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Kitt Peak () is a mountain in the U.S. state of Arizona, and at is the highest point in the Quinlan Mountains. It is the location of the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The radio telescope at the observatory is one of ten dishes comprising the Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope.
The peak was named in English by... | {"Elevation": "CG1127 Kitts August 18, 2016", "Prominence": "4155 Kitt Peak, Arizona May 15, 2009", "Location": "none", "Coordinates": "31.964919231 N 111.599279136 W type:mountain_scale:100000 dms inline,title"} |
The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour () is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few hundred metres southwest of the Kremlin. With an overall height of , it is the third tallest Orthodox Christian church building in the world, after the People's Salvation Cathedral ... | {"OS grid reference": "Cathedral of Christ the Saviour", "Location": "Moscow, Russia", "Denomination": "Russian Orthodox", "Website": "http://www.xxc.ru/", "Consecrated": "19 August 2000", "Style": "Russian Revival", "Length": "79 mhttp://new.xxc.ru/about/kompleks_hrama/hram_hrista_spasitelya/ Храм Христа Спасителя", "... |
George Stephen Kemble (21 April 1758 - 5 June 1822) was a successful English theatre manager, actor, and writer, and a member of the famous Kemble family. He was described as "the best Sir John Falstaff which the British stage ever saw" though he also played title roles in Hamlet and King Lear among others. He publishe... | {"Name": "Stephen Kemble", "Caption": "Stephen Kemble as Falstaff by James Heath", "Birth name": "George Stephen Kemble", "Birth date": "1758 4 21 y", "Birth place": "Kington, Herefordshire, England", "Death date": "1822 6 5 1758 4 21 y", "Death place": "Durham, England", "Resting place": "Chapel of the Nine Altars, Du... |
The 1999 New Zealand general election was held on 27 November 1999 to determine the composition of the 46th New Zealand Parliament. The governing National Party, led by Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, was defeated, being replaced by a coalition of Helen Clark's Labour Party and the smaller Alliance. This marked an end to... | {"Name": "1999 New Zealand general election", "Turnout": "2,127,295 (84.77%) 3.51%", "Country": "New Zealand", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1996 New Zealand general election", "Previous year": "1996", "Outgoing members": "45th New Zealand Parliament", "Next election": "2002 New Zeala... |
Andrew Li Kwok-nang (; born December 1948) is a retired Hong Kong judge, and a former Chief Justice of Hong Kong, who was the first to preside over the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, established on 1 July 1997. Li was succeeded by Geoffrey Ma on 1 September 2010.
Li was born in Hong Kong and educated locally and in... | {"Name": "Andrew Li Kwok-nang", "Native name": "李國能", "Native name language": "zh-hk", "Term start": "1 July 1997", "Term end": "31 August 2010", "Office 2": "Deputy High Court Judge", "Birth date": "1948 12", "Birth place": "British Hong Kong", "Nationality": "Chinese", "Alma mater": "Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (M... |
Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 180915 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing, and works about the theatre.
Kem... | {"Alt": "Engraving of Fanny Kemble from before 1830", "Caption": "Engraving of Fanny Kemble from before 1830", "Birth name": "Frances Anne Kemble", "Birth date": "1809 11 27", "Birth place": "London", "Death date": "1893 1 15 1809 11 27", "Death place": "London", "Occupation": "Actress, abolitionist and poet", "Years a... |
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the Judiciary of England and Wales and the president of the Courts of England and Wales.
Until 2005 the lord chief justice was the second-most senior judge of the Courts of England and Wales, surpassed by the lord chancellor who normally sat in the highest cou... | {"Post": "Lord Chief Justiceof England and Wales", "Insignia size": "115px", "Insignia caption": "The Judiciary of England and Wales", "Incumbent": "The Lord Burnett of Maldon", "Incumbent since": "2 October 2017", "Style": "The Right Honourable", "Nominator": "Judicial Appointments Commission", "Appointer": "Monarch o... |
thumb|John Philip Kemble as Hamlet, from an engraving of a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1802)
John Philip Kemble (1 February 1757 - 26 February 1823)Wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Kemble was a British actor. He was born into a theatrical family as the eldest son of Roger Kemble, actor-manager of a touring ... | {"Name": "John Philip Kemble", "Caption": "John Philip Kemble by Sir William Beechey, 1798", "Birth date": "1757 2 1 y", "Birth place": "Prescot, Lancashire, England", "Death date": "1823 2 26 1757 2 1 y", "Death place": "Lausanne, Switzerland", "Occupation": "Actor-manager", "Years active": "1761-1817", "Spouse(s)": "... |
Mikkeli (; ; ) is a town and municipality located on Lake Saimaa in Finland. It is located in the Etelä-Savo region in what used to be the province of Eastern Finland. It has a population of () (around 34,000 in the town itself) and covers an area of , of which is water. Together with Savonlinna, it is one of the lar... | {"Type": "Council-manager", "Body": "City Council", "Land": "area_land_km2 Mikkeli", "Water": "area_water_km2 Mikkeli", "Rank": "population_rank Mikkeli", "Density": "population_density_km2 Mikkeli", "DST": "+03:00", "Website": "www.mikkeli.fi"} |
Suomussalmi () is a municipality in Finland and is located in the Kainuu region about northeast of Kajaani, the capital of Kainuu and south of Kuusamo. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Ämmänsaari i... | {"Land": "area_land_km2 Suomussalmi", "Water": "area_water_km2 Suomussalmi", "Rank": "population_rank Suomussalmi", "Density": "population_density_km2 Suomussalmi", "DST": "+03:00", "Website": "www.suomussalmi.fi"} |
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised state internationally considered to be part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, as well as some land on the other side of the river's bank... | {"Conventional long name": "Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic", "Native name": "font-size:95%;\n ru Приднестро́вская Молда́вская Респу́блика no80% ru Pridnestróvskaya Moldávskaya Respúblika\n ro Republica Moldovenească Nistreană80% ro Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ (Moldovan Cyrillic)\n uk Придністро́вська Молда... |
Roberta Ann MacAvoy (born December 13, 1949) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Several of her books draw on Celtic or Zen themes. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1984.
Biography
R. A. MacAvoy was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Case Western Reserve University and receiv... | {"Born": "1949 12 13", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Author", "Notable awards": "John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (1984)", "Alma mater": "Case Western Reserve University"} |
Lodovico Antonio Muratori (21 October 1672 - 23 January 1750) was an Italian Catholic priest, notable as historian and a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books.
Biography
Born to a poor family in Vignola, near Modena, he was first in... | {"Honorific prefix": "Reverend", "Birth date": "1672 10 21", "Place of birth": "Vignola, Duchy of Modena and Reggio", "Death date": "yes 1750 1 23 1672 10 21", "Death place": "Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio", "Occupation": "Catholic priest, historian, librarian, philologist", "Alma mater": "University of Modena", "... |
Shin Kanemaru (金丸 信 Kanemaru Shin, 17 September 1914 - 28 March 1996) was a Japanese politician who was a significant figure in the political arena of Japan from the 1970s to the early 1990s. He was also Director General of the Japan Defense Agency from 1977 to 1978.
Early life and education
Kanemaru was born in Suwa ... | {"Name": "Shin Kanemaru", "Native name": "金丸 信", "Native name language": "ja", "Birth date": "1914 09 17 y", "Birth place": "Suwa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Empire of Japan", "Death date": "1996 3 28 1914 9 17 y", "Death place": "Yamanashi, Japan", "Alma mater": "Tokyo University of Agriculture"} |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954), sometimes referred by his initials RTE, is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He also co-founded the Justice and ... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Excellency", "Image caption": "Erdoğan in 2022", "Residence": "Presidential Complex, Ankara", "Other political party": "National Salvation Party (before 1981)\n Welfare Party (1983-1998)\n Virtue Party (1998-2001)", "Office 2": "25th Prime Minister of Turkey", "Predecessor 2": "Abdullah Gül", ... |
Championship Manager is a series of football-management simulation video games, the first of which was released in 1992.
The Championship Manager brand and game was conceived by brothers Paul and Oliver Collyer. In a scenario typical of many self-made game programming teams in the early days of the industry, the origi... | {"Title": "Championship Manager", "Platforms": "Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Windows, Mac OS, Xbox, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360", "Genre": "Sport", "Creator": "Collyer brothers", "First release version": "Championship Manager (1992)", "Latest release version": "Championship Manager 17 (2016)"} |
Sports Interactive Limited is a British video game developer based in London, best known for the Football Manager series. Founded by brothers Oliver and Paul Collyer in July 1994, the studio was acquired by Japanese video game publisher Sega in 2006 and became part of Sega Europe. In addition to its work on Football Ma... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Video games", "Founded": "yes 1994", "Headquarters": "England", "Products": "Football Manager series Championship Manager series NHL Eastside Hockey Manager series", "Parent": "Sega (2006-present)", "Website": "http://www.sigames.com/ sigames.com"} |
The Dniester ( ) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova (from which it more or less separates the breakaway territory of Transnistria), finally discharging into the Black Sea on Ukrainian territory again.
Names
The name Dniester derives from Sarmatian dānu ... | {"Mouth": "0 m on", "Location": "Odesa Oblast", "Coordinates": "46 21 0 N 30 14 0 E inline,title", "Basin size": "68627 km2 on", "Left": "Murafa, Smotrych, Zbruch, Seret, Strypa, Zolota Lypa, Stryi", "Right": "Botna, Bîc, Răut, Svicha, Lomnytsia, Ichel"} |
Seth Boyden (November 17, 1788 – March 31, 1870) was an American inventor.
Early life
He was born in Foxboro, Massachusetts, on November 17, 1788, the son of Seth Boyden and Susannah Atherton. His father was a farmer and blacksmith. His younger brother was Uriah A. Boyden.
Career
He worked as a watchmaker and moved t... | {"Name": "Seth Boyden", "Birth date": "1788 11 17", "Birth place": "Foxboro, Massachusetts, United States", "Death date": "1870 3 31 1788 11 17", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Inventor", "Father": "Seth Boyden", "Mother": "Susannah Atherton", "Relatives": "Uriah A. Boyden (younger brother)"} |
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd SL (26 May 179513 March 1854) was an English judge, Radical politician and author.
Life
The son of a well-to-do brewer, Talfourd was born in Reading, Berkshire. He received his education at Hendon and Reading School. At the age of 18, he was sent to London to study law under Joseph Chitty, a s... | {"Name": "Thomas Noon Talfourd", "Birth date": "1795 5 26 y", "Birth place": "Reading, Berkshire, England", "Death date": "1854 3 13 1795 5 26 y", "Death place": "Stafford, Staffordshire, England"} |
thumb|Mr Alfred Zelke, the last surviving member of the 3rd DSK camp at Riddlesworth, Norfolk, for the unveiling of the memorial, and his daughter Anna in 2018.
thumb|This Divisional badge is called Znak Pamiatkow and was instituted for soldiers of the 3rd DSK in 1st December 1945 and distributed in 1946 to troops who ... | {"Type": "Infantry", "Branch": "Land forces", "Role": "Mountain warfare", "Notablecommanders": "Stanisław Kopański, Bronisław Duch"} |
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Sir Joseph William Chitty (28 May 1828 - 15 February 1899) was an English cricketer, rower, judge and Liberal politician.
Early life
Chitty was born in London, the second son of Thomas Chitty (himself son and brother of well-known lawyers), a celebrated special pleader an... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "Sir Joseph Chitty", "Alma mater": "Balliol College, Oxford", "Office 2": "Member of Parliamentfor Oxford", "Birth date": "1828 5 28 yes", "Death date": "1899 2 15 1828 5 28 yes", "Term start 2": "1880", "Term end 2": "1881"} |
The Cathach of St. Columba, known as the Cathach (meaning "the Battler"),O'Neill (2014), p. 12 is a late 6th century Insular psalter. It is the oldest surviving manuscript in Ireland, and the second oldest Latin psalter in the world.
Its cumdach (a type of ornamented metal reliquary box or carrying case for holy books... | {"Location": "Royal Irish Academy", "Image width": "200px", "Image caption": "Folio 48r, Cathach of St. Columba", "Also known as": "The Battler", "Type": "Psalter", "Date": "Before AD 561", "Place of origin": "Ireland", "Language(s)": "Vulgar Latin", "Material": "Vellum", "Size": "27cm x 19cm", "Format": "Folio", "Cond... |
Lismore (, possibly meaning "great enclosure" or "garden") is an island of some in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The climate is damp and mild, with over of rain recorded annually. This fertile, low-lying island was once a major centre of Celtic Christianity, with a 6th-century monastery associated with Saint Molua... | {"Coordinates": "56.52 -5.5 inline", "OS grid reference": "NM840408", "Meaning of name": "great garden or great enclosure", "Area": "2351 ha acre", "Population rank": "34", "Highest elevation": "Barr Mòr, 127 m ft 0", "Population": "192", "Population density": "8.2 PD/km2", "Largest settlement": "Achnacroish", "Island ... |
Charles Townshend (27 August 1725 - 4 September 1767) was a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the American Revolution.
Townshend was born at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, as the... | {"Name": "Charles Townshend", "Image caption": "Portrait by Joshua Reynolds", "Office 2": "President of the Board of Trade", "Predecessor 2": "The Lord Sandys", "Successor 2": "The Earl of Shelburne", "Birth date": "y 1725 8 27", "Birth place": "Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England", "Death date": "y 1767 9 4 1725 8 27", "Na... |
William Dowdeswell PC (12 March 17216 February 1775)DOWDESWELL, William (1721-75), of Pull Court, Worcs. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964 was a British politician who was a leader of the Rockingham Whig faction.
Background and education
A son of Wi... | {"Name": "William Dowdeswell", "Birth date": "1721", "Death date": "6 February 1775 1721", "Death place": "Nice, France", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "Christ Church, Oxford University of Leiden", "Spouse(s)": "Bridget Codrington"} |
thumb|upright=1.2|Jefferson Memorial's interior
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial built in Washington, D.C., between 1939 and 1943 in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, founder of ... | {"Location": "900 Ohio Drive, S.W., National Mall, Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Area": "79758 ft2 m2", "Built": "1939-1943", "Architect": "John Russell Pope; Eggers & Higgins", "Architectural style": "Classical Revival", "Visitation": "2005", "Website": "Thomas Jefferson Memorial"} |
R is a programming language for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Created by statisticians Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, R is used among data miners, bioinformaticians and statisticians for data analysis and developing statistical software... | {"Name": "R", "Logo size": "121px", "Screenshot caption": "R terminal", "Initial release date": "1993 08", "Designer": "Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman", "Developer": "R Core Team", "Typing discipline": "Dynamic", "Influenced": "Juliahttps://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/introduction/#man-introduction-1 Introduc... |
Biddulph Recordings is a record label based in Devon, England specialising in the restoration of historical performances, particularly by string musicians. It was founded in 1989 by violin dealer Peter Biddulph and Eric Wen, a musicologist and historian of string performances. In 2003, Sarah Woodward joined and has sin... | {"Founded": "1989", "Founder": "Peter BiddulphEric Wen", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Location": "Devon, England", "Official website": "https://www.biddulphrecordings.co.uk/"} |
Burnley Football Club () is an English association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, that competes in the Premier League, the first tier of English football. Founded on 18 May 1882, the club was one of the first to become professional (in 1883) and subsequently put pressure on the Football Association to perm... | {"Full name": "Burnley Football Club", "Nickname(s)": "The Clarets", "Founded": "1882 5 18 yes", "Capacity": "21,944", "League": "Burnley", "Website": "https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/"} |
The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavian SSR (, Moldovan Cyrillic: ), also known as the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldovan SSR, or simply Moldavia or Moldova, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 1940 from parts of Bes... | {"Conventional long name": "Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic", "Native name": "font-size:95%;\n ro Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească80% Moldovan Cyrillic: ro Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ\n ru Молдавская Советская Социалистическая Республика no80% ru Moldavskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheska... |
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (; ), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine,Українська радянська енциклопедія : [в 12 т. / голов. редкол.: М. П. Бажан (голов. ред.) [та ін.]. - Київ : Голов. ред. УРЕ, 1977 - 1985.]The Ukraine in the United Nations organization... | {"Conventional long name": "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republicuk Українська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка offru Украинская Советская Социалистическая Республика offHistorical names:\n 1919-1936: Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (uk Українська Соціалістична Радянська Республіка; Украинская Социалистическая Сове... |
The Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (formerly Second Sea Lord) is deputy to the First Sea Lord and the second highest-ranking officer to currently serve in the Royal Navy and is responsible for personnel and naval shore establishments. Originally titled Second Naval Lord in 1830, the post was restyled S... | {"Post": "Office of the Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff", "Insignia size": "150px", "Insignia caption": "Ensign of the Royal Navy", "Image size": "180px", "Incumbent": "Vice Admiral Martin Connell", "Incumbent since": "12 January 2022", "Department": "Ministry of Defence", "Member of": "Admiralty Board ... |
Mikheil Saakashvili ( ; ; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist.
He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. From May 2015 until November 2016, Saakashvili was the governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast. He is the founder an... | {"Name": "Mikheil Saakashvili", "Native name": "ka მიხეილ სააკაშვილი no\n uk Міхеіл Саакашвілі no", "Image caption": "Saakashvili in 2020", "Predecessor 2": "Nino Burjanadze (acting)", "Prime minister 2": "Zurab Zhvania\n Himself (acting)\n Zurab Noghaideli\n Giorgi Baramidze (acting)\n Lado Gurgenidze",... |
Edwin Forrest (March 9, 1806December 12, 1872) was a prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849.
Early life
Forrest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Rebecca (née Lauman) and William F... | {"Name": "Edwin Forrest", "Caption": "Daguerreotype of Forrest by Mathew Brady", "Birth date": "1806 3 9 y", "Birth place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Death date": "1872 12 12 1806 3 9 y", "Death place": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor"} |
The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (Transcaucasian SFSR or TSFSR), also known as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, or simply Transcaucasia, was a republic of the Soviet Union that existed from 1922 to 1936.
The TSFSR comprised Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, traditionally k... | {"Conventional long name": "Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic", "Native name": "Անդրկովկասի Խորհրդային Սոցիալիստական Դաշնային (Ֆեդերատիվ) ՀանրապետությունAndrkovkasi Khorhrdayin Soc‘ialistakan Dashnayin (Federativ) Hanrapetut‘yun\n Zaqafqaziya Sosialist Federativ Sovet Respublikası\nამიერკავკასიის საბჭ... |
Lawrence Patrick Barrett (April 4, 1838 - March 20, 1891) was an American stage actor.
Barrett began his career in 1853 in Detroit and made his first New York appearance in 1856. Barrett enlisted for the American Civil War in 1862, but resigned in 1863. He later managed the California Theatre in San Francisco from 186... | {"Name": "Lawrence Barrett", "Birth date": "1838 04 04", "Birth place": "Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.", "Death date": "1891 03 20 1838 04 04", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Occupation": "Stage actor", "Spouse(s)": "Mary F. Mayer 4 September 1859", "Relatives": "Edith Barrett (granddaughter)"} |
William Archer (23 September 185627 December 1924) was a Scottish writer, theatre critic, and English spelling reformer based, for most of his career, in London. He was an early advocate of the plays of Henrik Ibsen, and a friend and supporter of George Bernard Shaw.
Life and career
Archer was born in Perth, the eldes... | {"Name": "William Archer", "Birth date": "1856 9 23 y", "Birth place": "Perth, Scotland", "Death date": "1924 12 27 1856 9 23 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Education": "Middle Temple", "Occupation": "Writer, theatre critic", "Alma mater": "University of Edinburgh", "Spouse(s)": "Frances Elizabeth Trickett 1884... |
DESQview (DV) is a text mode multitasking operating environment developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Running on top of DOS, it allows users to run multiple programs concurrently in multiple windows.
Desq
Quarterdeck's predecessor to DESQview was ... | {"Developer(s)": "Quarterdeck Office Systems", "Initial release": "1985 07", "Type": "Windowing system", "License": "Proprietary commercial software"} |
The post of Controller of the Navy (abbreviated as CofN) was originally created in 1859 when the Surveyor of the Navy's title changed to Controller of the Navy. In 1869 the controller's office was abolished and its duties were assumed by that of the Third Naval Lord whose title then changed to Third Naval Lord and Cont... | {"Post": "Controller of the Navy (CofN)", "Insignia size": "150px", "Insignia caption": "Ensign of the Royal Navy", "Incumbent": "Rear Admiral James Parkin", "Incumbent since": "September 2021", "Department": "Department of the Admiralty, Ministry of Defence", "Member of": "Board of Admiralty, Admiralty Board, Navy Boa... |
Waseda University, abbreviated as Sōdai (早大) is a private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902.
Waseda is organized into thirty-six departments: thirteen undergraduate schools and twenty-three gr... | {"Motto": "学問の独立", "Type": "Private", "President": "Aiji Tanaka", "Students": "47,959https://waseda.app.box.com/s/jny7o9zmc5zzxr862edpalxf0qqmy9ax Box", "Undergraduates": "39,382", "Postgraduates": "8,577", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "www.waseda.jp"} |
Flex (fast lexical analyzer generator) is a free and open-source software alternative to lex.
It is a computer program that generates lexical analyzers (also known as "scanners" or "lexers").
It is frequently used as the lex implementation together with Berkeley Yacc parser generator on BSD-derived operating systems (... | {"Developer(s)": "Vern Paxson", "Initial release": "around 1987Levine John John R. Levine flex & bison 978-0-596-15597-1 O'Reilly Media August 2009 9 In about 1987, Vern Paxson of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab took a version of lex written in ratfor (an extended Fortran popular at the time) and translated it into C... |
The British-Irish Council (BIC; ) is an intergovernmental organisation that aims to improve collaboration between its members in a number of areas including transport, the environment and energy.Jesse, Neal G., Williams, Kristen P.: Identity and institutions: conflict reduction in divided societies.Publisher SUNY Press... | {"Type": "Intergovernmental organisation", "Headquarters": "Edinburgh, Scotland (secretariat)", "Coordinates": "55.94584 -3.22262 type:landmark dms", "Abbreviation": "BIC", "Website": "britishirishcouncil.org"} |
The Northern Ireland Executive is the devolved government of Northern Ireland, an administrative branch of the legislature - the Northern Ireland Assembly. It is answerable to the assembly and was initially established according to the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, which followed the Good Friday Agreement (or... | {"Background colour": "18274F", "Official name": "Northern Ireland Executive", "Image size": "220px", "Established": "1999 12 2 y", "State": "Northern Ireland", "Headquarters": "Stormont Castle, Stormont Estate, Belfast", "Website": "northernireland.gov.uk", "Leader title": "First Minister and deputy First Minister", "... |
Sir Josiah Mason (23 February 1795 - 16 June 1881) was an English industrialist, engaged in pen manufacture and other trades, and a philanthropist. He founded Mason Science College in 1875, which later became the University of Birmingham.
Biography
He was the son of a carpet-weaver, and was born in Mill Street, Kidder... | {"Name": "Sir Josiah Mason", "Caption": "Portrait of Mason by Henry Penn, 1870", "Birth date": "1795 02 23 y", "Birth place": "Mill Street, Kidderminster, England", "Death date": "1881 06 16 1795 02 23 y", "Monuments": "Statue by Francis John Williamson (1885, destroyed)\n Bust cast from statue by William Bloye (1952, ... |
Joseph Gillott (11 October 1799 - 5 January 1872) was an English pen-manufacturer and patron of the arts based in Birmingham.
Pen manufacturing
thumb|left|upright|Bust of Gillott in the foyer of the Council House, Birmingham
After a brief period of schooling, Gillott began working in the cutlery trade in his home t... | {"Name": "Joseph Gillott", "Caption": "Portrait of Joseph Gillott.", "Birth date": "1799 10 11 y", "Birth place": "Sheffield, England", "Death date": "1872 1 5 1799 10 11 yThe Times Newspaper 11 October 2007 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/courtsocial/article1809395.ece 11 October 2014", "Resting place": "Key Hill ... |
The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was first published in 1967. It follows the narrator, Reuven Malter, and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years, The Promise, was published in 1969.
... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Simon & Schuster", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback)", "Pages": "283 pp (first edition, hardback)", "ISBN": "(first edition, hardback)", "Followed by": "The Promise"} |
Looking Glass Studios, Inc. (formerly Blue Sky Productions and LookingGlass Technologies, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded by Paul Neurath with Ned Lerner as Blue Sky Productions in 1990, and merged with Lerner's Lerner Research in 1992 to become Look... | {"Formerly": "Blue Sky Productions (1990-1992) LookingGlass Technologies, Inc. (1992-1997)", "Type": "Private", "Industry": "Video games", "Fate": "Dissolved", "Founded": "1990 in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S.", "Defunct": "2000 05 24", "Headquarters": "U.S.", "Parent": "AverStar (1997-1999)", "Website": "https://web.arch... |
HM Customs and Excise (properly known as Her Majesty's Customs and Excise at the time of its dissolution) was a department of the British Government formed in 1909 by the merger of HM Customs and HM Excise; its primary responsibility was the collection of customs duties, excise duties, and other indirect taxes.
The pa... | {"Formed": "yes 1909", "Dissolved": "yes 2005 04 01", "Jurisdiction": "United Kingdom", "Headquarters": "New Kings Beam House, Upper Ground, London"} |
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art collection to be... | {"Coordinates": "42 20 19 N 71 5 56 W region:US-MA inline", "Established": "1903", "Location": "25 Evans WayBoston, MA 02115", "Type": "Art museum", "Accreditation": "American Alliance of Museums", "Founder": "Isabella Stewart Gardner", "Director": "Peggy Fogelman", "Public transit access": "boston subway boston green ... |
The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty. More recently, the Inland Revenue also a... | {"Formed": "yes 1849", "Dissolved": "yes 2005 04 18", "Jurisdiction": "United Kingdom", "Headquarters": "Somerset HouseLondon, WC 2"} |
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps. It is widely considered a hate group, and is known for its public protests against homosexual people and for its usage of the phrases "God hates fags" and "Thank God... | {"Founder": "Fred Phelps", "Headquarters": "Topeka, Kansas", "Classification": "Primitive Baptist", "Theology": "Hyper-Calvinist", "Official website": "godhatesfags.com", "Logo": "150px"} |
Malik-Shah I (), was the third sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1072 to 1092, under whom the sultanate reached its zenith of power and influence.
thumb|Miniature of Malik-Shah I
During his youth, he spent his time participating in the campaigns of his father Alp Arslan, along with the latter's vizier Nizam al-Mulk. Dur... | {"Father": "Alp Arslan", "Born": "Isfahan, Seljuk Empire", "Died": "Baghdad, Seljuk Empire", "Burial": "Isfahan", "Religion": "Sunni Islam"} |
Mark Steel (born 4 July 1960) is an English author, broadcaster, stand-up comedian and newspaper columnist. He has made many appearances on radio and television shows as a guest panellist, and has written regular columns in The Guardian, The Independent and Daily Mirror. He presents The Mark Steel Lectures, The Mark St... | {"Born": "Swanley, Kent, England", "Medium": "Radio, stand-up, television", "Years active": "1983-present\n<!-- Infobox comedian does not support the following parameter:", "Notable works and roles": "The Mark Steel LecturesThe Mark Steel Revolution The Mark Steel SolutionMark Steel's in Town", "Website": "http://www.m... |
Bandini (Hindi: बन्दिनी, translation: Imprisoned) is a 1963 Hindi drama film directed and produced by Bimal Roy, the man who directed classics such as Do Bigha Zameen and Devdas. Bandini stars Nutan, giving one of the most acclaimed roles of her career, her performance in the film is regarded among the best performance... | {"Directed by": "Bimal Roy", "Produced by": "Bimal Roy", "Based on": "based on Tamasi by Charu Chandra Chakraborty", "Written by": "Nabendu Ghosh (screenplay)Paul Mahendra (dialogue)", "Starring": "NutanAshok KumarDharmendra", "Music by": "Sachin Dev BurmanShailendra(lyrics)Gulzar (lyrics)", "Cinematography": "Kamal Bo... |
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (September 19, 1907 - August 25, 1998) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
Born in Suffolk, Virginia, he graduated from both Washington and Lee Law School and Harvard Law School and served in the Uni... | {"Name": "Lewis F. Powell Jr.", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1976", "Alternative text": "Official portrait of United States Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.", "Office 2": "Chairman of Virginia State Board of Education", "Birth name": "Lewis Franklin Powell Jr.", "Birth date": "1907 9 19", "Birth place"... |
James Alan Hydrick (born February 28, 1959) is an American former stage performer and self-described psychic.
Hydrick claimed to be able to perform acts of telekinesis, such as his trademark trick of moving a pencil resting at the edge of a table. Following a nationally televised demonstration of his abilities on That... | {"Name": "James Hydrick", "Birth date": "1959 02 28", "Birth place": "New Ellenton, South Carolina,August 2021 U.S.", "Occupation": "Self-proclaimed psychic"} |
Töysä is a former municipality in Western Finland. It was consolidated to Alavus on 1 January 2013. It is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality had a population of (31 December 2012)
and covered an area of of which was water.
The population density is . Most inhabitants speak Finnish, with har... | {"Land": "297.75", "Water": "11.91", "Density": "auto", "DST": "+3"} |
Claude Bernard (; 12 July 1813 - 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science".Cohen, I. Bernard, "Foreword", in the Dover edition (1957) of: Bernard, Claude, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicin... | {"Patrons": "Louis Napoleon", "Fields": "Physiology", "Institutions": "Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle", "Influences": "François Magendie"} |
The Campus Murders is a 1969 paperback mystery novel by Ellery Queen, ghostwritten by Gil Brewer (1922-1983). Frederic Dannay and his cousin Manfred B. Lee created the Ellery Queen pseudonym and wrote most of the Queen novels, but in their later years they sometimes used ghostwriters. That was especially true for novel... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "The Troubleshooter", "Publisher": "Lancer Books", "Media type": "Print (paperback)", "Followed by": "The Black Hearts Murder"} |
Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 - February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.
According to George Lewis Ruffin, a Black attorney, Phillips was seen by many Blacks as "the one white American wholly color-blind and free from race prejudice". According to anoth... | {"Name": "Wendell Phillips", "Caption": "A daguerrotype by Mathew Brady of Wendell Phillips in his forties", "Alt": "A daguerrotype by Mathew Brady of Wendell Phillips in his forties", "Birth date": "1811 11 29", "Birth place": "Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Death date": "1884 02 02 1811 11 29", "Death place": "Boston... |
Gilmore Girls (onscreen as Gilmore girls) is an American comedy-drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore) and Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore). The show debuted on October 5, 2000, on The WB and became a flagship series for the network. Gilmore Girls ran for seven... | {"Genre": "Comedy drama", "Created by": "Amy Sherman-Palladino", "Starring": "Lauren Graham\n Alexis Bledel\n Melissa McCarthy\n Keiko Agena\n Scott Patterson\n Yanic Truesdale\n Kelly Bishop\n Edward Herrmann\n Liza Weil\n Jared Padalecki\n Milo Ventimiglia\n Sean Gunn\n Chris Eigeman\n Matt Czuchry", "Opening theme":... |
Amy Sherman-Palladino (born January 17, 1966) is an American television writer, director, and producer. She is the creator of the comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls (2000-2007), Bunheads (2012-2013), and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2023).
Sherman-Palladino has received six Primetime Emmy Awards for her work, includ... | {"Name": "Amy Sherman-Palladino", "Caption": "Sherman-Palladino at the ATX TV Festival 2015 for the TV show Bunheads", "Birth name": "Amy V. Sherman", "Birth date": "1966 1 17Amy V Sherman, Born 01/17/1966 in California CaliforniaBirthIndex.org https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/amy_v_sherman_born_1966_9696221... |
André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu (; 22 September 1876 - 15 September 1945) was three times Prime Minister of France (3 November 1929 - 17 February 1930; 2 March - 4 December 1930; 20 February - 10 May 1932) and a dominant figure of French political life in 1929-1932. He was a moderate conservative with a strong int... | {"Name": "André Tardieu", "Image caption": "Tardieu in 1928", "President 2": "Gaston Doumergue", "Predecessor 2": "Camille Chautemps", "Successor 2": "Théodore Steeg", "Term start": "20 February 1932", "Term end": "3 June 1932", "Birth name": "André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu", "Birth date": "1876 9 22 y", "Birth pl... |
George Graham (born 30 November 1944) is a Scottish former football player and manager.
Nicknamed "Stroller", he made 455 appearances in England's Football League as a midfielder or forward for Aston Villa, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Portsmouth and Crystal Palace. Approximately half of his appearances were ... | {"Name": "George Graham", "Picture caption": "Graham in April 1970", "Full name": "George Graham7557 30 March 2017", "Birth date": "1944 11 30 y", "Birth place": "Bargeddie, Scotland", "Height": "5 11George Graham Romford A&BC 91", "Position": "Midfielder, forward", "Youth club 1 years": "1959-1961", "Youth club 1": "A... |
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal... | {"Name": "Wild Bill Hickok", "Alt": "A slightly smiling man dressed in an overcoat and sporting a mustauche and shoulder-length, curly hair stares ahead.", "Birth name": "James Butler Hickok", "Birth date": "1837 5 27 y", "Birth place": "Homer, Illinois, U.S.(now Troy Grove, Illinois, U.S.)", "Death date": "1876 8 2 18... |
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government ... | {"Formed": "Established: 1961 9 6Declassified: 1992 9 18", "Jurisdiction": "United States", "Headquarters": "Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.", "Motto": "Supra Et Ultra(Above And Beyond)", "Annual budget": "Classified", "Website": "http://www.nro.gov/"} |
Michael William Hagee (born December 1, 1944) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 33rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from 2003 to 2006, succeeding General James L. Jones on January 13, 2003. He stepped down as Commandant two months before the end of his four-year term, and was ... | {"Born": "Hampton, Virginia, U.S.", "Allegiance": "United States of America", "Commands held": "Commandant of the Marine Corps1st Marine Expeditionary Force1st Marine Division1st Marine Division11th Marine Expeditionary Unit1st Battalion 8th Marines", "Awards": "Defense Distinguished Service Medal (3)Defense Superior S... |
Franciscus Bernardus Maria "Frans" de Waal (born October 29, 1948) is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research ... | {"Institutions": "Emory University", "Fields": "Primatologist, ethologist", "Doctoral students": "Jessica Flack", "Influences": "Nikolaas Tinbergen, Jan van Hooff"} |
The Pontiac Sunbird (also known as the Pontiac J2000 and Pontiac 2000) is a model line that was manufactured and marketed by Pontiac from the 1976 to the 1994 model years. Loosely deriving its name from the Pontiac Firebird, the Sunbird was introduced as the eventual replacement for the Pontiac Astre, replacing it ent... | {"Manufacturer": "Pontiac (General Motors)", "Production": "1975-1994", "Predecessor": "Pontiac Astre", "Successor": "Pontiac Sunfire", "Class": "Subcompact (1976-1980)Compact (1982-1994)"} |
The Regional Aerodrome Bern-Belp , marketed as Bern Airport, officially referred to as in German, is a regional aerodrome serving Bern, the capital of Switzerland. The aerodrome is located within the town limits of Belp,"Ortsplan ." Town of Belp. Retrieved on 8 December 2010. and used to feature scheduled flights to s... | {"Location": "Belp", "AMSL": "1,673", "Coordinates": "46 54 44 N 07 29 57 E region:CH-BE inline,title", "Airport type": "Public Regional Aerodrome", "Serves": "Bern, Switzerland"} |
The Pontiac Sunfire is a compact car by Pontiac that was introduced for the 1995 model year to replace the Sunbird. Not only was the name changed, but dramatic styling changes were included as well. The new styling was shared with the redesigned Chevrolet Cavalier. The J platform was updated structurally to meet more s... | {"Manufacturer": "Pontiac (General Motors)", "Production": "1994-2005", "Class": "Compact/sport Compact", "Layout": "FF layout", "Platform": "J-body", "Body style": "2-door convertible 2-door coupe 4-door sedan", "Related": "Chevrolet Cavalier", "Predecessor": "Pontiac Sunbird", "Successor": "Pontiac G5", "Transmissi... |
The Chevrolet Astro is a van that was manufactured and marketed by the Chevrolet division of American auto manufacturer General Motors from 1985 to 2005. Sold alongside the GMC Safari, the Astro was marketed in multiple configurations, including passenger minivan and cargo van.
The Astro and Safari used a rear-wheel d... | {"Manufacturer": "General Motors", "Production": "1985-2005", "Class": "Van", "Platform": "M-body", "Layout": "Front engine, Rear-wheel drive / All-wheel drive", "Also called": "GMC Safari", "Body style": "3-door cargo van3-door passenger van", "Transmission": "4-speed automatic4-speed manual 5-speed manual", "Assembly... |
The Trout Quintet (Forellenquintett) is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, by Franz Schubert. The piano quintet was composed in 1819, when he was 22 years old; it was not published, however, until 1829, a year after his death.
Rather than the usual piano quintet lineup of piano and string quart... | {"Key": "A major", "Catalogue": "D. 667", "Occasion": "Commissioned by Sylvester Paumgartner", "Composed": "1819", "Published": "1829", "Duration": "35-43 minutes", "Movements": "five"} |
Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 - 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition published in 1978 in German. It is from this catalogue that the D numbers used t... | {"Name": "Otto Erich Deutsch", "Birth date": "yes 1883 09 05", "Birth place": "Vienna, Austria", "Death date": "yes 1967 11 23 1883 09 05", "Death place": "Baden bei Wien, Austria", "Nationality": "Austrian", "Occupation": "Musicologist", "Known For": "Compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's com... |
A Boy Named Goo is the fifth studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1995 on Warner Bros. The album was a commercial success, and was certified double-platinum by the RIAA within a year of its release. This is the last Goo Goo Dolls album with George Tutuska on drums; he was replaced by Mike Malin... | {"Released": "March 14, 1995", "Recorded": "1994", "Studio": "BearTracks Studios, Suffern, NY and Trackmaster Studios, Buffalo, NY", "Genre": "\"Lindsay\"/> \"Lindsay\">Lindsay Cam Rank Your Records: John Rzeznik Plays Favorites with the Goo Goo Dolls Records https://www.vice.com/en/article/rpyv87/rank-your-records-... |
The Université de Sherbooke (UdeS) (English: University of Sherbrooke) is a French-language public research university in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, with a second campus in Longueuil, a suburb on the South Shore of Montreal. It is one of two universities in the Estrie region of Quebec (the other one being Bishop's Uni... | {"Motto": "la Veritatem in charitate", "Type": "Public", "Rector": "Pierre Cossette", "Students": "31,000", "Language": "French", "Campus": "Urban/Suburban", "Website": "https://www.usherbrooke.ca/ usherbrooke.ca"} |
Addington is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about west of Winslow and south east of Buckingham. According to the 2001 and 2011 census' it had a population of 145. It is part of the Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority area.
First recorded as Edintone in the Domesday Book of 1086, its na... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2001 & 2011 Census')Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 2 February 2013", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Postcode district": "MK", "Dialling code": "01296", "OS grid reference": "SP742286", "UK Parliament": "Buck... |
Solo whist is the English form of Weizen (Belgian or Ghent Whist), a simple game of the Boston family played in the Low Countries.Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, David Parlett, pg. 273 It is a trick-taking card game for four players in which players can bid to make eight tricks in trumps with any partner, or a solo c... | {"Alternative names": "Solo", "Type": "trick-taking", "Players": "4", "Play": "Clockwise", "Rank (high→low)": "A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2", "Cards": "52-card", "Deck": "French-suited English pattern", "Origin": "England"} |
Adam Jared Brody (born December 15, 1979) is an American actor. His breakout role was as Seth Cohen on the Fox television series The O.C. (2003-2007). Brody appeared in films including Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Thank You for Smoking (2005), In the Land of Women (2007), and Jennifer's Body (2009).
In the 2010s, Brody ha... | {"Caption": "Brody in 2011", "Birth name": "Adam Jared Brody", "Birth date": "1979 12 15", "Birth place": "San Diego, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1999-present", "Spouse(s)": "Leighton Meester 2014", "Children": "2"} |
For the municipality in Quebec, see Adstock, Quebec
Adstock is a village and civil parish about northwest of Winslow and southeast of Buckingham in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 415 reducing to 363 at the 2011 Census.
There are remains of a Roman roa... | {"OS grid reference": "SP7330", "Population": "(2011 Census)Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 2 February 2013", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "MK", "Dialling code": "01296", "UK Parliament": "Buckingham"} |
WEWS-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception in 1946, making it one of three stations that have been built and signed on by Scripps (alongside company flagship WCPO-TV in Cincinnati and WMC-TV in Me... | {"City": "Cleveland, Ohio", "Branding": "News 5", "Channel": "5", "Affiliations": "5.1: ABCFor others, see Subchannels", "Owner": "Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC", "Founded": "1946 7CP's granted for three new commercial video stations https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/46... |
The Konsojaya Trading Company was a shell company cofounded by Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as "Hambali", and his Malaysian Chinese wife, Noralwizah Lee Abdullah in June 1994. The company was based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
An Afghan named Wali Khan Amin Shah was one of the board of director... | {"Type": "Shell company", "Industry": "Import/export", "Fate": "Defunct", "Founded": "June 1994", "Defunct": "Unknown", "Products": "Palm oil, Sudanese honey", "Revenue": "Unknown"} |
The AMC Javelin is an American front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, two-door hardtop automobile manufactured by American Motors Corporation (AMC) across two generations, 1968 through 1970 and 1971 through 1974 model years. The car was positioned and marketed in the pony car market segment.
Styled by Dick Teague, the Javeli... | {"Manufacturer": "American Motors Corporation", "Also called": "Rambler Javelin (Australia, Venezuela & United Kingdom) \n Javelin 79-K (Europe) \n VAM Javelin (Mexico)", "Production": "1967-1974", "Assembly": "United States: Kenosha, Wisconsin\n Australia: Port Melbourne (AMI)\n Canada: Brampton, Ontario\n... |
Monks Risborough is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Buckinghamshire, England, lying between Princes Risborough and Great Kimble. The village lies at the foot of the northern scarp of the Chiltern Hills. It is south of the county town of Aylesbury and north of High Wycombe, on the A4010 road.
Until 1934 Monk... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Buckingham", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01844", "OS grid reference": "SP8004"} |
HEC Montréal () is a bilingual public business school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1907, HEC Montréal is the graduate business school of the Université de Montréal and known as the first established school of management in Canada.
HEC Montréal offers undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate program... | {"Director": "Frederico PasinFrederico Pasin https://www.hec.ca/en/about/governance/director/index.html HEC Montréal", "Type": "Business School", "Endowment": "$127 million", "Students": "14,299 (2021)", "Undergraduates": "10,214 (2021)", "Postgraduates": "4,085 (2021)", "Website": "www.hec.ca/en/", "Campus": "Urban"} |
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is southeast of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 339,883 as of 2023.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, chartered in 1158. Its location on a coaching route and the opening of a railway sta... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "London Assembly": "Bromley", "Population": "Bromley is made up of 3 wards in the London Borough of Bromley: Bickley, Bromley Common and Keston, Bromley Town, Hayes and Coney Hall, Plaistow and Sundridge, and Shortlands. http://data.london.gov.uk/2011-census-ward-pop 2011 Census Ward Po... |
The Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV) is an American light transport truck model, designed as a mail truck for the United States Postal Service, which has been its primary user since it first entered service in 1987, . It also was used by Canada Post. The LLV uses a chassis built by GM based on the S-10 with an aluminum ... | {"Manufacturer": "Grumman", "Also called": "USPS Mail truck", "Production": "1987-1994", "Assembly": "Montgomery, Pennsylvania", "Predecessor": "Jeep Dispatcher", "Successor": "Ford-Utilimaster FFV Oshkosh NGDV", "Class": "Mail truck", "Transmission": "3-speed GM TH180 automatic", "Length": "175.5 in mm 0 on", "Width":... |
Raymond II (; 1116 - 1152) was count of Tripoli from 1137 to 1152. He succeeded his father, Pons, Count of Tripoli, who was killed during a campaign that a commander from Damascus launched against Tripoli. Raymond accused the local Christians of betraying his father and invaded their villages in the Mount Lebanon area... | {"Father": "Pons of Tripoli", "Mother": "Cecile of France", "Born": "1116", "Died": "Tripoli", "Religion": "Catholicism"} |
The Communist Party of Nepal (), abbreviated CPN, was a communist party in Nepal from 1949 to 1962. It was founded on 15 September 1949 to struggle against the autocratic Rana regime, feudalism, and imperialism. The founding general secretary was Pushpa Lal Shrestha. The founding members of the Communist Party of Nepal... | {"General Secretary": "Tulsi Lal Amatya", "Founded": "1949 09 15", "Ideology": "CommunismMarxism-Leninism", "Succeeded by": "Communist Party of Nepal (Amatya)Communist Party of Nepal (Rayamajhi)"} |
Pushpa Kamal Dahal (; born Ghanashyam Dahal, 11 December 1954), alias Prachanda (, , meaning "fierce"), is a Nepalese politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Nepal. He previously held the prime ministerial post from 2008 to 2009 as the first prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, and ... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "Pushpa Kamal Dahal", "Native name": "पुष्पकमल दाहाल", "Image caption": "Dahal in 2016", "Term start": "26 December 2022", "President 2": "Ram Baran Yadav", "Deputy 2": "Bamdev Gautam", "Predecessor 2": "Girija Prasad Koirala", "Successor 2": "Madhav Kumar Nepal\nSen... |
Mohamed Boudiaf (23 June 1919 – 29 June 1992, ; ALA-LC: Muḥammad Bū-Ḍiyāf), also called Si Tayeb el Watani, was an Algerian political leader and one of the founders of the revolutionary National Liberation Front (FLN) that led the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962). Boudiaf was exiled soon after Algerian independ... | {"Name": "Mohamed Boudiaf", "Native name": "ar محمد بوضياف", "Term start": "16 January 1992", "Term end": "29 June 1992", "Birth date": "1919 6 23 y", "Birth place": "Ouled Madhi, M'Sila Province, French Algeria", "Death date": "1992 6 29 1919 6 23 y", "Death place": "Annaba, Algeria", "Spouse(s)": "Fatiha Boudiaf"} |
The Party is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. The film has a very loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of set pieces for Sellers's improvisational comedy talents.Champlin, Charles (March 15, 1968). An open invitation to play it off the... | {"Directed by": "Blake Edwards", "Produced by": "Blake Edwards", "Screenplay by": "Blake Edwards Tom Waldman Frank Waldman", "Story by": "Blake Edwards", "Starring": "Peter Sellers Claudine Longet", "Music by": "Henry Mancini", "Cinematography": "Lucien Ballard", "Edited by": "Ralph E. Winters", "Distributed by": "Unit... |
Pons ( 1098 - 25 March 1137) was count of Tripoli from 1112 to 1137. He was a minor when his father, Bertrand, died in 1112. He swore fealty to the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in the presence of a Byzantine embassy. His advisors sent him to Antioch to be educated in the court of Tancred of Antioch, ending the ... | {"Father": "Bertrand of Tripoli", "Born": "1098", "Died": "25 March 1137 1098", "Religion": "Catholicism"} |
The Beaverton School District is a school district in and around Beaverton, Oregon, United States. It serves students throughout Beaverton, Hillsboro, Aloha, and unincorporated neighborhoods of Portland, OR. The Beaverton Elementary School District 48 was established in 1876, with other elementary districts later merge... | {"Established": "1876", "Grades": "K-12", "Teachers": "2,512", "Staff": "4,458https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/about-us/district-quick-facts March 22, 2021 Beaverton School District Personnel", "Website": "http://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/"} |
The (ENAP meaning National School of Public Administration) is a graduate school in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1969 by the Quebec provincial government as a means of encouraging people to study professional public administration during a period when a number of social and structural changes wer... | {"Motto": "\"l'université de l'administration publique\" (the public administration university)", "Type": "Public", "Campus": "Urban/Suburban, five campuses throughout Quebec, with two major campuses in Quebec City and Montreal and three campuses in Gatineau, Saguenay and Trois-Rivières", "Website": "http://www.enap.ca... |
William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 - June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages.According to one writer, "Scholars generally disliked the biographies by Manchester. They were deemed superficial, anecdotal, hyper... | {"Born": "1922 4 1", "Died": "2004 6 1 1922 4 1", "Resting place": "Indian Hill Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.http://www.granitesign.com/about-fox-becker.html Connecticut Cemetery Memorial, Monument & Family Headstone Dealer - Fox-Becker, Connecticut (CT) www.granitesign.com", "Education": "Massachusetts Sta... |
Karenjit Kaur Vohra (born May 13, 1981), known by her stage name Sunny Leone, is an actress, model, and former pornographic actress. She was born in Canada to an Indian Sikh family. She has Canadian and American citizenship. Her pet name is Karen. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003, was a contract performe... | {"Name": "Sunny Leone", "Caption": "Sunny Leone in 2020", "Birth name": "Karenjit Kaur Vohra", "Birth date": "yes 1981 5 13http://www.sunnyleone.com/en/about About Me SunnyLeone.com January 5, 2016 December 25, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181225165939/https://www.sunnyleone.com/en/about live", "Birth place... |
Santa Barbara Municipal Airport is west of downtown Santa Barbara, California, United States. SBA covers 948 acres (384 ha) of land and has three runways.
It is near the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the city of Goleta. The airport was annexed to the city of Santa Barbara by a long, wide corridor, m... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Santa Barbara, California", "Location": "Santa Barbara, California, United States", "AMSL": "4", "Coordinates": "34 25 34 N 119 50 25 W region:US-CA it", "Website": "Santa Barbara Airport"} |
was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Homma commanded the Japanese 14th Army, which invaded the Philippines and perpetrated the Bataan Death March. After the war, Homma was convicted of war crimes relating to the actions of troops under his direct command and executed by firing squ... | {"Name": "Masaharu Homma", "Native name": "本間 雅晴", "Native name language": "ja", "Image caption": "Homma in 1943", "Term start": "January 3, 1942", "Term end": "June 8, 1942", "Birth date": "1887 11 27", "Birth place": "Sado, Niigata, Empire of Japan", "Death date": "1946 04 03 1887 11 27", "Death place": "Los Baños, L... |
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