article stringlengths 143 214k | infobox stringlengths 61 21.1k |
|---|---|
Chuck Collins (born October 19, 1959) is an American author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is also co-founder of Wealth for Common Good. He is an expert on economic inequality in the US, and has pioneered eff... | {"Name": "Chuck Collins", "Birth date": "1959 10 19", "Birth place": "Madison, Wisconsin", "Nationality": "American", "Education": "Hampshire College (BA)Southern New Hampshire University (MS)", "Occupation": "Writer, social activist", "Relatives": "Oscar F. Mayer (great-grandfather)"} |
John Pool (June 16, 1826August 16, 1884) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1868 and 1873. He was also the uncle of Congressman Walter Freshwater Pool.
He was born in Pasquotank County, North Carolina near Elizabeth City and was tutored at home until his attendance at the Universit... | {"Name": "John Pool", "Image": "John Pool-photograph.jpeg", "Office 2": "Member of the North Carolina Senate", "Term 2": "18561858", "Birth date": "1826 6 16", "Birth place": "Pasquotank County, North Carolina", "Death date": "1884 8 16 1826 6 16", "Death place": "Washington, D.C."} |
Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (September 15, 1830November 14, 1892) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1873 and 1879.
An attorney from Buncombe County, North Carolina, Merrimon served in the North Carolina House of Commons from 1860 to 1861. He briefly served in the Confederate Arm... | {"Name": "Augustus Summerfield Merrimon", "Term start": "March 4, 1873", "Term end": "March 4, 1879", "Birth date": "1830 9 15", "Birth place": "Asheville, North Carolina", "Death date": "1892 11 14 1830 9 15", "Death place": "Raleigh, North Carolina"} |
Ivo Robić (28 January 1923 - 9 March 2000) was a Croatian singer-songwriter.
Domestic career
Robić began his career as a soloist with the Radio Zagreb Orchestra, while studying at the same time in Zagreb. He performed during World War II on "Krugovalna postaja Zagreb" in an Esplanade hotel in Zagreb, Independent Stat... | {"Name": "Ivo Robić", "Caption": "Robić playing a clarinet in 1953", "Birth date": "1923 1 28 y", "Birth place": "Garešnica, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes", "Death date": "2000 3 9 1923 1 28 y", "Death place": "Rijeka, Croatia", "Occupation": "Singer", "Years active": "1943-2000"} |
The Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, commonly known as the Whirlpool Bridge or the Lower Steel Arch Bridge (before 1937), is a spandrel braced, riveted, two-hinged arch bridge that crosses the international border between Canada and the United States, connecting the commercial downtown districts of Niagara Falls, Ontario and N... | {"Named for": "Niagara Whirlpool", "Carries": "2 auto lanes (lower)1 rail line (upper)", "Crosses": "Niagara River", "Locale": "Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York", "Maintained by": "Niagara Falls Bridge CommissionAmtrak (rail deck)", "Design": "Arch bridge", "Longest span": "167.6 m ft 2", "Total leng... |
Jeter Connelly Pritchard (July 12, 1857 - April 10, 1921) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit and previously was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Education and... | {"Name": "Jeter C. Pritchard", "Term start": "April 27, 1904", "Term end": "April 10, 1921", "Office 2": "Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia", "Appointer 2": "Theodore Roosevelt", "Predecessor 2": "Harry M. Clabaugh", "Successor 2": "Wendell Phillips Stafford", "Birth name": "Jeter Conne... |
Lee Slater Overman (January 3, 1854December 12, 1930) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1903 and 1930. He was the first US Senator to be elected by popular vote in the state, as the legislature had appointed senators prior to passage of the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution auth... | {"Name": "Lee S. Overman", "Image caption": "Overman circa 1918", "Office 2": "Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives", "Predecessor 2": "Rufus A. Doughton", "Successor 2": "Zeb V. Walser", "Birth date": "1854 1 3", "Birth place": "Salisbury, North Carolina", "Death date": "1930 12 12 1854 1 3", "Death ... |
Cameron A. Morrison (October 5, 1869August 20, 1953) was an American politician and the 55th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1921 to 1925.
Early life and career
He was born in 1869 in Richmond County, North Carolina.
In 1898, Morrison participated in the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, a violent co... | {"Name": "Cameron A. Morrison", "Appointer 2": "Oliver Max Gardner", "Predecessor 2": "Lee S. Overman", "Successor 2": "Robert R. Reynolds", "Birth date": "1869 10 5", "Birth place": "Rockingham, North Carolina, U.S.", "Death date": "1953 8 20 1869 10 5", "Death place": "Quebec City, Quebec, Canada"} |
Dave Carter (August 13, 1952 July 19, 2002) was an American folk music singer-songwriter who described his style as "post-modern mythic American folk music". He was one half of the duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, who were heralded as the new "voice of modern folk music" in the months before Carter's unexpected death... | {"Born": "Oxnard, California, U.S.", "Died": "Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Genres": "Folk", "Labels": "Signature Sounds"} |
Robert Rice Reynolds (June 18, 1884 – February 13, 1963) was an American politician who served as a Democratic US senator from North Carolina from 1932 to 1945. Almost from the outset of his Senate career, "Our Bob," as he was known among his local supporters,See Arthur L. Shelton, "Buncombe Bob," The American Mercury,... | {"Name": "Robert R. Reynolds", "Nationality": "American", "Term start": "December 5, 1932", "Term end": "January 3, 1945", "Birth date": "1884 6 18 y", "Birth place": "Asheville, North Carolina, US", "Residence": "Friendship estate", "Death date": "1963 2 13 1884 6 18", "Death place": "Asheville, North Carolina", "Spou... |
Cecily April Adams (February 6, 1958 - March 3, 2004) was an American actress, casting director, and lyricist.
Early life
Adams was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, the daughter of comic actor Don Adams and singer Adelaide Efantis. Her siblings included her brother Sean, and her sisters Carolyn Steele, Christin... | {"Name": "Cecily Adams", "Birth name": "Cecily April Adams", "Birth date": "1958 2 6 y", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2004 3 3 1958 2 6 y", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress, casting director, acting coach, lyricist", "Spouse(s)": "Jim Beaver 1989", "Children... |
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the NRL Telstra Premiership, as well as competitions facilitated by the New South Wales Rugby League, including the Canterbury Cup NSW, the... | {"Full name": "Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Rugby League Club", "Nickname(s)": "Berries, Blue and Whites, Dogs, Doggies, Dogs of War,Rosser Corey Dogs of War roll on against New Zealand http://www.nrl.com/dogs-of-war-roll-on-against-new-zealand/tabid/10874/newsid/78544/default.aspx 20 May 2014 nrl.com 18 May 2014 The ... |
Livia Soprano (née Pollio), portrayed by Nancy Marchand, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is the mother of Tony Soprano. A young Livia, played by Laila Robins and later by Laurie J. Williams, is sometimes seen in flashbacks. Series creator David Chase has stated that the main inspiration ... | {"First appearance": "\"The Sopranos\" (1999)", "Last appearance": "The Many Saints of Newark (2021)", "Created by": "David Chase", "Portrayed by": "Nancy MarchandLaila Robins (flashbacks)Laurie Williams (flashbacks)Vera Farmiga (The Many Saints of Newark)", "Family": "Faustino \"Augie\" Pollio (father)Teresa Pollio (m... |
Trinity University is a private liberal arts college in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1869, its student body consists of about 2,600 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Trinity offers 49 majors and 61 minors among six degree programs, and has an endowment of $1.725 billion.
Trinity is a member institution of the... | {"Motto": "E Tribus Unum (Latin)", "Type": "Private liberal arts college", "Endowment": "$1.713 billion (2022)As of May 31, 2022. https://issuu.com/trinity_u/docs/2022invest001_endowment_report_-_fnl-web Trinity University Endowment Report 2021-22 Trinity University November 8, 2022 August 15, 2023", "President": "... |
Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz (August 2, 1894 - September 16, 1976) was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement.June E. Hahner, "Bertha Maria Julia Lutz" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, vol. 3, pp... | {"Name": "Bertha Lutz", "Caption": "Lutz in 1925", "Birth name": "Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz", "Other names": "Lutz Berta", "Occupation": "Scientist", "Birth date": "1894 08 02", "Birth place": "São Paulo, Brazil", "Death date": "1976 09 16 1894 08 02", "Death place": "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"} |
A Cuban sandwich () is a variation of a ham and cheese sandwich that likely originated in cafes catering to Cuban workers in Tampa or Key West, two early Cuban immigrant communities in Florida centered on the cigar industry. Later on, Cuban exiles and expatriates brought it to Miami, where it is also very popular. The... | {"Name of food": "Cuban sandwich", "Alternate name": "Cuban mix, Cuban pressed sandwich, Cubano, mixto", "Place of origin": "US / Florida", "Type of dish": "Sandwich", "Main ingredient": "Cuban bread, ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard", "Variations": "Salami in Tampa, no salami in South FloridaLettuce, ... |
Simon-Napoléon Parent (September 12, 1855 – September 7, 1920) was the 12th premier of Quebec from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905, as well as serving as President of the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company.Royal Commission: Quebec Bridge Inquiry Report, Ottawa 1908
Background
Parent was born in Quebec City. He was a... | {"Name": "Simon-Napoléon Parent", "Birth date": "12 September 1855", "Birth place": "Quebec City, Canada East", "Death date": "1920 9 7 1855 9 12 yes", "Death place": "Montreal, Quebec", "Spouse(s)": "Clara Gendron 1877", "Lieutenant governor 1": "Louis-Amable Jetté", "Order 2": "MNA for Saint-Sauveur", "Predecessor 2"... |
Peter David Lebling (born October 30, 1949) is an American interactive fiction game designer (implementor) and programmer who has worked at various companies, including Infocom and Avid.
Life and career
He was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Maryland, and attended MIT, where he obtained a degree in political scie... | {"Name": "David Lebling", "Caption": "Lebling in 2010", "Birth date": "1949 10 30", "Occupation": "Video game designer, computer programmer", "Known For": "Zork, co-founder of Infocom"} |
Robert Burren Morgan (October 5, 1925 - July 16, 2016) was an American politician. He was a Democratic United States Senator from the state of North Carolina for a single term from 1975 until 1981.
Life and career
Born in Lillington, North Carolina, Morgan attended Lillington public schools and later East Carolina Col... | {"Name": "Robert Burren Morgan", "Nationality": "American", "Order 2": "43rd", "Governor 2": "Robert W. ScottJames Holshouser", "Office 2": "Attorney General of North Carolina", "Predecessor 2": "T. Wade Bruton", "Successor 2": "James H. Carson, Jr.", "Birth date": "1925 10 5", "Birth place": "Lillington, North Carolin... |
John Porter East (May 5, 1931 - June 29, 1986) was an American Republican politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1981 until his suicide in 1986.
A paraplegic since 1955 because of polio, East was a professor of political science at East Carolina University in Greenville.
Early ... | {"Name": "John Porter East", "Image caption": "East in 1983", "Term start": "January 3, 1981", "Term end": "June 29, 1986", "Birth date": "1931 5 5", "Birth place": "Springfield, Illinois, US", "Death date": "1986 6 29 1931 5 5", "Death place": "Greenville, North Carolina, US", "Spouse(s)": "Priscilla Sherk East", "Alm... |
James Thomas "Jim" Broyhill (August 19, 1927 - February 18, 2023) was an American businessman and politician who served as a Republican U.S. Representative and Senator from the state of North Carolina. He represented much of the Foothills region of the state in the House from 1963 to 1986, and served in the United Stat... | {"Name": "Jim Broyhill", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1986", "Term start": "1989", "Term end": "1990", "Office 2": "Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina", "Predecessor 2": "Hugh Quincy Alexander", "Successor 2": "Cass Ballenger", "Birth name": "James Thomas Broyhill", "Birth date": "... |
Jan Miner (October 15, 1917 - February 15, 2004) was an American actress best known for her role as the character "Madge", the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials beginning in the 1960s.
Biography
Early life and career
thumb|right|Miner in Hilltop House (1953)
Jan Miner, the daughter... | {"Name": "Jan Miner", "Caption": "Miner as \"Madge\"", "Birth date": "yr mo date--->", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "2004 2 15 1917 10 15 y", "Death place": "Bethel, Connecticut, U.S.", "Other names": "Janice Miner", "Occupation": "Radio, television, film and stage actress", "Years active... |
The Bujeon Line is a short railway line serving Busan, South Korea. The line connects Gaya on the Gaya Line to Bujeon on the Donghae Nambu Line, without intermediary stops. It is roughly 2.2 kilometers in length.
See also
Korean National Railroad
Category:Railway lines in South Korea | {"Hangul name": "부전선", "Hanja": "釜田線", "Revised Romanization": "Bujeonseon", "McCune-Reischauer": "Pujŏnsŏn"} |
The Peace Bridge is an international bridge between Canada and the United States at the east end of Lake Erie at the source of the Niagara River, about upriver of Niagara Falls. It connects Buffalo, New York, in the United States to Fort Erie, Ontario, in Canada. It is operated and maintained by the binational Buffalo... | {"Carries": "3 reversible lanes connecting to ON QEW in Canada and NY I 190 in the United States.", "Crosses": "Niagara River", "Locale": "Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York", "Maintained by": "Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority (Peace Bridge Authority)", "Design": "Deck type truss and arch bridge", "L... |
Dartmouth BASIC is the original version of the BASIC programming language. It was designed by two professors at Dartmouth College, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. With the underlying Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), it offered an interactive programming environment to all undergraduates as well as the larger u... | {"Name": "Dartmouth BASIC", "Paradigm": "imperative, array", "Initial release date": "1964", "Designer": "John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz", "Influenced by": "FORTRAN, ALGOL", "Influenced": "Cf. list of BASIC dialects", "Operating system": "Dartmouth Time Sharing System"} |
Thomas Ollis Hicks Sr. (born February 7, 1946), is an American private equity investor and sports team owner living in Dallas, Texas. Forbes magazine estimated Hicks' wealth at $1 billion in 2009, but it dropped to $700 million in 2010. Hicks co-founded the investment firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, previously owned 5... | {"Name": "Tom Hicks", "Term start": "February 6, 2007", "Term end": "October 15, 2010", "Birth name": "Thomas Ollis Hicks Sr.", "Birth date": "1946 2 7 y", "Birth place": "Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of TexasUniversity of Southern California"} |
Félix-Gabriel Marchand (January 9, 1832 – September 25, 1900) was a journalist, author, notary and politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the 11th premier of Quebec from May 24, 1897, to September 25, 1900.
Born in what is Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec today, he was the son of Lt.-Colonel Gabriel Marchand (1780-1852)... | {"Name": "Félix-Gabriel Marchand", "Lieutenant governor": "Joseph-Adolphe ChapleauLouis-Amable Jetté", "Term start": "May 24, 1897", "Term end": "September 25, 1900", "Office 2": "MNA for Saint-Jean", "Predecessor 2": "first member", "Successor 2": "Philippe-Honoré Roy", "Birth date": "1832 1 9", "Birth place": "Dorche... |
The Old Men at the Zoo is a novel written by Angus Wilson, first published in 1961 by Secker and Warburg and by Penguin books in 1964. It was adapted, with many changes—nuclear bombing of London, not present in the novel, is added—into a 1983 BBC Television serial by the scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin. The book deal... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Published": "1961 by Secker and Warburg", "Media type": "Print", "Pages": "352 pp"} |
is a private university located in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
History
It traces its roots to The Baptist Theological Seminary of Yokohama established by Albert Arnold Bennett, a missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, established in 1884. The school's name was changed to Kanto Gakuin in 1919.
Organiza... | {"Motto": "Be a man and serve the world", "Type": "Private", "President": "Hiroyoshi Kiku", "Undergraduates": "12,307", "Postgraduates": "287", "Campus": "Suburban/rural, 77 acres (312,000 m²)", "Website": "https://univ.kanto-gakuin.ac.jp/english/"} |
The Main Event is an American series of professional wrestling television specials that were produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The Main Event was a spin-off of Saturday Night's Main Event and was held only one time in a year (with the exception of 1990 where it was held twice) and was equivalent to toda... | {"Genre": "Professional wrestling", "Created by": "Vince McMahon", "Running time": "60 minutes", "Starring": "World Wrestling Federation roster", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original network": "NBC", "Original release": "1991 2 01"} |
José Paciano Laurel y García (March 9, 1891 - November 6, 1959) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and judge, who served as the president of the Japanese-occupied Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. Since the administration of President Diosdado Macapagal (1961-1965), Lau... | {"Name": "Jose P. Laurel", "Image caption": "Laurel in 1943", "Term start": "October 14, 1943", "Term end": "August 17, 1945", "Vice president": "Ramon Avanceña (1943-1944; de facto)\n Benigno Aquino Sr. (1944-1945; de facto)", "Office 2": "Minister of the Interior", "Predecessor 2": "Benigno Aquino Sr.", "Birth name":... |
thumb|Sections of Canada and the United States (including in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, above) are separated by a boundary that is in water. A particularly extensive section of the Canada-US border is in the Great Lakes.
The International Joint Commission () is a bi-national organization established ... | {"Abbreviation": "IJC CMI", "Named after": "Imagine two countries sharing hundreds of lakes and rivers along their border without conflict", "Headquarters": "Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaWashington, D.C., USA", "Legal status": "Active", "Website": "ijc.org"} |
thumb|250px|Education of Saemaul leaders
The Saemaul Undong, also known as the New Community Movement, New Village Movement, Saemaul Movement or Saema'eul Movement, was a political initiative launched on April22, 1970 by South Korean president Park Chung-hee to modernize the rural South Korean economy. The idea was ba... | {"Caption": "Saemaul Flag", "Hangul name": "새 마을 운동", "Hanja": "새마을運動", "Revised Romanization": "Saemaeul undong", "McCune-Reischauer": "Saemaŭl undong"} |
The Jaguar XK150 is a sports car produced by Jaguar between 1957 and 1961 as the successor to the XK140.
Initially it was only available in fixed head coupé (FHC) and drophead coupé (DHC) versions. The roadster without full weather equipment which had begun the XK line was launched as the XK150 OTS (open two-seater) i... | {"Manufacturer": "Jaguar Cars", "Production": "1957-1961", "Class": "Sports car", "Layout": "FR layout", "Assembly": "Coventry, England", "Body style": "2-3 seater coupé2-3 seater convertible or drophead coupé2 seater roadster or open two-seater", "Predecessor": "Jaguar XK140", "Successor": "Jaguar E-Type", "Length": "... |
Three man (also referred to as Mr. Three, diamyo, or hat man) is a drinking game played with two dice. It can be played with at least three people but some consider it better with around five."3-man / 3-bitch." 3-man Drinking Game. PinkyMcDrinky, n.d. Web. 15 Aug. 2013. .
Rules
A random player is chosen to be the "t... | {"Name": "Three man", "Italic title": "no", "Genres": "Drinking", "Players": "3+", "Setup time": "0", "Playing time": "varies"} |
100 Huntley Street is a Canadian Christian daily television talk show and the flagship program of Crossroads Christian Communications based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. It is the longest-running Canadian daily television show, with over 12,000 episodes.
Created in 1976 by David Mainse, it first aired on June 15, 19... | {"Genre": "Talk show", "Created by": "David Mainse", "Starring": "Greg MusselmanLara WatsonMark MasriCheryl Weber100huntley.com/hosts", "Country of origin": "Canada", "Running time": "90 minutes (1977-?)60 minutes (?-2012, 2014-2017)30 minutes (2013-present)", "Original network": "Yes TV (1998-present)Global (1977-2018... |
Perry Scott Walker (October 30, 1969 - January 31, 2004) was a professional boxer.
Walker's nickname was "The Pink Cat", and he gained some attention in the 1990s boxing scene for wearing pink boxing trunks and slicked-back hair, the latter a tribute to his idol, James Dean. He is best known for winning a ten round de... | {"Real name": "Perry Scott Walker", "Nickname(s)": "The Pink Cat", "Weight(s)": "Light Welterweight", "Nationality": "American", "Born": "Mesa, Arizona", "Died": "Apache Junction, Arizona", "Stance": "Orthodox", "Total fights": "33", "Wins": "25", "Wins by KO": "13", "Losses": "7", "Draws": "1", "No contests": "0"} |
Yeongnam (Hangul: 영남, ; literally "south of the passes") is a region that coincides with the former Gyeongsang Province in what is now South Korea.
The region includes the modern-day provinces of North and South Gyeongsang and the self-governing cities of Busan, Daegu, and Ulsan. The regional name is used (with a slig... | {"Hangul name": "영 남 (S)령남 (N)", "Hanja": "嶺 南", "Revised Romanization": "Yeongnam", "McCune-Reischauer": "Ryŏngnam"} |
thumb|Gyeongpodae in Gangneung city, which is the biggest city in Yeongdong region
Yeongdong (, , literally 'east of the passes') is the eastern, coastal region of Gangwon Province, South Korea and Kangwŏn Province, North Korea. It is divided from the inland Yeongseo region by the Taebaek Mountains.
Although Yeongseo... | {"Title": "Yeongdong", "Other name 1 heading": "South Korean name", "Context": "south", "Hangul name": "영 동", "Hanja": "嶺 東", "Revised Romanization": "Yeongdong", "McCune-Reischauer": "Yŏngdong", "Other name 2 heading": "North Korean name", "Hangul other name 2": "령 동", "Hanja other name 2": "嶺 東", "RR other name 2": "... |
NexGen, Inc. was a private semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designed x86 microprocessors until it was purchased by AMD in 1996. NexGen was a fabless design house that designed its chips but relied on other companies for production. NexGen's chips were produced by IBM's Microelectronics divisio... | {"Fate": "Acquired by AMD", "Founded": "1986", "Defunct": "1996", "Headquarters": "Milpitas, California, US", "Industry": "Semiconductors", "Products": "Microprocessors", "Parent": "AMD", "Website": "www.nexgen.com (archived page from 1996-11-12)"} |
The Cuando River (or Kwando in the non-colonial spelling) is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip and into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana.Afrique Centre et Sud, 1996 Below the swamp, the river is called the Linyanti River and, farther east, the Chobe ... | {"Mouth": "943 m on", "Location": "Caprivi Region, Namibia and Chobe District, Botswana", "Coordinates": "18 30 08 S 23 36 58 E region:NA inline,title", "Progression": "Zambezi River → Indian Ocean", "Basin size": "96,778 km2"} |
Dog Kung Fu, i.e. Gǒuquán (), i.e. Dìshùquán (), is a martial arts style native to Fujian province China. While sharing many similar features to styles like Wuzuquan, Huzunquan, and many others from the same region, this southern style of Chinese boxing has the unique feature of specializing in takedowns, Chin Na, and ... | {"Also known as": "Chinese Dog Boxing, Gǒuquán, Dìshùquán, Dishu Quanfa, Ground skill canine methods, Dishang Feilong, Flying Dragon Over Ground", "Focus": "Striking, Grappling", "Country of origin": "CHN China", "Creator": "Unknown", "Famous practitioners": "Hui Kai (founder of Ditangquan)", "Parenthood": "Iron Shirt,... |
Otto Wilhelm Fischer (, ; 1 April 1915 - 29 January 2004) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, a leading man of West German cinema during the Wirtschaftswunder era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
He was born in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, where he obtained his Matura degree at the local gymnasium secondary school... | {"Name": "O. W. Fischer", "Caption": "Fischer (1st from left) with Michel Auclair and Axel von Ambesser (right), Munich-Riem Airport, 1951", "Birth name": "Otto Wilhelm Fischer", "Birth date": "yes 1915 4 1", "Birth place": "Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria,Austria-Hungary", "Death date": "yes 2004 1 29 1915 4 1", "Educat... |
thumb|right|150px|Epupa Falls
The Cunene (Portuguese spelling) or Kunene (common Namibian spelling) is a river in Southern Africa. It flows from the Angola highlands southwards to the border with Namibia. It then flows in a westerly direction along the border until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the few pe... | {"Mouth": "0 m ft on", "Coordinates": "17 15 09 S 11 45 05 E type:river_region:AO inline,title", "Waterfalls": "Epupa Falls, Ruacana Falls", "Basin size": "106560 km2 sqmi on"} |
Camillien Houde (August 13, 1889 - September 11, 1958) was a Quebec politician, a Member of Parliament, and a four-time mayor of Montreal. He is of the few Canadian politicians to have served at all three levels of government.
Political career
Houde was born in Montreal on August 13, 1889 and died there on September ... | {"Name": "Camillien Houde", "Honorific suffix": "CAN CBE OStJ 100%", "Image caption": "Camillien Houde in 1930", "Predecessor 2": "Fernand Rinfret", "Successor 2": "Adhémar Raynault", "Birth date": "1889 08 13", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Death date": "yes 1958 9 11 1889 8 13", "Death place": "Montreal... |
Mary-Ellis Bunim (July 9, 1946 - January 29, 2004) was an American television producer and co-creator of MTV's The Real World and Road Rules.
Biography
A native of Massachusetts, Bunim began her career in daytime dramas. She oversaw more than 2,500 hours of programming as executive producer of Search for Tomorrow (197... | {"Name": "Mary-Ellis Bunim", "Birth date": "1946 07 09 y", "Birth place": "Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "2004 01 29 1946 07 09 y", "Death place": "Burbank, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Television producer, TV Series co-creator", "Children": "1"} |
Michel Aflaq (, , 9 January 1910 - 23 June 1989) was a Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of Ba'athism and its political movement; he is considered by several Ba'athists to be the principal founder of Ba'athist thought. He published various book... | {"Name": "Michel Aflaqar ميشيل عفلق", "Image caption": "Michel Aflaq in 1963", "Office 2": "Member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party", "Birth date": "9 January 1910", "Birth place": "Damascus, Syria Vilayet, Ottoman Syria", "Death date": "23 June 1989 (aged 79)", "Death place": "Paris, France",... |
Magna International Inc. is a Canadian parts manufacturer for automakers. It is one of the largest companies in Canada and was recognized on the 2020 Forbes Global 2000. The company is the largest automobile parts manufacturer in North America by sales of original equipment parts; it has ranked consistently in the Fort... | {"Type": "Public", "Industry": "Automotive", "Founded": "1957", "Headquarters": "Canada", "Products": "Automotive", "Revenue": "yes36.2 billion (2021)Magna International Inc. (MGA) Magna International Report 2021 https://www.magna.com/docs/default-source/financial-reports-public-filings/annual-reports/sedar_magna-annua... |
Arthur Sauvé, (October 1, 1874 – February 6, 1944) was born in Saint-Hermas (today part of Mirabel, Quebec).
The Legislative Assembly of Quebec member for Deux-Montagnes from 1908 to 1930, he was leader of the Quebec Conservative Party but never premier. He was the father of future premier Paul Sauvé.
In 1930 he mo... | {"Name": "Arthur Sauvé", "Predecessor 2": "Liguori Lacombe", "Successor 2": "Liguori Lacombe", "Birth date": "1874 10 01", "Birth place": "Saint-Hermas (Mirabel), Quebec", "Death date": "1944 02 06 1874 10 01", "Death place": "Montreal, Quebec", "Other political party": "Conservative Party of Quebec"} |
Stony Brook Southampton is a campus location of Stony Brook University, located in Southampton, New York between the Shinnecock Indian Reservation and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on the eastern end of Long Island.
History
Southampton College, Long Island University
thumb|left|Southampton College in May 2006
Southampto... | {"Affiliation": "Stony Brook University", "Provost": "Robert Reeves", "Chancellor": "Carla Caglioti", "Students": "350"} |
Philémon Cousineau (October 25, 1874 – March 3, 1959) was a Canadian politician born in Saint-Laurent (today part of Montreal). He was mayor of St-Laurent from 1905 to 1909, and Quebec Conservative Party leader from 1915 to 1916. He resigned following his defeat in the 1916 Quebec provincial election in the riding of J... | {"Name": "Philémon Cousineau", "Term start": "1908", "Term end": "1916", "Birth date": "1874 10 25", "Birth place": "Saint-Laurent, Quebec", "Death date": "1959 03 03 1874 10 25", "Death place": "Saint-Laurent, Quebec"} |
Oren Ethelbirt Long (March 4, 1889 - May 6, 1965) was an American politician who served as the tenth Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 1951 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Long was appointed to the office after the term of Ingram Stainback. After statehood was achieved he served in the United Sta... | {"Name": "Oren Long", "Term start": "August 21, 1959", "Term end": "January 3, 1963", "Birth name": "Oren Ethelbirt Long", "Birth date": "1889 3 4", "Birth place": "Altoona, Kansas, U.S.", "Death date": "1965 5 6 1889 3 4", "Death place": "Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Ida Geneva", "Education": "Johnson Univer... |
John Motley Morehead III (November 3, 1870 – January 7, 1965) was an American chemist, politician, and diplomat. As a chemist, his work provided much of the foundation for the business of Union Carbide Corporation. The Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation was formed in 1917 from the merger of the former Union Carbide ... | {"Name": "John Motley Morehead III", "Minister from": "United States", "Term start": "January 22, 1930", "Term end": "March 31, 1933", "Office 2": "Mayor of Rye", "Birth date": "1870 11 3", "Birth place": "Spray, North Carolina", "Death date": "1965 1 3 1870 11 3", "Death place": "Rye, New York", "Nationality": "Americ... |
The 1890 Quebec general election was held on June 17, 1890, to elect members of the 7th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party Parti national coalition led by Honoré Mercier, was re-elected, defeating the Quebec Conservative Party, led by Louis-Olivier Taillon.
A sc... | {"Name": "1890 Quebec general election", "Country": "Quebec", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Show party colours?": "no", "Link to parties?": "no", "Previous election": "1886 Quebec general election", "Previous year": "1886", "Next election": "1892 Quebec general election", "Next year": "1892", "Elected mem... |
Alexander N. Green (born September 1, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Texas's 9th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Green served as the justice of the peace of Harris County, Texas from 1977 to 2004. The 9th district includes most of ... | {"Name": "Al Green", "Term start": "January 3, 2005", "Birth name": "Alexander N. Green", "Birth date": "1947 9 1", "Birth place": "New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.", "Education": "Florida A&M UniversityTuskegee University (BA)Texas Southern University (JD)", "Official website": "algreen.house.gov House website"} |
The 1886 Quebec general election on October 14, 1886, to elect members of the 6th Legislative Assembly for the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Parti National, a broad coalition formed and led by Honoré Mercier, that included the Parti libéral du Québec and nationalist defectors from the Conservative party. The Parti n... | {"Name": "1886 Quebec general election", "Country": "Quebec", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Show party colours?": "no", "Link to parties?": "no", "Previous election": "1881 Quebec general election", "Previous year": "1881", "Next election": "1890 Quebec general election", "Next year": "1890", "Elected mem... |
688 Attack Sub is a submarine simulator video game designed by John W. Ratcliff and Paul Grace and published in 1989 for MS-DOS and in 1990 for Amiga by Electronic Arts. A Sega Genesis version developed by MicroProse was released in 1991 by Sega.
The player takes command of a US or Soviet nuclear-powered attack subm... | {"Title": "688 Attack Sub", "Caption": "Genesis box art", "Developer": "Electronic Arts (MS-DOS) MicroProse (Genesis)", "Publisher": "Electronic Arts (MS-DOS) Sega (Genesis)", "Designer": "John W. RatcliffPaul Grace", "Programmer": "Ed Fletcher (Genesis)", "Composer": "Rob HubbardDavid Javelosa (Genesis)", "Released"... |
Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon (September 26, 1840 - April 25, 1923) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was the eighth premier of Quebec, serving two separate terms.
Political career
Taillon's first term of office was just four days, from January 25 to January 29, 1887. This term came at the end of the Conservativ... | {"Name": "Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon", "Lieutenant governor": "Louis-Rodrigue Masson", "Term start": "25 January 1887", "Term end": "27 January 1887", "Lieutenant governor 2": "Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau", "Office 2": "Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montréal-Est", "Predecessor 2": "Ferdinand-Conon David",... |
Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville (May 4, 1822 – September 10, 1915) was a Canadian politician and doctor. He twice served as the premier of Quebec.
Personal life
Boucher was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Descended from Pierre Boucher, he was one of the three children of Pierre Boucher de Bouche... | {"Name": "Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville", "Term start": "September 22, 1874", "Term end": "March 8, 1878", "Lieutenant governor": "René-Édouard CaronLuc Letellier de St.-Just", "Birth date": "1822 5 4 y", "Birth place": "Montreal, Lower Canada", "Death date": "1915 09 10 1822 05 04", "Death place"... |
Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908) lawyer, businessman and politician served as the fourth premier of Quebec, a federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.Little, 2013
Biography
Early years
Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, PC w... | {"Name": "Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière", "Term start": "March 8, 1878", "Term end": "October 31, 1879", "Lieutenant governor": "Luc Letellier de St.-JustThéodore Robitaille", "Order 2": "7th", "Office 2": "Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia", "Predecessor 2": "Thomas Robert McInnes", "Successor 2": "James ... |
Vice-Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn, (25 January 1879 - 29 December 1957) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who served during the Second Boer War and First World War, and was the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Indian Navy from 1928 until his retirement in 1934. He then served as Governor of Newfoundland from 1936... | {"Name": "Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn", "Term start": "1936", "Term end": "1946", "Birth date": "1879 1 25 y", "Birth place": "Gresford, Denbighshire, Wales, UK", "Death date": "1957 12 29 1879 1 25 y", "Death place": "Maiden Newton, Dorset, England, UK", "Spouse(s)": "Eileen Mary van Straubenzee (later Dame Eileen Walw... |
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (November 9, 1840 - June 13, 1898), born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898.
Life
As a lawyer, he defended Ambroise-Dydime Lépine against the charge of murdering Thomas Scott during t... | {"Name": "Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau", "Order 2": "5th Premier of Quebec", "Predecessor 2": "Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière", "Successor 2": "Joseph-Alfred Mousseau", "Monarch 2": "Victoria", "Lieutenant governor 2": "Théodore Robitaille", "Term start": "December 5, 1892", "Term end": "January 20, 1898", "Birth date... |
Doris Troy (born Doris Elaine Higginsen; January 6, 1937 - February 16, 2004) was an American R&B singer and songwriter, known to her fans as "Mama Soul". Her biggest hit was "Just One Look", a top 10 hit in 1963.
Life and career
She was born as Doris Elaine Higginsen, in the Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentec... | {"Born": "1937 01 06 y", "Died": "Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.", "Origin": "The Bronx, New York Cityhttp://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/feb/20/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 Obituary: Doris Troy February 20, 2004 The Guardian", "Genres": "R&B, Doo-wop", "Labels": "Apple, Atlantic, People"} |
Simple Simon is a Broadway musical with book by Guy Bolton, and Ed Wynn, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., and starring Ed Wynn.
It originally played from February 18, 1930 to June 14, 1930 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, then reopened on March 9, 1931 at the Majestic Theatre.... | {"Name": "Simple Simon", "Caption": "original 1930 sheet music", "Composer(s)": "Richard Rodgers", "Lyricist(s)": "Lorenz Hart", "Book-writer": "Guy Bolton Ed Wynn", "Productions": "1930 Broadway 1931 Broadway revival"} |
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (July 17, 1837 - March 30, 1886), was a Canadian lawyer and politician, who served in the federal Cabinet and also as the sixth premier of Quebec.
Biography
He was born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Louis Mousseau, the son of Alexis Mousseau, and Sophie Duteau, dit... | {"Name": "Joseph-Alfred Mousseau", "Term start": "July 29, 1882", "Term end": "January 22, 1884", "Lieutenant governor": "Théodore Robitaille", "Office 2": "MLA for Jacques-Cartier", "Predecessor 2": "Narcisse Lecavalier", "Successor 2": "Arthur Boyer", "Birth date": "1837 7 17 y", "Birth place": "Sainte-Geneviève-de-B... |
Alton Nehemiah Ellis (1 September 1938 - 10 October 2008)"Godfather of rocksteady dies at 70", Press Association, 11 October 2008 was a Jamaican singer-songwriter. One of the innovators of rocksteady, he was given the informal title "Godfather of Rocksteady".Huey, Steve, [ "Alton Ellis Biography"], Allmusic, Macrovis... | {"Born": "yes 1938 9 1 Kingston, Jamaica", "Died": "London, England", "Genres": "R&B, ska, rocksteady, reggae", "Labels": "Studio One, Treasure Isle, Trojan"} |
John Jones Ross (August 16, 1831 - May 4, 1901) was a Canadian politician. Ross served as the seventh premier of Quebec and later as a member of the Senate of Canada.
Personal life
Ross was born in Quebec City, Canada. He was the son of a Scots-Quebecer merchant, George McIntosh Ross, and his French-Canadian wife Sop... | {"Name": "John Jones Ross", "Lieutenant governor": "Théodore RobitailleLouis-Rodrigue Masson", "Term start": "January 23, 1884", "Term end": "January 25, 1887", "Office 2": "Senator for De la Durantaye, Quebec", "Predecessor 2": "Jean-Charles Chapais", "Successor 2": "Alphonse Arthur Miville Déchêne", "Birth date": "18... |
Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (27 May 1888 - 20 January 1966) was a British Labour Party politician and Newfoundland's final British governor as well as the last chairman of the Commission of Government serving from 1946 until the colony joined Confederation in 1949 and became a province of Canad... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "The Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor", "Honorific suffix": "GBR 100% KCMG PC", "Term start": "1946", "Term end": "1949", "Nationality": "British", "Birth date": "1888 5 27", "Birth place": "Gwaenysgor, near Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales", "Death date": "1966 01 20 1888 5... |
Gédéon Ouimet (June 2, 1823 - April 23, 1905) was a French-Canadian politician.
Born in what is today part of the city of Laval, Quebec Canada, Ouimet served as the second premier of Quebec from February 26, 1873 to September 22, 1874. He resigned as party leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec in 1874 because of ... | {"Name": "Gédéon Ouimet", "Term start": "February 27, 1873", "Term end": "September 22, 1874", "Lieutenant governor": "René-Édouard Caron", "Office 2": "Deux-Montagnes", "Predecessor 2": "none", "Successor 2": "Charles Champagne", "Birth date": "1823 6 2 y", "Birth place": "Sainte-Rose (Laval), Lower Canada", "Death da... |
White River is a river, approximately long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Utah and is a tributary of the Green River (which flows into the Colorado River).
Description
The river rises in two forks in northwestern Colorado in northeastern Garfield County in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area in the White River Nationa... | {"Mouth": "4646 ft on", "Location": "Uintah County, Utah", "Coordinates": "40 03 44 N 109 40 45 W inline,title", "Basin size": "5120 sqmi on", "Left": "South Fork White River", "Right": "North Fork White River"} |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935) was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.Holmes was Acting Chief Justice of the United States in February 1930. Holmes is one of the most widely cited Supreme Court justices and among... | {"Image caption": "Justice Holmes 1930", "Alternative text": "Photograph of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, aged about 89, in the robes of a judge", "Term start": "December 8, 1902", "Term end": "January 12, 1932Justices 1789 to Present https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx Supreme Court of the United S... |
Swansea is a town at the entrance to Lake Macquarie from the Pacific Ocean in New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area and is regarded as part of Greater Newcastle.
History
The Aboriginal people, in this area, the Awabakal, were the first people of this land.
Swansea'... | {"Type": "suburb", "Name": "Swansea", "City": "Greater Newcastle", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Caption": "Post office", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "City of Lake Macquarie", "Postcode": "2281", "Population": "5,044", "Population Year": "2021", "Population Footnotes": "SAL13726 Swansea (NSW) (State Suburb) 16 June... |
Robert Dwayne Womack (; March 4, 1944 - June 27, 2014) was an American singer, musician and songwriter. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, jazz, sou... | {"Born": "Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.", "Died": "Tarzana, California, U.S.", "Genres": "R&B gospel soul rock and roll doo-wop funk soul blues rock jazz", "Labels": "XLSmirke Richard http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/xl-s-richard-russell-on-adele-six-grammy-1005621152.story XL's Richard Russell on Adele... |
Chapterhouse were a British shoegaze band from Reading, Berkshire, England. Formed in 1987 by Andrew Sherriff and Stephen Patman, the band began performing alongside Spacemen 3. They released two albums: Whirlpool (1991) and Blood Music (1993). The group temporarily reformed in 2008 after being asked to join Ulrich Sch... | {"Origin": "Reading, England", "Genres": "\"popmatters\"/>\n dream popReynolds Simon Simon Reynolds 1 December 1991 POP VIEW; 'Dream-Pop' Bands Define the Times in Britain https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/arts/pop-view-dream-pop-bands-define-the-times-in-britain.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20220926180859/ht... |
The Uncompahgre River is a tributary of the Gunnison River, approximately 75 mi (121 km) long, in southwestern Colorado in the United States. Lake Como at 12,215 ft (3723m) in northern San Juan County, in the Uncompahgre National Forest in the northwestern San Juan Mountains is the headwaters of the river. It flows no... | {"Mouth": "4915 ft on", "Location": "Delta, Delta County", "Coordinates": "38 45 24 N 108 05 25 W inline,title", "Basin size": "1114 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 2014-04-20"... |
Lynn René Anderson (September 26, 1947 - July 30, 2015) was an American country singer and television personality. Her crossover signature recording, "Rose Garden," was a number one hit internationally. She also charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country songs chart. Anderson is regarded... | {"Name": "Lynn Anderson", "Caption": "Anderson in 1970", "Birth name": "Lynn René Anderson", "Birth date": "1947 09 26", "Birth place": "Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.Huey Steve Lynn Anderson: Biography & History https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lynn-anderson-mn0000804289/biography Allmusic June 3, 2020", "Death d... |
United New Zealand () was a centrist political party in New Zealand founded in 1995. It merged with the Christian-based Future New Zealand party to form the United Future New Zealand party in 2000.
History
Formation
United was founded on 28 June 1995, one of a number of new parties hoping to capitalise on the upcoming... | {"Ideology": "Liberalism", "International affiliation": "None", "Founded": "28 June 1995", "Succeeded by": "United Future", "Political position": "Centre"} |
Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of su... | {"Born": "Denver, Colorado, U.S.", "Genres": "Folk-popalbum r473071", "Labels": "MCA Atlantic Beyond Music Artemis Pinko", "Website": "jillsobule.com"} |
Daana Veera Soora Karna () is a 1977 Indian Telugu-language Hindu mythological film co-written, produced and directed by N. T. Rama Rao under his banner, Ramakrishna Cine Studios. Based on the life of Karna from the Mahabharata, it stars Rama Rao in three roles: the title character, Duryodhana, and Krishna. It also sta... | {"Directed by": "N. T. Rama Rao", "Produced by": "N. T. Rama Rao", "Written by": "N. T. Rama RaoKondaveeti Venkatakavi (dialogues)", "Starring": "N. T. Rama RaoNandamuri BalakrishnaNandamuri HarikrishnaB. Saroja DeviPrabha", "Music by": "Pendyala Nageswara Rao", "Cinematography": "Kannappa", "Edited by": "G. D. Joshi",... |
The Andhra Christian College or A.C. College is one of the oldest colleges in India located in Guntur Andhra Pradesh. It started in 1885. AC College is part of the education enterprise of the Protestant churches. It admits intermediate, undergraduate and graduate students and awards degrees through the Acharya Nagarjun... | {"Motto": "Latin: Et Cognoscetis Veritatem Et Veritas Liberabit Vos. English: ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.", "Type": "College", "Chancellor": "President, Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church(AELC)", "Campus": "Urban"} |
thumb|The chamber of the Legislative Council of Quebec before its abolition
The Legislative Council of Quebec (French; Conseil législatif du Québec) was the unelected upper house of the bicameral legislature in the Canadian province of Quebec from 1867 to 1968. The Legislative Assembly was the elected lower house.
Th... | {"Type": "Quebec Legislature", "Disbanded": "1968 12 31", "Preceded by": "Legislative Council of the Province of Canada", "Succeeded by": "none", "Seats": "24"} |
The British Rail Class 52 is a class of 74 Type 4 diesel-hydraulic locomotives built for the Western Region of British Railways between 1961 and 1964. All were given two-word names, the first word being "Western" and thus the type became known as Westerns. They were also known as Wizzos and Thousands. The final Class 5... | {"Power type": "Diesel-hydraulic", "Fleet numbers": "D1000-D1073", "Total production": "74", "Nicknames": "Westerns, Wizzos, Thousands.", "Manufacturer": "Swindon Works (30) Crewe Works (44)", "Build date": "1961-1964", "Gauge": "ussg on", "Prime mover": "2 × Maybach MD655 (64.5 L cuin on or)", "Transmission": "Hydraul... |
Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 - January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns. He was often paired with Veronica Lake in films noir, such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), and The Blue... | {"Name": "Alan Ladd", "Image": "Alan_Ladd_-_publicity.JPG", "Caption": "Publicity photo of Ladd in late 1950s", "Birth name": "Alan Walbridge Ladd", "Birth date": "1913 9 3 y", "Birth place": "Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.", "Death date": "1964 1 29 1913 9 3 y", "Death place": "Palm Springs, California, U.S.", "Resting p... |
White City was a railway station on the Sunbury railway line (then the St Albans line) of the Melbourne suburban rail system in Melbourne, Australia. It was located approximately 700 metres west of Tottenham railway station. The next station down the line was Sunshine.
History
The station was opened on 10 December 19... | {"Name": "White City", "Type": "Closed commuter rail station", "Style template": "Australian closed station", "Caption": "Former station site", "Coordinates": "37 47 54 S 144 51 20 E type:railwaystation_region:AU-VIC inline,title", "Date opened": "10 December 1927", "Date closed": "4 October 1981"} |
Akbar II (; 22 April 1760 - 28 September 1837), also known as Akbar Shah II, was the nineteenth Mughal emperor from 1806 to 1837. He was the second son of Shah Alam II and the father of Bahadur Shah II, who would eventually succeed him and become the last Mughal emperor.
Akbar had little de facto power due to the incr... | {"Born": "Mukundpur, Maratha Empire", "Died": "Delhi, Mughal Empire", "Father": "Shah Alam II", "Mother": "Qudsia Begum", "Religion": "Sunni Islam (Hanafi)", "Burial": "Moti Masjid, Delhi, India"} |
The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich are a set of 24 musical pieces for solo piano, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. The cycle was composed in 1950 and 1951 while Shostakovich was in Moscow, and premiered by pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva in Leningrad in December 1952;Maz... | {"Key": "all major and minor keys", "Opus": "87", "Composed": "1950-51", "Date": "1952 12 23 y", "Location": "Leningrad", "Performers": "Tatiana Nikolayeva", "Duration": "2 hours and 32 minutes (complete performance)"} |
James Wilson (3 June 1805 - 11 August 1860) was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded The Economist weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to form Standard Chartered.James Wilson by Ruth Dudley Edwards in Oxford DNBMichael Ste... | {"Name": "James Wilson", "Image size": "220px", "Image caption": "A portrait of James Wilson by Sir John Wilson Gordon, published in The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843-1993. The portrait was presented to Mrs Wilson in 1859, by the Royal Scottish Academy.", "Order 2": "Paymaster General and Vice-President of the ... |
Talgo (officially Patentes Talgo, SAU) is a Spanish manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high-speed passenger trains. Talgo is an abbreviation of Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol (English: Lightweight articulated train Goicoechea Oriol)
The company was founded by Alejandro Goicoechea and José Luis Oriol. It... | {"Type": "Sociedad Anónima", "Founded": "1942", "Headquarters": "Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain http://www.railgrup.net/pdf/talgo.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20120425132515/http://www.railgrup.net/pdf/talgo.pdf dead Information about Talgo railgrup.net Internet Archive 25 April 2012", "Industry": "Rail vehi... |
The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of British India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests on the Indian subcontinent.
The party arose out of the need for the political representation of Muslims ... | {"Founded": "1906 12 30 yes, Dacca, British India (now Dhaka, Bangladesh)", "Ideology": "Pakistani nationalismMuslim nationalismIslamic modernismhttps://m.timesofindia.com/life-style/spotlight/atheist-fundamentalists/articleshow/6014430.cms Atheist Fundamentalists The Times of India ConservativismTwo-nation theorySepar... |
Rampur ( ) is a city, and the municipality headquarter of Rampur District in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was formerly known for its various industries, like sugar refining and cotton milling. Its library has more than 12,000 rare manuscripts and a fine collection of Mughal miniature paintings. It is located 3... | {"Named for": "Ram Singh I", "Body": "Rampur Nagar Palika Parishad", "Rank": "43", "Density": "auto", "Website": "rampur.nic.in"} |
The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains. It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
History
thumb|right|200px|Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, creator of the... | {"Location": "Tivoli, Italy", "Criteria": "Cultural: i, ii, iii, iv, vi", "Reference": "1025", "Inscription": "2001"} |
Americana is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Offspring, released on November 17, 1998, by Columbia Records. Following a worldwide tour in support of Ixnay on the Hombre (1997), the band commenced work on a new album in July 1998.
Americana was a major success, debuting at number six on the US Billboar... | {"Released": "November 17, 1998", "Recorded": "July-September 1998", "Studio": "Eldorado Recording, Burbank, California", "Genre": "\"allmusic\"/>http://www.nyrock.com/reviews99/offspring98.htm Americana in Action: the Offspring at Irving Plaza, 12/8/98 (NY Rock Concert Review) NY Rock Spyder Darling dead https://... |
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 American vigilante action thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy in his feature directorial debut. Starring Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, and Billy Connolly, the film follows Irish fraternal twin brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus (Flanery... | {"Directed by": "Troy Duffy", "Written by": "Troy Duffy", "Produced by": "Elie Samaha\n Lloyd Segan\n Rob Fried\n Chris Brinker", "Starring": "Willem Dafoe\n Sean Patrick Flanery\n Norman Reedus\n David Della Rocco\n Billy Connolly", "Cinematography": "Adam Kane", "Edited by": "Bill DeRonde", "Music by": "Jeff Danna", ... |
The Dells were an American R&B vocal group. Formed in high school in 1953 by founding members Marvin Junior, Verne Allison, Johnny Funches, Chuck Barksdale, and Michael and Lucius McGill, under the name the El-Rays. They released their first recording in 1954 and two years later had their first R&B hit with "Oh What a ... | {"Origin": "Harvey, Illinois, U.S.", "Genres": "R&B, doo-wop, soul", "Labels": "Cadet/Chess, Vee-Jay, Mercury, ABC, 20th Century Fox, Ichiban, Virgin, Philadelphia International, Volt", "Website": "Themightydells.com"} |
Dasher is an input method and computer accessibility tool which enables users to compose text without using a keyboard, by entering text on a screen with a pointing device such as a mouse, touch screen, or mice operated by the foot or head. Such instruments could serve as prosthetic devices for disabled people who cann... | {"Developer(s)": "The Dasher Project", "Written in": "Java, C and C++", "Type": "Computer accessibility", "License": "GPL", "Website": "www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/"} |
Nevalı Çori (, ) was an early Neolithic settlement on the middle Euphrates, in Şanlıurfa Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey. The site is known for having some of the world's oldest known temples and monumental sculpture. Together with the earlier site of Göbekli Tepe, it has revolutionised scientific understanding... | {"Alternative name": "Nevali Çori (Turkish)Newala Çori (Kurdish)", "Coordinates": "37 31 6 N 38 36 20 E inline,title", "Location": "Hilvan, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey", "Region": "Mesopotamia", "Founded": "8400 BC", "Abandoned": "8100 BC", "Periods": "Pre-Pottery Neolithic B", "Condition": "Submerged"} |
The NACDA Directors' Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the NACDA Learfield Directors' Cup or simply as the Directors' Cup, is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities in the United States with the most success in collegiate athletics. ... | {"Most wins": "NCAA Division I: Stanford Cardinal (26)NCAA Division II: Grand Valley State Lakers (15)NCAA Division III: Williams Ephs (22)NAIA: Azusa Pacific Cougars (8)NJCAA: Iowa Central Tritons (5)", "Presented by": "National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics", "Most recent": "NCAA Division I: Stanfo... |
Mount Auburn Cemetery, located in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, is the first rural or garden cemetery in the United States. It is the burial site of many prominent Boston Brahmins, and is a National Historic Landmark.
Dedicated in 1831 and set with classical monuments in a rolling landscaped terrain, it mark... | {"Location": "580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Built": "1831", "Architect": "Alexander Wadsworth and Jacob Bigelow", "Architectural style": "Exotic Revival, Other, Gothic Revival"} |
Gregory Rusedski (born 6 September 1973) is a British-Canadian former professional tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6 October 1997 to 12 October 1997 and from 25 May 1998 to 21 June 1998.
In 1997, he was the US Open finalist, wh... | {"Country (sports)": "GBR Great Britain (1995-2007)CAN Canada (1991-1995)http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/greg-rusedski/r237/bio Greg Rusedski | Bio | ATP World Tour | Tennis ATP World Tour 2016-08-15", "Residence": "London, England, UK", "Born": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Height": "6 ft 4 in m on", "Turned ... |
Poplar Forest is a plantation and retreat home in Forest, Bedford County, Virginia that belonged to Founding Father and third U.S. president Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson inherited the property in 1773 and began designing and working on his retreat home in 1806. While Jefferson is the most famous individual associated wi... | {"Location": "1776 Poplar Forest Parkway,Lynchburg, Virginiahttp://www.poplarforest.org/directions.html Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Map and Directions 2008-06-23 webpage Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest https://web.archive.org/web/20080608230659/http://www.poplarforest.org/directions.html 2008-06... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.