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Penelope Pitstop is a fictional character who appeared in the 1968 Hanna-Barbera animated series Wacky Races and the spin-off The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, and was voiced by Janet Waldo. She also appeared in the 2017 reboot of Wacky Races.
Background
Penelope "Penny" Pitstop is an attractive southern belle, and the ... | {"First appearance": "\"See-Saw To Arkansas\" (1968)", "Created by": "Iwao TakamotoJerry EisenbergJoseph Barbera", "Portrayed by": "Janet Waldo (1968-2016)Marilyn Schreffler (1985)Nicole Parker (2017-2019)Kath Soucie (2020-present)", "Gender": "Female"} |
Miles was the name used between 1943 and 1947 to market the aircraft of British engineer Frederick George Miles, who, with his wife - aviator and draughtswoman Maxine "Blossom" Miles (née Forbes-Robertson) - and his brother George Herbert Miles, designed numerous light civil and military aircraft and a range of curious... | {"Fate": "aviation interests taken on by Handley Page", "Founded": "1930s (as Phillips & Powis Aircraft)", "Defunct": "1947", "Headquarters": "Woodley, Berkshire, UK", "Industry": "Aviation", "Products": "Aircraft, photocopiers, book binding equipment, fasteners (self locking nuts), actuators"} |
The .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum, .357 S&W Magnum, .357 Magnum, or 9×33mmR (as it is known in unofficial metric designation) is a smokeless powder cartridge with a bullet diameter. It was created by Elmer Keith, Phillip B. Sharpe, and Douglas B. Wesson of firearm manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Winchester. The .357 Mag... | {"Place of origin": "United States", "Type": "Handgun, Carbine", "Designer": "Elmer KeithPhillip B. SharpeDouglas B. Wesson", "Designed": "1934", "Manufacturer": "Smith & WessonWinchester", "Produced": "1935-present", "Parent case": ".38 Special", "Case type": "Rimmed, straight", "Bullet diameter": ".357", "Land diamet... |
Hans Fischerkoesen, also known as Hans Fischerkösen or Hans Fischer (18 May 1896 - 23 April 1973) was a German commercial animator. Fischerkoesen is considered an animation pioneer, due to the inventions and innovations he applied to animation technology, especially the use of three-dimensional elements in his animatio... | {"Name": "Hans Fischerkoesen", "Birth name": "Hans Fischer", "Birth date": "1896 5 18 y", "Birth place": "Bad Kösen, Saxony-Anhalt, German Empire", "Death date": "1973 4 23 1896 5 18 y", "Death place": "Mehlem, West Germany", "Nationality": "German", "Other names": "Hans Fischerkösen, Hans Fischer", "Occupation": "Comm... |
The Thousand Islands International Bridge () is an American-maintained international bridge system over the Saint Lawrence River connecting northern New York in the United States with southeastern Ontario in Canada. Constructed in 1937, with additions in 1959, the bridges span the Canada-US border in the middle of the ... | {"Official name": "The Thousand Islands Bridge system", "Carries": "2 lanes of NY I 81 and ON ON 137", "Crosses": "Saint Lawrence River", "Locale": "Wellesley Island, New York, United States to Hill Island, Ontario, Canada", "Maintained by": "Thousand Islands Bridge Authority", "Design": "suspension, open-spandrel deck... |
Scary Movie 2 is a 2001 American supernatural parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. It is the sequel to Scary Movie and the second film in the Scary Movie film series. The film stars Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans (all reprising their roles from the first film, despite their characters h... | {"Directed by": "Keenen Ivory Wayans", "Produced by": "Eric L. Gold", "Written by": "Shawn Wayans\n Marlon Wayans\n Alyson Fouse\n Greg Grabianski\n Dave Polsky\n Michael Anthony Snowden\n Craig Wayans", "Based on": "Characters \n by Shawn Wayans\n Marlon Wayans\n Buddy Johnson\n Phil Beauman\n Jason Friedberg\n Aaron ... |
Alfa Group Consortium () is Russian international privately owned investment groups, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, water utilities and special situation investments.
The group was founded in 1989 as Alfa-Eco by Israeli-R... | {"Type": "Private", "Founded": "1989", "Industry": "Diversified investments conglomerate", "Revenue": "US$16.613 billion (YE2012) PricewaterhouseCoopers Moscow\n PricewaterhouseCoopers\n Alfa Group Consortium Annual Report 2010\n Alfa Group Consortium\n 18 October 2011\n http://alfagroup.org/326/reports.... |
Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans (born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Wayans first came to prominence as the host and the creator of the 1990-1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed and/or written several films... | {"Caption": "Wayans in 2019", "Birth name": "Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans", "Birth date": "1958 6 8", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor comedian filmmaker", "Years active": "1979-present", "Family": "Wayans family", "Partner(s)": "Brittany Daniel (2007-2014)", "Children": "5", "Education": "Tuske... |
was a Meiji-period career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was famous as a planner of Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese general Akiyama Yoshifuru was his elder brotherDupuy, Encyclopedia of Military Biography and the Japanese politician Hisako Ōishi was his granddaughter.
Biography
th... | {"Born": "Matsuyama, Iyo Province, Japan", "Died": "Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan", "Allegiance": "Empire of Japan", "Commands held": "IJN 2nd FleetJapanese cruiser Akitsushima 2Japanese cruiser Otowa 2Japanese cruiser Hashidate 2Japanese cruiser Izumo 2Japanese cruiser Ibuki 1907 2."} |
Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat (; August 16, 1930 - June 27, 2014) was a Haitian politician who was elected as President of Haiti in a tightly controlled military held election in January 1988. He served as President for only a few months, from February 1988 to June 1988, before being ousted by the military in a cou... | {"Name": "Leslie François Manigat", "Term start": "February 7, 1988", "Term end": "June 20, 1988", "Birth name": "Leslie François Saint Roc Manigat", "Birth date": "1930 8 16", "Birth place": "Port-au-Prince, Haiti", "Death date": "2014 6 27 1930 8 16", "Death place": "Port-au-Prince, Haiti", "Spouse(s)": "1) Marie-Luc... |
Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group (a popular English name), or Alfa, whose official name is Directorate "A" of the FSB Special Purpose Center (TsSN FSB) (Russian: Спецназ ФСБ "Альфа"), is a stand-alone sub-unit of Russia's special forces within the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). It was created by the ... | {"Allegiance": "15px FSB", "Branch": "15px Spetsnaz of the KGB (1974-1991) Russia: 20px GUO (1991-1993) 20px MVD (1993-1995) 15px TsSN FSB (1995-present)", "Type": "Spetsnaz", "Size": "Classified (estimated 500 in 1991, 250-300 in Russia in 2004)", "Part of": "23px Federal Security Service Moscow (main force) Khab... |
The Maschinengewehr MG 151 is a low caliber, belt fed autocannon for aircraft use, developed in Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1940 and produced by Waffenfabrik Mauser during World War II. It was originally produced in 15.1 mm caliber from 1940, chambered for a 15×96mm cartridge, but due to demand for higher effect against ... | {"Place of origin": "Germany", "Type": "Aircraft cannon", "Sights": "Yes", "Used by": "See users", "Wars": "See wars", "Manufacturer": "Waffenfabrik Mauser AG", "Produced": "1940-1941 - MG 151/151941-1945 - MG 151/20 (Nazi Germany)", "Variants": "MG 151/15MG 151/20", "Mass": "38.1 kg lboz on - MG 151/1542.7 kg lboz on ... |
The Canadian Press (CP; , ) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Established in 1917 as a vehicle for the time's Canadian newspapers to exchange news and information, The Canadian Press has been a private, not-for-profit cooperative owned and operated by its member newspapers for most o... | {"Type": "Private", "Industry": "News agency", "Founded": "1917", "Headquarters": "Canada", "Parent": "The Globe and Mail Square Victoria Communications Group Torstar"} |
Tysons Corner Center is a shopping mall in the unincorporated area of Tysons in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States (between McLean and Vienna, Virginia). It opened to the public in 1968, becoming one of the first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping malls in the Washington metropolitan area. The mall's feat... | {"Location": "Tysons, Virginia, United States", "Opening date": "1968 2 4", "Developer": "Lerner Enterprises", "Owner": "Macerich", "No. of stores and services": "300+", "Anchor tenants": "4", "Total retail floor area": "2.4 million ft²", "No. of floors": "Two for most of the mall, three (in AMC Theatres, the food cour... |
Augustus Seymour Porter (January 18, 1798September 18, 1872) was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan.
Early life
He was born in Canandaigua, New York, the son of Augustus Porter (1769-1849) and his first wife, Lavinia Steele. His brothers were Albert Howell Porter (1801-1888) and Peter Buell Porter, Jr. (1806-... | {"Name": "Augustus S. Porter", "Image size": "200", "Office 2": "14th Mayor of Detroit", "Term 2": "1838 – March 14, 1839", "Preceded 2": "Henry Howard", "Succeeded 2": "Asher B. Bates", "Birth date": "1798 1 18", "Birth place": "Canandaigua, New York", "Death date": "1872 9 18 1798 1 18", "Death place": "Niagara Falls... |
Roger Abbott (July 10, 1946March 26, 2011) was an English-born Canadian sketch comedian who was a founding member of the long-lived Canadian comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, and remained one of its stars and writers until his death.
Early life
Abbott was born in Birkenhead, England; at age 7, he and his family ... | {"Name": "Roger Abbott", "Birth date": "1946 7 10", "Birth place": "Birkenhead, Cheshire, England", "Death date": "2011 3 26 1946 7 10", "Death place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Occupation": "Sketch comedian", "Years active": "1973-2010"} |
Don Ferguson (born May 30, 1946) is a Canadian actor, writer, and producer and is one of the stars of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. He and Dave Broadfoot were the only Canadian-born original cast members of Air Farce. In 1998, Ferguson and the original Air Farce cast of Roger Abbott, Luba Goy, and John Morgan received ... | {"Name": "Don Ferguson", "Birth date": "1946 5 30", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Occupation": "actor, writer, and producer", "Nationality": "Canadian"} |
Luba Goy (; born November 8, 1945) is a Canadian actress, comedian and one of the stars of Royal Canadian Air Farce.
Life and career
Goy was born in Haltern, Germany, to Ukrainian parents and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They immigrated to Canada in 1951. She is a graduate of the Glebe Collegiate Institute in O... | {"Name": "Luba Goy", "Caption": "Luba Goy at the 2010 Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony", "Birth date": "1945 11 8", "Birth place": "Haltern, Germany", "Education": "National Theatre School of Canada", "Years active": "1970-present"} |
Edmund Theodore Sylvers (January 25, 1957 — March 11, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Sylvers was best known as the lead singer of the American family disco/soul music vocal group The Sylvers, which had popular success with songs such as "Boogie Fever" during the mid- to late-1970s.
Biogra... | {"Name": "Edmund Sylvers", "Caption": "Sylvers, 1974", "Birth name": "Edmund Theodore Sylvers", "Birth date": "1957 1 25 yes", "Birth place": "Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.", "Death date": "2004 3 11 1957 1 25 yeshttps://books.google.com/books?id=Mr0DAAAAMBAJ&dq=edmund+sylvers+children&pg=PA16 Jet Edmund Sylvers, 47 of 'The... |
Jessica Holmes (born August 29, 1973) is a Canadian comedian and actress. She is best known for her work with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, which she joined in 2003, after starring in her own show, The Holmes Show in 2002. She is married to actor Scott Yaphe.
Holmes attended Canterbury High School in Ottawa followed ... | {"Name": "Jessica Holmes", "Caption": "Holmes on set in Toronto, October 2006", "Birth date": "1973 8 29", "Birth place": "Ottawa, Ontario, Canada", "Occupation": "actress, comedian", "Spouse(s)": "Scott Yaphe (2002-present; 2 children)", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Education": "Ryerson University"} |
Rumelihisarı (also known as Rumelian Fortress and Roumeli Hissar Fortress) or Boğazkesen Fortress (literally 'strait-cutter fortress') is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey, on a series of hills on the European banks of the Bosphorus. The fortress also lends its name to the immediate neighborhood a... | {"Coordinates": "41.084722 29.056111 inline,title", "Type": "Fortress", "Built": "1452", "Built by": "Mehmed II", "Battles/wars": "Conquest of Constantinople", "Website": "Official website"} |
Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television journalist and sportscaster, best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's Today. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel. Since 1995, he has hosted HBO's acclaimed investigative series Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, which has be... | {"Name": "Bryant Gumbel", "Caption": "Gumbel in 2013", "Birth name": "Bryant Charles Gumbel", "Birth date": "1948 09 29", "Birth place": "New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Bates College", "Occupation": "Television personality, sportscaster", "Spouse(s)": "June Baranco 1973 2001 divorcedHilary Quinlan 2002",... |
Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales ( or 1476 9 April 1484), was the son and heir apparent of King Richard III of England by his wife Anne Neville. He was Richard's only legitimate child and died aged seven or ten.
Birth and titles
Edward was born at Middleham Castle, a stronghold close to York that became Richard an... | {"Father": "Richard III of England", "Mother": "Anne Neville", "Born": "Middleham, Wensleydale, England", "Died": "Middleham, Wensleydale, England"} |
Douglass Rupert Dumbrille (October 13, 1889 – April 2, 1974) was a Canadian actor who appeared regularly in films from the early 1930s.
Life and career
Douglass Dumbrille ( ) was born in Hamilton, Ontario. As a young man, he was employed as a bank clerk in Hamilton while pursuing an interest in acting. He eventually l... | {"Caption": "Dumbrille in Blonde Savage (1947)", "Birth name": "Douglass Rupert Dumbrille", "Birth date": "1889 10 13", "Birth place": "Hamilton, Ontario, Canada", "Death date": "1974 4 2 1889 10 13", "Death place": "Woodland Hills, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1924–64", "Spouse(s)": "Jess... |
The Luoshu (pinyin), Lo Shu (Wade-Giles), or Nine Halls Diagram is an ancient Chinese diagram and named for the Luo River near Luoyang, Henan. The Luoshu appears in myths concerning the invention of writing by Cangjie and other culture heroes. It is a unique normal magic square of order three. It is usually paired with... | {"Picture caption": "The traditional Luoshu diagram", "Second picture caption": "The equivalent magic square", "Infobox title": "Luoshu Square", "Name in traditional characters": "洛書雒 書", "Name in simplified characters": "洛书", "Pinyin transcription": "Luòshū", "Wade-Giles": "Lo Shu", "First alternative name title": "Ni... |
James M. Gibbons (2 August 1924 - 20 December 1997) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Agriculture from 1970 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979, Minister for Defence from 1969 to 1970 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance from 1965 to 1969. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Ca... | {"Term start": "5 July 1977", "Term end": "11 December 1979", "Office 2": "Minister for Defence", "Taoiseach 2": "Jack Lynch", "Predecessor 2": "Michael Hilliard", "Successor 2": "Jerry Cronin", "Birth name": "James M. Gibbons", "Birth date": "1924 8 2 y", "Birth place": "Kilkenny, Ireland", "Death date": "1997 12 20 1... |
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988. The series stars Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising f... | {"Genre": "Medical drama\nSerial", "Created by": "Joshua Brand\nJohn Falsey", "Developed by": "Mark Tinker\nJohn Masius", "Starring": "Ed Flanders\n David Birney\n G. W. Bailey\n Ed Begley Jr.\n Terence Knox\n Howie Mandel\n David Morse\n Christina Pickles\n Kavi Raz\n Cynthia Sikes\n Denzel Washington\n William Daniel... |
Alfons Goppel (1 October 1905 – 24 December 1991) was a German politician of the CSU party and Prime Minister of Bavaria (1962-1978).
Biography
Alfons Goppel was born in Reinhausen (now Regensburg), one of the nine children of the baker Ludwig Goppel and his wife Barbara.
He married Gertrud Wittenbrink in 1935 and th... | {"Name": "Alfons Goppel", "Image caption": "Alfons Goppel in 1963", "Term start": "11 December 1962", "Term end": "6 November 1978", "Office 2": "Minister of the Interior of Bavaria", "Predecessor 2": "Otto Bezold", "Successor 2": "Heinrich Junker", "Birth date": "y 1905 10 1", "Birth place": "Reinhausen, Kingdom of Ba... |
The Sun River (also called the Medicine River) is a tributary of the Missouri River in the Great Plains, approximately 130 mi (209 km) long, in Montana in the United States.
thumb|left|Aerial view of Sun River in Cascade County in early spring 2009
It rises in the Rocky Mountains in two forks, the North Fork and South ... | {"Mouth": "3314 ft on802208", "Location": "Great Falls, Cascade County", "Coordinates": "47 29 42 N 111 18 43 W type:river_region:US-MT inline,title", "Basin size": "1875 sqmi onDerived from USGS statistics for drainage area above Vaughn, MT with about 36 sqmi km2 added to represent drainage below this station", "Left"... |
Averse Sefira was a black metal band from Austin, Texas.
Biography
Averse Sefira was formed in 1996 by guitarist and vocalist Sanguine Mapsama and bassist Wrath Sathariel Diabolus.True, Chris "[ Averse Sefira Biography]", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation Their demo, Blasphomet Sin Abset, was released later that yea... | {"Origin": "Austin, Texas", "Genres": "Black metal", "Labels": "Candlelight Records", "Website": "aversesefira.com", "Members": "Wrath Sathariel DiabolusSanguine MapsamaThe Carcass"} |
Max Streibl (6 January 1932 - 11 December 1998) was a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party and the eighth Minister President of Bavaria.
Biography
thumb|left|upright=0.6|Streibl in 1981
Streibel was born in Oberammergau in 1932, where his parents owned a hotel business. He married his wife Irmin... | {"Name": "Max Streibl", "Image caption": "Streibl in 1989", "Term start": "3 October 1988", "Term end": "28 May 1993", "Office 2": "Bavarian Minister for the Environment", "Birth date": "1932 1 6 y", "Birth place": "Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany", "Death date": "1998 12 11 1932 1 6 y", "Death place": "Munich, Bavaria,... |
The Atari Falcon030 (usually shortened to Atari Falcon), released in 1992, was the final personal computer from Atari Corporation.
A high-end model of the Atari ST line, the machine is based on a Motorola 68030 CPU and a Motorola 56001 digital signal processor, which distinguishes it from most other microcomputers of ... | {"Manufacturer": "Atari Corporation", "Release date": "1992", "Discontinuation date": "1993", "Operating system": "TOS/MultiTOS", "CPU make and model": "Motorola 68030 @ 16 MHz Motorola 56001 @ 32 MHz", "Amount of memory installed": "1, 4, or 14 Megabytes of RAM", "Predecessor": "Atari TT030Atari MEGA STE"} |
Warmians are a Polish ethnic group from Warmia. Most of them are Roman Catholic and speak in Warmian subdialect of Polish language or German language.Łukasz Ruch: Moja i ich gwara, in: Variart, March 2016. p. 4-5.
History
Between the 14th and 17th centuries, settlers from northern, Mazovia moved to former territori... | {"Name": "Warmians", "Native name": "Warmiacy (Polish)Ermlander (German)", "Image caption": "Group of women in 1920s, wearing traditional Warmian clothes", "Languages": "Polish (Warmian subdialect)German", "Religions": "Roman Catholicism", "Related ethnic groups": "Poles"} |
The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (, ; ; both translating as the "Royal Theatre of the Mint") is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium. The National Opera of Belgium, a federal institution, takes the name of this theatre in which it is housed—La Monnaie in French or De Munt in Dutch—referring both to the building a... | {"Former names": "Théâtre de la Monnoye (1700-1819)Pouget 2017", "Coordinates": "50 50 59 N 4 21 14 E type:landmark_region:BE inline,title", "Type": "Opera houseLa Monnaie / De Munt https://www.lamonnaie.be/fr La Monnaie / De Munt 11 May 2023", "Genre(s)": "Opera, Concert, Recital, Dance", "Built": "1700", "Opened": ... |
Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. He has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot (2000),... | {"Name": "Stephen Daldry", "Caption": "Daldry in 2013", "Post-nominals": "CBE", "Birth name": "Stephen David Daldry", "Birth date": "y 1960 5 2", "Birth place": "Dorset, England", "Alma mater": "University of SheffieldEast 15 Acting School, University of Essex", "Occupation": "Director, producer", "Years active": "1985... |
GURPS Cyberpunk is a genre toolkit for cyberpunk-themed role-playing games set in a near-future dystopia, such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential novel Neuromancer. It was published in 1990 after a significant delay caused by the original draft being a primary piece of evidence in Steve Jackson Gam... | {"Name": "GURPS Cyberpunk", "Image": "250px", "Image caption": "Cover of GURPS Cyberpunk", "Designers": "Loyd Blankenship", "Publishers": "Steve Jackson Games", "Publication": "1990", "Genres": "Cyberpunk"} |
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (; July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist. At the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War.
Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own rig... | {"Born": "Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.", "Died": "Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.", "Genres": "Classical music", "Labels": "RCA Victor Red Seal"} |
FreeSBIE is a live CD, an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD with no installation process or hard disk. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system. Its name is a pun on frisbee. Currently, FreeSBIE uses Xfce and Fluxbox.
FreeSBIE 1.0 was based on FreeBSD 5.2.1 and released on February 2... | {"OS family": "FreeBSD", "Source model": "Open source", "Kernel": "Monolithic", "Working state": "Unmaintained", "Official website": "http://www.freesbie.org"} |
Sequoyah (Cherokee: , , or , ; 1770 - August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, he completed his independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible. His achievement was one of the... | {"Native name": "chr ᏍᏏᏉᏯ", "Native name language": "Cherokee", "Caption": "SE-QUO-YAHa lithograph from History of the Indian Tribes of North America. This lithograph is from the portrait painted by Charles Bird King in 1828.", "Birth date": "1770", "Birth place": "Tuskegee, Cherokee Nation (near present day Knoxville,... |
Staurolite is a reddish brown to black, mostly opaque, nesosilicate mineral with a white streak. It crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5 and the chemical formula: Fe2+2Al9O6(SiO4)4(O,OH)2. Magnesium, zinc and manganese substitute in the iron site and trivalent iron can substitu... | {"Category": "Nesosilicate", "IMA symbol": "StWarr L.N. 2021 IMA-CNMNC approved mineral symbols Mineralogical Magazine 85 3 291-320 10.1180/mgm.2021.43 2021MinM...85..291W 235729616 free", "Strunz classification": "9.AF.30", "Unit cell": "a = 7.86 Å, b = 16.6 Å c = 5.65 Å; β = 90.45°; Z = 2", "Twinning": "Commonly ... |
Champlain College is a private college in Burlington, Vermont. Founded in 1878, Champlain offers on-campus undergraduate and online undergraduate courses through Champlain College Online, along with online certificate and degree programs and master's degree programs, in over 80 subject areas. Champlain enrolls 3,060 un... | {"Motto": "Audeamus", "Type": "Private college", "President": "Alex Hernandez", "Undergraduates": "3,060 full-timehttps://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=champlain&s=all&id=230852 National Center For Education Statistics 2023-08-30 National Center For Education Statistics", "Campus": "27 acre", "Website": "https:/... |
Filey () is a seaside town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is located between Scarborough and Bridlington on Filey Bay. Although it was a fishing village, it has a large beach and became a popular tourist resort.
According to the 2011 UK census, Filey parish had a population of 6,981, in comparison to... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 census)", "Unitary authority": "North Yorkshire", "Ceremonial county": "North Yorkshire", "UK Parliament": "Thirsk and Malton", "Postcode district": "YO", "Dialling code": "01723", "OS grid reference": "TA115807"} |
thumb|250px|The Middlebury College rowing team in the 2007 Regatta.
thumb|Spectators lining the bank of the Charles River in 2003
thumb|Presentation Brothers College, Irish crew, competing in Alumni 8 in 2011.
thumb|Queen's University Belfast, a crew from Northern Ireland, racing in the Head of the Charles in 2003
thum... | {"Date": "Penultimate Weekend of October", "Location": "Boston, MA United States", "Event type": "Head race", "Distance": "3 miles", "Primary sponsor": "BNY Mellon", "Established": "1965", "Official site": "www.hocr.org", "Participants": "2,271 entries; 790 clubs 53rd Head of the Charles\n Regatta Central\n http... |
James Herbert Parrish, Jr. (May 19, 1968 - March 10, 2004) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Indianapolis Colts, Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets and Chicago Bears. He also was a member of the London Monarchs and the ... | {"Born:": "Baltimore, Maryland", "Died:": "Plano, Texas", "Height:": "6", "Weight:": "310", "High school:": "Dundalk (MD)", "College:": "Temple", "Undrafted:": "1991"} |
The London Astoria was a music venue at 157 Charing Cross Road, in London, England, that operated from 1976 to 2009.
Originally a warehouse during the 1920s, the building became a cinema and ballroom. It was converted for use as a theatre in the 1970s. After further development, the building re-opened in the mid-1980s... | {"Location": "Charing Cross Road, SohoLondon, WC 2United Kingdom", "Public transit": "london underground Tottenham Court Road", "Coordinates": "51 30 57 N 0 7 50 W type:landmark inline,title", "Opened": "1976", "Closed": "15 January 2009", "Capacity": "1,600 - 2,000", "Owner": "Festival Republic"} |
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004, the Center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people."
It is one of a new group of "museums of conscience" ... | {"Established": "August 2004", "Location": "50 E. Freedom Way Cincinnati, Ohio 45202", "Type": "Public", "Visitors": "180,000 annual", "President": "Woodrow Keown, Jr.", "Website": "freedomcenter.org"} |
The Cochrane Theatre, previously known as the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, was a receiving and producing theatre situated in Holborn, London, that opened in 1964. It is now used for television filming.
History
The theatre opened in 1963 and was named after its founder, Jeannetta Cochrane, who was a theatre practitioner ... | {"Official name": "Cochrane Theatre", "Image caption": "Cochrane Theatre", "Location": "Southampton RowLondon, WC 1United Kingdom", "Coordinates": "51 31 09 N 00 07 13 W type:landmark inline,title", "Architect(s)": "LCC Architects' Dept\"Cochrane Theatre\", The Theatres Trust. Retrieved 20 October 2012.", "Owner(s)": "... |
Sony Sports Network, formerly known as Sony Pictures Sports Network and also known as Sony TEN, is a group of Indian pay television sports channels owned by Culver Max Entertainment (formerly Sony Pictures Networks India).
The original TEN Sports channel was first established on 1 April 2002 by Abdul Rahman Bukhatir. ... | {"Launched": "yes 2002 04 01", "Parent": "Sony", "Sister channels": "Culver Max Entertainment Channels", "Picture format": "1080i HDTV(downscaled to 576i 4:3 for SDTVs)", "Type": "Sports", "Country": "India", "Broadcast area": "Indian subcontinent", "Language(s)": "EnglishHindiMalayalamTeluguTamil", "Headquarters": "Mu... |
TrueSpace (styled as trueSpace) was a commercial 3D computer graphics and animation software developed by Caligari Corporation, bought-out by Microsoft. As of May 2009, it was officially discontinued, but with some 'unofficial support' up to February 2010.
History
The company was founded in 1985 by Roman Ormandy. A... | {"Type": "3D computer graphics", "Developer(s)": "Caligari Corporation", "License": "Proprietary (Freeware)", "Website": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120115181554/http://www.caligari.com// January 15, 2012 caligari.com"} |
Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter, (February 12, 1819 - March 1, 1900) was a lawyer and Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1865 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1878.
Career
Carter was the son of Peter Weston CarterVolume one, p. 363, Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, . grandson of William Carter and great-gr... | {"Name": "Sir Frederick Carter", "Lieutenant governor 1": "Stephen John HillJohn Hawley Glover", "Predecessor 2": "Hugh W. Hoyles", "Successor 2": "Charles Fox Bennett", "Monarch 2": "Victoria", "Lieutenant governor 2": "Anthony MusgraveStephen John Hill", "Birth date": "1819 2 12", "Birth place": "St. John's, Newfound... |
The Kosovo Force (KFOR) is a NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Its operations are gradually reducing until Kosovo's Security Force, established in 2009, becomes self-sufficient.
KFOR entered Kosovo on 11 June 1999, one day after the United Nations Security Council adopted the UNSC Resolution 1244. A... | {"Role": "NATO peacekeeping", "Type": "Command", "Part of": "NATO", "Size": "4,511 personnel", "Nickname(s)": "\"KFOR\"", "Website": "jfcnaples.nato.int/kfor"} |
thumb|Montana rivers with the Big Hole in the southwest
thumb|Big Hole River Watershed Map
thumb|Upper Big Hole River near Jackson, Montana
The Big Hole River is a tributary of the Jefferson River, approximately 153 miles (246 km) long, in Beaverhead County, in southwestern Montana, United States. It is the last habit... | {"Native name": "und Sk͏ʷumcné Sewɫk͏ʷs omit", "Mouth": "4610 ft on", "Location": "Twin Bridges, Montana", "Coordinates": "45 34 04 N 112 20 21 W inline,title", "Basin size": "2800 sqmi on", "Right": "Wise River"} |
John Cody Fidler-Simpson (born 9 August 1944) is an English foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News. He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Ca... | {"Name": "John Simpson", "Post-nominals": "GBR 100% CBE", "Caption": "Simpson in 2015", "Birth name": "John Cody Fidler-Simpson", "Birth date": "y 1944 8 9", "Birth place": "Cleveleys, Lancashire, England", "Education": "Dulwich Preparatory School St Paul's School", "Alma mater": "Magdalene College, Cambridge", "Occupa... |
The Avenue (previously known as The Grand Avenue, The Shops of Grand Avenue and Shops of Grand Avenue) is an urban shopping plaza currently under renovation that spans three city blocks in the downtown neighborhood of Westown in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There is one store anchored by T.J. Maxx and GRAEF-USA Incorporated, ... | {"Address": "275 West Wisconsin Avenue", "Location": "Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States", "Opening date": "1982", "Owner": "Interstate Development Partners and Hempel Companies", "No. of stores and services": "80+", "Anchor tenants": "5 (2 open, 3 vacant)", "Total retail floor area": "367968 sqft m2 1 on http://www.m... |
Providence Place is an American shopping mall in Providence, Rhode Island. With of gross leasable area, it has been the largest shopping mall in Rhode Island since it opened in 1999.
As of 2022, the mall is anchored by Macy's, and Boscov's, and features premier brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Adore Me, J.Crew, Bro... | {"Location": "Providence, Rhode Island, United States", "Coordinates": "41 49 40.58 N 71 24 59.24 W type:landmark_scale:4000_region:US inline,title", "Address": "One Providence Place", "Opening date": "1999 08 20", "Developer": "Commonwealth Developmenthttps://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/business/2000/08/27/providenc... |
The Prudential Center (colloquially the Pru) is an enclosed shopping mall within the mixed-use Prudential Center complex in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the base of the Prudential Tower, and provides direct indoor connections to several nearby destinations including the Hynes Con... | {"Coordinates": "42.34846 -71.08262 inline", "Address": "800 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts02199", "Opening date": "1993", "Previous names": "Shops at Prudential Center", "Developer": "The Hahn Company", "Management": "Boston Properties", "Owner": "Boston Properties", "Architect": "Sikes, Jennings, Kelly & Brewer... |
Queens Center Mall is an urban shopping mall in Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, on Queens Boulevard between 57th Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard. Queens Center Mall is the largest mall in Queens. It is currently owned and managed by The Macerich Company, who purchased the mall in the 1990s. The mall features the tradit... | {"Location": "Elmhurst, New York", "Coordinates": "40.734722 -73.86944 type:landmark_region:US-NY inline,title", "Address": "90-15 Queens BoulevardElmhurst, NY 11373", "Opening date": "1973 09 12", "Developer": "Taubman Centers", "Management": "Macerich", "Owner": "Macerich", "No. of stores and services": "over 20... |
Staten Island Mall is a shopping mall in New Springville, Staten Island, New York City, opened in 1973. It is the only indoor shopping mall in the borough. It is the largest retail center on the island and is the site of the island's third-largest public transit hub after the St. George Terminal and Eltingville Transit... | {"Location": "Staten Island, New York", "Opening date": "August 9, 1973", "Developer": "Feist & Feist Realty Corporation", "Management": "Brookfield Properties", "Owner": "Brookfield Properties", "No. of stores and services": "220", "Anchor tenants": "10", "Total retail floor area": "1,370,000 ft²", "No. of floors": "2... |
John White (c. 1756 - 20 February 1832) was an Irish surgeon and botanical collector. __NOTOC__
Biography
White was born in the townland of Drumaran, near Belcoo, in County Fermanagh in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland, about 1756,Nelson, E. C. (1986), "The first Ulsterman in Botany Bay, Surgeon-General John... | {"Fields": "surgeon, zoologist, botanist", "Institutions": "Royal Navy", "Author abbrev. (botany)": "J.White", "Author abbrev. (zoology)": "White"} |
The East Gallatin River flows in a northwesterly direction through the Gallatin valley, Gallatin County, Montana. Rising from the confluence of Rocky Creek and several other small streams, the East Gallatin begins about one mile (1.6 km) east of downtown Bozeman, Montana. The river joins the main stem of the Gallatin... | {"Location": "Nixon Gap", "Coordinates": "782928 East Gallatin River", "Mouth": "4157 ft m", "Basin size": "148 sqmi sqkmhttp://waterwatch.usgs.gov/index.php?sno=East+Gallatin+River&ds=dv01d_por&btnGo=GO&m=sitempnn USGS Streamgage statistics-East Gallatin River USGS 2012-06-18 (Gallatin Range, Bridger Range)"} |
General elections were held in Fiji between 15 and 29 April 1972,Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 the first since independence from the United Kingdom in 1970. They were characterised by the lack of rancour between racial groups, typical of the... | {"Country": "Fiji", "Type": "parliamentary", "Previous election": "1966 Fijian general election", "Previous year": "1966", "Next election": "March 1977 Fijian general election", "Next year": "1977", "Seats for election": "All 52 seats in the House of Representatives", "Majority seats": "26", "Election date": "15-29 Apr... |
Ray Lyman Wilbur (April 13, 1875 - June 26, 1949) was an American politician, physician, and eugenicist. He was a medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and as the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior under President Herbert Hoover, also a Stanford alum.
Early and personal life... | {"Name": "Ray Wilbur", "Term start": "March 4, 1933", "Term end": "June 30, 1943", "Office 2": "31st United States Secretary of the Interior", "President 2": "Herbert Hoover", "Predecessor 2": "Roy West", "Successor 2": "Harold L. Ickes", "Birth name": "Ray Lyman Wilbur", "Birth date": "1875 4 13", "Birth place": "Boon... |
Theodorus Gaza (, Theodoros Gazis; ; ), also called Theodore Gazis or by the epithet Thessalonicensis (in Latin) and Thessalonikeus (in Greek) (c. 1398 – c. 1475), was a Greek humanist and translator of Aristotle, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (the Palaeo... | {"Born": "c. 1398Jost Trier, Philologische Studien und Quellen, Vol. 101, p.120 (BRD, 1981).", "Died": "c. 1475", "Occupation": "Greek literature, philosophy and humanism", "Literary movement": "Italian Renaissance"} |
Heythrop College, University of London, was a constituent college of the University of London between 1971 and 2018, last located in Kensington Square, London. It comprised the university's specialist faculties of philosophy and theology with social sciences, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses and f... | {"Motto": "Nil Sine Fide (Latin)", "Type": "Public linked to a 1614 Roman Catholic foundation (in Louvain, Belgium)", "Chancellor": "The Princess Royal (University of London)", "Principal": "Claire Ozanne (until 2019)", "Students": "0205 ()", "Undergraduates": "0205 ()", "Postgraduates": "0205 ()", "Campus": "Urban"} |
In ancient Roman religion, the Quinquatria or Quinquatrus was a festival sacred to the Goddess Minerva, celebrated from the 19-23 of March. The older festivals were of Etruscan origin and were to celebrate the Spring equinox, the spring rebirth rites of women. According to Varro,de Ling. Lat. vi.14 it was so called bec... | {"Type": "Classical Roman religion", "Also called": "Quinquatrus", "Observed by": "Roman Republic,Roman Empire", "Next time": "19 March"} |
Macbeth (or The Tragedy of Macbeth, and stylized onscreen as Roman Polanski's Film of Macbeth) is a 1971 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski, and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. A film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, it tells the story of the Highland lord who become... | {"Directed by": "Roman Polanski", "Screenplay by": "Roman Polanski\n Kenneth Tynan", "Based on": "The Tragedie of Macbeth William Shakespeare", "Produced by": "Andrew Braunsberg", "Starring": "Jon Finch\n Francesca Annis\n Martin Shaw", "Cinematography": "Gil Taylor", "Edited by": "Alastair McIntyre", "Music by": "The ... |
General elections were held in Fiji between 19 March and 2 April 1977.Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 As a result of a split in the ethnic Fijian vote, the ruling Alliance Party of Prime Minister Kamisese Mara suffered a narrow defeat. Although the Alliance ... | {"Country": "Fiji", "Type": "parliamentary", "Previous election": "1972 Fijian general election", "Previous year": "1972", "Election date": "19 March-2 April 1977", "Next election": "September 1977 Fijian general election", "Next year": "September 1977", "Seats for election": "All 52 seats in the House of Representativ... |
The Royal Veterinary College (informally the RVC) is a veterinary school located in London and a member institution of the federal University of London. The RVC was founded in 1791 and joined the University of London in 1949. It is the oldest and largest Veterinary school in the United Kingdom, and one of only 11 in th... | {"Motto": "Venienti Occurrite Morbo", "Endowment": "£10.5 million (2021) Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020-21 https://www.rvc.ac.uk/Media/Default/About/Governance,%20Policy%20and%20Legal/Policy%20and%20Legal/annual-report-and-financial-statements-2020-2021.pdf 7 March 2022 Royal Veterinary College", "Bud... |
Michael Smith (born 8 November 1940) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1997 to 2004, Minister for Education from November 1994 to December 1994, Minister for the Environment from 1992 to 1994 and a Minister of State in various governments. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD)... | {"Name": "Michael Smith", "Term start": "8 October 1997", "Term end": "29 September 2004", "Office 2": "Minister for the Environment", "Taoiseach 2": "Albert Reynolds", "Predecessor 2": "Rory O'Hanlon", "Successor 2": "Brendan Howlin", "Birth date": "1940 11 8 y", "Birth place": "Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland", "N... |
Early general elections were held in Fiji between 17 and 24 September 1977.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 They followed elections in March which resulted in a hung parliament and no party able to gain a majority. The new election resulted in ... | {"Country": "Fiji", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "March 1977 Fijian general election", "Previous year": "March 1977", "Election date": "17-24 September 1977", "Next election": "1982 Fijian general election", "Next year": "1982", "Seats for election": "All 52 seats in the House of Repr... |
Éamon Ó Cuív (; born 23 June 1950) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway West constituency since the 1992 general election. He previously served as Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil from 2011 to 2012, as Minister for Social Protection from 2010 to 2011, Minister for Community, Ru... | {"Image caption": "Ó Cuív in 2019", "Term start": "November 1992", "Office 2": "Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government", "Taoiseach 2": "Brian Cowen", "Predecessor 2": "John Gormley", "Successor 2": "Phil Hogan (Environment, Community and Local Government)", "Birth date": "1950 6 23 y", "Birth plac... |
St George's, University of London (legally St George's Hospital Medical School, informally St George's or SGUL), is a university located in Tooting in South London and is a constituent college of the University of London. St George's hospital has its origins in 1733, and began formal registration of trainee fixtures i... | {"Type": "Public research university", "Endowment": "£5.8 million (2022)", "Budget": "£87.8 million (2021-22)https://www.sgul.ac.uk/about/governance/annual-review-and-financial-statements/documents/SGUL-Annual-Report-and-Financial-Statement-2022-unsigned.pdf 2021/22 Annual Report and Financial Statements St George's, ... |
The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist colleges for the study of the history of art in the world and is known for the d... | {"Type": "Public", "Endowment": "£36.0 million (2022) https://courtauld.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Courtauld-Annual-Report-2122.pdf Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2021-2022 24 January 2023 Courtauld Institute of Art 27", "Budget": "£25.1 million (2021-22)", "Chancellor": "The Princess Royal(as... |
General elections were held in Fiji between 10 and 17 July 1982.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 The paradoxical results were both a triumph and a setback for the Alliance Party of the Prime Minister, Kamisese Mara. The Alliance received 52% o... | {"Country": "Fiji", "Type": "parliamentary", "Previous election": "September 1977 Fijian general election", "Previous year": "September 1977", "Election date": "10-17 July 1982", "Next election": "1987 Fijian general election", "Next year": "1987", "Seats for election": "All 52 seats in the House of Representatives", "... |
Shoaib Akhtar (Urdu, ; ; born 13 August 1975) is a Pakistani former international cricketer and commentator. Nicknamed the "Rawalpindi Express", he is regarded as one of the fastest bowlers in cricketing history.
Akhtar made his Test match debut in November 1997 as an opening fast bowler and played his first One Day In... | {"Born": "Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan", "Nickname": "Rawalpindi Express", "Height": "6ft 0inShoaib Akhtar's profile on CricbuzzShoaib Akhtar's profile on Sportskeeda", "Batting": "Right-handed", "Bowling": "Right-arm fast", "Role": "Bowler"} |
General elections were held in Fiji between 4 and 11 April 1987.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 They marked the first electoral transition of power in Fijian history. Despite receiving just under 50% of the vote, the Alliance Party of longtime... | {"Country": "Fiji", "Type": "parliamentary", "Previous election": "1982 Fijian general election", "Previous year": "1982", "Election date": "4-11 April 1987", "Next election": "1992 Fijian general election", "Next year": "1992", "Seats for election": "All 52 seats in the House of Representatives", "Majority seats": "26... |
Cheesecake is a sweet dessert made with a soft fresh cheese (typically cottage cheese, cream cheese, quark or ricotta), eggs, and sugar. It may have a crust or base made from crushed cookies (or digestive biscuits), graham crackers, pastry, or sometimes sponge cake. Cheesecake may be baked or unbaked, and is usually re... | {"Name of food": "Cheesecake", "Image caption": "Baked cheesecake topped with raspberries", "Place of origin": "Ancient Greece", "Course served": "Dessert (predominantly) Savoury (eg. smoked salmon cheesecake)", "Type of dish": "Various", "Main ingredient": "Cream cheese, sugar, pie crust (graham cracker crust, pastry,... |
City, University of London, is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City University was created by royal charter in 1966. The Inns of Court School of Law... | {"Motto": "To Serve Mankind", "Type": "Public Research University", "Endowment": "£7.3 million (2022)https://www.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/710435/2639-Annual-financial-report-2022_Full-document_DK1j-accessible.pdf Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2022 15 February 2023 City, University of Lon... |
Nafarroa Bai () was a Navarrese coalition in Spain of Basque nationalist and regional left-wing parties created in 2004 for the Spanish General election.
History
The coalition comprised Aralar, the Basque Nationalist Party, Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Solidarity), Batzarre, and local independents, but not the outlawed B... | {"Leader": "collective leadership", "Founded": "2004", "Headquarters": "Plaza del Castillo 32 1º izq., Pamplonahttp://www.nafarroabai.org/es/contacto/contacto.htm Nafarroa Bai", "Ideology": "Basque nationalismSeparatismhttp://parties-and-elections.eu/navarre.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190324223438/http://partie... |
Sion (/ˈsaːjən/; IAST: Śīv [ʃiːʋ]) is a neighbourhood of Mumbai. In the 17th century the village formed the boundary between Mumbai and Salsette Island. The British named it marking the end of the city. The name remained even after Mumbai was joined to the Salsette and extended up to Mulund. One of the local historical... | {"Type": "Municipal Corporation", "Body": "Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)", "Density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "IN-MH"} |
Anne Jean Marie René Savary, 1st Duke of Rovigo (26 April 17742 June 1833) was a French military officer and diplomat who served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and the French invasion of Algeria. He was Minister of Police between 1810 and 1814.
Early life and career
Savary was born in Marcq, Ard... | {"Born": "Marcq", "Died": "Paris", "Allegiance": "France", "Commands held": "Gendarmes d'élite de la Garde Impériale"} |
Nilma is a locality in the West Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia located between Warragul and Darnum.
The Post Office opened on 1 May 1886 as Bloomfield Railway Station, was renamed Nilma in 1909 and closed in 1979.
The locality in conjunction with neighbouring township Darnum has an Australian Rules football ... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Nilma", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Coordinates": "38 11 0 S 145 58 0 E inline,title", "Locator Map Pushpin Label Position": "right", "Locator Map Set to LGA Map": "yes", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Shire of Baw Baw", "Postcode": "3821", "Population": "319", "Population Year": "2016", "P... |
Bracken is a television drama serial broadcast from 1980 to 1982 on RTÉ 1 in Ireland, depicting rural life in and around County Wicklow. Created and written by Wesley Burrowes, it starred Gabriel Byrne and Niall Tóibín.
The show is chiefly known for being the link between two long standing RTÉ series, in that Gabriel ... | {"Genre": "Soap opera", "Created by": "Wesley Burrowes", "Directed by": "Noel O'Briain", "Starring": "Gabriel ByrneNiall TóibínJoe LynchMick Lally", "Country of origin": "Ireland", "Running time": "42-55 minutes", "Original network": "RTÉ 1", "Original release": "1982 01 01 y"} |
Janet Ava Owji (born 19 October 1990), also known by her stage name OWJI and her former stage name Janet Leon, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and A&R. Leon began her career as part of the pop group Play, for which she was lead singer 2003-2005. She rose to further prominence in Sweden with the release of her hit debut... | {"Born": "Gothenburg, Sweden", "Genres": "\":AAE\" />", "Labels": "Sony BMG, Columbia, (Music World) (2003-2005) Roxy Recordings (2012-2013)", "Formerly of": "Play (2003-2005)", "Website": "owji.me"} |
University of East London (UEL) is a public university located in the London Borough of Newham, London, England, based at three campuses in Stratford and Docklands, following the opening of University Square Stratford in September 2013. The University of East London began as the West Ham Technical Institute and it was ... | {"Motto": "Scientia et votorum impletio", "Type": "Public", "Chancellor": "Shabir Randeree", "Students": "0058 ()", "Undergraduates": "0058 ()", "Postgraduates": "0058 ()", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "www.uel.ac.uk"} |
Pal Joey is a 1940 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
It was originally written as a series of episodic short stories in The New Yorker in the late 1930s.
Plot
Taking... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce", "Media type": "Print", "Pages": "195 p."} |
Cat's Eye (also known as Stephen King's Cat's Eye) is a 1985 American anthology horror thriller film directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King. It comprises three stories, "Quitters, Inc.", "The Ledge", and "General". The first two are adaptations of short stories in King's 1978 Night Shift collection, and t... | {"Directed by": "Lewis Teague", "Produced by": "Dino De LaurentiisMartha Schumacher", "Written by": "Stephen King", "Based on": "\"Quitters, Inc.\" and \"The Ledge\" by Stephen King", "Starring": "Drew Barrymore\n James Woods\n Alan King\n Kenneth McMillan\n Robert Hays\n Candy Clark", "Music by": "Alan Silvestri", "Ci... |
General elections were held in Fiji between 23 and 30 May 1992.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 It was the first election held since two military coups in 1987 had severed Fiji's 113-year-old constitutional links with the British Monarchy, and... | {"Country": "Fiji", "Type": "parliamentary", "Previous election": "1987 Fijian general election", "Previous year": "1987", "Election date": "23-30 May 1992", "Next election": "1994 Fijian general election", "Next year": "1994", "Seats for election": "All 70 seats in the House of Representatives", "Majority seats": "35"... |
The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent, United Kingdom. Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic.
The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along with its Avery Hill campus, is located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Greenw... | {"Motto": "Discere, Agere, Conficere", "Type": "Public university", "Budget": "£214.9 million (2020)https://docs.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/198267/UoG-Financial-Statements-Year-Ended-31st-July-2020-FINAL-GB.pdf Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st July 2020 University of Greenwich 16 Janua... |
Edward Patrick Morris, 1st Baron Morris (8 May 1859 - 24 October 1935) was a Newfoundlander lawyer and Prime Minister of Newfoundland.
Born in St. John's, the son of Edward Morris and Catherine Fitzgerald, he was educated at Saint Bonaventure's College and the University of Ottawa, was admitted to the bar in 1885 and... | {"Name": "The Lord Morris", "Term start": "2 March 1909", "Term end": "31 December 1917", "Birth date": "1859 5 8 y", "Birth place": "St. John's, Colony of Newfoundland", "Death date": "1935 10 24 1859 5 8 y", "Death place": "London, United Kingdom"} |
William Putnam Bundy (September 24, 1917 - October 6, 2000) was an American attorney and intelligence expert, an analyst with the CIA. Bundy served as a foreign affairs advisor to both presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had key roles in planning the Vietnam War, serving as deputy to Paul Nitze at Defe... | {"Name": "William Bundy", "Image caption": "William Bundy, 1968", "Birth name": "William Putnam Bundy", "Birth date": "1917 9 24", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts", "Death place": "Princeton, New Jersey", "Death date": "2000 10 6 1917 9 24", "Spouse(s)": "Mary Acheson"} |
The Rover K-series engine is a series of internal combustion engines built by Powertrain Ltd, a sister company of MG Rover. The engine was a straight-four cylinder built in two forms, SOHC and DOHC, ranging from .
Design history
thumb|right|The cylinder block of a United Kingdom Rover K-series 16-valve DOHC engine wit... | {"Name": "Rover K-series", "Manufacturer": "Rover GroupMG Rover Group/Powertrain Ltd", "Production": "1988-2005 (K series)", "Configuration": "Straight-4", "Displacement": "1113 to 1796 cc L cuin 1 flip on", "Bore": "80 mm in 2 on"} |
RTV B92, or simply B92 (stylized as b92, formerly BΞ92 and B 92), is a Serbian news station and broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade.
Founded in 1989 as radio station, it was a rare outlet for Western news and information in FR Yugoslavia under Slobodan Milošević, and was a force behind many de... | {"Type": "Public limited company", "Industry": "Media", "Founded": "1989 5 15 y", "Headquarters": "Serbia", "Revenue": "2018БИЛАНС УСПЕХА (2018) - B92 http://pretraga3.apr.gov.rs/docRepo/download?xbcd=7100072672969&xrnd=4BC381A4FB038053124BA5E313517A3AE021926E apr.gov.rs Агенција за привредне регистре 4 October 2019 sr... |
Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, also known as Pentagon City Mall, is a shopping mall in the Pentagon City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, near Interstate 395 and Hayes Street. Its Metro level is directly connected to the Pentagon City station on the Blue and Yellow Lines of the Washington Metro. The mall features... | {"Location": "Arlington, Virginia, United States", "Coordinates": "38 51 47.6 N 77 3 38.6 W Inline,title", "Opening date": "October 5, 1989", "Developer": "Melvin Simon & Associates & Rose Associates", "Management": "Simon Property Group", "Owner": "Simon Property Group (42.5%)http://nasdaqomx.mobular.net/nasdaqomx/7/3... |
Pearls Before Swine (also known as Pearls) is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis. The series began on December 31, 2001. It chronicles the daily lives of an ensemble cast of suburban anthropomorphic animals: Pig, Rat, Zebra, Goat, and a fraternity of crocodiles, as well as a number of sup... | {"Author(s)": "Stephan Pastis", "Current status/schedule": "Running", "Syndicate(s)": "United Feature Syndicate (2001-2011)Andrews McMeel Syndication (2011-present)", "Publisher(s)": "Andrews McMeel Publishing", "Genre(s)": "Humor, black comedy, gag-a-day, satire, anthropomorphic", "Launch date": "December 31, 2001 (Th... |
Jörgen Strand (born 15 March 1963) is a politician of Åland. He was elected as member of the Lagting in 1999 and served until 2011. During this period he served on the Culture, Finance, Business, and Grand Committees. He also was the Depute Premier or Minister of Industry and Trade, and the Minister of Finance. He was ... | {"Name": "Jörgen Strand", "Birth date": "1962 03 15 y", "Term start": "2003", "Term end": "2007", "Office 2": "Minister of Industry and Trade", "Predecessor 2": "Kerstin Alm", "Successor 2": "Jan-Erik Mattsson", "Official website": "www.fs.ax"} |
Caesar Augustus Rodney (January 4, 1772 - June 10, 1824) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as well as a U.S. Representative from Delaware, U.S. Senator from Delaware, U.S... | {"Name": "Caesar A. Rodney", "Term start": "December 27, 1823", "Term end": "June 10, 1824", "District 2": "DE AL at-large", "Predecessor 2": "Willard Hall", "Successor 2": "Daniel Rodney", "Birth date": "1772 1 4", "Birth place": "Dover, Delaware Colony, British America", "Death date": "1824 6 10 1772 1 4", "Death pla... |
General elections were held in Fiji between 18 and 25 February 1994.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 This election, the second since Fiji had become a republic following two military coups in 1987, was brought about by splits within the ruling ... | {"Country": "Fiji", "Type": "parliamentary", "Previous election": "1992 Fijian general election", "Previous year": "1992", "Election date": "18-25 February 1994", "Next election": "1999 Fijian general election", "Next year": "1999", "Seats for election": "All 70 seats in the House of Representatives", "Majority seats":... |
HSN, an initialism of its former name Home Shopping Network, is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Qurate Retail Group, which also owns catalog company Cornerstone Brands. It is based in the Gateway area of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
History
The forerunner of HSN was launched by Lowel... | {"Type": "Public", "Industry": "Cable TelevisionSatellite Television", "Founded": "1982", "Fate": "Acquired by Liberty Interactive Corporation in 2017, now co-owned with QVC", "Headquarters": "United States", "Parent": "Qurate Retail Group (since 2017)", "Divisions": "Cornerstone Brands", "Website": "https://www.hsn.co... |
ATLANTIS-2 is a fiber optic transatlantic telecommunications cable connecting Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde, Spain's Canary Islands and Portugal. It is the first submarine cable to link South America and the African continent.
The Atlantis 2 project total cost was US$370 million invest by a 25 international ... | {"Technology": "Fiber optics DWM", "Design capacity": "160 Gbit/s", "Currently lit capacity": "40 Gbit/s", "Total length": "12,000 km", "Topology": "Trunk and Branch", "Date of first use": "May 10 2000"} |
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