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Hont County was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Most of its territory is now part of Slovakia, while a smaller southern portion is part of Hungary.
Today, in Slovakia Hont is the informal designation of the corresponding territory and an official tourist region.
Geography
thumb|left|20... | {"Native name": "1.1em la Comitatus Hontiensishu Hont vármegyede Komitat Hontsk Hontianska župa", "Conventional long name": "Hont County", "Common name": "Hont", "Year founded": "11th century", "Year dissolved": "1923", "Capital": "Hont; Németi (1619-1629); Korpona; Kemence; Ipolyság (1806-1920); Nagymaros (1920-1923)"... |
thumb|right|Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Hida" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting a Yōrō Waterfalls
was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today southern Gifu Prefecture.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mino" in . Mino was bordered by Ōmi to the west, Echizen and Hida to the north... | {"Native name": "美濃国", "Conventional long name": "Mino Province", "Common name": "Mino Province", "Capital": "Tarui", "Today part of": "Gifu Prefecture", "Year founded": "701", "Year dissolved": "1871"} |
You Si-kun (; born 25 April 1948), also romanized Yu Shyi-kun, is a Taiwanese politician serving as a member and the president of the Legislative Yuan. He was one of the founding members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and is known to be a strong advocate of Taiwan independence. He led the DPP as chairman f... | {"Name": "You Si-kun", "Native name": "zh-Hant-TW 游錫堃", "Native name language": "zh-tw", "Nationality": "Taiwanese", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2023", "Office 2": "Member of the Legislative Yuan", "Alma mater": "National Chung Hsing UniversityTunghai University", "Birth date": "yes 1948 4 25", "Birth place": ... |
thumb|right|Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Hida" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting an aerial ropeway
was a province of Japan in the area that is today the northern portion of Gifu Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Wakasa" in . Hida bordered on Echizen, Mino, ... | {"Native name": "飛騨国", "Conventional long name": "Hida Province", "Common name": "Hida Province", "Capital": "Takayama", "Today part of": "Gifu Prefecture", "Year founded": "701", "Year dissolved": "1871"} |
Hattrick is a browser-based massively multiplayer online football management simulation video game developed in Sweden and launched on 30 August 1997. The game contains 144 different countries plus the Hattrick International (only for paying HT-Supporters), each with its own league pyramid, and 53 different language ve... | {"Title": "Hattrick", "Developer": "Hattrick Limited", "Designer": "originally Björn Holmér, now Johan Gustafson", "Released": "y 1997 8 30 (V.1)", "Genre": "MMOG", "Platforms": "Browser game"} |
was a province of Japan comprising modern-day Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture,Kōdansha. (1993). "Akitajō" in Japan: an Illustrated Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 29. except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka. Dewa bordered on Mutsu and Echigō Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was .
thumb|right|Hiroshi... | {"Native name": "ja 出羽国", "Conventional long name": "Dewa Province", "Common name": "Dewa Province", "Capital": "Hiraka District", "Today part of": "Akita PrefectureYamagata Prefecture", "Year founded": "712", "Year dissolved": "1869"} |
was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture.
Mutsu Province is also known as or . The term is often used to refer to the combined area of Mutsu and the neighboring province Dewa, which together make up the... | {"Native name": "ja 陸奥国", "Conventional long name": "Mutsu Province", "Capital": "Miyagi District", "Today part of": "Fukushima PrefectureMiyagi PrefectureIwate PrefectureAkita PrefectureAomori Prefecture", "Year founded": "654", "Year dissolved": "1869"} |
Maus, often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice and ot... | {"Publisher": "Pantheon Books", "Date": "1991", "Published in": "Raw", "Issues": "Vol. 1 No. 2 - Vol. 2 No. 3", "Page count": "296"} |
Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (English: 'mouse') was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in late 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two hulls and one turret were completed, the turret being attached before the testing grounds were captured ... | {"Place of origin": "Nazi Germany", "Type": "Super-heavy tank", "Steeringsystem": "yes", "Used by": "Nazi Germany", "Wars": "World War II", "Designer": "Ferdinand Porsche", "Designed": "1941", "Manufacturer": "Ferdinand Porsche, Krupp, Alkett mass-production would switch to Krupp if the war continued", "Produced": "194... |
Vincent C. Siew or Siew Wan-chang (; born 3 January 1939) is a Taiwanese politician who served as the Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2008 to 2012. He was the first Taiwanese-born Premier of the Republic of China and former vice-chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT).
Early life
Born in Chiayi City in ... | {"Name": "Vincent SiewSiew Wan-chang", "Native name": "蕭萬長", "Native name language": "zh-tw", "Nationality": ">", "Term start": "20 May 2008", "Term end": "20 May 2012", "Office 2": "Vice Chairman of the Kuomintang", "Birth date": "1939 1 3 y", "Birth place": "Kagi City, Tainan Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day W... |
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The Gulf of Sidra (, also known as the Gulf of Sirte (, is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya, named after the oil port of Sidra or the city of Sirte.نبدة عن مدينة سرت - ليبيا (City of Sirte - Libya) It was also historically known as the Great Sirte or Gre... | {"Native name": "ar خليج سرت", "Coordinates": "31 30 N 18 0 E inline,title", "Ocean/sea sources": "Mediterranean", "Basin": "Libya", "Max. length": "177 km on", "Max. width": "439 km on", "Settlements": "Sidra, Sirte, Ra's Lanuf, Al BurayqahGoogleEarth"} |
Boys Beware is a 1961 dramatic short social guidance propaganda film released through Sid Davis Productions. It portrays and attempts to educate about an alleged danger to young boys from predatory homosexuals. The film was released under the copyright laws in the United States at the time of its release, but has lapse... | {"Directed by": "Sid Davis", "Produced by": "Sid Davis", "Narrated by": "Timothy Farrell", "Distributed by": "Sidney Davis Productions", "Budget": "$1,000"} |
Louis Cha Leung-yung (; 6 February 1924 - 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (), was a Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first editor-in-chief. He was Hong Kong's most famous writer, and... | {"Native name": "zh", "Pen name": "Jin Yong", "Born": "1924 02 06 y", "Died": "2018 10 30 1924 02 06 y", "Resting place": "Hoi Wui Tower, Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, Hong Kong", "Occupation": "Novelist\n essayist\n newspaper founder and editor\n policymaker", "Language": "Chinese", "Alma mater": "Soochow UniversityUnive... |
Robert Lee Holden Jr. (born August 24, 1949) is an American politician who served as the 53rd Governor of Missouri from 2001 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1993 to 2001 and represented the 136th district in the Missouri House of Representatives fr... | {"Name": "Bob Holden", "Term start": "January 8, 2001", "Term end": "January 10, 2005", "Order 2": "42nd", "Office 2": "State Treasurer of Missouri", "Predecessor 2": "Wendell Bailey", "Governor 2": "Mel Carnahan Roger B. Wilson", "Successor 2": "Nancy Farmer", "Birth name": "Robert Lee Holden Jr.", "Birth date": "1949... |
Chang Chau-hsiung (; born 3 February 1942) is a Taiwanese physician and politician. He served as the vice-chairman of People First Party from 2000 to 2016.
Early life
Born in Takao Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan, Chang was a physician who graduated from National Taiwan University with an MD in 1967.
Early career... | {"Name": "Chang Chau-hsiung", "Native name language": "zh", "Native name": "張昭雄", "Birth date": "1942 02 3 y", "Birth place": "Takao, Taiwan, Empire of Japan", "Nationality": "Republic of China", "Alma mater": "National Taiwan University (M.D.)", "Spouse(s)": "Lee Fang-hui"} |
Delphi is a general-purpose programming language and a software product that uses the Delphi dialect of the Object Pascal programming language and provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software, currently developed and maintained by E... | {"Written in": "Mostly Delphi (Object Pascal)", "Original author(s)": "Borland, CodeGear, Embarcadero", "Developer(s)": "Embarcadero Technologies", "Type": "Software Development, Designer, IDE, Compiler, RTL", "License": "Freemium", "Website": "https://embarcadero.com/products/delphi"} |
Gustav Schwarzenegger (17August 190713December 1972) was an Austrian police chief (), postal inspector, member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), and military police officer. He was the father of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Biography
Gustav Schwarzenegger was born in Austria-Hungary, the son of Cecelia (née , 1878-1968) and Kar... | {"Born": "Austria-Hungary", "Died": "Weiz, Steiermark, Austria", "Allegiance": "Nazi Germany\nFederal State of Austria", "Awards": "Iron Cross 1st ClassIron Cross 2nd ClassEastern Front MedalWound Badge", "Spouse(s)": "Aurelia Jadrny 5 October 1945", "Children": "2, including Arnold Schwarzenegger", "Other work": "Poli... |
Joseph Papp (born Joseph Papirofsky; June 22, 1921 - October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. Among numerous exa... | {"Caption": "Papp in 1982", "Birth name": "Joseph Papirofsky", "Birth date": "1921 6 22 y", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 1991 10 31 1921 6 22", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Peggy Marie BennionTuran Kenneth Kenneth Turan Papp Joseph Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, a... |
Lo que le pasó a Santiago (; "What Happened to Santiago") is a 1989 Puerto Rican comedy film written and directed by Jacobo Morales. The film tells the story of a recently retired widower who meets a mysterious young lady who disrupts his daily routines. Lo que le pasó a Santiago was the first and only Puerto Rican pro... | {"Written by": "Jacobo Morales", "Starring": "Tommy MuñizGladys RodríguezJohanna RosalyRené Monclova", "Directed by": "Jacobo Morales", "Produced by": "Blanca Silvia EróPedro Muñíz", "Cinematography": "Augustin Cubano", "Edited by": "Alfonso Borrell", "Music by": "Pedro Rivera Toledo", "Budget": "US$500,000"} |
The Beas River (; ) is a river in north India.The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir. Sir James McCrone Douie. 1916, p. 25 The river rises in the Himalayas in central Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows for some to the Sutlej River in the Indian state of Punjab. Its total length is and its drainage basi... | {"Mouth": "Sutlej River", "Location": "Punjab", "Coordinates": "31 09 16 N 74 58 31 E inline,title", "Basin size": "20.303 km2 on"} |
William Forrester Owens (born October 22, 1950) is an American former politician who served as the 40th Governor of Colorado, from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he was re-elected in 2002, amassing 62.6% of the vote, the largest Republican share of the vote in state history. , he is the last Republican... | {"Name": "Bill Owens", "Image caption": "Owens in 2006", "Term start": "January 12, 1999", "Term end": "January 9, 2007", "State senate2": "Colorado", "District 2": "27th", "Predecessor 2": "Ralph A. Colehttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=868025 Our Campaigns - CO Senate 27 Race - Nov 08, 1988 www.ourc... |
Gravelines (, ; ; ) is a commune in the Nord department in Northern France.INSEE commune file It lies at the mouth of the river Aa southwest of Dunkirk. It was formed in the 12th century around the mouth of a canal built to connect Saint-Omer with the sea. As it was on the western borders of Spanish territory in Fland... | {"Name": "Gravelines", "Native Name": "Grevelingen", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "Place Charles Valentin", "Arrondissement": "Dunkerque", "Canton": "Grande-Synthe", "Postal code": "59820", "Mayor": "Bertrand RingotRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-... |
Harry Forbes Witherby, MBE, FZS, MBOU (7 October 1873 - 11 December 1943) was a noted British ornithologist, author, publisher and founding editor (in 1907) of the magazine British Birds.Ogilvie, Malcolm; Ferguson-Lees, James and Chandler, Richard (2007). "A history of British Birds". British Birds 100: 3-15
Personal ... | {"Name": "Harry Forbes Witherby", "Post-nominals": "MBE, FZS, MBOU", "Caption": "Witherby in 1937", "Birth date": "1873 10 7 y", "Death date": "1943 12 11 1873 10 7 y", "Death place": "Gracious Pond Farm, Chobham, SurreyTimes obituary, 13 December 1943", "Nationality": "British", "Known For": "Ornithology, publishing",... |
Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on September 17, 1991, the same day as its counterpart Use Your Illusion II. Both albums were released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts, selling 685,000 copi... | {"Released": "1991 9 17", "Recorded": "January 13, 1990 - August 3, 1991", "Studio": "A&M (Hollywood)\n Record Plant (Los Angeles)\n Studio 56 (Los Angeles)\n Image Recording (Hollywood)\n Conway (Los Angeles)\n Metalworks (Mississauga, Ontario)", "Genre": "Hard rock", "Label": "Geffen", "Producer": "Mike Clink, Guns N... |
Broken is the first extended play (EP) and second major release by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It was released on September 22, 1992, by Nothing, TVT, and Interscope Records. The EP was produced by frontman Trent Reznor and Flood.
The release consists entirely of new material and replaces the synth-... | {"Released": "1992 9 22", "Recorded": "March-August 1992", "Studio": "Hell (New Orleans) Royal Recorders (Lake Geneva) South Beach (Miami Beach) The Village (West Los Angeles) A&M (Hollywood) Le Pig (Benedict Canyon)", "Genre": "Industrial metalSchafer Joseph http://www.stereogum.com/1467231/trent-reznor-albums-from-wo... |
Fixed is the second extended play (EP) by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It was released on December 7, 1992, by Nothing, TVT, and Interscope Records. It serves as a companion release to Broken (1992), and includes remixes by Coil, Danny Hyde, JG Thirlwell, and Butch Vig, as well as then-live band membe... | {"Released": "1992 12 7", "Studio": "Matrix, London", "Genre": "Industrial rock noise", "Label": "Nothing TVT Interscope", "Producer": "Trent Reznor"} |
Further Down the Spiral is a remix album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It is the companion remix disc to the band’s second studio album, The Downward Spiral, and was released on May 29, 1995, in two editions, one denoted as Halo 10 (released in the United States), and the other as Halo 10 V2 (releas... | {"Released": "1995 5 29", "Recorded": "1994-95", "Studio": "Unique Studios (New York City)", "Genre": "Post-industrial electronica", "Label": "Nothing Interscope TVT"} |
"March of the Pigs" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). It was released on February 25, 1994 as the album's lead single.
Composition
"March of the Pigs" has an unusual meter, alternating three bars of time with one bar of to effective... | {"B-side": "A Violet Fluid", "Released": "1994 2 25", "Recorded": "1993", "Studio": "Le Pig (Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles)", "Genre": "Industrial metalhttp://drownedinsound.com/releases/9576/reviews/1680239-nine-inch-nails-live--beside-you-in-time-dvd Nine Inch Nails - Live: Beside You In Time (DVD) Nettleton Chris ... |
The American University in Cairo (AUC; ) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs at undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels, along with a continuing education program.
The AUC student body represents over 50 countries. AUC's faculty members, adj... | {"Type": "Private", "Endowment": "$535.5 million (2019)As of June 30, 2019. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2019-NTSE-Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-January-30-2020.ashx U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Va... |
"The Day the World Went Away" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on July 20, 1999, as the lead single from their third studio album The Fragile (1999). The song was the band's first top-forty hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 17, which remains their highest-ever posit... | {"Released": "1999 07 20", "Recorded": "August 1997-April 1999", "Genre": "Art rock\n alternative rock\n ambienthttp://www.mtv.com/news/515915/nin-mastermind-gets-provocative-on-new-songs/ NIN Mastermind Gets Provocative On New Songs MTV July 14, 1999 Kaufman Gil", "Label": "Nothing\n Interscope", "Songwriter(s)":... |
Things Falling Apart is the second remix album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by Nothing Records and Interscope Records on November 21, 2000. It is the companion remix disc to the band's third studio album, The Fragile. The U.S. promotional CD single for "Into the Void" is also labeled as "H... | {"Released": "2000 11 21", "Genre": "Post-industrial industrial rock electronica glitch experimental", "Label": "Nothing Interscope", "Producer": "Trent Reznor Joshua Eustis Danny Lohner Adrian Sherwood Mark Stewart Charles Cooper Turk Dietrich"} |
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo is a children's mystery television series that ran on Nickelodeon between 1996 and 1999. A total of 41 episodes of 30 minutes each were produced. Episodes from the first three seasons were taped at Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, and was one of the few singl... | {"Genre": "Children'sMystery", "Created by": "Alan Goodman", "Starring": "Irene Ng\n Pat Morita\n Adam Busch\n Preslaysa Edwards\n Steve Purnick\n Jeremy Lakemacher\n Ellen David\n Eleanor Noble\n Noah Klar", "Country of origin": "United States Canada", "Running time": "30 minutes", "Camera setup": "Single-camera", "Or... |
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Arab world, and the largest in West Asia and the Middle East. It is bordered by the Re... | {"Conventional long name": "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia", "Native name": "ar المملكة العربية السعوديةar Al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabīyah as-Suʿūdīyah", "Symbol type": "Emblem", "National motto": "ar لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله، مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُوْلُ ٱلله\"ar Lā ʾilāha ʾillā Llāh, Muḥammadur rasūlu Llāh\"\"There is no god but God; Muhammad... |
Loughborough ( ) is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. At the 2021 census the town's built-up area, including Shepshed, had a population of 109,100,https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/customprofiles/build/ the second la... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021)", "OS grid reference": "SK5319", "Postcode district": "LE11", "Dialling code": "01509", "UK Parliament": "Loughborough", "District": "Charnwood", "Shire county": "Leicestershire"} |
Shaw Direct is a direct broadcast satellite television distributor in Canada and a subsidiary of the telecommunications company Shaw Communications. As of 2010, Shaw Direct had over 900,000 subscribers. It broadcasts on Ku band from two communications satellites: Anik G1 at 107.3°W, and Anik F2 at 111.1°W. Anik F1R, w... | {"Formerly": "Star Choice", "Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Satellite television", "Products": "Direct broadcast satellite, Pay television, Pay-per-view", "Parent": "Shaw Communications(Rogers Communications)", "Founded": "1996", "Headquarters": "Calgary, Alberta, Canada", "Website": "http://www.shawdirect.ca/ shawd... |
Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 71,241 as of 2023, Wagga Wagga is the state's second largest inland city after Maitland, and is an important agricultural, milit... | {"Type": "city", "Name": "Wagga Wagga", "State Abbreviation": "NSW", "Caption": "Aerial view of central Wagga Wagga", "Coordinates": "35 7 8 S 147 22 8 E inline,title", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "City of Wagga Wagga", "County": "Wynyard \nClarendon", "Parish": "South Wagga Wagga", "State Government": "Wagga Wagga... |
Men's Health (MH), published by Hearst, is the world's largest men's magazine brand, with 35 editions in 59 countries. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on U.S. newsstands.
Started as a men's health magazine by Rodale, Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, the magazine currently covers various men's lifestyle topics... | {"Former editors": "Matt Bean (2016-2018)http://www.adweek.com/digital/matt-bean-named-editor-of-mens-health/ Matt Bean Named Editor of Men's Health September 16, 2016 Adweek September 27, 2017Bill Phillips (2012-2016)http://www.adweek.com/news/press/david-zinczenko-leaves-rodale-145298 David Zinczenko Leaves Rodale ... |
York Castle is a fortified complex in the city of York, England. It consists of a sequence of castles, prisons, law courts and other buildings, which were built over the last nine centuries on the south side of the River Foss. The now ruined keep of the medieval Norman castle is commonly referred to as Clifford's Tower... | {"Coordinates": "53 57 21 N 01 04 48 W type:landmark_region:GB-YOR inline,title", "Type": "Shell keep and bailey", "Materials": "Magnesian Limestone", "Owner": "English Heritage, York Museums Trust, Her Majesty's Courts Service", "Battles/wars": "Siege of York in 1644", "Events": "Jewish massacre of 1190"} |
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Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is sometimes referred to as Old Welwyn or Welwyn Village, to distinguish it from the much newer and larger settlement of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south.
Etymology
The name ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130280&c=Welwyn&d=16&e=62&g=6435682&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1478184241560&enc=1 Civil Parish population 2011 3 November 2016 Office for National Statistics Neighbourhood... |
Watford () is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, north-west of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne.
Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal encouraged the construction of paper-making mills, print works, and breweries. While industry has declined in Watford, its location near Lo... | {"Type": "Non-metropolitan district", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "www.watford.gov.uk"} |
Irvine ( ; ,List of railway station names in English, Scots and Gaelic - NewsNetScotland , ) is a town on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The 2011 Census recorded the town's population at 33,698 inhabitants, making it the largest settlement in North Ayrshire.
Irvine is the administrative... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NS325395", "Postcode district": "KA11 - KA12", "Dialling code": "01294", "UK Parliament": "Central Ayrshire", "Council area": "North Ayrshire", "Lieutenancy area": "Ayrshire and Arran", "Scottish Parliament": "Cunninghame South"} |
The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) was the upper tier of local government of London's metropolis – it upgraded the infrastructure between 1855 and 1889. It also had a parks and open spaces committee which set aside and opened up several landmark parks. The metropolis, which the board served, included substantial par... | {"Type": "Board of works", "Disbanded": "March 1889", "Preceded by": "Metropolitan Buildings Office\nMetropolitan Commission of Sewers", "Succeeded by": "London County Council, the (District of the) Metropolis being renamed the County of London", "Seats": "clifton>Clifton Gloria C. Professionalism, Patronage and Public... |
Melton Mowbray () is a town in the Melton district in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester, and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town had a population of 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promoted as Britain's "Rural Capital of Food"; it is the ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)", "District": "Melton", "Shire county": "Leicestershire", "Postcode district": "LE", "Dialling code": "01664", "OS grid reference": "SK751193", "UK Parliament": "Rutland and Melton"} |
Oadby and Wigston is a local government district and borough in the county of Leicestershire, England. It was formed in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, from the merger of the Oadby and Wigston urban districts. The population of the district at the 2011 census was 56,170. The district forms part of the Harbor... | {"Type": "Oadby and Wigston Borough Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000135", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "Oadby-Wigston.gov.uk"} |
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thumb|Castle Donington, the third-largest town in the district
thumb|Ibstock, the fourth-largest town in the district
North West Leicestershire is a local government district in Leicestershire, England. The population of th... | {"Type": "North West Leicestershire District Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000134", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "nwleics.gov.uk"} |
Redhill () is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead within the county of Surrey, England. The town, which adjoins the town of Reigate to the west, is due south of Croydon in Greater London, and is part of the London commuter belt. The town is also the post town, entertainment and commercial area of three adjoin... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011)Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ 11 February 2003 United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 20 November 201334,498 (built-up area inc... |
East Midlands Airport is an international airport in the East Midlands of England, close to Castle Donington in northwestern Leicestershire, between Loughborough (), Derby () and Nottingham (); Leicester is () to the south and Lincoln () northeast. It serves the whole East Midlands region of Leicestershire, Nottingham... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "East Midlands", "Location": "Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England, UK", "Hub": "DHL Aviationdhl.de - DHL EXPRESS United Kingdom (German) retrieved 1 December 2021\nUPS AirlinesCome fly with me: Connecting Great Britain to the world https://about.ups.com/be/en/newsroom/press-r... |
Watford tube station is the terminus of a Metropolitan line branch line in the north-western part of the London Underground in Zone 7. The station opened in 1925.
Location and description
thumb|left|A platform at Watford tube station
thumb|left|Map of local railways showing Watford station in relation to other stat... | {"External links": "underground", "Managed by": "London Underground", "Fare zone": "7", "Location": "Watford", "Local authority": "Watford", "Number of platforms": "2\n<!--", "2006": "1.434", "2007": "1.642", "2008": "1.620", "2009": "1.504-->"} |
Richmond, also known as Richmond (London), is a National Rail station in Richmond, Greater London on the Waterloo to Reading and North London Lines. South Western Railway services on the Waterloo to Reading Line are routed through Richmond, which is between and St Margarets stations, down the line from . For London O... | {"Managed by": "South Western Railway", "Owner": "Network Rail", "Location": "Richmond", "Local authority": "London Borough of Richmond upon Thames", "Number of platforms": "7", "Fare zone": "4", "External links": "RMD", "DfT category": "B", "2004-05": "7.400", "2005-06": "7.348", "2006-07": "6.526", "2007-08": "8.157"... |
Kew Gardens is a Grade II-listed London Underground and London Overground station in Kew, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It first opened in 1869 and is now managed by London Underground. The station, which is in Travelcard Zones 3 and 4, is served by both the District line on the London Underground and ... | {"External links": "KWG\n<!--", "Managed by": "London Undergroundhttps://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2006/december/safety-boost-as-london-underground-to-take-control-of-11-silverlink-stations Safety boost as London Underground to take control of 11 Silverlink stations Transport for London 5 December 2006... |
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn (25 April 1900 - 24 October 1996) was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the acting secretary-general of the United Nations between 1945 and 1946.
Early life and career
The son of Sydney Jebb, of Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire, Jebb attend... | {"Name": "The Lord Gladwyn", "Image caption": "Jebb in 1951", "Term start": "24 October 1945", "Term end": "2 February 1946", "Birth name": "Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb", "Birth date": "1900 4 25 y", "Birth place": "Yorkshire, England", "Death date": "1996 10 24 1900 4 25 y", "Death place": "Suffolk, England", "Spouse(s)... |
Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third studio album by American nu-metal band Limp Bizkit, released on October 17, 2000, by Flip and Interscope Records.
Title
The first part of the title is a slang term for the human anus. Hot Dog Flavored Water is an in joke started by Wes Borland at a truck... | {"Released": "2000 10 17https://ew.com/article/2000/10/24/limp-bizkit-scores-biggest-sales-debut-ever-rock-band/ Limp Bizkit scores the biggest sales debut ever for a rock band Lori Reese EW.com December 16, 2021", "Studio": "Westlake Studios, Los Angeles", "Genre": "Nu metalhttps://www.loudersound.com/features/the-50-... |
Star Channel is a Greek free-to-air television channel that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek shows. It was launched in December 1993 and is owned by New Television S.A. (a company owned by Giannis Vardinogiannis).
Star Channel is known in Greece mostly for its programming style, both in terms of live shows and ... | {"Launched": "4 December 1993", "Picture format": "1080i HDTV(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)", "Owner": "New Television S.A. (Giannis Vardinogiannis)", "Country": "Greece", "Language(s)": "Greek", "Broadcast area": "National", "Headquarters": "Viltanioti 36, Kifissia, Greece", "Former names": "Channel 29 (1... |
Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (29 April 1780 - 27 January 1844) was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerval.
thumb|Portrait of Charles Nodier... | {"Caption": "Portrait formerly thought to be of Charles Nodier (date and artist unknown)", "Birth name": "Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier", "Birth date": "29 April 1780", "Birth place": "Besançon, Franche-Comté, France", "Death date": "yes 1844 01 27 1780 04 29", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Occupation": "WriterLibrar... |
The signal recognition particle (SRP) is an abundant, cytosolic, universally conserved ribonucleoprotein (protein-RNA complex) that recognizes and targets specific proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum in eukaryotes and the plasma membrane in prokaryotes.
History
The function of SRP was discovered by the study of proc... | {"HGNC": "11304", "IUPHAR": "SRP9", "NCBI gene": "6726", "OMIM": "600707", "RefSeq": "NM_003133", "UniProt": "P49458", "Locus": "42.12"} |
James Edward, Baron Hanson (20 January 1922 - 1 November 2004) was an English Conservative industrialist who built his businesses through the process of leveraged buyouts through Hanson plc.
Career
Educated at Elland Grammar School near Halifax and at the short-lived Maiden Erlegh House School at Earley, formerly the ... | {"Name": "The Lord Hanson", "Birth date": "20 January 1922", "Birth place": "Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England", "Death date": "2004 11 1 1922 1 20 y", "Death place": "Newbury, Berkshire, England", "Occupation": "Company director", "Children": "2, including Robert HansonProfile - Robert Hanson: The happy family man stee... |
Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès (16 February 1803 – 31 October 1878) was a French politician and active freemasonDictionnaire universel de la Franc-Maçonnerie, page 311 (Marc de Jode, Monique Cara and Jean-Marc Cara, ed. Larousse , 2011) who fought on the barricades during the revolution of July.
Garnier-Pagès was born in... | {"Name": "Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès", "Term start": "24 February 1848", "Term end": "5 March 1848", "Birth date": "1803 2 16 y", "Birth place": "Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), France", "Death date": "y 1878 10 31 1803 2 16", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Order 2": "Minister of FinanceProvisional Government of the F... |
Heinrich Göbel, or Henry Goebel (April 20, 1818 - December 4, 1893) was a German-born American precision mechanic and inventor. In 1848 he emigrated to New York City, where he resided until his death. He received American citizenship in 1865.
In 1893, magazines and newspapers reported 25 years earlier, Göbel had devel... | {"Name": "Heinrich Göbel", "Image": "File:Heinrich Goebel 1893.JPG", "Caption": "First published photo of Heinrich Göbel, on January 1893", "Birth date": "1818 4 20", "Birth place": "Springe, Germany", "Death date": "1893 12 4 1818 4 20", "Death place": "New York City, United States", "Burial place": "Green-Wood Cemete... |
Louis Auguste Blanqui (; 8 February 1805 - 1 January 1881) was a French socialist and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of Blanquism.
Biography
Early life, political activity and first imprisonment (1805-1848)
Blanqui was born in Puget-Théniers, Alpes-Maritimes, where his father, Jean Domini... | {"Name": "Louis Auguste Blanqui", "Caption": "Portrait by his wife, Amelie Serre Blanqui, circa 1835.", "Birth date": "1805 2 8 y", "Birth place": "Puget-Théniers, France", "Death date": "1881 1 1 1805 2 8 y", "Nationality": "French", "Occupation": "Revolutionary, philosopher", "Known For": "Blanquism", "Father": "Jean... |
Pandoro is a traditional Italian sweet bread, most popular around Christmas and New Year. Typically a Veronese product, pandoro is traditionally shaped like a frustum with an eight-pointed star section.
It is often served dusted with vanilla-scented icing sugar made to resemble the snowy peaks of the Italian Alps dur... | {"Name of food": "Pandoro", "Image alt string": "Pandoro", "Image caption": "Pandoro", "Region of origin": "Veneto (Verona)", "Type of dish": "Dessert bread", "Main ingredient": "Flour, eggs, butter and sugar"} |
Louis-Mathieu Molé (24 January 1781 - 23 November 1855), also 1st Count Molé from 1809 to 1815, was a French statesman, close friend and associate of Louis Philippe I, King of the French during the July Monarchy (1830-1848).
Biography
Molé was born in Paris. His father, a president of the parlement of Paris, who came ... | {"Name": "Louis-Mathieu Molé", "Image": "Mathieu-Louis Molé.JPG", "Image caption": "Portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres", "Term start": "6 September 1836", "Term end": "31 March 1839", "Office 2": "Minister of the Navy and Colonies", "Monarch 2": "Louis XVIII", "Prime minister 2": "The Duke of Richelieu", "Predec... |
Wrexham ( ; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the county of Denbighshire, and later the county of Clwyd in 1974, it has been the principal settlement... | {"Sovereign state": "Wales", "Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament": "Wrexham", "Principal area": "Wrexham", "Population": "(built-up area)BUA population \"W37000376\" />Within the dataset under 1d - W45000151 - Wrexham.2 August 2023 Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales: Census 2021 https... |
Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours (Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans; 25 October 1814 – 26 June 1896) was the second son of King Louis-Philippe I of France, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily.
Life
Childhood
He was born at the Palais Royal, in Paris. At twelve years of age, he was nominated ... | {"Father": "Louis Philippe I", "Mother": "Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily", "Born": "Palais Royal, Paris, France", "Died": "Versailles, France", "Burial": "Chapelle royale de Dreux", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey Van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of fort... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Published": "1904, Macmillan", "Media type": "Print (Hardback & Paperback)"} |
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Rocks. The town was a spa in the Restoration and a fashionable resort in the mid-1700s u... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2016)http://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-southeastengland.php?cityid=E35001249 Town population 2011 25 September 2016 City populations 4 September 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170904014645/http://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-southeastengland.php?cityi... |
The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland-urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley over the weekend of October 19-20, 1991, before being brought under full control on October 23. The official name of this incident by Cal Fi... | {"Location": "Oakland, California, United States", "Date(s)": "October 19-23, 1991", "Cause": "rekindled vegetation fire", "Cost": "$1.5 billion (1991 USD)($US-GDP 1.5e9 1991 in US dollarsUS)", "Total area": "1,520 acre ha", "Buildings destroyed": "2,843 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units."... |
Gorgonzola (; ) is a veined PDO Italian blue cheese, made from unskimmed cow's milk. It can be buttery or firm, crumbly and quite salty, with a "bite" from its blue veining. Outside the EU and the countries recognizing the geographical origin protection, the name "Gorgonzola" can legally be used for similar cheeses, wi... | {"Country of origin": "Italy", "Region": "Lombardy", "Town": "Gorgonzola", "Source of milk": "Cow", "Pasteurized": "Yes", "Texture": "Soft and crumbly", "Fat content": "25-35%", "Aging time": "3-4 months", "Certification": "Italy: DOC from 1955;EU: PDO from 1996http://www.agroqualita.it/dop/gorgonzola.htm https://web.a... |
Starless and Bible Black is the sixth studio album by English progressive rock band King Crimson, released in March 1974 by Island Records in the United Kingdom and by Atlantic Records in the United States. It carries over most of the same lineup which appeared on the preceding album, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, with only... | {"Released": "29 March 1974", "Recorded": "23 October, 15 and 23 November 1973 (live) January 1974 (studio)", "Venue": "Apollo Theatre, Glasgow\n Volkshaus, Zürich\n Concertgebouw, Amsterdam", "Studio": "AIR, London", "Genre": "Progressive rock\n experimental rock\n free improvisation", "Label": "Island\n Atlantic", "P... |
Jakob Nielsen (born 5 October 1957) is a Danish web usability consultant, human-computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. He was named the “guru of Web page usability” in 1998 by The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine.
Background
Jakob Nielsen was born 5 Octo... | {"Caption": "Nielsen in 2002", "Birth date": "1957 10 5 y", "Birth place": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "Alma mater": "Technical University of Denmark (PhD)", "Occupation": "Web usability consultant"} |
The Borough of Charnwood is a local government district with borough status in the north of Leicestershire, England, which has a population of 183,971 as of the 2021 census. It borders Melton to the east, Harborough to the southeast, Leicester and Blaby to the south, Hinckley and Bosworth to the southwest, North West L... | {"Type": "Charnwood Borough Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000130", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "www.charnwood.gov.uk"} |
Stanley Forman Reed (December 31, 1884 - April 2, 1980) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957. He also served as U.S. Solicitor General from 1935 to 1938.
Born in Mason County, Kentucky, Reed established a legal practice in Maysville, Kentucky,... | {"Image caption": "Stanley Forman Reed, 1946", "Term start": "January 31, 1938", "Term end": "February 25, 1957https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx Justices 1789 to Present Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C. February 16, 2022", "Birth date": "1884 12 31", "Birth place": "Minerva, Kentu... |
Blaby is a local government district in Leicestershire, England.
The district is named after Blaby. The population of the district at the 2011 census was 93,915. It covers the civil parish of Blaby and 23 others. Among these are Cosby, Countesthorpe, Enderby, Huncote, Narborough (the location of the main district co... | {"Type": "Blaby District Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000129", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "https://www.blaby.gov.uk/"} |
Wigston, or Wigston Magna, is a town in the Oadby and Wigston district of Leicestershire, England, just south of Leicester on the A5199. It had a population of 32,321 in 2011.
Geography
Wigston is south of the city of Leicester, at the centre of Leicestershire and the East Midlands. Oadby is to the east, connected b... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Shire county": "Leicestershire", "District": "Oadby and Wigston", "Population": "(2011)", "OS grid reference": "SP6197", "Postcode district": "LE18", "Dialling code": "0116", "UK Parliament": "Harborough", "Website": "Oadby & Wigston Borough Council"} |
thumb|Earl Shilton, the second largest town in the borough
thumb|Market Bosworth, best known for the Battle of Bosworth and the third largest town in the borough
Hinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with borough status in south-western Leicestershire, England, administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borou... | {"Type": "Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000132", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk"} |
Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England. It is administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Hinckley is the third largest settlement in the administrative county of Leicestershire, after Leicester and Loughborough.
Hinckley is about halfway between Leicester and Coventry and borders Nu... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021 CensusHinckley in Leicestershire (East Midlands) Unparished Area https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmidlands/admin/hinckley_and_bosworth/E43000105__hinckley_and_bosworth/ City Population 18 November 2022)", "District": "Hinckley and Bosworth", "Shire county": ... |
Twycross Zoo is a medium to large zoo near Norton Juxta Twycross, Leicestershire. The zoo has the largest collection of monkeys and apes in the Western World, and in 2006 re-launched itself as "Twycross Zoo - The World Primate Centre".
History
thumb|left|Norton Grange 2007
Twycross Zoo was established by Molly Badham ... | {"Zoo name": "Twycross Zoo", "Date opened": "1963", "Location": "Norton Grange, Norton Juxta Twycross, Leicestershire, England", "Total area": "80 acre on", "Number of animals": "900+http://www.zoos-uk.com/Attractions/TwycrossZoo.html Twycross Zoo zoos-uk.com Zoos-UK 3 April 2011", "Number of species": "150+", "Members... |
Val-d'Isère (, literally Valley of Isère), nicknamed Valdi, is a commune of the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region) in southeastern France. It lies from the border with Italy. It is on the border of the Vanoise National Park created in 1963. During the Albertville 1992 Winter Olym... | {"Name": "Val-d'Isère", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "Val d'Isère ski resort. View towards La Daille", "Arrondissement": "Albertville", "Canton": "Bourg-Saint-Maurice", "Postal code": "73150", "Mayor": "Patrick MartinRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50... |
The Party of Democratic Action (; abbr. SDA) is a Bosniak nationalist, conservative political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
History
The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) was founded on 26 May 1990 in Sarajevo, as a "party of Muslim cultural-historic circle". It was a realisation of Alija Izetbegović's idea of an Isl... | {"General Secretary": "Halid Genjac", "Founded": "26 May 1990", "Headquarters": "Mehmeda Spahe 14, Sarajevo", "Ideology": "nowrap \n \"PEE\">http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/bosnia-herzegovina.html Bosnia-Herzegovina Nordsieck Wolfram 2018 Parties and Elections in Europe 10 October 2018\n Conservatism\"PEE\"/>Eral... |
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; ) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Established in 1868 by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the university now has additional campuses in Garching, Freising, Heilbron... | {"Motto": "The Entrepreneurial University", "Type": "Public", "Budget": "€1,839.2 million (2022)\n University: €1,047.7 million\n Hospital: €791.5 million", "President": "Thomas Hofmann(list of presidents)", "Students": "50,467 (WS 2022-23)", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "https://www.tum.de/en/ tum.de"} |
thumb|Hunstanton, one of the coastal towns on the Norfolk Coast and the only other town in the borough.
King's Lynn and West Norfolk is a local government district with borough status in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in the town of King's Lynn. The population of the district at the 2021 census was 154,325.
H... | {"Type": "Borough Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000146", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "west-norfolk.gov.uk"} |
thumb|Bedworth, the second town and second-largest settlement in the borough
Nuneaton and Bedworth is a local government district with borough status, in northern Warwickshire, England, consisting of the towns of Nuneaton and Bedworth as well as villages such as Bulkington, Ash Green, Exhall and Galley Common. The boro... | {"Type": "Non-metropolitan borough", "Rank": "Ranked E07000219", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "Nuneaton and Bedworth"} |
The Great Central Railway (GCR) is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, England, named after the company that originally built this stretch of railway. It runs for between the town of Loughborough and a new terminus in the north of Leicester. It has period signalling, locomotives and rolling stock.
The GCR is curren... | {"Locale": "Loughborough, Leicestershire, England", "Terminus": "Leicester North", "Built by": "Edward WatkinManchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway", "Original gauge": "uksg on", "Preserved gauge": "uksg on", "Operated by": "Great Central Railway Plc", "Stations": "4", "Length": "8.25 mi km (Leicester) 10 mi km... |
thumb|The Manor House in Sedgefield, an example of Queen Anne architecture.
Sedgefield is a market town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It had a population of 5,211 as at the 2011 census. It has the only operating racecourse in County Durham.
History
Roman
A Roman 'ladder settlement' was discovered by Chan... | {"Population": "(2011)", "Unitary authority": "County Durham", "Ceremonial county": "County Durham", "Sovereign state": "England", "UK Parliament": "Sedgefield", "Postcode district": "TS", "Dialling code": "01740", "OS grid reference": "NZ354286", "Website": "http://sedgefieldtowncouncil.gov.uk/ Town council website"} |
Brixton is a London Underground station on Brixton Road in Brixton in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London. The station is the southern terminus of the Victoria line. The station is known to have the largest London Underground roundel on the network. The next station is Stockwell.
History
The City and Brixton R... | {"External links": "underground", "Managed by": "London Underground", "Fare zone": "2", "Location": "Brixton", "Local authority": "Lambeth", "Number of platforms": "2\n<!--", "2006": "19.70", "2007": "20.577", "2008": "20.93", "2009": "20.88-->", "Accessible": "http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/avoiding-st... |
Vermicelli (; , , also , ) is a traditional type of pasta round in section similar to spaghetti. In English-speaking regions it is usually thinner than spaghetti, while in Italy it is typically thicker.
The term "vermicelli" is also used to describe various types of thin noodles from Asia. In Vietnam vermicelli is the... | {"Name of food": "Vermicelli", "Image filename": "Fideo (coiled vermicelli).JPG", "Width of image": "250px", "Type of dish": "Pasta"} |
Bars (Latin: comitatus Barsiensis, Hungarian: Bars, Slovak: Tekov, German: Barsch) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central and southern Slovakia. Today in Slovakia, Tekov is the informal designation of the corresponding territory.
Geography
thumb|left|alt=Map... | {"Native name": "1.1em la Comitatus Barsiensishu Bars vármegyede Komitat Barssk Tekovská župa", "Conventional long name": "Bars County", "Common name": "Bars", "Year founded": "11th century", "Year dissolved": "1920", "Capital": "Bars;Léva (1321-1580);Kis-Tapolcsan (1580-1735)Aranyosmarót (1735-1920)", "Today part of":... |
Turóc (Hungarian, historically also spelled Túrócz), , /comitatus Thurociensis, ) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in north-western Slovakia, where the corresponding Slovak name Turiec is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory.
Geography
thum... | {"Native name": "1.1em la Comitatus Thurociensishu Túróc vármegyede Komitat Turzsk Turčianska župa", "Conventional long name": "Turóc County", "Common name": "Turóc", "Year founded": "14th century", "Year dissolved": "1920", "Capital": "Turócszentmárton", "Today part of": "Slovakia"} |
The Kura is an east-flowing river south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains which drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus east into the Caspian Sea. It also drains the north side of the Lesser Caucasus while its main tributary, the Aras, drains the south side of those mountains. Starting in northeastern Turke... | {"Mouth": "-26.5 m onhttp://www.caspianenvironment.org/caspian.htm https://archive.today/20010414045537/http://www.caspianenvironment.org/caspian.htm dead 2001-04-14 General Background Caspian Environment Programme 2004-11-06 2010-03-12", "Location": "Neftçala, Neftchala Rayon, Azerbaijan", "Coordinates": "40.671568830... |
Artemisia I of Caria (; fl. 480 BC) was a queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, which is now in Bodrum, present-day Turkey. She was also queen of the nearby islands of Kos, Nisyros and Kalymnos,Enc. Britannica, "Artemisia I" within the Achaemenid satrapy of Caria, in about 480 BC. She was of Carian-Gr... | {"Born": "Halicarnassus(modern-day Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey)", "Died": "5th century BC", "Father": "Lygdamis I", "Mother": "Unknown", "Religion": "Greek polytheism"} |
Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1949; it was the composer's last work for the stage before he died the following year.
Productions
Lost in the Stars op... | {"Name": "Lost in the Stars", "Composer(s)": "Kurt Weill", "Lyricist(s)": "Maxwell Anderson", "Book-writer": "Maxwell Anderson", "Based on?": "Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton", "Productions": "1949 Broadway1972 Broadway revival1974 film adaptation 1992 Music Masters complete recording"} |
The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base on 25 June 1996. At that time, Khobar Towers was being used as living quarters for coalition forces w... | {"Title": "Khobar Towers Bombing", "Image size": "300px", "Caption": "Building #131 after the bombing.", "Coordinates": "26.261243 50.206825 title,inline", "Location": "Khobar, Saudi Arabia", "Date": "1996 06 25 yes", "Time": "9:50 p.m.", "Timezone": "UTC+3", "Type of attack": "Truck bomb", "Fatalities": "19", "Injuri... |
Fever to Tell is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003, by Interscope Records. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and mixed by Alan Moulder. Four singles were issued, the first being "Date with the Night" followed by "Pin", "Maps" and "Y Control".
Fever to Te... | {"Released": "2003 4 29", "Studio": "Headgear (Brooklyn, New York)", "Genre": "Garage rock revival\n art punk\n dance-punk", "Label": "Interscope", "Producer": "David Andrew Sitek\n Yeah Yeah Yeahs"} |
Frank Gordon Dobson (15 March 1940 - 11 November 2019) was a British Labour Party politician. As Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015, he served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999, and was official Labour Party candidate for Mayor of London in 2000, thou... | {"Name": "Frank Dobson", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "11 October 1999", "Office 2": "Shadow Secretary of State for Transport", "Leader 2": "John SmithMargaret Beckett (Acting)Tony Blair", "Predecessor 2": "John Prescott", "Successor 2": "Michael Meacher", "Birth name": "Frank Gordon Dobson", "Birth date": "... |
thumb|Linus Yale Jr., portrait
thumb|Example of a bank vault and a vault door, Linus will get orders from the United States Treasury Department in 1857
thumb|Custom house of Pittsburg 1857, a customer of Linus Yale
Linus Yale Jr. (April 4, 1821 - December 25, 1868) was a mechanical engineer, manufacturer, and co-found... | {"Name": "Linus Yale Jr.", "Caption": "Inventor of the Pin-Tumbler Lock and founder of Yale Lock Co.", "Birth date": "1821 04 4 y", "Birth place": "Salisbury, New York, United States", "Death date": "1868 12 25 1821 12 4 y", "Death place": "New York City, United States", "Burial place": "Arms Cemetery, Shelburne Falls,... |
Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company, originally established in 1516 as a government department. It is owned by International Distributions Services. It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). The group used th... | {"Formerly": "Consignia Public Limited Company (2001-2002)\n Royal Mail Group plc (2002-2007)", "Type": "Public limited company", "Founded": "yes 1516", "Headquarters": "London, England, UK", "Industry": "Postal services Courier", "Services": "Letter post Parcel service EMS Delivery Freight forwarding Third-party logi... |
Kington is a market town, electoral ward and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The ward had a population of 3,240, while the 2011 Census registered a population of 2,626.
Geography
Kington is from the border with Wales, and lies on the western side of Offa's Dyke. The town is in the shadow of Hergest Ridge, and... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "Office for National Statistics 2011 Census for Kington parish - population and area", "Unitary authority": "Herefordshire", "Ceremonial county": "Herefordshire", "UK Parliament": "North Herefordshire", "Postcode district": "HR5", "Dialling code": "01544", "OS grid reference... |
Lindenwood University is a private university in St. Charles, Missouri. Founded in 1832 by George Champlin Sibley and Mary Easton Sibley as The Lindenwood School for Girls, it is the second-oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River.
Lindenwood offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree... | {"Motto": "Real Experience. Real Success.", "Type": "Private university", "Endowment": "$143.4 millionhttp://chronicle.com/article/Sortable-Table-College-and/151417/ Sortable Table: College and University Endowments, 2013-14 The Chronicle of Higher Education January 29, 2015 January 30, 2015 October 16, 2015 https://w... |
Frank Hsieh Chang-ting (; born May 18, 1946) is a Taiwanese politician and former defense attorney. A cofounder of the Democratic Progressive Party, he has served on the Taipei City Council, the Legislative Yuan, as the mayor of Kaohsiung City, and as the Premier of the Executive Yuan under president Chen Shui-bian. Hs... | {"Name": "Frank Hsieh", "Native name": "謝長廷", "Native name language": "zh-tw", "Nationality": "Taiwanese (Taiwan)", "Image caption": "Official portrait as Premier", "Order 2": "Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party", "Predecessor 2": "Lin Yi-hsiung", "Successor 2": "Chen Shui-bian", "Birth date": "1946 05 18", "... |
Clarence Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929), better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top Smith, was an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. His hit tune "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" featured rhythmic "breaks" that were an essential ingredient of ragtime music, but also a fundamental foreshadowing of rock and rol... | {"Born": "Troy, Alabama, U.S.", "Died": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Genres": "Boogie-woogie, blues", "Labels": "Vocalion"} |
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