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The Palace of Fine Arts is a monumental structure located in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, originally built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition to exhibit works of art. It was constructed from concrete and steel, and the building was claimed to be fireproof. Completely rebuilt from ... | {"Location": "3301 Lyon St., San Francisco, California", "Architect": "William Gladstone Merchant; Bernard Maybeck", "Architectural style": "Beaux-Arts", "Area": "17 acre"} |
The Children Act is a novel by the English writer Ian McEwan. It was published on 2 September 2014. The title is a reference to the Children Act 1989, a UK Act of Parliament. The book has been compared to Charles Dickens's Bleak House, with its similar settings, and opening lines.Literary Review - Sam Leith on The Chil... | {"Cover artist": "Gilles Peress(Magnum Photos)", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)Nan A. Talese (US)", "Pages": "224 pages", "ISBN": "978-0-224-10199-8"} |
Louis Racine (born 6 November 1692, Paris; died 29 January 1763, Paris) was a French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment.
The second son and the seventh and last child of the celebrated tragic dramatist Jean Racine, he was interested in poetry from childhood but was dissuaded from trying to make it his career by the ... | {"Born": "1692 11 06 y", "Died": "1763 01 29 1692 11 06 y", "Occupation": "poet, tax inspector", "Language": "French", "Nationality": "French", "Period": "Age of the Enlightenment", "Relatives": "Jean Racine (father)"} |
Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American neoconservative syndicated columnist, author, political analyst, and commentator. The founding editor of National Review Online, from 1998 until 2019, he was an editor at National Review. Goldberg writes a weekly column about politics and culture for the Los Ang... | {"Name": "Jonah Goldberg", "Caption": "Goldberg in 2012", "Birth name": "Jonah Jacob Goldberg", "Birth date": "1969 03 21", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Education": "Goucher College (BA)", "Occupation": "JournalistAuthor", "Employer": "The Dispatch", "Spouse(s)": "Jessica Gavora 2001", "Children": "... |
Sir Charles Wilkins (1749 - 13 May 1836) was an English typographer and Orientalist, and founding member of The Asiatic Society. He is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English. He is also the first person to introduce the term Hinduism which would refer to all the different mythologies and culture... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Post-nominals": "GBR KH FRS 100%", "Native name language": "en", "Alt": "Portrait of a man", "Caption": "Charles Wilkins, in an mezzotint engraving by John Sartain, after a painting by James Godsell Middleton. Published in 1830.", "Birth name": "Charles Wilkins", "Birth date": "1749", "Deat... |
Nancy Jane Meyers (born December 8, 1949) is an American filmmaker. She has written, produced, and directed many critically and commercially successful films. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Private Benjamin (1980). Her film Baby Boom (1987) was nominated for the Golden Globe Aw... | {"Name": "Nancy Meyers", "Caption": "Meyers in 2013", "Birth name": "Nancy Jane Meyers", "Birth date": "1949 12 8", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Alma mater": "American University", "Occupation": "Filmmaker", "Years active": "1980-present", "Spouse(s)": "Charles Shyer 1980 1999 divorced", "Childre... |
Radio Havana Cuba (, RHC) is the official government-run international broadcasting station of Cuba. It can be heard in many parts of the world including the United States on shortwave frequencies. Radio Havana, along with Radio Rebelde, Cubavision Television and other Cuban radio and television broadcasts to North, Ce... | {"Name": "Radio Havana Cuba", "Type": "International broadcasting", "Availability": "International", "Owner": "Government of Cuba", "Key people": "Luis López López (General Director) Pedro Otero Cabañas (Chief Editor) Arnie Coro (co-founder and host)", "Launch date": "1 May 1961", "Website": "radiohc.cu", "Webcast": "E... |
François Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux (6 May 17599 May 1833) was a French man of letters and playwright.
Life
Born and educated at Strasbourg, Andrieux proceeded to Paris to study law. There he became a close friend of Collin d'Harleville. He became secretary to the duke of Uzes, and practised at the bar, but ... | {"Caption": "François Andrieux", "Birth name": "François Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux", "Birth date": "6 May 1759", "Birth place": "Strasbourg", "Death date": "yes 1833 05 9 1759 05 06", "Death place": "Paris", "Occupation": "PoliticianPlaywrightPoet"} |
Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 – November 16, 1894) was an American lawyer and philanthropist, who served as the speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a descendant of John Winthrop.
Early life
Robert Charles Winthrop was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760-184... | {"Term start": "July 30, 1850", "Term end": "February 1, 1851", "District 2": "MA 1 1st", "Predecessor 2": "Abbott Lawrence", "Successor 2": "Nathan Appleton", "Birth date": "1809 5 12", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "1894 11 16 1809 5 12", "Death place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Sp... |
The Atlanta Marriott Marquis is a 47-story, Marriott hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the 15th tallest skyscraper in the city. The building was designed by Atlanta architect John C. Portman Jr. with construction completed in 1985, and because of its bulging base, it is often referred to as the "Pregnant... | {"Name": "Atlanta Marriott Marquis", "Location": "United States", "Address": "265 Peachtree Center Avenue NEAtlanta, Georgia", "Coordinates": "33.7613 -84.3847 region:US-CA_type:landmark title,inline", "Opened_date": "1985", "Architect": "John Portman and Associates", "Landlord": "Marriott International", "Cost": "150 ... |
Jean-François Collin d'Harleville (30 May 1755 - 24 February 1806) was a French dramatist.
He was born at Maintenon (Eure-et-Loir). His first dramatic success was L'Inconstant, a comedy accepted by the Comédie Française in 1780, but not produced there until six years later, though it was played elsewhere in 1784. This... | {"Name": "Collin d'Harleville", "Birth name": "Jean-François Collin d'Harleville", "Birth date": "1755 05 30 y", "Birth place": "Maintenon (Eure-et-Loir) France", "Death date": "1806 02 24 1755 05 30 y", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Nationality": "French", "Occupation": "dramatist", "Known For": "original member, I... |
John Leslie (born John Leslie Stott; 22 February 1965) is a Scottish former television and radio presenter. Debuting on the Music Box channel in 1987, he later presented BBC One's Blue Peter, and ITV's This Morning and the gameshow Wheel of Fortune. He was also the studio host for the first series of the UK version of ... | {"Name": "John Leslie", "Years active": "1987-2003; 2012-present", "Birth name": "John Leslie Stott", "Birth date": "yes 1965 2 22", "Birth place": "Edinburgh, Scotland", "Other names": "John Leslie Stott", "Known For": "Blue PeterWheel of FortuneThis Morning", "Occupation": "Television presenter"} |
Paul Jacob Alexander (March 11, 1904 - May 6, 1969) was a newspaper publisher and Seattle City Councilman.
Paul Jacob Alexander was born in Seattle, Washington on March 11, 1904, to Alfred and Lillian (Wooding) Alexander. He graduated from Ballard High School and spent a semester at the University of Washington. He wo... | {"Name": "Paul Alexander", "Image": "Paul J. Alexander at the dedication of Boundary Dam, 1967.tiff", "Term start": "1956", "Term end": "1969", "Birth date": "1904 3 11", "Birth place": "Seattle, Washington", "Death date": "1969 5 6 1904 3 11", "Death place": "Washington, D.C.", "Residence": "Seattle"} |
Charles-Jean-François Hénault (8 February 1685 - 24 November 1770) was a French writer and historian.
Life and career
Early years
Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648-1737) a farmer-general of taxes, Ferme générale, was a man of literary tastes, and young Hénault obtained a ... | {"Name": "Charles-Jean-François Hénault", "Birth date": "1685 2 8 y", "Birth place": "Paris, France", "Death date": "1770 11 24 1685 2 8 y", "Death place": "Paris", "Occupation": "Writer and historian", "Nationality": "French"} |
Green Lake is a freshwater lake in north central Seattle, Washington, within Green Lake Park. The park is surrounded by the Green Lake neighborhood to the north and east, the Wallingford neighborhood to the south, the Phinney Ridge neighborhood to the west, and Woodland Park to the southwest. It is a glacial lake, its ... | {"Location": "Seattle, Washington", "Coordinates": "47.678 N 122.337 W region:US-WA_type:waterbody inline,title", "Basin": "United States", "Average depth": "13 ft on", "Max. depth": "30 ft 0 on", "Shore length1": "2.8 mi on", "Surface elevation": "160 ft 0 on"} |
Linux Magazine is an international magazine for Linux software enthusiasts and professionals. It is published by the former Linux New Media division of the German media company Medialinx AG.
thumb|Issues of the Spanish-language edition for sale
The magazine was first published in German in 1994, and later in English, P... | {"Categories": "Computing", "Frequency": "Monthly", "Founded": "1994 yes", "Company": "Articon GmbH (1994-1996), Linux-Magazin Verlag (1996-), Linux New MediaLinux New Media AG de Linux New Media AG (-2012), MedialinxMedialinx AG de Medialinx (2012-2014), Computec Media GmbH (2014-)", "Country": "Germany", "Based in": ... |
4 Times Square (also known as 151 West 42nd Street or One Five One; formerly the Condé Nast Building) is a 52-story skyscraper at Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Located at 1472 Broadway, between 42nd and 43rd Streets, the building measures tall to its roof and tall to its antenna... | {"Alternative names": "Condé Nast Building", "Location": "151 West 42nd Street & 1472 Broadway, Manhattan, New York", "Coordinates": "40 45 22 N 73 59 09 W region:US-NY_type:landmark it", "Status": "Completed", "Construction started": "1996", "Type": "Commercial offices"} |
William Francis Murphy (April 13, 1890July 19, 1949) was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist from Michigan. He was a Democrat who was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political career that included serving as United States Attorney General, 35th Governor of Michigan, and Mayor of D... | {"Name": "Frank Murphy", "Term start": "February 5, 1940Justices 1789 to Present https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C. September 20, 2019 April 15, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100415034624/https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx live... |
The 17th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 23, 1997, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1996. Striptease took home the most Razzies of the evening, winning 6 out of 7 nominations, including Worst Picture.
Awards and nominations
File:Tom Arnold 2000.jpg... | {"Date": "March 23, 1997", "Site": "Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, California", "Most awards": "Striptease (6)", "Most nominations": "Striptease (7)"} |
Draco was a shareware programming language created by Chris Gray. First developed for CP/M systems, Amiga version followed in 1987.
Although Draco, a blend of Pascal and C, was well suited for general purpose programming, its uniqueness as a language was its main weak point. Gray used Draco for the Amiga to create a p... | {"Name": "Draco", "Paradigm": "imperative (procedural), structured", "Typing discipline": "static, strong, manifest", "Initial release date": "early 1980s, discontinued around 1990", "Designer": "Chris Gray", "Influenced by": "ALGOL 68, Pascal, C", "File extension": ".d .g", "Operating system": "CP/M, Amiga", "License"... |
Saint-Éloi is a parish municipality in the region of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. Its population was 310 in the Canada 2021 Census.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Éloi had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 20... | {"Land": "65.77", "Density": "4.3", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.st-eloi.qc.ca"} |
Gary Jules Aguirre Jr. (born March 19, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, known primarily for his cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with his friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko. It became the UK Christmas number-one single of 2003.
Early life
Gary Jules was born... | {"Born": "Fresno, California, United States", "Genres": "Rock, pop, folk, soft rock", "Labels": "A&M, Sanctuary, Down Up Down Music", "Website": "www.garyjules.com"} |
right|thumb|260px|View of the ancient agora. The temple of Hephaestus is to the left and the Stoa of Attalos to the right.
The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of... | {"Alternative name": "Classical Agora", "Location": "Greece", "Region": "Attica", "Coordinates": "37 58 30 N 23 43 21 E region:GR_type:landmark_scale:4000", "Material": "Marble", "Founded": "6th century BC", "Periods": "Classical era", "Cultures": "Ancient Greece", "Excavation dates": "1931 until today", "Archaeologist... |
Nancy Harkness Love (February 14, 1914 - October 22, 1976), born Hannah Lincoln Harkness, was an American pilot and airplane commander during World War II. She earned her pilot's license at age 16. She worked as a test pilot and air racer in the 1930s. During World War II she convinced Colonel William H. Tunner of th... | {"Name": "Nancy Harkness Love", "Caption": "Nancy H. Love, c. 1943", "Birth date": "1914 2 14 y", "Birth place": "Houghton, Michigan", "Death date": "1976 10 22 1914 2 14 y", "Death place": "Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts", "Occupation": "AviatorTest PilotSpokespersonAir Force Officer (Rank of Lieutenant Colonel)", "... |
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as NCAA March Madness and commonly called March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Played mos... | {"Current season": "2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament", "Last season": "2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament", "Upcoming season": "2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament", "Logo size": "200", "Sport": "Basketball", "Founded": "1939", "Inaugural season": "1939", "Country": "United St... |
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 - 23 June 1924) was an English collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was a key figure in the folk-song revival in England during the Edwardian period. According to Roud’s Folk Song in England, Sharp was ... | {"Name": "Cecil Sharp", "Birth date": "y 1859 11 22", "Birth place": "Camberwell, Surrey, England", "Death date": "y 1924 06 23 1859 11 22", "Death place": "Hampstead, London, England", "Nationality": "English", "Occupation": "Folklorist and song collector", "Alma mater": "Clare College, Cambridge", "Notable works": "E... |
The Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets (often The Corps of Cadets, or simply the Corps) is a student military organization at Texas A&M University. Established with the university in 1876, it is the oldest student organization on campus.
Students who elect to join the Corps must participate in mandatory Reserve Offi... | {"Allegiance": "Texas 23px", "Type": "Senior military college", "Role": "Officer Training/Leadership Development", "Part of": "Texas A&M University", "Nickname(s)": "\"Keepers of the Spirit\"\"Guardians of Tradition\"", "Motto(s)": "Per Unitatem Vis (Latin: \"Through Unity, Strength\")https://www.thebatt.com/life-arts/... |
The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the show, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories hono... | {"Date": "March 23, 1998", "Site": "Shrine AuditoriumLos Angeles, California, U.S.", "Produced by": "Gil Cates", "Directed by": "Louis J. Horvitz", "Most awards": "Titanic (11)", "Most nominations": "Titanic (14)", "Network": "ABC", "Duration": "3 hours, 47 minutesOsborne 2008 337"} |
is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise. Headquartered in Musashino, Tokyo Production I.G was founded on December 15, 1987, by producer Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and character designer Takayuki Goto as "I.G Tatsunoko", a branch studio of the animation giant Tatsunoko Production, changing its name to the curre... | {"Type": "Kabushiki gaisha", "Formerly": "I.G Tatsunoko (1987 - 1993)", "Founded": "1987 12 15", "Headquarters": "Japan", "Industry": "Animation, film, television, video games", "Products": "Animation, film, television, OVA, video games", "Parent": "IG Port", "Divisions": "I.G Digital I.G3D Production I.G Niigata Produ... |
Iker Casillas Fernández (; born 20 May 1981) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and currently works as a football commentator. Popularly dubbed "San Iker" ("Saint Iker") for his ability to produce spectacular saves, Casillas is widely considered to be one of the greatest goalkeepers ... | {"Name": "Iker Casillas", "Full name": "Iker Casillas FernándezFIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: List of Players https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/22/85/78/fwc_2010_squadlists.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20100616010702/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/22/85/78/fwc_2... |
Henry Menasco Wade (November 11, 1914 - March 1, 2001) was an American lawyer who served as district attorney of Dallas County from 1951 to 1987. He participated in two notable U.S. court cases of the 20th century: the prosecution of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legaliz... | {"Name": "Henry Wade", "Term start": "1951", "Term end": "January 1987", "Alternative text": "Photo of Henry Wade", "Birth name": "Henry Menasco Wade Henry Wade, Prosecutor in National Spotlight, Dies at 86 Wolfgang Saxon Wolfgang Saxon New York Times March 2, 2001 https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/02/us/henry-wade-p... |
Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher (; 17 April 1909 - 9 December 1996) was a French politician who briefly served as Acting President of France twice, in 1969 and 1974. He held the office ad interim as President of the Senate following the resignation of Charles de Gaulle and the death of Georges Pompidou. Poher was affilia... | {"Name": "Alain Poher", "Image caption": "Poher in 1969", "Prime minister 2": "Maurice Couve de Murville", "Predecessor 2": "Charles de Gaulle", "Successor 2": "Georges Pompidou", "Birth name": "Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher", "Birth date": "1909 4 17 y", "Birth place": "Ablon-sur-Seine, France", "Death date": "1996 12... |
John Motley Morehead II (July 20, 1866 - December 13, 1923) was a North Carolina politician who chaired the state's Republican Party from 1910 until 1916 and served one term (1909-1911) in the United States House of Representatives.
See also
John Motley Morehead I, his grandfather
External links
Congressional Biograp... | {"Term start": "March 4, 1909", "Term end": "March 3, 1911", "Birth date": "1866 7 20", "Birth place": "Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.", "Death date": "1923 12 13 1866 7 20", "Death place": "Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"} |
Air Europa Líneas Aéreas, S.A.U., branded as Air Europa, is the third-largest Spanish airline after Iberia and Vueling. The airline is headquartered in Llucmajor, Mallorca, Spain;"Corporate Information / Globalia ." Air Europa. Retrieved on 17 December 2010. "Air Europa Líneas Aéreas, S.A.U. ·Centro Empresarial Globali... | {"Airline name": "Air Europa", "Image size (px)": "250", "Current Fleet Size": "39", "Number of Destinations": "44", "IATA Designator": "UX", "ICAO Designator": "AEA", "Callsign": "EUROPA", "Parent Company": "Globalia", "Founded": "1986", "Air Carrier Operator's Certificate # (AOC)": "ES.AOC.004https://www.seguridadaer... |
To Record Only Water for Ten Days is the third studio album by American musician John Frusciante, released in 2001 through Warner Music Group. Unlike his previous two solo albums, Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt and Smile from the Streets You Hold, the record differs significantly in that Frusciante explores e... | {"Released": "February 13, 2001", "Recorded": "November 1999 - April 2000", "Genre": "Experimental rock, art rock, new wave, synthpop, psychedelic rock, lo-fi", "Label": "Warner Bros.", "Producer": "John Frusciante"} |
Bryant & Stratton College (informally Bryant & Stratton or simply BSC) is a private college with campuses in New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as an online education division. Founded in 1854, the college offers associate degree and bachelor's degree programs. The college is approved by the New York Stat... | {"Type": "Private college", "President": "David VadenBryant & Stratton College - President https://www.bryantstratton.edu/about-us/directors-and-officers", "Students": "8,000", "Campus": "Buffalo (main campus). Additional locations in New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, and Online.", "Website": "www.bryantstratton.edu... |
Shadows Collide With People is the fourth studio album by American musician John Frusciante, released February 24, 2004. The album was written during the recording of By the Way (2002) by Frusciante's group The Red Hot Chili Peppers and is widely regarded as his most accessible work, featuring a mix of guitar-driven al... | {"Released": "February 24, 2004", "Recorded": "2003", "Studio": "Cello Studios in Hollywood, California", "Genre": "Experimental rock, art rock, alternative rock", "Label": "Warner Bros.", "Producer": "John Frusciante"} |
The Munda languages are a group of closely related languages spoken by about nine million people in India and Bangladesh. Historically, they have been called the Kolarian languages. They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic language family, which means they are more distantly related to languages such as the Mon an... | {"Name": "Munda", "Alternative name": "होड़ो", "Geographic distribution": "Indian subcontinent", "Ethnicities": "Munda peoples", "Language family color": "Austroasiatic", "Child 1": "North Munda", "Child 2": "Sora-Gorum", "Child 3": "Juang", "Child 4": "Kharia", "Child 5": "Gutob-Remo", "Child 6": "Gtaʼ", "Protolanguag... |
Thomas Jarvis (1623-1694) was the Deputy Governor of the Carolina Province from 1691 to 1694.
Biography
Thomas Jarvis was born in Northampton, Virginia in 1623 to Thomas Jarvis and Elizabeth Bacon. He started his political career in 1672 as a member of the executive council under Governor Peter Carteret and continue... | {"Name": "Thomas Jarvis", "Term start": "1691", "Term end": "1694", "Birth date": "1623", "Birth place": "Virginia", "Death date": "1694", "Death place": "Whites Island, North Carolina", "Spouse(s)": "Dorcas"} |
The 16th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 24, 1996, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1995. For the first time in Razzie history, an actual "winner" showed up to the ceremony and accepted his award: Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven.
Awards and nominat... | {"Date": "March 24, 1996", "Site": "Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, California", "Most awards": "Showgirls (7)", "Most nominations": "Showgirls (13)"} |
James Murphy (born 25 February 1973) is an English physiotherapist and former professional footballer. He played as a left-back.
Manchester-born Murphy began his career at Blackpool in 1990, where he was mainly a deputy to Mitch Cook. In five years at Bloomfield Road, the defender made 77 league appearances and scored... | {"Name": "Jamie Murphy", "Full name": "James Murphy", "Birth date": "1973 2 25 y", "Birth place": "Manchester, England", "Position": "Defender", "Club 1 years": "1990-1995", "Club 2 years": "1995-1997", "Club 3 years": "1997", "Club 4 years": "1997-2000", "Club 5 years": "2000-2004", "Club 6 years": "2004-2005", "Club ... |
The Cairo Trilogy ( ath-thulathia ('The Trilogy') or thulathia al-Qahra) is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, and one of the prime works of his literary career.
The three novels are Palace Walk (, Bayn al-Qasrayn), first Arabic publication 1956; Palace of Desi... | {"Original title": "ثلاثية القاهرة", "Translator": "William M. Hutchins, Olive Kenny, Lorne Kenny, Angele Botros Samaan", "Country": "Egypt", "Language": "Modern Standard Arabic", "Published": "1956-1957", "Published in English": "1990-1992", "No. of books": "3"} |
"Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon" (sic), also known as "The Ballet" and "Make Me Smile Medley", is a nearly thirteen-minute mini-rock opera/song cycle/suite from Chicago's 1970 album Chicago (also called Chicago II). It was the group's first attempt at a long-format multi-part work.
It was composed by James Pankow, who... | {"Released": "January 26, 1970", "Recorded": "August 1969", "Genre": "Jazz rock, soft rock, progressive rock", "Label": "Columbia Records", "Songwriter(s)": "James Pankow", "Producer(s)": "James William Guercio"} |
Alley Cat is a video game created by Bill Williams and published by Synapse Software for the Atari 8-bit family in 1983. The player controls a character named Freddy the Cat, who enters people's homes through open windows to perform various tasks in order to reach his love, Felicia. A port for the IBM PC as a self-boot... | {"Title": "Alley Cat", "Developer": "Synapse Software", "Publisher": "Synapse SoftwareIBM (IBM PC)", "Designer": "Bill WilliamsJohn Harris (concept)", "Composer": "Bill Williams", "Released": "1983: Atari1984: IBM PC, PCjr", "Genre": "Action, multi-game", "Modes": "Single-player", "Platforms": "Atari 8-bit, IBM PC, IBM... |
thumb|right|An exterior shot of The Hawthorns
Brigg Town Football Club CIC is a football club based in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Hawthorns. Established in 1864, they are one of the oldest football clubs in the world.
History
The club were established in 1864.Club... | {"Full name": "Brigg Town Football Club", "Nickname(s)": "The Zebras", "Founded": "1864", "Capacity": "2,500 (370 seated)Brigg Town Non-League Club Directory", "League": "BriggTow", "Website": "http://www.briggtownfccic.co.uk"} |
Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Produced by Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, it is the 38th Disney animated feature film and the sequel to Disney's 1940 animated feature film Fantasia. Like its predecessor... | {"Directed by": "Don Hahn\n Pixote Hunt\n Hendel Butoy\n Eric Goldberg\n James Algar\n Francis Glebas\n Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi", "Produced by": "Roy E. Disney\n Donald W. Ernst", "Starring": "James Levine\n Steve Martin\n Itzhak Perlman\n Quincy Jones\n Bette Midler\n James Earl Jones\n Penn & Teller\n Angela Lansbury"... |
thumb|right|The America's Cup at the GGYC.
The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) is a San Francisco, California, U.S. based yacht club founded in 1939.
History
In 1939 the first members built a clubhouse on a barge in the San Francisco Marina. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake severely damaged the club, members pulle... | {"Short name": "GGYC", "Founded": "1939", "Location": "1 Yacht Road, San Francisco, California 94123", "Website": "www.ggyc.com"} |
A Crow Left of the Murder... is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Incubus, released on February 3, 2004. The album marks the first appearance of bassist Ben Kenney, following the departure of founding member Dirk Lance.
Music and lyrics
The music of A Crow Left of the Murder... incorporates elements of... | {"Released": "2004 02 03", "Recorded": "October-November 2003", "Studio": "Southern Tracks Recording, Atlanta, Georgia", "Genre": "Alternative rock\n art rockGrierson, Tim \"Teaming again with O'Brien for 2006's Light Grenades, Incubus opted for a more streamlined approach after the art-rock of A Crow Left of the Murde... |
The 15th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 26, 1995, at the El Rey Hotel in Los Angeles, California, to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1994. Erotic thriller Color of Night became the first (and so far only) Golden Raspberry Worst Picture "winner" to not receive a single other Razzie (ou... | {"Date": "March 26, 1995", "Site": "El Rey Hotel, Los Angeles, California", "Most awards": "The Specialist (2), Wyatt Earp (2), The Flintstones (2), and Naked Gun 33 1 3: The Final Insult (2)", "Most nominations": "Color of Night (9)"} |
(), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau (until 2001). In the past, was also an... | {"Category": "3rd-level administrative division", "Location": "Portugal", "Found in": "Municipality", "Created": "Middle Ages (Ecclesiastic Parish) 1835 (Civil Paróquia) 1916 (pt Freguesia)", "Number": "3,091", "Government": "pt Junta de Freguesia Assembleia de Freguesia"} |
Cotton candy, also known as fairy floss and candy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. It usually contains small amounts of flavoring or food coloring.
It is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifugally through minute holes, causing it to rapidly cool and re-solidify into fin... | {"Name of food": "Cotton candy", "Image filename": "Cotton candy Μαλλί της γριάς.JPG", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "Spinning cotton candy at a fair", "Alternate name": "Fairy floss; candy floss", "Place of origin": "United States", "Creator": "William Morrison and John C. Wharton", "Type of dish": "Conf... |
The Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center(녕변원자력연구소) is North Korea's major nuclear facility, operating its first nuclear reactors. It is located in Nyongbyon County in North Pyongan Province, about 100 km north of Pyongyang. The center produced the fissile material for North Korea's six nuclear weapon tests from... | {"Title": "Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center", "Caption": "The 5 MWe experimental reactor", "Context": "north", "Hangul name": "녕변핵시설", "Hanja": "寧邊核施設", "Revised Romanization": "Nyeongbyeon haeksiseol", "McCune-Reischauer": "Nyŏngbyŏn haeksisŏl"} |
Dale Evans Rogers (born Frances Octavia Smith; October 31, 1912 - February 7, 2001) was an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.
Early life
thumb|Evans' childhood home in Uvalde, TX
Evans was born Frances Octavia Smith on October 31, 1912, in Uvalde, Texas, to B... | {"Name": "Dale Evans", "Alt": "Dale Evans, 1947", "Caption": "Evans in 1947", "Birth name": "Frances Octavia Smith", "Birth date": "1912 10 31 y", "Birth place": "Uvalde, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "2001 02 07 1912 10 31 y", "Death place": "Apple Valley, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Sunset Hills Memorial Park,... |
Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, KCB (April 20, 1882 – January 12, 1967) was a general in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He is sometimes called the "father" of modern U.S. amphibious warfare. His nickname, "Howlin' Mad" Smith, had been given to him by his troops in the Dominican Republic in 19... | {"Birth name": "Holland McTyeire Smith", "Born": "Seale, Alabama, U.S.", "Died": "San Diego, California, U.S.", "Nickname(s)": "\"Howlin' Mad\"Father of Modern Amphibious Warfare", "Allegiance": "USA 1912", "Commands held": "Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps1st Marine Brigade1st Marine DivisionV Amphibious Corps... |
Wilhelm Fried Fuchs (; January 1, 1879 - May 8, 1952), commonly and better known as William Fox, was an American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s. Although he lost control of his film businesses in 1930, his name was used by 20th Cen... | {"Name": "William Fox", "Caption": "Fox in 1921", "Birth name": "Wilhelm Fuchs", "Birth date": "1879 1 1", "Birth place": "Tolcsva, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary", "Death date": "1952 5 8 1879 1 1", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Resting place": "Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn", "Years active": "1900-193... |
Repton School is a 13-18 co-educational, private, boarding and day school in the English public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England.
Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school which was then established at the Repton Priory. For its first 400 years, the school acc... | {"Coordinates": "52.8409 -1.5510 type:edu_region:GB_dim:100 dec inline,title", "Religious affiliation(s)": "Church of England", "Local authority": "Derbyshire County Council", "Headmaster": "Mark Semmencehttps://www.repton.org.uk/about-repton/welcome-from-the-head Welcome From The Head Repton School 22 April 2020", ... |
Kim Jong-nam (, ; 10 May 1971 - 13 February 2017) was the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered the heir apparent to his father. He was thought to have fallen out of favour after embarrassing the regime in 2001 with a failed attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland with a ... | {"Name": "Kim Jong-nam", "Caption": "Kim Jong-nam during the Tokyo Disneyland incident in 2001", "Native name": "김정남", "Native name language": "ko", "Birth date": "yes 1971 5 10", "Birth place": "Pyongyang, North Korea", "Death date": "yes 2017 2 13 1971 5 10", "Death place": "Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Selang... |
Danilo Medina Sánchez ( : born 10 November 1951) is a Dominican politician who was President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020.
Medina previously served as Chief of Staff to the President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 1999 and from 2004 to 2006, and is a member of the Dominican Liberation Party (PL... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Excellency", "Name": "Danilo Medina", "Image caption": "Danilo Medina, 2017", "Term start": "16 August 2012", "Term end": "16 August 2020", "Vice president": "Margarita Cedeño de Fernández", "Predecessor 2": "Rafael Bello Andino", "President 2": "Leonel Fernández", "Successor 2": "Alejandrina ... |
The New Left Review is a British bimonthly journal covering world politics, economy, and culture, which was established in 1960.
History
Background
As part of the British "New Left" a number of new journals emerged to carry commentary on matters of Marxist theory. One of these was The Reasoner, a magazine establis... | {"Edited": "Susan Watkins", "Publisher": "United Kingdom", "Frequency": "Bimonthly", "History": "1960-present", "ISSN": "0028-6060", "OCLC": "1605213", "LCCN": "63028333"} |
The Mercedes-Benz CLS (initially called the CLS-Class) is a series of executive cars produced by Mercedes-Benz since 2004, due to end in August 2023.
The Mercedes-Benz CLS was a four-door coupe based on the Mercedes-Benz E-Class W211 sedan platform . An estate (shooting brake) model was later added to the model range ... | {"Manufacturer": "DaimlerChrysler (2004-2007)\n Daimler AG (2007-2022)\n Mercedes-Benz Group (2022-present)", "Production": "2004-2023", "Class": "Executive car (E)", "Body style": "4-door coupe\n 5-door shooting brake (X218)", "Layout": "Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive\n Front-engine, all-wheel-drive (4Mati... |
Louis Alexander Slotin (1 December 1910 - 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his docto... | {"Birth name": "Louis Alexander Slotin", "Name": "Louis Slotin", "Caption": "Slotin's Los Alamos badge photo", "Birth date": "1910 12 1 y", "Birth place": "Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada", "Death date": "1946 5 30 1910 12 1 y", "Death place": "Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.", "Death cause": "A... |
Tillsonburg is a town in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada with a population of 18,615 located about 50 kilometres southeast of London, on Highway 3 at the junction of Highway 19.
History
Prior to European settlement, the present site of Tillsonburg was home to Indigenous tribes. The Tillsonburg Village Site, a 14th cen... | {"Land": "22.20", "Density": "838.6", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.tillsonburg.ca"} |
Dellys (, Berber: Delles) is a small Mediterranean town in northern Algeria's coastal Boumerdès Province, almost due north of Tizi-Ouzou and just east of the Sebaou River. It is the district seat of the daïra of Dellys. The town is 45 km from Tizi Ouzou, 50 km from Boumerdes (the provincial capital), and about 100 km f... | {"Type": "Municipality", "Density": "32954ONS Statistic (Boumerdès province) https://web.archive.org/web/20111113175913/http://www.ons.dz/collections/w35_p2.pdf 2011-11-13", "ISO 3166 code": "CP", "Website": "Official website"} |
The Saddle Club is an Australian-Canadian children's television series developed by Sarah Dodd, based on the books written by Bonnie Bryant. Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three best friends in training to compete in equestrian competitions at the fictional Pine Hollow Stable... | {"Genre": "Children's television seriesAdventureComedy dramaFamily", "Created by": "Bonnie Bryant", "Developed by": "Sarah Dodd", "Starring": "Keenan MacWilliamSophie BennettLara Jean MarshallHeli SimpsonKia Luby (Seasons 1-2)Victoria CampbellLauren DixonAriel KaplanMarny KennedyAisha Dee (Season 3)", "Opening theme": ... |
Berthierville ()(also called Berthier-en-haut, and legally called Berthier before 1942) is a town located between Montreal and Trois-Rivières on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Berthierville is the seat of D'Autray Regional County Municipality, and is served by Autoroute 40, and is the ju... | {"Land": "6.85", "Density": "596.8", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.ville.berthierville.qc.ca"} |
Viktor Borisovich Khristenko (; born 28 August 1957) is a Russian politician who was chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission from 1 February 2012 to 1 February 2016. He was First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 31 May 1999 to 10 January 2000 and Minister of Industry from 9 March 2004 to 31 Januar... | {"Name": "Viktor Khristenko Виктор Христенко", "Image caption": "Portrait of Viktor Khristenko", "Image size": "280px", "Term start": "1 February 2012", "Term end": "1 February 2016", "Office 2": "Minister of Industry", "Nationality": "Russian", "Predecessor 2": "Andrey Fursenko", "Successor 2": "Denis Manturov", "Birt... |
The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) is a special district operating in Alameda County and Contra Costa County, California, within the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area. It maintains and operates a system of regional parks which is the largest urban regional park district in the United States. The adm... | {"Type": "Special district", "Location": "East Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States", "Area": "124,909 acre ha", "Website": "www.ebparks.org"} |
The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony (German: PastoraleSymphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 Pastorale (Schott), ed. Max Unger, pg. viii), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and completed in 1808. One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic content, the ... | {"Other name": "Pastoral Symphony", "Key": "F major", "Opus": "68", "Composed": "1802-1808", "Dedication": "Prince LobkowitzCount Razumovsky", "Duration": "About 40 minutes", "Movements": "Five", "Scoring": "Orchestra", "Date": "December 22, 1808", "Conductor": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "Location": "Theater an der Wien, ... |
Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs and now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software under the MIT License. Inferno was based on the experience gained with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, and the further research of Bell Labs into operating systems, languages, on-the-fly compil... | {"Developer": "Bell Labs, Vita Nuova Holdings", "Source model": "Open-source", "Kernel": "Virtual machine (Dis)", "Platforms": "ARM, PA-RISC, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, x86", "Initial release": "1996", "Written in": "C,http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/bltj.html The Inferno Operating System Sean Dorward Rob Pike ... |
Inferno is a fantasy novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published in 1976. It was nominated for the 1976 Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel.
Background
The book drew inspiration from the geography of Dante's Inferno and the theology of C S Lewis's The Great Divorce, which is that salvation and entry... | {"Cover artist": "Harry Bennett", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Pocket Books", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "Pages": "237", "ISBN": "0-671-80490-1", "Followed by": "Escape from Hell"} |
Big Bear, also known as (; – 17 January 1888), was a powerful and popular Cree chief who played many pivotal roles in Canadian history. He was appointed to chief of his band at the age of 40 upon the death of his father, Black Powder, under his father's harmonious and inclusive rule which directly impacted his own le... | {"Father": "Black Powder", "Mother": "Delaney", "Born": "Jackfish Lake", "Died": "Poundmaker Indian Reserve, Cut Knife, Saskatchewan, Canada"} |
The Divine Comedy are a pop band from Northern Ireland, formed in 1989 and fronted by Neil Hannon. Hannon has been the only constant member of the group, playing, in some instances, all of the non-orchestral instrumentation except drums. The band has released 12 studio albums. Between 1996 and 1999, nine singles releas... | {"Origin": "Enniskillen, Northern Ireland", "Genres": "Baroque popHawkins Stan Queerness in Pop Music: Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality 193 2015 Routledge 978-1-317-58972-3 Britpophttps://www.stereogum.com/1676549/caught-by-the-buzz-a-look-back-at-britpops-b-list/franchises/20-years-of-britpop/ Caught By... |
Mohammad-Reza Bahonar (, born 2 February 1952) is an Iranian principlist politician who was member of the Parliament of Iran for 28 years. He is also secretary general of Islamic Society of Engineers and the Front of Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment ... | {"Name": "Mohammad-Reza Bahonar", "Term start": "31 May 2011", "Term end": "28 May 2012", "Office 2": "Member of Expediency Discernment Council", "Appointer 2": "Ali Khamenei", "Birth date": "yes 1952 02 02", "Birth place": "Kerman, Iran", "Alma mater": "Allameh Tabatabaei UniversityUniversity of Science and Technology... |
Parks Canada (PC; ),Parks Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Parks Canada Agency (). is the agency of the Government of Canada which manages the country's 48 National Parks, three National Marine Conservation Areas, 172 National Historic Sites, one National Urban Park, an... | {"Formed": "1911 5 19", "Jurisdiction": "Government of Canada", "Headquarters": "Gatineau, Quebec, Canada", "Employees": "4,666 (March 2021)", "Annual budget": "$1.3 billion (2020-21)", "Website": "https://parks.canada.ca"} |
People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories. It is published by Dotdash Meredith, a subsidiary of IAC. With a readership of 46.6 million adults in 2009, People had the largest audience of any American magazine, but it fell to second place in 2018 after its readers... | {"Categories": "Celebrity Human interestRoyalsCrime Fashion & Lifestyle", "First issue": "1974 3 4", "Company": "Dotdash Meredith", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "ISSN": "0093-7673", "OCLC": "794712888"} |
Michel Camdessus (born 1 May 1933) is a French economist who served as the seventh managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2000, the longest serving in that position. He previously served as the Governor of the Banque de France from 1984 to 1987. Before that, he briefly served as deputy ... | {"Name": "Michel Camdessus", "Image caption": "Camdessus at the 6th World Water Forum in 2012", "Term start": "16 January 1987", "Term end": "14 February 2000", "Office 2": "Governor of the Banque de France", "Predecessor 2": "Renaud de La Genière", "Successor 2": "Jacques de Larosière", "Birth date": "1933 05 01 y", "... |
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (, 5 September 1933 - 30 August 1981) was a Shia Iranian theologian and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Iran for less than one month in August 1981. Bahonar and other members of Mohammad-Ali Rajai's government were assassinated by Mujahideen-e Khalq.
Early life
Mohammad Javad Ba... | {"Name": "Mohammad-Javad Bahonar", "Native name": "fa محمدجواد باهنر", "Term start": "4 August 1981", "Term end": "30 August 1981", "Office 2": "Minister of Education", "President 2": "Abolhassan Banisadr", "Prime minister 2": "Mohammad-Ali Rajai", "Predecessor 2": "Mohammad-Ali Rajai", "Successor 2": "Ali Akbar Parvar... |
Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film and stage actress. She made her film debut in the comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed by a small role in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role in Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers (1979), b... | {"Name": "Karen Allen", "Caption": "Allen in 2017", "Birth name": "Karen Jane Allen", "Birth date": "yes 1951 10 5", "Birth place": "Carrollton, Illinois, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Fashion Institute of TechnologyGeorge Washington UniversityLee Strasberg Theatre Institute", "Known For": "Role of Marion Ravenwood in the Indi... |
Kim Jong-chul (; born 25 September 1978), sometimes spelled Kim Jong Chol, is a son of former North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. His younger brother is currently the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un. His older half-brother Kim Jong-nam was assassinated in February 2017.
In 2007, Jong-chul was appointed d... | {"Name": "Kim Jong-chul", "Native name": "김정철", "Native name language": "ko", "Birth date": "1978 9 25 yes", "Birth place": "Pyongyang, North Korea", "Education": "Kim Il Sung University", "Height": "5 2", "Party": "Workers' Party of Korea", "Parent(s)": "Kim Jong Il (father) Ko Yong-hui (mother)", "Relatives": "Kim f... |
Camille Gutt (14 November 1884 - 7 June 1971), born Camille Guttenstein, was a Belgian economist, politician, and industrialist who served as the first managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1946 to 1951. He was the architect of a monetary reform plan that facilitated the recovery of the econom... | {"Name": "Camille Gutt", "Image": "250px", "Image caption": "Gutt at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944", "Term start": "6 May 1946", "Term end": "5 May 1951", "Birth date": "1884 11 14 y", "Birth place": "Brussels, Belgium", "Death date": "1971 06 07 1884 11 14 y", "Death place": "Brussels, Belgium", "Birth name": "... |
Elisabeth Judson Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), Piranha... | {"Name": "Elisabeth Shue", "Caption": "Shue at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival", "Birth name": "Elisabeth Judson Shue", "Birth date": "yes 1963 10 06", "Birth place": "Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.", "Education": "Columbia High School", "Other names": "Lisa Shue", "Spouse(s)": "Davis Guggenheim 1994", "Children": "3", "Kno... |
Ivar Rooth (2 November 1888 – 27 February 1972) was a Swedish lawyer and economist who served as the governor of the Swedish National Bank from 1929 to 1948 and the second managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1951 to 1956. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Internat... | {"Name": "Ivar Rooth", "Term start": "3 August 1951", "Term end": "3 October 1956", "Office 2": "Governor of the Swedish National Bank", "Predecessor 2": "Victor Moll", "Successor 2": "Klas Böök", "Birth date": "1888 11 02 y", "Birth place": "Stockholm, Sweden", "Death date": "1972 02 27 1888 11 02 y", "Death place": "... |
Per Jacobsson (5 February 1894 - 5 May 1963) was a Swedish economist who served as the first and longstanding chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements from 1931 to 1956, and as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1956 until his death in 1963..
Early Life
Per Jacobsson... | {"Name": "Per Jacobsson", "Image caption": "Jacobbson in 1962", "Term start": "21 November 1956", "Term end": "5 May 1963", "Birth date": "1894 02 05 y", "Birth place": "Tanum, Bohuslän, Sweden", "Death date": "1963 05 05 1894 02 05 y", "Death place": "London, United Kingdom", "Nationality": "Swedish", "Alma mater": "U... |
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (; 29 May 1912 – 2 January 1994) was a French businessman who served as the fourth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1963 to 1973.
Early life and education
He was born on 29 May 1912, in Straßburg, Elsaß-Lothringen, German Empire. He is the father of Louis Schweitze... | {"Name": "Pierre-Paul Schweitzer", "Term start": "1 September 1963", "Term end": "31 August 1973", "Birth date": "1912 05 29 y", "Birth place": "Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire", "Death date": "1994 01 02 1912 05 29 y", "Death place": "Geneva, Switzerland", "Nationality": "French", "Alma mater": "University ... |
Ketan Mehta (born 21 July 1952) is an Indian film director who has also directed documentaries and television serials since 1975.
Early life and education
Born on 21 July 1952 in Navsari in Gujarat, Mehta did his schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi and later graduated in film direction from Film and Televisio... | {"Name": "Ketan Mehta", "Birth date": "1952 07 21 y", "Birth place": "Navsari, Bombay State (present day Gujarat), India", "Occupation": "Film director Screenwriter", "Years active": "1975-present", "Spouse(s)": "Deepa Sahi", "Relatives": "Usha Mehta (aunt)"} |
The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire that designed important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet. It had a strong presence... | {"Fate": "Defunct", "Founded": "1915", "Defunct": "1960 (aircraft manufacturing)", "Headquarters": "Hayes, Heaton Chapel, Ringway, UK", "Industry": "Aerospace", "Products": "Swordfish Delta 2 Medium Girder Bridge", "Subsidiaries": "Avions Fairey Fairey Aviation of Canada Fairey Aviation Company of Australasia Fairey Ai... |
Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen and Barry Foster and feat... | {"Directed by": "Alfred Hitchcock", "Produced by": "Alfred Hitchcock", "Written by": "Anthony Shaffer", "Based on": "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square Arthur La Bern", "Starring": "Jon FinchAlec McCowenBarry Foster", "Music by": "Ron Goodwin", "Cinematography": "Gilbert TaylorLeonard J. South", "Edited by":... |
Hendrikus Johannes "Johan" Witteveen (12 June 1921 - 23 April 2019) was a Dutch politician and economist who served as the fifth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1973 to 1978.
Witteveen attended the Gymnasium Erasmianum in Rotterdam from June 1933 until June 1939 and applied at the Rott... | {"Name": "Johan Witteveen", "Image size": "240px", "Image caption": "Witteveen in 1984", "Term start": "1 September 1973", "Term end": "18 June 1978", "Office 2": "Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands", "Alongside 2": "Joop Bakker", "Prime minister 2": "Piet de Jong", "Predecessor 2": "Jan de QuayBarend Biesheuvel"... |
Stephen K. Hayes (born September 9, 1949) is an American martial artist and writer.
Early life
Stephen K. Hayes was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Fairmont West High School in Kettering, Ohio, in 1967.
Hayes attended Miami University in nearby Oxford, Ohio, because he "hea... | {"Name": "Stephen K. Hayes", "Birth date": "1949 9 9", "Birth place": "Wilmington, Delaware, United States", "Alma mater": "Miami University", "Occupation": "Ninja master\n martial arts\n instructor\n author\n Buddhist priest", "Spouse(s)": "Rumiko Urata Hayeshttp://www.skhquest.com/skhbio.html Biography of Hayes Jul... |
Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu (born 12 November 1929) is a French former civil servant who served as the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1993 to 1998. He previously served as the governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993. Before that appointment, he was also the sixth ... | {"Name": "Jacques de Larosière", "Image caption": "Larosière (right) with Timothy Geithner at a Eurofi event, 2011", "Term start": "September 1993", "Term end": "January 1998", "Office 2": "Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund", "Predecessor 2": "Johan Witteveen", "Successor 2": "Michel Camdessus", "Bir... |
The Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball. The conference footprint is centered in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Missouri in the west to Ohio in the east, and also extends into North Carolina. Many of t... | {"Map size": "200px", "Caption": "MIVA logo", "Association": "NCAA", "Division": "Division I & Division II", "Sport": "Volleyball", "Founded": "1961", "Commissioner": "Tim O'Brien", "Teams": "9", "Champion": "Ohio State Buckeyes", "Season (for most recent or last champion)": "2023", "Official website": "mivavolleyball.... |
Kim Jong-chul (18 February 1947 - 5 July 2014) was a South Korean poet. He rose to fame in 1968 when he was awarded a prize by the Hankook newspaper for his poem Sound of a Loom. In 1970 Kim won another prize with the Seoul Daily newspaper for his poem Drowned Dreams. He is considered one of the most significant modern... | {"Title": "Kim Jong-chul", "Hangul name": "김종철", "Hanja": "金鍾鐵", "Revised Romanization": "Gim Jong(-)cheol", "McCune-Reischauer": "Kim Chong-ch'ŏl"} |
Prasar Bharati (abbreviated as PB; Hindi: Praśar Bharati, lit. Indian Broadcaster) is India's state-owned Public broadcasting, headquartered in New Delhi. It is a statutory autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprises the Doordarshan Television broadcasting and Akashvani (formerly All India Radio AIR), ... | {"Formed": "1997 11 23 y y y", "Jurisdiction": "Government of India", "Parent department": "Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,", "Website": "http://www.prasarbharati.gov.in"} |
Mehen is a board game which was played in ancient Egypt. The game was named in reference to Mehen, a snake deity in ancient Egyptian religion.
History
Evidence of the game of Mehen is found from the Predynastic period dating from approximately 3000 BC and continues until the end of the Old Kingdom, around 2300 BC. Asi... | {"Name": "Mehen", "Image caption": "Mehen game with game stones, from Abydos, Egypt, 3000 BC, Neues Museum", "Years active": "dating from approximately 3000 BC and continues until the end of the Old Kingdom, around 2300 BC", "Genres": "Board game", "Players": "unknown", "Playing time": "unknown"} |
Richard Charles Hoagland (born April 25, 1945), is an American author and a proponent of various conspiracy theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon and on Mars and other related topics. Hoagland has been documented to misappropriate others' professional achievements and is widely described as a conspi... | {"Name": "Richard C. Hoagland", "Birth name": "Richard Charles Hoaglandhttps://archive.org/details/1997-06-17CoastToCoastAm---MarsPathfinder Mars Pathfinder Conspiracy Coast to Coast AM June 17, 1997 November 16, 2012 Art Bell confirms that Hoagland's middle name is Charles.", "Birth date": "1945 04 25RichardC.Hoag... |
His Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG) is a section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible, through the Secretary of State for Transport to Parliament, for the initiation and co-ordination of all maritime search and rescue (SAR) within the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region. This includes the mobilisation, organi... | {"Formed": "1822 01 15", "Motto": "To search, to rescue, to save", "Annual budget": "£372 million (2021)", "Website": "https://hmcoastguard.uk/ HM Coastguardhttps://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/maritime-and-coastguard-agency MCA"} |
The Juneau Empire is a newspaper in Juneau, Alaska, United States. It publishes Wednesdays and Saturdays.
History
The newspaper was founded on November 2, 1912, as the Alaska Daily Empire. It was founded by John Franklin Alexander Strong, who would later be the second territorial governor of Alaska.
In 1969, Morris... | {"Type": "Biweekly newspaper", "Format": "Broadsheet", "Staff writers": "Clarise Larson, Jonson Kuhn", "Owner(s)": "Sound Publishing", "Founder(s)": "John Franklin Alexander Strong", "Publisher": "David Rigas", "Editor": "Mark Sabbatini", "Language": "English", "Circulation": "2023-04-01 Sound Publishing Media Kit 202... |
Swansea is a town in the heart of Tasmania's east coast, on the north-west shore of Great Oyster Bay and overlooking Freycinet National Park. It was the first municipality in Australia to be established after Hobart and Sydney. At the , Swansea had a population of 997.
The town was formed in 1821 and celebrated its 20... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Swansea", "State Abbreviation": "tas", "Image": "Swansea,MorrisGeneralStore.JPG", "Caption": "Morris' General Store in the main street of Swansea", "Coordinates": "42 08 S 148 05 E inline,title", "Locator Map Pushpin Label Position": "left", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Glamorgan Spring Bay... |
Linksys Holdings, Inc., is an American brand of data networking hardware products mainly sold to home users and small businesses. It was founded in 1988 by the couple Victor and Janie Tsao, both Taiwanese immigrants to the United States. Linksys products include Wi-Fi routers, mesh Wi-Fi systems, Wifi extenders, access... | {"Type": "Brand", "Founded": "1988", "Headquarters": "Irvine,\nCalifornia, United States", "Industry": "Networking equipment", "Products": "Routers, DSL/Cable Gateways, Switches, Wireless Access Points, Storage and security IP cameras", "Parent": "Independent (1988-2003)Cisco Systems (2003-2013)Belkin (2013-2018)Foxcon... |
The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma. They speak the Caddo language.
The Caddo Confederacy was a network of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, who historically inhabited much of what is northeast Texas, west Louisiana, sou... | {"Name": "Caddo", "Image caption": "Caddo Nation citizens, members of the Caddo Cultural Club, Binger, Oklahoma, 2008", "Population": "approximately 6,300Handie Jericka Caddo Nation https://www.ou.edu/gaylord/exiled-to-indian-country/content/caddo-nation University of Oklahoma", "Languages": "Dialects of Caddo and ... |
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