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José Antonio Páez Herrera (; 13 June 1790 - 6 May 1873) was a Venezuelan leader who fought against the Spanish Crown for Simón Bolívar during the Venezuelan War of Independence. He later led Venezuela's independence from Gran Colombia.
He dominated the country's politics for most of the next two decades once the count... | {"Name": "José Antonio Páez", "Image caption": "Portrait by John J. Peoli", "Term start": "13 January 1830", "Term end": "20 January 1835", "Predecessor 2": "Carlos Soublette", "Successor 2": "Carlos Soublette", "Birth date": "yes 1790 6 13", "Birth place": "Curpa, Portuguesa, Captaincy General of Venezuela, Spanish Em... |
Tomorrow's World is a former British television series about contemporary developments in science and technology. First transmitted on 7 July 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003. The Tomorrow's World title was revived in 2017 as an umbrella brand for BBC science programmin... | {"Genre": "Factual, Science & Technology", "Created by": "Glyn Jones", "Directed by": "Stuart McDonald", "Presented by": "Numerous (see Presenters)", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Original network": "BBC1", "Original release": "2003 7 16 yes"} |
Stewart Edward Hart (May 3, 1915 - October 16, 2003) was a Canadian amateur and professional wrestler, wrestling booker, promoter, coach, trainer, football player and sailor. He is best known for founding and handling Stampede Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta, teaching many indiv... | {"Birth name": "Stewart Edward Hart", "Family": "Hart Donald Stewart (grandfather) Harry Smith (father-in-law)", "Children": "12, includingSmith HartBruce HartKeith HartWayne HartDean HartBret HartRoss HartDiana HartOwen Hart", "Spouse(s)": "Helen Louise Smith 1947 2001 her death", "Billed height": "5 ft 11 in", "Bille... |
Carabobo State (, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, located in the north of the country, about two hours by car from Caracas. The state capital city is Valencia, which is also the country's main industrial center. The state's area is and as of the 2011 census, had a population of 2,245,744.
thumb|Beach in Carabo... | {"Body": "Legislative Council", "Rank": "3rd", "Density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "VE-G", "Website": "http://www.carabobo.gob.ve/"} |
Avensa (Aerovías Venezolanas Sociedad Anonima) was a Venezuelan airline headquartered in Caracas."World Airline Directory." Flight International. 21-27 March 2000. 71. "Avenida Universidad, Caracas, 101, Venezuela." It was in the process of financial restructuring, after it went into bankruptcy due to poor management i... | {"Airline name": "Avensa - Aerovías Venezolanas Sociedad Anónima", "IATA Designator": "VE", "ICAO Designator": "AVE", "Callsign": "AVENSA", "Founded": "1943 05 13", "Commenced operations": "1943 12", "Ceased operations": "2004 12 31", "Major hubs": "Simón Bolívar International Airport", "Subsidiaries": "Servivensa", "C... |
Ezzard Mack Charles (July 7, 1921 - May 28, 1975), known as the Cincinnati Cobra, was an American professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion. Known for his slick defense and precision. Often regarded as the greatest light heavyweight boxer of all time Charles defeated numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three diff... | {"Real name": "Ezzard Mack Charles", "Nickname(s)": "Cincinnati Cobra", "Weight(s)": "Middleweight\nLight-heavyweight\nHeavyweight", "Height": "6 ft 0 in", "Reach": "73 in", "Born": "Lawrenceville, Georgia, U.S.", "Died": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Stance": "Orthodox", "Total fights": "121", "Wins": "95", "Wins by KO"... |
Anthony Newley (24 September 1931 - 14 April 1999) was an English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Top 40 chart, in... | {"Name": "Anthony Newley", "Caption": "Newley in 1967", "Birth name": "Anthony Newleyhttps://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVQ7-HGJS https://web.archive.org/web/20160310002638/https://familysearch.org/ark%3A/61903/1%3A1%3AQVQ7-HGJS dead FamilySearch.org FamilySearch 10 March 2016 1 October 2021", "Birth date": "1931... |
Hippias (; c. 570 BC - 490 BC) was the last tyrant of Athens, ruling from 527 to 510 BC. He was one of a group of tyrants known as the Peisistratids, which was a group of three tyrants in Ancient Greece. Pisistratus first, and then his son, Hippias, followed after him by Hippias' illegitimate son, Hegesistratos. He was... | {"Name": "Hippias", "Native name": "Ἱππίας", "Native name language": "grc", "Birth date": "c. 570 BC", "Death date": "490 BC", "Death place": "Lemnos", "Birth place": "Athens"} |
Antipop is the sixth studio album by American rock band Primus. It was released on October 19, 1999, through Prawn Song Records and Interscope Records. Produced by the band, Tom Morello, Stewart Copeland, Tom Waits, Matt Stone, and Fred Durst, it was the final release by the band before their hiatus from 2000 to 2003. ... | {"Released": "October 19, 1999", "Recorded": "1999", "Studio": "Rancho Relaxo (Sebastopol, California) The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, California) Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, California)", "Genre": "Nu metal\n alternative metal\n funk metal\n funk rock\n experimental rock", "Label": "Interscope Prawn Song", "Producer... |
The 1st Commando Regiment (1 Cdo Regt) is an Australian Army Reserve special forces unit, part of Special Operations Command with an integrated structure of regular (full-time) soldiers and reserve (part-time) soldiers, which together with the full-time Australian Army 2nd Commando Regiment, provides the commando capab... | {"Branch": "Australian Army Reserve", "Type": "Special forces", "Part of": "Special Forces Group", "Role": "Special operations", "Size": "One regiment\n Two commando companies", "Motto(s)": "Strike Swiftly", "March": "1 Cdo Coy - \"Sari Marais\"2 Cdo Coy - \"Cockleshell Heroes\"", "Notablecommanders": "William \"Mac\" ... |
The Clearance Diving Branch is the specialist diving unit of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) whose versatile role covers all spheres of military diving, and includes explosive ordnance disposal and maritime counter-terrorism. The Branch has evolved from traditional maritime diving, and explosive ordnance disposal, to i... | {"Type": "Clearance diving", "Branch": "Royal Australian Navy", "Role": "Expeditionary Reconnaissance and Clearance \n Maritime Explosive Ordnance Disposal\n Underwater Damage Repair\n Counter-terrorism", "Part of": "Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Group", "Size": "Two AUSCDT", "Nickname(s)": "BubbleheadsBubblies", "... |
Airfield Defence Guards (ADG) are a mustering of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) that are dedicated to the security and ground defence of airbases and other military aviation assets.Defence Jobs website Accessed on 22 June 2008 Other duties include training other RAAF personnel, in skills such as the handling of ... | {"Branch": "Royal Australian Air Force", "Type": "Air Force Infantry", "Role": "Ground Defence", "Size": "3 Squadrons", "Part of": "Combat Support Group", "Nickname(s)": "\"Adgies\"", "Motto(s)": "Protect the Force"} |
PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics (both bitmapped and vector), and some limited text support, between Mac applications, and was the native graphics format of QuickDraw.
The PICT file format consists ... | {"Name": "PICT", "Extension": ".pict, .pct, .pic", "MIME type": "image/x-pict", "Type code": "PICT", "Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)": "com.apple.pict", "Developed by": "Apple Computer", "Type of format": "graphics"} |
Patrick James Riley (born March 20, 1945) is an American professional basketball executive, former coach, and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995, and he also served as the team's head coach from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2008... | {"Position": "President", "Conference": "NBA", "Listed height": "4", "Listed weight": "205", "Born": "Rome, New York, U.S.", "High school": "Linton (Schenectady, New York)", "College": "Kentucky (1964-1967)"} |
The Point! is the sixth studio album by American songwriter and musician Harry Nilsson, released in late 1970. It was accompanied by an animated film adaptation directed by Fred Wolf, which aired in early February 1971 on the ABC-TV network. Its lead single, "Me and My Arrow", peaked at number 34 on the Billboard Hot 1... | {"Released": "December 1970", "Recorded": "1970", "Genre": "Pop rock", "Label": "RCA Victor", "Producer": "Harry Nilsson"} |
is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2000 to 2001. He was unpopular in opinion polls during his time in office, and is known for making controversial statements, both during and after his premiership. He also served as the President of the Japan Rugby Football Union as well as the... | {"Name": "Yoshiro Mori", "Native name": "森 喜朗", "Native name language": "ja", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2000", "Term start": "5 April 2000", "Term end": "26 April 2001", "Office 2": "Minister of Construction", "Prime minister 2": "Tomiichi Murayama", "Predecessor 2": "Koken Nosaka", "Successor 2": "Eiichi Na... |
Ushuaia ( , ), is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province, Argentina. With a population of 82,615 and a location below the 54th parallel south latitude, Ushuaia claims the title of world's southernmost city.
Ushuaia is located in a wide bay on the southern coast of Isla Grande de ... | {"Founded by": "Commodore Lasserre ARA", "Type": "Municipality", "Density": "auto", "Website": "http://www.ushuaia.gob.ar"} |
Daniel Frederic Steck (December 16, 1881December 31, 1950), was the only Iowa Democrat in the United States Senate between the American Civil War and the Great Depression. He was sworn in as senator only after an extraordinary election challenge, in which his apparent defeat at the polls by a Progressive Party ally ru... | {"Name": "Daniel Frederic Steck", "Term start": "April 12, 1926", "Term end": "March 3, 1931", "Birth date": "1881 12 16", "Birth place": "Ottumwa, Iowa", "Death date": "1950 12 31 1881 12 16", "Death place": "Ottumwa, Iowa"} |
, later known as was a Japanese daimyō. He was born in Nagao clan, and after adoption into the Uesugi clan, ruled Echigo Province in the Sengoku period of Japan. He was one of the most powerful daimyō of the Sengoku period. Known as the "Dragon of Echigo", while chiefly remembered for his prowess on the battlefield a... | {"Name": "Uesugi Kenshin", "Native name": "上杉 謙信", "Native name language": "jpn", "Birth name": "Nagao Kagetora", "Birth date": "February 18, 1530", "Death date": "1578 4 19 1530 2 18", "Birth place": "Echigo Province, Japan", "Death place": "Echigo Province, Japan", "Image size": "250", "Image caption": "Portrait from... |
Ushuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (, ) is located south of the center of Ushuaia, a city on the island of Tierra del Fuego in the Tierra del Fuego Province of Argentina.
Overview
The airport was opened in 1995, replacing an older one, which is now in use with the Ushuaia Aeroclub . The new airport ... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Location": "Ushuaia, Argentina", "AMSL": "102", "Website": "www.aeropuertoushuaia.com", "Coordinates": "54 50 36 S 68 17 40 W region:AR inline,title"} |
was a Japanese military commander, strategist, and politician of the Asuka period.
Some sources say he lived from c.575-664
Biography
Events in his life are accounted in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, both written several decades after his death. His father's name and origin are unknown, as the written sources contradic... | {"Name": "Abe no Hirafu", "Image": "Abe_no_Hirafu.JPG", "Caption": "An ukiyo-e of Abe, 1878", "Native name": "阿倍 比羅夫", "Birth date": "unknown", "Death date": "unknown", "Occupation": "Military commander, strategist, politician", "Years active": "645-664", "Era": "Asuka period", "Notable works": ", which produces label ... |
was a Japanese Christian socialist, parliamentarian and pacifist. He largely contributed to development of baseball in Japan, and was called "Father of Japanese baseball." He created a baseball club of Waseda University.
Early life and education
Abe was born in Fukuoka on 4 February 1865. He entered at Doshisha Univer... | {"Name": "Abe Isoo", "Term start": "1928", "Term end": "1930", "Birth date": "1865 02 04 yDale H. Hoiberg Encyclopædia Britannica Abe Isoo 15th 2010 Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. I: A-ak Bayes Chicago, Illinois 978-1-59339-837-8 23 registration https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency/page/23 Fr... |
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The is a river in Shizuoka Prefecture of central Japan. It is long and has a watershed of .
The river rises from Akaishi Mountains which stretch over the border between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, and flows into Suruga Bay in the Pacific Ocean). It is known for its clear stream and forms part... | {"Native name": "ja 安倍川", "Location": "Suruga Bay", "Mouth": "0 m ft on", "Basin size": "567 km2 sqmi on"} |
The , with a length of , is the second longest river in the Tōhoku region of Japan and the 6th longest river in Japan. It runs through Fukushima Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture, rising from springs in the peaks of the Nasu mountains, collecting water from tributaries leaving the Ōu Mountains and the Abukuma Highlands,... | {"Native name": "ja 阿武隈川", "Mouth": "Pacific Ocean", "Location": "Iwanuma, Miyagi, Japan", "Coordinates": "38.0494 140.9190 inline,title", "Basin size": "5390 km2 on", "Left": "Shakadō River, Sasahara River, Ōse River, Gohyaku River, Rokkaku River, Arakawa River, Matsu River, Surikami River, Shiroishi River", "Right": ... |
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. One of the foremost directors within the Japanese New Wave, his films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930s Japan, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), about World War II prisoners of war held by the Japanese.
Profile
Early ... | {"Name": "Nagisa Ōshima", "Native name": "大島 渚 Ōshima Nagisa", "Caption": "Ōshima in 2000", "Birth date": "1932 3 31 y", "Birth place": "Tamano, Okayama, Empire of Japan", "Death date": "2013 1 15 1932 3 31 y", "Death place": "Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan", "Occupation": "Film directorScreenwriter", "Years active": "1953-... |
Ma Su (190-228), courtesy name Youchang, was a military general and strategist of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period of China. Ma Su had conspicuous talent in military theories and was admired by the Shu chancellor Zhuge Liang. However, a tactical blunder by Ma Su at the Battle of Jieting resulted in Shu... | {"Name": "Ma Su", "Native name": "馬謖", "Image size": "150px", "Image caption": "A Qing dynasty illustration of Ma Su", "Term start": "223", "Term end": "228", "Office 2": "Prefect of Chengdu (成都令)(under Liu Bei)", "Monarch 2": "Emperor Xian of Han", "Birth date": "190Ma Su's biography in Records of the Three Kingdoms s... |
thumb|The Mōtsū-ji. Portrait of Oshu-Fujiwara clan, three generations.
thumb|The domain of the Oshu-Fujiwara clan in Japan (1183)
The Northern Fujiwara (奥州藤原氏 Ōshū Fujiwara-shi) were a Japanese noble family that ruled the Tōhoku region (the northeast of Honshū) of Japan during the 12th century as their own realm.Esash... | {"Home province": "Tōhoku region", "Parent house": "Fujiwara clan", "Founder": "Fujiwara no Kiyohira (清衡)", "Final ruler": "Fujiwara no Yasuhira (泰衡)", "Founding year": "1087", "Dissolution": "1189"} |
thumb|250px|An mural depicting the Oath of the Peach Garden inside the Long Corridor on the grounds of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China
thumb|250px|An Ukiyo-e work created by Japanese artist Sakurai Sekkan shows the oath of these three men
thumb|250px|Statues of (from left) Zhang Fei, Liu Bei and Guan Yu at Haw Par ... | {"Infobox title": "Oath of the Peach Garden", "Picture caption": "The Oath of the Peach Garden as depicted in a Ming dynasty edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Name in traditional characters": "桃園(三)結義", "Name in simplified characters": "桃园(三)结义", "Pinyin transcription": "Táoyuán (Sān) Jiéyì"} |
Adachi Kagemori (安達 景盛) (died 1248) was a Japanese warrior. He was part of the Adachi clan, and then he joined the Hojo clan.
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Adachi Morinaga (安達 盛長) (1135-1200) was a Japanese warrior from the Adachi clan who fought for Minamoto no Yoritomo against the Taira. Morinaga had already supported Yoritomo while he lived in exile in Izu province. After the wars, he became a monk and took the name Rensai (蓮西).
Category:Japanese warrior monks
Categ... | {"Name": "Adachi Morinaga", "Caption": "Portrait of Adachi Morinaga", "Birth date": "1135", "Death date": "1200 1135", "Nationality": "Japanese", "Occupation": "Warrior", "Children": "Adachi Kagemori", "Known For": "Fought for Minamoto no Yoritomo against the Taira"} |
was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was also known as and , and held the title of .
Biography
His father, , was a retainer of Oda Nobunaga. Naonori was killed in action when Akechi Mitsuhide attacked and killed Nobunaga at Honnō-ji in 1582 (Incident at Honnōji). Naoy... | {"Native name": "jpn", "Died": "Daimon river, Etchū Province", "Nickname(s)": "'Kyūbei' or 'Yoshiie'", "Allegiance": "15px Oda clan15px Toyotomi clan15px Maeda clan", "Relations": "Akaza Naonori (father)"} |
Smith Square is a square in Westminster, London, 250 metres south-southwest of the Palace of Westminster. Most of its garden interior is filled by St John's, Smith Square, a Baroque surplus church, the inside of which has been converted to a concert hall. Most adjoining buildings (thus sharing its address) are offices,... | {"Name": "Smith Square", "Type": "Garden square with concert hall dominating space", "Length": "275", "Width": "240 ft", "Area": "Westminster", "Location": "London", "Construction start": "1726", "Status": "west end of the north side:large building:Grade I listed"} |
Camperdown is an inner western suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Camperdown is located 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Inner West region. Camperdown lies across the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Inner West Council.
Camper... | {"Type": "suburb", "Name": "Camperdown", "City": "Sydney", "State Abbreviation": "nsw", "Caption": "Camperdown Hotel on the corner of Parramatta Rd and Layton St", "Local Map Enabled": "yes", "Local Map Zoom Level": "13", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "City of Sydney", "Local Government Area (LGA) 2": "Inner West Coun... |
The Plague Dogs is a novel by English author Richard Adams, first published in 1977 by Allen Lane. The book centres around the friendship of two dogs that escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. As in Adams' debut novel, Watership Down (1972), the animal char... | {"Cover artist": "Martin White", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Allen Lane", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "Pages": "461 (hardback edition)", "ISBN": "(hardback edition)"} |
The Fédération cynologique internationale (FCI) (English: International Canine Federation) is the largestFCI: the largest canine organisation of the world, FCI.be international federation of national kennel clubs and purebred registries. The FCI is based in Thuin, Belgium and has 98 members and contract partners (one f... | {"Abbreviation": "FCI", "Type": "Federation of kennel clubs", "Legal status": "Active", "Location": "Thuin, Belgium", "Website": "http://www.fci.be/"} |
is the pen name of Japanese writer . From 2002 to 2015, she wrote her name in hiragana ().
Biography
Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964, and grew up in a liberal family. Her father was the poet and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, and her sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan.
Yoshimoto graduat... | {"Born": "1964 7 24 y", "Occupation": "Novelist", "Nationality": "Japanese", "Period": "1987-present", "Native name": "ja 吉本 ばなな"} |
The River Teme (pronounced ; ) rises in Mid Wales, south of Newtown, and flows southeast roughly forming the border between England and Wales for several miles through Knighton before entering England in the vicinity of Bucknell and continuing east to Ludlow in Shropshire. From there, it flows to the north of Tenbury W... | {"Mouth": "14 m on", "Location": "Powick, Worcestershire, England", "Coordinates": "52 09 48 N 2 14 44 W inline,title", "Left": "River Clun, River Onny, River Corve, Ledwyche Brook, River Rea", "Right": "Leigh Brook, Kyre Brook"} |
Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, (; 6 July 1872 - 2 May 1955) was a British Army officer who served as the 10th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1936 to 1945. He was previously Governor of South Australia (1928-1934) and Governor of New South Wales (1935-1936).
... | {"Name": "The Earl of Gowrie", "Term start": "23 January 1936", "Term end": "30 January 1945", "Order 2": "27th", "Office 2": "Governor of New South Wales", "Monarch 2": "George VEdward VIII", "Premier 2": "Bertram Stevens", "Predecessor 2": "Sir Philip Game", "Successor 2": "Sir David Anderson", "Birth name": "Alexand... |
Edwin Thanhouser (November 11, 1865 - March 21, 1956) was an American actor, businessman, and film producer. He was most notable as a founder of the Thanhouser Company, which was one of the first motion picture studios. His wife Gertrude Thanhouser and brother-in-law Lloyd Lonergan were co-founders.
Biography
Thanhous... | {"Name": "Edwin Thanhouser", "Birth date": "1865 11 11", "Birth place": "Baltimore, Maryland", "Death date": "1956 3 21 1865 11 11", "Death place": "New York City", "Spouse(s)": "Gertrude Thanhouser", "Years active": "1910-1917"} |
thumb|250px|The "Television Symbol", known informally as the "Bats Wings", was the first BBC Television Service ident. It was created by Abram Games and was used from 1953 to 1960.Nick Higham, 60 years since 'bat's wings' became first BBC TV symbol. , BBC News, December 2, 2013.
BBC Television is a service of the BBC.... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Television", "Parent": "BBC", "Services": "Television broadcasting", "Headquarters": "Broadcasting House, LondonMediaCityUK, Salford", "Website": "BBC iPlayer"} |
Hot Fudge (also known as The Hot Fudge Show) is an American children's television series that was produced in Detroit by WXYZ-TV (owned and operated at the time by ABC) and distributed by the Lexington Broadcast Services Company. Originally airing only in Detroit beginning in 1974, the show grew in popularity and was s... | {"Also known as": "The Hot Fudge Show", "Genre": "Children's television series", "Starring": "Arte Johnson (season 1)Larry SantosRon CodenAmanda CaruthersYolanda Williams", "Voices of": "Bob ElnickyLarry SantosRon Coden", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "22–24 minutes", "Original network": "WXYZ-T... |
Remington Rand, Inc. was an early American business machine manufacturer, originally a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers. Formed in 1927 following a merger, Remington Rand was a diversified conglomerate making other office equipment, electric s... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "1927", "Defunct": "1955", "Fate": "Merged with Sperry Corporation in 1955 to become Sperry Rand; latter merged with Burroughs Corporation in 1986 to become Unisys", "Industry": "Technology", "Products": "Typewriters\n Computers (UNIVAC)\n Firearms", "Divisions": "Eckert-Mauchly\n ... |
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time.Between History and Periodicity: Printed and Hand-Written News in 18th-Century Portugal In combina... | {"Local time": "09:40", "Local date": "1 November 1755 1 November 1755", "Magnitude": "7.7-9.0 Mw (est.)", "Areas affected": "Portugal, Spain, and Morocco. The tsunami affected southern Great Britain and Ireland", "Casualties": "12,000-50,000 deaths", "Fault": "Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault"} |
Poison the Well is an American metalcore band from Miami, Florida who were last signed to Ferret Music. In 2010, they announced a hiatus to explore other interests. Lead guitarist Ryan Primack and drummer Christopher Hornbrook were the only remaining founding members, although vocalist Jeffrey Moreira featured on all ... | {"Origin": "Coral Springs, Florida, United States", "Genres": "\"amYCBY\">http://www.allmusic.com/album/you-come-before-you-mw0000031077 Poison the Well - You Come Before You Johnny Loftus AllMusic March 20, 2017\n post-hardcorehttp://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/bummer-alert/poison-indefinite-hiatus-gruhamed-cri... |
Mathew Jay Roach (born June 14, 1957) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the Austin Powers film series, Meet the Parents, Dinner for Schmucks, The Campaign, Trumbo, and Bombshell.Stanford Magazine, July/Aug 2007
Roach also earned critical acclaim for directing and producing the political drama fi... | {"Name": "Jay Roach", "Image": "Jay Roach (2013).JPG", "Caption": "Roach in 2013", "Birth name": "Mathew Jay Roach", "Other names": "M. Jay Roach", "Birth date": "1957 6 14", "Birth place": "Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts)University of Southern California (Master of... |
Gustave Biéler DSO MBE CdeG (26 March 1904 - 5 September 1944) was a Canadian Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.
Early life
Gustave Daniel Alfred Bieler was born on 26 March 1904 in Beurlay, France, to Swiss parents and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. At the age of twenty, he emigrated to Can... | {"Birth place": "Beurlay, France", "Birth date": "26 March 1904", "Death place": "Flossenbürg concentration camp, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany", "Death date": "yes 1944 9 5 1904 3 26", "Occupation": "special operations agent"} |
Saint-André-de-Cubzac (, literally Saint-André of Cubzac; , ) is a commune in the Gironde department, New Aquitaine, southwestern France.
Its inhabitants are called Cubzaguais.
Population
Notable residents
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997) was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac and is buried in the Cousteau family plot.
... | {"Name": "Saint-André-de-Cubzac", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Image": "Saint-André-de-Cubzac (Gironde) église 02.JPG", "Caption": "Church of Saint-André", "Arrondissement": "Blaye", "Canton": "Le Nord-Gironde", "Postal code": "33240", "Mayor": "Célia MonseigneRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.... |
The Swallows and Amazons series is a series of twelve children's adventure novels by English author Arthur Ransome. Set in the interwar period, the novels involve group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England. They revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. Literary criti... | {"Illustrator": "Steven SpurrierClifford Webb", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Jonathan Cape", "Published": "1930-1988", "Media type": "Print (hardcover and paperback)", "No. of books": "12"} |
PF (Packet Filter, also written pf) is a BSD licensed stateful packet filter, a central piece of software for firewalling. It is comparable to netfilter (iptables), ipfw, and ipfilter.
PF was developed for OpenBSD, but has been ported to many other operating systems.
History
PF was originally designed as replacemen... | {"Original author(s)": "Daniel Hartmeier", "Developer(s)": "The OpenBSD Project", "Written in": "C", "Initial release": "2001 12 01 yes", "Type": "Packet filtering", "License": "BSD license"} |
Anna Louise Day Hicks (October 16, 1916 – October 21, 2003) was an American politician and lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts, best known for her staunch opposition to desegregation in Boston public schools, and especially to court-ordered busing, in the 1960s and 1970s. A longtime member of Boston's school board and c... | {"Name": "Louise Day Hicks", "Image caption": "Hicks c. 1969", "Birth name": "Anna Louise Day", "Birth date": "1916 10 16 y", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, US", "Death date": "2003 10 21 1916 10 16 y", "Death place": "Boston, Massachusetts, US", "Resting place": "Saint Joseph Cemetery, West Roxbury, Massachuse... |
Bolton ( , locally ) is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester ( south-east), Blackburn, Wigan, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and villages that form the wider borough, of which Bolton is the administrative centre. The town... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Metropolitan county": "Greater Manchester", "Population": "(2011 Census)Bolton Built-up area sub division Local Area Report https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E35001199 Nomis 3 June 2021", "Metropolitan borough": "Bolton", "UK Parliament": "Bolton West", "Postcode di... |
TRAC (for Text Reckoning And Compiling) Language is a programming language developed between 1959-1964 by Calvin Mooers and first implemented on the PDP-1 in 1964 by L. Peter Deutsch. It was one of three "first languages" recommended by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib. TRAC T64 was used until at least 1984, when Mooers upda... | {"Name": "TRAC", "Paradigm": "general-purpose macro processor", "Initial release date": "1964", "Designer": "Calvin Mooers", "Influenced by": "Macro SAPTRAC - A man-machine string manipulating language HOPL: Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=276 h... |
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis and commonly shortened to simply Alliance or Atlantis and formerly traded as TSX:AAC) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, Lon... | {"Type": "Public", "Fate": "Split up:\n Television catalogue sold to GS Capital Partners, including co-rights to the CSI franchise\n International operations sold to Echo Bridge Entertainment excluding international distribution rights to CSI, which were sold to CBS Paramount Television\n Broadcasting assets sold to Ca... |
Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels (January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.
She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a star in musicals such as Rio Rita, and later gained fame on radio and television in Britain. Over ... | {"Caption": "Daniels in 1925", "Birth name": "Phyllis Virginia Daniels", "Birth date": "1901 01 14", "Birth place": "Dallas, Texas, U.S.Adams, Evangeline (January 1931). \"How January Is Written in the Stars\". The New Movie. p. 50. Retrieved July 16, 2023.Fox, Charles Donald (1925). Famous Film Folk; A Gallery of Lif... |
High Barnet is a London Underground station, and former railway station, located in Chipping Barnet, North London. The station is the northern terminus of the High Barnet branch of the Northern line and is in Travelcard Zone 5. It is situated 10.2 miles (16.4 km) north north-west of Charing Cross. The next station sout... | {"External links": "underground", "Managed by": "London Underground", "Fare zone": "5", "Location": "Chipping Barnet", "Local authority": "London Borough of Barnet", "Number of platforms": "3 \n<!--", "2006": "2.278", "2007": "2.613", "2008": "2.730", "2009": "2.73-->", "Accessible": "yes"} |
Thurso (pronounced ; , ) is a town and former burgh on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland. Situated in the historical County of Caithness, it is the northernmost town on the island of Great Britain. From a latitudinal standpoint, Thurso is located further north than the southernmost point of Norw... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "ND115685", "Council area": "Highland", "Lieutenancy area": "Caithness", "UK Parliament": "Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross", "Scottish Parliament": "Caithness, Sutherland and Ross", "Postcode district": "KW", "Dialling code": "... |
Ullapool (;John C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary ) is a village and port located in Northern Scotland. Ullapool has a population of approximately 1,500 inhabitants. It is located around northwest of Inverness in Ross and Cromarty, Scottish Highlands. Despite its modest size, it is the largest settlement for... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NH125945", "Council area": "Highland", "Lieutenancy area": "Ross and Cromarty", "UK Parliament": "Ross, Skye and Lochaber", "Scottish Parliament": "Caithness, Sutherland and Ross", "Postcode district": "IV", "Dialling code": "01854"... |
thumb|240px|right|Dornoch Cathedral
240px|thumb|right|Dornoch Beach
Dornoch (; ; ) is a town, seaside resort, parish and former royal burgh in the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth, near to where it opens into the Moray Firth to the east.
The town is wi... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NH798896", "Council area": "Highland", "Lieutenancy area": "Sutherland", "UK Parliament": "Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross", "Scottish Parliament": "Highlands and Islands", "Postcode district": "IV", "Dialling code": "01862"} |
City Slickers is a 1991 American comedy Western film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance, with supporting roles by Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater and Noble Willingham with Jake Gyllenhaal in his debut.
The film's screenplay was written by Lowell Ganz and Baba... | {"Directed by": "Ron Underwood", "Produced by": "Irby Smith", "Written by": "Lowell GanzBabaloo Mandel", "Starring": "Billy Crystal\n Daniel Stern\n Bruno Kirby\n Patricia Wettig\n Helen Slater\n Jack Palance", "Music by": "Marc Shaiman", "Cinematography": "Dean Semler", "Edited by": "O. Nicholas Brown", "Distributed b... |
North East Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The council is based in the large village of Wingerworth. The district also includes the towns of Dronfield and Clay Cross as well as numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
The neighbouring districts are Chesterfield (which it almost ... | {"Type": "North East Derbyshire District Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000038", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1"} |
Frank Charles Laubach (September 2, 1884 - June 11, 1970), from Benton, Pennsylvania was a Congregational Christian missionary educated at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and a mystic known as "The Apostle to the Illiterates." In 1915 (see Laubach, Thirty Years With the Silent Billion), while workin... | {"Name": "Frank Laubach", "Birth date": "September 2, 1884", "Death date": "1970 6 11 1884 9 2", "Occupation": "Missionary"} |
David Michael Davis (born 23 December 1948) is a British politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2003 to 2008 and Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from 2016 to 2018. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Haltemprice and Howden, formerly Boot... | {"Name": "David Davis", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2020", "Term start": "13 July 2016", "Term end": "8 July 2018", "Office 2": "Chairman of the Conservative Party", "Leader 2": "Iain Duncan Smith", "Predecessor 2": "Michael Ancram", "Successor 2": "Theresa May", "Birth name": "David Michael Brown", "Birth dat... |
The districts of England (also known as local authority districts or local government districts to distinguish from unofficial city districts) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government.Local Authority Districts (2015) to Counties (2015) Eng lookup , ONS, data.gov.uk. Retri... | {"Category": "Administrative district", "Location": "England", "Found in": "Counties", "Number": "April 2023", "Created by": "London Government Act 1963", "Created": "some earlier (see text)", "Populations": "2,300 - 1.1 million", "Areas": "3 - 5,013 km2(1 - 1,936 sq mi)", "Possible types": "#a65628 sui generis (2)", "... |
The Seeds were an American psychedelic garage rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965, best known for their highest charting single "Pushin' Too Hard". The band's classic line-up featured frontman Sky Saxon, guitarist Jan Savage (born Buck Jan Reeder), keyboardist Daryl Hooper and drummer Rick Andridge. In ... | {"Origin": "Los Angeles, California, United States", "Genres": "\"Patoski\"> Joe Nick Patoski Gather Ye Records While Ye May Texas Monthly February 1979 7 2 144 0148-7736 https://books.google.com/books?id=7S0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA144 \ngarage rock\nproto-punk", "Labels": "GNP Crescendo, MGM Records, Bam Caru... |
The Reagans is a 2003 American made-for-television biographical drama film about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family. The network CBS had planned to broadcast the film in November 2003 during fall "sweeps", but was ultimately broadcast on November 30 of that year on cable channel Showtime due to controversy ove... | {"Written by": "Carl Sferrazza AnthonyJane MarchwoodThomas RickmanElizabeth Egloff", "Directed by": "Robert Allan Ackerman", "Starring": "James BrolinJudy DavisŽeljko IvanekMary Beth PeilBill SmitrovichShad HartZoie PalmerRichard FitzpatrickVlasta VránaFrancis Xavier McCarthyFrank MooreAidan DevineJohn Stamos", "Countr... |
A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665, commonly called A Journal of the Plague Year, is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of on... | {"Country": "Great Britain", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "E. NuttJ. RobertsA. DoddJ. Graves", "Media type": "Print", "Pages": "287", "Set in": "London, 1665", "Original title": "en"} |
Harpenden () is a town and civil parish in the City and District of St Albans in the county of Hertfordshire, England. The population of the built-up area was 30,240 in the 2011 census, while the population of the civil parish was 29,448.Small parts of the built-up area lie outside the parish boundary in the neighbouri... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2022: parish)Harpenden parish https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E04004803 NOMIS Office for National Statistics 13 November 202130,240 (2011: built-up area)Harpenden built-up area https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E34003511 NOMIS ... |
James Brolin (, born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin; July 18, 1940) is an American actor. Brolin has won two Golden Globes and an Emmy. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27, 1998. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin, and the husband of Barbra Streisand.
He is best known for his TV roles such as Ste... | {"Name": "James Brolin", "Caption": "Brolin in 2013", "Birth name": "Craig Kenneth Bruderlin", "Birth date": "1940 07 18", "Birth place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Other names": "James M. Brolin Craig J. Brolin", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1960-present", "Education": "University High School", "Alma... |
The Electronika 60 () is a computer made in the Soviet Union by Elektronika in Voronezh from 1978 until 1991. It is a rack-mounted system with no built-in display or storage devices. It was usually paired with a 15IE-00-013 terminal and I/O devices. The main logic unit is located on the M2 CPU board.
The original imp... | {"Image caption": "Electronika 60M", "Release date": "1978", "Discontinuation date": "1991", "Operating system": "RT-11 and other", "CPU make and model": "M2 (Soviet LSI-11--PDP-11 LSI CPU implementation--clone)", "Amount of memory installed": "4kb 16-bit words; max 32k 16-bit words"} |
Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age.
By 1721, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at ... | {"Language": "English", "Country": "Kingdom of Great Britain", "Set in": "England and Virginia Colony, 1613-1683", "Published": "1722", "Publisher": "William Rufus Chetwood", "Media type": "Print: octavo", "Pages": "xiii, 424"} |
William George Wyman (né Perks; born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who was the bassist for the rock band the Rolling Stones from 1962 to 1993. Wyman was part of the band's first stable lineup and performed on their first 19 albums. Since 1997, he has performed as the vocalist and bassist for Bill Wyman's Rhyt... | {"Born": "Lewisham, London, England", "Genres": "Rock\nblues \njazz", "Labels": "Velvel Koch International Rolling Stones BMG", "Formerly of": "The Rolling Stones Willie & the Poor Boys the Cliftons", "Member of": "Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings", "Website": "billwyman.com"} |
Sir Francis Hincks, (December 14, 1807 - August 18, 1885) was a Canadian businessman, politician, and British colonial administrator. An immigrant from Ireland, he was the Co-Premier of the Province of Canada (1851-1854), Governor of Barbados (1856-1862), Governor of British Guiana (1862-1869) and Canadian Minister o... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Honourable", "Name": "Sir Francis Hincks", "Honorific suffix": "CAN 100% KCMG CB PC", "Image caption": "The Hon. Francis Hincks", "Term start": "1851", "Term end": "1854", "Office 2": "Governor of Barbados and the British Windward Islands", "Predecessor 2": "Sir William MacBean George Colebroo... |
E. Remington and Sons (1816-1896) was a manufacturer of firearms and typewriters. Founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, on March 1, 1873, it became known for manufacturing the first commercial typewriter.
History
thumb|left|upright|Eliphalet Remington
thumb|left|upright|Philo Remington
thumb|left|... | {"Type": "Privatethen Partnership. Corporation", "Industry": "Firearms, mechanical consumer products (typewriters)", "Fate": "Purchased", "Founded": "Ilion, NY, United States (1816)", "Products": "Firearms-pistols, rifles, shotgunstypewriters"} |
WHAM (1180 kHz) is a commercial clear channel AM radio station in Rochester, New York, United States. It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a news/talk radio format. The studios and offices are at Five Star Bank Plaza in downtown Rochester.
Its 50,000-watt non-directional transmitter, located in Chili, New York, operate... | {"Broadcast area": "Rochester metropolitan area Western New York Southern Ontario", "Branding": "NewsRadio WHAM 1180", "Translator(s)": "96.1 W241DG Rochester", "Repeater(s)": "95.1 WAIO-HD2 Honeoye Falls", "Format": "News/talk", "Power": "50,000 watts unlimited", "Affiliations": "CBS News Radio Fox News Radio NBC News... |
Cowes () is an English seaport town and civil parishEnglish Parishes & Welsh Communities N&C 2004 on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is located on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina, facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east bank. The two towns are linked by the Cowes Floating Bridge, a chain ferry.
C... | {"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": "SZ493958"} |
Newry (; ) is a city in Northern Ireland, standing on the Clanrye river in counties Down and Armagh. It is near the border with the Republic of Ireland, on the main route between Belfast (34 miles/55 km away) and Dublin (67 miles/108 km away). The population was 27,913 in 2021.
Newry was founded in 1157 as a settlemen... | {"Population": "(2021 Census)Newry https://explore.nisra.gov.uk/area-explorer-2021/N10001003/ Census 2021 Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) 18 March 2023", "Irish grid reference": "J085265", "District": "Newry, Mourne and Down", "Sovereign state": "Northern Ireland", "Postcode district": "BT34... |
was a Japanese daimyo who lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods.
Biography
He was the son of daimyo Andō Chikasue, a powerful figure in Dewa Province.
Sanesue pledged loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1590 during the Siege of Odawara, and served under him in various campaigns such as the Korean camp... | {"Name": "Akita Sanesue", "Nationality": "Japanese", "Term start": "1602", "Term end": "1630", "Birth date": "1576", "Birth place": "Dewa Province, Japan", "Death date": "January 11, 1660", "Death place": "Asama, Ise Province"} |
Made in Canada is a Canadian television comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer starred as Richard Strong, an ambitious and amoral television producer working for a company which makes bad (but profitable) television shows. A dark satire about the Canadian television industry, the programme ... | {"Also known as": "The Industry", "Running time": "30 minutes", "Genre": "Dark comedy, satire, sitcom", "Created by": "Michael Donovan, Gerald Lunz and Rick Mercer", "Written by": "Mark Farrell and Rick Mercer (season one)", "Starring": "Rick Mercer\n Peter Keleghan\n Dan Lett\n Leah Pinsent\n Jackie Torrens", "Ending ... |
was a samurai during the Sengoku period in Japan. He is known as one of the "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen".Internet Movie Database (IMDb), "Shingen Takeda (Character) from Kagemusha (1980); retrieved 2013-5-17. Nobutomo also served under Shingen's son, Takeda Katsuyori.
Biography
In 1531, Akiyama Nobutomo... | {"Native name": "秋山 信友", "Born": "Tsutsujigasaki Hall, Kai Province", "Died": "Mino Province", "Nickname(s)": "Raging Bull of the Takeda \n 武田の猛牛", "Allegiance": "Takeda clan 武田氏", "Relations": "Father: Akiyama Nobutou\nWife: Lady Otsuya"} |
Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the exclusionary rule, which prevents prosecutors from using evidence in court that was obtained by violating the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, applies not only to the federal government but a... | {"Date argued": "March 29", "Year argued": "1961", "Date decided": "June 19", "Year decided": "1961", "Full case name": "Dollree Mapp v. State of Ohio", "United States Reports volume number": "367", "United States Reports page number": "643", "Parallel citations": "81 S. Ct. 1684; 6 L. Ed. 2d 1081; 1961 U.S. LEXIS 812;... |
Morgan le Fay (, meaning 'Morgan the Fairy'), alternatively known as Morgan[n]a, Morgain[a/e], Morg[a]ne, Morgant[e], Morge[i]n, and Morgue[in] among other names and spellings (, ), is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings. Early appearances of... | {"First appearance": "Vita Merlini by Geoffrey of Monmouth", "Children": "Various, including Ywain", "Family": "Her sisters (Vita Merlini) or King Arthur's family Le Morte d'Arthur: Igraine and Gorlois (parents), Morgause and Elaine (sisters), Uther Pendragon (stepfather), Arthur Pendragon (half-brother)", "Based on": ... |
The Basílica Menor of San Francisco de Asís (; also the Convento de San Francisco de Asis) is a Catholic minor basilica and Franciscan convent in the district of Old Havana, Cuba. Its construction began in 1548 and lasted until 1591, although it was inaugurated in 1575, it was badly damaged by storms in 1680 and 1692, ... | {"Status": "Active", "Type": "Catholic church", "Architectural style": "Baroque", "Town or city": "Havana", "Coordinates": "23 08 13 N 82 20 54 W region:CU_source:kolossus-cawiki inline,title"} |
Margaret Ann Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, (née Callaghan; born 18 November 1939), is a British politician for the Labour Party and former BBC television producer and presenter.
Background
Her father was James Callaghan, a Labour politician and prime minister, and she was educated at Blackheath High School, Blackh... | {"Name": "The Baroness Jay of Paddington", "Term start": "22 June 2010", "Term end": "14 May 2014", "Office 2": "Leader of the House of LordsLord Keeper of the Privy Seal", "Prime minister 2": "Tony Blair", "Deputy 2": "The Lord Williams of Mostyn", "Predecessor 2": "The Lord Richard", "Successor 2": "The Lord Williams... |
The morin khuur (), also known as the horsehead fiddle, is a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument. It is one of the most important musical instruments of the Mongol people, and is considered a symbol of the nation of Mongolia. The morin khuur is one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of ... | {"Name": "Морин хуурᠮᠣᠷᠢᠨ ᠬᠣᠭᠣᠷMöring qughur", "Names": "Шоор (Shoor), Икил (Ikil)", "Caption": "Sambuugiin Pürevjav of Altai Khairkhan performing in Paris in 2005.", "Background": "string", "Classification": "Bowed string instrument", "Related": "Byzaanchy, Igil, Gusle, Kobyz", "Articles": "Music of Mongolia"} |
Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo (born 20 March 1945) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of South Suffolk between the 1983 United Kingdom general election and that of 2015, when he was deselected by his constituency party.
Yeo served as the... | {"Name": "Tim Yeo", "Image caption": "Yeo in 2014", "Term start": "9 June 2010", "Term end": "30 March 2015On leave of absence between 11 June 2013 and 26 November 2013, with Robert Smith serving as interim chair.", "Title 2": "Shadow Cabinet portfolios", "Birth date": "yes 1945 3 20", "Birth place": "London, England",... |
Trigger Street Productions is an American entertainment production company formed by Kevin Spacey in 1997 and further developed by his business partner Dana Brunetti. The company's credits include Captain Phillips, Shakespeare High, Safe, The Social Network, 21, Shrink, Fanboys, the Emmy-nominated Bernard and Doris, Em... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1997", "Headquarters": "Los Angeles, California, United States", "Industry": "Film", "Products": "Motion pictures, television and digital media", "Parent": "UltraV HoldingsChmielewski Dawn C. 2018-08-16 Bankruptcy Court OKs Sale Of Relativity Media To UltraV Holdings https://deadl... |
Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young, ( Baker, 23 October 1926 - 6 September 2002) was a British Conservative Party politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. She was the only ... | {"Name": "The Baroness Young", "Image size": "200px", "Office 2": "Leader of the House of Lords", "Prime minister 2": "Margaret Thatcher", "Predecessor 2": "The Lord Soames", "Successor 2": "The Viscount Whitelaw", "Birth date": "1926 10 23 y", "Death date": "2002 9 6 1926 10 23 y", "Alma mater": "Yale UniversitySt Ann... |
Messier 61 (also known as M61 or NGC 4303) is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. It was first discovered by Barnaba Oriani on May 5, 1779, six days before Charles Messier discovered the same galaxy. Messier had observed it on the same night as Oriani but had mistaken it for a comet. ... | {"Apparent size": "6.5 × 5.8 arcmin", "Type": "SAB(rs)bc, HIISy2", "Helio radial velocity": "1566 2 km/s", "Galactocentric velocity": "1483 4 km/s", "Distance": "52.5 +/- 2.3 Mly Mpc 2 on on"} |
John Nepomucene Neumann (, ; March 28, 1811 - January 5, 1860) was a Catholic immigrant from Bohemia. He came to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained, joined the Redemptorist order, and became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. In Philadelphia, Neumann founded the first Catholic diocesan school sys... | {"Native name": "DE", "Church": "Latin Church", "See": "Philadelphia", "Predecessor": "Francis Kenrick", "Successor": "James Frederick Wood", "Ordination": "John Dubois", "Consecration": "Francis Kenrick", "Born": "Prachatitz, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire", "Died": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States", "D... |
The University of Graz (; Charles Francis University Graz) is a public research university located in Graz, Austria. It is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria.
History
thumb|right|Historic central building on the main campus
The universit... | {"Type": "Public", "Rector": "Peter Riedler", "Students": "31,580", "Campus": "Urban", "Endowment": "€189.3 million", "Website": "www.uni-graz.at/en uni-graz.at"} |
Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. In the US it was a runner up for the Michael... | {"Cover artist": "Fletcher Sibthorp", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English and 30 more", "Publisher": "Hodder Children's Books", "Media type": "Print (paperback)", "Pages": "176 pp (first edition)", "ISBN": "0-340-71600-2"} |
Alistair Maclean Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish, (born 28 November 1953) is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 until he stepped down in 2015, most recently fo... | {"Name": "The Lord Darling of Roulanish", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2007", "Office 2": "Chancellor of the Exchequer", "Prime minister 2": "Gordon Brown", "Predecessor 2": "Gordon Brown", "Successor 2": "George Osborne", "Birth name": "Alistair Maclean Darling", "Birth date": "1953 11 28 y", "Birth place": "H... |
OhmyNews is a South Korean online news website. It was founded by Oh Yeon Ho on 22 February 2000.
The site's motto is "Every Citizen is a Reporter", which reflects its status as the first news website in Korea to accept, edit, and publish articles from its readers in an open source-style. About 20% of the site's conte... | {"URL": "http://www.ohmynews.com/", "Commercial": "Yes", "Registration": "Required", "Available in": "Korean", "Launched": "2000 02 22 yes", "Current status": "Online"} |
Jan-Carl Raspe (24 July 1944 - 18 October 1977) was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction (RAF).
Early life
Raspe was born in Seefeld in Tirol (then Germany, now Austria). He was described as gentle but had difficulty communicating with other people. His father, a businessman, died before his bir... | {"Name": "Jan-Carl Raspe", "Birth date": "1944 7 24 y", "Birth place": "Seefeld in Tirol, Ostmark, Germany", "Death date": "1977 10 18 1944 7 24 y", "Death place": "Stuttgart, West Germany", "Death cause": "Gunshot wound", "Occupation": "German militant; convicted criminal", "Organization": "Red Army Faction"} |
The Cisalpine Republic (; Emilian-Romagnol: Repóblica Ciṣalpèina; ) was a sister republic of France in Northern Italy that existed from 1797 to 1799, with a second version until 1802.
Creation
After the Battle of Lodi in May 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte organized two states: one to the south of the Po, the Cispadane Repub... | {"Native name": "it Repubblica Cisalpina", "Conventional long name": "Cisalpine Republic", "Common languages": "ItalianEmilian-Romagnol, Lombard", "Starting event": "Established", "Date established": "29 June", "Event 1": "Constitution adopted", "Event 1 date": "8 July 1797", "Event 2": "Treaty of Campo Formio", "Event... |
Deep house is a subgenre of house music that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with the lush chords of 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. Its origins are attributed to the early recordings of Larry Heard (aka Mr. Fingers), including his influential track "Can You Feel It".
Cha... | {"Name": "Deep house", "Stylistic origins": "House Chicago house soul jazz-funk \"Crossing Traditions\"/>", "Cultural origins": "1985, Chicago, United States", "Derivative forms": "Amapiano Brazilian bass future house hookah rap outsider house slap house tribal house tropical house", "Fusion genres": "Deep breaks", "Re... |
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control is a 1997 documentary film by filmmaker Errol Morris.Roger Ebert
Summary
The film profiles four subjects with extraordinary careers: Dave Hoover, a wild-animal tamer; George Mendonça, a topiary gardener at Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Ray Mendez, an expert on n... | {"Directed by": "Errol Morris", "Produced by": "Errol Morris", "Starring": "Dave Hoover\n George Mendonça\n Ray Mendez\n Rodney Brooks", "Music by": "Caleb Sampson", "Cinematography": "Robert Richardson", "Edited by": "Shondra MerrillKaren Schmeer", "Distributed by": "Sony Pictures Classics", "Box office": "$878,960 (U... |
thumb|right|200px|Bust of Oscar Kjellberg in Sjöfartsmuseet, Göteborg. Sculpted by Arvid Bryth in 1957.
Oscar Kjellberg (21 September 1870 - 5 July 1931) was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. He founded Elektriska Svetsnings-Aktiebolaget (ESAB) in 1904 and Kjellberg Finsterwalde in 1922. He invented the coated elec... | {"Name": "Oscar Kjellberg", "Birth date": "1870 9 21 yes", "Death date": "1931 7 5 1870 9 21 yes", "Nationality": "Swedish", "Occupation": "Inventor, industrialist, founder of ESAB"} |
The Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen, also Warthegau) was a Nazi German Reichsgau formed from parts of Polish territory annexed in 1939 during World War II. It comprised the region of Greater Poland and adjacent areas. Parts of Warthegau matched the similarly named pre-Versailles Prussian province of Pos... | {"Conventional long name": "Reichsgau Wartheland", "Native name": "Warthegau", "Common name": "occupied Poland", "Capital": "Posen", "Year founded": "1939", "Year dissolved": "1945", "Today part of": "Poland"} |
The Radical Republicans (later also known as "Stalwarts"John G. Sproat, "'Old Ideals' and 'New Realities' in the Gilded Age," Reviews in American History, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Dec., 1973), pp. 565-570) were a faction within the Republican Party originating from the party's founding in 1854—some six years before the Civil War... | {"Founded": "1854", "Succeeded by": "Stalwart faction of the Republican Party", "Merged into": "Republican Party", "Ideology": "RadicalismAbolitionismRadical Republican https://www.britannica.com/topic/Radical-Republican June 13, 2022 britannica.com Encyclopædia Britannica Radical Republican, during and after the Ameri... |
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