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Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich (25 August 1752 - 22 December 1828) was an Austrian officer. He is best remembered as the commander of the Austrian forces that capitulated to Napoleon's Grande Armée in the Battle of Ulm in 1805.
Early career
Karl Mack was born at Nennslingen, in the Principality of Ansbach. In 1770 h... | {"Born": "Nennslingen, Principality of Ansbach", "Died": "St. Pölten, Lower Austria", "Allegiance": "Holy Roman EmpireAustrian Empire", "Awards": "Military Order of Maria Theresa"} |
thumb|Mistral Coordination Post (MCP) with Oerlikon Contraves SHORAR.
The Missile Transportable Anti-aérien Léger (English: Transportable lightweight anti-air missile), commonly called Mistral, is a French infrared homing short range air defense system manufactured by MBDA France (formerly by Matra Defence and then Mat... | {"Place of origin": "France", "Type": "SHORAD", "Blast yield": "yes", "Transport": "yes", "In service": "1988-present", "Used by": "See Operators", "Wars": "Second Congo War2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine", "Designer": "Matra Defence (now merged into MBDA)", "Designed": "1974", "Manufacturer": "MBDA France", "Mass": "... |
Lancaster University (legally The University of Lancaster) is a public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new universities created in the 1960s.
The university was initially based in St Leonard's Gate in the city centre, bef... | {"Motto": "Patet omnibus veritas", "Endowment": "£14.9 million (2022)", "Budget": "£357.9 million (2021/22)", "Type": "Public", "Campus": "Bailrigg", "Chancellor": "Alan Milburn", "Students": "17,770 (2021/22)Where do HE students study? HESA https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider www.... |
The chief secretary to the Treasury is a ministerial office in the government of the United Kingdom who ranks as the second highest in the Treasury, after the chancellor of the Exchequer. The office was created in 1961, to share the burden of representing the Treasury with the chancellor.
The minister is shadowed by t... | {"Post": "Chief Secretary to the Treasury", "Insignia caption": "Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government", "Incumbent": "John Glen", "Incumbent since": "25 October 2022", "Department": "His Majesty's Treasury", "Style": "The Right Honourable", "Reports to": "Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister", "Nominator": ... |
Dawn Roma FrenchDawn French: "I just had a lot of fun" , Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 11 May 2007. (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennif... | {"Name": "Dawn French", "Caption": "French in 2005", "Birth name": "Dawn Roma French", "Birth date": "1957 10 11 y", "Birth place": "Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales", "Nationality": "British", "Occupation": "Actress comedian presenter writer", "Education": "Central School of Speech and Drama", "Notable works": "French and Sa... |
Angelo Fausto Coppi (; 15 September 1919 - 2 January 1960) was an Italian cyclist, the dominant international cyclist of the years after the Second World War. His successes earned him the title Il Campionissimo ("Champion of Champions"). He was an all-round racing cyclist: he excelled in both climbing and time trialing... | {"Name": "Fausto Coppi", "Image caption": "Coppi at the 1952 Tour de France", "Full name": "Angelo Fausto Coppi", "Nickname": "The HeronIl Campionissimo(Champion of Champions)", "Birth date": "1919 09 15 y", "Birth place": "Castellania, Italy", "Death date": "1960 01 02 1919 09 15 y", "Death place": "Tortona, Italy", "... |
World Aquatics, formerly known as FINA (; ), is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competitions in water sports. It is one of several international federations which administer a given sport or discipline for both the IOC and the internat... | {"Name": "World Aquatics", "Abbreviation": "WA (World Aquatics)", "Logo size": "310px", "Sport": "Swimming diving artistic swimming water polo open water swimming high diving", "Jurisdiction": "International", "Founded": "1908 07 19 y", "International affiliation": "Association of Summer Olympic International Federatio... |
was a Japanese samurai, a shishi and influential figure of the Bakumatsu, and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period.
He was a low-ranking samurai from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an active opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate after the end of Japan's sakoku isolationist policy. Ryōma unde... | {"Name": "Sakamoto Ryōmaja 坂本龍馬", "Caption": "Ryoma 1860s", "Birth date": "1836 01 03 yes", "Birth place": "Kōchi, Tosa Province, Japan", "Death date": "1867 12 10 1836 1 3 yes", "Death cause": "Assassination", "Death place": "Kyoto, Yamashiro Province, Japan", "Occupation": "Samurai, politician", "Spouse(s)": "Narasa... |
was a Japanese swordsman who may have lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods and is known primarily for the story of his battle with Miyamoto Musashi in 1612, where Sasaki was killed. Although suffering from defeat as well as death at the hands of Musashi, he is a revered and respected warrior in Japane... | {"Native name": "jp", "Residence": "Japan", "Born": "Fukui Prefecture, Japan", "Died": "Ganryū-jima, Japan", "Style": "Ganryū"} |
{{nihongo|Takasugi Shinsaku|高杉 晋作|extra= 27 September 1839 – 17 May 1867}} was a samurai from the Chōshū Domain of Japan who contributed significantly to the Meiji Restoration. He used several aliases to hide his activities from the Tokugawa shogunate.
Early life
thumb|Takasugi Shinsaku in armor-clad fencing training
... | {"Native name": "ja", "Other name(s)": "Tani Senzo Tani Umenosuke Bingoya Sukeishiro Mitani Wasuke Hori Taro Shishido Gyoma Nishiura Matsusuke", "Nickname(s)": "Tōgyō", "Born": "Hagi, Chōshū Domain, Japan", "Died": "Shinchi-cho, Shimonoseki, Chōshū Domain, Japan", "Allegiance": "Chōshū Domain", "Commands held": "Kiheit... |
was daimyo of Kai Province during the Sengoku period of Japan. Known as the "Tiger of Kai", he was one of the most powerful daimyo of the late Sengoku period, and credited with exceptional military prestige. Shingen was based in a poor area with little arable land and no access to the sea, but he became one of Japan's ... | {"Native name": "武田 信玄", "Native name language": "jpn 武田 信玄", "Birth date": "December 1, 1521", "Death date": "1573 5 13 1521 12 1", "Birth place": "Kai Province, Japan", "Death place": "Mikawa Province, Japan", "Image caption": "Takeda Shingen", "Term start": "1541", "Term end": "1573", "Battles fought": "Battle of Un... |
Rena Marlette Lesnar ( Greek, formerly Mero; born August 8, 1967), better known as Sable, is an American former model, actress, and retired professional wrestler. She is primarily known for her time in the WWF. She began working for the WWF in 1996. As Sable, she gained immense popularity during the Attitude Era. After... | {"Birth name": "Rena Marlette Greek", "Ring name(s)": "Sable", "Billed height": "5 ft 8 inhttps://www.wwe.com/superstars/sable Sable WWE.com October 23, 2021", "Born": "1967 08 08 yeshttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJJ7-J982 United States Public Records familysearch.org February 20, 2022", "Billed from": "J... |
(September 11, 1719, in Edo, Japan – August 25, 1788, in Edo) was a chamberlain (sobashū) and a senior counselor (rōjū) to the shōgun Tokugawa Ieharu of the Tokugawa Shogunate, in the Edo period of Japan. Tanuma and his son exercised tremendous power, especially in the last 14 years of shogun Ieharu's reign.Hane, M. (2... | {"Name": "Tanuma Okitsugu", "Nationality": "Japanese", "Image caption": "Tanuma Okitsugu", "Term start": "1767", "Term end": "1786", "Birth date": "1719 9 11 y", "Birth place": "Edo, Japan", "Death date": "1788 8 25 1719 9 11 y", "Death place": "Edo, Japan"} |
The Waitangi Tribunal (Māori: Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi) is a New Zealand permanent commission of inquiry established under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975. It is charged with investigating and making recommendations on claims brought by Māori relating to actions or omissions of the Crown, in the period ... | {"Formed": "1975", "Headquarters": "Wellington, New Zealand", "Employees": "60", "Parent department": "Special Jurisdictions", "Website": "Tribunal website"} |
City Place is a mixed-use facility featuring two 20-story buildings in central Fort Worth, Texas. The complex was formerly known as Tandy Center and served as the corporate headquarters for RadioShack (formerly Tandy Corporation) for many years, designed by Growald Architects of Fort Worth, Texas and built by Beck. Dur... | {"Former names": "Tandy Center", "Alternative names": "One City Place (south tower)Two City Place (north tower)", "Architectural style": "Modern", "Address": "100-300 Throckmorton Street", "Town or city": "Fort Worth, Texas"} |
was a famous swordsman of the early Sengoku period. He was described as a kensei (sword saint). He was the founder of a new Kashima style of kenjutsu, and served as an instructor of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Ise provincial governor daimyō Kitabatake Tomonori.KASHIMA CITY/The Statue of Tsukahara Bokuden
Early life
... | {"Native name": "jp", "Residence": "Japan", "Born": "Hitachi Province", "Died": "Kashima (now Kashima City), Japan", "Style": "Kashima style of kenjutsu"} |
Cardiff Bay Barrage () lies across the mouth of Cardiff Bay, Wales between Queen Alexandra Dock and Penarth Head. It was one of the largest civil engineering projects in Europe during construction in the 1990s.
History
thumb|left|The mudflats exposed at low tide, before the construction of the barrage
Origin
The orig... | {"Official name": "Cardiff Bay Barrage", "Coordinates": "51.44812 -3.1647 type:landmark inline,title", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Location": "Cardiff, Wales", "Status": "O", "Construction began": "1994", "Opening date": "2001", "Construction cost": "£120m", "Owner(s)": "Welsh Government", "Operator(s)": "Cardiff Har... |
Exalted is a high fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing in July 2001. The game is currently in its third edition. It was originally created by Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli and Stephan Wieck, and was inspired by world mythologies and anime.
Influences
The setting is strongly i... | {"Name": "Exalted", "Image caption": "Second edition cover, depicting the characters (left to right) Arianna, Swan, Panther, Harmonious Jade, and Dace", "Publishers": "White Wolf Publishing", "Genres": "High fantasy", "Systems": "Storyteller System", "Designers": "Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli, Stephan Wieck, Andrew Bat... |
thumb|Contemporary Christian worship in Rock Harbor Church, Costa Mesa, United States
Contemporary worship music (CWM), also known as praise and worship music, is a defined genre of Christian music used in contemporary worship. It has developed over the past 60 years and is stylistically similar to pop music. The song... | {"Name": "Contemporary worship music", "Stylistic origins": "Jesus music, contemporary Christian music", "Cultural origins": "1950s and 1960sUnited States", "Other genre topics": "Contemporary worship, church music"} |
was a Japanese daimyo, swordsman, and martial arts writer, founder of the Edo branch of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, which he learned from his father Yagyū "Sekishūsai" Muneyoshi. This was one of two official sword styles patronized by the Tokugawa shogunate (the other one being Ittō-ryū). Munenori began his career in the Tokug... | {"Name": "Yagyū Munenori", "Birth date": "1571", "Death date": "May 11, 1646 1571", "Known For": "Yagyū Shinkage-ryū", "Occupation": "Daimyo, martial arts writer, swordsman"} |
Bo "Bosse" Ingvar Karchimirer Ringholm (born 18 August 1942) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He held the titles of Minister of Finance, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Policy Coordination, and Minister for Sport in the Persson administration.
Career
Ringholm was born in Falköping, a town in the west o... | {"Name": "Bo Ringholm", "Image caption": "Bosse Ringholm in September 2006", "Office 2": "Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden", "Predecessor 2": "Laila Freivalds", "Prime minister 2": "Göran Persson", "Successor 2": "Maud Olofsson", "Birth name": "Bo Ingvar Karchimirer Ringholm", "Birth date": "1942 8 18 y", "Birth place":... |
Kunio Yanagita (柳田 國男, Yanagita Kunio, July 31, 1875 - August 8, 1962) was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist. He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions. This led to a change in his career. His pursuit of this led to his eventual establishment of Japan... | {"Name": "Kunio Yanagitaja 柳田 國男", "Caption": "Kunio Yanagita, circa 1940", "Birth name": "Kunio Matsuoka", "Birth date": "1875 7 31", "Birth place": "Fukusaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan", "Death date": "1962 8 8 1875 7 31", "Death place": "Tokyo, Japan", "Known For": "Tōno Monogatari (遠野物語)\nMomotarō no Tanjō(桃太郎の誕生) \n... |
Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. It explores perceived inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident people... | {"Country": "Philippines", "Language": "Spanish", "Publisher": "Berliner Buchdruckerei-Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin, German Empire", "Media type": "Print (hardcover)", "Followed by": "El filibusterismo"} |
The Staten Island Railway (SIR) is a rapid transit line in the New York City borough of Staten Island. It is owned by the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (SIRTOA), a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and operated by the New York City Transit Authority Department of Subways. SIR op... | {"Infobox width": "300px", "Name": "Staten Island Railway", "Size of first image": "218px", "Size of second image": "75px", "Alternative text for second image": "The white letters SIR in a blue circle", "Second image caption": "The SIR bullet, used on the MTA's website, timetables, New York City Subway map, and some st... |
Acapulco International Airport, officially General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport , is the main airport of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, located from the city.
In 2021, the airport handled 670,239 passengers, and in 2022 it handled 838,991 passengers.
Information
Because Acapulco has always been considered an i... | {"Coordinates": "16 45 21.7 N 99 45 05.8 W region:MX inline,title", "Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Acapulco", "Location": "Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico", "AMSL": "4"} |
Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station. Floyd Bennett Field is currently part of the Gateway National Recreat... | {"Location": "Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York", "Built": "1928-1930", "Architect": "Department of Docks", "Architectural style": "Art Deco Classical Revival"} |
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors. Like the two other public library systems in New York City, it is an independent nonprofit or... | {"Established": "1896", "Location": "New York City", "Branches": "66", "Size": "5,045,500 items", "Population served": "2,565,635", "Director": "Linda E. Johnson (2010-present)", "Website": "www.bklynlibrary.org"} |
William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton KG (14 December 161612 September 1651) was a Scottish nobleman who supported both Royalist and Presbyterian causes during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Life
Hamilton was born at Hamilton Palace in December 1616, the younger son of James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton and La... | {"Image caption": "after Adriaen Hanneman, 1625-1650", "Other titles": "Earl of Lanark, Earl of Cambridge, Lord Machanshyre, Lord Polmont", "Father": "James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton", "Mother": "Lady Ann Cunningham", "Birth date": "14 December 1616", "Birth place": "Hamilton, South Lanarkshire", "Death date":... |
William Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, KG, PC (24 December 1634 - 18 April 1694), also known as Lord William Douglas and the Earl of Selkirk, was a Scottish nobleman and politician. He was the eldest son of the 1st Marquess of Douglas by his second wife, Lady Mary Gordon, a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Huntly.
... | {"Name": "The Duke of Hamilton", "Image caption": "Portrait by Godfrey Kneller", "Monarch 2": "William II and Mary II", "Predecessor 2": "The Earl of Moray", "Successor 2": "The Earl of Melville", "Birth date": "23 December 1634", "Death date": "1694 4 18 1634 12 23 y", "Death place": "Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburg... |
Lieutenant-General James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon, KG, KT (11 April 1658 - 15 November 1712) was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician. Hamilton was a major investor in the failed Darien Scheme, which cost many of Scotland's ruling class their fortunes. He led the Country Party in th... | {"Image caption": "The 4th Duke of Hamilton", "Birth date": "1658 4 11 y", "Birth place": "Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, Scotland", "Death date": "1712 11 15 1658 4 11 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Other titles": "1st Duke of BrandonMarquess of ClydesdaleEarl of Arran, Lanark and CambridgeBaron DuttonLord Aven... |
The municipality ( or concelho) is the second-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution.
As a general rule, each municipality is further subdivided into parishes (freguesias); the municipalities in the north of the country usually have a higher number of parishes. Six municipali... | {"Category": "2nd-level administrative division", "Location": "Portugal", "Found in": "Administrative region Autonomous region", "Created": "Middle Ages", "Number": "308", "Populations": "451-529,485", "Areas": "7.9-1,720.6 km²", "Government": "Municipal Chamber Municipal Assembly", "Subdivisions": "pt Freguesia (Civ... |
thumb|Arms of Brandon: Barry of ten argent and gules, a lion rampant or ducally crowned per pale of the first and second
thumb|243px|Quartered arms of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 1st Viscount Lisle, (22 August 1545) was an English military leader and courtier. Through hi... | {"Name": "The Duke of Suffolk", "Image caption": "Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, wearing the Collar of the Garter, c. 1530", "Birth date": "1484", "Death date": "22 1545 1484 8", "Death place": "Guildford, Surrey, Kingdom of England", "Resting place": "St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle", "Residence": "Westhorp... |
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, (March 1642 - 2 May 1711) was an English statesman and writer. He was originally a supporter of James II but later supported the Glorious Revolution in 1688. He held high office under Queen Anne, daughter of his sister Anne Hyde, but their frequent disagreements limited his influe... | {"Name": "The Earl of Rochester", "Image caption": "Portrait by Willem Wissing", "Term start": "1679", "Term end": "1684", "Monarch 2": "Anne", "Predecessor 2": "Lord Somers", "Successor 2": "The Duke of Buckingham and Normanby", "Birth date": "March 1642", "Birth place": "England", "Death date": "2 May 1711", "Death p... |
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, (11 November 1633 - 5 April 1695), was an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660, and in the House of Lords after he was raised to the peerage in 1668.
Background and early life, 1633-1667
Savile was born in Thornhill, in the West Ridi... | {"Name": "The Marquess of Halifax", "Image caption": "George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, by Mary Beale, circa 1674-1676", "Birth name": "George Savile", "Birth date": "1633 11 11 y", "Birth place": "Thornhill, West Riding of Yorkshire, England", "Death date": "1695 4 5 1633 11 11 y", "Resting place": "Westminster Abbe... |
Brad Wilk (born September 5, 1968) is an American drummer. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine (1991-2000, 2007-2011, 2019-present), Audioslave (2001-2007, 2017), and Prophets of Rage (2016-2019).
Wilk started his career as a drummer for Greta in 1990, and helped co-found Rage Again... | {"Born": "Portland, Oregon, U.S.", "Genres": "Alternative metal\n rap metal\n funk metal\n alternative rock\n hard rock\n heavy metal\n doom metal", "Labels": "Epic\n Interscope", "Member of": "Rage Against the Machine", "Formerly of": "Audioslave\n Prophets of Rage\n Greta\n Sound City Players\n The Smashing Pumpkins"... |
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Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, (20 February 1632 - 26 July 1712) was an English Tory politician and peer.Also known by his earlier and then subsidiary titles of 2nd Baronet, of Kiveton, in the Baronetage of England, 1st Viscount Osborne, in the Peerage of Scotland, and 1st Baron Osborn... | {"Other titles": "1st Viscount Osborne (1673), 1st Viscount Latimer (1673), 1st Earl of Danby (1674), 1st Marquess of Carmarthen (1689)", "Father": "Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet", "Mother": "Anne Walmesley", "Birth date": "1632 02 20 y", "Death date": "1712 07 26 1632 02 20 y"} |
thumb|200px|Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735-1811) (presumably a copy, artist aged 13 at sitter's death), collection of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1689-1748
thumb|200px|Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, portrait c. 17... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Grace", "Name": "The Duke of Somerset", "Honorific suffix": "KG PC", "Image caption": "Portrait by John Closterman, c. 1690-1692", "Birth date": "1662 08 13 y", "Birth place": "Wiltshire, England", "Death date": "1748 12 02 1662 08 13 y", "Death place": "Petworth, Great Britain", "Resting plac... |
The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada. At high, it is one of the world's highest earth fill dams. Construction of the dam began in 1961 and culminated in 1968. At the dam, the Finlay, the Parsnip and the Peace rivers feed into Williston Lake, also... | {"Impounds": "Peace River", "Location": "Hudson's Hope,British Columbia, Canada", "Type of dam": "Embankment dam", "Length": "2068 m 0 on", "Height": "186 m 0 on", "Construction began": "1963", "Opening date": "1968", "Owner(s)": "BC Hydro", "Creates": "Williston Lake", "Total capacity": "74 km3 acre.ft on out", "Surfa... |
The Honeydrippers: Volume One is an EP released on 24 September 1984, by a band led by rock singer Robert Plant. The project originated when Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun wanted to record an album of his favourite songs from the 1950s. Plant was chosen because Ertegun had seen his pick-up band the Honeydripp... | {"Released": "24 September 1984", "Recorded": "March 1984", "Studio": "Atlantic Studios, New York, NY; overdubs at Marcus Studios, London", "Genre": "Rock and roll\njump blues\nrhythm & blues", "Label": "Es Paranza Atlantic", "Producer": "Nugetre The Fabulous Brill Brothers"} |
The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, operating as BC Hydro, is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia. It is the main electricity distributor, serving more than 4 million customers in most areas, with the exception of the City of New Westminster, where the city runs its own electrica... | {"Type": "Crown Corporation", "Industry": "Electric utility", "Products": "Electricity generation, transmission and distribution", "Revenue": "7.591 billion yes (2022)", "Parent": "Government of British Columbia", "Founded": "1961", "Headquarters": "333 Dunsmuir StreetVancouver, British ColumbiaV6B 5R3", "Website": "ht... |
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, (4 March 1651 - 26 April 1716) was an English jurist, Whig statesman and peer. Somers first came to national attention in the trial of the Seven Bishops where he was on their defence counsel. He published tracts on political topics such as the succession to the crown, where he elaborated... | {"Name": "The Lord Somers", "Image caption": "Portrait by Godfrey Kneller", "Term start": "25 November 1708", "Term end": "21 September 1710", "Order 2": "Lord Chancellor", "Predecessor 2": "Himself (as Lord Keeper)", "Successor 2": "In Commission", "Birth date": "1651 3 4 yes", "Birth place": "Claines, Commonwealth of... |
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (185-129 BC), known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a Roman general and statesman noted for his military exploits in the Third Punic War against Carthage and during the Numantine War in Spain. He oversaw the final defeat and destruction of the city... | {"Name": "Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus", "Image upright": "1.1", "Alt": "Male head of a bronze statue", "Caption": "The so-called \"Hellenistic Prince\", tentatively identified as Scipio AemilianusCoarelli p. 187", "Birth date": "185 BC", "Death date": "129 BC (aged 55-56)", "Nationality": "Roman", "Oc... |
thumb|Arms of Sir Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, KG: Quarterly per pale indented or and azure, in the 2nd and 3rd an eagle displayed of the 1st on a bend of the 2nd a fret between two martlets of the 1st. The fret or knot is a reference to the arms of Audley, Baron Audley, which family died out in the male ... | {"Name": "The Lord Audley of Walden", "Image caption": "Posthumous portrait, 1569", "Term start": "26 January 1533", "Term end": "21 April 1544", "Office 2": "Speaker of the House of Commons", "Preceded 2": "Sir Thomas More", "Succeeded 2": "Sir Humphrey Wingfield", "Birth date": "ca. 1488", "Death date": "yes 1544 4 3... |
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, (7 April 164824 February 1721) was an English poet and Tory politician of the late Stuart period who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He was also known by his original title, Lord Mulgrave.
Life
John Sheffield was the only son of Edmund ... | {"Name": "The Duke of Buckingham and Normanby", "Image caption": "Portrait by Godfrey Kneller", "Term start": "13 June 1711", "Term end": "23 September 1714", "Birth date": "8 September 1647", "Death date": "24 February 1721 (aged 73)", "Nationality": "English", "Office 2": "6th Duke of Buckingham"} |
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Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea PC (2 July 16471 January 1730) was an English Tory politician and peer who supported the Hanoverian Succession in 1714.
Origins
He was born on 2 July 1647, the son of Heneage Finch,... | {"Name": "The Earl of Nottingham", "Image caption": "Portrait by Jonathan Richardson", "Term start": "23 September 1714", "Term end": "6 July 1716", "Order 2": "Secretary of State for the Northern Department", "Monarch 2": "William III and Mary II", "Predecessor 2": "The Viscount Sydney of Sheppey", "Successor 2": "Sir... |
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Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, ( 16655 March 1726) was an English aristocrat.
He was born at West Dean, Wiltshire, the third son of Robert Pierrepont of Thoresby, Nottinghamshire (son of William Pierrepont ), and his... | {"Name": "The Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull", "Image": "1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull.JPG", "Image caption": "Portrait by Godfrey Kneller", "Birth date": "1665", "Death date": "5 March 1726", "Spouse(s)": "Lady Mary Feilding Lady Isabella Bentinck"} |
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Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, (; 18 April 167421 June 1738) was an English Whig statesman. He served for a decade as Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1714 to 1717 and again from 1721 to 1730. He directed Bri... | {"Name": "The Viscount Townshend", "Image caption": "Portrait of Townshend attributed to Charles Jervas, 1724, dressed in Garter robes (National Portrait Gallery)https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw06377/Charles-Townshend-2nd-Viscount-Townshend Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend National Portrai... |
Shen Buhai (; c. 400c. 337) was a Chinese essayist, philosopher, and politician. The Shiji records that he served as Chancellor of the Han state under Marquis Zhao of Han for fifteen years, from 351 BC or 354 to his supposed death in 337 BC.Creel, 1974 p.21-23 Shen Pu-hai: A Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth ... | {"Name in Chinese": "申不害", "Pinyin transcription": "Shēn Búhaì", "Wade-Giles": "Shen Pu-hai", "Mandarin IPA": "sh en 1 - b u 4 h ai 4", "Jyutping": "San1 Bat1-hoi6", "Yale Romanization (Cantonese)": "Sān Bāt-hoih", "Tâi-Lô (Taiwanese romanization)": "Sin Put-hāi"} |
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Laredo International Airport is three miles northeast of downtown Laredo, in Webb County, Texas, United Sta... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Laredo, Texas", "AMSL": "155", "Coordinates": "27 32 38 N 99 27 42 W region:US-TX inline,title", "Website": "CityOfLaredo.com/..."} |
Jack Brooks Regional Airport , formerly Southeast Texas Regional Airport, is near Port Arthur, Texas, nine miles (14 km) southeast of Beaumont and northeast of Port Arthur. It was Jefferson County Airport, but its name was changed to honor former U.S. Representative Jack Brooks (D - Beaumont). The airport is southwest ... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Beaumont / Port Arthur, Texas", "Location": "unincorporated Jefferson County, Texas", "AMSL": "5", "Coordinates": "29 57 03 N 094 01 14 W type:airport inline", "Website": "http://flysetx.com"} |
Sir James George Frazer (; 1 January 1854 - 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folkloristJosephson-Storm (2017), Chapter 5. influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.Mary Beard, "Frazer, Leach, and Virgil: The Popularity (and Unpopularity) of the Gold... | {"Fields": "Social anthropologist", "Institutions": "Trinity College, Cambridge University of Liverpool", "Influences": "Andrew Lang Plato Edward Burnett Tylor Hermann Oldenberg", "Influenced": "Sigmund Freud Freud Sigmund Totem and Taboo Routledge Classics 2001 0-415-25387-X Jack Goody Ross Nich... |
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 179616 May 1862) is considered a key figure in the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand (where he later served as a member of parliament). He also had significant interests in British North America, being involved in the drafting of Lord Durham's Report and... | {"Name": "Edward Gibbon Wakefield", "Office 2": "Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Beauharnois", "Predecessor 2": "John William Dunscomb", "Successor 2": "Eden Colvile", "Term 2": "1842-1843", "Birth date": "1796 3 20 y", "Birth place": "London, Great Britain", "Death date": "1862 5 16 17... |
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The River Soar () is a major tributary of the River Trent in the English East Midlands and is the principal river of Leicestershire. The source of the river is midway between Hinckley and Lutterworth. The river then flows north through Leicester, where it is joi... | {"Location": "Trent Lock, Leicestershire", "Coordinates": "52.8731 -1.2682 inline,title", "Mouth": "30 m on", "Basin size": "1386 km2 on", "Left": "Soar Brook, Thurlaston Brook, River Biam, Rothley Brook, Black Brook", "Right": "Whetstone Brook, River Sence, River Wreake, Kingston Brook"} |
Thomas Hobson (c. 15441 January 1631) was an English carrier, best known as the origin of the expression Hobson's choice.
Eponym
The term "Hobson's choice" originated in the mid-seventeenth century, after Hobson's death. The poet John Milton made Hobson, and the phrase, well known, by satirising him several times in ... | {"Name": "Thomas Hobson", "Birth date": "c. 1544", "Caption": "1629 portrait of Thomas Hobson, from the National Portrait Gallery", "Birth place": "Buntingford, Hertfordshire, Kingdom of England", "Death date": "1631 1 1 1544 1 4 y", "Death place": "Cambridge, Kingdom of England"} |
Clear Lake (Pomo: Lypoyomi)Lake County Tourism Improvement District - Fun Facts About Lake CountyBay Nature - Clear Lake, a Destination for Kayaking and Birding is a natural freshwater lake in Lake County in the U.S. state of California, north of Napa County and San Francisco. It is the largest natural freshwater lake ... | {"Location": "Lake County, California", "Coordinates": "39.0616 -122.8272 region:US-CA_type:waterbody_source:placeopedia inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Scotts CreekMiddle CreekForbes CreekMorrison CreekSeigler Canyon CreekShindler CreekKelsey CreekAdobe CreekManning Creek", "Primary outflows": "Cache Creek", "Basi... |
Baron Aberconway, of Bodnant in the County of Denbigh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 21 June 1911 for the industrialist and Liberal politician Sir Charles McLaren, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet, of Bodnant, Gwylgre and Hilders, on 24 July 1902.
His eldest son,... | {"Creation date": "21 June 1911 Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood Burke's Peerage & Gentry Mosley, Charles 107 2003 3-4 Burke 0-9711966-2-1", "Created by": "King George V", "Peerage": "Peerage of the United Kingdom", "First holder": "Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway", "Heir apparent": "Charles Steph... |
Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American talk show host, conservative political commentator, and author. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also hosted a commentary program, Hannity, on Fox News, since 2009.
Hannity worked as a general contract... | {"Name": "Sean Hannity", "Caption": "Hannity in 2020", "Birth name": "Sean Patrick Hannity", "Birth date": "1961 12 30", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Radio host, television host, political commentator, author", "Employer": "Premiere Networks, Fox News Channel", "Party": "Conservative Party of Ne... |
The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, housing 4,000 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies on of Balboa Park leased from the City of San Diego. Its parent organization, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, is a private nonprofit conservation organization, and has one of the largest zoo... | {"Zoo name": "San Diego Zoo", "Date opened": "1916 (Precursor Panama-California Exposition in previous year)", "Location": "Balboa Park, San Diego, California, U.S.", "Total area": "99 acre ha", "Coordinates": "32 44 10 N 117 09 05 W type:landmark_scale:2500", "Number of animals": "3,700+", "Number of species": "650+ (... |
WebObjects was a Java web application server and a server-based web application framework originally developed by NeXT Software, Inc.
WebObject's hallmark features are its object-orientation, database connectivity, and prototyping tools. Applications created with WebObjects can be deployed as web sites, Java WebStart ... | {"Original author(s)": "NeXT Software Inc.", "Developer(s)": "Apple Inc.", "Initial release": "1996 03 28", "Written in": "Java", "Type": "Web application server", "License": "Proprietary", "Successor": "Project Wonder"} |
The Ford Ranchero is a coupe utility that was produced by Ford between 1957 and 1979. Unlike a standard pickup truck, the Ranchero was adapted from a two-door station wagon platform that integrated the cab and cargo bed into the body. A total of 508,355 units were produced during the model's production run. Over its li... | {"Also called": "Ford Falcon Ranchero Ford Fairlane Ranchero Meteor Ranchero1958 Meteor Ranchero, www.flickr.com Retrieved 4 December 2019", "Manufacturer": "Ford", "Class": "Full-sized (1957-1959) Compact (1960-1965) Mid-sized (1966-1979)", "Production": "1957-1979", "Body style": "2-door coupe utility", "Related": ... |
The National Union (, HaIhud HaLeumi) was an alliance of right-wing and nationalist political parties in Israel. In its final full form, the alliance consisted of four parties: Moledet, Hatikva, Eretz Yisrael Shelanu, and Tkuma. Leading up to the 2013 Knesset elections, only Tkuma remained, and joined The Jewish Home. ... | {"Leader": "Ya'akov KatzBenny BeginRehavam Ze'eviBinyamin ElonAvigdor Lieberman", "Founded": "1999", "Ideology": "NationalismSharon Weinblum Security and Defensive Democracy in Israel: A Critical Approach to Political Discourse https://books.google.com/books?id=8DtyBgAAQBAJ&pg=PR10 2015 Routledge 978-1-317-58450-6 10Z... |
The Finnish Navy (, ) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscripts are trained each year. Finnish Navy vessels are given the ship prefix "FNS", short for "Finnish Navy ship", but this is not used in Finnish language contexts. The Finnish Navy also includ... | {"Type": "Navy", "Role": "Maritime warfare", "Size": "6,700 personnel 31,500 personnel mobilised", "Part of": "15px|Coat of Arms of the Finnish Defence Forces Finnish Defence Forces", "Website": "http://merivoimat.fi/en/"} |
is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and lyricist for various anime theme songs and shows, including Record of Lodoss War, Please Save My Earth, Macross Plus, Outlaw Star, Kaze no Stigma, Maoyu, and Aria The Origination.
Biography
Arai joined Victor Music Entertainment after graduating from university. She worked on coll... | {"Born": "Tokyo, Japan", "Genres": "J-pop, Anison", "Labels": "Victor Entertainment, FlyingDog", "Website": "http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/akino/"} |
The Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF; ; ) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of readiness formations for wartime conditions. The Finnish Air Force was founded on 6 March 1918.
History
The Finnish Air Force, one of th... | {"Branch": "Air force", "Role": "Aerial warfare", "Size": "3,100 active personnel 38,000 reserve personnel", "Part of": "Finnish Defence Forces", "Motto(s)": "Qualitas Potentia Nostra (English: \"Quality is our Strength\")", "Website": "Finnish Air Force.fi", "Notablecommanders": "Arne Somersalo Jarl Lundqvist Jarmo Li... |
Muhammad Idris bin Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi (; 13 March 1890 - 25 May 1983) was a Libyan political and religious leader who was King of Libya from 24 December 1951 until his overthrow on 1 September 1969. He ruled over the United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1963, after which the country became known as simply the... | {"Born": "Jaghbub, Tripolitania Vilayet, Ottoman Empire", "Died": "Cairo, Egypt", "Burial": "Al-Baqi' Cemetery, Medina, Saudi Arabia", "Father": "Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi", "Mother": "Aisha bint Muqarrib al-Barasa", "Religion": "Sunni Islam"} |
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thumb|upright|A statue in the courtyard of the school commemorates the cadets of Polytechnique rushing to the defence of Paris in 1814. A copy was installed in West Point.
, also known as Polytechnique or l'X , is a grande école located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science... | {"Motto": "Pour la Patrie, les Sciences et la Gloire", "Type": "Grande école", "President": "Éric Labaye", "Students": "3,370https://www.polytechnique.edu/en/study-at-ecole-polytechnique/ Study at École Polytechnique École Polytechnique", "Undergraduates": "480https://www.polytechnique.edu/en/content/applications-bac... |
On 5 April 1986, three people were killed and 229 injured when La Belle discothèque was bombed in the Friedenau district of West Berlin. The entertainment venue was commonly frequented by United States soldiers; two of the dead and 79 of the injured were Americans.
Libya was accused by the US government of sponsoring ... | {"Title": "West Berlin discotheque bombing", "Part of": "terrorism in Germany", "Caption": "Roxy-Palast, the building in which the discotheque La Belle was located", "Location": "Hauptstraße 78, West Berlin, West Germany", "Coordinates": "52 28 23 N 13 20 12 E", "Date": "yes 1986 04 05", "Time": "1:45 a.m.", "Timezone"... |
The - PSL (; also known as ENS, , Ulm or ENS Paris) is a grande école university in Paris, France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL).
Originally conceived during the French Revolution, the school was founded in 1794 to provide homogeneous training of high-school teache... | {"Type": "ENS (informal), grande école, EPSCPhttp://www.ens.fr/a-propos/l-institution/?lang=fr L'Institution - École normale supérieure - Paris 20 November 2014 29 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141129033721/http://www.ens.fr/a-propos/l-institution/?lang=fr dead (administrative)", "President": "Pierr... |
Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, (1 September 1931 - 22 January 2016) was a British Conservative Party politician and cabinet minister. A chartered accountant by training, he entered Parliament in November 1970, and was appointed a minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government in May 1979. He successfully m... | {"Name": "The Lord Parkinson", "Image caption": "Parkinson during an interview at 10 Downing Street, a week after his retirement from the House of Lords", "Term start": "11 June 1997", "Term end": "1 June 1998", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for Transport", "Prime minister 2": "Margaret Thatcher", "Predecessor 2": "P... |
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (; 5 March 1915 - 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. For several years he taught at ... | {"Fields": "Mathematics", "Institutions": "University of StrasbourgUniversity of NancyUniversity of GrenobleÉcole PolytechniqueUniversité de Paris VII", "Doctoral students": "Maurice AudinGeorges GlaeserAlexander GrothendieckJacques-Louis LionsBernard MalgrangeAndré MartineauBernard MaureyLeopoldo NachbinHenri Hogbe Nl... |
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (24 February 1733 - 30 June 1800) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1783 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Sydney. He held several important Cabinet posts in the second half of the 18th century. The cities of Sydney in Nova Scotia, Cana... | {"Name": "The Viscount Sydney", "Image caption": "Portrait attributed to the American painter Gilbert Stuart, c. 1785", "Monarch 2": "George III", "Prime minister 2": "The Earl of Shelburne", "Predecessor 2": "The Earl of Shelburne", "Successor 2": "Lord North", "Birth date": "yes 1733 2 24", "Birth place": "Raynham, N... |
Have Gun - Will Travel is an American Western series that was produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television and radio from 1957 through 1963. The television version of the series starring Richard Boone was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons.
Set ... | {"Genre": "Western", "Created by": "Sam Rolfe\n Herb Meadow", "Directed by": "Andrew V. McLaglen\n Richard Donner\n Lamont Johnson\n Ida Lupino\n Richard Boone\n William Conrad\n others", "Starring": "Richard Boone\n Kam Tong", "Narrated by": "Richard Boone", "Country of origin": "United States", "Running time": "25 mi... |
Lloyd Lionel Gaines (born 1911 – disappeared March 19, 1939) was the plaintiff in Gaines v. Canada (1938), one of the most important early court cases in the 20th-century U.S. civil rights movement. After being denied admission to the University of Missouri School of Law because he was African American, and refusing th... | {"Name": "Lloyd L. Gaines", "Alt": "A black and white photograph of a young blank man with short hair in tight closeup.", "Caption": "Lloyd Gaines", "Birth name": "Lloyd Lionel Gaines", "Birth date": "1911", "Birth place": "Water Valley, Mississippi, U.S.", "Disappeared date": "March 19, 1939 (aged 27 or 28)", "Disap... |
Yosef "Tommy" Lapid (; born Tomislav Lampel []; 27 December 1931 - 1 June 2008) was a Yugoslav-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit. Lapid headed the secular-liberal Shinui party from 1999 to 2006. He fiercely ... | {"Image caption": "Lapid reporting from the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961", "Birth name": "Tomislav Lampel", "Birth date": "27 December 1931", "Birth place": "Novi Sad, Yugoslavia", "Death date": "2008 06 01 1931 12 27 y", "Death place": "Tel Aviv, Israel"} |
Erik Nevland (born 10 November 1977) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is currently the sporting director of Viking FK. He played for clubs in Norway, England, Sweden and the Netherlands, and earned eight caps for the Norway national football team from his debut in 2001. After re... | {"Name": "Erik Nevland", "Picture": "Nevland.JPG", "Picture caption": "Nevland playing for Fulham in 2009", "Full name": "Erik Nevlandhttps://www.fotball.no/fotballdata/person/profil/?fiksId=3788768 Erik Nevland Norwegian Football Federation 18 April 2022 no", "Birth date": "1977 11 10 yhttps://www.premierleague.co... |
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (; 4 March 1929 - 21 October 2021) was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He was the principal conductor of several international orchestras, beginning with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1961. He moved to London, as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967 to... | {"Post-nominals": "GBR 100% CH KBE", "Caption": "Haitink in 1984", "Birth name": "Bernard Johan Herman Haitink", "Birth date": "1929 3 4 yes", "Birth place": "Amsterdam, Netherlands", "Death date": "2021 10 21 1929 3 4 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Occupation": "Conductor\n classical violinist", "Organization"... |
Karel Ančerl (11 April 1908 - 3 July 1973) was a Czechoslovak conductor and composer, renowned especially for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers.
Ančerl was born into a prosperous Jewish family in the village of Tučapy in southern Bohemia. After graduating fr... | {"Birth date": "yes 1908 04 11", "Birth place": "Tučapy, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary", "Death date": "yes 1973 07 03 1908 04 11", "Death place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Occupation": "Conductor\ncomposer"} |
Sergiu Celibidache (; 14 August 1996) was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Sicil... | {"Name": "Sergiu Celibidache", "Image upright": "1.3", "Caption": "Celibidache in 1966", "Birth date": "1912 06 28 y", "Birth place": "Roman, Romania", "Death date": "1996 08 14 1912 07 11 y", "Death place": "La Neuville-sur-Essonne, France", "Education": "Hochschule für Musik Berlin\n Friedrich Wilhelm University", "N... |
William Lincoln Christie (born December 19, 1944) is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in baroque and classical repertoire and is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.
Biography
Christie studied art history at Harvard University, where he was briefly assistant con... | {"Name": "William Christie", "Birth name": "William Lincoln Christie", "Birth date": "1944 12 19", "Birth place": "Buffalo, New York, US", "Occupation": "Classical conductor\nharpsichordist"} |
Carlo Maria Giulini (; 9 May 1914 - 14 June 2005) was an Italian conductor.
From the age of five, when he began to play the violin, Giulini's musical education was expanded when he began to study at Italy's foremost conservatory, the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome at the age of 16. Initially, he studied the viola... | {"Caption": "Giulini using a baton to lead an orchestra, so that he can communicate a musical idea.", "Alt": "Giulini waving a baton to lead musicians.", "Name": "Carlo Maria Giulini", "Post-nominals": "Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI", "Birth date": "y 1914 5 9", "Birth place": "Barletta, Kingdom of Italy", "Death date":... |
Ascoli Piceno (; ; ) is a (municipality) and capital of the province of Ascoli Piceno, in the Marche region of Italy.
Geography
The town lies at the confluence of the Tronto River and the small river Castellano and is surrounded on three sides by mountains. Two natural parks border the town, one on the northwestern ... | {"Official name": "Città di Ascoli Piceno", "Image caption": "Piazza del Popolo", "Coordinates": "42 51 N 13 35 E inline,title", "Region": "Marche", "Province": "Ascoli Piceno (AP)", "Frazioni": "see list", "Area": "160", "Population footnotes": "Population data from Istat", "Population": "45,630", "Population as of": ... |
Close to the Edge is the fifth studio album by English progressive rock band Yes. It was released on 8 September 1972 by Atlantic Records, and is their last album of the 1970s to feature their original drummer Bill Bruford. After scoring a commercial and critical hit with Fragile and touring the album, Yes regrouped to... | {"Released": "1972 9 8 yeshttp://forgotten-yesterdays.com/discography.asp?qrtypeid=1&ftype=1&qreleaseid=5 Yes Discography", "Recorded": "April-June 1972Welch 2008 120Howe 2020 91", "Studio": "Advision, London", "Genre": "Progressive rockMacan 1997 116", "Label": "Atlantic", "Producer": "Eddy Offord Yes"} |
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The Feast of Corpus Christi (), also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is a Christian liturgical solemnity celebrating the Real Presence of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus in the elements of the Eucharist; it is... | {"Official name": "Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ", "Also called": "Corpus Domini", "Observed by": "as a public holiday in Austria, Brazil, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, parts of Germany, Grenada, Liechtenstein, Malta, ... |
John ThurloeIn his diary, Samuel Pepys spells Thurloe's name as Thurlow (June 1616 - 21 February 1668) was an English politician who served as secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell and held the position of Postmaster General between 1655 and 1660. He was from Great ... | {"Name": "John Thurloe", "Birth date": "1616", "Birth place": "Essex", "Death date": "1668", "Death place": "Lincoln's Inn"} |
Samora Moisés Machel (29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986) was a Mozambican military commander and political leader. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism-Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975.
Machel died in office in 1986 when his presidential aircraft c... | {"Name": "Samora Machel", "Image caption": "Machel in 1985", "Term start": "25 June 1975", "Term end": "19 October 1986", "Birth date": "y 1933 09 29", "Birth place": "Gaza Province, Portuguese Mozambique", "Birth name": "Samora Moisés Machel", "Death date": "y 1986 10 19 1933 09 29", "Death place": "Mbuzini, Transvaal... |
Sarah Baartman (; 1789- 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name which was later attributed to at least one other ... | {"Name": "Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman", "Caption": "c. 1815", "Birth name": "Ssehura?", "Birth date": "1789", "Birth place": "Near Gamtoos River, Xhosa Kingdom", "Death date": "1815 1789", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Resting place": "Vergaderingskop, Hankey, Eastern Cape, South Africa", "Resting place coordinates": ... |
Timothy Dexter (January 22, 1747 - October 23, 1806) was an American businessman noted for his eccentric behavior and writings. He became wealthy through marriage and a series of improbably successful investments, and spent his fortune lavishly. Though barely educated or literate, Dexter considered himself "the greates... | {"Name": "Timothy Dexter", "Caption": "Dexter in 1805", "Birth date": "1747 1 22", "Birth place": "Malden, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America", "Death date": "1806 10 23 1747 1 22", "Death place": "Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Resting place": "Old Hill Burying Ground, Dexter Family Plot, Newburyport"... |
St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km (4 miles) south-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. St Kilda recorded a population of 19,490 at the 2021 census.
St Kilda was named by Charles La Trobe, then superinte... | {"Type": "suburb", "Name": "St Kilda", "City": "Melbourne", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Caption": "Luna Park and the Palais Theatre on the St Kilda foreshore", "Coordinates": "37.864 S 144.982 E inline,title", "Locator Map Alternative Map File": "Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne", "Locator Map Pushpin Captio... |
Barend "Ben" Bril (16 July 1912 - 11 September 2003) was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympics in Flyweight boxing, and became an accomplished European boxing referee and judge in the 1960s.
Early life and career
Bril was born in Valkenburgstraat, a poor section of Amsterdam to Jewish parent... | {"Real name": "Barend Bril", "Weight(s)": "FlyweightLightweight", "Nationality": "NED Netherlands", "Born": "Amsterdam, Netherlands", "Died": "Amsterdam, Netherlands", "Stance": "Orthodox"} |
A Brandy Alexander is a brandy-based dessert cocktail consisting of cognac, crème de cacao, and cream, that became popular during the early 20th century.Imbibe Magazine, May/June 2010, p. 38 It is a variation of an earlier, gin-based cocktail called simply an Alexander. The cocktail known as Alexander today may contain... | {"Type": "cocktail", "Served": "straight", "Standard garnish": "Sprinkle fresh ground nutmeg on top.", "Standard drinkware": "cocktail", "Preparation": "Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass."} |
Josh Kalis (born April 27, 1976) is a professional skateboarder who specializes in "street skateboarding". Kalis was sponsored by Alien Workshop for a significant period of time before switching to board sponsor, DGK, in 2009.
Biography
Kalis was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, and split his childhood between Phil... | {"Name": "Josh Kalis", "Nationality": "American", "Birth date": "1976 4 27", "Birth place": "Grand Rapids, Michigan", "Occupation": "Professional skateboarder", "Children": "2Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Skateboarder Josh Kalis 6 of 7 - Epicly Later'd - VICE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgzwEwCX... |
Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 spy film, the eighteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode from a screenplay by Bruce Feirstein, it follows Bond as he attempts to intercept Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pr... | {"Directed by": "Roger Spottiswoode", "Produced by": "Michael G. WilsonBarbara Broccoli", "Written by": "Bruce Feirstein", "Based on": "James Bond Ian Fleming", "Starring": "Pierce Brosnan\n Jonathan Pryce\n Michelle Yeoh\n Teri Hatcher\n Joe Don Baker\n Judi Dench", "Music by": "David Arnold", "Cinematography": "Rober... |
In France, the Conseil d'État (; Council of State) is a governmental body that acts both as legal adviser to the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice, which is one of the two branches of the French judiciary system. Established in 1799 by Napoleon as a successor to the King's Council (C... | {"Predecessor": "fr Conseil du Roi", "Type": "Advisory BodySupreme Court", "Headquarters": "Palais-Royal", "Location": "France", "Website": "https://www.conseil-etat.fr/"} |
Matthias Gallas, Graf von Campo und Herzog von Lucera (Count of Campo, Duke of Lucera) (Matteo Gallasso; 17 October 1588 in Trento - 25 April 1647 in Vienna) was an Austrian professional soldier during the Thirty Years' War. He distinguished himself in the first half of the war in service of the Catholic League, in the... | {"Born": "Trento, Prince-Bishopric of TrentRebitsch 2006 30", "Died": "Vienna, AustriaRößler 1964 46-47", "Allegiance": "Holy Roman Empire", "Spouse(s)": "Isabella of Arco († 1632), Dorothea Anna von Lodron († 1666)Rößler 1964 46-47"} |
Anton Ludwig Friedrich August Mackensen (ennobled as Von Mackensen in 1899; 6 December 1849 - 8 November 1945), was a German field marshal.See Lamar Cecil, "The Creation of Nobles in Prussia, 1871-1918" in The American Historical Review, Vol. 75, No. 3. (February, 1970), pp. 794; Gerard E. Silberstein, "The Serbian Cam... | {"Nickname(s)": "\"The Last Hussar\"", "Born": "Haus Leipnitz, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation", "Died": "Habighorst, Province of Hanover, Allied-occupied GermanyDavid T. Zabecki, Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History, p. 808", "Allegiance": "Kingdom of PrussiaNorth German Confedera... |
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (; 16 August 160418 July 1639) was a German prince and general in the Thirty Years' War.
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Biography
Born in Weimar within the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Bernard was the eleventh son of Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt.
Bernard received an unusuall... | {"Father": "John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar", "Mother": "Dorothea Maria of Anhalt", "Born": "Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar", "Died": "Neuenburg am Rhein", "Burial": "Breisach, later Weimar", "Religion": "Lutheran"} |
Craven was a non-metropolitan district in the west of North Yorkshire, centred on the market town of Skipton.
In its modern manifestation, from 1974 until 2023, Craven was a separate local government district, originally formed as the merger of Skipton urban district, Settle Rural District and most of Skipton Rural D... | {"Type": "Craven District Council", "Rank": "Ranked E07000163", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+1", "Website": "cravendc.gov.uk"} |
The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1994.
This supersedes a 1980 compilation with a shorter, different track list and Japanese ukiyo-e cover.
Track listing
The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer has a running time of 76 minutes and 49 seconds ... | {"Released": "1994", "Genre": "Progressive rockSymphonic rock", "Label": "ManticoreAtlantic", "Producer": "Keith EmersonGreg LakeCarl PalmerMark MancinaIan MorrowJohn Van Tongeren"} |
Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld (; c. 158029 November 1626), or simply Ernst von Mansfeld, was a German military commander; despite being a Catholic, he fought for the Protestants during the early years of the Thirty Years' War. He was one of the leading mercenary generals of the war.
Biography
Mansfeld was an illegiti... | {"Name": "Graf von Mansfeld", "Birth date": "c. 1580", "Birth place": "Luxembourg, Spanish Netherlands", "Death date": "29 November 1626 (aged c. 46)", "Death place": "Rakovica, Bosnia, Ottoman Empire", "Years active": "1595-1626", "Father": "Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort"} |
Baby the Rain Must Fall is a 1965 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Lee Remick, Steve McQueen and Don Murray. Dramatist Horton Foote, who wrote the screenplay, based it on his 1954 play The Traveling Lady. This is Glen Campbell's film debut, in an uncredited role.
Plot
Georgette Thomas (Lee ... | {"Directed by": "Robert Mulligan", "Produced by": "Alan J. Pakula", "Based on": "The Traveling Lady1954 play Horton Foote", "Screenplay by": "Horton Foote", "Starring": "Lee RemickSteve McQueenDon Murray", "Music by": "Elmer Bernstein", "Cinematography": "Ernest Laszlo", "Edited by": "Aaron Stell", "Color process": "Bl... |
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