala's father, Pandit Ramsahay... | {"Pen name": "Nirala", "Born": "yes 1897 2 21", "Died": "yes 1961 10 15 1897 2 21", "Occupation": "Writer\n poet\n essayist\n novelist", "Nationality": "Indian", "Period": "Chhayavaad"} |
Of Moths and Men is a book by journalist Judith Hooper about the Oxford University ecological genetics school led by E.B. Ford. The book specifically concerns Bernard Kettlewell's experiments on the peppered moth which were intended as experimental validation of evolution. She highlights supposed problems with the me... | {"Language": "English", "Publisher": "Norton", "Pages": "377", "ISBN": "0-393-05121-8"} |
The Cromwell tank, officially Tank, Cruiser, Mk VIII, Cromwell (A27M), was one of the series of cruiser tanks fielded by Britain in the Second World War. Named after the English Civil War-era military leader Oliver Cromwell, the Cromwell was the first tank put into service by the British to combine high speed from a po... | {"Steeringsystem": "yes", "Type": "Cruiser tank", "Place of origin": "United Kingdom", "Used by": "British Army, Israeli Army, Greek Army, Portuguese Army", "Designer": "Leyland, then Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company from 1942WWII Vehicles", "Manufacturer": "Nuffield Mechanisation and Aero", "In service": ... |
Chinese noodles vary widely according to the region of production, ingredients, shape or width, and manner of preparation. Noodles were invented in China, and are an essential ingredient and staple in Chinese cuisine. They are an important part of most regional cuisines within China, and other countries with sizable ov... | {"Name of food": "Chinese noodles", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "Chinese noodles at a noodle shop in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong", "Place of origin": "China", "Type of dish": "Noodles"} |
Cytochrome C1 (also known as Complex III subunit 4) is a protein encoded by the CYC1 gene. Cytochrome is a heme-containing subunit of the cytochrome b-c1 complex, which accepts electrons from Rieske protein and transfers electrons to cytochrome c in the mitochondrial respiratory chain. It is formed in the cytosol and t... | {"Alt. names": "Complex III subunit 4, Ubiquinol-cytochrome-c reductase complex cytochrome c1 subunit", "IUPHAR": "CYC1", "Alt. symbols": "UQCR4, MC3DN6", "NCBI gene": "1537", "HGNC": "2579", "OMIM": "123980", "RefSeq": "NM_001916.4", "UniProt": "P08574", "Locus": "3"} |
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thumb|right|600 Pullman in Mercedes Museum, formerly transporting guests of the German Government
thumb|right|Mercedes 600 Landaulet
thumb|right|600 in Museum Sinsheim, sitting low until the air compressor re-supplies pressure to the suspension
The Mercedes-Benz 600 (W100) is a line of ultra-luxury cars produced by Da... | {"Manufacturer": "Daimler-Benz", "Class": "Ultra-luxury car Limousine", "Production": "1963–1981 2,677 built54 SWB: 2,190 LWB: 428 Landaulet: 59", "Body style": "4-door saloon (SWB) 4-door limousine 6-door limousine Landaulet limousine", "Layout": "FR layout", "Also called": "Grand Mercedes Grosser Mercedes", "Predec... |
Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday, also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit, is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian liturgical calendar. It is moveable because it is determined by the date of Easter. In the Catholic Church, it is the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother... | {"Also called": "Pentecost Monday (Western), Monday of the Holy Spirit (Eastern)", "Type": "Christian, Public", "Observed by": "Many European countries and some former colonies", "Begins": "1st Monday after Whit Sunday"} |
Jonathan George Snow HonFRIBA (born 28 September 1947) is an English journalist and television presenter. He is best known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News, which he presented from 1989 to 2021. On 29 April 2021, Snow announced his retirement from the role; his final programme aired on 23 December 202... | {"Post-nominals": "HonFRIBA", "Name": "Jon Snow", "Birth name": "Jonathan George Snow", "Birth date": "1947 9 28 y", "Birth place": "Ardingly, England, UK", "Occupation": "Journalist, television presenter, news anchor, King in the North, Lord Commander of the Nights Watch", "Years active": "1973-present", "Notable work... |
Nagercoil, also spelt as Nagarkovil ("Temple of the Nāgas", or Nagaraja-Temple), is a city and the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu state, India. Situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula, it lies on an undulating terrain between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.
thumb|Na... | {"Named for": "\"Temple of the Nāgas\"", "Type": "Mayor-Council", "Body": "Nagercoil Municipal Corporation", "Density": "9,813"} |
Stoyanka Mutafova (née StoyanKa Mutafova; ; 2 February 1922 – 6 December 2019) was a Bulgarian actress. During her career, she starred in over 53 theatrical plays and 25 films
Nicknamed Ms. Natural Disaster for a play she performed in and The Queen of Bulgarian comedy, she was an official applicant for a Guinness Book... | {"Name": "Stoyanka Mutafova", "Caption": "Mutafova performing in the play Grasshoppers in 2015", "Birth name": "Stoyana-Maria Konstantinova Mutafova", "Birth date": "1922 2 2 y", "Birth place": "Sofia, Bulgaria", "Death date": "y 2019 12 6 1922 2 2", "Death place": "Sofia, Bulgaria", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years act... |
The Nu people (; alternative names include Nusu, Nung, Zauzou and Along) are one of the 56 ethnic groups recognized by the People's Republic of China. Their population of 27,000 is divided into the Northern, Central and Southern groups. Their homeland is a country of high mountains and deep ravines crossed by the Dulon... | {"Name": "Nu", "Image": "Beijing-Niujie-Minzu-Tuanjie-Da-Jiating-3661.JPG", "Image caption": "Fence in Niujie, Beijing depicting the ethnicities of China, including the Nu people (怒族) (right)", "Population": "27,000", "Languages": "Nusu, Rouruo, Dulong, Nung (Anong), Rawang", "Religions": "Most are Christian, Tibetan B... |
Banco Nacional Ultramarino (, BNU; ; ) is a Macau banking and financial services corporation. It was a Portuguese bank with operations throughout the world, especially in Portugal's former overseas provinces. It ceased existence as an independent legal entity in Portugal following its merger in 2001 with Caixa Geral de... | {"Type": "Wholly owned subsidiary", "Founded": "1864 in Lisbon, Portugal", "Headquarters": "Macau", "Services": "Personal banking, credit cards, banknotes", "Industry": "Banking", "Products": "Financial services", "Website": "www.bnu.com.mo", "Parent": "Caixa Geral de Depósitos (2001)"} |
The Lanchester is a submachine gun ("machine carbine") manufactured by the Sterling Armaments Company between 1941 and 1945. It is a copy of the German MP28/II and was manufactured in two versions, Mk.1 and Mk.1*; the latter was a simplified version of the original Mk.1, with no fire selector and simplified sights. It ... | {"Place of origin": "United Kingdom", "Type": "Submachine gun", "Sights": "Front blade; rear adjustable", "In service": "1941-1960", "Used by": "See Users", "Wars": "World War IIIndonesian National RevolutionMalayan EmergencyMau Mau rebellionRhodesian Bush WarSuez CrisisLanchester submachine gun: post-WWII use 4 Octobe... |
The Operational Art of War (TOAW) is a series of computer wargames noted for their scope, detail, and flexibility in recreating, at an operational level, the major land battles of the 20th century. A Norm Koger design, TalonSoft published the first of the series in 1998. Matrix Games bought the rights to the franchise ... | {"Image caption": "TOAW III: Poles defending the Kiev bridgehead in the Polish-Bolshevik War scenario", "Players": "1 or 2", "Setup time": "< 2 minutes", "Playing time": "> 1 hour", "Random chance": "Medium", "Skills required": "Planning, strategy, tactics"} |
Berneray () is an island and community in the Sound of Harris, Scotland. It is one of fifteen inhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides. It is famed for its rich and colourful history which has attracted much tourism. It lies within the South Lewis, Harris and North Uist National Scenic Area, one of 40 such areas in Scot... | {"Coordinates": "57.72 -7.19 inline", "OS grid reference": "NF912817", "Meaning of name": "From Old Norse Bjorn's island", "Area": "1010 ha acre 0 on", "Population rank": "41", "Highest elevation": "Beinn Shleibhe (Moor Hill), 93 m ft 0 on", "Population": "138", "Population density": "13.6 PD/km2", "Largest settlement"... |
Comma-separated values (CSV) is a text file format that uses commas to separate values. A CSV file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text, where each line of the file typically represents one data record. Each record consists of the same number of fields, and these are separated by commas in the CSV file.... | {"Name": "Comma-separated values", "Icon size": "128px", "Caption": "A simple CSV file listing three people and the companies they work for", "No code style in extension": "on", "No code style in MIME": "on", "MIME type": "text/csv", "Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)": "public.comma-separated-values-texthttps://developer.... |
Max More (born Max T. O'Connor, January 1964, with name legally changed in 1990) is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision-making about emerging technologies.Alex Heard, "Technology Makes us Optimistic; They Want To Live," New York Times, September 28, 1997Joel Garreau, The Nex... | {"Name": "Max More", "Caption": "More at the 2006 Stanford Singularity Summit", "Birth name": "Max T. O'Connor", "Birth date": "January 1964", "Occupation": "Philosopher and futurist", "Spouse(s)": "Natasha Vita-More", "Website": "http://maxmore.com/"} |
A General National Vocational Qualification, or GNVQ, was a certificate of vocational education in the United Kingdom. The last GNVQs were awarded in 2007.
The qualifications related to occupational areas in general, rather than any specific job. They could be taken in a wide range of subjects. There were different le... | {"Acronym": "GNVQ", "Year started": "1990", "Offered": "Normally Sixth Form", "Countries / regions": "England, Wales and Northern Ireland"} |
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Baleshare () is a flat tidal island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Baleshare lies to the south-west of North Uist. Its economics and community were boosted by the building of a causeway in 1962. The causeway was built by William Tawse Ltd. The island is extremely flat... | {"Coordinates": "57.53 -7.37 inline", "OS grid reference": "NF788619", "Meaning of name": "Scottish Gaelic for 'east town'.", "Area": "910 ha sqmi 16 on", "Population rank": "56", "Highest elevation": "12 m ft 0 on", "Population": "58", "Population density": "6.4 people/km2", "Largest settlement": "Samhla", "Island gro... |
A Daim bar ( ) is a Swedish chocolate bar made from crunchy almond caramel covered in milk chocolate.
History
Daim was created by Marabou in Sweden in the 1950s. Marabou originally wanted to produce a version of the American Heath Co.'s bar; its vice president Lars Anderfelt inquired about licensing Heath's exact reci... | {"Product type": "Confectionery", "Owner": "Mondelez International (2012)", "Country": "Sweden", "Introduced": "1952", "Related brands": "List of Kraft brands", "Markets": "Worldwide", "Previous owners": "Marabou (1952)\nFreia (1953)\nKraft (1990)", "Website": "mondelezinternational.com"} |
Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 - 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.
Early career
Géza Maróczy was born in Szeged, Hungary on 3 March 1870. He won the "minor" tour... | {"Country": "Hungary", "Born": "Szeged, Austria-Hungary", "Died": "Budapest, Hungary", "Title": "Grandmaster (1950)"} |
Bellabeg (an anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic: Am Baile Beag, 'the small farmtown') is a small roadside settlement in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Amenities in Bellabeg include a Spar shop, a village hall, a green where the Highland Games are held, and the road to Lost with the famous signs pointing to "Lost".
... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Council area": "Aberdeenshire", "Lieutenancy area": "Aberdeenshire", "OS grid reference": "NJ353130", "Postcode district": "AB", "UK Parliament": "West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine", "Scottish Parliament": "Aberdeenshire West"} |
thumb|A neon-sign welcomes visitors to Rainforest Cafe, located inside the Great Lakes Crossing Outlets shopping complex in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on March 11, 2016.
thumb|An example of the canopy ceiling including artificial trees and foliage for the Rainforest Cafe at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada,... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1994 2 3, Bloomington, Minnesota", "Headquarters": "United States", "Industry": "Restaurants", "Products": "Pasta, Seafood, Salad, Sandwiches, Dessert; MerchandiseRainforest Cafe http://www.landrysinc.com/concepts/familyDestinations/rainforest.asp Landry's Inc. Landry's Inc. 12 June 2... |
Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park is a zoological theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, Experiences and Products division, it is the largest theme park in the world, covering . The park opened on Earth Day, April ... | {"Park Name": "Disney's Animal KingdomTheme Park", "Park Photo Caption": "The Tree of Life, the icon of Disney's Animal Kingdom", "Resort": "Walt Disney World Resort", "Park Location (City)": "Bay Lake", "Park Location (State/Province)": "Florida", "Park Location (Country)": "United States", "Park Coordinates": "28.358... |
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Bayer, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The club competes in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football, and plays its home matches at the BayArena.
The club wa... | {"Full name": "Bayer 04 Leverkusen", "Nickname(s)": "Die Werkself (The Company's Eleven)Die Schwarzroten (The Black and Reds)", "Founded": "yes 1904 7 1", "Capacity": "30,210https://www.bayer04.de/en-us/page/bayarena/the-bayarena The BayArena bayer04.de 5 September 2021 3 September 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/2021... |
Natural Selection is a modification for the video game Half-Life. Its concept is a mixture of the first-person shooter and real-time strategy game genres. The game was created by Charlie "Flayra" Cleveland, who later founded the company Unknown Worlds Entertainment. Natural Selection v1 was first publicly released on H... | {"Title": "Natural Selection", "Developer": "Unknown Worlds Entertainment", "Designer": "Charlie Cleveland", "Engine": "GoldSrc", "Released": "October 31, 2002", "Genre": "First-person shooter, real-time strategy", "Modes": "Multiplayer", "Platforms": "Windows"} |
Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski (25 October 1769 – 29 September 1802) was a Polish general and military commander, who fought for France during the Napoleonic Wars. He is the first known Polish general of African descent.
After enlisting in the colonial service, he died of yellow fever in 1802 in Saint-Domingue, wher... | {"Born": "Gdańsk, Poland", "Died": "Jérémie, Haiti", "Nickname(s)": "Murzynek", "Allegiance": "Poland\nFrance"} |
Cancer Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal scientific journal that publishes articles that provide major advances in cancer research and oncology. The journal considers manuscripts that answer important questions relevant to naturally occurring cancers. Areas covered include basic cancer biology, therapeutic dev... | {"Edited": "Steve Mao", "Publisher": "Cell Press", "Frequency": "Monthly", "History": "2002–present", "ISSN": "1878-3686"} |
The Enets (, ; singular: , ; also known as Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei or Yenisey Samoyeds) are a Samoyedic ethnic group who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River. Historically nomadic people, they now mainly inhabit the village of Potalovo in Krasnoyarsk Krai in western Siberia near the Arcti... | {"Name": "Enetsэнцы", "Image caption": "Enets people trading fish near Yeniseisk, 1913", "Population": "260", "Languages": "Enets", "Related ethnic groups": "Other Samoyedic peoples"} |
John Penn (14 July 1729 - 9 February 1795) was an English-born colonial administrator who served as the last governor of colonial Pennsylvania, serving in that office from 1763 to 1771 and from 1773 to 1776. Educated in Britain and Switzerland, he was also one of the Penn family proprietors of the Province of Pennsylva... | {"Name": "John Penn", "Image caption": "Penn depicted in a 1754 illustration", "Term start": "1773", "Term end": "1776", "Birth date": "14 July 1729", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "9 February 1795 (aged 65)", "Death place": "Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Grace Cox 1747 dissolvedAnne Allen 1766"} |
Roberto Carlos Braga Moreira (; born April 19, 1941) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, also known as King of Latin Music or simply The King.
Most of his songs were written in partnership with his friend, singer and songwriter Erasmo Carlos (no relation). Roberto Carlos has sold over 70 million albums around the world.... | {"Born": "yes 1941 4 19", "Died": "--", "Origin": "Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espírito Santo, Brazil", "Genres": "MPB rock and roll soul bossa nova rhythm and blues", "Website": "robertocarlos.com"} |
The Artifact Small Format Film Festival (formerly the $100 Film Festival) is Calgary's only celluloid-based film festival. When the $100 Film Festival was born in 1992, it showcased eight short films on Super 8. The name sprung from the challenge to shoot a short film on four rolls of Super 8 - which tallied to the cos... | {"Location(s)": "Calgary, Alberta", "Years active": "26", "Genre": "Art", "Website": "www.artifactfilmfestival.com"} |
Richard Noel "Dick" Richards (born August 24, 1946), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, chemical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s.
Early life and education
He was born on August 24, 1946, in Key West,... | {"Rank": "Captain, USN", "Selection": "1980 NASA Group 9", "Missions": "STS-28, STS-41, STS-50, STS-64", "Retirement": "April 1995"} |
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