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Nancy Ann Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969) is an American former figure skater. She won bronze medals at the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Winter Olympics, silver medals at the 1992 World Championships and the 1994 Winter Olympics, as well as the 1993 US National Figure Skating Championship. Kerrigan was induc... | {"Country represented": "United States", "Full name": "Nancy Ann Kerrigan", "Born": "Stoneham, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Height": "5 ft 4 in cm 3 onhttps://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ke/nancy-kerrigan-1.html Nancy Kerrigan Biography and Olympic Results Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Kubatko Justin Sports... |
The Galia melon, also known as sarda in Southeast Asia, is a type of F1 hybrid melon originating from a cross between the green-flesh melon cultivar 'Ha-Ogen' and the netted-rind melon cultivar 'Krimka'. Developed in Israel at the Ne´ve Yaar Research Center of the Agricultural Research Organisation by the melon breeder... | {"Variety": "Cucumis melo var. reticulatus", "Hybrid parentage": "'Ha-Ogen' × 'Krimka'", "Breeder": "Dr. Zvi Karchi", "Origin": "Israel"} |
The Massachusetts Government Act (14 Geo. 3. c. 45) was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, receiving royal assent on 20 May 1774. The act effectively abrogated the 1691 charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and gave its royally-appointed governor wide-ranging powers. The colonists declared that it altere... | {"Parliament": "Parliament of Great Britain", "Type": "Act", "Long title": "An Act for the Better Regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England.", "Year": "1774", "Introduced by": "The Rt. Hon. Lord North, KG, MPPrime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer & Leader of the House of Co... |
The Administration of Justice Act, or An Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice, also popularly called the Monkey Act or Murder Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (14 Geo. 3 c. 39). It became a law on 20 May 1774. It was one of the measures (commonly referred to as the Intolerable Acts, the Pun... | {"Parliament": "Parliament of Great Britain", "Long title": "An Act for the impartial Administration of Justice in the Cases of Persons questioned for any Acts done by them in the Execution of the Law, or for the Suppression of Riots and Tumults in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.", "Year": "1774", "... |
Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 - March 17, 1965) was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football. He served as the head football coach at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College) (1890-1891), the University of Chicago (1892-1932), and the Coll... | {"Born": "West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.", "Died": "Stockton, California, U.S.", "Position(s)": "End, fullback, halfback", "Overall": "314-99-35 (college football)14-6 (college basketball)266-166-3 (college baseball)", "Bowls": "0-1"} |
Jessica Julie Anne Garlick (born 1981) is an English-born Welsh pop singer. Garlick made her first steps into show business when she was 16. At that age, she won the Welsh final of BBC One's talent show Star for a Night. The same year she also featured in Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music. She is the second-highest ... | {"Born": "Derby, Derbyshire, England", "Origin": "Kidwelly, Wales", "Genres": "Pop, soul", "Labels": "Freedom Records"} |
New Found Glory (often referred to as ) is the second studio album and major label debut by the American rock band of the same name. It was produced and mixed by Neal Avron and released on September 26, 2000, through Drive-Thru and MCA Records. Featuring a new recording of the band's breakthrough single "Hit or Miss", ... | {"Released": "2000 9 26", "Recorded": "June 2000", "Studio": "Elysian Fields, Boca Raton, Florida", "Genre": "Pop punk", "Label": "Drive-Thru, MCA", "Producer": "Neal Avron"} |
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The current speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, was elected Speaker on 4 November 2019, following the retirement of John Bercow. Hoyle began his first full parliamen... | {"Post": "Speaker", "Body": "theHouse of Commons", "Insignia size": "240", "Insignia caption": "Logo used to represent theHouse of Commons", "Flag image": "Flag House of Commons.svgborder", "Flag size": "200px", "Flag border": "Flag of the House of Commons", "Flag caption": "Flag of the House of Commons", "Incumbent": ... |
Cakewalk, Inc. is a former music production software company based in Boston, Massachusetts and currently a brand of Singaporean music company BandLab Technologies. The company's best known product was their professional-level digital audio workstation (DAW) software, SONAR. SONAR integrated multi-track recording and e... | {"Formerly": "Twelve Tone Systems, Inc.", "Type": "Private (1987-2012) Subsidiary (2013-18) Brand (2018-)", "Industry": "Software", "Fate": "Company defunct; currently a brand of BandLab Technologies", "Founded": "1987", "Headquarters": "United States", "Products": "SONAR Music software", "Parent": "Gibson (2013-18)"} |
Laurence Edward Alan Lee, (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.
His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and A Moment of War (1... | {"Born": "1914 6 26 y", "Died": "1997 5 13 1914 6 26 y", "Occupation": "Author, screenwriter, poet", "Language": "English", "Resting place": "Slad churchyard", "Notable awards": "Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire", "Years active": "1934-1997", "Children": "2", "Relatives": "Jack Lee (brother)"} |
Jaron Zepel Lanier (, born May 3, 1960) is an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc.,... | {"Name": "Jaron Lanier", "Alt": "Lanier blowing into a woodwind instrument with several chambers", "Caption": "Lanier in 2010", "Birth name": "Jaron Zepel Lanier", "Birth date": "yes 1960 05 03", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Known For": "Co-founder of Virtual reality", "Education": "New Mexico State Universit... |
The Gewehr 43 or Karabiner 43 (abbreviated G43, K43, Gew 43, Kar 43) is a 7.92×57mm Mauser caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Germany during World War II. The design was based on that of the earlier G41(W), but incorporated an improved short-stroke piston gas system similar to that of the Soviet SVT-40. It was m... | {"Place of origin": "Nazi Germany", "Type": "Semi-automatic rifle", "Sights": "Iron sights, ZF 43 optical crosshair sight", "In service": "1943-1945", "Used by": "See Users", "Wars": "World War IIFirst Indochina War", "Designer": "Walther", "Designed": "1943", "Produced": "1943-1945", "Mass": "4.4 kg (9.7 lbs)", "Lengt... |
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thumb|right|260px|Suesca, the place where Quesada wrote his books.
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (; 1509Friede (1959) - 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern... | {"Honorific prefix": "Adelantado", "Name": "Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada", "Caption": "Oil portrait of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (Ricardo Gómez Campuzano, Colombian Academy of History, Bogotá)", "Birth date": "1509", "Birth place": "Córdoba or Granada, Crown of Castile", "Death date": "16 February 1579 (aged 70)", "Deat... |
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is a private university focused on aviation and aerospace programs. Initially founded at Lunken Field in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1926, its main campuses are located in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona. It is the largest accredited university system specializing in av... | {"Accreditation": "SACS", "Type": "Private university2014 Best Colleges Rankings http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/embry-riddle-aeronautical-university-1479 U.S. News & World Report 5 April 2014 21 May 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140521174556/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.co... |
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Miss America who was also Jewish. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life. She was a heroine to parts of the... | {"Image caption": "Myerson in 1957", "Birth date": "1924 7 16", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2014 12 14 1924 7 16", "Death place": "Santa Monica, California, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Hunter College", "Spouse(s)": "Allan Wayne Arnold M. Grant", "Term start": "1969", "Term end": "1973"} |
The is a series of mountain ranges in Japan which bisect the main island of Honshu. The peaks that tower over central Honshu have long been the object of veneration and pilgrimage. These mountains had long been exploited by local people for raw materials, including timber, fuel, fertilizer, fodder, meat, minerals, and... | {"Language of name": "ja 日本アルプス ja-Latn Nihon Arupusu", "Location": "Japan", "Length": "200", "Width": "40", "Elevation": "3,193", "Coordinates": "35 40 27 N 138 14 12 E type:mountain_scale:100000 dms inline,title"} |
Eber (; ; ) is an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites according to the "Table of Nations" in the Book of Genesis () and the Books of Chronicles ().
Lineage
Eber was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg, born when Eber was 34 years old, and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah, a dist... | {"Caption": "Eber imagined in the 1553 Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum", "Birth date": "c. 2283 BCE (~4,305 years ago)", "Birth place": "Ur, Sumer(present-day southern Iraq)", "Death date": "c. 1819 BCE (aged 464)", "Death place": "Ur, Sumer", "Parent(s)": "Selah", "Children": "PelegJoktan"} |
Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 - August 30, 1970) was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer who witnessed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. He unexpectedly captured the shooting in a home movie while filming the presidential limousine and moto... | {"Name": "Abraham Zapruder", "Image": "Abraham Zapruder.webp", "Birth date": "1905 05 15", "Birth place": "Kovel, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire(Present-day, Kovel, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine)", "Death date": "1970 08 30 1905 05 15", "Death place": "Dallas, Texas, U.S.", "Resting place": "Emanu-El Cemetery", "Nation... |
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur ( Chassé; August 29, 1880 - April 16, 1998) was a Canadian supercentenarian. She is the oldest validated Canadian ever and upon the death of longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment, became the world's oldest recognized living person.
Early life
Marie-Louise Fébronie Chassé was bor... | {"Name": "Marie-Louise Meilleur", "Caption": "Meilleur in 1998", "Birth name": "Marie-Louise Fébronie Chassé", "Birth date": "1880 8 29 y", "Birth place": "Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada", "Death date": "yes 1998 4 16(aged 1880 8 29 1998 4 16)", "Death place": "Corbeil, Ontario, Canada", "Known For": "Oldest validated Cana... |
Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada. It is administratively a single-tier municipality and thus is not part of any dist... | {"Density": "49.7", "Metro density": "49.5", "Urban density": "1159.7", "DST": "-04:00", "Website": "www.greatersudbury.ca"} |
Maude Farris-Luse (January 21, 1887 - March 18, 2002), later known as Maud Luse, was an American supercentenarian. According to the Guinness World Records, she was the oldest person in the world from June 2001 until her death nine months later, at age . She outlived two husbands and six of her seven children.Prichard, ... | {"Name": "Maude Farris-Luse (aka Maud Luse)", "Birth date": "1887 1 21 y", "Birth place": "Morley, Michigan, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 2002 03 18(aged 1887 01 21 2002 03 18)", "Death place": "Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.", "Parent(s)": "Frank Davis (1858-1920)Della Jenkins (1863-1950)", "Spouse(s)": "Jason Farris (1903-19... |
Margaret Eloise Knight (February 14, 1838 - October 12, 1914) was an American inventor, notably of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags. She has been called "the most famous 19th-century woman inventor". She founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870, creating paper bags for groceries similar in form to the... | {"Name": "Margaret E. Knight", "Birth name": "Margaret Eloise Knight", "Birth date": "y 1838 2 14", "Birth place": "York, Maine, U.S.", "Death date": "1914 10 12 1838 2 14", "Death place": "Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Inventor", "Known For": "Machine to produce flat-botto... |
The Swedish Hockey League (officially SHL; ) is a professional ice hockey league, and the highest division in the Swedish ice hockey system. The league currently consists of 14 teams. The league was founded in 1975, and while Swedish ice hockey champions have been crowned through various formats since 1922, the title... | {"Current season": "2023-24 SHL season", "Last season": "2022-23 SHL season", "Map size": "270px", "Formerly": "Elitserien (1975-2013)", "Sport": "Ice hockey", "Founded": "1975", "Inaugural season": "1975-76", "Teams": "14", "Relegation to": "HockeyAllsvenskan", "Country": "Sweden", "TV partner(s)": "Sweden:\n TV4 Gro... |
Robert George Kardashian (February 22, 1944 - September 30, 2003) was an American attorney and businessman. He gained recognition as O. J. Simpson's friend and defense attorney during Simpson's 1995 murder trial. He had four children with his first wife, Kris Kardashian: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob, who appear on the... | {"Name": "Robert Kardashian", "Alt": "Robert Kardashian smiles at the camera, dressed in a suit", "Birth name": "Robert George Kardashian", "Birth date": "1944 02 22", "Birth place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Death date": "2003 9 30 1944 2 22", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "I... |
Basil Leonard Plumley (January 1, 1920 - October 10, 2012) was a career soldier and airborne combat infantryman in the United States Army who rose to the rank of command sergeant major. As a combat veteran of World War II and the Vietnam War, he is most noted for his actions during the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam.
M... | {"Born": "Shady Spring, West Virginia, United States", "Died": "Columbus, Georgia, United States", "Awards": "Silver StarLegion of MeritBronze Star MedalPurple Heart (2)", "Spouse(s)": "Deurice Dillon 1949 2012 died", "Other work": "Administrative worker at Martin Army Community Hospital (1975-1990)"} |
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 - January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. He created special effects for Fritz Lang's 1929 Woman in the Moon, one o... | {"Name": "Oskar Fischinger", "Birth name": "Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger", "Birth date": "1900 6 22 y", "Birth place": "Gelnhausen, German Empire", "Death date": "1967 1 31 1900 6 22 y", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Abstract animator, filmmaker, painter", "Years active": "1920-1947", "Nota... |
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009, Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Gr... | {"Status": "Imprint", "Founded": "1897", "Country of origin": "United States", "Headquarters location": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Publication types": "Books", "Official website": "http://knopfdoubleday.com/imprint/doubleday/ knopfdoubleday.com"} |
Musine Kokalari (10 February 1917 - 14 August 1983) was an Albanian prose writer and politician in Albania's pre-communist period. She was the founder of the Social-Democratic Party of Albania in 1943. Kokalari was one of the first published female writers of Albania. After a short involvement in politics during World ... | {"Born": "1917 02 10 yes", "Died": "1983 08 14 1917 02 10 yes", "Occupation": "Writer", "Language": "Albanian", "Nationality": "Albanian", "Education": "Literature", "Alma mater": "La Sapienza University"} |
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The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. The institute played a key role in the Human Potential Movement beginning... | {"Founder(s)": "Michael MurphyDick Price", "Established": "1962", "Focus": "Humanistic alternative education", "President": "Gordon Wheeler", "Key people": "Camille Allen Jeffries CEO, CFO Ana Gadban, Director of Operations", "Owner": "Esalen Institute", "Location": "United States", "Coordinates": "36.12701 N 121.6415... |
Valerie Elise Plame (born August 13, 1963) is an American writer, spy novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington ... | {"Name": "Valerie Plame", "Caption": "Plame at the 2014 Texas Book Festival", "Birth name": "Valerie Elise Plame", "Birth date": "1963 8 13", "Birth place": "Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.", "Party": "Democratic", "Other names": "Valerie Plame Wilson", "Occupation": "Spy novelist\n CIA officer (1985-2006)\n Memoirist", "Educa... |
The chief justice of Canada () is the presiding judge of the nine-member Supreme Court of Canada, the highest judicial body in Canada. As such, the chief justice is the highest-ranking judge of the Canadian court system. The Supreme Court Act makes the chief justice, a Crown in Council appointment, meaning the Crown ac... | {"Post": "Chief Justice", "Body": "Canada", "Insignia size": "110px", "Department": "Supreme Court of CanadaCanadian judicial system(King-on-the-Bench)", "Alt text": "The Chief Justice of Canada", "Incumbent": "Richard Wagner", "Incumbent since": "December 18, 2017", "Style": "The Right HonourableMadam/Mister Chief Jus... |
The deputy prime minister of New Zealand () is the second most senior member of the Cabinet of New Zealand. The officeholder usually deputises for the prime minister at official functions. The current deputy prime minister is Carmel Sepuloni.
The role existed on an informal basis for as long as the office of prime min... | {"Post": "Deputy Prime Minister", "Body": "New Zealand", "Insignia size": "100px", "Insignia caption": "Coat of Arms of New Zealand", "Flag size": "125px", "Flag caption": "Flag of New Zealand", "Image size": "200px", "Incumbent": "Carmel Sepuloni", "Incumbent since": "25 January 2023", "Department": "Department of the... |
Admiral of the Fleet is a five-star naval officer rank and the highest rank of the Royal Navy formally established in 1688. The five-star NATO rank code is OF-10, equivalent to a field marshal in the British Army or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Other than honorary appointments, no new admirals of the fleet have b... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Service branch": "UK", "Abbreviation": "ADMF", "Rank group": "Flag officer", "Rank": "Five-star", "Rank code": "OF-10", "Formation": "1688", "Next lower rank": "Admiral", "Equivalent ranks": "Field marshal (British Army) Marshal of the Royal Air Force (RAF)"} |
Hopewell Holdings Limited (), established on 17 October 1972, is a major property developer in Hong Kong headed by Sir Gordon Wu.Bloomberg page on Hopewells 2018-05-19
History
It was listed on the Hong Kong stock exchanges in 1972 and delisted when taken private in 2019.
Hopewell Holding is a holding company for inve... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "1972", "Subsidiaries": "Hopewell China Development (Superhighway) Limited", "Headquarters": "Hong Kong"} |
Joan of Arcadia is an American fantasy family drama television series telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi (Amber Tamblyn), who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays on CBS for two seasons, from September 26, 2003, to April 22, 2005.
The show was praised... | {"Genre": "Fantasy\n Family drama", "Created by": "Barbara Hall", "Starring": "Joe Mantegna\n Mary Steenburgen\n Amber Tamblyn\n Jason Ritter\n Michael Welch\n Chris Marquette\n Becky Wahlstrom", "Opening theme": "\"One of Us\" by Joan Osborne", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "45 minutes", "Origi... |
Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza; April 21, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for co-starring in the television series Taxi (1978-1983) and Who's the Boss? (1984-1992), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Ma... | {"Name": "Tony Danza", "Caption": "Danza in 2003", "Birth name": "Anthony Salvatore Iadanza", "Birth date": "April 21, 1951", "Birth place": "Brooklyn, New York, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of Dubuque (BA)", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1978-present", "Spouse(s)": "Rhonda Yeoman 1970 1974 divorced Tracy... |
The Austin Motor Company Limited was an English manufacturer of motor vehicles, founded in 1905 by Herbert Austin in Longbridge. In 1952 it was merged with Morris Motors Limited in the new holding company British Motor Corporation (BMC) Limited, keeping its separate identity. The marque Austin was used until 1987. The ... | {"Fate": "Merged with Morris Motors", "Founded": "1905 12", "Defunct": "1952", "Headquarters": "Longbridge, England", "Industry": "Automotive", "Products": "Automobiles / Rover / Austin Rover / MG / Morris"} |
The New Zealand National Party (), shortened to National () or the Nats, is a centre-right political party in New Zealand. It is one of two major parties that dominate contemporary New Zealand politics, alongside its traditional rival, the Labour Party.
National formed in 1936 through amalgamation of conservative and ... | {"President": "Sylvia Wood", "Ideology": "Conservatism Liberalism", "Headquarters": "41 Pipitea Street, Thorndon, Wellington 6011", "International affiliation": "International Democrat Union", "Political position": "Centre-right Voters' preexisting opinions shift to align with political party positions https://www.sc... |
Balbir Singh Sodhi (July 6, 1949 - September 15, 2001), a Sikh-American entrepreneur and franchisee in Mesa, Arizona, was murdered in a hate crime in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. This was the first of several cases across the United States that were reported to the police as supposed acts of retaliation f... | {"Name": "Balbir Singh Sodhi", "Image": "Balbir Singh Sodhi.jpeg", "Birth date": "1949 7 6", "Birth place": "Jalandhar, Punjab, India", "Death date": "2001 9 15 1949 7 6", "Death place": "Mesa, Arizona, U.S.", "Occupation": "Entrepreneur, franchisee, computer engineer/analyst (formerly)"} |
Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion, and cultural trends.
He hosted the Comedy Central series Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show delivering ... | {"Birth name": "Lewis Niles Black", "Born": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Education": "University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA)Yale University (MFA)", "Medium": "Film\nstand-up\ntelevision", "Years active": "1970s-present", "Genres": "Black comedy\nnews satire\nobservational comed... |
The National Front (NF) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Tony Martin. As a minor party, it has never had its representatives elected to the British or European Parliaments, although it gained a small number of local councillors through defections and it has had a few... | {"Abbreviation": "NF", "Leader": "Tony MartinMartin Tony Yesterday the Directorate appointed me Chairman of the National Front and Jordan Pont as deputy http://www.nationalfront.info/2018/09/09/appointment-on-party-chairman/ dead National Front 9 September 2018 14 September 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/2019... |
Elizabeth Lee McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American actress. She has received many awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, three Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination.
Born in Evanston, Illinois, McGovern spent most of her early life in Los Angeles. After attending the American... | {"Name": "Elizabeth McGovern", "Caption": "McGovern at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival", "Birth date": "1961 7 18", "Birth place": "Evanston, Illinois, U.S.", "Education": "Juilliard School", "Occupation": "Actor, musician", "Years active": "1979-present", "Spouse(s)": "Simon Curtis 1992", "Children": "2", "Website": "ht... |
Moreton-in-Marsh is a market town in the Evenlode Valley, within the Cotswolds district and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.
The town stands at the crossroads of the Fosse Way Roman road (now the A429) and the A44. It is served by Moreton-in-Marsh railway station on the Cotswold Line. I... | {"OS grid reference": "SP2032", "Population": "(2021 Census)Moreton-in-Marsh https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/southwestengland/admin/cotswold/E04004249__moreton_in_marsh/ City population 25 October 2022", "District": "Cotswold", "Shire county": "Gloucestershire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district":... |
Barnsley Football Club is a professional football club based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, which compete in , the third tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed "the Tykes", they were founded in 1887 by Reverend Tiverton Preedy and moved into Oakwell stadium the following year. The club's colours ... | {"Nickname(s)": "The Tykes, the ColliersSky Sports Football Yearbook 2008-2009 Jack Rollin Glenda Rollin 2008 Headline Book Publishing 9780755318209 72 https://books.google.com/books?id=Cbo9fTGufBwC&q=colliers 12 January 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180112220342/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Cbo9fTGufBwC&dq... |
SkyTeam is one of the world's three major airline alliances. Founded in June 2000, SkyTeam was the last of the three alliances to be formed, the first two being Star Alliance and Oneworld, respectively. Its annual passenger count is 630 million (2019), the second largest of the three major alliances."SkyTeam FACTSHEET ... | {"Launch date": "2000 06 22 y", "Full members": "19", "Destination airports": "1,150+https://www.skyteam.com/en/about/ SkyTeam Alliance - About Us - SkyTeam skyteam.com", "Destination countries": "175", "M": "630\"SkyTeam FACTSHEET Summer 2017.\" https://web.archive.org/web/20171103223500/https://static.skyteam.com/con... |
The United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) was a UN peacebuilding transitional administration in the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia in the eastern parts of Croatia (multicultural Danube river region). The transitional administration lasted bet... | {"Official languages": "Croatian, Serbian and the official languages of the United Nations (primarily English)", "Geopolitical organisation name": "UNTAES", "Conventional long name": "United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium", "Native name": "background:transparent;te... |
Falcone Borsellino Airport () or simply Palermo Airport, formerly Punta Raisi Airport, is an international airport located at Cinisi, west-northwest of Palermo, the capital city of the Italian island of Sicily. It is the second airport of Sicily in terms of passengers after Catania-Fontanarossa Airport, with 7,118,08... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Palermo, Italy", "Location": "Cinisi, Palermo, Italy", "AMSL": "20", "Coordinates": "38 10 55 N 013 05 58 E region:IT inline,title", "Website": "gesap.it"} |
The HP 48 is a series of graphing calculators designed and produced by Hewlett-Packard from 1990 until 2003. The series includes the HP 48S, HP 48SX, HP 48G, HP 48GX, and HP 48G+, the G models being expanded and improved versions of the S models. The models with an X suffix are expandable via special RAM (memory expans... | {"Type": "ProgrammableScientificGraphing", "Entry mode": "RPN", "Introduced": "1990", "Discontinued": "2003", "Predecessor": "HP-28S", "Successor": "HP 49G", "Cost": "350 USD", "Manufacturer": "Hewlett-Packard", "Processor": "Clarke 1LT8 (Saturn core for the HP48S series) and the Yorke HP 00048-80063 (Saturn core for ... |
The 2003 Ontario general election was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.
The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves in the wake of supporting polls for the governing Ontar... | {"Name": "2003 Ontario general election", "Country": "Ontario", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Show party colours?": "no", "Link to parties?": "no", "Previous election": "1999 Ontario general election", "Previous year": "1999", "Next election": "2007 Ontario general election", "Next year": "2007", "Elected... |
Red Leicester (also known simply as Leicester or Leicestershire cheese) is an English cheese similar to Cheddar cheese, but crumbly in texture. It is typically aged 6 to 12 months. The rind is reddish-orange with a powdery mould on it. Since the 18th century, it has been coloured orange by the addition of annatto extra... | {"Other names": "Leicestershire, Leicester", "Country of origin": "England", "Region": "Leicestershire", "Source of milk": "Cattle", "Pasteurised": "Frequently", "Texture": "Hard", "Fat content": "33% total (48% as FDM)", "Aging time": "6 to 12 months"} |
The Combined Counties Football League is a regional men's football league in south-eastern England with members in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Jersey, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and the western half and south-eastern quarter of Greater London, featuring a number of professional club... | {"Other club(s) from": "Jersey Jersey", "Founded": "1922", "Number of teams": "61 (plus 36 others, including reserve and development teams)", "Feeder to": "Southern League Isthmian League", "Promotion": "Level 8Southern League Division One Central Isthmian League Division One South Central or South East", "Relegation":... |
The Isthmian League () is a regional football league covering Greater London, East and South East England, featuring mostly semi-professional clubs.
Founded in 1905 by amateur clubs in the London area, the league now consists of 82 teams in four divisions: the Premier Division above its three feeder divisions, the Nor... | {"Other club(s) from": "Guernsey", "Founded": "1905", "Number of teams": "82\n Premier Division: 22\n North Division: 20\n South Central Division: 20\n South East Division: 20", "Promotion": "National League South", "Relegation": "Combined Counties League North or South\n Eastern Counties League\n Essex Senior League\n... |
The Velvet Underground is the third studio album by American rock band the Velvet Underground. Released in March 1969 by MGM Records, it was their first record with Doug Yule who replaced previous member John Cale. Recorded in 1968 at TTG Studios in Los Angeles, California, the album's sound—consisting largely of balla... | {"Released": "1969 03", "Recorded": "November-December 1968", "Studio": "TTG (Los Angeles)", "Genre": "Folk rock\n rock\n pop", "Label": "MGM", "Producer": "The Velvet Underground"} |
Whole Earth Review (Whole Earth after 1997) was a magazine which was founded in January 1985 after the merger of the Whole Earth Software Review (a supplement to the Whole Earth Software Catalog) and the CoEvolution Quarterly. All of these periodicals are descendants of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog.
The last... | {"Former editors": "Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold, Ruth Kissane, Peter Warshall, Anne Herbert", "Frequency": "Quarterly", "Categories": "Environment, Science, Politics", "Company": "Point Foundation", "First issue": "January 1985", "Country": "United States", "Based in": "Sausalito, California", "Language": "English", ... |
Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and franchise. An early iteration of Sparrow was created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, but the final version of the character was created by actor Johnny Depp, who also portrayed him.
The... | {"First appearance": "The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)", "Last appearance": "Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)", "Created by": "Ted ElliottTerry RossioJohnny Depp", "Portrayed by": "Johnny DeppAnthony De La TorreAnthony De La Torre, with his face replaced with a CGI replica of a younger Depp's and his voice replaced by ... |
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as the editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He has founded a number of organizations, including the WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragma... | {"Name": "Stewart Brand", "Caption": "Brand in 2022", "Alt": "black-and-white image of Stewart Brand sitting in front of a blurry bookcase in background, smiling slightly and looking just right of camera", "Birth date": "1938 12 14", "Birth place": "Rockford, Illinois, United States", "Spouse(s)": "Lois Jennings (1966-... |
The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. Together with the Isthmian League and the Southern League it forms levels seven and eight of the English football league system.
Geographically, the league covers all of Northern England and the northern, central areas of the Midlands,... | {"Founded": "1968", "Number of teams": "82\n Premier Division: 22 \n Division One East: 20 \n Division One West: 20 \n Division One Midlands: 20", "Promotion": "National League North", "Relegation": "Eastern Counties League\n Midland League\n Northern League\n Northern Counties East League\n North West Counties League\... |
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A crêpe or crepe (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. 3rd Ed. 2008.Merriam-Webster Dictionary or , , Quebec French: ) is a very thin type of pancake. Crêpes are usually one of two varieties: sweet c... | {"Name of food": "Crêpe", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "A stack of crêpes", "Alternate name": "Crepe", "Place of origin": "FranceVachon Pamela 2021-01-02 The history of crêpes: A personal and historical exploration of the famous French pancake's origin https://www.salon.com/2021/01/02/the-history-of-... |
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (; 28 March 1819 - 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewerage system for central London which was instrumental in relieving the cit... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Post-nominals": "100% CB", "Name": "Joseph Bazalgette", "Birth name": "Joseph William Bazalgette", "Birth date": "y 1819 3 28", "Birth place": "Clay Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, England", "Death date": "yes 1891 3 15 1819 3 28", "Death place": "Wimbledon, Surrey, England", "Occupation": "Civil... |
The low whistle, or concert whistle, is a variation of the traditional tin whistle/pennywhistle, distinguished by its lower pitch and larger size. It is most closely associated with the performances of British and Irish artists such as Tommy Makem, Finbar Furey and his son Martin Furey, Old Blind Dogs, Michael McGoldri... | {"Name": "Low whistle", "Names": "Concert Whistle, Alto/Tenor/Bass Whistle", "Classification": "Woodwind\nWind\nAerophone", "Range": "Two octaves, typically D4 to D6", "Related": "Simple-system flute\nPipe and tabor\nthumb|left|The sound of the low whistle in D"} |
Arthur Hiller, (November 22, 1923 - August 17, 2016) was a Canadian-American television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s he began directing films, most often comedies. He also directed ... | {"Name": "Arthur Hiller", "Caption": "Hiller directing Love Story in 1970", "Birth date": "November 22, 1923Archive of American Television, 2003 interview", "Birth place": "Edmonton, Alberta, Canada", "Death date": "2016 08 17 1923 11 22", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Mount Sinai Me... |
Wang Chien-shien (; born 7 August 1938) is a Taiwanese politician who is the founder of the New Party. He was finance minister of the Republic of China from 1990 to 1992 and is the chairman of the Chinese Management Association (CMA) (since 1990). Wang was the President of the Control Yuan from August 2008 to August 20... | {"Name": "Wang Chien-shien", "Native name": "zh-hant 王建煊", "Office 2": "Convenor of the New Party National Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Yok Mu-ming", "Successor 2": "Chen Kuei-miao", "Birth date": "1938 8 7 y", "Birth place": "Hefei, Anhui, Republic of China", "Alma mater": "National Cheng Kung UniversityNational Chen... |
Romanization of Korean refers to systems for representing the Korean language in the Latin script. Korea's alphabetic script, called Hangul, has historically been used in conjunction with Hanja (Chinese characters), though such practice has become infrequent.
Romaja literally means Roman letters in Korean, and refers ... | {"Title": "Romanization", "Hangul name": "로마자", "Hanja": "로마字", "Revised Romanization": "Romaja", "McCune-Reischauer": "Romacha"} |
Hope Su Tseng-chang (; born 28 July 1947) is a Taiwanese politician who served as premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2019 to 2023. He was the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party in 2005 and from 2012 to 2014. Su served as Chief of Staff to President Chen Shui-bian in 20... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Excellency", "Name": "Su Tseng-chang", "Native name": "蘇貞昌", "Native name language": "zh-tw", "Nationality": "Taiwanese", "Vice premier": "Chen Chi-maiShen Jong-chin", "Term start": "14 January 2019", "Term end": "31 January 2023", "Office 2": "Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party", "P... |
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, (13 October 1825 - 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845, Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869, and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner. He inherited the estate of... | {"Name": "The Duke of Westminster", "Birth date": "yes 1825 10 13", "Death date": "yes 1899 12 22 1825 10 13", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "University of Oxford", "Spouse(s)": "(1) Lady Constance Leveson-Gower (d. 1880) (2) Hon. Katherine Cavendish (1857-1941) (m. 1882)"} |
New Taipei City is a special municipality located in northern Taiwan. The city is home to an estimated population of 4,004,367 as of January 2023, making it the most populous city of Taiwan, and also the second largest special municipality by area, behind Kaohsiung. New Taipei City borders Keelung to the northeast, Yil... | {"ISO 3166 code": "TW-NWT", "Body": "New Taipei City Government\n New Taipei City Council", "Rank": "1 out of 22", "Density": "auto", "Urban density": "auto", "Website": "en"} |
Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, CB (9 October 1864 - 23 July 1927) was an officer of the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular British Army but he soon transferred to the Presidency armies of India. As a temporary brigadier-general, he was responsi... | {"Born": "Murree, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan)", "Died": "Long Ashton, Somerset, England", "Allegiance": "British Empire\n Presidency of Bengal\n British India", "Commands held": "Seistan Force25th Punjabis", "Awards": "Companion of the Order of the BathMentioned in Despatches (2)", "Spouse(s)": "Frances Anne T... |
Sigismund (; died 524 AD) was King of the Burgundians from 516 until his death. He was the son of king Gundobad and Caretene. He succeeded his father in 516. Sigismund and his brother Godomar were defeated in battle by Clovis's sons, and Godomar fled. Sigismund was captured by Chlodomer, King of Orléans, where he was k... | {"Born": "c. 475", "Died": "Aurelianum, Kingdom of the Franks", "Feast": "1 May", "Patronage": "Czech Republic, monarchs, Germanic peoples, bibliophiles, monasteries"} |
Popping is a street dance adapted out of the earlier Boogaloo (funk dance) cultural movement in Oakland, California. As Boogaloo spread, it would be referred to as Robottin' in Richmond, California, Strutting movements in San Francisco and San Jose, and the Strikin' dances of the Oak Park community in Sacramento, which... | {"Name": "Popping", "Image caption": "A choreographed popping performance", "Genre": "Street dance", "Year of origin": "Late 1970s"} |
Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg; September 6, 1899 - February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman, lyricist and columnist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows such as Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt (1931), Jumbo (1935), Billy R... | {"Name": "Billy Rose", "Caption": "Rose in 1948", "Birth name": "William Samuel Rosenberg", "Other names": "Billy Rose", "Birth date": "1899 9 6 y", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "1966 2 10 1899 9 6", "Death place": "Montego Bay, Jamaica", "Spouse(s)": "Fanny Brice 1929 1938 divorce\nEleanor Holm ... |
The premier of Ontario () is the head of government of Ontario. Under the Westminster system, the premier governs with the confidence of a majority the elected Legislative Assembly; as such, the premier typically sits as a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) and leads the largest party or a coalition of parties. As f... | {"Post": "Premier", "Body": "Ontario", "Native name": "fr Premier ministre de l'Ontario", "Insignia size": "120px", "Insignia caption": "Coat of arms of Ontario", "Flag size": "120px", "Flag caption": "Flag of Ontario", "Image size": "200px", "Incumbent": "Doug Ford", "Incumbent since": "June 29, 2018", "Department": "... |
Rose Mofford (née Perica; June 10, 1922September 15, 2016) was an American civil servant and politician of the Democratic Party whose career in state government spanned 51 years. Beginning her career with the State of Arizona as a secretary, Mofford worked her way up the ranks to become the state's first female secreta... | {"Name": "Rose Mofford", "Image caption": "Mofford in 2012", "Term start": "April 4, 1988", "Term end": "March 6, 1991Acting: February 8 - April 4, 1988", "Birth name": "Rose Perica", "Birth date": "1922 6 10", "Birth place": "Globe, Arizona, U.S.", "Death date": "2016 9 15 1922 6 10", "Death place": "Phoenix, Arizona,... |
Gennadiy Nikolaevich Nikonov (; August 11, 1950 - May 14, 2003) was a Russian gun engineer. Some of his most famous accomplishments were as the designer of the AN-94 assault rifle, and the "straight-back bolt." Nikonov held 44 Copyright Certificates,http://www.peoples.ru/military/design/nickonov/ and was awarded the ... | {"Name": "Gennadiy Nikonov", "Birth name": "Gennadiy Nikolaevich Nikonov", "Birth date": "yes 1950 8 11", "Birth place": "Izhevsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union", "Death date": "yes 2003 2 05 1950 8 11", "Death place": "Izhevsk, Russia", "Occupation": "Inventor, engineer", "Spouse(s)": "Tatiana Nikonov"} |
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature collections, and publishes academic journals and books on plant and animal biology... | {"Location": "Burlington House, PiccadillyLondon, W 1", "Type": "Learned society", "Remarks": "Motto: Naturae Discere Mores(\"To Learn the Ways of Nature\")", "Website": "www.linnean.org"} |
First Kid is a 1996 American slapstick comedy film directed by David Mickey Evans and starring Sinbad and Brock Pierce. It was mostly filmed in Richmond, Virginia.
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Sam Simms is a Secret Service agent assigned by his superior Wilkes to protect President Paul Davenport's rebellious 13-year-old son Luke Davenport af... | {"Directed by": "David Mickey Evans", "Produced by": "Roger Birnbaum", "Written by": "Tim Kelleher", "Starring": "Sinbad\n Robert Guillaume\n Timothy Busfield", "Music by": "Richard Gibbs", "Cinematography": "Anthony B. Richmond", "Edited by": "Harry Keramidas", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Pictures Distribution", "B... |
Milton is a village in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, within the City of Shoalhaven. It was founded in 1860, named after the property of post master George Knight and became an important regional centre during the 19th Century. Today, Milton remains one of the two main commercial centres of the M... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Milton", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Image": "Milton streetscape.JPG", "Caption": "The Princes Highway as it passes through Milton", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "City of Shoalhaven", "County": "St Vincent", "Parish": "Ulladulla", "Region": "South Coast", "Postcode": "2538", "Population": ... |
"The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1902, and was reprinted in his third collection of short stories, The Lady of the Barge also in 1902.
In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with an e... | {"Country": "England", "Language": "English", "Genre(s)": "Horror, short story", "Publication date": "September 1902"} |
Ulladulla is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia in the City of Shoalhaven local government area. It is on the Princes Highway about south of Sydney, halfway between Batemans Bay to the south and Nowra to the north. Ulladulla has close links with the nearby historic settlement of Milton and many services are ... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Ulladulla", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Caption": "Ulladulla town centre", "Coordinates": "35 20 55 S 150 28 4 E inline,title", "Locator Map Set to Relief Map": "1", "Population": "17026", "Population Year": "2021", "Population Footnotes": "https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quic... |
Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 - September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal wr... | {"Born": "1612 3 8", "Died": "1672 9 16 1612 3 20 y", "Occupation": "Poet", "Language": "English", "Nationality": "British", "Relatives": "John Woodbridge(brother-in-law)"} |
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Australia. The counterpart in the upper house is the President of the Senate. The office of Speaker was created by section 35 of the Constitution of Australia.
The Speaker presides... | {"Post": "Speaker", "Body": "the House of Representatives", "Insignia caption": "Commonwealth Coat of Arms", "Flag caption": "Flag of Australia", "Flag border": "yes", "Incumbent": "Milton Dick", "Incumbent since": "26 July 2022", "Department": "House of Representatives", "Style": "The Honourable(Formal and Diplomatic)... |
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Latin, 'Library of Alexandria'; , ) (BA) is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest li... | {"Location": "Alexandria, Egypt", "Type": "National library", "Established": "2002 10 16 yes", "Members": "16,322 (2012)", "Director": "Dr. Ahmed Abdullah Zayed", "Website": "https://www.bibalex.org/"} |
Jane Dee Hull (; August 8, 1935 - April 16, 2020) was an American politician and educator who was the 20th governor of Arizona from 1997 to 2003. She ascended to the office following the resignation of Fife Symington; Hull was elected in her own right in 1998 and served one term. She was the first woman formally electe... | {"Name": "Jane Hull", "Image caption": "Hull in 2019", "Term start": "September 5, 1997", "Term end": "January 6, 2003", "Office 2": "36th Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives", "Predecessor 2": "Joe Lane", "Successor 2": "Mark Killian", "Birth name": "Jane Dee Bowersock", "Birth date": "1935 8 8", "Birth pl... |
Lucius Licinius Lucullus (; 118The only comprehensive discussion of his birthdate is that of who settles on 118 BC as the most likely year, with 117 a marginal possibility.-57/56 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. In culmination of over 20 years of almost continuous m... | {"Caption": "Engraving of a marble bust traditionally\"The bust in the Hermitage, No. 77, published in Arch. Zeit. 1875, PI. Ill, is not a portrait of L. Licinius Lucullus or even of an admiral, but of a lictor. The relief at the base represents a lictor's axe, and the costume is that of the lictors on the Arch of Traj... |
Maria Ellen Cantwell (; born October 13, 1958) is an American politician and former businesswoman serving as the junior United States senator from Washington since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993, and in the United States House of Represent... | {"Name": "Maria Cantwell", "Term start": "January 3, 2001", "Office 2": "Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Bill Nelson", "Successor 2": "Roger Wicker", "Birth name": "Maria Ellen Cantwell", "Birth date": "1958 10 13", "Birth place": "Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.", "Education": "Miami Un... |
Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive.
Schweickart was selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut gr... | {"Selection": "1963 NASA Group 3", "Rank": "Captain, USAFRussell L. Schweickart https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/russell-l-schweickart/ New Mexico Museum of Space History April 18, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220418103936/https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/russell-l-schweickart/ April 18, 2022 li... |
The University of Toronto Scarborough, also known as U of T Scarborough or UTSC, is one of the three campuses that make up the tri-campus system of the University of Toronto. Located in the Scarborough district, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the campus is set upon suburban parkland next to Highland Creek. It was establishe... | {"Type": "Satellite campus", "Principal": "Wisdom Tettey http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=6729 Don Campbell Professor Bruce Kidd appointed tenth principal of UTSC University of Toronto Scarborough 2014-12-12 2015-07-03", "Dean": "William Goughhttp://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=8553 Profe... |
Richard Li Tzar-kai is a Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist. The founder and chairman of the private investment group Pacific Century Group (PCG),
Li started his career in the 1990s with the founding of STAR TV, a pan-Asian television network. After founding PCG in 1993, he went on to establish PCCW and HKT Trus... | {"Image caption": "Li attending the trophy presentation ceremony of the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at the Sha Tin Racecourse on 30 April 2023", "Name": "Richard Li", "Birth date": "yes 1966 11 8", "Birth place": "British Hong Kong", "Alma mater": "Stanford University (dropped out)", "Partner(s)": "Isabella Leong (2008-2011... |
The B612 Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation headquartered in Mill Valley, California, United States, dedicated to planetary science and planetary defense against asteroids and other near-Earth object (NEO) impacts. It is led mainly by scientists, former astronauts and engineers from the Institute for Advance... | {"Type": "501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization", "Registration no.": "C2467899", "Location": "USA", "Website": "B612 Foundation"} |
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre to centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada.
During its uninterrupted governance from 1943 to 1985, the Ontario PC Party adhered to the ideology of Red Toryi... | {"President": "Michael Diamond", "Leader": "Doug Ford", "Founded": "1854(as Conservative Party of Canada West)", "Preceded by": "Upper Canada Tories", "Headquarters": "400-56 Aberfoyle Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Ideology": "ConservatismProgressive conservatismEconomic liberalism", "Political position": "Cent... |
Pauli Angeli (; 1416 - 1470) was an Albanian Roman Catholic cardinal, clergyman, scholar, and Archbishop of Durazzo who in 1462 wrote the first known sentence retrieved so far in Albanian. Pauli Angeli is reported to have been a friend, co-worker and close counselor of Skanderbeg. As his envoy, he frequently traveled a... | {"Native name": "Pal Engjëlli", "Church": "Roman Catholic", "Archdiocese": "Durazzo", "Metropolis": "Durazzo", "Rank": "Cardinal-Priest", "Died": "1470", "Nationality": "Albanian", "Denomination": "Catholic"} |
Hau Pei-tsun (, 8 August 1919 - 30 March 2020) was a Chinese politician and military officer who was the Premier of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1 June 1990 to 27 February 1993, and the longest-serving Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces from 1 December 1981 to 4 December 1989. On 6 Jul... | {"Name": "Hau Pei-tsun郝柏村", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1990", "Office 2": "Minister of National Defense", "Premier 2": "Lee Huan", "Deputy 2": "Kuo Tsung-ching", "Predecessor 2": "Cheng Wei-yuan", "Successor 2": "Chen Li-an", "Birth date": "yes 1919 8 8", "Birth place": "Yancheng, Kiangsu, Republic of China",... |
The Video Recordings Act 1984 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was passed in 1984. It states that commercial video recordings offered for sale or for hire within the UK must carry a classification that has been agreed upon by an authority designated by the Home Office. The British Board of Film Cl... | {"Short title": "Video Recordings Act 1984", "Parliament": "Parliament of the United Kingdom", "Long title": "An Act to make provision for regulating the distribution of video recordings and for connected purposes.", "Introduced by": "Graham Bright MP", "Territorial extent": "England and WalesScotlandNorthern Ireland",... |
Elizabeth Ann Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in films including About Last Night (1986), Big (1988), Avalon (1990), and He Said, She Said (1991), The Flintstones (1994), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and her brief voice role as Coral in the Disney/Pixar animated fil... | {"Name": "Elizabeth Perkins", "Birth name": "Elizabeth Ann Perkins", "Birth date": "1960 11 18", "Birth place": "Queens, New York, U.S.", "Caption": "Perkins in 2008", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1984-present", "Education": "DePaul University", "Spouse(s)": "Terry Kinney 1984 1988 divorced\n Julio Macat 2... |
Star Wars Galaxies is a Star Wars- themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows, developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts.
Released on June 26, 2003, to much critical acclaim, it spawned three expansions through 2005. The game was completely overhauled t... | {"Title": "Star Wars Galaxies", "Caption": "Cover art", "Developer": "Sony Online Entertainment", "Publisher": "LucasArts", "Director": "Raph Koster", "Producer": "John Donham", "Designer": "Cinco Barnes", "Programmer": "Jeff Grills", "Artist": "Jake Rodgers", "Composer": "Anna Karney", "Released": "NA June 26, 2003 EU... |
Peter Hussing (15 May 1948 - 8 September 2012) was a West German heavyweight boxer. He won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics and placed fifth in 1976 and 1984; he missed the 1980 Moscow Games due to their boycott by West Germany.
Hussing won four medals at the European championships in 1969-1979, missing the 1977 to... | {"Image": "Peter Hussing Bundesverdienstkreuz.JPG", "Image caption": "Hussing (right) in 2008", "Birth date": "15 May 1948", "Place of birth": "Brachbach, Germany", "Death date": "8 September 2012 (aged 64)", "Place of death": "Brachbach, Germany", "Height": "196 cm", "Weight": "101 kg", "Sport": "Boxing", "Club": "Bay... |
Andrzej Biegalski (5 March 1953 - 14 March 2017) was a Polish heavyweight amateur boxing champion.Ebony, Nov 1976, Vol. 32, No. 1, Johnson Publishing Company, pg. 130 He reached the quarterfinal round in the World Championships in Havana, 1974.FEDERAZIONE PUGILISTICA ITALIANA
Biegalski's greatest success came with go... | {"Name": "Andrzej Biegalski", "Birth date": "1953 3 5 y", "Birth place": "Gierczyn, Poland", "Death date": "2017 3 14 1953 3 5 y", "Death place": "Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland"} |
The Network is an American six-piece new wave band. A secret side project of rock band Green Day, they released their debut album Money Money 2020 on Adeline Records on September 30, 2003. After a 15-year hiatus, the band became active again in 2020, releasing a follow-up album titled Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told ... | {"Origin": "Oakland, California, U.S.", "Genres": "New wave\n pop punk\n synthpunk", "Labels": "Adeline\n Reprise\n WarnerWarner Records warnerrecords 1323037446091628545 November 1, 2020 We are excited to welcome @wearethenetwork to our esteemed roster. It's not everyday you have the honor of signing @greenday's b... |
North Greenwich is a London Underground station served by the Jubilee line.Horne, M: The Jubilee Line, page 79. Capital Transport Publishing, 2000. Despite its name, it is not in the local area historically known as North Greenwich, on the Isle of Dogs, north of the River Thames; a completely different North Greenwich ... | {"External links": "underground", "Managed by": "London Underground", "Fare zone": "3", "Location": "Greenwich Peninsula", "Owner": "Transport for London", "Local authority": "Royal Borough of Greenwich", "Original company": "London Regional Transport", "Number of platforms": "3\n<!--", "2005": "9.604", "2006": "11.407... |
thumb|Parade of Champions at International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, NY, 2008
Angelo Dundee (born Angelo Mirena; August 30, 1921February 1, 2012) was an American boxing trainer and cornerman. Internationally known for his work with Muhammad Ali (1960-1981), he also worked with 15 other world boxing champions, i... | {"Image": "Angelo Dundee.jpeg", "Caption": "Dundee in 2010", "Birth name": "Angelo Mirena", "Birth date": "1921 8 30", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "2012 2 1 1921 8 30", "Death place": "Tampa, Florida, U.S.", "Known For": "Training Muhammad Ali (1960-1981)", "Occupation": "Boxing tra... |
Maze Hill railway station is in Greenwich, London, and is situated on the Greenwich Line connecting suburbs (e.g.: Deptford, Greenwich, Charlton, Woolwich, to Dartford, Kent) along the south side of the River Thames with central London stations (London Bridge, Cannon Street and Charing Cross). The station is in the Maz... | {"External links": "rail", "Managed by": "Southeastern", "Fare zone": "3", "Location": "Maze Hill", "Local authority": "Greenwich", "Number of platforms": "2\n<!--", "2015-16": "1.007 -->", "2017-18": "0.799", "2018-19": "1.228", "2019-20": "1.354", "2020-21": "0.307", "2021-22": "0.860", "Accessible": "yes", "DfT cate... |
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