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Surfers’ Choice is the debut studio album of Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, pioneers in the surf genre. The album was released in November 1962. The recording established the conventions of surf music and brought the concept to middle America. The album was mostly recorded live at the Rendezvous Ballroom, with overdubs ... | {"Released": "November 1962", "Recorded": "Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa Beach, California", "Genre": "Instrumental rock, surf musicalbum r34591 yes", "Label": "Deltone", "Producer": "Jim MonsourJanuary 2020"} |
The Polar Bear Express is a Canadian passenger train operated by the Ontario Northland Railway in Northern Ontario. Service was introduced in 1964. While designated as a passenger train, the Polar Bear Express also carries freight and is equipped with specialized equipment including boxcars for canoes, snowmobiles and ... | {"Service type": "Inter-city rail", "Status": "In service", "Locale": "Northeastern Ontario, Canada", "First service": "1964", "Termini": "Moosonee", "Stops": "6 scheduled, + flag stops", "Distance travelled": "300 km mi on", "Average journey time": "5 hours", "Service frequency": "Varies seasonally"} |
The T-84 is a Ukrainian main battle tank (MBT), based on the Soviet T-80 MBT introduced in 1976, specifically the diesel engine version: T-80UD. The T-84 was first built in 1994 and entered service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1999. Its high-performance opposed-piston engine makes it a fast tank, comparable to othe... | {"Type": "Main battle tank", "Place of origin": "Ukraine", "Sights": "yes", "Steeringsystem": "yes", "In service": "1999-present", "Used by": "Armed Forces of Ukraine", "Wars": "Russo-Ukrainian War\nWar in Donbas\nRussian invasion of Ukraine", "Designer": "KMDB", "Designed": "1975-1994", "Manufacturer": "Malyshev Facto... |
Passion is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's 1981 film Passione d'Amore, and its source material, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 1869 novel Fosca. Central themes include love, sex, obsession, illness, passion, beauty, power and man... | {"Name": "Passion", "Image size": "0", "Caption": "Original Broadway poster art", "Composer(s)": "Stephen Sondheim", "Lyricist(s)": "Stephen Sondheim", "Book-writer": "James Lapine", "Based on?": "Passione d'Amore by Ruggero Maccari Ettore Scola Fosca by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti", "Productions": "1994 Broadway 1996 We... |
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is a US government agency that is part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), operating under the control of the National Weather Service (NWS), which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States Department of ... | {"Formed": "1995 10", "Jurisdiction": "Federal government of the United States", "Headquarters": "Norman, Oklahoma", "Employees": "43", "Website": "http://www.spc.noaa.gov/ www.spc.noaa.gov"} |
The Devič Monastery (; ) is a Serbian Orthodox abbey in Kosovo. It was built in 1434 and is dedicated to St Joanikije of Devič. Devič was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and it is protected by the Republic of Serbia.
History
The founder of the monastery is Despot Đurađ Branković, who h... | {"Full name": "Манастир Девич", "Other names": "Manastiri i Deviçit", "Order": "Serbian Orthodox", "Established": "1434", "Founder(s)": "Despot Đurađ Branković", "Dedicated to": "St. Joanikije of Devič", "Important associated figures": "Đurađ BrankovićPatriarch MakarijeEuphemia the Nun", "Location": "Skenderaj, Drenica... |
Rodney Dean Drayton (born 1941Dean Drayton, National Library of Australia catalogue, accessed 26 January 2010) is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) and was President of the UCA Assembly from July 2003 to July 2006. He lectures on a part-time basis in missiology at Sydney's United Theological College (... | {"Honorific prefix": "Reverend Professor", "Birth date": "1941", "Birth place": "Whyalla, South Australia, Australia", "Nationality": "Australian", "Occupation": "Minister of religion", "Alma mater": "University of Adelaide, Melbourne College of Divinity, Chicago Theological Seminary", "Module": "yes\n President\n Pr... |
Polycarbonates (PC) are a group of thermoplastic polymers containing carbonate groups in their chemical structures. Polycarbonates used in engineering are strong, tough materials, and some grades are optically transparent. They are easily worked, molded, and thermoformed. Because of these properties, polycarbonates fi... | {"Water absorption": "0.1%", "Rockwell": "M70", "Izod impact strength": "600-850 J/m", "Notch test": "20-35 kJ/m2", "Upper working temperature": "115 - 130 C F", "Lower working temperature": "-40 C FParvin, M. Williams, J. G. amp The effect of temperature on the fracture of polycarbonate Journal of Materials Scienc... |
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is a 1990 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2 computer platform. It serves as a direct sequel to the MSX2 version of the original Metal Gear, written and designed by series's creator Hideo Kojima, who conceived the game in response to Snake's Reve... | {"Title": "Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake", "Image": "Metal Gear 2 Boxart.JPG", "Caption": "Packaging illustration by Yoshiyuki Takani", "Developer": "Konami", "Publisher": "Konami", "Director": "Hideo Kojima", "Designer": "Hideo Kojima", "Artist": "Shuko Iwamoto Tae Yabu Tomohiro Nishio", "Programmer": "Isao Akada Toshinar... |
Richard James Biggs II (March 18, 1960 - May 22, 2004) was an American television and stage actor, known for his roles on the television series Days of Our Lives and Babylon 5.
Early life
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Biggs attended the University of Southern California on scholarship, studying theatre. He briefly taught... | {"Name": "Richard Biggs", "Caption": "Richard Biggs at a B5-Event inStuttgart, Germany, 2000.", "Birth date": "1960 3 18", "Birth place": "Columbus, Ohio, U.S.", "Death date": "2004 5 22 1960 3 18 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-28-me-biggs28-story.html Richard Biggs, 44; Television Actor Known for F... |
Dublin County Council () was a local authority for the administrative county of County Dublin in Ireland.
History
The county council was established by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Its headquarters were established at 10-11 Parnell Square in 1900 but, due to the cramped conditions, it transferred to 46-49 ... | {"Preceded by": "Grand Jury", "Succeeded by": "Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County CouncilFingal County CouncilSouth Dublin County Council", "Disbanded": "1 January 1994", "Seats": "78"} |
While You Were Out is an American reality series that aired episodes on the cable channel TLC. The format of the show is similar to TLC's Trading Spaces (which, in turn, is based on the BBC TV series Changing Rooms). While You Were Out adds a suspenseful gimmick by keeping the entire redecoration a secret from the hom... | {"Presented by": "Anna BocciTeresa StrasserEvan FarmerAnanda Lewis", "Country of origin": "United States", "Camera setup": "Multi-camera", "Running time": "48 mins.", "Original network": "TLC", "Original release": "Original series:2002 07 06 - 2006 08 05\n Revived series:2019 03 16 - 2019 4 6"} |
James Conrad Verraros (born February 8, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor, who placed ninth on the first season of American Idol. Raised by deaf parents, he is fluent in American Sign Language and gained notoriety on American Idol for signing the lyrics to his audition song. After competing on the seri... | {"Born": "Mount Prospect, Illinois, U.S.", "Origin": "Crystal Lake, Illinois", "Genres": "Pop rock dance", "Labels": "Koch Records"} |
Mountain Jews or Caucasus Jews, also known as Juhuro, Juvuro, Juhuri, Juwuri, Juhurim, Kavkazi Jews or Gorsky Jews ( or ; , ), are Jews of the eastern and northern Caucasus, mainly Azerbaijan, and various republics in the Russian Federation: Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria.... | {"Name": "Mountain Jewsיהודי ההריםru Горские евреиaz Dağ yəhudiləri", "Native name": "jdt джуһурCuhuro", "Population": "2004: 150,000–270,000 (estimated)1970: 50,000–53,000 1959: 42,000–44,000 (estimated) 1941: 35,000 1926: 26,000 http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/mountain_jews.shtml The Red Book of the Peoples of the R... |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian rock band formed in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bass... | {"Origin": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Genres": "\"AMbio\">Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Biography https://www.allmusic.com/artist/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-mn0000866271/biography Deming Mark AllMusic 18 December 2016 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds became one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and a... |
The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-orient... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Format": "Broadsheet", "Owner(s)": "FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership", "Founder(s)": "William Fisher Luxton", "Publisher": "Bob Cox", "Editor": "Paul Samyn", "Circulation": "https://nmc-mic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2015-Daily-Newspaper-Circulation-Report-by-Title-SPREADSHEET_... |
Captain Silas Talbot (January 11, 1751June 30, 1813) was an American military officer and slave trader. He served in the Continental Army and Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, and is most famous for commanding from 1799 to 1801. Talbot was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati's branch in New... | {"Name": "Silas Talbot", "Term start": "March 4, 1793", "Term end": "June 5, 1794", "Birth date": "1751 01 11", "Birth place": "Dighton, Massachusetts", "Death date": "1813 06 30 1751 01 11", "Death place": "New York City, New York", "Battles fought": "American Revolutionary War\n Siege of Boston\n Battle of Rhode Isla... |
Hannover Airport is the international airport of Hanover, capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. The ninth largest airport in Germany, it is in Langenhagen, north of the centre of Hanover. The airport has flights to European metropolitan and leisure destinations, and serves as a base for Eurowings, Corendon Air... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region", "Location": "Langenhagen", "AMSL": "56", "Coordinates": "region:DE-NI_type:airport_dim:property qualifier raw P625 P2386 %q inline,title dmsP625", "Website": "hannover-airport.de"} |
The NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament (officially styled by the NCAA as a "Championship" instead of a "Tournament") is an annual championship tournament for colleges and universities that are members of NCAA Division II, a grouping of schools in the United States (plus one school in Canada) that are generall... | {"Current season": "2023 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament", "Map size": "140px", "Sport": "Basketball", "Founded": "1957", "Teams": "64(reduced to 48 for 2021 only)", "Country": "NCAA Division II (USA)", "Champion": "Nova Southeastern (1st title)", "Most titles (player)": "Kentucky Wesleyan (8 titles)", "T... |
David Evan Kendall (born May 2, 1944) is an American attorney, a graduate of Wabash College, Yale Law School, and Worcester College, Oxford, who clerked with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, worked as associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and has been a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP of Washington, D... | {"Name": "David Kendall", "Birth name": "David Evan Kendall", "Birth date": "1944 5 2", "Birth place": "Camp Atterbury, Indiana, U.S.", "Education": "Wabash College (BA)Yale University (JD)Worcester College, Oxford (BA)", "Occupation": "Attorney", "Spouse(s)": "Anne (m. 1968)", "Children": "3", "Caption": "Kendall in 1... |
Christina Joan Clark (born October 29, 1965) is a Canadian former politician who was the 35th premier of British Columbia (BC), from 2011 to 2017. Clark was the second woman to be premier of BC, after Rita Johnston in 1991, and the first female premier in Canada to lead her party to a plurality of seats in two consecut... | {"Name": "Christy Clark", "Lieutenant governor 1": "Steven PointJudith Guichon", "Office 2": "Leader of the Opposition in British Columbia", "Predecessor 2": "John Horgan", "Successor 2": "Rich Coleman", "Birth name": "Christina Joan Clark", "Birth date": "1965 10 29", "Birth place": "Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada"... |
Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip created December 5, 1932, by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced a cast of colorful characters and his storylines entertained with a combination of adventure, fantasy, and humor.... | {"Author(s)": "Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon", "Current status/schedule": "running", "Launch date": "December 5, 1932", "Syndicate(s)": "Bonnet-Brown (1932-33) Newspaper Enterprise Association (1933-2011) Universal Uclick/Andrews-McMeel Syndication (2011-present)", "Publisher(s)": "Whitman, Dragon Lady Press,... |
The Whirlpool Aero Car or Spanish Aero Car is a cable car located in Niagara Falls, Ontario that transports passengers over a section of the Niagara River referred to as the Niagara Whirlpool. The system was designed by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo and has been upgraded several times since 1916 (in 1961, 19... | {"Location": "Niagara Falls, Ontario", "Country": "Canada", "Coordinates": "43.11798 N 79.06877 W title,inline", "Open": "August 8, 1916", "Website": "http://www.niagaraparks.com/nfgg/aerocar.php", "Operator": "Niagara Parks Commission", "Carrier capacity": "35", "Trips daily": "21", "Trip duration": "10 minutes", "Aer... |
Creepshow is a 1982 American horror comedy anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King, making this film his screenwriting debut. The film's ensemble cast includes Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E. G. Marshall, and Viveca Lindfors as well as King h... | {"Directed by": "George A. Romero", "Produced by": "Richard P. Rubinstein", "Screenplay by": "Stephen King", "Starring": "Hal Holbrook\n Adrienne Barbeau\n Fritz Weaver\n Leslie Nielsen\n Carrie Nye\n E. G. Marshall\n Viveca Lindfors", "Music by": "John Harrison", "Cinematography": "Michael Gornick", "Edited by": "Pasq... |
Big Bear Lake is a reservoir in the western United States, located in the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County, California. It is a snow and rain-fed lake, having no other means of tributaries or mechanical replenishment.
At a surface elevation of above sea level, it has an east-west length of approximat... | {"Location": "San Bernardino Mountains,San Bernardino County,California, United States", "Coordinates": "34 14 31 N 116 58 37 W region:US-CA_type:waterbody inline,title", "Basin": "United States", "Max. length": "7 mi", "Max. width": "2.5 mi 0", "Average depth": "35 ft on", "Max. depth": "72 ft on", "Surface elevation"... |
The melanocyte-stimulating hormones, known collectively as MSH, also known as melanotropins or intermedins, are a family of peptide hormones and neuropeptides consisting of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH), β-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (β-MSH), and γ-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (γ-MSH) that are produced ... | {"HGNC": "9201", "IUPHAR": "POMC", "NCBI gene": "5443", "OMIM": "176830", "RefSeq": "NM_000939", "UniProt": "P01189", "Locus": "23"} |
The Pacific Bell Telephone Company (Pacific Bell or Pac Bell) is a telephone company that provides telephone service in California. The company is owned by AT&T through AT&T Teleholdings, and, though separate, is now marketed as “AT&T”. The company has been known by a number of names during which its service area has ... | {"Formerly": "The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company (1906-1983)", "Type": "Private (Subsidiary of AT&T)", "Founded": "1906", "Headquarters": "San Francisco, California, United States", "Industry": "Telecommunications", "Products": "POTS, DSL", "Subsidiaries": "Nevada Bell", "Parent": "AT&T Corporation (1906-1983)... |
18 til I Die is the seventh studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. Released on June 4, 1996, by A&M Records, the album became a commercial success peaking at No. 1 in the United Kingdom and No. 2 in his home country Canada. It was recorded on different locations which included Jamaica and France. 1... | {"Released": "June 4, 1996", "Recorded": "1994-1996", "Genre": "Rock, soft rock, latin rock", "Label": "AM", "Producer": "Bryan Adams, Robert John \"Mutt\" Lange"} |
The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was based in the Pacific Northwest, an area contested over the decades among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Spanish Empire, the United States of America... | {"Type": "Private", "Parent": "American Fur Company", "Fate": "Sold at a loss", "Founded": "New York City, U.S., (1810)", "Defunct": "1813", "Headquarters": "Fort Astoria, present day Astoria, Oregon, U.S.", "Industry": "Fur trade"} |
51826 Kalpanachawla, provisional designation , is an Eoan asteroid in the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 19 July 2001, by astronomers of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was named f... | {"Name of planet": "51826 Kalpanachawla", "Background": "D6D6D6", "Discoverer": "NEAT", "Discovery site": "Palomar Obs.", "Discovered": "19 July 2001", "Alternate names": "2001 OB 341999 FB 57", "Named_after": "Kalpana Chawla (Indo-American astronaut)", "Epoch": "4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)", "Uncertainty_parameter... |
The New Haven Green is a privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It comprises the central square of the nine-square settlement plan of the original Puritan colonists in New Haven, and was designed and surveyed by colonist John Broc... | {"Location": "New Haven, Connecticut", "Built": "1638", "Architect": "Ithiel Town, David Hoadley", "Architectural style": "Gothic, Federal"} |
Chilly Beach is a Canadian animated series and sitcom, which aired on CBC from 2003 to 2006. The series is a comedic depiction of life in the fictional Canadian town of Chilly Beach, described by the producers as "a bunch of Canadians doing the stuff that Canadians do, like playing hockey, drinking beer, and being eate... | {"Genre": "AnimationComedy", "Created by": "Daniel HawesDoug Sinclair", "Starring": "Steve AshtonTodd PetersonRobert SmithSamantha EspieMary LawlissEmily TaitDamon D'OliveiraJacqueline Pillon", "Country of origin": "Canada", "Original network": "CBC", "Original release": "2006"} |
thumb|A map showing Fukuoka and Kitakyushu Metropolitan Employment Areas in 2015.
is the most common name given to the region comprising the metropolitan areas of the cities of Fukuoka and Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan and in between.http://www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/download/159105362387.pdf Alternate names ar... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "5th in Japan", "Metro density": "auto", "Website": "https://www.fukuoka-tosiken.jp/"} |
Tag (also called tig, it, tiggy, tips, tick, tip) is a playground game involving one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to "tag" and mark them out of play, usually by touching with a hand. There are many variations; most forms have no teams, scores, or equipment. Usually, when a person is tagged, the t... | {"Italic title": "no", "Image caption": "A Dutch cartoon of children playing tag, 1860s", "Players": "2 or more", "Setup time": "0 to 1 minutes", "Playing time": "No limit", "Random chance": "Low", "Skills required": "Running, stalking, hiding, observation", "Materials required": "None"} |
The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and ; Croatian and ; , JLA), also called the Yugoslav National Army, was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its antecedents from 1945 to 1992.
Origins
The origins of the JNA started during the Yugoslav Partisans of World War II.... | {"Founded": "1 March 1945", "Disbanded": "20 May 1992", "Service branches": "Yugoslav Ground Forces (KoV)Yugoslav Navy (JRM)Yugoslav Air Force (JRV)Territorial Defense (TO)", "Headquarters": "Belgrade, Yugoslavia", "Military age": "15-65", "Conscription": "18", "Fit formilitary service": "15-65", "Available formilitary... |
Jak and Daxter is an action-adventure video game franchise created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The series was originally developed by Naughty Dog with a number of installments being outsourced to Ready at Dawn and High Impact Games. The first game, Jak and Daxter: The Prec... | {"Title": "Jak and Daxter", "Genre": "Platform\n Beat 'em up\n Action-adventure\n Third-person shooter\n Racing", "Developer": "Naughty Dog (2001-2005) Ready at Dawn (2006) High Impact Games (2009) Mass Media Games (2012-2013)", "Publisher": "Sony Interactive Entertainment", "Creator": "Andy Gavin\n Jason Rubin", "Plat... |
The Templeton Prize is an annual award granted to a living person, in the estimation of the judges, "whose exemplary achievements advance Sir John Templeton's philanthropic vision: harnessing the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind's place and purpose within it." It was ... | {"Awarded for": "Outstanding contributions in affirming life's spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works", "Presented by": "Templeton Foundation", "Country": "United States", "Reward(s)": "£1.1 million (2019)", "First awarded": "1973"} |
Alwar (Rajasthani Pronunciation: [əlʋəɾ]) is a city located in India's National Capital Region and the administrative headquarters of Alwar District in the state of Rajasthan. It is located 150 km south of Delhi and 150 km north of Jaipur. At present the district is famous for production of Mustard Crop in the region, ... | {"Founded by": "Rao Raja Pratap Singh Naruka", "Type": "Municipal corporation", "Body": "Alwar Municipal Corporation", "Density": "auto", "Metro density": "341422", "Rank": "8th in Rajasthan", "ISO 3166 code": "RJ-IN", "Website": "http://alwar.rajasthan.gov.in/"} |
The Tat people (also: Tat, Parsi, Daghli, Lohijon) are an Iranian people presently living within Azerbaijan and Russia (mainly Southern Dagestan). The Tats are part of the indigenous peoples of Iranian origin in the Caucasus.H. Pilkington,"Islam in Post-Soviet Russia", Psychology Press, Nov 27, 2002 . pg 27:
"Among oth... | {"Name": "Tat people", "Image caption": "1880 photograph depicting a group of Tat men from the village of Adur in the Kuba Uyezd of the Baku Governorate of the Russian Empire", "Population": "tens of thousands (various estimates)", "Languages": "Tat, Azerbaijani, and Russian", "Religions": "Islam", "Related ethnic grou... |
The United Party was a political party in New Zealand. It was founded in 1927, partly out of the remnants of the Liberal Party, and formed the United Government between 1928 and 1931, and the United-Reform coalition Government between 1931 and 1935. In 1936, it merged with the Reform Party to form the National Party.
... | {"Founded": "1927", "Preceded by": "Liberal Party", "Merged into": "National Party", "Ideology": "Classical liberalism", "Political position": "Centre to centre-right", "National affiliation": "United/Reform Coalition (1931-36)"} |
The 1996 New Zealand general election was held on 12 October 1996 to determine the composition of the 45th New Zealand Parliament. It was notable for being the first election to be held under the new mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system, and produced a parliament considerably more diverse than previous elec... | {"Name": "1996 New Zealand general election", "Turnout": "2,135,175 (88.28%) 5.46%", "Country": "New Zealand", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1993 New Zealand general election", "Previous year": "1993", "Outgoing members": "44th New Zealand Parliament", "Next election": "1999 New Zeala... |
John Watts Jr. (August 27, 1749 - September 3, 1836) was an American lawyer and politician from New York City who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Life
thumb|right|Statue of John Watts in the Trinity Church Cemetery in New York
John Watts was born on August 27, 1749, in New York City. He was ... | {"Name": "John Watts Jr.", "Term start": "March 4, 1793", "Term end": "March 3, 1795", "Office 2": "Member of the New York State Assembly", "Birth date": "1749 08 27", "Birth place": "New York City, Province of New York, British America", "Death date": "1836 09 03 1749 08 27", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Alm... |
Bahrain Telecommunication Company BSC, trading as Batelco, () is the principal telecommunications company in Bahrain. The company's headquarters are in Bahrain and the company is listed on the Bahrain Bourse. The Chairman of the Board is Abdulla Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.
It provides services for mobiles through UMTS 210... | {"Type": "Bahraini Shareholding Company (B.S.C)", "Founded": "1981", "Headquarters": "Bahrain", "Industry": "Telecommunications", "Products": "Fixed-line telephone Mobile telephony Broadband", "Services": "Integrated Communications", "Revenue": "$1.060billion (2021)https://www.zawya.com/en/press-release/batelco-announc... |
Vienne (; ) is a town in southeastern France, located south of Lyon, at the confluence of the Gère and the Rhône. It is the fourth-largest commune in the Isère department, of which it is a subprefecture alongside La Tour-du-Pin. Vienne was a major centre of the Roman Empire under the Latin name Vienna.
Vienne was the... | {"Name": "Vienne", "Native Name": "frp Vièna", "Commune Status": "Subprefecture", "Image": "center \n Vienne - Quai du Rhône, église Saint-André-le-Bas et chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, depuis Saint-Romain-en-Gal.jpeg\n Jefferson contemple le temple.jpg\n Cathédrale_Saint-Maurice_(Vienne,_2022).jpg\n Jardin... |
"Layla" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally recorded with their band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their only studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970). Its contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon. The piano part has also been co... | {"B-side": "I Am Yours", "Released": "1971 03", "Recorded": "9 September 1970", "Studio": "Criteria, Miami", "Genre": "Rock", "Label": "Atco (US)\n RSO\n Polydor", "Songwriter(s)": "Eric Clapton\n Jim Gordon", "Producer(s)": "Tom Dowd\n Derek and the Dominos"} |
Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 - 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years.William Greene (1999). The Secrets Of Sir John... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Name": "John Templeton", "Birth name": "John Marks Templeton", "Birth date": "yes 1912 11 29", "Birth place": "Winchester, Tennessee, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 2008 7 8 1912 11 29", "Death place": "Nassau, Bahamas", "Citizenship": "United Kingdom", "Alma mater": "Yale University (BA)Balliol... |
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. ( ; stylized as ESTĒE LAUDER) is an American multinational cosmetics company, a manufacturer and marketer of makeup, skincare, perfume , and hair care products, based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is the second largest cosmetics company in the world after L'Oréal. The company o... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "1946New York, New York, U.S.", "Headquarters": "General Motors BuildingNew York, New York, U.S. 10153", "Parent": "Lauder family (38% common stock, 86% voting power)", "Website": "www.elcompanies.com", "Industry": "Cosmetics", "Products": "Skin care makeup perfume hair care", "Revenue": "... |
The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), formerly the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations (ADAPSO), was a leading industry trade group for information technology companies. The association's membership contained most of the world's major Information and communications technology (ICT)... | {"Type": "Industry trade group", "Founded": "1960", "Headquarters": "USA", "Website": "www.comptia.org/advocacy", "Defunct": "2009"} |
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (April 14, 1796 - June 12, 1878) was an American officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West. He is noted for his expeditions to the Oregon Country and the Great Basin, and in particular for blazing portions of the Oregon Trail.
During his life... | {"Born": "near Paris, French First Republic", "Died": "Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States", "Allegiance": "United StatesUnion", "Commands held": "3rd U.S. InfantryDepartment of New Mexico"} |
The Baseball Ground was a stadium in Derby, England, that was first used for baseball, as the home of Derby Baseball Club from 1890 until 1898, and then for football, as the home of Derby County from 1895 until 1997. The club's reserve and youth sides used it until 2003, when it finally closed as a sports stadium after... | {"Location": "Derby", "Coordinates": "52 54 17 N 1 28 7 W type:landmark_region:GB-DER it", "Broke ground": "1889", "Opened": "1890", "Closed": "2003", "Demolished": "2003-2004", "Owner": "Sir Francis Ley (until 1924)Derby County F.C. (from 1924)", "Operator": "Ley's Malleable Castings Vulcan Ironworks (until 1896)Derby... |
Pride Park Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Derby, England, that is the home ground of English Football League club Derby County. With a capacity of 32,956, it is the 16th-largest football ground in England. Pride Park is a business park on the outskirts of Derby city centre, and the stadium was built as pa... | {"Location": "Pride ParkDerbyDE24 8XL", "Opened": "18 July 1997", "Owner": "Clowes Developments (UK) Ltd", "Operator": "Derby County F.C.", "Surface": "Grass", "Construction cost": "£28 million", "Architect": "Miller Partnership", "Former names": "iPro Stadium (2013-2016)", "Capacity": "32,956https://www.efl.com/clubs-... |
Michael Joseph Pennington (born 5 September 1970), better known as Johnny Vegas, is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is known for his thick Lancashire accent, husky voice, chunky appearance, angry comedic rants, and use of surreal humour.
Vegas' television roles have included Al in the ITV Digital ... | {"Name": "Johnny Vegas", "Caption": "Vegas in June 2007", "Birth name": "Michael Joseph Pennington", "Birth date": "1970 9 5 y", "Birth place": "St Helens, Lancashire, England", "Spouse(s)": "Kitty Donnelly 2002 2008 divorced\n Maïa Dunphy 2011 2020 divorced", "Children": "2", "Website": "http://johnnyvegas.co.uk", "Ye... |
Barrie School is a progressive independent school for students age 12 months through Grade 12 located in an unincorporated area of Montgomery County, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. The school is within the Glenmont census designated place,"2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Glenmont CDP, MD" (Archive). U.S. Census... | {"Coordinates": "39.0778674 -77.0490025 type:landmark_region:US-MD inline,title", "CEEB code": "210951\"Barrie School\". K-12 School Code Search. College Board. Accessed on June 12, 2016.", "Head of school": "Jon Kidder\"\". Barrie School. Accessed on Sep 11, 2017.", "Faculty": "43.3 FTE", "Student to teacher ratio": "... |
Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD) was a private for-profit art school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The university was built from the non-profit College of Santa Fe (CSF), a Catholic facility founded as St. Michael's College in 1859, and renamed the College of Santa Fe in 1966. After financial difficulties in 20... | {"Type": "Private for-profit art school", "President": "Maria Puziferro", "Undergraduates": "950http://www.petersons.com/college-search/college-of-santa-fe-000_10003448.aspx Santa Fe University of Art and Design Peterson's 7 April 2014", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "http://www.santafeuniversity.edu"} |
Orpheus is a tabletop role playing game by White Wolf Publishing, set in a microcosm of the World of Darkness. Unlike the other World of Darkness game lines, Orpheus has a specifically planned metaplot and a set number of books that were published. Although it uses the same system as White Wolf's other games, ghosts an... | {"Name": "Orpheus", "Image caption": "Cover art", "Designers": "Bryan Armor\n John Chambers\n Genevieve Cogman\n Richard Dansky\n B. D. Flory\n Harry L. Heckel\n Ellen Kiley\n James Kiley\n Matthew McFarland\n Dean Shomshak\n Colin A. Suleiman", "Publishers": "White Wolf Publishing", "Publication": "2003 09 02"} |
Vice Admiral Christopher Angus Ritchie (born 16 January 1949) is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy, who served as Chief of Navy from 2002 to 2005.
Early life
Ritchie was born in Melbourne on 16 January 1949 to Angus Lachlan Ritchie and Colleen Burnice Ritchie.
Naval career
Ritchie graduated from ... | {"Born": "Melbourne, Victoria", "Allegiance": "Australia", "Commands held": "Chief of Navy (2002-05)Deputy Chief of Navy (1999)Maritime Commander Australia (1997-99)Brisbane D 41 6 (1990-91)Torrens DE 53 6 (1986-87)Tarakan L 129 6 (1973-74)", "Awards": "Officer of the Order of AustraliaLegion of Merit (United States)",... |
Impressive (April 15, 1969 - March 20, 1995) was an Appendix Quarter Horse, who earned his full AQHA registration in 1971. He was the 1974 World Champion Open Aged halter stallion, the first such World Champion in his breed, despite carrying only 48 halter points in total. He sired 2,251 foals, of which thirty went on ... | {"Breed": "Quarter Horse", "Discipline": "Halter", "Sire": "Lucky Bar", "Grandsire": "Three Bars (TB)", "Dam": "Glamour Bars", "Maternal grandsire": "Lightning Bar", "Sex": "Stallion", "Foaled": "April 15, 1969aqhaimpressive", "Died": "March 20, 1995", "Country": "United States", "Breeder": "Perry Cotton", "Owner": "De... |
The Yusufzai or Yousafzai (, ), also referred to as the Esapzai (, ) , or Yusufzai Afghans historically, are one of the largest tribes of ethnic Pashtuns. They are natively based in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Dir, Swat, Shangla, Buner, Swabi, Mardan, Bajaur, Peshawar, Tor Ghar), to which they mi... | {"Ethnicity": "Pashtun", "Location": "Afghanistan, Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)", "Parent tribe": "Sarbani", "Branches": "Mandanr, Iliaszai, Akozai, Mandan, Isazai, Malizai", "Language": "Pashto", "Religion": "18px Islam"} |
My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in Bradford. Since their inception in 1990, they have released 13 studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release.
Along with Anathema and Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride were a forerunner of the de... | {"Origin": "Bradford, West Yorkshire, England", "Genres": "Doom metal gothic metal death-doom", "Labels": "Peaceville Nuclear Blast", "Website": "Mydyingbride.net", "Members": "Aaron StainthorpeAndrew CraighanLena AbéShaun MacGowanNeil Blanchett"} |
The Shinwari () is an ethnic Pashtun tribe of Afghanistan. Among the greatest poets of the Pashto language in the 20th century was the late Ameer Hamza Shinwari, also known as "Hamza Baba".
The Shinwari tribe are descended from the Kasi Pashtun tribe settled in the southern districts of Nangarhar Province, in Haska Me... | {"Name": "Shinwari", "Native name": "شينواری", "Native name language code": "ps", "Image caption": "Illustration of a Shinwari Pashtun tribal chief, Azad Khan, 1878", "Languages": "Pashto", "Religions": "Sunni Islam", "Related ethnic groups": "Mohmand, Durrani, Yusufzai"} |
Champigny-sur-Marne (, literally Champigny on Marne) is a major city in the ile de France region of France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
Name
Champigny-sur-Marne was originally called simply Champigny. The name Champigny ultimately comes from Medieval Latin Campaniacum, meaning "estate of Campanius", a Gal... | {"Name": "Champigny-sur-Marne", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "City hall, Champigny-sur-Marne", "Coordinates": "48.8172 2.5156 dms inline,title", "Arrondissement": "Nogent-sur-Marne", "Canton": "Champigny-sur-Marne-1 and 2", "Postal code": "94500", "Mayor": "Laurent JeanneRépertoire national des élus: les mai... |
Nurse Ratched (full name Mildred Ratched in the movie, also known as "Big Nurse") is a fictional character and the main antagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, first featured in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel as well as the 1975 film adaptation. A cold, heartless tyrant, Nurse Ratched has become the stereotype of the n... | {"First appearance": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)", "Created by": "Ken Kesey", "Portrayed by": "Joan Tetzel (play) Louise Fletcher (film) Sarah Paulson (Ratched)", "Full name": "Mildred Ratched (film, TV series)", "Gender": "Female", "Nationality": "American"} |
Red Hook is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, New York, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Carroll Gardens neighborhood on the northeast, Gowanus Canal on the east, and the Up... | {"Founded by": "Dutch colonists", "Named for": "red clay on the point of a nearby island in the Upper New York Bay\n<!--", "Density": "auto", "DST": "-4"} |
The Austrian Netherlands ; ; ; . was the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the Austrian acquisition of the former Spanish Netherlands under the Treaty of Rastatt in 1714 and lasted until Revolutionary France annexed the territory during the afterma... | {"Native name": "de Österreichische Niederlandefr Pays-Bas Autrichiensnl Oostenrijkse Nederlandenla Belgium Austriacum", "Conventional long name": "Austrian Netherlands", "Type of government": "Governorate", "Starting event": "Treaty of Rastatt", "Date established": "7 March 1714", "Event ending the country": "Battle o... |
Excite is an American web portal operated by IAC that provides a variety of outsourced content including news and weather, a metasearch engine, and a user homepage. In the United States, the main Excite homepage had long been a personal start page called My Excite. Excite once operated a webmail service commonly known ... | {"Commercial": "Mixed", "Predecessor(s)": "Architext", "Area served": "Worldwide", "Registration": "None", "Launched": "1995 10", "Current status": "Active", "URL": "excite.com"} |
Kevin Francis Shelley (born November 16, 1955) is an American politician, who was the 28th California Secretary of State from January 6, 2003, until his resignation on March 4, 2005.
Early life
Shelley was raised in San Francisco, the only son in a family of five. His father, Jack Shelley, was a State Senator, membe... | {"Name": "Kevin Shelley", "Term start": "January 6, 2003", "Term end": "March 4, 2005", "Birth name": "Kevin Francis Shelley", "Birth date": "1955 11 16 y", "Birth place": "San Francisco, California, U.S.", "Office 2": "Majority Leader of the California Assembly", "Predecessor 2": "Antonio Villaraigosa", "Successor 2":... |
Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah (), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (, ) and in English as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its collaborat... | {"Also called": "Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurahHolocaust Remembrance Day", "Observed by": "State of IsraelMany Jews elsewhere", "Next time": "27th day of Nisan", "Observances": "Flags lowered to half-mast, public places of entertainment closed; national opening ceremony and closing ceremonies; siren at 10:00 signal... |
Äänekoski () is a town in Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region, about north of Jyväskylä. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which
is water. The population density is .
Neighbouring municipalities are Kannonkoski, Konnevesi, Laukaa, Saarijärvi, Uurainen, Vesanto and Viitasaar... | {"Land": "area_land_km2 Äänekoski", "Water": "area_water_km2 Äänekoski", "Rank": "population_rank Äänekoski", "Density": "population_density_km2 Äänekoski", "DST": "+03:00", "Website": "www.aanekoski.fi"} |
New Haven Coliseum was a sports and entertainment arena located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Construction began in 1968 and was completed in 1972. The Coliseum was officially closed on September 1, 2002, by Mayor John DeStefano Jr., and demolished by implosion on January 20, 2007.
The arena's formal name was Ne... | {"Location": "New Haven, Connecticut", "Broke ground": "1968", "Opened": "1972", "Closed": "September 1, 2002", "Demolished": "January 20, 2007", "Surface": "200 × 85 ft (hockey)", "Capacity": "Full: 11,497Billboard https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1982/BB-1982-11-27.pdf Billboard Boxscore 34 94 47 N... |
Kenny vs. Spenny is a Canadian reality comedy television series starring Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice, where they face against each other in competitions. The loser of each episode performs an act of humiliation, usually selected by the winner. Hotz and Rice created the series in addition to serving as executive produce... | {"Running time": "22-23 minutes excluding commercials", "Created by": "Kenny HotzSpencer Rice", "Starring": "Kenny Hotz\n Spencer Rice", "Directed by": "Kenny Hotz\n Spencer Rice\n Sebastian Cluer", "Cinematography": "Sebastian Cluer", "Genre": "Reality televisionhttps://dailyhive.com/vancouver/kenny-vs-spenny-toronto-... |
David William Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.
One o... | {"Born": "Tampa, Florida, United States", "Genres": "Jazz, jazz fusion, blues rock, R&B, pop, blues", "Labels": "Verve, GRP, Rhino, Elektra, Warner Bros., Reprise", "Website": "davidsanborn.com"} |
Glenn Lewis Frey (; November 6, 1948 - January 18, 2016) was an American musician. He was a founding member of the rock band Eagles. Frey was the co-lead singer and frontman for the Eagles, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of the Eagles' material. Frey played guitar and keyb... | {"Name": "Glenn Frey", "Caption": "Frey performing with the Eagles in 2008", "Birth name": "Glenn Lewis Frey", "Birth date": "1948 11 6", "Birth place": "Detroit, Michigan, U.S.", "Death date": "2016 1 18 1948 11 6", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Musician singer songwriter actor", "Years active":... |
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St. Rumbold's Cathedral (, ) is the Roman Catholic metropolitan archiepiscopal cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium, dedicated to Saint Rumbold, Christian missionary and martyr who founded an abbey nearby. His remains are rumoured to be buried inside the cathedral. State-of-the-art examination o... | {"Location": "Mechelen", "Geographic coordinates": "51 01 44 N 4 28 42 E 51 01 44 N 4 28 42 E region:BE_type:landmark_source:frwiki title", "Affiliation": "Catholic", "Year consecrated": "1312", "Groundbreaking": "1200", "Completed": "1520"} |
Robert Lloyd "Bob" Crandall (born December 6, 1935 in Westerly, Rhode Island) is an American businessman who is the former president and chairman of American Airlines. Called an industry legend by airline industry observers, Crandall has been the subject of several books and is a member of the Hall of Honor of the Conr... | {"Name": "Robert Crandall", "Caption": "Robert Crandall in 2015", "Birth date": "1935 12 06", "Birth place": "Westerly, Rhode Island, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of Rhode IslandUniversity of Pennsylvania", "Occupation": "Former President and CEO of American Airlines (1985-1998)"} |
Pirkkala (; ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located some south-west from Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is , which makes it the most densely populated municipality in Finland that does not use the title o... | {"Land": "area_land_km2 Pirkkala", "Water": "area_water_km2 Pirkkala", "Rank": "population_rank Pirkkala", "Density": "population_density_km2 Pirkkala", "DST": "+03:00", "Website": "www.pirkkala.fi"} |
thumb|200px|right|Monon Bell in 1967
The Monon Bell (pronounced MOE-non) is the trophy awarded to the victor of the annual college football matchup between the Wabash College Little Giants (in Crawfordsville, Indiana) and the DePauw University Tigers (in Greencastle, Indiana) in the United States. The Bell is a 300-po... | {"Use wide format": "yes", "Official name": "Monon Bell", "Teams": "Wabash Little Giants", "First meeting": "November 22, 1890DePauw 34, Wabash 5", "Latest meeting": "November 12, 2022DePauw 49, Wabash 14", "Next meeting": "2023", "Meetings total": "128", "Trophy series": "Wabash leads, 44-40-6", "Largest victory": "Wa... |
Corio Bay is one of numerous internal bays in the southwest corner of Australia's Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts the City of Geelong. The nearby suburb of Corio takes its name from Corio Bay.
Etymology
When Hamilton Hume and William Hovell arrived at the bay in 1824 they met with the local Wautharong peop... | {"Native name": "wth Corayo wth Jillong", "Location": "Port Phillip, Victoria", "Coordinates": "38 06 26 S 144 21 38 E type:waterbody_region:AU_region:AU-VIC inline,title", "Primary outflows": "Port Phillip", "Frozen": "never", "Settlements": "Geelong; Corio"} |
Henry Timrod (December 8, 1828 - October 7, 1867) was an American poet, often called the "Poet of the Confederacy".
Biography
Early life
Timrod was born on December 8, 1828, in Charleston, South Carolina, to a family of German descent. His grandfather Heinrich Dimroth emigrated to the United States in 1765 and anglici... | {"Name": "Henry Timrod", "Caption": "Henry Timrod in 1865", "Birth date": "1828 12 08", "Birth place": "Charleston, South Carolina", "Death date": "1867 10 07 1828 12 08", "Resting place": "Trinity Episcopal Church", "Nationality": "American", "Education": "University of Georgia", "Occupation": "Poet", "Spouse(s)": "Ka... |
Birżebbuġa (; sometimes shortened to B'Buġa) is a seaside town in the Southern Region of Malta, close to Marsaxlokk. It is approximately from the capital Valletta, and it has a population of 9,736 as of March 2014.
The town is popular among Maltese holidaymakers, and is known for its sandy beach, Pretty Bay. The vill... | {"Density": "auto", "DST": "+2", "ISO 3166 code": "MT-05", "Website": "Official website"} |
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas System. It was initially founded in 1961 as a private research arm of Texas Instruments.
... | {"Motto": "la", "Type": "Public research university", "Endowment": "$743 million (2022)https://www.utdallas.edu/about-us/mission-vision/state-of-the-university/transcript-state-of-the-university/ State Of The University The University of Texas at Dallas November 4, 2022", "President": "Richard C. Bensonhttps://www.utda... |
The Gondi (Gōṇḍī) or Gond people, who refer to themselves as "Koitur" (Kōī, Kōītōr), are an ethnolinguistic group in India. Their native language, Gondi, belongs to the Dravidian family. They are spread over the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Od... | {"Name": "Gondi people", "Native name": "Koitur", "Native name language code": "Gondi", "Image caption": "Gondi women in Umaria district, India", "Population": "13 million yes", "Languages": "Gondi • Regional languages", "Religions": "Koyapunem with significant influence from Hinduismhttp://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011c... |
Charles Stuart Kaufman (; born November 19, 1958) is an American filmmaker and novelist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). He both wrote and directed the films Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Thi... | {"Name": "Charlie Kaufman", "Caption": "Kaufman at the 2015 Fantastic Fest", "Birth name": "Charles Stuart Kaufman", "Birth date": "1958 11 19", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Alma mater": "New York University (BFA)", "Occupation": "Screenwriter\n producer\n director\n novelist", "Years active": "1983-present",... |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American romantic science fiction drama film directed by Michel Gondry and written by Charlie Kaufman, based on a story by Gondry, Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth. It stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, with Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Tom Wilkinson in support... | {"Directed by": "Michel Gondry", "Produced by": "Steve Golin\n Anthony Bregman", "Screenplay by": "Charlie Kaufman", "Story by": "Charlie Kaufman\n Michel Gondry\n Pierre Bismuth", "Starring": "Jim Carrey\n Kate Winslet\n Kirsten Dunst\n Mark Ruffalo\n Elijah Wood\n Tom Wilkinson", "Music by": "Jon Brion", "Cinematogra... |
The New Party was a political party briefly active in the United Kingdom in the early 1930s. It was formed by Sir Oswald Mosley, an MP who had belonged to both the Conservative and Labour parties, quitting Labour after its 1930 conference narrowly rejected his "Mosley Memorandum", a document he had written outlining h... | {"Leader": "Sir Oswald Mosley", "Ideology": "AuthoritarianismProtectionismAnti-federalism", "Abbreviation": "NUPA", "Founded": "1 March 1931", "Split from": "Labour", "Merged into": "British Union of Fascists (larger part)", "Succeeded by": "Scottish Democratic Fascist Party (smaller faction)", "Newspaper": "New Times,... |
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Harden-Murrumburrah is a township and community in the Hilltops Region and is located in the South West Slopes of New South Wales in Australia. Harden is adjacent to both the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory and the Riverina Region ... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Harden", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Coordinates": "34 33 11 S 148 21 46 E inline,title", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Hilltops Council", "Postcode": "2587", "Elevation": "431", "Maximum Temperature": "21.7", "Minimum Temperature": "7.4", "Rainfall": "609.1", "Federal Government": "Riveri... |
Blaque is an American girl group that charted from 1999 to 2004. Outside of the United States, they are known as Blaque Ivory. Their self-titled debut album Blaque sold more than 1 million copies and was certified Platinum. The group's debut included the platinum-selling lead single "808", a second single, "I Do", and ... | {"Origin": "Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.", "Genres": "\"SourceBillboard1\">111 16 18 https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg0EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Natina+Reed%22&pg=PA18 Blaque Wants More Than TLC Hay Carla April 17, 1999 Billboard https://web.archive.org/web/20180311031539/https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18&dq=%22... |
thumb|350px|The Vunivalu of Bau, lithograph portrait in the possession of Henry Mangles Denham, c. 1858.
Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau (; occasionally spelled Cacobau or phonetically Thakombau) (c.1815 - 1 February 1883)Genealogy was a Fijian chief, monarch, and warlord (Vunivalu) who united part of Fiji's warring tribes u... | {"Name": "Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau", "Title": "King of Fiji6th Vunivalu of BauKing of Bau", "Succession": "King of Fiji", "Reign": "5 June 1871 - 10 October 1874", "Successor": "Victoria", "Birth date": "circa 1815", "Birth place": "Natauloa, Nairai, Lomaiviti, growing up on Vanuaso, Gau, Lomaiviti before returning to... |
Roustabout is a 1964 American musical feature film starring Elvis Presley as a singer who takes a job working with a struggling carnival. The film was produced by Hal Wallis and directed by John Rich from a screenplay by Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss. The screenplay was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award... | {"Directed by": "John Rich", "Produced by": "Hal B. Wallis", "Screenplay by": "Anthony Lawrence\n Allan Weiss", "Story by": "Allan Weiss", "Starring": "Elvis Presley\n Barbara Stanwyck\n Joan Freeman\n Leif Erickson", "Music by": "Joseph J. Lilley", "Cinematography": "Lucien Ballard", "Edited by": "Warren Low", "Distri... |
Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, (born 5 January 1950), is a British barrister who served as Attorney General for England and Wales and Attorney General for Northern Ireland from 2001 and 2007. His resignation, announced on 22 June 2007, took effect on 27 June, the same day that Prime Minister Tony Blair steppe... | {"Name": "The Lord Goldsmith", "Term start": "8 June 2001", "Term end": "27 June 2007", "Office 2": "Member of the House of LordsLord Temporal", "Birth date": "1950 01 05 y", "Birth place": "Liverpool, England", "Alma mater": "Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge\n University College London"} |
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thumb|right|The Atrium at Crown
Crown Melbourne (also referred to as Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex) is a casino and resort located on the south bank of the Yarra River, in Melbourne, Australia. Crown Casino is a subsidiary of Crown Resorts, and was the fir... | {"Address": "Yarra Promenade", "Location": "Southbank, Victoria, Australia", "Total gaming space": "220000 sqft m2 onCrown Casino and Entertainment Complex https://www.worldcasinodirectory.com/casino/crown-entertainment-complex-110 www.worldcasinodirectory.com 12 October 2022", "Opening date": "1994 6 30 y (temporar... |
The Finnish National Opera and Ballet (; ) is a Finnish opera company and ballet company based in Helsinki. It is headquartered in the Opera House on the coast of the Töölönlahti bay in Töölö, which opened in 1993, and is state-owned through Senate Properties. The Opera House features two auditoriums, the main auditori... | {"Type": "Culture", "Address": "Helsinginkatu 58", "Town or city": "Helsinki", "Coordinates": "60 10 54 N 024 55 47 E region:FI_type:landmark inline,title"} |
Paul Antony YoungPaul Young (Paul Young) on Myspace. MySpace.com. Retrieved 20 January 2012 (born 17 January 1956) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s. His ... | {"Name": "Paul Young", "Caption": "Young in 2017", "Birth name": "Paul Antony Young", "Birth date": "1956 1 17 yes", "Birth place": "Luton, Bedfordshire, England", "Nationality": "British", "Occupation": "Musician singer songwriter", "Years active": "1978-present", "Spouse(s)": "Stacey Smith 1987 26 January 2018 d."... |
Arts Centre Melbourne, originally known as the Victorian Arts Centre and briefly called the Arts Centre, is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the central Melbourne suburb of Southbank in Victoria, Australia.
It was designed by arch... | {"Type": "Performing arts centre", "Location": "Southbank, Victoria, Australia", "Coordinates": "37 49 13 S 144 58 6 E type:landmark_dim:8km inline,title", "Construction started": "1973"} |
Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30, 1962), also known by his initials DKM, is an American computer programmer and science fiction writer.
Biography
Moran was born in Los Angeles to Richard Joseph Moran and Marilynn Joyce Moran. He has three sisters, Kari Lynn Moran, Jodi Anne Moran and Kathleen Moran.
A native of S... | {"Born": "1962 11 30", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Fiction writer, computer programmer", "Period": "1983-present (as writer)"} |
Michael Garibaldi is a lead fictional character in the universe of the science fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Jerry Doyle.
Character history
Overview
During most of Babylon 5's five seasons, Garibaldi is the Chief of Security on board the space station Babylon 5. He holds the rank of Chief Warrant Offi... | {"First appearance": "Babylon 5: The Gathering", "Last appearance": "\"Sleeping in Light\" (chronological),\nBabylon 5: the Road Home (by release)", "Portrayed by": "Jerry Doyle", "Voiced by": "Anthony Hansen"} |
(lit.: 'Austrian Broadcasting'; ORF) is an Austrian national public broadcaster. Funded from a combination of television licence fee revenue and limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media. Austria was the last country in continental Europe after Albania to allow nationwide pr... | {"Country": "Austria", "Type": "Television and radio network", "Availability": "Austria; parts of Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland)", "Headquarters": "ORF-Zentrum, Hugo-Portisch-Gasse 1, 1136 Wien, Vienna"} |
Honey is a 2003 American dance film directed by Billie Woodruff and stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Romeo Miller, Joy Bryant, and David Moscow, with a cameo by Missy Elliott and featured performances by Tweet, Jadakiss, Ginuwine, and Blaque.
Plot
Honey Daniels works as a bartender, a record store clerk and a dance ... | {"Directed by": "Bille Woodruff", "Produced by": "Marc Platt\n Andre Harrell", "Written by": "Alonzo Brown\n Kim Watson", "Starring": "Jessica Alba\n Mekhi Phifer\n Joy Bryant\n Lil' Romeo", "Music by": "Mervyn Warren", "Cinematography": "John R. Leonetti", "Edited by": "Mark Helfrich\n Emma E. Hickox", "Distributed by... |
thumb|260px|La Marianne (1980)
Andrew Vicari (born Andrea Antonio Giovanni Vaccari; 20 April 1932 - 3 October 2016) was a Welsh painter working in France, who established a career painting portraits of prominent people. Despite being largely unknown in his own country, Vicari was Britain's richest living painter, and... | {"Name": "Andrew Vicari", "Caption": "Vicari in 2007", "Birth date": "20 April 1932", "Birth place": "Port Talbot, Wales", "Death date": "3 October 2016 (aged 84)", "Death place": "Morriston Hospital, Swansea, Wales", "Education": "Neath Grammar School", "Alma mater": "Slade School of Fine Art", "Occupation": "Artist"} |
Matthew Douglas Salinger (; born February 13, 1960) is an American actor. He is known for his appearances in the films Revenge of the Nerds and Captain America.
Early life
Salinger was born February 13, 1960, in Windsor, Vermont, the son of author J. D. Salinger and psychologist Alison Claire Douglas."Matt Salinger Bi... | {"Name": "Matt Salinger", "Birth name": "Matthew Douglas Salinger", "Birth date": "1960 02 13", "Birth place": "Windsor, Vermont, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor", "Spouse(s)": "Betsy Becker 1985", "Children": "2", "Alma mater": "Columbia University (B.A., Art History, 1983)", "Father": "J. D. Salinger"} |
Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, (born 18 October 1928) is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1962 to 1974. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he was a Labour MP until his deselection in 1972, following which he resigned his seat and won the subsequent by-election i... | {"Name": "The Lord Taverne", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2018", "Birth date": "yes 1928 10 18", "Term start": "13 October 1969", "Term end": "19 June 1970", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department", "Prime minister 2": "Harold Wilson", "Predecessor 2": "George Thomas", "Succ... |
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