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Peter Charles Snape, Baron Snape (born 12 February 1942) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich East from February 1974 until he stood down in the 2001 election. He is the former Chairman of his hometown football club, Stockport County, as well as ... | {"Name": "The Lord Snape", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2023", "Term start": "9 June 2004Life Peerage", "Nationality": "British"} |
Capella Tower (also 225 South Sixth) is an office skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The building opened in 1992 as First Bank Place, replacing One Financial Plaza as the headquarters for First Bank System. In 1997, First Bank System acquired US Bancorp and changed the name of the building to US Banco... | {"Alternative names": "225 South Sixth", "Former names": "First Bank Place (1992-1997) US Bancorp Place (1997-2000) 225 South Sixth (2000-2009)", "Location": "225 6th Street S.Minneapolis, Minnesota", "Coordinates": "44.9763 N 93.2686 W dms region:US-MN_type:landmark inline,title", "Status": "Complete", "Construction s... |
Air Atlanta was an airline based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, during the mid-1980s, serving over a dozen cities from its hub located at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL).
History
The airline was started in February 1984, by attorneys Michael Hollis and Daniel Kolber. Besides operating... | {"Airline name": "Air Atlanta", "IATA Designator": "CC", "ICAO Designator": "CRB", "Callsign": "AIRLAN", "Founded": "1984", "Ceased operations": "1987", "Major hubs": "William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport", "Headquarters": "Atlanta, Georgia, U.S."} |
David James Christian Faber (born 7 July 1961) is a schoolmaster and former Conservative member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He did not seek re-election in 2001, after which he became an author, before in 2010 being appointed as head master of Summer Fields School, Oxford. He is the grandson of the late for... | {"Name": "David Faber", "Term start": "9 April 1992", "Term end": "14 May 2001", "Birth date": "1961 07 7 yes", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "1. Sally Gilbert 2. Sophie Hedley"} |
Practical Ethics, a 1979 book by the moral philosopher Peter Singer, is an introduction to applied ethics. The book has been translated into a number of languages.
Summary
Singer analyzes, in detail, why and how beings' interests should be weighed. In his view, a being's interests should always be weighed according t... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Cambridge University Press", "Media type": "Print (hardcover and paperback)", "Pages": "395 (second edition)", "ISBN": "(second edition paperback)"} |
Trần Anh Hùng (born December 23, 1962) is a Vietnamese-born French film director and screenwriter.
Early life
Tran was born in Mỹ Tho, South Vietnam. Following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he immigrated to France at age 12.
He majored in philosophy at a university in France. By chance, he... | {"Caption": "Trần Anh Hùng at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2015", "Name": "Trần Anh Hùng", "Birth date": "yes 1962 12 23", "Birth place": "Mỹ Tho, South Vietnam", "Citizenship": "French", "Spouse(s)": "Trần Nữ Yên Khê", "Children": "2", "Occupation": "Film director, screenwriter", "Years active": "1989... |
Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments.
The graphical language is named "G"; not to be confused with G-code. The G dataflow language was originally developed by LabVIEW. LabVIEW i... | {"Developer(s)": "National Instruments", "Initial release": "1986 yes", "Type": "Data acquisition, instrument control, test automation, analysis and signal processing, industrial control, embedded system design", "License": "Proprietary", "Website": "https://www.ni.com/labview", "Written in": "C, C++, C#"} |
Black Knight was a British research sounding rocket, originally developed to test and verify the design of a re-entry vehicle for the Blue Streak missile. It was the United Kingdom's first indigenous space launcher.
Design work on what would become the Black Knight launch vehicle commenced in 1955, being performed by ... | {"Function": "Vehicle for re-entry studies", "Stages": "1 - 2", "Status": "Retired", "Launch sites": "LA-5, Woomera", "Total launches": "22", "Success(es)": "22", "First flight": "7 September 1958", "Last flight": "25 November 1965", "Engines": "1 Solid", "Thrust": "8200 lbf kN on", "Burn time": "10 seconds", "Propella... |
Ralph David Carter (born May 30, 1961) is an American actor and singer best remembered as Michael Evans, the youngest child of Florida and James Evans Sr., on the CBS sitcom Good Times from 1974 to 1979. Before joining Good Times, Carter appeared in the Broadway musical Raisin, based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama A R... | {"Name": "Ralph Carter", "Caption": "Ralph Carter in 1974", "Birth name": "Ralph David Carter", "Birth date": "1961 5 30", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor singer", "Nationality": "American", "Years active": "19701987", "Known For": "Michael Evans - Good Times"} |
Francis Alvin George Hamilton, (March 30, 1912June 29, 2004) was a Canadian politician. Hamilton led the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan from 1949 until he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1957 general election. That election brought the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Cana... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "Alvin Hamilton", "Term start": "October 30, 1972", "Term end": "November 20, 1988", "Birth name": "Francis Alvin George Hamilton", "Birth date": "1912 3 30", "Birth place": "Kenora, Ontario, Canada", "Death date": "2004 6 29 1912 3 30", "Death place": "Manotick, Ont... |
Edmund Davie Fulton, (March 10, 1916 – May 22, 2000) was a Canadian Rhodes Scholar, politician and judge. He was born in Kamloops, British Columbia,http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=frith&t=39665&d=2264 the son of politician/lawyer Frederick John Fulton and Winnifred M. Davie, daughter of A. E. B. Dav... | {"Name": "Davie Fulton", "Birth name": "Edmund Davie Fulton", "Birth date": "1916 3 10 yes", "Birth place": "Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada", "Death date": "2000 5 22 1916 3 10 yes", "Death place": "Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada", "Term start": "November 8, 1965", "Term end": "June 24, 1968"} |
The Shoshone or Shoshoni ( or ) are a Native American tribe with four large cultural/linguistic divisions:
Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming
Northern Shoshone: southern Idaho
Western Shoshone: Nevada, northern Utah
Goshute: western Utah, eastern Nevada
They traditionally speak the Shoshoni language, part of the Numic la... | {"Name": "Shoshone", "Native name": "Newe", "Population": "12,300 (2000)", "Religions": "Native American Church, Sun Dance,traditional tribal religion, Christianity, Ghost Dance", "Languages": "Shoshone,\"Shoshoni.\" Ethnologue. Retrieved 20 Oct 2013. English", "Related ethnic groups": "Timbisha and Comanche"} |
Crookes & Crosspool ward—which includes the districts of Crookes, Steelbank, Crosspool, and Sandygate —is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the western part of the city and covers an area of 3.9 km2. The population of this ward in 2011 was 17,700 people in 7,266 households.
... | {"Metropolitan borough": "City of Sheffield", "Metropolitan county": "South Yorkshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "UK Parliament": "Sheffield Hallam", "Councillors": "Sheffield City Council Minesh Parekh (Labour and Co-operative)Ruth Milsom (Labour Party)Tim Huggan (Liberal Democrats)", "Population": "16,800"} |
thumb|upright|500 Fifth Avenue, the headquarters of W. W. Norton and Company.
W. W. Norton & Company is an American publishing company based in New York City. Established in 1923, it has been owned wholly by its employees since the early 1960s. The company is known for its Norton Anthologies (particularly The Norton A... | {"Status": "Active", "Founded": "1923", "Country of origin": "United States", "Headquarters location": "500 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York", "Distribution": "self-distributed (US)Penguin Random House (Canada trade)Nelson Canada (Canada textbooks)John Wiley & Sons (UK, Australia) International Representatives h... |
Joseph Henry Harris (December 13, 1888 - October 24, 1952) was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as the Conservative Member of Parliament for York East in the 1921 federal election. In 1938, he was a candidate at the Conservative leadership convention, placing... | {"Name": "Joseph Henry Harris", "Riding 1": "Danforth", "Riding 2": "Toronto—Scarborough", "Predecessor 2": "Riding established", "Successor 2": "Riding abolished", "Birth date": "1888 12 13", "Death date": "1952 10 24 1888 12 13"} |
Piz Linard is a pyramid-shaped mountain of the Swiss Alps. At 3,410 m it is the highest peak of the Silvretta mountain range.
It was first climbed on August 1, 1835, by the geologist and naturalist Oswald Heer led by Johann Madutz.
thumb|left|Piz Linard from the north in July 1986
There is a legend that a man of na... | {"Location": "Location in Switzerland", "Elevation": "3410", "Prominence": "Retrieved from the Swisstopo maps. The key col is the Albula Pass (2,383 m).", "Isolation": "Retrieved from Google Earth. The nearest point of higher elevation is Piz Kesch.", "Coordinates": "46 47 56 N 10 04 17 E type:mountain_region:CH-GR_sca... |
Knud Ejler Løgstrup (2 September 1905 - 20 November 1981) was a Danish philosopher and theologian. His work, which combines elements of phenomenology, ethics and theology, has exerted considerable influence in postwar Nordic thought. More recently, his work has been discussed by prominent figures in anglophone philosop... | {"Name": "Knud Ejler Løgstrup", "Caption": "Løgstrup in 1979", "Birth date": "1905 09 02 y", "Birth place": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "Death date": "1981 11 20 1905 09 02 y", "Alma mater": "University of Copenhagen", "Awards": "Søren Gyldendal Prize (1959)"} |
Denton Massey (June 20, 1900 – January 25, 1984) was a Canadian engineer, Anglican priest and politician.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, son of Walter Edward Massey (and Susan Marie Denton Massey) and the grandson of the founder of the Massey agricultural manufacturing company, Hart Massey, he attended St. Andrew's College... | {"Name": "Denton Massey", "Term start": "October 14, 1935", "Term end": "June 26, 1949", "Birth date": "1900 06 20", "Birth place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Death date": "1984 01 25 1900 06 20"} |
Canal Street is a street in Manchester city centre in North West England and the centre of Manchester's gay village. The pedestrianised street, which runs along the west side of the Rochdale Canal, is lined with gay bars and restaurants. At night time, and in daytime in the warmer months, the street is filled with visi... | {"Name": "Canal Street", "Known for": "Gay village, gay clubs and bars", "Location": "Manchester city centre, England", "Coordinates": "53 28 40 N 2 14 08.25 W type:landmark inline,title", "Construction start": "1804", "Website": "http://www.canal-st.co.uk/"} |
Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland, which is the national stadium of football in Scotland and home of the Scotland national football team. It regularly hosts the latter stages of the Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup and has also been used for music concerts and other s... | {"Coordinates": "55 49 33 N 4 15 7 W type:landmark_region:GB-GLG inline,title", "Location": "Mount Florida, Glasgow, Scotland", "Opened": "y 1903 10 31", "Renovated": "y 1999", "Parking": "Parking available on site", "Public transit": "gb rail Mount Florida gb rail King's Park glasgow Glasgow gb bus Buchanan", "Capa... |
James Earl Lawson, (October 21, 1891 – May 13, 1950) was a Canadian politician and lawyer.
Lawson was twice a candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Conservative Party, despite never being a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and once as a candidate for the federal Tory leadership.
His first run for... | {"Name": "James Earl Lawson", "Riding 1": "York South", "Riding 2": "York West", "Predecessor 2": "Henry Drayton", "Successor 2": "John Streight", "Birth date": "1891 10 21", "Birth place": "Hamilton, Ontario", "Death date": "1950 05 13 1891 10 21", "Spouse(s)": "Anita Blanche Bateman"} |
Charles Hazlitt Cahan (October 31, 1861 - August 15, 1944) was a Canadian lawyer, newspaper editor, businessman, and provincial and federal politician.
Biography
Cahan, a Presbyterian of Irish descent, was born in Hebron, Nova Scotia. He was the son of Charles Cahan Jr. and had three siblings: Frank D. Cahan (1863-19... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Honourable", "Name": "Charles Cahan", "Honorific suffix": "CAN PC KC 100%", "Birth name": "Charles Hazlitt Cahan", "Birth date": "1861 10 31 yes", "Birth place": "Hebron, Colony of Nova Scotia", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Death date": "1944 8 15 1861 10 31", "Death place": "Hebron, Nova Scoti... |
is a Japanese film director. He is best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?.
Life and career
In 1982, along with filmmakers Yoshiho Fukuoka, Itsumichi Isomura, Toshiyuki Mizutani and Akira Yoneda, Suo founded a production company called Unit 5. Suo... | {"Name": "Masayuki Suo", "Caption": "Suo in 2019", "Birth date": "1956 10 29", "Birth place": "Tokyo, Japan", "Occupation": "Film director, screenwriter", "Years active": "1983-present", "Spouse(s)": "Tamiyo Kusakari"} |
Benjamin Creme (5 December 1922 - 24 October 2016) was a Scottish artist, author, esotericist, and editor of Share International magazine.
He asserted that the Second Coming, prophesied by many religions, would come in the form of Maitreya, the World Teacher. Maitreya is the name Buddhists use for the future Buddha, b... | {"Name": "Benjamin Creme", "Caption": "Lecturing in Paris, 17 March 2006", "Birth date": "5 December 1922", "Birth place": "Glasgow, Scotland", "Death date": "24 October 2016 (aged 93)", "Death place": "London, England", "Nationality": "British", "Known For": "Views on the second comingPokorny Lukas 2021 Maitreya, C... |
Robert Rogers, (March 2, 1864 - July 21, 1936) was a Canadian merchant and politician. He served as a cabinet minister at the federal and provincial levels.
Rogers was born in Lakefield, Canada East (now Quebec), the son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Rogers. He was educated in Lachute, Berthier and Montreal, and late... | {"Name": "Robert Rogers", "Term start": "1911", "Term end": "1917", "Predecessor 2": "Albert Hudson", "Successor 2": "John Stewart McDiarmid", "Birth date": "1864 03 02", "Birth place": "Lakefield, Canada East", "Death date": "1936 07 21 1864 03 02"} |
Sir Henry Lumley Drayton (April 27, 1869 - August 28, 1950) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Early life
Born in Kingston, Ontario, the son of Philip Henry Drayton, who came to Canada with the 16th Rifles of England, and Margaret S. Covernton, Drayton was educated in the schools of England and Canada. He was c... | {"Name": "Sir Henry Lumley Drayton", "Prime minister 2": "Arthur Meighen", "Predecessor 2": "James Robb", "Successor 2": "R.B. Bennett", "Birth date": "1869 04 27", "Birth place": "Kingston, Ontario, Canada", "Death date": "1950 08 28 1869 04 27", "Spouse(s)": "Edith Mary Cawthra"} |
"Urban Guerrilla" is a 1973 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind. It was originally released as a single in the UK (UP 35566) on 27 July 1973 with "Brainbox Pollution" as the B side, reaching #39 on the UK singles chart before being withdrawn after 3 weeks. It is also on the remastered version of Doremi Fasol Latido.
Ly... | {"B-side": "Brainbox Pollution", "Released": "27 July 1973", "Recorded": "Olympic Studios, 1973", "Genre": "Space rock", "Label": "United Artists Records", "Songwriter(s)": "R. Calvert/D. Brock", "Producer(s)": "Hawkwind"} |
Keith Martin, is a Canadian politician and physician. He was the Member of Parliament for the riding of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca in British Columbia, Canada from 1993 to 2011. Originally a member of the Reform Party, and then the Canadian Alliance, he did not join the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada post-merge... | {"Name": "Keith Martin", "Term start": "October 25, 1993", "Term end": "May 2, 2011", "Birth place": "London, United Kingdom", "Other political party": "Reform (1993-2000)Canadian Alliance (2000-2003)Independent (2003-2004)", "Residence": "Victoria, British Columbia and Washington, D.C."} |
The pula is the currency of Botswana. It has the ISO 4217 code BWP and is subdivided into 100 thebe. Pula literally means "rain" in Setswana, because rain is very scarce in Botswana—home to much of the Kalahari Desert—and therefore valuable and a blessing. The word also serves as the national motto of the country.
A s... | {"ISO 4217 code": "BWP", "Subunit": "100", "Unit": "pula", "Symbol": "P"} |
Project Looking Glass is a now inactive free software project under the GPL to create an innovative 3D desktop environment for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It was sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
Looking Glass is programmed in the Java language using the Java 3D system to remain platform independent. Despite the use of ... | {"Developer(s)": "LG3D developers", "Initial release": "2003", "Type": "Desktop environment", "Written in": "Java", "License": "GNU General Public License", "Website": "http://java.net/projects/lg3d October 2018"} |
In the Skin of a Lion is a novel by Canadian-Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 1987 by McClelland and Stewart. The novel fictionalizes the lives of the immigrants who played a large role in the building of the city of Toronto in the early 1900s, but whose contributions never became part of t... | {"Country": "Canada", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "McClelland and Stewart", "Media type": "Print", "Pages": "243", "ISBN": "0394563638"} |
Birds of Pray is the seventh studio album by Live, released in 2003. The first single, "Heaven" became the band's most successful single in several years, reaching number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. Birds of Pray was Live's final release on Radioactive/MCA. They signed with Epic in 2005.Chad, "Live Makes Epic Move". A... | {"Released": "2003 5 20 yes", "Recorded": "The Village, Los Angeles, CA;4th Street Recording, Santa Monica, CA", "Genre": "Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock", "Label": "Radioactive", "Producer": "Jim Wirt"} |
The United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA) is a national organization for amateur soccer in the United States. It consists of 54 State Associations as well as national, regional and state leagues.
It can be compared to the United States Youth Soccer Association and its 54 affiliated State Associations - as it ... | {"Confederation": "CONCACAF", "Founded": "1982", "Domestic cup(s)": "National Amateur CupUS Open Cup", "Website": "http://usadultsoccer.com"} |
Throwing Copper is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Live, released on April 26, 1994, on former MCA Records subsidiary Radioactive Records. It was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and was recorded at Pachyderm Recording Studio. Throwing Copper has generally been regarded as Live's bes... | {"Released": "1994 4 26 yes", "Recorded": "July-September 1993", "Studio": "Pachyderm Studio, Cannon Falls, Minnesota", "Genre": "Alternative rock • post-grungeThee Marcel August 1, 2019 After 25 years, Live's 'Throwing Copper' remains alternative rock gem https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/08/01/after-25-years-l... |
was a prolific Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first accredited film, , was released in 1952; his last, , in 1985. He received several awards during his career, including the Japanese Academy Award for "Best Director" for his 1978 film The Demon.
Biography
Nomura was the son of Hotei Nomur... | {"Name": "Yoshitarō Nomura", "Native name": "野村 芳太郎", "Native name language": "ja", "Birth date": "1919 4 23 y", "Birth place": "Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan", "Death date": "2005 4 8 1919 4 23 y", "Death place": "Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan", "Occupation": "Film director"} |
David Abramovich Dragunsky (; – 12 October 1992) was a tank officer in World War II who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Early life
Dragunsky was born on to a large Jewish family in Svyatsk; his parents were tailors. After completing school in Novozybkov he became a construction worker. As a mem... | {"Native name": "Давид Абрамович Драгунский", "Born": "Svyatsk, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire", "Died": "Moscow, Russian Federation", "Awards": "Hero of the Soviet Union (twice)"} |
The World of Null-A, sometimes written The World of Ā, is a 1948 science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt. It was originally published as a three-part serial in 1945 in Astounding Stories. It incorporates concepts from the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski. The name Ā refers to non-Aristote... | {"Cover artist": "Leo Manso", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Simon & Schuster", "Media type": "Print (Hardcover & Paperback)", "Pages": "246", "Followed by": "The Pawns of Null-A"} |
was a Japanese film director. He was a director of Toei film company and he often worked with Ken Takakura in such films as Eki and Shin Abashiri Bangaichi. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st International Film Festival of India for Poppoya. He died 20 May 2019.
Filmography
Hikō Shō... | {"Name": "Yasuo Furuhata", "Birth date": "yes 1934 8 19", "Birth place": "Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan", "Death date": "2019 5 20 1934 8 19 y", "Occupation": "Film director"} |
Black Arrow, officially capitalised BLACK ARROW, was a British satellite carrier rocket. Developed during the 1960s, it was used for four launches between 1969 and 1971, all launched from the Woomera Prohibited Area in Australia. Its final flight was the first and only successful orbital launch to be conducted by the U... | {"Function": "Carrier rocket", "Stages": "3", "Status": "Retired", "Launch sites": "Woomera LA-5B", "Total launches": "2 (+2 suborbital)", "Success(es)": "1 (+1 suborbital)", "Failure(s)": "1 (+1 suborbital)", "First flight": "27 June 1969", "Last flight": "28 October 1971"} |
Duffield () is a village in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, north of Derby. It is centred on the western bank of the River Derwent at the mouth of the River Ecclesbourne. It is within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Area and the southern foothills of the Pennines.
History
Early history
There have be... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 census)Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005", "District": "Amber Valley", "Shire county": "Derbyshire", "UK Parliament": "Mid Derbyshire", "Postcode district": "DE", "Dialling code": "01332", "OS g... |
Irish Catholics () are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland whose members are both Catholic and Irish. They have a large diaspora, which includes over 36 million American citizens and over 14 million British citizens (a quarter of the British population).
Overview and history
Divisions between Irish Roman Catholi... | {"Name": "Irish Roman Catholics", "Image": "150px", "Image caption": "Celtic cross", "Population": "4.6 million (Ireland)55-60 million (notably in Canada and the Eastern and Central United States)", "Religions": "Catholic Christianity", "Languages": "English (Irish, American, British, Australian and New Zealander), Iri... |
thumb|Andrew Penhallow, founder of Volition Records
Volition Records was a Sydney, Australia-based record label specialising in electronic music styles such as house, techno, synthpop , and trance. It was founded by Andrew Penhallow and was active 1988-1997.
Andrew Penhallow founded Volition after he earlier created ... | {"Founder": "Andrew Penhallow", "Genre": "Techno, house, electronica, synthpop, Indie pop", "Country of origin": "Australia", "Location": "Sydney"} |
Beaver Township is one of the fourteen townships of Pike County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,291 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Jackson Township - north
Liberty Township, Jackson County - east
Scioto Township, Jackson C... | {"Land": "23.8", "Water": "0.0", "Density": "auto", "DST": "-4"} |
Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the seventeenth book in the Discworld series, set in the Aurient (a fictional analogue of the Orient).
The title refers to the common myth that there exists a Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times".
Plot
Two gods, Fate and the Lady, op... | {"Cover artist": "Josh Kirby", "Language": "English", "Series": "Discworld 17th novel - 5th Rincewind story", "Publisher": "Victor Gollancz Ltd", "ISBN": "0-575-05800-5", "Preceded by": "Soul Music", "Followed by": "Maskerade"} |
Edward Walter Gillespie (born August 1, 1961) is an American politician, strategist, and lobbyist who served as the 61st Chair of the Republican National Committee from 2003 to 2005 and was counselor to the President from 2007 to 2009 during the Presidency of George W. Bush. In 2012 Gillespie was a senior member of the... | {"Name": "Ed Gillespie", "Term start": "July 5, 2007", "Term end": "January 20, 2009", "Office 2": "Chair of the Republican National Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Marc Racicot", "Successor 2": "Ken Mehlman", "Birth name": "Edward Walter Gillespie", "Birth date": "1961 8 1", "Birth place": "Mount Holly, New Jersey, U.S.... |
Q1 Tower (an abbreviation of Queensland Number One) is a supertall skyscraper in Queensland, Australia. The residential tower on the Gold Coast was the world's tallest residential building from 2005 to 2011. As of September 2022, it is the 14th tallest residential tower in the world, the tallest building in Australia,... | {"Preceded by": "120 Collins Street", "Surpassed by": "Autograph Tower", "Location": "Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia", "Construction started": "2002", "Type": "Residential, Observation", "Coordinates": "28 00 22 S 153 25 46 E region:AU-QLD_type:landmark inline,title"} |
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), originally the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, is an American 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization founded in 1924 and dedicated to the advancement of zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation. AZA is head... | {"Type": "National not-for-profit organization", "Legal status": "501(c)(3) nonprofit organization", "Headquarters": "Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.", "Coordinates": "38.994820 -77.031271 inline, title dms", "Abbreviation": "AZA", "Website": "http://www.aza.org"} |
The Hillman Imp is a small economy car that was made by the Rootes Group and its successor Chrysler Europe from 1963 until 1976. Revealed on 3 May 1963, after much advance publicity, it was the first British mass-produced car with the engine block and cylinder head cast in aluminium.
Being a direct competitor to the B... | {"Also called": "Hillman GT (Australia)\n Hillman Husky\n Commer Imp Van\n Singer Chamois\n Sunbeam Imp\n Sunbeam Sport\n Sunbeam Chamois\n Sunbeam Stiletto\n Sunbeam Californian\n Sunbeam 900", "Manufacturer": "Rootes Group (1963-1967)Chrysler Europe (1967-1976)", "Production": "1963-1976440,032 madeRobson G. A-Z of... |
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Reutlingen University (in German Hochschule Reutlingen; formerly FHTW Reutlingen) is a university of applied sciences, involved in education and research. It is located in Reutlingen in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg. Enrollment stands at about 5,500 students, a quarter of whom are intern... | {"Type": "Public", "Budget": "€ 55,3 M", "Chancellor": "Alexander Leisner", "President": "Hendrik Brumme", "Students": "5,500 (as of 2019)", "Website": "www.reutlingen-university.de"} |
Volcano is a 1997 American disaster film directed by Mick Jackson and produced by Neal H. Moritz and Andrew Z. Davis. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle, and Keith David and tells the story of an effort to divert the path of a dangerous lava flow through the streets of Los Angeles following the for... | {"Directed by": "Mick Jackson", "Produced by": "Neal H. Moritz\n Andrew Z. Davis", "Written by": "Jerome Armstrong\n Billy Ray", "Starring": "Tommy Lee Jones\n Anne Heche\n Gaby Hoffmann\n Don Cheadle\n Keith David", "Music by": "Alan Silvestri", "Cinematography": "Theo van de Sande", "Edited by": "Don Brochu\n Michael... |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from Jul... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Series": "Sherlock Holmes", "Publisher": "George Newnes", "Pages": "307", "Preceded by": "The Sign of the Four", "Followed by": "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"} |
The University of Chile () is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.Fuentes documentales y bibliográficas para el estudio de la historia de Chile. Capítulo III: "La Universidad de Chile 1842 - 1879". 1. La ley orgánica de 1842 www.uch... | {"Type": "Public", "President": "Rosa Devés Alessandri", "Students": "43,779Universidad de Chile Anuario 2019 https://uchile.cl/u170832", "Undergraduates": "33,910Universidad de Chile Anuario 2019 https://uchile.cl/u170832", "Postgraduates": "9,869Universidad de Chile Anuario 2019 https://uchile.cl/u170832", "Cam... |
James Richard Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who served as the 14th United States secretary of energy from 2017 to 2019. He previously served as the 47th governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016... | {"Name": "Rick Perry", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "March 2, 2017", "Term end": "December 1, 2019", "Lieutenant 1": "Bill RatliffDavid Dewhurst", "Office 2": "39th Lieutenant Governor of Texas", "Governor 2": "George W. Bush", "Predecessor 2": "Bob Bullock", "Successor 2": "Bill Ratliff", ... |
thumb|Fendi shop at the Elements, Union Square, Kowloon
Fendi () is an Italian luxury fashion house producing fur, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, fragrances, eyewear, timepieces and accessories. Founded in Rome in 1925, Fendi is known for its fur, fur accessories, and leather goods.
Since 2001, Fendi has been par... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Fashion", "Founded": "yes 1925", "Headquarters": "Palazzo della Civiltà ItalianaQuadrato della Concordia 300144 RomeItaly41.83689 12.46521 title,inline", "Parent": "LVMH", "Website": "https://www.fendi.com/"} |
Ruben John Efford (January 6, 1944 - January 2, 2022) was a Canadian politician. He first served as a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly (MHA) from 1985 to 2001, representing Port de Grave electoral district and also serving as cabinet minister of various portfolios. After losing the 2001 leade... | {"Name": "John Efford", "Image size": "150px", "Birth name": "Ruben John Efford", "Birth date": "1944 1 6", "Birth place": "Port de Grave, Dominion of Newfoundland", "Death date": "2022 1 2 1944 1 6", "Death place": "Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada", "Term start": "May 13, 2002", "Term end": "January 23, 2... |
Gerry Byrne, (born September 27, 1966) is a Canadian politician who was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2015 representing Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, Newfoundland and Labrador, and a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien. Since the 2015 provincial election, he has served as MHA for Corner Br... | {"Name": "Gerry Byrne", "Image caption": "Gerry Byrne in 2018", "Birth date": "1966 09 27", "Birth place": "Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador", "Term start": "August 19, 2020", "Office 2": "Minister of Advanced Education and Skills", "Premier 2": "Dwight Ball", "Predecessor 2": "Clyde Jackman", "Successor 2": "St... |
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers, The Complete Peerage - 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledg... | {"Image caption": "Portrait by Peter Lely", "Birth name": "Barbara Villiers", "Nationality": "English", "Birth date": "27 November 1640 (17 November Old Style)", "Birth place": "Parish of St. Margaret's, City and Liberty of Westminster, Middlesex, England", "Death date": "1709 10 9 1640 11 27 y", "Death place": "Chiswi... |
Patriots is a 1994 American film, starring Linda Amendola, Mark Newell, Aidan Parkinson. It was written, produced and directed by Frank Kerr.
Plot
An Irish-American girl from Boston spends two hellish weeks in Northern Ireland, after she has been persuaded to help the Irish Republican Army.
Cast
Linda Amendola as Al... | {"Written by": "Frank Kerr", "Starring": "Linda Amendola\n Mark Newell\n Aidan Parkinson\n Dermott Petty\n Carmel O'Reilly\nJames Conway as Kevin Whitehall", "Directed by": "Frank Kerr", "Produced by": "Frank Kerr", "Distributed by": "Cannes Home Vídeo"} |
Lawrence David O'Brien (March 31, 1951 - December 16, 2004) was a Canadian politician. O’Brien represented Labrador in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal from 1996 until his death in 2004.
Born in L'Anse-au-Loup, Labrador, Newfoundland, O’Brien was an adult education instructor, a public servant, a teacher, a... | {"Name": "Lawrence O'Brien", "Term start": "March 26, 1996", "Term end": "December 16, 2004", "Birth date": "1951 03 31", "Birth place": "L'Anse-au-Loup, Newfoundland", "Death date": "2004 12 16 1951 03 31", "Death place": "St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador"} |
Testimony () is a book that was published in October 1979 by the Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov. He claimed that it was the memoirs of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich. From its publication, its portrayal of the composer and his views was controversial: the Shostakovich of the book was sometimes critical of fellow... | {"Original title": "Свидетельство", "Country": "United States", "Language": "Russian", "Publisher": "Harper & Row", "ISBN": "0-87910-021-4"} |
Girraween is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Girraween is located 30 km west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Cumberland Council and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.
History
Girraween is an Aboriginal word meaning place of flowers. It... | {"Type": "suburb", "Name": "Girraween", "City": "Sydney", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Image": "Girraween Public School.JPG", "Caption": "Girraween Public School", "Local Map Enabled": "yes", "Local Map Zoom Level": "13", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Cumberland Council", "Region": "Western Sydney", "Postcode": "214... |
Arcadia is a city in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Trempealeau River. The population was 3,737 at the 2020 census. Arcadia is a Latino-majority city and the largest city in Trempealeau county.
History
thumb|left|Arcadia, 1891
Arcadia was founded in 1855 on a hill overlooking the Trempealeau R... | {"Land": "3.27", "Water": "0.00", "Density": "1142.5", "DST": "-5", "Website": "http://cityofarcadiawi.com/"} |
John Cadbury (12 August 1801 - 11 May 1889) was a Quaker and English proprietor, tea and coffee trader and founder of Cadbury, the chocolate business based in Birmingham, England.
Life
John Cadbury was born on 12 August 1801 in Birmingham to Richard Tapper Cadbury and his wife Elizabeth Head. He was from a wealthy ... | {"Name": "John Cadbury", "Birth date": "12 August 1801", "Birth place": "Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom", "Death date": "1889 05 11 1801 08 12 yes", "Death place": "Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom", "Resting place": "Witton Cemetery, Birmingham", "Nationality": "English", "Known For... |
Bayfield is a city in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 584 at the 2020 census. This makes it the city with the smallest population in Wisconsin. In fact, for a new city to be incorporated today, state regulations require a population of at least 1,000 residents, so it would have to be incor... | {"Land": "0.86", "Water": "0.00", "Density": "auto", "DST": "-5", "Website": "cityofbayfield.com"} |
Berlin (/ˈbɜːrlɪn/ BUR-lin) is a city in Green Lake and Waushara counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 5,571 at the 2020 census. Of this, 5,435 were in Green Lake County, and only 89 were in Waushara County. The city is located mostly within the Town of Berlin in Green Lake County, with a small po... | {"Land": "5.78", "Water": "0.61", "Density": "931.34", "DST": "-5", "Website": "cityofberlin.net"} |
Bloomer is a city in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city of Bloomer was 3,539.
History
Mr. Bloomer and a group of men from Galena, Illinois built a mill on the site in 1848. As winter approached he sold the dam to H. S. Allen and returned to Galena. Settled in 1... | {"Land": "2.95", "Water": "0.15", "Density": "1188.94", "DST": "-5", "Website": "ci.bloomer.wi.us"} |
thumb|Cherry Creek Dam and reservoir. View is to the south.
thumb|Frozen Cherry Creek reservoir.
Cherry Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, long, in Colorado in the United States.
Course
Cherry Creek rises in the high plateau, east of the Front Range, in northwestern El Paso County. It flows north, throu... | {"Location": "Confluence with South Platte", "Coordinates": "39 45 16.4 N 105 00 29.6 W inline,title", "Progression": "South Platte—Platte—Missouri—Mississippi", "Mouth": "5167 ft m on"} |
Richard Poore or Poor (died 15 April 1237) was a medieval English bishop best known for his role in the establishment of Salisbury Cathedral and the City of Salisbury, moved from the nearby fortress of Old Sarum. He served as Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.
Early life
Poore was probably... | {"Denomination": "Catholic", "Consecration": "25 January 1215", "Predecessor": "William Scot", "Successor": "Thomas de Melsonby", "Other post(s)": "Bishop of ChichesterBishop of SalisburyDean of Salisbury", "Died": "Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset"} |
John Babbitt McNair (November 20, 1889 - June 14, 1968) was the 23rd premier of New Brunswick from 1940 to 1952. He worked as a lawyer, politician and judge.
Born in Andover, New Brunswick, he graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1911 with a B.A. degree. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, at Oxford University... | {"Name": "John B. McNair", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Image caption": "The Honourable John Babbitt McNair", "Order 2": "22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick", "Premier 2": "Louis Robichaud", "Predecessor 2": "Joseph Leonard O'Brien", "Successor 2": "Wallace Samuel Bird", "Monarch 2": "Elizabeth II", "Lieutenant g... |
David of Scotland (Medieval Gaelic: Dabíd) (1152 - 17 June 1219) was a Scottish prince and 8th Earl of Huntingdon. He was, until 1198, heir to the Scottish throne.
Life
Born in 1152, David was the youngest surviving son of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and Ada de Warenne, a daughter of William de Warenne, ... | {"Father": "Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon", "Mother": "Ada de Warenne", "Born": "Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England", "Died": "Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland"} |
Albert Allison Dysart (March 22, 1880 – December 8, 1962) was a New Brunswick politician, lawyer and judge.Biography, New Brunswick Legislative Library
Life
Dysart was born in Cocagne, New Brunswick and had an ancestry of Scottish and English Loyalist. Initially having an interest in farming, he graduated from the ... | {"Name": "A. Allison Dysart", "Image size": "125px", "Term start": "July 16, 1935", "Term end": "March 13, 1940", "Lieutenant governor": "Murray MacLarenWilliam G. Clark", "Birth date": "1880 3 22 y", "Birth place": "Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada", "Death date": "1962 12 8 1880 3 22", "Death place": "Moncton, New Brun... |
Táhirih (Ṭāhira) (, "The Pure One," also called Qurrat al-ʿAyn ( "Solace/Consolation of the Eyes") are both titles of Fatimah Baraghani/Umm-i Salmih (1814 or 1817 - August 16-27, 1852), an influential poet, women's rights activist and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran. She was one of the Letters of the Living, the f... | {"Name": "Táhirih Qurrat al-'Ayn", "Birth name": "Fatemeh Baraghani", "Birth date": "1814 or 1817", "Birth place": "Qazvin, Iran", "Death date": "August 16-27, 1852 (aged 35)", "Death place": "Ilkhani Garden, Tehran, Iran", "Spouse(s)": "Mohammad Baraghani (divorced)", "Children": "3", "Father": "Muhammad Salih Baragha... |
Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley (May 21, 1870 – December 26, 1947) was a New Brunswick lawyer, politician and the 21st premier of New Brunswick.
Tilley was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada the son of Samuel Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers of Confederation, and Alice Starr (Chipman) Tilley (1844-1921). He grew up in Ot... | {"Name": "Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "Leonard P. D. Tilley speaking on Parliament Hill in 1927", "Term start": "June 1, 1933", "Term end": "July 16, 1935", "Lieutenant governor": "Hugh Havelock McLeanMurray MacLaren", "Predecessor 2": "Walter E. Foster", "Successor 2": "A. P... |
Indo-Pacific is a hypothetical language macrofamily proposed in 1971 by Joseph Greenberg and now believed to be spurious. It grouped together the Papuan languages of New Guinea and Melanesia with the languages of the Andaman Islands (or at least Great Andamanese) and, tentatively, the languages of Tasmania, both of whi... | {"Name": "Indo-Pacific", "Acceptance": "spurious", "Geographic distribution": "Oceania, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia", "Family": "Proposed language family", "Language family color": "Superfamily", "Child 1": "Andamanese", "Child 2": "Papuan", "Child 3": "Tasmanian", "Child 4": "Kusunda", "Child 5": "Nihali", "... |
Eel Weir State Park is a state park in St. Lawrence County, New York. The park is located in the St. Lawrence Valley on the Oswegatchie River approximately from Black Lake and approximately southwest of Ogdensburg.
Facilities
The park is open from Memorial Day through Labor Day and offers 38 campsites, picnic table... | {"Coordinates": "44.63 -75.476 type:landmark_region:US-NY dms title,inline", "Type": "State park", "Location": "RD #3 Ogdensburg, New Yorkhttp://parks.ny.gov/parks/121/getting-there.aspx Eel Weir State Park - Getting There Nysparks.com NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation June 7, 2015", "Area": "... |
Grameen Bank () is a microfinance organisation and community development bank founded in Bangladesh. It makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
Grameen Bank originated in 1976, in the work of Professor Muhammad Yunus at University of Chittagong, who... | {"Type": "Body Corporate (Bank Law)Grameen Bank Act 2013 http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/grameen-bank-act-gets-passage/ The Daily Star 30 December 2013", "Industry": "Financial services", "Services": "Microfinance", "AUM": "৳168.315 billion (members), ৳73.16 billion (non-members)", "Founded": "1983 10", "... |
Jones Beach State Park (colloquially "Jones Beach") is a state park in the U.S. state of New York. It is located in southern Nassau County on Jones Beach Island, a barrier island linked to Long Island by the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Wantagh State Parkway, and Ocean Parkway. The park was created during Robert Moses' a... | {"Coordinates": "40 35 45 N 73 30 55 W region:US-NY_dim:10000 dms inline,title", "Type": "State park", "Location": "1 Ocean Parkway Wantagh, New Yorkhttp://parks.ny.gov/parks/10/details.aspx Jones Beach State Park NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation August 6, 2016", "Area": "2413 acre km2", "Visi... |
Maud, Countess of Huntingdon ( 1074 - 1130/1131), or Matilda, was Queen of Scotland as the wife of King David I. She was the great-niece of William the Conqueror and the granddaughter of Earl Siward.
Biography
Maud was the daughter of Waltheof, the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and his French wife ... | {"Father": "Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria", "Mother": "Judith of Lens", "Born": "1072", "Died": "Scotland", "Burial": "Scone Abbey, Scotland"} |
Charles Dow Richards (June 12, 1879 – September 15, 1956), was a Canadian lawyer, judge and politician. He served as the 20th premier of New Brunswick from 1931 to 1933.
Early life and education
Richards was born in Southampton, New Brunswick."Charles Dow Richards". The Canadian Encyclopedia. He attended Fredericton N... | {"Name": "Charles Dow Richards", "Image caption": "Charles Dow Richards as Chief Justice", "Term start": "May 19, 1931", "Term end": "June 1, 1933", "Lieutenant governor": "Hugh Havelock McLean", "Predecessor 2": "Riding re-created", "Successor 2": "Stewart E. Durling", "Alongside 2": "B. H. Dougan, Marcus Lorne Jewett... |
Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr. (February 16, 1884 - July 17, 1961) was a United States representative from New York, U.S. Minister to Portugal, U.S. Minister to Hungary, and a creator and member of the United Nations War Crimes Commission.
A native of New York City and a member of the prominent and wealthy Lorillard and C... | {"Term start": "February 11, 1941", "Term end": "November 30, 1942", "District 2": "17th", "Preceded 2": "John F. Carew", "Succeeded 2": "Ogden L. Mills", "Birth name": "Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr.", "Birth date": "1884 02 16", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "1961 07 17 1884 02 16", "Death place": ... |
Mundus or Mundo (, ; died 536) was a Barbarian commander of Gepid, Hun, and/or Gothic origins. He appears to have been the son of the Gepid king Giesmus. In the early 500s he commanded a group of bandits in Pannonia, eventually allying himself to the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great. After Theodoric's death in 526,... | {"Native name": "he", "Died": "536", "Allegiance": "Byzantine Empire", "Children": "Mauricius", "Relations": "GiesmusAttila?"} |
John Babington Macaulay Baxter (February 16, 1868 - December 27, 1946) was a New Brunswick lawyer, jurist and the 19th premier of New Brunswick.
Baxter served in the Canadian Army and was the author of Historical Records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Royal Artillery, the unit he commanded from 1907 to 1912. He also... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Honourable", "Name": "John Babington Macaulay Baxter", "Honorific suffix": "CAN PC KC DCL 100%", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "John B. M. Baxter as Chief Justice", "Term start": "September 14, 1925", "Term end": "May 19, 1931", "Lieutenant governor": "William Frederick ToddHugh Have... |
Ipolochagos Natassa (Greek: Υπολοχαγός Νατάσσα, Lieutenant Natasha, also known outside Greece as Battlefield Constantinople) is a 1970 Greek film. It starred Aliki Vougiouklaki as Natassa, Dimitris Papamichael as Orestis, and Costas Carras as Max. The story about the German occupation of Greece and the resistance by th... | {"Directed by": "Nikos Foskolos", "Written by": "Nikos Foskolos", "Starring": "Aliki VougiouklakiDimitris PapamichaelCostas Carras", "Music by": "Kostas Kapnisis", "Cinematography": "Yorgos ArvanitisNicos GardellisDimos Sakelariou", "Edited by": "Vassilis Syropoulos"} |
thumb|A meeting of the Conference on Disarmament in the Council Chamber of the Palace of Nations
The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a multilateral disarmament forum established by the international community to negotiate arms control and disarmament agreements based at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Conferen... | {"Abbreviation": "CD", "Predecessor": "Committee on Disarmament (1979-1984)", "Type": "International", "Legal status": "Active", "Headquarters": "Palais des Nations", "Website": "Official Website"} |
Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 American black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash.
Plot
Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for thirty years before... | {"Directed by": "Charlie Chaplin", "Produced by": "Charlie Chaplin", "Screenplay by": "Charlie Chaplin", "Story by": "Orson Welles", "Starring": "variety>Variety Staff Actress Marilyn Nash dies. Starred with Chaplin in 'Monsieur Verdoux' https://variety.com/2011/film/news/actress-marilyn-nash-dies-1118044450/ Variet... |
Peter John Veniot, (October 4, 1863 - July 6, 1936) was a businessman and newspaper owner and a politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He was the first Acadian premier of New Brunswick.
Early life and career
He was born in Richibucto, New Brunswick but later moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia with his family. Veniot worked a... | {"Name": "Peter John Veniot", "Image size": "150px", "Image caption": "Peter J. Veniot as Postmaster General", "Term start": "February 28, 1923", "Term end": "September 14, 1925", "Lieutenant governor": "William PugsleyWilliam Frederick Todd", "Predecessor 2": "John B. Hatchey", "Successor 2": "Clovis-Thomas Richard", ... |
Walter Edward Foster (April 9, 1873 - November 14, 1947) was a Canadian politician and businessman in New Brunswick.
Early life
Foster was born in St. Martins, New Brunswick. He began work as a clerk with the Bank of New Brunswick at Saint John. He joined the merchant firm of Vassie and Company and became vice pre... | {"Name": "Walter Edward Foster", "Image caption": "The Honourable Walter Edward Foster, PC", "Term start": "April 4, 1917", "Term end": "February 1, 1923", "Lieutenant governor": "Josiah WoodGilbert White GanongWilliam Pugsley", "Office 2": "MLA for Saint John City", "Predecessor 2": "John R. Campbell", "Successor 2": ... |
George Bryan Porter (February 9, 1791 - July 6, 1834) was an American statesman in Pennsylvania and Territorial governor of Michigan from August 6, 1831, until his death on July 6, 1834.
Early life
Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Porter attended the Norristown Academy. While he and his two brothers were preparing to... | {"Name": "George Bryan Porter", "Term start": "August 6, 1831", "Term end": "July 6, 1834", "Office 2": "Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives", "Birth date": "1791 2 9", "Birth place": "Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "1834 7 6 1791 2 9", "Death place": "Detroit, Michigan, U.S.", "Resting ... |
The Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM; ) is the Malaysian central bank. Established on 26 January 1959 as the Central Bank of Malaya (Bank Negara Tanah Melayu), its main purpose is to issue currency, act as banker and adviser to the government of Malaysia and regulate the country's financial institutions, credit system and... | {"Bank name": "Central Bank of Malaysia", "Bank of": "Malaysia", "Headquarters": "Jalan Dato Onn, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia", "Leader": "Shaik Abdul Rasheed Abdul Ghaffour", "Leader title": "Governor", "Established": "yes 1959 01 26", "Currency": "Malaysian ringgit", "ISO Currency": "MYR", "Bank rate": "3.00%https://www.b... |
Russell Gregoire MacLellan (born January 16, 1940) is a Canadian politician who served as the 24th premier of Nova Scotia from 1997 to 1999.
Federal politics
He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1979 federal election for the riding of Cape Breton—The Sydneys and sat as a Liberal MP until 1997.... | {"Term start": "July 18, 1997", "Term end": "August 16, 1999", "Lieutenant governor": "James Kinley", "Office 2": "MP for Cape Breton—The Sydneys", "Predecessor 2": "Robert Muir", "Successor 2": "Riding dissolved", "Birth name": "Russell Gregoire MacLellan", "Birth date": "1940 01 16", "Birth place": "Halifax, Nova Sco... |
is a flatland castle in Kyoto, Japan. The castle consists of two concentric rings (Kuruwa) of fortifications, the Ninomaru Palace, the ruins of the Honmaru Palace, various support buildings and several gardens. The surface area of the castle is , of which is occupied by buildings.
It is one of the seventeen Historic ... | {"Type": "Plains castle 平城", "Built": "1679", "Built by": "Tokugawa shogunate", "In use": "1626-1939", "Owner": "Kyoto", "Open tothe public": "yes"} |
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Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an American ticket sales and distribution company based in Beverly Hills, California with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010, it merged with Live Nation under the name Live Nation Entertainment.
The company's ticket sales are fulfilled digitally or at its two mai... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "October 2, 1976Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.", "Headquarters": "U.S.", "Industry": "Entertainment", "Products": "Ticketing technologyTicket salesTicket resalesMarketingDistribution of event tickets and informationSupport of venue renovation", "Revenue": "$11.9 billion in 2019https://www.thet... |
Gurū Hargobind (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿਗੋਬਿੰਦ, pronunciation: l 19 June 1595 - 28 February 1644), revered as the sixth Nānak, was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He had become Guru at the young age of eleven, after the execution of his father, Guru Arjan, by the Mughal emperor Jahangir.HS Syan (2013), Sikh Mili... | {"Religion": "Sikhism", "Born": "Guru Ki Wadali, Amritsar, Lahore Subah, Mughal Empire (present-day Punjab, India)", "Died": "Kiratpur Sahib, Lahore Subah, Mughal Empire (present-day Punjab, India)", "Children": "Baba Gurditta (1613-1638) Baba Suraj Mal (1618-1698) Baba Ani Rai (1633-1678) Baba Atal Rai (1619-1627)G... |
The Big Chill was an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August. The 2011 line-up included The Chemical Brothers, Kanye West, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Jessie J, Robert Plant, Calvin Harris, Neneh Cherry, Aloe Blacc, Chipmunk, Katy B & Examp... | {"Music festival name": "The Big Chill", "Image": "300px", "Location": "Ledbury, Herefordshire, England", "Years active": "1994 - 2011", "Founders": "Pete Lawrence and Katrina Larkin", "Dates": "Early August", "Genre": "Indie, Dance music, World music, Jazz, Reggae, Folk music, Dub music, Ambient, Chillout"} |
The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring an ensemble cast consisting of Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. The plot focuses on a group of baby boomers who attended the University of Michigan... | {"Directed by": "Lawrence Kasdan", "Produced by": "Michael Shamberg", "Written by": "Lawrence Kasdan Barbara Benedek", "Starring": "Tom Berenger\n Glenn Close\n Jeff Goldblum\n William Hurt\n Kevin Kline\n Mary Kay Place\n Meg Tilly\n JoBeth Williams\n Don Galloway", "Cinematography": "John Bailey", "Edited by": "Carol... |
Guru Har Krishan (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਨ, pronunciation: ; 7 July 1656 - 30 March 1664) was the eighth of the ten Sikh Gurus. At the age of five, he became the youngest Guru in Sikhism on 7 October 1661, succeeding his father, Guru Har Rai. He contracted smallpox in 1664 and died before reaching his eighth birthday... | {"Religion": "Sikhism", "Born": "Kiratpur Sahib, Lahore Subah, Mughal Empire", "Died": "Delhi, Mughal Empire", "Cause of death": "Visiting Raja Jai Singh and death"} |
Olivers Twist is a 2002 television series featuring chef Jamie Oliver. The name of the program is a play on the title of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. Following the popularity of his first TV series, The Naked Chef, Oliver began producing Olivers Twist to be aired outside the UK. The show became a success — bein... | {"Running time": "30 minutes", "Created by": "Fresh One Productions", "Directed by": "Brain Klein", "Presented by": "Jamie Oliver", "Opening theme": "\"Just the Start\" by Scarlet Division", "Ending theme": "\"Just the Start\" (instrumental)", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Original network": "Food Network BB... |
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Guru Tegh Bahadur (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਤੇਗ਼ ਬਹਾਦਰ (Gurmukhi); ; 1 April 1621 - 11 November 1675) was the ninth of ten gurus who founded the Sikh religion and was the leader of Sikhs from 1665 until his beheading in 1675. He was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India in 1621 ... | {"Religion": "Sikhism", "Born": "Amritsar, Lahore Subah, Mughal Empire (present-day Punjab, India)", "Died": "Delhi, Mughal Empire (present-day India)", "Cause of death": "Execution by decapitation", "Children": "Guru Gobind Singh"} |
My Favorite Martian is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show stars Ray Walston as "Uncle Martin" (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. The first two seasons, totaling 75 episodes, were in black and white, and the 32 episodes of the third and final... | {"Genre": "Sitcom", "Created by": "John L. Greene", "Starring": "Ray WalstonBill BixbyAlan HewittPamela Britton", "Country of origin": "United States", "Camera setup": "Single-camera", "Running time": "25 minutes", "Original network": "CBS", "Original release": "1966 5 1"} |
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