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On March 9, 2004, an attack on a restaurant in the Kartal district of Istanbul, Turkey killed Hüseyin Kurugöl, a waiter in the restaurant, and injured five others. The two Islamic militants who carried out the attack, Engin Vural and Nihat Doğruel, were holding automatic weapons and had ten homemade pipe bombs strapped... | {"Title": "2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant", "Location": "Kartal, Istanbul, Turkey", "Date": "9 March 2004", "Target": "Freemasons", "Weapons": "Car bomb and backpack bomb", "Fatalities": "1", "Injuries": "5"} |
Palermo Football Club, shortened to Palermo F.C. and usually simply known as Palermo (), is an Italian professional football club based in Palermo, Sicily, that currently plays in Serie B. It is part of the City Football Group.
Founded for the first time on 1 November 1900 as Anglo Palermitan Athletic and Football Clu... | {"Full name": "Palermo Football Club", "Founded": "yes 1900 11 1 (Anglo Palermitan Athletic and Football Club)", "Nickname(s)": "it I Rosanero (The Pink and Blacks)it Le Aquile (The Eagles)", "Capacity": "36,365\nhttp://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/it/stadio/capienza.php Renzo Barbera PalermoCalcio.it 4 May 2011 it dead http... |
Lisa Ekdahl (born 29 July 1971 in Hägersten, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish popular music singer and songwriter. She has so far released 10 albums, most of them in Swedish but some entirely in English. Her voice has been described as "child-like" and "soft, supple and smooth".
Career
In 1994, at the age of 22, Ekdahl... | {"Born": "1971 7 29 y", "Origin": "Stockholm, Sweden", "Genres": "Jazz, vispop", "Website": "www.lisaekdahl.com"} |
The quijada, charrasca, or jawbone (in English), is an idiophone percussion instrument made from the jawbone of a donkey, horse, mule, or cattle, producing a powerful buzzing sound.
The jawbone is cleaned of tissue and dried to make the teeth loose and act as a rattle.
It is used in music in most of Latin America, inc... | {"Name": "Quijada", "Names": "quijada de burro, charrasca, jawbone", "Caption": "Quijada: a jawbone used as a musical instrument", "Background": "percussion", "Classification": "idiophone", "Hornbostel-Sachs": "112.211", "Hornbostel-Sachs Description": "indirectly struck idiophone; scraped sticks without a resonator", ... |
Research is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east from Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Research recorded a population of 2,695 at the 2021 census.
History
Settled in the 1850s, Research was the location of extensive orchards by the ... | {"Type": "suburb", "Name": "Research", "City": "Melbourne", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Image": "Research Post Office.JPG", "Caption": "Post office", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Shire of Nillumbik", "Locator Map Alternative Map File": "Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne", "Coordinates": "37.707 S 145.18 E ... |
The Austin Maestro is a five-door hatchback small family car (and two-door van derivative) that was produced from 1982 to 1986 by British Leyland, and from 1986 until 1994 by Rover Group, as a replacement for the Austin Maxi and Austin Allegro, with the van version replacing the corresponding van derivative of the Morr... | {"Manufacturer": "British Leyland (1982-1986)Rover Group (1986-1995)", "Designer": "Ian BeechDavid Bache", "Production": "1982-1995 (Austin/Rover Maestro)1983-1991 (MG Maestro)1995-2001 (remaining CKD kits)2001-2007 (China)", "Assembly": "Oxford, EnglandVarna, BulgariaQingdao, China (Etsong) (1998-2003)Changchun, China... |
1620 Geographos (), provisional designation , is a highly elongated, stony asteroid, near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, with a mean-diameter of approximately . It was discovered on 14 September 1951, by astronomers Albert George Wilson and Rudolph Minkowski at the Palomar Observat... | {"Name of planet": "1620 Geographos", "Background": "FFC2E0", "Image size": "265", "Caption": "Lightcurve-based 3D-model of Geographos", "Discoverer": "A. G. WilsonR. Minkowski", "Discovery site": "Palomar Observatory", "Discovered": "14 September 1951", "Alternate names": "1951 RA1983 CY 3", "Pronounced": "dʒ iː oʊ ˈ ... |
David Llewellyn Harding (12 October 1867 - 26 December 1952), known professionally as Lyn Harding, was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British made silent films, talkies and radio. He had an imposing and menacing stage presence and came to be cast as the villain in many films, notably Prof... | {"Name": "Lyn Harding", "Caption": "Harding in 1915", "Birth name": "David Llewellyn Harding", "Birth date": "yes 1867 10 12", "Birth place": "St. Brides Wentloog, Monmouthshire, Wales", "Death date": "yes 1952 12 26 1867 10 12", "Death place": "Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "... |
Sir Hugh John Macdonald, (March 13, 1850 - March 29, 1929) was the only surviving son of the first prime minister of Canada, John A. Macdonald. He too was a politician, serving as a member of the House of Commons of Canada and a federal cabinet minister, and briefly as the eighth premier of Manitoba.
Early life
Macdo... | {"Name": "Hugh John Macdonald", "Lieutenant governor": "James C. PattersonDaniel Hunter McMillan", "Term start": "January 10, 1900", "Term end": "October 29, 1900", "Riding 2": "Winnipeg", "Predecessor 2": "William Bain Scarth", "Successor 2": "Joseph Martin", "Birth date": "1850 03 13", "Birth place": "Kingston, Canad... |
Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip. It is the administrative centre for the Borough of Queenscliffe. At the , Queenscliff had a population of 1,315.
Queenscliff is a seaside resort now known for its Victorian era h... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Queenscliff", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Caption": "Looking east over Queenscliff to Sand Island. On the left is Swan Bay and the right is Port Phillip Bay.", "Locator Map Set to LGA Map": "yes", "Coordinates": "38 16 0 S 144 39 0 E inline,title", "Population": "1,315", "Population Year": "... |
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The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, , TsAGI) was founded in Moscow by Russian aviation pioneer Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky on December 1, 1918.
History
From 1925 and up to the 1930s, TsAGI developed and hosted Tupolev's AGOS (Aviatziya, Gidroav... | {"Type": "federal state unitary enterprise", "Industry": "aerospace", "Founded": "1918", "Headquarters": "Russia", "Parent": "Russian Federation", "Website": "tsagi.com"} |
James Garfield Gardiner (30 November 1883 - 12 January 1962) was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician. He served as the fourth premier of Saskatchewan, and as a minister in the Canadian Cabinet.
Political career
Gardiner was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1914, served as Minister ... | {"Name": "James Garfield Gardiner", "Lieutenant governor": "Henry William Newlands", "Term start": "February 26, 1926", "Term end": "September 9, 1929", "Lieutenant governor 1": "Hugh Edwin Munroe", "Office 2": "Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for North Qu'Appelle", "Predecessor 2": "John Archibald M... |
Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 - May 11, 1936) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919-20.
He became a member of the Democratic Party and won election to the Un... | {"Name": "A. Mitchell Palmer", "Term start": "March 5, 1919", "Term end": "March 4, 1921", "Birth name": "Alexander Mitchell Palmer", "Birth date": "1872 5 4", "Birth place": "White Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "1936 5 11 1872 5 4", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Roberta Dixon (Dece... |
Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (; born 2 March 1952) is a Russian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Russia in 1999. Prior to this he had been appointed as federal security minister by President Boris Yeltsin in 1994, a position from which he resigned in 1995 as a consequence of the Budyonnovsk hospital ho... | {"Name": "Sergei Stepashin", "Image caption": "Stepashin in 2017", "Native name": "Сергей Степашин", "Nationality": "Russian", "Term start": "18 January 2000", "Term end": "26 April 2000Депутаты http://duma.gov.ru/duma/deputies/3/ 2023-08-30 Государственная Дума ru", "Office 2": "First Deputy Prime Minister of Russ... |
Gary P. Hamel (born 1954) is an American management consultant. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.
Biography
Hamel graduated from Andrews University in 1975, and from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1990..
Hamel has worked as a visiti... | {"Name": "Gary P. Hamel", "Caption": "Gary Hamel (left) interviews Eric Schmidt (right)", "Birth date": "1954 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gary+Hamel:+the+search+for+a+new+strategic+platform-a099733307 Gary Hamel: the search for a new strategic platform Free Online Library.", "Alma mater": "University of Michigan"... |
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (29 October 1929 - 26 June 2015) was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. During his long career, he also served as Foreign Minister, Speaker of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and chief of the intelligence service. Primakov was... | {"Name": "Yevgeny Primakov", "Term start": "11 September 1998", "Term end": "12 May 1999", "Office 2": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "President 2": "Boris Yeltsin", "Predecessor 2": "Andrei Kozyrev", "Successor 2": "Igor Ivanov", "Birth date": "1929 10 29 y", "Birth place": "Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union", "Death ... |
The Tamar River, officially kanamaluka / River Tamar, is a estuary located in northern Tasmania, Australia. Despite being called a river, the waterway is a brackish and tidal estuary over its entire length.
Location and features
Formed by the confluence of the North Esk and South Esk rivers at , kanamaluka / River Ta... | {"Native name": "und kanamaluka omit", "Etymology": "River Tamar", "Mouth": "0 m on", "Location": "Low Head", "Coordinates": "41 3 19 S 146 46 28 E inline,title", "Left": "Supply River"} |
2063 Bacchus, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 1 kilometer in diameter. The contact binary was discovered on 24 April 1977, by American astronomer Charles Kowal at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. It was named after Bacchus from ... | {"Name of planet": "2063 Bacchus", "Background": "FFC2E0", "Symbol": "24px (astrological)", "Discovered": "24 April 1977", "Discoverer": "C. Kowal", "Discovery site": "Palomar Obs.", "Alternate names": "1977 HB", "Pronounced": "ˈ b æ k ə s BAK əs", "Named_after": "Bacchus (Dionysus in Greek)(Roman god)", "Epoch": "4 Se... |
The Batman Bridge is a modern road bridge that carries the Batman Highway across the Tamar River, between Whirlpool Reach, Hillwood at its eastern end and Sidmouth / Deviot midpoint at its western end, in north Tasmania, Australia. The bridge connects the Batman Highway with the West Tamar Highway (state route A7) and ... | {"Carries": "20px|(B73) Batman Highway", "Crosses": "Tamar River", "Locale": "Sidmouth, Tasmania, Australia", "Design": "Cable-stayed", "Longest span": "206 m ft", "Total length": "432 m ft", "Width": "10.3 m ft", "Height": "91 m ft", "Daily traffic": "2,0132003 http://www.ozroads.com.au/TAS/routenumbering/current/B73... |
William John Patterson (May 13, 1886 - June 10, 1976) was a Liberal politician and the sixth premier of Saskatchewan from 1935 to 1944. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in the 1921 election. He succeeded James G. Gardiner to become the province's first Saskatchewan-born premier.
Patters... | {"Name": "William John Patterson", "Image size": "200px", "Order 2": "6th", "Office 2": "Premier of Saskatchewan", "Predecessor 2": "James G. Gardiner", "Successor 2": "Tommy Douglas", "Monarch 2": "George VEdward VIIIGeorge VI", "Lieutenant governor 2": "Hugh Edwin MunroeArchibald Peter McNab", "Birth date": "May 13, ... |
Clara Lou "Ann" Sheridan (February 21, 1915 - January 21, 1967) was an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in the films San Quentin (1937) with Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, City for Conquest... | {"Name": "Ann Sheridan", "Caption": "Sheridan in 1934", "Birth name": "Clara Lou Sheridan", "Birth date": "1915 2 21", "Birth place": "Denton, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "1967 1 21 1915 2 21", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Hollywood Forever Cemetery", "Occupation": "Actress singer",... |
Charles Avery Dunning (July 31, 1885 – October 1, 1958) was the third premier of Saskatchewan. Born in England, he emigrated to Canada at the age of 16. By the age of 36, he was premier. He had a successful career as a farmer, businessman, and politician, both provincially and federally.
A Liberal, Dunning led his g... | {"Name": "Charles Avery Dunning", "Lieutenant governor": "Henry William Newlands", "Term start": "April 5, 1922", "Term end": "February 26, 1926", "Office 2": "Provincial Treasurer", "Predecessor 2": "George Alexander Bell", "Successor 2": "William John Patterson", "Birth date": "1885 07 31", "Birth place": "Croft, Lei... |
William Melville Martin (August 23, 1876 – June 22, 1970) served as the second premier of Saskatchewan from 1916 to 1922. In 1916, although not a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Martin was elected leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, succeeding Premier Walter Scott and thus became Premier of Sa... | {"Name": "William Melville Martin", "Lieutenant governor": "Richard Stuart LakeHenry William Newlands", "Term start": "October 20, 1916", "Term end": "April 5, 1922", "Office 2": "President of the Executive Council", "Predecessor 2": "James Alexander Calder", "Successor 2": "Charles Avery Dunning", "Birth date": "1876 ... |
Betty Field (February 8, 1916Massachusetts State Vital Records. Births 1916. Vol. 1. FamilySearch - September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress.
Early years
Field was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to George and Katharine (née Lynch) Field.GREAT STARS OF THE AMERICAN STAGE by Daniel Blum c.1952 Profil... | {"Name": "Betty Field", "Caption": "Field in 1942", "Birth date": "1916 02 08 y", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "1973 09 13 1916 02 08 y", "Death place": "Hyannis, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1934-71", "Spouse(s)": "Elmer Rice 1942 1956 divorced\n Edwin ... |
Abraham Charles Vigoda (February 24, 1921 - January 26, 2016) was an American actor known for his portrayals of Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather (1972) and Phil Fish in both Barney Miller (1975-1977, 1982) and Fish (1977-1978).
Early life, family and education
Vigoda was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, on Febru... | {"Name": "Abe Vigoda", "Caption": "Vigoda in 1975", "Birth name": "Abraham Charles Vigoda", "Birth date": "1921 2 24", "Birth place": "Brooklyn, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "2016 1 26 1921 2 24", "Death place": "Woodland Park, New Jersey, U.S.", "Resting place": "Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, New York, U.S.", "Occupa... |
The Navy Board (formerly known as the Council of the Marine or Council of the Marine Causes) was the commission responsible for the day-to-day civil administration of the Royal Navy between 1546 and 1832. The board was headquartered within the Navy Office.
History
The origins of the Navy Board can be traced back to th... | {"Formed": "24 April 1546", "Dissolved": "1 June 1832", "Jurisdiction": "Kingdom of England (1546-1707)\nKingdom of Great Britain (1707-1801)\nFlag of the United Kingdom.svg 23px United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1832)", "Headquarters": "Navy Office", "Parent department": "Admiralty"} |
is a nearly spherical sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Apollo group. It measures approximately in diameter and is a fast rotator, having a rotational period of only 10.7 minutes. It was first observed on 2 June 1998, by the Spacewatch survey at Kitt Peak National Observatory during 6 da... | {"Name of planet": "1998 KY 26", "Background": "FFC2E0", "Image size": "275", "Caption": "Three views of a computer model of 1998 KY 26, derived from radar observations in 1998", "Discovered": "28 May 1998(discovery: first observed only)", "Discoverer": "Spacewatch(Tom Gehrels)", "Discovery site": "Kitt Peak Obs.", "Ep... |
Ann Sothern (born Harriette Arlene Lake; January 22, 1909 - March 15, 2001) was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that spanned nearly six decades. Sothern began her career in the late 1920s in bit parts in films. In 1930, she made her Broadway stage debut and soon worked... | {"Name": "Ann Sothern", "Image": "Ann Sothern 1960.JPG", "Caption": "Sothern in 1960", "Birth name": "Harriette Arlene Lake", "Birth date": "1909 1 22 yes", "Birth place": "Valley City, North Dakota, U.S.", "Death date": "2001 3 15 1909 1 22 yes", "Death place": "Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.", "Resting place": "Ketchum Cemeter... |
Stuyvesant Fish (June 24, 1851 - April 10, 1923) was an American businessman and member of the Fish family who served as president of the Illinois Central Railroad. He owned grand residences in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island, entertained lavishly and, along with his wife "Mamie", became prominent in American h... | {"Name": "Stuyvesant Fish", "Birth date": "1851 6 24 y", "Birth place": "New York City", "Death date": "1923 4 10 1851 6 24 y", "Nationality": "American", "Alma mater": "Columbia College", "Spouse(s)": "Marion Graves Anthon June 1, 1876 May 25, 1915 her death"} |
Sir Robert Stout (28 September 1844 - 19 July 1930) was a New Zealand politician who was the 13th premier of New Zealand on two occasions in the late 19th century, and later Chief Justice of New Zealand. He was the only person to hold both these offices. He was noted for his support of liberal causes such as women's s... | {"Name": "Robert Stout", "Image": "Sir Robert Stout.PNG", "Predecessor 2": "Harry Atkinson", "Successor 2": "Harry Atkinson", "Birth date": "1844 9 28 y", "Birth place": "Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom", "Death date": "1930 7 19 1844 9 28 y", "Death place": "Wellington, New Zealand", "Spouse(s)": "Anna Pat... |
Don Ameche (; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 - December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, stocks, and vaudevilles, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935.
As a handsome, d... | {"Name": "Don Ameche", "Image": "Don Ameche 1964.JPG", "Caption": "Ameche on the set of International Showtime in 1964", "Birth name": "Dominic Felix Amici", "Birth date": "1908 5 31", "Birth place": "Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.", "Death date": "1993 12 6 1908 5 31", "Death place": "Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.", "Resting pl... |
Guru Amar Das (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਮਰ ਦਾਸ, pronunciation: ; 5 May 1479 - 1 September 1574), sometimes spelled as Guru Amardas, was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at age 73.
Before becoming a Sikh (Shishya from Sanskrit), on a pilgrimage after having been prompted to search for ... | {"Religion": "Sikhism", "Born": "Basarke, Delhi Sultanate (present-day Amritsar district, Punjab, India)", "Died": "Goindwal Sahib, Mughal Empire (present-day Punjab, India)", "Children": "Bhai Mohan (1507 - 1567) Bhai Mohri (1514 - 1569) Bibi Dani (1526 - 1569) Bibi Bhani (1532 - 1598)"} |
thumb|August Belmont II on May 6, 1915
August Belmont Jr. (February 18, 1853 - December 10, 1924) was an American financier. He financed the construction of the original New York City Subway line (1900-1904) and for many years headed the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, which ran the transit system.Clifton Hood, 722... | {"Name": "August Belmont II", "Caption": "Belmont circa 1890", "Birth date": "1853 2 18", "Birth place": "Manhattan, New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "1924 12 10 1853 2 18 y", "Death place": "Manhattan, New York City, U.S.", "Resting place": "Island CemeteryNewport, Rhode Island, U.S.", "Other names": "August Belmon... |
Arial Unicode MS is a TrueType font and the extended version of the font Arial. Compared to Arial, it includes higher line height, omits kerning pairs and adds enough glyphs to cover a large subset of Unicode 2.1—thus supporting most Microsoft code pages, but also requiring much more storage space (22 megabytes). It a... | {"Name": "Arial Unicode MS", "Category": "Sans-serif", "Classification": "Neo-grotesque sans-serif", "Designer(s)": "Brian Allen, Evert Bloemsma, Jelle Bosma, Joshua Hadley, Wallace Ho, Kamal Mansour, Steve Matteson, Thomas Rickner", "Commissioned by": "Microsoft", "Foundry": "Monotype", "Date created": "1993-1999", "D... |
Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 - November 29, 1991)Flint, Peter B. "Ralph Bellamy, the Actor, Is Dead at 87." The New York Times, November 30, 1991 Quote: Ralph Bellamy, a veteran character actor who appeared in more than 100 movies but who attained his greatest recognition on Broadway as the stricken Franklin D.... | {"Name": "Ralph Bellamy", "Caption": "Bellamy in 1934", "Birth name": "Ralph Rexford Bellamy", "Birth date": "1904 06 17", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "1991 11 29 1904 06 17", "Death place": "Santa Monica, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor screenwriter usher presenter", "Years active":... |
The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) is a public technical university established by the Government of India, located in Amingaon area, North Guwahati Village area, in the state of Assam in India. It is the sixth Indian Institute of Technology established in India. IIT Guwahati is officially recog... | {"Type": "Public technical university", "Motto": "Hindi", "Chairman": "Dr. Rajiv I. ModiIndian Institute of Technology Guwahati Board of Governors (BoG) https://www.iitg.ac.in/admstr?ct=board-of-governors", "Director": "Prof. P. K. Iyer (Officiating Director)Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Administration http... |
Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, with a screenplay by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor stree... | {"Directed by": "John Landis", "Produced by": "Aaron Russo", "Written by": "Timothy Harris Herschel Weingrod", "Starring": "Dan Aykroyd Eddie Murphy Ralph Bellamy Don Ameche Denholm Elliott Jamie Lee Curtis", "Music by": "Elmer Bernstein", "Cinematography": "Robert Paynter", "Edited by": "Malcolm Campbell", "Distribute... |
Dolce & Gabbana (), also known by initials D&G, is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The house specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, accessories, and cosmetics and licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear.
History
Ea... | {"Type": "Società a responsabilità limitata", "Industry": "Fashion", "Founded": "1985 yesLegnano, Italy", "Headquarters": "Italy", "Products": "Clothing, footwear, handbags, sunglasses, watches, jewellery, perfumes and cosmetics", "Revenue": "€1.5 billion (2021)I D & G DOLCE & GABBANA Revenue https://www.zippia.com/d-... |
The New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) is the governing body of rugby league in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Commission. It was formed in Sydney on 8 August 1907 and was known as the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) until 1984. From ... | {"Sport": "Rugby league", "Formerly known as": "New South Wales Rugby Football League", "Instituted": "1907", "Number of teams": "413 senior clubs (across 33 leagues)", "Website": "nswrl.com.au"} |
TRSDOS (which stands for the Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System) is the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of eight-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers that were sold through Radio Shack from 1977 through 1991. Tandy's manuals recommended that it be pronounced triss-doss. TRSDOS should not be confused with Tandy ... | {"Developer": "Tandy", "Source model": "Closed source", "Kernel": "Monolithic", "Platforms": "Zilog Z80-based TRS-80s", "Defaultuser interface": "Command-line interface", "Initial release": "Model I in 1977", "Available in": "English", "Working state": "Historic"} |
Thomas Dudley (12 October 157631 July 1653) was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home. He provided land and funds to establish the Roxbury Latin Sc... | {"Name": "Thomas Dudley", "Term start": "1634", "Term end": "1635", "Predecessor 2": "John Winthrop", "Successor 2": "Richard Bellingham", "Birth date": "12 October 1576", "Birth place": "Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England", "Death date": "yes 1653 7 31 1576 10 12", "Death place": "Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay C... |
The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it. The Cocos Plate was created approximately 23 million years ago when the Farallon Plate broke into two pieces, which also created the Nazca Plate. The Cocos Plat... | {"Type": "Minor", "Approximate area": "2,900,000 km2http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm Here are the Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates", "Movement1": "north-east", "Speed1": "67 mm/year", "Features": "Cocos Island, Pacific Ocean"} |
The Philippine Sea Plate or the Philippine Plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east of the Philippines. Most segments of the Philippines, including northern Luzon, are part of the Philippine Mobile Belt, which is geologically and tectonically separate f... | {"Type": "Minor", "Approximate area": "5,500,000 km2http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070209033841/http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm February 9, 2007 Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates", "Movement1": "north-west", "Speed1": "48-84mm/y... |
The University of Alaska System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was created in 1917 and comprises three separately accredited universities on 19 campuses. The system serves nearly 30,000 full- and part-time students and offers 400 unique degree programs.
Each of the three main univer... | {"Motto": "la", "Type": "Public university system", "Endowment": "$375 million (system-wide) (2021)https://www.alaska.edu/foundation/about/ UA Foundation - About US", "President": "Pat Pitney", "Students": "26,341 (2019)", "Website": "www.alaska.edu"} |
Joe Satrom (born 10 October 1945) is an American businessman and environmental lobbyist from the U.S. state of North Dakota. He won the 2004 Democratic-NPL nomination for governor, but was defeated by the Republican incumbent, John Hoeven.
Satrom was born on his family's farm in Broadlawn Township in Steele County, N... | {"Name": "Joe Satrom", "State senate": "North Dakota", "Term start": "1982", "Term end": "1992", "Birth date": "1945 10 10", "Birth place": "Broadlawn, North Dakota, U.S.", "Education": "North Dakota State University (BS)"} |
The World Club Series was an annual rugby league football competition played between clubs from the NRL (Australia and New Zealand) and the Super League (England and France).
The competition saw a number of RFL vs NRL club matches before culminating with the World Club Challenge, a single match played between the reig... | {"Instituted": "2015", "Ceased": "2017", "Number of teams": "6 (2015-2016)4 (2017)", "Most titles": "2"} |
Aventura Mall is a shopping mall located in Aventura, Florida. It is the 3rd largest mall in the United States by total square feet of retail space and the largest mall in Florida. The mall features JCPenney, Macy's, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's, in addition to a 24-screen AMC Theatres.
Aventura Mall has more than 50... | {"Location": "Aventura, Florida, United States", "Coordinates": "25 57 29 N 80 08 35 W type:landmark_region:US-FL inline,title", "Address": "19501 Biscayne Boulevard", "Opening date": "April 29, 1983", "Developer": "Oxford Development Co. and Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.", "Management": "Turnberry Associates", "Owner": "T... |
Horace Andrew "Bud" Olson (October 6, 1925 – February 14, 2002) was a Canadian businessman, politician, and the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1996 to 2000. He also served as a Member of Parliament, Senator, Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Economic and Regional Development. He was also a farmer and ... | {"Name": "Bud Olson", "Image caption": "Olson 1950s", "Birth date": "October 6, 1925", "Birth place": "Iddesleigh, Alberta", "Death date": "2002 02 14 1925 10 06", "Death place": "Medicine Hat, Alberta", "Term start": "April 17, 1996", "Term end": "February 10, 2000", "Predecessor 2": "Edwin William Brunsden", "Success... |
St. Bonaventure University is a private Franciscan university in St. Bonaventure, New York. It has 2,381 undergraduate and graduate students. The Franciscans established the university in 1858.
In athletics, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies play National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I sports in the Atlantic 10 ... | {"Type": "Private university", "President": "Jeff Gingerich", "Provost": "David Hilmey", "Endowment": "$92.3 million (2021)As of September 1, 2022. https://www.nacubo.org/Research/2021/Public-NTSE-Tables U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2021 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Val... |
Harold Norbert Kalas (March 26, 1936 - April 13, 2009) was an American sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Award-winning role as lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball (MLB)'s Philadelphia Phillies, a position he held from 1971 until his death in 2009.
Kalas was also closely identified with t... | {"Name": "Harry Kalas", "Caption": "Kalas at the 2008 Phillies World Championship Parade", "Birth name": "Harry Norbert Kalas", "Birth date": "1936 3 26", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "2009 4 13 1936 3 26", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Resting place": "Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila... |
Xanga () was a website that hosted weblogs, photoblogs, and social networking profiles. It was operated by Xanga.com, Inc. and based in New York City.
History
Xanga began in 1999 as a site for sharing book and music reviews. It became public in 2000, following a series of e-mail recruitment methods via GeoCities. Ov... | {"URL": "http://www.xanga.com", "Commercial": "Free/Subscription", "Registration": "Required to blog", "Created by": "John Hiler, Marc Ginsburg, Dan Huddle", "Launched": "1999 4 4notforprophet's Xanga Site. Notforprophet.xanga.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.", "Dissolved": "2013"} |
The Ford C. Frick Award is presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in the United States to a broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball". It is named for Ford C. Frick, former Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Before his career as an executive, Frick was a baseball writer; he gained fame as ... | {"Sport": "Baseball", "Awarded for": "\"Commitment to excellence, quality of broadcasting abilities, reverence within the game, popularity with fans, and recognition by peers.\"", "Presented by": "National Baseball Hall of Fame", "First award": "1978", "First winner": "Mel Allen", "Most recent": "Pat Hughes (2023)", "W... |
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (; born 15 July 1949) is an Emirati politician and royal who is the current ruler of Dubai, and serves as the vice president, prime minister, and minister of defence of the United Arab Emirates. He is the third son of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, former vice president of the... | {"Father": "Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum", "Mother": "Latifa bint Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan", "Born": "Dubai, Trucial States", "Religion": "Islam"} |
The voiceless bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p.
Features
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Features of the voiceless bilabial plosive:
Varieties
IPA Description plai... | {"IPA symbol 1": "p", "IPA number": "101", "Decimal HMTL codepoint 1": "112", "X-SAMPA": "p"} |
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books, Doctorow released the entire text of the novel under a Creative Commons noncommercial license on his website, allowing the whole t... | {"Country": "Canada", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Tor Books", "Media type": "Print (hardcover & paperback) & ebook", "Pages": "208", "ISBN": "(hardcover) 0-7653-0953-X (paperback)", "Followed by": "Truncat"} |
"A Drug Against War" is a song by industrial rock band KMFDM, taken from their 1993 album Angst. It was released as a single prior to the album. A music video, featuring animated depictions of the band's previous album covers and singles, was made for the single, and was subsequently shown on the MTV cartoon Beavis and... | {"B-side": "Blood", "Released": "1993 9 23 yhttps://www.facebook.com/officialkmfdm/posts/404967697654249 We have not one, not two, but three Ultra Heavy Beat Anniversaries upon us today!! September 23, 2021 KMFDM https://archive.today/20210924010021/https://www.facebook.com/officialkmfdm/posts/404967697654249 Sept... |
Angst is the seventh studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on 13 October 1993 by Wax Trax! Records.
Background
Bandmates Sascha Konietzko and En Esch began working together again after splitting up during the recording of their previous album, Money. Konietzko had moved to Seattle in 1993, while Esch ... | {"Released": "y 1993 10 13", "Recorded": "1993http://www.kmfdm.net/history.html KMFDM History on April 4, 1997 KMFDM.net KMFDM Enterprises 11 September 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/19970408173452/http://www.kmfdm.net/history.html 8 April 1997", "Studio": "Chicago Recording Company", "Genre": "Industrial metal... |
The bazooka is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. Radio comedian Bob Burns is credited with inventing the instrument in the 1910s, and popularized it in the 1930s. It was also played by jazz musicians Noon Johnson and Sanford Kendrick.The Encycloped... | {"Name": "Bazooka", "Image size": "200", "Caption": "Bob Burns with a bazooka, the instrument he invented", "Background": "brass", "Classification": "Wind\nBrass\nAerophone", "Hornbostel-Sachs": "423.22", "Hornbostel-Sachs Description": "Sliding aerophone sounded by lip movement"} |
Bazooka is an American brand of bubble gum that was introduced in 1947. It is a product of "Bazooka Candy Brands" which was a division of The Topps Company Inc. until that company's acquisition by Fanatics, Inc. in 2022.
History
Bazooka bubble gum was first marketed shortly after World War II in the U.S. by the Topp... | {"Product type": "Bubble gum", "Owner": "The Bazooka Companies", "Country": "United States", "Introduced": "1947", "Markets": "Worldwide", "Website": "https://www.bazookajoe.com/ bazookajoe.com"} |
thumb|The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific occupies much of Punchbowl Crater.
thumb|The memorial contains a small chapel and tribute to the various battles fought in the Pacific.
thumb|The walls of the memorial are etched with names of those who were never recovered from battle.
thumb|right|"The solemn pride t... | {"Year or Date established": "1949", "Country": "United States", "Location": "Honolulu, Hawaii", "Coordinates": "21 18 46 N 157 50 47 W type:landmark_scale:2500_source:GNIS it", "Type": "United States National Cemetery", "Owned by": "National Cemetery Administration", "Website": "https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/nmcp.a... |
Harold "Harry" Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 - January 29, 1946) was an American statesman, public administrator, and presidential advisor. A trusted deputy to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hopkins directed New Deal relief programs before serving as the eighth United States secretary of commerce from 1938 to 19... | {"Name": "Harry Hopkins", "Term start": "December 24, 1938", "Term end": "September 18, 1940", "Office 2": "Administrator of the Works Progress Administration", "President 2": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Predecessor 2": "Position established", "Successor 2": "Francis C. Harrington", "Birth name": "Harold Lloyd Hopkins", ... |
Herpa Wings is a brand that identifies the die-cast model aircraft line of German company Herpa. The collection includes 250 airlines under 17 different aircraft manufacturers in 1:200 scale. The mainstay of Herpa Wings is in the 1:500 scale, while model airliners are also produced in the 1:400, 1:200, 1:1000, and 1:16... | {"Product type": "Scale model aircraft", "Owner": "Herpa", "Country": "Germany", "Introduced": "1992", "Website": "https://www.herpa.de/ herpa.de"} |
Rein Taagepera (born 28 February 1933) is an Estonian political scientist and former politician.
Education
Born in Tartu, Estonia, Taagepera fled from Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1944. Taagepera graduated from high school in Marrakech, Morocco, and then studied physics in Canada and the United States. He received a ... | {"Name": "Rein Taagepera", "Alt": "Rein Taagepera in 2009", "Caption": "Taagepera in 2009", "Birth date": "1933 02 28", "Birth place": "Tartu, Estonia", "Education": "Nuclear Engineering, University of Toronto (B.A. Sc, 1959)\n Physics, University of Delaware (Ph.D., 1965)", "Awards": "Johan Skytte Prize in Political S... |
Monkeystone Games was a video game developer and publisher founded by John Romero, Tom Hall, Stevie Case, and Brian Moon. After its inception in July 2001, Monkeystone published several titles on multiple platforms.
History
Romero and Hall were co-founders of Ion Storm, and had previously worked together at Id Softwar... | {"Type": "Defunct", "Founded": "2001", "Defunct": "2005", "Headquarters": "United States", "Industry": "Video games", "Website": "Official website"} |
The karambit or kerambit (as used in Indonesian), kurambik or karambiak (both from the Minangkabau language) is a small Indonesian curved knife resembling a claw from the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra. The karambit is one of the weapons commonly used in pencak silat and Indonesian martial arts.
Origin
thumb|left|... | {"Place of origin": "Indonesia (West Sumatra)", "Type": "Concealed blade", "Haft": "Yes", "Sheath": "Water buffalo horn, wooden"} |
Trbovlje (; Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 58.) is Slovenia's tenth-largest town, and the seat of the Municipality of Trbovlje. It is located in the valley of a minor left tributary of the Sava River in the Central S... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "9th, Slovenia", "DST": "+02:00", "Website": "http://www.trbovlje.si/"} |
Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1892 - January 24, 1970) was the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra, an American patron of the arts, a publisher, and the woman Time called the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris." She and her second husband,... | {"Name": "Caresse Crosby", "Caption": "Caresse Crosby and her whippet Clytoris", "Birth date": "yes 1892 04 20", "Birth name": "Mary Phelps Jacob", "Other names": "Polly Jacob, Polly Peabody", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 1970 01 24 1892 04 20", "Death place": "Rome, Italy", "Known For": "In... |
"The Chanukah Song" is a novelty song written by comedian Adam Sandler with Saturday Night Live writers Lewis Morton and Ian Maxtone-Graham and originally performed by Sandler on Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update on December 3, 1994. Sandler subsequently performed the song as part of his stand-up act, later updating ... | {"Released": "1995", "Genre": "Comedy", "Label": "Warner Bros.", "Songwriter(s)": "Adam Sandler, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Lewis Morton", "Producer(s)": "Adam Sandler, Brooks Arthur"} |
William Washington Beaudine (January 15, 1892 - March 18, 1970) was an American film director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres.
Life and career
Born in New York City, Beaudine began his career as an actor in 1909, aged 17, with... | {"Name": "William Beaudine", "Caption": "Beaudine in 1920", "Birth name": "William Washington Beaudine", "Birth date": "1892 01 15 y", "Birth place": "New York City U.S.", "Death date": "1970 03 18 1892 01 15 y", "Death place": "Canoga Park, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Hollywood Forever Cemetery", "Occupation"... |
Little House on the Prairie (Little House: A New Beginning in its ninth and final season) is an American Western historical drama television series about the Ingalls family, who live on a farm on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s-90s. Charles, Laura, Caroline, Mary, and Carrie Ingalls are respective... | {"Also known as": "Little House: A New Beginning", "Genre": "Western\n Historical drama", "Developed by": "Blanche Hanalis", "Directed by": "William F. Claxton Maury Dexter Victor French Michael Landon Leo Penn", "Starring": "Michael Landon Melissa Gilbert Karen Grassle Melissa Sue Anderson Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush... |
Jon B. Erpenbach (born January 28, 1961) is an American politician that served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 27th District from 1999 to 2023.
Early life, education and career
Erpenbach was born in Middleton, Wisconsin and graduated from Middleton High School. He attended the Universi... | {"Name": "Jon Erpenbach", "State senate": "Wisconsin", "Term start": "January 3, 1999", "Term end": "January 3, 2023", "Birth date": "1961 1 28", "Birth place": "Middleton, Wisconsin, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh", "Residence": "West Point, Wisconsin"} |
Werner Sombart (; ; 19 January 1863 - 18 May 1941) was a German economist, historian and sociologist. Head of the "Youngest Historical School," he was one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. The term late capitalism is accredited to him. The concept of cre... | {"Fields": "Economics, sociology, history", "Institutions": "University of Breslau, Handelshochschule Berlin, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität", "Doctoral students": "Wassily LeontiefRichard Löwenthal", "Influences": "Max Weber, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx", "Influenced": "Karl Polanyi, ... |
Mark Barr McClellan (born June 26, 1963) is the director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University. Formerly, he was a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Engelberg Center for H... | {"Name": "Mark McClellan", "Term start": "March 25, 2004", "Term end": "October 14, 2006", "Birth date": "1963 6 26", "Birth place": "Austin, Texas, U.S.", "Education": "University of Texas, Austin (BA)Harvard University (MPA)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MD, PhD)"} |
Dave Hansen (born December 18, 1947) is an American Democratic politician and former state legislator. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 2001 through 2021, representing the 30th senatorial district.
thumb|Hansen at Oconto 2018 Copperfest Parade
thumb|Hansen campaign logo
Early life and education
Hans... | {"Name": "Dave Hansen", "State senate": "Wisconsin", "Term start": "January 3, 2001", "Term end": "January 4, 2021", "Birth date": "1947 12 18", "Birth place": "Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Jane Dessart", "Alma mater": "University of Wisconsin-Green Bay", "Official website": "Senate website"} |
The Salt River (Spanish: , O'odham [Pima]: , Yavapai: or , Maricopa language: Va Shly’ayAntone, Caroline. Piipayk m'iim. Salt River: Oʼodham Piipaash Language Program, 2000.) is a river in Gila and Maricopa counties in Arizona, United States, that is the largest tributary of the Gila River. The river is about 200 mile... | {"Mouth": "928 ft on", "Location": "Phoenix", "Coordinates": "33 22 52 N 112 18 47 W region:US-AZ inline,title", "Basin size": "13700 sqmi on"} |
Total War is a series of strategy games developed by British developer Creative Assembly for personal computers. They combine turn-based strategy and resource management with real-time tactical control of battles. Rather uniquely for real-time strategy games, flanking manoeuvers and formations factor heavily into gamep... | {"Title": "Total War", "Genre": "Turn-based strategy, real-time tactics", "Developer": "Creative Assembly\nFeral Interactive", "Publisher": "Electronic Arts (2000-2001)\nActivision (2002-2004)\nSega (2005-present)", "First release version": "Shogun: Total War", "First release date": "13 June 2000", "Latest release vers... |
Dame Monica Jessie Dacon ( Sheen, born 4 June 1934) is a Saint Vincent and the Grenadines former schoolteacher, educator and politician. She is the widow of parliamentarian St. Clair Dacon.OAS profile, oas.org; accessed 1 September 2014.
She attended The Girls' High School and passed both the Cambridge School Certifi... | {"Name": "Monica Jessie Dacon", "Image": "Dame Monica Dacon (cropped).JPG", "Image caption": "Dacon in 2012", "Term start": "3 June 2002", "Term end": "22 June 2002", "Birth date": "1934 6 4 y", "Alma mater": "University of the West Indies", "Spouse(s)": "St. Clair Dacon (deceased)"} |
Sir Charles James Antrobus (14 May 1933 - 3 June 2002) was the Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines from 1 June 1996 until his death. Antrobus was a master of the St. George’s Masonic Lodge, and spent most of his working life in Cable & Wireless plc.
He died in Toronto and was temporarily replaced by Mo... | {"Name": "Sir Charles Antrobus", "Term start": "1 June 1996", "Term end": "3 June 2002", "Birth date": "1933 05 14 y", "Death date": "2002 06 03 1933 05 14 y", "Death place": "Toronto, Canada"} |
Popbitch is a weekly UK-based celebrity and pop music newsletter and associated dating website from the early 2000s. Much of the material for the newsletter comes from the Popbitch message boards, frequented by music industry insiders, gossips and the casually interested. The board has at various times been credited fo... | {"URL": "http://popbitch.com/", "Type of business": "Nonprofit", "Available in": "English", "Commercial": "Yes", "Current status": "News-in media"} |
Aden Derek Ridgeway (born 18 September 1962) is an Australian former politician.The Age (2006). Present politics. Retrieved 6 July 2006. He was a member of the Australian Senate for New South Wales from 1999 to 2005, representing the Australian Democrats. During his term he was the only Aboriginal member of the Austral... | {"Name": "Aden Ridgeway", "Term start": "6 April 2001", "Term end": "21 August 2002", "Birth name": "Aden Derek Ridgeway", "Birth date": "yes 1962 9 18", "Birth place": "Macksville, New South Wales, Australia", "Education": "St John's College", "Alma mater": "University of Technology Sydney"} |
The commune of Agen (, ; ) is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne southeast of Bordeaux.
Geography
The city of Agen lies in the southwestern department of Lot-et-Garonne in the Aquitaine region. The city centre lies on the east bank ... | {"Name": "Agen", "Commune Status": "Prefecture and commune", "Image": "Vue Agen 3.JPG", "Caption": "View of Agen from heights", "Arrondissement": "Agen", "Canton": "Agen-1, Agen-2, Agen-3, Agen-4", "Postal code": "47000", "Mayor": "Jean Dionis du SéjourRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/f... |
Pierre-Henri Clostermann (28 February 1921 – 22 March 2006) was a World War II French fighter pilot.
During the conflict he achieved 33 air-to-air combat victories, earning the accolade "France's First Fighter" from General Charles de Gaulle. His wartime memoir, The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque) became a notable bestsel... | {"Born": "Curitiba, Brazil", "Died": "Montesquieu-des-Albères, France", "Allegiance": "United KingdomFrance", "Awards": "See List", "Other work": "Author, engineer and politician."} |
Aire-sur-l'Adour (; or simply ) is a commune in the Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
It lies on the river Adour in the wine area of southwest France. It is an episcopal see of the Diocese of Aire and Dax. The nearest large towns are Mont-de-Marsan to the north and Pau to the south.
History... | {"Name": "Aire-sur-l'Adour", "Native Name": "oc Aira d'Ador", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "Former market place", "Arrondissement": "Mont-de-Marsan", "Canton": "Adour Armagnac", "Postal code": "40800", "Mayor": "Xavier LagraveRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/287... |
Paula Ann Zahn (; born February 24, 1956) is an American journalist and newscaster who has been an anchor at ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and CNN. She currently produces and hosts the true crime documentary series On the Case with Paula Zahn on the Investigation Discovery channel.
Early life and career
Zahn was born ... | {"Name": "Paula Zahn", "Caption": "Zahn in April 2011", "Birth name": "Paula Ann Zahn", "Birth date": "1956 2 24", "Birth place": "Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.", "Children": "3", "Occupation": "Newscaster, journalist", "Years active": "1973-present", "Spouse(s)": "Richard Cohen 1987 2007 divorced"} |
thumb|right|A car of the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. Opened in 1890, the railway is a water-operated funicular, long, operating on a 1 in 1.75 gradient track. One car descends, while the other ascends, on a counterbalance system. The water is piped from the West Lyn River
thumb|Lynmouth Harbour
Lynmouth is a v... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Shire county": "Devon", "District": "North Devon", "Postcode district": "EX"} |
The Balonne River, part of the Murray-Darling Basin system, is a short yet significant part of the inland river group of South West Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The river is a continuation of the Condamine River. After flowing through Surat the river flows south south-westerly down through the E.J. Beard... | {"Etymology": "QPN/>", "Mouth": "171 m on", "Location": "near Dirranbandi", "Coordinates": "28 43 27 S 148 03 6 E inline,title", "Right": "Maranoa River"} |
Hipercor S.A. is an upscale chain of hypermarkets in Spain, belonging to the same group as El Corte Inglés. It has its head office in the El Corte Inglés head office building in Madrid."Legal Document." Hipercor. Retrieved on 29 January 2011. "Domicilio social: Hermosilla, 112. 28009 Madrid.""Home." El Corte Inglés Cor... | {"Type": "Sociedad Anónima", "Industry": "Retail (Hypermarket)", "Founded": "Madrid, Spain (1979 01 01)", "Headquarters": "Spain", "Parent": "El Corte Inglés, S.A.", "Website": "www.hipercor.es"} |
Gerald Augustine Paul Regan (February 13, 1928 - November 26, 2019) was a Canadian politician (as federal MP and later as Nova Scotia MLA), who served as the 19th premier of Nova Scotia from 1970 to 1978.
Early life and education
Regan was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, of partial Irish descent, the son of Rose Mary (... | {"Name": "Gerald Regan", "Birth name": "newsp1>https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19561030&id=-PgxAAAAIBAJ&pg=7245,3637161 Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive Search January 27, 2017", "Birth date": "1928 2 13", "Birth place": "Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada", "Death date": "2019 11 26 1928 2 13", "Death pl... |
The (JT) is a Japanese diversified tobacco company. It was established in 1985 as a that inherited the right to monopolize and manufacture cigarettes from the Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation and required the government to hold at least 50% of its shares. In addition to tobacco, JT diversified its businesses... | {"Formerly": "Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation日本専売公社Hepburn: Nippon Senbai Kōsha", "Type": "1985-Present: Public (kabushiki gaisha) 1949-1985: Statutory corporation", "Industry": "FoodTobacco", "Founded": "1898 (as Imperial Japanese Tobacco Company)1 June 1949 (as Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation)1 A... |
thumb|right|Aerial view of Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , Universitat Bar-Ilan) is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic institution. It has about 20,000 students and 1,350 faculty members.
Bar... | {"Motto": "Impacting tomorrow, today", "Type": "Public research", "President": "Arie Zaban", "Principal": "Zohar Yinon", "Rector": "Amnon Albeck", "Students": "20,000", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "https://www.biu.ac.il"} |
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The ... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "John Murray", "Media type": "Print (hardback)"} |
Michael Andrews (born November 17, 1967), also known as Elgin Park, is an American multi-instrumental musician, producer, and film score composer. He is best known for a cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with Gary Jules for the Donnie Darko soundtrack, and which became the 2003 UK... | {"Born": "1967 11 17 y", "Origin": "San Diego, California", "Genres": "Film score, experimental, folk", "Labels": "Avace"} |
is a railway station in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro.
Lines
Ochanomizu Station is serviced by the following lines:
Chūō Main Line (including Chūō Line and Chūō-Sōbu Line)
Sōbu Main Line (including Chūō-Sōbu Line)
Passengers can also transfer... | {"Name": "Ochanomizu Station", "Native name": "御茶ノ水駅", "Native name language": "ja", "Caption": "Ochanomizu Station", "Address": "Tokyo", "Country": "Japan"} |
Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (22 November 1889, in Dresden - 20 November 1972, in East Berlin) was a German naturalist and ornithologist. Stresemann was an ornithologist of extensive breadth who compiled one of the first and most comprehensive accounts of avian biology of its time as part of the Handbuch der Zool... | {"Name": "Erwin Stresemann", "Caption": "Stresemann in 1919", "Birth date": "yes 1889 11 22", "Birth place": "Dresden, German Empire", "Death date": "1972 11 20 1889 11 22 yes", "Nationality": "German", "Occupation": "Naturalist ornithologist"} |
Temple blocks are a type of percussion instrument consisting of a set of woodblocks. It is descended from the muyu, an instrument originating from eastern Asia, where it is commonly used in religious ceremonies.
Description
It is a carved hollow wooden instrument with a large slit. In its traditional form, the muyu, t... | {"Name": "Temple blocks", "Background": "percussion", "Names": "Tone blocks skulls wooden bells dragons' mouths", "Classification": "Percussion", "Hornbostel-Sachs": "111.242.221", "Hornbostel-Sachs Description": "Sets of hanging bells without internal strikers", "Related": "Woodblock wooden fish slit drum", "Builders"... |
Judith Adele Finnigan (born 16 May 1948) is an English television presenter and writer. She co-presented ITV's This Morning (1988-2001, 2019-2020) and the Channel 4 chat show, Richard & Judy (2001-2008) alongside her husband Richard Madeley. Her debut novel Eloise, published in 2012, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her ... | {"Name": "Judy Finnigan", "Birth name": "Judith Adele Finnigan", "Birth date": "yes 1948 05 16", "Birth place": "Newton Heath, Manchester, England", "Occupation": "Television presenter\nwriter", "Education": "University of Bristol", "Years active": "1971-2020 (retired)", "Television": "This Morning (1988-2001)Richard a... |
Richard Holt Madeley ( born 13 May 1956) is an English television presenter and writer. Alongside his wife Judy Finnigan, he presented This Morning and the chat show Richard & Judy. Madeley's solo projects include the ITV series Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway and covering for The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radi... | {"Name": "Richard Madeley", "Caption": "Madeley in 2019", "Birth name": "Richard Holt Madeley", "Birth date": "1956 05 13 y", "Birth place": "Romford, Essex, England", "Occupation": "Television presenter\nwriter", "Years active": "1976-present", "Citizenship": "United Kingdom\nCanada", "Television": "This Morning (1988... |
is a major interchange railway station which straddles Tokyo's Chiyoda, Shinjuku and Bunkyō wards. It was originally built as Iidamachi Station (albeit in a slightly different location), terminus of the then Kōbu Railway, precursor to today's Chūō Line. The Ōedo Line addition to the station in 2000 was designed by arch... | {"Name": "JB 16 50 T 06 50 Y 13 50 N 10 50 E 06 50Iidabashi Station", "Native name": "飯田橋駅", "Native name language": "ja", "Image": "JR Iidabashi Station 2022 Nov 28 various 19 06 04 739000.jpeg", "Caption": "JR East west entrance, November 2022", "Address": "Chiyoda, Tokyo", "Country": "Japan", "Structure": "At grade ... |
Charles Adams Claverie (August 28, 1949 - October 7, 2005), known by stage names Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy and Charles Rocket, was an American actor, comedian, musician, and television news reporter. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, played the villain Nicholas Andre in the film Dumb and Dumber, and... | {"Name": "Charles Rocket", "Birth name": "Charles Adams Claverie", "Birth date": "1949 08 28", "Birth place": "Bangor, Maine, U.S.", "Death date": "2005 10 07 1949 08 28", "Death place": "Canterbury, Connecticut, U.S.", "Other names": "Charlie HamburgerCharlie Kennedy", "Alma mater": "Rhode Island School of Design", "O... |
thumb|The headquarters of Jean Coutu Group in Varennes, Quebec.
thumb|right|A Jean Coutu pharmacy in Shediac, New Brunswick.
The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. is a Canadian drugstore chain headquartered in Varennes, Quebec. It has more than 400 franchised locations in New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec under the PJC Jean ... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Drug Stores", "Revenue": "$2977.9 million (2017) THE JEAN COUTU GROUP - FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL YEAR 2017 RESULTS Retrieved 5 June 2020.", "Parent": "Metro Inc.(2017-present)", "Website": "www.jeancoutu.com", "Founded": "1969", "Headquarters": "Canada"} |
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