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The 2003 National Assembly for Wales election was the second general election to the National Assembly for Wales. It was held on 1 May 2003. The election was characterised by a resurgence for the Labour Party, whilst Plaid Cymru saw a reduction in support and the number of Assembly Members they returned. Having won th... | {"Name": "2003 National Assembly for Wales election", "Country": "Wales", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1999 National Assembly for Wales election", "Previous year": "1999", "Next election": "2007 National Assembly for Wales election", "Next year": "2007", "Seats for election": "All 60... |
Otto Emil Franz Grotewohl (; 11 March 1894 - 21 September 1964) was a German politician who served as the first prime minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany) from its foundation in October 1949 until his death in September 1964.
Grotewohl was a Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician in the Fre... | {"Name": "Otto Grotewohl", "Image caption": "Grotewohl in 1964", "Term start": "12 October 1949", "Term end": "21 September 1964", "Office 2": "Chairman of theCentral Committee of the SPD", "Alongside 2": "Erich Gniffke, Max Fechner", "Predecessor 2": "Hans Vogel(as Chairman of the Sopade)", "Successor 2": "himself (as... |
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri.
Wadlow's heigh... | {"Name": "Robert Wadlow", "Birth name": "Robert Pershing Wadlow", "Birth date": "1918 02 22", "Birth place": "Alton, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "1940 07 15 1918 02 22", "Death place": "Manistee, Michigan, U.S.http://altonweb.com/history/wadlow/ Robert Pershing Wadlow Alton Museum of History and Art https://web.a... |
thumb|Berwyn Viaducts, Denbighshire
Denbighshire ( ; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthin is the administrative centre. Its borders d... | {"Type": "Principal council", "Body": "Denbighshire County Council", "Rank": "W06000004", "Density": "W06000004", "DST": "+1", "Website": "www.denbighshire.gov.uk"} |
The Irish Army, known simply as the Army (), is the land component of the Defence Forces of Ireland.The Defence Forces are made up of the Permanent Defence Forces - the standing branches - and the Reserve Defence Forces. The Army is part of the PDF. The Irish Army has an active establishment of 7,520, and a reserve est... | {"Type": "Army", "Size": "6,332 active personnel (Establishment: 7,520) (Apr 2023)https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2023-06-13/237/ Dáil Éireann Hansard Defence Forces Strength (Dáil Éireann Debate - Tuesday, 13 June 2023) 13 June 2023 25 August 2023 The established strength and current strength of the... |
Flintshire () is a county in the north-east of Wales. It has a maritime border with Merseyside along the Dee Estuary to the north, and land borders with Cheshire to the east, Wrexham County Borough to the south, and Denbighshire to the west. Connah's Quay is the largest town, while Flintshire County Council is based in... | {"Type": "Principal council", "Body": "Flintshire County Council", "Rank": "W06000005", "Density": "W06000005", "Website": "www.flintshire.gov.uk", "DST": "+1"} |
A dosa is a thin savory pancake in South Indian cuisine made from a fermented batter of ground black lentils and rice. Dosas are served hot, often with chutney and sambar. Dosa is a signature dish in South India and Sri Lanka, and is popularly served in their respective restaurants around the world.
History
alt=Two do... | {"Name of food": "Dosa", "Image caption": "Dosa with sambar and chutney", "Place of origin": "India", "Region of origin": "Udupi, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Telangana", "Serving temperature": "Hot", "Type of dish": "Pancake, crepe", "Main ingredient": "Rice and black gram", "Variations": ... |
Legio III Parthica ("Parthian-conquering Third Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in AD 197 by the emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211) for his campaign against the Parthian Empire, hence the cognomen Parthica. The legion was still active in the Eastern provinces in the early 5th century. The le... | {"Type": "Roman legion (Marian)", "Role": "Infantry assault (some cavalry support)", "Size": "Varied over unit lifetime. Approx. 3,500 fighting men + support at the time of creation.", "Nickname(s)": "Parthica, \"Parthian\" (since 197)Severiana, \"Severus\" (under Alexander Severus)", "Mascot(s)": "Bull", "Notablecomma... |
Geir Aule Jenssen (born 30 May 1962)Thompson, Dave (2000) Alternative Rock, Miller Freeman, , p.197-198 is a Norwegian electronic musician and composer who records as Biosphere. A resident of Tromsø within the Arctic Circle, Jenssen is well known for ambient and ambient house pieces, often inspired by Arctic or mountai... | {"Born": "y 1962 5 30", "Origin": "Tromsø, Norway", "Genres": "Electronic\n ambient\n ambient house\n drone\n downtempo\n experimental\n field recordings", "Labels": "Beatservice Records, Touch, Biophon Records, Apollo, Origo Sound, SSR Records, Rune Grammofon, Smalltown Supersound", "Website": "http://www.biosphere.no... |
, also known as , is a fictional character and one of the primary protagonists of the Sailor Moon media franchise created by Naoko Takeuchi. He disguises himself in order to support the series' central heroines, the Sailor Guardians. Wearing a mask to conceal his identity, he interferes with enemy operations, offers th... | {"First appearance": "Sailor Moon chapter 1: \"Usagi - Sailor Moon\" (1991)", "Created by": "Naoko Takeuchi", "Voiced by": "Japanese: Tōru Furuya Kenji Nojima (Sailor Moon Crystal) English: Robbie Daymond (Viz dub) Rino Romano (DiC dub) Toby Proctor (DiC dub) Vincent Corazza (CWi dub)", "Relatives": "Mr. Chiba (... |
The Kent and East Sussex Railway (K&ESR) refers to both a historical private railway company in Kent and East Sussex in England, as well as a heritage railway currently running on part of the route of the historical company. The railway runs between Tenterden Town and Bodiam.
A separate railway preservation effort, th... | {"Locale": "KentEast SussexSouth East England", "Terminus": "Tenterden TownBodiam", "Built by": "H. F. Stephens", "Opened": "Freight: 26 March 1900Passenger: 2 April 1900", "Original gauge": "uksg on", "Owned by": "Kent and East Sussex Railway", "Operated by": "Kent and East Sussex Railway", "Stations": "5", "Length": ... |
David Walker (September 28, 1796August 6, 1830) was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well (partus sequitur ventrem). In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, with the assistance of the African Grand Lodge ... | {"Name": "David Walker", "Birth date": "September 28, 1796According to the Cape Fear Historical Institute, his date of birth is September 28, 1785. David Walker: Black Wilmington Abolitionist https://web.archive.org/web/20190915234153/http://www.cfhi.net/DavidWalkerBlackWilmingtonAbolitionist.php September 15, 2019 . ... |
Friedrich "Fritz" Thyssen (9 November 1873 - 8 February 1951) was a German businessman, born into one of Germany's leading industrial families. He was an early supporter of the Nazi Party but later broke with it.
Biography
Youth
Thyssen was born in Mülheim in the Ruhr area. His father, August, was head of the Thyssen ... | {"Name": "Fritz Thyssen", "Caption": "Fritz Thyssen in 1928", "Birth name": "Friedrich Thyssen", "Birth date": "1873 11 09 yes", "Birth place": "Mülheim, Germany", "Death date": "1951 02 08 1873 11 09 yes", "Death place": "Buenos Aires, Argentina", "Occupation": "Businessman", "Spouse(s)": "Amelie Helle", "Children": "... |
Vilho Petter Nenonen (6 March 1883 – 17 February 1960) was a Finnish general.
Nenonen was born in Kuopio. He received his military education in the Hamina Cadet School 1896-1901, in the Mihailov Artillery School in St Petersburg 1901-1903, and in St Petersburg Artillery Academy 1906-1909. He served in the Imperial Rus... | {"Born": "Kuopio, Grand Duchy of Finland", "Died": "Helsinki, Finland", "Allegiance": "Russian Empire (1901-1917)Flag of Finland 1918 (state).svg 22px White Finland (1918)Finland (1918-1947)", "Awards": "Mannerheim Cross 2nd class"} |
East Ham is a district of the London Borough of Newham, England, 8 miles (12.8 km) east of Charing Cross. East Ham is identified in the London Plan as a Major Centre. The population is 76,186.
History
Toponymy
The first known written use of the term, as 'Hamme', is in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958, in which King Edga... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "UK Parliament": "East Ham", "Population": "(2011 Census)East Ham is made up of 6 wards in the London Borough of Newham: Boleyn, East Ham Central, East Ham North, East Ham South, and Wall End. http://data.london.gov.uk/2011-census-ward-pop 2011 Census Ward Population Estimates | London D... |
rightThe SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform open-source tools—covered by the GNU General Public License—that allow programmers and Bible societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily.
Overview
The core of The SWORD Project is a ... | {"Developer(s)": "Manfred Bergman", "Repository": "https://github.com/mdbergmann/Eloquent", "Written in": "Objective-C", "Available in": "Multilingual", "Type": "Biblical software", "License": "BSD License"} |
The Malvern Hills are in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit affords a panorama of the Severn Valley, the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh ... | {"Location": "England", "Coordinates": "52 05 N 2 20 W dim:20000_region:GB inline,title", "Length": "13", "Area": "12"} |
The Goofy Gophers are animated cartoon characters in Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The gophers are small and brown with tan bellies and buck teeth. They both have British accents. Unnamed in the theatrical cartoons, they were given the names Mac and Tosh in the 1960s TV show The Bug... | {"First appearance": "Prototype: Gopher Goofy (1942)Official: The Goofy Gophers (1947)", "Created by": "Bob Clampett", "Designed by": "Don Williams (1947)Don Smith (1948)Cornett Wood (1949)Hawley Pratt (1949-1955)Who's who in animated cartoons : an international guide to film & television's award-winning and legendary ... |
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), or simply Alliance, is a liberal and centrist political party in Northern Ireland. Following the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, it was the third-largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, holding seventeen seats, and broke through by placing third in first p... | {"Abbreviation": "APNI", "Founded": "21 April 1970", "Ideology": "Liberalismhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/northern_ireland/parties/70610.stm Parties Northern Ireland Political Parties BBC News 1998-10-14 2015-08-27 12 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150912125627/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events... |
The UK Unionist Party (UKUP) was a small unionist political party in Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2008 that opposed the Good Friday Agreement. It was nominally formed by Robert McCartney, formerly of the Ulster Unionist Party, to contest the 1995 North Down by-election and then further constituted to contest the 1996 ... | {"Leader": "Robert McCartney", "Founded": "1995", "Ideology": "Unionism\nNonsectarianism\nIntegrationism\n Euroscepticism\n Anti-Devolution\n Anti-Belfast Agreement", "Political position": "Centre-rightMarch 2021", "Headquarters": "Bangor, Northern Ireland"} |
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 560,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National Health Service (NHS), ambulance service and local government.
Structural history
GMB orig... | {"Name": "GMB", "Location country": "United Kingdom", "Membership": "570,107 (2022)GMB Form AR21 for year ended 31st December 2022 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1173057/707T_2022.pdf GOV.UK 26 July 2023", "Full name": "GMBhttps://www.gov.uk/government... |
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the main trade union in the United Kingdom for people working for telephone, cable, digital subscriber line (DSL) and postal delivery companies. It has 110,000 members in Royal Mail as well as more in many other communication companies.Royal Mail staff vote to strike over pensio... | {"Name": "Communication Workers Union", "Abbreviation": "CWU", "Location country": "United Kingdom", "Membership": "184,083 (2021)https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1114050/743T_2021.pdf 18 July 2023 publishing.service.gov.uk Annual Return for a Trade Union"... |
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (; 20 April 1871 - 5 February 1922) was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Dutch-Polish descent.
Biography
Eduard Penkala was born in Liptószentmiklós (now Liptovský Mikuláš), then part of Austria-Hungary, to Franciszek Pękała, who was of Polish heritage, and Maria Pękała (née Hannel), who w... | {"Name": "Slavoljub Penkala", "Caption": "Slavoljub Penkala in 1920", "Birth name": "Eduard Pękała", "Birth date": "1871 4 20 y", "Birth place": "Liptószentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary", "Death date": "1922 2 5 1871 4 20 y", "Death place": "Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes", "Resting place":... |
Camperdown is an area of Dundee, Scotland, best known for Camperdown Park, which is the largest park in the city.
The name is Dutch in origin, being the English version of Kamperduin, a village of the North Holland province (north of Haarlem) on the North Sea coast of the Netherlands. This is because Adam Duncan (1 Ju... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "OS grid reference": "NO358329", "Council area": "Dundee City", "Lieutenancy area": "Dundee", "UK Parliament": "Dundee West", "Scottish Parliament": "Dundee City West", "Postcode district": "DD", "Dialling code": "01382"} |
upright|thumb|Transport and General Workers' Union central office
upright|thumb|Transport and General Workers' Union Bristol office
The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland - where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and G... | {"Name": "TG", "Location country": "United Kingdom, Ireland", "Membership": "800,000 (2006)", "Full name": "Transport and General Workers' Union", "Formation": "1 January 1922", "Main organ": "TGWU Record", "Dissolved": "1 May 2007", "Merged": "Unite", "Headquarters": "London, England", "Key people": "Tony Woodley, gen... |
thumb|right|The Grand Hotel at night, 2006
On 12 October, 1984, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. A long-delay time bomb was planted in the hotel by Patrick Magee before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and he... | {"Title": "Brighton hotel bombing", "Part of": "the Troubles", "Caption": "The Grand Hotel on the morning after the bombing", "Location": "Grand Hotel, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK", "Coordinates": "50 49 17 N 0 08 50 W region:GB_type:event inline,title", "Target": "Margaret Thatcherbbc-otd1 />", "Date": "yes 198... |
The Sheffield Botanical Gardens are Grade II listed botanical gardens situated off Ecclesall Road in Sheffield, England, with 5,000 species of plants in 19 acres (77,000 m2) of land.
History
The Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Society was formed in 1833 and by 1834 had obtained £7,500 () in funding. The money wa... | {"Type": "botanical garden", "Location": "Ecclesall Road in City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England", "Coordinates": "53.372032 N 1.498132 W scale:3000_type:landmark_region:GB title,inline", "Area": "19 acre on", "Collections": "National Plant Collection of Sarcococca, Weigela and Diervilla", "Website": "Sheffield ... |
Dancing Stage is a series of music video games developed and published by Konami. It is a spin-off of Dance Dance Revolution for the European market as well as a few Japanese titles. Games were released for arcade, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and Wii.
European releases
Dancing Stage
Dancing Stage is a music video game... | {"Collapsible": "yes", "State": "collapsed", "Title": "Dancing Stage featuring True Kiss Destination", "Caption": "The cover art for the Japanese PlayStation port of True Kiss Destination.", "Developer": "Konami", "Publisher": "Konami", "Series": "Dance Dance RevolutionBemani", "Engine": "Dance Dance Revolution", "Plat... |
Jean-Claude Trichet (; born 20 December 1942) is a French economist who served as President of the European Central Bank from 2003 to 2011. Previous to his assumption of the presidency he served as Governor of the Bank of France from 1993 to 2003.
After stepping down from the European Central Bank, Trichet has taken s... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Excellency", "Name": "Jean-Claude Trichet", "Vice president": "Lucas PapademosVítor Constâncio", "Term start": "1 November 2003", "Term end": "31 October 2011", "Office 2": "Governor of the Bank of France", "Predecessor 2": "Jacques de Larosière", "Successor 2": "Christian Noyer", "Birth name"... |
Acid Eaters is the thirteenth studio album by the American punk rock band Ramones.
Released in 1993, towards the end of the Ramones' career, the album is the band's only album entirely composed of covers. Acid Eaters forms a musical tribute to the Ramones' favorite artists of the 1960s and highlights the influences th... | {"Released": "December 1, 1993", "Recorded": "1993", "Studio": "Baby Monster (New York City)\nChung King (New York City)", "Genre": "Punk rock", "Label": "Radioactive", "Producer": "Scott Hackwith"} |
The Ur-Quan Masters is a 2002 open-source fangame modification, based on the action-adventure science fiction game Star Control II. The original game was released for PCs in 1992 and ported to the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer in 1994. It has been frequently mentioned among the best games of all time, with additional pra... | {"Original author(s)": "Toys for Bob", "Developer(s)": "The Ur-Quan Masters Port Crew", "Predecessor": "Star Control II", "Repository": "https://sourceforge.net/projects/sc2/", "Initial release": "2002", "License": "Code under GPL-2.0-or-later\n Resources under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5\n Documentation under CC BY-SA 2.0", "Type... |
Lost in La Mancha is a 2002 documentary film about Terry Gilliam's first attempt to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a film adaptation of the 1605/1615 novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The documentary was shot in 2000 during pre-production and filming and it was intended as a "making-of" documentary for th... | {"Directed by": "Keith FultonLouis Pepe", "Produced by": "Lucy Darwin", "Written by": "Keith FultonLouis Pepe", "Narrated by": "Jeff Bridges", "Starring": "Terry GilliamJohnny DeppJean Rochefort", "Music by": "Miriam Cutler", "Distributed by": "IFC Films"} |
Stephen James Dorrell (born 25 March 1952) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough between 1979 and 1997 and then for Charnwood from 1997 to 2015.
Dorrell most recently served for four years as Chairman of the House of Commons Health Select Com... | {"Name": "Stephen Dorrell", "Birth date": "1952 3 25 y", "Birth place": "Worcester, England", "Other political party": "Conservative (before 2019)\nChange UK (2019)", "Spouse(s)": "Penelope Taylor", "Alma mater": "Brasenose College, Oxford", "Official website": "Official website", "Image caption": "Dorrell in 2012"} |
thumb|Admiral Adam Duncan by Henri-Pierre Danloux 1798
Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, KB (1 July 17314 August 1804) was a British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown on 11 October 1797. This victory is considered one of the most significant actions in naval history.
Life
Adam was the second ... | {"Born": "Dundee, Angus, Scotland", "Died": "Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, United Kingdom", "Allegiance": "Kingdom of Great BritainUKGBI", "Awards": "Naval Gold Medal"} |
The Province of Vaasa ( ; , , Sweden ) was a province of Finland, established in 1775 when Finland was an integrated part of Sweden from the southern part of Ostrobothnia County and disbanded in 1996. The province was named after the city of Vaasa.
On the death of Tsar Nicholas I in 1855, a small group of citizens in ... | {"Native name": "Vaasan lääniVasa län", "Conventional long name": "Province of Vaasa", "Common name": "Vaasa", "Year founded": "1775", "Year dissolved": "1997", "Capital": "Vaasa"} |
thumb|Närke and Värmland County 1654-1779 (blue). Marked in red is Tiveden, which later was added to Örebro County.
Närke and Värmland County () was the earlier name of Örebro County in Sweden, between 1634 and 1779. In that year Värmland ceded to form Värmland County. Since Närke only corresponded the southern part of... | {"Conventional long name": "County of Närke and Värmland", "Native name": "Närke och Värmlands län", "Common name": "Närke and Värmland", "Year founded": "1634", "Year dissolved": "1779", "Capital": "Örebro"} |
7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing algorithms. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. The 7-Zip program is publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The LZMA SDK 4.62... | {"Name": "7z file format", "Extension": ".7z", "MIME type": "application/x-7z-compressed", "Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)": "org.7-zip.7-zip-archive", "Developed by": "Igor Pavlovhttp://www.ddj.com/architect/184405338 A Few Questions for Igor Pavlov 2003-04-30 Dr. Dobb's Data Compression Newsletter 2009-12-26", "In... |
Balance of Power is a strategy video game of geopolitics during the Cold War, created by Chris Crawford and published in 1985 on the Macintosh by Mindscape, followed by ports to a variety of platforms over the next two years.
In the game, the player takes the role of the President of the United States or General Secre... | {"Title": "Balance of Power", "Developer": "Chris Crawford", "Publisher": "Mindscape", "Released": "September 1985", "Genre": "Strategy", "Modes": "Single-player, Two-player", "Platforms": "Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Macintosh, MSX, PC-88, PC-98, Windows 1.0"} |
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). From 1924 until the union's dissolution in 1991, the officeholder was the recognized leader of the Soviet Union. Officially, the General Secretary solely controlled... | {"Post": "General Secretary", "Body": "the Communist Party of the Soviet Union", "Native name": "ru Генеральный секретарь ЦК КПСС", "Insignia size": "100px", "Insignia caption": "Emblem of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union", "Image caption": "Longest servingJoseph Stalin3 April 1922 - 10 February 1934,de facto 5 ... |
José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (; 23 December 1850 - 13 January 1916) was a general in the Mexican Federal Army and 39th President of Mexico, who came to power by coup against the democratically elected government of Francisco I. Madero with the aid of other Mexican generals and the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. His viole... | {"Name": "Victoriano Huerta", "Nationality": "Mexican", "Image caption": "Victoriano Huerta, 1912", "Term start": "19 February 1913", "Term end": "15 July 1914", "Vice president": "VacantAfter the ousting of President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez, the position of Vice President was left... |
A churro (, ) is a type of fried dough from Spanish and Portuguese cuisine, made with choux pastry dough piped into hot oil with a piping bag and large closed star tip or similar shape. They are also found in Latin American cuisine, Philippine cuisine, and in other areas that have received immigration from Spanish and ... | {"Image filename": "250px|Churros", "Image caption": "A plate of churros in Madrid, Spain", "Alternate name": "Tejeringos", "Course served": "Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack", "Type of dish": "Fried dough", "Serving temperature": "Hot", "Main ingredient": "Deep-fried choux pastry (Flour, water, butter, eggs, salt)"} |
Christopher Crawford (born June 1, 1950) is an American video game designer and writer. Hired by Alan Kay to work at Atari, Inc., he wrote the computer wargame Eastern Front (1941) for the Atari 8-bit family which was sold through the Atari Program Exchange and later Atari's official product line. After leaving Atari, ... | {"Name": "Chris Crawford", "Caption": "Crawford at Cologne Game Lab (2011)", "Years active": "1976-present", "Birth date": "1950 06 01", "Birth place": "Houston, Texas, US", "Nationality": "American", "Known For": "Game Developers Conference", "Notable works": "Eastern Front (1941)Balance of Power", "Occupation": "Vide... |
Aurore Clément (born 12 October 1945) is a French actress who has appeared in French and English language movies and television productions.
Early life
She was born Marie-Thérèse Aurore Louise Clément in Soissons. Following the death of her father while she was still a young girl, she worked to support her family. For... | {"Name": "Aurore Clément", "Caption": "Photography by Peter Wyss", "Birth date": "yes 1945 10 12", "Birth place": "Soissons, Aisne, France", "Birth name": "Marie-Thérèse Aurore Louise Clément", "Years active": "1974–present", "Occupation": "Actress", "Spouse(s)": "Dean Tavoularis 1986", "Children": "2"} |
The Huilliche (), Huiliche or Huilliche-Mapuche are the southern partiality of the Mapuche macroethnic group in Chile and Argentina. Located in the Zona Sur, they inhabit both Futahuillimapu ("great land of the south") and, as the Cunco or Veliche subgroup, the northern half of Chiloé Island. The Huilliche are the prin... | {"Name": "Huilliches, Mapuche-Huilliche", "Image caption": "Catiguala, a cacique of the Huilliche in the 18th century", "Population": "17,000 in Chiloé Archipelagohttp://www.ethnologue.com/language/huh Huilliche Ethnologue 28 December 2013", "Languages": "Spanish (Chilean Spanish), Huilliche", "Religions": "Christia... |
Adebayo Adedeji (21 December 1930 - 25 April 2018) was a Nigerian economist and academic. A full-fledged Professor at the age of 36 years, he was Nigeria's Federal Commissioner for Economic Development & Reconstruction from 1971 to 1975. He was responsible for the economic development and reconstruction of post-civil w... | {"Name": "Adebayo Adedeji", "Caption": "Professor Adedeji in 1986", "Birth date": "21 December 1930", "Birth place": "Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria", "Death date": "2018 04 25 1930 12 21 y", "Death place": "Lagos, Nigeria", "Occupation": "Economist \n Academic"} |
The Decline of British Sea Power is the debut studio album by English indie rock band Sea Power, then known as "British Sea Power", released on 2 June 2003. "The Lonely", "Carrion" and "Remember Me" were all released as singles from the album, as well as older recordings of "Fear of Drowning" and "Remember Me", which d... | {"Released": "2 June 2003", "Recorded": "2003 at 2 kHz, et al.", "Genre": "Indie rock, post-punk revival", "Label": "Rough Trade"} |
Sea Power, previously known as British Sea Power and initially as British Air Powers, are an English alternative rock band. The group's original lineup consisted of Scott Wilkinson, known as Yan; Martin Noble, known as Noble; and Alison Cotton. By the time the band had begun its recorded career, Cotton had departed, an... | {"Origin": "Reading, Berkshire, England", "Genres": "Indie rock post-punk revival alternative rock post-rock", "Labels": "Golden Chariot Carolinehttp://britishseapower.co.uk/news/721/newsboost-sparkling-caroline Newsboost Sparkling Caroline 2017-01-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20170104235950/http://britishseapower... |
Walsall Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system.
The club's nickname, "The Saddlers", reflects Walsall's status as a traditional centre for saddle manufacture. Walsall m... | {"Full name": "Walsall Football Club", "Nickname(s)": "The Saddlers", "Founded": "yes 1888(as Walsall Town Swifts)", "Capacity": "11,300", "League": "Walsall", "Website": "http://www.saddlers.co.uk"} |
The MetLife Building (also 200 Park Avenue and formerly the Pan Am Building) is a skyscraper at Park Avenue and 45th Street, north of Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed in the International style by Richard Roth, Walter Gropius, and Pietro Belluschi and completed in... | {"Former names": "Pan Am Building", "Construction started": "November 26, 1959", "Topped-out": "May 9, 1962", "Type": "Office", "Architectural style": "International", "Location": "200 Park AvenueManhattan, New York 10166", "Coordinates": "40 45 12 N 73 58 36 W region:US-NY_source:dewiki inline,title"} |
Visions of Cody is an experimental novel by Jack Kerouac. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1972, it had by then achieved an underground reputation. Since its first printing, Visions of Cody has been published with an introduction by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg titled "The Visio... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "McGraw-Hill", "Media type": "Print (Hardback & Paperback)", "Pages": "448 pp", "ISBN": "0-14-017907-0", "Preceded by": "Tristessa (1960)", "Followed by": "Lonesome Traveler (1960)"} |
Countess is a black metal band from the Netherlands. Formed in 1992, they have released more than a dozen full-length albums and are considered one of the most eminent Dutch black metal bands. After years of being a solo project, as of 2014, they are a band again and play live.
Discography
List of releases according... | {"Origin": "Leiden, Netherlands", "Genres": "Black metal", "Labels": "Barbarian Wrath", "Website": "Official Website", "Members": "Orlok, Zagan, Mortüüm, Häxa"} |
thumb|right|150px|A contemporary corrido song sheet praising Orozco and his exploits. The headline reads: Brave fighter and faithful lover, you tear off the mask of the tyrant! The thankful and delirious people shake your ardent hand! To the unbeaten General Pascual Orozco!
Pascual Orozco Vázquez, Jr. (in contemporary ... | {"Name": "Pascual Orozco Vázquez, Jr.", "Caption": "Orozco circa 1913", "Birth date": "1882 1 28 y", "Birth place": "Santa Inés, Chihuahua, Mexico", "Death date": "y 1915 8 30 1882 1 28", "Movement": "Orozquistas in the Mexican Revolution"} |
Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin, September 22, 1958) is an American rock singer, guitarist, songwriter, record producer and actress. She is best known for her work as the frontwoman of her band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and for earlier founding and performing with the Runaways, which recorded and released the hi... | {"Name": "Joan Jett", "Alt": "Jett smiling toward the camera", "Caption": "Jett in 2013", "Birth name": "Joan Marie Larkin", "Birth date": "yes 1958 09 22", "Birth place": "Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Occupation": "Singer songwriter guitarist record producer actress", "Years active": "1975-present", "Module": "yes... |
The president of the Soviet Union (), officially the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (), abbreviated as president of the USSR (), was the head of state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 15 March 1990 to 25 December 1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the only person to occupy this office. G... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "the Unionof Soviet Socialist Republics", "Native name": "ru Президент Союза Советских Социалистических Республик", "Flag image": "USSR, Flag commander 1964.svgborder", "Flag caption": "Flag of the President as theCommander-in-chief", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Only office ho... |
Rajani Palme Dutt (19 June 1896 – 20 December 1974), generally known as R. Palme Dutt, was a leading journalist and theoretician in the Communist Party of Great Britain, and briefly served as its fourth general secretary during World War II from October 1939 to June 1941. His classic book India Today heralded the Marxi... | {"Name": "R. Palme Dutt", "Image caption": "Palme Dutt, 1943.", "Term start": "October 1939", "Term end": "June 1941", "Birth name": "Rajani Palme Dutt", "Birth date": "19 June 1896", "Birth place": "Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England", "Death date": "y 20 December 1974 19 June 1896", "Spouse(s)": "Salme Anette Murrik ... |
Harry Pollitt (22 November 1890 - 27 June 1960) was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960. Pollitt spent most of his life advocating communism. Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist, ... | {"Name": "Harry Pollitt", "Image caption": "Pollitt in 1934", "Term start": "June 1941", "Term end": "13 May 1956", "Office 2": "General Secretary of the National Minority Movement", "Birth name": "Harry Pollitt", "Birth date": "y 1890 11 22", "Birth place": "Droylsden, Lancashire, England", "Death date": "y 1960 6 27 ... |
Michael Hugh Meacher (4 November 1939 - 21 October 2015) was a British politician who served as a government minister under Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham West and Royton, previously Oldham West, from 1970 until his death in 2015.... | {"Name": "Michael Meacher", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1997-1999", "Term start": "2 May 1997", "Term end": "13 June 2003", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security", "Prime minister 2": "Harold Wilson", "Predecessor 2": "Alec Jones", "Successor 2": "Eric Deakins", "Bi... |
Philip Piratin (15 May 1907 - 10 December 1995) was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and one of the four CPGB Members of Parliament during the first thirty years of its existence. (The others were Shapurji Saklatvala, Walton Newbold and Willie Gallacher.)
Political career
Piratin was the son of ... | {"Name": "Phil Piratin", "Birth date": "15 May 1907", "Death date": "10 December 1995", "Education": "Davenant Foundation School", "Employer": "Daily Worker", "Organization": "Stepney Tenants Defence League", "Known For": "MP representing the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).Storming the Savoy Hotel to demand th... |
John Thomson Stonehouse (28 July 192514 April 1988) was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, businessman and minister who attended the cabinet of Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974. It is also alleged that Stonehouse had been an agent for ... | {"Term start": "1 October 1969", "Term end": "19 June 1970", "Predecessor 2": "William Wells", "Successor 2": "Robin Hodgson", "Birth name": "John Thomson Stonehouse", "Birth date": "1925 7 28 y", "Birth place": "Southampton, Hampshire, England", "Death date": "1988 4 14 1925 7 28 y", "Death place": "Totton, Hampshire,... |
The Life of David Gale is a 2003 American crime thriller film directed and co-produced by Alan Parker, written by Charles Randolph, co-produced by Nicolas Cage, and starring Kevin Spacey as the title character, a college professor and longtime activist against capital punishment who is sentenced to death for killing a ... | {"Directed by": "Alan Parker", "Produced by": "Alan Parker Nicolas Cage", "Written by": "Charles Randolph", "Starring": "Kevin Spacey Kate Winslet Laura Linney Gabriel Mann", "Music by": "Alex Parker Jake Parker", "Cinematography": "Michael Seresin", "Edited by": "Gerry Hambling", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures"... |
Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) is a network of 34 public radio stations in the state of Wisconsin. WPR's network is divided into two distinct analog services, the Ideas Network and the NPR News & Music Network, as well as the All Classical Network, a digital-only, full-time classical music service.
History
In 1932, WHA ... | {"Name": "Wisconsin Public Radio", "Logo size": "300px", "Type": "Public radio network", "Headquarters": "Madison, Wisconsin", "Country": "United States", "Broadcast area": "Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, northern Illinois, southern Upper Peninsula (Michigan)", "Owner": "Wisconsin Educational Communic... |
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, (8 October 1929 - 26 February 2023) was a British politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000. She was the first woman ... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "The Baroness Boothroyd", "Honorific suffix": "GBR 100% OM PC", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2018", "Term start": "28 April 1992", "Office 2": "Member of the House of LordsLord Temporal", "Birth date": "1929 10 8 y", "Birth place": "Dewsbury, West Riding of Y... |
Jordan Taylor Hanson (born March 14, 1983) is an American musician best known as a member of the pop rock band Hanson. He was born in Jenks, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa. He sings both lead and back-up vocals, and plays keyboard, percussion (including drums, bongos and the tambourine), guitar, harmonica, and piano. Tayl... | {"Born": "Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Natalie Anne Bryant 2002", "Genres": "Power pop\n Pop rock", "Labels": "Mercury\n Island\n 3CG\n S-Curve"} |
Michael John Lockwood (August 25, 1971 - November 6, 2003) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 1999 to 2003 under the ring names Crash Holly or simply Crash.
Lockwood debuted in 1989 and spent ... | {"Birth name": "Michael John Lockwood", "Ring name(s)": "CrashCrash HollyErin O'GradyThe Green GhostJohnny PearsonMad Mikey", "Billed height": "5 ft 10 in", "Spouse(s)": "Christeena Wheeler December 31, 1999", "Children": "1", "Billed weight": "198 lb\"Allegedly well over 400 lb\" (181 kg)", "Born": "San Francisco, Cal... |
Charles deWolf Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist, and podcaster. Gibson was a host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 to 2009.
In 1965, Gibson worked as the news director for ... | {"Name": "Charles Gibson", "Image": "Charliegibson.JPG", "Caption": "Gibson in 2008", "Birth name": "Charles deWolf Gibson", "Birth date": "1943 3 9", "Birth place": "Evanston, Illinois, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Television journalist", "Years active": "1965-2016, 2022-present", "Education": "Pri... |
Diclofenac, sold under the brand name Voltaren, among others, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to treat pain and inflammatory diseases such as gout. It is taken by mouth or rectally in a suppository, used by injection, or applied to the skin. Improvements in pain last for as much as eight hours. It... | {"Trade name": "Cataflam, Voltaren, Zipsor, others", "AHFS": "monograph diclofenac-epolamine", "Pregnancycategory": "Diclofenac Use During Pregnancy Drugs.com 16 January 2000 https://www.drugs.com/pregnancy/diclofenac.html 15 February 2020", "Routes ofadministration": "By mouth, rectal, intramuscular, intravenous, ... |
Mopsuestia and Mopsuhestia ( and Μόψου Mopsou and Μόψου πόλις and Μόψος; Byzantine Greek: Mamista, Manistra, Mampsista; Arabic: al-Maṣṣīṣah; Armenian: Msis, Mises, Mam(u)estia; modern Yakapınar) is an ancient city in Cilicia Campestris on the Pyramus River (now the Ceyhan River) located approximately east of ancient ... | {"Alternative name": "Mopsos, Seleucia on the Pyramus, Hadriana, Decia, al-Maṣṣīṣah, Mamistra, Misis, Yakapınar", "Coordinates": "36 57 28 N 35 37 26 E inline,title", "Location": "Adana Province, Turkey", "Region": "Cilicia", "Type": "Settlement"} |
Richard Douglas Fosbury (March 6, 1947 - March 12, 2023) was an American high jumper, who is considered one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field. He won a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, revolutionizing the high jump event with a "back-first" technique now known as the Fosbury flop. His m... | {"Image caption": "Fosbury in 1968", "Full name": "Richard Douglas Fosbury", "Birth date": "1947 3 6", "Place of birth": "Portland, Oregon, U.S.", "College team": "Oregon State University", "Death date": "2023 3 12 1947 3 6", "Place of death": "Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.", "Height": "6 ft 4 in", "Weight": "183 lb", "Co... |
Pasay, officially the City of Pasay (; ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 440,656 people.
Due to its location just south of Manila, Pasay quickly became an urban town during the American colonial period.
Histo... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
Philip Hampson Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American billionaire business magnate who is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., a global sports equipment and apparel company. He was previously its chairman and CEO. In April 2023, Knight along with his family was ranked by Forbes as the 24th riches... | {"Name": "Phil Knight", "Caption": "Knight in 2010", "Birth name": "Philip Hampson Knight", "Birth date": "1938 2 24", "Birth place": "Portland, Oregon, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of Oregon Stanford University", "Occupation": "Businessman", "Spouse(s)": "Penny Parks September 13, 1968", "Children": "2, including ... |
Mandaluyong, officially the City of Mandaluyong (), is a first class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 425,758 people.
Located directly east of Manila, Mandaluyong was originally a barrio of Santa Ana de Sapa (now a district of... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "-2", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant (; August 2, 1754June 14, 1825) was an American-French military engineer who in 1791 designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. His work is known today as the L'Enfant Plan."Though today he is commonly referred by his French birth name, Pierre, L... | {"Name": "Pierre \"Peter\" Charles L'Enfant", "Birth date": "1754 08 02", "Birth place": "Paris, France", "Death date": "1825 06 14 1754 08 02", "Death place": "Prince George's County, Maryland, U.S.", "Resting place": "Arlington National Cemetery", "Resting place coordinates": "38 52 52 N 77 04 20 W region:US-VA_type:... |
Pasig, officially the City of Pasig (), is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 803,159 people.
It is located along the eastern border of Metro Manila with Rizal province, the city shares its name with the Pasig River. A formerl... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "9th", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
Xplay (previously GameSpot TV, Extended Play, and X-Play) is a TV program about video games. The program, known for its reviews and comedy skits, aired on G4 in the United States and had aired on G4 Canada in Canada (and briefly on YTV during its time as GameSpot TV), FUEL TV in Australia, Ego in Israel, GXT in Italy, ... | {"Directed by": "Alan Wu", "Starring": "Adam Sessler\n Lauren Fielder\n Kate Botello\n Morgan Webb\n Joel Gourdin\n Blair Herter\n Kristin Adams\n Jessica Chobot\n Alex Sim-Wise\n Tiffany Smith\n Indiana \"Froskurinn\" Black\n Jirard \"Dragonrider\" Khalil aka The Completionist\n Corey \"The Black Hokage\" Smallwood", ... |
Adoniram Judson (August 9, 1788 - April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist missionary, who worked in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Judson was sent from North America to preach in Burma. His mission and work with Luther Rice led to the formation of the first Bapti... | {"Name": "Adoniram Judson", "Caption": "Adoniram Judson by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1846", "Occupation": "Missionary to Burma", "Birth date": "August 9, 1788", "Birth place": "Malden, Massachusetts", "Death date": "1850 04 12 1788 08 09", "Death place": "At sea in the Bay of Bengal", "Nationality": "American", "Sp... |
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The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA; until 1997 Electronic Industries Association) was an American standards and trade organization composed as an alliance of trade associations for electronics manufacturers in the United States. They developed standards to en... | {"Type": "Organization", "Industry": "Association", "Founded": "1924", "Defunct": "2010", "Fate": "Dormant, pending merger with National Electronic Distributors Association, rebranded into Electronic Components Industry Association"} |
The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960 at the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa (today part of Gauteng). After demonstrating against anti-black pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 black protesters went to the police station. Sources ... | {"Image": "200px|", "Caption": "The row of graves of the 69 people killed by police at the Sharpeville Police Station on 21 March 1960.", "Part of": "apartheid", "Location": "Sharpeville, Transvaal Province, South Africa", "Date": "1960 3 21 yes", "Assailants": "Flag of the South African Police.svg South African Police... |
Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France (; 11 January 190718 October 1982) was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a government supported by a coalition of Gaullists (RPF), moderate socialists (UDSR), Christian democrats (... | {"Name": "Pierre Mendès France", "Image caption": "Pierre Mendès France in 1948", "Term start": "18 June 1954", "Term end": "23 February 1955", "Office 2": "Mayor of Louviers", "Predecessor 2": "Marcel Malherbe", "Successor 2": "André Vincelot", "Birth name": "Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France", "Birth date": "1907 1 ... |
Avant Browser is a discontinued freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che with the browser engines Trident, Gecko and Webkit the user can switch between. It runs on Windows 2000 and above, including Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11 are supported.
H... | {"Developer(s)": "Avant Force", "Initial release": "2004 01 30http://www.avantbrowser.com/new.aspx?uil=en-US Avant Browser - What's New in the Latest Version? Avant Force 2016-10-16", "Size": "Lite: 4.46 MBUltimate: 62.9 MBhttp://www.avantbrowser.com/download.aspx?uil=en-us Download - Avant Browser Avant Force 20... |
Mount Alberta is a mountain located in the upper Athabasca River Valley of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. J. Norman Collie named the mountain in 1898 after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta. It is the most difficult of the 11,000ers from a climbing point of view.
Mount Alberta is the fifth-highest peak of the C... | {"Elevation": "13 Mount Alberta 2003-11-07", "Prominence": "3 Mount Alberta 2008-05-24", "Location": "Location in Alberta", "Coordinates": "IAQGC Mount Alberta 2019-09-22"} |
Shoutcast (formerly SHOUTcast) is a service for streaming media over the Internet to media players, using its own cross-platform proprietary software. It allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding format. The most common use of Shoutcast is for creating or listening to Inter... | {"Developer(s)": "Radionomy", "Original author(s)": "Nullsoft (Stephen 'Tag' Loomis, Tom Pepper and Justin Frankel)", "Type": "Streaming media", "License": "Registerware", "Website": "https://shoutcast.com/"} |
David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, (, born 14 February 1935) is a retired British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. He was the penultimate Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong (from 1987 to 1992). He served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the B... | {"Image caption": "Wilson in 2019", "Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn", "Honorific suffix": "GBR 100% KT GCMG FRSE", "Term start": "9 April 1987", "Term end": "3 July 1992", "Office 2": "President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh", "Predecessor 2": "Michael Atiyah", "Succ... |
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a satirical poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron. Scott-Heron first recorded it for his 1970 album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, on which he recited the lyrics, accompanied by congas and bongo drums. A re-recorded version, with a full band, was the B-side to Scott-Heron's first si... | {"A-side": "Home Is Where the Hatred Is", "Released": "1971", "Recorded": "April 19, 1971\n RCA Studios, New York City", "Genre": "Jazz-funkGorton TJ July 30, 2018 BeatCaffeine's 100 Best Jazz-Funk Songs https://beatcaffeine.com/100-best-jazz-funk-songs/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180825081205/https://beatcaffe... |
Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa ( Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa, Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā; 23 June 1924 - 1 May 1993) was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 to 1 May 1993. Before that, he served as the prime minister in the government headed by J. R. Jayewardene from 6 February 1978 to 1 January 1989. He was... | {"Name": "Ranasinghe Premadasa", "Image": "Ranasinghe Premadasa.jpeg", "Term start": "2 January 1989", "Term end": "1 May 1993", "Order 2": "8th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka", "President 2": "Junius Richard Jayewardene", "Predecessor 2": "Junius Richard Jayewardene", "Successor 2": "Dingiri Banda Wijetunga", "Birth date... |
The National Library of New Zealand () is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations" (National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga) Act 2003). Under the Act, the library's duties include collect... | {"Location": "Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand", "Established": "1965", "Branches": "n/a", "Size": "1,515,172 in General Collections5,333,500 in Alexander Turnbull Library", "Budget": "NZ$31,850,000 (2006)", "Director": "Rachel Esson (Te Pouhuaki National Librarian)", "Branch of": "Department of Int... |
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Berg Lake is a lake on the Robson River just below the river's source located within Mount Robson Provincial Park, at the doorstep of the north face of Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. It is partly fed by the Berg Glacier.
The turquoise colored ... | {"Location": "Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia", "Coordinates": "53 8 44 N 119 9 28 W region:CA_type:waterbody inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Robson River, Toboggan Creek, Hargreaves Lake Outlet Stream,", "Primary outflows": "Robson River", "Basin": "Canada", "Surface elevation": "1646 m on", "Settlem... |
Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu or Te Kura (formerly The Correspondence School) is New Zealand's largest school with around 25,000 students enrolled each year, from early childhood to secondary level. It is headquartered in Portland Crescent in Thorndon, Wellington. In addition to its ordinary full-time students, Te Kura pro... | {"Coordinates": "-41.2739 174.7766 type:edu_region:NZ-WGN inline,title", "Socio-economic decile": "not given by ERO", "Ministry of Education": "498", "Website": "http://www.tekura.school.nz/"} |
() is a series of action role-playing games developed by Nihon Falcom. The series chronicles the life of the adventurer Adol Christin.
The first game in the series, Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished, was released on the NEC PC-8801 in 1987. Ys games have since been ported and released on many other platforms. As of 2017, Ys h... | {"Title": "Ys", "Developer": "Nihon Falcom", "Publisher": "Various", "Composer": "Falcom Sound Team jdk", "Creator": "Masaya Hashimoto Tomoyoshi Miyazaki", "Genre": "Action role-playing", "Platforms": "NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1, MSX2, FM-7, NEC PC-9801, Sharp X68000, Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, NES, Super NES... |
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. The Gazette is not a conventional newspaper offering ge... | {"Format": "Broadsheet", "Language": "English", "Headquarters": "United Kingdom", "Website": "https://www.thegazette.co.uk"} |
Mount Kain is a mountain located in the Fraser River Valley of Mount Robson Provincial Park, Canada. Mt. Kain was named during a survey of the Mt. Robson region conducted by the Alpine Club of Canada during the summer of 1911. While surveying from a nearby peak, the party noticed the mountain and guide Conrad Kain exc... | {"Elevation": "707 Mount Kain 2003-11-08Mount Kain 53.05139 -119.04032 2023-07-30", "Prominence": "523 Mount Kain 2009-05-31", "Location": "Location in British Columbia", "Coordinates": "JAFMH Mount Kain 2013-05-18"} |
PACCAR Inc is a multinational company primarily focused on the design and manufacturing of large commercial trucks through its subsidiaries DAF, Kenworth and Peterbilt. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, in the Seattle metropolitan area, and was founded in 1971 as the successor to the Pacific Car and... | {"Type": "Public", "Industry": "Heavy equipment Automotive Engines Powertrain Truck components Financial services Information technology", "Products": "border:none; padding:0;\n Products List\n Paccar MX13 & MX11\n Paccar PR, GR & FR\n Braden, Carco & Gearmatic \n Tandem Axle\n Class 6 Trucks\n Class 7 Tr... |
Mark William Hofmann (born December 7, 1954) is an American counterfeiter, forger, and convicted murderer. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished forgers in history, Hofmann is especially noted for his creation of fake documents related to the history of the Latter Day Saint movement. When his schemes began to... | {"Name": "Mark Hofmann", "Birth name": "Mark William Hofmann", "Birth date": "1954 12 7", "Birth place": "Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.", "Disappeared status": "Incarcerated at Central Utah Correctional Facility, Utah Department of Corrections number 41235"} |
Mount Galatea is the highest peak of the Kananaskis Range, a subrange of the Canadian Rockies in the province of Alberta. It is located in the upper Spray Lakes Valley of the Kananaskis Country system of provincial parks. The mountain was named after the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Galatea.
Geology
Mount Galatea is compos... | {"Elevation": "3185", "Prominence": "1280", "Location": "Canada Alberta", "Coordinates": "IAFWW Mount Galatea 2019-08-25"} |
David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 - November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.
Dinkins was among the more than 20,000 Montford Point Marines, the first African-American U.S. Marines, from 1945 to 1946. He graduated cum laude fro... | {"Name": "David Dinkins", "Image caption": "Dinkins in 2014", "Term start": "January 1, 1990", "Term end": "December 31, 1993", "Office 2": "Member of the New York State Assemblyfrom the 78th district", "Predecessor 2": "Constituency established", "Successor 2": "Edward A. Stevenson Sr.", "Birth name": "David Norman Di... |
Mount Forbes is the seventh tallest mountain in the Canadian Rockies and the tallest within the boundaries of Banff National Park. It is located in southwestern Alberta, southwest of the Saskatchewan River Crossing in Banff. The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after Edward Forbes, Hector's natural history p... | {"Elevation": "496 Mount Forbes 2019-08-19", "Prominence": "5 Mount Forbes 2009-01-01", "Location": "Location in SW Alberta", "Coordinates": "IAFDS Mount Forbes 2019-08-19"} |
Matthew Hilton (born December 27, 1965) is a Canadian former boxer who was the IBF Junior Middleweight Champion of the World. He is the younger brother of former super middleweight world champion, Dave Hilton Jr..
He started boxing professionally in early 1983, and while doing so lived (along with his father/trainer a... | {"Weight(s)": "Light Middleweight Middleweight", "Height": "171cm", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Born": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Stance": "Orthodox", "Total fights": "37", "Wins": "32", "Wins by KO": "24", "Losses": "3", "Draws": "2"} |
Stephen Decatur Miller (May 8, 1787March 8, 1838) was an American politician, who served as the 52nd Governor of South Carolina from 1828 to 1830. He represented South Carolina as a U.S. Representative from 1817 to 1819, and as a U.S. Senator from 1831 to 1833.
Life and career
He was born in Waxhaw settlement, South C... | {"Name": "Stephen Decatur Miller", "Term start": "March 4, 1831", "Term end": "March 2, 1833", "Order 2": "52nd", "Office 2": "Governor of South Carolina", "Predecessor 2": "John Taylor", "Successor 2": "James Hamilton, Jr.", "Birth date": "1787 5 8", "Birth place": "Waxhaws, South Carolina", "Death date": "1838 3 8 17... |
The president of Sri Lanka ( Śrī Laṃkā Janādhipathi; Ilankai janātipati) is the head of state and head of government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The president is the chief executive of the union government and the commander-in-chief of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.
Origin
thumb|right|J. R. Jayewa... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "Sri Lanka", "Native name": "si ශ්රී ලංකා ජනාධිපතිta இலங்கை சனாதிபதி", "Insignia size": "100px", "Insignia caption": "Emblem of Sri Lanka", "Incumbent": "Ranil Wickremesinghe", "Incumbent since": "21 July 2022", "Style": "Mr. President(Informal)\n\nHis Excellency(Formal)", "Member of": "C... |
X 2000, also called SJ X2 or simply as X2, is an electric tilting train operated by SJ in Sweden. It was constructed by Kalmar Verkstad in Kalmar, Sweden (prior to the company being bought by Adtranz in 1996) and launched in 1990 as a first-class only train with a meal included in the ticket price, and free use of the ... | {"Name": "X 2000", "Image Caption": "Refurbished X2 train at Stockholm Central Station", "Manufacturer": "ABB, Adtranz and Kalmar Verkstad", "Factory": "Västerås (ABB, electrical part), Kalmar (mechanical part)", "Year(s) of Refurbishment": "2003-2007; 2019- https://www.sj.se/sv/om/om-sj/trafik-och-tag/nya-x-2000.html ... |
Gossamer is an animated character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He is a large, hairy, orange or red monster. His body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, claw... | {"First appearance": "Hair-Raising Hare (1946 5 25)", "Created by": "Chuck JonesMichael Maltese", "Voiced by": "Mel Blanc (1946-1980)Frank Welker (1990)Maurice LaMarche (1995, 2002)Jim Cummings (1996-2006)Joe Alaskey (2000-2001)Kwesi Boakye (2011-2014)Eric Bauza (2018, 2023-present)Gossamer https://www.behindthevoicea... |
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