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The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, United States houses nearly 8,000 ceramic and glass objects by internationally known ceramic artists. While originally housed in 1,500 sq. ft. of exhibition space in the New York State College of Ceramics' Binns-Merrill Hall, the museum's new build... | {"Coordinates": "42 15 23 N 77 47 19 W inline, title", "Location": "Maun and Pine StreetsAlfred, New York", "Owner": "Alfred University", "Website": "http://ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu/"} |
is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman. He is the former chairman and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the video game division of Sony Corporation, and current president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation", as he oversaw the development of the or... | {"Name": "Ken Kutaragi", "Caption": "Kutaragi with his Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards.", "Birth date": "1950 8 2 y", "Birth place": "Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan", "Alma mater": "University of Electro-Communications", "Known For": "PlayStation, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Cellius", "Occupatio... |
Infineon Technologies AG is Germany's largest semiconductor manufacturer.
The company was spun-off from Siemens AG in 1999.
Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. In 2021 the company achieved sales of €11.06 billion.
Markets
Infineon markets semicon... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "yes 1999 04 01", "Headquarters": "Germany", "Industry": "Semiconductor", "Products": "Microcontrollers\n Telecommunications\n Integrated circuits\n Power electronics\n Transient-voltage-suppression diodes", "Revenue": "11.06 billion yes (2021)", "Website": "https://www.inf... |
Steps are a British dance-pop group consisting of Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian "H" Watkins. Steps were formed in May 1997 and achieved two number-one albums in the UK, 14 consecutive UK top-5 singles including two number ones (one a double A-side), and a string of hits across... | {"Origin": "London, United Kingdom", "Genres": "Pop, dance-pop", "Labels": "Jive\n Sony\n Steps\n Warner\n Absolute\n Fascination\n Polydor\n Universal\n BMG\n LiveHereNow", "Spinoffs": "H & Claire", "Website": "stepsofficial.co.uk/", "Members": "Lee Latchford-Evans\n Claire Richards\n Lisa Scott-Lee\n Faye Tozer\n Ian... |
Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (January 9, 1901March 14, 1973) was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Blondie. His 1919 William McKinley High School Yearbook cites his nickname as Chicken, source of his familiar pen name and signature. According to King Features Syndicate, Young had a daily readership of 52... | {"Name": "Chic Young", "Caption": "Chic Young \"researching\" at the beach in the 1930s with models Jane Lane and Gretchen Davidson", "Birth name": "Murat Bernard Young", "Birth date": "1901 1 9", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois", "Death date": "1973 3 14 1901 1 9", "Death place": "St. Petersburg, Florida", "Occupati... |
Grace is the only studio album by American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, released on August 23, 1994, by Columbia Records. The album had poor sales and received mixed reviews at the time of its release. However, in recent years it has dramatically risen in critical reputation. An extended version of the album (subtit... | {"Released": "1994 08 23", "Recorded": "Late 1993 - 1994", "Studio": "Bearsville, Woodstock, New York", "Genre": "Alternative rockGallucci Michael August 23, 2019 25 Years Ago: Jeff Buckley Releases Majestic Debut LP, 'Grace' https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jeff-buckley-grace/ January 27, 2021 Ultimate Classic Rock\n f... |
, also known as , is a fictional character created by Japanese manga artist Eiichiro Oda who appears in the manga series and media franchise One Piece. He first appeared in the third chapter of the One Piece manga, published in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1997. Zoro is the first crewmate to join Monkey D. ... | {"First appearance": "One Piece chapter 3: \"Introducing Pirate Hunter Zoro\" (Weekly Shōnen Jump No. 36, 1997)", "Created by": "Eiichiro Oda", "Portrayed by": "Mackenyu", "Voiced by": "See Portrayals"} |
Walter Beardsley Tewksbury (March 21, 1876 - April 24, 1968) was an American track and field athlete. At the 1900 Summer Olympics, he won five medals, including two golds.
Biography
Born in Ashley, Pennsylvania, Tewksbury studied for a dental degree at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1899. Running for th... | {"Name": "Walter Tewksbury", "Image size": "200px", "Alternative text": "Walter Tewksbury seated on a stool wearing his University of Pennsylvania athletic jersey", "Image caption": "Walter Tewksbury", "National team": "United States", "Birth date": "1876 03 21", "Place of birth": "Ashley, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death d... |
Janina Maria Stronski (born June 7, 1946), known professionally as Jenny Jones, is a Canadian-American comedian, television presenter, and chef. She is known for the tabloid talk show The Jenny Jones Show, which ran for twelve seasons from 1991 to 2003.
Early life
Jones was born Janina Stronski in Bethlehem, then in t... | {"Name": "Jenny Jones", "Birth name": "Janina Maria Stronski", "Birth date": "1946 6 07", "Birth place": "Bethlehem, British Mandate of Palestine", "Occupation": "Talk show host, presenter, comedian, singer, drummer", "Years active": "1969-present", "Spouse(s)": "Jack Howard Poster 1969 1970 ann.\n Al Gambino 1970 1972... |
Allen Woodring (February 15, 1898 - November 15, 1982) was an American sprint runner. At the 1920 Olympic trials, he failed to qualify in the 200 metres yet was selected for the national team and won the Olympic gold medal in this event.
Woodring ran for Mercersburg Academy under Jimmy Curran, before competing for the... | {"Image caption": "Allen Woodring at the 1920 Olympics", "Birth date": "February 15, 1898", "Place of birth": "Hellertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "November 15, 1982 (aged 84)", "Place of death": "Clearwater, Florida, U.S.", "Height": "1.80 m", "Weight": "73 kg", "Sport": "Athletics", "Event": "100-400 m", "... |
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga;Baffin Bay. Wissenladen.de. Retrieved on 2013-03-22. ; ), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is sometimes considered a sea of the North Atlantic Ocean... | {"Coordinates": "74 N 68 W Baffin Bay type:waterbody_scale:10000000_source:http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/OABMI inline,title", "Basin": "Canada and Greenland", "Max. length": "1450 km on", "Max. width": "110 - 650 km on", "Average depth": "861 m on", "Max. depth": "2136 m on", "References": "Baffin B... |
New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public land-grant research university in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Founded in 1888, it is the state's oldest public institution of higher education and one of two flagship universities in New Mexico. NMSU has campuses in Alamogordo, Doña Ana County, and Grants, as well ... | {"Type": "Public land-grant research university", "Accreditation": "HLC", "Endowment": "$235.9 million (2021)As of September 21, 2021. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 202... |
The Buffalo Museum of Science is a science museum located at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Buffalo, New York, United States, northeast of the downtown district, near the Kensington Expressway. The historic building was designed by August Esenwein and James A. Johnson and opened on January 19, 1929. It gave a permanen... | {"Coordinates": "42.906132 -78.843314 inline", "Established": "December 5, 1861", "Location": "Buffalo, New York, U.S.", "Type": "Science", "President": "Marisa Wigglesworth", "Curator": "Kathryn Leacock", "Website": "www.sciencebuff.org"} |
Louis Le Vau (; 1612 - 11 October 1670) was a French Baroque architect, who worked for Louis XIV of France. He was an architect that helped develop the French Classical style in the 17th century.Encyclopedia of World Biography, "Louis Le Vau", vol. 9, pp. 360-361.
Early life and career
Born Louis Le Veau, he was the s... | {"Name": "Louis Le Vau", "Significant buildings": "Hôtel Lambert\nChâteau de Versailles\nChâteau de Vincennes\nVaux-le-Vicomte\nLouvre Palace\nCollège des Quatre-Nations", "Portrait caption": "Louis Le Vau, c. 1650", "Design": "Oval salon at Vaux-le-Vicomte"} |
Tench Tilghman (, December 25, 1744April 18, 1786) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He served as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Tilghman rose to become a trusted member of Washington's staff. The historic events of th... | {"Born": "Fausley, Maryland", "Died": "Chestertown, Maryland", "Allegiance": "United States", "Relations": "Anna Maria Tilghman (wife)\n\nAnna Margaretta (Daughter, b. 1784)\nElizabeth Tench (Daughter, b. 1786)"} |
The Chevrolet Corsica (named after Corsica, France) is a front-wheel drive compact car that was produced by Chevrolet from 1987 until 1996. The Corsica was built upon the L-body platform. It shared the L-body with the 2-door Beretta, and the rebadged revival of the Pontiac Tempest which was essentially the same car, bu... | {"Manufacturer": "Chevrolet", "Also called": "Pontiac Tempest (Canada, 1987-1991)", "Production": "1987-June 1996", "Predecessor": "Chevrolet Citation", "Successor": "Chevrolet Malibu", "Class": "Compact car (C)", "Body style": "4-door sedan5-door hatchback", "Layout": "Transverse front-engine, front-wheel drive", "Ass... |
Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798-18 October 1872) was monarch of the Zulu Kingdom from 1840 to 1872. He was a half-brother of Sigujana, Shaka and Dingane, who preceded him as Zulu kings. He came to power after he had overthrown Dingane in 1840.
His reign was relatively lengthy at 32 years, but for the latter part of his r... | {"Father": "Senzangakhona kaJama", "Mother": "Songiya kaNgotsha Hlabisa", "Born": "1798", "Died": "Zululand", "Burial": "Nodwengu28 17 54 S 31 25 34 E type:landmark_region:ZA Nodwengu"} |
Cetshwayo kaMpande (; ; 1826 - 8 February 1884) was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1879 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been transliterated as Cetawayo, Cetewayo, Cetywajo and Ketchwayo. Cetshwayo consistently opposed the war and sought fruitlessly to make peace wi... | {"Born": "Eshowe, Zulu Kingdom", "Died": "Eshowe, Zulu Kingdom", "Father": "Mpande", "Mother": "Ngqumbazi"} |
Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, PC, FRS, DL (23 October 1868 - 27 December 1930), known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician. In his later life he became an active Zionist.
Early life and education
Mond was born in Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, E... | {"Name": "The Lord Melchett", "Image size": "200px", "Order 2": "Minister of Health", "Monarch 2": "George V", "Prime minister 2": "David Lloyd George", "Predecessor 2": "Christopher Addison", "Successor 2": "Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen", "Birth name": "Alfred Moritz Mond", "Birth date": "23 October 1868", "Birth plac... |
, also known as , is a Japanese inventor. He regularly appears on Japanese talk shows demonstrating his inventions.
Creative process
In interviews, Nakamatsu has described his "creativity process", which includes listening to music and concludes with diving underwater, where he says he comes up with his best ideas. He... | {"Name": "Yoshiro Nakamatsu", "Caption": "Nakamatsu in 2010", "Birth date": "1928 6 26", "Known For": "having more than 3,500 patents", "Other names": "Dr. NakaMats", "Alma mater": "University of Tokyo", "Occupation": "Inventor", "Website": "http://dr.nakamats.com", "Module": "中松 義郎\n なかまつ よしろう\n Nakamatsu Yoshirō"} |
Touched by an Angel is an American television drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994, and ran for 211 episodes over nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and executive produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey as an angel named Monica,... | {"Genre": "FantasyDrama", "Created by": "John Masius", "Starring": "Roma Downey\nDella Reese\nJohn Dye\nValerie Bertinelli", "Opening theme": "\"Walk with You\"Performed by Della Reese", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "48 minutes", "Original network": "CBS", "Original release": "2003 4 27"} |
Working Title Films Limited is a British film studio that produces motion pictures and television programs and is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a division of Comcast. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. Bevan and Eric Fellner are now the co... | {"Formerly": "Visionensure Limited (Oct-Dec 1992)\n Working Title Limited (1992-1995)", "Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1983", "Headquarters": "England", "Industry": "Film production", "Parent": "Universal Pictures (NBCUniversal/Comcast)", "Divisions": "WT2 Productions\n Working Title Television", "Website": "worki... |
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The or RAA, was the largest of the organizations established by Japanese authorities to provide organized prostitution to prevent rapes and sexual violence by Allied occupation troops on the general population,Schrijvers, Peter (2002). The GI War Agains... | {"Founded": "1945 8 23 y", "Defunct": "1946 3 25 y", "Fate": "Facilities placed off limits on March 25, 1946 and closed shortly thereafter.Kramm Robert Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 https://books.google.com/books?id=ODEyDwAAQBAJ 26 September 2017 Uni... |
Cambodia is divided into 25 provinces (, ). The capital Phnom Penh is not a province but an "autonomous municipality" (, ; lit. 'Capital'), equivalent to a province governmentally and administered at the same level as the other 24 provinces.
Phnom Penh has both the highest population and the highest population densi... | {"Category": "First-level administrative subdivision of a unitary state", "Location": "Cambodia", "Number": "25", "Populations": "42,665 (Kep) - 2,281,951 (Phnom Penh)", "Areas": "336 sqkm on (Kep) - 14288 sqkm on (Mondulkiri)", "Government": "Provincial government", "Subdivisions": "District, municipality, section"} |
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is a British charity that aims to save lives and prevent life-changing injuries which occur as a result of accidents. In the past, it has successfully campaigned on issues of road safety, including playing an integral role in the introduction of drink-drive legi... | {"Abbreviation": "RoSPA", "Type": "Registered charity", "Headquarters": "Edgbaston, West Midlands", "Website": "https://www.rospa.com"} |
Sancha of Castile (21 September 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of Castile by his second wife, Richeza of Poland. On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II of Aragon at Zaragoza; they had at least eight children who survived into adulthood.
A patroness of troubadours ... | {"Father": "Alfonso VII of León and Castile", "Mother": "Richeza of Poland", "Born": "21 September 1154/5", "Died": "Villanueva de Sigena, Kingdom of Aragon", "Burial": "Monastery of Santa María de Sigena", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
The Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003 (c 10) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Its core provision was to allow the Deputy Prime Minister to make orders for referendums in each of the Regions of England on the question of whether they wish to have an elected regional assembly. If the answer... | {"Short title": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 31 of this Act. Due to the repeal of this Act, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.", "Parliament": "Parliament of the United Kingdom", "Long title": "An Ac... |
(, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939-1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" () in territorie... | {"Formed": "1939", "Jurisdiction": "Germany and German-occupied Europe", "Headquarters": "52 30 26 N 13 22 57 E type:landmark_region:DE-BE inline", "Employees": "c. 3,000 (1941)"} |
The British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c.8) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which superseded parts of the British Nationality Act 1981. It makes legal provision for the renaming of the British Dependent Territories as British Overseas Territories, and the renaming of associated citizenship.
As a ... | {"Short title": "British Overseas Territories Act 2002", "Parliament": "Parliament of the United Kingdom", "Type": "Act", "Long title": "An Act to make provision about the name “British overseas territories” and British citizenship so far as relating to the British overseas territories.", "Introduced by": "Jack Straw, ... |
Bihar was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary and a county of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and Principality of Transylvania (since the 16th century, when it was under the rule of the Princes of Transylvania). Most of its territory is now part of Romania, while a smaller western part belongs ... | {"Native name": "1.1em la Comitatus Bihariensishu Bihar vármegyede Komitat Biharro Comitatul Bihor", "Conventional long name": "Bihar County", "Common name": "Bihar", "Year founded": "11th century", "Capital": "Bihar;Nagyvárad (1083-1920, 1940-1945);Berettyóújfalu (1920-1940; 1945-1950)", "Today part of": "Romania (7,8... |
Fred Thomas Burks (May 22, 1940 – October 19, 1998) was a farmer and Democratic Party politician in Tennessee, United States. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1970 until 1978 and in the Tennessee State Senate from 1978 until his assassination in 1998.
Biography
Born in Cookeville, Tennessee, Bu... | {"Name": "Tommy Burks", "Term start": "January 9, 1979", "Term end": "October 19, 1998", "Office 2": "Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives", "Preceded 2": "James L. Lacy", "Succeeded 2": "Jerry Jared", "Birth name": "Fred Thomas Burks", "Birth date": "1940 5 22", "Birth place": "Cookeville, Tennessee, U.S."... |
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".
Fellowship of the Society, the... | {"Awarded for": "\"Contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge\"", "Sponsored by": "Royal Society", "Date": "1663", "Country": "United Kingdom"} |
Lake Winnebago (,Center for Menominee Language, Culture, and Art, Language Materials www.menomineelanguage.com/dictionaries-word-lists, Menominee Dictionary - English - Menominee Link (Archive) - Lake Winnebago Pg. 126 , University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, Dictionary, "Lake Winnebago", Link) is a shallow freshwater la... | {"Location": "Winnebago, Calumet, and Fond du Lac counties,Wisconsin", "Coordinates": "44 00 45 N 88 25 03 W region:US-WI_type:waterbody inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Wolf River, Fox River", "Primary outflows": "Fox River", "Basin": "United States", "Max. length": "30 mi 5", "Max. width": "10 mi 5", "Average depth... |
Sydney Hillel Schanberg (January 17, 1934 July 9, 2016) was an American journalist who was best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia. He was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two George Polk awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, and the Sigma Delta Chi prize for distinguished journalism. Schanberg was port... | {"Name": "Sydney Schanberg", "Birth name": "Sydney Hillel Schanberg", "Birth date": "1934 1 17", "Birth place": "Clinton, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "2016 7 9 1934 1 17", "Death place": "Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.", "Occupation": "Journalist", "Spouse(s)": "Janice Leah Sakofsky (1967-1976 divorced)https://ww... |
Claudia Jean Kennedy (born July 14, 1947) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. She is the first woman to reach the rank of three-star general in the United States Army. She retired in 2000 after 31 years of military service.
Early life
Claudia Kennedy was born on July 14, 1947, in Frankfurt, dur... | {"Name": "Claudia Kennedy", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1998", "Birth name": "Claudia Jean Kennedy", "Birth date": "1947 7 14", "Birth place": "Frankfurt, Germany", "Education": "Rhodes College (BA)"} |
Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his weekly television appearan... | {"Born": "1898 05 25", "Died": "1971 08 27 1898 05 25", "Occupation": "Humorist publisher businessman (company co-founder of Random House)", "Alma mater": "Columbia University", "Children": "2; including Christopher Cerf"} |
Jean-Luc Nancy ( , ; 26 July 1940 - 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of work... | {"Region": "Western philosophy", "Era": "20th-century philosophy", "Institutions": "University of Strasbourg The European Graduate School", "School": "Continental philosophyDeconstruction"} |
thumb|right|upright=1|Monument to the Hanoverians in Waterloo (1818)
The King's German Legion (KGL; , semantically erroneous obsolete German variations are , , ) was a British Army unit of mostly expatriated German personnel during the period 1803-16. The legion achieved the distinction of being the only German force t... | {"Branch": "British Army", "Type": "ArtilleryCavalryLine infantryLight infantry", "Size": "approximately 14,000 Chapell vol. 1, p. 10", "Notablecommanders": "Charles Alten\n Henry de Hinuber"} |
Kirk Cyron Johnson (born June 29, 1972) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2010, and challenged once for the WBA heavyweight title in 2002.
Amateur career
Johnson represented Canada at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, where he lost in the quarter-finals against eventual silver medallist D... | {"Real name": "Kirk Cyron Johnson", "Nickname(s)": "Bubba", "Weight(s)": "Heavyweight", "Height": "6 ft 2 in", "Reach": "81 in", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Born": "North Preston, Nova Scotia, Canada", "Total fights": "41", "Wins": "37", "Wins by KO": "27", "Losses": "2", "Draws": "1", "No contests": "1"} |
Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval (30 April 1623 - 6 May 1708), was a French prelate of the Catholic Church. Consecrated a bishop in 1658, he led the Apostolic Vicariate of New France from 1658 to 1674 and then became the first bishop of the Diocese of Quebec from its erect... | {"Diocese": "Quebec", "Ordination": "1 May 1647", "Consecration": "Celio Piccolomini with Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont André du Saussay", "Born": "Montigny-sur-Avre, Perche, Kingdom of France", "Died": "Quebec, Viceroyalty of New France, French colonial empire", "Denomination": "Roman Catholic", "Parents": "Hugues ... |
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines within the American middle class, with fic... | {"Frequency": "Bimonthly", "Company": "Saturday Evening Post Society", "Publisher": "Saturday Evening Post SocietyCurtis Publishing Co. (1897-1969)", "First issue": "1821 08 04http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/08/04/uncategorized/sense-190-years.html On Our Birthday, a Look at Our Earliest Issues The Saturday Eve... |
Baron Baden-Powell, of Gilwell in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1929 for Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baronet. He had been created baronet, of Bentley, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 December 1922.
Murderer, Gerard Baden-Clay is a poten... | {"Creation date": "1929", "Created by": "King George V", "Peerage": "Peerage of the United Kingdom", "First holder": "Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Bt", "Heir apparent": "Maxwell Baden-Powell", "Remainder to": "Heirs male of the body of the grantee"} |
Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee. Historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), it is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Rhodes enrolls about 2,000 students, and its Collegiate Gothic... | {"Motto": "Truth, Loyalty, Service", "President": "Jennifer Collins", "Type": "Private liberal arts college", "Students": "2,008 (Fall 2022)https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Rhodes+College&s=all&id=221351 College Navigator - Rhodes College", "Undergraduates": "1,996 (Fall 2022)https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigato... |
right|thumb|Apethorpe Hall in 1829
Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, of Apethorpe in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1938 for Sir Henry Brassey, 1st Baronet, who had previously represented Northamptonshire Northern and Peterborough in the House of Commons as a Con... | {"Creation date": "1938", "Created by": "George VI", "Peerage": "Peerage of the United Kingdom", "First holder": "Sir Henry Brassey 1st Baron of Apethrope", "Heir apparent": "Hon. Christian Brassey", "Motto": "saepe in difficultate, nunquam timent."} |
Collin College is a public community college district in Texas. Founded in 1985, the district has grown as the county has grown from around 5,000 students in 1986 to more than 58,800 credit and noncredit students.
Formerly known as the Collin County Community College District, CCCCD, or CCCC, the college rebranded its... | {"Motto": "\"We have a passion for: Learning, Service and Involvement, Creativity and Innovation, Academic Excellence, Dignity and Respect, and Integrity\"", "Type": "Public community college district", "President": "Neil Matkin", "Students": "58,801 (2023)http://www.collin.edu/aboutus/statistics/index.html District St... |
Jennifer Love Hewitt is the self-titled third studio album by actress and recording artist Jennifer Love Hewitt. It was released on September 3, 1996 by Atlantic Records.
Track listing
Personnel
Jennifer Love Hewitt - vocals, background vocals
Paul Adamy - bass
Alex Al - bass
John Avarese - synthesizer
Eric Bazilian ... | {"Released": "September 3, 1996", "Recorded": "1995-1996", "Genre": "Pop\nRB", "Label": "Atlantic", "Producer": "Wayne Cohen\n Skip Drinkwater\n David Flemming\n Jimmy Greco\n Joel Kipnis\n Howard McCrary\n Robert Palmer\n Dick Rudolph\n Michael Sembello"} |
thumb|right|275px|CSUEB student housing district, facing east, showing both old and new facilities
California State University, East Bay (Cal State East Bay, CSU East Bay, or CSUEB) is a public university in Hayward, California. The university is part of the California State University system and offers 136 undergradua... | {"Motto": "la", "Type": "Public university", "Accreditation": "WSCUC", "President": "Cathy SandeenOffice of the President https://www.csueastbay.edu/administration/index.html California State University, East Bay January 6, 2021", "Provost": "Walt Jacobs", "Endowment": "$20.7 million (2021)As of March 1, 2022. U.S. and... |
Baron Broadbridge, of Brighton in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for the Conservative politician Sir George Broadbridge, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Wargrave Place in the County of Berkshire, on 22 November 1937. The title descend... | {"Creation date": "c. 1945", "Created by": "King George VI", "Peerage": "Peerage of the United Kingdom", "First holder": "George Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge", "Heir apparent": "Mark Andrew Broadbridge", "Remainder to": "Heirs male of the body lawfully begotten", "Status": "Extant", "Motto": "Industria Et Perseve... |
Nwankwo Kanu (born 1 August 1976) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was a member of the Nigeria national team, and played for Nigerian team Iwuanyanwu Nationale, Dutch side Ajax, Inter Milan of Italy, and English clubs Arsenal, West Bromwich Albion and Portsmouth.
Kanu won a UE... | {"Name": "Nwankwo Kanu", "Picture caption": "Kanu in a friendly in 2017", "Full name": "Nwankwo Kanuhttp://www.thefa.com/~/media/2FC380172F88401482C3994AF130D59B.ashx List of Players under Written Contract Whose Registrations have been Terminated by Either Party Between 01/07/2012 and 31/07/2012 The Football Associat... |
Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface that Matthew Carter designed for Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft first distributed it, along with Carter's Verdana, as a font with Office 97.
While similar to Verdana, Tahoma has a narrower body, smaller counters, much tighter letter spacing, and a more complete Unicode charac... | {"Name": "Tahoma", "Category": "Sans-serif", "Classification": "Humanist", "Date released": "1994", "Designer(s)": "Matthew Carter", "Foundry": "Microsoft", "Variations": "Nina"} |
Let's Go Bang is the second studio album by American actress and singer Jennifer Love Hewitt.
It was released by Atlantic Records on September 12, 1995. It is also the first Hewitt album distributed by Atlantic. The producer, Angelo Montrone, had "noticed her talents" and brought her to the attention of then CEO of At... | {"Released": "1995 09 12", "Recorded": "1994-1995", "Label": "Atlantic", "Producer": "Angelo Montrone"} |
Media Player Classic (MPC), Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) are a family of free and open-source, compact, lightweight, and customizable media players for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The original MPC, along with the MPC-HC fork, mimic the simplisti... | {"Original author(s)": "Gabest", "Developer(s)": "MPC Community Forum", "Initial release": "2003 05 30", "Repository": "Original:https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/Fork: 6.4.9.1https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli2/", "Size": "Original: 2.2 MB (Zip)6.4.9.1: 2.1 MB (Zip)", "Available in": "https://source... |
Love Songs is the debut studio album by actress and recording artist Jennifer Love Hewitt, released only in Japan on March 21, 1992 by Meldac and distributed by Nippon Crown.
Background
Jennifer Love Hewitt recorded a cover version of the Blondie song "Heart of Glass" as a single for release only in Japan. However, th... | {"Released": "March 21, 1992", "Recorded": "1991-1992", "Label": "Meldac, Nippon CrownMECP-28003", "Producer": "Rod Antoon\n Bob Etoll\n Greg Poree\n Jeffrey Weber"} |
Tubular Bells 2003 is the 22nd studio album by English musician Mike Oldfield, released on 27 May 2003 by Warner Music Spain. It is a digital re-recording of his 1973 album Tubular Bells, released almost 30 years earlier. This is the final album in the Tubular Bells series.
Background
In 2003, the re-recording right... | {"Released": "2003 5 27 yes", "Recorded": "August 2002-February 2003", "Studio": "Oldfield's home studio at Roughwood Croft, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire", "Genre": "Progressive rock", "Label": "Warner Music Spain", "Producer": "Mike Oldfield"} |
Wite-Out is a registered trademark for a brand of correction fluid, originally created for use with photocopies, and manufactured by the BIC corporation.
History
Wite-Out dates to 1966, when Edwin Johan, an insurance-company clerk, sought to address a problem he observed in correction fluid available at the time: a t... | {"Product type": "Correction fluid", "Owner": "Société Bic (1992)", "Previous owners": "Wite-Out Products, Inc.", "Introduced": "1966", "Related brands": "Liquid Paper, Tipp-Ex"} |
Hisham I Al-Reda ibn Abd ar-Rahman () was the second Emir of Cordoba, ruling from 788 to 796 in al-Andalus.Roger Collins, Caliphs and Kings: Spain 796-1031, (Blackwell Publishing, 2012), 23.
Hisham was born April 26, 757 in Cordoba. He was the first son of Abd al-Rahman I (r. 756-788) and his wife, Halul, and the youn... | {"Father": "Abd ar-Rahman I", "Mother": "Halul", "Born": "Córdoba", "Died": "Córdoba", "Religion": "Islam"} |
Palissery Narayanankutty Menon alias P. N. Menon (2 January 1926 - 9 September 2008) was an Indian film director and art director in the Malayalam cinema. He is also famous as the Designer of Promotional Posters. Menon was also the uncle of another popular film director Bharathan, being the younger brother of the latte... | {"Name": "P. Narayankutty Menon", "Birth date": "1926 01 02 yes", "Birth place": "Wadakkancherry, Kingdom of Cochin, British India(present day Thrissur, Kerala, India)", "Death date": "2008 09 09 1926 01 02 yes", "Death place": "Kochi, Ernakulam, Kerala, India", "Occupation": "Director Art director Promotional poster d... |
Edgeley Park is a football stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England. Built for Stockport RFC, a rugby league club, in 1891, by 1903 the rugby club was defunct and Stockport County Football Club moved in. The ground is set to be increased to a capacity of around 19,900 with the start of the project in 2023.
Edgeley Park ... | {"Full name": "Edgeley Park Stadium", "Location": "Hardcastle RoadStockportGreater ManchesterSK3 9DD", "Coordinates": "53 23 59 N 2 9 59 W inline,title", "Built": "1891", "Opened": "1891", "Capacity": "10,841", "Field size": "111 x 71 yards"} |
Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu (27 July 1948 - 12 March 2021) was the King of the Zulu nation from 1968 to his death in 2021.
He became King on the death on of his father, King Cyprian Bhekuzulu, in 1968 aged 20 years. Prince Israel Mcwayizeni acted as the regent from 1968 to 1971 while the King took refuge in the ... | {"Father": "King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon", "Mother": "Queen Thomozile Jezangani kaNdwandwe", "Born": "Nongoma, Natal, Union of South Africa", "Died": "Durban, South Africa"} |
Stamford Town Center is an urban shopping mall located in Downtown Stamford, Connecticut. The mall is the eighth largest in Connecticut, with space for about 130 stores and restaurants. The mall's two anchors are a Macy's and a Barnes and Noble. An Todd English Food Hall is scheduled to open by 2024.
History
Con... | {"Location": "Stamford, Connecticut", "Opening date": "1982", "Developer": "F.D. Rich Co.Taubman Centers", "Owner": "Stamford Town Center LLC", "Total retail floor area": "761000 sqft m2 onStamford Town Center http://www.taubman.com/taubman-properties/stamford-town-center/ Taubman Properties 2020-05-24 https://web.arch... |
WBZ (1030 AM) is commercial AM radio station, licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, and owned and operated by iHeartMedia."iHeart, Beasley, Bonneville Make Gains In Entercom-CBS Deal", November 1, 2017 (insideradio.com)
Its studios and offices are located on Cabot Road in the Boston suburb of Medford.
WBZ features an al... | {"Broadcast area": "Greater Boston", "Branding": "WBZ NewsRadio 1030", "Repeater(s)": "107.9 WXKS-FM HD2 Medford", "Format": "All-news radio Talk radio", "Language(s)": "English", "Power": "50,000 watts unlimited", "Class": "A", "Affiliations": "CBS News Radio NBC News Radio ABC News Radio AP Radio", "Owner": "iHM Lice... |
Paul Matthew Gambaccini (born April 2, 1949) is an American-British radio and television presenter and author in the United Kingdom. He has dual United States and British nationality, having become a British citizen in 2005.
Known as "The Great Gambo"Burrell, Ian. "Paul Gambaccini: Here, there and everywhere," The In... | {"Name": "Paul Gambaccini", "Caption": "Gambaccini at Oxford University in 2010", "Birth name": "Paul Matthew Gambaccini", "Other names": "The Great GamboThe Professor of Pop", "Birth date": "1949 04 2", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Nationality": "AmericanBritish", "Occupation": "Broadcaster, author", "Years ... |
Henry Kelly (born 17 April 1946) is an Irish radio and television broadcaster, actor and journalist.
Early life
Kelly was born in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland, and educated at Belvedere College SJ, and at University College Dublin, where he was auditor of the Literary and Historical Society. Whilst at university... | {"Name": "Henry Kelly", "Caption": "Kelly (right) hosting After Dark on 13 August 1988: \"Derry '68\"", "Birth date": "y 1946 4 17", "Birth place": "Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland", "Occupation": "Television presenter, radio DJ, actor", "Years active": "1975-present"} |
Mlah is the debut album by Les Négresses Vertes, released in 1988.
Track listing
All songs written by Les Négresses Vertes
"La Valse"
"Zobi la Mouche"
"C'est Pas la Mer à Boire"
"Voilà l'Été"
"Orane"
"La Faim des Haricots"
"Les Yeux de Ton Père"
"Il"
"L'Homme des Marais"
"Les Rablablas les Roubliblis"
"Marcelle Rataf... | {"Released": "1988", "Recorded": "November 1988", "Studio": "Studio Davout, Paris", "Genre": "World, gypsy punk", "Label": "Delabel/Virgin (EU)\n Sire/Warner Bros. (US)", "Producer": "Clive Martin, Sodi"} |
Bell Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A subsidiary of Textron, Bell manufactures military rotorcraft at facilities in Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, USA as well as commercial helicopters in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada.
History
Bell Aircraft
The company was founded o... | {"Formerly": "Bell Helicopter Company Bell Helicopter Textron Bell Helicopter", "Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1960", "Headquarters": "US", "Industry": "AerospaceDefense", "Parent": "Textron", "Website": "http://www.bellflight.com"} |
The Gila River (; O'odham [Pima]: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: XiilAntone, Caroline. Piipayk m'iim. Salt River: Oʼodham Piipaash Language Program, 2000.) is a tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid wa... | {"Mouth": "118 ft on", "Location": "Yuma, Arizona", "Coordinates": "32 43 11 N 114 33 19 W inline,title", "Basin size": "58200 sqmi on", "Left": "San Simon River, San Pedro River, Santa Cruz River", "Right": "San Francisco River, Salt River, Agua Fria River, Hassayampa River"} |
thumb|Profibus electrical connector
Profibus (usually styled as PROFIBUS, as a portmanteau for Process Field Bus) is a standard for fieldbus communication in automation technology and was first promoted in 1989 by BMBF (German department of education and research) and then used by Siemens. It should not be confused wit... | {"Type of Network": "Device Bus, Process Control", "Physical Media": "Twisted pair, fiber", "Network Topology": "Bus", "Device Addressing": "DIP switch or hardware/software", "Governing Body": "PROFIBUS&PROFINET International (PI)", "Website": "https://www.profibus.com/"} |
Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska.Territorial Division Act. Revised Statutes of Quebec D-11. Its one of the largest cities... | {"Land": "83.74", "Density": "240.2", "Urban density": "945.8", "Metro density": "55.3", "DST": "-4", "Website": "villerdl.ca"} |
The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American survival disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name. It has an ensemble cast including five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. The plot cen... | {"Produced by": "Irwin Allen", "Directed by": "Ronald Neame", "Screenplay by": "Stirling Silliphant\n Wendell Mayes", "Based on": "The Poseidon Adventure Paul Gallico", "Starring": "Gene Hackman\n Ernest Borgnine\n Red Buttons\n Carol Lynley\n Shelley Winters\n Roddy McDowall\n Stella Stevens\n Jack Albertson\n Pamela ... |
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; ; ) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations. The oldest continental confederation in the world, its headquarters are located in Luq... | {"Abbreviation": "CONMEBOLCSF", "Founded at": "Buenos Aires, Argentina", "Type": "Sports organization", "Headquarters": "Luque (Gran Asunción), Paraguay", "Coordinates": "25 15 38 S 57 30 58 W region:CH-ZH_type:landmark", "Website": "https://www.conmebol.com/ conmebol.com"} |
Dadlington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dadlington and Sutton Cheney, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in Leicestershire, England.OS Explorer Map 232 : Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000) : It is situated between Hinckley, Market Bosworth and Nuneaton. In 1931 the parish had a population... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "District": "Hinckley and Bosworth", "Shire county": "Leicestershire", "UK Parliament": "Bosworth", "Postcode district": "CV", "OS grid reference": "SP404980"} |
Q was a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1986 by broadcast journalists Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, who were presenters of the BBC television music series The Old Grey Whistle Test. Q's final issue was published in July 2020.
Q was originally published by the EMAP med... | {"Frequency": "Monthly", "Circulation": "44,050 (ABC Jul - Dec 2015)http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/full-2015-mag-abcs-breakdown-cosmopolitan-bucks-trend-uk-magazines-decline-average-4-cent Full 2015 UK magazines ABC circulation breakdown: 60 out of 442 titles grow sales Press Gazette 11 February 2016 Dominic Ponsford... |
The governor of Northern Ireland was the principal officer and representative in Northern Ireland of the British monarch. The office was established on 9 December 1922 and abolished on 18 July 1973.
Overview
The office of Governor of Northern Ireland was established on 9 December 1922 under letters patent to:
The gov... | {"Post": "Governor", "Body": "Northern Ireland", "Insignia size": "250px", "Style": "Excellency", "Residence": "Hillsborough Castle", "Appointer": "British Monarch", "Precursor": "Lord Lieutenant of Ireland", "Date of formation": "9 December 1922", "First holder": "The 3rd Duke of Abercorn", "Last holder": "The Lord Gr... |
thumb| Powhatan in a longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)
The Powhatan people (;"Powhatan". Collins English Dictionary. also spelled Powatan) may refer to any of the Indigenous Algonquian people that are traditionally from eastern Virginia. All of the Powhatan groups descend from the Powhatan Con... | {"Name": "Powhatan people", "Population": "3,850", "Religions": "Traditional Indigenous religions, Christianity", "Languages": "Historically Powhatan, in modern context, English and individual Indigenous languages", "Related ethnic groups": "Pamlico, Nanticoke, Lenape, Massachusett, and other Algonquian peoples"} |
Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England,HMSO. Local Government Act 1972. 1972 c.70. on the south bank of the River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, east of Manchester. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 19,306.
Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, the town developed ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)", "Metropolitan borough": "Tameside", "Metropolitan county": "Greater Manchester", "UK Parliament": "Denton and Reddish", "Postcode district": "SK", "Dialling code": "0161", "OS grid reference": "SJ945975"} |
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth (Dartmouth Engineering) is the engineering school of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League research university, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Located in a three-building complex along the Connecticut River on Dartmouth's campus, Dartmouth Engineering offers under... | {"Motto": "To prepare the most capable and faithful for the most responsible positions and the most difficult service.", "Type": "Private", "Dean": "Alexis R. Abramson", "Website": "engineering.dartmouth.edu", "Undergraduates": "240", "Postgraduates": "110"} |
right|thumb|300px|Nashimoto family in 1918
was a member of the Japanese Imperial Family and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army. An uncle-in-law of Emperor Shōwa, an uncle of his consort, Empress Kōjun, and the father-in-law of Crown Prince Euimin of Korea, Prince Nashimoto was the only member of the Imperia... | {"Born": "Kyoto, Japan", "Died": "Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan", "Father": "Prince Kuni Asahiko", "Mother": "Harada Mitsue"} |
PayPoint plc is a British business offering a system for paying bills in United Kingdom, Ireland and Romania. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
History
The PayPoint network was set up in 1996 with the aim of enabling customers to load gas and electricity onto their pre-paid energy meters in cash at their loc... | {"Type": "Public limited company", "Founded": "1996", "Headquarters": "Welwyn Garden City, England", "Industry": "Payment systems", "Revenue": "£213.3 million (2020)https://corporate.paypoint.com/downloads/investorcentre/2020/RNS_20200331.pdf Preliminary Results 2020 PayPoint 2 June 2020", "Website": "https://www.paypo... |
International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations (IFATCA) unites the professional associations of air traffic controllers from around the world. In total, it represents over 130 of such organisations, with a combined membership of over 50,000 air traffic controllers.
The Federation is registered in Sw... | {"Name": "IFATCA", "Membership": "50,000", "Full name": "International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations", "Headquarters": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Website": "www.ifatca.org"} |
Alien vs. Predator (also known as Aliens versus Predator and AVP) is a science fiction action and horror media franchise created by comic book writers Randy Stradley and Chris Warner. The series is a crossover between, and part of, the larger Alien and Predator franchises, depicting the two species — Xenomorph (Alien) ... | {"Created by": "Randy StradleyChris Warner", "Original work": "Alien vs. Predator: The Machiko Noguchi Saga (1989)", "Owner": "20th Century Studios", "Years": "1989-present", "Video game(s)": "List of video games", "Book(s)": "List of books", "Novel(s)": "List of novels", "Comics": "List of comics", "Film(s)": "Alien v... |
Tintin in Tibet () is the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1958 to November 1959 in Tintin magazine and published as a book in 1960. Hergé considered it his favourite Tintin adventure and an emotional effort, as he creat... | {"Publisher": "Methuen", "Date": "1962", "Series": "The Adventures of Tintin", "Language": "French", "Published in": "Tintin magazine", "Issues": "523 - 585", "Preceded by": "1958", "Followed by": "1963"} |
Maya Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. Born in Florida and raised in Los Angeles, she is the daughter of singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton and composer Richard Rudolph. In 2000, Rudolph became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). During her te... | {"Name": "Maya Rudolph", "Caption": "Rudolph in 2012", "Birth date": "1972 7 27", "Birth place": "Gainesville, Florida, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of California, Santa Cruz (BA)", "Occupation": "Actress comedian producer", "Years active": "1996-present", "Partner(s)": "Paul Thomas Anderson (2001-present)\"husband... |
Thunderpants is a 2002 family comedy film about a boy whose incredible capacity for flatulence gets him a job as an astronaut. The film was directed by Pete Hewitt, whose previous work included Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and The Borrowers (1997). The script was written by Phil Hughes, based on a story by Pete He... | {"Directed by": "Pete Hewitt", "Produced by": "Graham BroadbentDamian JonesPete Hewitt", "Screenplay by": "Phil Hughes", "Story by": "Pete Hewitt", "Starring": "Simon CallowStephen FryCelia ImriePaul GiamattiNed BeattyBruce CookRupert Grint", "Music by": "Rupert Gregson-Williams", "Cinematography": "Andy Collins", "Edi... |
Winners and Nominees
File:Burt Reynolds 1991 portrait crop.jpg|Burt Reynolds, Worst Actor winner.
File:Madonna by David Shankbone cropped.jpg|Madonna, Worst Actress winner.
File:Woody Harrelson October 2016.jpg|Woody Harrelson, Worst Supporting Actor winner.
File:Faye Dunaway - 1971 - PBS.JPG|Faye Dunaway, Worst Supp... | {"Date": "March 20, 1994", "Site": "Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, California", "Most awards": "Indecent Proposal (3)", "Most nominations": "Indecent Proposal (7) and Sliver (7)"} |
Western Reserve Academy (WRA), or simply Reserve, is a private, midsized, coeducational boarding and day college preparatory school located in Hudson, Ohio, United States. A boarding school, Western Reserve Academy is largely a residential campus, with 280 of 390 students living on campus and the remainder attending as... | {"Coordinates": "41.248685 -81.435494 region:US-OH_type:edu inline,title", "Status": "Currently operational", "Educational authority": "<!-- or", "Authority": "-->", "Trust": "Board of Trustees", "CEEB code": "362655", "NCES": "01064121 Western Reserve Academy 3 September 2022", "President": "Martin D. Franks '68Nathan... |
The 13th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 28, 1993, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1992. Shining Through and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot each won three Razzies, though the latter wasn't nominated for Worst Picture. Tom Selleck did not attend the cerem... | {"Date": "March 28, 1993", "Site": "Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, California", "Most awards": "Shining Through (3) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (3)", "Most nominations": "The Bodyguard (7)"} |
Tooker Gomberg (August 12, 1955 - March 4, 2004) was a Canadian politician and environmental activist. A native of Montreal, Quebec, a graduate of Herzliah High School and a liberal-arts graduate of Hampshire College (1980), Gomberg founded one of Canada's first curbside recycling programs in Montreal, and later moved ... | {"Name": "Tooker Gomberg", "Birth date": "1955 08 12", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Death date": "2004 03 04 1955 08 12", "Death place": "Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada", "Death cause": "Suicide", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Alma mater": "Hampshire College", "Occupation": "Environmental Activist", "Party":... |
The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Originating as snowmelt in the San Juan Mountains (part of the Rocky Mountains) of Colorado, it flows U.S. Geological Surv... | {"Mouth": "3704 ft on", "Location": "San Juan County, Utah", "Coordinates": "37 10 47 N 110 54 03 W inline,title", "Basin size": "24649 sqmi onBoundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc_name.html United States Geological Survey 2017-05-... |
The Empire, Leicester Square is a cinema currently operated by Cineworld on the north side of Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom.
The Empire was originally built in 1884 as a variety theatre and was rebuilt for films in the 1920s. It is one of several cinemas in and adjoining Leicester Square which are regularly... | {"Coordinates": "51.510833 -0.130278 type:landmark inline,title", "Architect": "Thomas Verity, Thomas Lamb", "Owner": "Cineworld", "Capacity": "2,000 in 18843,000 in 19271,330 in 19621,746 today", "Opened": "yes 1884 04 17", "Years active": "1884-1927 as theatre1928-present as cinema", "Rebuilt": "1893: Frank Verity192... |
The 12th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 29, 1992, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1991.
Awards and nominations
File:Kevin Costner 2016.jpg|Kevin Costner, Worst Actor winner.
File:Sean Young LF.JPG|Sean Young, Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Ac... | {"Date": "March 29, 1992", "Site": "Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, California", "Most awards": "Hudson Hawk (3)", "Most nominations": "Cool as Ice (7)"} |
Margaret of Provence (; 1221 - 20 December 1295) was Queen of France by marriage to King Louis IX.
Early life
Margaret was born in the spring of 1221 in Forcalquier. She was the eldest of four daughters of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence, and Beatrice of Savoy. Her younger sisters were Queen Eleanor of England,... | {"Father": "Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence", "Mother": "Beatrice of Savoy", "Born": "Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence", "Died": "Paris, France", "Burial": "Saint Denis Basilica", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYU-Hawaii) is a private college in Laie, Hawaii. It is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). BYU-Hawaii was founded in 1955 and it became a satellite campus of Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1974. In 2004, it was made a separate institut... | {"Motto": "Enter to learn, go forth to serve", "Type": "Private college", "Accreditation": "WSCUC", "President": "John S. K. Kauwe III", "Students": "3,203 (Fall 2020)https://academics.byuh.edu/0000017f-e26c-d2d1-ad7f-e27c87030001/quick-facts-2020-21 Quick Facts 2020-21 byuh.edu", "Campus": "Rural, 100 acrehttps://abou... |
The American Birkebeiner (or Birkie) is the largest cross-country skiing race in North America. It debuted in 1973 and is a founding member of the Worldloppet federation of cross-country ski marathons. The two premier events are the skate and the classic races from Cable to Hayward, Wisconsin. Each year more than 10,... | {"Status": "active", "Genre": "Sporting event", "Frequency": "Annual", "Location(s)": "Cable-Hayward, Wisconsin", "Country": "United States", "Website": "https://www.birkie.com/"} |
The Neumark (), also known as the New March () or as East Brandenburg (), was a region of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and its successors located east of the Oder River in territory which became part of Poland in 1945.
Called the Lubusz Land while part of medieval Poland, the territory later known as the Neumark gr... | {"Native name": "de Neumark or de Ostbrandenburg (de)pl Nowa Marchia (pl)la Terra trans Oderam (la)", "Conventional long name": "Neumark or East Brandenburg", "Common name": "Neumark", "Historical era": "Middle Ages,Modern era", "Today part of": "Poland\nGermany", "Year founded": "1252", "Year dissolved": "1945", "Capi... |
Praise the Lard is an album by PIG (Raymond Watts), initially released on Concrete Productions in 1991 and re-released by Cleopatra Records in 1997.
The re-released version has an incorrect track listing, due to the use of artwork from the original LP version. Cleopatra Records reissued the album after "purchasing" th... | {"Released": "1991", "Genre": "Post-industrial", "Label": "Concrete", "Producer": "Raymond Watts, JG Thirlwell, John Caffery"} |
The Lethbridge Viaduct, commonly known as the High Level Bridge, is a railway trestle bridge over the Oldman River in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Constructed between 1907 and 1909 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it is the largest railway structure in Canada and the largest of its type in the world, and is still regul... | {"Official name": "Lethbridge Viaduct", "Carries": "Railway", "Crosses": "Oldman River", "Locale": "Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada", "Maintained by": "Canadian Pacific Kansas City", "Total length": "1,624 m", "Width": "32.6 m", "Height": "95.7 m", "Coordinates": "49 41 51 N 112 52 7 W type:landmark_region:CA inline,title"... |
St Kilda East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Glen Eira and Port Phillip local government areas. St Kilda East recorded a population of 12,571 at the 2021 census.
St Kilda East is one of the more diverse and densely p... | {"Type": "suburb", "Name": "St Kilda East", "City": "Melbourne", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Caption": "\"770\" Synagogue, Inkerman Street", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "City of Glen Eira", "Local Government Area (LGA) 2": "City of Port Phillip", "Locator Map Alternative Map File": "Australia Victoria metropolitan... |
Philémon Yunji Yang (born June 14, 1947Profile at Cameroonian government website ."Fiche sur les nouveaux minitres (2)", Cameroon Tribune, December 10, 2004 .) is a Cameroonian politician who served as Prime minister from 30 June 2009 to 4 January 2019. Previously he was Assistant Secretary General of the Presidency, ... | {"Name": "Philémon Yang", "Birth date": "1947 6 14 y", "Birth place": "Jikejem, Oku, British Cameroon(now Cameroon)", "Alma mater": "University of YaoundéUniversity of Ottawahttps://www.spm.gov.cm/site/?q=en/content/yang-philemon YANG Philemon Cameroon Prime Ministers Office 2017 7 September 2018 https://web.archive.or... |
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South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. South Melbourne recorded a population of 11,548 at the 2021 census.
Historically known as Emerald... | {"Name": "South Melbourne", "Caption": "South Melbourne Town Hall", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Type": "suburb", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "City of Port Phillip", "Locator Map Alternative Map File": "Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne", "Coordinates": "37.835 S 144.960 E inline,title", "Elevation": "10", ... |
Carole Ann Pope (born 6 August 1950) is a British-born Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose provocative blend of hard-edged new wave rock with explicit homoerotic and BDSM-themed lyrics made her one of the first openly lesbian entertainers to achieve mainstream fame.
Early life
Pope was born on August 6, 1950, in th... | {"Born": "Manchester, UK", "Origin": "Scarborough, Ontario, Canada", "Genres": "Rock, Electronic", "Website": "carolepope.com"} |
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