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Denmark Hill railway station is in the area of Denmark Hill in south London, England, on the South London and Catford Loop lines. It is down the line from . It is managed by Thameslink.
History
thumb|left|A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Denmark Hill
The station was built between 1864 and 1866. Its d... | {"External links": "DMK\n<!--", "Managed by": "Thameslink", "Fare zone": "2", "Location": "Denmark Hill", "Local authority": "London Borough of Southwark", "Number of platforms": "4", "2004-05": "1.783", "2005-06": "1.818", "2006-07": "2.749", "2007-08": "3.025", "2008-09": "3.108", "2009-10": "3.216", "2010-11": "3.61... |
Wandsworth Road railway station is a National Rail station between Battersea and Clapham in south London. It is served by London Overground services between and , with a limited service to . It is from .
History
thumb|left|A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Wandsworth Road
The station opened on 1 Mar... | {"External links": "WWR", "Managed by": "London Overground", "Fare zone": "2", "Location": "Clapham", "Local authority": "London Borough of Lambeth", "Number of platforms": "2\n<!--", "2004-05": "64,605", "2005-06": "66,787", "2006-07": "164,030", "2007-08": "138,798", "2008-09": "166,326", "2009-10": "181,014", "2010-... |
John Dickinson (November 13 [Julian calendar November 2] 1732Various sources indicate a birth date of November 8, 12 or 13, but his most recent biographer, Flower, offers November 2 without dispute. - February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was an attorney and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylv... | {"Name": "John Dickinson", "Image caption": "A 1780 portrait of Dickinson", "Vice president": "James EwingJames IrvineCharles Biddle", "Term start": "November 7, 1782", "Term end": "October 18, 1785", "Office 2": "5th President of Delaware", "Predecessor 2": "Caesar Rodney", "Successor 2": "John Cook", "Birth date": "N... |
cURL (pronounced like "curl", , ) is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for "Client for URL".
History
cURL was first released in 1996. It was originally named httpget and then became urlget befo... | {"Original author(s)": "Daniel Stenberg", "Developer(s)": "Contributors to the cURL project", "Initial release": "1996", "Written in": "C", "Platform": "Cross-platform", "Type": "web client (supports e.g. HTTPS, and FTP)", "License": "curl licensehttps://spdx.org/licenses/curl.html curl License spdx.orghttps://curl.se/... |
Calverton () is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, of some , in the Gedling district, about 7 miles north-east of Nottingham, and 10 miles south-east of Mansfield. England, and situated, like nearby Woodborough and Lambley, on one of the small tributaries of the Dover Beck. The 2021 census found 7,579 inhab... | {"Population": "(2011 census)http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=6500476&c=Calverton&d=16&e=62&g=6456891&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1400603415594&enc=1 Parish Headcounts: Calverton CP 20 May 2014 Neighbourhood Statistics Office for National Statistics", "District": "G... |
Junoon ( ) is a Pakistani sufi rock band from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and Tappan, New York, formed in 1990. The band is directed by founder, lead guitarist and songwriter, Salman Ahmad, who was soon joined by keyboardist Nusrat Hussain, bass guitarist Brian O’Connell and vocalist Ali Azmat. Junoon is Pakistan's and o... | {"Origin": "Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan", "Genres": "Sufi rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, heavy metal", "Labels": "Sadaf Stereo, EMI Records, Lips Music, Universal Music", "Members": "Salman Ahmad\n Ali Azmat\n Brian O'Connell \nTaylor Simpson\nAashiq Ali Mir"} |
Nottingham Express Transit (NET) is a tram system in Nottingham, England. The system opened to the public on 9 March 2004 and a second phase, that more than doubled the size of the total system, opened on 25 August 2015, having been initially planned to open two years earlier.
The network is operated and maintained b... | {"Name": "Nottingham Express Transit", "Second image caption": "A Citadis 302 tram at High Road - Central College tram stop in August 2015", "Area(s) served": "Nottingham", "Transit type(s)": "Tram http://www.lrta.org/world/worldu-z.html World Systems List LRTA 21 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/2015... |
The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11M) were a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004—three days before Spain's general elections and 911 days after the collapse of the World Trade Center. The ... | {"Title": "2004 Madrid train bombings", "Part of": "the spillover of the Iraq War and Islamic terrorism in Europe", "Image size": "275px", "Caption": "Remains of one of the trains, near Atocha station", "Location": "Madrid, Spain", "Target": "Madrid commuter rail network, civilians", "Date": "2004 3 11 y", "Time begin"... |
Przekop Wisły (; German: Weichseldurchstich) is a branch of the Vistula river in its delta. Its name is often shortened to just Przekop.
History
Work on the Przekop began in June 1891. 1,000 workers and 40 steam machines were dedicated to the project. of dirt was displaced from the construction site. 20 million mar... | {"Location": "Between Sobieszewo Island and Gmina Stegna, Pomeranian Voivodeship", "Country": "Poland", "Length": "7.1", "Former names": "Weichseldurchstich", "Modern name": "Przekop Wisły", "Construction began": "June 1891", "Date completed": "March 1895", "Coordinates": "54.3606 18.9501", "Start point": "Mikoszewo or... |
Bovingdon is a village in Hertfordshire, England, southwest of Hemel Hempstead, and it is a civil parish within the local authority area of Dacorum. It forms the largest part of the ward of Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield, which had a population of 4,600 at the 2001 census,National Statistics Population of Boving... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census. Bovingdon,Flaunden and Chipperfield Ward)http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13692484&c=HP1+2RN&d=14&e=62&g=6432790&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1477505967828&enc=1 Dacorum Ward population 2011 26 October 2... |
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director. Known for her roles in comedic and dramatic films and television programs, she has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Scr... | {"Name": "Kathy Bates", "Caption": "Bates in 2015", "Birth name": "Kathleen Doyle Bates", "Birth date": "1948 6 28", "Birth place": "Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Tony Campisi 1991 1997 divorced", "Years active": "1969-present", "Occupation": "Actress director", "Notable works": "Full list", "Awards": "Full ... |
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate colleges and 16 institutes in Kolkata and nearby areas. It was established on 24 January 1857 and is the oldest multidisciplinary university ... | {"Motto": "Advancement of Learning", "Type": "Public", "Chancellor": "Governor of West Bengal", "Budget": "337 c(FY2021-22 est.)http://wbfin.nic.in/writereaddata/Budget_Publication/2021_bp23.pdf Budget Publication No. 23 Government of West Bengal 2021 95 18 July 2021 27 June 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210627231... |
ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (later acquired by Adobe). It is influenced by HyperTalk, the scripting language for HyperCard. It is now an implementation of ECMAScript (meaning it is a superset of the syntax and semantics of the language more widely know... | {"Name": "ActionScript", "Paradigm": "Multi-paradigm: object-oriented (prototype-based), functional, imperative, scripting", "Initial release date": "1998", "Designer": "Gary Grossman", "Developer": "Macromedia (now dissolved into Adobe Systems)", "Latest release version": "3.0", "Latest release date": "2006 06 27", "T... |
Chongqing University (CQU; ) is a national public research university located in Chongqing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China with co-sponsorship from the Ministry of Education, Chongqing Municipal Government, and SASTIND. The university is a National Key University and a membe... | {"Motto": "zh-hans", "Type": "National Public", "President": "Dr. Zhang, Zongyi", "Students": "50,000", "Undergraduates": "28,000", "Postgraduates": "21,000", "Campus": "Three campuses (A, B, C) downtown, one campus (Huxi) in suburbs, total 347 hectares http://english.cqu.edu.cn/About1/An_overview.htm Overview Cho... |
Ælfwine the mariner is a fictional character found in various early versions of J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium. Tolkien envisaged Ælfwine as an Anglo-Saxon who visited and befriended the Elves and acted as the source of later mythology. Thus, in the frame story, Ælfwine is the stated author of the various translations... | {"First appearance": "The Book of Lost Tales", "Created by": "J. R. R. Tolkien", "Gender": "Male", "Nationality": "Anglo-Saxon", "Children": "Hengist (Cwén)Horsa (Cwén)Heorrenda (Naimi)"} |
Harold "Hal" Robert Steacy (June 7, 1923 – April 7, 2012) was a Canadian mineralogist who was the curator of the Canadian National Mineral Collection at the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa. The mineral steacyite is named for him.Dunn et al., 1983, p. 473
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Dunn, P.J., Fleischer, M., Bu... | {"Name": "Harold Robert Steacy", "Birth date": "1923 6 7", "Birth place": "Ottawa, Ontario", "Death date": "2012 4 7 1923 6 7", "Death place": "Ottawa, Ontario", "Relatives": "Digby Denham, grandfather"} |
Vermont Yankee was an electricity generating nuclear power plant, located in the town of Vernon, Vermont, in the northeastern United States. It generated 620 megawatts (MWe) of electricity at full power. The plant was a boiling water reactor (BWR), designed by General Electric. It operated from 1972 until December 29, ... | {"Status": "No longer operating as of December 29, 2014", "Coordinates": "42 46 44 N 72 30 47 W type:landmark_region:US-VT inline,title", "Reactor type": "BWR-4/Mark I containment", "Cooling source": "Connecticut River", "Annual net output": "5,060 GWh (2014)", "Website": "www.safecleanreliable.com"} |
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street law... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Genre(s)": "Short story", "Published in": "Putnam's Magazine", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Publication date": "November–December 1853"} |
Joseph Harold Grady (February 27, 1917 - January 9, 2002) was a judge and the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1959 to 1962.
Prior to running for mayor, he was an FBI agent and state's attorney for Baltimore city.MARYLAND: Harold Be Humble - TIME
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The Political Graveyard: Index to... | {"Name": "J. Harold Grady", "Term start": "1962", "Term end": "1984", "Order 2": "42nd", "Office 2": "Mayor of Baltimore", "Birth date": "1917 02 27", "Birth place": "Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania", "Death date": "2002 01 9 1917 02 27"} |
Reginald Ernest Prentice, Baron Prentice, PC (16 July 1923 - 18 January 2001) was a British politician who held ministerial office in both Labour and Conservative Party governments. He was the most senior Labour figure ever to defect to the Conservative Party.
Education and war service
Reg Prentice was born in Croydon... | {"Name": "The Lord Prentice", "Birth name": "Reginald Ernest Prentice", "Image caption": "1963\nFrontbench portfolios 1964-1981 yes", "Term start": "7 May 1979", "Term end": "5 January 1981", "Prime minister 2": "Harold Wilson", "Predecessor 2": "Arthur Bottomley", "Successor 2": "Judith Hart", "Birth date": "1923 7 16... |
Benjamin Franklin Grady (October 10, 1831 - March 6, 1914) was a teacher, US Congressman and author from North Carolina. He represented the state's 3rd district in the U.S. Congress from 1891 to 1895.
He was born near Sarecta, Duplin County, North Carolina, October 10, 1831. He married Olivia Penelope Hamilton on May ... | {"Name": "Benjamin F. Grady", "Image caption": "Benjamin F. Grady, US Representative from North Carolina", "Term start": "March 4, 1891", "Term end": "March 3, 1895", "Birth date": "1831 10 10", "Birth place": "Sarecta, North Carolina", "Death date": "1914 3 6 1831 10 10", "Death place": "Clinton, North Carolina"} |
Anzin is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.Commune d'Anzin (59014), INSEE It lies on the Scheldt, northwest of Valenciennes, of which it is a suburb.
History
Anzin was once the centre of important coal mines of the Valenciennes basin belonging to the Anzin Company, the formation of which dates to 17... | {"Name": "Anzin", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "Sainte Barbe", "Arrondissement": "Valenciennes", "Canton": "Anzin", "Postal code": "59410", "Mayor": "Pierre-Michel BernardRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503 data.gouv.fr, Platefo... |
James Harrison Wilson (September 2, 1837 - February 23, 1925) was a United States Army topographic engineer and a Union Army Major General in the American Civil War. He served as an aide to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan during the Maryland Campaign before joining Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army in the Western Theater... | {"Born": "Shawneetown, Illinois", "Died": "Wilmington, Delaware", "Allegiance": "United States of AmericaUnion", "Commands held": "Western Cavalry Corps", "Relations": "Jim Thompson (grandson)"} |
The Beretta 92G-SD and 96G-SD Special Duty handguns are semi-automatic, locked-breech delayed recoil-operated, double/single-action pistols, fitted with the heavy, wide Brigadier slide, chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge (92G-SD) and the .40 S&W cartridge (96G-SD), framed with the addition of the tactical eq... | {"Place of origin": "Italy", "Type": "Semi-automatic pistol", "Sights": "Trijicon 3-dot pressurized tritium gas, self-luminous iron sight", "Manufacturer": "Beretta", "Produced": "2002 - 2005 Now making limited run again of 500 in 2015", "Mass": "1010 g (35.3 oz) (unloaded)", "Length": "217 mm (8.5 in)", "Width": "39 m... |
James Charles Wilson (24 August 1816 - 7 February 1861) was an early settler of Texas and later a state legislator.
Wilson was born in Yorkshire, England, on August 21, 1818. He immigrated to the Republic of Texas in 1836.
In 1842 he joined Charles K. Reese in the ill-fated Somervell Expedition. Captured while servi... | {"Name": "James Charles Wilson", "Birth date": "1816 8 24", "Birth place": "Yorkshire, England", "Death date": "1861 2 7 1816 8 24", "Occupation": "Texas settler and legislator"} |
Edward Lasker (born Eduard Lasker) (December 3, 1885 – March 25, 1981) was a German-American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author of books on Go, chess and checkers. Born in Prussia, he emigrated to the United Stat... | {"Country": "German Empire (before 1917)United States (after 1917)", "Born": "Kempen, Province of Posen, Prussia, German Empire (present-day Kępno, Poland)", "Died": "New York City, New York, United States", "Title": "International Master", "Full name": "Eduard Lasker"} |
Edward Clement Davies (19 February 1884 - 23 March 1962) was a Welsh politician and leader of the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956.
Early life and education
Edward Clement Davies was born on 19 February 1884 in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was educated at the local primary school and at Llanfyllin County Sch... | {"Name": "Clement Davies", "Birth date": "19 February 1884", "Birth place": "Llanfyllin, Powys, Wales", "Death date": "1962 3 23 1884 2 19 y", "Death place": "Montgomery, Powys, Wales", "Term start": "2 August 1945", "Term end": "5 November 1956", "Predecessor 2": "Archibald Sinclair", "Successor 2": "Jo Grimond", "Alm... |
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape. S... | {"Cover artist": "Paul Gamarello", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Series": "Canopus in Argos", "Publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)\n Jonathan Cape (UK)", "Media type": "Print (hardcover)", "Pages": "448", "ISBN": "(US)0-224-01767-5 (UK)", "Preceded by": "-", "Followed by": "The Marriages Between Zo... |
thumb|300px|Patriote leader Louis-Joseph Papineau speaks to the crowd at the Assembly of the Six Counties.
The () or () was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal pr... | {"Founded": "1806", "Headquarters": "Montreal, Quebec", "Ideology": "Lower Canada nationalismCanadian reformismClassical liberalism", "Succeeded by": "fr Parti rouge"} |
Howard Jay Phillips (February 3, 1941 - April 20, 2013) was an American politician and activist. A political conservative, Phillips was a United States presidential candidate who served as the chairman of The Conservative Caucus, a conservative public policy advocacy group which he founded in 1974. Phillips was a found... | {"Name": "Howard Phillips", "Image": "Howard Phillips -v2.JPG", "Birth name": "Howard Jay Phillips", "Birth date": "1941 2 3", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "2013 4 20 1941 2 6", "Death place": "Vienna, Virginia, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Peggy Blanchard (1964-2013)", "Alma mater": "Harvard Uni... |
Isaac Doukas Komnenos (or Ducas Comnenus, c. 1155 – 1195/1196) was a claimant to the Byzantine Empire and the ruler of Cyprus from 1184 to 1191. Contemporary sources commonly refer to him as the emperor of Cyprus. He lost the island to King Richard I of England during the Third Crusade.
Family
At the death of Byzanti... | {"Mother": "Irene Komnene", "Born": "1155", "Died": "Sultanate of Rum(now in Turkey)", "Religion": "Roman Orthodox"} |
Merle Boucher (born July 19, 1946) is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party politician who served in the North Dakota House of Representatives, representing the 9th district from 1991 to 2011. He served as Minority Leader from 1996 to 2011.
Boucher sought and lost the Democratic-NPL nomination for governor in 2004 and i... | {"Name": "Merle Boucher", "Term start": "1996", "Term end": "2011", "State house 2": "North Dakota", "District 2": "9th", "Successor 2": "Marvin E. Nelson", "Birth date": "1946 7 19", "Birth place": "Rolette, North Dakota", "Spouse(s)": "Susan", "Residence": "Rolette, North Dakota", "Alma mater": "North Dakota State Un... |
William Smith Clark (July 31, 1826 - March 9, 1886) was an American professor of chemistry, botany, and zoology; a colonel during the American Civil War; and a leader in agricultural education. Raised and schooled in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Clark spent most of his adult life in Amherst, Massachusetts. He graduated... | {"Name": "William S. Clark", "Alternative text": "Head and shoulders photograph of a man in a Victorian suit. He has a beard, a large mustache and is slightly balding. He wears a serious expression and is looking slightly to the right.", "Image caption": "William S. Clark c. 1876", "Term start": "1867", "Term end": "... |
Beacon Press is an American left-wing non-profit book publisher. Founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association, it is currently a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association. It is known for publishing authors such as James Baldwin, Mary Oliver, Martin Luther King Jr., and Viktor Frankl, as well as The... | {"Founded": "1854", "Country of origin": "United States", "Headquarters location": "Boston", "Distribution": "Penguin Random House Publisher Services (worldwide)Publishers Group UK (UK)Publishers Group UK - Publishers", "Key people": "Gayatri Patnaik, director", "Official website": "http://www.beacon.org"} |
William Adamson (2 April 1863 - 23 February 1936) was a Scottish trade unionist and Labour politician. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1917 to 1921 and served as Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and during 1929-1931 in the first two Labour ministries headed by Ramsay MacDonald.
Background
Adamson was bor... | {"Name": "William Adamson", "Image caption": "Adamson in 1911", "Term start": "24 October 1917", "Term end": "14 February 1921", "Prime minister 2": "Ramsay MacDonald", "Predecessor 2": "Ronald Munro Ferguson", "Successor 2": "Sir John Gilmour", "Birth date": "2 April 1863", "Birth place": "Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland"... |
The Dewey Square Tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts, is part of Interstate 93 (concurrent with US 1 and Route 3), running under the heart of the city's financial district, including Dewey Square. Built in 1959, it was part of Boston's Central Artery freeway construction project of the 1950s. Known to locals as the South S... | {"Official name": "Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel", "Other name(s)": "South Station Tunnel", "Location": "Boston, Massachusetts", "Coordinates": "42 20 54 N 71 03 27 W inline,title", "Route": "MA I 93 US 1 MA 3", "Work begun": "1956", "Rebuilt": "1996", "Owner": "Commonwealth of Massachusetts", "Operator": "Massachusetts... |
The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in Massachusetts, and was built between 1930 and 1939. Along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, to the east, and 40 other cities and towns in Greater Boston. The Quabbin also supplies water to three towns west of the reserv... | {"Coordinates": "42 21 33 N 72 18 00 W type:waterbody_region:US-MA inline,title", "Location": "Massachusetts, US", "Primary inflows": "Swift River", "Primary outflows": "Swift River", "Basin": "United States", "Max. length": "18 miles (28.9 km)", "Average depth": "51 ft on", "Max. depth": "151 ft on", "Shore length1": ... |
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) is a collection of software written at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) geared towards the reduction of astronomical images and spectra in pixel array form. This is primarily data taken from imaging array detectors such as CCDs. It is available for all major... | {"Original author(s)": "National Optical Astronomy Observatory", "Developer(s)": "IRAF community volunteers", "Initial release": "1984", "Type": "Astronomical Analysis"} |
John Robert Clynes (27 March 1869 - 23 October 1949) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 35 years, and as Leader of the Labour Party (1921-1922), led the party in its breakthrough at the 1922 general election.
He was the first Englishman to serve as leader o... | {"Name": "J. R. Clynes", "Term start": "8 June 1929", "Term end": "26 August 1931", "Office 2": "Deputy Leader of the Labour Party", "Leader 2": "Ramsay MacDonald Arthur Henderson", "Predecessor 2": "Office established", "Successor 2": "Clement Attlee", "Birth date": "27 March 1869", "Birth place": "Oldham, Lancashire,... |
David Allison Dodge (born June 8, 1943) is a Canadian economist. He served as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.
Early life
Dodge was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1943. He attended Ridley College, a private boarding school in St. Catharines (and second alumnus to become Bank Governor), and grad... | {"Name": "David A. Dodge", "Term start": "February 1, 2001", "Term end": "January 31, 2008", "Office 2": "Deputy Minister of Health", "Minister 2": "Allan Rock", "Predecessor 2": "Michèle Jean", "Successor 2": "Ian Green", "Birth date": "1943 06 8", "Birth place": "Toronto, Ontario", "Alma mater": "Queen's University (... |
The dinar (, ; paucal: dinara / динара; abbreviation: DIN (Latin) and дин (Cyrillic); code: RSD) is the currency of Serbia. The dinar was first used in Serbia in medieval times, its earliest use dating back to 1214. The dinar was reintroduced as the official Serbian currency by Prince Mihailo Obrenović in the 19th cent... | {"ISO 4217 code": "RSD", "ISO 4217 comment": "before 2006: CSD", "Replaced": "Yugoslav dinar", "Subunit": "1 100", "Plural": "dinari / динари (\"dinars\")", "Symbol": "DIN / дин", "Printer": "Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins - Topčider", "Mint": "Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins - Topčider... |
known as Lylat Wars in the PAL regions, is a 1997 3D rail shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is the second installment in the Star Fox series and a reboot of the original Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Star Fox 64 was the first Nintendo 64 game to feat... | {"Title": "Star Fox 64", "Caption": "North American box art", "Developer": "Nintendo EAD", "Publisher": "Nintendo", "Director": "Takao Shimizu", "Designer": "Shigeru MiyamotoInterview with Shigeru Miyamoto Nintendo Power January 1997 http://www.miyamotoshrine.com/theman/interviews/0197.shtml 2 December 2008 dead ... |
Gordon George Thiessen, (born August 14, 1938) was the sixth Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994 to 2001, succeeding John Crow. He was succeeded by David A. Dodge.
Thiessen was born in South Porcupine, Ontario and raised in Saskatchewan.
Thiessen studied economics at the University of Saskatchewan and received ... | {"Name": "Gordon G. Thiessen", "Term start": "February 1, 1994", "Term end": "January 31, 2001", "Birth date": "1938 08 14", "Birth place": "South Porcupine, Ontario", "Spouse(s)": "Annette Thiessen (née Hillyar)", "Alma mater": "University of SaskatchewanLondon School of Economics"} |
John William Crow (born 22 January 1937) was the fifth Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1987 to 1994, succeeding Gerald Bouey. He was succeeded by Gordon Thiessen.
Born in London, England, he went to Parmiter's School also he served with the Royal Air Force for two years before receiving a degree in Philosophy, Po... | {"Name": "John Crow", "Term start": "February 1, 1987", "Term end": "February 1, 1994", "Birth name": "John William Crow", "Birth date": "yes 1937 01 22", "Birth place": "London, England", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Residence": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Alma mater": "Balliol College, Oxford"} |
Gerald Keith Bouey, (April 2, 1920 – February 6, 2004) was the fourth Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1973 to 1987, succeeding Louis Rasminsky. He was succeeded by John Crow.
Born in Axford, Saskatchewan, Bouey earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Queen's University. During the Second World War, he ... | {"Name": "Gerald Keith Bouey", "Term start": "February 1, 1973", "Term end": "February 1, 1987", "Birth date": "1920 04 02", "Birth place": "Axford, Saskatchewan, Canada", "Death date": "2004 02 06 1920 04 02", "Death place": "Ottawa, Ontario, Canada", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Spouse(s)": "Anne Bouey", "Residence": ... |
Louis Rasminsky, (February 1, 1908 – September 15, 1998) was the third Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, succeeding James Coyne. He was succeeded by Gerald Bouey.
Born in Montreal, he was raised in Toronto, graduated at Harbord Collegiate Institute, educated at the University of Toronto and the London... | {"Name": "Louis Rasminsky", "Term start": "July 1961", "Term end": "February 1, 1973", "Birth date": "1908 02 01", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec", "Death date": "1998 09 15 1908 02 01", "Death place": "Ottawa, Ontario", "Alma mater": "London School of Economics"} |
Easdale () is one of the Slate Islands, in the Firth of Lorn, Scotland. Once the centre of the Scottish slate industry, there has been some recent island regeneration by the owners.Eilean Eisdeal Trust - Argyll & Islands This is the smallest of the Inner Hebrides' inhabited islands and is "home to traditional white-was... | {"OS grid reference": "NM735172", "Coordinates": "56 17 32 N 5 39 29 W region:GB_type:isle inline,title", "Meaning of name": "Uncertain", "Area": "62 acre ha 0Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland (pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters. Retrieved 12 December 2011.", "Highest elevation": "125 ft m on", "Population":... |
James Elliott Coyne, (July 17, 1910 – October 12, 2012) was the second Governor of the Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had a much-publicized debate with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, a debate often referred to as the "Coyne Affair" (or sometimes the "Coyne ... | {"Name": "James Coyne", "Birth name": "James Elliott Coyne", "Term start": "January 1, 1955", "Term end": "July 13, 1961", "Birth date": "1910 07 17", "Birth place": "Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada", "Death date": "2012 10 12 1910 07 17", "Death place": "Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"} |
David Perry (born 4 April 1967) is a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer. He became prominent for programming platform games for 16-bit home consoles in the early to mid 1990s, including Disney's Aladdin, Cool Spot, and Earthworm Jim. He founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked from 1993 to 2006. Per... | {"Name": "David Perry", "Caption": "David Perry, 1996", "Birth date": "1967 4 4 y", "Birth place": "Lisburn, Northern Ireland", "Known For": "Shiny EntertainmentGaikai", "Occupation": "Video game developer, programmer", "Nationality": "Northern Irish, American", "Children": "Emmy Perry", "Spouse(s)": "Elaine Perry 2001... |
London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degrees in management and finance, MBA and PhD). Its motto is "To have a profound impact on the way the world does business".
The main camp... | {"Motto": "To have a profound impact on the way the world does business", "Type": "Public business school", "Dean": "François Ortalo-Magné", "Students": "2,390 (2021/22)Where do HE students study? HESA https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider www.hesa.ac.uk", "Campus": "London and Dubai... |
Luing ( ; Gaelic: Luinn) is one of the Slate Islands, Firth of Lorn, in the west of Argyll in Scotland, about south of Oban. The island has an area of and is bounded by several small skerries and islets. It has a population of around 200 people, mostly living in Cullipool, Toberonochy (Tobar Dhonnchaidh), and Blackmi... | {"Coordinates": "56.22829819 -5.64124049 inline", "OS grid reference": "NM740100", "Meaning of name": "pre-Gaelic name of unclear meaning", "Area": "1430 ha sqmi 8", "Population rank": "32=", "Highest elevation": "Binneinn Furachail, 87 m ft 0", "Population": "195", "Population density": "12.6 PD/km2", "Largest settlem... |
All Along (7 April 1979 - 23 February 2005) was a champion Thoroughbred racemare that was foaled in France.ASB - All Along (FR) Retrieved on 2009-7-7- She was one of the top fillies of the last part of the 20th century, racing mostly in Europe. All Along was named into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in ... | {"Sire": "Targowice", "Grandsire": "Round Table", "Dam": "Agujita", "Damsire": "Vieux Manoir", "Sex": "Mare", "Foaled": "1979", "Country": "France", "Breeder": "Daniel Wildenstein", "Owner": "Daniel Wildenstein. Racing colors: Dark blue, light blue cap.", "Trainer": "Patrick Biancone", "Record": "21: 9-4-2", "Earnings"... |
Rootes Arrow was the manufacturer's name for a range of cars produced under several badge-engineered marques by the Rootes Group (later Chrysler Europe) from 1966 to 1979. It is amongst the last Rootes designs, developed with no influence from future owner Chrysler. The range is almost always referred to by the name of... | {"Also called": "Hillman Hunter", "Manufacturer": "Rootes Group (1966-1970)Chrysler Europe (1970-1979)Iran Khodro (1971-2005)", "Assembly": "Ryton-on-Dunsmore, United KingdomLinwood, United KingdomSantry, Republic of IrelandMarsa, Malta (Car Assembly)Tehran , IranPort Melbourne, AustraliaPetone and (from 1975) Porirua,... |
Graham Ford Towers (29 September 1897 – 4 December 1975) was the first Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1934 to 1954.
Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, educated at St. Andrew's College in Toronto, he graduated from McGill University in 1919. During World War II, he was Chairman of the Foreign Exchange Control ... | {"Term start": "8 September 1934", "Term end": "31 December 1954", "Birth date": "1897 09 29 y", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec", "Death date": "1975 12 04 1897 09 29 y", "Death place": "Ottawa, Ontario", "Spouse(s)": "Mary Scott Godfrey 1924", "Alma mater": "McGill University, (B.A., 1919)", "Battles fought": "First... |
Exene Cervenka (born Christene Lee Cervenka; February 1, 1956) is an American singer, artist, and poet. She is best known for her work as a singer in the California punk rock band X.
Music career
thumb|Cervenka at SXSW 2010
The 21-year-old Cervenka met 23-year-old musician John Doe at a poetry workshop at the Beyo... | {"Born": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Origin": "Los Angeles, California", "Genres": "Punk\n folk\n rock", "Labels": "Bloodshot\n Rhino\n Kill Rock Stars\n Nitro\n 2.13.61\n Rykodisc\n Freeway", "Website": "exenecervenka.net"} |
Luis Ramírez de Lucena (c. 1465 - c. 1530) was a Spanish chess player who published the first extant chess book. He is believed to be the son of humanist writer and diplomat Juan de Lucena.(it) Article by Daniele Ciani about Luis Lucena, on the web site Chess Archeology
Book
right|thumb|A page from his book
Lucena wro... | {"Name": "Luis Ramírez de Lucena", "Image upright": "yes", "Birth date": "c. 1475", "Birth place": "Lucena", "Death date": "c. 1530", "Nationality": "Kingdom of Castile", "Education": "University of Salamanca", "Occupation": "Author, chess player", "Known For": "Lucena position"} |
The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and some remote islands in the Southern Ocean and other surrounding oceans. After breakup from Gondwana (the southern part of the supercontinent Pangea), the Antarctic plate began moving the continent of Antarctica so... | {"Type": "Major", "Approximate area": "60,900,000 km2 sqmi onhttp://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates Geology.about.com March 5, 2014 January 22, 2016 June 5, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160605161523/http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size... |
Melpar was an American government contractor in the 20th century Cold War period. At a time when most employment in Washington, DC was directly by the US federal government, Melpar became an early private sector contracting company training a high technology workforce in the area.
History
In 1945, after the conclusion... | {"Founded": "1945", "Parent": "Westinghouse Air Brake American Standard Raytheon", "Headquarters": "Northern Virginia", "Services": "Government research and development"} |
Austin Stories is an American sitcom that aired on MTV from September 10, 1997 until January 7, 1998. It aired Wednesday nights at 10:30 pm. The show aired twelve episodes filmed on location in Austin, Texas.
An MTV search brought executives James Jones and Lisa Berger to Austin in 1994. Jones had previously produced ... | {"Created by": "James Joneshttps://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=story&articleid=VR1117871994 CBS hoping hicks click Adalian Josef Variety 2002-08-22 2008-11-03", "Running time": "30 minutes", "Starring": "MTVrocks />", "Country of origin": "United States", "Camera setup": "Single-camera", "Original network": "MTV"... |
Scarba () is an island, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, just north of the much larger island of Jura. The island has not been permanently inhabited since the 1960s. Until his death in 2013 it was owned by Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys; its owner now is Shane Cadzow who farms Luing cattle on the nearby island of Luing ... | {"OS grid reference": "NM690044", "Coordinates": "56.177 -5.72 inline", "Meaning of name": "Old Norse for \"sharp, stony, hilly terrain\"", "Area": "1474 ha sqmi 8", "Population rank": "39", "Highest elevation": "Cruach Scarba 449 m ft 0", "Population": "Not permanently inhabited since the 1960s", "Largest settlement":... |
Apartment 2F, often written Apt. 2F, is a 1997 MTV sitcom, sketch comedy and stand-up television series about the escapades of Randy and Jason Sklar's characters in New York City. The series aired from July 13 to November 1997.
Cast
The series included appearances by comedic actors, Amy Poehler, Stephen Colbert, Lewis... | {"Genre": "Comedy", "Directed by": "Pamela Dresser", "Starring": "Randy and Jason Sklar", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "23 minutes", "Original network": "MTV", "Original release": "1997 10 7"} |
Belnahua is one of the Slate Islands, in the Firth of Lorn in Scotland, known for its deserted slate quarries. The bedrock that underpins its human history is part of the Scarba Conglomerate Formation and its value has been on record since the 16th century. Likely uninhabited before commercial quarrying commenced, unde... | {"Coordinates": "56.25 -5.69 inline", "OS grid reference": "NM713127", "Meaning of name": "The mouth of the cave", "Highest elevation": "22 m ft 0", "Population": "0", "Island group": "Slate Islands", "Council area": "Argyll and Bute", "References": "2001 UK Census per List of islands of ScotlandHaswell-Smith 2004 67ht... |
The Dancing Wu Li Masters is a 1979 book by Gary Zukav, a popular science work exploring modern physics, and quantum phenomena in particular. It was awarded a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in category of Science.
"National Book Awards - 1980". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-07.
This was the award for pape... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "William Morrow", "Media type": "Print (hardcover & paperback)", "Pages": "352", "ISBN": "0-688-03402-0"} |
Big Ben (April 20, 1976 - December 11, 1999) was a world champion show jumping horse and famous Belgian Warmblood.
Birth and acquisition by Ian Millar
First named "Winston", Big Ben was born at the van Hooydonk Farm in Kalmthout (northern Belgium). Although his dam was only , Big Ben grew to be a very large horse stan... | {"Breed": "Belgian Warmblood", "Sire": "Etretat", "Grandsire": "Vagabond", "Dam": "Oekie", "Maternal grandsire": "Flevo", "Sex": "Gelding", "Foaled": "Kalmthout, Belgium", "Died": "Perth, Ontario, Canada", "Country": "Canada", "Breeder": "Jacobus van Hooydonk", "Owner": "Ian Millar"} |
Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It's the dominant party in Poland.
It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct successor of the Centre Agreement after it split from the Solidarity Electoral... | {"Abbreviation": "PiS", "Merger of": "Centre Agreement Right Alliance", "Split from": "Solidarity Electoral Action Christian National Union Movement for Reconstruction of Poland Agreement of Polish Christian Democrats", "Founded": "yes 2001 6 13", "Ideology": "nowrap \n National conservatism\n Christian right\n Righ... |
is a Japanese model, actress and singer. She formerly used the stage name when she was with Snow Rabbits Productions. After Izumi returned to the modeling world in 2008, she used both 泉里果 and 泉里香 as stage names; both are pronounced "Izumi Rika".
Life
Isumi was born in Kyoto. Her first major acting role was as Ami Miz... | {"Name": "Rika Izumi", "Native name": "泉 里香", "Birth date": "yes 1988 10 11", "Birth place": "Kyoto, Japan", "Other names": "Chisaki Hama 浜千咲", "Height": "1.66", "Years active": "2003-present", "Agent": "Stardust Promotion"} |
Broomhill and Sharrow Vale — which includes the districts of Broomhill, Broomhall, Crookesmoor, Endcliffe, Sharrow Vale and Tapton Hill — is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. The ward was created following the 2015 local government boundary review out of parts of the old Broomhill, Central an... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "16,966", "UK Parliament": "Sheffield Central", "Metropolitan borough": "City of Sheffield", "Metropolitan county": "South Yorkshire", "Councillors": "Brian Holmshaw (Green Party)Kaltum Rivers (Green)http://democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=20608 Councillor Kalt... |
is a Japanese actress, model, and gravure idol. Her best-known role was Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon in the live-action adaptation of Sailor Moon which ran from 2003 to 2004.
Personal life
Sawai was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. On October 22, 2022, she announced that she had married comedian Hiroyuki Takagishi.
Model... | {"Name": "Miyuu Sawai", "Native name": "沢井 美優", "Native name language": "ja", "Birth date": "1987 10 23", "Birth place": "Yokohama", "Nationality": "Japanese", "Occupation": "Actress model", "Years active": "2002-present", "Known For": "Sailor Moon live-action seriesas Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon", "Agent": "BOX Corporat... |
Swiss Bank Corporation was a Swiss investment bank and financial services company located in Switzerland. Prior to its merger, the bank was the third largest in Switzerland, with over CHF 300 billion of assets and CHF 11.7 billion of equity.UBS AG 1998 Annual Report
Throughout the 1990s, SBC engaged in a large growth ... | {"Type": "Acquired", "Founded": "1854", "Defunct": "1998", "Fate": "Merged with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS", "Headquarters": "Basel, Switzerland", "Industry": "BankingFinancial servicesInvestment services"} |
NHIndustries (NHI) is a helicopter manufacturing company specifically established to be NATO Helicopter Management Agency's prime contractor for the design and development, industrialisation, production and logistic support of the NHIndustries NH90 series of helicopters.
Established in 1992, NHIndustries was formed as... | {"Type": "SAS", "Founded": "1992", "Headquarters": "Aix-en-ProvenceFrance", "Industry": "Aerospace", "Products": "Helicopters", "Website": "www.NHIndustries.com"} |
John Miller Andrews, (17 July 1871 - 5 August 1956) was the second prime minister of Northern Ireland from 1940 to 1943.
Family life
Andrews was born in Comber, County Down, Ireland in 1871, the eldest child in the family of four sons and one daughter of Thomas Andrews, flax spinner, and his wife Eliza Pirrie, a sist... | {"Name": "John M. Andrews", "Image caption": "Andrews, c. 1920", "Term start": "27 November 1940", "Term end": "1 May 1943", "Birth name": "John Miller Andrews", "Birth date": "1871 7 17 y", "Birth place": "Comber, Ireland", "Death date": "1956 8 5 1871 7 17 y", "Death place": "Comber, Northern Ireland", "Education": "... |
The Practice is an American legal drama television series created by David E. Kelley centering on partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The show ran for eight seasons on ABC, from March 4, 1997, to May 16, 2004. It won an Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Outstanding Drama Series, and spawned the spin-off series Boston... | {"Genre": "Legal drama\nComedy drama", "Created by": "David E. Kelley", "Starring": "Dylan McDermott\n LisaGay Hamilton\n Steve Harris\n Camryn Manheim\n Kelli Williams\n Michael Badalucco\n Lara Flynn Boyle\n Marla Sokoloff\n Jason Kravits\n Ron Livingston\n Jessica Capshaw\n Chyler Leigh\n Rhona Mitra\n James Spader"... |
XV Corps, or 15 Corps, also known as Chinar Corps, is a Corps of the Indian Army which is presently located in Srinagar and responsible for military operations in the Kashmir Valley. It has participated in all military conflicts with Pakistan and China till date. Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai is its current Corps Comma... | {"Branch": "Indian Army", "Type": "Army Corps", "Size": "Corps", "Part of": "Army Northern Command", "Nickname(s)": "Chinar Corps", "Notablecommanders": "General Bikram SinghLt Gen Syed Ata HasnainGeneral Sundararajan Padmanabhan"} |
Catamarca () is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. The province had a population of 429,556 as per the , and covers an area of 102,602 km2. Its literacy rate is 95.5%. Neighbouring provinces are (clockwise, from the north): Salta, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Córdoba, and La Rioja. To th... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "20th", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-K", "Website": "www.catamarca.gov.ar"} |
The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by Vietnam veteran and sociology professor Jerry Lembcke. The book is an analysis of the widely believed narrative that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War. The book examin... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Published": "1998 (New York University Press)", "Media type": "Print (Hardcover)", "Pages": "217", "ISBN": "9780814751473"} |
Corrientes (, ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; ), officially the Province of Corrientes (; ) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (from the north, clockwise): Paraguay, the province of Misiones, Brazil, Uruguay, and the provinces of Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco.
History
Befor... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "10th", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-W", "Website": "www.corrientes.gov.ar"} |
Tucumán () is the most densely populated, and the second-smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina.
Located in the northwest of the country, the province has the capital of San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and ... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "6th", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-T", "Website": "www.tucuman.gov.ar"} |
thumb|upright=1.35|Pacific Plate and other principal plates of Earth's lithosphere
The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At , it is the largest tectonic plate.
The plate first came into existence 190 million years ago, at the triple junction between the Farallon, Phoenix, ... | {"Type": "Major", "Approximate area": "103,300,000 km2 sqmi onhttp://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm Here are the Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates 2015-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20160605161523/http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm 2016-06-05 live", "Movement... |
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 - April 2, 1954) was a United States Air Force general. He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of Central Intelligence.
During World War II, Vandenberg was the commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, a tactical air force in England ... | {"Name": "Hoyt Vandenberg", "Term start": "April 30, 1948", "Term end": "June 29, 1953", "Office 2": "2nd Director of Central Intelligence", "President 2": "Harry Truman", "Deputy 2": "Kingman DouglassEdwin K. Wright", "Predecessor 2": "Sidney Souers", "Successor 2": "Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter", "Birth name": "Hoyt Sanfo... |
Steve Harris (born December 3, 1965) is an American actor. He has played Eugene Young on the legal drama The Practice, Detective Isaiah "Bird" Freeman on the NBC drama Awake, and Charles McCarter in Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
Early life
Harris was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of John Harris, a b... | {"Name": "Steve Harris", "Birth date": "1965 12 03", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1985-present", "Relatives": "Wood Harris (brother)"} |
Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to the east and south.
Geography
thumb|left|Quebrada de Humahuaca
There are three main areas in Jujuy:
The Altiplano, a plateau high with peaks o... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "14th", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-Y", "Website": "www.jujuy.gov.ar"} |
The Act to Protect the Province Against Communistic Propaganda (), commonly known as the "Padlock Law" or "Padlock Act" (), was a law in the province of Quebec, Canada that allowed the Attorney General of Quebec to close off access to property suspected of being used to propagate or disseminate communist propaganda. Th... | {"Short title": "Padlock Law", "Legislature": "Parliament of Quebec", "Long title": "An Act to Protect the Province Against Communistic Propaganda", "Citation": "1 George VI Ch. 11R.S.Q. 1941, c.52", "Enacted by": "Legislative Assembly of Quebec", "Enacted by (second chamber)": "Legislative Council of Quebec", "Date of... |
The Charlestown High Bridge (referred to as the John F. Fitzgerald Bridge on old AAA Tourbook maps) spanned the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts and was part of I-93/US 1 at the north end of the Central Artery.
This double-decked truss bridge, built in 1954, was to originally carry I-95 through Boston from south... | {"Carries": "MA I 93 US 1", "Crosses": "Charles River", "Locale": "Boston, Massachusetts(North End to Charlestown)", "Design": "double-decker Warren truss bridge", "Closed": "2004", "Coordinates": "42.369075 N 71.062472 W region:US_type:landmark inline,title Charlestown High Bridge"} |
Salta () is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy. To the north it borders Bolivia and Paraguay and to the west lies Chile.
History
Before the Spanish conque... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "7th", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-A", "Website": "www.salta.gov.ar"} |
William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 - 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a schoolmaster sketch that later transferred to the screen, where he also played other authority figures with comic failings. His film Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937), made by Gainsborough Pictures, is often cited as the suprem... | {"Name": "Will Hay", "Post-nominals": "FRAS", "Caption": "Hay in The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)", "Birth name": "William Thomson Hay", "Birth date": "yes 1888 12 06", "Birth place": "Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England", "Death date": "yes 1949 04 18 1888 12 06", "Death place": "Chelsea, London, England", "Occu... |
604 Records (stylized as VIOIV Records) is a music production company. It is named after area code 604 of the Lower Mainland, where the company's offices are located.
History
The company was co-founded by Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger and attorney Jonathan Simkin, founder of Simkin Artist Management, in 2001, an... | {"Founded": "2001", "Distributor(s)": "Warner Music Canada [Canada]", "Genre": "Post-grunge pop rock dance-pop country (occasionally)", "Country of origin": "Canada", "Founder": "Chad Kroeger Jonathan Simkin", "Location": "Vancouver, British Columbia, Toronto, Ontario", "Official website": "https://www.604records.com/"... |
Santa Cruz Province (, , "Holy Cross") is a province of Argentina, located in the southern part of the country, in Patagonia. It borders Chubut Province to the north, and Chile to the west and south, with an Atlantic coast on its east. Santa Cruz is the second-largest province of the country (after Buenos Aires Provin... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "23rd", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-Z", "Website": "www.santacruz.gov.ar"} |
Villa Park is a football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 42,657. It has been the home of Premier League side Aston Villa since 1897. The ground is less than a mile from both Witton and Aston railway stations and has hosted sixteen England internationals at senior level, the first in 1899 and th... | {"Location": "Trinity Road, Birmingham B6 6HE", "Opened": "1897", "Owner": "Aston Villa FC", "Operator": "Aston Villahttps://www.expressandstar.com/sport/2010/05/14/villas-plan-to-rebuild-north-stand/ Villa's plan to rebuild North Stand Express & Star 14 May 2010 11 November 2010", "Public transit": "gb Rail Astongb Ra... |
Neuquén () is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia. It borders Mendoza Province to the north, Rio Negro Province to the southeast, and Chile to the west. It also meets La Pampa Province at its northeast corner.
History
thumb|left|Reconstructed skeleton of the sa... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "16th", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-Q", "Website": "neuquen.gov.ar"} |
Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. Soft rock was prevalent on the radio throughout the 1... | {"Name": "Soft rock", "Other names": "Light rock\n adult-oriented rock", "Stylistic origins": "Pop rockAnon n.d. Soft Rock http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/soft-rock-ma0000011841 AllMusic\nsunshine popStanley 2013 179\nBrill BuildingViglione Joe Breaking Up Is Hard to Do http://www.allmusic.com/song/breaking-up-... |
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH, ) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. NIOSH is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the U.S. Department o... | {"Formed": "1970 12 29 y", "Jurisdiction": "Federal government of the United States", "Headquarters": "Washington, D.C.", "Employees": "~1,200", "Parent department": "Department of Health and Human Services", "Website": "cdc.gov/niosh/"} |
Santiago del Estero (), also known simply as Santiago, is a province in the north of Argentina. Neighboring provinces, clockwise from the north, are Salta, Chaco, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca and Tucumán.
Santiago del Estero is a province known for the interference of organized crime and the high number of usurpations... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "12th", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-G", "Website": "www.sde.gov.ar"} |
The Province of Santa Fe (, , lit. "Holy Faith") is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco (divided by the 28th parallel south), Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero. Together with Córdoba and Entre R... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "3rd", "ISO 3166 code": "AR-S", "Website": "www.santa-fe.gov.ar"} |
thumb|256px| Map 1. The three current Eltham electoral wards (green), in the Eltham constituency (yellow) within the Royal Borough of Greenwich (light grey)
Eltham ( ) is a district of southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is east-southeast of Charing Cross, and is identified in the Lon... | {"London Assembly": "Greenwich", "Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census. 4 Wards. Middle Park and Sutcliffe, Eltham, North, South and West)KS101EW (Usual resident population) - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew 2022-03-23 www.nomisweb.co.uk O... |
Eltham () is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km north-east of the Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Eltham recorded a population of 18,847 at the 2021 census.
Eltham is one of the 'green wedge' areas that provide relatively undeveloped, accessible en... | {"Type": "suburb", "Name": "Eltham", "City": "Melbourne", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Caption": "Aerial photo of Eltham from the south-east", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Shire of Nillumbik", "Locator Map Alternative Map File": "Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne", "Coordinates": "37.715 S 145.158 E type:ci... |
thumb|right|upright=1.25|View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from north of the Utah-Arizona state line
thumb|upright=1.25|alt=The Monument Valley View Hotel.|The Monument Valley View Hotel.
Monument Valley (, , meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized ... | {"Language of name": "nv Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii", "Location": "Arizona, United States", "Elevation": "5000 to 6000", "Coordinates": "36 59 N 110 6 W inline,title"} |
Maryport is a town and civil parish in Cumbria, England.
The town is situated just outside the Lake District National Park, at the northern end of the former Cumberland Coalfield.
Location
Maryport is located on the A596 road north of Workington, west of Keswick and south-west of Carlisle. Silloth is to the nor... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011)Town population 2011 http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126400&c=CA15+7AE&d=16&e=62&g=6410995&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1434548999031&enc=1 17 June 2015", "Unitary authority": "Cumberland", "Ceremonial county": "... |
Willie Lewis Brown Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is a retired American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004, the first African American to hold that office.
Born in Mineola, Texas, where he graduated from high school, Brown moved to San Francisco in 1951. He g... | {"Name": "Willie Brown", "Image caption": "Brown in 2019", "Term start": "January 8, 1996", "Term end": "January 8, 2004", "Office 2": "58th Speaker of the California State Assembly", "Predecessor 2": "Leo McCarthy", "Successor 2": "Doris Allen", "Birth name": "Willie Lewis Brown Jr.", "Birth date": "1934 3 20", "Birth... |
Our Lady Peace (sometimes shortened to OLP)OLP - thefreedictionary.com - Farlex, Inc.. Retrieved February 17, 2010.OLP returns to its roots - Pique Publishing. Retrieved February 17, 2010. is a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992.Our Lady Peace in the Pop Encyclopedia - Canoe.ca. Retrieved May 10, 200... | {"Origin": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Genres": "Alternative rock\n post-grunge\n art rock", "Labels": "Sony Music Canada\n Relativity\n Columbia\n Coalition Music (Records)\n Warner", "Website": "ourladypeace.com", "Members": "Raine Maida\n Duncan Coutts\n Steve Mazur\n Jason Pierce"} |
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Crotales (, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, s.v. "crotales", accessed February 9, 2022.), sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each is about in diameter with a flat top surface and a nipple on the base. They are commonly played ... | {"Name": "Crotales", "Caption": "Crotales, C6-C8 range, by Paiste", "Image size": "325px", "Background": "percussion", "Classification": "Percussion", "Hornbostel-Sachs": "111.22", "Hornbostel-Sachs Description": "Percussion plaques"} |
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