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Daisy Group Limited is a British business-to-business (B2B) provider of IT, communications and cloud services to UK organisations. Today, Daisy Group has two subsidiaries: Daisy Corporate Services and Daisy Communications. Their head office is in Nelson, Lancashire, and they also have a number of other offices througho... | {"Type": "Private Limited company", "Founded": "2001", "Headquarters": "Nelson, Lancashire, England", "Industry": "Information Technology", "Website": "https://daisygroup.com"} |
Cambodia (; ; UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia (; UNGEGN: ), is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. The capital and most populous city is Phnom Penh.
In 802 AD,... | {"Conventional long name": "Kingdom of Cambodia", "Native name": "km ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា offkm Preâh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa (UNGEGN)", "Symbol type": "Royal arms", "National motto": "km ជាតិ សាសនា ព្រះមហាក្សត្រkm Chéatĕ, Sasânéa,Preâh Môhaksâtr(\"Nation, Religion,\nking\")", "Map": "frameless Show globe upright=1.1... |
Robert Bernard Reich ( ; born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of President Ba... | {"Name": "Robert Reich", "Alternative text": "Official portrait of Reich in 1993", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1993", "Term start": "January 20, 1993", "Term end": "January 20, 1997", "Birth name": "Robert Bernard Reich", "Birth date": "1946 6 24", "Birth place": "Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "C... |
Demon Internet was a British Internet service provider, initially an independent business, later operating as a brand of Vodafone. It was one of the UK's earliest ISPs, offering dial-up Internet access services from 1 June 1992. According to the Daily Telegraph, it "sparked a revolution by becoming the first to provide... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1 June 1992", "Headquarters": "United Kingdom", "Parent": "Vodafone Group", "Industry": "Telecommunications", "Products": "Business fixed line, Internet services and IT support", "Website": "http://www.demon.net"} |
Adam Czerniaków (30 November 1880 - 23 July 1942) was a Polish engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II. He committed suicide on 23 July 1942 by swallowing a cyanide pill, a day after the commencement of mass extermination of Jews known as the Grossaktion Wars... | {"Name": "Adam Czerniaków", "Caption": "Adam Czerniaków (before 1939)", "Birth date": "1880 11 30 y", "Birth place": "Warsaw, Poland", "Death date": "1942 7 23 1880 11 30 y", "Death place": "Warsaw Ghetto, General Government", "Nationality": "Polish", "Occupation": "Engineer, politician"} |
Middlesbrough ( ) is a town in the Middlesbrough unitary authority borough of North Yorkshire, England. The town lies near the mouth of the River Tees and north of the North York Moors National Park. The built-up area had a population of 148,215 at the 2021 UK census. It is the largest town of the wider Teesside area, ... | {"Population": "143,924 (Borough, 2021)Middlesbrough Local Authority https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021/report?compare=E06000002 NOMIS Office for National Statistics 17 September 2023census2021>Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales: Census 2021 https://www.ons.gov.uk/pe... |
Gadu-Gadu (Polish for "chit-chat"; commonly known as GG or gg) is a Polish instant messaging client using a proprietary protocol. Gadu-Gadu was the most popular IM service in Poland, with over 15 million registered accounts and approximately 6.5 million users online daily. Gadu-Gadu's casual gaming portal had some 500,... | {"Developer(s)": "Fintecom Sp. z o.o.", "Initial release": "2000 08 15", "Size": "5", "Available in": "Polish and English", "Type": "Instant messaging client", "License": "adware", "Website": "https://www.gg.pl"} |
CIX (originally Compulink Information eXchange) is an online based conferencing discussion system and was one of the earliest British Internet service providers. Founded in 1983 by Frank and Sylvia Thornley, it began as a FidoNet bulletin board system, but in 1987 was relaunched commercially as CIX. At the core of the ... | {"Type": "Limited Company", "Founded": "1987", "Headquarters": "UK", "Industry": "InternetConferencingSocial Media", "Website": "www.cix.co.uk"} |
Lars Sponheim (born 23 May 1957) is a Norwegian politician. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2010. He was a member of the Storting from 1993 to 2009, and a government minister from 1997 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2005. He served as County Governor of Vestland from 2010 to 2022, having served as the County ... | {"Name": "Lars Sponheim", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Sponheim in 2004.", "Office 2": "Minister of Trade and Industry", "Prime minister 2": "Kjell Magne Bondevik", "Predecessor 2": "Grete Knudsen", "Successor 2": "Grete Knudsen", "Birth date": "1957 5 23 y", "Birth place": "Halden, Østfold, Norway", "Natio... |
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Kaizer Chiefs Football Club (often known as Chiefs) are a South African professional football club based in Naturena, Johannesburg South, that plays in the Premier Soccer League. The team is nicknamed AmaKhosi, which means "Lords" or ... | {"Short name": "Chiefs", "Nickname(s)": "• AmaKhosi\n\n• The Phefeni Boys\n\n• Abafana Bok'thula Noxolo\n\n • The glamour boys", "Full name": "Kaizer Chiefs Football Club", "Founded": "1970 01 07 y", "Capacity": "94,797", "League": "DStv Premiership", "Website": "https://www.kaizerchiefs.com/"} |
Orlando Pirates Football Club (often known as "The Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in Orlando, Soweto and plays in the top-tier system of Football in South Africa known as DStv Premiership. The team plays its home matches at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.
The club was founded in 1937 and w... | {"Nickname(s)": "The Sea Robbers\n Bucs\n Happy People\n Buccaneers \n Ezimnyama Ngenkani\n Mabakabaka", "Full name": "Orlando Pirates Football Club", "Founded": "1937 y, as Orlando Boys Club", "Capacity": "37,139http://www.stadiummanagement.co.za/stadiums/orlando/ Orlando Stadium sponsored by Lafarge Stadium Manageme... |
Intramuscular injection, often abbreviated IM, is the injection of a substance into a muscle. In medicine, it is one of several methods for parenteral administration of medications. Intramuscular injection may be preferred because muscles have larger and more numerous blood vessels than subcutaneous tissue, leading to ... | {"MeSH": "D007273", "ICD-9-CM": "99.1", "ICD-10-PCS": "3E023", "CPT": "96372"} |
The National Hockey Association (NHA), officially the National Hockey Association of Canada Limited, was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the direct predecessor of today's National Hockey League (NHL). Founded in 1909 by Ambrose O'Brien, the NHA introduced 'six-man ... | {"Sport": "Ice hockey", "Founded": "1909 12 02 yes", "Inaugural season": "1910", "Folded": "1918 12 11 yes", "Teams": "11", "Country": "Canada", "Champion": "Montreal Canadiens", "Most titles (player)": "Montreal Canadiens (2), Ottawa Senators (2), Quebec Bulldogs (2)", "Founder": "Ambrose O'Brien"} |
Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (November 13, 1879 – June 12, 1990) was an American educator and college dean.
Biography
Scales was the daughter of John King Lord (1848-1926), a historian who served as acting president of Dartmouth College in 1892 and 1893; her two brothers became a professor of anatomy and a publisher. She... | {"Name": "Laura Scales", "Alt": "A white woman with her hair side-parted and braided over the crown", "Caption": "Laura W. L. Scales, from the 1925 Smith College yearbook", "Birth date": "November 13, 1879", "Death date": "June 12, 1990", "Occupation": "College dean, educator", "Known For": "Dean of Students, Smith Col... |
right|thumb|Gautama Buddha, called Shakyamuni "Sage of the Shakyas," the most famous Shakya. Seated bronze from Tibet, 11th century.
Shakya (Pāḷi: ; ) was an ancient eastern sub-Himalayan ethnicity and clan of north-eastern region of the Indian subcontinent, whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The Shakyas ... | {"Conventional long name": "Shakya", "Type of government": "Republic", "Event ending the country": "Conquered by Viḍūḍabha of Kosala", "Capital": "Kapilavastu", "Common languages": "PrakritsMunda languages,Levman 2014", "Religions": "Sramana religions, Sun worship, tree worship, serpent worship", "Today part of": "Indi... |
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 independently made American science fiction horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. It was produced by Bernard Woolner. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna, and the original music score w... | {"Directed by": "Nathan Hertz", "Produced by": "Bernard Woolner", "Written by": "Mark Hanna", "Starring": "Allison Hayes\n William Hudson\n Yvette Vickers", "Music by": "Ronald Stein", "Cinematography": "Jacques R. Marquette", "Edited by": "Edward Mann", "Distributed by": "Allied Artists Pictures Corporation", "Budget"... |
Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest (born 20 April 1946 in Panama) is a Honduran politician who served as President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006. A member of the National Party, Maduro was previously chairman of the Central Bank of Honduras. He graduated from The Lawrenceville School (where he was awarded the Lawrenceville M... | {"Name": "Ricardo Maduro", "Image size": "200px", "Vice president": "Vicente Williams Agasse", "Term start": "27 January 2002", "Term end": "27 January 2006", "Birth name": "Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest", "Birth date": "1946 04 20 y", "Birth place": "Panama", "Spouse(s)": "Melissa Callejas 2009http://www.laprensa.hn/vi... |
Shark Tale is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The film was directed by Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, and Rob Letterman (in his feature directorial debut), from a screenplay written by Letterman and Michael J. Wilson. The film features... | {"Directed by": "Vicky JensonBibo BergeronRob Letterman", "Produced by": "Bill DamaschkeJanet HealyAllison Lyon Segan", "Screenplay by": "Michael J. WilsonRob Letterman", "Starring": "Will Smith\n Robert De Niro\n Renée Zellweger\n Angelina Jolie\n Jack Black\n Martin Scorsese", "Music by": "Hans Zimmer", "Edited by": ... |
Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 - September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired"). He often wrote on spiritual themes.
Education
Ehrmann was of German descent; both his parents emigrated from Bavaria to... | {"Name": "Max Ehrmann", "Birth date": "1872 9 26", "Birth place": "Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.", "Death date": "1945 9 9 1872 9 26", "Death place": "Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.", "Resting place": "Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Indiana", "Resting place coordinates": "39.476398 -87.347801 inline,title", "Known For":... |
Christopher Kimball (born June 5, 1951) is an American editor, publisher, and radio and TV personality. He is notable as one of the founders of America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country and as the creator of Christopher Kimball's Milk Street.
Early life and education
Kimball was born and raised in Westchester Count... | {"Name": "Christopher Kimball", "Caption": "Christopher Kimball in 2016", "Birth date": "1951 6 5", "Birth place": "Rye, New York, U.S.Frieswick, Kris, \"Perfection, Inc.\", The Boston Globe, August 2, 2009. (PDF version)", "Education": "Columbia University (B.A., 1973) Lui, Claire, \"Cooking 101: Chris Kimball ’73 bri... |
The Safsaf massacre took place on 29 October 1948, following the capture of the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf in the Galilee by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The village was defended by the Arab Liberation Army's Second Yarmuk Battalion.
Safsaf was the first village to fall in Operation Hiram, the aim of which... | {"Title": "Safsaf massacre", "Coordinates": "33 0 40 N 35 26 46 E title, inline", "Patrons": "-->", "Organizers": "-->", "Participants": "Israel Defense Forces", "Outcome": "Village was occupied, and a massacre perpetrated against those in the village", "First blank label": "<!-- or", "First blank data": "-->", "Second... |
The Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), commonly known as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), is an OASISOASIS Standard WS-BPEL 2.0 standard executable language for specifying actions within business processes with web services. Processes in BPEL export and import information by using w... | {"Title": "WS-BPEL", "Long name": "Web Services Business Process Execution Language", "Status": "Published", "Year started": "2001", "First published": "2003 04 y", "Version": "2.0", "Version date": "2007 04 11 y", "Organization": "OASIS", "Committee": "OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) TC... |
Benjamin "Ben" Dunkelman (26 June 1913 - June 11, 1997) was a Canadian Jewish officer who served in the Canadian Army in World War II and the Israel Defense Forces in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In Israel, he was called Benjamin Ben-David.
Biography
Early life
Benjamin Dunkelman was the son of Ashkenazim immigrants fr... | {"Caption": "Ben Dunkelman in October 1948, during Operation Hiram", "Birth place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Birth date": "1913 06 26", "Death place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Death date": "1997 06 11 1913 06 26", "Occupation": "soldier", "Spouse(s)": "Yael Lifshitz", "Nationality": "Canadian"} |
Peter Gosselin Fitzgerald (born October 20, 1960) is a retired American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 1999 to 2005. Fitzgerald defeated Democratic incumbent Carol Moseley Braun in 1998, becoming the first Republican to win a U... | {"Name": "Peter Fitzgerald", "Term start": "January 3, 1999", "Term end": "January 3, 2005", "Birth name": "Peter Gosselin Fitzgerald", "Birth date": "1960 10 20", "Birth place": "Elgin, Illinois, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Dartmouth College (BA)Aristotelian UniversityUniversity of Michigan (JD)", "Residence": "Inverness, I... |
Alexa Ann McDonough ( Shaw; August 11, 1944 - January 15, 2022) was a Canadian politician who became the first woman to lead a major, recognized political party in Nova Scotia, when she was elected the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party's (NSNDP) leader in 1980.
McDonough served as a member of the Nova Scotia Legislatu... | {"Name": "Alexa McDonough", "Image size": "220px", "Image caption": "McDonough in 2008", "Term start": "October 14, 1995", "Term end": "January 25, 2003", "Riding 2": "Halifax", "Predecessor 2": "Mary Clancy", "Successor 2": "Megan Leslie", "Birth name": "Alexa Ann Shaw", "Birth date": "1944 08 11", "Birth place": "Ott... |
Robert Jeffrey Harvey (born 21 August 1971) is an Australian rules football coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). As a player, he played his entire career with St Kilda in the AFL. Following retirement, Harvey embarked on a ca... | {"Name": "Robert Harvey", "Image Caption": "Harvey in 2008", "Full Name": "Robert Jeffrey Harvey", "Nickname": "Banga", "Birth Date": "1971 8 21 y", "Birth Place": "Seaford, Victoria", "Original Team": "Seaford", "Position": "Midfielder", "Stats End": "2008", "Coach Stats end": "the 2021 season", "Career Highlights": "... |
The American Philatelic Society (APS) is the largest nonprofit stamp collecting foundation of philately in the world. Both the membership and interests of the society are worldwide.
History
The organization, originally named the American Philatelic Association, was established on September 14, 1886 in New York City, a... | {"Abbreviation": "APS", "Type": "Educational 501(c)(3)", "Location": "American Philatelic Center100 Match Factory Place Bellefonte, PA U.S.", "Origins": "The Committee on National Organization", "Website": "https://stamps.org/"} |
The HP 49/50 series are Hewlett-Packard (HP) manufactured graphing calculators. They are the successors of the popular HP 48 series.
There are five calculators in the 49/50 series of HP graphing calculators. These calculators have both algebraic and RPN entry modes, and can perform numeric and symbolic calculations us... | {"Entry mode": "RPN, Algebraic", "Introduced": "1999", "Discontinued": "2003", "Predecessor": "HP 48G+", "Successor": "HP 49g+", "Latest firmware": "official: HP49-C 1.18 (2000-05-27),beta: HP49-B 1.19-6 (2001-10-27),back-ported: HP48-C 2.09 (2006-06-03)", "Processor": "4 MHz Yorke (Saturn core)", "Programming language... |
Tom Reamy (January 23, 1935 - November 4, 1977) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and a key figure in 1960s and 1970s science fiction fandom. He died at age 42 prior to the publication of his first novel; his work is primarily dark fantasy.
Fan, editor, convention organizer
Thomas Earl Reamy was bor... | {"Name": "Tom Reamy", "Caption": "Tom Reamy in the mid-1970s", "Birth name": "Thomas Earl Reamy", "Birth date": "1935 01 23", "Birth place": "Woodson, Texas, USA", "Death date": "1977 11 04 1935 01 23", "Death place": "Independence, Missouri, USA"} |
Peta Gia Wilson (born 18 November 1970) is an Australian actress, lingerie designer and model. She is best known as Nikita in the television series La Femme Nikita.
Biography
Early life
Wilson was born in Sydney on 18 November 1970. She is the daughter of the caterer Karlene White Wilson and Darcy Wilson, a former Wa... | {"Name": "Peta Wilson", "Caption": "Wilson in 2004", "Birth name": "Peta Gia Wilson", "Birth date": "1970 11 18 y", "Birth place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupation": "Actress, designer, model", "Years active": "1995-present", "Known For": "Nikita in La Femme Nikita", "Height": "5 10", "Partner(s)": "Da... |
Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Durbin is in his fifth Senate term and has served as the Senate Democratic whip since 2005 (the second-highest p... | {"Name": "Dick Durbin", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2022", "Term start": "January 20, 2021", "Office 2": "Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee", "Term start 2": "February 3, 2021", "Predecessor 2": "Lindsey Graham", "Birth name": "Richard Joseph Durbin", "Birth date": "1944 11 21", "Birth place": "East St. ... |
Ashok Kumar (born Kumudlal Ganguly; 13 October 1911 - 10 December 2001), was an Indian actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema. He was a pioneering actor who introduced natural acting to Hindi cinema. He is considered the first superstar of Hindi cinema in the black-and-white era of the 40s and 50s as well as... | {"Name": "Ashok Kumar", "Caption": "Kumar 1957", "Birth name": "Kumudlal Ganguly", "Birth date": "1911 10 13 y", "Birth place": "Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency, British India(present-day Bihar, India)", "Death date": "2001 12 10 1911 10 13 y", "Death place": "Mumbai, Maharashtra, India", "Other names": "Dadamoni", "Occup... |
Otto Braun (28 January 1872 - 15 December 1955) was a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. From 1920 to 1932, with only two brief interruptions, Braun was Minister President of the Free State of Prussia. The continuity of personnel in high office resulted in a largely s... | {"Name": "Otto Braun", "Term start": "6 April 1925", "Term end": "20 July 1932", "Predecessor 2": "Adam Stegerwald", "Successor 2": "Wilhelm Marx", "Birth date": "28 January 1872", "Birth place": "Königsberg, East Prussia(now Kaliningrad, Russia)", "Death date": "y 1955 12 15 1872 1 28", "Death place": "Locarno, Switze... |
The American Philatelist, published by the American Philatelic Society, is one of the world's oldest philatelic magazines still in operation; its first issue having appeared in January 1887.The American Philatelist. stamps.org 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2012. Archived here.
The magazine is published monthly for members of... | {"Company": "American Philatelic Society", "Frequency": "Monthly", "Language": "American English", "Categories": "Philately", "First issue": "1887", "Country": "United States", "Website": "https://stamps.org/the-american-philatelist"} |
Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is a British actress. After her family moved to Australia, she made her film debut there in the drama For Love Alone (1986) and then appeared in three television series, Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), and Home and Away (1991), and the film Flirting (1991). After m... | {"Name": "Naomi Watts", "Caption": "Watts in 2017", "Birth name": "Naomi Ellen Watts", "Birth date": "yes 1968 9 28", "Birth place": "Shoreham, Kent, England", "Education": "Mosman High School, North Sydney Girls High School", "Occupation": "Actress film producer", "Years active": "1986-present", "Notable works": "Full... |
thumb|Buckminster Fuller and students assemble a geodesic dome, 1948
Black Mountain College was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others. The college was ideologically organized around John Dewey's educational philo... | {"Type": "Private liberal arts college", "Director": "John Andrew Rice (until 1940)", "Students": "about 1,200 total", "Website": "http://blackmountaincollege.org/"} |
Olga Edna Purviance (; October 21, 1895 - January 13, 1958) was an American actress of the silent film era. She was the leading lady in many of Charlie Chaplin's early films and in a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with him.
Life and career
1895-1913: Early life
Edna Purviance was born in October 21... | {"Name": "Edna Purviance", "Caption": "Purviance in 1923", "Birth name": "Olga Edna Purviance", "Birth date": "1895 10 21 yes", "Birth place": "Paradise Valley, Nevada, U.S.", "Death date": "1958 01 13 1895 10 21 yes", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery",... |
Linn's Stamp News is an American weekly magazine for stamp collectors. It is published by Amos Media Co., which also publishes the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers, and the Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue of Stamps and Covers 1840-1940. Linn'... | {"Categories": "Hobby magazine", "Frequency": "Weekly", "Company": "Amos Media Co.", "Country": "United States", "Based in": "Sidney, Ohio", "Language": "English", "Website": "https://www.linns.com", "ISSN": "0161-6234"} |
Jesse Francis "Jeff" Bingaman Jr. (born October 3, 1943) is an American academic and retired politician who represented New Mexico in the United States Senate for 30 years, from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 25th Attorney General of New Mexico from 1979 to 1983. During his ... | {"Name": "Jeff Bingaman", "Image caption": "Bingaman in 2008", "Term start": "January 3, 1983", "Term end": "January 3, 2013", "Predecessor 2": "Frank Murkowski", "Successor 2": "Pete Domenici", "Birth name": "Jesse Francis Bingaman Jr.", "Birth date": "1943 10 3", "Birth place": "El Paso, Texas, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "A... |
right|thumb|200px|The Big Sandy River at its confluence with the Ohio River. The land in the foreground is West Virginia, that on the left is Kentucky, while the background is Ohio.
The Big Sandy River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolu... | {"Mouth": "525 ft on", "Location": "Catlettsburg, KY", "Coordinates": "38 24 58 N 82 35 45 W inline,title", "Basin size": "4,280 sqmi km2 onTributaries http://www.orsanco.org/river-facts/tributaries/ www.orsanco.org"} |
thumb|right|250px|Map of the Scioto River watershed
The Scioto River ( ) is a river in central and southern Ohio more than in length. It rises in Hardin County just north of Roundhead, Ohio, flows through Columbus, Ohio, where it collects its largest tributary, the Olentangy River, flows south into Appalachian Ohio,... | {"Location": "Ohio River near Portsmouth", "Mouth": "486 ft m on", "Basin size": "6,517 sqmi km2 on Map of Ohio watersheds http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/water/watersheds/Basins72PDI_40x40_OnScreen.gif dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070311012646/http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/water/watersheds/Basins72PDI_40x40_OnScre... |
Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.
D... | {"Name": "Chris Dodd", "Term start": "March 17, 2011", "Term end": "September 5, 2017", "Office 2": "Chair of the Senate Banking Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Richard Shelby", "Successor 2": "Tim Johnson", "Birth name": "Christopher John Dodd", "Birth date": "1944 5 27", "Birth place": "Willimantic, Connecticut, U.S.",... |
An axion () is a hypothetical elementary particle originally postulated by the Peccei-Quinn theory in 1977 to resolve the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of cold dark matter.
History
Strong CP pro... | {"Status": "Hypothetical", "Interaction": "Gravity, electromagnetic", "Symbol": "A0, a, θ", "Mass": "10-5 to 10-3 eV/c21Peccei R. D. Axions: Theory, Cosmology, and Experimental Searches 2008 The Strong CP Problem and Axions Kuster Markus Raffelt Georg Beltrán Berta Lecture Notes in Physics 741 3-17 hep-p... |
Clarence Saxby Chambliss (born November 10, 1943) is an American lawyer and retired politician who was a United States Senator from Georgia from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative from 1995 to 2003.
During his House tenure, Chambliss chaired the House Intellig... | {"Name": "Saxby Chambliss", "Office 2": "Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Thad Cochran", "Successor 2": "Tom Harkin", "Birth name": "Clarence Saxby Chambliss", "Birth date": "1943 11 10", "Birth place": "Warrenton, North Carolina, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Julianne Frohbert 1966", "Education": "... |
The Visit (, English: The Visit of the Old Lady) is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Synopsis
An enormously wealthy older woman returns to her former hometown with a dreadful bargain: she wants the townspeople to kill the man who got her pregnant, then jilted her. In exchange, she will p... | {"Written by": "Friedrich Dürrenmatt", "Setting": "Güllen", "Date premiered": "1956", "Original language": "German", "Genre": "Tragicomedy"} |
Joseph Maxwell Cleland (August 24, 1942 - November 9, 2021) was an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a disabled U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous actions in combat, as well as a United States Senator (1997-2003)... | {"Name": "Max Cleland", "Term start": "June 3, 2009", "Term end": "January 20, 2017", "Office 2": "23rd Secretary of State of Georgia", "Governor 2": "Joe Frank HarrisZell Miller", "Predecessor 2": "David Poythress", "Successor 2": "Lewis A. Massey", "Birth name": "Joseph Maxwell Cleland", "Birth date": "1942 8 24", "B... |
Zell Bryan Miller (February 24, 1932 - March 23, 2018) was an American politician who served as the 79th governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999 and as a United States senator representing Georgia from 2000 to 2005. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Miller served as lieutenant governor of Georgia from 1975 to 199... | {"Name": "Zell Miller", "Term start": "July 24, 2000", "Term end": "January 3, 2005", "Order 2": "79th Governor of Georgia", "Predecessor 2": "Joe Frank Harris", "Successor 2": "Roy Barnes", "Birth name": "Zell Bryan Miller", "Birth date": "1932 2 24", "Birth place": "Young Harris, Georgia, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 20... |
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 - September 9, 1997) was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed theater, film, and television.
Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" and "one of the most accomplished actors of the century". A lifetime member of the A... | {"Name": "Burgess Meredith", "Image": "Burgess Meredith 1954.JPG", "Caption": "Meredith in a publicity photo (1954)", "Birth date": "1907 11 16", "Birth place": "Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.", "Death date": "1997 9 9 1907 11 16", "Death place": "Malibu, California, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Amherst College", "Party": "Democratic"... |
John Cornyn III ( ; born February 2, 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and former jurist serving as the senior United States senator from Texas, a seat he has held since 2002. A member of the Republican Party, he served on the Texas Supreme Court from 1991 to 1997 and as the attorney general of Texas from 1999... | {"Name": "John Cornyn", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "December 2, 2002", "Office 2": "Chair of the Senate Narcotics Caucus", "Predecessor 2": "Chuck Grassley", "Successor 2": "Sheldon Whitehouse", "Birth name": "John Cornyn III", "Birth date": "1952 2 2", "Birth place": "Houston, Texas, U.S... |
Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View. Walters was a wo... | {"Caption": "Walters in 1979", "Birth name": "Barbara Jill Walters", "Birth date": "1929 9 25", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "2022 12 30 1929 9 25", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Journalist", "Years active": "1951-2016", "Education": "Sarah Lawrence College (BA)", "... |
The President of the Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Президент на Република България, romanised: Prezident na Republika Bŭlgariya) is the head of state of Bulgaria and the commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian Army. The official residence of the president is at Boyana Residence, Sofia. After the completion of the second... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "Bulgaria", "Native name": "Президент на България", "Flag size": "125px", "Flag caption": "Coat of arms of Bulgaria", "Image size": "200px", "Incumbent": "Rumen Radev", "Incumbent since": "22 January 2017", "Style": "His Excellency", "Residence": "Sofija (office), Boyana (residence) bg Боя... |
The prime minister of Bulgaria () is the head of government of Bulgaria. They are the leader of a political coalition in the Bulgarian parliament - known as the National Assembly of Bulgaria (, Narodno sabranie) - and the leader of the cabinet. At times, the prime minister has been appointed by the President of Bulgari... | {"Post": "Prime Minister", "Body": "Bulgaria", "Native name": "Министър-председател на България", "Insignia size": "125px", "Insignia caption": "Coat of arms of Bulgaria", "Incumbent": "Nikolai Denkov", "Incumbent since": "6 June 2023", "Member of": "European Council", "Appointer": "National Assembly", "Term length": "... |
Lincoln Davenport Chafee ( ; born March 26, 1953) is an American politician. He was mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, from 1993 to 1999, a United States Senator from 1999 to 2007, and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. He was a member of the Democratic Party from 2013 to 2019; in June 2019, The Boston G... | {"Name": "Lincoln Chafee", "Image caption": "Chafee in 2014", "Term start": "January 4, 2011", "Term end": "January 6, 2015", "Office 2": "Mayor of Warwick", "Predecessor 2": "Charles Donovan", "Successor 2": "Scott Avedisian", "Birth name": "Lincoln Davenport Chafee", "Birth date": "1953 3 26", "Birth place": "Provide... |
Jonathan Stevens "Jon" Corzine ( ; born January 1, 1947) is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006, and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. Corzine ran for a second term as governor but lost to Republican Chris Christ... | {"Name": "Jon Corzine", "Term start": "January 17, 2006", "Term end": "January 19, 2010", "Predecessor 2": "Frank Lautenberg", "Birth name": "Jon Stevens Corzine", "Birth date": "1947 1 1", "Birth place": "Taylorville, Illinois, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Joanne Dougherty 1969 2003 divorcedSharon Elghanayan 2010", "Education... |
Who's That Girl is the first soundtrack album by American singer and songwriter Madonna. It was released on July 21, 1987, by Sire Records to promote the film of the same name. It also contains songs by her label mates Scritti Politti, Duncan Faure, Club Nouveau, Coati Mundi and Michael Davidson. The soundtrack is cred... | {"Released": "July 21, 1987", "Recorded": "1987", "Genre": "Dance-pop pop", "Label": "Sire Warner Bros.", "Producer": "Madonna Patrick Leonard Stephen Bray Jay King Green Gartside Denzil Foster Thomas McElroy David Agent Stock Aitken Waterman David Gamson John Potoker Hubert Eaves III"} |
Paul Douglas Coverdell (January 20, 1939 - July 18, 2000) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia, elected for the first time in 1992 and re-elected in 1998, and director of the Peace Corps from 1989 until 1991. Coverdell died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Atlanta, Georgia in 2000 ... | {"Order 2": "11th", "Title 2": "Director of the Peace Corps", "President 2": "George H. W. Bush", "Predecessor 2": "Loret Miller Ruppe", "Successor 2": "Elaine Chao", "Birth name": "Paul Douglas Coverdell", "Birth date": "1939 1 20 y", "Birth place": "Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.", "Death date": "2000 7 18 1939 1 20", "Death... |
John Berlinger Breaux (; born March 1, 1944) is an American lobbyist, attorney, and retired politician who was a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national le... | {"Name": "John Breaux", "Term start": "January 3, 1987", "Term end": "January 3, 2005", "Birth name": "John Berlinger Breaux", "Birth date": "1944 3 1", "Birth place": "Crowley, Louisiana, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Lois Daigle", "Education": "University of Louisiana, Lafayette (BA)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (JD... |
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in World War II. It was signed by representatives from the Empire of Japan and from the Allied nations: the United States of America, the Republic of China,The Republic of ... | {"Name": "Instrument of Surrender", "Image caption": "Representatives of the Empire of Japan stand aboard Missouri BB-63 6 prior to signing of the Instrument of Surrender.", "Treaty type": "Capitulation", "Date signed": "yes 1945 09 02", "Location signed": "Tokyo Bay, Japan", "Condition effective": "Signed", "Signatori... |
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group. It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGBTQ individuals, most notably advocating for same-sex marriage, anti-discrim... | {"Abbreviation": "HRC", "Named after": "\"Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Equal Rights\"", "Type": "Nonprofit advocacy organization", "Headquarters": "Washington, D.C., United States", "Affiliations": "Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Human Rights Campaign PAC", "Website": "https://www.hrc.or... |
Paul Edmund Soldner (April 24, 1921 - January 3, 2011) was an American ceramic artist and educator, noted for his experimentation with the 16th-century Japanese technique called raku, introducing new methods of firing and post firing, which became known as American Raku. He was the founder of the Anderson Ranch Arts Ce... | {"Name": "Paul Soldner", "Birth name": "Paul Edmund Soldner", "Birth date": "1921 04 24", "Birth place": "Summerfield, Illinois, US", "Death date": "2011 01 03 1921 04 24", "Death place": "Claremont, California, US", "Alma mater": "Bluffton College, University of Colorado at Boulder, Otis College of Art and Design", "K... |
Leominster ( ) is a market town in Herefordshire, England; it is located at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater. The town is north of Hereford and south of Ludlow in Shropshire. With a population of 11,700, Leominster is the largest of the five towns in the county; the others being R... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021 Census)Leominster https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/westmidlands/admin/county_of_herefordshire/E04000800__leominster/ City population 25 October 2022", "Unitary authority": "Herefordshire", "Ceremonial county": "Herefordshire", "UK Parliament": "North Herefordshi... |
Thomas Laurence Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas, FRS (16 February 1741 – 14 June 1820) was a Scottish politician and peer who sat in the British House of Commons from 1763 to 1794 when he was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Dundas. He was responsible for commissioning the Charlotte Dundas, the world's "first p... | {"Name": "The Lord Dundas", "Term start": "1763", "Term end": "1768", "Birth date": "16 February 1741", "Birth place": "Great Britain", "Death date": "14 June 1820 (aged 79)", "Death place": "Great Britain", "Spouse(s)": "Lady Charlotte FitzWilliam (m. 1764)", "Education": "St. Andrews University"} |
ZynAddSubFX (also now called Zyn-Fusion) is a free and open-source software synthesizer for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. As of version 3, the completely new user interface is being released under proprietary terms with an open-source-eventually intention while the synthesis engine remains under the original G... | {"Original author(s)": "Nasca Octavian Paul", "Developer(s)": "Mark McCurry, Harald Hvaal", "Initial release": "2002 09 25", "Repository": "https://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx/", "Written in": "C++", "Size": "8.0MB", "Available in": "English", "Type": "Synthesizer", "License": "GPL-2.0-or-laterZynAddSubFX lice... |
Winston Raymond Peters (; born 11 April 1945) is a New Zealand politician who has been serving as the leader of New Zealand First since its foundation in 1993. Peters served as the 13th deputy prime minister of New Zealand from 1996 to 1998 and 2017 to 2020, the minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2008 and 2017 t... | {"Name": "Winston Peters", "Image caption": "Peters in 2019", "Prime minister 2": "Jim BolgerJenny Shipley", "Predecessor 2": "Don McKinnon", "Successor 2": "Wyatt Creech", "Birth name": "Wynston Raymond Peters", "Birth date": "y 1945 4 11", "Birth place": "Whangārei, New Zealand", "Alma mater": "University of Auckland... |
Sir Robert Murray Helpmann CBE ( Helpman, 9 April 1909 - 28 September 1986) was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director, and choreographer. After early work in Australia he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (now The Royal Ballet) under its creator, Ninette de Valois. He became one of t... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Name": "Robert Helpmann", "Post-nominals": "GBR 100% CBE", "Caption": "Helpmann, circa 1945", "Birth name": "Robert Murray Helpman", "Birth date": "1909 04 09 y", "Birth place": "Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia", "Death date": "1986 09 28 1909 04 09 y", "Death place": "Sydney, New... |
Gavin Douglas (c. 1474 - September 1522) was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator. Although he had an important political career, he is chiefly remembered for his poetry. His main pioneering achievement was the Eneados, a full and faithful vernacular translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into Scots, and the first succ... | {"See": "Diocese of Dunkeld", "Predecessor": "Andrew Stewart", "Successor": "Robert Cockburn", "Consecration": "1516", "Born": "Tantallon Castle, East Lothian", "Died": "London", "Nationality": "Scottish"} |
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (; 23 May 1949 - 17 April 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011.García wins to become Peru president Al Jazeera, 5 June 2006 He was the second leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party and to date... | {"Name": "Alan García", "Image caption": "García in 2010", "Vice president": "1st Vice PresidentLuis Giampietri2nd Vice PresidentLourdes Mendoza", "Office 2": "Senator for Lifeas Former President of the Republic", "Birth name": "Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez", "Birth date": "1949 5 23 y", "Birth place": "Lima, Peru"... |
Sæmundr Sigfússon, better known as Sæmundr fróði (Sæmundr the Learned; 1056-1133), was an Icelandic priest and scholar.
Biography
Sæmundr is known to have studied abroad. Previously it has generally been held that he studied in France, but modern scholars rather believe his studies were carried out in Franconia. In Ic... | {"Birth date": "1056", "Birth place": "Iceland", "Death date": "1133 1056", "Death place": "Iceland", "Occupation": "Priest, scholar"} |
Polydore Vergil or Virgil (Italian: Polidoro Virgili; commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius; - 18 April 1555), widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent much of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the Proverbio... | {"Name": "Polydore Vergil", "Caption": "Polydore Vergil", "Birth date": "1470", "Birth place": "Urbino, Duchy of Urbino", "Death date": "18 April 1555 (aged 84-85)", "Death place": "Urbino, Duchy of Urbino", "Resting place": "Duomo di Urbino (cathedral)", "Nationality": "Urbinate; naturalised English 1510", "Other name... |
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 19386 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is regarded by some as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation.Lord of the dance - Rudolf Nureyev at the National Film Theatre, London, 1-31 January 2003 , by John Percival, The Independent, 26 ... | {"Name": "Rudolf Nureyev", "Caption": "Nureyev in 1973", "Birth name": "Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev", "Birth date": "1938 3 17 y", "Birth place": "Near Irkutsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union", "Citizenship": "Soviet Union (until 1961)\n Stateless (1961-1982)\n Austria (from 1982)", "Death date": "1993 1 6 1938 3 17 y", "De... |
Rodriguez, officially the Municipality of Rodriguez (), formerly known (and still commonly called) as Montalban, is a 1st class urban municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 443,954 people making it the most populous municipality in the country. Pending a... | {"Named for": "Eulogio Rodriguez", "Type": "government_type", "Rank": "1 out of 1,489 Municipalities", "Density": "auto"} |
Stephen Tyrone Colbert ( ; born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is best known for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014 and the CBS talk program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since September 2... | {"Birth name": "Stephen Tyrone Colbert", "Born": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Spouse": "Evelyn McGee October 9, 1993", "Children": "3", "Parent(s)": "James William Colbert Jr.", "Relative(s)": "Elizabeth Colbert Busch (sister)", "Years active": "1984-present", "Alma mater": "Northwestern University (BA)", "Medium": "Tele... |
The is a handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and in the United States on May 1, 1997, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. , over units have been sold worl... | {"Type": "Digital pet", "Inventor(s)": "Aki Maita", "Country": "Japan", "Company": "Bandai", "Availability": "present"} |
is an action puzzle game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. Released for the Dreamcast in 1999, it was the first game for the system to support online console gaming. Players must place arrows on a board to lead mice into escape rockets while avoiding cats. The game features single-player modes in which a p... | {"Title": "ChuChu Rocket!", "Developer": "Sonic Team", "Publisher": "Sega", "Director": "Yuji Naka", "Producer": "Yuji Naka", "Designer": "Takafumi Kaya", "Artist": "Yuji Uekawa", "Composer": "Tomoya Ohtani", "Platforms": "Dreamcast, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Android", "Released": "November 11, 1999 font-weight:normal;bac... |
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Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov (30 January 1938 - 2 September 2016) was an Uzbek politician who led Uzbekistan and its predecessor state, the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, from 1989 until his death in 2016. He was the last First Secretary of the Com... | {"Honorific prefix": "Yurtboshihttps://www.bfm.ru/news/332643 Юртбаши умер - да здравствует юртбаши. Каримова сменит Мирзияев? 14 May 2020 4 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191104094002/https://www.bfm.ru/news/332643 liveHero of Uzbekistan", "Name": "Islam Karimov", "Native name": "uz-Cyrl Ислом Каримовuz-L... |
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dallas and Salt Lake City, and additional offices... | {"Type": "Public", "ISIN": "n y US38141G1040", "Industry": "Financial services", "Founded": "1869", "Headquarters": "U.S.", "Revenue": "47.37 billion yes (2022)", "AUM": "2.55 trillion (2022)", "Divisions": "Investment Banking\n Global Markets\n Asset Management\n Consumer & Wealth Management", "Subsidiarie... |
All Grown Up! is an American animated television series developed by Kate Boutilier, Eryk Casemiro, and Monica Piper for Nickelodeon. It serves as a sequel to Rugrats, and explores the daily lives of protagonist Tommy Pickles, his little brother Dil and his childhood friends, now tweens/adolescents. The concept for the... | {"Also known as": "Rugrats: All Grown Up!", "Genre": "Animated sitcom\n Comedy", "Developed by": "Kate Boutilier\nEryk Casemiro\nMonica Piper", "Written by": "Kate Boutilier\nShelia M. Anthony\nMonica Piper\nEryk Casemiro\nScott Gray\nErin Ehrlich\nPeter Hunziker\nJoe Purdy", "Directed by": "Andrei Svislotski\nZhenia D... |
The Music City Bowl is a post-season American college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played in Nashville, Tennessee, since 1998. Since 2020, it has been sponsored by TransPerfect and is officially known as the TransPerfect Music City Bowl. Previous title sponsors include American General Life & ... | {"Stadium": "Nissan Stadium", "Previous stadiums": "Vanderbilt Stadium (1998)", "Location": "Nashville, Tennessee", "Operated": "1998-present", "Conference tie-ins": "Big Ten, SEC", "Previous conference tie-ins": "ACC (2006-2019)Big East (1998-2001)Big Ten (2002-2005)", "Payout": "5.7 million (2019)http://www.collegefo... |
The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in New Orleans, Louisiana. Played annually since January 1, 1935, it is tied with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in the country, surpassed only by the Rose Bowl Game.
The Sugar Bowl was originally played at Tulane Stad... | {"Stadium": "Caesars Superdome", "Previous stadiums": "Tulane Stadium (1934-1974)", "Location": "New Orleans, Louisiana", "Temporary venue": "Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia (2006)katrina Temporarily relocated because of the damage from Hurricane Katrina.", "Operated": "1935-present", "Championship affiliation": "CFP (2... |
The Arkansas Razorbacks, also known as the Hogs, are the intercollegiate athletics teams representing the University of Arkansas, located in Fayetteville. The University of Arkansas student body voted to change the name of the school mascot (originally the Cardinals) in 1910 to the Arkansas Razorbacks after a hard-foug... | {"Division": "Division I (FBS)", "Athletic director": "Hunter YurachekHunter Yurachek Named Athletic Director http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/hunter-yurachek-named-university-of-arkansas-athletic-director/ ArkansasRazorbacks.com December 4, 2017 July 12, 2019", "Number of sports": "19", "Football stadium": "Frank Bro... |
Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American computer-animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The second installment in the Toy Story franchise and the sequel to Toy Story (1995), it was directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by Ash Brannon and Lee Unkrich, from a screenplay written by And... | {"Directed by": "John Lasseter", "Produced by": "Helene Plotkin\n Karen Robert Jackson", "Screenplay by": "Andrew Stanton\n Rita Hsiao\n Doug Chamberlin\n Chris Webb", "Story by": "John Lasseter\n Pete Docter\n Ash Brannon\n Andrew Stanton", "Starring": "Tom Hanks\n Tim Allen\n Joan Cusack\n Kelsey Grammer\n Don Rickle... |
Ernő Rubik (; born 13 July 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, architect, and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including the Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition, and Rubik's Snake.
While Rubik became famous for inventing the Rubik's Cube and h... | {"Name": "Ernő Rubik", "Caption": "Rubik in 2014", "Birth date": "yes 1944 07 13", "Birth place": "Budapest, Hungary", "Known For": "Puzzle designer of Rubik's Cube, inventor, architect, professor", "Education": "1962-1967 University of Technology, Budapest (architecture) 1967-1971 Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts; In... |
The Independence Bowl is a post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-sanctioned Division I college football bowl game that is played annually each December at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Independence Bowl was named because it was inaugurated in 1976, the year of the United State... | {"Stadium": "Independence Stadium", "Location": "Shreveport, Louisiana", "Operated": "1976-present", "Conference tie-ins": "see table", "Previous conference tie-ins": "SLC (1976-1981)\n SEC (1995-2009)\n Big 12 (1998-2009)\n MWC (2010-2011)\n ACC (2010-2019)\n SEC (2012-2019)", "Payout": "2.2 million (2019)ht... |
The Sun Bowl is a college football bowl game that has been played since 1935 in the southwestern United States at El Paso, Texas. Along with the Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl, it is the second-oldest bowl game in the country, behind the Rose Bowl. Usually held near the end of December, games are played at the Sun Bowl sta... | {"Stadium": "Sun Bowl", "Previous stadiums": "Kidd Field(1938-1962)\n Jones Stadium(1935-1937)", "Location": "El Paso, Texas, U.S.", "Operated": "1935-present", "Championship affiliation": "Bowl Coalition(1992-1994)", "Conference tie-ins": "Pac-12, ACC", "Previous conference tie-ins": "Border (1936-1961)\n Big Ten (1... |
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt () is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointee of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the president is also the sup... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "theArab Republic of Egypt", "Native name": "ar رئيس جمهورية مصر العربية", "Flag border": "yes", "Flag caption": "Presidential Standard", "Incumbent": "Abdel Fattah el-Sisi", "Incumbent since": "8 June 2014", "Style": "His/Her Excellency", "Residence": "Heliopolis Palace, Cairo, Egypt", "T... |
The president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was constitutionally the head of state and head of government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004-2021) and Commander-in-Chief of the Afghan Armed Forces.
On 15 August 2021, as the Taliban took over Kabul, President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan and took r... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan", "Native name": "دافغانستان اسلامي امارت", "Insignia size": "125px", "Insignia caption": "Emblem of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan", "Flag border": "yes", "Flag caption": "Presidential standard", "Image": "The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi me... |
The Pop-Tarts Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that is played in Orlando, Florida, at Camping World Stadium. The bowl is operated by Florida Citrus Sports, a non-profit group which also organizes the Citrus Bowl and the Florida Classic. It was first played in 1990 in Miami Gardens, Florida, before moving to... | {"Stadium": "Camping World Stadium", "Previous stadiums": "Joe Robbie Stadium (1990-2000)", "Location": "Orlando, Florida", "Previous locations": "Miami Gardens, Florida (1990-2000)", "Operated": "1990-present", "Championship affiliation": "Bowl Coalition (1992)", "Conference tie-ins": "ACC, Big 12", "Previous conferen... |
The president of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Australian Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Australia.
The position is provided for by Section 17 of the Constitution of Australia. The Senate elects one of its members as president at the start of each new term, or whenever the position is vacant... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "the Senate", "Insignia caption": "Commonwealth Coat of Arms", "Flag caption": "Flag of Australia", "Flag border": "yes", "Department": "Australian Senate", "Image": "Sue Lines 2017-02-23.JPG", "Incumbent": "Sue Lines", "Incumbent since": "26 July 2022", "Style": "The Honourable", "Appoint... |
"Here, There and Everywhere" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. A love ballad, it was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney. McCartney includes it among his personal favourites of the songs he has written. In 2000, Mojo ranked it 4th in the magazine's lis... | {"Released": "5 August 1966", "Recorded": "14 June 1966", "Studio": "EMI, London", "Genre": "Soft rockPollack 1994https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/the_50_greatest_beatles_songs/s1__30112769#slide_8 The 50 greatest Beatles songs 9 March 2022 Yardbarker \npopMoorefield 2005", "Label": "Parlophone", "Song... |
"For No One" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was written by Paul McCartney, and credited to Lennon-McCartney. An early example of baroque pop. Pasadena Star-News. 29 November 2012. drawing on both baroque music and nineteenth-century art song, it describes the end of a ... | {"Released": "5 August 1966", "Recorded": "9, 16 and 19 May 1966", "Studio": "EMI, London", "Genre": "Baroque pop", "Label": "Parlophone", "Songwriter(s)": "Lennon-McCartney", "Producer(s)": "George Martin"} |
Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician and pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. In the early-to-mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill, and then fronted Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since 2010, she has record... | {"Name": "Kathleen Hanna", "Caption": "Hanna performing in London, 2016", "Birth date": "1968 11 12", "Birth place": "Portland, Oregon, U.S.", "Alma mater": "The Evergreen State College", "Occupation": "Musician activist writer", "Spouse(s)": "Adam Horovitz 2006", "Module": "yes\n solo_singer\n Vocals guitar bass sa... |
"The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney. When issued as a single in May 1970, a month after the Beatles' break-up, it became the group's 20th and last number-one hit on the Billboard Hot... | {"B-side": "For You Blue", "Released": "11 May 1970", "Recorded": "26 January 1969; 1 April 1970", "Studio": "Apple and EMI, London", "Genre": "Pop https://www.popmatters.com/115751-re-meet-the-beatles-the-records-day-four-1968-1969-2496121185.html Carole Ann Wright PopMatters The Records, Day Four: 1968-1969\" > \"Let... |
BellSouth, LLC (stylized as BELLSOUTH and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Compan... | {"Type": "subsidiary", "Founded": "1983", "Headquarters": "Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.", "Industry": "Telecommunications", "Defunct": "2006", "Fate": "Acquired by AT&T Inc.", "Products": "Telephone, Internet, Television", "Parent": "AT&T Corporation (1983)AT&T Inc. http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/gen/company.ht... |
Demetrius I (died 22 October 232), 12th Bishop and Patriarch of Alexandria. Sextus Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the Bishoprice of Demetrius, places his accession as eleventh bishop from Mark in the tenth year of Roman Emperor Commodus; Eusebius of Caesarea places it in the tenth year of Septimus Severus.... | {"Venerated in": "Oriental Orthodox ChurchCoptic Catholic ChurchRoman Catholic Church", "Feast day": "Coptic Church: 12 Ⲡⲁⲟⲡⲓ (Julian Calendar: 9 October)Catholic Church: 9 October\"St. Demetrius\"", "Predecessor": "St. Julian of Alexandria", "Successor": "St. Heraclas of Alexandria", "Born": "Alexandria, Egypt", "Died... |
The University of South Australia (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the largest university in South Australia with approximately 37,000 students.
The university was founded in its curr... | {"Type": "Public research university", "Accreditation": "TEQSA", "Endowment": "A$610.8 million", "Students": "37,873 (2021) 22,427 Female Students; 8,043 Low SES domestic; 6,172 aged 21 and under(commencing undergraduate);5,496 mature-aged learners (commencing undergraduate https://unisa.edu.au/siteassets/about-unisa/d... |
West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product lines included Star Wars, Paranoia, Torg, DC Universe, and Junta.
History
Scott Palter received a JD from Stanford ... | {"Type": "Private", "Industry": "Role-playing, board, wargaming", "Fate": "Bankruptcy 1998. Partially merged 1999 and fully acquired in 2001 by Humanoids Inc. Acquired 2003 by Purgatory Publishing. Remnants acquired 2016 by Nocturnal Media.", "Founded": "1974\n<!--", "Defunct": "still in business-->", "Headquarters": "... |
Dutton Speedwords, transcribed in Speedwords as ," is the plural of = speedword, listed in the 1951 Dictionary as augment of = word. By Speedword Dutton meant a word in his constructed language." is an international auxiliary language as well as an abbreviated writing system using the English alphabet for all the la... | {"Script type": "and auxiliary language", "Creator": "Reginald J. G. Dutton", "Created": "1922", "Published": "1935, 1946, 1951, 1971"} |
Jesus Jones are a British alternative rock band from Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, formed in late 1988, who continue to record and perform, as of 2021. Their track "Right Here, Right Now" was an international hit, and was subsequently globally licensed for promotional and advertising campaigns. The single was also nom... | {"Origin": "Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England", "Genres": "Alternative rockhttp://www.popmatters.com/feature/149146-right-there-right-then-jesus-jones-alternative-history-of-1991/ Right There, Right Then: Jesus Jones' Alternative History of 1991 Raggett Ned 3 October 2011 PopMatters 15 April 2017\ngrebohttp://... |
Stefano Garzelli (born 16 July 1973) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 1997 and 2013. The high point of his career was his overall win in the 2000 Giro d'Italia, after a close three-way competition with Gilberto Simoni and Francesco Casagrande.
Career
Born in... | {"Name": "Stefano Garzelli", "Image caption": "Garzelli at the 2014 Giro d'Italia", "Full name": "Stefano Garzelli", "Birth date": "1973 7 16 y", "Birth place": "Varese, Italy", "Current team": "Retired", "Discipline": "Road", "Role": "Rider", "Rider type": "All-rounder", "Pro years 1": "1997-2000", "Pro team 1": "UNO ... |
Michael David Rann, , (born 5 January 1953) is an Australian former politician who was the 44th premier of South Australia from 2002 to 2011. He was later Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2014, and Australian ambassador to Italy, Albania, Libya and San Marino from 2014 to 2016.
Rann gre... | {"Name": "Mike Rann", "Term start": "5 March 2002", "Term end": "21 October 2011", "Office 2": "Australian Ambassador to Italy, Albania, Libya and San Marino", "Predecessor 2": "David Ritchie", "Successor 2": "Greg French", "Birth name": "Michael David Rann", "Birth date": "yes 1953 1 5", "Birth place": "Sidcup, Kent, ... |
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