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Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança"Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg, duchess of Braganza" in CHILCOTE, Ronald H.; The Portuguese Revolution: State and Class in the Transition to Democracy, page 37. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Reprint edition (August 31, 2012)."...Her Royal Highness D. Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg a... | {"Born": "Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal", "Died": "Verona, Italy", "Title(s)": "Duchess of Braganza (as pretender)", "Throne(s) claimed": "Portugal", "Pretend from": "1932-1987", "Monarchy abolished": "1910", "Last monarch": "Manuel II", "Connection with": "Alleged illegitimate half sister", "Royal House": "House of Brag... |
Prednisone is a glucocorticoid medication mostly used to suppress the immune system and decrease inflammation in conditions such as asthma, COPD, and rheumatologic diseases. It is also used to treat high blood calcium due to cancer and adrenal insufficiency along with other steroids. It is taken by mouth.
Common side ... | {"Trade name": "Deltasone, Liquid Pred, Orasone, others", "AHFS": "monograph prednisone", "Pregnancycategory": "A", "Routes ofadministration": "By mouth", "Metabolism": "Kidney", "IUPHAR/BPS": "7096"} |
IXI Limited was a British software company that developed and marketed windowing products for Unix, supporting all the popular Unix platforms of the time. Founded in 1987, it was based in Cambridge. The product it was most known for was X.desktop, a desktop environment graphical user interface built on the X Window Sys... | {"Founded": "1987", "Headquarters": "United Kingdom", "Industry": "Computer software", "Products": "Windowing software", "Fate": "Acquired by SCO in February 1993", "Type": "Private", "Revenue": "$6 million (1992)"} |
Basiliximab, sold under the brand name Simulect, is a monoclonal antibody used to prevent rejection in kidney transplants. It is a chimeric mouse-human monoclonal antibody to the α chain (CD25) of the IL-2 receptor of T cells. It is used in combination with other medicines used to prevent organ rejection.
The most com... | {"PDB ligand": "mab", "Type": "mab", "Target": "CD25", "Trade name": "Simulect", "AHFS": "monograph basiliximab", "Pregnancycategory": "D", "Routes ofadministration": "Intravenous", "Metabolism": "7.2 days"} |
Wish is the ninth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 21 April 1992 by Fiction Records in the United Kingdom and Elektra Records in the United States. Wish was the most commercially successful album in the band's career, debuting at number one in the UK and number two in the US, where it sold more t... | {"Released": "21 April 1992", "Recorded": "1991-1992", "Studio": "The Manor (Shipton-on-Cherwell, England)", "Genre": "Alternative rock\n gothic rockClassic album: The Cure: The Head On The Door October 17, 2020 NLA Media Telford, England 51 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Classic+album%3B+The+Cure%3A+The+Head+On+T... |
Brandon "Bam" Margera ( ; born September 28, 1979) is an American former professional skateboarder, stunt performer, television personality, and filmmaker. He rose to prominence in the early 2000s as one of the stars of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass and subsequent sequels. He also created the Jackass spin-off sho... | {"Name": "Bam Margera", "Image upright": "1.05", "Caption": "Margera in 2017", "Birth date": "yes 1979 9 28", "Occupation": "Skateboarder stunt performer television personality filmmaker musician", "Partner(s)": "Jennifer Rivell (1998-2005)", "Spouse(s)": "Missy Rothstein 2007 2012 divorced\n \"NikkiVSBam\" />", "Yea... |
Abu Ali Mustafa (; ; 1938 - 27 August 2001), the kunya of Mustafa Alhaj also known as Mustafa Ali Zabri, was a Palestinian militant who served as the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) from July 2000 until he was assassinated by Israeli forces in a targeted killing on 27 Augu... | {"Name": "Abu Ali Mustafaar أبو علي مصطفى", "Nationality": "Palestinian", "Term start": "July 2000", "Term end": "27 August 2001", "Birth name": "Mustafa Zabri", "Birth date": "14 May 1938", "Birth place": "Arraba, Jenin, Mandatory Palestine", "Death date": "27 August 2001 (aged 63)", "Death place": "Al-Bireh, Palestin... |
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St Margarets is a suburb and neighbourhood in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, about west-southwest of central London. It is bounded by the Thames Tideway to the north-east, and the River Cr... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "London Assembly": "Richmond", "UK Parliament": "Twickenham", "Postcode district": "TW", "Dialling code": "020", "OS grid reference": "TQ168742", "Population": "2011 Census: loosely associated electoral ward"} |
John Robert Dunn (1834 - 5 August 1895) was a South African settler, hunter, and diplomat of British descent. Born in Port Alfred in 1834, he spent his childhood in Port Natal/Durban. He was orphaned as a teenager, and lived in native dress on the land near the Tugela River. His conversance with Zulu customs and langua... | {"Name": "John Robert Dunn", "Birth date": "1834", "Birth place": "Port Alfred, Eastern Cape (now Durban, South Africa)", "Death date": "1895 08 05 1834 yes", "Death place": "Colony of Natal", "Notable works": ", which produces label \"Label(s)\" -->", "Title": "may be used as an alternative when the label is better re... |
Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (7 November 1898 - 22 September 1987), was a British peer. He was the son of George, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Almina Wombwell.
Life
Styled Lord Porchester from birth, he described in his memoirs an unloving upbringing by his parents, spending m... | {"Birth date": "1898 11 07 y", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "1987 09 22 1898 11 07 y", "Birth name": "Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert"} |
Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, (19 January 1924 - 11 September 2001),Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), ... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "The Earl of Carnarvon", "Honorific suffix": "GBR 100% KCVO KBE DL", "Image caption": "Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester", "Predecessor 2": "Seat established", "Successor 2": "The 2nd Baron Chorley", "Birth name": "Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert", "Birth date": ... |
Saint Michael's College (St. Mikes or Saint Michael's) is a private Roman Catholic college in Colchester, Vermont. Saint Michael's was founded in 1904 by the Society of Saint Edmund. It grants Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in more than 40 majors to about 1,200 undergraduate students. Housing availabi... | {"Motto": "Quis ut Deus", "Type": "Private college", "Accreditation": "NECHE", "Endowment": "$77.7 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020... |
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A tunnel diode or Esaki diode is a type of semiconductor diode that has effectively "negative resistance" due to the quantum mechanical effect called tunneling. It was invented in August 1957 by Leo Esaki, Yuriko Kurose... | {"Name": "Tunnel diode", "Caption": "1N3716 tunnel diode (with 0.1\" jumper for scale)", "Type": "Passive", "Working principle": "Quantum mechanical effect called tunneling", "Inventor and date of invention": "Leo EsakiYuriko Kurosehttps://patents.google.com/patent/US3033714A/en Diode type semiconductor device United... |
William Dodd Hathaway (February 21, 1924June 24, 2013) was an American politician and lawyer from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator for Maine from 1973 to 1979, as the U.S. representative for Maine's 2nd congressional district from 1965 to 1973, and as the commissioner of the... | {"Name": "William Hathaway", "Term start": "February 8, 1990", "Term end": "November 11, 1999", "District 2": "Maine 2 2nd", "Predecessor 2": "Clifford McIntire", "Successor 2": "William Cohen", "Birth name": "William Dodd Hathaway", "Birth date": "1924 2 21", "Birth place": "Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death dat... |
Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) is a private law and public policy graduate school in South Royalton, Vermont. It offers several degrees, including Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Laws (LLM) in Environmental Law, Master of Environmental Law and Policy (MELP), Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy (MFALP), M... | {"Motto": "Lex pro urbe et orbe (\"Law for the Community and the World\")", "Established": "1972", "School type": "Private law school", "Dean": "Rodney A. Smolla, President; Beth McCormack, Law School Dean", "Location": "43.8218 -72.5210 type:edu_region:US-VT dms inline,title", "Enrollment": "464 (J.D.)Vermont Law Scho... |
Lucius Lyon (February 26, 1800September 24, 1851) was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan. Along with Louis Campau, Lucius Lyon is remembered as one of the founding fathers of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the state's second-largest city. A Democrat, he served as a Delegate to the U.S. House from Michigan Territory ... | {"Name": "Lucius Lyon", "Term start": "March 4, 1843", "Term end": "March 3, 1845", "Office 2": "United States Shadow Senatorfrom the Michigan Territory", "Predecessor 2": "Seat established", "Successor 2": "Himself (U.S. Senator)", "Birth date": "1800 2 26", "Birth place": "Shelburne, Vermont, U.S.", "Death date": "18... |
Sigismond Thalberg (8 January 1812 - 27 April 1871) was an Austrian composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.
Family
Thalberg was born in Pâquis near Geneva on 8 January 1812. According to his own account, he was the illegitimate son of Moritz, Prince of Dietrichstein and Maria ... | {"Name": "Sigismond Thalberg", "Image": "Sigismond Thalberg.jpeg", "Caption": "Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1841", "Birth date": "1812 01 08 y", "Birth place": "Pâquis, Switzerland", "Death date": "1871 04 27 1812 01 08 y", "Death place": "Naples, Italy", "Occupation": "Pianist Composer"} |
The Tao of Pooh is a 1982 book written by Benjamin Hoff. The book is intended as an introduction to the Eastern belief system of Taoism for Westerners. It allegorically employs the fictional characters of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories to explain the basic principles of philosophical Taoism. The book was on the ... | {"Language": "English", "Publisher": "Dutton Books", "Pages": "158", "ISBN": "0-525-24458-1", "Followed by": "The Te of Piglet"} |
Joseph Edward Brennan (born November 2, 1934) is an American Democratic Party lawyer and politician from Maine. He served as the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987. He is a former commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission.
Early life
Born in 1934 in Portland, Maine, Brennan lived on Kellogg Street on Mun... | {"Name": "Joseph Brennan", "Term start": "November 10, 1999", "Term end": "January 1, 2013", "Office 2": "70th Governor of Maine", "Predecessor 2": "Jim Longley", "Successor 2": "Jock McKernan", "Birth name": "Joseph Edward Brennan", "Birth date": "1934 11 2", "Birth place": "Portland, Maine, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Const... |
The Subaru B9 Scrambler (also known as the Subaru B9SC) is an open two-seat concept sports car from Subaru featuring classic styling. It is long and powered by a gasoline-electric hybrid engine. It was designed by Andreas Zapatinas.
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This concept car was first shown in 2003 at the Tokyo Mo... | {"Designer": "Andreas Zapatinas", "Class": "Concept car", "Production": "2003 (concept)", "Body style": "2-door roadster", "Layout": "F4", "Hybrid drivetrain": "Sequential Series Hybrid Electric Vehicle (SSHEV)", "Length": "4200 mm in 1 on", "Width": "1880 mm in 1 on"} |
Fritz the Cat is a comic strip created by Robert Crumb. Set in a "supercity" of anthropomorphic animals, it focused on Fritz, a tabby cat who frequently went on wild adventures that sometimes involved sexual escapades. Crumb began drawing the character in homemade comic books as a child. Fritz became one of his best-kn... | {"Author(s)": "Robert Crumb", "Launch date": "January 1965 Help! Magazine", "End date": "September 1972 The People's Comics", "Current status/schedule": "Ended", "Genre(s)": "Humor", "Preceded by": "Animal Town"} |
Charles Krauthammer (; March 13, 1950 - June 21, 2018) was an American political columnist. A moderate liberal who turned independent conservative as a political pundit, Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for his columns in The Washington Post in 1987. His weekly column was syndicated to more than 400 publications worl... | {"Name": "Charles Krauthammer", "Caption": "Krauthammer in 1986", "Birth name": "Irving Charles Krauthammer", "Birth date": "1950 03 13", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2018 06 21 1950 03 13", "Death place": "Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.", "Alma mater": "McGill University (BA)Balliol College, OxfordHarv... |
Rueil-Malmaison () or simply Rueil is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France region. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2017, it had a population of 78,152. It is one of the wealthiest suburbs of Paris.
Name
Rueil-Malmaison was originally called simply Rueil... | {"Name": "Rueil-Malmaison", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "Château de Malmaison", "Coordinates": "48.876 2.181 dms inline,title", "Arrondissement": "Nanterre", "Canton": "Rueil-Malmaison", "Postal code": "92500", "Mayor": "Patrick OllierRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/data... |
Frederick George Payne (July 24, 1904 – June 15, 1978) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Maine from 1953 to 1959. He previously served as the 60th Governor of Maine from 1949 to 1952.
Early life and education
Frederick Payne was born in Lewis... | {"Name": "Frederick George Payne", "Term start": "January 3, 1953", "Term end": "January 3, 1959", "Birth date": "1904 7 24", "Birth place": "Lewiston, Maine, U.S.", "Death date": "1978 6 15 1904 7 24", "Death place": "Waldoboro, Maine, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Bentley College", "Battles fought": "World War II"} |
Mestwin II ( or Mszczuj II) ( 1220 - December 25, 1294) was a Duke of Pomerelia, member of the Samborides dynasty. He ruled Pomerelia as a sole ruler from 1273 to 1294.
Early life
Mestwin II was the son of Swietopelk II and the Přemyslid dynasty princess Eufrozyna. As a young man, in 1243 he was taken into the Teutoni... | {"Father": "Swietopelk II", "Mother": "Eufrozyna of Bohemia", "Born": "around 1220", "Died": "Gdańsk"} |
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 9.2-metre optical telescope designed mainly for spectroscopy. It consists of 91 hexagonal mirror segments each with a 1-metre inscribed diameter, resulting in a total hexagonal mirror of 11.1 by 9.8 m. However, its effective aperture is only 9.2 m. It is located close to... | {"Altitude": "1798 m ft onSALT Key Design & Performance Characteristics 2013 Operational wavelengths: 320nm to 1700nm", "Built": "2005", "Diameter": "hexagonal array of ~11.1 x 9.8 m 9.2 m (effective aperture)", "Collecting area": "79 m2 (91 × 0.87 m2) 66.5 m2 (effective aperture)", "Mounting": "45 ton steel structure"... |
15760 Albion, provisional designation , was the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon. Measuring about 108-167 kilometres in diameter, it was discovered in 1992 by David C. Jewitt and Jane X. Luu at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii. After the discovery, they dubbed the object "Smiley" an... | {"Name of planet": "15760 Albion", "Background": "C2E0FF", "Image size": "250px", "Caption": "Long-exposure image of Albion (circled) taken by the European Southern Observatory in September 1992", "Discoverer": "D. C. JewittJ. X. Luu", "Discovery site": "Mauna Kea Obs.", "Discovered": "30 August 1992", "Alternate names... |
Fred Kavli (August 20, 1927 - November 21, 2013) was a Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist. He was born on a small farm in Eresfjord, Norway. He founded the Kavlico Corporation, located in Moorpark, California. Under his leadership, the company became one of the world's largest suppliers of sensors for ae... | {"Name": "Fred Kavli", "Caption": "Fred Kavli", "Birth date": "1927 8 20", "Birth place": "Eresfjord, Norway", "Death date": "2013 11 21 1927 8 20", "Death place": "Santa Barbara, California, U.S.", "Nationality": "Norwegian-American", "Known For": "Business leader, innovator, and philanthropist.", "Alma mater": "Norwe... |
Norman Kempton Atkins (June 27, 1934 – September 28, 2010) was a Canadian Senator and a political figure in Canada.
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Atkins was a graduate of Appleby College in Oakville and of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where he completed the Bachelor of Arts program in 1957. He subsequ... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Honourable", "Name": "Norman Atkins", "Term start": "July 2, 1986", "Term end": "June 27, 2009", "Birth name": "Norman Kempton Atkins", "Birth date": "1934 6 27", "Birth place": "Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.", "Death date": "2010 9 28 1934 6 27", "Death place": "Fredericton, New Brunswick, Cana... |
Youngstown State University (YSU or Youngstown State) is a public university in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1908 and is the easternmost member of the University System of Ohio.
The university is composed of six undergraduate colleges and a graduate college. Youngstown State University has over 1... | {"Motto": "Animus Liberatus (Latin)", "Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "$275.9 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment ... |
The Netherlands has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 63 times since making its debut as one of the seven countries at the first contest in . The country has missed only four contests, twice because the dates coincided with Remembrance of the Dead (1985, 1991) and twice because of being relegated due to poor ... | {"Appearances": "63 (53 finals)", "First appearance": "1956", "Highest placement": "1st: 1957, 1959, 1969, 1975, 2019", "Host": "1958, 1970, 1976, 1980, 2020cancelled The 2020 contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic., 2021", "Related articles": "nl Nationaal Songfestival", "Current ESC/JESC participation": "... |
Swietopelk II, also Zwantepolc II or Swantopolk II, (1190/1200 — 11 January 1266F. Cenôwa: Trze rosprave: przez Stanjisława ; wóros Kile słóv wó Kaszebach e jich zemji przez Wójkasena, Kraków: Nak. Ksi. i Czcion. pod Sową, 1850, p. 31 ), sometimes known as the Great (; ), was the ruling Duke of Pomerelia-Gdańsk from 12... | {"Image caption": "17th-century painting by Herman Han, Oliwa Abbey", "Father": "Mestwin I, Duke of Pomerania", "Mother": "Swinisława", "Birth date": "1195", "Death date": "1266 1 11 y", "Buried": "Oliwa Abbey"} |
The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was once the largest producer of beer in the United States. Its namesake beer, Schlitz (), was known as "The beer that made Milwaukee famous" and was advertised with the slogan "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer".... | {"Founded": "1849 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States", "Defunct": "1999", "Fate": "Assets sold to Pabst Brewing Company", "Headquarters": "Los Angeles, California", "Industry": "Alcoholic beverage", "Products": "Beer", "Parent": "Pabst Brewing Company", "Website": "http://www.schlitzbrewing.com schlitzbrewing.com"} |
Cem Sultan (also spelled Djem or Jem) or Sultan Cem or Şehzade Cem (December 22, 1459 - February 25, 1495, ; ; ; ), was a claimant to the Ottoman throne in the 15th century.
Cem was the third son of Sultan Mehmed II and younger half-brother of Sultan Bayezid II, and thus a half-uncle of Sultan Selim I of Ottoman Empir... | {"Born": "Adrianople Palace, Edirne, Rumelia, Ottoman Empire", "Father": "Mehmed II", "Mother": "Çiçek Hatun", "Died": "Capua, Kingdom of Naples", "Burial": "Muradiye Complex, Bursa, Turkey", "Religion": "Sunni Islam"} |
The .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol), also known as .45 Auto, .45 Automatic, or 11.43×23mm is a rimless straight-walled handgun cartridge designed by John Moses Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic pistol. After successful military trials, it was adopted as the standard chambering for Colt's M1... | {"Place of origin": "United States", "Type": "Pistol", "Designer": "John Browning", "Designed": "1904", "Produced": "1905-present", "Variants": ".45 ACP +P, .45 Auto Rim, .45 Super, .460 Rowland", "Wars": "World War I - present", "Case type": "Rimless, straight", "Bullet diameter": ".452", "Land diameter": ".442", "Nec... |
The .380 ACP (9×17mm) (Automatic Colt Pistol) is a rimless, straight-walled pistol cartridge developed by firearms designer John Moses Browning. The cartridge headspaces on the mouth of the case.Wilson, R. K. Textbook of Automatic Pistols, p. 241. Plantersville, SC: Small Arms Technical Publishing Company, 1943. It w... | {"Place of origin": "United States", "Type": "Pistol", "Designer": "John Browning", "Manufacturer": "Colt's Manufacturing Company", "Designed": "1908", "Produced": "1908-present", "Case type": "Rimless, straight", "Bullet diameter": ".355", "Land diameter": ".348", "Neck diameter": ".373", "Base diameter": ".374", "Rim... |
The .45 GAP (Glock Auto Pistol) or .45 Glock (11.43×19mm) is a pistol cartridge designed by Ernest Durham, an engineer with CCI/Speer, at the request of firearms manufacturer Glock to provide a cartridge that would equal the power of the .45 ACP, have a stronger case head to reduce the possibility of case neck blowout... | {"Place of origin": "AustriaUnited States", "Type": "Pistol", "In service": "2003-present", "Designer": "Ernest Durham", "Designed": "November 2002", "Manufacturer": "CCI/Speer", "Produced": "2003-present", "Case type": "Rimless, straight", "Bullet diameter": ".452", "Case length": ".755", "Overall length": "1.070", "P... |
Greatest Hits (titled on the back cover as Greatest Hits 87-92) is a 2002 greatest hits album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. Released on 18 November 2002 by PWL, the album collects work from Minogue's PWL period, including the albums Kylie (1988), Enjoy Yourself (1989), Rhythm of Love (1990), Let's Get to It (1991... | {"Released": "yes 2002 11 18 (Greatest Hits)yes 2003 10 21 (Greatest Hits 87-97)", "Recorded": "1987-1992 (Greatest Hits)1987-1997 (Greatest Hits 87-97)", "Genre": "Pop\n dance", "Label": "PWL\nJive\nBMG"} |
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (; born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and former professional boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.
During the 1980s, Rourke played supporting roles in films like Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), before portraying leading r... | {"Name": "Mickey Rourke", "Image": "Mickey Rourke 10 December 2010 (cropped).jpeg", "Caption": "Rourke in 2010", "Birth name": "Philip Andre Rourke Jr.", "Birth date": "1952 9 16", "Birth place": "Schenectady, New York, U.S.", "Other names": "Eddie Cook", "Occupation": "Actor, boxer, screenwriter", "Years active": "Act... |
The .357 SIG (designated as the 357 Sig by the SAAMI and 357 SIG by the C.I.P. or 9×22mm in unofficial metric notation) is a bottlenecked rimless centerfire handgun cartridge developed by the Swiss-German firearms manufacturer SIG Sauer, in cooperation with ammunition manufacturer Federal Premium. The cartridge is use... | {"Place of origin": "SwitzerlandUnited States", "Type": "Pistol", "Designer": "SIGARMS / Federal Premium Ammunition", "Designed": "1994", "Produced": "1994-present", "Parent case": "10mm Auto", "Case type": "Rimless, bottleneck", "Bullet diameter": "9.02", "Land diameter": "8.71", "Neck diameter": "9.68", "Shoulder dia... |
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The Barcelona Metro (Catalan and Spanish: ) is a network of rapid transit electrified railway lines that run mostly underground in central Barcelona and into the city... | {"Name": "Barcelona Metro", "Size of first image": "125px", "Size of second image": "80px", "Native name": "ca Metro de Barcelona", "Owner(s)": "TMB (Lines 1-5, 9-11), FGC (Lines 6-8, 12)", "Locale": "Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain", "Transit type(s)": "Rapid transit", "Number of lines/routes": "12 lines (Total)\n 8 TMB l... |
The Soldier's Medal is an individual decoration of the United States Army. It was introduced as Section 11 of the Air Corps Act, passed by the Congress of the United States on July 2, 1926., Appendix 5, p. 126. The Soldier's Medal is equivalent to the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the Air and Space Forces' Airman's Meda... | {"Presented by": "United States Department of the Armyhttp://govdocs.rutgers.edu/mil/army/r600_8_22.pdf Archived copy 2018-01-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20180111110243/http://govdocs.rutgers.edu/mil/army/r600_8_22.pdf 2018-01-11 dead", "Type": "Personal military decoration", "Awarded for": "Distinguishing ones... |
Voice of Russia (), commonly abbreviated VOR, was the Russian government's international radio broadcasting service from 1993 until 2014, when it was reorganised as Radio Sputnik. Its interval signal was a chime version of 'Majestic' chorus from the Great Gate of Kiev portion of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.... | {"Name": "Voice of Russia", "Logo": "Голос России логотип.gif", "Country": "Russia", "Type": "Radio network", "Owner": "Rossiya Segodnya(owner before 9 Dec 2013:All-Russia State Television and Radio Company)", "Availability": "International", "Launch date": "1993 12 22 y", "Date closed": "2014 11 9 y", "Former names": ... |
Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is a British-Canadian actress and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. She also starred as Helen Magnus in the science fiction-fantasy t... | {"Name": "Amanda Tapping", "Caption": "Tapping at the Phoenix Comicon, 2013", "Birth date": "1965 08 28 yes", "Birth place": "Rochford, Essex, England", "Nationality": "Canadian/British", "Other names": "Amanda KovacsAugust 2020", "Occupation": "Actress, director", "Years active": "1995-present", "Spouse(s)": "Alan Kov... |
Herri Batasuna (; ; HB) was a far-left Basque nationalist coalition in Spain. It was founded in 1978 and defined itself as abertzale, left-wing, socialist, and supported the independence of the Greater Basque Country. It was refounded as Batasuna in 2001 and subsequently outlawed by the Spanish Supreme Court for being ... | {"Founded": "y 1978 4 27 (as electoral coalition)y 1986 6 5 (as political party)", "Merger of": "Euskal Sozialista BiltzarreaLangile Abertzale Iraultzaileen AlderdiaHerri Alderdi Sozialista IraultzaileaEusko Abertzale EkintzaAbertzale Sozialista Komiteak", "Merged into": "Euskal Herritarrok", "Headquarters": "C/ Astarl... |
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (also known as the Ringling Bros. Circus, Ringling Bros., the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Barnum & Bailey, or simply Ringling) is an American traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. It and its predecessor shows ran from 1871 to 2017. Known as Ringling Bro... | {"Circus name": "Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus", "Country": "United States", "Founder(s)": "The Ringling brothersP.T. BarnumJames Anthony Bailey", "Year founded": "1919 y", "Operator(s)": "Feld Entertainment", "Ringmaster(s)": "Jonathan Lee Iverson", "Winter quarters": "Ellenton, Florida, U.S.", "Website": ... |
The UCL School of Pharmacy (formerly The School of Pharmacy, University of London) is the pharmacy school of University College London (UCL). The School forms part of UCL's Faculty of Life Sciences and is located in London, United Kingdom.
The School was founded by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in ... | {"Motto": "Salutifer Orbi (Latin)", "Type": "Pharmacy school", "Director": "Duncan Craighttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/news/director UCL School of Pharmacy appoints new Director 2013-01-19 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130201215554/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/news/director 1 February 2013", "Students": "1,35... |
Straight Plan for the Gay Man is an American comedy television series that premiered on February 23, 2004, on Comedy Central. It is a parody of Bravo's hit Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Four straight comedians (the "Flab Four") - Curtis Gwinn (environment guy), Billy Merritt (appearance guy), Kyle Grooms (information... | {"Genre": "Reality television", "Running time": "43-54 minutes", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original network": "Bravohttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-nov-12-et-quick12.6-story.html Comedy Central spoofs Fab Five November 12, 2003 Los Angeles Times", "Original release": "2004 10 30"} |
Summer Lightning is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 1 July 1929 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, under the title Fish Preferred, and in the United Kingdom on 19 July 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, London.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 56-57, A41. It was serialised in The Pall Mall Magazine (UK) betw... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Doubleday, Doran (US)Herbert Jenkins (UK)", "Media type": "Print (hardcover)", "Preceded by": "Leave it to Psmith (novel), Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (shorts)", "Followed by": "Heavy Weather"} |
Thomas A. Gaudette (1923-1998) was a community organizer who worked in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. Originally a businessman, Gaudette became interested in neighborhood organizing through his Catholic Church activism. Gaudette helped form a neighborhood group, along the lines of those organized by Saul Alinsky, ... | {"Name": "Tom Gaudette", "Birth name": "Thomas Aquinas Gaudette", "Birth date": "March 8, 1923", "Birth place": "Medford, Massachusetts", "Death date": "September 23, 1998 (age 75)", "Death place": "Chicago, Illinois", "Known For": "Founder of the:Mid-America Institute for Community Development", "Alma mater": "Boston ... |
Marie Justine Benoîte Favart (née Duronceray) (15 June 1727 - 22 April 1772) was an operatic singer, actress, playwright and dancer, the wife of the dramatist, Charles Simon Favart.
Biography
Madame Favart is largely responsible for the 18th-century change in Parisian operatic taste from French standards to performanc... | {"Caption": "Madame Favart (1762) in an engraving by Flipart after a portrait by Charles-Nicolas Cochin", "Birth name": "Marie Duronceray", "Birth date": "15 June 1727", "Birth place": "Avignon", "Death date": "yes 1772 04 22 1727 06 15", "Death place": "Paris", "Occupation": "ActressOperatic singerPlaywright", "Spouse... |
Constance of Hauteville (1128-1163) was the ruling Princess of Antioch from 1130 to 1163. She was the only child of Bohemond II of Antioch by his wife, Alice of Jerusalem. Constance succeeded her father at the age of two, after he fell in battle, although his cousin Roger II of Sicily laid claim to Antioch. Her mother ... | {"Father": "Bohemond II", "Mother": "Alice of Jerusalem", "Born": "1128", "Died": "1163 1128", "Religion": "Catholicism"} |
Bohemond III of Antioch, also known as Bohemond the Child or the Stammerer (; 1148-1201), was Prince of Antioch from 1163 to 1201. He was the elder son of Constance of Antioch and her first husband, Raymond of Poitiers. Bohemond ascended to the throne after the Antiochene noblemen dethroned his mother with the assistan... | {"Father": "Raymond of Poitiers", "Mother": "Constance of Antioch", "Born": "1148", "Died": "April 1201 1148", "Religion": "Catholicism"} |
Vesna Vulović (, ; 3 January 1950 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: . She was the sole survivor after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia (now p... | {"Name": "Vesna Vulović", "Caption": "Vulović in the early 1970s", "Birth date": "1950 1 3 yes", "Birth place": "Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia", "Death date": "2016 12 23 1950 01 03 yes", "Death place": "Belgrade, Serbia", "Resting place": "New Cemetery, Belgrade", "Known For": "Surviving JAT Flight 367", "Occupa... |
Rostov-Yaroslavsky (until 1904 was known as Rostov) is the passenger railway station in Rostov (Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia) and a stop along the Trans-Siberian Railway.
History
The station was opened in 1870 on the Alexandrov - Yaroslavl section.Railway stations of USSR. Handbook. — М., Transport, 1981 The first train... | {"Name": "Rostov-Yaroslavsky", "Native name": "Ростов-Ярославский", "Style template": "RZD", "Type": "Northern Railway terminal", "Caption": "View of the station from the railway platform.", "Address": "Dostoevskogo St., 1, Rostov, Russia", "Coordinates": "57 11 53 N 39 24 26 E source:wikidata-and-enwiki-cat-tree_regio... |
Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley or even the College of St. Peter at Radley, is a public school (independent boarding school for boys) near Radley, Oxfordshire, England, which was founded in 1847. The school covers including playing fields, a golf course, a lake, and farmland. Before the counties o... | {"Religious affiliation(s)": "Church of England", "Houses": "11", "Publication": "The Radley College Chronicle", "Website": "https://www.radley.org.uk"} |
Matsubayashi-Ryū (松林流), is a style of Okinawan karate founded in 1947 by Shōshin Nagamine (1907-1997) (an Okina Sensei
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Bibli... | {"Date founded": "1947", "Country of origin": "Okinawa, Japan", "Founder": "O-sensei Shōshin Nagamine", "Arts taught": "Karate, Kobudō", "Ancestor schools": "Tomari-te, Shuri-te, Shōrin-ryū", "Practitioners": "Takayoshi Nagamine Soke (deceased), Masao Shima, Eihachi Ota."} |
Pharnaces II of Pontus (; about 97-47 BC) was the king of the Bosporan Kingdom and Kingdom of Pontus until his death. He was a monarch of Persian and Greek ancestry. He was the youngest child born to King Mithridates VI of Pontus from his first wife, his sister Queen Laodice.Mayor, The Poison King: the life and legend ... | {"Born": "c. 97 BC", "Died": "47 BC", "Father": "Mithradates VI Eupator", "Mother": "Laodice (sister of Mithridates VI)"} |
Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (December 20, 1881 – November 13, 1962) was a politician in Quebec, Canada.
Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, he was the mayor of the municipality from 1917 to 1930 and from 1932 to 1944 and president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in 1918. He also founded the Union des municipa... | {"Name": "Télesphore-Damien Bouchard", "Term start": "1912", "Term end": "1919", "Predecessor 2": "Armand Boisseau", "Successor 2": "Ernest-Joseph Chartier", "Birth date": "1881 12 20", "Birth place": "Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec", "Death date": "1962 11 13 1881 12 20", "Death place": "Westmount, Quebec", "Other political ... |
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a public research university in Bloomsbury, central London, and a member institution of the University of London that specialises in public health and tropical medicine.
The institution was founded in 1899 by Sir Patrick Manson, after a donation from the In... | {"Type": "Public", "Endowment": "£20.6 million (2021-22) https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/files/financial-statement-2021-22.pdf Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2022 31 January 2023 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine", "Budget": "£262.0 million (2021-22)", "Chancellor": "The Princess Royal (Universi... |
George Carlyle Marler, (September 14, 1901 – April 10, 1981) was a politician, notary and philatelist in Quebec, Canada.
Education
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marler studied at Selwyn House School, Bishop's College School, Royal Naval College of Canada and McGill University, where he earned a bachelor of civil law degr... | {"Name": "George Carlyle Marler", "Birth date": "1901 9 14 y", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Death date": "1981 04 10 1901 09 14", "Death place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Term start": "March 23, 1942", "Term end": "June 30, 1954", "Office 2": "Member of the Canadian House of Commons", "Predecessor 2":... |
The Jefferson River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long,Thompson, Curt. Floating and Recreation on Montana Rivers. Curt Thompson: Lakeside, MT. 1993, p 128.Fischer, Hank and Carol. Paddling Montana. Falcon Publishing: Helena, MT. 1999, p. 92. in the U.S. state of Montana. The Jefferson River and t... | {"Mouth": "Missouri River", "Location": "Three Forks, Montana", "Coordinates": "45 55 39 N 111 30 29 W inline,title", "Basin size": "9532 sqmi on", "Left": "Beaverhead River", "Right": "Big Hole River, Boulder River (southwestern Montana)"} |
The Beaverhead River is an approximately tributary of the Jefferson River in southwest Montana (east of the Continental Divide). It drains an area of roughly . The river's original headwaters, formed by the confluence of the Red Rock River and Horse Prairie Creek, are now flooded under Clark Canyon Reservoir, which al... | {"Mouth": "4610 ft on", "Location": "Near Twin Bridges, MT", "Coordinates": "45 34 04 N 112 20 19 W inline,title", "Basin size": "4778 sqmi on", "Left": "Horse Prairie Creek, Grasshopper Creek", "Right": "Red Rock River, Ruby River"} |
Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by American writer Russell Hoban, first published in 1980. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel in 1982, as well as an Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award in 1983. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981.
It is... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Jonathan Cape", "Media type": "Print (Hardcover)", "Pages": "220", "ISBN": "0-224-01851-5"} |
Charles Ernest Gault (September 19, 1861 – December 25, 1946) was a politician in Quebec, Canada.
He was born in Montreal, Canada East, and educated at the High School of Montreal.
He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in a 1907 by-election in Montréal division no. 5, and was re-elected in 1908. ... | {"Name": "Charles Ernest Gault", "Term start": "1907", "Term end": "1912", "Office 2": "Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montréal-Saint-Georges", "Predecessor 2": "None, district created", "Successor 2": "Gilbert Layton", "Birth date": "1861 09 19", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec", "Death date": "1946... |
Waterstones (formerly Waterstone's) is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. As of February 2014, it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. An average-sized Waterstones shop sells a range of approximately 30,000 individual books, as well... | {"Type": "Private", "Industry": "RetailBookshop", "Founded": "Old Brompton Road, London, 1982", "Headquarters": "London, England, UK", "Products": "Books, stationery", "Revenue": "£399.8 million (2022)https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/01/20/225511/waterstones-sales-profit-up-in-year-to-april-2022/ Wat... |
The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana forms the Missouri River.
The Madison rises in Teton County in northwestern Wyoming at the confluence of the F... | {"Mouth": "Missouri River", "Location": "Three Forks, Montana", "Coordinates": "45 55 39 N 111 30 29 W inline,title", "Left": "Firehole River", "Right": "Gibbon River"} |
The Bloomsbury Theatre is a theatre on Gordon Street, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, owned by University College London. The Theatre has a seating capacity of 547 and offers a professional programme of innovative music, drama, comedy and dance all year round as well as providing a space for student-led pr... | {"Official name": "Bloomsbury Theatre", "Image caption": "Bloomsbury Theatre", "Coordinates": "51 31 30 N 00 07 57 W type:landmark inline,title", "Owner(s)": "University College London", "Max. legal occupancy": "547 seats", "Date of opening": "yes 1968", "Nickname(s)": "Collegiate TheatreBloomsbury Theatre", "Public tr... |
Robert Taschereau (September 10, 1896 – July 26, 1970) was a lawyer who became the 11th Chief Justice of Canada and who briefly served as the Administrator of the Government of Canada following the death of Governor General of Canada Georges Vanier in 1967.
Biography
He was born in Quebec City in 1896 to Louis-Alexan... | {"Name": "Robert Taschereau", "Image caption": "Robert Taschereau, c.1915", "Term start": "April 22, 1963", "Term end": "September 1, 1967", "Office 2": "Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada", "Predecessor 2": "Lawrence Cannon", "Successor 2": "Wishart Spence", "Nominator 2": "William Lyon Mackenzie King", "Bi... |
Bloomsbury Square is a garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, London. Developed in the late 17th century, it was initially known as Southampton Square and was one of the earliest London squares. By the early 19th century, Bedford House along the north of the square had been demolished and replace... | {"Type": "Garden square", "Location": "London, WC 1United Kingdom", "Coordinates": "51 31 08 N 0 7 22 W type:landmark_region:GB inline,title", "Area": "0.5 hectare 2https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000210 BLOOMSBURY SQUARE, Camden - 1000210- Historic England Historic England Historicengland.o... |
The Pine Bluff Observatory (PBO) is an astronomical observatory located in the town of Cross Plains, Wisconsin (USA) about west of Madison. PBO is owned and operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). It opened in 1958, and is mainly used by students and faculty of UW-Madison for instruction and re... | {"Organization": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "Location": "Cross Plains, Wisconsin", "Coordinates": "43.0777 -89.6717 type:landmark inline,title", "Altitude": "362 m ft us", "Established": "1958", "Website": "http://www.sal.wisc.edu/PBO/ Pine Bluff Observatory", "Commercial telescopes": "0.9 m reflector"} |
The Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory (HBO) is located atop Mount Pleasant near the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (US). It is used mainly as a teaching facility for upper-level undergraduate astronomy classes. The observatory is named to recognize funding from M. John Hartung, a 1908 Cornell graduate and later che... | {"Organization": "Cornell University", "Observatory code": "H81", "Location": "553 Mount Pleasant RdDryden, New York (United States)", "Coordinates": "42 27 29.61 N 76 23 4.59 W region:US-NY_type:landmark_source:dewiki inline,title", "Altitude": "530 m", "Established": "1974", "Website": "hbo.sirtf.com", "Commercial te... |
Christie are an English soft rock band that formed at the end of the 1960s. They are best remembered for their UK chart-topping hit single "Yellow River", released in 1970, which hit number one in 26 countries that year.
Career
In addition to Jeff Christie (born Jeffrey Christie, 12 July 1946, Leeds, Yorkshire, Engla... | {"Origin": "Leeds, West Yorkshire, England", "Genres": "Pop rock, soft rock", "Labels": "CBS (UK)Epic (US)", "Website": "http://www.jeffchristie.com", "Members": "Jeff Christie\n Simon Kay\n Adrian Foster"} |
Taytu Betul ( Ṭaytu Bəṭul ; baptised as Wälättä Mikael; 1851 - 11 February 1918) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1889 to 1913 and the third wife of Emperor Menelik II. An influential figure in anti-colonial resistance during the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa, she, along with her husband, founded the modern Ethiopi... | {"Father": "Betul Haile Maryam", "Born": "Semien, North Gondar, Ethiopian Empire", "Died": "Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire", "Burial": "Ba'eta le-Mariam Monastery"} |
David Hamilton Koch ( ; May 3, 1940 - August 23, 2019) was an American businessman, political activist, philanthropist, and chemical engineer. In 1970, he joined the family business: Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States. He became president of the subsidiary Koch Engineering i... | {"Name": "David Koch", "Caption": "Koch in 2015", "Birth name": "David Hamilton Koch", "Birth date": "1940 5 3", "Birth place": "Wichita, Kansas, U.S.", "Death date": "2019 8 23 1940 5 3", "Death place": "Southampton, New York, U.S.", "Education": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS)", "Occupation": "Vice pr... |
The Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) is an open-source software tool used to connect computer programs or libraries written in C or C++ with scripting languages such as Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl, and other languages like C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, D, OCaml, Octave, Scilab and Scheme. Output c... | {"Original author(s)": "David M. Beazley", "Developer(s)": "SWIG developers", "Initial release": "1996 02http://www.swig.org/history.html SWIG History", "Written in": "C, C++", "License": "GPLv3", "Website": "swig.org"} |
A Negroni is an Italian cocktail, made of one part gin, one part vermouth rosso (red, semi-sweet) and one part Campari, garnished with orange peel. It is considered an apéritif.
A traditionally made Negroni is stirred, not shaken; it is built over ice in an old-fashioned or rocks glass and garnished with a slice of or... | {"Type": "cocktail", "Served": "rocks", "Standard garnish": "Orange slice", "Standard drinkware": "old", "Preparation": "Stir into glass over ice, garnish and serve.", "Commonly served": "Before dinner"} |
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thumb|The Cruciform Building on Gower Street in 2007
University College Hospital (UCH) is a teaching hospital in the Fitzrovia area of the London Borough of Camden, England.... | {"Location": "London", "Lists": "England", "Care system": "National Health Service", "Type": "Teaching", "Affiliated university": "University College London", "Beds": "665http://www.interserve.com/about-interserve/case-studies/441/uclh UCLH 10 September 2010 Interserve Plc", "Opened": "1834", "Website": "uclh.nhs.uk"} |
Nancy Theresa Lord (February 8, 1952 - February 14, 2022) was an American attorney and medical researcher who was the vice-presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in the 1992 presidential election, as the running-mate of Andre Marrou. Marrou and Lord placed fourth in the popular vote with 290,087 votes (0.3%).W... | {"Name": "Nancy Lord", "Birth name": "Nancy Theresa Lord", "Birth date": "1952 2 8", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2022 2 14 1952 2 8", "Death place": "Show Low, Arizona, U.S.\"Nancy Lord obituary, Legacy.com. Originally published in The Washington Post on March 6, 2022. Retrieved May 25, 2022.",... |
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, popularly referred to as the 'Evo', is a sports sedan and rally car based on the Lancer that was manufactured by Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Motors from 1992 until 2016. There have been ten official versions to date, and the designation of each model is most commonly a Roman numera... | {"Manufacturer": "Mitsubishi Motors", "Production": "1992-2016", "Body style": "4-door sedan 5-door station wagon (2006-2007)", "Assembly": "Japan: Okazaki, Aichi (Nagoya Plant) (first to ninth generations) Kurashiki, Okayama (Mizushima Plant) (tenth generation)", "Class": "Sport compact car", "Layout": "Front-engine, ... |
Jo Jorgensen (born May 1, 1957) is an American libertarian political activist and academic. Jorgensen was the Libertarian Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election, in which she finished third in the popular vote with about 1.9 million votes, 1.2% of the national total. She was previously ... | {"Name": "Jo Jorgensen", "Caption": "Jorgensen in 2020", "Birth date": "1957 5 1", "Birth place": "Libertyville, Illinois, U.S", "Party": "Libertarian", "Education": "Baylor University (BS)Southern Methodist University (MBA)Clemson University (PhD)", "Occupation": "Politician academic", "Employer": "Clemson University"... |
Yves Prévost (July 11, 1908 - November 27, 1997) was a politician and lawyer in Quebec, Canada.
He was first elected in 1948 for the riding of Montmorency. He served as interim leader of the Union Nationale party and leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from September 1960 to January 1961. He... | {"Name": "Yves Prévost", "Term start": "1948", "Term end": "1962", "Office 2": "Leader of the Official Opposition of Quebec", "Predecessor 2": "Georges-Émile Lapalme", "Successor 2": "Antonio Talbot", "Birth date": "1908 7 11", "Birth place": "Beauport, Quebec City, Quebec", "Death date": "1997 11 27 1908 7 11", "Death... |
The State University of New York at Plattsburgh (SUNY Plattsburgh) is a public university in Plattsburgh, New York. The university was founded in 1889 and officially opened in 1890. The university is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Educa... | {"Motto": "A Superbus Preteritus, A Validus Posterus", "Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "$21.9 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year... |
Antonio Talbot (May 29, 1900 - September 25, 1980) was a Canadian politician from Quebec. He once served as interim leader of the Union Nationale.
Background
He was born on May 29, 1900, in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Quebec, near Montmagny, and was an attorney.
Member of the legislature
Talbot won a by-ele... | {"Name": "Antonio Talbot", "Term start": "1938", "Term end": "1965", "Birth date": "1900 05 29", "Birth place": "Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Quebec", "Death date": "1980 09 25 1900 05 29", "Death place": "Quebec City, Quebec"} |
Creepschool is an animated series by Alphanim, the CINAR Corporation, Happy Life and France 3 about four kids who find themselves at a spooky boarding school. The basic concept was created by Torbjörn Jansson, which was then substantially re-worked and developed by the co-head-writers Kristina Mansfeld and Per Carlsson... | {"Genre": "Children'sFantasyHorror", "Created by": "Torbjörn JanssonHappy Life", "Developed by": "Stina Mansfield\n Per Carlsson\n Han Östlundh", "Written by": "Stina MansfeltPer Carlsson", "Directed by": "Philippe Balmossière", "Voices of": "Sonja BallKayla GrunfeldJesse CamachoJesse VinetRichard DumontAnnie BovairdRi... |
Gabriel Loubier (born September 27, 1932) was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as leader of the Union Nationale party from 1971 to 1974, and as Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1971 to 1973.
Born in Black Lake, Quebec, Loubier studied law at Laval University, and was admitted t... | {"Name": "Gabriel Loubier", "Image caption": "Loubier in 1969", "Term start": "1962", "Term end": "1973", "Office 2": "Leader of the Official Opposition of Quebec", "Predecessor 2": "Jean-Jacques Bertrand", "Successor 2": "Jacques-Yvan Morin", "Birth date": "1932 9 27", "Birth place": "Black Lake, Quebec"} |
Bohemond IV of Antioch, also known as Bohemond the One-Eyed (; 1175-1233), was Count of Tripoli from 1187 to 1233, and Prince of Antioch from 1201 to 1216 and from 1219 to 1233. He was the younger son of Bohemond III of Antioch. The dying Raymond III of Tripoli offered his county to Bohemond's elder brother, Raymond, ... | {"Father": "Bohemond III of Antioch", "Mother": "Orgueilleuse of Harenc", "Born": "1175", "Died": "March 1233 1175", "Religion": "Catholicism"} |
Roger Nordlund (born 19 November 1957) is a politician in Åland, an autonomous and unilingually Swedish territory of Finland. Nordlund is a member of the Åland Centre party and is currently serving as Deputy Premier Government of Åland and Minister of Finance.
Deputy premier (Vice lantråd), Government of Åland 2011-
... | {"Name": "Roger Nordlund", "Birth date": "1957 11 19 y", "Term start": "November 2011", "Office 2": "Speaker of the Parliament of Åland", "Term 2": "2007-2011", "Predecessor 2": "Gunnar Jansson", "Successor 2": "Britt Lundberg", "Spouse(s)": "Gunilla G. Nordlund", "Official website": "www.centern.ax"} |
thumb|Bohemond V ruled over Antioch and Tripoli (green), and was in conflict with Cilician Armenia (blue) until shortly before his death.
Bohemond V of Antioch (1199 - January 17, 1252)Runciman, History of the Crusades', vol. III, p. 278 was ruler of the Principality of Antioch, a Crusader state, from 1233 to his deat... | {"Born": "1199", "Died": "January 17, 1252 (aged 53)", "Father": "Bohemond IV of Antioch", "Mother": "Plaisance of Gibelet"} |
3D Movie Maker (commonly shortened to 3DMM) is a children's computer program developed by Microsoft Home's Microsoft Kids subsidiary released in 1995. Using the program, users can make films by placing 3D characters and props into pre-rendered environments, as well as adding actions, sound effects, music, text, speech ... | {"Developer(s)": "Microsoft KidsBig Blue Dot (Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker)", "Initial release": "1995", "Repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker", "Written in": "C++", "Available in": "EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapaneseRussianSpanish", "Type": "3D computer graphics software", "License": "MIT ... |
Francis Piol Bol Bok (born February 1979), a Dinka tribesman and citizen of South Sudan, was a slave for ten years and later became an abolitionist and author living in the United States.
Biography
On May 15, 1986, he was captured and enslaved at the age of seven during an Arab militia raid on the village of Nyamlel in... | {"Name": "Francis Bok", "Birth date": "1979 2", "Birth place": "Sudan", "Occupation": "State Minister of Information, Youth and Sports for Lol State, South Sudan,August 2018\n author\n abolitionist", "Spouse(s)": "Atak", "Parent(s)": "Bol Buk Dol and Adut Al Akok", "Children": "Buk and Dhal"} |
Bohemond VI (-1275), also known as the Fair, was the prince of Antioch and count of Tripoli from 1251 until his death. He ruled while Antioch was caught between the warring Mongol Empire and Mamluk Sultanate. He allied with the Mongols against the Muslim Mamluks and his Crusaders fought alongside the Mongols in their b... | {"Father": "Bohemond V of Antioch", "Mother": "Lucienne of Segni", "Born": "c.1237", "Died": "1275 (aged 38)"} |
Selamawi Asgedom (Tigrinya: ሰላማዊ ሃእለአብ አስገዶም; born in Adi Wahla, Ethiopia on 29 September 1976) or Mawi Asgedom for short, is an author, public speaker, and a refugee of Ethiopian and Eritrean origin.
Biography
Mawi was born in northern Ethiopia, in the province of Tigray. For about two years of his childhood, he wa... | {"Name": "Selamawi Asgedom", "Birth date": "yes 1976 9 29", "Birth place": "Adi Wahla, Ethiopia", "Occupation": "Public speakerAuthor"} |
Natuna Regency is an islands regency located in the northernmost part of the Province of Riau Islands, Indonesia. It contains at least 154 islands, of which 127 of them are reported as uninhabited. This archipelago, with a land area of 1,978.31 km2 out of a total area of 264,198.37 km2 area, contains 15 districts, incl... | {"Body": "Regency's Government of Natuna Islands", "Land": "1978.31", "Water": "99.25", "Density": "auto", "Website": "natunakab.go.id"} |
The government of New York City, headquartered at New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan, is organized under the New York City Charter and provides for a mayor-council system. The mayor is elected to a four-year term and is responsible for the administration of city government. The New York City Council is a unicameral ... | {"Formation": "1665 12 16", "Website": "nyc.gov", "Meeting place": "New York City Hall", "Appointed by": "Election", "Seat": "New York City Hall", "Departments": "See List of New York City agencies"} |
The Mazatec are an indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca and some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz.
Language family
The Mazatecan languages are part of the Popolocan family which, in turn, is part of the Otomanguean language family.
Traditional rel... | {"Name": "MazatecHa Shuta Enima", "Image": "249px", "Image caption": "Mazatec girls performing a dance in Huautla de Jimenez", "Population": "~305,836", "Religions": "Roman Catholic, and Traditional religion", "Languages": "Mazatec, Spanish", "Related ethnic groups": "Popolocas"} |
Wedding soup or Italian wedding soup is an Italian soup consisting mainly of green vegetables and meat in chicken broth. It is popular in the United States, where it is a staple in many Italian restaurants and diners.
Origin
The term wedding soup comes from a mistranslation of the Italian language phrase minestra mari... | {"Name of food": "Wedding soup", "Width of image": "250px", "Alternate name": "Italian wedding soup, minestra maritata", "Type of dish": "Soup", "Main ingredient": "Green vegetables (endive and escarole or cabbage, lettuce, kale, spinach), meat (meatballs, sausage), chicken broth", "Serving size": "100 g", "Calories pe... |
The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
The Baby was not intended to be a practical co... | {"Also known as? (\"AKA\")": "Small-Scale Experimental Machine", "Family": "Manchester computers", "Image caption": "Replica of the Baby at the Science and Industry Museum in Castlefield, Manchester", "Image alternative text": "A series of seven tall metal racks filled with electronic equipment standing in front of a b... |
The America East Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I whose members are located in the Northeastern United States. The conference is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Founded in 1979, the conference has nine core members including eight public research universities, thre... | {"Logo size": "200", "Founded": "1979", "Association": "NCAA", "Division": "Division I", "Teams": "9 full (5 associate)", "Sports fielded": "10 sports", "Region": "Northeastern United StatesMid-Atlantic (United States)", "Former": "Eastern College Athletic Conference-North (1979-1988)North Atlantic Conference (1988-199... |
Raymond-Roupen (also Raymond-Rupen and Ruben-Raymond; 1198 – 1219 or 1221/1222) was a member of the House of Poitiers who claimed the thrones of the Principality of Antioch and Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. His succession in Antioch was prevented by his paternal uncle Bohemond IV, but his maternal great-uncle Leo I of C... | {"Father": "Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli", "Mother": "Alice, Lady of Toron", "Born": "1198", "Died": "1221/1222"} |
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