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Zinovy Petrovich RozhestvenskyРожественский. Several other transliterations are also known in English texts. (, tr. ; - January 14, 1909) was an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. He was in command of the Second Pacific Squadron in the Battle of Tsushima, during the Russo-Japanese War.
Under Admiral Rozhestvensky... | {"Birth name": "Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky", "Born": "November 11, 1848", "Died": "Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire", "Nickname(s)": "Mad Dog Pleshakov, photo caption, page not numbered", "Allegiance": "Russian Empire", "Commands held": "Baltic Fleet", "Awards": "Order of St. GeorgeOrder of St. Vladimir"} |
thumb|Redshirts at the Battle of Domokos
The Redshirts (Italian: Camicie rosse or Giubbe rosse), also called the Red coats, are volunteers who followed the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi during his campaigns. The name derived from the colour of their shirts or loose-fitting blouses that the volunteers, usually call... | {"Allegiance": "Kingdom of Sardinia 1851Flag of Colorado Party (Uruguay).svg Colorado Party\nRiograndense Republic Piratini Republic\nFlag of the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth (January Uprising).svg Polish National GovernmentFrench Third RepublicKingdom of Greece state Kingdom of Greece", "Type": "Infantry",... |
Our Lady of Zeitoun, also known simply as El-Zeitoun, Zeitun or rarely Our Lady of Light, was a mass Marian apparition that was reported to have occurred in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, during a period of about 3 years beginning on 2 April 1968.
Apparition
The first apparition of the Virgin Mary at Zeitoun wa... | {"Location": "Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt", "Date": "2 April 1968", "Type": "Marian Apparition", "Approval": "Pope Kyrillos VI", "Attributes": "Virgin Mary dressed in white, dove on her head while in praying position over a bell tower.", "Shrine": "Church of the Virgin Mary, Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt", "Patronage": "Egypt", "Fe... |
Mongane Wally Serote (born 8 May 1944) is a South African poet and writer. He became involved in political resistance to the apartheid government by joining the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1969 was arrested and detained for several months without trial. He subsequently spent years in exile, working in Botswa... | {"Name": "Mongane Wally Serote", "Caption": "Prof. Mongane Wally Serote", "Birth date": "1944", "Birth place": "Sophiatown, Johannesburg, South Africa", "Occupation": "Poet and cultural activist", "Education": "Morris Isaacson High School, \n Sacred Heart Commercial High School", "Alma mater": "Columbia ... |
Camp X was the unofficial name of the secret Special Training School No. 103, a Second World War British paramilitary installation for training covert agents in the methods required for success in clandestine operations. It was located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Can... | {"Type": "Training installation", "Coordinates": "43 51 15 N 078 53 06 W type:landmark_region:CA-ON inline,title", "Built": "1941 12 06", "In use": "1941-1969", "Fate": "Destroyed", "Pastcommanders": "Sir William Stephenson, Lt. Col. Arthur Terence Roper-Caldbeck", "Occupants": "Roald Dahl\n John Skinner Wilson\n Paul ... |
Air Transat is a Canadian airline based in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1986, it operates scheduled and charter flights serving 60 destinations in 25 countries."Contact Us." Air Transat. Retrieved on 20 May 2009. "Postal address: Air Transat 5959 Côte-Vertu Blvd. Montreal, Quebec H4S 2E6 Canada" Air Transat is owned an... | {"Airline name": "Air Transat", "Image size (px)": "240", "IATA Designator": "TS", "ICAO Designator": "TSCAir Transat TSC AIR TRANSAT 1 2023-02-24", "Callsign": "AIR TRANSAT", "Air Carrier Operator's Certificate # (AOC)": "Canada: 531130 August 2019 53-11 Air+Transat\"FAA\">https://av-info.faa.gov/detail.asp?DSGN_CODE=... |
The SD80MAC was a C-C diesel-electric locomotive. It was powered by a 20-cylinder version of EMD's 710G prime mover, and was the second diesel locomotive by GM-EMD to use a v20 engine, since EMD's SD45 series. It introduced a wide radiator housing similar to GE Transportation locomotives and the placement of dynamic b... | {"Power type": "Diesel-electric", "Gauge": "ussg on", "Trucks": "EMD HTCR II", "Power output": "5000 hp MW on in(80MAC)5300 hp MW on in(80ACe)", "AAR wheel arangment": "C-C", "UIC classification": "Co'Co'", "Number of cylinders": "20", "Prime mover": "EMD 20-710G3B-ES(SD80MAC)20-710G3C-ES(SD80Ace)20N-710G3B-EC(GT50AC)"... |
Tun Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi (Jawi: عبد الله بن احمد بدوي; born 26 November 1939) is a Malaysian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009. He was also the sixth president of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the largest political party (at the time) in Malaysia, and... | {"Name": "Abdullah Ahmad Badawi", "Native name": "ms Arab عبد الله احمد بدوي", "Image caption": "Abdullah in 2014", "Term start": "31 October 2003", "Term end": "2 April 2009", "Office 2": "6th President of the United Malays National Organisation", "Deputy 2": "Najib Razak", "Predecessor 2": "Mahathir Mohamad", "Succes... |
Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and radio presenter. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus, Cocker has pursued a solo career, and for seven years he prese... | {"Born": "Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England", "Genres": "Alternative rock\npost-punk\nBritpop\nindie rock\nart rock", "Member of": "Pulp\nRelaxed Muscle", "Website": "jarviscocker.net"} |
Lambeth Bridge is a road traffic and footbridge crossing the River Thames in an east-west direction in central London. The river flows north at the crossing point. Downstream, the next bridge is Westminster Bridge; upstream, the next bridge is Vauxhall Bridge.
The most conspicuous colour in the bridge's paint scheme i... | {"Locale": "London", "Carries": "Lambeth Road", "Crosses": "River Thames", "Maintained by": "Transport for London", "Design": "Arch", "Coordinates": "51 29 40 N 0 07 23 W region:GB_type:landmark inline, title"} |
Athole Dane Shearer Hawks (November 20, 1900 - March 17, 1985) was a Canadian-American actress and socialite, who was the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and MGM film sound engineer Douglas Shearer.
Early life
Athole Dane Shearer was born in 1900 in Montreal, Quebec. Her parents divorced when she was a t... | {"Name": "Athole Shearer", "Caption": "Shearer in 1920", "Birth name": "Athole Dane Shearer", "Birth date": "1900 11 20 y", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Death date": "1985 3 17 1900 11 20", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, Cal... |
Super Dave Osborne is a character created and played by comedian Bob Einstein. Einstein's comedic depiction was of a naïve but optimistic stuntman who was frequently comically injured when his stunts went spectacularly wrong.
Character sketch
Super Dave is billed as an "accomplished" stuntman, though he rarely succeed... | {"First appearance": "The John Byner Comedy Hour", "Created by": "Bob Einstein", "Portrayed by": "Bob Einstein", "Gender": "Male", "Nationality": "American"} |
Borehamwood (, historically also Boreham Wood) is a town in southern Hertfordshire, England, from Charing Cross. Borehamwood has a population of 36,322, and is within the London commuter belt.Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Hertsmere Retrieved 2 February 2010 The town's film and TV s... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "Population and household estimates, England and Wales: Census 2021 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/populationandhouseholdestimatesenglandandwales/census2021", "District": "Hertsmere", "Shire county":... |
Peter Douglas Molyneux (; born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer. He created the god games Populous, Dungeon Keeper, and Black & White, as well as Theme Park, the Fable series, Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?, and Godus. He currently works at 22cans.
Career
Early career
Peter Molyneux b... | {"Name": "Peter Molyneux", "Post-nominals": "OBE", "Caption": "Molyneux at the University of Southampton", "Birth name": "Peter Douglas Molyneux", "Birth date": "1959 5 5 y", "Birth place": "Guildford, Surrey, England", "Known For": "Populous\n Theme Park\n Dungeon Keeper\n Black & White\n Fable series\n Godus", "Occup... |
The Eloi are one of the two fictional post-human races, along with the Morlocks, in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine.
In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
By the year AD 802,701, humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi live a banal life of ease on the surface of the Ear... | {"Home world": "Earth", "Type": "Humanoid", "First appearance": "The Time Machine", "Created by": "H. G. Wells"} |
Michael James Hegstrand (January 26, 1957 - October 19, 2003) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors (or the "Legion of Doom"), with Road Warrior Animal. Outside of the Road Warriors, Hawk was a sporadic challenger for world hea... | {"Ring name(s)": "Crusher Von HaigHawkHawk WarriorRoad Warrior Hawk", "Birth name": "Michael James HegstrandOliver Greg Road Warrior Hawk dead at 45 http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2003/10/19/230771.html February 21, 2020 canoe.com", "Born": "Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.", "Died": "Indian Rocks Beach, Florida,... |
Kerry Michelle Nettle (born 24 December 1973) is a former Australian Senator and member of the Australian Greens in New South Wales. Elected at the 2001 federal election on a primary vote of 4.36 percent with One Nation and micro-party preferences,Double dissolution is an empty threat. theage.com.au. Retrieved on 2009... | {"Name": "Kerry Nettle", "Term start": "1 July 2002", "Term end": "30 June 2008", "Birth date": "yes 1973 12 24", "Birth place": "Sydney, New South Wales", "Nationality": "Australian", "Official website": "http://www.kerrynettle.org.au/"} |
Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopian New Wave science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1968. The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969, as well as the 1969 BSFA Award and the 1973 Prix Tour-Apollo Award.
Description
The novel is about overpopu... | {"Cover artist": "S. A. Summit, Inc.", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Doubleday", "Media type": "Hardback & paperback", "Pages": "582", "ISBN": "0-09-919110-5"} |
The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year. The novel award is available for works of fiction of 40,000 words or more; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette, an... | {"Awarded for": "Best science fiction or fantasy story of 40,000 words or more published in the prior calendar year", "Presented by": "World Science Fiction Society", "First awarded": "1953", "Website": "http://thehugoawards.org"} |
Ay was the penultimate pharaoh of ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty. He held the throne of Egypt for a brief four-year period in the late 14th century BC. Prior to his rule, he was a close advisor to two, and perhaps three, other pharaohs of the dynasty. It is speculated that he was the power behind the throne during child ... | {"Reign": "1323–1319 BC or 1327–1323 BC", "Predecessor": "Tutankhamun (Grandnephew & grandson-in-law?)", "Successor": "Horemheb (Possible Son-in-law)", "Children": "Nakhtmin?, Nefertiti?, Mutbenret/Mutnedjmet?", "Dynasty": "18th Dynasty", "Died": "1319 or 1323 BC", "Burial": "WV23", "Monuments": "Amarna Tomb"} |
William Walker (May 8, 1824September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of "manifest destiny", Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establis... | {"Name": "William Walker", "Order 2": "President of Sonora(Unrecognized)", "Predecessor 2": "Office established", "Successor 2": "Office abolished", "Birth date": "May 8, 1824", "Birth place": "Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.", "Death date": "1860 9 12 1824 5 8", "Death place": "Trujillo, Colón, Honduras", "Resting place": ... |
William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams (born William Charles Frederick Grover, 16 January 1903 - 18 March 1945 (or shortly thereafter)), also known as "W Williams", was a British Grand Prix motor racing driver and special agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) inside France. As a racing driver, ... | {"Name": "William Grover-Williams", "Caption": "Grover-Williams in 1928", "Birth date": "1903 1 16 y", "Birth place": "Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France", "Death date": "18 March 1945 (or shortly thereafter) (aged 42)", "Death place": "Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Nazi Germany", "Occupation": "Racing driverSOE age... |
Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg VC DFC (5 May 1914 or 5 June 1914 – 11 August 1943), of Houhora, New Zealand, was a pilot in the RNZAF during World War II. He was a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy for British and Commonwealth armed forces, and recei... | {"Born": "Houhora, New Zealand", "Died": "off Dakar, French West Africa", "Allegiance": "New Zealand", "Awards": "30px Victoria Cross\nDistinguished Flying Cross"} |
Formosa Magazine, also known as Mei-li-tao (), was a magazine created by Tangwai individuals in Taiwan during the summer of 1979. It opposed the Kuomintang's political monopoly in the Republic of China government. A police raid of the Formosa Press caused the Kaohsiung Incident in December 1979.
There were 61 partici... | {"Frequency": "Monthly", "Format": "21 cm", "Publisher": "Huang Hsin-chieh", "First issue": "1979 08 16 yes", "Country": "Taiwan", "Language": "Chinese language", "OCLC": "7186174"} |
Norman Russell Young (February 23, 1946 - April 14, 2021) was an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, best known as one of the frontmen in the influential country rock and Americana band Poco.
A virtuoso on pedal steel guitar, he was celebrated for the ability to get a Hammond B3 organ sound out of the instrum... | {"Born": "Long Beach, California, US", "Origin": "Los Angeles, California, US", "Died": "Davisville, Missouri, US", "Genres": "Country rock folk rock soft rock yacht rock americana", "Formerly of": "Poco"} |
The Dark Crystal is a 1982 dark fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. It stars the voices of Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw, Percy Edwards, and Barry Dennen. The film was produced by ITC Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company and distributed by Universal Pictures. The plot revolves around ... | {"Directed by": "Jim Henson\n Frank Oz", "Produced by": "Jim Henson\n Gary Kurtz", "Screenplay by": "David Odell", "Story by": "Jim Henson", "Starring": "Stephen Garlick\n Lisa Maxwell\n Billie Whitelaw\n Percy Edwards", "Music by": "Trevor Jones", "Cinematography": "Oswald Morris", "Edited by": "Ralph Kemplen", "Distr... |
Peter John Sinfield (born 27 December 1943) is an English poet and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and former lyricist of King Crimson, whose debut album In the Court of the Crimson King is considered one of the first and most influential progressive rock albums ever released.
Sinfield's lyrics are know... | {"Born": "Fulham, London, England", "Genres": "Progressive rock art rock", "Labels": "Manticore Records, E.G. Records, EMI, Imagem", "Website": "songsouponsea.com"} |
George Stevens Hamilton (born August 12, 1939) is an American actor. His notable films include Home from the Hill (1960), By Love Possessed (1961), Light in the Piazza (1962), Your Cheatin' Heart (1964), Once Is Not Enough (1975), Love at First Bite (1979), Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981), The Godfather Part III (1990), Do... | {"Name": "George Hamilton", "Caption": "Hamilton in 2023", "Birth date": "1939 8 12", "Birth place": "Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.", "Years active": "1952-present", "Occupation": "Actor", "Spouse(s)": "Alana Stewart 1972 1975 divorced", "Children": "2, including Ashley Hamilton", "Father": "George Hamilton"} |
Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Connelly. It stars Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore. The plot depicts the life of a depressed New York City p... | {"Directed by": "Martin Scorsese", "Produced by": "Barbara De Fina\n Scott Rudin", "Screenplay by": "Paul Schrader", "Based on": "Bringing Out the Dead Joe Connelly", "Starring": "Nicolas Cage\n Patricia Arquette\n John Goodman\n Ving Rhames\n Tom Sizemore", "Music by": "Elmer Bernstein", "Cinematography": "Robert Rich... |
The Neptunes are an American songwriting and production duo composed of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, formed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1992. Williams often provides additional vocals on records and appears in the duo's music videos, while Hugo tends to stay behind the scenes.
Since their inception, The Neptun... | {"Origin": "Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.", "Genres": "Hip hop R&B pop", "Labels": "Interscope Star Trak Columbia I Am Other", "Website": "https://theneptunes.org/", "Members": "Pharrell Williams\n Chad Hugo"} |
Cheung Man Yee ISO () is the first Chinese person to become Director of Broadcasting (head of Radio Television Hong Kong) in the Hong Kong Government.
She joined Radio Television Hong Kong as a Programme Officer in 1972. From 1999 to 2002 she was the principal Hong Kong Economic and Trade Representative in Tokyo, Japa... | {"Name": "Cheung Man-yee", "Honorific suffix": "SBS, ISO, JP", "Birth date": "1946 12 25", "Term start": "1986", "Term end": "1999", "Alma mater": "Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Bachelor of Arts in English)"} |
Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist whose playing combined elements of swing and bebop. Although John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s, Thompson (along with Steve Lacy) ... | {"Born": "Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.", "Died": "Seattle, Washington, U.S.", "Origin": "Detroit, Michigan, U.S.", "Genres": "Jazz"} |
Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. The duo has been featured in numerous stage and television shows, such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn... | {"Name": "Penn Jillette", "Caption": "Jillette at the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention in 2016", "Birth name": "Penn Fraser Jillette", "Birth date": "1955 3 5 yes", "Birth place": "Greenfield, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Known For": "Half of the comedy magic duo known as Penn & Teller", "Education": "Ringlin... |
Black Tiger Fist (Chinese: 黑虎拳 Hēihǔquán) is a northern Chinese martial art originating in Shandong Province.Shantung Black Tiger: A Shaolin Fighting Art of North China by Leo Budiman Prakarsa (Author), Khek Kiong Tjoa (Author), Donn F. Draeger (Author), Quintin T. G. Chambers (Author)
Origins
The traditional linea... | {"Also known as": "Black Tiger Fist", "Country of origin": "China", "Parenthood": "Northern Shaolin Kung Fu", "Olympic sport": "No"} |
Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel by Rita Mae Brown. Published in 1973, it was remarkable in its day for its explicit portrayal of lesbianism. The novel is a coming-of-age autobiographical account of Brown's youth and emergence as a lesbian author. The term "rubyfruit jungle" is a term used in the novel for the fema... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "VT: Daughters", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)"} |
Waterbury is a town in Washington County in central Vermont, United States. Although the town is still home to the Waterbury Village Historic District, the village sharing the name of the town officially dissolved as a municipality in 2018. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,331.
History
The location where Wa... | {"Land": "48.2", "Water": "1.5", "Density": "auto", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.waterburyvt.com"} |
Garfield: The Movie (identified on screen as Garfield) is a 2004 American comedy film. It is a live-action adaptation to Jim Davis' comic strip of the same name. Directed by Peter Hewitt, it stars Breckin Meyer as Jon Arbuckle, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Dr. Liz Wilson and features Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield, wh... | {"Directed by": "Peter Hewitt", "Produced by": "John Davis", "Written by": "Joel Cohen\n Alec Sokolow", "Based on": "Garfield Jim Davis", "Starring": "Breckin Meyer\n Jennifer Love Hewitt\n Stephen Tobolowsky\n Bill Murray", "Music by": "Christophe Beck", "Cinematography": "Dean Cundey", "Edited by": "Michael A. Steven... |
Erik Hersholt Nielsen (February 24, 1924 - September 4, 2008) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the longtime Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Yukon, and was Leader of the Opposition and the third deputy prime minister. He was the elder brother of actor Leslie Nielsen.
Early life, fam... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Honourable", "Name": "Erik Nielsen", "Honorific suffix": "CAN PC DFC QC 100%", "Term start": "September 17, 1984", "Term end": "June 30, 1986", "Office 2": "Interim Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada", "Predecessor 2": "Joe Clark", "Successor 2": "Brian Mulroney", "Birth na... |
The Standard is an English-language free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation of 200,450 in 2012. It was formerly called the Hongkong Standardhttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4s4AAOSw~FJZKmL~/s-l400.jpg https://www.ebay.com/itm/361992518662 and changed to HKiMail during the Internet boom but partially reverted... | {"Type": "Daily free newspaper", "Format": "Broadsheet (former) Tabloid (since 2000)", "Founder(s)": "Aw Boon Haw", "Owner(s)": "The Standard Newspapers Publishing (part of Sing Tao News Corporation, majority stake in turn held by Guo Xiaoting, vice-chairwoman of Kaisa Group)", "Publisher": "The Standard Newspapers Pub... |
The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN; legally Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.) is an international Christian-based broadcast television network and the world's largest religious television network. TBN was headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, until March 3, 2017, when it sold its highly visible office park, Tr... | {"Type": "Religious broadcast television network", "Country": "United States", "Broadcast area": "Worldwide", "Headquarters": "Tustin, California", "Language(s)": "English", "Picture format": "720p/1080i HDTV\n (broadcast affiliates exclusively transmit TBN programming in SD)", "Former names": "Trinity Broadcasting Sys... |
John Rolfe ( - March 1622) was an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export.
He played a crucial role in the Virginia Colony's early economy by introducing a sweeter st... | {"Name": "John Rolfe", "Baptised": "6 May 1585https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Rolfe John Rolfe | British colonial official | Britannica 12 June 2023", "Caption": "A posthumous painting of John Rolfe and Pocahontas made 1850", "Birth place": "Heacham, Norfolk, England", "Birth date": "1585", "Death date": "Ma... |
The Corps of Discovery was a specially established unit of the United States Army which formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that took place between May of 1804 and September of 1806. The Corps was led jointly by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark. Commissioned by President Tho... | {"Branch": "Army", "Role": "Exploration", "Size": "margin-bottom:0.5em \n2 officers\n5 NCOs\n30 enlisted men\nCiviliansmargin-top:0.5em \n3 permanent\n12 temporary", "Disbanded": "September 1806"} |
Àngel Guimerà y Jorge (6 May 1845 or 6 May 1847 or 1849 - 18 July 1924), known also as Ángel Guimerá, was a Spanish Nobel-nominated writer in the Catalan language. His work is known for bringing together under romantic aspects the main elements of realism. He is considered one of the principal representatives of the so... | {"Birth name": "Ángel Guimerá y Jorge", "Caption": "Guimerà, ca. 1894, by Pau Audouard", "Birth date": "6 May 1845 or 1847, or 1849", "Birth place": "Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain", "Death date": "18 July 1924", "Death place": "Barcelona, Spain", "Resting place": "Montjuïc Cemetery", "Nationality": "Spa... |
Charles Jones Soong (; October 17, 1861 - May 3, 1918), also known by his courtesy name Soong Yao-ju (), was a Chinese businessman who first achieved prominence as a publisher in Shanghai. He was a close friend and follower of Sun Yat-sen during the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. His children became some of the most promi... | {"Name": "Charlie Soong", "Caption": "Charlie Soong at Vanderbilt University", "Birth name": "Han Jiaozhun", "Native name": "宋嘉澍", "Native name language": "zh", "Birth date": "1861 10 17 y", "Birth place": "Wenchang, Hainan, Qing Empire", "Death date": "1918 5 3 1861 10 17 y", "Death place": "Shanghai, Republic of Chin... |
Frederick Funston (November 9, 1865 - February 19, 1917), also known as Fighting Fred Funston, was a general in the United States Army, best known for his roles in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Philippine-American War.
Early life, e... | {"Born": "New Carlisle, Ohio", "Died": "San Antonio, Texas", "Nickname(s)": "\"Fearless Freddie\"California Military Museum", "Allegiance": "United States of America 1896", "Commands held": "Hawaiian Department", "Awards": "borer|30px Medal of Honor", "Spouse(s)": "Eda Blankart Funston October 25, 1898", "Children": "A... |
The Hong Kong Economic Times (abbreviated as the HKET) is a financial daily newspaper in Hong Kong. It was founded by Lawrence S P Fung (), (chairman), Perry Mak (managing director), Arthur Shek Kang-chuen ()(executive director) and other founders with a HK$20 million investment in 1988.
The newspaper is published by ... | {"Type": "Financial DailyMonday to Saturday. Some dates are skipped such as public holidays or days before and after them.", "Format": "Broadsheet", "Owner(s)": "Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings", "Political alignment": "Financial & Professional", "Language": "Traditional Chinese", "Headquarters": "6/F, Kodak House II... |
A tricorder is a fictional handheld sensor that exists in the Star Trek universe. The tricorder is a multifunctional hand-held device that can perform environmental scans, data recording, and data analysis; hence the word "tricorder" to refer to the three functions of sensing, recording, and computing. In Star Trek sto... | {"Created by": "Gene Roddenberry", "Type": "Sensor", "Genre": "Science fiction", "Affiliation": "Starfleet"} |
Ferrero Rocher ( ; ) is a chocolate and hazelnut confectionery, introduced in 1982 and produced by the Italian company Ferrero. Michele Ferrero is credited as the product's creator.
Each Ferrero Rocher ball is covered in foil and placed into a paper liner. The confection is machine made and much of its production proc... | {"Product type": "Bonbon", "Owner": "Ferrero SpA", "Country": "Italy", "Introduced": "1982", "Website": "https://www.ferrerorocher.com/it/it/ ferrerorocher.it"} |
Geirr Tveitt (born Nils Tveit; 19 October 1908 - 1 February 1981) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Tveitt was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s.Geirr Tveitt (Store norske leksikon)
Life
Early years
Tveitt was born in Bergen, where his father briefly worked as a... | {"Name": "Geirr Tveitt", "Caption": "Geirr Tveitt", "Birth name": "Nils Tveit", "Birth date": "1908 10 19 y", "Birth place": "Bergen, Norway", "Death date": "1981 02 01 1908 10 19 y", "Death place": "Oslo, Norway", "Occupation": "Classical composer and pianist", "Children": "2"} |
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as "Prufrock", is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888-1965). The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a kind of stream of consciousness. Eliot began writing "Prufrock" in February 1910, and i... | {"Name": "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Original title": "Prufrock Among the Women", "Image caption": "Cover page of The Egoist, Ltd.'s publication of Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)", "Author": "T. S. Eliot", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "First published in": "June 1915 issue of P... |
Friheten () is a Norwegian language biweekly newspaper, published by the Norwegian Communist Party (NKP).
History and profile
Friheten was founded illegally in 1941 during the German occupation of Norway due to World War II. The founders were the members of the communist wing of the resistance movement. The paper was ... | {"Type": "Biweekly newspaper", "Owner(s)": "Norwegian Communist Party", "Political alignment": "Norwegian Communist Party", "Headquarters": "Oslo, Norway", "Language": "Norwegian", "Website": "http://www.friheten.no/"} |
Robert Bernard Greene Jr. (born March 10, 1947) is an American journalist and author. He worked for 24 years for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he was a columnist. Greene has written books on subjects including Michael Jordan, Alice Cooper, and U.S. presidents. His book Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jor... | {"Name": "Bob Greene", "Birth name": "Robert Bernard Greene Jr.", "Birth date": "y 1947 3 10", "Birth place": "Bexley, Ohio, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Journalist"} |
Matthew Theron Ruff (born September 8, 1965) is an American author of thriller, science-fiction and comic novels, including The Mirage and Lovecraft Country, the latter having been adapted in 2020 by HBO into a TV series.
Early life
Ruff was born in New York City in 1965 to a Lutheran family of German ancestry. His fa... | {"Name": "Matt Ruff", "Caption": "Ruff speaks at the San Francisco Public Library in 2018", "Birth date": "1965 09 08", "Birth place": "Queens, New York, United States", "Spouse(s)": "Lisa Gold 1998http://www.bymattruff.com/about-the-author/ About the author Matt Ruff", "Alma mater": "Cornell University", "Notable wo... |
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thumb|The old Florence Hill Mines above Goldfield
Goldfield is an unincorporated small desert city and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada.
It is the locus of the Goldfield CDP which had a resident population of 268 at the 2... | {"Named for": "Gold", "Land": "1.48", "Water": "0.00", "Density": "151.92", "DST": "−7"} |
Henry Stafford Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, (18 November 1846 - 29 September 1911) was a British Conservative politician who served as the third governor-general of Australia, in office from 1904 to 1908. He was previously the governor of Bombay from 1900 to 1903, as well as a government minister under Lord Salisbu... | {"Name": "The Lord Northcote", "Term start": "21 January 1904", "Term end": "9 September 1908", "Office 2": "Member of Parliamentfor Exeter", "Alongside 2": "Edward Johnson (1880-1885)", "Predecessor 2": "John George Johnson", "Successor 2": "Edgar Vincent", "Birth date": "1846 11 18 y", "Birth place": "London, England... |
Joseph Anthony Capstick (27 July 1944 - 23 October 2003) was an English comedian, actor, musician and broadcaster.
Life and career
First son of Joe Capstick, a wireless operator in the RAF, and his wife, June, née Duncan, he was born in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and spent most of his childhood in S... | {"Name": "Tony Capstick", "Birth name": "Joseph Anthony Capstick", "Birth date": "yes 1944 7 27", "Birth place": "Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England", "Death date": "yes 2003 10 23 1944 7 27", "Death place": "Hoober, Wentworth, South Yorkshire, England", "Years active": "1972–2003"} |
The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car produced in the United Kingdom from 1958 until 1971. The Sprite was announced to the press in Monte Carlo by the British Motor Corporation on 20 May 1958, two days after that year's Monaco Grand Prix. It was intended to be a low-cost model that "a chap could keep in h... | {"Also called": "Austin Sprite", "Assembly": "Abingdon, EnglandEnfield, New South Wales, AustraliaWhats(sic) is a Sprite or Midget, ie a Spridget? The Sprite Car Club of Australia, www.spriteclub.com Retrieved on 22 July 2012 via web.archive.org", "Manufacturer": "Austin-Healey (BMC, later British Leyland)", "Productio... |
St Katharine Docks is a former dock and now a mixed-used district in Central London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and within the East End. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, immediately downstream of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. From 1828 to 1968, it was one of the commercial docks that m... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "EC3", "London Assembly": "Tower Hamlets", "Dialling code": "020"} |
Air Caraïbes () is a French airline based in the French West Indies, with its headquarters in Les Abymes in Guadeloupe. The airline's main base of operations is at Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, with a focus city at Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, near Fort-de-France in Martinique. I... | {"Airline name": "Air Caraïbes", "Current Fleet Size": "12", "Number of Destinations": "14", "IATA Designator": "TX", "ICAO Designator": "FWI", "Callsign": "FRENCH WEST", "Parent Company": "Groupe Dubreuil fr", "Founded": "y 1969 (as Société Antillaise de Transport Aérien)Norwood Tom Wegg, John North American Airlines ... |
Fallen Dragon is a science fiction novel by British writer Peter F. Hamilton. It was first published in 2001 by Macmillan. It follows the adventures of the mercenary Lawrence Newton as he attempts to capture what he believes is a fabulous treasure, only to find something of much greater importance.
Synopsis
Fallen Dra... | {"Cover artist": "Jim Burns", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Macmillan", "Media type": "Print (hardcover)", "ISBN": "0-330-48006-5"} |
Sir Orfeo is an anonymous Middle English Breton lai dating from the late 13th or early 14th century. It retells the story of Orpheus as a king who rescues his wife from the fairy king.Laura A. Hibbard, Medieval Romance in England p196 New York Burt Franklin,1963 The folk song Orfeo (Roud 136, Child 19) is based on thi... | {"Author(s)": "Unknown", "Language": "Middle English", "Subject": "the Orpheus legend, recast and with a happy ending", "Personages": "Orfeo"} |
David Frankfurter (9 July 1909 - 19 July 1982) was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Wilhelm Gustloff, the Swiss branch leader of the Nazi Party, in February 1936 in Davos, Switzerland. He surrendered and confessed, and was sentenced to a Swiss prison. Shortly after V-E Day, a Swiss court released him.
Background... | {"Name": "David Frankfurter", "Caption": "David Frankfurter in British Mandate of Palestine, 1945", "Birth date": "yes 1909 07 9", "Birth place": "Daruvar, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary", "Death date": "yes 1982 07 19 1909 07 9", "Death place": "Ramat Gan, Israel", "Parent(s)": "Mavro Frankfurter\nRebekk... |
John Donald MacArthur (March 6, 1897 - January 6, 1978) was an American insurance magnate, real estate investor and philanthropist who established the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, benefactor in the MacArthur Fellowships.
Early life
John Donald MacArthur was born on March 6, 1897, in Pittston, Pennsyl... | {"Name": "John D. MacArthur", "Birth name": "John Donald MacArthur", "Birth date": "1897 3 6 y", "Birth place": "Pittston, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "1978 1 6 1897 3 6 y", "Death place": "West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.", "Relatives": "John R. MacArthur (grandson)\n Charles MacArthur (brother)\n James MacArthur... |
is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai (). Tōkai is a reference to the geographical region in which the company chiefly operates.
JR Central's operational hub is Nagoya Station and the compan... | {"Type": "Public (KK)", "Founded": "1987 04 01 y, privatization of JNR", "Headquarters": "Japan", "Industry": "Private railway", "Products": "TOICA, EX-IC (a rechargeable contactless smart card)", "Services": "passenger railways http://english.jr-central.co.jp/company/company/others/data-book/_pdf/2008.pdf Data book ... |
Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. The station takes its name from nearby Highgate Village. It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between East Finchley and Archway stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 3.
... | {"External links": "underground", "Managed by": "London Underground", "Fare zone": "3", "Location": "Highgate", "Local authority": "London Borough of Haringeyhttps://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/London+Borough+of+Haringey,+Greater+London London Borough of Haringey 28 June 2015", "Number of platforms": "2\n<!--", "2006... |
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom.John Llewellyn Rhys Prize "John Llewellyn Rhys Prize" . Booktrust. Retriev... | {"Awarded for": "Literature", "Presented by": "The Mail on Sunday (1987-2002)Booktrust (2003-2010)", "Date": "1942 by Jane Oliver", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Website": "http://www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes-and-awards/3"} |
Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi (; born 23 October 1966) is an Italian professional racing driver and paracyclist. He won the CART championship in 1997 and 1998, and took 15 wins in the series. He also raced in Formula One from 1991 to 1994 and again in 1999; his best result was a sixth-place finish in the 1993 Brazilian GP.... | {"Nationality": "Italian", "Born": "Bologna, Italy", "Debut season": "2005", "Teams": "BMW Team Italy-Spain", "Car number": "9", "Starts": "105", "Wins": "4", "Poles": "1", "Fastest laps": "4"} |
Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It was written for the screen by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon, based on the 1987 novel Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. Robin Williams, who also served as a producer, stars with Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, and ... | {"Directed by": "Chris Columbus", "Produced by": "Marsha Garces Williams Robin Williams Mark Radcliffe", "Screenplay by": "Randi Mayem Singer Leslie Dixon", "Based on": "Madame Doubtfire Anne Fine", "Starring": "Robin Williams\n Sally Field\n Pierce Brosnan\n Harvey Fierstein\n Robert Prosky", "Cinematography": "Donald... |
The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP; commonly called the Irish Party or the Home Rule Party) was formed in 1874 by Isaac Butt, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons at Westmins... | {"Founded": "1874", "Preceded by": "Home Rule League", "Succeeded by": "Nationalist Party", "Ideology": "Irish nationalism\nHome rule\nLiberalism", "Political position": "Centre"} |
Henri (,"Grand Duke Henri (b. 1955)" , The official portal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. ; ; born 16 April 1955) is Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He has reigned since 7 October 2000. Henri is the eldest son of Grand Duke Jean and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. He is a first cousin of King Philippe of Belgium.... | {"Father": "Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg", "Mother": "Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium", "Born": "Betzdorf Castle, Betzdorf, Luxembourg", "Religion": "Roman Catholic"} |
Pevensey ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The main village is located north-east of Eastbourne, one mile (1.6 km) inland from Pevensey Bay. The settlement of Pevensey Bay forms part of the parish. It was here that William the Conqueror made the landing in his invasio... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011)http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127544&c=Pevensey&d=16&e=62&g=6422016&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1444570383007&enc=1 Civil Parish population 2011 11 October 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20161221104727/http://... |
thumb|right|Temani Jews in Jerusalem
Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from Yehudei Teman; ) are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of the country's Jewish population immigrated to Israe... | {"Name": "Yemenite Jews", "Languages": "Hebrew, Judeo-Yemeni Arabic, Yemenite Hebrew", "Image caption": "Yemenite family reading from the Psalms", "Population": "530,000", "Native name": "יהודי תימןar اليهود اليمنيون", "Religions": "Judaism", "Related ethnic groups": "Mizrahi Jews, Yemenite Jews in Israel, Yemenis, and... |
Korean era names were titles adopted in historical Korea for the purpose of year identification and numbering. Era names were used during the period of Silla, Goguryeo, Balhae, Taebong, Goryeo, Joseon, and the Korean Empire. Various Korean regimes officially adopted the era names of Chinese dynasties.
Era names origin... | {"Hangul name": "연호", "Hanja": "年號", "McCune-Reischauer": "Yŏnho", "Revised Romanization": "Yeonho"} |
Armand Carrel (8 May 1800 – 25 July 1836) was a French journalist and political writer.
Early life
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Armand Carrel was born at Rouen. His father was a wealthy merchant, and he received a liberal education at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen,Lycée Pierre Corneille de Rouen - History afterwards a... | {"Name": "Armand Carrel", "Alt": "Three-quarter length painted portrait of a man", "Caption": "Portrait of Armand Carrel by Ary Scheffer at the Musée de la Vie romantique (The Museum of Romantic Life), Paris", "Birth date": "1800 07 25 y", "Birth place": "Rouen", "Death date": "1836 06 08 1800 05 08 y", "Death place": ... |
The Technik Museum Sinsheim is a technology museum in Sinsheim, Germany.Listed in 208 Opened in 1981, it is run by a registered association called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e. V." which also runs the nearby Technik Museum Speyer.
Statistics
, the museum had more than 3,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more... | {"Coordinates": "49 14 19 N 08 53 48 E region:DE-BW inline,title", "Established": "1981", "Location": "Museumsplatz74889 SinsheimGermany", "Type": "Technology museum", "Collection size": "3,000", "Visitors": "More than 1 million per year", "Website": "sinsheim.technik-museum.de"} |
Therion (formerly Blitzkrieg and Megatherion) is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. Its name was inspired by the Celtic Frost album To Mega Therion. "To Mega Therion" is Greek for "The Great Beast" and was a title used by occultist Aleister Crowley. Originally a death metal band, The... | {"Origin": "Upplands Väsby, Sweden", "Genres": "Symphonic metal death metal (early)", "Labels": "Nuclear Blast, Deaf, Active, Megarock", "Members": "Christofer Johnsson\n Thomas Vikström\n Lori Lewis\n Christian Vidal\n Nalle \"Grizzly\" Påhlsson\n Sami Karppinen"} |
Émile de Girardin (22 June 180227 April 1881) was a French journalist, publisher and politician. He was the most successful and flamboyant French journalist of the era, presenting himself as a promoter of mass education through mass journalism. His magazines reached over a hundred thousand subscribers, and his inexpens... | {"Name": "Émile de Girardin", "Image caption": "Photograph of Girardin (1876)", "Term start": "7 November 1877", "Term end": "27 April 1881", "Office 2": "Member of the Chamber of Deputiesfor Tarn-et-Garonne", "Predecessor 2": "Bertrand Faure-d'Ère", "Successor 2": "Jean-Pierre Bourjade", "Birth date": "y 1802 6 22", "... |
Rotax is the brand name for a range of internal combustion engines developed and manufactured by the Austrian company BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co KG (until 2016 BRP-Powertrain GmbH & Co. KG), in turn owned by the Canadian Bombardier Recreational Products. Under the Rotax brand, the company is one of the world's largest produce... | {"Type": "Private company", "Industry": "Mechanical engineering", "Products": "Internal combustion engines", "Parent": "Bombardier Recreational Products", "Website": "http://www.rotax.com", "Founded": "1920", "Headquarters": "Austria"} |
WTSN was a Canadian English language category 1 television channel owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc. (CTV Specialty), a joint venture between Bell Globemedia (80%) and ESPN (20%). The channel broadcast sports programming featuring female athletes.
Marketed as "the world's first 24-hour sports network dedicated to... | {"Launched": "September 7, 2001", "Closed": "September 30, 2003", "Owner": "CTV Speciality Television Inc. (Bell Globemedia 80%ESPN Inc. 20%)", "Country": "Canada", "Broadcast area": "Nationwide"} |
The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Truro, Cornwall. It was built between 1880 and 1910 to a Gothic Revival design by John Loughborough Pearson on the site of the parish church of St Mary. It is one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom featuring three spire... | {"OS grid reference": "Truro Cathedral", "Location": "Truro, Cornwall", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Denomination": "Church of England", "Tradition": "High Church", "Website": "www.trurocathedral.org.uk", "Consecrated": "1887", "Architect(s)": "J. L. Pearson", "Style": "Gothic Revival", "Years built": "1880-1910", "Sp... |
John Loughborough Pearson (5 July 1817 - 11 December 1897) was a British Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a proficiency unrivalled in his generation. He worked on at least 210 ecclesiastical building... | {"Name": "John Loughborough Pearson", "Portrait caption": "Portrait by Walter William Ouless, at the National Portrait Gallery (London).", "Significant buildings": "Truro CathedralSt John's Cathedral", "Significant projects": "St Margaret's, WestminsterBristol Cathedral"} |
James Lee Dozier (born April 10, 1931) is a retired United States Army officer. In December 1981, he was kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades Marxist guerilla group. He was rescued by NOCS, an Italian special force, with assistance from the Intelligence Support Activity's Operation Winter Harvest, after 42 days of cap... | {"Born": "Arcadia, Florida, U.S.", "Allegiance": "United States of America", "Commands held": "Deputy Chief of Staff at NATO's Southern European land forces", "Awards": "Distinguished Service Medal\n Silver Star\n Defense Superior Service Medal\n Legion of Merit\n Bronze Star (3)"} |
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (12 June 1851 - 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successor... | {"Name": "Sir Oliver Lodge", "Birth name": "Oliver Joseph Lodge", "Birth date": "1851 06 12 yes", "Birth place": "Penkhull, Staffordshire, England", "Occupation": "Physicist and inventor", "Awards": "Rumford Medal of the Royal Society 95% (1898) Albert Medal 95% (1919) Faraday Medal 95% (1932)", "Known For": "RadioRad... |
The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK), also commonly known, especially when referenced historically, as the Left Kuomintang or Left Guomindang, is one of the eight minor political parties that exist under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, in the People's Republic of China.
It was fou... | {"Abbreviation": "RCCK", "Founded": "yes 1948 01 01", "Split from": "Left-wing of the Kuomintang", "Headquarters": "Donghuachenggen South StreetDonghuamen Subdistrict, Beijing", "Newspaper": "Tuanjie Bao (Unity Daily)Tuanjie (Unity)", "Ideology": "Chinese socialism\n Neo-tridemism\n Chinese unification"} |
The 2004 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 3 to 25 July, and the 91st edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong f... | {"Name": "2004 Tour de France", "Image size": "360px", "Image caption": "Route of the 2004 Tour de France", "Date": "3-25 July 2004", "Stages": "20 + Prologue", "Distance": "3391", "Unit": "km", "Time": "83h 36' 02\"", "Name of winner": "Lance Armstrong nonearmstrong \"armstrong-usda\">Lance Armstrong Receives Lifetime... |
The IBM Personal Computer AT (model 5170, abbreviated as IBM AT or PC/AT) was released in 1984 as the fourth model in the IBM Personal Computer line, following the IBM PC/XT and its IBM Portable PC variant. It was designed around the Intel 80286 microprocessor.
Name
IBM did not specify an expanded form of "AT" on th... | {"Also known as? (\"AKA\")": "IBM AT, PC/AT", "Logo upright": "0.5", "Manufacturer": "IBM", "Release date": "yes 1984 08 14Somerson Paul AT the Party PC Magazine 1984-11-13 123 https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ukz6hjZEA4C&pg=PA117 5 July 2014 PC Magazine, 13 Nov. 1984, Page 123", "Base price": "Approx. 6000 19... |
Soong Tse-vung, more commonly romanized as Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen (; 4 December 1894 - 25 April 1971), was a Chinese businessman, banker, and politician who served as Premier of the Republic of China between 1945 and 1947.
Early life and education
T. V. Soong was born at St. Luke's Hospital in the Shanghai In... | {"Name": "T. V. Soong", "Birth date": "1894 12 4 y", "Birth place": "St Luke's Hospital, Shanghai International Concession", "Death date": "1971 4 25 1894 12 4 y\"Ex-Premier of China, Soong, Dies in S.F.\", San Mateo Times, 26 April 1971, p2. From the article in the Monday paper, Soong \"died here Sunday night\"", "De... |
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (; 3 March 1778 - 29 June 1841) was Queen of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1841 as the wife of King Ernest Augustus. She was a German princess who married successively Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels, and her first cousin Erne... | {"Father": "Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz", "Mother": "Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt", "Born": "Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire", "Died": "Kingdom of Hanover", "Burial": "Herrenhausen Palace, Kingdom of Hanover"} |
British Birds is a monthly ornithology magazine that was established in 1907. It is now published by BB 2000 Ltd, which is wholly owned by The British Birds Charitable Trust (registered charity number 1089422),Charity Commission register entry established for the benefit of British ornithology. Its circulation in 2000... | {"Categories": "Ornithology", "Language": "English", "Website": "britishbirds.co.uk", "Publisher": "BB 2000 Ltd.", "Frequency": "Monthly", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Founded": "1907", "ISSN": "0007-0335"} |
Horace Gundry Alexander (18 April 1889 - 30 September 1989) was an English Quaker teacher, writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander (1848-1918), two other sons being the ornithologists Wilfred Backhouse Alexander and Christopher James Alexander (1887-1917). He was ... | {"Born": "yes 1889 04 18", "Died": "yes 1989 09 30 1889 07 30", "Occupation": "Pacifist\nornithologist", "Nationality": "British"} |
The dialects of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including Tokyo) and Western (including Kyoto and Osaka), with the dialects of Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all. The Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa Prefecture an... | {"Name": "Japanesic", "Geographic distribution": "Japan", "Language family color": "altaic", "Language Family": "Japonic", "Language Family 2": "Japanese", "Child 1": "Eastern Japanese", "Child 2": "Western Japanese", "Child 3": "Kyūshū", "Child 4": "Hachijō ?", "Glottolog code": "japa1256", "Glottolog name": "Japanesi... |
Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 - September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. He worked as an active filmmaker into the 2000s. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel and was shot in France, as it ... | {"Name": "Melvin Van Peebles", "Caption": "Van Peebles in 2015", "Birth name": "Melvin Peebles", "Birth date": "yes 1932 8 21", "Death date": "yes 2021 9 21 1932 8 21", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Death place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Other names": "Brer Soul, Block", "Children": "4, including ... |
Jackie Chan Adventures is an American animated television series, created by John Rogers, Duane Capizzi and Jeff Kline, and produced by Sony Pictures Television (originally as Columbia TriStar Television for the first three seasons). The cartoon series premiered on September 9, 2000, and ran for five seasons until its ... | {"Genre": "Action-adventure\n Comedy\n Urban fantasy", "Running time": "23 minutes", "Created by": "John Rogers\n Duane Capizzi\n Jeff Kline", "Developed by": "John Rogers \n Duane Capizzi\n Jeff Kline", "Directed by": "Phil Weinstein\n Frank Squillace", "Voices of": "Jackie Chan\n James Sie\n Stacie Chan\n Sab Shimono... |
Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on November 18, 1988, by Walt Disney Pictures. The 27th Disney animated feature film, it is loosely based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. In the film, Oliver is a homeless kitten who joi... | {"Directed by": "George Scribner", "Screenplay by": "Jim Cox\n Timothy J. Disney\n James Mangold", "Story by": "Vance Gerry\n Mike Gabriel\n Joe Ranft\n Jim Mitchell\n Chris Bailey\n Kirk Wise\n Dave Michener\n Roger Allers\n Gary Trousdale\n Kevin Lima\n Michael Cedeno\n Pete Young\n Leon Joosen", "Based on": "Oliver ... |
Beethoven is a 1992 American family comedy film, directed by Brian Levant and starring Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt and Stanley Tucci. It is the first installment of the Beethoven film series.
The film was written by John Hughes (under the pseudonym Edmond Dantès) and Amy Holden Jones. Its sto... | {"Directed by": "Brian Levant", "Written by": "Edmond DantèsBeethoven (1992) https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59190 AFI Catalog of Feature Films 3 July 2023 Amy Holden Jones", "Starring": "Charles Grodin\n Bonnie Hunt\n Dean Jones\n Oliver Platt\n Stanley Tucci", "Produced by": "Joe Medjuck Michael C. Gr... |
Jetsons: The Movie is a 1990 American animated science fiction comedy film based on the animated television series The Jetsons, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera from a screenplay by Dennis Marks, and stars the voices o... | {"Directed by": "William Hanna\n Joseph Barbera", "Produced by": "William Hanna\n Joseph Barbera", "Based on": "The Jetsons William Hanna Joseph Barbera", "Written by": "Dennis Marks", "Starring": "George O'Hanlon\n Mel Blanc\n Tiffany", "Music by": "John Debney", "Edited by": "Karen Doulac\n Gil Iverson\n Tim Iverson\... |
The Hron (; ; ; ) is a long left tributary of the DanubePlán manažmentu povodňového rizikavčiastkovom povodí Hrona, p. 38 and the second-longest river in Slovakia. It flows from its source in the Low Tatra Mountains (below Kráľova hoľa) through central and southern Slovakia, emptying into the Danube near Štúrovo and E... | {"Mouth": "112 m on", "Location": "Kamenica nad Hronom, Nitra Region", "Basin size": "5465 km2 on", "Left": "Slatina", "Right": "Zákruty"} |
Liptó County (, , , , ) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in northern Slovakia.
Geography
thumb|left|alt=Map of Liptó county in the Kingdom of Hungary (1891)|Map of Liptó, 1891.
thumb|300px|left|Former county of Liptó superimposed on map of contemporary Slovakia.... | {"Native name": "1.1em hu Liptó vármegyela Comitatus Liptoviensisde Komitat Liptausk Liptovská župa", "Conventional long name": "Liptó County", "Common name": "Liptó", "Year founded": "15th century", "Year dissolved": "1920", "Capital": "Liptószentmiklós", "Today part of": "Slovakia"} |
Zemplén (, , , ) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The northern part of its territory is now situated in eastern Slovakia (Zemplín region), while a smaller southern portion of the former county belongs to Hungary, as part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County.
Geography
thumb|180px|left| Map... | {"Native name": "1.1em la Comitatus Zemplinensishu Zemplén vármegyede Komitat Semplinsk Zemplínska župarue Комітат Земплін", "Conventional long name": "Zemplén County", "Common name": "Zemplén", "Year founded": "11th century", "Capital": "Zemplén; Sátoraljaújhely (1685-1950)", "Today part of": "Slovakia (4,506 km2)\nHu... |
Persona Communications, formerly Regional Cablesystems, was a cable television, Internet and telecommunications provider in Canada.
Persona was purchased by EastLink in 2007. At that point it ceased to be an independent company, and the Persona name survived only as the brand name of some of EastLink's operations in W... | {"Founded": "1986", "Fate": "Acquired by Eastlink", "Industry": "telecommunications", "Products": "cable television, high speed internet, telephone", "Website": "Persona Communications"} |
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