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The Tigray Region, officially the Tigray National Regional State, is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob, and Kunama people. Its capital and largest city is Mekelle. Tigray is the fifth-largest by area, the fifth-most populous, and the fifth-most densely ... | {"Rank": "5th", "Density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "ET-TI", "Website": "https://www.ethiopia.gov.et/regional-states/tigray-regional-state/"} |
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries. It lies... | {"Accelerator type": "Synchrotron", "Beam type": "proton, heavy ion", "Target type": "collider", "Maximum energy": "6.8 TeV per beam (13.6 TeV collision energy)", "Luminosity": "1e34 cm2⋅s", "Circumference": "26659 m mi br()", "Location": "Near Geneva, Switzerland; across the border of France and Switzerland. Mostly in... |
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users. It is maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors ... | {"Created by": "Edward N. Zalta", "Launched": "no 1995", "ISSN": "1095-5054\n<!--", "OCLC": "643092515"} |
Afonso, Hereditary Prince of Portugal (; 18 May 147513 July 1491) was the heir apparent to the throne of Portugal. He was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in a horse-riding accident on the banks of the river Tagus.
Heir apparent
Afonso, named after his grandfather, King Afonso V, was the only son of King John II and... | {"Born": "18 May 1475", "Died": "Santarém District", "Father": "John II of Portugal", "Mother": "Eleanor of Viseu", "Burial": "Batalha Monastery", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
Liam Fox (born 22 September 1961) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Defence from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Conservative Party, Fox has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Somerset, formerly Woodspring, since 19... | {"Name": "Liam Fox", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "13 July 2016", "Term end": "24 July 2019", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for Defence", "Prime minister 2": "David Cameron", "Predecessor 2": "Bob Ainsworth", "Successor 2": "Philip Hammond", "Birth date": "yes 1961 9 22", "Birth place": "... |
Brindas () is a commune of the Rhône department in eastern France.
Geography
It lies about 15 km (9,5 mi) South-West of Lyon, but not included in the Metropolis of Lyon.
History
Brindas is often regarded as the second home of Guignol, a French puppet show from Lyon. The name of the village was often quoted in pa... | {"Name": "Brindas", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "Left to right: The tower, the town hall and the church", "Arrondissement": "Lyon", "Canton": "Brignais", "Postal code": "69126", "Mayor": "Frédéric JeanRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19e... |
Lega Nord (; acronym: LN), whose complete name is (), is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy. In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the party was rebranded as (), without changing its official name. The party was nonetheless frequently referred to only as "Lega" even bef... | {"Founded": "4 December 1989 (alliance)\n 8 January 1991 (party)", "Merger of": "Liga Veneta\n Lega Lombarda\n Autonomist Piedmont\n Ligurian Union\n Emilian-Romagna League\n Tuscan Alliance", "Headquarters": "Via Bellerio, 41 20161 Milan", "Newspaper": "la Padania (1997-2014)", "Ideology": "FederalismAlberto Spektoro... |
North American Bus Industries, Inc. (NABI) is a former manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses with its headquarters, bus manufacturing and assembly operations, located in Anniston, Alabama. Its products ranged from 31-feet to 60-feet in length, and were sold to operators throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. ... | {"Founded": "1992", "Defunct": "2015", "Headquarters": "Anniston, Alabama", "Industry": "Automotive", "Products": "Transit buses", "Parent": "New Flyer Industries"} |
The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) is a political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green and regionalist political parties.
Formed following the 1999 European elections for the 5th European Parliament, the Greens/EFA group now consists of five distinct European political parties, name... | {"Name": "The Greens/European Free Alliance", "English abbr.": "Greens/EFA\"Who we are\". https://web.archive.org/web/20120118235647/http://www.greens-efa.eu/about-us/48-who-we-are.html 18 January 2012. Greens-efa.eu. Retrieved 28 September 2013.", "French abbr.": "Verts/ALE\"Qui sommes-nous ?\" https://web.archive.org... |
Neoplan Bus GmbH is a German automotive company that manufactures buses, trolleybuses and coaches. Since 2001, it has been a subsidiary of MAN Truck & Bus SE.
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History
Early days
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For local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 areas designated as "council areas" (), which are all governed by single-tier authorities designated as "councils". They have the option under the Local Government (Gaelic Names) (Scotland) Act 1997 of being known (but not re-designated) as a "comhairle" when o... | {"Category": "Administrative unit", "Location": "Scotland", "Number": "32", "Populations": "21,400 (Orkney Islands) - 593,200 (Glasgow)", "Areas": "21 sqmi (Dundee) - 11838 sqmi (Highland)", "Government": "Council government", "Subdivisions": "None"} |
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, (; 7 December 1924 - 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the first secretary-general of the Socialist Party, from its... | {"Name": "Mário Soares", "Image caption": "Soares in 1978", "Term start": "9 March 1986", "Term end": "9 March 1996", "President 2": "António Ramalho Eanes", "Predecessor 2": "José Pinheiro de Azevedo", "Successor 2": "Alfredo Nobre da Costa", "Birth date": "yes 1924 12 07", "Birth name": "Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soa... |
Pussy () is a small village in the commune of La Léchère in the Savoie département of France. It is situated on the eastern slope of Mont Bellachat above the left bank of the Isère, 9 km (5.5 mi.) northwest of Moûtiers. The name derives from Pusiacum, based on the Roman personal name Pussius, which refers to the owner ... | {"Name": "Pussy", "Caption": "Village center", "Arrondissement": "Albertville", "Canton": "Moûtiers", "Postal code": "73260", "Coordinates": "45.5516 6.4549 dms inline,title", "Area (square km)": "18", "Population": "339", "Population Date": "2019"} |
The Aragonese Party (, PAR) is a political party which advocates the interests of Aragon within Spain. The party was founded in 1978 under the name Aragonese Regionalist Party, but changed its name in 1990, keeping the initials PAR. The founders of PAR included Emilio Eiroa, who later served as the President of the Gov... | {"President": "Clemente Sánchez-Garnica", "Headquarters": "Calle Coso 87, 50001 Zaragoza", "Founded": "1978 1", "Preceded by": "Centre Independent Aragonese Candidacy", "Ideology": "Aragonese regionalismConservatismBarberà, O., & Rodríguez, J. (2009). Los partidos de ámbito no estatal en Aragón: el Partido Aragonés y l... |
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The is a communist party in Japan. Founded in 1922, it is the oldest political party in the country. It has 270,000 members making it one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world. Kazuo Shii has been the party's chairman since 2000.
The JC... | {"Abbreviation": "JCP", "Headquarters": "4-26-7 Sendagaya, Shibuya, 151-8586 Japan", "Founded": "yes 15 July 1922Uno 1991 1030", "Newspaper": "Shimbun Akahata", "Ideology": "nowrap\n Communism\n Progressivism\n Democratic socialism", "Political position": "Left-wing to far-left", "International affiliation": "IMC... |
The Syslinux Project is a suite of five different boot loaders for starting up Linux distros on computers. It was primarily developed by H. Peter Anvin.
Components
The Syslinux Project consists of five different boot loaders:
The eponymous SYSLINUX, used for booting from the FAT filesystem
ISOLINUX, used for bootin... | {"Developer(s)": "H. Peter Anvin", "Type": "Boot loader", "License": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "Website": "https://www.syslinux.org"} |
The counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies in England, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England and informally known as ceremonial counties, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed. Legally, the areas in England, Wales, and Scotland are defined by the Lieutenancies Act 1997 as "... | {"Category": "Lieutenancy areas", "Location": "England", "Number": "48", "Populations": "8,000 (City of London)-8,167,000 (Greater London)Table 2 2011 Census: Usual resident population and population density, local authorities in the United Kingdom UK Census 2011 UK usual resident population Greater London excluding Ci... |
Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by John McTiernan (who directed the first installment). It was written by Jonathan Hensleigh, based on the screenplay Simon Says by Hensleigh and on the characters created by Roderick Thorp for his 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever. Die Hard with... | {"Directed by": "John McTiernan", "Produced by": "John McTiernan\n Michael Tadross", "Screenplay by": "Jonathan Hensleigh", "Based on": "Simon Says Jonathan Hensleigh\n Characters Roderick Thorp", "Starring": "Bruce Willis\n Jeremy Irons\n Samuel L. Jackson\n Graham Greene\n Colleen Camp\n Larry Bryggman\n Sam Phillips... |
The Band Concert is a 1935 American animated short film produced in 3-strip Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The 73rd short film in the Mickey Mouse series, it was the second release of the year, and notable as the first in the series to be produced in color.While two more Mickey M... | {"Directed by": "Wilfred JacksonWalt DisneySmith Dave Dave Smith (archivist) Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia Band Concert, The 1st 1996 Hyperion New York 0-7868-8149-6 40-41 https://archive.org/details/disneytozofficia00smit/page/40", "Produced by": "Walt Disney", "Starring": "Clarence NashPinto Colvig", "Musi... |
World of Darkness is a series of tabletop role-playing games, originally created by Mark Rein-Hagen for White Wolf Publishing. It began as an annual line of five games in 1991-1995, with Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, Wraith: The Oblivion, and Changeling: The Dreaming, along wit... | {"Type": "Tabletop role-playing games", "Genre": "Horror", "Creator(s)": "Mark Rein-Hagen", "Publisher(s)": "White Wolf Publishing Onyx Path Publishing Modiphius Entertainment Renegade Game Studios Paradox Interactive", "Owner(s)": "White Wolf Publishing (1991-2006) CCP Games (2006-2015) Paradox Interactive (2015-)", "... |
The Basque Nationalist Party (, EAJ ; , PNV; , PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English, is a Basque nationalist "the PNV, a Basque nationalist and Christian democratic party" and regionalist political party. The party is located in the centre of the political spectrum.
The party is described as C... | {"President": "Andoni Ortuzar", "Ideology": "nowrap\n Basque nationalism\n Christian democracy\n Regionalism", "Headquarters": "Sabin Etxea, Ibáñez de Bilbao, 16 Bilbao", "International affiliation": "None, previously Alliance of DemocratsXosé-Manoel Nuñez A State of Many Nations: The Construction of a Plural S... |
Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Paris SG or simply PSG is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. As France's most successful club, they have won over 40 official honours, including eleve... | {"Full name": "Paris Saint-Germain Football Club", "Nickname(s)": "Les Parisiens (The Parisians)Les Rouge-et-Bleu (The Red-and-Blues)", "Short name": "PSG, Paris, Paris SG", "Founded": "yes 1970 8 12", "Capacity": "47,929", "League": "PSG", "Website": "http://www.psg.fr/"} |
The preserved counties of Wales (Welsh: siroedd cadwedig) are the eight current areas used in Wales for the ceremonial purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty. They are based on the counties which were used for local government and other purposes between 1974 and 1996. Each comprises one or more of the 22 single-tier pr... | {"Category": "Lieutenancy areas", "Location": "Wales", "Created": "1 April 1996", "Created by": "Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)", "Number": "2008"} |
Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan. It is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatr... | {"Name": "Annie", "Caption": "Original Broadway windowcard", "Composer(s)": "Charles Strouse", "Lyricist(s)": "Martin Charnin", "Book-writer": "Thomas Meehan", "Based on?": "Little Orphan Annie Harold Gray", "Productions": "1976 Goodspeed Opera House1977 Broadway1978 West End1978 North American tour1978 US tour 1979 US... |
The Facts of Life is an American television sitcom created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon and a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes that originally aired on NBC from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms of the 1980s. The series focuses on Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae), as she becomes ... | {"Genre": "Sitcom", "Created by": "Dick Clair\nJenna McMahon", "Developed by": "Howard Leeds\nBen Starr\nJerry Mayer", "Starring": "Charlotte Rae\nLisa Whelchel\nKim Fields\nMindy Cohn\nNancy McKeon\nJohn Lawlor\nJenny O'Hara\nFelice Schachter\nJulie Piekarski\nJulie Anne Haddock\nMolly Ringwald\nPamela Segall\nMackenz... |
The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, The Wonderful World of Disney, was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 onward. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has... | {"Also known as": "Walt Disney's Disneyland (1954-58)\nWalt Disney Presents (1958-61)\nWalt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961-69)\nDisney's Wonderful World (1979-81)\nWalt Disney (1981-83)\nThe Disney Sunday Movie (1986-88)\nThe Magical World of Disney (1988-90)\nThe Wonderful World of Disney (1969-79, 1983-87, 1... |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 American live-action/animated musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and songs written by the Sherman Brothers. It was produced by Bill Walsh for Walt Disney Productions. It is based upon the books The Magic Bedknob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons (1943) and... | {"Directed by": "Robert Stevenson", "Screenplay by": "Bill Walsh\n Don DaGradi", "Based on": "The Magic Bedknob &Bonfires and Broomsticks Mary Norton", "Produced by": "Bill Walsh", "Starring": "Angela Lansbury\n David Tomlinson\n Ian Weighill\n Cindy O'Callaghan\n Roy Snart", "Cinematography": "Frank V. Phillips", "Edi... |
The Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (RCWP-CPSU; ; Rossiyskaya kommunisticheskaya rabochaya partiya v sostave Kommunisticheskoy partii Sovetskogo Soyuza, RKRP-KPSS) is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in Russia. It is considered the republican branch of the... | {"Abbreviation": "RCWP-CPSU (English)РКРП-КПСС (Russian)", "Leader": "Stepan Malentsov", "Founded": "2001 10 27 y (RCWP-RPC)2012 4 21 y (RCWP-CPSU)", "Merger of": "RCWPRPCSK", "Ideology": "CommunismMarxism-LeninismStalinismAnti-revisionism", "Political position": "Far-left", "Headquarters": "Saint Petersburg, Russia", ... |
The Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES) (Fédération canadienne étudiante de génie in French) is the national association of undergraduate engineering student societies in Canada and exists to organize activities, provide services and interact with professional and other bodies at the national and interna... | {"Abbreviation": "CFES", "Type": "Organizations based in Canada", "Location": "Ottawa, Ontario, Canada", "Website": "http://www.cfes.ca/"} |
Lilian Vera Rolfe, (26 April 1914 - 5 February 1945) was an Allied secret agent in the Second World War.
Early life
Rolfe and her twin sister Helen Fedora Rolfe were the daughters of George Rolfe, a British chartered accountant working in Paris. Although she grew up in Paris, she and her sister came to England for su... | {"Nickname(s)": "Nadine", "Born": "Paris, France", "Died": "Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany", "Allegiance": "United Kingdom", "Awards": "Member of the Order of the British EmpireMentioned in dispatchesCroix de Guerre (France)"} |
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What's Happening!! is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976, until April 28, 1979, premiering as a summer series. It returned as a weekly series from November 1976 until its April 1979 conclusion. What's Ha... | {"Running time": "22-25 minutes", "Created by": "Eric Monte", "Starring": "Ernest Lee ThomasHaywood NelsonFred BerryDanielle SpencerMabel King (Season 1-2) Shirley Hemphill", "Opening theme": "\"What's Happening!!\"", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original network": "ABC", "Original release": "1979 04 28"} |
Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an American animated anthology series that aired on Nickelodeon."New Cartoons Are Draw On Some Old Animation Traditions" By Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1998 Created by Fred Seibert, it was produced by Frederator Incorporated and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, running as part of Nick... | {"Genre": "Animation\n Comedy\n Variety\n Cartoon series", "Created by": "Fred Seibert", "Presented by": "Various School Kids (1998)\n Kenan Thompson (1999)\n Josh Server (2001)", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original network": "Nickelodeon", "Running time": "23 minutes", "Original release": "2001 3 23"} |
The Communist Party of Austria (, KPÖ) is a communist party in Austria. Established in 1918 as the Communist Party of German-Austria (KPDÖ), it is one of the world's oldest communist parties. The KPÖ was banned between 1933 and 1945 under both the Austrofascist regime and the Nazi German administration of Austria after... | {"Abbreviation": "KPÖ", "Leader": "Günther Hopfgartner", "General Secretary": "Florian Birngruber", "Founded": "3 November 1918http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Austrian+Communist+Party The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Communist Party of Austria USSR 1979 3 May 2013", "Ideology": "Communismhttp://www.parties-and... |
The Communist Party of Bangladesh () is a Marxist-Leninist communist party in Bangladesh.
History
After the partitioning of India in 1947, during the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India in Calcutta, the delegates coming from regions within the newly founded state of Pakistan (which included what now constit... | {"Abbreviation": "CPB", "President": "Shah Alam", "General Secretary": "Ruhin Hossain Prince", "Founded": "1971", "Split from": "Communist Party of Pakistan", "Ideology": "CommunismMarxism-Leninism", "Political position": "Far-left", "Headquarters": "Mukti Bhaban, 2 Comrade Moni Singh Street, Purana Paltan, Dhaka, Bang... |
Lou Hoover (née Henry; March 29, 1874 - January 7, 1944) was an American philanthropist, geologist, and the first lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President Herbert Hoover. She was active in community organizations and volunteer groups throughout her life, including the Girl Scouts of the USA,... | {"Name": "Lou Henry Hoover", "Term start": "March 4, 1929", "Term end": "March 4, 1933", "Birth name": "Lou Henry", "Birth date": "1874 3 29", "Birth place": "Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.", "Death date": "1944 1 7 1874 3 29", "Death place": "New York City, New York, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Herbert Hoover February 10, 1899", "Educ... |
The Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ) is a communist party from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was formed in 2000 and strongly opposes the nationalism present in the region and the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Some of their major aims are the introduction of workers' self-... | {"Abbreviation": "RKP-BiH", "Leader": "Goran Marković (lawyer) sr Горан Марковић (правник) Goran Marković", "Founded": "2000", "Headquarters": "Bijeljina", "Ideology": "CommunismLuxemburgismWorkers' self-managementAnti-nationalismYugoslavism", "Political position": "Left-wing to far-left", "International affiliation": ... |
The Communist Party of Brazil (, PCdoB) is a political party in Brazil. The PCdoB officially adheres to Marxist-Leninist theory. It has national reach and deep penetration in the trade union and student movements, but little representation in elected positions.
PCdoB shares the disputed title of "oldest political part... | {"President": "Luciana de Oliveira Santos", "Founded": "yes 1922 03 25 (official) Apresentação do Partidoyes 1962 02 18 (split from PCB)", "Registered": "yes 1988 06 23", "Split from": "Brazilian Communist Party", "Ideology": "CommunismMarxism-LeninismTSE https://web.archive.org/web/20170216051000/http://www.justicaele... |
Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, (born 12 May 1937) is an English actress known for her many television and film roles.Profile of Susan Hampshire; registration required, International Who's Who. Accessed 3 September 2006. A three-time Emmy Award winner, she won for The Forsyte Saga in 1970, The First Churchills in 19... | {"Caption": "Hampshire in a trailer for The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)", "Name": "Susan Hampshire", "Post-nominals": "CBE", "Birth date": "1937 5 12 y", "Birth place": "Kensington, London, England, UK", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1947-present", "Spouse(s)": "Pierre Granier-Deferre 1967 1974 div Eddi... |
Component Pascal is a programming language in the tradition of Niklaus Wirth's Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon PDF (334 KB) PDF (4'398 KB)
and Oberon-2.
It bears the name of the language Pascal and preserves its heritage, but is incompatible with Pascal. Instead, it is a minor variant and refinement of Oberon-2 with a more ... | {"Name": "Component Pascal", "Family": "Wirth Oberon", "Developer": "Oberon microsystems", "Initial release date": "1997", "Typing discipline": "Strong, static", "Scope": "Lexical", "Website": "blackboxframework.org", "Influenced by": "Pascal, Oberon, Oberon-2"} |
The Castafiore Emerald () is the twenty-first volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from July 1961 to September 1962 in Tintin magazine. In contrast to the previous Tintin books, Hergé deliberately broke the adventure formula he had created: it is th... | {"Publisher": "Methuen", "Date": "1963", "Series": "The Adventures of Tintin", "Language": "French", "Published in": "Tintin magazine", "Issues": "665-726", "Preceded by": "1960", "Followed by": "1968"} |
The Communist Party of Canada () is a federal political party in Canada, founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality. Although it does not currently have any parliamentary representation, the party's candidates have previously been elected to the House of Commons, the Ontario legislature, the Manitoba legislature, a... | {"Abbreviation": "CPC (English)PCC (French)", "Leader": "Elizabeth Rowley", "Founded": "1921 05 28", "Headquarters": "290 Danforth AvenueToronto, OntarioM4K 1N6", "Newspaper": "People's Voice", "Ideology": "Communism Marxism-Leninism", "Political position": "Far-left", "International affiliation": "IMCWP (since 1998)Co... |
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. Originally claimed by several countries (see Oregon Country), the region was d... | {"Conventional long name": "Territory of Oregon", "Common name": "Oregon Territory", "Year founded": "1848", "Regional motto": "Alis volat propriis", "Capital": "Oregon City (1848-1851)\nSalem (1851-1855)\nCorvallis (1855)\nSalem (1855-1859)", "Government type": "Organized incorporated territory"} |
Room on Fire is the second studio album by American rock band the Strokes, released on October 28, 2003, through RCA Records. Its title is derived from a lyric in the song "Reptilia".
Room on Fire received positive reviews upon its release, and reached number four on the US Billboard 200 (where it went on to sell 597,... | {"Released": "October 28, 2003", "Recorded": "2003", "Studio": "TMF (New York City)", "Genre": "Indie rockhttp://www.treblezine.com/35784-100-best-indie-rock-albums-of-the-00s/ Top 100 Indie Rock albums of the '00s www.treblezine.com July 12, 2017 en-US 2017-07-24 garage rock revivalhttps://consequence.net/2018/10/albu... |
Eduardo Mata (5 September 19425 January 1995) was a Mexican conductor and composer.
Career
Mata was born in Mexico City. He studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he studied composition under Carlos Chávez, and Julián Orbón. In 1964 he rece... | {"Name": "Eduardo Mata", "Birth date": "1942 09 05", "Birth place": "Mexico", "Death date": "1995 01 05 1942 09 05", "Death place": "Cuernavaca, Mexico", "Nationality": "Mexican", "Occupation": "Conductor, composer"} |
Yax Nuun Ahiin I, also known as Curl Snout and Curl Nose (died 17 June 404?), was a 4th-century ruler of the Maya city of Tikal. His name, when transcribed, is YAX-?-AH:N, translated "First ? Crocodile". He took the throne on 12 September 379 and reigned until his death.These are the dates indicated on the Maya inscrip... | {"Father": "Spearthrower Owl", "Born": "Teotihuacan?", "Died": "Tikal", "Burial": "Temple 34 (Burial 10)", "Religion": "Maya religion"} |
Pope Alexander II of Alexandria (Coptic: ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲟⲥ; died 14 February 729) was the 43rd Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
He presided over his church during an era of great hardship and oppression.
Consecration
There is little information available on Alexander's early life as a layman prior to... | {"Predecessor": "Simeon I", "Successor": "Cosmas I", "Born": "Bana, Egypt", "Died": "Egypt", "Nationality": "Egyptian", "Denomination": "Coptic Orthodox Christian", "Residence": "Saint Mark's Church", "Feast day": "14 February (7 Amshir in the Coptic Calendar)"} |
Air France-KLM S.A., also known as Air France-KLM Group, is a Franco-Dutch airline holding company incorporated under French law with its headquarters at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Tremblay-en-France, near Paris. The group has offices in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, and in Amstelveen, Netherlands."Contact Us ... | {"Type": "Société Anonyme", "ISIN": "n y FR001400J770", "Industry": "Aviation", "Products": "Air France\nAir France Cargo\nAir France Hop\nTransavia France\nKLM\nKLM Cargo\nKLM Cityhopper \nTransavia\nMartinair\nMinority Interests\nAir Corsica 12%\nAir Côte d’Ivoire 20%\nAir Mauritius 2.78%\nAir Tahiti 7%\nKenya Airway... |
Antoine de Bourbon, roi de Navarre (22 April 1518 - 17 November 1562) was the King of Navarre through his marriage (jure uxoris) to Queen Jeanne III, from 1555 until his death. He was the first monarch of the House of Bourbon, of which he was head from 1537. Despite being first prince of the blood he was dominated by k... | {"Born": "La Fère, Picardy, France", "Died": "Les Andelys, Eure", "Burial": "Vendôme", "Father": "Charles, Duke of Vendôme", "Mother": "Françoise of Alençon", "Religion": "See details"} |
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest is a 2002 film based on the novel of the same name by technology-culture writer Po Bronson. The film stars Adam Garcia and Rosario Dawson. The screenplay was written by Jon Favreau and Gary Tieche.
Plot
Andy Kasper is a marketer who quits his job in search of something more ... | {"Directed by": "Mick Jackson", "Produced by": "Trevor Albert", "Screenplay by": "Jon FavreauGary Tieche", "Based on": "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest by Po Bronson", "Starring": "Adam GarciaRosario DawsonJake BuseyEnrico ColantoniEthan SupleeAnjul NigamGregory Jbara", "Music by": "Marco Beltrami", "Cinem... |
Cristino García Granda (6 March 1914 - 21 February 1946) was a fighter with the French Resistance in France during World War II. He was born in Gozón, Asturias, Spain and was executed by the Francoist regime.
He took part in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the , a special unit of the Spanish Republican Army which... | {"Name": "Cristino García Granda", "Birth date": "1914 06 03 y", "Birth place": "Gozón, Asturias, Spain", "Nationality": "Spanish", "Death date": "1946 02 21 1914 06 03 y", "Death place": "Madrid, Spain", "Death cause": "Execution by firing squad", "Burial place": "Cementerio de Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain", "Party": "C... |
José Manuel Figueroa Sr.Edmundo Perez Que me entierren con narcocorridos 2012 "... de Marco Enrique Yépez Uribe, el Jarocho o el Comandante Alex, principal testigo de la PGR, era un rancho situado en Juliantla, Guerrero, propiedad del cantante José Manuel Figueroa, conocido artísticamente como Joan Sebastian. (April 8,... | {"Name": "Joan Sebastian", "Caption": "Joan Sebastian in 2009", "Birth name": "José Manuel Figueroa Sr.", "Birth date": "1951 04 8", "Birth place": "Juliantla, Guerrero, Mexico", "Death date": "2015 07 13 1951 04 8", "Death place": "Teacalco, Guerrero, Mexico", "Occupation": "Singer\n songwriter", "Website": "joansebas... |
Sak KʼukʼThe ruler's name, when transcribed is ?-[MUWA꞉N]MAT. also known as Muwaan Mat, Lady Sak Kʼukʼ and Lady Beastie (died 640), was queen of the Maya city-state of Palenque. She acceded to the throne in October, 612 and ruled until 615.These are the dates indicated on the Maya inscriptions in Mesoamerican Long Coun... | {"Father": "Janahb Pakal (possibly)", "Mother": "Yohl Ikʼnal", "Born": "Palenque", "Died": "Palenque", "Religion": "Maya religion"} |
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, or , is a Japanese national university in Sapporo, Hokkaido.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédé... | {"Motto": "ja 少年よ、大志を抱け", "Type": "Public (National)", "President": "Kiyohiro Houkin", "Undergraduates": "11,935 (2017)https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/about/university-profile/number-of-students/ Number of Students Hokkaido University en 2018-12-25", "Postgraduates": "6,336 (2017)", "Campus": "Urban, 3.0 km²", "Endowm... |
thumb|right|250px|A painting by George Harvey (1801-1878) entitled Nightfall, St. Thomas Church, Broadway, New York () currently in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, shows the first Saint Thomas Church on the corner of Broadway and Houston Street
Saint Thomas Church is an Episcopal parish church of... | {"Denomination": "Episcopal", "OS grid reference": "St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue", "Country": "United States", "Location": "53rd Street and Fifth AvenueManhattan, New York City", "Website": "www.saintthomaschurch.org", "Founded": "1823", "Dedication": "Thomas the Apostle", "Consecrated": "April 25, 1916", "Architect(... |
Aloha Stadium is a closed multi-purpose stadium located in Halawa, Hawaii, a western suburb of Honolulu (though with a Honolulu address). It is the largest stadium in the state of Hawaii. , the stadium ceased fan-attended operations indefinitely, and placed a moratorium on the scheduling of new events. It is located n... | {"Location": "Halawa, Hawaii, U.S.", "Coordinates": "21.373 N 157.93 W type:landmark_scale:2000_region:US-HI it", "Opened": "September 12, 1975https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lPJLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4809%2C6048306 The Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Associated Press Texas A and I crushes Hawaii September 15, 19... |
I Love the '80s Strikes Back is a miniseries and the third installment of the I Love the... series on VH1 in which various music and TV personalities reminisce about 1980s popular culture in a mostly humorous manner. The series premiered on October 20, 2003, and is a sequel to I Love the '80s.
The sequel designation i... | {"Genre": "Documentary", "Written by": "Mike Goudreau", "Narrated by": "Doug Jeffers", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "60 minutes", "Original network": "VH1", "Original release": "2003 10 24"} |
Isabella I (1172 - 5 April 1205) was reigning Queen of Jerusalem from 1190 to her death in 1205. She was the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his second wife Maria Comnena, a Byzantine princess. Her half-brother, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, engaged her to Humphrey IV of Toron. Her mother's second husband, Balian of ... | {"Father": "Amalric I of Jerusalem", "Mother": "Maria Comnena", "Born": "Nablus, Kingdom of Jerusalem", "Died": "Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 - April 23, 1990) was an American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Born in New York City and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Goddard initially began her career as a child fashion model and performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl. In the ... | {"Name": "Paulette Goddard", "Caption": "Goddard in 1947", "Birth name": "Marion LevyBirth names also cited include: Marion Levy;Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Completely Updated and Expanded, Knopf Doubleday (2010) p. 385Brando, Marlon. Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, Random House Publ. (1... |
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The 2003 Saskatchewan general election was held on November 5, 2003, to elect the 58 members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (MLAs). The election was called on October 8 by Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Lynda Haverstock, on the advice of Premier Lorne Calvert.
Ca... | {"Name": "2003 Saskatchewan general election", "Country": "Saskatchewan", "Type": "parliamentary", "Show party colours?": "no", "Link to parties?": "no", "Previous election": "1999 Saskatchewan general election", "Previous year": "1999", "Election date": "2003 11 05", "Next election": "2007 Saskatchewan general electio... |
The Division Bell is the fourteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 4 April by Columbia Records in the United States.
The second Pink Floyd album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, The Division Bell was writ... | {"Released": "1994 3 28 yes", "Recorded": "January-December 1993", "Studio": "Britannia Row, Astoria, Abbey Road, and Metropolis in London The Creek", "Genre": "Progressive rock\n new ageApril 22 Tom Sinclair Updated EDT 1994 at 04:00 AM The Division Bell https://ew.com/article/1994/04/22/division-bell/ 2023-09-1... |
Joseba Beloki Dorronsoro (born 12 August 1973) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer.
Tour successes
Beloki turned professional in 1998 with , joined in 2000, and then in 2001. A strong climber in the high mountains and a top performer in individual time trials, he made it to the podium in each of hi... | {"Name": "Joseba Beloki", "Image caption": "Joseba Beloki on Col de Peyresourde in 2005", "Full name": "Joseba Beloki Dorronsoro", "Birth date": "1973 8 12 y", "Birth place": "Lazkao, Basque Country, Spain", "Height": "1.78", "Weight": "68 kg lb stlb 0 on", "Current team": "Retired", "Discipline": "Road", "Role": "Ride... |
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 - 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China. A focus o... | {"Name": "Joseph Needham", "Post-nominals": "GBR CH FRS FBA 100%", "Birth name": "Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham", "Birth date": "9 December 1900", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "24 March 1995 6 December 1900", "Death place": "Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England", "Known For": "Science and Civi... |
Gap (, ) is the prefecture of the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, the commune had a population of 40,631, making it the most populated city in Hautes-Alpes. At a height of 750 metres above sea level, to the south of the Écrins Massif, it is also France's... | {"Name": "Gap", "Commune Status": "Prefecture and commune", "Image Flag": "Flag of Beaugency.gif", "Caption": "Gap seen from Puymare Hill", "Arrondissement": "Gap", "Canton": "Gap-1, 2, 3 and 4", "Postal code": "05000", "Mayor": "Roger DidierRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/... |
Zolpidem, sold under the brand name Ambien among others, is a medication primarily used for the short-term treatment of sleeping problems. Guidelines recommend that it be used only after cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia and behavioral changes, such as sleep hygiene, have been tried. It decreases the time to sl... | {"Trade name": "Ambien and Ambien CR, others", "AHFS": "monograph zolpidem-tartrate", "Pregnancycategory": "Zolpidem Use During Pregnancy Drugs.com 30 June 2020 https://www.drugs.com/pregnancy/zolpidem.html 14 August 2020", "Dependenceliability": "Moderate Attarian HP Clinical Handbook of Insomnia 2016 Springer ... |
Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 - 12 April 2020) was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and assertionsGoodman, David S. G. (2006): "Mao and The Da Vinci Code: Conspiracy, Narrative... | {"Born": "yes 1937 8 14", "Died": "yes 2020 4 12 1937 8 14", "Nationality": "English", "Occupation": "Author, retired naval officer"} |
George Baldwin Selden (September 14, 1846 - January 17, 1922) was an American patent lawyer and inventor from New York who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895.Flink, p. 51 Probably the most absurd action in the history of patent law was the granting of United States patent number 549,160 on November 5, ... | {"Name": "George B. Selden", "Birth name": "George Baldwin Selden", "Birth date": "1846 9 14", "Birth place": "Clarkson, New York, U.S.", "Death date": "1922 1 17 1846 9 14", "Death place": "Rochester, New York, U.S.", "Resting place": "Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester", "Education": "University of Rochester (dropped out... |
Mount Chephren is a mountain located in the Mistaya River Valley of Banff National Park, Canada.
Mount Chephren was named after Chephren, the 4th Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh. The mountain was originally named Pyramid Mountain in 1897 by J. Norman Collie, but it conflicted with an identically named peak in Jasper National... | {"Elevation": "306Kane1999/> and 3274 m", "Prominence": "1704 Mount Chephren 2013-05-18Based on a summit elevation of 3274 m", "Location": "Location in Alberta", "Coordinates": "IAMIL Mount Chephren 2013-05-18"} |
Theophilus Eaton (January 7, 1658) was a wealthy New England Puritan merchant and diplomat. He was a founder and eventual governor of New Haven Colony, and a founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His brother, Nathaniel Eaton, was the first headmaster of Harvard College.
Early life and first marriage
He was born at ... | {"Name": "Theophilus Eaton", "Image caption": "Statue of Governor Theophilus Eaton at Connecticut State Capitol, Hartford,CT.", "Term start": "June 4, 1639", "Term end": "January 7, 1658", "Birth date": "c. 1590", "Birth place": "Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England", "Death date": "January 7, 1658 (aged 67/68)", ... |
Kʼinich Kan Bahlam IIThe ruler's name, when transcribed is KʼINICH KAN[BAHLAM]-ma, translated "Radiant Snake Jaguar", Martin & Grube 2008, p. 168. (), also known as Chan Bahlum II, (May 23, 635 - February 20, 702) was ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque, in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico. He acceded to th... | {"Name": "Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II", "Title": "Ajaw", "Caption": "Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II on tablet from the Temple XVII.", "Succession": "King of Palenque", "Reign": "10 January 684 - 20 February 702", "Predecessor": "Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I", "Successor": "Kʼinich Kʼan Joy Chitam II", "Father": "Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I", "M... |
Panzer General is a 1994 computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). It simulates conflict during World War II. The designers of Panzer General were heavily influenced by the Japanese wargame series Daisenryaku.
Panzer General was a major commercial hit: 250,000 units were sold at ful... | {"Title": "Panzer General", "Developer": "Strategic Simulations", "Publisher": "Strategic Simulations", "Designer": "SSI Special Projects Group", "Programmer": "Paul Murray", "Artist": "David Jensen", "Composer": "Doug Brandon", "Released": "1994", "Genre": "Computer wargame", "Modes": "Single-player, multiplayer", "Pl... |
Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit from its founding in 1979 to its dissolution in 1994. The company was especially noted for its numerous wargames, its official computer game adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons, and for the groundbreaking Panzer ... | {"Type": "Public", "Founded": "1979", "Defunct": "1994", "Fate": "Merged into Mindscape", "Headquarters": "Mountain View, California, U.S.", "Industry": "Video games", "Products": "WargamesRole-playing games"} |
Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Designed in 1942 and then built in under a year in great secrecy, within hour... | {"Location": "Arromanches and Omaha Beach, Normandy, France", "Coordinates": "49.3475 -0.6340 type:landmark_region:FR inline", "Opened": "June 1944", "Closed": "March 1945", "Type": "Temporary portable harbour", "Purpose": "Military equipment, stores and personnel", "Joins": "Beach"} |
Ludwig III (Ludwig Luitpold Josef Maria Aloys Alfried; 7 January 1845 - 18 October 1921) was the last King of Bavaria, reigning from 1913 to 1918. Initially, he served in the Bavarian military as a lieutenant and went on to hold the rank of Oberleutnant during the Austro-Prussian War. He entered politics at the age of ... | {"Father": "Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria", "Mother": "Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria", "Born": "Munich, Bavaria, German Confederation", "Died": "Sárvár, Hungary", "Burial": "Munich Frauenkirche", "Religion": "Roman Catholic"} |
Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 539 U.S. 23 (2003), was a copyright and trademark case of the Supreme Court of the United States involving the applicability of the Lanham Act to a work in the public domain..
Background
In 1948, Fox obtained the exclusive rights to create a television series, Crusade... | {"Date argued": "April 2", "Year argued": "2003", "Date decided": "June 2", "Year decided": "2003", "Full case name": "Dastar Corporation, Petitioner v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, et al.", "United States Reports volume number": "539", "United States Reports page number": "23", "Parallel citations": "123 S.... |
James Harrison Wilson Thompson (March 21, 1906 - disappeared March 26, 1967; declared dead 1974) was an American businessman who helped revitalize the Thai silk industry in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time of his disappearance he was one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. Time magazine claimed he "almost sing... | {"Name": "Jim Thompson", "Birth name": "James Harrison Wilson Thompson", "Birth date": "March 21, 1906", "Birth place": "Greenville, Delaware, United States of America", "Disappeared date": "March 26, 1967 (aged 61)", "Disappeared place": "Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia.", "Disappeared status": "Declared dead in a... |
John Samuel Mbiti (1931-2019) was a Kenyan-born Christian philosopher and writer. He was an ordained Anglican priest, and is considered "the father of modern African theology".
Early life
John Mbiti was born on 30 November 1931 in Mulango, Kitui County, eastern Kenya. His parents were two farmers, Samuel Mutuvi Ngaan... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Reverend", "Name": "John Mbiti", "Birth name": "John Samuel Mbiti", "Birth date": "yes 1931 11 30", "Birth place": "Mulango, Kenya", "Death date": "2019 10 5 1931 11 30 y", "Death place": "Burgdorf, Switzerland", "Nationality": "Kenyan", "Spouse(s)": "Verena Mbiti-Siegenthaler", "Module": "yes... |
Brian Lehrer (born October 5, 1952) is an American radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour 2007 Peabody Award-winning program,Official Peabody Award Site Listing The Brian Lehrer Show, features interviews with newsmakers and experts about current events and social issues. ... | {"Name": "Brian Lehrer", "Caption": "Brian Lehrer in 2009", "Birth date": "1952 10 5 yes", "Birth place": "Queens, New York City", "Alma mater": "University at Albany, SUNY (BA)Columbia University (MPH)Ohio State University (MS)", "Children": "2", "Occupation": "Journalist, radio talkshow host"} |
Mountain was an American hard rock band formed in Long Island, New York, in 1969. Originally consisting of vocalist-guitarist Leslie West, bassist-vocalist Felix Pappalardi, keyboardist Steve Knight, and drummer N. D. Smart (soon replaced by Corky Laing), the group disbanded up in 1972, but reunited on several occasion... | {"Origin": "Long Island, New York, U.S.", "Genres": "Hard rock\nblues rock\nheavy metal\npsychedelic rock (early)", "Labels": "Windfall\nColumbia\nLightyear\nRecall\nBig Rack\nScotti Bros.", "Spinoffs": "West, Bruce and Laing\nCorky Laing's Mountain"} |
Timothy Dwight V (November 16, 1828 - May 26, 1916) was an American academic, educator, Congregational minister, and President of Yale University (1886-1898).Welch, Lewis et al. (1899). Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics, p. 445. During his years as the school's president, Yale's schools first organized as a... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Reverend", "Name": "Timothy Dwight V", "Term start": "1886", "Term end": "1899", "Birth date": "1828 11 16", "Birth place": "Norwich, Connecticut, U.S.", "Death date": "1916 5 26 1828 11 16", "Death place": "New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.", "Resting place": "Grove Street CemeteryNew Haven, Conne... |
When HARLIE Was One is a 1972 science fiction novel by American writer David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973. The novel, a "fix-up" of previously published short stories, was published as an original paperback by Ballantine Books in 1972, w... | {"Cover artist": "Marty Jaos", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Ballantine Books (US)Nelson Doubleday (UK)", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "Pages": "279", "Followed by": "When Harlie Was One Release 2.0"} |
28978 Ixion (, provisional designation ) is a large trans-Neptunian object and a possible dwarf planet. It is located in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy objects orbiting beyond Neptune in the outer Solar System. Ixion is classified as a plutino, a dynamical class of objects in a 2:3 orbital resonance with Neptune. It ... | {"Name of planet": "28978 Ixion", "Symbol": "24px or 24px (astrological)", "Background": "C2E0FF", "Image size": "250", "Caption": "Hubble Space Telescope image of Ixion taken in 2006", "Discovered": "22 May 2001", "Discoverer": "Deep Ecliptic Survey", "Discovery site": "Cerro Tololo Obs.", "Earliest_precovery_date": "... |
Peterborough, commonly known as the City of Peterborough, is a unitary authority district with city status in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The area is named after its largest settlement, Peterborough but also covers a wider area of outlying villages and hamlets.
The district's area covers parts o... | {"Type": "Unitary authority", "Density": "E06000031", "DST": "+1", "Website": "www.peterborough.gov.uk"} |
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Ramón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña (born in Vilanova de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, on 28 October 1866 -died in Santiago de Compostela on 5 January 1936) was a Spanish dramatist, novelist, and member of the Spanish Generation ... | {"Born": "1866 10 28 y", "Died": "1936 01 05 1866 10 28 y", "Occupation": "Dramatist and novelist", "Language": "Spanish", "Nationality": "Spanish", "Literary movement": "Generation of 98 Decadent movement", "Children": "6 María de la Concepción (1908) Joaquín María Baltasar (1914-1914) Carlos Luis Baltasar (1917-2006)... |
Bicester ( ) is a historical market town, garden town, and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in south-central England that also comprises an eco town development at North-East Bicester and a self-build village at Graven Hill. Its local market continues to thrive and is now located on She... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2021 census)Bicester https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/southeastengland/admin/cherwell/E04012925__bicester/ City population 25 October 2022", "District": "Cherwell", "Shire county": "Oxfordshire", "UK Parliament": "Banbury", "Postcode district": "OX", "Dialling code":... |
is a run and gun video game developed by Sega and released in arcades in 1987.
Gameplay
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Two players control two soldiers, named Ricky and Mary, who fight their way through large eight-way scrolling levels while rescuing their comrades who are being held by aliens. After they have rescued a certa... | {"Title": "Alien Syndrome", "Caption": "Arcade flyer", "Developer": "SegaSanritsu (NES, Master System)", "Publisher": "Sega", "Composer": "Tohru Nakabayashi (arcade)David Whittaker (computers)Noboru Machida (NES)", "Released": "1987: Arcade1988: Master System, Amiga, Atari ST, C64, Famicom, MSX, NES1989: Spectrum, MS-... |
Thomas Sheridan (born 7 March 1964)"Sheridan, Tommy", Who's Who in Scotland 2014 (Kilmarnock: Carrick Media, 2014), p. 448. is a Scottish politician who served as convenor of Solidarity from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as convenor of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) from 1998 to 2004 and as co-convenor of Sol... | {"Name": "Tommy Sheridan", "Image caption": "Sheridan in 2007", "Term start": "17 November 2019", "Term end": "December 2021", "Office 2": "Convenor of Scottish Socialist Party", "Predecessor 2": "Office established", "Successor 2": "Colin Fox", "Birth date": "1964 3 7 yes", "Birth place": "Glasgow, Scotland", "Other p... |
Witney is a market town on the River Windrush in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is west of Oxford. The place-name "Witney" is derived from the Old English for "Witta's island". The earliest known record of it is as Wyttannige in a Saxon charter of 969. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it a... | {"OS grid reference": "SP3509", "Population": "(2021 Census)Witney https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/southeastengland/admin/west_oxfordshire/E04008335__witney/ City population 25 October 2022", "District": "West Oxfordshire", "Shire county": "Oxfordshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "OX", "... |
Kenneth Erwin Hagin (August 20, 1917 - September 19, 2003) was an American preacher. He is known for pioneering the Word of Faith movement.
Biography
Personal life
Kenneth E. Hagin was born August 20, 1917, in McKinney, Texas, the son of Lillie Viola Drake Hagin and Jess Hagin. According to Hagin's testimony, he w... | {"Name": "Kenneth E. Hagin", "Caption": "Hagin at a conference in Toronto, Ontario", "Birth date": "1917 08 20 yes", "Birth place": "McKinney, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "2003 9 19 1917 8 20 yes", "Death place": "Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.\"Hagin\", Tulsa World, September 23, 2003.", "Occupation": "Preacher", "Known For"... |
Eid al-Adha ( , "Feast of the Sacrifice") or the Feast of Sacrifice is the second and the largest of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam (the other being Eid al-Fitr). It honours the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son, either Isaac or Ismail, as an act of obedience to God's command. However, before Abra... | {"Official name": "Eid al-Adha", "Observed by": "Muslims, Druze", "Type": "Islamic", "Significance": "Commemoration of Abraham (Ibrahim)'s willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to a command from GodEnd of the annual Hajj to Mecca", "Begins": "10 Dhu al-Hijja", "Ends": "13 Dhu al-Hijja", "Observances": "Eid pray... |
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (, ,Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate (HTML); * same, from the U.S. Government Printing Office (PDF) PBA Ban) is a United States law prohibiting a form of late termination of pregnancy called "partial-birth aborti... | {"Long title": "An Act to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.", "Nicknames": "PBA Ban", "Enacted by": "108th", "Public law": "108 105", "Titles amended": "18", "U.S.C.": "18 1531"} |
Borrowstounness (commonly known as Bo'ness ( )) is a town and former burgh and seaport on the south bank of the Firth of Forth in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Historically part of the county of West Lothian, it is a place within the Falkirk council area, northwest of Edinburgh and east of Falkirk. At the 2011 Un... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NS998816", "Postcode district": "EH51", "Dialling code": "01506", "UK Parliament": "Linlithgow and East Falkirk", "Council area": "Falkirk", "Lieutenancy area": "Stirling and Falkirk", "Scottish Parliament": "Falkirk East", "Websit... |
Class is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lewis John Carlino, starring Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew McCarthy, and Cliff Robertson. In addition to being Lowe's second film (released four months after The Outsiders), it marked the film debuts of McCarthy, John Cusack, Virginia Madsen, Casey Siemaszko,... | {"Directed by": "Lewis John Carlino", "Written by": "Jim Kouf\n David Greenwalt", "Produced by": "Martin Ransohoff", "Starring": "Rob Lowe\n Jacqueline Bisset\n Andrew McCarthy\n Cliff Robertson", "Cinematography": "Ric Waite", "Edited by": "Stuart H. Pappé", "Music by": "Elmer Bernstein", "Distributed by": "Orion Pict... |
Dumbarton (; , or ; or , meaning 'fort of the Britons') is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990.
Dumbarton was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde, and later ... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NS397759", "Council area": "West Dunbartonshire", "Lieutenancy area": "Dunbartonshire", "UK Parliament": "West Dunbartonshire", "Scottish Parliament": "Dumbarton", "Postcode district": "G", "Dialling code": "01389"} |
Portree (; , ) is the largest town on, and capital of, the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.Murray, W.H. (1966) The Hebrides. London. Heinemann. Pages 154-155. It is the location for the only secondary school on the island, Portree High School. Public transport services are limited to buses. Portree has ... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "OS grid reference": "NG483454", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "Postcode district": "IV51", "Dialling code": "01478", "UK Parliament": "Ross, Skye and Lochaber", "Scottish Parliament": "Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch", "Council area": "Highland", "Lieutenancy area": "Ross and Cromarty", "... |
Helensburgh (; ) is an affluent coastal town on the north side of the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, situated at the mouth of the Gareloch. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it became part of Argyll and Bute following local government reorganisation in 1996.
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Although it has long b... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NS298833", "Council area": "Argyll and Bute", "Lieutenancy area": "Dunbartonshire", "UK Parliament": "Argyll and Bute", "Scottish Parliament": "Dumbarton", "Postcode district": "G", "Dialling code": "01436"} |
Dom João Manuel, Hereditary Prince of Portugal () (3 June 1537 - 2 January 1554) was a Portuguese infante (prince), the eighth son of King John III of Portugal by his wife Catherine of Austria, daughter of Philip I of Castile and Joanna of Castile. As the heir to the throne he was styled Prince of Portugal.
Early lif... | {"Born": "Royal Palace of Évora, Évora", "Died": "Ribeira Palace, Lisbon", "Father": "John III of Portugal", "Mother": "Catherine of Austria", "Burial": "Jerónimos Monastery", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
Ffion Llywelyn Hague, Baroness Hague of Richmond (née Jenkins; 21 February 1968) is a Welsh broadcaster, author, former civil servant, and wife of Conservative politician William Hague. Born Ffion Jenkins in Cardiff, she is a native Welsh speaker and first became known when she was selected to teach the language to her... | {"Name": "The Lady Hague", "Birth name": "The Lady Hague", "Birth date": "y 1968 02 21", "Birth place": "Cardiff, Wales", "Education": "Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Jesus College, Oxford", "Occupation": "Civil servant\n television presenter\n writer\n executive producer", "Spouse(s)": "William Hague 19 December 1997", ... |
Westminster Abbey Choir School is a boarding preparatory school for boys in Westminster, London and the only remaining choir school in the United Kingdom which exclusively educates choristers (i.e. only choirboys attend the school). It is located in Dean's Yard, by Westminster Abbey. It educates about 30 boys, aged 8-... | {"Religious affiliation(s)": "Church of England", "Local authority": "Westminster", "Coordinates": "51.49864 N 0.12934 W source:placeopedia_type:edu title,inline", "Houses": "Blow and Purcell", "Website": "http://www.westminster-abbey.org/choir-school"} |
The Player is a 1992 American satirical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Michael Tolkin, based on his own 1988 novel of the same name.Tolkin, Michael, "The Player", 1st ed., New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. The film stars Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter G... | {"Directed by": "Robert Altman", "Screenplay by": "Michael Tolkin", "Based on": "The Player Michael Tolkin", "Produced by": "David Brown Michael Tolkin Nick Wechsler", "Starring": "Tim Robbins\n Greta Scacchi\n Fred Ward\n Whoopi Goldberg\n Peter Gallagher\n Brion James\n Cynthia Stevenson", "Cinematography": "Jean Lép... |
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Cantonese: 香港管弦樂團), commonly abbreviated as HKPO or HKPhil (Cantonese: 港樂), is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong. First established in 1947 as an amateur orchestra under the name Sino-British Orchestra (中英管弦樂團), it was renamed the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1957 ... | {"Native name": "zh-hk", "Short name": "HKPO, HKPhil", "Former name": "Sino-British Orchestra", "Founded": "1957", "Location": "Hong Kong", "Concert hall": "Hong Kong Cultural Centre", "Music director": "Jaap van Zweden", "Website": "www.hkphil.org"} |
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