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The Greek Dark Ages was the period of Greek history from the end of the Mycenaean palatial civilization, around 1100 BC, to the beginning of the Archaic age, around 750 BC.Martin, Thomas R., (October 3, 2019). "The Dark Ages of Ancient Greece": "...The Near East recovered its strength much sooner than did Greece, endin... | {"Culture name": "Greek Dark Ages", "Geographical range": "Greek mainland and Aegean Sea", "The period of the culture": "Ancient Greece", "The absolute date range of the culture": "1050 BC 750 BC", "Characteristics": "Destruction of settlements and collapse of the socioeconomic system", "Preceded by": "Mycenaean Greece... |
The White Mountains of California and Nevada are a triangular fault-block mountain range facing the Sierra Nevada across the upper Owens Valley. They extend for approximately as a greatly elevated plateau about wide on the south, narrowing to a point at the north, with elevations generally increasing south to north. ... | {"Location": "The White Mountains along the east side of Owens Valley", "Length": "60", "Width": "10", "Coordinates": "37 38 02 N 118 15 20 W type:mountain dms inline", "Elevation": "14252"} |
The General Government (; ; ), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II. The newly occupied Second Polish Republic was split into three ... | {"Native name": "de Generalgouvernement", "Conventional long name": "General Government", "Type of government": "Civil administration", "Leader's title": "Governor-General", "Leader 1": "Hans Frank", "Leader 1 years": "1939-1945", "Deputy 1": "Arthur Seyss-Inquart", "Deputy 1 years": "1939-1940", "Deputy 2 years": "194... |
Tanel Padar (born 27 October 1980) is an Estonian singer and songwriter. He is best known internationally for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999.
Career
In 1999 Padar won Kaks takti ette a t... | {"Born": "Uhtna, Estonia", "Origin": "Estonia", "Genres": "Pop, rock", "Labels": "Padar Production", "Website": "tanelpadar.com"} |
Anne Archer (born August 24, 1947) is an American actress. Archer was named Miss Golden Globe in 1971, and in the year following, appeared in her feature film debut The Honkers (1972). She had supporting roles in Cancel My Reservation (1972), The All-American Boy (1973), and Trackdown (1976), and appeared in Good Guys ... | {"Name": "Anne Archer", "Caption": "Archer in 1989", "Birth date": "1947 8 24 yes", "Birth place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Pitzer College", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1970-present", "Spouse(s)": "William Davis 1969 1977 divorced\n Terry Jastrow 1979", "Children": "2, including T... |
Prodigy Communications Corporation was an online service from 1984 to 2001 that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services. It was one of the major internet service providers of the 1990s.
The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, citing its graphical user interface and ... | {"Fate": "Defunct (part of AT&T Inc.)", "Type": "Public", "Founded": "1984 2 13 (as Trintex)", "Headquarters": "White Plains, New York, U.S. (earlier)Austin, Texas, U.S.", "Industry": "Telecommunications", "Products": "Telephone, Internet, Television"} |
Jon Llewellyn Kyl ( ; born April 25, 1942) is an American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator for Arizona from 1995 to 2013 and again in 2018. A Republican, he held both of Arizona's Senate seats at different times, serving alongside John McCain during his first stint. Kyl was Senate Minority ... | {"Name": "Jon Kyl", "Term start": "September 5, 2018", "Term end": "December 31, 2018", "Office 2": "Senate Minority Whip", "Leader 2": "Mitch McConnell", "Predecessor 2": "Trent Lott", "Successor 2": "John Cornyn", "Birth name": "Jon Llewellyn Kyl", "Birth date": "1942 4 25", "Birth place": "Oakland, Nebraska, U.S.", ... |
Simon, Simon is a 1970 Sound effect comedy short film directed by Graham Stark and starring Graham Stark, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, and Julia Foster.
Synopsis
Two handymen (Graham Stark and John Junkin) cause chaos on a new crane while haphazardly trying to accomplish jobs for their ever more frustrated boss. Th... | {"Directed by": "Graham Stark", "Produced by": "Peter Shillingford", "Written by": "Graham Stark and Dave Freeman", "Starring": "Graham Stark Norman Rossington John Junkin Julia Foster", "Music by": "Denis King", "Cinematography": "Harvey Harrison", "Edited by": "Bunny Warren", "Distributed by": "Digital Classics DVD"} |
John Henry Kyl (May 9, 1919 – December 23, 2002) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Iowa's 4th congressional district from 1959 to 1965 and again from 1967 to 1973. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Early life and education
Kyl was bor... | {"Name": "John Henry Kyl", "Term start": "January 3, 1967", "Term end": "January 3, 1973", "Birth date": "1919 05 09", "Birth place": "Wisner, Nebraska, U.S.", "Death date": "2002 12 23 1919 05 09", "Death place": "Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Arlene Griffith"} |
Hillel Slovak (; April 13, 1962 - June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician, best known as the founding guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums. His guitar work was rooted in funk and hard rock, and he often experimented with other genres, including reggae a... | {"Born": "Haifa, Israel", "Origin": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Died": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Genres": "Funk rock punk rock funk metal alternative rock", "Labels": "MCA EMI", "Formerly of": "Red Hot Chili Peppers What Is This?"} |
Lagentium or Legiolum was the Roman name for the fort and surrounding civilian settlement which was built around the year 74 by the Roman Empire. The English town of Castleford, West Yorkshire, is now built on what was the fort.
Etymology
The name Lagentium may be of Brittonic origin. The name may involve the element... | {"Alternative name(s)": "Legiolum", "Founded": "c. 74 AD", "Abandoned": "180 AD", "Province": "Britannia", "Coordinates": "53.726 -1.356 inline,title", "Town": "Castleford", "County": "West Yorkshire", "State": "England", "Country": "England", "UK-OSNG": "SE4225"} |
William Lee Shoemaker (August 19, 1931 – October 12, 2003) was an American jockey, considered one of the greatest. For 29 years he held the world record for the most professional jockey victories.
Early life
thumb|Jayne Mansfield with (left to right) jockeys Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro and Willie Shoemaker in 1957
Re... | {"Occupation": "Jockey", "Born": "1931 8 19", "Died": "San Marino, California, United States", "Career wins": "8,833"} |
Didcot ( ) is a railway town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire and the historic county of Berkshire. Didcot is south of Oxford, east of Wantage and north west of Reading. The town is noted for its railway heritage, Didcot station opening as a junction station on the Great Western Main Line in ... | {"OS grid reference": "SU525900", "Population": "(2021 Census)Didcot https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/southeastengland/admin/south_oxfordshire/E04012477__didcot/ City population 25 October 2022", "District": "South Oxfordshire", "Shire county": "Oxfordshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "OX... |
Control Machete is a Mexican hip hop group from Monterrey, Nuevo León. Its members are Fermín IV (listed as Fermin IV Caballero Elizondo in credits), Patricio "Pato Machete" Chapa Elizalde, and Toy Kenobi (Antonio "Toy" Hernández).
History
The group moved to the mainstream after their song "Sí Señor" was used as backi... | {"Origin": "Monterrey, Mexico", "Genres": "Latin hip hop", "Labels": "Universal Latino", "Members": "Fermin IV Caballero Elizondo\n Patricio \"Pato\" Chapa Elizalde\n Antonio \"Toy\" Hernándezhttp://planoinformativo.com/314793/control-machete-inicio-casi-a-la-par-del-vive-98-espectaculos Control Machete inició casi a l... |
The 1st Special Service Force was an elite American-Canadian commando unit in World War II, under the command of the United States Fifth Army. The unit was organized in 1942 and trained at Fort William Henry Harrison near Helena, Montana, in the United States. The Force served in the Aleutian Islands, and fought in Ita... | {"Allegiance": "Allies (United Nations)", "Branch": "Army", "Type": "Commando", "Role": "Special operations", "Size": "1,800", "Nickname(s)": "The Devil's Brigade, The Black Devils", "Notablecommanders": "Robert T. Frederick"} |
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia. It also includes oce... | {"Type": "Major", "Approximate area": "67,800,000 km2 sqmi onhttp://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates Geology.about.com 2014-03-05 2015-12-26", "Movement1": "south", "Speed1": "7 - 14 mm in on/year", "Features": "Europe, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean"} |
Paul Reiser (; born March 30, 1956) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He played the roles of Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom Mad About You, Modell in the 1982 film Diner, Carter Burke in the 1986 film Aliens, and Detective Jeffrey Friedman in Beverly Hills Cop (1... | {"Name": "Paul Reiser", "Birth date": "1956 3 30", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Caption": "Reiser at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International", "Alma mater": "Binghamton University", "Occupation": "Actor comedian writer", "Years active": "1982-present", "Spouse(s)": "Paula Ravets 1988", "Children": "2", "Re... |
is a futuristic racing video game for the Nintendo 64 console. Developed by Nintendo's EAD division, it was released in Japan, North America, and Europe in 1998. In 2000, the Expansion Kit was released in Japan, including a track and vehicle editor. The original game was ported in 2004 to the iQue Player in China. It h... | {"Caption": "North American box art", "Developer": "Nintendo EAD", "Publisher": "Nintendo", "Director": "Tadashi Sugiyama", "Producer": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "Artist": "Takaya Imamura", "Composer": "Taro Bando Hajime Wakai", "Series": "F-Zero", "Platforms": "Nintendo 64", "Released": "JP July 14, 1998 NA October 27, 1998... |
Sir Richard Anderson Squires KCMG (January 18, 1880 - March 26, 1940) was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932.
As prime minister, Squires attempted to reform Newfoundland's fishing industry, but failed at doing so. He also attempted to diversify Newfoundland's economy. However, h... | {"Name": "Sir Richard Squires", "Predecessor 2": "Sir Frederick C. Alderdice", "Successor 2": "Sir Frederick C. Alderdice", "Monarch 2": "George V", "Governor 2": "John Middleton", "Birth date": "1880 1 18 y", "Birth place": "Harbour Grace, Colony of Newfoundland", "Death date": "1940 3 26 1880 1 18 yes", "Death place"... |
The Three Jewels Temples (삼보사찰| Sambosachal) are the three principal Buddhist temples in Korea, each representing one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism, and all located in South Korea.
Tongdosa in South Gyeongsang Province represents the Buddha; Haeinsa, also in South Gyeongsang Province, represents the dharma or Buddhi... | {"Hangul name": "삼보사찰", "Hanja": "三 寶 寺 刹", "Revised Romanization": "Sambosachal", "McCune-Reischauer": "Sambosachal"} |
Norton Juster (June 2, 1929 - March 8, 2021) was an American academic, architect, and writer. He was best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.
Early life
Juster was born in Brooklyn on June 2, 1929. Both his parents were Jewish and immigrated to the Unite... | {"Born": "1929 6 2", "Died": "2021 3 8 1929 6 2", "Occupation": "Academic, writer", "Period": "1961-2021 (children's writer)", "Education": "University of Pennsylvania University of Liverpool"} |
The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was responsible for electricity generation, transmission and bulk sales in England and Wales from 1958 until privatisation of the electricity industry in the 1990s.
It was established on 1 January 1958 to assume the functions of the Central Electricity Authority (1955-19... | {"Type": "State owned government body and regulator", "Founded": "1 January 1958", "Defunct": "9 November 2001", "Fate": "Privatised throughout the 1990s", "Headquarters": "London, United Kingdom", "Industry": "Energy: electricity", "Products": "Electricity generation, transmission and bulk sales", "Revenue": "0.4264 p... |
Steven Quincy Urkel is a fictional character on the American ABC/CBS sitcom Family Matters, portrayed by Jaleel White. Although originally slated to be a one-time-only character on the show, he broke out to be its most popular character and gradually became its protagonist. Due to the Urkel character's off-putting cha... | {"First appearance": "Rachel's First Date (1989; only in syndicated episodes),Laura's First Date (1989; in first run episodes)", "Last appearance": "\"When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!\" (Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?; 2019)", "Created by": "Thomas L. MillerRobert L. BoyettWilliam BickleyMichael Warren", "Portrayed by": "Jaleel Whit... |
Sir Hugh Hoyles (October 17, 1814 - February 1, 1888) was a politician and lawyer who served as the third premier of the colony of Newfoundland. Hoyles was the first premier of Newfoundland to have been born in the colony, and served from 1861 to 1865. Born in St. John's, he was the son of Newman Hoyles, the first lead... | {"Name": "Hugh W. Hoyles", "Birth date": "October 17, 1814", "Birth place": "St. John's, Newfoundland Colony", "Death date": "1888 2 1 1814 10 17", "Death place": "Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada", "Term start": "March 1861", "Term end": "4 March 1865", "Lieutenant governor": "Alexander BannermanAnthony Musgra... |
Sean Leslie Flynn (May 31, 1941 - disappeared April 6, 1970; declared legally dead in 1984)Young, Perry Deane; Two of the Missing: Remembering Sean Flynn & Dana Stone p. 271 (Press 53: 2009) was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.
Flynn was the only child o... | {"Name": "Sean Flynn", "Image": "Flynn and Stone.JPG", "Caption": "Flynn (left) and Dana Stone riding motorcycles into Communist-held territory in Cambodia on April 6, 1970the day they disappeared", "Birth name": "Sean Leslie Flynn", "Birth date": "yes 1941 5 31", "Birth place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Disapp... |
Daria Leona Morgendorffer is a fictional character from the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head and its spin-off Daria. She was voiced in both productions by Tracy Grandstaff.
In 2002, Daria placed at number 41 on the list of the Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time by TV Guide for her role in the two s... | {"Voiced by": "Tracy Grandstaff", "Created by": "Mike Judge\"Taint of Greatness Part 1\" documentary in Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection", "Designed by": "Mike Judge", "Gender": "Female", "First appearance": "\"Scientific Stuff\" (1993)(Beavis and Butt-Head)", "Last appearance": "\"Abduction\" (2023; Bea... |
Peter Warren Finlay (born in 1961), also known as DBC Pierre, is an Australian author who wrote the novel Vernon God Little.
Pierre was born in South Australia, and largely raised in Mexico. He has resided in the Republic of Ireland and now, according to an August 2020 interview in The Guardian, lives in Cambridgeshir... | {"Pen name": "DBC Pierre", "Born": "1961", "Occupation": "Novelist", "Period": "2003-present"} |
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois system, UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago metropo... | {"Motto": "Teach, research, serve, care.", "Type": "Public Asian-serving Asian Serving Institution www.UIC.edu HACU http://aarcc.uic.edu/programs/aanapisi-initiative/ November 13, 2017 September 5, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180905203807/http://aarcc.uic.edu/programs/aanapisi-initiative/ live and... |
KDE Display Manager (KDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) developed by KDE for the windowing systems X11.
KDE Display Manager was based on the source code of X display manager and was the default display manager of the KDE Software Compilation, until it was retired in KDE Plasma 5 in favour of SDDM.
... | {"Developer(s)": "KDE", "Written in": "C, C++", "Type": "X display manager", "License": "GPL, X11", "Website": "kde.org"} |
Thames Valley Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the Thames Valley, covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in South East England.
It is the largest non-metropolitan police force in England and Wales, covering and a population of 2.42 million people.
History
Pr... | {"Uniformed as": "Thames Valley Police", "Abbreviation": "TVP", "Formed": "1968", "Annual budget": "£448.9 million (2020/21)https://thamesvalley.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents/Our%20information/Spending/Budget/Revenue%20Budget%20and%20Capital%20Programme%202020-21%20FINAL%20with%20amendment.pdf March 2022", "Multinational ... |
Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation (SNET) started operations in 1986 as the holding company for The Southern New England Telephone Company. Prior to 1986, The Southern New England Telephone Company had been a minority holding of AT&T until February 1986, when AT&T withdrew its 23% holding. SNET then be... | {"Type": "Private (subsidiary of AT&T Inc.)https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=304178 Southern New England Telecommunications Corp.: Private Company Information - BusinessWeek 2008-09-08", "Founded": "1986", "Defunct": "2006", "Headquarters": "New Haven, Connecticut, United States... |
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (May 20, 1912 - July 2, 1989) was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism,Willem deVries, 2014. "Wilfrid Sellars," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Aug. 11, who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States".
Life and career
H... | {"Region": "Western philosophy", "Era": "20th-century philosophy", "Institutions": "University of Pittsburgh", "School": "AnalyticPittsburgh SchoolProcess philosophyhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Process Philosophy 2021 Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford U... |
{{Infobox settlement
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| other_name = Yenan
| native_name = 延安市
| native_name_lang = zh
| nickname =
| settlement_type = Prefecture-level city
| t... | {"Picture caption": "\"Yán'ān\" in Chinese characters", "Name in simplified characters": "zh 延安", "Postal romanization": "Yenan", "Mandarin IPA": "yan 2 . an 1", "Bopomofo (Zhuyin)": "ㄧㄢˊ ㄢ", "Pinyin transcription": "Yán'ān", "Wade-Giles": "Yen2-an1", "Gwoyeu Romatzyh": "Yan'an", "Show a romanization by default?": "p... |
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a r... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Viking Press", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "Pages": "320 pages", "Preceded by": "The Town and the City (1950)", "Followed by": "The Subterraneans (1958)", "Set in": "New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, elsewhere in the U.S., and ... |
ACT New Zealand, also known as the ACT Party or simply as ACT (; ), is a right-wing, classical-liberal political party in New Zealand. Young ACT is an associated (albeit unofficial) student wing.
The name is an acronym of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, which was founded in 1993 by former National Party MP Der... | {"Founded": "yes 1994", "Headquarters": "27 Gillies Avenue, Newmarket, Auckland", "Ideology": "\"Boston2003\">Boston Jonathan New Zealand Votes: The General Election of 2002 2003 Victoria University Press 9780864734686 92 https://books.google.com/books?id=N-ql-Xs9hhkC&pg=PA92 enSeymour David David Seymour (New Zealand ... |
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The joropo is a musical style resembling the fandango, and an accompanying dance. It originated in Venezuela and is also present in the eastern Colombian plains. It has Afri... | {"Name": "Joropo", "Stylistic origins": "Arabic melismatic music, cante jondo, Spanish folklore", "Cultural origins": "Venezuela", "Typical instruments": "Harp, cuatro llanero, capachos or maracas, bandola, mandolin, bandolin, tiple, bandolón, guitar and guacharaca", "Subgenres": "Romantic Joropo, Creole Joropo, Altern... |
The Long March 2F ( Changzheng 2F), also known as the CZ-2F, LM-2F and Shenjian (, "Divine Arrow"), is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket, part of the Long March 2 rocket family. Designed to launch crewed Shenzhou spacecraft, the Long March 2F is a human-rated two-stage version of the Long March 2E rocket, which in turn ... | {"Function": "Crew-rated orbital launch vehicle", "Status": "Active", "Launch sites": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center", "Stages": "2", "Total launches": "20", "Success(es)": "20", "First flight": "19 November 1999", "Last flight": "30 May 2023", "Family": "Long March 2"} |
Aristagoras (), d. 497/496 BC, was the leader of the Ionian city of Miletus in the late 6th century BC and early 5th century BC and a key player during the early years of the Ionian Revolt against the Persian Achaemenid Empire. He was the son-in-law of Histiaeus, and inherited the tyranny of Miletus from him.
The Gree... | {"Alt": "Tyrant of Miletus who rebelled against the Persian Empire.", "Caption": "Coinage of Miletus at the time of Aristagoras. 5th century BC.", "Native name": "Ἀρισταγόρας", "Native name language": "el", "Death date": "497/496 BC", "Death place": "Myrcinus", "Death cause": "Military combat against the Thracians", "O... |
Colorado School of Mines (Mines) is a public research university in Golden, Colorado, founded in 1874. The school offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, and mathematics, with a focus on energy and the environment. While Mines does offer minor degrees in the humanities, arts, and social ... | {"Motto": "Nil sine numine (Latin)", "Type": "Public research university", "Accreditation": "HLC", "Endowment": "$285.6 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Liste... |
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Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Shaanxi, South Korea, Kyūshū and Naha.
Yan (; Old Chinese pronunciation: *) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Its capital was Ji (later known as Yanjing and now Be... | {"Native name": "zh 燕", "Conventional long name": "Yan", "Type of government": "Monarchy", "Event ending the country": "Conquered by Qin", "Capital": "Ji (蓟) Xiadu", "Currency": "knife moneyspade moneyother ancient Chinese coinage"} |
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC; also known as Shuangchengzi Missile Test Center; Launch Complex B2; formally Northwest Comprehensive Missile Testing Facility (); Base 20; 63600 Unit) is a Chinese space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) located in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia. It is part of the Dongfeng Aer... | {"Total launches": "125", "Location": "Ejin, Alxa, Inner Mongolia", "Coordinates": "40 57 29 N 100 17 28 E inline", "Operator": "CASC", "Launch pad(s)": "Two", "Status": "Active"} |
Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 - July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standards "Snowfall" and "I Wish I Had You".
Early years
Thornhill was the son of J. Chester Thornhill and his wife, Maude. When he was 11 years old, he played piano professionall... | {"Born": "Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.", "Died": "Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S.", "Genres": "Jazz, cool jazz", "Spouse(s)": "Ruth Thornhill 1952"} |
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented thr... | {"Name": "Sebastião Salgado", "Caption": "Salgado in 2016", "Birth name": "Sebastião Salgado", "Birth date": "1944 2 8", "Birth place": "Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil", "Nationality": "Brazilian, French2019-02-28 Leur France rêvée. Sebastião Salgado : \"Le petit pays aux si grandes idées\" https://www.courrierinternati... |
Jin (, Old Chinese: *), originally known as Tang (唐),Zuo Zhuan, 5th Year of Duke Ding of Lu (魯定公): 懷姓九宗，職官五正。命以《唐誥》，而封於夏虚，啓以夏政，疆以戎索。 was a major state during the middle part of the Zhou dynasty, based near the centre of what was then China, on the lands attributed to the legendary Xia dynasty: the southern part of mode... | {"Native name": "晉", "Conventional long name": "Jin", "Type of government": "Monarchy", "Capital": "Tang (唐)Quwo (曲沃)Jiang (絳)Xintian (新田)", "Common languages": "Old Chinese", "Religions": "Taoism, Animism, Ancestor veneration", "Currency": "Spade money"} |
Garner Ted Armstrong (February 9, 1930 - September 15, 2003) was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught observance of seventh-day Sabbath and annual Sabbath days based on Leviticus 23.
Armstrong initially be... | {"Name": "Garner Ted Armstrong", "Caption": "Garner Ted Armstrong in 1979", "Birth date": "1930 02 09", "Birth place": "Portland, Oregon, U.S.", "Death date": "2003 09 15 1930 02 09", "Resting place": "Gladewater Memorial Park (Gladewater, Texas)", "Other names": "William Talboy Wright (pseudonym used for his book Chur... |
Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov (; ; 21 September 1951 - 8 March 2005) was a Soviet and Chechen politician and military commander who served as the third president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
He was credited by many with the Chechen victory in the First Chechen War, which allowed for the estab... | {"Name": "Aslan Maskhadov", "Image size": "225px", "Term start": "12 February 1997", "Term end": "8 March 2005De jure only, as by early 2000, Chechnya was recaptured by Russia. Until his death in 2005, he was president in exile.", "Vice president": "Vakha ArsanovAbdul-Halim Sadulayev", "Birth name": "Aslan Aliyevich Ma... |
John Stein is a jazz guitarist and teacher from Kansas City, Missouri.
Career
A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Stein took his first guitar lesson when he was seven and his first jazz lesson when he was thirteen. In 1967, he attended Beloit College, but he dropped out and moved to Vermont. He worked in local clubs pl... | {"Born": "Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.", "Genres": "Jazz", "Labels": "Jardis, Whaling City Sound", "Website": "www.johnstein.com"} |
Abitibi Regional County Municipality is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. The seat is Amos.
Subdivisions
There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM:
Cities & Towns (1)
Amos
Municipalities (11)
Barraute
Berry
Champneuf
La Corne
La Morandière-Rochebaucourt
La Motte
Pre... | {"Type": "Prefecture", "Land": "7677.01", "Density": "3.2", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.mrcabitibi.qc.ca"} |
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand (), commonly known as the Greens, is a green and left-wing political party in New Zealand. Like many green parties around the world, it has four organisational pillars (ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence). The party's ideology combines enviro... | {"General Secretary": "Gwen ShawGreen Party contacts https://home.greens.org.nz/about/contacts home.greens.org.nz Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 5 February 2017 en", "Ideology": "Green politicsSocial democracyFactions: \"Spinoff\"> https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-10-2018/socialism-is-back-baby-and-it-doesnt-w... |
Le Show is a weekly syndicated public radio show hosted by satirist Harry Shearer.
The program is a hodgepodge of satirical news commentary, music, and sketch comedy. Shearer, an impressionist known for his voice work on The Simpsons, writes the sketches and usually performs all the voices.
History
The show first a... | {"Genre": "News commentary, comedy, music", "Running time": "59 minutes", "Country of origin": "USA", "Language(s)": "English", "Home station": "KCRW (1983-14 April 2013)WWNO (14 April 2013-present)KCSN (14 July 2013-present)", "Starring": "Harry Shearer", "Recording studio": "Santa Monica, California, New Orleans, Lo... |
Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality (English: Abitibi West) is a regional county municipality located in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. Its seat is La Sarre.
Subdivisions
There are 23 subdivisions within the RCM:
Cities & Towns (3)
Duparquet
La Sarre
Macamic
Municipalities (15)
Authier
Authi... | {"Type": "Prefecture", "Land": "3,334.92", "Density": "6.2", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.mrc.ao.ca"} |
Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois. It was founded by evangelical abolitionists in 1860. Wheaton College was a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduated one of Illinois' first black college graduates.
History
Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predec... | {"Motto": "Christo et Regno Ejus", "Type": "Private liberal arts college", "Endowment": "$502 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020.https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endow... |
Totally Spies is an anime-influenced animated spy-fi series created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel mainly produced by French company Zodiak Kids & Family Studio France, with seasons three to five being co-produced with Canadian company Image Entertainment Corporation, and the seventh season by French comp... | {"Genre": "Spy fictionBeyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film Wesley Alan Britton https://books.google.com/books?id=82EvCiAG5lEC&pg=PA230 230 Greenwood Publishing Group 2005 9780275985561", "Created by": "Vincent Chalvon-Demersay\n David Michel", "Directed by": "Stephane Berry\n Pascal Jadin", "Voices of": "Clai... |
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group. Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device be... | {"Title": "16th Street Baptist Church bombing", "Part of": "the Civil Rights movement and the Birmingham campaign", "Caption": "The four girls killed in the bombing (clockwise from top left): Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11)", "Location": "Birmingham, Alab... |
100 Miles and Runnin is an EP from the American gangsta rap group N.W.A. Released on August 14, 1990, this EP of five tracks reflects an evolution of N.W.A's sound and centers on the single "100 Miles and Runnin'."Jason Birchmeier, "N.W.A: 100 Miles and Runnin' ", AllMusic.com, Netaktion LLC, visited 28 Apr 2020. Two ... | {"Released": "August 14, 1990", "Studio": "Audio Achievements, Torrance, California", "Genre": "West Coast hip hop gangsta rap hardcore hip hop", "Label": "Ruthless Priority", "Producer": "Eazy-E (exec.)\n Dr. Dre\n DJ Yella"} |
Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903She was coy about her age, and genuinely perplexed. Diana's confusion was the result of a misreading. The genealogist Philippe Chapelin of genfrance.com has clarified that there was no discrepancy and that Diana was born on September 29, 1903. The misunderstanding came from the abbrevi... | {"Name": "Diana Vreeland", "Caption": "Diana Vreeland (1979) by Horst P. Horst", "Birth name": "Diana Dalziel", "Birth date": "1903 09 29", "Birth place": "Paris, France", "Death date": "1989 8 22 1903 9 29", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Magazine editor\nfashion journalist", "Years active": "193... |
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Gyros, sometimes anglicized as a gyro"Gyro ". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. 2022. (; , ) in some regions, is meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, then sliced and served wrapped or stuffed in pita bread, along with other ingredients such as tomato, onion, fr... | {"Name of food": "Gyros", "Image filename": "Pita giros.JPG", "Width of image": "235px", "Image caption": "Gyros in Greece, with meat, onions, tomato, lettuce, fried potatoes, and tzatziki rolled in a pita", "Alternate name": "GyroGyro Sandwich History https://whatscookingamerica.net/history/sandwiches/gyrosandwich.ht... |
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The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince of Wales, the future George IV, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III.
It is named in honour of two military sain... | {"Type": "Order of chivalry", "Motto": "Auspicium Melioris ÆviToken of a Better Age", "Eligibility": "Typically British or Commonwealth realm citizens", "Status": "Currently constituted", "Next (higher)": "Order of the Star of India", "Next (lower)": "Order of the Indian Empire"} |
Bender Bending Rodríguez (designated in-universe as Bending Unit 22, unit number 1,729, serial number 27160571,729 is the smallest number that can be represented as the sum of two cubes in two ways, 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³, serial number 2716057 = (952³ - 951³) Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes?, Simon Si... | {"Gender": "Male", "Title": "Bender the OffenderThe Gender BenderSuper King", "Full name": "Bender Bending Rodríguez", "Created by": "Matt GroeningDavid X. Cohen", "Designed by": "Matt Groening", "Children": "Unnamed Son (son)Ben Rodríguez (son)Baby Beers", "Relatives": "Vladimir (deceased uncle)Tandy (cousin)", "Famil... |
Tonbridge ( ) is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Malling, it had an estimated population of 41,293 in 2019.
History
The town was recorded in the Domesday Book 1087 as... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2020)", "District": "Tonbridge and Malling", "Shire county": "Kent", "UK Parliament": "Tonbridge and Malling", "Postcode district": "TN", "Dialling code": "01732", "OS grid reference": "TQ591468"} |
The Communist Party of New Zealand (CPNZ) was a communist party in New Zealand which existed from 1921 to 1994. Although spurred to life by events in Soviet Russia in the aftermath of World War I, the party had roots in pre-existing revolutionary socialist and syndicalist organisations, including in particular the inde... | {"Abbreviation": "CPNZ", "Founded": "1921 03 26 yes", "Succeeded by": "Socialist Unity Party (1966)Organisation for Marxist Unity (1975)Socialist Workers Organization (1994)", "Ideology": "nowrap\n Communism\n Marxism-Leninism\n Maoism (1964-1976)\n Hoxhaism (1976-1994)", "Political position": "Far-left"} |
Athens (2016 Population 3,013) is a township in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located approximately north of the St. Lawrence River, near Brockville, west of Addison, and about south west of Ottawa. Formerly, it was a part of Yonge township before becoming Rear of Yonge ... | {"Land": "127.88", "Density": "23.6", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.athenstownship.ca"} |
Aylmer is a town in Elgin County in southern Ontario, Canada, just north of Lake Erie, on Catfish Creek. It is south of Highway 401.
Aylmer is surrounded by Malahide Township.
History
In October 1817, John Van Patter, an immigrant from New York State, obtained 200 acres (80 hectares) of land and became the first set... | {"Land": "6.26", "Density": "1197.6", "DST": "-4", "Website": "http://aylmer.ca/"} |
Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for anoth... | {"Original title": "Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager", "Country": "Austria", "Language": "German", "Publisher": "Verlag für Jugend und Volk (Austria)Beacon Press (English)", "Pages": "200", "ISBN": "080701429X", "Followed by": "The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy in Logotherapy"} |
Jordan Michael Houston III (born April 5, 1975), known professionally as Juicy J, is an American rapper and record producer. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, he is a founding member of the Southern hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, established in 1991. The group won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for their singl... | {"Caption": "Juicy J performing in 2014", "Other names": "The Checkwriter Low Down Juice Mannehttps://www.discogs.com/artist/376312-Juicy-J Juicy J Discogs", "Birth name": "Jordan Michael Houston III", "Birth date": "1975 04 05", "Birth place": "Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.", "Education": "Northside High School", "Occupati... |
Hypnotize Minds, known by the stage name Hypnotize Camp Posse or HCP, was an American record label created by DJ Paul and Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia in 1997, in Memphis, Tennessee. The label served as the successor to Three 6 Mafia's previous label, Prophet Entertainment, which was co-founded by DJ Paul and Juicy J along... | {"Parent company": "Sony", "Founded": "1997", "Defunct": "2012 (assumed)", "Founder": "DJ Paul & Juicy J", "Distributor(s)": "RED", "Genre": "Hip hop", "Country of origin": "U.S.", "Location": "Memphis, Tennessee"} |
Carl Ruggles (born Charles Sprague Ruggles; March 11, 1876 - October 24, 1971) was an American composer, painter and teacher. His pieces employed "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on a non-se... | {"Name": "Carl Ruggles", "Caption": "Detail from a portrait of Ruggles taken in Minnesota, 1911", "Birth date": "1876 03 11", "Birth place": "Marion, Massachusetts, USA", "Death date": "1971 10 24 1876 03 11", "Death place": "Bennington, Vermont, USA", "Notable works": "Men and Mountains (1924)Sun-Treader (1926-31)", "... |
Crunk is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged in the early 1990s and gained mainstream success during the mid 2000s. Crunk is often up-tempo and one of Southern hip hop's more dance and club oriented subgenres. An archetypal crunk track frequently uses a main groove consisting of layered keyboard synths, a drum mac... | {"Name": "Crunk", "Stylistic origins": "Southern hip hop Miami bass bounce gangsta rap Memphis rap", "Cultural origins": "Early 1990s, Memphis, Tennessee, United States", "Derivative forms": "Jersey Club trap", "Subgenres": "Snap", "Fusion genres": "Wonky crunkcore", "Other genre topics": "Hyphy"} |
Keye Luke (, Cantonese: Luk Shek-kee; June 18, 1904 - January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-American film and television actor, technical advisor and artist and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.
He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939-1941 ... | {"Name": "Keye Luke陸錫麒", "Caption": "Luke in 1976", "Birth date": "1904 6 18", "Birth place": "Guangzhou, Qing Empire", "Death date": "1991 1 12 1904 6 18", "Death place": "Whittier, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years acti... |
FL Studio (previously known as FruityLoops before 2003) is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. It features a graphical user interface with a pattern-based music sequencer. The program is available in four different editions for Microsoft Windows and macOS.
Image-Line offers l... | {"Original author(s)": "Didier Dambrin", "Developer(s)": "Image-Line Software", "Initial release": "1998 04 26 (as FruityLoops)", "Written in": "Delphi, Assembly languagehttps://www.theverge.com/2018/5/23/17384580/music-production-software-fruity-loops-20-mac-compatible Music production software FL Studio is now availa... |
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the national and principal federal law enforcement agency of the Australian Government with the unique role of investigating crime and protecting the national security of the Commonwealth of Australia. The AFP is an independent ... | {"Uniformed as": "Australian Federal Police", "Abbreviation": "AFP", "Formed": "1979", "Multinational agency": "Australia", "Legal personality": "Police force", "General nature": "Yes", "Headquarters": "Edmund Barton Building, Canberra", "Volunteers": "Small numbers for non-operations related activity.", "Annual budget... |
Damião de Góis (; February 2, 1502January 30, 1574), born in Alenquer, Portugal, was an important Portuguese humanist philosopher. He was a friend and student of Erasmus. He was appointed secretary to the Portuguese factory in Antwerp in 1523 by King John III of Portugal. He compiled one of the first accounts on Ethiop... | {"Name": "Damião de Góis", "Caption": "Portrait of Damião de Góis, 16th century, after an engraving by Albrecht Dürer", "Birth date": "2 February 1502", "Birth place": "Alenquer, Portugal", "Death date": "30 January 1574 2 February 1502", "Death place": "Alenquer, Portugal", "Nationality": "Portuguese", "Occupation": "... |
Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Saffāḥ (; 721/722 - 8 June 754, al-Anbar) usually known by his laqab as-Saffāḥ or al-Saffah, was the first caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, one of the longest and most important caliphates in Islamic history.
His as-Saffāḥ () means "the Blood-Shedder". It may refer to his rut... | {"Born": "al-Humayma, Jordan", "Died": "al-Anbar, Iraq", "Burial": "Anbar", "Father": "Muhammad ibn Ali", "Mother": "Rayta bint Ubayd Allah", "Religion": "Sunni Islam"} |
Amira Hass (; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Haaretz covering Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, where she has lived for almost thirty years.
Biography
The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Hass is the only child of a Bosnian-... | {"Name": "Amira Hass", "Caption": "Amira Hass", "Birth date": "1956 06 28 yes", "Birth place": "Jerusalem, Israel", "Nationality": "Israeli", "Known For": "Coverage of daily life in Palestinian territories", "Alma mater": "Hebrew University of Jerusalem", "Employer": "Haaretz", "Occupation": "Journalist", "Years active... |
Vernon God Little (2003) is a novel by DBC Pierre. It was his debut novel and won the Man Booker Prize in 2003. It has twice been adapted as a stage play.
Plot synopsis
The life of Vernon Little, a normal teenager who lives in Martirio, Texas, falls apart when his best friend, Jesus Navarro, murders their classmate... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Faber and Faber", "Media type": "Print (Hardback & Paperback)", "Pages": "288 pp (hardcover edition)288 pp (paperback edition)", "ISBN": "(hardcover edition)0-571-21516-5 (paperback edition)"} |
Elsa Peretti, OMRI OMM (1 May 1940 - 18 March 2021), was an Italian jewelry designer and philanthropist as well as a fashion model. Her jewelry and design pieces for Tiffany & Co. are included in the 20th century collection of the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In ... | {"Name": "Elsa Peretti", "Post-nominals": "OMRI OMM", "Birth date": "yes 1940 05 01", "Birth place": "Florence, Kingdom of Italy", "Death date": "yes 2021 3 18 1940 05 01", "Death place": "Sant Martí Vell, Spain", "Education": "Interior designer (degree obtained in Rome, Italy)", "Occupation": "Jewelry designer, philan... |
St. Stephen is a Canadian town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, situated on the east bank of the St. Croix River around the intersection of New Brunswick Route 170 and the southern terminus of New Brunswick Route 3. The St. Croix River marks a section of the Canada-United States border, forming a natural border bet... | {"Type": "Town Council", "Land": "13.72", "Density": "328.7", "Website": "www.town.ststephen.nb.ca", "DST": "-3"} |
Christopher David Moyles (born 22 February 1974) is an English radio and television presenter, author and presenter of The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X.
Previously he has presented The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 from 2004 to 2012 and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night from 2009 to 2012 on Channel 4.
Moyles has worked at v... | {"Name": "Chris Moyles", "Caption": "Moyles at a live karaoke event, 11 September 2009", "Birth name": "Christopher David Moyles", "Birth date": "yes 1974 2 22", "Birth place": "Leeds, England", "Education": "Mount St Mary's Catholic High School", "Occupation": "DJ\n presenter\n author", "Years active": "1990-present",... |
Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (; born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755) or Behzādān Pour Vandād Hormozd () was a PersianEncyclopedia.com "c. 728-755, Persian leader of the Abbasid revolution." general who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty, leading to the establishment of the Abba... | {"Name": "Abu Muslim", "Native name": "fa ابومسلم خراسانی", "Caption": "\"Abu Muslim chastises a man for telling tales,\" Folio from the Ethics of Nasir (Akhlaq-e Nasiri) by Nasir al-Din Tusi. Copy created in Lahore between 1590-1595", "Birth name": "Unknown birth name, possibly Behzadan, or Ibrahim", "Birth date": "71... |
Chen Long (; ; born 18 January 1989), is a Chinese former professional badminton player. He is the 2016 Olympic champion, two-time World champion, and an Asian champion.
Chen was a former World number 1, occupying the top men's singles ranking for 76 consecutive weeks from December 2014 to June 2016. He started his a... | {"Country": "China", "Born": "Shashi District, Jingzhou, Hubei, China", "Height": "1.87 m", "Weight": "75 kg", "Event": "Men's singles", "Years active": "2007 - 2021", "Handedness": "Right", "Career record": "446 wins, 115 losses", "Highest ranking": "25 December 2014"} |
4DOS is a command-line interpreter by JP Software, designed to replace the default command interpreter COMMAND.COM in Microsoft DOS and Windows. It was written by Rex C. Conn and Tom Rawson and first released in 1989. Compared to the default, it has a large number of enhancements.
4OS2 and 4NT are similar products tha... | {"Developer(s)": "JP Software", "Type": "Command shell", "License": "modified MIT License that does not qualify as open source by Open Source Initiative or Free Software Foundation standards", "Website": "4dos.info"} |
Doom II, also known as Doom II: Hell on Earth, is a first-person shooter game by id Software. It was released for MS-DOS in 1994 and Macintosh in 1995. Unlike the original Doom, which was initially only available through shareware and mail order, Doom II was sold in stores.
Compared to its predecessor, Doom II feature... | {"Title": "Doom II", "Caption": "Cover art by Brom, depicting the Doomguy firing a shotgun at a Cyberdemon", "Developer": "id SoftwareNerve Software ported the game to Xbox 360.", "Publisher": "GT InteractiveThe European MS-DOS version, Game Boy Advance and Xbox 360 versions were published by Virgin Interactive Enterta... |
Abu Musa Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid (; April 787 - 24/25 September 813), better known by his laqab of al-Amin (), was the sixth Arab Abbasid caliph from 809 to 813.
Al-Amin succeeded his father, Harun al-Rashid, in 809 and ruled until he was deposed and killed in 813, during the civil war by his half-brother, al-Ma'... | {"Father": "Harun al-Rashid", "Mother": "Zubaidah bint Ja`far", "Born": "Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate", "Died": "Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate", "Burial": "Baghdad", "Religion": "Sunni Islam"} |
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The is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Sciences et Lettres Univer... | {"Type": "Grande école", "Director": "Alexia Fabre(since 2022)", "Campus": "6th arrondissement of Paris", "Website": "www.beauxartsparis.fr"} |
Ecclesall Ward—which includes the neighbourhoods of Banner Cross, Bents Green, Carterknowle, Ecclesall, Greystones, Millhouses, and Ringinglow—is one of the 28 electoral wards in the City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the southwestern part of the city and covers an area of . The population of this ward in 20... | {"Metropolitan borough": "City of Sheffield", "Metropolitan county": "South Yorkshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "UK Parliament": "Sheffield Hallam", "Councillors": "Roger Davison (Liberal Democrats)Barbara Masters (Liberal Democrats)Shaffaq Mohammed (Liberal Democrats)", "Population": "(2007 est.)Key Facts About ... |
Barry John (born 6 January 1945) is a former Welsh rugby union fly-half who played, during the amateur era of the sport, in the 1960s, and early 1970s. John began his rugby career as a schoolboy playing for his local team Cefneithin RFC before switching to first-class west Wales team Llanelli RFC in 1964. It was while ... | {"Name": "Barry John", "Caption": "Barry John in 2011", "Birth date": "yes 1945 1 6", "Birth place": "Cefneithin, Carmarthenshire, Wales", "Height": "5 ft 10 in m on", "Weight": "11 st 11 lb lb kg on", "School": "Gwendraeth Grammar School", "University": "Trinity College, Carmarthen", "Relatives": "Derek Quinnell (brot... |
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Robert Victor Jackson (born 24 September 1946) is a British politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1984 and member of parliament (MP) for Wantage from 1983 to 2005, having been elected as a Conservative; however, he joined the Labour Party in 20... | {"Name": "Robert V. Jackson", "Term start": "10 June 1983", "Term end": "11 April 2005", "Birth date": "1946 09 24 yes", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Caroline Jackson", "Alma mater": "St Edmund Hall, Oxford"} |
The Last Hero is a short fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the twenty-seventh book in his Discworld series. It was published in 2001 in a larger format than the other Discworld novels and illustrated on every page by Paul Kidby.
Plot summary
A message, carried by pointless albatross, arrives for Lord Ve... | {"Language": "English", "Series": "Discworld 27th novel – 7th Rincewind story", "Publisher": "Victor Gollancz", "ISBN": "0-575-06885-X", "Preceded by": "Thief of Time", "Followed by": "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents"} |
The Church of St Benet Paul's Wharf is a Welsh Anglican church in the City of London, England. Since 1556, it has also been the official church of the College of Arms in which many officers of arms have been buried. In 1666 it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, after which it was rebuilt and merged with nearby ... | {"OS grid reference": "St Benet Paul's Wharf", "Denomination": "Anglican", "Previous denomination": "Roman Catholicism", "Completed": "1683", "Architect(s)": "Christopher Wren, possibly Robert HookeBradley, Simon Pevsner, Nikolaus London - The City Churches Penguin Books reprint 1998", "Style": "Baroque", "Heritage d... |
Clayton Holmes Aiken (né Grissom; born November 30, 1978) is an American singer, television personality, actor, politician, and activist. Aiken finished second place on the second season of American Idol in 2003, and his debut album, Measure of a Man, went multi-platinum. He released four more albums on the RCA label, ... | {"Born": "Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.", "Genres": "Pop soft rock RB", "Labels": "RCA Decca", "Website": "http://www.clayaiken.com/"} |
Abu al-Abbas Abdallah ibn Harun al-Rashid (; 14 September 786 - 9 August 833), better known by his regnal name al-Ma'mun (), was the seventh Abbasid caliph, who reigned from 813 until his death in 833. He succeeded his half-brother al-Amin after a civil war, during which the cohesion of the Abbasid Caliphate was weaken... | {"Father": "Harun al-Rashid", "Mother": "Umm Abdallah Marajil", "Born": "Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate", "Died": "Tarsus, Abbasid Caliphate, now Mersin Province, Turkey", "Burial": "Grand Mosque of Tarsus", "Religion": "Islamnote al-Ma'mun was a Sunni Muslim with Mu'tazili and pro-Alid tendencies."} |
Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, and Bernie Casey. The film's plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College trying to stop the ongoing harassment by the jock fraternity, the Alpha Betas, in additio... | {"Directed by": "Jeff Kanew", "Produced by": "Ted Field Peter Samuelson", "Screenplay by": "Steve Zacharias Jeff Buhai", "Story by": "Tim Metcalfe Miguel Tejada-Flores Steve Zacharias Jeff Buhai", "Starring": "Robert Carradine\n Anthony Edwards\n Ted McGinley\n Bernie Casey", "Music by": "Thomas Newman", "Cinematograph... |
Socialist Appeal is the British section of the International Marxist Tendency. It describes itself as a "Marxist organisation which stands for the socialist transformation of society." Its stated aim is to build a revolutionary leadership capable of leading the working class in a struggle against capitalism.
It was fo... | {"Founded": "1992", "Ideology": "Marxism\n Leninism\n Trotskyism", "International affiliation": "International Marxist Tendency", "Newspaper": "Socialist Appeal"} |
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan under the name of .
Japan first took Korea into its sphere of influence during the Joseon period, with the unequal Japan-Korea Treaty of 1876. At the time, Joseon was a tributary state of Qing China. Japan then began a decades-long process of defeatin... | {"Native name": "ja 朝鮮ja Chōsenko 조선ko Chosŏn", "Conventional long name": "Korea", "Coat of arms alt text": "Seal", "Symbol type": "Seal of theGovernment-Generalof Chōsen", "National anthem": "\"Kimigayo\"File:Kimi ga Yo 1930 instrumental.oga", "Capital": "25px Keijō (Gyeongseong)a(now Seoul, South Korea)", "Largest ci... |
Puretracks was a Canadian online music store, which launched officially on October 14, 2003. Puretracks works as a behind-the-scene music partner. Now a division of Somerset Entertainment, owned by Fluid Music, Puretracks has U.S. and Canadian licensing agreements with all major labels and hundreds of independent label... | {"Name": "Puretracks", "Launch date": "October 14, 2003 (Canada) October 13, 2004 (USA)", "Platform(s)": "Microsoft Windows, classic Mac OS, macOS, Ubuntu", "Availability": "Canada, USA", "Website": "https://puretracks.com"} |
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New Point is a town in Salt Creek Township, Decatur County, Indiana, United States. The population was 331 at the 2010 census.
History
New Point was laid out in 1859.
Geography
The town is located approximately one-half mile south of Interstate 74 at Exit 143. (State ... | {"Land": "0.31", "Water": "0.00", "Density": "1022.44", "DST": "-4", "Website": "http://www.newpointin.com"} |
The Ford Prefect is a line of British cars which was produced by Ford UK between 1938 and 1961 as an upmarket version of the Ford Popular and Ford Anglia small family cars. It was introduced in October 1938 and remained in production until 1941. Returning to the market in 1945, it was offered until 1961. The car progre... | {"Manufacturer": "Ford UKFord Australia", "Production": "1938-1961", "Predecessor": "Ford 7W", "Successor": "Ford Consul Classic"} |
Breakcore is a style and microgenre of electronic dance music that emerged from jungle, hardcore, and drum and bass in the mid-to-late 1990s. It is characterized by very complex and intricate breakbeats and a wide palette of sampling sources played at high tempos.
History
thumb|left|American breakcore DJ Donna Summe... | {"Name": "Breakcore", "Stylistic origins": "Hardcore jungle drum and bass drill 'n' bass IDM digital hardcore electro-industrial", "Cultural origins": "Mid-1990s, Ishkur http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ Ishkur's guide to Electronic Music 2005 4 May 2014 \nNetherlands, Germany, UK \nCybercultureWhelan ... |
Asimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine published by Penny Press and edited by Sheila Williams. It was launched as a quarterly by Davis Publications in 1977, after obtaining Isaac Asimov's consent for the use of his name. It was originally titled Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and w... | {"Categories": "Science fiction", "First issue": "Spring 1977", "Website": "Asimov's Science Fiction", "ISSN": "1065-2698"} |
Juhan Parts (born 27 August 1966) is an Estonian politician who was Prime Minister of Estonia from 2003 to 2005HighBeam and Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications from 2007 to 2014. Juhan Parts is a member of Isamaa party.
Education
Born in Tallinn, Juhan Parts completed Gustav Adolf Grammar School in Tallinn... | {"Name": "Juhan Parts", "Image caption": "Parts in 2012", "Term start": "10 April 2003", "Term end": "12 April 2005", "Birth date": "1966 8 27 y", "Birth place": "Tallinn, Estonia", "Alma mater": "University of Tartu"} |
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