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Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 and released on CD in 1997. At this concert ELP played "Pictures at an Exhibition".
Track listing
"The Barbarian" (5:07)
"Take a Pebble" (11:47)
"Pictures at ... | {"Released": "1997", "Recorded": "Isle of Wight Festival29 August 1970", "Genre": "Progressive rock", "Label": "Manticore RecordsSanctuary Records", "Producer": "Emerson, Lake & Palmer"} |
Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 18969 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left in 1936 out of concerns for his own safety and established a career in British cinema. Walbrook is perhaps best... | {"Name": "Anton Walbrook", "Birth name": "Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück", "Birth date": "1896 11 19 yes", "Birth place": "Vienna, Austria-Hungary", "Death date": "1967 08 9 1896 11 19 yes", "Death place": "Starnberger See, Bavaria, West Germany", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1915-1966"} |
Feet of Clay is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the nineteenth book in the Discworld series, published in 1996. The story follows the members of the City Watch, as they attempt to solve murders apparently committed by a golem, as well as the unusual poisoning of the Patrician, Lord Vetinari.
The tit... | {"Cover artist": "Josh Kirby", "Language": "English", "Series": "Discworld 19th novel – 3rd City Watch novel (4th story)", "Publisher": "Victor Gollancz", "ISBN": "0-575-05900-1", "Preceded by": "Maskerade", "Followed by": "Hogfather"} |
The Edwards Plateau is a geographic region forming the crossroads of Central, South and West Texas, United States. It is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east; the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north; and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west. San Angelo, Austin, San Antonio and D... | {"Bird species": "191\n Hoekstra J. M. Molnar J. L. Jennings M. Revenga C. Spalding M. D. Boucher T. M. Robertson J. C. Heibel T. J. Ellison K. The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference University of California Press Molnar J.... |
Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It features the group's rock adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971.
The band had performed the Mussor... | {"Released": "November 1971", "Recorded": "26 March 1971", "Venue": "Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle", "Genre": "Progressive rock symphonic rock classical crossover", "Label": "Island", "Producer": "Greg Lake"} |
The Rafael Python is a family of air-to-air missiles (AAMs) built by the Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, formerly RAFAEL Armament Development Authority. Originally starting with the Shafrir (, loosely translated as a dome, or a protective cloak - the Israeli military considers itself mostl... | {"Transport": "yes", "Place of origin": "Israel", "Type": "Short-range air-to-air missile", "Used by": "See operators", "Manufacturer": "Rafael Advanced Defense Systems", "Unit cost": "Shafrir series: Shafrir-1: 20,000", "Produced": "Shafrir series: 1961-1983\n Python series: 1978-present", "Mass": "103.6 kg lboz off o... |
Tarkus is the second studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 14 June 1971 on Island Records. Following their debut tour across Europe during the second half of 1970, the group paused touring commitments in January 1971 to record a new album at Advision Studios in London. Greg L... | {"Released": "14 June 1971", "Recorded": "January-February 1971", "Studio": "Advision, Fitzrovia, London", "Genre": "Progressive rockMacan 1997 116", "Label": "Island", "Producer": "Greg Lake"} |
Longhorn Dam is a dam crossing the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, United States, where it creates Lady Bird Lake. Completed in 1960, the dam was built by the City of Austin as the last in a chain of Colorado River dams in central Texas begun during the Great Depression. The name refers to its location on a ford used ... | {"Official name": "Longhorn Dam", "Impounds": "Colorado River", "Creates": "Lady Bird Lake", "Location": "Austin, Texas, United States", "Operator(s)": "City of Austin", "Length": "506 ft m 0", "Height": "36 ft m 0", "Opening date": "1960", "Surface area": "471 acres ha", "Coordinates": "30 15 1 N 97 42 49 W region:US_... |
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, OFM (1436 – 8 November 1517) was a Spanish cardinal, religious figure, and statesman. Starting from humble beginnings he rose to the heights of power, becoming a religious reformer, twice regent of Spain, Cardinal, Grand Inquisitor, promoter of the Crusades in North Africa, and founder of... | {"Name": "Cardinal Fray Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros", "Image caption": "Portrait by Juan de Borgoña, c. 1514", "Honorific prefix": "The Most Eminent and Most Reverend", "Honorific suffix": "O.F.M.", "Office 2": "President of the Council of Regency of the Kingdom of Castile", "Predecessor 2": "Philip \"The Handsome\",... |
Max Starcke Dam is a dam in the U.S. state of Texas. Starcke Dam impounds Lake Marble Falls, one of the Texas Highland Lakes. The dam was constructed in 1949-1951 in order to provide hydroelectric power. Located near Marble Falls, Texas, Starcke Dam was the last of the six Highland Lakes dams to be built.
Originally c... | {"Official name": "Max Starcke Dam", "Impounds": "Colorado River", "Creates": "Lake Marble Falls", "Location": "Burnet County, Texas, United States", "Operator(s)": "Lower Colorado River Authority", "Length": "859.5 ft m 1", "Height": "98.8 ft m 1", "Width (base)": "56.8 ft m 1", "Spillway type": "10 controlled, hydrau... |
Lake Marble Falls is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1951 by the construction of Max Starcke Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Originally named Marble Falls Dam, the dam was renamed in 1962 for Max Starcke, the second general directo... | {"Location": "Burnet County, near the town of Marble Falls, Texas", "Coordinates": "30 33.40 N 98 15.38 W type:waterbody_region:US-TX inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Colorado River", "Primary outflows": "Colorado River", "Basin": "United States", "Max. depth": "60 ft on", "Surface elevation": "738 ft (225 m) above s... |
Michel Baudier (c. 15891645), French historian, was born in Languedoc, during the reign of Louis XIII, and was historiographer to the Court of France.
Life
In the 1620s Baudier, a soldier turned historian wrote a treatise on Islam, which was one of the first works in French on Islam. His writings initially focused on ... | {"Name": "Michel Baudier", "Birth date": "1589", "Birth place": "Languedoc", "Death date": "1645", "Nationality": "French", "Occupation": "historian"} |
thumb|Photograph of Vice-Admiral Harry Rawson
Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, (5 November 1843 - 3 November 1910) was a British naval officer in the Royal Navy. He is chiefly remembered for overseeing the Benin Expedition of 1897, a British punitive expedition against the Kingdom of Benin (in modern-day Nigeria).... | {"Name": "Sir Harry Rawson", "Term start": "27 May 1902", "Term end": "27 May 1909", "Birth date": "1843 11 5 y", "Birth place": "Walton-on-Hill, Lancashire, England", "Death date": "1910 11 3 1843 11 5 y", "Death place": "London, England", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Florence Alice Stewart Shaw", "Battles ... |
The Great Chinese Famine () was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962. It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to st... | {"Country": "People's Republic of China", "Period": "1959-1961", "Total deaths": "15-55 million", "Theory": "Result of the Great Leap Forward, people's commune, Four Pests campaign and other factors.", "Consequences": "Termination of the Great Leap Forward campaign; considered China's most devastating catastrophe.", "N... |
Tom Miller Dam is a dam located on the Colorado River within the city limits of Austin, Texas, United States. The City of Austin, aided by funds from the Public Works Administration, constructed the dam for the purpose of flood control and for generating hydroelectric power. Named after Robert Thomas Miller, a former M... | {"Official name": "Tom Miller Dam", "Impounds": "Colorado River", "Creates": "Lake Austin", "Location": "Austin, Texas, United States", "Operator(s)": "Lower Colorado River Authority", "Length": "1590 ft m 0", "Height": "100.5 ft m 1", "Width (base)": "155 ft m 0", "Spillway type": "6 controlled bulkhead-gate", "Spillw... |
Georges Darboy (16 January 181324 May 1871) was a French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy then archbishop of Paris. He was among a group of prominent hostages executed as the Paris Commune of 1871 was about to be overthrown.
Biography
Darboy was born in Fayl-Billot, Haute-Marne in north-east France. He studied w... | {"See": "Paris", "Predecessor": "François-Nicholas-Madeleine Morlot", "Successor": "Joseph Hippolyte Guibert", "Ordination": "17 December 1836", "Consecration": "30 November 1859", "Born": "Fayl-Billot, Haute-Marne, France", "Died": "Paris, France\nyes\n Execution by shooting", "Nationality": "French"} |
Frank Lewis O'Bannon (January 30, 1930 - September 13, 2003) was an American politician who served as the 47th governor of Indiana from 1997 until his death in 2003. He is the most recent U.S. Governor to have died in office.
O'Bannon was a native of Corydon, Indiana. He graduated from Corydon High School (now Corydon... | {"Name": "Frank O'Bannon", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 1990", "Term start": "January 13, 1997", "Term end": "September 13, 2003", "Office 2": "Member of the Indiana Senate", "Predecessor 2": "Robert O'Bannonhttps://www.capitolandwashington.com/politicians/pol/102/ List of All Offices and Office Holders March 5... |
Wirtz Dam (formerly Granite Shoals Dam) was constructed from 1949 to 1951 to provide hydroelectric power and to form Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (formerly Lake Granite Shoals), one of the Texas Highland Lakes. Lake LBJ ‒ as it is more commonly referred to ‒ provides cooling water for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Tho... | {"Official name": "Wirtz Dam", "Impounds": "Colorado River", "Creates": "Lake LBJ", "Location": "Horseshoe Bay, Burnet County, Texas, U.S.", "Operator(s)": "Lower Colorado River Authority", "Length": "5491 ft m 0", "Height": "118.3 ft m 1", "Width (base)": "80 ft m 0", "Spillway type": "10 controlled bulkhead-gate", "S... |
Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (more commonly referred to as Lake LBJ and originally named Lake Granite Shoals) is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country about 45 miles northwest of Austin. The reservoir was formed in 1950 by the construction of Granite Shoals Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCR... | {"Location": "Texas Hill CountryBurnet CountyLlano County", "Basin": "United States", "Coordinates": "30 33 20 N 98 20 16 W type:waterbody_region:US-TX inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Colorado RiverLlano River", "Primary outflows": "Colorado River", "Max. depth": "90 ft on", "Surface elevation": "825 ft on"} |
Inks Lake is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1938 by the construction of Inks Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Located near Burnet, Texas, the lake serves to provide flood control in tandem with Lake Buchanan and features the smal... | {"Location": "Burnet / Llano counties, Texas,United States", "Basin": "United States", "Coordinates": "30 43.86 N 98 23.08 W region:US-TX_type:waterbody inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Colorado River", "Primary outflows": "Colorado River", "Max. depth": "60 ft on", "Surface elevation": "888 ft on"} |
Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria also called Abba Kyrillos VI, ; (2 August 1902 - 9 March 1971; 26 Epip 1618 - 30 Meshir 1687), was the 116th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark from 10 May 1959 (2 Pashons 1675) to his death.
Early life
Pope Cyril VI was born as Azer Youssef Atta in Damanhour, Egypt, in... | {"Born": "Damanhour, Khedivate of Egypt", "Died": "Cairo, Egypt", "Feast": "30 Meshir (Coptic) 9 March (Gregorian)", "Canonized": "Pope Tawadros II", "Patronage": "Alexandria"} |
Inks Dam was constructed from 1936 to 1938 and forms Inks Lake, one of the seven Texas Highland Lakes. The lake and dam are owned and operated by the Lower Colorado River Authority for hydropower generation and recreational purposes and are named for Roy B. Inks, one of the original members on the LCRA Board of Directo... | {"Official name": "Inks Dam", "Impounds": "Colorado River", "Creates": "Inks Lake", "Location": "Burnet / Llano counties, Texas, United States", "Operator(s)": "Lower Colorado River Authority", "Length": "1547.5 ft m 1", "Height": "96.5 ft m 1", "Width (base)": "75.1 ft m 1", "Construction began": "1936", "Opening date... |
thumb|right|220px|Woolsthorpe public house seen though Grantham Canal bridge
Woolsthorpe by Belvoir, also known as Woolsthorpe is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 415. It is situated approximately west from G... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011)", "District": "South Kesteven", "Shire county": "Lincolnshire", "UK Parliament": "Grantham and Stamford (UK Parliament constituency)", "Postcode district": "NG", "OS grid reference": "SK837340"} |
thumb|An aerial view of Buchanan Dam.
The Buchanan Dam (Highland Lakes "Pronunciation" Guide) is a multiple arch dam located on the Colorado River of Texas. The dam forms Lake Buchanan and was the first dam to be completed in the chain of Texas Highland Lakes. The dam is used for generating hydroelectric power and for... | {"Official name": "Buchanan Dam", "Impounds": "Colorado River", "Creates": "Lake Buchanan", "Location": "Burnet / Llano counties, Texas, United States", "Operator(s)": "Lower Colorado River Authority", "Length": "10987.6 ft m 1", "Height": "145.5 ft m 1", "Width (base)": "215.1 ft m 1", "Spillway type": "37 controlled,... |
O Lucky Man! is a 1973 British comedy-drama fantasy film directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his first film performance in Anderson's film if.... (1968). The film was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
... | {"Directed by": "Lindsay Anderson", "Produced by": "Lindsay AndersonMichael Medwin", "Screenplay by": "David Sherwin", "Story by": "Malcolm McDowell", "Starring": "Malcolm McDowellRalph RichardsonRachel RobertsArthur LoweHelen MirrenDandy NicholsMona Washbourne", "Music by": "Alan Price", "Cinematography": "Miroslav On... |
The Barnsley Canal is a canal that ran from Barnby Basin, through Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England to a junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It was built in the 1790s, to provide a transport link from coal reserves at Barnsley to a wider market. Both the Aire and Calder Navigat... | {"Original owner": "Barnsley Canal Company", "Principal engineer": "Samual Hartley", "Date of act": "1793", "Date of first use": "1799", "Date completed": "1802", "Date closed": "1893, 1946", "Boat length": "0", "Boat beam": "0", "Start point": "Barnsley", "End point": "Heath Common", "Branch of": "Aire and Calder Navi... |
Lake Buchanan (Highland Lakes "Pronunciation" Guide) was formed by the construction of Buchanan Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority to provide a water supply for the region and to provide hydroelectric power. Buchanan Dam, a structure over 2 mi (3.2 km) in length, was completed in 1939. Lake Buchanan was the fir... | {"Location": "Burnet / Llano counties, Texas, USA", "Coordinates": "30 45.11 N 98 25.12 W type:waterbody_region:US-TX inline,title", "Primary inflows": "Colorado River", "Primary outflows": "Colorado River", "Managing agency": "Lower Colorado River Authority", "First flooded": "1939", "Max. depth": "132 ft m on", "Surf... |
Dorothy Ann Richards (née Willis; September 1, 1933 - September 13, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Ri... | {"Name": "Ann Richards", "Term start": "January 15, 1991", "Term end": "January 17, 1995", "Birth name": "Dorothy Ann Willis", "Birth date": "1933 9 1", "Birth place": "Lakeview, Texas (now Lacy Lakeview), U.S.", "Death date": "2006 9 13 1933 9 1", "Death place": "Austin, Texas, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Dave Richards 1953 ... |
The International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA), founded in 1996, is an organization based in Bogata, Texas, that has created a shooting sport based on defensive pistol techniques, using equipment including full-charge service ammunition to solve simulated "real world" self-defense scenarios. Shooters competing i... | {"Name": "International Defensive Pistol Association", "Abbreviation": "IDPA", "Jurisdiction": "23x23px International", "Founded": "1996", "Headquarters": "Bogata, Texas, US", "Director": "Joyce Wilson", "Official website": "idpa.com", "More information": "Founders: Bill Wilson, John Sayle, Ken Hackathorn, Dick Thomas,... |
Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902 - February 5, 1969) was an American character actress. A strong New York accent, her diminutive size, and plain look favored working-class roles, earning her a Tony Award and six Academy award nominations, more than any other actress in the Best Supporting Actress category.
These nomi... | {"Name": "Thelma Ritter", "Caption": "Ritter in All About Eve (1950)", "Birth date": "1902 2 14", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "1969 2 5 1902 2 14 yes", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Joseph Moran 1927", "Children": "2", "Years active": "1913-1968", "Occupation": "Actress"} |
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena; 24 October 1887 - 15 April 1969) was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII from their marriage on 31 May 1906 until 14 April 1931, when the Spanish Second Republic was proclaimed. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family... | {"Born": "Balmoral Castle, Scotland", "Died": "Lausanne, Switzerland", "Burial": "Sacré Coeur Catholic Church, Lausanne, Switzerland25 April 1985El Escorial, Spain", "Father": "Prince Henry of Battenberg", "Mother": "Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom"} |
Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The film stars Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck and Gene Kelly in his final film role. It features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard and the Tubes. The titl... | {"Directed by": "Robert Greenwald", "Written by": "Richard Christian Danus\n Marc Reid Rubel", "Produced by": "Lawrence Gordon", "Starring": "Olivia Newton-John\n Gene Kelly\n Michael Beck", "Cinematography": "Victor J. Kemper", "Edited by": "Dennis Virkler", "Music by": "Barry De Vorzon \n Electric Light Orchestra", "... |
The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is the sixth of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and above the Lord High Constable. The Lord Great Chamberlain has charge over the Palace of Westminster (though since the 1960s his personal authority has been limited to the royal apartm... | {"Post": "Lord Great Chamberlain", "Body": "England", "Incumbent": "Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington", "Incumbent since": "8 September 2022\n\n Joint hereditary officeholders\n border:none; padding:0;\n Cholmondeley share:\nThe 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley (50%)\n Ancaster share:\nThe 28th Baroness Willoughby d... |
The Lord High Constable of England is the seventh of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Great Chamberlain and above the Earl Marshal. This office is now called out of abeyance only for coronations. The Lord High Constable was originally the commander of the royal armies and the Master of the Horse. H... | {"Post": "Lord High Constable", "Body": "England", "Image caption": "Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, with the Lord High Constable's baton, at the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, 2023.", "Type": "Great Officer of State", "Appointer": "The Monarch", "Term length": "At His Majesty's Pleasure", "First holder": ... |
thumb|Map of modern distribution of "Khoisan" languages. The territories shaded blue and green, and those to their east, are those of San peoples.
The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. Thei... | {"Name": "SanBushmen", "Image": "300px", "Image caption": "Juǀ'hoan children in \n Namibia.", "Population": "~105,000", "Religions": "San religion, Christianity", "Languages": "All languages of the Khoe, Kx'a, and Tuu language families, English, Portuguese", "Related ethnic groups": "Khoekhoe, Basters, Griqua"} |
Aberystwyth University () is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The university has over 8,000 students studying across three academic faculties and 17 departments.
Founded in 1872 as University College Wales, Aber... | {"Motto": "Nid Byd, Byd Heb Wybodaeth", "Type": "Public", "Endowment": "£30.3 million (2022)https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departmental/corporateinformation/financialaccounts/Aber-Uni-Annual-Report-2022-Final.pdf Annual Report and Accounts 2021-2022 21 February 2023 Aberystwyth University 30", "Budget": "£119.9 millio... |
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D-1 or 4:2:2 Component Digital is an SMPTE digital recording video standard, introduced in 1986 through efforts by SMPTE engineering committees. It started as a Sony and Bosch - BTS product and was the first major professional digital video format. SMPTE standard... | {"Title": "D1 (a.k.a. 4:2:2 Component Digital)", "Image caption": "Sony DVR-2000 VCR", "Media type": "Magnetic Tape", "Encoding": "NTSC, PAL", "Read mechanism": "Helical scan", "Write mechanism": "Helical scan", "Standard": "Interlaced video", "Developed by": "Sony", "Use": "Video production"} |
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" ) is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he belie... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Genre(s)": "Horror short story", "Publication type": "Periodical", "Publisher": "Godey's Lady's Book", "Media type": "Print (Magazine)", "Publication date": "November 1846"} |
Joseph Eugene Kernan III (April 8, 1946 - July 29, 2020) was an American businessman and Democratic politician who served as the 48th governor of Indiana from 2003 to 2005. He previously served as the 47th lieutenant governor of Indiana from 1997 to 2003 under Frank O'Bannon and succeeded the governorship after O'Banno... | {"Name": "Joe Kernan", "Image caption": "Kernan in 2008", "Term start": "September 13, 2003", "Term end": "January 10, 2005", "Office 2": "47th Lieutenant Governor of Indiana", "Governor 2": "Frank O'Bannon", "Predecessor 2": "Frank O'Bannon", "Successor 2": "Kathy Davis", "Birth name": "Joseph Eugene Kernan III", "Bir... |
Serge Koussevitzky, born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky ()Koussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature. (See The Koussevitzky Music Foundations official web site. Retri... | {"Name": "Serge Koussevitzky", "Native name": "Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Кусеви́цкий", "Caption": "Koussevitzky between 1920 and 1950", "Birth date": "(26 July 1874 14 July", "Birth place": "Vyshny Volochyok, Tver Governorate", "Death place": "Boston, Massachusetts", "Death date": "4 June 1951 (Age 76)", "Occupation": "Co... |
The eMac (short for education Mac) is a discontinued all-in-one Mac desktop computer that was produced and designed by Apple Computer. Released in 2002, it was originally aimed at the education market but was later made available as a cheaper mass-market alternative to Apple's "Sunflower" iMac G4. The eMac was pulled f... | {"Image caption": "The Apple eMac", "Release date": "2002 04 29", "Discontinuation date": "2006 07 05", "CPU make and model": "PowerPC 7450, 700 MHz-1.42 GHz", "Predecessor": "iMac G3", "Successor": "iMac G5", "Mass": "55 lb kg on", "Base price": "1099 2002 -1", "Logo": "center|250px|Logo of eMac"} |
Thomas Pinckney (October 23, 1750November 2, 1828) was an American statesman, diplomat, and military officer who fought in both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, achieving the rank of major general. He served as Governor of South Carolina and as the U.S. minister to Great Britain. He was also the Fede... | {"Name": "Thomas Pinckney", "Term start": "November 23, 1797", "Term end": "March 3, 1801", "Minister from 1": "United States", "Order 2": "36th", "Office 2": "Governor of South Carolina", "Predecessor 2": "William Moultrie", "Successor 2": "Charles Pinckney", "Birth date": "1750 10 23", "Birth place": "Charles Town, P... |
Zhou Yu (, ) (175-210), courtesy name Gongjin (), was a Chinese military general and strategist serving under the warlord Sun Ce in the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. After Sun Ce died in the year 200, he continued serving under Sun Quan, Sun Ce's younger brother and successor. Zhou Yu is primarily known for his le... | {"Name": "Zhou Yu", "Native name": "周瑜", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Qing dynasty illustration of Zhou Yu", "Term start": "209", "Term end": "210", "Office 2": "Central Protector of the Army(中護軍)(under Sun Ce, then Sun Quan)", "Monarch 2": "Emperor Xian of Han", "Birth date": "175birth and death dates \"Sa... |
Roger Chang is a computer enthusiast and American television personality best known for his time as a segment producer and his appearances on TechTV's Call for Help and The Screen Savers. He was a senior producer at Revision3.
Early life
Chang attended Thomas Downey High School in Modesto, California. Upon graduating... | {"Caption": "Roger Chang on the set of Systm. 2009", "Name": "Roger Chang", "Occupation": "Senior Producer", "Website": "Revision3.com (Defunct)\nRevision3.com/tekzilla (Defunct)\nSystm.org (Now owned by a Japanese cosmetic company)\nTwit.tv"} |
Todi (; Tuder in antiquity) is a town and comune (municipality) of the province of Perugia (region of Umbria) in central Italy. It is perched on a tall two-crested hill overlooking the east bank of the river Tiber, commanding distant views in every direction. It was founded in antiquity by the Umbri, at the border with... | {"Name": "Todi", "Official name": "Comune di Todi", "Image caption": "Panorama of the town", "Coordinates": "42 46 44 N 12 24 51 E inline,title", "Region": "Umbria", "Province": "Perugia (PG)", "Frazioni": "Asproli, Cacciano, Camerata, Canonica, Casemascie, Cecanibbi, Chioano, Collevalenza, Cordigliano, Duesanti, Ficar... |
Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 - June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of cinema.
Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in ... | {"Name": "Robert Taylor", "Caption": "Taylor in 1946", "Birth name": "Spangler Arlington Brugh", "Birth date": "1911 8 5 y", "Birth place": "Filley, Nebraska, U.S.", "Death date": "1969 6 8 1911 8 5", "Death place": "Santa Monica, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California", "A... |
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John Randolph (June 2, 1773May 24, 1833), commonly known as John Randolph of Roanoke,Roanoke refers to Roanoke Plantation in Charlotte County, Virginia, not to the city of the same name. was an American planter, and a politician from Virginia, serving in... | {"Name": "John Randolph of Roanoke", "Image size": "225px", "Image caption": "Portrait of Randolph by John Wesley Jarvis (1811)", "Term start": "May 26, 1830", "Term end": "September 19, 1830", "Preceded 2": "James Barbour", "Succeeded 2": "John Tyler", "Birth date": "1773 6 2", "Birth place": "Cawsons, Virginia Colony... |
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 - January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and Tyler, and granddaughter Carly). He is a member of the Country Music Hall... | {"Born": "Murvaul, Texas, U.S.", "Died": "Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.", "Genres": "Country", "Spouse(s)": "Dorothy Fay 1941", "Labels": "Columbia, Decca, Capitol"} |
Eyam () is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park. There is evidence of early occupation by Ancient Britons on the surrounding moors and lead was mined in the area by the Romans. A settlement was founded on the present site by Anglo-Saxons, when mini... | {"OS grid reference": "SK220764", "Population": "(2001http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=793301&c=eyam&d=16&e=15&g=434246&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Parish Headcounts: Eyam CP 12 April 2007 Neighbourhood Statistics Office for National Statistics )", "District"... |
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós () (1563-1614) was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain. He is best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, in particular the 1595-1596 voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira, and for leading a 1605-1606 expedition that crossed the Pacific in s... | {"Name": "Pedro Fernandes de Queirós", "Image": "Pedro Fernández de Quirós.JPG", "Caption": "Modern artist's impression of de Queirós", "Birth date": "1563", "Birth place": "Évora, Portugal", "Death date": "1615", "Death place": "Panama", "Nationality": "Portuguese", "Occupation": "Navigator", "Known For": "Spanish dis... |
The University of Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru) is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges - Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff - the university was the first university established in Wales, one of the four countries in the... | {"Motto": "Goreu Awen Gwirionedd", "Type": "Confederal, non-membership universityhttp://www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/ro/important_announce/namechange_jan07.php Registrar's Office Bangor.ac.uk 2012-04-29", "Chancellor": "King Charles III", "Website": "https://www.wales.ac.uk"} |
Swansea University () is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes within the University... | {"Motto": "Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn", "Type": "Public", "Endowment": "£7.31 million (2022)Annual Review 2022 https://www.swansea.ac.uk/media/Annual-Review-2022.pdf Swansea University 21 February 2023", "Budget": "£369.9 million (2021-22)", "Chancellor": "Dame Jean ThomasSwansea University appoints Dame Jean Thomas ... |
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, (2 June 18224 July 1883), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857, was a British Conservative cabinet minister, politician, peer, and nobleman. He was the paternal grandfather of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchil... | {"Name": "The Duke of Marlborough", "Order 2": "Lord President of the Council", "Monarch 2": "Victoria", "Prime minister 2": "Benjamin Disraeli", "Predecessor 2": "The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos", "Successor 2": "The Earl de Grey and Ripon", "Birth date": "1822 6 2 y", "Birth place": "Garboldisham Hall, Garboldisha... |
Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950) is an American television host, and author, active in news reporting since 1972. Pauley first became widely known as Barbara Walters's successor on the NBC morning show Today, beginning at the age of 25, where she was a co-anchor from 1976 to 1989, at first with Tom Brokaw, ... | {"Name": "Jane Pauley", "Image": "Jane Pauley 2012 Shankbone.JPG", "Caption": "Pauley in 2012", "Birth name": "Margaret Jane Pauley", "Birth date": "1950 10 31", "Birth place": "Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.", "Occupation": "News anchorTelevision host", "Years active": "1972-present", "Spouse(s)": "Garry Trudeau 1980", "... |
, also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo."データイースト." Data East. December 8, 2002. Retrieved on October 20, 2009. The America... | {"Type": "Private KK", "Fate": "Bankruptcy", "Founded": "April 20, 1976http://www.dataeast-corp.co.jp/company/gaiyo.htm 会社概要 Data East Corporation 15 April 2001 archive.org 23 February 2017 bot: unknown https://web.archive.org/web/20010415120713/http://www.dataeast-corp.co.jp/company/gaiyo.htm 15 April 2001", "... |
Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 - December 6, 2000) was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969.
After serving in th... | {"Name": "Werner Klemperer", "Caption": "Klemperer on the set of Password, 1971", "Birth date": "1920 3 22", "Birth place": "Cologne, Germany", "Death date": "2000 12 6 1920 3 22", "Death place": "New York City, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1947-1995", "Spouse(s)": "Susan De... |
Supermercado De Candido nice is a chain of supermarkets, located in the Paraguaná Peninsula of Venezuela.
The supermarket company was established in 1950, when the Italian Prati Caruso brothers established it as Supermercado La Franco Italiana.
thumb|left|De Candido Supermarket (still named La Franco Italiana when th... | {"Type": "Public", "Headquarters": "Paraguaná's Tax Free Zone, Falcón State, Venezuela", "Founded": "1950", "Industry": "Commerce", "Products": "Commerce", "Revenue": "Bs. ? billion (2006)", "Website": "http://www.decandido.com/"} |
Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which she was awarded in 2008, and, on August 16, 20... | {"Name": "Donna Shalala", "Image caption": "Shalala in 2019", "Term start": "August 16, 2023", "Order 2": "18th", "Office 2": "United States Secretary of Health and Human Services", "President 2": "Bill Clinton", "Deputy 2": "Walter BroadnaxKevin L. Thurm", "Predecessor 2": "Louis Wade Sullivan", "Successor 2": "Tommy ... |
David Allen Ogden Stiers ( ;As pronounced by himself in "Classical Rewind 2 " (2015). October 31, 1942 - March 3, 2018) was an American actor, voice actor, and conductor. He appeared in numerous productions on Broadway, and originated the role of Feldman in The Magic Show, in which he appeared for four years between 19... | {"Name": "David Ogden Stiers", "Caption": "Stiers as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III in M*A*S*H, 1977", "Birth name": "David Allen Ogden Stiers", "Birth date": "1942 10 31", "Birth place": "Peoria, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "2018 03 03 1942 10 31", "Death place": "Newport, Oregon, U.S.", "Education": "Univers... |
Daveigh Elizabeth Chase ( ; née Chase-Schwallier; born July 24, 1990) is an American actress. She began her career appearing in minor television roles before being cast as Samantha Darko in Richard Kelly's cult film Donnie Darko. She would subsequently provide the voices of Chihiro Ogino in the English dub of the Studi... | {"Name": "Daveigh Chase", "Caption": "Chase in 2008", "Birth name": "Daveigh Elizabeth Chase-Schwallier", "Birth date": "1990 07 24", "Birth place": "Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.", "Other names": "Daveigh Elizabeth Chase", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1998-2016"} |
was a Japanese politician and writer who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashimoto's Japan Restoration Party out of which he split his faction into the Party for Japanese Kokoro, he was one of the most prominent ultranationalis... | {"Name": "Shintarō Ishihara", "Native name": "石原 慎太郎", "Native name language": "ja", "Image": "Shintaro Ishihara 2009828.JPG", "Image caption": "Ishihara in 2009 at governor's office", "Term start": "23 April 1999", "Term end": "31 October 2012", "Office 2": "Minister of Transport", "Prime minister 2": "Noboru Takeshit... |
The are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. They compete in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) as a member of the Pacific League. Founded on February 22, 1938 as the Nankai Club, being the first Kansai team to play in Osaka proper, the team went through a few name changes before... | {"League": "Nippon Professional Baseball\nPacific League (1950-present)\nJapanese Baseball League (1938-1949)", "Former names": "Fukuoka Daiei Hawks (1989-2004)\nNankai Hawks (1947-1988)\nKinki Great Ring (1946-1947)\nKinki Nippon Club (1944-1945)\nNankai Club (1938-1944)", "Series2 championship seasons": "2 (1946, 194... |
, based in Kobe, is one of the largest supermarket chains in Japan. In 1957, Isao Nakauchi founded the chain in Osaka near Sembayashi Station on the Keihan train line. Daiei is now under a restructuring process supported by Marubeni Corporation and ÆON Co., Ltd., another Japanese supermarket chain. Daiei Inc. runs more... | {"Type": "Subsidiary (Kabushiki gaisha)", "Founded": "1957 at Osaka, Japan", "Headquarters": "Japan", "Industry": "Retail", "Products": "Hypermarkets and supermarkets", "Revenue": "¥1,431.5 billion (2005)", "Parent": "ÆON Co.", "Subsidiaries": "OMC Card, OPA co. ltd.", "Website": "www.daiei.co.jp"} |
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by
In addition to the Mainichi Shimbun, which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called The Mainichi (previously Mainichi Daily News), and publishes a bilingual news magazine, Mainichi Weekly... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Format": "Blanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)", "Political alignment": "Centrehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/world/asia/trump-japan-shinzo-abe.html Relief in Japan After Shinzo Abe's Visit With Trump In an editorial, the centrist Mainichi Shimbun said that Mr. Trump might have taken a strate... |
Hung Ga (), Hung Kuen (), or Hung Ga Kuen () is a southern Chinese martial art belonging to the southern Shaolin styles. The hallmarks of Hung Ga are strong stances, notably the horse stance, or "si ping ma" (),Sei Ping Ma and strong hand techniques, notably the bridge handBridge Hand and the versatile tiger claw.Tiger... | {"Also known as": "Hung Ga, Hung Gar, Hung Kuen, Hung Ga Kuen, Hung Gar Kuen", "Focus": "Striking", "Country of origin": "China", "Creator": "Hung Hei-gunAshley Martin The Complete Martial Arts Training Manual: An Integrated Approach 2013 Tuttle Publishing 978-1-4629-0555-3", "Famous practitioners": "(see below)", "Oly... |
The Subaru Outback is an automotive nameplate used by the Japanese automaker Subaru for two different vehicles: a crossover station wagon, the Outback (1994-present, also sold as in some markets), and an Impreza-derived hatchback, the Outback Sport (1994-2011).
Most versions of the Outback wagon and Outback Sport hav... | {"Manufacturer": "Subaru", "Production": "1994-present", "Assembly": "Ota, Gunma, Japan Lafayette, Indiana, United States (Lafayette Plant, since 1999)", "Also called": "Subaru Legacy Outback", "Class": "Mid-size crossover SUV (D)", "Body style": "5-door station wagon"} |
The Nissan Maxima is a car manufactured and marketed by Nissan and offered as Nissan's flagship sedan primarily in North America, the Middle East, and China — and currently in its eighth generation. Having debuted for model year 1982 as the Datsun Maxima, it replaced the earlier Datsun 810. The name Maxima dates to mo... | {"Manufacturer": "Nissan", "Also called": "Datsun Maxima (1980-1984)", "Production": "1980-2023", "Layout": "Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive (1980-1984)Front-engine, front-wheel-drive (1985-2023)", "Predecessor": "Datsun 810"} |
Anthony van Diemen (also Antonie, Antonio, Anton, Antonius) (1593 - 19 April 1645) was a Dutch colonial governor.
Early life
He was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands, the son of Meeus Anthonisz van DiemenDiemen is a small town near Amsterdam. and Christina Hoevenaar. In 1616, he moved to Amsterdam, in hope of imp... | {"Name": "Anthony van Diemen", "Image caption": "Portrait of Anthony van Diemen", "Birth date": "1593", "Birth place": "Culemborg, Utrecht, Dutch Republic", "Death date": "1645 04 19 yes (aged 51-52)", "Death place": "Batavia, Dutch East India", "Nationality": "Dutch"} |
Jason Iain FlemyngBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com (born 25 September 1966) is an English actor. He is known for his work with British filmmakers Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn appearing in the Ritchie films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), (b... | {"Caption": "Flemyng in 2013", "Birth name": "Jason Iain Flemyng", "Birth date": "y 1966 9 25", "Birth place": "Putney, London, England", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1990-present", "Children": "2", "Spouse(s)": "Elly Fairman 2008"} |
Count was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was the head of the Japanese First Army during the Russo-Japanese War; and his forces enjoyed a series of successes during the Manchurian fighting at the Battle of Yalu River, the Battle of Liaoyang, the Battle of Shaho and the Battle of Mukden.
Early lif... | {"Born": "Satsuma Domain(now Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan)", "Died": "Tokyo, Japan", "Allegiance": "Empire of Japan", "Commands held": "IJA 6th DivisionIJA 1st Army"} |
Aleksey Nikolayevich Kuropatkin (; March 29, 1848January 16, 1925) served as the Russian Imperial Minister of War from January 1898 to February 1904 and as a field commander subsequently. Historians often hold him responsible for major Russian defeats in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 1905, most notably at the Batt... | {"Name": "Aleksey Kuropatkin", "Birth date": "1848 03 29", "Death date": "1925 01 16 1848 03 29", "Birth place": "Kholmsky Uyezd, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire", "Death place": "Pskov Governorate, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union", "Image size": "200", "Image caption": "General Aleksey Kuropatkin", "Term start": "1 Janua... |
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 - 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a silver medal for the 1500m at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and receiv... | {"Name": "The Lord Noel-Baker", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "Philip Noel-Baker in 1942", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations", "Predecessor 2": "The Viscount Addison", "Successor 2": "Patrick Gordon Walker", "Birth name": "Philip John Baker", "Birth date": "1 November 1889", "Death da... |
George Bass (; 30 January 1771 - after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia.
Early years
Bass was born on 30 January 1771 at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford, Lincolnshire,Bishop's transcripts for Aswardby, 1561-1830 Church of England. Parish Church of Aswardby (Lincolnshire) the son o... | {"Name": "George Bass", "Caption": "Engraving of Bass from The Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery, 1899", "Birth date": "1771 01 30 y", "Birth place": "Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England", "Disappeared date": "1803 2 5 1771 1 30 y", "Disappeared place": "Last seen before leaving Port Jackson, Ne... |
Sean Landon Reinert (May 27, 1971 - January 24, 2020) was an American musician. He was the drummer for the rock band Æon Spoke and the drummer and founding member of the progressive metal band Cynic until leaving the band in September 2015. Reinert credited Kenny Clarke, John Bonham, Neil Peart, Gary Husband and Vinnie... | {"Born": "1971 5 27", "Died": "2020 1 24 1971 5 27", "Genres": "*Progressive metal\n technical death metal", "Formerly of": "Cynic, Æon Spoke, Death, Gordian Knot, Aghora", "Website": "seanreinert.com"} |
Sir George Alan Thomas, 7th Baronet (14 June 1881 - 23 July 1972) was a British badminton, tennis and chess player. He was twice British chess champion and a 21-time All-England badminton champion. He also reached the quarterfinals of the singles and the semifinals of the men's tennis doubles at Wimbledon in 1911. Badm... | {"Full name": "George Alan Thomas", "Country (sports)": "EnglandUnited Kingdom", "Born": "Tarabya, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire", "Died": "London, England, U.K.", "Career record": "320-156 (67.2%)Garcia Gabriel George Alan Thomas: Career match record https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=playern&player_input_enc=THOMAS%... |
Carlos Prats González (; February 24, 1915 - September 30, 1974) was a Chilean Army officer and politician. He served as a minister in Salvador Allende's government while Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. Immediately after General Augusto Pinochet's September 11, 1973 coup, Prats went into voluntary exile in Arge... | {"Name": "Carlos Prats", "Term start": "October 27, 1970", "Term end": "August 23, 1973", "Office 2": "Chilean Minister of National Defense", "President 2": "Salvador Allende", "Predecessor 2": "Clodomiro Almeyda", "Successor 2": "Orlando Letelier", "Birth date": "1915 2 24", "Birth place": "Talcahuano, Chile", "Death ... |
Thursbitch is a novel by English writer Alan Garner, named after the valley in the Pennines of England where the action occurs (also listed in the 1841 OS map as "Thursbatch"). It was published in 2003.
Plot
Set both in the 18th century and the present day, the novel centres on the mystery of an inscription on an exta... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "The Harvill Press", "Media type": "Print (Hardback & Paperback)", "Pages": "160 p. (hardback edition)", "ISBN": "(hardback edition)"} |
Inger Stevens (born Ingrid Stensland; October 18, 1934 - April 30, 1970) was a Swedish-American film, stage and Golden Globe-winning television actress.
Early life
Inger Stevens was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the eldest child of Per Gustaf and Lisbet Stensland. When she was six years old, her mother abandoned the fa... | {"Caption": "Inger Stevens in 1967", "Birth name": "Ingrid Stensland", "Birth date": "1934 10 18", "Birth place": "Stockholm, Sweden", "Death date": "1970 04 30 1934 10 18", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress", "Years active": "1954-1970", "Spouse(s)": "Anthony Soglio 1955 1958 divor... |
James Ruse (9 August17595 September 1837) was a Cornish farmer who, at age 23, was convicted of burglary and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. He arrived at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, on the First Fleet with 18 months of his sentence remaining. Ruse applied to Colony Governor Arthur Phillip for a land gr... | {"Caption": "Portrait of", "Birth date": "1759 08 09 y", "Birth place": "Lawhitton, England, United Kingdom", "Death date": "1837 09 05 1759 08 09 y", "Death place": "Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupation": "Farmer", "Years active": "1789-1836", "Spouse(s)": "Susannah Norcott, Elizabeth Perry", "Parent... |
Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 - June 19, 1939) was an American social worker who specifically worked in improving the rights of immigrants and advancing child welfare, especially the regulation of child labor. Her elder sister, Edith Abbott, who was a social worker, educator and researcher, had professional interests... | {"Name": "Grace Abbott", "Caption": "Grace Abbott in 1929", "Birth date": "1878 11 17", "Birth place": "Grand Island, Nebraska, US", "Death date": "1939 06 19 1878 11 17", "Death place": "Chicago, Illinois, US", "Occupation": "Social worker", "Parent(s)": "Othman A. Abbott and Elizabeth M. Griffin"} |
The Pont Neuf (, "New Bridge") is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western (downstream) point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris, then known as Lutetia and, during the medieval period,... | {"Crosses": "River Seine", "Locale": "Paris, France", "Designer": "Believed to be Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau and Guillaume Marchandmaintenance engineering by Soufflot, Perronet, Lagalisserie and Résal", "Design": "Arch bridge", "Material": "stone", "Total length": "232 m", "Width": "22 m", "Construction start": "1578... |
Mairead MaguireFairmichael, p. 28: "Mairead Corrigan, now Mairead Maguire, married her former brother-in-law, Jackie Maguire, and they have two children of their own as well as three by Jackie's previous marriage to Ann Maguire."Abrams (2001) p. 27 "For many years Mairead Corrigan (now Maguire), thirty-three when she r... | {"Name": "Mairead Maguire", "Alt": "Mairead Maguire, March 2018", "Caption": "Maguire at the Free Gaza Movement in July 2009", "Birth name": "Mairead Corrigan", "Birth date": "yes 1944 01 27", "Birth place": "Belfast, Northern Irelandhttps://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iIL8y1m5Qg2jpc1m8v1UDHeJg76Q Mair... |
The Welsh Office () was a department in the Government of the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Wales. It was established in April 1965 to execute government policy in Wales, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Wales, a post which had been created in October 1964. It was disbanded on 1 July 1999 when mo... | {"Formed": "1965", "Dissolved": "1999", "Jurisdiction": "Government of the United Kingdom", "Headquarters": "Crown Buildings, Cathays Park"} |
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The Epstein Theatre, formerly Neptune Theatre, is a theatre in Liverpool, England. The theatre, a Grade II listed building, is set to close on 30 June 2023 following a decision by Liverpool City Council to end its financial support to the venue.
History
The theatre originally opened in 1913 as Crane's Mus... | {"Location": "Liverpool", "Coordinates": "53.40435 -2.98225 inline,title", "Type": "Theatre", "Built": "1911", "Opened": "1913", "Renovated": "2005 y", "Closed": "Summer of 1967-1968, 2005-2011, 2019-2021, 2023-", "Owner": "Epstein Entertainment Ltd", "Former names": "Crane's Music Hall (1913-1938)Crane’s Theatre (1938... |
Henning Scherf (born 31 October 1938 in Bremen) is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD party who served as President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 4 July 1995 to 8 November 2005.
Education
After studying law and social sciences from 1958 until 1962 in Berlin, Hamburg and Freiburg Scherf worked for a Pro... | {"Name": "Henning Scherf", "Image caption": "Scherf as Mayor", "Term start": "4 July 1995", "Term end": "8 November 2005", "Birth date": "yes 1938 10 31", "Birth place": "Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Nazi Germany (now Germany)", "Spouse(s)": "Luise Scherf", "Alma mater": "University of FreiburgFree University... |
The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quo... | {"Created": "May 29, 1787", "Location": "National Archives", "Author(s)": "James Madison", "Purpose": "Propose a structure of government to the Philadelphia Convention"} |
(), popularly known as Libé (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of France's political spectrum, the editorial line evolved towards a more centre-left stance at the end of th... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Format": "Compact", "Owner(s)": "Altice, Bruno Ledoux, Patrick Drahi", "Language": "French", "Political alignment": "Centre-left", "Headquarters": "Paris, France", "Country": "France", "Editor": "Libération SARL", "ISSN": "0335-1793", "Website": "liberation.fr", "Circulation": "97,633 (tota... |
Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; ; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone Martinican poet, author, and politician. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word in French. He founded the Parti progressiste martiniquais in 1958, and served in the French Natio... | {"Name": "Aimé Fernand David Césaire", "Alt": "An image of Aimé Césaire in 2003 on a desk reading the cover of a book.", "Caption": "Aimé Césaire in 2003", "Birth name": "Aimé Fernand David Césaire", "Birth date": "yes 1913 6 26", "Birth place": "Basse-Pointe, Martinique, Overseas France", "Death date": "yes 2008 4 17 ... |
thumb|upright=1.2|Nero and the burning of Rome, illustration by M. de Lipman, Altemus Edition, 1897.
thumb|upright=1.2|Scene from the novel, entitled "Ligia leaves Aulus' house", illustration by Domenico Mastroianni, postcard from 1913, published by Armand Noyer, Paris.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero is a ... | {"Original title": "Quo vadis. Powieść z czasów Nerona", "Country": "Poland", "Language": "Polish", "Publisher": "Polish dailies (in serial) and Little, Brown (Eng. trans. book form)", "Media type": "Print (Newspaper, Hardback and Paperback)"} |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky () (19 January 1988) was a Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue; he was a professor at Leningrad State Conservatory.
Biography
Mravinsky was born in Saint Petersburg. The soprano Yevgeniya Mravina was his aunt. His father, Alexandr Konstantinovich Mravinsky, died in 1918, an... | {"Name": "Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky", "Caption": "Portrait of Yevgeny Mravinsky, 1957, by Lev Russov", "Birth date": "1903 06 04 yes", "Birth place": "Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire", "Death date": "1988 01 19 1903 06 04 yes", "Death place": "Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union", "Occupation": "conductor pia... |
is a 1987 racing simulation video game developed and published by Namco. Atari Games published the game in the United States in 1988. It was the first game to run on Namco's then-new System 2 hardware and is a direct successor to Namco's Pole Position (1982) and Pole Position II (1983). It was ported to the Famicom by ... | {"Title": "Final Lap", "Caption": "Arcade flyer", "Composer": "Shinji Hosoe", "Developer": "NamcoArc System Works (FC)", "Publisher": "JP/EU \"CVG77\"/> NA Atari Games", "Released": "JP December 1987 EU \"CVG77\"/> NA May 1988", "Genre": "Racing simulation", "Series": "Final Lap", "Modes": "Single-player, multiplayer",... |
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Mehta's father was the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, and Mehta received his early musical edu... | {"Name": "Zubin Mehta", "Caption": "Mehta in 2007", "Birth date": "yes 1936 4 29", "Birth place": "Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India(now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)", "Occupation": "Conductor", "Years active": "1958-present", "Spouse(s)": "Carmen Lasky 1958 1964 divorced\n Nancy Kovack 1969", "Children": "4", "F... |
Jann Arden (born Jann Arden Anne Richards; March 27, 1962) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, author and actress. She is famous for her signature ballads, "Could I Be Your Girl" and "Insensitive", which is her biggest hit to date, as well as other ballads, such as "Cherry Popsicle" and "I Would Die For You".
Early lif... | {"Born": "Calgary, Alberta, Canada", "Genres": "Pop", "Labels": "A&M, Universal", "Website": "www.jannarden.com/"} |
South Ossetia ( , ),"Ossetia" . Collins English Dictionary. officially the Republic of South Ossetia - the State of Alania, is a partially recognised landlocked state in the South Caucasus. It has an officially stated population of just over 56,500 people (2022), who live in an area of , with 33,000 living in the cap... | {"Conventional long name": "Republic of South Ossetia - the State of Alania", "Native name": "font-size:88%;\n os Республикӕ Хуссар Ирыстон - Паддзахад Алани no95% os Respublikæ Xussar Iryston - Paddzaxad Alani\n ru Республика Южная Осетия - Государство Алания no95% ru Respublika Yuzhnaya Osetiya - Gosudarstvo Alan... |
Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 - 19 December 2015) was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and also served as music director of the New York Philharmonic. He lef... | {"Name": "Kurt Masur", "Birth date": "1927 7 18 y", "Death date": "2015 12 19 1927 7 18 y", "Burial place": "Südfriedhof (Leipzig), Germany", "Birth place": "Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany", "Death place": "Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.", "Alt": "White haired man in black at conductor's position", "Caption": "Masur condu... |
Władysław Szpilman (; 5 December 1911 - 6 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and th... | {"Name": "Władysław Szpilman", "Birth date": "1911 12 5 y", "Birth place": "Sosnowiec, Congress Poland, Russian Empire", "Death date": "2000 7 6 1911 12 5 y", "Death place": "Warsaw, Poland", "Resting place": "Powązki Military Cemetery, Warsaw", "Nationality": "Polish", "Occupation": "Composer, pianist, author", "Years... |
Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production. Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British aircraft manufacturers, emerging through a series of mergers and acquisitions as one of only two such major British companies in the 1960s. In 1977, Hawker Siddeley bec... | {"Type": "Public", "Fate": "Aircraft business merged with British Aircraft Corporation and Scottish Aviation Group divested", "Founded": "1934 (as Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co.)", "Defunct": "1977 4 29 y (aircraft production) 1992 (whole company)", "Headquarters": "United Kingdom", "Industry": "Aerospace, Engineering", ... |
Prachinburi province (, , ) is one of Thailand's seventy-seven provinces (changwat), it lies in eastern Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Nakhon Ratchasima, Sa Kaeo, Chachoengsao, and Nakhon Nayok.
Geography
The province is divided into two major parts, the low river valley of the Bang Pakon... | {"Rank": "Ranked 48th", "Density": "103", "ISO 3166 code": "TH-25", "Website": "prachinburi.go.th/eng_version/eng1.htm"} |
Fernando Buesa Blanco (29 May 1946 - 22 February 2000) was a Spanish politician in the Basque Christian Democracy and in the Socialist Party of the Basque Country-Basque Country Left (PSE-EE) branch of the social democratic Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was assassinated by ETA.
Biography
thumb|left|Memor... | {"Name": "Fernando Buesa", "Birth date": "1946 05 29", "Birth name": "Fernando Buesa Blanco", "Birth place": "Bilbao, Spain", "Death date": "2000 02 22 1946 05 29", "Death place": "Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain", "Office 2": "Head of the Department of Education, Universities and Research", "Predecessor 2": "Inaxio Oliveri eu"... |
Janet Graham Travell (December 17, 1901 - August 1, 1997) was an American physician and medical researcher.
Early life and education
She was born in 1901 to John Willard and Janet Eliza (Davidson) Travell. Heavily influenced by her father's profession of physician, Travell made the decision to pursue a career in the ... | {"Name": "Janet G. Travell", "Image caption": "President John F. Kennedy's Physician Janet G. Travell Briefs the Press", "Term start": "1961", "Term end": "1965", "Birth date": "1901 12 17", "Death date": "1997 08 01 1901 12 17", "Nationality": "American", "Education": "Wellesley College"} |
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