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Park Hill is a housing estate in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It was built between 1957 and 1961, and in 1998 was given Grade II* listed building status. Following a period of decline, the estate is being renovated by developers Urban Splash into a mostly private mixed-tenure estate made up of homes for market ... | {"Location": "Sheffield", "Coordinates": "53.380 N 1.458 W type:landmark", "Status": "Under renovation", "Constructed": "1957-1961", "Area": "32 acre ha", "No. of units": "995", "Density": "People 192 /acre /ha", "Architect": "Studio Egret West, Hawkins Brown and Grant Associates, Mikhail Riches, Whitham Cox, Carmody G... |
Guards! Guards! is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the eighth in the Discworld series, first published in 1989.Fantastic Fiction Guards! Guards! (Discworld, book 8) Terry Pratchett Retrieved 2009-05-9 It is the first novel about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The first Discworld point-and-click advent... | {"Cover artist": "Josh Kirby", "Language": "English", "Series": "Discworld 8th novel - 1st City Watch story", "Publisher": "Gollancz", "ISBN": "0-575-04606-6", "Preceded by": "Pyramids", "Followed by": "Eric"} |
Sir Oliver Letwin (born 19 May 1956) is a British politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dorset from 1997 to 2019. Letwin was elected as a member of the Conservative Party, but sat as an independent after having the whip removed in September 2019. He was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer under Michael Howard ... | {"Name": "Oliver Letwin", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2015", "Term start": "15 July 2014", "Term end": "14 July 2016", "Birth date": "1956 5 19 y", "Birth place": "London, England", "Other political party": "Conservative (before 2019)", "Spouse(s)": "Isabel Davidson 1984", "Education": "Eton College", "Alma ma... |
Marc Lowell Andreessen ( ; born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm ... | {"Birth name": "Marc Lowell Andreessen", "Name": "Marc Andreessen", "Caption": "Andreessen in 2013", "Birth date": "1971 07 09", "Birth place": "Cedar Falls, Iowa, U.S.", "Education": "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS)", "Occupation": "Investor\n entrepreneur\n software engineer", "Known For": "Mosaic\n N... |
The Communist Party of Great Britain is a political group which publishes the Weekly Worker newspaper. The CPGB (PCC) claims to have "an internationalist duty to uphold the principle, 'One state, one party'. To the extent that the European Union becomes a state then that necessitates EU-wide trade unions and a Communis... | {"Leader": "Collective leadership (Central Committee)Mark Fischer(National Organiser)Jack Conrad(Chairman)", "Split from": "Communist Party of Great Britain", "Headquarters": "London, United KingdomHow to Contact Us http://www.cpgb.org.uk/info/index.html Communist Party of Great Britain 25 October 2015 https://web.arc... |
A hot cross bun is a spiced bun usually made with fruit, marked with a cross on the top, which has been traditionally eaten on Good Friday in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India, Pakistan, Malta, United States and the Commonwealth Caribbean. They are available all year round in some ... | {"Name of food": "Hot cross bun", "Width of image": "300", "Image caption": "Homemade hot cross buns", "Place of origin": "United Kingdom", "Region of origin": "England", "Type of dish": "Spiced bun", "Main ingredient": "Wheat flour, currants or raisins with spices"} |
Ryan Davies (22 January 1937 - 22 April 1977) was a Welsh comedian, actor, musician, singer, and songwriter. Though his career lasted just 11 years, he became widely known in Wales through his work with Ronnie Williams as the comedic double act Ryan and Ronnie.
Early life
Davies was born in Glanamman on 22 January 193... | {"Name": "Ryan Davies", "Caption": "Posthumous tribute album Ffrindiau Ryan", "Birth date": "22 January 1937", "Birth place": "Glanamman, Wales", "Death place": "Buffalo, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "22 April 1977 (aged 40)", "Occupation": "Comedian actor musician singer songwriter", "Years active": "1966-1977", "Ch... |
Pyramids is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published in 1989, the seventh book in his Discworld series.Fantastic Fiction Pyramids (Discworld, book 7) by Terry Pratchett Retrieved 2009-05-9 It won the BSFA Award for Best Novel in 1989.
Plot summary
The main character of Pyramids is Teppic (short for... | {"Cover artist": "Josh Kirby", "Language": "English", "Series": "Discworld 7th novel - 1st individual story", "Publisher": "Gollancz", "ISBN": "0-575-04463-2", "Preceded by": "Wyrd Sisters", "Followed by": "Guards! Guards!"} |
Jakarta Slide is an open-source content management system from the Jakarta project. It is written in Java and implements the WebDAV protocol. Slide is a set of APIs to implement the WebDAV client. Thanks to that, Slide can also be seen as a Content Management Framework. The use of WebDAV, which is a superset of HTTP, m... | {"Developer(s)": "Apache Software Foundation", "Written in": "Java", "Type": "Content management system", "License": "Apache License 2.0", "Website": "http://jakarta.apache.org/slide"} |
Tripontium (Latin for "Place of three bridges") was a town in Roman Britain. It lay on the Roman road later called Watling Street (and known today as the A5) at a site now chiefly within the civil parish of Churchover in the English county of Warwickshire and partly in Leicestershire, some 3.4 miles north-east of Rugby... | {"Coordinates": "52.409152 N 1.212683 W inline,title", "Location": "Warwickshire, England", "Region": "Britannia", "Type": "Settlement", "Founded": "Around AD 50", "Abandoned": "4th century", "Periods": "Roman Empire", "Ownership": "Commercial company, multiple owners", "Public access": "none"} |
St. Edward's University is a private, Catholic university in Austin, Texas. It was founded and is operated in the Holy Cross tradition.
History
Founding and early history
St. Edward's University was founded by the Reverend Edward Sorin, CSC, Superior General of the Congregation of Holy Cross, who also founded the Univ... | {"Motto": "Live Fully", "President": "Montserrat Fuentes", "Type": "Private university", "Endowment": "$105.9 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fisca... |
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, (née Garnett, born 12 March 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician and headhunter. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She became a member of the House of Lords in 2005.
Early life and ca... | {"Name": "The Baroness Bottomleyof Nettlestone", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2018", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "11 June 1997", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for Health", "Prime minister 2": "John Major", "Predecessor 2": "William Waldegrave", "Successor 2": "Stephen Dorrell"} |
Aosta (, , ; , formerly ; , Veulla or Ouhta ; ; ; ) is the principal city of the Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest of Turin. It is situated near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea, and at the junction of the Great a... | {"Name": "Aosta", "Official name": "Città di AostaVille d'Aoste", "Native name": "fr Aostefrp Aoûta", "Image caption": "Aerial view of Aosta", "Shield size": "75px", "Pushpin map": "Italy Aosta Valley#Italy#Europe", "Coordinates": "45 44 N 7 19 E inline,title", "Region": "Aosta Valley", "Frazioni": "Arpuilles, Beaurega... |
Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British writer who promotes pseudoscientific theories involving many ancient civilizations and lost lands. Hancock speculates that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors passed on their knowledge to hunter-gatherers, giving ri... | {"Name": "Graham Hancock", "Caption": "Hancock in 2010", "Birth name": "Graham Bruce Hancock", "Birth date": "1950 8 2 yhttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/netflix-series-ancient-apocalypse-all-you-need-to-know-about-presenter-graham-hancock/articleshow/95458963.cms?from=mdr Netflix series Ancie... |
Wilton is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,896 at the 2020 census. Like many small New England towns, it grew up around water-powered textile mills, but is now a rural bedroom community with some manufacturing and service employment. Wilton is home to the High Mowing Sch... | {"Land": "66.33", "Water": "0.35", "Density": "58.7", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.wiltonnh.gov"} |
Peterborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,418 at the 2020 census. The main village, with 3,090 people at the 2020 census, is defined as the Peterborough census-designated place (CDP) and is located along the Contoocook River at the junction of U.S. Route 202 and N... | {"Land": "98.47", "Water": "1.06", "Density": "65.2", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.townofpeterborough.com"} |
Hudson is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is located along the Massachusetts state line. The population was 25,394 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-largest municipality (town or city) in the state, by population.
The urban center of town, where 7,534 people resided as of the 2020 cen... | {"Land": "73.3", "Water": "2.5", "Density": "346.7", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.hudsonnh.gov"} |
William Fagerbakke ( ; born October 4, 1957) is an American actor. He voices Patrick Star in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise, and played Michael "Dauber" Dybinski on the sitcom Coach. He also appeared in 12 episodes of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Marshall Eriksen's father Marvin.
Early life and education
F... | {"Name": "Bill Fagerbakke", "Caption": "Fagerbakke in 2022", "Birth name": "William Fagerbakkehttp://www.filmreference.com/film/61/Bill-Fagerbakke.html Bill Fagerbakke Biography (1957-) www.filmreference.com 3 January 2019", "Birth date": "1957 10 4", "Birth place": "Fontana, California, U.S.", "Education": "University... |
The Aeroplane Flies High is a five-disc box set released by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 1996. It contains expanded versions of the five singles from their album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and also included a 44-page booklet with pictures and writings by the band's lead singer Bil... | {"Released": "1996 11 26", "Genre": "Alternative rock", "Label": "Virgin", "Producer": "Billy Corgan, James Iha, Flood, Alan Moulder, D'arcy Wretzky"} |
Jeffrey Nye MangumTaylor, A: Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone, page 4. Metropolitan Books, 2019. (born 24 October 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who gained prominence as the founder, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of Neutral Milk Hotel, as well for his co-founding of ... | {"Born": "Ruston, Louisiana, U.S.", "Genres": "Indie rock psychedelic folk lo-fi sound collage psychedelic pophttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/10/elephant-6-jeff-mangum-deerhunter From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia The Guardian 22 November 2015", "Labels": "Merge Orange Twin", "Formerl... |
Hydro-Man (Morris "Morrie" Bench) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist John Romita Jr., the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #212 (January 1981). Hydro-Man is a recurring antagonist of the superhero Spider-Man.
Once... | {"Publisher": "Marvel Comics", "Created by": "Dennis O'NeilJohn Romita Jr.", "Species": "Human mutate", "Team affiliations": "Sinister SixThe Assembly of EvilFrightful FourMaggiaMasters of EvilSinister SyndicateSinister Twelve", "Abilities": "Superhuman strength and durability\nHydrokinesis\nExpert street fighter"} |
Walter Joseph Hickel (August 18, 1919 - May 7, 2010) was an American businessman, real estate developer, and politician who served as the second governor of Alaska from 1966 to 1969 and 1990 to 1994 and as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1969 to 1970. He worked as a construction worker and eventually became a const... | {"Name": "Wally Hickel", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1969", "Term start": "December 3, 1990", "Term end": "December 5, 1994", "Lieutenant 1": "Keith Harvey Miller", "Office 2": "38th United States Secretary of the Interior", "President 2": "Richard Nixon", "Predecessor 2": "Stewart Udall", "Successor 2": "Roge... |
Admiral-General Luis Carrero Blanco (; 4 March 1904 – 20 December 1973) was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Spain's Premier and in various other high ranking offices of the Francoist dictatorship until his assassination in a... | {"Name": "Luis Carrero Blanco", "Term start": "9 June", "Term end": "20 December 1973", "Office 2": "Deputy Prime Minister of Spain", "Leader 2": "Francisco Franco", "Predecessor 2": "Agustín Muñoz Grandes", "Successor 2": "Torcuato Fernández-Miranda", "Birth name": "Luis Carrero Blanco", "Birth date": "yes 1904 03 04"... |
Count Duckula is a British children's animated comedy horror television series created by British studio Cosgrove Hall Films and produced by Thames Television as a spin-off from Danger Mouse, a series in which an early version of the Count Duckula character was a recurring villain. Count Duckula aired from 6 September ... | {"Genre": "Black comedy\n Comedy horror\n Dark fantasy", "Created by": "Brian Cosgrove\n Mark Hall", "Directed by": "Carlos Alfonso\n Chris Randall\n Keith Scoble", "Voices of": "David Jason\n Jack May\n Brian Trueman\n Jimmy Hibbert\n Barry Clayton\n Ruby Wax", "Narrated by": "Barry Clayton", "Opening theme": "\"Count... |
George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, (7 February 1923 - 11 July 2011), styled The Honourable George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, was a British classical music administrator and author. He served as director of the Royal Opera House (1951-1953; 1969-1972), chairman... | {"Name": "The Earl of Harewood", "Birth name": "George Henry Hubert Lascelles", "Birth date": "1923 2 7 yes", "Birth place": "Chesterfield House, London, England", "Death date": "2011 7 11 1923 2 7 yes", "Death place": "Harewood House, Leeds, Yorkshire, England", "Resting place": "All Saints Church, Harewood, Yorkshire... |
Roy Rothschild Neuberger (July 21, 1903 - December 24, 2010) was an American financier who contributed money to raise public awareness of modern art through his acquisition of pieces he deemed worthy. He was a co-founder of the investment firm Neuberger Berman. Roy Neuberger served for several decades as Honorary Trust... | {"Name": "Roy Neuberger", "Caption": "Roy Neuberger (center, seated) receiving the National Medal of Arts from George W. Bush Nov. 15, 2007.", "Birth name": "Roy Rothschild Neuberger", "Birth date": "1903 7 21", "Birth place": "Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.", "Death date": "2010 12 24 1903 7 21", "Death place": "New Yo... |
Hushmail is an encrypted proprietary web-based email service offering PGP-encrypted e-mail and vanity domain service. Hushmail uses OpenPGP standards. If public encryption keys are available to both recipient and sender (either both are Hushmail users or have uploaded PGP keys to the Hush keyserver), Hushmail can conve... | {"URL": "Hushmail.com", "Commercial": "Yes", "Registration": "Required", "Created by": "Cliff Baltzley", "Launched": "1999", "Current status": "Online"} |
The IFAF World Championship of Football (also known as the IFAF World Cup) is an international gridiron competition held every four years and contested by teams representing member nations. The competition is run by the International Federation of American Football (IFAF), the international governing body for the spor... | {"Title": "IFAF World Championship of American Football", "Upcoming season": "2025 IFAF World Championship", "Sport": "American football", "Founded": "1999", "Teams": "12 (tournament)71 (eligible national teams)", "Champion": "United States (3rd title)", "Most titles (player)": "United States (3 titles)", "Official web... |
Bushmeat is meat from wildlife species that are hunted for human consumption. Bushmeat represents
a primary source of animal protein and a cash-earning commodity for inhabitants of humid tropical forest regions in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Bushmeat is an important food resource in poor, rural communities.
The nu... | {"Name of food": "Bushmeat", "Image filename": "Bushmeat - Buschfleisch Ghana.JPG", "Image caption": "Bushmeat is often smoked to preserve it", "Alternate name": "Wild meat, wild game", "Main ingredient": "Wildlife", "No recipes": "false"} |
Simchat Torah or Simhat Torah (, lit., "Rejoicing with/of the Torah", Ashkenazi: Simchas Torah) is a Jewish holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle. Simchat Torah is a component of the Biblical Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret ("Ei... | {"Official name": "he שמחת תורה", "Also called": "Translation: 'Rejoicing with/of the Torah'", "Observed by": "Jews", "Next time": "22nd (outside of Israel 23rd) day of Tishrei", "Celebrations": "Dancing in synagogue as all the Torah scrolls are carried around in seven circuits (hakafot); melakha (work) is prohibited",... |
General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox, 4th Duke of Aubigny, (9 December 176428 August 1819) was a British peer, soldier, politician and Governor-General of British North America.
Background
Richmond was born to General Lord George Lennox, the younger son of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richm... | {"Name": "The Duke of Richmond and Lennox", "Image size": "200px", "Order 2": "Governor General of British North America", "Monarch 2": "George III", "Predecessor 2": "Sir John Coape Sherbrooke", "Successor 2": "The Earl of Dalhousie", "Birth date": "9 December 1764", "Birth place": "Gordon Castle, Scotland", "Death da... |
Elaine Brown (born March 2, 1943) is an American prison activist, writer, singer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman who is based in Oakland, California.Wheaton, Sarah (December 12, 2010), "Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones to Coordinate Protest", The New York Times. Brown briefly ran for the Gree... | {"Name": "Elaine Brown", "Caption": "Brown 1967", "Birth date": "1943 3 2 yes", "Occupation": "Activist", "Party": "Black Panther Green", "Movement": "Black Power movement", "Children": "1", "Website": "http://www.elainebrown.org"} |
The 38(t), originally known as the ČKD LT vz. 38, was a tank designed during the 1930s, which saw extensive service during World War II. Developed in Czechoslovakia by ČKD, the type was adopted by Nazi Germany following the annexation of Czechoslovakia. With the German Army and other Axis forces, the type saw service ... | {"Steeringsystem": "yes", "Place of origin": "Czechoslovakia", "Type": "Light tank", "In service": "1939-1945 (Nazi Germany), 1938-1970 (Peru)Československý tank z Peru dosedl po 74 letech na rodnou půdu Andrej Halada https://www.mocr.army.cz/informacni-servis/zpravodajstvi/ceskoslovensky-tank-z-peru-dosedl-po-74-letec... |
Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestler. Regarded by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair has had a career spanning over 50 years.
He is noted for his tenures with Jim Crockett Promotions ... | {"Name": "Ric Flair", "Caption": "Flair in November 2019", "Birth date": "1949 2 25", "Birth place": "Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.", "Occupation": "Professional wrestling manager professional wrestler", "Years active": "1972-present", "Spouse(s)": "Leslie Goodman 1971 1983 divorced Elizabeth Harrell 1983 2006 divorced Tiff... |
is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, in Kumamoto Prefecture. It was a large and well fortified castle. The is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960, but several ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle. Kumamoto Castle is considered one of the three premier castles in Japan, alo... | {"Type": "Azuchi-Momoyama castle", "Built": "1467 (original fortifications) \n1496 (expansion) \n1601-1607 (expansion) \n1610 (Honmaru Goten Palace) \n1960 (reconstruction) \n1998-2008 (reconstruction) \n2016-present (repairs following Earthquake damage)", "Built by": "Ideta Hidenobu (1467) \nKanokogi Chikakazu (1496) ... |
George R. Crook (September 8, 1828 - March 21, 1890) was a career United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. He is best known for commanding U.S. forces in the 1886 campaign that led to the defeat of the Apache leader Geronimo. As a result, the Apache nicknamed Crook Nantan Lup... | {"Born": "Taylorsville, Ohio, US", "Died": "Chicago, Illinois, US", "Nickname(s)": "Nantan Lupan, which means \"Grey Wolf\"; “Three Stars” to the Lakota", "Allegiance": "United States of AmericaUnion", "Spouse(s)": "Mary Tapscott Dailey", "Commands held": "36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry RegimentKanawha DivisionArmy of We... |
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William Woods Averell (November 5, 1832 – February 3, 1900) was a career United States Army officer and a cavalry general in the American Civil War. He was the only Union general to achieve a major victory against the Confederates in the Valley Campaigns of 1864 prior to the arrival of Philip Sheridan, at the Battle of... | {"Born": "Cameron, New York", "Died": "Bath, New York", "Allegiance": "United States of AmericaUnion", "Commands held": "3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry", "Other work": "U.S. Consul GeneralInventor"} |
thumb|upright=1.1|Aerial views of Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, commonly known as Camden Yards, is a baseball stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles, and the first of the "retro" major league ballparks constructed during the 1990s and ... | {"Location": "Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.", "Coordinates": "39 17 2 N 76 37 18 W type:landmark inline,title", "Broke ground": "June 28, 1989", "Opened": "April 6, 1992", "Operator": "Maryland Stadium Authority", "Surface": "Kentucky Blue Grass", "Architect": "HOK Sport (now Populous)", "Project manager": "Lehrer McGovern... |
Deryck Jason Whibley (born 21 March 1980), nicknamed Bizzy D, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, main songwriter, producer, founder and only constant member of the rock band Sum 41.
Recording career
Sum 41
150px... | {"Name": "Deryck Whibley", "Caption": "Whibley performing in 2023", "Birth name": "Deryck Jason Whibley", "Birth date": "1980 03 21 y", "Birth place": "Scarborough, Ontario, Canada", "Other names": "Bizzy D", "Spouse(s)": "Avril Lavigne 2006 2010 div Ariana Cooper 30 August 2015", "Children": "2", "Occupation": "Musici... |
James Black (May 1, 1800 - June 22, 1872) was an American knifemaker best known for his improvements to the Bowie knife designed by Jim Bowie.
Early life
James Black was born on May 1, 1800 in Hackensack, New Jersey. James' mother died when he was very young and he had difficulty getting along with his stepmother. Bla... | {"Name": "James Black", "Birth date": "May 1, 1800", "Birth place": "Hackensack, New Jersey", "Death date": "June 22, 1872 (aged 72)", "Death place": "Washington, Arkansas", "Occupation": "Knifemaker, bladesmith", "Spouse(s)": "Anne Shaw", "Awards": "Blade Cutlery Hall of Fame"} |
Jean-Jacques Bertrand (; June 20, 1916 - February 22, 1973) was the 21st premier of Quebec, from October 2, 1968, to May 12, 1970. He led the Union Nationale party.
Member of the legislature
Bertrand served as Member of the Legislative Assembly for the District of Missisquoi from 1948 until his death in 1973.
Member... | {"Name": "Jean-Jacques Bertrand", "Birth date": "1916 6 20 y", "Birth place": "Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, Canada", "Death date": "1973 02 22 1916 06 20", "Death place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Lieutenant governor 1": "Hugues Lapointe", "Premier 2": "Daniel Johnson Sr.", "Office 2": "Deputy Premier of Quebec"... |
Francis Daniel Johnson Sr. (April 9, 1915 - September 26, 1968) was a Canadian politician and the 20th premier of Quebec from 1966 to his death in 1968.
Background
Johnson was born in Danville, Quebec, Canada. He was the son of Francis Johnson, an anglophone labourer of Irish heritage, and Marie-Adéline Daniel, a Fr... | {"Image caption": "Francis Daniel Johnson", "Term start": "June 16, 1966", "Term end": "September 26, 1968", "Lieutenant governor": "Hugues Lapointe", "Birth name": "Francis Daniel Johnson Sr.", "Birth date": "1915 4 9 y", "Birth place": "Danville, Quebec, Canada", "Death date": "1968 09 26 1915 04 09", "Death place": ... |
Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), also known as AgBank, is one of the "Big Four" banks in China. It was founded on 10 July 1951, and has its headquarters in Dongcheng District, Beijing."Contact Us ." Agricultural Bank of China. Retrieved on February 27, 2014. "Address:No.69, Jianguomen Nei Avenue, Dongcheng District, B... | {"Type": "Public", "ISIN": "n y CNE100000RJ0 n y CNE100000Q43", "Founded": "y 1951 7 10", "Headquarters": "Beijing, China", "Industry": "Financial services", "Products": "Finance and insurance, consumer banking, corporate banking, investment banking, investment management, global wealth management, private equity, mort... |
Joseph Koo Kar-Fai (; 25 February 1931 - 3 January 2023) was a Hong Kong composer. He used the pen name Moran (莫然) for Mandarin songs early in his career. According to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Koo was one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong.
Early life
Koo was born in Canton, China and mi... | {"Name": "Joseph Koo", "Caption": "Koo in 2014", "Native name": "顧嘉煇", "Native name language": "zh", "Post-nominals": "MBE GBS", "Birth name": "Koo Kar-fai (顧嘉煇)", "Birth date": "1931 2 25 y", "Birth place": "Canton, China", "Death date": "2023 01 03 1931 2 25 y", "Death place": "Richmond Hospital, Richmond, Canada", "... |
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (TK981/THY981) was a scheduled flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to London Heathrow Airport, with an intermediate stop at Orly Airport in Paris. On 3 March 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the flight crashed into the Ermenonville Forest, outside Paris, killing all 346 people o... | {"Date": "1974 03 03 y", "Summary": "Cargo door failure due to design flaw, leading to explosive decompression, destruction of control systems and loss of control", "Site": "49 08.5 N 002 38 E region:FR-60_type:event_scale:100000 inline,title", "Flight origin": "Yeşilköy AirportIstanbul, Turkey", "Stopover": "Orly Airp... |
is a Japanese mobility manufacturer that produces motorcycles, motorboats, outboard motors, and other motorized products. The company was established in 1955 upon separation from Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (currently Yamaha Corporation) and is headquartered in Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. The company conducts development, produ... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "1955 5 1 y", "Headquarters": "Japan", "Industry": "Automotive", "Products": "Motorcycles, commuter vehicles & scooters, recreational vehicles, boats, marine engines, snowmobiles, small tractors, personal watercraft, electrically power assisted bicycles, automobile engines, unmanned aerial... |
Ermenonville () is a commune in the Oise department, northern France.INSEE commune file Ermenonville is notable for its park named for Jean-Jacques Rousseau by René Louis de Girardin. Rousseau's tomb was designed by the painter Hubert Robert, and sits on the Isle of Poplars in its lake.
History
In 1974 Turkish Airline... | {"Name": "Ermenonville", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "Castle of Ermenonville", "Arrondissement": "Senlis", "Canton": "Nanteuil-le-Haudouin", "Postal code": "60950", "Mayor": "Jean-Michel CazeresRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e5... |
Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino (6 October 1935 - 18 April 2018) was an Italian-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF, now WWE). There, he held the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship (now known as the WWE Championship) for more than 11 years (4... | {"Birth name": "Bruno Leopoldo Francesco SammartinoNational Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling https://archive.org/details/nationalwrestlin00horn limited Hornbaker Tim 186-187 ECW Press 2007 978-1-55022-741-3", "Ring name(s)": "Bruno Sammartino", "Billed height": "5 ft 10 ... |
Nathan Irving Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017) was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media. Hentoff was a columnist for The Village Voice from 1958 to 2009. Following his departure from The Village Voice, Hentoff became a senior fellow at the Ca... | {"Name": "Nat Hentoff", "Birth name": "Nathan Irving Hentoff", "Birth date": "1925 06 10", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "2017 1 7 1925 6 10", "Death place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Northeastern UniversityHarvard UniversitySorbonne University", "Children": "4", "Occ... |
Phyllis Ayame Whitney (September 9, 1903 - February 8, 2008Leimbach, Dulcie."Phyllis A. Whitney, Author, Dies at 104". The New York Times. 9 February 2008.) was an American mystery writer of more than 70 novels.
Born in Yokohama, Japan to American parents in 1903, she spent her early years in Asia. After the death of... | {"Name": "Phyllis A. Whitney", "Birth date": "1903 9 9", "Birth place": "Yokohama, Japan", "Death date": "2008 2 8 1903 9 9", "Death place": "Faber, Virginia, United States", "Occupation": "Author", "Years active": "1941-2008"} |
Rex Lloyd Lease (February 11, 1903 – January 3, 1966) was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in Poverty Row westerns.
Biography
The lease arrived in Hollywood in 1924. He found bit and supporting parts at Film Booking Office (FBO), Rayart, and more, and was given the opportunity to play a few lea... | {"Name": "Rex Lease", "Caption": "Lease with Vera Reynolds on lobby card for Borrowed Wives, 1930", "Birth date": "1903 02 11", "Birth place": "Central City, West Virginia, U.S.", "Death date": "1966 01 03 1903 02 11", "Death place": "Van Nuys, California, U.S.", "Other names": "Rex Lloyd Lease", "Occupation": "Actor",... |
Ladislas Starevich (, ; August 8, 1882 - February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Following the Russian Revolution, Starevich settled in F... | {"Name": "Ladislas Starevich", "Birth name": "Władysław Starewicz", "Birth date": "1882 08 08", "Birth place": "Moscow, Russian Empire", "Death date": "1965 02 26 1882 08 08", "Death place": "Fontenay-sous-Bois, France", "Nationality": "Russian, PolishRichard Neupert. French Animation History. Wiley Blackwell. 2011. p.... |
Dexamethasone is a glucocorticoid medication used to treat rheumatic problems, a number of skin diseases, severe allergies, asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, croup, brain swelling, eye pain following eye surgery, superior vena cava syndrome (a complication of some forms of cancer), and along with antibiotics in... | {"Trade name": "Decadron, Ozurdex, Dexycu, others", "AHFS": "monograph dexamethasone", "Pregnancycategory": "A (oral); C (parenteral)", "Routes ofadministration": "By mouth, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, intraosseous, intravitreal, eye drop", "Metabolism": "Urine (65%)", "IUPHAR/BPS": "2768"} |
Crystal Space is an unmaintained framework for developing 3D applications written in C++ by Jorrit Tyberghein and others. The first public release was on August 26, 1997. It is typically used as a game engine but the framework is more general and can be used for any kind of 3D visualization. It is very portable and r... | {"Developer(s)": "Jorrit Tyberghein et al.", "Initial release": "1997 08 26http://gothapedia.com/manual/root/home/user/development/cs-SVN/trunk-old/docs/history.old History gothapedia.com October 21, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071021012040/http://gothapedia.com/manual/root/home/user/development/cs-SVN/trunk... |
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is an inter-governmental organization that aims to enhance cooperation between countries and territories of Oceania, including formation of a trade bloc and regional peacekeeping operations. It was founded in 1971 as the South Pacific Forum (SPF), and changed its name in 1999 to "Pacific... | {"Conventional long name": "Pacific Islands Forum", "Symbol type": "Logo", "Symbol width": "100px", "Map caption": "Membership (dark blue) of the Pacific Islands Forum.", "Administrative center type": "Seat of Secretariat", "Administrative center": "Fiji Suva", "Leader 1 title": "Forum Chair", "Leader 1 name": "Cook Is... |
right|thumb|250px|Chikugo River in Kurume, Fukuoka
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The flows through Kumamoto, Ōita, Fukuoka and Saga prefectures in Japan. With a total length of , it is the longest river on Kyūshū. It flows from Mount Aso and empties into the Ariake Sea. It is also nicknamed "Chikushijirō".
The upper reaches of t... | {"Native name": "ja 筑後川", "Location": "Ariake Sea", "Mouth": "0 m ft on", "Basin size": "2860 km2 sqmi on"} |
The Limpinwood Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve that is located on the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The reserve was gazetted in April 1963 with additions made in 1967, over former fauna and crown reserves, and further additions were made in 1988 to make the reserve to its... | {"Type": "protected", "Name": "Limpinwood Nature Reserve", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Locator Map Set to Relief Map": "1", "Coordinates": "28 17 56 S 153 10 26 E inline,title", "Established": "1963 04 y", "Area": "26.46", "Area Footnotes": "http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/NationalParks/parkHome.aspx?id=N0444 Limpi... |
Air Lithuania (, literally: Air Company "Lithuania") was a regional airline based in Kaunas in Lithuania.Home page. Air Lithuania. 6 August 2002. Retrieved on 15 January 2010. It operated scheduled and charter flights, provided cargo services and aircraft rental. Its main bases were Kaunas International Airport (KUN) a... | {"Airline name": "Air Lithuania", "Image size (px)": "200", "IATA Designator": "TT", "ICAO Designator": "KLA", "Callsign": "KAUNAS", "Founded": "13 September 1991", "Ceased operations": "23 November 2005", "Major hubs": "Kaunas International Airport", "Secondary hubs": "Palanga International Airport", "Current Fleet Si... |
Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in Northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, the Neuengamme camp became the largest concentration camp in Northwest Germany.... | {"Location": "Hamburg, Northern Germany", "Operated by": "Schutzstaffel (SS)", "Commandant": "Walter Eisfeld (February 1940 - March 1940)\n Martin Gottfried Weiss (April 1940 - August 1942)\n Max Pauly (September 1942 - 4 May 1945)", "Operational": "1938-1945", "Number of inmates": "106,000", "Killed": "42,900", "Liber... |
The Saab 96 is an automobile manufactured and marketed by Saab from 1960 to January 1980, replacing the 93. The 96 featured aerodynamic two-door bodywork, four-passenger seating and at first a two-stroke, three-cylinder engine, later a four-stroke V4.
Body design
thumb|1961 Saab 96 De Luxe
right|thumb|Rear view of a 1... | {"Manufacturer": "Saab Automobile", "Production": "1960-1980", "Assembly": "Sweden: Trollhättan (Trollhättan Assembly) Finland: Uusikaupunki (Saab-Valmet) Belgium: Antwerp", "Designer": "Sixten Sason", "Class": "Compact", "Body style": "2-door sedan Michael Sedgwick Mark Gillies A to Z of Cars 1945 to 1970 Ha... |
Orthodox Celts is a Serbian band formed in Belgrade in 1992 which plays Irish folk music combined with rock elements. Despite their uncharacteristic genre in their home country, the band is one of the top acts of the Serbian rock scene and has influenced several younger Serbian bands, most notably Irish Stew of Sindid... | {"Origin": "Belgrade, Serbia", "Genres": "Irish folk\n Celtic rock", "Labels": "Take It Or Leave It Records, ITMM, Metropolis Records, Automatik, O'Celts Records", "Website": "www.orthodoxcelts.com", "Members": "Aleksandar PetrovićDejan LalićNikola StanojevićVladan JovkovićDejan GrujićDušan ŽivanovićDragan Gnjatović"} |
Gina Riley (born 6 May 1961) is an Australian actress, writer, singer and comedian, known for portraying Kim Craig in the television series Kath & Kim, and for her work in musical theatre.
Television and film
Riley became a popular television performer in the sketch shows Fast Forward, its successor Full Frontal, Big ... | {"Caption": "Riley in character as Kim Craig at the Kath & Kimderella film premiere in August 2012", "Name": "Gina Riley", "Birth date": "yes 1961 5 6", "Birth place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupation": "Actress Writer Comedian Singer", "Years active": "1983-present", "Spouse(s)": "Rick McKenna", "Child... |
Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques (born 9 January 1973) is a Jamaican rapper and singer who is regarded as one of dancehall and reggae's most prolific artists.
Paul's singles "Get Busy" and "Temperature" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States and most of his albums have been nominated for a Grammy Awa... | {"Name": "Sean Paul", "Post-nominals": "JAM 100% OD", "Caption": "Paul at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference", "Birth name": "Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques", "Birth date": "1973 1 9 y", "Birth place": "Kingston, Jamaica", "Occupation": "Rapper singer songwriter", "Years active": "1994-present", "Spous... |
Du Mu (; 803-852) was a Chinese calligrapher, poet, and politician who lived during the late Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Muzhi (), and art name Fanchuan (). Encyclopedia of China (Chinese Literature Edition) He is best known for his lyrical and romantic quatrains.
Regarded as a major poet during a golden age ... | {"Born": "803", "Died": "852", "Occupation": "Calligrapher, poet, politician", "Nationality": "Chinese", "Period": "Tang dynasty"} |
Mahmoud Al-Zoubi (; 1935 - 21 May 2000) was Prime Minister of Syria from 1 November 1987 to 7 March 2000.
Early life
Al-Zoubi was born into the Hasanite Al-Zoubi clan which is a Sunni family in 1935 in Khirbet Ghazaleh, a village 75 miles south of Damascus in the Hauran region.
Prime Minister of Syria
Al-Zoubi was a ... | {"Name": "Mahmoud Al-Zoubi", "Term start": "1 November 1987", "Term end": "7 March 2000", "Birth date": "1935", "Birth place": "Khirbet Ghazaleh, Syria", "Death date": "21 May 2000 (aged 64-65)", "Death place": "Damascus, Syria", "Resting place": "Khirbat Ghazalah", "Other political party": "National Progressive Front"... |
The Saab 93 (pronounced ninety-three) is the second production automobile that was manufactured by Saab. Styled by Sixten Sason, it was first presented on December 1, 1955. The 93 was powered by a longitudinally-mounted three-cylinder 748 cc Saab two-stroke engine giving 33 hp (25 kW). The gearbox had three gears, the ... | {"Manufacturer": "Saab Automobile", "Also called": "Saab 93b Saab 93f", "Production": "1956-1960", "Assembly": "Sweden: Trollhättan (Trollhättan Assembly)", "Designer": "Sixten Sason", "Class": "Small family car (C)", "Body style": "2-door coupé", "Layout": "Longitudinal front-engine, front-wheel drive", "Related": "S... |
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), literally translated as National Confederation of Democratic Trade Unions, also known as Minju-nochong (; acronym for KCTU in Korean language) is a national trade union centre in South Korea officially established in 1995. Its predecessor was the National Council of Trad... | {"Name": "KCTU", "Membership": "1,134,056 (2020)FKTU becomes S. Korea's biggest umbrella union in 2020: gov't. https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20211230005700315 Yonhap News 30 December 2021 30 December 2021 ko", "Full name": "Korean Confederation of Trade Unions", "Formation": "11 November 1995", "Headquarters": "Seoul... |
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, often shortened to the Catholic League, is an American Catholic organization whose stated purpose is to "defend the right of Catholics - lay and clergy alike - to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination.""About Us" on the Catholic Leag... | {"Founded at": "Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US", "Legal status": "501(c)(3) organization", "Headquarters": "New York City, New York, US", "Website": "https://www.catholicleague.org/"} |
Ian Andrew Robert Stewart (18 July 1938 - 12 December 1985) was a Scottish keyboardist and co-founder of the Rolling Stones. He was removed from the line-up in May 1963 at the request of manager Andrew Loog Oldham who felt he did not fit the band's image. He remained as road manager and pianist for over two decades unt... | {"Born": "Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland", "Died": "London, England", "Genres": "Rock \nboogie-woogie", "Formerly of": "The Rolling Stones Rocket 88"} |
Lucky Leif and the Longships is a 1975 record album by Robert Calvert, produced by Brian Eno.
It is a concept album dealing with how American culture might have been different had the Vikings managed to colonise the continent. The album is a tour through various styles of American music ("The Lay of the Surfers" is a ... | {"Released": "September 1975", "Recorded": "April 1975", "Studio": "Island Studios, London", "Genre": "Rock", "Label": "United Artists", "Producer": "Brian Eno"} |
Leah (; ) appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has three more sons, namely Simeon, Levi and Judah, but does not bear another son u... | {"Caption": "Michelangelo's Leah at the tomb of Pope Julius II at San Pietro in Vincoli", "Name": "Leah", "Native name": "לֵאָה", "Birth place": "Paddan Aram, Aram-Naharaim(present-day Harran, Turkey)", "Death place": "Canaan(present-day Israel and Palestine)", "Spouse(s)": "Jacob", "Children": "Reuben (son)\n Simeon (... |
Hailes Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey, in the small village of Hailes, two miles northeast of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. It was founded in 1246 as a daughter establishment of Beaulieu Abbey. The abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. Little remains of the abbey. It is a Grade I listed building and a... | {"Order": "Cistercian", "Established": "1246", "Disestablished": "Christmas Eve 1539", "Mother house": "Beaulieu Abbey", "Founder(s)": "Richard, Earl of Cornwall", "Location": "Parish of Stanway, Gloucestershire, England", "Coordinates": "51 58 6 N 1 55 41 W region:GB_type:landmark inline, title", "Public access": "Yes... |
Greenwich station is about 400 m south-west of the district centre, in London, England. It is an interchange between National Rail between central London and Dartford (north Kent), and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) between Lewisham to the south and Docklands and the City of London. It is in Travelcard Zones 2 and 3... | {"External links": "GNW", "Managed by": "Docklands Light Railway", "Owner": "Transport for London", "Fare zone": "3\n<!--", "2015-16": "3.675", "2016-17": "2.818-->", "2017-18": "2.534", "2018-19": "3.623", "2019-20": "3.770", "2020-21": "0.867", "2021-22": "2.061\n<!--", "2007-08": "4.131", "2008-09": "3.598", "2010-1... |
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a free-to-air television network airing in Greece. The alternate spelling is wordplay in Greek; ena (ένα) is the Greek number 1 (one), thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna (Αντέννα). It launched on 31 December 1989, and is owned by Antenna Group. ANT1 had been a popular network ... | {"Launched": "31 December 1989", "Picture format": "1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 aspect ratio 576i for the SDTV feed)", "Owner": "Antenna TV Single Member S.A. (Media Capital Partners ICAV, a subsidiary of Antenna Greece BV)https://www.e-tetradio.gr/Article/33980/sto-metohiko-shhma-toy-ant1-kai-toy-makedonia-tv-to-mb... |
Retro is a 2002 box set of music by the English band New Order. It comprises four themed CDs. In the UK, initial quantities came with a fifth disc which featured tracks with limited release numbers.
History
The box set was released as a compromise. The band's manager, Rob Gretton, had originally envisioned a box set c... | {"Released": "2002 12 9 y", "Recorded": "1981-2002", "Genre": "Rock, house, synthpop", "Label": "London", "Producer": "New Order, Martin Hannett, John Robie, Stephen Hague, Steven Osbourne"} |
Alter Channel, better known as Alter, was a private TV channel in Greece. It was launched in 1990 and owned by Eleftheri Tileorasi S.A. and was headed by Andreas Kouris. Alter's programming mainly consisted of news, current affairs shows and entertaining programs.
Alter featured news anchor Nikos Hadjinikolaou, mornin... | {"Launched": "1990", "Closed": "26 January 2012 (NOVA)10 February 2012 (analog & digital)26 April 2012 (the station was still operating)November 2012 (OTE TV via Conn-X)11 October 2013 (the building of ALTER Channel was sealed)", "Picture format": "4:3 (576i, SDTV)", "Owner": "Eleutheri Tileorasi S.A.", "Country": "Gre... |
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (, ), also referred to as the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, was a totalitarian Islamic state led by the Taliban that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. At its peak, the Taliban government controlled approximately 90% of the country, while remaining regions in the nor... | {"Native name": "ps د افغانستان اسلامي امارتps Da Afġānistān Islāmī Amārāt", "Conventional long name": "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", "Map caption": "The Islamic Emirate at the height of its territorial control in 2001, in green", "Capital": "Kabul", "Largest city": "Kabul", "National motto": "ar لا إله إلا الله محم... |
Thomas Alexander Crerar, (June 17, 1876 - April 11, 1975) was a western Canadian politician and a leader of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada. He was born in Molesworth, Ontario, and moved to Manitoba at a young age.
Early career
Crerar rose to prominence as leader of the Manitoba Grain Growers' Associatio... | {"Name": "Thomas Crerar", "Image caption": "The Honourable Thomas Alexander Crerar in August 1919", "Birth name": "Thomas Alexander Crerar", "Birth date": "1876 6 17", "Birth place": "Molesworth, Ontario", "Death date": "1975 4 11 1876 6 17", "Death place": "Victoria, British Columbia", "Term start": "1917", "Term end"... |
Lough Derg or Loch Derg ()Placenames Database of Ireland is a lake in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. It is near the border with Northern Ireland and lies about north of the border village of Pettigo. It is best known for St Patrick's Purgatory, a site of pilgrimage on Station Island in the lake.
The lake is abo... | {"Native name": "ga Loch Dearg", "Location": "County Donegal, Ireland", "Coordinates": "54 36 50 N 7 52 20 W region:IE_type:waterbody inline,title", "Catchment area": "35.14 km2 1 on", "Basin": "Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland", "Surface elevation": "140 m on", "References": "http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/resear... |
Don Valley Stadium was a sports stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The venue, which was completed in September 1990, hosted the 1991 World Student Games. It was designed by Sheffield City Council's Design & Building Services and named after the nearby River Don. It was demolished in 2013.
The stadium and ... | {"Location": "Worksop Road, Sheffield, England S9 3TL", "Opened": "September 1990", "Renovated": "2008", "Closed": "29 September 2013", "Demolished": "21 November 2013 - May 2014", "Owner": "Sheffield City Trust", "Operator": "Sheffield International Venues", "Surface": "Grass", "Construction cost": "£29 million", "Arc... |
The Burroughs Large Systems Group produced a family of large 48-bit mainframes using stack machine instruction sets with dense syllables.E.g., 12-bit syllables for B5000, 8-bit syllables for B6500 The first machine in the family was the B5000 in 1961, which was optimized for compiling ALGOL 60 programs extremely well, ... | {"Name": "Burroughs ALGOL", "Family": "ALGOL", "Designed by": "John McClintock, others", "Developer": "Burroughs Corporation", "Initial release date": "1962<!-- If known, add", "Is discontinued?": "Yes", "Platform": "Burroughs large systems", "Operating system": "Burroughs MCP", "Influenced by": "ALGOL 60", "Influenced... |
Walla Walla (), Walawalałáma ("People of Walula region along Walla Walla River"), sometimes Walúulapam, are a Sahaptin indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau. The duplication in their name expresses the diminutive form. The name Walla Walla is translated several ways but most often as "many waters"."Indian Names Of... | {"Name": "Walla Walla people", "Image caption": "Illustration of Sahaptin tribal representatives to Washington D.C. in 1890", "Population": "383 (2010)https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_AIAN/AIANDP1//popgroup~4G2%7C9H1?slice=POPGROUP~9H1 2010 Census American Indian and Alaska Native Summary File Ame... |
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ga/J604728 was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it merged with Time Warner (later WarnerMedia) on October 10, 1996. As of April 2022, all of its assets are now owned by Warner ... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Entertainment Cable television Mass media Interactive media", "Formerly": "Turner Communications Group (1965-1979)", "Fate": "Assets dispersed to other WarnerMedia/Warner Bros. Discovery divisions", "Founded": "1965 05 12", "Headquarters": "United States", "Brands": "TBS\n Turner Cla... |
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on Thursday 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for overseas votes to be brought to Britain. The governing Conservative Party sought to maintain... | {"Name": "1945 United Kingdom general election", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1935 United Kingdom general election", "Previous year": "1935", "Outgoing members": "List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1935", "Next election": "1950 Un... |
Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public college of applied arts and technology located in Hamilton, Ontario. Established in 1966, the college currently has five main campuses: the Fennell Campus on the Hamilton Mountain, the Marshall School of Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Campus in Stoney Creek, ... | {"Motto": "Scientia Opus Omnium", "Type": "Public", "Endowment": "232 yesmillion (2021)2020-2021 ANNUAL REPORT https://www.mohawkcollege.ca/sites/default/files/accessible-pdf/college-reports-documents/2020-2021_Mohawk_College_Annual_Report-FINAL.pdf live December 3, 2021 Mohawk College 16 en-CA", "Chair": "Bill Chishol... |
DePatie-Freling Enterprises (also known as Mirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng Productions when involved with the Mirisch brothers and Geoffrey Productions, and DFE Films) was an American animation production company that was active from 1963 to 1981. Based in Burbank, California, DFE produced animation for film and telev... | {"Type": "Partnership", "Fate": "Partnership dissolved. Acquired and renamed by Marvel to Marvel Productions. Intellectual properties were acquired by various entities since Friz Freleng's death.", "Founded": "1963 5", "Defunct": "1981", "Headquarters": "United States", "Industry": "Animation", "Products": "Television ... |
thumb|right|Location of Daraa city in the namesake district and governorate.
Daraa (, Levantine Arabic: , also Darʿā, Dara’a, Deraa, Dera'a, Dera, Derʿā and Edrei; means "fortress", compare Dura-Europos) is a city in southwestern Syria, located about north of the border with Jordan. It is the capital of Daraa Governo... | {"Density": "97,969", "Metro density": "146,481", "DST": "+3", "Website": "http://www.esyria.sy/edaraa/"} |
GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. With its hub at Union Station in Toronto, GO Transit's green-and-white trains and buses serve a population of more than seven million across an area over stretching from London in the west to Peterborough in ... | {"Name": "GO Transit", "Size of first image": "150px", "Size of second image": "300px", "Third image caption": "A GO Train and a GO Bus at Union Station.", "Owner(s)": "Government of Ontario (through Metrolinx)", "Operator(s)": "Alstom", "Reporting mark(s)": "GOT", "Host railroad(s)": "Canadian National RailwayCanadian... |
The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (= western bulwark), was a German defensive line built during the 1930s (started 1936) opposite the French Maginot Line. It stretched more than from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on th... | {"Type": "Fortification", "Built": "1936", "Built by": "German Army\n Named (in English) after the Siegfriedstellung (or Hindenburg Line), a First World War system of defences. Macdonald Charles B 1993 The Siegfried Line Campaign https://history.army.mil/html/books/007/7-7-1/CMH_Pub_7-7-1.pdf Center of Military His... |
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery (April 15, 1933 - May 18, 1995) was an American actress whose career spanned five decades in film, stage, and television. She portrayed the good witch Samantha Stephens on the popular television series Bewitched, which earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe ... | {"Name": "Elizabeth Montgomery", "Birth name": "Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery", "Caption": "Montgomery circa 1967", "Birth date": "1933 4 15https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/bewitched/images/3846501/title/elizabeth-montgomery-s-samantha-death-certificate-photo Bewitched Photo: Elizabeth Montgomery 's(Samantha) Death Certif... |
Mohammad Qasim Fahim (, popularly known as "Marshal Fahim"; 1957 - 9 March 2014) was a military commander and politician in Afghanistan who served as Vice President from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death.Karzai registers for re-election, BBC News (4 May 2009) He was considered a power... | {"Name": "Mohammad Fahim", "Native name": "محمد فهیم", "Image caption": "Fahim in 2004", "Term start": "19 November 2009", "Term end": "9 March 2014", "Order 2": "Minister of Defence", "President 2": "Burhanuddin RabbaniHamid Karzai", "Predecessor 2": "Ahmad Shah Massoud", "Successor 2": "Abdurrahim Wardak", "Birth dat... |
MEGA Channel, also known as MEGA TV or just MEGA, is a television network in Greece, that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It is the first and the oldest private television network in Greece.
History
Mega Channel (1989-2018)
thumb|left|Old Mega Channel logo(1989-1999)
Mega is the first private telev... | {"Launched": "20 November 198917 February 2020 (relaunch)", "Picture format": "1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 aspect ratio 576i for the SDTV feed)", "Owner": "Evangelos Marinakis", "Country": "Greece", "Language(s)": "Greek", "Broadcast area": "Domestic", "Affiliates": "Aggeliki Nikolouli Andreas Georgiou Anthi Voulg... |
Herzeleid (; "Heartbreak") is the debut studio album by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, first released on 25 September 1995 via Motor Music.
Production and writing
After signing up with Motor Music, the band was instructed to search for a producer, a position they didn't even know about since it wasn't usua... | {"Released": "1995 9 25 y", "Recorded": "1994-1995", "Studio": "Polar Studios (Stockholm)", "Genre": "Neue Deutsche Härte\n industrial metal", "Label": "Motor", "Producer": "Jacob Hellner\n Carl-Michael Herlöfsson"} |
Mutter (; English: "Mother") is the third studio album by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. It was released on 2 April 2001 through Motor and Universal Music. The album's cover image is a photograph of a dead fetus, which was taken by Daniel & Geo Fuchs. The album has yielded six singles which, to date, are th... | {"Released": "2 April 2001", "Recorded": "May and June 2000", "Studio": "Miraval (Correns)", "Genre": "Neue Deutsche Härte industrial metal", "Label": "Motor Universal", "Producer": "Jacob Hellner Rammstein"} |
Erichthonius (; Ancient Greek: Ἐριχθόνιος) of Dardania was a mythical king of Dardanus in Greek mythology. He was the son of Dardanus and Batea (in some other legends his mother is said to be, Olizone, daughter of PhineusDictys Cretensis, 3.5 & 4.22). He was the brother of Ilus and Zacynthus.Dionysius of Halicarnassus,... | {"Parents": "(1) Dardanus and Batea (or Arisbe)(2) Dardanus and Olizone", "Siblings": "Ilus I, Zacynthus, and (possibly) Idaea", "Successor": "Tros", "Predecessor": "Dardanus or Ilus I"} |
The Argument is the sixth and most recent studio album from the post-hardcore band Fugazi released on October 16, 2001, through Dischord Records. It was recorded at Don Zientara's Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA and the Dischord House between January and April 2001. It was the band's last release (simultaneously wit... | {"Released": "October 16, 2001", "Recorded": "January-April 2001", "Studio": "Inner Ear Studios, Dischord House, Arlington, Virginia", "Genre": "Post-hardcorehttps://www.treblezine.com/23505-10-essential-21st-century-post-hardcore-albums/ 10 Essential 21st Century post-hardcore albums Treblezine.com 2015-05-28 2018... |
The Quartering Acts were two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of Britain's North American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. Each of the Quartering Acts was an amendment to the Mutiny Act and required annual renewal by Parliament.William Winthrop, Military Law ... | {"Short title": "Mutiny, America Act 1765", "Type": "Act", "Parliament": "Parliament of Great Britain", "Long title": "An act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the ... |
The Boston Port Act, also called the Trade Act 1774,Bernstein. The Education of John Adams. OUP. 2020. p 285. was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (14 Geo. 3. c. 19) which became law on March 31, 1774, and took effect on June 1, 1774. It was one of five measures (variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Puni... | {"Parliament": "Parliament of Great Britain", "Long title": "An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, shipping of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America."... |
Francine Jordi (born Francine Lehmann, 24 June 1977) is a Swiss pop singer.
As a young child, she sang songs for Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song "Das Feuer der Sehnsucht". Jordi subsequently became a star in Switzerland wi... | {"Born": "yes 1977 6 24", "Origin": "Worb, Canton of Bern, Switzerland", "Genres": "Schlager, Volksmusik", "Website": "www.francinejordi.ch"} |
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