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Sir Peter George Snell (17 December 1938 - 12 December 2019) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner. He won three Olympic gold medals, and is the only man since 1920 to have won the 800 and 1500 metres at the same Olympics,Peter Snell wins second gold in Tokyo, NZ Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 18-Aug-2015 in 19... | {"Name": "Sir Peter Snell", "Honorific suffix": "NZL KNZM OBE 100%", "Image caption": "Snell at the 1964 Olympics", "Birth name": "Peter George SnellPeter Snell https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sn/peter-snell-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200417115402/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics... |
Jacques Anquetil (; 8 January 1934 - 18 November 1987) was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.
He stated before the 1961 Tour that he would gain the yellow jersey on day one and wear it all through the tour, a tall order with two prev... | {"Name": "Jacques Anquetil", "Image caption": "Anquetil at the 1966 Giro d'Italia", "Full name": "Jacques Anquetil", "Nickname": "Monsieur ChronoMaître Jacques", "Birth date": "yes 1934 1 8", "Birth place": "Mont-Saint-Aignan, France", "Death date": "yes 1987 11 18 1934 1 8", "Death place": "Rouen, France", "Height": "... |
The KG Mobility Corporation (), abbreviated as KGM, is a South Korea-based automobile manufacturer. It traces its origins back to a manufacturer established in 1954. The company was named SsangYong Motor Company in 1988, following its acquisition by the chaebol SsangYong Group in 1986. SsangYong Motor was then acquired... | {"Formerly": "Ha Dong-hwan Motor Company Dong-A Motor Company SsangYong Motor Company", "Type": "Public", "Founded": "1954 3 4 yeshttp://www.kama.or.kr/eng/PS/pdf/Total2013.pdf Annual Report 2013. Korean Automobile Industry Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association 2013-08-21 https://web.archive.org/web/2013082218... |
Jeremy Steig (September 23, 1942 - April 13, 2016)Peter Keepnews, "Jeremy Steig, Flutist Who Bridged Jazz and Rock, Dies at 73", The New York Times, June 2, 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016 was an American jazz flutist.
Biography
Steig was born in Manhattan, the son of New Yorker cartoonist William Steig and Elizabeth... | {"Born": "New York City, U.S.", "Died": "Yokohama, Japan", "Genres": "Jazz jazz-rock", "Labels": "Columbia/CBS RecordsCapitol/EMI RecordsCTI RecordsReprise/Warner Bros. RecordsSolid State Records"} |
Donald Thomas Brash (born 24 September 1940) is a former New Zealand politician who was Leader of the Opposition and leader of the New Zealand National Party from October 2003 to November 2006, and leader of the ACT New Zealand party for seven months from April to November 2011.
Brash was Governor of the Reserve Bank ... | {"Name": "Don Brash", "Birth date": "1940 9 24 yes", "Birth place": "Whanganui, New Zealand", "Term start": "28 April 2011", "Term end": "26 November 2011", "Office 2": "30th Leader of the Opposition", "Prime minister 2": "Helen Clark", "Deputy 2": "Nick SmithGerry Brownlee", "Predecessor 2": "Bill English", "Successor... |
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), originally the Australasian Council of Trade Unions, is the largest peak body representing workers in Australia. It is a national trade union centre of 46 affiliated unions and eight trades and labour councils. The ACTU is a member of the International Trade Union Confeder... | {"Name": "ACTU", "Location country": "Australia", "Full name": "Australian Council of Trade Unions", "Formation": "1927 5Donn, C. B., & Dunkley, G. (1977). The Founding of the ACTU: The Origins of a Central Trade Union Federation. Journal of Industrial Relations, 19(4), 404-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022185677019004... |
The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson,Our Neighbors in Wistful Vista it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular cha... | {"Running time": "30 minutes (1941-1954)15 minutes (1954-1955)25 minutes (1955-1958)", "Country of origin": "United States", "Language(s)": "English", "Home station": "NBC", "TV adaptations": "1955-1956", "Starring": "Harold PearyWillard WatermanWalter TetleyLurene TuttleLouise EricksonMary Lee RobbLillian RandolphRich... |
Greenock (; ; , ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It forms part of a contiguous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NS275764", "Council area": "Inverclyde", "Lieutenancy area": "Renfrewshire", "UK Parliament": "Inverclyde", "Scottish Parliament": "Greenock and Inverclyde", "Postcode district": "PA", "Dialling code": "01475"} |
Renault Korea Motors (RKM) (), is a South Korean car manufacturer headquartered in Busan where its single assembly site is also located, with additional facilities at Seoul (administration), Giheung (research and development) and Daegu (vehicle testing).
The company was first established as Samsung Motors in 1994 by t... | {"Formerly": "Samsung Motors, Inc. Renault Samsung Motors Co., Ltd.", "Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1995", "Headquarters": "Busan, South Korea", "Industry": "Automotive", "Products": "Cars", "Revenue": "3,400.76 billion yes (2020)https://m.catch.co.kr/Comp/CompSummaryFS/147481 르노삼성자동차 요약재무제표 Renault Samsung Moto... |
Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos and a distorted sawtooth kick (160 to 200 BPM or more), the intensity of the kicks and the synthesized bass (in some subgenres),... | {"Name": "Hardcore", "Stylistic origins": "Techno acid house new beat EBM", "Cultural origins": "Late 1980s - early 1990s,http://music.hyperreal.org/library/machine_soul.html Machine soul - A History Of Techno Jon Savage 11 May 2012 Netherlands (Rotterdam), Belgium, Germany (Frankfurt)", "Subgenres": "Bouncy techno\n r... |
SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, published in 1967. and see pp. 6, 129-160 (ch. 6, esp. pp. 131-135, 137-142, 145-148, & 150-160), 208 & 218. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an orga... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Pages": "Original edition: 21 & cover p.", "ISBN": "978-1859845530"} |
Hoop Dreams is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James, and produced by Frederick Marx, James, and Peter Gilbert, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students, William Gates and Arthur Agee, in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball playe... | {"Directed by": "Steve James", "Written by": "Frederick Marx \n Steve James", "Produced by": "Frederick Marx\n Steve James\n Peter Gilbert", "Starring": "William Gates\n Arthur Agee", "Cinematography": "Peter Gilbert", "Edited by": "Frederick Marx\n Steve James\n William Haugse", "Music by": "Ben Sidran", "Distributed ... |
Mr. Mister was an American rock band from Phoenix, Arizona, active from 1982 until 1990. The band consisted of Richard Page on lead vocals and bass guitar, Steve George on keyboards/backing vocals, Pat Mastelotto on acoustic and electronic drums/percussion and Steve Farris on guitars/backing vocals. Mr. Mister was the ... | {"Origin": "Phoenix, Arizona, United States", "Genres": "\"Harrison\">https://books.google.com/books?id=H5AwDwAAQBAJ&q=mr+mister+new+wave&pg=PA87 Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties 87 Thomas Harrison August 24, 2017 ABC-CLIO 9781440836671 Google Books \"Harrison\"/>", "Labels": "RCA Little Dume", "Spinoff of": "Pages"} |
David Alan Gest (May 11, 1953 - April 12, 2016) was an American producer and television personality. Gest founded the American Cinema Awards Foundation in 1983. He produced the television special Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration in 2001, which was the last reunion of Michael Jackson and the Jacksons coming... | {"Name": "David Gest", "Image": "David Guest.JPG", "Caption": "Gest in 2007", "Birth name": "David Alan Gest", "Birth date": "1953 5 11", "Birth place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Death date": "2016 4 12 1953 5 11", "Death place": "London, England", "Occupation": "Producer\n television personality\n entertainer"... |
R. J. Reynolds Nabisco, Inc., doing business as RJR Nabisco, is a defunct American conglomerate, selling tobacco and food products, headquartered in the Calyon Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City."Investor Information 1997 Annual Report." R. J. Reynolds Nabisco. February 2, 1999. Retrieved on December 2, 1999.... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Fate": "Separated R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and renamed to Nabisco Group Holdings", "Founded": "1985 4 25", "Defunct": "1999 y", "Headquarters": "Winston-Salem, North Carolina Cobb County, Georgia Midtown Manhattan, New York City", "Industry": "Food processing tobacco", "Products": "Cookies... |
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Bradley Air Services Limited, operating as First Air, was an airline headquartered in Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada."First Air Head Office." First Air. Retrieved on 13 January 2012. "20 Cope Drive Kanata, Ontario Canada, K2M 2V8" It operated services ... | {"Airline name": "First Air", "Current Fleet Size": "31", "Number of Destinations": "35", "IATA Designator": "7F", "ICAO Designator": "FABhttp://www.edmontonfir.ca/pdfdownloads/Air_Traffic_designators.pdf Transport Canada - Air Traffic Designators - TP 143 2 January 2018", "Callsign": "FIRST AIR", "Founded": "1946", "C... |
John Philip Madden (born 8 April 1949) is an English director of stage, film, television, and radio.John Madden Biography. Tribute.ca 2011, retrieved 29 September 2011 He is known for directing Shakespeare in Love (1998), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He has also gained recognition for directing The Bes... | {"Name": "John Madden", "Birth name": "John Philip Madden", "Birth date": "yes 1949 4 8", "Alma mater": "Cambridge University", "Birth place": "Portsmouth, Hampshire, England\"John Madden|Biography\" https://web.archive.org/web/20160802230038/http://www.biography.com/people/john-madden-9542139#awesm=~oGAMXlh0vx3lJR 2 ... |
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It is a 1966 book, edited by Lawrence Ritter, telling the stories of early 20th century baseball. It is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books ever written about baseball.
Preparation
Ritter got the idea for the book in... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Macmillan", "Pages": "384 (Paperback edition)", "ISBN": "(Paperback edition)"} |
It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a British radio sitcom that was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 from 1983 to 1984. The series starred John Le Mesurier, Ian Lavender, Bill Pertwee and Vivienne Martin, and was written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, and produced by Martin Fisher. The series served as a sequel to the televisio... | {"Genre": "Sitcom", "Running time": "30 minutes", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Language(s)": "English", "Home station": "BBC Radio 2", "Syndicates": "BBC Radio 4 Extra", "Starring": "John Le Mesurier\n Ian Lavender\n Bill Pertwee\n Vivienne Martin", "Written by": "Harold Snoad\n Michael Knowles", "Produced b... |
Matamata-Piako District is a local government area in the Waikato region of New Zealand. It lies to the east of the city of Hamilton.
Geography
The district encompasses the southern end of the Hauraki Plains and much of the Thames Valley, and is bounded in the east by the Kaimai Range. The rivers Piako and Waihou run ... | {"Land": "1755.35", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+13", "Website": "Matamata-Piako District Council"} |
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 - January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
Jordan is... | {"Name": "Barbara Jordan", "Term start": "January 3, 1973", "Term end": "January 3, 1979", "Birth name": "Barbara Charline Jordan", "Birth date": "1936 2 21", "Birth place": "Houston, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "1996 1 17 1936 2 21", "Death place": "Austin, Texas, U.S.", "Partner(s)": "Nancy Earl (late 1960s-1996)", "... |
Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 - June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer and songwriter. His music combined New Orleans blues, jazz, funk, and R&B.
Active as a session musician from the late 1950s until his death, he gained a following in the late 1960s after the r... | {"Born": "New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.", "Died": "New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.", "Genres": "Blues\n jazz\n soul\n funk\n R&B\n blues rock\n swamp rock", "Labels": "Atco\n Blue Note\n Nonesuch\n Concord\n Proper", "Website": "nitetripper.com"} |
RoadShow () is the first "Multi-Media on-Board" (MMOB) service system on transit vehicles in Hong Kong. It was launched by The Kowloon Motor Bus Holdings Limited (renamed as Transport International Holdings Limited (TIH)) in December 2000. The MMOB business was taken over by RoadShow Holdings Limited in 2001 prior to i... | {"Type": "Listed company", "Founded": "December 2000", "Headquarters": "incorporated in Bermuda", "Industry": "media advertising", "Revenue": "HK$407,511,000 (2016 financial year)", "Website": "http://www.roadshow.hk/"} |
Saint Giles (, , , ), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 6th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly legendary. A town that bears his name grew up around the monastery he purportedly founded, which became a... | {"Born": "Athens, Achaea, Eastern Roman Empire", "Died": "Septimania, Kingdom of the Visigoths (Languedoc, Southern France)", "Feast": "1 September", "Canonized": "Pre-Congregation", "Attributes": "arrow; crosier; hermitage; hind", "Patronage": "beggars; blacksmiths; breast cancer; breast feeding; cancer patients; dis... |
Vauxhall and I is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock musician Morrissey. It was released on 14 March 1994, by the record label Parlophone in the UK and Sire/Reprise in the US.
Background
The album's title may be a reference to the 1987 film Withnail and I. Vauxhall is an area of London noted for its... | {"Released": "14 March 1994", "Recorded": "June-August 1993", "Studio": "Hook End Manor, Oxfordshire, England", "Genre": "Alternative rockhttp://diffuser.fm/morrissey-vauxhall-and-i-album-released/ Morrissey's 'Vauxhall and I' - A Look Back at an Alt-Rock Classic Diffuser.fm 3 January 2016 Gallucci, Michael", "Labe... |
A digestive biscuit, sometimes described as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit that originated in Scotland. The digestive was first developed in 1839 by two Scottish doctors to aid digestion. The term digestive is derived from the belief that they had antacid properties around the time the biscuit was first ... | {"Name of food": "Digestive biscuit", "Alternate name": "Wheaten, sweet-meal biscuit", "Region of origin": "Forres", "Type of dish": "Biscuit", "Main ingredient": "Wheat flour, sugar, malt extract, butter (or in cheaper recipes or for vegans or those who are lactose intolerant: vegetable oil), wholemeal, leavening agen... |
Tame Horomona Rehe, also known by the anglicised name Tommy Solomon, (7 May 1884 – 19 March 1933) is believed by most to have been the last Moriori of unmixed ancestry. Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands.
Early life
Solomon was born at Waikaripi in the Chatham Islands and raised on the Moriori Re... | {"Name": "Tommy Solomon", "Caption": "Solomon in Christchurch in 1925", "Birth name": "Tame Horomona Rehe", "Birth date": "1884 05 07 y", "Birth place": "Waikaripi, Chatham Islands", "Death date": "1933 03 19 1884 05 07 y", "Death place": "Manukau, Chatham Islands", "Known For": "Being the last full-blooded Moriori", "... |
Snorri Hjartarson (22 April 1906 - 27 December 1986) was an Icelandic poet, and a winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
Biography
Hjartarson was born in Hvanneyri, Borgarfjörður. He lived in Norway for a long time and studied art at the Art Academy of Oslo under the direction of Axel Revold from 1931 to 193... | {"Name": "Snorri Hjartarson", "Birth date": "1906 4 22 y", "Birth place": "Hvanneyri, Borgarfjörður", "Death date": "1986 12 27 1906 4 22 y", "Death place": "Reykjavík", "Occupation": "poet", "Nationality": "Icelandic", "Partner(s)": "Nordic Council's Literature Prize (1981)"} |
Andrés García García (24 May 1941 - 4 April 2023) was a Dominican actor. He served as a scuba diving instructor in Acapulco. At the time of his death, he was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Career
García was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He was the son of ... | {"Name": "Andrés García", "Caption": "García in 1972", "Birth date": "1941 5 24 y", "Birth place": "Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic", "Death date": "2023 04 04 1941 5 24 y", "Death place": "Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1963-2023"} |
Valerie Kathryn Harper (August 22, 1939 - August 30, 2019) was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut as a replacement in the musical Li'l Abner. She is best remembered for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977) and its spinoff Rhoda (1974-197... | {"Image": "Valerie Harper 1974.JPG", "Caption": "Harper in 1974", "Birth name": "Valerie Kathryn Harper", "Birth date": "1939 08 22", "Birth place": "Suffern, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "2019 08 30 1939 8 22", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los AngelesV... |
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI; officially the Middle East Media and Research Institute) is a nonprofit press monitoring and analysis organization co-founded by former Israeli military intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser. Headquartered in Washington... | {"Abbreviation": "MEMRI", "Type": "501(c)(3)", "Legal status": "Nonprofit think tank", "Headquarters": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Website": "http://memri.org"} |
Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 - June 3, 2000) was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani-Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Miller spen... | {"School ortradition": "Chicago School of Economics", "Field": "Economics", "Alma mater": "Harvard UniversityJohns Hopkins University", "Doctoraladvisor": "Fritz Machlup", "Doctoralstudents": "Eugene FamaWilliam Poole", "Contributions": "Modigliani-Miller theorem", "Awards": "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (... |
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev) is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the Marcus Family Campus, Beer Sheva; the David Bergmann Campus, Beer Sheva; the David Tuviyahu Campus, Beer Sheva; the Sede Boqer Cam... | {"Motto": "השראה פוגשת מצוינות (Hebrew)", "Endowment": "$424 millionAMERICAN ASSOCIATES, BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV 2016 FINANCIALS https://americansforbgu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Facts-Figures-Brochure_2018-F.pdf americansforbgu.org 14 March 2022", "Budget": "$466 million", "Type": "Public", "Preside... |
New World Development Company Limited (NWD), is a Hong Kong-based company focused on property, hotels, infrastructure and services and department stores. It was established on 29 May 1970 by Cheng Yu-tung. The company is publicly listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK: 17) since 23 November 1972 and ... | {"Type": "Public Company", "Industry": "conglomerate", "Products": "Real property, Hotel, Infrastructure and Services, General merchandise", "Revenue": "HK $59,6 billion (as of financial year 2016)", "Parent": "Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited", "Headquarters": "New World Tower (Hong Kong) New World Tower zh 新世界大廈Cent... |
Wayne Richard Wells (November 4, 1965 - November 1, 2014), known professionally as Wayne Static, was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, and primary lyricist for industrial metal band Static-X. He released his only solo studio album, Pighammer, on October 4, 2011. Stati... | {"Name": "Wayne Static", "Caption": "Static performing in 2005", "Birth name": "Wayne Richard Wells", "Other names": "Wayne Static\n The King of Evil Disco\n Mr. Static", "Birth date": "1965 11 4", "Birth place": "Muskegon, Michigan, U.S.", "Death date": "2014 11 1 1965 11 4", "Death place": "Landers, California, U.S."... |
Wisconsin Death Trip is the debut studio album by American industrial metal band Static-X, released on March 23, 1999, by Warner Bros. Records. The band was formed after lead singer Wayne Static and drummer Ken Jay met at a Virgin Records store in Chicago. After being introduced by the Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Bil... | {"Released": "1999 3 23", "Recorded": "1998", "Studio": "Grandmaster Studios, Hollywood", "Genre": "Industrial metal\n nu metalhttps://www.loudersound.com/features/the-50-best-nu-metal-albums-of-all-time The 50 best nu metal albums of all time April 2022", "Label": "Warner Bros.", "Producer": "Ulrich Wild"} |
The Persuaders! is a British action comedy television series starring Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, produced by ITC Entertainment, and initially broadcast on ITV and ABC in 1971. The show has been called 'the last major entry in the cycle of adventure series that began 11 years earlier with Danger Man in 1960', as well ... | {"Also known as": "See list", "Genre": "ActionAdventureComedy", "Created by": "Robert S. Baker", "Starring": "Tony Curtis Roger Moore Laurence Naismith", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Cinematography": "Tony Spratling", "Running time": "49 mins", "Original network": "ITV", "Original release": "1972 2 25 y"} |
Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster, (31 January 1866 - 15 January 1936) was a British politician who served as the seventh Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1920 to 1925. He had previously been a government minister under Arthur Balfour, H. H. Asquith, and David Lloyd George.
Forster was born in Cat... | {"Name": "The Lord Forster", "Term start": "6 October 1920", "Term end": "8 October 1925", "Predecessor 2": "Charles Mills", "Successor 2": "Sir Thomas Bennett", "Birth date": "1866 1 31 y", "Birth place": "Catford, Kent, England", "Death date": "1936 1 15 1866 1 31 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Spouse(s)": "R... |
Anna Leopoldovna (; 18 December 1718 - 19 March 1746), born Elisabeth Katharina Christine von Mecklenburg-Schwerin and also known as Anna Carlovna (А́нна Ка́рловна), was regent of Russia for just over a year (1740-1741) during the minority of her infant son Emperor Ivan VI.
Biography
Early life
Anna Leopoldovna was bo... | {"Father": "Charles Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg", "Mother": "Catherine Ivanovna of Russia", "Born": "Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Holy Roman Empire", "Died": "Kholmogory, Archangelgorod Governorate, Russian Empire", "Burial": "Annunciation Church, Alexander Nevsky Monastery", "Religion": "Russian Orthodox prev. Luth... |
Xiahou Yuan () (died February 219Xiahou Yuan died in the 1st month of the 24th year of the Jian'an era. The month corresponds to 3 Feb to 3 Mar 219 in the Julian calendar.), courtesy name Miaocai, was a Chinese military general and politician serving under the warlord Cao Cao in the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. H... | {"Name": "Xiahou Yuan", "Native name": "夏侯淵", "Image caption": "A Qing dynasty illustration of Xiahou Yuan", "Term start": "216", "Term end": "219", "Office 2": "General Who Protects the Army(護軍將軍)(acting)", "Monarch 2": "Emperor Xian of Han", "Chancellor 2": "Cao Cao", "Birth date": "Unknown", "Birth place": "Bozhou, ... |
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Sungri Motor Plant is a 600,000 m2 vehicle factory in the city of Tokchon (덕천), North Korea. It was the most capable plant of the North Korean automotive industry before being surpassed by Pyeonghwa Motors. The plant produces urban and off-road passenger cars, small, medium, and heavy cargo, as well as hau... | {"Context": "north", "Hangul name": "승리자동차공장", "Hanja": "勝利自動車工場", "Revised Romanization": "Seungri Jadongcha Gongjang", "McCune-Reischauer": "Sŭngri Chadongch'a Kongjang"} |
Roobarb (also known as Roobarb and Custard) is a British animated children's television series, created by Grange Calveley and originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon, written by Calveley and directed by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and the show was fi... | {"Genre": "animation, children's television programme", "Created by": "Grange Calveley", "Voices of": "Richard Briers", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Directed by": "Bob Godfrey (1974 series)Jason Tammemagi (2005 series)", "Camera setup": "Single-camera", "Running time": "5 minutes", "Original network": "BBC1 ... |
Peggy Mitchell (also Butcher) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Peggy was initially played by Jo Warne when she first appeared in the episode broadcast on 30 April 1991, featuring in 10 episodes. Peggy was reintroduced in 1994, recast to Barbara Windsor, who made her first appearance in the e... | {"Portrayed by": "Jo Warne (1991)Barbara Windsor (1994-2016)Jaime Winstone (2022 flashback)", "Duration": "1991, 1994-2010, 2013-2016, 2022", "First appearance": "Episode 6501991 4 30 y", "Last appearance": "Episode 65502022 09 5 y", "Classification": "Former; regular", "Introduced by": "Michael Ferguson (1991)\n Barba... |
slrn is a console-based news client for multiple operating systems, developed by John E. Davis and others. It was originally developed in 1994 for Unix-like operating systems and VMS, and now also supports Microsoft Windows. It supports scoring rules to highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their h... | {"Initial release": "1994", "Written in": "Chttps://openhub.net/p/slrn The SLRN newsreader Open Source Project on Open Hub", "Type": "News reader", "License": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "Website": "https://slrn.info/"} |
Sir Simon William English (born 30 December 1961) is a New Zealand former National Party politician who served as the 39th prime minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017. He had previously served as the 17th deputy prime minister of New Zealand and minister of finance from 2008 to 2016 under John Key and the Fifth Na... | {"Name": "Bill English", "Image caption": "English in 2018", "Term start": "12 December 2016", "Term end": "26 October 2017", "Office 2": "29th Leader of the Opposition", "Prime minister 2": "Jacinda Ardern", "Deputy 2": "Paula Bennett", "Predecessor 2": "Jacinda Ardern", "Successor 2": "Simon Bridges", "Birth name": "... |
Machine is the second studio album by American industrial metal band Static-X, released on May 22, 2001, and recorded at Studio 508 (Los Angeles). When compared to the band's other albums, Machine features more electronics and industrial effects, and more screamed vocals from Wayne Static. It was also the final Static-... | {"Released": "2001 5 22", "Recorded": "October 2000 - January 2001", "Genre": "Industrial metal nu metalhttps://exclaim.ca/music/article/static-x-machine Static-X Machine Exclaim.ca 20 January 2022https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-50-best-nu-metal-albums-of-all-time The 50 best nu metal albums of all time Apr... |
Shadow Zone is the third studio album by American industrial metal band Static-X, released on October 7, 2003. Marked by many personnel and stylistic changes, the album sports a much more melodic sound than any other work in their catalog, while still staying in the confines of their industrial metal and nu metal sound... | {"Released": "2003 10 7", "Recorded": "2003", "Genre": "Industrial metal nu metal alternative metal", "Label": "Warner Bros.", "Producer": "Josh Abraham\n Tom Whalley (exec.)"} |
Sir John Lawrence Baird of Urie, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, 1st Baron Stonehaven, 2nd Baronet, 3rd of Ury, (27 April 1874 - 20 August 1941) was a British politician who served as the eighth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1925 to 1930. He had previously been a government minister under David Lloyd George, ... | {"Name": "The Viscount Stonehaven", "Term start": "8 October 1925", "Term end": "2 October 1930", "Order 2": "First Commissioner of Works", "Monarch 2": "George V", "Prime minister 2": "Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin", "Predecessor 2": "The Earl of Crawford", "Successor 2": "Fred Jowett", "Birth date": "yes 1874 04 27", "B... |
Princess Stephanie of Windisch-Graetz (9 July 1909 in Ploskovice, Bohemia – 7 September 2005 in Uccle, Belgium) was the daughter of Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (1883-1963), only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, and Prince Otto Weriand of Windisch-Graetz (1873-1952). ... | {"Born": "Ploskovice, Bohemia", "Died": "Uccle, Belgium", "Father": "Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz", "Mother": "Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria"} |
Xiahou Ba (died 255-259), courtesy name Zhongquan, was a Chinese military general of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was the second son of Xiahou Yuan, a prominent general who served under Cao Cao, the warlord who laid the foundation for the state of Cao Wei. Around 249, Xiahou Ba defect... | {"Name": "Xiahou Ba", "Native name": "夏侯霸", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "A Qing dynasty illustration of Xiahou Ba's death", "Term start": "249", "Term end": "?", "Office 2": "Protector of the Army Who Suppresses Shu (討蜀護軍)", "Monarch 2": "Cao Fang", "Birth date": "UnknownAlthough Xiahou Ba's birth year was ... |
Avebury () is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance... | {"Coordinates": "51 25 43 N 1 51 15 W type:landmark_region:GB-WIL inline,title", "Location": "Wiltshire, England", "Type": "Monument", "Material": "Sarsen", "Founded": "Neolithic", "Ownership": "National Trust", "Management": "National Trust", "Website": "https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/avebury"} |
Creation Records Ltd. was a British independent record label founded in 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green, and Joe Foster. Its name came from the 1960s band The Creation, whom McGee greatly admired. The label ceased operations in 1999, although it was revived at one point in 2011 for the release of the compilation album U... | {"Parent company": "Sony Music Entertainment", "Founded": "1983", "Founder": "Alan McGeeDick GreenJoe Foster", "Defunct": "1999", "Genre": "Various", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Location": "London, England", "Official website": "creation-records.com"} |
Robert Ray Roddy (September 28, 1937 - October 27, 2003) was an American radio and television announcer. He was primarily known for his role as an offstage announcer on game shows. Among the shows that Roddy announced are the CBS game shows Whew! and Press Your Luck. Roddy is widely recognized by the signature line, "C... | {"Name": "Rod Roddy", "Caption": "Roddy on the 32nd season premiere of The Price Is Right in 2003", "Birth name": "Robert Ray Roddy", "Birth date": "1937 9 28", "Birth place": "Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "2003 10 27 1937 9 28", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Greenwood Mem... |
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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) (often called "the Chicago Merc", or "the Merc") is a global derivatives marketplace based in Chicago and located at 20 S. Wacker Drive. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board, an agricultural commodities exchange... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Business services", "Products": "Futures and options", "Parent": "CME Group", "Founded": "1898", "Headquarters": "Chicago, Illinois", "Website": "http://www.cmegroup.com/"} |
Curses, Hexes and Spells is a 1974 book by Daniel Cohen. Marketed as children's book, it explains what "curses" are, and describes supposed curses on families (such as the House of Atreus in Greek mythology, the House of Habsburg or the Kennedy family), creatures, places (the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea), wandere... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Lippincott Williams & Wilkins", "Media type": "Print (hardcover and paperback)", "Pages": "125", "ISBN": "0-397-31493-0"} |
Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the River Thames in west London. It links the southern part of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, on the north side of the river, and Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, on the south side of the river. The current bridge,... | {"Locale": "London, England", "Carries": "A306 road", "Crosses": "River Thames", "Maintained by": "Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council", "Design": "Suspension bridge", "Longest span": "400 ft onHammersmith Bridge https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=unitedkingdom/hammersmith/ Historic ... |
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Earl Kemp Long (August 26, 1895 - September 5, 1960) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Louisiana for nine years (1939-1940, 1948-1952, and 1956-1960). A member of the Democratic Party, he held the same positio... | {"Name": "Earl Long", "Term start": "May 15, 1956", "Term end": "May 10, 1960", "Lieutenant 1": "Bill Dodd", "Predecessor 2": "Richard W. Leche", "Successor 2": "Sam H. Jones", "Birth name": "Earl Kemp Long", "Birth date": "1895 8 26", "Birth place": "Winnfield, Louisiana, U.S.", "Death date": "1960 9 5 1895 8 26", "De... |
Gingoog, officially the City of Gingoog (; ), is a 1st class component city in the province of Misamis Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 136,698 people.
Like other municipalities in the Philippines that retained Spanish-based orthography, the city name is spelled as Gingoog bu... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "https://www.gingoog.gov.ph"} |
Putney Bridge is a Grade II listed bridge over the River Thames in west London, linking Putney on the south side with Fulham to the north. The bridge has medieval parish churches beside its abutments: St Mary's Church, Putney is built on the south and All Saints Church, Fulham on the north bank. This close proximity of... | {"Locale": "London, England", "Carries": "A219 road", "Crosses": "River Thames", "Maintained by": "Wandsworth London Borough Council", "Design": "Arch bridge", "Total length": "700 ft m", "Width": "75 ft m"} |
The Potawatomi ,Clifton, James A. (1978). "Potawatomi." In Northeast, ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Vol. 15 of Handbook of North American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pg. 725 also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the ... | {"Name": "Potawatomi", "Native name": "Bodéwadmi", "Image": "Potawatomi 1920.gif", "Image caption": "Potawatomi at a rain dance in 1920", "Population": "28,000", "Religions": "Catholicism, Methodism, Midewiwin", "Languages": "English, Potawatomi"} |
Blake Hall is a disused former station on the London Underground in the civil parish of Stanford Rivers, and south from the village of Bobbingworth in Essex. It was latterly on the Central line, between North Weald and Ongar, but was originally served by the Epping to Ongar shuttle service branch line.
It was opened ... | {"Owner": "Great Eastern Railway", "Location": "Greensted", "Local authority": "Epping Forest", "Number of platforms": "1", "Replaced by": "None"} |
Harwell is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse about west of Didcot, east of Wantage and south of Oxford. The parish measures about north - south, and almost east - west at its widest point. In 1923 its area was . Historically in Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire, England... | {"OS grid reference": "SU4989", "Population": "(2011 census)", "District": "Vale of White Horse", "Shire county": "Oxfordshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "OX11", "Dialling code": "01235", "UK Parliament": "Wantage", "Website": "Harwell Parish Council"} |
William Henry Ireland (1775-1835) was an English forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays. He is less well known as a poet, writer of gothic novels and histories. Although he was apparently christened William-Henry, he was known as Samuel through much of his life (apparently after a brother who died in chil... | {"Name": "William Henry Ireland", "Alt": "Half-portrait of a young man in a loose brown coat and a white ruffle shirt. The man has brown toussled hair and is depicted with his left shoulder facing the viewer and his face turned towards the viewer. He is depicted in front of a cloudy sky and the image is set in an oval ... |
North Weald railway station is on the Epping Ongar Railway, a heritage railway, located in North Weald, Essex.
The station was opened in 1865 by the Great Eastern Railway, on its extension from Loughton to Ongar. It was latterly a Central line station on the London Underground between Epping and Blake Hall stations. T... | {"Name": "North Weald", "Type": "Station on heritage railway", "Image": "North_Weald_stn_building_viewed_from_platform_2012.JPG", "Administrative subdivision": "North Weald, Epping Forest", "Country": "England", "Coordinates": "51 42 42 N 0 09 42 E type:railwaystation_region:GB inline,title dec", "Original company": "G... |
Walter Friedrich Schellenberg (16 January 1910 - 31 March 1952) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He rose through the ranks of the SS, becoming one of the highest ranking men in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and eventually assumed the position as head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany following the a... | {"Born": "Saarbrücken, Prussia, Germany", "Died": "Turin, Italy", "Allegiance": "Nazi Germany", "Commands held": "Chief of Amt VI, Ausland-SD", "Awards": "Iron Cross First ClassWar Merit Cross First and Second Class with Swords"} |
Major General Count Albert-Marie Edmond Guérisse (5 April 1911 - 26 March 1989) was a Belgian Resistance member who organized French and Belgian escape routes for downed Allied pilots during World War II under the alias of Patrick Albert "Pat" O'Leary, purportedly the name of a peace-time Canadian friend. His escape l... | {"Born": "Brussels, Belgium", "Died": "Waterloo, Belgium", "Nickname(s)": "Lt. Cdr. Pat O'Leary, RNVR", "Allegiance": "BelgiumUnited Kingdom", "Commands held": "\"Pat Line\"Belgian medical detachment, KoreaBelgian medical component", "Awards": "George Cross Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (honorary)... |
Joseph Darnand (19 March 1897 - 10 October 1945) was a French collaborator with Nazi Germany during World War II. A decorated soldier in the French Army of World War I and early World War II, he went on to become the organizer and de facto leader of the Milice française, or French Militia, the collaborationist Vichy go... | {"Born": "Coligny, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France", "Died": "Fort de Châtillon, Paris, France\n yes Execution by firing squad", "Allegiance": "French Third Republic (to 1940)Vichy France (1940-1944)Nazi Germany (1943-1945)", "Awards": "Officer of the Legion of Honor (May 1940) (Knight: 7 April 1927)\n Military Medal (23 Ju... |
The Blue Division (, ) was a unit of volunteers from Francoist Spain operating from 1941 to 1944 within the German Army () on the Eastern Front during World War II. It was officially designated the Spanish Volunteer Division (División Española de Voluntarios) by the Spanish Army and 250th Infantry Division (250. Infant... | {"Allegiance": "Nazi Germany", "Nickname(s)": "Blue Division", "Type": "Infantry", "Branch": "Nazi Germany", "Size": "18,000 personnel (1941)47,000 personnel (total, 1941-44)Moreno Juliá 2018 193", "Notablecommanders": "Agustín Muñoz Grandes Emilio Esteban Infantes"} |
The Blue Legion (; ), officially called the Spanish Volunteer Legion (; ), was a volunteer legion created from 2,133 falangist volunteers who remained behind at the Eastern Front after most of the Spanish Blue Division was withdrawn in October 1943 because Francisco Franco had started negotiations with the Allies. It o... | {"Allegiance": "Nazi Germany", "Branch": "Nazi Germany", "Type": "Infantry", "Size": "2,269 troops", "Nickname(s)": "Blue Legion\n\nEastern Front (World War II)\n Leningrad-Novgorod offensive", "Notablecommanders": "Antonio García Navarro"} |
Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (28 May 1892 - 21 April 1966) was a German politician and SS commander during the Nazi era. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in 1930. Prior to 1929, Dietrich was Adolf Hitler's chauffeur and bodyguard.
Despite having no formal staff officer... | {"Native name": "German", "Born": "Hawangen, Bavaria, German Empire", "Birth name": "Josef Dietrich", "Died": "Ludwigsburg, West Germany", "Commands held": "Leibstandarte SS Adolf HitlerI SS Panzer Corps5th Panzer Army6th Panzer Army", "Allegiance": "German Empire (1911-1918) Weimar Republic (1928-1933) Nazi Germany... |
John "Mad Jack" Mytton (30 September 1796 - 29 March 1834) was a British eccentric and rake of the Regency period who was briefly a Tory Member of Parliament.
Early life
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John Mytton was born on 30 September 1796, the son of John Mytton and Sarah Harriet. His family were Shropshir... | {"Name": "John Mytton", "Post-nominals": "Mad Jack", "Caption": "John Mytton c. May 1818", "Birth date": "1796 9 30 y", "Birth place": "Halston Hall, Whittington, Shropshire", "Death date": "1834 3 29 1796 9 30 y", "Death place": "King's Bench Prison, Southwark", "Occupation": "Squire, rake", "Known For": "flamboyant e... |
Ongar railway station is a station on the Epping Ongar Railway heritage line, and a former London Underground station in the town of Chipping Ongar, Essex. It was opened in 1865 by the Great Eastern Railway, and became part of London Transport in 1949. Until its closure as such in 1994, it was the easternmost point of ... | {"Name": "Ongar", "Type": "Station on heritage railway", "Image": "Ongar_station_building_2012.JPG", "Caption": "Ongar station after re-opening in 2012", "Administrative subdivision": "Chipping Ongar, Epping Forest", "Country": "England", "Coordinates": "51 42 32 N 0 14 34 E type:railwaystation_region:GB inline,title d... |
Italo Balbo (6 June 1896 - 28 June 1940) was an Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force, Governor-General of Italian Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa. Due to his young age, he was sometimes seen as a possible successor of dictator Benito Muss... | {"Name": "Italo Balbo", "Term start": "1 January 1934", "Term end": "28 June 1940", "Office 2": "Quadrumvir in theGrand Council of Fascism", "Alongside 2": "Michele Bianchi (d. 1930), Emilio De Bono, Cesare Maria De Vecchi", "Birth date": "y 1896 6 6", "Death date": "y 1940 6 28 1896 6 6", "Birth place": "Ferrara, King... |
Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster (11 January 1902 - 17 April 1992) was the leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Apart from his war service, he was a corporate manager with the French branch of the Ford Motor Company, in the postwar years serving in Dagenham... | {"Born": "Brereton, Staffordshire", "Died": "Forest Row, East Sussex", "Allegiance": "United Kingdom", "Commands held": "F-Section, Special Operations Executive", "Relations": "May Dorothy Steed, 3 children; Anna Cecilia (née Reinstein)"} |
Henri Déricourt (2 September 1909 - 21 November 1962), code named Gilbert and Claude, was a French agent in 1943 and 1944 for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive organization during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by... | {"Born": "Coulonges-Cohan, Aisne, France", "Died": "Laos", "Allegiance": "France", "Other work": "Pilot"} |
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 - 6 December 1879), styled Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854, was a British Army officer and peer, most remembered for his eccentric behaviour. A recluse who preferred to live in seclusion, he ha... | {"Name": "The Duke of Portland", "Image caption": "Marble bust of the 5th Duke of Portland (1880) by Sir E. Boehm, c.1906", "Birth date": "1800 09 17 yes", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "1879 12 6 1800 09 17 yes", "Death place": "Harcourt House, London, England"} |
Maria Monk (June 27, 1816 - summer of 1849) was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal. The ... | {"Caption": "A fictionalized engraving of Maria Monk, in a nun’s habit, holding a baby", "Birth date": "June 27, 1816", "Death date": "1849 1816", "Death place": "Roosevelt Island, New York City, New York, U.S", "Partner(s)": "Graham Monk", "Children": "2 children", "Parent(s)": "William Monk Isabella Mills"} |
Shanghai Daily (Chinese: 上海日报, Pinyin: Shànghǎi Rìbào) is an English-language newspaper founded in 1999 and owned by the Shanghai United Media Group, a state media company under the Shanghai committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It was the first daily newspaper in English in Shanghai.
In 2012, Shanghai Daily launc... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Owner(s)": "Shanghai United Media Group", "Political alignment": "Chinese Communist Party", "OCLC": "225360915"} |
Xinmin Weekly (), literally meaning "New People Weekly", or "New Citizen Weekly", is a weekly news magazine published in Shanghai, China. It is owned by the Shanghai United Media Group. The magazine was officially launched on January 4, 1999.
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Official website of Xinmin Weekly
Official webs... | {"Founded": "1999", "Company": "SUMG", "Based in": "Shanghai", "Website": "xinminweekly.com.cn", "ISSN": "1008-5017"} |
Battersea Bridge is a five-span arch bridge with cast-iron girders and granite piers crossing the River Thames in London, England. It is situated on a sharp bend in the river, and links Battersea south of the river with Chelsea to the north. The bridge replaced a ferry service that had operated near the site since at l... | {"Carries": "A3220 road", "Crosses": "River Thames", "Locale": "London, England", "Designer": "Joseph Bazalgette", "Design": "Arch bridge", "Material": "Cast iron and granite", "Maintained by": "Transport for London", "Piers in water": "4", "Longest span": "163 ft m", "Total length": "725 ft 6 in m", "Width": "40 ft m"... |
Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer (born October 17, 1969) is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and author. He is best known for his work on the CBC Television comedy shows This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Rick Mercer Report. He is the author of four books based on content from the shows and a me... | {"Name": "Rick Mercer", "Post-nominals": "CAN OC 100", "Caption": "Mercer in February 2020", "Birth name": "Richard Vincent Mercer", "Birth date": "1969 10 17", "Birth place": "St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada", "Spouse(s)": "Gerald Lunz", "Website": "http://www.rickmercer.com/"} |
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court invalidated all then existing legal constructions for the death penalty in the United States. It was 5-4 decision, with each member of the majority writing a separate opinion.Criminal Law - Cases and Materials,... | {"Date argued": "January 17", "Year argued": "1972", "Date decided": "June 29", "Year decided": "1972", "Full case name": "William Henry Furman v. State of Georgia", "United States Reports volume number": "408", "United States Reports page number": "238", "Parallel citations": "92 S. Ct. 2726; 33 L. Ed. 2d 346; 1972 U.... |
Catherine Frederica "Cathy" Jones (born April 6, 1955) is a Canadian actress, comedian and writer. She is known for her work for 28 years on the Canadian television series This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Jones left the show in 2021.
CODCO
Jones was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. She was 17 when her older brother, comedia... | {"Name": "Cathy Jones", "Birth name": "Catherine Frederica Jones", "Birth date": "1955 4 6", "Birth place": "St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada", "Occupation": "Actress comedian writer", "Years active": "1973–present"} |
Colin Andrew Mochrie (; born November 30, 1957) is a Scottish-born Canadian actor, writer, producer and improvisational comedian, best known for his appearances on the British and US versions of the improvisational TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Mochrie honed his comedic talents with Vancouver's TheatreSports League... | {"Birth name": "Colin Andrew Mochrie", "Born": "Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland", "Education": "Langara College (BFA)", "Medium": "Stand-up comedy, television", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Years active": "1977-present", "Genres": "Improvisational comedy", "Notable works and roles": "British and American versions of Whos... |
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Uppingham is a market town in Rutland, England, off the A47 between Leicester and Peterborough, south of the county town, Oakham. It had a population of 4,745 according to the 2011 census, estimated at 4,853 in 2019.City Population. Retrieved 6 January 2021. It is known for... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "Census 2011 http://www.rutland.gov.uk/pdf/Uppingham%2020.6.13.pdf\n Uppingham\n 20 June 2013\n Rutland County Council\n 8 March 2016\n Population 1991 3143; Population 2001 3947; Population 2011 4745", "Unitary authority": "Rutland", "Ceremonial county": "Rutland", "UK... |
Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980. It is owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film. The network's brand is focused on reality series targeted at 25-to-... | {"Launched": "1980 12 8", "Picture format": "1080i HDTV(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)", "Owner": "NBCUniversal Television and Streaming", "Parent": "NBCUniversal (Comcast)", "Country": "United States", "Language(s)": "English", "Broadcast area": "Nationwide", "Headquarters": "Comcast Building, New Y... |
Coalville is a town in the district of North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. In 2011, it had a population of 34,575. It lies on the A511 trunk road between Leicester and Burton upon Trent, close to junction 22 of the M1 motorway where the A511 meets the A50 between Ashby-de-la-Zouch... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "37,661", "District": "North West Leicestershire", "Shire county": "Leicestershire", "UK Parliament": "North West Leicestershire", "Postcode district": "LE", "Dialling code": "01530", "OS grid reference": "SK4213"} |
Mount Kyllini or Mount Cyllene (; , ; sometimes , ), is a mountain on the Peloponnese in Greece famous for its association with the god Hermes. It rises to above sea level, making it the second highest point on the peninsula. It is located near the border between the historic regions of Arcadia and Achaea—in the nor... | {"Elevation": "http://www.ii.uib.no/~petter/mountains/europf.html#ziria Mountain Info", "Prominence": "1870", "Location": "Western Corinthos, Greece", "Coordinates": "37 56 23 N 22 23 49 E type:mountain_scale:100000 dms inline,title"} |
Patsy King (born 16 September 1930) is an Australian retired actress known for work in theatre, radio and television. King is known to international audiences for cult classic television series Prisoner (known in the UK and USA as Prisoner: Cell Block H and Canada as Caged Women) as Governor Erica Davidson, the origina... | {"Name": "Patsy King", "Birth date": "yes 1930 9 16", "Birth place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupation": "Actress (stage, radio, television, film) television presenter director commercial voiceover", "Years active": "TV and Film: 1961-1984Theatre (acting, directing, and writing) 1951-1990.https://ausstage.e... |
Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about northeast of Worcester and southwest of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 (39,644 in the wider urban area). Bromsgrove is the main town in the larger Bromsgrove District. In the Middle Ages, it was a small market town, primarily produc... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2001) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ks_ua_ew_part1.pdf Census 2001: Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales Office for National Statistics June 2004 10 September 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090325025609/http://www.statistics.gov.... |
Newport is the county town of the Isle of Wight, an island county off the south coast of England. The town is slightly north of the centre of the island, and is in the civil parish of Newport and Carisbrooke. It has a quay at the head of the navigable section of the River Medina, which flows northwards to Cowes and the... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021 census)", "Unitary authority": "Isle of Wight", "Ceremonial county": "Isle of Wight", "UK Parliament": "Isle of Wight", "Postcode district": "PO", "Dialling code": "01983", "OS grid reference": "SZ502893"} |
Kingsbridge is a market town and tourist hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards bear the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their combined population at the above census was 4,381. It is situated at the northern end of the Kingsbridge Estu... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 census)", "Shire county": "Devon", "District": "South Hams", "OS grid reference": "SX7344", "Postcode district": "TQ7", "UK Parliament": "Totnes"} |
South Hams is a local government district on the south coast of Devon, England. Its council is based in the town of Totnes, although the largest town is Ivybridge. The district also contains the towns of Dartmouth, Kingsbridge and Salcombe and numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
Much of the district's lands... | {"Type": "District council", "Body": "South Hams District Council", "Density": "E07000044", "Rank": "Ranked E07000044"} |
Mary Cynthia Walsh (born May 13, 1952) is a Canadian actress, comedian, and writer."Mary Walsh". The Canadian Encyclopedia, January 1, 2012. She is known for her work on CODCO and This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Early life
Walsh was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, the daughter of Mary and Leo Walsh. Leo wa... | {"Name": "Mary Walsh", "Post-nominals": "CM", "Caption": "Walsh in 2008", "Birth name": "Mary Cynthia Walsh", "Birth date": "1952 5 13", "Birth place": "St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada", "Occupation": "Actress, comedian, writer", "Years active": "1973-present", "Awards": "Canadian Screen Award for Best Su... |
Shaun Vincent Majumder (born January 29, 1972) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his role on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, where he worked from 2003 until 2018. He won a Gemini Award for his work on the series in 2006.
Early life
Majumder was raised in Burlington, Newfoundland by his mother Marian Bar... | {"Name": "Shaun Majumder", "Caption": "Majumder in 2010", "Birth name": "Shaun Vincent Majumder", "Birth date": "1972 1 29", "Birth place": "Burlington, Newfoundland, Canada", "Occupation": "Actor, comedian", "Spouse(s)": "Shelby Fenner 2012", "Children": "2"} |
Theresa Mary, Lady May (; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served in David Cameron's cabinet as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016, and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for ... | {"Alternative text": "Official portrait of Theresa May as prime minister of the United Kingdom", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2016", "Term start": "13 July 2016", "Term end": "24 July 2019", "Office 2": "Home Secretary", "Prime minister 2": "David Cameron", "Predecessor 2": "Alan Johnson", "Successor 2": "Amber... |
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The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated principally in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968. Founded by the merger of the New York and New Haven and Ha... | {"Length": "2133 mi off us", "Locale": "Connecticut\n Massachusetts\n New York\n Rhode Island", "Dates of operation": "December 31, 1968", "Headquarters": "New Haven, Connecticut"} |
Mark Critch (born May 14, 1974) is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for his work on the comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, initially as a writer and then as a regular cast member beginning in 2003.
Career
Critch has been a guest on CBC Radio One's Madly Off in All Directions, the CBC Tel... | {"Name": "Mark Critch", "Caption": "Critch in 2017", "Birth date": "1974 05 14", "Birth place": "St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada", "Occupation": "Comedian actor", "Notable works": "22 Minutes (since 2003)"} |
Mildred Hillary Davis (February 22, 1901The reference book Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory gives Davis's birth date as January 1, 1900.August 18, 1969) was an American actress who appeared in fifteen of Harold Lloyd's classic silent comedies and eventually married him.
Early life and career
The daug... | {"Name": "Mildred Davis Lloyd", "Caption": "Mildred Davis in 1924", "Birth name": "Mildred Hillary Davis", "Birth date": "1901 2 22", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "1969 8 18 1901 2 22", "Death place": "Santa Monica, California, U.S.", "Years active": "1916-1969", "Occupation": "Actre... |
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series to exclusively use live actors as opposed to marionettes (following UFO), and his second to be firmly set in contemporary times (following The Secret Service). It was also the only Gerry Ander... | {"Genre": "Action\n Adventure\n Crime\n Thriller", "Starring": "Robert Vaughn\n Nyree Dawn Porter\n Tony Anholt\n Anthony Chinn\n Yasuko Nagazumi", "Opening theme": "\"Avenues and Alleyways\", instrumental version", "Ending theme": "\"Avenues and Alleyways\",sung by Tony Christie", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom"... |
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