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The IWI Negev (also known as the Negev NG-5) is a 5.56×45mm NATO light machine gun developed by Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), formerly Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI).
In 2012, IWI introduced the Negev NG-7 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun and is used by the Israel Defense Forces (mainly in the infan... | {"Type": "Light machine gun (Negev NG5) General-purpose machine gun (Negev NG7)", "In service": "1997-presenthttp://www.asianmilitaryreview.com/upload/200712032006011.pdf Lightweight Firepower Kemp, Ian March 2007 Asianmilitaryreview.com - Asian Military Review 2010-04-18 dead https://web.archive.org/web/201107... |
Addison Mitchell McConnell III ( ; born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney serving as Senate Minority Leader since 2021 and the senior United States senator from Kentucky since 1985. He previously served as minority leader from 2007 to 2015, majority leader from 2015 to 2021 and was major... | {"Image caption": "Official portrait, 2016", "Term start": "January 20, 2021", "Office 2": "Senate Majority Leader", "Predecessor 2": "Harry Reid", "Successor 2": "Chuck Schumer", "Birth name": "Addison Mitchell McConnell III", "Birth date": "1942 2 20", "Birth place": "Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.", "Residence": "Louisvil... |
Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler (March 19, 1923 - May 29, 2013), was a Polish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a Jewish youth during World War II, Morgentaler was imprisoned at the Łódź Ghetto and later at the Dachau con... | {"Name": "Henry Morgentaler", "Post-nominals": "CM", "Caption": "Henry Morgentaler (right) in August, 2005, with then NDP Leader Jack Layton", "Birth name": "Heniek Morgentaler", "Birth date": "1923 3 19 yes", "Birth place": "Łódź, Second Polish Republic", "Death date": "2013 5 29 1923 3 19 yes", "Death place": "Toron... |
Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (December 4, 1923 - March 31, 2014) was an American sportsman, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, financier, conservative activist, and convicted felon best known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s.
Keating was a champion swimmer for the University of Cincin... | {"Birth name": "Charles Humphrey Keating Jr.", "Birth date": "1923 12 4 yes", "Birth place": "Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.", "Death date": "2014 3 31 1923 12 4 yes", "Death place": "Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.", "Known For": "Championship swimmerAnti-pornography activistSavings and loan scandalKeating Five", "Occupation": "Lawyer... |
The post-Angkor period of Cambodia (), also called the Middle Period, refers to the historical era from the early 15th century to 1863, the beginning of the French protectorate of Cambodia. As reliable sources (for the 15th and 16th centuries, in particular) are very rare, a defensible and conclusive explanation that r... | {"Native name": "km ក្រុងកម្ពុជាធិបតី", "Conventional long name": "Kingdom of Cambodia", "Flag": "120px", "Starting event": "Siege of Angkor", "Event ending the country": "French protectorate", "End date": "11 August", "Event 3": "Siamese invasion", "Capital": "Srey Sorchhor (1431-1434) Chaktomuk (1434-1525) Longvek (1... |
The French protectorate of Cambodia (; ) refers to the Kingdom of Cambodia when it was a French protectorate within French Indochina, a collection of Southeast Asian protectorates within the French colonial empire. The protectorate was established in 1863 when the Cambodian King Norodom requested the establishment of a... | {"Conventional long name": "Kingdom of Cambodiakm ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជាfr Royaume du Cambodge", "Type of government": "Elective absolute monarchy underFrench colonial administration(1863-1947)Unitary dominant-partyparliamentary electiveconstitutional monarchywithin the French Union(1947-1953)", "Starting event": "Prote... |
Julie Payette (; born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation.
Payette holds engineering degrees from McGill University and the University of Toronto. She worked as a research scientist b... | {"Name": "Julie Payette", "Alternative text": "Julie Payette in Ottawa in 2017", "Image caption": "Payette in 2017", "Term start": "October 2, 2017", "Term end": "January 22, 2021", "Birth date": "1963 10 20 yes", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Spouse(s)": "François Brissette 1992 1999 divorceWilliam Flynn... |
Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 - August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays.
He was one of the most renowned dramatists of the Golden Age of Television. His intim... | {"Birth name": "Sidney Aaron Chayefsky", "Caption": "Circa 1972", "Birth date": "yes 1923 01 29", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "yes 1981 08 01 1923 01 29", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Years active": "1944-1980", "Occupation": "Playwright novelist screenwriter", "Spouse(s)": "Susan Sac... |
The Vanishing (, literally: "Traceless" or "Without a Trace") is a 1988 Dutch thriller film directed by George Sluizer, adapted from the novella The Golden Egg (1984) by Tim Krabbé. It stars Gene Bervoets as a man who searches obsessively for his girlfriend following her disappearance at a rest area.
The Vanishing was... | {"Directed by": "George Sluizer", "Produced by": "Anne Lordon\nGeorge Sluizer", "Screenplay by": "George Sluizer\nTim Krabbé", "Based on": "The Golden Egg Tim Krabbé", "Starring": "Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu\nGene Bervoets\nJohanna ter Steege\nGwen Eckhaus", "Music by": "Hennie Vrienten", "Cinematography": "Toni Kuhn", "... |
Lot (; Lōṭ, lit. "veil" or "covering";
Lṓt; Lūṭ; Syriac: ܠܘܛ Lōṭ) was a man in the biblical Book of Genesis, chapters 11-14 and 19. Notable events in his life include his journey with his uncle Abram (Abraham); his flight from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, during which Lot's wife became a pillar of salt; a... | {"Caption": "Lot and his Daughters leaving Sodom Guido (1575) by Guido Reni", "Name": "Lot", "Native name": "לוֹט", "Birth place": "Ur Kaśdim(present-day Basra, Iraq)", "Death place": "Canaan(present-day Israel and Palestine)", "Spouse(s)": "Lot's wife", "Children": "Two daughters", "Father": "Haran", "Relatives": "Moa... |
The Kingdom of Cambodia, also known as the First Kingdom of Cambodia, and commonly referred to as the Sangkum period, refers to Norodom Sihanouk's first administration of Cambodia from 1953 to 1970, an especially significant time in the country's history. Sihanouk continues to be one of the most controversial figures i... | {"Native name": "km ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជាkm Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa fr Royaume du Cambodge", "Conventional long name": "Kingdom of Cambodia", "National motto": "km ជាតិ សាសនា ព្រះមហាក្សត្រ (Khmer)km Chéatĕ, Sasânéa, Preăh Môhaksâtr fr Nation, Religion, Roi (French) \"Nation, Religion, King\"", "Type of governme... |
St. Johnsbury (known locally as "St. J") is the shire townTitle 24, Part I, Chapter 1, §4, Vermont Statutes. Accessed 2021-02-21. (county seat) of Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,364. St. Johnsbury is situated on the Passumpsic River and is located approximately si... | {"Land": "94.3", "Water": "0.9", "Density": "auto", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.stjvt.com"} |
Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction body horror film directed by Ken Russell, and based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. The film was adapted from Chayefsky's 1978 novel and is his final screenplay. The novel and the film are based in part on John C. Lilly's se... | {"Directed by": "Ken Russell", "Produced by": "Howard Gottfried Daniel Melnick", "Screenplay by": "Paddy ChayefskyA", "Based on": "Altered States Paddy Chayefsky", "Starring": "William Hurt Blair Brown Bob Balaban", "Music by": "John Corigliano", "Cinematography": "Jordan S. Cronenweth", "Edited by": "Stuart Baird", "D... |
Mount Robson is the most prominent mountain in North America's Rocky Mountain range; it is also the highest point in the Canadian Rockies.
The mountain is located entirely within Mount Robson Provincial Park of British Columbia, and is part of the Rainbow Range.
Mount Robson is the second highest peak entirely in Bri... | {"Elevation": "2 Mount Robson 2008-09-14", "Prominence": "2829", "Language of name": "shs Yexyexéscen", "English translation": "Striped Rock", "Location": "Canada British Columbia", "Coordinates": "JBLBR Mount Robson 2023-04-28"} |
Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (; 1 June 1693 - 21 April 1766) was a Russian diplomat and chancellor. He was one of the most influential and successful diplomats in 18th-century Europe. As the chancellor of the Russian Empire was chiefly responsible for Russian foreign policy during the reign of Empress Elizav... | {"Honorific prefix": "Count", "Name": "Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin", "Native name": "Алексе́й Петро́вич Бесту́жев-Рю́мин", "Native name language": "ru", "Birth date": "1693 06 01", "Birth place": "Moscow, Russia", "Death date": "1766 04 21", "Death place": "Saint Petersburg, Russia", "Occupation": "Diplomat", "Father": "Py... |
Vladimír Menšík (9 October 1929 - 29 May 1988) was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.
Both comedian and serious actor, he created a wide range of lively characters. He starred in more than 120 movies (September Nights, Král Šumavy, Hledá se táta, The Cassandra Cat, Lemona... | {"Name": "Vladimír Menšík", "Caption": "Memorial plaque in Ivančice", "Birth name": "Vladislav Menšík", "Birth date": "1929 10 9 y", "Birth place": "Ivančice Czechoslovakia", "Death date": "1988 5 29 1928 10 9 y", "Death place": "Brno, Czechoslovakia", "Occupation": "Actor"} |
Hürrem Sultan (; ; ; 1504 - 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana (), was the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history as well as a prominent and controversial figure during the era known as the Sultanate ... | {"Born": "Rohatyn, Ruthenia, Kingdom of Poland (now Ukraine)", "Died": "Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)", "Burial": "Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul", "Father": "Lisovsky, possibly a Ruthenian Orthodox PriestDr Galina I Yermolenko Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culturea https://books.... |
The prime minister of Singapore is the head of government of the Republic of Singapore. The president appoints the prime minister, a Member of Parliament (MP) who in their opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of the majority of MPs. The incumbent prime minister is Lee Hsien Loong, who took office on 12 Aug... | {"Post": "Prime Minister", "Body": "theRepublic of Singapore", "Insignia size": "100px", "Insignia caption": "Coat of arms of Singapore", "Flag caption": "Flag of Singapore", "Image size": "200px", "Incumbent": "Lee Hsien Loong", "Incumbent since": "12 August 2004", "Department": "Government of SingaporeCabinet of Sing... |
The president of the Republic of Singapore is the head of state of Singapore. The president represents the country in official diplomatic functions and possesses certain executive powers over the Government of Singapore, including the control of the national reserves and the ability to revoke and appoint public service... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "theRepublic of Singapore", "Insignia caption": "Presidential arms", "Flag caption": "Presidential standard", "Incumbent": "Tharman Shanmugaratnam", "Incumbent since": "14 September 2023", "Department": "Head of state of the Republic of Singapore", "Style": "Mister President(informal)\n Hi... |
The Bay of Islands is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is one of the most popular fishing, sailing and tourist destinations in the country, and has been renowned internationally for its big-game fishing since American author Zane Grey publicised it in the 1930s.... | {"Location": "North Island", "Coordinates": "35 12 S 174 10 E region:NZ_type:waterbody_scale:500000 title,inline", "Part of": "Pacific Ocean", "Basin": "New Zealand"} |
Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (July 21, 1896 - September 4, 1971), was an American politician and member of the Republican Party, first elected to statewide office in Iowa as lieutenant governor, serving from 1939 to 1943 and then as the 29th Governor of Iowa from 1943 to 1945. Hickenlooper was first elected to the Uni... | {"Name": "Bourke B. Hickenlooper", "Image caption": "Hickenlooper in 1945", "Term start": "January 3, 1945", "Term end": "January 3, 1969", "Order 2": "29th", "Office 2": "Governor of Iowa", "Predecessor 2": "George A. Wilson", "Successor 2": "Robert D. Blue", "Birth date": "yes 1896 7 21", "Birth place": "Blockton, Io... |
Kīlauea ( , ) is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. Located along the southeastern shore of Hawai'i Island, the volcano is between 210,000 and 280,000 years old and emerged above sea level about 100,000 years ago. Historically, it is the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of ... | {"Elevation": "TU2382 4088\n<!--", "Prominence": "http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=11916\n Kilauea Prominence\n Peakbagger.com\n May 5, 2018", "Location": "none", "Coordinates": "19.421097472 N 155.286762433 W type:mountain_region:US-HI_scale:100000 dms inline,title"} |
Bonnie Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American theater, film and television actress. She has had a number of high-profile roles, including in the play Copenhagen on Broadway, the leading actress in the films Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981) and Strapless (1989), as well as a run as the title ch... | {"Name": "Blair Brown", "Caption": "Brown at Wondercon, March 2012", "Birth name": "Bonnie Blair Brown", "Birth date": "1946 4 23", "Birth place": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Alma mater": "National Theatre School of Canada", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1971-present", "Children": "1", "Partner(s)": "Richard... |
The Decline of the West (; more literally, The Downfall of the Occident), is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler. The first volume, subtitled Form and Actuality, was published in the summer of 1918. The second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World History, was published in 1922. The definitive edition of both volume... | {"Original title": "Der Untergang des Abendlandes", "Country": "Germany", "Language": "German", "Media type": "Print (Hardcover and Paperback)", "Pages": "507"} |
Kazimierz Piotr Staszewski (born 12 March 1963), also known as Kazik, is a Polish singer and songwriter. He is the son of the architect and poet Stanisław Staszewski. He is the frontman of the band Kult,Alexander Stephan, "The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism After 1945", Berghahn Boo... | {"Name": "Kazik Staszewski", "Image": "Eldupa2.JPG", "Caption": "Staszewski performing in Mega Club, Katowice 2008", "Occupation": "Musician, singer-songwriter, producer", "Birth name": "Kazimierz Piotr Staszewski", "Birth date": "yes 1963 03 12", "Birth place": "Warsaw, Poland", "Children": "Jan StaszewskiKazimierz St... |
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, (24 October 1827 - 9 July 1909), styled Viscount Goderich from 1833 to 1859 and known as the Earl of Ripon in 1859 and as the Earl de Grey and Ripon from 1859 to 1871, was a British politician and Viceroy and Governor General of India who served in every Liberal... | {"Name": "The Marquess of Ripon", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for the Colonies", "Monarch 2": "Queen Victoria", "Prime minister 2": "William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery", "Predecessor 2": "The Lord Knutsford", "Successor 2": "Joseph Chamberlain", "Birth date": "1827 10 24 yes", "Birth place": "10 Downing S... |
The MultiMediaCard, officially abbreviated as MMC, is a memory card standard used for solid-state storage. Unveiled in 1997 by SanDisk and Siemens, MMC is based on a surface-contact low pin-count serial interface using a single memory stack substrate assembly, and is therefore much smaller than earlier systems based on... | {"Image caption": "32 MB MMCplus card", "Media type": "Memory card", "Capacity": "Up to 512 GB", "Developed by": "JEDEC", "Use": "Portable devices", "Dimensions": "Standard: 32 × 24 × 1.4 mm", "Weight": "Standard: ~2.0 g", "Extended to": "Secure Digital (SD)", "Date released": "1997"} |
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, and was a key early member of the Association for the Advancem... | {"Born": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Genres": "experimental music, contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation", "Labels": "Delmark, Arista, Hathut, Black Saint, Music & Arts, Antilles, Leo, CIMP", "Website": "tricentricfoundation.org/"} |
Rutland is the only city in and the seat of the county of the same name in Vermont, United States.Title 24, Part I, Chapter 1, §12, Vermont Statutes. Accessed November 1, 2007. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 15,807. It is located approximately north of the Massachusetts state line, west of ... | {"Land": "19.54", "Water": "0.33", "Density": "2096.42", "DST": "-4", "Website": "http://www.rutlandcity.org/"} |
West Rutland is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,214 at the 2020 census. The town center, located in the south-central portion of the town and where about 87% of the population resides, is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP). The town is part of the... | {"Land": "18.0", "Water": "0.0", "Density": "auto", "DST": "-4"} |
Tehanu , initially subtitled The Last Book of Earthsea, is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Atheneum in 1990. It is the fourth novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea, following almost twenty years after the first three Earthsea novels (1968-1972), and not the last, despite... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "Earthsea", "Published": "1990 (Atheneum), 2012 (Saga)", "Media type": "Print (hardcover and paperback)", "Pages": "226", "ISBN": "0-689-31595-3", "Preceded by": "The Farthest Shore", "Followed by": "Tales from Earthsea"} |
Robert Joseph Cousy ( , born August 9, 1928) is an American former professional basketball player. Cousy played point guard for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963, and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals during the 1969-70 season. A 13-time NBA All-Star and 1957 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), he was a core piece duri... | {"Listed height": "1", "Listed weight": "175", "Born": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "High school": "Andrew Jackson(Queens, New York)", "College": "Holy Cross (1946-1950)"} |
Maude is an American sitcom television series that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972, until April 22, 1978.
Maude stars Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, New York with her fourth husband, household appliance ... | {"Running time": "30 minutes", "Genre": "Sitcom", "Created by": "Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin", "Starring": "Beatrice Arthur Bill Macy Adrienne Barbeau Conrad Bain Rue McClanahan Esther Rolle Hermione Baddeley J. Pat O'Malley Marlene Warfield", "Opening theme": "\"And Then There's Maude\"Performed by Donny Hathaway", "Co... |
Whangārei () is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the regional capital of Northland Region. It is part of the Whangārei District, a local body created in 1989 from the former Whangārei City, Whangārei County and Hikurangi Town councils, to administer both the city proper and its hinterland. The city population w... | {"Named for": "Reipae, a Waikato PrincessTaonui Rāwiri Naming Whāngārei Harbour https://teara.govt.nz/en/whangarei-tribes/page-3 teara.govt.nz New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu 10 January 2021 en", "Urban density": "R", "DST": "+13", "Website": "www.wdc.govt.nz"} |
Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein (; 1956 - 14 March 2022) was the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party and claimed to be the legitimate heir to the position of King of Iraq, based on his relationship to the last monarch, the late King Faisal II.
Early life
After the loss of Mecca, Sharif Ali's parent... | {"Name": "Sharif Ali bin al-Husseinالشريف علي بن الحسين", "Image caption": "Ali Bin Al-Hussein in 2002", "Birth date": "1956", "Birth place": "Bagdad, Iraq", "Death date": "2022 3 14 65 y", "Death place": "Amman, Jordan"} |
thumb|right|260px| A map showing population density in the Northland Region at the 2006 census
The Northland Region () is the northernmost of New Zealand's 16 local government regions. New Zealanders sometimes refer to it as the Winterless North because of its mild climate all throughout the year. The main population c... | {"Type": "Regional council", "Body": "Northland Regional Council", "Land": "12507.89", "Density": "auto", "Website": "https://www.nrc.govt.nz"} |
The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (MSG) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Authored by Eugene H. Peterson and published in segments from 1993 to 2002.
A Catholic version, The Message - Catholic / Ecumenical Edition, was published in 2013.
Features
According to the Introduction to t... | {"Online as": "The Message", "Full name": "The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language", "Abbreviation": "MSG", "NT": "1993", "Translation type": "Functional equivalenceBible Translation Spectrum https://wiki.logos.com/Bible_Translation_Spectrum live https://web.archive.org/web/20230107020807/https://wiki.logos.... |
Conrad Stafford Bain (February 4, 1923 - January 14, 2013) was a Canadian-American comedian and actor. His television credits include a leading role as Phillip Drummond in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978-1986), as Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude (1972-1978), and as Charlie Ross in Mr. President (1987-1988).
Early life
C... | {"Name": "Conrad Bain", "Image": "Conrad Bain Arthur Harmon Maude 1975.JPG", "Caption": "Bain as Arthur Harmon in Maude, 1975", "Birth name": "Conrad Stafford Bain", "Birth date": "1923 2 4", "Birth place": "Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada", "Death date": "2013 1 14 1923 2 4", "Death place": "Livermore, California, U.S.", ... |
Eddi-Rue McClanahan (February 21, 1934 - June 3, 2010) was an American actress and comedian best known for her roles on television sitcoms, including Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972-78), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Family (1983-84), and Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls (1985-92), and its spin-off series The Golden Pa... | {"Name": "Rue McClanahan", "Caption": "McClanahan in a publicity portrait for The Joe Franklin Show, c. 1972", "Birth name": "Eddi-Rue McClanahan", "Birth date": "1934 2 21", "Birth place": "Healdton, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Death date": "2010 6 3 1934 2 21", "Death place": "New York City, US", "Alma mater": "University of T... |
The Michigan Battle Cats were a Minor League Baseball team which began playing in the Midwest League in 1995 and called C.O. Brown Stadium in Battle Creek, Michigan, home. The franchise had previously been located in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994 where they were called the Madison Hatters. Prior to that the team was loca... | {"Previous classes": "Class A", "League": "Midwest League", "Division": "Eastern Division", "Previous teams": "Houston Astros (1999-2002)\nBoston Red Sox (1995-1998)"} |
Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress, singer, and author of three books. She came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (played by Bea Arthur) on the sitcom Maude (1972-1978). In 1980, she be... | {"Name": "Adrienne Barbeau", "Caption": "Barbeau in June 2011", "Birth name": "Adrienne Jo Barbeau", "Birth date": "1945 6 11", "Birth place": "Sacramento, California, U.S.", "Education": "Del Mar High Schoolhttps://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/san_joses_favorite_daughter/ Singh Gary San Jose's Favorite Daughter Sanjosei... |
Tāwhiao (Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao; c. 1822 - 26 August 1894) was leader of the Waikato tribes, the second Māori King, and a religious figure. He was a member of the Ngati Mahuta hapū of Waikato.
Biography
Tāwhiao's father, Te Wherowhero, was the leader of the Waikato people, and his mother, Wha... | {"Religion": "Pai Mārire", "Father": "Pōtatau Te Wherowhero", "Mother": "Whakaawi", "Born": "New Zealand", "Died": "New Zealand"} |
Khasbag Stadium is a national wrestling stadium in Kolhapur city, Maharashtra, India. This is a biggest wrestling stadium in India. The stadium was built in the time of Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj and is almost a hundred-year-old stadium. And this is heritage site also.
Khasbag stadium, also known as Khasbaug Maidan (Groun... | {"Full name": "Rajarshi Shahu Khasbaug Maidan", "Former names": "Khasbaug Maidan", "Location": "Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India", "Owner": "Kolhapur Municipal Corporation", "Operator": "Kolhapur Municipal Corporation", "Surface": "Malt", "Capacity": "30,000"} |
James Harlan (August 26, 1820 – October 5, 1899) was an attorney and politician, a member of the United States Senate, a U.S. Cabinet Secretary at the United States Department of Interior under President Andrew Johnson, and a Federal Judge.
Early life
Harlan was born on August 26, 1820, in Clark County, Illinois, and ... | {"Name": "James Harlan", "Term start": "March 4, 1867", "Term end": "March 3, 1873", "Predecessor 2": "Augustus C. Dodge", "Successor 2": "Vacant", "Birth date": "1820 8 26", "Birth place": "Clark County, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "1899 10 5 1820 8 26", "Death place": "Mount Pleasant, Iowa, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "An... |
Emilio Estevez (; born May 12, 1962) is an American actor and filmmaker.
He is the son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of Charlie Sheen. Estevez started his acting career in the 1980s and was one of a group of actors known as the Brat Pack. He is notable for starring in The Outsiders (1983), The Breakfast ... | {"Name": "Emilio Estevez", "Caption": "Estevez in 2011", "Birth date": "1962 5 12", "Birth place": "New York City, US", "Occupation": "Actor, filmmaker", "Years active": "1973-present", "Spouse(s)": "Paula Abdul 1992 1994 div", "Children": "2", "Father": "Martin Sheen", "Mother": "Janet Templeton", "Relatives": "Ramon ... |
Queer Eye is an American reality television series that premiered on the Bravo network in July 2003, initially broadcast as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The series was created by executive producers David Collins and Michael Williams along with David Metzler through their company, Scout Productions. Each episode fe... | {"Genre": "Reality television", "Running time": "43-54 minutes", "Created by": "David Collins\n Michael Williams", "Starring": "Ted Allen Kyan Douglas Thom Filicia Carson Kressley Jai Rodriguez", "Opening theme": "\"All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)\" by Widelife featuring Simone Denny", "Country of origin": "Unite... |
Reality Bites is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film written by Helen Childress and directed by Ben Stiller in his feature directorial debut. It stars Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, and Stiller, with supporting roles by Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn. The plot follows Lelaina (Ryder), an aspiring videographer worki... | {"Directed by": "Ben Stiller", "Produced by": "Danny DeVitoMichael Shamberg", "Written by": "Helen Childress", "Starring": "Winona Ryder\n Ethan Hawke\n Ben Stiller\n Janeane Garofalo\n Swoosie Kurtz\n Joe Don Baker\n John Mahoney", "Music by": "Karl Wallinger", "Cinematography": "Emmanuel Lubezki", "Edited by": "Lisa ... |
Kaipara District is a territorial authority district in the Northland Region of New Zealand.
History
Kaipara District was formed through the 1989 New Zealand local government reforms and was constituted on 1 November 1989. It was made up of five former boroughs and counties: all of Hobson County, Dargaville Borough, O... | {"Land": "3109.09", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+13", "Website": "Kaipara District Council"} |
The Chevrolet Corvair is a compact car manufactured by Chevrolet for model years 1960-1969 in two generations. A response to the Volkswagen Beetle, it remains the only American-designed, mass-produced passenger car with a rear-mounted, air-cooled engine. The Corvair was manufactured and marketed in 4-door sedan, 2-door... | {"Manufacturer": "Chevrolet (General Motors)", "Production": "1960-1969", "Platform": "Z-body", "Chassis": "Unibody", "Assembly": "US: Ypsilanti, Michigan (Willow Run Assembly) US: Kansas City, Missouri (Leeds Assembly) US: Oakland, California (Oakland Assembly) US: Van Nuys (Van Nuys Assembly) US: St. Louis (S... |
Croft is a village and civil parish in Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England, about four miles north of Warrington town centre. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,920. It is a semi-rural, residential district.
Geography
Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, the village is on the nort... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "OS grid reference": "SJ634935", "Population": "(2001 Census)", "Unitary authority": "Warrington", "Ceremonial county": "Cheshire", "UK Parliament": "Warrington North", "Postcode district": "WA", "Dialling code": "01925"} |
Joyce DeWitt (born April 23, 1949) is an American actress and comedian known for playing Janet Wood on the ABC sitcom Three's Company from 1977 to 1984.
Early life
Joyce DeWitt was born April 23, 1949, in Wheeling, West Virginia, and grew up in Speedway, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. She graduated from Speedway S... | {"Name": "Joyce DeWitt", "Caption": "DeWitt at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 10, 2010", "Birth date": "1949 4 23", "Birth place": "Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Ball State University (BA)University of California, Los Angeles (MFA)", "Education": "Speedway Senior High School", "Occupation... |
Niklas Zennström (; born 16 February 1966) is a Swedish entrepreneur and technology investor. Zennström is also the co-founder of the charity organization Zennström Philanthropies.
Education
Zennström has dual degrees in Business Administration (BSc) and Engineering Physics (MSc) from Uppsala University. He spent his ... | {"Name": "Niklas Zennström", "Caption": "Zennström with Loic Le Meur in the background", "Birth date": "1966 2 16 y", "Birth place": "Järfälla, Sweden", "Education": "Uppsala University (BSc, MSc)", "Occupation": "Entrepreneur and investor", "Spouse(s)": "Catherine Zennström"} |
AeroSvit Airlines private stock company (), operating as AeroSvit — Ukrainian Airlines / АероСвіт, was a Ukrainian private airline. Its head office was on the grounds of the Boryspil International Airport in Boryspil."Representative Office ." (Select City: "Kyiv" : "Head office") Aerosvit Airlines. Retrieved 21 June 20... | {"Airline name": "Aerosvit Ukrainian Airlines", "Image size (px)": "250px", "Current Fleet Size": "4", "IATA Designator": "VV", "ICAO Designator": "AEW", "Callsign": "AEROSVIT", "Parent Company": "Privat Grouphttp://www.airportsinternational.com/2010/01/new-owner-for-aerosvit/ New Owner for Aerosvit Airports Internat... |
was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese. He was the laureate of several prestigious literary accolades, including the Akut... | {"Born": "1923 3 27", "Died": "1996 9 29 1923 3 27", "Occupation": "Writer", "Nationality": "Japanese", "Literary movement": "\"Third Generation\"", "Native name": "遠藤 周作", "Alma mater": "Keio University"} |
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman. It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini... | {"Directed by": "Robert Hamer", "Screenplay by": "Robert Hamer\n John Dighton", "Based on": "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal Roy Horniman", "Starring": "Valerie Hobson\n Dennis Price\n Joan Greenwood\n Alec Guinness", "Produced by": "Michael Balcon\n Michael Relph", "Music by": "Ernest Irving", "Cinematogr... |
Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 - April 19, 1987) was a senior United States Army officer and diplomat of the mid-20th century. He served with distinction in World War II, most notably as commander of the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed "The Screaming Eagles."
After the war, he served as the fifth chairma... | {"Term start": "February 29, 1968", "Term end": "May 1, 1970", "Office 2": "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff", "President 2": "John F. KennedyLyndon B. Johnson", "Predecessor 2": "Lyman Lemnitzer", "Successor 2": "Earle Wheeler", "Birth name": "Maxwell Davenport Taylor", "Birth date": "1901 8 26", "Birth place": "... |
Gavin Adrian Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), and also for the Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
A Brownlow Medal winner ... | {"Name": "Gavin Wanganeen", "Full Name": "Gavin Adrian Wanganeen", "Nickname": "Wanga", "Birth Date": "1973 06 18 y", "Birth Place": "Mount Gambier, South Australia", "Original Team": "Salisbury North (SAAFL)", "Draft Pick": "No. 12, 1989 National Draft,", "Position": "Utility", "Stats End": "2005", "Career Highlights"... |
Long Crendon is a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England, about west of Haddenham and north-west of Thame in neighbouring Oxfordshire.
The village has been called Long Crendon only since the English Civil War.Birch, 1975, page not cited The "Long" prefix refers to the length of the village at that ... | {"Population": "(2011)Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126044&c=Long+Crendon&d=16&e=62&g=6403907&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1359914318582&enc=1 Neighbourhood Statistics Office for National Statistics 3 February 2013",... |
Adam Roy Goodes (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Goodes holds an elite place in VFL/AFL history as a dual Brownlow Medallist, dual premiership player, four-time All-Australian, member of the Indigenous Tea... | {"Name": "Adam Goodes", "Image Caption": "Goodes at a Recognise campaign press conference, 2014", "Full Name": "Adam Roy Goodes", "Birth Date": "1980 1 8 y", "Birth Place": "Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia", "Original Team": "North Ballarat Rebels", "Draft Pick": "No. 43, 1997 National Draft", "Position": "Utility... |
Rognvald Eysteinsson (fl. 865) was the founding Jarl (or Earl) of Møre in Norway, and a close relative and ally of Harald Fairhair, the earliest known King of Norway. In the Norse language he is known as Rǫgnvaldr Eysteinsson (Mǿrajarl) and in modern Norwegian as Ragnvald Mørejarl. He is sometimes referred to with byna... | {"Reign type": "Reigned", "Successorship type": "Successor", "Father": "Eystein Ivarsson", "Birth place": "Norway", "Death date": "c. 890Muir (2005) Preface: Genealogical table of the Earls of Orkney.", "Native name": "Rögnvaldr \"The Wise\""} |
Alastair Graeme Lynch (born 19 June 1968) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is best known as a three-time premiership full-forward for the Brisbane Lions.
The Tasmanian began his career in defence, where he became a leading goal-kicker for Fitzr... | {"Name": "Alastair Lynch", "Image Caption": "Lynch in April 2018", "Full Name": "Alastair Graeme Lynch", "Nickname": "Lynchy", "Birth Date": "1968 06 19 y", "Birth Place": "Burnie, Tasmania", "Original Team": "Hobart (TFL)", "Draft Pick": "No. 50, 1986 national draft", "Position": "Key Forward, Key Defender", "Stats En... |
Justin Mark Madden (born 31 May 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer and state politician. He played for the Essendon Football Club and the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). After his retirement in 1997, Madden decided to enter Victorian politics, using the experience gained from ... | {"Name": "Justin Madden", "Constituency AM": "Essendon", "Term start": "27 November 2010", "Term end": "29 November 2014", "Birth date": "1961 5 31 yes", "Birth place": "Melbourne", "Official website": "justinmadden.org.au", "Order 2": "Minister for Planning", "Predecessor 2": "Rob Hulls", "Successor 2": "Matthew Guy",... |
Yemen (; ), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. It is located in the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast. It shares maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia. Covering and having a coastline of approximately , Yemen ... | {"Conventional long name": "Republic of Yemen", "Native name": "ar الجمهورية اليمنية offar al-Jumhūrīyah al-Yamaniyah", "Symbol type": "Emblem", "National motto": "ar ٱللَّهُ، ثُمَّ ٱلْوَطَنُ، ٱلثَوْرَةُ، ٱلْوَحْدَةُ offar Allāh, thumma al-Waṭan, ath-Thawrah, al-Waḥdah\"God, then Country, Revolution, Unity\"", "Capital... |
Dennis Alan "Den" Watts is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by actor Leslie Grantham. He became well known for his tabloid nickname, "Dirty Den".
Den was the original landlord of The Queen Victoria public house from Albert Square - in the local community of Walford, a fictional borough ... | {"Portrayed by": "Leslie Grantham", "Duration": "1985-1989\n 2003-2005", "Created by": "Tony Holland", "Classification": "Former; regular", "Book appearances": "Blind SpotsSwings and Roundabouts", "Introduced by": "Julia Smith (1985)Louise Berridge (2003)", "First appearance": "Episode 1 \"Poor Old Reg\"1985 2 19 y", "... |
Faa'a International Airport (), also known as Tahiti International Airport , is the international airport of French Polynesia, located in the commune of Faaa, on the island of Tahiti. It is situated southwest of Papeete, the capital city of the overseas collectivity. It opened in 1960. Regional air carrier Air Tahiti ... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Tahiti, French Polynesia, France", "Location": "Papeete", "Hub": "Air Tahiti\n Air Tahiti Nui", "AMSL": "5", "Coordinates": "17 33 24 S 149 36 41 W region:FR-PF inline,title", "Website": "http://www.tahiti-aeroport.pf"} |
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849-1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
History of t... | {"Created": "1883", "Location": "Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York City http://www.nps.gov/stli/ Statue of Liberty National Monument December 31, 2007 National Park Service US July 24, 2008", "Author(s)": "Emma Lazarus", "Purpose": "To raise money for construction of the statue's pedestal"} |
Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, (6 March 1860 - 30 March 1934) was a British politician who served as the sixth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1914 to 1920.
Munro Ferguson was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and initially pursued... | {"Name": "The Viscount Novar", "Term start": "18 May 1914", "Term end": "6 October 1920", "Predecessor 2": "William Ewart GladstoneNever took seat", "Successor 2": "George Welsh Currie", "Birth date": "1860 3 6 y", "Birth place": "Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland", "Death date": "1934 3 30 1860 3 6 y", "Death place": "Kirkcal... |
Polynesians form an ethnolinguistic group of closely related people who are native to Polynesia (islands in the Polynesian Triangle), an expansive region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Southeast Asia and form part of the larger Austronesian ethnolinguistic group w... | {"Name": "Polynesians", "Population": "2,500,000", "Languages": "Polynesian languages (Hawaiian, Māori, Rapa Nui, Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, Rotuman, Tuvaluan and others), English, French and\nSpanish", "Religions": "Christianity (96.1%)Christianity in its Global Context, 1970-2020 Society, Religion, and Mission, Cent... |
Chichester () is a cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey - Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. It is the only city in West Sussex and is its county town. It was a Roman and Anglo-Saxon settl... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121894&c=Chichester&d=16&e=62&g=6473578&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1426288313078&enc=1 2011 Census: Chichester (Parish) https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154130/http://www.neighbourhoo... |
Deptford Bridge is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Deptford, London in England. The station is elevated above both local roads and Deptford Creek, and is adjacent to Lewisham College and Deptford market.
Location
The station is located between Greenwich and Elverson Road stations, and is on the boundary o... | {"External links": "dlr", "Managed by": "Docklands Light Railway", "Fare zone": "3", "Location": "Deptford", "Local authority": "Royal Borough of Greenwich", "Number of platforms": "2", "Accessible": "yes", "2007-08": "3.132", "2008-09": "3.071", "2010-11": "2.967 -->"} |
Knaresborough ( ) is a market and spa town and civil parish on the River Nidd in North Yorkshire, England. It is east of Harrogate and was in the Borough of Harrogate until April 2023.
History
Knaresborough is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Chenaresburg, meaning "Cenheard's fortress",Victor Watts (ed.), T... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 census) 1170217036 Knaresborough Parish 6 February 2019", "Unitary authority": "North Yorkshire", "Ceremonial county": "North Yorkshire", "UK Parliament": "Harrogate and Knaresborough", "Postcode district": "HG", "Dialling code": "01423", "OS grid reference": "SE3505... |
Deptford is a National Rail station in Deptford in London, England. It is on the North Kent Line, down the line from , and has staggered platforms on the London Bridge - Greenwich Railway Viaduct, a high brick viaduct on which the line runs at this point above Deptford High Street.
It is in Travelcard zone 2.
Histor... | {"External links": "DEP", "Managed by": "Southeastern", "Fare zone": "2", "Location": "Deptford", "Local authority": "London Borough of Lewisham", "Number of platforms": "2\n<!--", "2015-16": "1.312", "2016-17": "1.092 -->", "2017-18": "1.058", "2018-19": "1.785", "2019-20": "1.939", "2020-21": "0.614", "2021-22": "1.2... |
Neath Port Talbot () is a county borough in the south-west of Wales. Its principal towns are Neath, Port Talbot, Briton Ferry and Pontardawe. The county borough borders Bridgend County Borough and Rhondda Cynon Taf to the east, Powys and Carmarthenshire to the north; and Swansea to the west.
Neath Port Talbot is the e... | {"Rank": "Ranked W06000012", "Water": "? %", "ISO 3166 code": "GB-NTL", "Density": "W06000012", "Type": "Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council", "Website": "http://www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk/"} |
Rhondda Cynon Taf (; RCT; also spelt as Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Cynon, Taff () and Ely valleys, plus a number of towns and villages away from the valleys. Results from the 2011 census showed 19.1% of its 234,410 res... | {"Type": "Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council", "Water": "0%", "Rank": "Ranked W06000016", "Density": "W06000016", "ISO 3166 code": "GB-RCT"} |
William Allen Alsop (12 December 1947 - 12 May 2018) was a British architect and Professor of Architecture at University for the Creative Arts's Canterbury School of Architecture.
He was responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings which are usually distinguished by their use of bright co... | {"Name": "Will Alsop", "Portrait caption": "Alsop in his Battersea office at All Design", "Practice": "Alsop and Störmer; aLL Design", "Significant buildings": "Hôtel du département des Bouches-du-Rhône Peckham Library, Peckham Sharp Centre for Design, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto (2004) Blizard Building, W... |
Srirangam () is a neighbourhood in the city of Tiruchirappalli in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. A river island, Srirangam is bounded by the Kaveri River on one side and its distributary Kollidam on the other side. Considered as the first among the 108 Divya Desams, a group of Vishnu temples, it is famous for the Sri ... | {"Type": "City Municipal Corporation", "Body": "Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation- Srirangam Zone", "Density": "auto", "Website": "http://srirangam.org/ http://trichycorporation.gov.in"} |
Meze (also spelled mezze or mezé) (, ) is a selection of small dishes served as appetizers in Albanian, Armenian, Kurdish, Levantine, Turkish, Greek, Iraqi, Egyptian, Balkan, Caucasian and Persian cuisine, to name a few. It is similar to Spanish tapas and Italian antipasti.Weir, Joanne. From Tapas to Meze: Small Plates... | {"Name of food": "Meze", "Image filename": "250px|A large plate of Jordanian mezze in Petra, Jordan.", "Image caption": "A large meze platter in Petra, Jordan", "Alternate name": "Mezze", "Variations": "Numerous"} |
The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, commonly known as Ripon Cathedral, and until 1836 known as Ripon Minster, is a cathedral in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. Founded as a monastery by monks of the Irish tradition in the 660s, it was refounded as a Benedictine monastery by St Wilfrid in 672. The church ... | {"OS grid reference": "Ripon Cathedral", "Location": "Minster Road, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 1QT", "Country": "England", "Denomination": "Church of England", "Tradition": "Liberal Anglo-CatholicBlagdon-Gamlen, P. E. (1973) The Church Travellers Directory. London: Church Literature Association; p. 75", "Website": "htt... |
Torfaen (; ) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. Torfaen is bordered by the county of Monmouthshire to the east, the city of Newport to the south, and the county boroughs of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent to the south-west and north-west. It is within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire, an... | {"Rank": "Ranked W06000020", "Water": "0%", "ISO 3166 code": "GB-TOF", "Density": "W06000020", "Type": "Torfaen County Borough Council"} |
Cardiff Bay (; colloquially "The Bay") is an area and freshwater lake in Cardiff, Wales. The site of a former tidal bay and estuary, it is the river mouth of the River Taff and Ely. The body of water was converted into a lake as part of a UK Government redevelopment project, involving the damming of the rivers by the ... | {"Sovereign state": "Wales", "Principal area": "Cardiff", "Postcode district": "CF10", "Dialling code": "029", "Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament": "Cardiff South and Penarth", "Website": "http://www.cardiffharbour.com/ Cardiff Harbour Authority\nhttp://www.visitcardiffbay.info/ Visit Cardiff Bay", "UK Parliament": "Card... |
Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich is a light metro station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Bank-Lewisham Line in Greenwich, south-east London, so named for its proximity to the Cutty Sark in the Maritime Greenwich district. It is the most central of the Greenwich DLR stations, being situated in Greenwich town cent... | {"External links": "dlr", "Managed by": "Docklands Light Railway", "Fare zone": "3", "Location": "Greenwich", "Local authority": "Royal Borough of Greenwich", "Number of platforms": "2", "Accessible": "yes", "2007-08": "4.951", "2008-09": "4.313", "2010-11": "5.012 -->"} |
Blaenau Gwent (; ) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. Its highest point is Coity Mountain at .
Government
The bo... | {"Rank": "Ranked W06000019", "Water": "? %", "ISO 3166 code": "GB-BGW", "Density": "W06000019", "Type": "Blaenau Gwent Council"} |
Derbyshire Dales ( ) is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The district was created in 1974 as West Derbyshire; the name was changed to Derbyshire Dales in 1987. The council is based in the town of Matlock, and the district also includes the towns of Ashbourne, Bakewell, Darley Dale and Wirksworth, as ... | {"Type": "Derbyshire Dales District Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000035", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1"} |
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by the British-American journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens published in 1995. It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholic religious congregation, and it challenges the mai... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Verso", "Pages": "128 pages", "ISBN": "1-85984-054-X"} |
The Wuzzles is an American short-lived animated television series created by Fred Wolf and produced by Disney Television Animation (then known as Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group) in their first of two productions. The series was broadcast from September 14 to December 7, 1985 on CBS. An idea pitched by ... | {"Running time": "22-26 minutes", "Created by": "Fred Wolf", "Voices of": "Jo Anne Worley\n Henry Gibson\n Bill Scott\n Brian Cummings\n Kathleen Helppie-Shipley\n Alan Oppenheimer", "Narrated by": "Stan Freberg", "Opening theme": "\"The Wuzzles\" performed by Stephen Geyer", "Ending theme": "\"The Wuzzles\" (instrumen... |
Muqtada al-Sadr (; born 4 August 1974) is a Shiite cleric, Iraqi politician and militia leader. He is the leader of the Sadrist Movement and the leader of the Peace Companies, a successor to the militia he had previously led during the American military presence in Iraq, the "Mahdi Army." In 2018, he joined his Sadrist... | {"Name": "Muqtada al-Sadr", "Birth date": "1974 08 4 yhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjtZT0NXoAATaY6.jpg بطاقة الناخب مقتدى الصدر 4 August 2018 17 December 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191217043836/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjtZT0NXoAATaY6.jpg dead", "Birth place": "Najaf, Iraq", "Residence": "Hanana, Najaf, Iraq"... |
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thumb|Ceiling of entrance of Canterbury Cathedral showing the king's arms in centre surrounded by 8 shields: 5 royal princes and dukes, the arms of Mortimer, Beauchamp (Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382-1439)) and Archbishop Henry Chic... | {"Predecessor": "Thomas Arundel", "Successor": "John Stafford", "Consecration": "Gregory XII", "Other post(s)": "Bishop of St Davids", "Died": "12 April 1443", "Church": "Roman Catholic"} |
Marlene Warfield (born in Queens, New York) is an American actress.
Warfield has acted in films and American television. She portrayed the underground revolutionary Laureen Hobbs in the 1976 film NetworkAnderson, George (December 16, 1976). "'Network' Dares Enough To Be The Very Best" (Review). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette... | {"Name": "Marlene Warfield", "Birth place": "Queens, New York, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1970-present"} |
Christopher John Spedding (born Peter Robinson, 17 June 1944) is an English guitarist and record producer. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Spedding is best known for his studio session work. By the early 1970s, he had become one of the most sought-after session guitarists in England. Spedding has played on and... | {"Born": "Staveley, Derbyshire, England", "Genres": "Rock\npop\njazz\npunk rock\nglam rock", "Labels": "RAK\nHarvest\nCBS\nNew Rose\nDate", "Website": "chrisspedding.com"} |
Christopher J. Chambers (born August 12, 1978) is a former American football wide receiver who played 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Wisconsin. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft, and also played for the S... | {"Born:": "Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.", "Height:": "11", "Weight:": "210", "High school:": "Bedford (Bedford, Ohio)", "College:": "Wisconsin", "NFL Draft:": "52"} |
The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of International Territorial Level for statistical purposes. It covers the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. The region consists of the counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Mid... | {"Type": "Leaders' board", "Body": "West Midlands Councils", "Rank": "4th", "Land": "12998", "Water": "5", "Density": "458"} |
Skegness ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire, England. On the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, the town is east of Lincoln and north-east of Boston. With a population of 19,579 as of 2011, it is the largest settlement in East Lindsey. It also incorporates Winthorpe ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021 Census)Skegness https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmidlands/admin/east_lindsey/E04005719__skegness/https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmidlands/admin/east_lindsey/E04005719__skegness/ City Population 25 October 2022", "OS grid reference": "TF5663", "Postco... |
Merthyr Tydfil (; ) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after Tydfil, daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog, who according to legend was slain at Merthyr by pa... | {"Sovereign state": "Wales", "Principal area": "Merthyr Tydfil", "Preserved county": "Mid Glamorgan", "UK Parliament": "Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney", "Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament": "Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney", "Postcode district": "CF", "Dialling code": "01685", "OS grid reference": "SO 0506", "Population": "(2011 ... |
T-Mobile Park is a retractable roof stadium in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners and has a seating capacity of 47,929. It is in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood, near the western terminus of Interstate 90. It is owned and operated by the Washington State Major... | {"Location": "Seattle, Washington, U.S.", "Public transit": "seattle Line 1 Stadiumus Amtrak seattle sounder King Street Station", "Coordinates": "47.591 N 122.333 W type:landmark it", "Broke ground": "March 8, 1997", "Opened": "July 15, 1999", "Owner": "Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities ... |
Pyeonghwa Motors (Hangul : 평화자동차) (Hancha : 平和自動車), a Korean language word for "peace", also spelled Pyonghwa, is one of the two car manufacturers and dealers in the North Korean automotive industry, alongside Sungri Motor Plant. Until 2013, it was a joint venture in Nampo between Pyonghwa Motors of Seoul (South Korea)... | {"Type": "State-owned company", "Founded": "1998", "Headquarters": "North Korea", "Industry": "Manufacturing", "Products": "Automobiles", "Parent": "RyonbongUnification Church"} |
The Glamorganshire Canal in South Wales, UK, was begun in 1790. It ran along the valley of the River Taff from Merthyr Tydfil to the sea at Cardiff. The final section of canal was closed in 1951.
History
Construction started in 1790; being watched over by the wealthy ironmasters of Merthyr Tydfil, including Richard ... | {"Original owner": "Glamorganshire Canal Navigation Co", "Principal engineer": "Thomas Dadford", "Other engineer(s)": "Thomas Sheasby", "Date of act": "1790", "Date completed": "1794", "Date closed": "1898, 1915, 1942, 1951", "Start point": "Merthyr Tydfil", "End point": "Cardiff Docks", "Branch(es)": "Aberdare Canal",... |
Ryonbong General Corp. (also known as Korea Ryonbong General Corporation, or Korea Yonbong General Corporation, or LYONGAKSAN GENERAL TRADING CORPORATION ()) is a North Korean government-owned corporation involved in the export of metals, minerals and machines. It has branch offices in many countries. It used to partia... | {"Context": "north", "Hangul name": "조선련봉총회사", "Hanja": "朝鮮連峰總會社", "Revised Romanization": "Joseon Ryeonbong Chong hoesa", "McCune-Reischauer": "Choson Ryǒnbong Chong hoesa"} |
The ; ; ) are people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962; many of whom departed for mainland France once Algeria gained its independence.
From the French invasion on 18 June 1830 to its independence, Algeria was administratively part of Fran... | {"Name": "Pied-Noir", "Image": "Cérémonie de communion solennelle de pieds-noirs à Sidi-Bel-Abbès, début du XXe siècle.tiff", "Image caption": "A First Communion in a Pied-Noir family in Sidi-Bel-Abbès, Colonial Algeria in the early twentieth century.", "Population": "1959:\n1.4 millionDe Azevedo, Raimondo Cagiano (199... |
Algeciras () is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Located in the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, near the Strait of Gibraltar, it is the largest city on the Bay of Gibraltar ().
The Port of Algeciras is one of the largest ports in Europe and the world in three categories: c... | {"Density": "auto", "Metro density": "263739", "DST": "+2", "Website": "http://www.algeciras.es/"} |
BMX XXX is a 2002 sports video game developed by Z-Axis and published by Acclaim Entertainment under their AKA Acclaim label for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. While primarily a BMX-based action sports title, the game places a distinct emphasis on off-color and sexual humor, and allows the player to create femal... | {"Title": "BMX XXX", "Developer": "Z-Axis", "Publisher": "Acclaim EntertainmentReleased under the AKA Acclaim label.", "Series": "Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX", "Platforms": "Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube", "Released": "XboxNA November 15, 2002 UK December 6, 2002PlayStation 2NA November 16, 2002 UK February 7, 2003GameCub... |
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