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The Critique of Judgment (), also translated as the Critique of the Power of Judgment, is a 1790 book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Sometimes referred to as the "third critique", the Critique of Judgment follows the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the Critique of Practical Reason (1788).
Context
Imma... | {"Original title": "Critik der Urtheilskraft a", "Country": "Germany", "Language": "German", "Published": "1790", "Media type": "Print"} |
Kuala Lumpur Tower (Malay: Menara Kuala Lumpur; Jawi: منارا کوالا لومڤور), colloquially referred to as KL Tower, is a 6-storey, 421-metre-tall (1,381 ft) telecommunication tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the world's seventh-tallest tower and Malaysia and Southeast Asia's second tallest tower. Its construction w... | {"Alternative names": "KL Tower", "Status": "Completed", "Groundbreaking": "yes 1991 10 01", "Construction started": "yes 1991 10 04", "Type": "Telecommunication, Islamic Lunar observatory, adventure (basejump), tourism, cultural", "Location": "Bukit Nanas, Kuala Lumpur,\nMalaysia", "Coordinates": "3 9 10 N 101 42 12 E... |
The United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), previously known as the National Weather Records Center (NWRC), in Asheville, North Carolina, was the world's largest active archive of weather data.
In 2015, the NCDC merged with two other federal environmental records agencies to become the National Centers fo... | {"Formed": "1934", "Dissolved": "2015", "Jurisdiction": "United States government", "Headquarters": "Asheville, North Carolina", "Annual budget": "$65 million (2013)http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/annualreports/2013-annual.pdf 2013 Annual Report NCDC 20 August 2015 Osborne, Susan Vincent, Katy 29", "Website": ... |
Sahand (), is a massive, heavily eroded stratovolcano in East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran. At , it is the highest mountain in the province of East Azarbaijan.
Sahand is one of the highest mountains in Iranian Azerbaijan, in addition to being an important dormant volcano in the country. The Sahand mountains... | {"Elevation": "\"Iran: 54 Mountain Summits with Prominence of 1,500 meters or greater\". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2014-05-25.", "Prominence": "1826", "Location": "East Azarbaijan, Iran", "Coordinates": "37 43 51 N 46 30 00 E type:mountain_scale:100000 dms inline,title"} |
The Kyiv TV Tower () is a lattice metal tower on Oranzhereina Street, Kyiv, Ukraine, and is the tallest structure in the country. The tower was built in 1973 while Kyiv was the capital of Ukrainian SSR. The tower was the tallest freestanding metal structure in the world until being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree in 2... | {"Location": "Kyiv, Ukraine", "Coordinates": "50 28 16 N 30 27 12 E region:UA inline,title", "Status": "Complete", "Construction started": "1968", "Type": "Steel lattice television tower"} |
"Fortuneteller" is a song written by Dyer Hurdon and Basil Hurdon, and recorded by Bobby Curtola in 1962. The song spent 14 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 41 on June 23, 1962.
References
Category:1962 songs
Category:1962 singles | {"B-side": "Johnny Take Your Time", "Released": "1962", "Genre": "Rock and roll", "Label": "Del-Fi Records", "Songwriter(s)": "Dyer Hurdon & Basil Hurdon"} |
The Almaty Television Tower (), or simply Almaty Tower, formally the Koktobe TV Tower () is a steel television tower built between 1975 and 1983 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The tower is located on high slopes of Kok Tobe mountain ( means "green hill") south-east of downtown Almaty. Unlike other similar TV towers, it is no... | {"Status": "Complete", "Construction started": "1975", "Type": "Steel telecommunications and observation tower", "Location": "KAZ Almaty, Kazakhstan", "Coordinates": "43 13 44 N 76 58 34 E region:KZ inline,title"} |
Ready Steady Cook is a BBC daytime TV cooking game show. It debuted on 24 October 1994 and the last original edition was broadcast on 2 February 2010. The programme was hosted by Fern Britton from 1994 until 2000 when celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott became the new host. In August 2000, when Harriott took over, the dura... | {"Genre": "Cooking show", "Presented by": "Fern Britton (1994-2000)\n Ainsley Harriott (2000-2010)\n Rylan Clark (2020-2021)", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Running time": "30 minutes (1994-2000)45 minutes (2000-2010, 2020-2021)", "Original network": "BBC Two (1994-2010)BBC One (1997-2003, 2020-2021)", "Origi... |
Sabalan (Persian: سبلان ) is an inactive stratovolcano in Ardabil Province of northwestern Iran.
At in elevation, it is the third-highest mountain in Iran. It has a permanent crater lake formed at its summit. On one of its slopes around in elevation there are large rock formations of eroded volcanic outcrops that re... | {"Elevation": "\"Iran: 54 Mountain Summits with Prominence of 1,500 meters or greater\" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2011-11-21.", "Prominence": "Ranked 66th", "Location": "Meshkinshahr, Iran.", "Coordinates": "38 16 01 N 47 50 13 E type:mountain_scale:100000 dms inline,title"} |
The Riga Radio and TV Tower () in Riga, Latvia is the tallest tower in the European Union. It was built between 1979 and 1989 with funding from the central government of the Soviet Union. Its highest point reaches , which makes it the third tallest tower in Europe (after the Ostankino Tower at and the Kyiv TV Tower at... | {"Construction started": "1979", "Type": "Mixed-use", "Location": "Riga, Latvia", "Coordinates": "56.9240 24.1370 region:LV-RIX inline,title", "Preceded by": "Fernsehturm Berlin"} |
Thomas Henry Sargent (21 November 1894 - 7 May 1963), known professionally by his stage name Max Miller and billed as The Cheeky Chappie, was an English comedian often considered the greatest stand-up of his generation. He came from humble beginnings and left school at the age of twelve. At the outbreak of the First Wo... | {"Birth name": "Thomas Henry Sargent", "Born": "Kemptown, Brighton, England", "Died": "Brighton, England", "Resting place": "Downs Crematorium, Brighton, England", "Spouse": "Kathleen Marsh 1921", "Website": "maxmiller.org", "Genres": "Blue comedy"} |
Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 - October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent films. He was Hollywood's first Western star and helped define the genre as it emerged in... | {"Name": "Tom Mix", "Caption": "Mix in 1925", "Birth name": "Thomas Hezikiah Mix", "Birth date": "1880 1 6 y", "Birth place": "Mix Run, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "1940 10 12 1880 1 6 y", "Death place": "Florence, Arizona, U.S.", "Other names": "Thomas Edwin Mix", "Years active": "1909-1935", "Occupation": "Act... |
Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin, (born 23 September 1949GRO Register of Marriages: SEP 1980 14 0207 LAMBETH - Keith D. Taylor=Floella K.Y. Benjamin) is a Trinidadian-British actress, singer, presenter, author and politician. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play ... | {"Name": "The Baroness Benjamin", "Birth date": "yes 1949 9 23", "Birth name": "Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin", "Birth place": "Pointe-à-Pierre, Trinidad and Tobago", "Spouse(s)": "Keith Taylor 1980", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2023"} |
Pforzheim () is a city of over 125,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany.
It is known for its jewelry and watch-making industry, and as such has gained the nickname "Goldstadt" ("Golden City"). With an area of , it is situated about halfway between the cities of Stuttga... | {"Bundesland or state": "Baden-Württemberg", "Regierungsbezirk or region": "Karlsruhe", "Kreis / Landkreis or district": "Stadtkreis", "Höhe or elevation": "273", "Fläche or area": "98.03", "PLZ or postal_code": "75172-75181", "Vorwahl or area_code": "07231, 07234, 07041", "Kfz or licence": "PF", "Gliederung or divisio... |
Wave Race is a 1992 personal watercraft racing video game developed by Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Game Boy. It is the first game in the Wave Race series. The player controls a jet skier around a track aiming to beat the computer or up to three friends using the link cable accessory.
Gamepl... | {"Title": "Wave Race", "Caption": "European version cover art", "Developer": "Pax Softnica", "Publisher": "Nintendo", "Director": "Masayuki Kameyama", "Producer": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "Composer": "Taisuke Araki", "Released": "NA July 1, 1992 EU June 24, 1997", "Modes": "Single-player, multiplayer", "Genre": "Racing", "S... |
Martin Jarvis OBE (born 4 August 1941) is an English actor. Described by the BBC as "one of Britain's most distinguished and versatile actors", he has had a varied career in theatre, film and television, and is particularly noted for radio acting and voicing audiobooks.
Early life
Jarvis was born in Cheltenham, Glouce... | {"Name": "Martin Jarvis", "Post-nominals": "OBE", "Birth date": "y 1941 8 4", "Birth place": "Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England", "Alma mater": "Royal Academy of Dramatic Art", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1964-present", "Spouse(s)": "Rosalind Ayres 23 November 1974", "Children": "2"} |
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Hegyvidék (, literally "Highlands", or "Mountain-land") is the official name of the XII district of Budapest (), capital of Hungary. It is a region of Buda, on the west bank of river Danube.
Geography
thumb|230x230px|Buda hills
Being the only district in Buda which has no... | {"Rank": "17th", "Density": "2,181", "DST": "+2", "Website": "https://www.hegyvidek.hu/"} |
Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 - 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for The Observer; he also lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism.
Early life and career
Melly was born at The Grange, St Mi... | {"Born": "Liverpool, Lancashire, England", "Died": "London, England", "Genres": "Jazz blues", "Labels": "WSM", "Website": "georgemelly.com/"} |
Saint Petersburg Television Tower is a Russian steel lattice television tower in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Being the first dedicated television tower in the Soviet Union, the Saint Petersburg TV Tower is utilized for transmitting for FM-/TV-broadcasting throughout the federal city.
History
The Saint Petersburg TV ... | {"Location": "Saint Petersburg, Russia", "Coordinates": "59 58 36 N 30 19 15 E inline,title", "Status": "Complete", "Construction started": "1956", "Type": "Steel lattice television tower"} |
Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. ) and a Capital District (Distrito Capital). Each department has a governor (gobernador) and an Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecut... | {"Category": "Unitary state", "Location": "Republic of Colombia", "Number": "32 Departments1 Capital District", "Populations": "47,000 (Vaupés) - 7,430,000 (Capital District)", "Areas": "19.3 sqmi km2 on flip (San Andrés) - 42341.89 sqmi km2 on flip (Amazonas)", "Government": "Department government, national government... |
Brigadier-General Stand Watie (; December 12, 1806September 9, 1871), also known as Standhope Uwatie, Tawkertawker, and Isaac S. Watie, was a Cherokee politician who served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1862 to 1866. The Cherokee Nation allied with the Confederate States during the American ... | {"Name": "Stand Watie", "Native name": "ᏕᎦᏔᎦ", "Native name language": "chr", "Image caption": "Watie, 1865", "Birth date": "1806 12 12", "Death date": "1871 09 09 1806 12 12", "Birth place": "Oothcaloga, Cherokee Nation (present-day Calhoun, Georgia), U.S.", "Death place": "Delaware County, Indian Territory, U.S.", "... |
Westfield Sportscars is a manufacturer of both factory built and kit versions of several two-seater, open top sportscars. Their main product is a Lotus Seven inspired car - vehicles originally designed by Colin Chapman with only the bare essentials for motoring in order to give the rawest and most exhilarating driving ... | {"Type": "Manufacturing Company", "Founded": "1982", "Fate": "Administration", "Headquarters": "England", "Industry": "Automobiles", "Products": "SEi, MegaS2000, Megabusa, SEiGHT, Sport 2000S, XI, XTR2, XTR4 - see Models", "Website": "Westfield-sportscars.co.uk"} |
Sit-Up Ltd., traded as Bid Shopping, was an English broadcaster which launched in 2000. It operated a portfolio of falling price shopping television channels to over 12 million homes in the UK.
History
On 1 April 2009, it was announced that Sit-Up Ltd had been sold by Virgin Media to Aurelius AG. The purchase price or... | {"Fate": "Administration", "Type": "Limited company subsidiary", "Founded": "2000", "Defunct": "17 April 2014", "Headquarters": "Bid Shopping Sit-Up House 179-181 The Vale London. W3 7RW, UK", "Industry": "Broadcasting", "Products": "Shopping Television Channels", "Revenue": "Unknown"} |
Prince Gustav of Vasa, Count Itterburg (; 9 November 1799 at Stockholm - 4 August/5 August 1877 at Pillnitz), born Crown Prince of Sweden, was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica. His Austrian princely title (from 1829) was actually spelled Wasa.
Life and career
After his birth, he was raised... | {"Born": "Stockholm, Sweden", "Died": "Pillnitz, Saxony", "Father": "Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden", "Mother": "Princess Frederica of Baden", "Burial": "Riddarholmen Church"} |
Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von und zu Weichs an der Glon (12 November 1881 - 27 September 1954) was a field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Born into an aristocratic family, Weichs joined the Bavarian cavalry in 1900 and fought in the First World War. At ... | {"Born": "Dessau, German Empire", "Died": "Bonn, West Germany", "Allegiance": "German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany", "Commands held": "1st Panzer DivisionXIII Corps2nd ArmyArmy Group BArmy Group FOB Südost", "Awards": "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves"} |
thumb|right|alt=Vigil scene from The Laramie Project|Scene from a 2008 performance depicting the candlelight vigils held for Matthew Shepard
thumb|right|alt=Scene from The Laramie Project|Scene from 2005 performance depicting Westboro Baptist Church protesters
The Laramie Project is a 2000 play by Moisés Kaufman and m... | {"Written by": "Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project", "Characters": "Residents of Laramie and members of the Tectonic Theater Project", "Setting": "Laramie, Wyoming", "Date premiered": "2000 2", "Place premiered": "Ricketson Theatre, Denver Laramie, Wyoming", "Original language": "English", "Subj... |
Wolfram Karl Ludwig Moritz Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen (10 October 1895 - 12 July 1945) was a German World War I flying ace who rose to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
Born in 1895 into a family of the Prussian nobility, Richthofen grew up in prosperous surroundings. At the a... | {"Birth name": "Wolfram Karl Ludwig Moritz Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen", "Born": "Barzdorf, Silesia, Prussia, German Empire", "Died": "Bad Ischl, Gmunden, Allied-occupied Austria", "Allegiance": "German Empire Nazi Germany", "Commands held": "Condor Legion, 8th Air Corps, Luftflotte 2, Luftflotte 4", "Awards": "Kni... |
Biscayne Bay () is a lagoon with characteristics of an estuary located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida. The northern end of the lagoon is surrounded by the densely developed heart of the Miami metropolitan area while the southern end is largely undeveloped with a large portion of the lagoon included in Biscayne ... | {"Coordinates": "25 33 57 N 80 12 59 W source:GNIS_scale:500000 inline,title", "Ocean/sea sources": "Atlantic Ocean", "Basin": "United States", "Max. length": "60 mi km", "Max. width": "8 mi km", "Settlements": "MiamiMiami Beach, Florida", "References": "Length & width:Brown McAdory Nail Sarruff 2003 1-2Area:Smith 2001... |
The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to its demolition in 1931. Originally ten stories and tall, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884 and completed the next year. Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to . It was the first tall building to... | {"Construction started": "1884", "Type": "Office", "Location": "Chicago, Illinois, United States", "Coordinates": "41.8796 -87.6320 region:US-IL inline,title"} |
Thutmose IV (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; "Thoth is born") was the 8th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately the 14th century BC. His prenomen or royal name, Menkheperure, means "Established in forms is Re." He was the son o... | {"Reign": "1401-1391 or 1397-1388 BC", "Predecessor": "Amenhotep II", "Successor": "Amenhotep III", "Children": "Amenhotep III, Siatum (?), Amenemhat, Tiaa, Amenemopet, Petepihu, Tentamun", "Dynasty": "18th Dynasty", "Father": "Amenhotep II", "Mother": "Tiaa", "Died": "1391 or 1388 BC", "Burial": "KV43"} |
The Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT) is a First Nations-operated post-secondary institution offering training and educational programs in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Campus
As of 2021, SIIT has three campuses, nine Career Centres, two mobile job connection and training units, and over 35 community learni... | {"Type": "Public comprehensive community college", "Affiliation": "ACCC, CCAA, AUCC,", "President": "Riel Bellegarde", "Students": "1,345 (2020-2021)", "Campus": "Urban (Saskatoon), rural"} |
The Montreal Convention (formally, the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air) is a multilateral treaty adopted by a diplomatic meeting of ICAO member states in 1999. It amended important provisions of the Warsaw Convention's regime concerning compensation for the victims of a... | {"Name": "Montreal Convention", "Long name": "Convention for the Unification of certain rules for international carriage by air", "Date signed": "yes 1999 05 28", "Location signed": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Date effective": "4 November 2003", "Parties": "137 (136 states + EU)", "Depositor": "International Civil Avi... |
Vladimír Šmicer (, born 24 May 1973) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He started his senior career at Slavia Prague, the only Czech club he ever played for. In 1999, Šmicer moved to England where he played for Liverpool, winning multiple honours. He is perhaps best remembered at Liv... | {"Name": "Vladimír Šmicer", "Picture caption": "Šmicer in 2005", "Full name": "Vladimír Šmicer", "Birth date": "1973 5 24 yhttps://www.premierleague.com/players/1711/Vladimir-Smicer/overview Vladimír Šmicer: Overview Premier League 10 August 2022", "Birth place": "Děčín, Czechoslovakia", "Height": "1.78 mhttp://www.... |
Dietmar Johann Wolfgang "Didi" Hamann (; born 27 August 1973) is a German professional football coach, former player and media personality.
Throughout his career, he has played for Bayern Munich, Newcastle United, Liverpool and Manchester City primarily in a defensive midfield position. He also spent time at Milton Ke... | {"Name": "Dietmar Hamann", "Picture caption": "Hamann in 2011", "Full name": "Dietmar Johann Wolfgang Hamann8121 14 September 2016", "Birth date": "1973 8 27 yhttps://www.premierleague.com/players/1595/Dietmar-Hamann/overview Dietmar Hamann: Overview Premier League 29 August 2022", "Birth place": "Waldsassen, West G... |
The Dragon Reborn is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert Jordan, the third in his series The Wheel of Time. It was published by Tor Books and released on September 15, 1991. The unabridged audio book is read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading. The Dragon Reborn consists of a prologue and 56 chapters.
Plot sum... | {"Cover artist": "Darrell K. Sweet", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "The Wheel of Time", "Publisher": "Tor Books (North America) and Orbit Books (UK)", "Media type": "Print (Hardback & Paperback)", "Pages": "624", "ISBN": "0-312-85248-7", "Preceded by": "The Great Hunt", "Followed by": "Th... |
Vassula Rydén (born January 18, 1942) is an author, public speaker, and self-proclaimed Christian mystic living in Switzerland who says she receives messages from Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her writings frequently call for people "to repent, love God, and unify the churches." She has developed a large fo... | {"Name": "Vassula Rydén", "Birth name": "Vassiliki Claudia Pendakis", "Birth date": "1942 1 18", "Birth place": "Cairo, Egypt", "Occupation": "Author", "Children": "2", "Website": "www.tlig.org"} |
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St. Mary's International School is a private international school for boys located in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, Japan. The school consists of an elementary, middle, and high school, all located in the Setagaya campus. The school’s primary language of instruction is English, and it also off... | {"Head of school": "Saburo Kagei", "Athletics conference": "KPASSP, Far East", "Team name": "Titans", "Campus size": "9 acre m2 on", "Website": "www.smis.ac.jp"} |
The Aston Martin Bulldog, styled by William Towns, is a British, one-off concept vehicle produced by Aston Martin in 1979. The code name for the project was DP K901. Initially, a production run of 15-25 cars was planned, but the project was deemed too costly and only one was built.
History
The Bulldog - named after ... | {"Manufacturer": "Aston Martin", "Production": "1979 (1 produced)", "Assembly": "Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England", "Designer": "William Towns", "Class": "Sports car (S)", "Body style": "2-door coupe", "Layout": "MR layout", "Length": "4724 mm (186 in)", "Width": "1918", "Height": "1092 mm (43 in)", "Doors": "... |
The Fires of Heaven is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert Jordan, the fifth book in his series The Wheel of Time. It was published by Tor Books and released on October 15, 1993.
It is the first novel in the series to not involve an appearance by each of the three ta'veren from the Two Rivers, due to Perrin's ... | {"Cover artist": "Darrell K. Sweet", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "The Wheel of Time", "Publisher": "Tor Books (U.S.) and [Orbit Books] (UK)", "Media type": "Print (Hardback & Paperback)", "Pages": "991 (U.S. paperback edition) & 704 (U.S. hardback edition)", "ISBN": "(US hardback editio... |
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) is a member organisation/industry association for farmers in England and Wales. It is the largest farmers' organisation in the countries, and has over 300 branch offices.
History
On 10 December 1908, a meeting was held in an ante-room at the Smithfield Show to discuss whether a nation... | {"Name": "NFU", "Location country": "England and Wales", "Membership": "55,000 Farmer and Grower members, 34,000 Countryside members", "Full name": "National Farmers' Union", "Formation": "1908", "Headquarters": "Agriculture House, Stoneleigh Park, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England, CV8 2TZ", "Key people": "Officeholde... |
Miljenko Jergović (born 28 May 1966) is a prominent Bosnian writer.
Biography
Born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia to Croatian parents, Jergović received his M.A. in literature from the Sarajevo University. While at high-school, he started working as a journalist in printed and electronic media,... | {"Born": "y 1966 05 28", "Occupation": "Short story writer, novelist and columnist", "Nationality": "Croatian", "Alma mater": "University of Sarajevo", "Period": "1988-present", "Literary movement": "Postmodernism"} |
Chigwell is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is part of the urban and metropolitan area of London, and is adjacent to the northern boundary of Greater London. It is on the Central line of the London Underground.
History
Toponymy
According to P. H. Reaney's Place-Names of Ess... | {"Population": "(2001)http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/council_services/planning/census/chigwell.asp Parish Profile: Chigwell 2006 Epping Forest District Council 18 January 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080916131933/http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Council_Services/planning/census/Chigwell.asp 16 Septe... |
Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 - October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Born in Boston, Burton practiced law in Cleveland after graduating from Harvar... | {"Term start": "October 1, 1945", "Term end": "October 13, 1958", "Predecessor 2": "Vic Donahey", "Successor 2": "James Huffman", "Birth date": "1888 6 22", "Birth place": "Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "1964 10 28 1888 6 22", "Death place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Selma Smith 1912"... |
Lucius Domitius Alexander (died c. 310), probably born in Phrygia, was vicarius of Africa when Emperor Maxentius ordered him to send his son as hostage to Rome. Alexander refused and proclaimed himself emperor in 308.
The most detailed if somewhat confusing description of the insurrection is given by Zosimus (II, 12 a... | {"Name": "Domitius Alexander", "Full name": "Lucius Domitius Alexander", "Regnal name": "Imperator Caesar Lucius Domitius Alexander Augustus", "Title": "Usurper of the Roman Empire", "Caption": "Domitius Alexander on a follis. On the reverse, the personification of Carthage, his capital.", "Reign": "308-310 (against Ma... |
Shearwater Heliport, formerly known as Canadian Forces Base Shearwater and commonly referred to as CFB Shearwater and formerly named HMCS Shearwater, is a Canadian Forces facility located east southeast of Shearwater, Nova Scotia, on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Following ... | {"Airport type": "Military", "Location": "Shearwater, Nova Scotia", "DST": "UTC-03:00", "AMSL": "144", "Coordinates": "44 38 14 N 063 30 08 W region:CA-NS inline,title", "Website": "rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca"} |
The Eagle Talon is a two-door 2+2, front-wheel drive (FWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD) hatchback coupé manufactured and marketed from 1989 until 1998 and sold by EagleAutomobile Quarterly, Volume 39, number 3 - Page 66 along with rebadged variants the Plymouth Laser and Mitsubishi Eclipse.
The last year for the Eagle Tal... | {"Manufacturer": "Eagle (1990-1998)DaimlerChrysler (1998)", "Class": "Sports car", "Production": "1989-1998", "Layout": "Transverse front-engine, front-wheel drive / all-wheel drive", "Body style": "3-door liftback", "Assembly": "Normal, Illinois, United States (Diamond-Star Motors)", "Transmission": "5-speed manual4-s... |
George Arthur Rowley Jr. (21 April 1926 - 19 December 2002), nicknamed "The Gunner" because of his explosive left-foot shot,The record reign of Leicester City's Arthur Rowley thisisleicestershire.co.uk, retrieved 20 February 2011 was an English football player and cricketer. He holds the record for the most goals in ... | {"Name": "Arthur Rowley", "Full name": "George Arthur Rowley Jr.", "Birth date": "1926 4 21 y", "Birth place": "Wolverhampton, England", "Date of death": "2002 12 19 1926 4 21 y", "Place of death": "Shrewsbury, England", "Position": "Inside left", "Youth club 1 years": "1941-1944", "Youth club 1": "Manchester United", ... |
Arauca () is a department of Eastern Colombia located in the extreme north of the Orinoco Basin of Colombia (the Llanos Orientales), bordering Venezuela. The southern boundary of Arauca is formed by the Casanare and Meta Rivers, separating Arauca from the departments of Casanare and Vichada. To the west, Arauca borders... | {"Rank": "27th", "Density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "CO-ARA", "Website": "www.arauca.gov.co"} |
Alois Hitler (born Alois Schicklgruber; third line 7 June 1837 - 3 January 1903) was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service, and the father of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Alois Schicklgruber was born out of wedlock. His mother was Maria Schicklgruber, but his biological father remai... | {"Name": "Alois Hitler", "Caption": "Hitler in 1901", "Birth name": "Alois Schicklgruber", "Birth date": "1837 6 7 y", "Birth place": "Strones, Waldviertel, Lower Austria, Austria, German Confederation", "Death date": "1903 1 3 1837 6 7 y", "Death place": "Gasthaus Wiesinger, Leonding, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary"... |
The Shadow Rising is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the fourth book in his series The Wheel of Time. It was published by Tor Books and released on September 15, 1992. The unabridged audio book is read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading.
At 393,823 words, The Shadow Rising is the longest book of Th... | {"Cover artist": "Darrell K. Sweet", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "The Wheel of Time", "Publisher": "Tor Books (U.S.)", "Media type": "Print (Hardback & Paperback)", "Pages": "1,007 (U.S. paperback edition) & 704 (U.S. hardback edition)", "ISBN": "(US hardback edition)", "Preceded by": "... |
Cecilia Gallerani (; early 1473 - 1536) was the favourite and most celebrated of the many mistresses of Ludovico Sforza, known as Lodovico il Moro, Duke of Milan. She is best known as the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Lady with an Ermine (circa 1489). While posing for the painting, she invited Leonardo,... | {"Name": "Cecilia Gallerani", "Caption": "Cecilia Gallerani as The Lady with an Ermine, painted by Leonardo da Vinci around 1489 and displayed at the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków", "Birth date": "early 1473", "Birth place": "Siena, Republic of Siena", "Death date": "1536 1473", "Death place": "Castle of San Giovanni in... |
Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding is an Xbox snowboarding video game. It is the first of the Amped video game series.
Released during the Xbox's launch, Amped is a snowboarding game focused on the tricks, instead of the racing style of play given by Electronic Arts SSX which launched with the PlayStation 2 in the previous... | {"Title": "Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding", "Developer": "Indie Built", "Publisher": "Microsoft Game Studios", "Platforms": "Xbox", "Released": "NA November 20, 2001jkdmedia 2012-05-04 Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding Now Available https://www.gamezone.com/news/amped_freestyle_snowboarding_now_available/ 2023-05-30 Ga... |
One Lie Fits All is the third studio album by British metal band One Minute Silence, released on 7 July 2003. Produced by John Leckie, it was the band's last album before they announced their break-up in October 2003, and never enjoyed a supporting tour unlike the two EPs (Revolution and We Bounce) that were released d... | {"Released": "7 July 2003", "Genre": "Nu metal", "Label": "Taste Records", "Producer": "John Leckiehttp://www.blabbermouth.net/news/one-minute-silence-to-release-one-lie-fits-all-in-june/ ONE MINUTE SILENCE To Release 'One Lie Fits All' In June 19 March 2003 blabbermouth.net 9 June 2016"} |
The Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (, ), or San Andrés and Providencia, is one of the departments of Colombia, and the only one located geographically in Central America. It consists of two island groups in the Caribbean Sea about northwest of mainland Colombia, and eight outlying banks and ... | {"Rank": "29th", "Density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "CO-SAP", "Website": "SanAndres.gov.co"} |
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Gilera is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded in Arcore in 1909 by Giuseppe Gilera (1887-1971). In 1969, the company was purchased by Piaggio.
History
In 1935, Gilera acquired rights to the CNA Rondine. It had double-over-head camshafts, forced-inducting... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1909, Milan", "Headquarters": "Italy", "Industry": "Motorcycle and Scooter", "Parent": "Piaggio", "Website": "gilera.com"} |
1876 is the third historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. It was published in 1976 and details the events of a year described by Vidal as "probably the low point in our republic's history".
Style
The novel is written in the form of a journal written by Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler.
Plot
The no... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Narratives of Empire", "Publisher": "Random House", "Media type": "Print (Hardback & Paperback)", "Pages": "364 pp", "ISBN": "0-394-49750-3", "Preceded by": "Lincoln", "Followed by": "Empire"} |
The Abingtons are a community in South Cambridgeshire consisting of two small villages: Little Abington and Great Abington, about south east of Cambridge.
History
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Though often listed as a single entity, Great and Little Abington have since early medieval times been two parishes divide... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "Little Abington - 2001 census https://web.archive.org/web/20110514180707/http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/A7B0D3E4-3339-4753-A8B6-9945166E0EFE/0/LittleAbington.pdf 2011-05-14 Great Abington - 2001 census https://web.archive.org/web/20110514180715/http://www.ca... |
Leod (Scottish Gaelic: Leòd; Old Norse: Ljótr) ( 1200 - 1280) was the eponymous ancestor and founder of Clan MacLeod and Clan MacLeod of Lewis. Almost nothing is known about him and he does not appear in any contemporary records. Tradition dating to the late 18th century made him a son of Olaf the Black who was King of... | {"Name": "Leod", "Birth date": "yes 1200", "Death date": "1280", "Resting place": "Iona (according to tradition)", "Known For": "The 1st Chief of Clan MacLeod", "Successor": "Tormod (son)", "Children": "at least one son (several sons and daughters according to tradition)", "Relatives": "Foster son of Páll Bálkason (acc... |
Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659 - 31 January 1729) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis and Davis Land, but instead found Easter Island (called so because he landed there on Easter Sunday). Jacob Roggeveen also found Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands, as well as Samoa. He planned the ex... | {"Name": "Jacob Roggeveen", "Birth date": "1659 02 01 y", "Birth place": "Middelburg", "Death date": "1729 01 31 1659 02 01 y", "Death place": "Middelburg", "Nationality": "Dutch", "Other names": "Roggewein, Commodore", "Education": "University of Harderwijk", "Employer": "Dutch West India Company", "Spouse(s)": "Marij... |
The State Examinations Commission () is the organisation that replaced the Examinations Branch of the Department of Education in Ireland.
History
The State Examinations Commission is a State body established by statutory order on 6 March 2003. The Commission assumed responsibility for the operation of the State Certif... | {"Formed": "6 March 2003", "Jurisdiction": "Ireland", "Headquarters": "Cornamaddy, Athlone, County Westmeath", "Employees": "185", "Website": "http://www.examinations.ie/"} |
Cadwallader Colden Washburn (April 22, 1818May 14, 1882) was an American businessman, politician, and soldier who founded a mill that later became General Mills. A member of the Washburn family of Maine, he was a U.S. Congressman and governor of Wisconsin, and served as a general in the Union Army during the American C... | {"Name": "Cadwallader C. Washburn", "Term start": "January 1, 1872", "Term end": "January 5, 1874", "District 2": "Wisconsin 2 2nd", "Predecessor 2": "Ben C. Eastman", "Successor 2": "Luther Hanchett", "Birth name": "Cadwallader Colden Washburn", "Birth date": "1818 4 22", "Birth place": "Livermore, Massachusetts(now L... |
Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (; 2 July 1935 - 18 June 2020) was a Russian engineer and the second son of the Cold War-era Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with his wife Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva. He moved to the United States in 1991 and became a naturalized American citizen.
He was a jury member of the Rainer Hildebran... | {"Caption": "Khrushchev in 2010", "Native name": "ru Сергей Хрущёв", "Birth date": "1935 07 02 y", "Birth place": "Moscow, Soviet Union", "Death date": "2020 06 18 1935 07 02 y", "Death place": "Cranston, Rhode Island, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Moscow Power Engineering InstituteBauman Moscow State Technical UniversityNatio... |
Amto-Musan is a language family of two closely related but mutually unintelligible Papuan languages, Amto and Siawi, spoken along the Samaia River of Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea.
Languages
Foley (2018) and Usher (2020) agree that the family consists of two languages.Samaia River, New Guinea World
Amto-Musan ... | {"Name": "Amto-Musan", "Alternative name": "Samaia River", "Geographic distribution": "Samaia River, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea", "Language family color": "Papuan", "Language Family": "Arai-Samaia or independent language family", "Child 1": "Amto", "Child 2": "Siawi", "Glottolog code": "amto1249", "Glottolog re... |
Benue-Congo (sometimes called East Benue-Congo) is a major branch of the Volta-Congo languages which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Subdivisions
Central Nigerian (or Platoid) contains the Plateau, Jukunoid and Kainji families, and Bantoid-Cross combines the Bantoid and Cross River groups.
Bantoid is only a collec... | {"Name": "Benue-Congo", "Alternative name": "East Benue-Congo", "Geographic distribution": "Africa, from Nigeria eastwards and southwards", "Language family color": "Niger-Congo", "Language Family 2": "Atlantic-Congo", "Language Family 3": "Volta-Congo", "Child 1": "Bantoid", "Child 2": "Cross River", "Child 3": "Defoi... |
"Lead, Kindly Light, Amid the encircling gloom" is a hymn with words written in 1833 by Saint John Henry Newman as a poem titled "the Pillar of the Cloud", which was first published in the British Magazine in 1834, and republished in Lyra Apostolica in 1836.
It is usually sung to the tune Sandon by Charles H. Purday, ... | {"Genre": "Hymn", "Text": "John Henry Newman", "Written": "1833", "Based on": "Bible King James Exodus 13 21-22", "Meter": "10.4.10.4.10.10", "Melody": "\"Lux Benigna\" by John Bacchus Dykes"} |
CPM 22 is a Brazilian hardcore band from São Paulo formed in 1995. Band members are Badauí (vocals), Luciano (guitar), Phil (guitar), Ali (bass) and Daniel (drums).
History
With influences from the Ramones, the Misfits, Buzzcocks, Face to Face, Pennywise, Green Day, and other old school punk and hardcore legends, C... | {"Origin": "São Paulo, Brazil", "Genres": "Melodic hardcore", "Labels": "Abril, Arsenal, Sony BMG, Universal, Performance", "Website": "Official Website", "Members": "BadauíLucianoPhilAliDaniel"} |
Dominic Agostino (October 14, 1959 - March 24, 2004) was a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Hamilton East for the Liberal Party in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 until his death in 2004.
Background
Born in Sicily, Italy, Agostino was raised in Hamilton, Ontario and attended Mohawk Colle... | {"Name": "Dominic Agostino", "Term start": "June 8, 1995", "Term end": "March 24, 2004", "Birth date": "1959 10 14", "Birth place": "Sicily, Italy", "Death date": "2004 03 24 1959 10 14", "Death place": "Hamilton, Ontario", "Nationality": "Canadian"} |
The Defoid languages are a proposed branch of the Benue-Congo language family. The name of the group derives from the fact that nearly all of the ethnic groups who speak member languages refer to the city of Ilé Ifè as their place of origin: "Defoid" comes from èdè ('language') + ifè (Ife) + oid. It was first proposed ... | {"Name": "Defoid", "Geographic distribution": "Nigeria, Benin and Togo", "Language family color": "Niger-Congo", "Language Family 2": "Atlantic-Congo", "Language Family 3": "Volta-Congo", "Language Family 4": "Benue-Congo", "Child 1": "Yoruboid", "Protolanguage name": "Proto-Defoidhttps://books.google.com/books?id=bC9t... |
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (commonly termed GRASS GIS) is a geographic information system (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, producing graphics and maps, spatial and temporal modeling, and visualizing. It can handle raster, topological vector, imag... | {"Developer(s)": "GRASS Development Team", "Written in": "C, C++, Python", "Initial release": "1984", "Available in": "English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Vietnamese, ...", "Type": "Geographic information system", "License": "GNU General Public License", "Website": "grass.osgeo.org"} |
Possession is a 2002 romantic mystery drama film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart. It is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by British author A. S. Byatt, who won the Booker Prize for it the year it was published.
Synopsis
Literary scholars American Roland Michel... | {"Directed by": "Neil LaBute", "Produced by": "Barry LevinsonStephen PevnerPaula Weinstein", "Written by": "David Henry HwangLaura JonesNeil LaBute", "Based on": "Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt", "Starring": "Aaron EckhartGwyneth PaltrowJeremy NorthamJennifer EhleLena HeadeyToby Stephens", "Music by": "Gabriel Ya... |
Wilhelm von Gottberg (born 30 March 1940) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany.
Wilhelm von Gottberg was born in 1940, the son of Hans Heinrich von Gottberg (1900-1973) and his wife Gertrud, née Freiin von der Goltz (1908-1997). He was descended of two noble families, the Gottberg family and the Von d... | {"Name": "Wilhelm von Gottberg", "Image caption": "Wilhelm von Gottberg", "Birth date": "1940 3 30 y", "Birth place": "Groß Klitten, Province of East Prussia, Free State of Prussia, German Reich (today Pravdinsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)", "Nationality": "German"} |
Bio-ship Paladin, known in Japan as , is a 1990 horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL and distributed by Sammy Corporation for North American manufacture. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive. While the game is essentially a standard horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, it has an innovat... | {"Title": "Bio-ship Paladin", "Caption": "Arcade flyer of Bio-ship Paladin.", "Developer": "UPL", "Publisher": "UPLSammy Corporation (North America)", "Designer": "Tsutomu Fuzisawa", "Composer": "Yoshio Nagashima", "Released": "1990 (Arcade)1991 (Sega Mega Drive)", "Platforms": "Arcade Game, Sega Mega Drive", "Genre": ... |
Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Jules Feiffer. It stars Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen, and Rita Moreno.
Plot
In the late 1940s, Amherst College student Sandy meets a coed named Susan at an on-campus event and they begin dating. Althoug... | {"Directed by": "Mike Nichols", "Produced by": "Mike Nichols\n Joseph E. Levine", "Written by": "Jules Feiffer", "Starring": "Jack Nicholson\n Candice Bergen\n Arthur Garfunkel\n Ann-Margret\n Rita Moreno\n Cynthia O'Neal", "Cinematography": "Giuseppe Rotunno", "Edited by": "Sam O'Steen", "Distributed by": "AVCO Embass... |
Ælfwine (c. 661 - 679) was the King of Deira from 670 to 679. He was a son of Oswiu of Northumbria and a brother of Ecgfrith of Northumbria.
After the succession of Ecgfrith as king of Northumbria in 670, he made Ælfwine king of the sub-kingdom of Deira. Ælfwine was still a boy at the time, and the title may have been... | {"Father": "Oswiu", "Mother": "Eanflæd", "Born": "c. 661 AD", "Died": "Battle of the Trent"} |
Westward Television was the first ITV franchise-holder for the South West of England. It held the franchise from 29 April 1961 until 31 December 1981. After a difficult start, Westward Television provided a popular, distinctive and highly regarded service to its region, until heavy competition led to its franchise not ... | {"Type": "Region of television network", "Branding": "Westward TV", "Country": "England", "TV transmitters": "Stockland Hill, Huntshaw Cross, Caradon Hill, Redruth, Beacon Hill", "Headquarters": "Plymouth", "Owner": "Self-owned", "Dissolved": "1981 12 31 y, as branding; 1 January 1982 at 12.40 am (alongside TSW brand) ... |
Belomorkanal () is a Russian brand of cigarettes, originally made by the in Leningrad, Soviet Union.
History
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Belomorkanal was created in 1932 to commemorate the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, also known as the Belomorkanal."Les Zeks du Canal de la me... | {"Product type": "Cigarette", "Owner": "Uritsky Tobacco Factory", "Country": "Leningrad, Soviet Union", "Introduced": "1932", "Markets": "See Markets"} |
Laurence Paul Cunningham (8 March 1956 - 15 July 1989) was an English professional footballer. A left winger, he notably played in England, France and Spain, where he became the first ever British player to sign for Real Madrid.
Cunningham had signed a schoolboy contract with Arsenal in 1970, but was released in 1972 ... | {"Name": "Laurie Cunningham", "Picture caption": "Cunningham (right) playing for Real Madrid in 1981", "Full name": "Laurence Paul Cunningham", "Birth date": "1956 3 8 y", "Birth place": "Archway, London, England", "Date of death": "1989 7 15 1956 3 8 y", "Place of death": "Madrid, Spain", "Position": "Left winger", "... |
Michael Arthur Newdow (born June 24, 1953) is an American attorney and emergency medicine physician. He is best known for his efforts to have recitations of the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools in the United States declared unconstitutional because of its inclusion of the phrase "under God"... | {"Name": "Michael Newdow", "Caption": "Speaking at the Atheist Alliance International Convention, 2008", "Birth name": "Michael Arthur Newdow", "Birth date": "1953 06 24", "Birth place": "New York City, New York", "Occupation": "Attorney, physician, activist, ordained atheist minister at Universal Life Church", "Nation... |
The Reich Security Main Office (, RSHA) was an organization under Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacity as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police) and , the head of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (SS). The organization's stated duty was to fight all "enemies of the Reich" inside and outside the borders of N... | {"Formed": "27 September 1939", "Dissolved": "8 May 1945", "Jurisdiction": "Nazi Germany Nazi German ReichNazi Germany Nazi German-occupied Europe", "Headquarters": "52 30 26 N 13 22 57 E type:landmark inline", "Employees": "50,648 (February 1944 )Nachama 2010 358", "Type": "Secret policeIntelligence agency"} |
Knight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by McClatchy on June 27, 2006, it was the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspaper brands sold. Its headquarters were located in San Jose, California."Where We Are... | {"Industry": "Mass media", "Fate": "Purchased by The McClatchy Company", "Founded": "1974 07 11 y", "Defunct": "2006 06 27 y", "Headquarters": "United States", "Products": "Newspapers"} |
Michael Corleone is a fictional character and the protagonist of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather. In the three Godfather films, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Michael was portrayed by Al Pacino, for which he was twice-nominated for Academy Awards. Michael is the youngest son of Vito Corleone, a Sicilian immigr... | {"First appearance": "The Godfather", "Last appearance": "The Godfather's Revenge", "Created by": "Mario Puzo", "Portrayed by": "Al Pacino", "Gender": "Male", "Title": "Don Corleone", "Family": "Vito Corleone (father)\n Carmela Corleone (mother)\n Santino \"Sonny\" Corleone (brother)\n Frederico \"Fredo\" Corleone (bro... |
Heinrich Müller (28 April 1900; date of death unknown, but evidence points to May 1945) was a high-ranking German Schutzstaffel (SS) and police official during the Nazi era. For most of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestapo, the secret state police of Nazi Germany. Müller was central in the planning a... | {"Name": "Heinrich Müller", "Birth date": "1900 04 28 y", "Birth place": "Munich, BavariaGerman Empire", "Death date": "May 1945 (aged 45)", "Death place": "Berlin (assumed)", "Awards": "Golden Party Badge", "Battles fought": "First World War"} |
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Rona, Inc. (stylized as RONA) is a Canadian retailer of home improvement and construction products and services, owned by U.S.-based private equity firm Sycamore... | {"Formerly": "Les Marchands en Quincaillerie (1939-1960) Ro-Na (1960-1988) Rona Dismat (1988-1998)", "Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Retail", "Products": "Home improvement", "Revenue": "$4.2 billion CAD (2013)https://www.rona.ca/corporate/Rona-announces-its-fiscal-and-fourth-quarter-2013-results Lowe's Canada: Homep... |
Boucherville is a city in the Montérégie region in Quebec, Canada. It is a suburb of Montreal on the South shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
Boucherville is part of both the urban agglomeration of Longueuil and Montreal Metropolitan Community regional government.
History
Early history
Boucherville was founded as a s... | {"Land": "70.81", "Density": "512.9", "DST": "-04:00", "Website": "www.boucherville.ca"} |
Bernice Pauahi Pākī Bishop KGCOK RoK (December 19, 1831 – October 16, 1884) was an alii (noble) of the Royal Family of the Kingdom of Hawaii and a well known philanthropist. At her death, her estate was the largest private landownership in the Hawaiian Islands, comprising approximately 9% of Hawaii's total area. The re... | {"Father": "Abner Pākī Kekūanaōʻa", "Mother": "Laura Kōnia Kīnaʻu", "Born": "ʻAikupika, Haleākala, Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaii", "Died": "Keōua Hale, Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaii", "Burial": "Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum, Oʻahu, Hawaii"} |
James Michael Flaherty (December 30, 1949 - April 10, 2014) was a Canadian politician who served as the federal minister of finance from 2006 to 2014 under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
First elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1995 under the Progressive Conservative (PC) banner, Flaherty ... | {"Image": "Jim Flaherty 2007.JPG", "Image caption": "Flaherty in 2007", "Term start": "February 6, 2006", "Term end": "March 18, 2014", "Office 2": "6th Deputy Premier of Ontario", "Premier 2": "Mike Harris", "Predecessor 2": "Ernie Eves", "Successor 2": "Elizabeth Witmer", "Birth name": "James Michael Flaherty", "Birt... |
Donald William Cameron (May 20, 1946May 3, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd premier of Nova Scotia from February 1991 to June 1993. He represented the electoral district of Pictou East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova... | {"Name": "Donald Cameron", "Term start": "February 26, 1991", "Term end": "June 11, 1993", "Lieutenant governor": "Lloyd Crouse", "Office 2": "MLA for Pictou East", "Predecessor 2": "A. Lloyd MacDonald", "Successor 2": "Wayne Fraser", "Education": "McGill University (B.S.)", "Birth date": "1946 5 20", "Birth place": "E... |
Roger Stuart Bacon (June 29, 1926 - October 4, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 21st premier of Nova Scotia from 1990 to 1991.
Political career
He was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1970 as a Progressive Conservative. When his party won the 1978 election, Bacon was Minister of T... | {"Name": "Roger Stuart Bacon", "Term start": "September 12, 1990", "Term end": "February 26, 1991", "Lieutenant governor": "Lloyd Crouse", "Office 2": "MLA for Cumberland East", "Predecessor 2": "James A. Langille", "Successor 2": "riding dissolved", "Birth date": "1926 6 29", "Birth place": "Upper Nappan, Nova Scotia,... |
Islip ( ) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) that lies within the town of the same name in Suffolk County, New York. Located on the south shore of Long Island, the CDP had a population of 18,869 at the time of the 2010 census, a decline of 8% from the 2000 census.
Geography
According to the United States Ce... | {"Land": "4.75", "Water": "0.65", "Density": "3878.29", "DST": "-4"} |
Cathy is an American gag-a-day comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic follows Cathy, a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life—food, love, family, and work. The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. The strip's debut was on November 22,... | {"Author(s)": "Cathy Guisewite", "Website": "https://www.gocomics.com/cathy (reruns)", "Current status/schedule": "Concluded daily strip", "Syndicate(s)": "Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick", "Launch date": "November 22, 1976", "End date": "October 3, 2010", "Genre(s)": "Humor, gag-a-day"} |
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 - April 22, 1946) was an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 19... | {"Name": "Harlan F. Stone", "Term start": "July 3, 1941", "Term end": "April 22, 1946", "Office 2": "52nd United States Attorney General", "President 2": "Calvin Coolidge", "Predecessor 2": "Harry M. Daugherty", "Successor 2": "John G. Sargent", "Birth name": "Harlan Fiske Stone", "Birth date": "1872 10 11", "Birth pla... |
The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana. It is long by wide, with an approximate depth of . It is filled to a depth of about with water that is heavily acidic (2.5 pH level), about the acidity of Coca-Cola, lemon juice,Edwin Dobb. "New Life in a Death... | {"Coordinates": "46.02 N 112.51 W region:US-MT_type:landmark inline,title", "CERCLIS ID": "MTD980502777", "Contaminants": "Arsenic, cadmium,copper, zinc, lead", "Proposed": "30 December 1982", "Listed": "8 September 1983"} |
Oscar Verner Peterson (August 27, 1899 – May 13, 1942) was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Early life and career
Peterson was born in Prentice, Wisconsin, and enlisted in the Navy on Decembe... | {"Born": "Prentice, Wisconsin", "Died": "USS Henley, Coral Sea", "Allegiance": "United States of America", "Awards": "Medal of Honor"} |
John Duncan MacLean (December 8, 1873 - March 28, 1948) was a teacher, physician, politician and the 20th premier of British Columbia, Canada.
MacLean was a practicing doctor in the city of Greenwood when he was elected in the 1916 election to the provincial legislature as a Liberal. He served as minister of education... | {"Name": "John Duncan MacLean", "Lieutenant governor": "Robert Randolph Bruce", "Term start": "August 20, 1927", "Term end": "August 20, 1928", "Office 2": "MLA for Yale", "Predecessor 2": "John McRae", "Successor 2": "John Joseph Alban Gillis", "Birth date": "1873 12 8", "Birth place": "Culloden, Prince Edward Island"... |
The University of Dallas is a private Catholic university in Irving, Texas. Established in 1956, it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
The university comprises three academic units: the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, and the Satish & Yas... | {"Motto": "Veritatem, Justitiam DiligiteUniversity of Dallas: 2016-2017 Bulletin University of Dallas 2016 Irving, TX 3 http://udallas.edu/offices/registrar/_documents/Bulletin%202016_2017_Web2.pdf February 25, 2017", "Type": "Private university National Center for Education Statistics University of Dallas College ... |
Harlan Carey Brewster (November 10, 1870 - March 1, 1918) was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. Brewster arrived in British Columbia in 1893 and had various careers working on a ship and then in a cannery. He eventually became owner of his own canning company. He was elected to the provincial legislature in the... | {"Name": "Harlan Carey Brewster", "Lieutenant governor": "Francis Stillman Barnard", "Term start": "November 23, 1916", "Term end": "March 1, 1918", "Predecessor 2": "John George Corry Wood", "Successor 2": "Richard Pateman Wallis", "Birth date": "1870 11 10", "Birth place": "Harvey, New Brunswick", "Death date": "1918... |
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The Chrysler Cirrus is a mid-sized 4-door notchback sedan introduced by Chrysler motors for the 1995 model year. Built on the Chrysler JA platform, the 4-door notchback sedan joined Chrysler's roster of "Cloud Car" models drawing their names from meteorological terms, including the mid-priced ... | {"Also called": "Chrysler Stratus Plymouth Breeze Dodge Stratus (1st. Generation)", "Manufacturer": "Chrysler Corporation (1995-1998) DaimlerChrysler (1998-2000)", "Production": "June 1994-2000", "Predecessor": "Chrysler LeBaron (Cirrus) Plymouth Acclaim (Breeze) Dodge Spirit & Dodge Dynasty (Stratus) Eagle... |
Antony David John Penikett (born November 14, 1945) is a mediator and negotiator and former politician in Yukon, Canada, who served as the third premier of Yukon from 1985 to 1992.
Early life and political activity
Born in Sussex, England, on November 14, 1945, and educated at St Albans School in Hertfordshire, Engla... | {"Birth name": "Antony David John Penikett", "Birth date": "1945 11 14", "Birth place": "Sussex, England", "Term start": "May 29, 1985", "Term end": "November 6, 1992", "Office 2": "Leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party", "Predecessor 2": "Fred Berger", "Successor 2": "Piers McDonald"} |
The horseshoe is an open-faced sandwich originating in Springfield, Illinois, United States. It consists of thick-sliced toasted bread (often Texas toast), a hamburger patty or other choice of meat, French fries, and cheese sauce.
While hamburger has become the most common meat on a horseshoe, the original meat was... | {"Name of food": "Horseshoe", "Width of image": "275px", "Image caption": "Horseshoe", "Region of origin": "Springfield, Illinois", "Type of dish": "Sandwich", "Main ingredient": "Toasted bread, hamburger patty, French fries, cheese sauce", "Variations": "Breakfast horseshoe, pony shoe"} |
Moktar Ould Daddah (; December 25, 1924 - October 14, 2003) was a Mauritanian politician who led the country after it gained its independence from France. Daddah served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1957 to 1961 and as its first President of Mauritania, a position he held from 1960 until he was deposed in ... | {"Name": "Moktar Ould Daddahar مختار ولد داداه", "Birth date": "25 December 1924", "Birth place": "Boutilimit, French Mauritania, French West Africa", "Death date": "2003 10 14 1924 12 24 yes", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Nationality": "Mauritanian", "Term start": "28 November 1960", "Term end": "10 July 1978", "O... |
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